Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz

male, 82 years old
cool jazz, American jazz alto saxophonist, key, Alto Saxophonist, tonality, alto saxophone
Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois. He has been noted to be one of the few alto saxophonists of...
Joan Tower

Joan Tower

female, 71 years old
composer, Classical composer, fanfare for the common man, Petroushskates, Naumburg Award, Grawemeyer Award…tonality
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938 in New Rochelle, New York) is a contemporary American composer. She became known for her first orchestral...
David Diamond

David Diamond

male, deceased (2005)
death by myocardial infarction, string orchestra, harmonies, chromatic, tonality, musical mode
David Leo Diamond (July 9 1915 - June 13 2005) was an American composer of classical music. He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the...
Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker

male, deceased (1934)
Jewish, Songwriter, Conductor, Opera composer, classical music, composer…tonality
Franz Schreker (March 23, 1878 - March 21, 1934) was an Austrian composer and conductor. His oeuvre, consisting mainly of operas, is characterized...
Egon Wellesz

Egon Wellesz

male, deceased (1974)
Jewish, tonal, osnabruck, Octet, buried at the Zentralfriedhof, Piano Concerto…tonality
Egon Joseph Wellesz (October 21 1885 - November 9 1974) Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of...
Leo Brouwer

Leo Brouwer

male, 70 years old
University of Hartford, Juilliard School of Music alumni, Canticum, Paisaje cubano con campanas, parabola, Composer for guitar…tonality
Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939) is a Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor. Brouwer was born in Havana, and went to the...
Gene Tyranny

Gene Tyranny

male, 64 years old
Mills College, On the Other Ocean, The Prime Movers, Cheap Imitation, Strange Angels, Perfect Lives…tonality
<s></s>'Blue' Gene Tyranny (born Robert Sheff in 1945 in San Antonio, Texas) is an avant-garde composer and pianist. He studied piano with Meta...
Dominick Argento

Dominick Argento

male, 82 years old
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, tonality, George Peabody Medal winner, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner
Dominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music. Among his most prominent pieces are the...
Paul Creston

Paul Creston

male, deceased (1985)
musician, rhapsody, rhythm, Italian-American, European classical music, tonality
Paul Creston (born Giuseppe Guttoveggio October 10, 1906 in New York City - died August 24, 1985 in San Diego, California) was an American composer...
Stephen Paulus

Stephen Paulus

male, 60 years old
The New York Times, University of Minnesota alumni, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, melodic, National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation…tonality
Stephen Paulus (born August 24 1949 in Summit, New Jersey) is an American composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His most well-known...