Michael Gielen

Michael Gielen

male, 82 years old
Michael Andreas Gielen is an Austrian conductor and composer. Gielen was bon in Dresden, Germany, to opera director Josef Gielen, and began his...
Louis Jacques Thénard

Louis Jacques Thénard

male, deceased (1857)
Louis Jacques Thénard, was a French chemist. His father, a poor peasant, managed to have him educated at the academy of Sens, and sent him at the a...
Gottfried von Einem

Gottfried von Einem

male, deceased (1996)
Gottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by...

Jacques Charles François Sturm

male, deceased (1855)
Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician, of German extraction, was born in Geneva. Originally tutor to the son of Madame de Staël, he...
Peter Maag

Peter Maag

male, deceased (2001)
Peter Maag was a Swiss conductor. He was born May 10, 1919 in St. Gallen, Switzerland and died April 16, 2001 in Verona, Italy. His father, Otto,...
Josef Rheinberger

Josef Rheinberger

male, deceased (1901)
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a Liechtensteinian organist and composer. When only seven years old Rheinberger was organist at Vaduz Parish Church,...
Anton Heiller

Anton Heiller

male, deceased (1979)
Anton Heiller was a much-admired Austrian organist, harpsichordist, composer, and conductor.<P> After undergoing his initial church music training...

Théophile-Jules Pelouze

male, deceased (1867)
Théophile-Jules Pelouze (also known as Jules Pelouze, Théophile Pelouze, Theo Pelouze, or TJ Pelouze, February 26, 1807 - 1867) was a French ch...
Winfried Zillig

Winfried Zillig

male, deceased (1963)
Winfried Zillig was a German composer, music theorist, and conductor. Zillig was born in Würzburg. After leaving school, Zillig studied law and m...

Bryan Balkwill

male, deceased (2007)
Bryan Havell Balkwill was an English orchestral conductor. He started to learn to play the piano at the age of four and was educated at Merchant...