John Eliot Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner

male, 66 years old
BBC, musical ensembles, Symphony No. 3, dramatisation, North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Early music performer…boston symphony orchestra
Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE (born April 20, 1943, Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England) is an English conductor. He founded the Monteverdi Choir (1966),...

Camille Saint-Saëns

male, deceased (1921)
Conductor, Composer for pipe organ, Organ Symphony, French classical organist, pianist, French…Symphony No. 3
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for his o...

Henryk Górecki

male, 76 years old
Roman Catholic, Czernica, Beatus Vir, Penderecki, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Symphony No. 3
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki is a Polish composer of classical music. Górecki's early work in the late 1950s and 1960s was characterised by a dis...
Roy Harris

Roy Harris

male, deceased (1979)
Scots-Irish American, Symphony No. 3, Welsh-American, chandler, American, Oklahoma musician
Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 in Chandler, Oklahoma, United States - October 1, 1979), was an American classical composer. He wrote much...
Hermann Scherchen

Hermann Scherchen

male, deceased (1966)
emigrant, Britten's Child, libretto, Musician who left Nazi Germany, Simplicius Simplicissimus, Britten's Children…Symphony No. 3
Hermann Scherchen was a German conductor. Born in Berlin, he conducted in Riga from 1914 to 1916 and in Konigsberg from 1928 to 1933, after which...
Walter Weller

Walter Weller

male, 69 years old
Great C Major, haydn, Decca, First Piano Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 6…Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 9, Eroica Symphony
Walter Weller (born 30 November, 1939) is an Austrian conductor. Weller was born in Vienna, Austria where he first gained renown as a prodigy...
Erkki Melartin

Erkki Melartin

male, deceased (1937)
Symphony No. 2, Conductor, string quartet, C minor, Opera composer, Finnish…Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 7, Seventh Symphony
Erkki Melartin (February 2 1875-February 14 1937) was a Finnish composer and pupil of Robert Fuchs. He wrote six symphonies (1902-1924) which show...
Walter Hendl

Walter Hendl

male, deceased (2007)
Erie Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Symphony No. 3, Piano Concerto No. 3, new york philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra…Symphony of the Air, chicago symphony orchestra
Walter Hendl (January 12, 1917 - April 10, 2007) was an American conductor. He was born in West New York, New Jersey. He studied with Fritz Reiner...
Franz Schalk

Franz Schalk

male, deceased (1931)
Conductor, Austrian, Salzburg Festival, Kapellmeister, Vienna Court Opera, Vienna State Opera…Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 7, Symphony No. 8, Fifth Symphony
Franz Schalk (27 May 1863 - 3 September 1931) was an Austrian conductor. From 1918 to 1929 he was director of the Vienna State Opera, a post he...
Robert Kajanus

Robert Kajanus

male, deceased (1933)
Jadassohn student, Romantic composer, Symphony No. 1, composer, AINO, Légion d'honneur…London Symphony Orchestra, Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 5
Robert Kajanus (2 December, 1856 - 6 July, 1933) was a Finnish conductor and composer.