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Caplet, Andre [1875-1925] (France) |
French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Carter, Elliott [1908-] (America) |
American contemporary composer. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Chaminade, Cecile [1857-1944] (France) |
French composer and pianist. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Chausson, Ernest [1855-1899] (France) |
French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Cherubini, Luigi [1760-1842] (Italy) |
Italian-born composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] (Poland) |
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Clementi, Muzio [1752-1832] (Italy) |
Classical composer, and acknowledged as the first to write specifically for the piano. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Copland, Aaron [1900-1990] (America) |
American composer of 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 dean of American composers.” ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713] (Italy) |
Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music. His compositions for the instrument mark an epoch in the history of chamber music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Crusell, Bernhard Henrik [1775-1838] (Finland) |
Swedish-Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator, the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born Classical composer and indeed, the outstanding Finnish composer before Sibelius. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Debussy, Claude [1862-1918] (France) |
French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Delius, Frederick [1862-1934] (Britain) |
English composer, his musical style is one of the most unusual in Western musical history, blending Impressionism with the slightly older post-romanticism and northern European and African-American folk idioms. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Devienne, Francois [1759-1803] (France) |
French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Diamond, David [1915-2005] (America) |
American composer of the 20th century. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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d'Indy, Vincent [1851-1931] (France) |
French composer and teacher. As a follower of Franck, d'Indy came to admire what he considered the standards of German symphonism. Among his many pupils were Erik Satie, Albert Roussel, Isaac Alb?niz, Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von [1739-1799] (Germany/Austria) |
Austrian composer and violinist. Although he composed many operas and symphonies, his best known works today are cocertos and chamber music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Dohnanyi, Ernst von [1877-1960] (Hungary) |
Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name 'Ernst von Dohnanyi' on most of his published compositions. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Donizetti, Gaetano [1797-1848] (Italy) |
Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioacchino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Dowland, John [1563-1626] (Britain) |
English composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known for his melancholy songs such as 'Come, heavy sleep', 'Flow my tears' and 'I saw my Lady weepe', but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Durante, Francesco [1684-1755] (Italy) |
Italian composer of the 17th century. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904] (Czech/Slovakia) |
Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. His best-known works include his New World Symphony, as well as his Slavonic Dances, American String Quartet, and Cello Concerto. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Elgar, Edward [1857-1934] (Britain) |
English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim. He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies, instrumental concertos, and songs. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Enescu, George [1881-1955] (Romania) |
Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher, preeminent Romanian musician of the 20th century, and one of the greatest performers of his time. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Falla, Manuel de [1876-1946] (Spain) |
Spanish composer. His best known works are El amor brujo, El Sombrero de Tres Picos. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Farrenc, Louise [1804-1875] (France) |
French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher of the 19th century. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Faure, Gabriel [1845-1924] (France) |
French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Finzi, Gerald [1901-1956] (Britain) |
British composer, whose popularity has increased considerably in the years since his death. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Foote, Arthur [1853-1937] (America) |
American composer who was an early advocate of Brahms and Wagner and promoted performances of their music in America. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Francaix, Jean [1912-1997] (France) |
French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Franck, Cesar [1822-1890] (Belgium) |
Composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian and German origin who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Fuchs, Robert [1847-1927] (Germany/Austria) |
Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Gade, Niels Wilhelm [1817-1890] (Denmark) |
Danish composer who is considered the most important Danish musician of 19th century. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Gassmann, Florian [1729-1774] (Czech/Slovakia) |
German-speaking Bohemian opera composer of the transitional period between the baroque and classical eras. He was one of the principal composers of opera buffa immediately before Mozart. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Geminiani, Francesco [1687-1762] (Italy) |
Italian composer and violinist. His best known works are three sets of concerti grossi which introduce the viola as a member of the concertino group of soloists, making them essentially concerti for string quartet. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Gershwin, George [1898-1937] (America) |
American composer and pianist. He composed songs both for Broadway and for the classical concert hall. He also wrote popular songs with success. Many of his compositions became jazz standards. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Ginastera, Alberto [1916-1983] (Argentina) |
Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Glass, Philip [1937-] (America) |
American classical music composer who is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music and minimal music to the public. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Glazunov, Alexander [1865-1936] (Russia/Soviet) |
Russian composer who was significant in that he successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music. While he was the direct successor to Balakirev's nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin's epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences including Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral virtuosity and Tchaikovsky's lyricism. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Gliere, Reinhold [1875-1956] (Russia/Soviet) |
Ukrainian, Soviet composer of German-Polish descent. As Taneyev's pupil and an associated member of the circle around the publisher Mitrofan Belyayev, he is often considered to be a chamber musician. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857] (Russia/Soviet) |
Tthe first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctively Russian kind of romantic music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Goetz, Hermann [1840-1876] (Germany/Austria) |
German composer. After ten years spent as a critic, pianist and conductor as well, he spent the last three years of his life composing. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Gorecki, Henryk Mikolaj [1933-] (Poland) |
Polish composer of classical music best known for this Third Symphony which became an international success in early 1992, some 16 years after it was written. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Gounod, Charles [1818-1893] (France) |
French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Grainger, Percy [1882-1961] (Australia) |
Australian-born composer, pianist and champion of the saxophone and the concert band. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907] (Norway) |
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 and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer] |
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