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Art song
An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano or orchestral accompaniment. By extension, the term "art song" is used to refer to the genre of such songs.
Although categorizing a piece of vocal music as art song rather than as another type of song (such as a folk...
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (German pronunciation: [fʁants ʃuːbɐ̯t] or fʁants ʃuːbɛ̯t; January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1797
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1828 (age 31 years)
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Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat...
Date of birth:
- Mar 13, 1860
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1903 (age 42 years)
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conductor. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1860
Date of death:
- May 18, 1911 (age 50 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1911
Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
Strauss was born on 11 June 1864, in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 11, 1864
Date of death:
- Sep 8, 1949 (age 85 years)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil’evič Rakhmaninov, 1 April 1873 [O.S. 20 March] – 28 March 1943) was a Russian-American composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1873
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1943 (age 70 years)
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (pronounced [joːˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]) (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897), German composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1833
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1897 (age 63 years)
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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.
Schumann had...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1810
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1856 (age 46 years)
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Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843 – September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt (which...
Date of birth:
- Jun 15, 1843
Date of death:
- Sep 4, 1907 (age 64 years)
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Gioacchino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, a few songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1792
Date of death:
- Nov 13, 1868 (age 76 years)
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French pronunciation: [fʀɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʀsɛl pulɛ̃k]; January 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber...
Date of birth:
- Jan 7, 1899
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1963 (age 64 years)
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Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (pronounced /ˈbɑrtɒk/ (Wells 1990), Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]) (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1881
Date of death:
- Sep 26, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1945
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643), was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.
Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1567
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 1643 (age 76 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Aug 22, 1862
Date of death:
- Mar 25, 1918 (age 55 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1918
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (help·info); 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1906
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1975 (age 68 years)
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Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes Szopen; surname pronounced /ˈʃoʊpæn/ in English; French pronunciation: [ʃɔpɛ̃]; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1810
Date of death:
- Oct 17, 1849 (age 39 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 31, 1732
Date of death:
- May 31, 1809 (age 77 years)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (pronounced /ˈluːdˌvɪɡ vɑːn ˈbeɪˌtoʊvən/ (U.S.) or /ˈlʊdˌvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪtˌhoʊvən/ (UK); German: [ˈluːt.vɪç fan ˈbeːt.hoːfən] ( listen); baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1770
Date of death:
- Mar 26, 1827 (age 56 years)
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1774
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1827
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайковский (help·info), tr. Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij, IPA [ˈpʲɵtr ɪlʲˈjitɕ tɕɪjˈkofskʲɪj]; May 7, 1840 [O.S. April 25] – November 6, 1893 [O.S. October 25]), often called Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1840
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 1893 (age 53 years)
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев; Ukrainian: Сергій Сергійович Прокоф'єв) (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1891
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1953 (age 61 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1756
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1791 1:00am (age 35 years)
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1760
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1791
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria ...
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1797
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 1848 (age 50 years)
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 7, 1875
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1937 (age 62 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1865
Date of death:
- Sep 20, 1957 (age 91 years)
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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American nationalist composerof concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1900
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1990 (age 90 years)
Place of birth:
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1920
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1990
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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...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1913
Date of death:
- Dec 4, 1976 (age 63 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1839
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1881 (age 42 years)
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Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance. Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1874
Date of death:
- May 19, 1954 (age 79 years)
Place of birth:
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1954
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg (pronounced [ˈaːrnɔlt ˈʃøːnbɛrk]) (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He...
Date of birth:
- Sep 13, 1874
Date of death:
- Jul 13, 1951 (age 76 years)
Place of birth:
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1951
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Ferencz Liszt, in modern usage Ferenc Liszt, from 1859 to 1865 officially Franz Ritter von Liszt) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. He was also the father-in-law of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1811
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1886 (age 74 years)
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Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era. He is best known for the opera Carmen.
Bizet was born at 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne in the 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1838. He was registered...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1838
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1875 (age 36 years)
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Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1845
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1924 (age 79 years)
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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,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1844
Date of death:
- Jun 21, 1908 (age 64 years)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
The...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1809
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1847 (age 38 years)
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Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (English pronunciation: /ˈdvɒrʒɑːk/ DVOR-zhahk or /ˈdvɒrʒæk/ DVOR-zhak; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopolt ˈdvor̝aːk] ( listen); September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 8, 1841
Date of death:
- May 1, 1904 (age 62 years)
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Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1910
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1981 (age 70 years)
Place of birth:
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1981
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan (pronounced /ˈreɪf ˈvɔːn/) Williams OM (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this...
Date of birth:
- Oct 12, 1872
Date of death:
- Aug 26, 1958 (age 85 years)
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Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (IPA: [ɡuno]; 17 June 1818 – 18 October 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.
Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and an artist father....
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1818
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 1893 (age 75 years)
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Carl Nielsen
Carl August Nielsen (9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a composer, conductor, and violinist from Denmark. His works have long been well known in Denmark and they have been "a mainstay throughout the Nordic countries and, to a lesser extent, in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1865
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 1931 (age 66 years)
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček ( [ˈlɛoʃ ˈjanaːtʃɛk] (help·info)) (baptised Leo Eugen Janáček) (July 3, 1854 – August 10, 1928), was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1854
Date of death:
- Aug 10, 1928 (age 74 years)
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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...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1833
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 1887 (age 53 years)
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César Cui
César Antonovich Cui (Russian: Цезарь Антонович Кюи, Tsezar' Antonovič Kjui) (18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1835 – 13 March 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications;...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1835
Date of death:
- Mar 13, 1918 (age 83 years)
Frederick Delius
Frederick Albert Theodore Delius CH (29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an German-English composer.
Frederick Delius was born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. His parents were German: Julius and Elise Pauline...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1862
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 1934 (age 72 years)
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Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán, IPA: [ˈkodaːj ˈzoltaːn] December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist, and philosopher.
Born in Kecskemét, Kodály spent most of his childhood in Galanta...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1882
Date of death:
- Mar 6, 1967 (age 84 years)
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка) (June 1 [O.S. May 20] 1804 – February 15 [O.S. February 3] 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 1, 1804
Date of death:
- Feb 15, 1857 (age 52 years)
César Franck
César Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century.
César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert...
Date of birth:
- Dec 10, 1822
Date of death:
- Nov 8, 1890 (age 67 years)
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Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879 - April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - ...
Date of birth:
- Jul 9, 1879
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 1936 (age 56 years)
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music.
Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of 9 he was introduced to his first piano professor....
Date of birth:
- Nov 23, 1876
Date of death:
- Nov 14, 1946 (age 70 years)
Place of birth:
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina (December 9, 1882 Seville – January 14, 1949 Madrid) was a Spanish composer of classical music.
He was born in Seville but his origins were of Northern Italy (between Verona, Brescia and Mantova). He studied there as well as Madrid....
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1882
Date of death:
- Jan 14, 1949 (age 66 years)
Enrique Granados
Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916) was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism. Enrique...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1867
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1916 (age 48 years)
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Ernst Krenek
Ernst Krenek (August 23, 1900 – December 22, 1991) was an Austrian and—from 1945—American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953),...
Date of birth:
- Aug 23, 1900
Date of death:
- Dec 22, 1991 (age 91 years)
Albert Roussel
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (5 April 1869 - 23 August 1937) was a French composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1869
Date of death:
- Aug 23, 1937 (age 68 years)
Place of birth:
Henri Duparc
Henri Duparc (Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc) (January 21, 1848 – February 12, 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period.
Duparc was born in Paris. He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College in the Vaugirard district...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1848
Date of death:
- Feb 12, 1933 (age 85 years)
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Benjamin Lees
Benjamin Lees (born January 8, 1924) is a contemporary U.S. composer of classical music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and currently residing in Palm Springs, California.
Lees began piano lessons at 5 with K. I. Rodetskyand and...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1924 (age 86 years)
Place of birth:
André Jolivet
André Jolivet (8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1905
Date of death:
- Dec 20, 1974 (age 69 years)
Stanisław Moniuszko
Stanisław Moniuszko (Belarusian: Станіслаў Манюшка, born May 5, 1819 in Ubiel, near Minsk – June 4, 1872 in Warsaw, Congress Poland) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1819
Date of death:
- Jun 4, 1872 (age 53 years)
Leopold Spinner
Leopold Spinner (26 April 1906 - 12 August 1980), Ukrainian-born, British-domiciled composer and editor.
Spinner was born of Austrian parentage in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). From 1926 to 1930 he studied composition in Vienna with Paul Amadeus Pisk...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1906
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1980 (age 74 years)
Berthold Goldschmidt
Berthold Goldschmidt (b. Hamburg, 18 January 1903; d. London, 17 October 1996) was a German composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernist critics...
Date of birth:
- 1903
Date of death:
- 1996 (age 93 years)
Joaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, Marqués de los Jardines de Aranjuez, (Sagunto (Spain) 22 November 1901 – Madrid (Spain) 6 July 1999), was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1901
Date of death:
- Jul 6, 1999 (age 97 years)
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Francesco Paolo Tosti
Sir Paolo Tosti (April 9, 1846 – December 2, 1916) was an Italian, later British, composer and music teacher.
Francesco Paolo Tosti received most of his music education in his native Ortona, Italy, as well as the conservatory in Naples. Tosti began...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1846
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1916 (age 70 years)
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Lev Knipper
Lev Konstantinovich Knipper (Лев Константинович Книппер) (3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1898 in Tbilisi – 30 July 1974 in Moscow), a Russian composer of partially German descent and an active OGPU - NKVD (Soviet secret police) agent.
Lev Knipper was...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1898
Date of death:
- Jul 30, 1974 (age 75 years)
