1. Falla, Manuel de
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Falla, Manuel de Immagine Life De Falla nacque nel 1876 a Cádiz, dove iniziò gli studi musicali; successivamente mosse verso Madrid e poi a Parigi, rintrando a Madrid nel 1914. ...

2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Bach, Johann Sebastian Immagine Life Il massimo rappresentante del barocco musicale nacque in un paese della Turingia come discendente di una famiglia dedita alla musica da almeno ...

3. Biber, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... Passacaglia, and the curious string orchestra Battalia (Battle), with its imitation gunfire and drunken soldiers. In the first he makes considerable use of scordatura, with the violin retuned to provide ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Cabezón, Antonio de
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... la famigliareale, esercitando come organisti e compositori. Works Cabezón’s keyboard music consists of 29 Tientos, pieces varied in technique and mood, Diferencias, sets of variations on secular tunes, ...

7. Capriola, Vincenzo
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Capriola, Vincenzo (1474 - ca. 1550) Life From a personal aspect, the most interesting is Vincenzo Capriola, who was most probably an Italian nobleman who became the most gifted Italian ...

8. Corelli, Arcangelo
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Corelli, Arcangelo (1653 - 1713) Immagine Life Si perfezionò in musica a Bologna, ma ben presto fu a Roma, come violinista in orchestre di chiesa e di teatro. Dal 1682 al 1708 ...

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

... musical traditions, his father's Irish folk heritage, and his mother's Midwestern folktunes. Already composing in his early teens, Cowell began formal training at age 16 with Charles Seeger at the University ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. Flotow, Friedrich von
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... were Alessandro Stradella (1844) and Martha (1847), which incorporates the Irish tune The Last Rose of Summer.  ...

13. Gottschalk, L. Moreau
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Gottschalk, L. Moreau (1829-1869) Immagine Life Gottschalk, pianista e compositore americano, studiò a Parigi, dove nel 1844 iniziò la carriera di concertista, con l’approvazione ...

14. Grainger, Percy
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... or full orchestra. Harvest Hymn appears in various chamber or orchestral arrangements, while Walking Tune remains in its original wind quintet form. Folk-song arrangements for various groups of instruments, ...

15. Halvorsen, Johan
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

...  Less often heard are his three symphonies and two Rhapsodies on Norwegian folk-tunes. Halvorsen is regarded with gratitude by viola players for his arrangements of a Sarabande and a Passacaglia by Haendel ...

16. Henze, Hans Werner
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Henze, Hans Werner (born 1926) Immagine Life Henze entrò in Conservatorio a Braunschweig, e nel dopoguerra fu Maestro sostituto a Bielefeld; fu successivamente allievo di Fortner ...

17. Kalinnikov, Vasily
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Kalinnikov, Vasily (1866 - 1901) Life Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov was born in 1866 at Voina, in the Oryol District, where Turgenev, Henry James's "beautiful genius", had been born ...

18. Lange-Müller, Peter Erasmus
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Lange-Müller, Peter Erasmus (185? - 1926) Life On account of his approximately 250 songs the Danish composer Lange-Müller became very popular. His melody was natural, tuneful and expressive. ...

19. Machaut, Guillaume de
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Machaut, Guillaume de ( ~ 1300 - 1377) Immagine Life Machaut fu un compositore e letterato francese; dal 1323 fu al servizio del re di Boemia, che egli accompagnò nei viaggi e ...

20. Mahler, Gustav
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911) Immagine Life Di famiglia povera, iniziò lo studio della musica a 5 anni. Dopo un breve periodo trascorso a Praga, tra il '71 e il '72, si trasferì ...