1. Anfossi, Pasquale
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Anfossi, Pasquale Life Pasquale Anfossi, compositor from Taggia (Liguria, Italy), takes place in a troubled moment in building his own space since there was Mozart with his successes and ...

2. Biber, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... service with the Prince-Bishop of Olmutz. Works Among a number of interesting compositions are Biber's fifteen Rosary Sonatas, for violin and basso continuo, with its unaccompanied violin Passacaglia, ...

3. Bon, Anna
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bon, Anna (1740 - ??) Life Anna Bon is a fascinating figure among women composers in the 1700's. Among the rarity of women composers, Anna Bon is an enigma because not much is known of ...

4. Cannabich, Johann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Cannabich, Johann (1731 - 1798) Life Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich was the son of a flute-player and composer, Martin Friedrich Cannabich; Christian was born in Mannheim, ...

5. Casella, Alfredo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... in this sphere was notable: he wrote Stage Works (La giara, La donna serpente, La rosa del sogno, etc.), orchestral music (Symphonies), concertos (for piano, for violin), vocal (Notte di maggio, Canti ...

6. Zuylen, Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Zuylen, Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken (1740 - 1805) Life Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, known as Belle van Zuylen was born at Slot Zuylen, a castle at the ...

7. Cimarosa, Domenico
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Cimarosa, Domenico (1749 - 1801) Image Life The orphan of poor parents, Cimarosa had a free musical education at the St. Maria di Loreto Conservatoire in Naples where he developed ...

8. Dufay, Guillaume
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... structural device developed in the previous century, "Nupervrosarum  ...

9. Dunstable, John
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... intended for the Whitsunday liturgy. His setting of "O rosa bella" has been attributed to others. "Je languis en piteux martire", "Puisque m'amour", "Durer ne puis" and "I pray you all" constitute the ...

10. Gomes, Antonio Carlos
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... he composed his most famous opera, Il Guarany, in 1870. After that, he composed Fosca (1873), Salvatore Rosa (1874), Maria Tudor (1879), Lo Schiavo (1889)  ...

11. Holst, Gustav
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... to become a music teacher and composer and, in 1898, joined the Carl Rosa Opera and the Scottish orchestra as trombonist. He later became director of music in various important British schools and he was ...

12. Menotti, Gian Carlo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Menotti, Gian Carlo (1911 - 2007) Image Life Gian Carlo Menotti was born on 7 July 1911, in Cadegliano, Italy. At the age of 7, under the guidance of his mother, he began to compose ...

13. Metastasio, Pietro
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Metastasio, Pietro (1698 - 1782) Image Life Metastasio was an Italian poet and librettist: his librettos were set over 800 times by different composers during the 18th and early 19th ...

14. Paer, Ferdinando
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... together with Mayr he dominated the Italian scene during the first decade of the 19th century, after the death of Cimarosa and the virtual retirement of Paisiello.  ...

15. Paisiello, Giovanni
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Paisiello, Giovanni (1741-1816) Image Life Giovanni Paisiello, composer of Italiano opere, was born in Taranto on 9 May 1741. His father, a veterinary surgeon who acquired such fame ...

16. Schubert, Franz
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... Singspiel and incidental music for the theatre. His best known compositions of this kind include the music for the unsuccessful play Rosamunde, Fuerstin von Zypern (Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus), mounted ...

17. Spontini, Gaspare
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... the 19th century. He was in Paris and Berlin: in his early years in Paris, he was to call himself a pupil of Cimarosa. Works Spontini's non-operatis music is of little interest: it consists mostly ...

18. Williams, John Towner
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Williams, John Towner (b. 1932) Life American composer, conductor and pianist: He studied piano with Bobby van Eps and from 1954 with Rosa Lhévinne at the Juilliard School. After composition ...

19. Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio - LIBRETTO
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Auteur Giuseppe Verdi Titre Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio Opera (17.11.1839 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 2 acts, Temistocle Solera. ... ... Livret   Oberto  Atto I CORO Di ...

20. I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata - LIBRETTO
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Auteur Giuseppe Verdi Titre I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata Opera (11.2.1843 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 4 acts, Temistocle Solera, after the poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi. ...