Composer

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Choir

Europe worshiped this 12th-century prophet for her visions rather than her music talent

Hildegard von Bingen—German abbess and visionary mystic—was one of the most enigmatic personalities of the Middle Ages....
PIANO

The American boom of Cécile Chaminade's Romantic piano

French Romantic composer Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade enjoyed considerable success, touring as a pianist and...
Organ

Mecca for organ music created by Dieterich Buxtehude in Lübeck

The picture Musical Company by Johannes Voorhout shows baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude playing the viol while his...
Recorder

Fiery dances of Marco Uccellini from Forlimpopoli

Forlimpopoli is a tiny Italian town located on the Romagna plain, at the foot of the Apennines. Founded by Romans in the...
Cor Anglais

The alloy of melody and spoken word in the music of Reynaldo Hahn

Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan-born—later naturalized French—composer, pianist, and singer who wrote in the French...
Cello

Recent study of Luigi Boccherini's skeleton revealed the threat of scoliosis for cellists

Luigi Boccherini was born in the Italian town of Lucca in Tuscany in 1743. He was the third child of a double-bass...
ORCHESTRA

Ludwig August Lebrun: the sweet genius of Mannheim

Ludwig August Lebrun (1752—1790) was a phenomenal German oboist who contributed several mellow oboe pieces to the...
Classical Guitar

Enrique Granados' dramatic voyage was cut short by a German U-boat

Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña was one of the greatest pianists and composers of the Romantic period who...
PIANO

The Orpheus of Amsterdam: the joyful nickname for organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

The ‘Orpheus of Amsterdam’ was the nickname lovingly given to Jan Pietersz Sweelinck (1562–1621), an organist, composer...
ORCHESTRA

The four elements of nature expressed in musical form by Jean-Féry Rebel

French composer Jean-Féry Rebel was born in 1666 to a distinguished musical family. His father and uncle were French...
Classical Guitar

Anthony Holborne: the master of Elizabethan consort music

Antony Holborne was an English Renaissance composer whose music for lute and cittern appeared in two important...
PIANO

Gondolier songs as the inspiration behind the romantic genre of Barcarolle

Originally a Venetian gondolier’s song, Barcarolle is characterized by gently rocking rhythms reminiscent of the...
ORCHESTRA

Amsterdam's free spirit for the Italian virtuoso

Pietro Locatelli (1695—1764), Italian violinist and composer, was one of the first great violinists who practiced...
FILM

The unique music garden of Toru Takemitsu

Widely considered to be the greatest composer in the classical music tradition in modern Japan, Toru Takemitsu merged...
Chalumeau

German maestro ordered all his music to be set on fire

Christoph Graupner (1683–1760) was one of the principal German composers of the period shared by J.S. Bach and Georg...
Electric Guitar

Swedish Rhapsody variations for electric guitar

The painting Midsummer Eve bonfire on Skagen’s beach is a tribute to the artist colony in Skagen by Peder Severin Krøyer...
Choir

The boundless Flemish heritage of Heinrich Isaac

Heinrich Isaac (1450—1517) was a versatile and prolific Flemish composer of both secular and church music. He was a...
ORCHESTRA

Sommernacht poem found its composer in a Swiss romantic after a century

Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) was a remarkable Swiss composer during the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast...
Violin

Only 18 sonatas survived to be the only proof of the maestro's life

Giovanni Battista Fontana was a composer and violinist in the early Baroque period. Unfortunately, only a couple of...
Clarinet

National holiday as a birthday gift for Denmark's biggest composer

Carl August Nielsen (1865-1931) was one of the major symphonists of the postromantic epoch and Denmark's most eminent...
ORCHESTRA

Classic textbook by great Austrian composer eclipsed his talent

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and teacher of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as...
LUTE

Neapolitan lutier died in terrible plague that destroyed the kingdom

The worst disaster to strike the kingdom and city of Naples in the 1600s was the plague of 1656. The outbreak of the...
FLUTE

Forest ranger's son fled home to reform the operatic world

Christoph Willibald Gluck was a revolutionary who moved the courtly genre of opera to the way beyond the narrow limits...
Composer

Venetian architecture sparked a new musical era in Europe

Giovanni Gabrieli was one of the most influential musicians of his time, representing the culmination of the Venetian...
FILM

Five tones of Spielberg's alien language

Close Encounters of the Third Kind—Steven Spielberg’s first and perhaps best attempt at sci-fi—was released in 1977 only...
Classical Guitar

Lute fell into obscurity after the death of its greatest maestro

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750) was one of the most important composers in lute music history. Born into a...
ORCHESTRA

Florida orange plantations cultivated an overlooked English composer

Frederick Delius (1862–1934) was one of the most distinctive composers in the revival of English music at the end of the...
Double bass

Cachao: "Even when I am shaving I compose mambos"

Israel López Valdés (1918–2008), known invariably by the nickname Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer,...
Classical Guitar

Birds of the Amazon taught Villa-Lobos music

Primarily self-taught, Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) spent his early years absorbing the styles of...
PIANO

Choosing career in music got Rameau expelled from school

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) was one of the truly multifaceted French composers and theorists, with his theoretical...

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