Ton Koopman

Ton Koopman

male, 65 years old
Ton Koopman (born October 12, 1944 in Zwolle, Netherlands) is a conductor, organist and harpsichordist. Koopman had a "classical education" and...
Alessandro Scarlatti

Alessandro Scarlatti

male, deceased (1725)
Alessandro Scarlatti (May 2, 1660 - October 24, 1725) was a Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is...
Gustav Leonhardt

Gustav Leonhardt

male, 81 years old
Gustav Leonhardt made his debut in as a harpsichordist in Vienna in 1950. After studying musicology there, he served as professor of harpsichord at...

Libretto

male
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, musical, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata,...
Masaaki Suzuki

Masaaki Suzuki

male, 55 years old
Masaaki Suzuki is an organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan. He was born in Kobe...
Alessandro Stradella

Alessandro Stradella

male, deceased (1682)
Alessandro Stradella (April 3, 1639 - February 25, 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque. He was born in Rome, and was murdered in...
Thomas Quasthoff

Thomas Quasthoff

male, 50 years old
Thomas Quasthoff (born in Hildesheim, Germany, November 9, 1959) is a German bass-baritone generally regarded as one of the finest singers of his...
Picander

Picander

male, deceased (1764)
Picander was the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici (January 14, 1700 - May 10, 1764), a German poet and librettist for many of Johann...
Antonio Lotti

Antonio Lotti

male, deceased (1740)
Antonio Lotti (c.1667 - January 5, 1740) was an Italian composer of classical music. Lotti was born either in 1666 or 1667, in Venice or in Hanover...
Luigi Rossi

Luigi Rossi

male, deceased (1653)
Luigi Rossi was an Italian Baroque composer. Rossi was born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples and at an...