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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...
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...
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...
TRADITIONAL
Majestic heart of the ancient Gamelan orchestra
Gamelan is the term used for a traditional musical ensemble in Indonesia, typically refering to a percussion orchestra...
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...
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...
ORCHESTRA
Things Lost In The Fire: Norwegian folk of Geirr Tveitt
The very mindful application of folk music to classical during the early 20th century became a global trend since every...
Trombone
Moonlight Serenade got its name to contrast the sun
Glenn Miller, American big band leader, composer, and trombonist, is considered the primary musical symbol of the World...
ORCHESTRA
'English Dances' creator was fascinated by jazz in youth
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (1921–2006), British composer and conductor, has an impressive body of work to his name,...
ORCHESTRA
'Mysterious Mountain' creator was not thrilled with its popularity
American composer Alan Hovhaness is perhaps most known for his work Mysterious Mountain, or Symphony No.2, which proved...
TRUMPET
Forgotten German composer behind the shift from Baroque to Classical
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) was the leader of the transitional period from late Baroque to early Classical in his...
Violin
Belated appreciation for the history-making Florence Price
The modern rediscovery of the little-known African-American composer Florence Price only began in 2009, when a large...
PIANO
Influential music teacher Nadia Boulanger considered her music worthless
Juliette Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was conductor, composer, and one of the most influential teachers of musical...
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ORCHESTRA
Modern jazz trumpet for gifted Mozart scholar
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) was an Austrian composer and outstanding virtuoso pianist during the transition period...
ORCHESTRA
Obscured by Vivaldi, an Italian virtuoso found fans in England
Francesco Saverio Geminiani—influential Italian violinist, composer, and theorist—was born in 1687 in the scenic town of...
ORCHESTRA
The most performed contemporary composer grew up with Bob Marley music
Jennifer Higdon is a contemporary composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Awards. According to a recent...
ORCHESTRA
Alessandro Scarlatti: Italian opera innovator was lost in history for two centuries
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) was among the most important Italian composers of the late Baroque period. His huge...
ORCHESTRA
Im Sommerwind is an atypical work of the typical modernist composer
Austrian composer Anton Webern rose to fame as a member of the Second Viennese School, a prominent movement known for...
ORCHESTRA
Romeo and Juliet eclipsed by the tragic beauty of Chinese Butterfly Lovers
The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is one of the best known classical orchestra pieces in China, though a vast...
TRUMPET
Nameless trumpet sonata credited to Purcell after years of debate
Henry Purcell, the most prominent English figure of the Baroque era, covered a wide field of genres, producing music for...
ORCHESTRA
Mother of film score genre learned music through BBC radio broadcasts
Doreen Mary Carwithen, also known as Mary Alwyn, was the first student to be selected from the Royal Academy to join an...
ORCHESTRA
The true soul behind Elgar's Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, originally titled Variations on an Original Theme, is famous for its mysterious name,...
ORCHESTRA
The lively nature of A Color Symphony emerged from the Great War horrors
A Colour Symphony, dedicated to the legendary conductor Sir Adrian Boult, was the first major orchestral work by the...
ORCHESTRA
English Idyll through the eyes of the Lost Generation hero
Promising English composer George Butterworth appeared to show no interest in writing symphonic music, instead...
ORCHESTRA
Dvorak's string serenade is a mirror of his blissful years
For Antonin Dvořák, 1875 was a grand time for both creative productivity and wholesome family life. The birth of his...
ORCHESTRA
Famous harp masterpiece was created to show off a new instrument
François-Adrien Boieldieu's output of instrumental music was initially meager and virtually ceased once he became one of...
ORCHESTRA
Comic 'Italienische Serenade' was the end of Hugo Wolf
The inspiration for the Italian Serenade came to Hugo Wolf from the novella Leben eines Taugenichts by the German...
Cello
The lost Haydn concerto was found among the Czech castle documents
Cello Concerto in C demonstrates the many facets that are unique to the cello only, from growling low chords to sweet...
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Peter Grimes outdoor premiere at Benjamin Britten's home beach
Despite reports that Benjamin Britten paced nervously at the back of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre when Peter Grimes first...
ORCHESTRA
Famous Sibelius piece was commissioned for a plywood mill anniversary
Jean Sibelius originally wrote Andante Festivo for a string quartet which was later made all the more luscious when he...
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