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Keith Moon
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained notoriety for exuberant drumming and his destructive lifestyle that earned him the nickname, "Moon the Loon." Moon joined The Who in 1964...
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Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel (December 24, 1931 – September 18, 2008) was a German-Argentine composer who was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance.
Kagel was born into a Jewish family which fled from Russia in the...
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Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor.
Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he attended Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon and Sunday...
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays the majority of its concerts at Boston's...
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Yuji Takahashi
Yūji Takahashi (高橋 悠治, Takahashi Yūji, born September 21, 1938) is a Japanese composer, performer, pianist and author.
Studied under Roh Ogura and Minao Shibata at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1960, he made his debut as a pianist by...
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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (30 October 1864 - 4 November 1953), born Elizabeth Penn Sprague, was an American pianist and patron of music, especially of chamber music.
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's father was a wealthy wholesale dealer in Chicago. She...
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Joseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 – August 15, 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. He is widely regarded as a great and significantly influential violinist of the late 19th century.
Joseph Joachim was born in Kittsee ...
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Leopold Auer
Leopold Auer (In Hungarian: Auer Lipót), (June 7, 1845 – July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer.
Auer was born in Veszprém in a Jewish household. He first studied violin with a local concertmaster. He later...
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Paul Sacher
Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.
He studied under Felix Weingartner among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra (Basler Kammerorchester) to play works written before the...
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Serge Koussevitzky
Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky (Russian: Сергей Александрович Кусевицкий) (July 26, 1874, Vyshny Volochyok – June 4, 1951, Boston, Massachusetts), was a Russian-born Jewish conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as...
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Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff (11 February 1830 – 3 November 1913) was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt.
(Some sources write Schellendorf with one F, but the correct German surname of this family is written with...
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Brendan Fraser
Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen. He has starred in many major Hollywood films, including The Mummy film series, Crash, Dudley Do-Right, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, George of the Jungle...
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Karl Davidov
Karl Juljewitsch Davydov (Russian: Карл Юльевич Давыдов), (15 March [O.S. 3 March] 1838 - 26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1889) was a Russian cellist of great renown during his time, and described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "tsar of cellists"...
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Tatiana Nikolayeva
Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татьяна Пeтрoвнa Николаева, Tat'jana Petrovna Nikolaeva; May 4, 1924 – November 22, 1993) was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher.
Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa (now part of Bryansk) in the Bryansk...
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Niels Wilhelm Gade
Niels Wilhelm Gade (22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.
Gade was born in Copenhagen, the son of a joiner and...
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Geeta Dutt
Geetā Dutt (Bengali: গীতা দত্ত, born Geetā Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri) (November 23, 1930 – July 20, 1972) was a prominent Indian playback singer in Hindi movies in the 1950s and 60s, and also a singer of modern Bengali songs.
Geeta Dutt was born in 1930...
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Johnny Ramone
John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004), better known by the stage name Johnny Ramone, was the guitarist for the seminal punk rock group The Ramones. He was a founding member of the band, and along with vocalist Jeffrey Hyman,...
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Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich (born Leningrad on May 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar.
Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
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Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1835 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1881) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Born to Jewish...
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Louis Fleury
Louis Fleury (1878–1926) was a French flautist, pupil of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire. Claude Debussy dedicated the piece for solo flute Syrinx to him. Fleury was a pioneer in the rediscovery of many forgotten Baroque flute compositions,...
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Felix Weingartner
Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (2 June 1863 – 7 May 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...
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Ricardo Viñes
Ricardo Viñes (5 February 1875 – 29 April 1943) was a Spanish pianist. He first publicly performed many important works by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Manuel de Falla, Déodat de Séverac and Isaac Albéniz. He was also the piano teacher...
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Julian Fontana
Julian (or Jules) Fontana (July 31, 1810 - December 23, 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Frédéric Chopin.
Born Warsaw, Fontana studied law at the...
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Dana Reeve
Dana Reeve (March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was also the wife of actor Christopher Reeve.
Reeve was born Dana Charles Morosini in Teaneck, New Jersey to Charles Morosini, a...
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Mimi Fariña
Mimi Baez Fariña (born Margarita Mimi Baez, April 30, 1945 – July 18, 2001) was a singer-songwriter, and activist. She was the youngest of three daughters to a British mother, and Mexican physicist Albert Baez. She was sister of folk singer Joan...
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Grete Sultan
Grete Sultan (born Johanna Margarete Sultan) (June 21, 1906 – June 26, 2005) was a German-American pianist.
Born in Berlin into a musical family, she studied piano from an early age with American pianist Richard Buhlig, and later with Leonid...
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Maro Ajemian
Maro Ajemian (July 9, 1921 – September 18, 1978) was an American pianist. Ajemian's career in contemporary music got its impetus from the fact that she is of Armenian descent..
Ajemian studied at the Juilliard School of Music and beginning in the...
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George Bridgetower
George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778 or 1780–February 29, 1860) was an Afro-Polish-born virtuoso violinist, who lived in England for much of his life. He was born in Biała in Poland, where his father worked for Hieronimus Wincenty Radziwill,...
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Max von Schillings
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925.
Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful...
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Josef Dessauer
Josef Dessauer (28 May 1798, Prague – 8 July 1876, Mödling, near Vienna), was a Czech-born composer who wrote many popular songs, and also some less successful operas.
Dessauer was born into a wealthy Jewish family, and studied piano in Prague with...
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Paul Hillier
Paul Douglas Hillier (born 9 February 1949), was born in Dorchester, England. He is an active conductor, director, and singer (baritone). He specializes in early music and contemporary art music, especially that of composers Steve Reich and Arvo...
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George Malcolm
George Malcolm CBE (28 February 1917–10 October 1997) was an English harpsichordist and conductor.
Malcolm's first instrument was the piano, and his first teacher was a nun who recognised his talent and recommended him to the Royal College of Music....
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Alexander Siloti
Alexander Ilyich Siloti (also Ziloti, Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Зило́ти, Aleksandr Iljič Ziloti) (9 October 1863, near Kharkiv - 8 December 1945, New York) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. (Spelling note: A truer transliteration of...
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Lynnette Seah
Lynnette Seah Mei Tsing (simplified Chinese: 佘美幸; pinyin: Shé Měixìng) is an internationally acclaimed Singaporean violinist serving as co-leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as the only musician to have performed full-time with the SSO...
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Claire Delbos
Claire Delbos (2 November 1906 – 22 April 1959) was a French violinist and composer, and first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen.
Delbos was born in Paris, the daughter of a Sorbonne professor, Victor Delbos. Although she was usually known after...
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Nikolai Tcherepnin
Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Черепни́н May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1873 – 26 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint...
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Eduard Marxsen
Eduard Marxsen (23 July 1806 – 18 November 1887) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried, Simon Sechter, Johann Heinrich Clasing, and Karl Maria von Bocklet.
He wrote about 70 works, including an orchestral...
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Zoltán Székely
Zoltán Székely (In Hungarian, Székely Zoltán) (December 8, 1903, Hungary – October 5, 2001, Canada) was a violinist and composer.
He studied violin and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.
He was a friend of Béla Bartók and was the...
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Gold and Fizdale
Arthur Gold, (6 February 1917-3 January 1990) and Robert Fizdale, (12 April 1920-6 December 1995) were an American two-piano ensemble; they were also authors and television cooking show hosts.
Gold and Fizdale met during their student years at...
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Raya Garbousova
Raya Garbousova (Russian: Ра́я Га́рбузова; 25 September 1909, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire - January 28, 1997, DeKalb, Illinois, United States) was a cellist and teacher.
According to the biography contained in the program booklet for the 1997...
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Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (10 August 1889, Great Baddow, Essex – 12 May 1960, Chelmsford) was an English composer.
He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music,...
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Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (French pronunciation: [sɛʁʒ ɡɛ̃zbuʁ]; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. His legacy has been firmly...
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Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers (from 1978 to 1999) had...
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Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer (Latvian: Gidons Krēmers) (born February 27, 1947) is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.
Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish (his father being a Holocaust survivor) and...
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Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy (French pronunciation: [aʃil klod dəbysi]) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed...
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Gustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst (21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.
Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, his early work was influenced by Grieg, Wagner, Richard...
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London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.
The LSO was founded in 1904 as an independent,...
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, violist and pianist.
Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed...
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced /ˈvɑːɡnər/ or /ˈwæɡnər/, German pronunciation: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas",...
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Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius ( pronunciation (help·info)) (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity.
The core of Sibelius's...
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Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.
An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with...
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Alexander Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) (12 November [O.S. 31 October] 1833 – 27 February [O.S. 15 February] 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian-Russian parentage who made...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer,...
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Joseph Haydn
(Franz) Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String...
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous and important Romantic composers of the 19th century.
He had hoped...
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Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.
Kamen was born in New York City, USA. He was the second of four...
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Gioacchino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was a popular Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), La...
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (also spelled Musorgsky, Moussorgsky Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский) (March 21 [O.S. March 9], 1839 – March 28 [O.S. March 16], 1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music...
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Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz (English pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfɪts/) was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987), and is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent violinists and one of the...
