1. Albinoni, Tommaso
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... and secular instrumental works (Adagio for Organ and Strings). Most of Albinoni’s operas have been lost, but a few arias from them remain. Works The set of twelve for strings, Op. 5, the twelve Oboe ...

2. Arensky, Anton Stephanovich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... for strings on a theme by Tchaikovsky, a work originally composed for string quartet. His best known composition is the Piano Trio in D minor, the first of two such works, which was written in 1894 and ...

3. Bach, Johann Sebastian
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

4. Barber, Samuel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

...  He won a Pullitzer scholarship in 1935 and the American Academy’s Prix de Rome in 1936 allowing him to study in Rome. He is best known for his famous Adagio for Strings, the slow movement extracted from ...

5. Bartok, Bela
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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, ...

6. Britten, Benjamin
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

7. Bull, John
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bull, John (1562 ? - 1628) Image Life John Bull was among the most distinguished English keyboard-players of his time, and his career forms a link with the developing keyboard tradition ...

8. Cage, John
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Cage, John (1912-1992) Image Life John Cage is born at Los Angeles (5 September 1912) and died at New York (12 August 1992). He left Pomona College early to travel in Europe (1930-31), ...

9. Cazzati, Maurizio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... to the development of instrumental music, especially in the unique repertory of music for trumpet and strings. Cazzati’s conspicuous absence from the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna, founded in 1666, ...

10. Charpentier, Marc Antoine
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... that include woodwind, trumpet, timpani and strings.  ...

11. Cowell, Henry
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Cowell, Henry (1897 - ?) Life A tireless musical explorer and inventor, Cowell was born 11 March 1897 in Menlo Park, California, where he grew up surrounded by a wide variety of Oriental ...

12. Danzi, Franz
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Danzi, Franz (1763 - 1826) Image Life Franz Danzi served as a cellist in the famous Mannheim Orchestra and he was a prolific composer in many genres. In 1783 he took his father's ...

13. Durey, Louis
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... other works. Durey wrote a Concertino for piano, wind instruments, double bass and timpani, a Mouvement symphonique for piano and strings and a string Sinfonietta, as well as a Fantaisie concertante for ...

14. Dvorák, Antonin
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Dvorák, Antonin (1841 - 1904) Image Life The late 19th century brought an increasing awareness of national identity to various ethnic groups in Europe and Dvorák’s musical career ...

15. Field, John
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... and a number of chamber compositions for piano and strings, his chief claim to fame lies in his more than eighteen nocturnes.  ...

16. Francaix, Jean
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Francaix, Jean (1919 - 1997) Image Life Noted for his concise style and skills as a pianist, Jean Françaix was a composer of great facility and consistent wit. He studied composition ...

17. Gibbons, Orlando
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Gibbons, Orlando (1583 - 1625) Image Life Gibbons was born in Oxford, and held positions as Organist of the Royal Chapel, as keyboard player in the privy chamber of the all-important ...

18. Grieg, Edward
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Grieg, Edward (1843 - 1907) Image Life Edvard Grieg is the most important Norwegian composer of the later 19th century, a period of growing national consciousness. As a child, he ...

19. Händel, Georg Friedrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) Image Life The son of a surgeon who was unwilling to allow him a musical education, Handel studied law at the University of Halle before moving ...

20. Haydn, Franz Joseph
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732 - 1809) Image Life The Austrian composer "Papa" Haydn was universally loved and an important figure in the development of the classical symphony and string ...