- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His output of over 600 compositions includes works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of European composers and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire. - Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death. On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, … - Karl Marx
Karl Marx (November 12 1897, Munich - May 8 1985, Stuttgart) was a German composer, conductor, and educator. Karl Marx first studied natural sciences, but, after having met Carl Orff, decided to make music his career, and studied musical composition with Orff, Siegmund von Hausegger, and Anton Beer-Waldbrunn among others. In 1928 he became choir director of the Munich Bach Society, and in 1929 was appointed professor for compositional technique at the Akademie der Tonkunst, … - Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 - May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition "Sinfonia" for voices and orchestra) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music. - Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 - June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of "Les Six" - also known as the "Groupe des Six" - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz and for their use of polytonality (music in more than one key at once). - Juan Bautista Comes
Juan Bautista Comes, also known as Joan Baptista Comes, (29 February, 1568 - 5 January, 1643) was a Spanish Baroque composer who was born and died in Valencia. It is known that before 1613 he held posts as Maestro de Capilla in Lleida at it's cathedral and in Valencia at Colegio del Patriarca. Also in Valencia, at it's cathedral, from 1613 to 1619, he held a post as Maestro de Capilla. From 1619 to 1629 he was Second Maestro in Madrid at Habsburg courts, … - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 - 2 February, 1594) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony. - Percy Goetschius
Percy Goetschius won international fame in the teaching of the theory of composition. Goetschius was the piano pupil of Robert E. H. Gehring, a prominent teacher of that era. Goetschius was the organist of the Second Presbyterian Church from 1868-1870 and of the First Presbyterian from 1870-1873, and pianist of Mr. Benson’s Paterson Choral Society. He went to Stuttgart, Wurttemberg, in 1873 to study theory in the conservatory, and soon advanced to become a professor. - Gustavo Dudamel
He's the rock star of classical music. Handsome, talented, charismatic - the usual accolades apply to Gustavo Dudamel , at age 27, incoming music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He guest-conducts the New York Philharmonic Saturday at Tilles... - Johann Mattheson
Johann Mattheson (September 28, 1681 - April 17, 1764) was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, diplomat and music theorist. Mattheson was born and died in Hamburg. He was a close friend of George Frideric Handel, although he nearly killed him in a sudden quarrel, during a performance of Mattheson's opera "Cleopatra" in 1704. Handel was saved only by a large button which turned aside Mattheson's sword. The two were afterwards reconciled. - Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer. Casella came from a musical family; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theater in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Torino. Alfredo's father and two uncles, Carlo, Cesare, and Gioacchino were all professional cellists of some note; his mother was a pianist, and gave Alfredo his first lessons. - Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele (born Johann Peter Schickele, July 17 1935) is an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P. D. Q. Bach. - Howard Skempton
Howard Skempton (b. Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, 1947), is a British composer and accordionist, and one of the founder members of the Scratch Orchestra, formed in 1969. His output has been linked to the musical movement known as minimalism. Skempton studied musical composition with Cornelius Cardew, and took part in Cardew's new music lectures at Morley College, London. - Robin Holloway
Robin Greville Holloway (born 19 October, 1943 in Leamington Spa) is an English composer. He attended King's College, Cambridge and studied composition with Alexander Goehr. In 1974, Holloway became an Assistant Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge, and in 1980 attained a full Lecturer position. In 1999, he became a reader in Musical Composition at Cambridge, and since 2001, a Professor of Musical Composition. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, … - Paul Wilson
Paul Wilson is a music theorist and Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, in the United States. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University, a M.A. from the University of Hawaii, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. He is the author of: *Wilson, Paul (1992). "The Music of Béla Bartók". ISBN 0-300-05111-5. Current projects include a study of the symphonies of Sergei Prokofiev. - Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow (b. October 4, 1940) is a jazz bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. As a child, Swallow studied piano and trumpet before turning to the double bass at age 14. While attending a prep school, he began trying his hand in jazz improvisation. In 1960 he left Yale, where he was studying composition, and settled in New York City, playing at the time in Jimmy Giuffre's trio along with Paul Bley. - Gardner Read
Gardner Read (born January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois; died November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar. His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. - Paniq
paniq (real name Leonard Ritter; born July 31, 1980 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany), is a German composer, coder, graphic artist and writer. He is a member of the German demo group Farbrausch. As a demoscene musician, paniq has so far composed more than 150 pieces of electronic music. The music varies from a cappella over a variety of modern electronic music styles, to wide-ranging crossovers spanning different musical genres. - Yoko Kanno
is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many seminal anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop, Vision of Escaflowne and Wolf's Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for JPop artists, … - Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He graduated in 1992 from King's College, Cambridge after studying with Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. His degree was classified as "double starred first", indicating outstanding academic distinction. He was made Britten Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, … - Miriam Gideon
Miriam Gideon (23 October 1906 - 1996) was an American composer. She studied organ with her uncle Henry Gideon and piano with Felix Fox. She also studied with Martin Bernstein, Marion Bauer, Charles Haubiel, and Jacques Pillois. She studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Lazare Saminsky and at his suggestion also composition with Roger Sessions after which she abandoned tonality and wrote in a freely atonal or extended post-tonal style. - Karel Goeyvaerts
Karel Goeyvaerts was a Belgian composer. After studies at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Antwerp, he studied composition in Paris with Darius Milhaud and analysis with Olivier Messiaen. He also studied ondes martenot with Maurice Martenot, who invented the instrument. In 1951, Goeyvaerts attended the famous Darmstadt New Music Summer School where he met Karlheinz Stockhausen who was five years younger. - Colin Matthews
Colin Matthews (born February 13, 1946) is a English composer of classical music. Matthews was born in London in 1946; his older brother is the composer David Matthews. He read classics at the University of Nottingham, and then studied composition there with Arnold Whittall and Nicholas Maw. In the 1970s he taught at the University of Sussex, where he obtained a doctorate for his work on Mahler, … - Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár was an Austrian composer of Hungarian descent, mainly known for his operettas. - Simon Bainbridge
Simon Bainbridge (born 30 August, 1952 in London) is a British composer and professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the University of Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. - Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper (born 1949) is an English composer, organist and author, one of the most renowned Beethoven scholars, and is editor of the "Beethoven Compendium". Born in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Cooper studied piano and composition in his childhood, leading to scholarships to the Gordonstoun School and later at University College, Oxford, studying organ with John Webster and earning an MA in 1973 and a DPhil in 1974. - Ned Sublette
Ned Sublette (born 1951 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American composer, musician, and musicologist. He is a classically trained guitarist, and studied composition with Kenneth Gaburo at the University of California, San Diego. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico, moved to New York City in 1976, and has worked with John Cage, LaMonte Young, Glenn Branca, and Peter Gordon. He is well known as a country music singer and is leading scholar of Cuban music. - James Dillon
James Dillon (born October 29, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition. Honours include first prize in the Huddersfield Festival (1978), the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at Darmstadt (1982) and three Royal Philharmonic Society composition awards, … - Robert Starer
Robert Starer (born 1924 in Vienna - died 2001 in Kingston, New York) was an Austrian-born American composer and pianist. Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy. After the 1938 plebiscite in which Austria voted for annexation by Nazi Germany, Starer left for Palestine and studied at the Jerusalem Conservatory. In World War II he served in the British Royal Air Force. And in 1947 he settled in the United States. - Jan Swafford
Jan Swafford (born 1946) is an American composer and author who teaches composition, theory, and musicology at the Boston Conservatory and writing at Tufts University. He earned his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms, as well as the introductory "Vintage Guide to Classical Music", and is often heard as a musical commentator on NPR. - Bart Berman
Bart Berman, born in Rotterdam, December 29, 1938, is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music. Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam and complemented his piano education with Theo Bruins and a masterclass by Alfred Brendel. As a soloist, Berman was awarded the Dutch Prize of Excellence, … - Michael Tenzer
Michael Tenzer (born 1957) is a composer, performer, educator and scholar. He studied music at Yale University (BA. 1978) and University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1986). After teaching at Yale from 1986-96, he moved to University of British Columbia where he teaches ethnomusicology, composition, music theory and gamelan performance, co-directs the doctoral program in ethnomusicology. - Morten Lauridsen
Morten Lauridsen (born February 27 1943 in Colfax, Washington) is an American composer with Danish roots. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Whitman College and the University of Southern California, where he studied advanced composition. Among his early teachers were Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Lynn, and Harold Owen. He is a long-time professor of Composition at USC, and was also Composer in Residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001. - Joe Monzo
Joe Monzo (born January 5, 1962) is an American microtonal composer and tuning-theorist who has authored books and multiple webpages on music theory. He specializes in applying tuning-theory and computing to microtonal musical composition, and tutors people in computing and music composition. Monzo was born and rasied in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduated from Ocean City High School (class of 1979), attended Manhattan School of Music in New York, … - Henryk Szeryng
Henryk Szeryng was a Polish-born Mexican violinist. He was born in Żelazowa Wola in Poland and studied there and with Carl Flesch in Berlin. He made his solo debut in 1933 playing the Johannes Brahms "Violin Concerto". From 1933 to 1939 he studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, … - Arthur Nikisch
Arthur Nikisch (Hungarian: Artúr Nikisch was a Hungarian conductor who performed mainly in Germany. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Anton Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Franz Liszt. Nikisch was born in Lébényi Szentmiklós, Hungary to a Hungarian father and a mother from Moravia. Nikisch studied under Dessoff, Herbeck, and Hellmesberger at the Vienna Conservatory, where he won prizes for composition and performance on. - Nicholas Maw
Nicholas Maw is a British composer. Maw is best known for the orchestral pieces "Odyssey" (1987), "The World in the Evening" (1988) (suititled 'lullaby for large orchestra'), the guitar work "Music of Memory" (1989) and a violin concerto (1993) written for Joshua Bell. His music has been described as neo-romantic but also as modernist and non-tonal (for instance "Personæ", his ongoing cycle of piano pieces). - Sergei Taneyev
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (also "Taneev" or "Taneiev", Russian: Сергей Иванович Танеев, "Sergej Ivanovič Taneev") (Vladimir, November 25, 1856 - Dyudkovo, near Moscow,June 19 1915), a pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. (Taneyev's first name appears both as Sergei and Sergey.) - Bradley Joseph
Bradley Joseph (born 1965, Willmar, Minnesota) is an American composer, pianist/keyboardist, arranger, and recording artist. Active since 1983, he played in various rock bands throughout the Midwest until Greek composer Yanni hired him sight unseen based on a tape of his own compositions. He was a featured concert keyboardist with Yanni through six major tours and appears in the 1993 multi-platinum album and video, "Yanni Live at the Acropolis". - Richard Einhorn
Richard Einhorn (born 1952) is a modern classical composer. Graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1975, studied composition and electronic music with Jack Beeson, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Mario Davidovsky. His most notable work, "Voices of Light", premiered in 1994, is an Oratorio, scored for soloists, chorus, orchestra and a bell. It was inspired by Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928).
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