Composer

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ORCHESTRA

Сontemporary orchestration of early Italian music by Bruno Maderna

Bruno Maderna was an outstanding Italian conductor and composer whose music was mostly associated with avant-garde and...
Classical Guitar

The guitar caprices of Luigi Legnani imbued with famous Paganini works

Luigi Legnani was a guitar composer whose most active years coincided with the rise of the Romantic period which was...
FILM

Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the...
Violin

Ernest Chausson as the first promoter of nascent impressionism

Ernest Chausson was a composer who, despite his rather humble body of work, still played a crucial role in the history...
ORCHESTRA

The first English musical criticism written by Charles Avison argued that music evokes purely positive emotions

The fascination with the innermost working of the human mind and the nature of its response to certain triggers have...
Classical Guitar

Anton Diabelli: prolific composer and arranger excelled in publishing guitar and piano music for beginners

Anton Diabelli was an Austrian composer best known during the early Romantic period for his work as a music publisher... 1 comment
Organ

Organ symphonies by Louis Vierne, an eminent maestro of Notre Dame de Paris

Louis Vierne was an outstanding musician, teacher and composer of organ music who for almost 40 years held the... 2 comments
ORCHESTRA

The Skaters' Waltz: subtle harmonies of romantic dance music by Emile Waldteufel

Les Patineurs Valse or the Skaters' Waltz is arguably the most famous of Émile Waldteufel's works. A late Romantic ...
ORCHESTRA

Nicola Porpora: operatic composer made history as a music teacher of Haydn and Farinelli

Nicola Porpora was an Italian composer of the late Baroque period whose operas brimmed with an excellent orchestral... 1 comment
Collaboration

Marius Neset and London Sinfonietta: saxophone accompanied by world-class orchestra acquainted classical harmony with jazz rhythms

The intriguing cross-genre collaboration between the Norwegian jazz saxophonist Marius Neset and the London Sinfonietta...
Classical Guitar

Dionisio Aguado's guitar method and tripodison guitar stand have been in use for 200 years

Dionisio Aguado y García was a Spanish composer who laid the foundations of modern performing techniques on classical... 4 comments
Percussion

First ever composition for solo percussion by Edgard Varèse ionized Zappa to choose a career in music

Edgard Varèse was one of the most innovative composers of the 20th century who not only developed his own concept of... 1 comment
ORCHESTRA

Abdelazer: Purcell's suite for the failed play gained popularity thanks to Britten's arrangement for children

Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge, is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn who is considered to be one of the first known English...
PIANO

Ferruccio Busoni as a great piano transcriber of Bach's keyboard music

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian pianist, composer and theoretical writer whose creative period fell on the transitional... 1 comment
Classical Guitar

Ferdinando Carulli: the Parisian sensation and décacorde guitar inventor

Ferdinando Carulli was among the most influential Italian guitarists whose music, textbooks, and instrument design... 2 comments
Violin

Devil's Trill Sonata: Giuseppe Tartini was unable to recreate Lucifer's music played in his dream

Despite its ominous title, the Devil's Trill Sonata is a gentle and peaceful Baroque piece for solo violin accompanied...
SAXOPHONE

Pixinguinha: Brazilian saxophonist who established choro music as a pop genre

Pixinguinha, born Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., was an iconic figure in Brazilian popular music who defined its new forms...
Nature Sounds

Cantus Arcticus: bird calls arranged for orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara were taped in Northern Finland

Cantus Arcticus is a three-part orchestral work created by the eminent Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara with the... 1 comment
ORCHESTRA

The Flower Duet of Lakmé: the love drama of an Indian girl and a British soldier made airborne

The Flower Duet is a famous operatic duet which popularity has spread far beyond interests of classical music audience...
Poetry

Zefiro Torna: famous madrigal by Monteverdi lauds the west wind that brings spring

Originating in the 14th century as a poetic form, the madrigal is a short poem of lyrical content. During the...
ORCHESTRA

Mozart and Tom Waits wrote music for the glass armonica which was rumored to cause mental health damage

The glass armonica is one of many curious instruments that came into use with small ensembles during the transition from... 1 comment
Vihuela

Orphénica Lyra: the largest collection of vihuela music introduced by Miguel de Fuenllana

Vihuela is a Renaissance-era musical instrument similar to a modern mini guitar. It is believed that the first vihuelas...
PIANO

Spanish motifs contributed by Emmanuel Chabrier to the rise of Impressionism in France

Emmanuel Chabrier was a French composer of the Romantic era whose legal career forced him to study and write music... 1 comment
MANDOLIN

Jacob do Bandolim: amateur musician who instilled mandolin fashion throughout America

Jacob Pick Bittencourt, nicknamed Jacob do Bandolim or Mandolin Jacob, was a Brazilian musician and composer working in...
Choir

Mass in B minor: how to separate original scores of J.S. Bach from his son's later edits?

The Mass in B minor is one of the latest works of J.S. Bach in which he set a liturgical Latin text to music. Clocking...
Koto

First compositions for koto presented out of court by Yatsuhashi Kengyō in the 17th century

Yatsuhashi Kengyō was a 17th-century Japanese composer who created a new concept of koto music, introducing the...
TECHNOLOGIES

Pianola: the reproducing piano as the first Hi-Fi player and preservation capsule for recitals on piano rolls

Long before the recording era, mankind was already looking for ways to play music automatically. The earliest known... 1 comment
Classical Guitar

Serenata Española by Joaquim Malats: the piano piece that conquered guitar world

Serenata Española, written by Spanish piano virtuoso Joaquim Malats, has been the most popular work among guitarists for...
Manuscript

Rich music collection of the Trecento times recovered from Florentine palimpsest

It is difficult to imagine, in the current digital world, the serious difficulties associated with recording any...
ORCHESTRA

The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced...

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