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Albert Giraud, was a Belgian poet writing in the French language. He was a minor Symbolist poet. His published works include "Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques" (1884), a poem cycle based on the commedia dell'arte figure of Pierrot, and "La Guirlande des Dieux" (1910).

Winfried Zillig was a German composer, music theorist, and conductor. Zillig was born in Würzburg. After leaving school, Zillig studied law and music. One of his teachers there was Hermann Zilcher. In Vienna he was a private pupil of Arnold Schönberg, later following him to Berlin. His first compositions date from this time. In 1927 he became the assistant of Erich Kleiber at the Berlin State Opera. A short time later he became repetiteur to the Oldenburg Opera.

Franz Waxman (December 24 1906 - February 24 1967) was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura "Carmen Fantasie" for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera "Carmen", and for his musical scores for films.

Barbara Sukowa is a German actress. Her stage debut in Berlin was in 1971, in a production of Peter Handke's <I>Der Ritt über den Bodensee</I&gt;. Günter Beelitz invited her to join the ensemble of the Darmstädt National Theatre in the same year. She also worked in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, in collaboration with directors such as Luc Bondy and Ivan Nagel. Her roles included Marion in <I>Danton's Death</I> and Helena in <I>A Midsummer Night's Dream</I>.

Emil Hertzka (born Budapest, 3 August 1869, died Vienna, 9 May 1932) was an influential and pioneering music publisher who was responsible for printing and promoting some of the most important European musical works of the 20th century. Hertzka studied chemistry and music at the University of Vienna. In 1901 he joined the Vienna-based music publishing house Universal Edition, which had only just been founded.

Eugenie Schwarzwald, nee Nußbaum (June 4 1872 in Polupanovka in former Austria-Hungary, present Ukraine – August 7 1940 in Zurich) was Austrian philanthropist, writer and pedagogue developing and supporting Austrian girl education. She belonged to the most lettered women of her time. Eugenie Nußbaum left her country in 1895 when she started to study German and English literature, philosophy and pedagogy at the university of Zurich. She received doctoral degree in 1900.

Tibor Varga was a Hungarian violinist and conductor. Tibor Varga was born in Györ, Hungary in 1921, the birth place of violin greats Joseph Joachim, Leopold Auer and Carl Flesch. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Carl Flesch and Jenö Hubay. He made his first public appearance at the age of six and performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the age of 10 and made his first recordings at the age of 13. He began touring Europe when he was 14.

Joseph Achron was a Lithuanian born composer and violinist. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a 'Jewish' harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work. Notable composer and friend Arnold Schönberg described Achron in his obituary as "one of the most underrated modern composers".

Erik Valdemar Bergman was an influential composer of classical music from Finland. Bergman's style ranged widely, from Romanticism in his early works (many of which he later prohibited from being performed) to modernism and primitivism, among other genres. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1994 for his opera "Det sjungande trädet". Bergman studied at the Sibelius academy in Helsinki and afterwards with Heinz Tiessen in Berlin and with Wladimir Vogel in Ascona.

Josef Labor was a pianist, organist, and composer of late Romantic music. Labor was an influential music teacher. He was important, too, as a friend of some key figures in Vienna. Born in the town of Horowitz in Bohemia, …

Lisette Model (1906-1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer Lisette Model was born Elise Felic Amelie Seybert in Vienna, Austria. Her father was an Italian/Austrian doctor of Jewish descent attached to the Austrian Imperial Army and, later, to the International Red Cross; her mother was French and Roman Catholic, and Model was baptised into her mother's faith. According to interview testimony from her older brother Thomas, she was sexually molested by her father, …

Paul Amadeus Pisk was an Austria-born composer and musicologist. A prize named in his honor is the highest award for a graduate student paper at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society He learned from Arnold Schönberg and Guido Adler.

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijani Firəngiz Əlizadə, Russian Франгиз Али-Заде; born 29 May 1947, Baku) is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currently living in Germany. She is best known for her works which combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani "mugam" and 20^th Western compositional techniques, especially those of Arnold Schönberg and Gara Garayev.

Pablo Sorozábal was a Basque-born Spanish composer. Trained in San Sebastian, Madrid and Leipzig; then in Berlin, where he preferred Friedrich Koch as composition teacher to Arnold Schönberg, whose theories he disliked. It was in Germany that he made his conducting debut, and the rostrum remained at the centre of his working life.

Allan Gray (born 23 February 1902, Tarnów, Austria-Hungary, died 10 September, 1973, Amersham, England, U.K.) was a composer, noted for his film scores. He was born Josef Zmigrod in Tarnów, which was then in Austria-Hungary, but is now part of Poland. He studied under the renowned Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg during the 1920s, and later wrote music for Max Reinhardt's theatre productions.

Patricia Neway is an American operatic soprano and Broadway performer. She made her debut at Chautauqua in 1946, as Fiordiligi in "Così fan tutte", and originated the role of the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music" (1959), and starred as Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti's Cold War-era opera "The Consul" (with Cornell MacNeil, 1950), which she recorded for Decca.