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Albinoni For many years Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was regarded as a minor Violinist-composer who has written 50 forgotten operas, whose themes Bach chose to use as variations subjects.He was born in Venice from rich parents, academically trained, he chosse to descirbe himself as a "dilettante Venete". He had the fortune in having no need to earn a living as a Composer. His style lay somewhere between Correlli and Vivaldi, light in nature, with many of his operas in the opera buffa category. The work which by his best known is the Adagio in G minor for organ and strings,and it is not a typical of him or his period. His other works: The Op. 5 set for strings, the Op 7 for Oboe and strings and Op. 12 for violin and strings are now frequently played and recorded. |
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Bach The young Sebastian was sent in 1700 to a choir school run by Benedict monks, where he won a scholarship.is voice broke down after, and he was kept for his skills as a organist. By the age of 18 he had written many keyboards works and church chorales and his reputation was spreading. He went to Weimar as court musician and then to Arnstadt as a organist for two years. Married to Maria Barbara Bach in 1707, he settled in Weimar for 14 years, and became a Konzertmeister to the Duke in 1714.He went to Cohen, the place where he wrote his famous Brandeburg Concertos, dedicated to the Duke Christian Ludwig of Bradenburg, in addition to his French and English suites for the clavier and large number of oratorios, passions, masses and cantatas. Death of his wife happens, the mother of his first 4 children, then within a year he married again to Anna Magdalena Wilcke. Bach traveled to Leipzig for a position, it was offered to telemann, but he declined it so Bach took it. In Leipzig he wrote 200 around 200 cantatas (1723-1750). His osn Carl P. E Bach was employed by Frederik the Great. Still his fame was only as a organsit, and his music was not known outside of Leipzig. |
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Bach: :Part II Better known is his grandeur "St Matthew Passion", which stands with Handel's Messiah. His Goldberg Variations and the Art od Fugue were part of his Leipzig's lifetime. Nevertheless thw world probably thinks of Bach firstly as the Composer of the inmortal Bradenburg Concertos, the Suites,the splendid concertos for violin, harpsichord, and other instruments (including his Violin Sonatas and his organ works). He died in July 28 1750. Like Mozart, he was buried in a n unmarked grave. His remains were rediscoverd in 1894. |
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frederic Chopin 1810 -1849 Born in Poland and died in Paris A composer famed for his ability at the piano. |
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Antonín Dvořák I love his music, you can gig to it. fanastic!!! |
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Elgar Famous works: Cello Concerto, his Enigma Variations, "Land of Hope and Glory (coronation ode) |
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-zoe- 31-May-07, 08:34 |
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643) He wrote a large number of works for the organ and harpsichord, including toccatas, capricci, fantasie, canzonas, ricercare (a generic name for any contrapuntal piece), dances and variations. Among his best known works is the Fiori musicali (1635), a collection of organ works designed to be played during the mass service. Frescobaldi was one of the inventors of the modern conception of tempo, making a compromise between the ancient white mensural notation with a rigid tactus and the modern notion of tempo, which is characterized by acceleration and deceleration within a piece. Frescobaldi's music was a very important influence on later composers, among them Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach is known to have owned a copy of Frescobaldi's Fiori musicali). |
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Mussorgsky Mussorgsky became one of a group 5 nationalistic Russian composers known as "The Mighty Handful" or "The Five", the others being Balakirev,Borodin,Cui, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Borodin's initrial impression on Mussorgsky was not so positive, due to the Composers lack of fpower of concentration, his heavy drinking, leaving so many unfinished compositions,frecuent nervous illness and never seem able to settle in a job or home. In 1863 he was obliged to take military service, due to his family loss in the estates becuase of the serfs.In 1867 left the military service , and became a living as Music teacher and acompanist, but a year later he had to return to service. This is the time he composed a number of Operas such as a Salambo (1863-66)and Sorochinsty Fair (1874-80). Boris Gudonov begun in 1869, was a great success when it performed in 1874.His opera Khovanschina was unfinsihed. In 1877 he completed his 4 songs and dances of Death.In 1875 his fits of dementia is due to his heavy drinking. Night on the Bare Mountain and Pictures of Exhibition it is a beloved work and most famous of his music repertoire. He was barely 42, when he collapsed and died in the Military Hospital. After his death Korsakov and others revised and completed his works and scores. Mussorgsky achieves a clarity of expression and a stark, dramatic power few others composers can match. |
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Gershwin, George His opera "Porgy and Bess"(Boston 1935), a kind of U>S Carmen written for a Black cast, has been successful all over the world. With his brother Ira they wrote lovely songs such Lady be good (19240, Oh Kay! (1926) etc. Gershwin represents the higher water mark of U.S popular songs. |
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Donizetti, Gaetano A prolific composer, he wrote 75 operas with a rapidity remarkable even for the 19th century. His best known operas :Ana Bolena (Milan,1830),Lucrezia Borgia (Milan,1833),Maria Stuarda (Naples,1834),Lucia di Lammermoor(Naples,1835),La Favorite (Paris,1840),Don Pasquale (Paris,1843),etc. After the death of his wife in 1837, Donizetti suffered from increasing melancholia. In his last 4 years of his life, he wrote no more operas. Donizetti is remembered for his comic operas. but he valued most was serious grand opera. |
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Holst, Gustav He came from a family of Swedish and German background; both of his parents were musical, and he was taught the piano. He became an organist at the Royal College from 1893-1898, where learned composition and learned the trombone. He met Vaughan Williams, who became a life- long friend and strong influence. His famous work, The Planets was composed between 1919 and 1916. Other works: The Perfect Fool (1922). |
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Franck, Cesar He had an affinity with Bach and Bruckner music. Later connected with Liszt and Wagner. Some of his works: Piano Quartet (1879),The Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra (1885),the Violin Sonata (1886)the Symphony in D minor (1888) are landmarks in French music; as are the organ and piano works of his final decade in his life. |
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hebrit 23-Aug-10, 08:08 |
Mozart What can be said of possibly the most famous composer? A child prodigy that succeeded unlike most child prodigies. And unlike most great composers, he did not revolutionize music, he simply took the forms that were there in his time and simply raised them to perfection. Died at the age of 35. The greatest loss music has to mourn. If you just stop to think what would be left if all great composers died at that age... And yet his last ten years produced some of the greatest masterpieces. And great works composed at 10 or 12. My definition of what Mozart means to music : Mozart wrote music; all the others tried to write music, sometimes very successfully. |
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Shostakovich, Dmitry Toward the end of his life, Shostakovitch said : " The Revolution, I am convinced, is what made me a Composer. I was very young in 1917, but my first childish compositions were dedicated to the Revolution and inspired by it." In 1926 and 1927 he produced his First and Second symphonies. In 1930 his The Nose was performed in Leningrad. He remained a true Soviet composer, devoted to socialist ideals, despite two savages attacks b the regime in 1936 and 1948, which branded his music as formalistic and full of petty bourgeois sensationalism. In 1940, he was awarded the Stalin Prize for his Piano Quintet. He was made a People' Artist in 1954and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1956. When Stalin died in 1953 Shostakovitch was a world figure. During the period of cultural thaw, he produced his finest works, including the Tenth symphony, in which is style is more inward looking and pessimistic. |
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Borodin, Alexander Perhaps of the five , he was the most gifted. |
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Tchaikovsky |
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Gabriel Fauré www.youtube.com |
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Mikis Theodorakis www.youtube.com |
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Carl Orff www.youtube.com |
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Lalo Schifrin www.youtube.com |
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humor!!! and Boccherini |
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Claude Debussy www.youtube.com |
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BC... www.youtube.com |
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excellent!!! |
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