1. Rossini Gioacchino
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Composer Gioacchino Rossini Image Life Of Rossini's three dozen or so operas, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is probably the best known, a treatment of the first play of the ...

2. Fano, Guido Alberto
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Composer Fano, Guido Alberto Life He began studying music at the age of nine, under the guidance of Vittorio Orefice, choir master and conductor in Padua, who gave him his first piano lessons and ...

3. Aber, Johann
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Composer Aber, Johann Life Johann Aber was an Italian composer and flautist of German descent, living in Milan. In 1765 he was flautist in Sammartini’s orchestra for a concert in honour of Archduke ...

4. Adams, James B.
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Composer Adams, James B. Life James B. Adams was rather obscure, and he wasn’t famous either. He was an English composer, and he is so unknown that no one even knows when he was born. For that ...

5. Allegri, Gregorio
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... a number of masses, motets, and a small number of instrumental works, including a four-part sonata for string ensemble that might be considered an important early string quartet, written as it was over ...

6. Antheil, George
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... pianist, performing in recital many of his own works such as Mechanisms, Airplane Sonata, and Sonata Sauvage. The riots that  ...

7. Bach, Johann Christian
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Composer Bach, Johann Christian Image Life Johann Christian Bach is commonly called the "English Bach", and was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach und Magdalene. He was born in Leipzig, ...

8. Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Composer Bach, Johann Sebastian Image Life Johann Sebastian Bach   (father of Carl Philip Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) was the most significant member of the Bach ...

9. Barber, Samuel
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Composer Barber, Samuel Life American composer and musician, born in Pennsylvania, Barber was a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, where he studied piano, conducting, singing and composition. ...

10. Bartok, Bela
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Composer Bartok, Bela Image Life Arguably the greatest composer of his nation and a proficient pianist, Bartok started a systematic collection of Hungarian folk music and neighbouring regions, ...

11. Bax, Arnold
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Composer Bax, Arnold Image Life British composer and novelist, born in London. Literary influences, especially the poetry of W.B.Yeats, were important in establishing Arnold Bax as the leading ...

12. Beethoven, Ludwig van
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Composer Beethoven, Ludwig van Image Life The eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. Beethoven settled in ...

13. Biber, Heinrich
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... 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, ...

14. Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel
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Composer Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel (1905 - 1964) Life Marcus Samuel Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2nd, 1905, the son of affluent parents. His musical gifts were apparent at an early ...

15. Boccherini, Luigi
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Composer Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) Image Life Luigi Boccherini was born in Lucca, Italia, on 19 February 1743. He was taught music at a young age by his father, who was a professional ...

16. Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
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... di cappella at Modena Cathedral from 1673. He wrote mainly instrumental works (nine sets of sonatas and dance movements, 1666-78) but latterly turned to vocal genres, composing a chamber opera, madrigals ...

17. Boulez, Pierre
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... such intense, disruptive works as his first two piano sonatas (1946, 1948) and Livre pour quatuor for string quartet (1949). The violence of his  ...

18. Boyce, William
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... Symphonies in eight parts, published in 1760, compositions that reflect the changing tastes of the time. His set of Twelve Trio Sonatas followed a fashion that had started with Corelli in the previous ...

19. Brahms, Johannes
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Composer Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897) Image Life Brahms was born in Hamburg to the son of a double-bass player and his older seamstress wife. The violinist Joseph Joachim introduced him ...

20. Britten, Benjamin
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Composer Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) Image Life Benjamin Britten is born at Lowestoft, 22 November 1913, and died at Aldeburgh, 4 December 1976. He studied with Frank Bridge as a boy and ...