- Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" ("The Red Priest"), was an Italian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. "The Four Seasons", a series of four violin concertos, are his best known works and highly popular Baroque music pieces. - Jean Sibelius
The core of Sibelius' oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies . Like Beethoven , Sibelius used each one to develop further his own personal compositional style. These works continue to be performed frequently in the concert hall and are often recorded. In addition to the symphonies, Sibelius' best-known compositions include Finlandia , Valse Triste , the violin concerto , the Karelia Suite and The Swan of Tuonela (one of the four movements of the Lemminkainen Suite ). - Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971) is an award-winning violinist of Israeli descent. Born in Urbana, Illinois, he moved to Israel at the age of 2 with his parents, both scientists, Jacob Shaham and Meira Diskin. At age 10, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and was admitted to Juilliard, where he studied with the famed Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Both he and his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, attended Columbia University. - Max Bruch
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (January 6, 1838 - October 2, 1920) was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including a violin concerto which is a staple of the violin repertoire. Bruch was born in Cologne, Prussia, where he received his early musical training under the composer and pianist Ferdinand Hiller, to whom Robert Schumann dedicated his piano concerto. Ignaz Moscheles recognized his aptitude. He had a long career as a teacher, … - Vadim Repin
Vadim Repin (born Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, 31 August 1971) is a Russian violinist. In his youth Repin studied with Zakhar Bron and was revered throughout Russia as a child prodigy. At the age of 17, he became the youngest winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, the world's premier violin competition. Vadim Repin played under such leading conductors as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, … - 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, … - Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci is an Italian-American violin virtuoso who has become famous in particular for his performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He is the son of Italian immigrants. His father first taught him to play the violin. At age seven, Ricci studied with Louis Persinger and Elizabeth Lackey. Persinger would become his piano accompanist for many recitals and recordings. - Tasmin Little
Tasmin Little (born 13 May 1965) is an English violinist. She was born in London, where she studied under Pauline Scott at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Guildhall School of Music. She came to prominence when she was a string section finalist in the "BBC Young Musician of the Year" competition in 1982. Her father is George Little, the English TV actor. In 1988 she made her professional solo debut with the Halle Orchestra. - Julian Rachlin
Julian Rachlin is a Lithuanian-born violinist and violist. Rachlin, who is Jewish, was born in Vilnius on December 8, 1974 and immigrated in 1978 with his musician parents to Austria. In 1983, he entered the Vienna Conservatory and studied violin in the Soviet tradition with Boris Kuschnir, while also receiving private lessons from Pinchas Zukerman. His career as a child prodigy began with his first public concert in 1984. - Unsuk Chin
Unsuk Chin is a female Korean composer of classical music, based in Berlin, Germany. Chin studied musical composition in Seoul National University with Sukhi Kang, then in Hamburg with György Ligeti, and has adapted much of his musical style into her own. While a student of Ligeti, she won the 1985 International Gaudeamus Competition for Composers. She uses traditional instruments as well as electronics in her compositions. - Carl Flesch
Carl Flesch (October 9, 1873 - November 14, 1944) was a violinist and teacher. Born in Moson in Hungary, Flesch studied at the conservatoires in Vienna and Paris. He settled in Berlin, and as well as being known for his solo performances in a very wide range of repertoire (from Baroque music to contemporary), gained fame as a chamber music performer and as a violin pedagogue. - Leopold Auer
Leopold Auer, (June 7, 1845 - July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer. Auer was born in Veszprém to a Jewish family, but became a Christian later in life. He first studied violin with a local concertmaster. He later continued his studies with Ridley Kohné in Budapest, Jacques Dont in Vienna and finally Joseph Joachim in Hanover. He settled in St. Petersburg and taught at the conservatoire there from 1868 to 1917, … - Adele Anthony
Adele Anthony is an Australian-American violinist. She studied violin at the University of Adelaide and the Julliard School. At 13, Anthony was the youngest winner of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition, performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Her recordings include the Philip Glass Violin Concerto with Naxos and Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa with Gil Shaham, Neeme Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon. - Ferdinand David
Ferdinand David was a German virtuoso violinist and composer. David was a pupil of Louis Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann from 1823 to 1824 and in 1826 became a violinist at Königstädtischen Theater in Berlin. In 1829 he was the first violinist of a string quartet in Dorpat and undertook concert tours in Riga, Saint Petersburg and Moscow. - Wolfgang Schneiderhan
Wolfgang Eduard Schneiderhan (May 28, 1915 - May 18, 2002) was an Austrian classical violinist. He was born in Vienna. After briefly studying with Otakar Sevcik in Prague, he studied with Julius Winkler in Vienna. At age 10 he publicly performed Bach's "Chaconne in D minor". The next year he made his debut in Copenhagen playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. He lived in England for some time from 1929, … - Lan Shui
Lan Shui currently divides his time between his post as Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of Denmark's Aalborg Symphony, and engagements with other orchestras. - Christian Sinding
Christian August Sinding (January 11, 1856-December 3, 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Kongsberg and studied music first in Oslo before going to Germany, where he studied at the conservatory in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn. He lived in Germany for much of his life, but received regular grants from the Norwegian government. In 1920-21 he went to the United States of America to teach composition for a season at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, … - Ferdinand Ries
Ferdinand Ries, from a musical family of Bonn, was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler. He was also a composer who left eight symphonies, a violin concerto and nine piano concertos, and numerous other works in many genres. Of these the symphonies, some chamber works - most of them with piano - and one of his concertos have been recorded, … - Moritz Moszkowski
Moritz Moszkowski was a Polish-Jewish composer, pianist and teacher. He studied in Dresden and later Berlin, under Theodor Kullak and others. He was a teacher in Berlin for many years. His pupils included Frank Damrosch, Józef Hofmann, Joaquin Nin, Vlado Perlemuter, Ernest Schelling and Joaquin Turina. After a successful career as a concert pianist and conductor, he settled in Paris in 1897, where he died in obscurity and poverty. - Poul Ruders
Poul Ruders is a Danish composer. Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Ib Nørholm. He has written in a wide variety of styles, from the Vivaldi pastiche of his first violin concerto (1981) to the modernism of "Manhattan Abstraction" (1982). Ruders is probably the most-performed living Danish composer. Other works include the operas "Tycho" (1986), "The Handmaid's Tale" (1990) and "Proces Kafka/Kafka's Trial" (2005), … - Tibor Varga
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. - Felix Weingartner
Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (June 2 1863 - May 7 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist. Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia (today's Zadar, Croatia) to Austrian parents, and the family moved to Graz in 1868. His father died that same year. He studied with Franz Liszt in 1883 and was among Liszt's later pupils. Liszt helped produce Weingartner's opera "Sakuntala" for its world premiere in 1884 with the Weimar orchestra. - Francesco Maria Veracini
Francesco Maria Veracini (February 1, 1690 - October 31, 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his violin sonatas and violin concertos. - Erkki Melartin
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 among other things his receptiveness; the fifth is a "Sinfonia brevis" ending in a fugue and chorale, while the sixth, harmonically more advanced than the other five, advances stepwise from a C minor first movement - with evocations of Mahler's seventh symphony - to an E-flat major finale. - Franz Clement
Franz Joseph Clement was an Austrian violinist, conductor of Vienna's Theater an der Wien and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. A talented violinist from a young age, he was known for his extraordinary ability to play complex pieces from memory after only briefly viewing them. He would alternate his virtuoso performances with lighthearted showmanship, with such intermission antics as playing a sonata on one string with the violin upside-down. - Louis Krasner
Louis Krasner (21 June 1903 - 4 May 1995) was a violinist. Krasner was born in Cherkasy, Ukraine. He arrived in the United States at the age of 5. In 1934 he commissioned Alban Berg's Violin Concerto. He premiered various important works including the concertos by Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. He was leader of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. - Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran (born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her "Symphony" (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize. She is a longtime faculty member of the University of Chicago and has served as composer-in-residence with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Lyric Opera. - Egon Wellesz
Egon Joseph Wellesz (October 21 1885 - November 9 1974) Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Byzantine music. Left Austria for England in the wake of the Anschluss - more specifically, as noted in a review of the recent recording of songs and orchestral works on the Capriccio label - probably quoting their program notes - was in the Netherlands at the time by good fortune. - Othmar Schoeck
Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss composer who studied briefly at the Leipzig Conservatory with Max Reger, in 1907/08, but spent his whole career in Zürich. He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas (mosty notably his one-act " Penthesilea", premiered in Dresden, 1927, and revived at the Lucerne Festival, … - Saschko Gawriloff
Saschko Gawriloff is a German violinist and violin teacher. Gawriloff was born in Leipzig and received his first violin lessons from his father, who was a violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He then studied with Walther Davisson, Gustav Havemann, and Martin Kovacz, the last of whom had been a pupil of David Oistrakh and Jenő Hubay. After completing his formal education, Gawriloff won many international awards for his performances, … - Rodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer (November 16, 1766 - January 6, 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, composer and conductor. Kreutzer was born in Versailles, and was initially taught by his father, who was a musician in the royal chapel, with later lessons from Anton Stamitz. He became one of the foremost violin virtuosi of his day, appearing as a soloist until 1810. After hearing him play the violin in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his Violin Sonata No. - Ronald Stevenson
Ronald Stevenson (born March 6, 1928 in Blackburn) is a British composer, virtuoso, pianist, and writer about music. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (which is now incorporated in the Royal Northern College of Music), graduating with distinction in 1948. He was instrumental in reviving the works of Ferruccio Busoni, and corresponded with Percy Grainger. Among his many compositions, one of the most notable is his 'Passacaglia on DSCH for solo piano, … - Silvia Marcovici
Silvia Marcovici is a Romanian classical violinist. Born in Bacău, Romania, she studied at the Conservatory in Bucharest. Her international debut was at the age of sixteen when she performed in The Hague under Bruno Maderna. In 1969, she won the first prize in the Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaut Competition in Paris, as well as the special prize of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. In 1970, she was the winner of the first prize in the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. - Georg Kulenkampff
Georg Kulenkampff (23 January 1898 - 4 October 1948) was a German violinist. He was born in Bremen. He studied under Ernst Wadel in Bremen, and with Willy Hess at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik. He became violin professor there in 1925. Among his students was the young Ruggiero Ricci. He became leader of the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, but also made European tours and many recordings. - Tor Aulin
Tor Aulin was a Swedish violinist, conductor and composer. Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1877-1883) and then in the Conservatory of Berlin (1884-1886) with Émile Sauret and Philipp Scharwenka. From 1889 to 1892 Aulin served as concertmaster of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He went on to conduct the principal symphony orchestras of Stockholm and Gothenburg. In 1887 he formed the Aulin Quartet, the full-time quartet in Sweden. - Alina Pogostkina
Alina Pogostkina (born Leningrad, 18 November 1983) is a Russian-born German violinist. The daughter of two professional violinists, Pogostkina began playing the violin at the age of four and quickly showed herself to have exceptional talent. She gave her first concerts at the age of five. In 1992, the family moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where the eight-year-old Alina and her parents initially had to make a living as street musicians. - Paul Juon
Paul Juon (March 6 1872-August 21 1940) was a Moscow-born composer and student of Anton Arensky, Sergei Taneyev and Woldemar Bargiel. His younger brother Konstantin Yuon was a notable painter. He entered conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hrimaly. His first (privately) printed works, two "Romanzen" (lieder) appeared in 1894, the year he began studies with Bargiel. Several years later he moved to Berlin, and in 1934 from there to Switzerland. - Bo Linde
Anders Bo Leif Linde was a Swedish composer whose style resembled that of notable 20th century neoclassical composers like Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber. Born in Gävle, Linde studied music theory with Ingmar Bengtsson before enrolling at the Stockholm Academy of Music in 1948, where he studied composition with Lars-Erik Larsson and piano with Olof Wibergh. In 1953, one year after leaving the academy, … - Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker was an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life. Fricker was born in London, and studied with R. O. Morris and Ernest Bullock at the Royal College of Music. After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Fricker undertook a period of study with Mátyás Seiber. He held a post as professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in London, … - John Joubert
Dr. John Joubert (born 20 March 1927) is a British composer, particularly of choral works. He has lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 40 years. A music academic at the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on composing and has remained active into his 80s. Though perhaps best known for his choral music, …
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