1. Rossini Gioacchino
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Gioacchino Rossini Immagine Life Figlio di musicisti, ricevette le prime nozioni dai genitori e più tardi, a Lugo, anche dai fratelli Malerbi. Nel 1804 si iscrisse al Liceo ...

2. Alfano Franco
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Alfano Franco Immagine Life Alfano studiò al conservatorio di Napoli (con C. De Nardis e P. Serrao), nel 1895 si perfezionò a Lipsia con H. Sitt e S. Jadassohn; di questa sua formazione ...

3. Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel Immagine Life Secondo figlio di J. S. Bach, fu allievo del padre e poi all’Universà di Lipsia, poi studiò a Francoforte sull’Oder, tenendovi anche concerti ...

4. Aber, Johann
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... Archduke Leopold. He was flautist in the La Scala orchestra in 1779, flute teacher at the Collegio Longone, and one of the 84 musicians whose names appear on the Act of Foundation, dated 26 March 1783, ...

5. Baker, Kenny
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Baker, Kenny Life Born Withersnea, England, UK, 1 March 1921, influential and highly accomplished English trumpeter and flugelhorn exponent, Baker embraces most jazz styles and is known ...

6. Bliss, Arthur
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... the concert-hall, theatre and cinema. Works Familiar music by Bliss includes excerpts from his film-score for H.G. Wells's "Things to Come", and the patriotic march Welcome the Queen, also written ...

7. Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore 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 ...

8. Boulanger, Lili
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Boulanger, Lili (1893 - 1918) Life Lili Boulanger was born in France on 21 August, 1893. She began her music studies very early, and one of the highlights of her life was being able ...

9. Boulez, Pierre
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Boulez, Pierre (b. 1925) Immagine Life Pierre Boulez è nato a Montbrison (il 25 marzo 1925), compositore e direttore d'orchestra francese. Inizialmente Boulez si orienta verso ...

10. Zeisl, Eric
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Zeisl, Eric (1905 - 1959) Life Eric Zeisl was born in Vienna on May 18, 1905; against strong family resistance, he entered the Vienna State Academy at age fourteen; two years later, ...

11. Chabrier, Gabriel
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Chabrier, Gabriel (1841 - 1894) Immagine Life Chabrier era stato destinato dalla famiglia a svolgere ben altro mestiere che non il musicista: dal 1861 al 1879 fu infatti impiegato ...

12. Clarke, Jeremiah
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... It forms part of a suite for wind instruments with the original title of The Prince of Denmark's March.  ...

13. Clementi, Muzio
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832) Immagine Life Clementi studiò dapprima organo e clavicembalo, in Italia; successivamente un benefattore lo portò in Inghilterra, dove egli potè dedicarsi ...

14. Cowell, Henry
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore 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 ...

15. Ding, Shande
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... Long March, New China Symphonic Suite, Spring Symphonic Poem, Symphonic Overture, Piano Concerto in B flat major, String Quartet in E minor, Piano Trio in C major, the cantata Ode to the Huangpu River, ...

16. Duncan, Trevor
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Duncan, Trevor (1924 - 2005) Life Much of the music of Trevor Duncan must be well known to listeners, not least the March from his Little Suite, used as the signature-tune for the ...

17. Durey, Louis
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Durey, Louis (1888 - 1979) Immagine Life Strongly influenced by Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélisande", Louis Durey joined Les Six (with Poulenc, Milhaud, Auric, Honegger and ...

18. Dussek, Johann
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Dussek, Johann (1761-1812) Immagine Life Jan Ladislav Dussek appartenne ad una famiglia di musicisti: il padre, i due fratelli e la sorella esercitarono come concertisti e come ...

19. Elgar, Edwuard
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Elgar, Edwuard (1857 - 1934) Life Pur avendo iniziato precocemente la carriera musicale come violinista, direttore d'orchestra e organista, fu solo a partire dal 1889 che decise di ...

20. Francaix, Jean
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Francaix, Jean (1919 - 1997) Immagine Life Jean Françaix, alunno di Nadia Boulanger, presenta nelle sue prime opere gli influssi di Ravel e di Poulenc; successivamente segue una ...