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Orazio,Vecchi
Born October 10,1813
Died January 27,1910
Nationality Italian Romantic Composer
His most original work, L’Amfiparnaso (1597), which has been called a “madrigal opera,” is a set of 15 pieces, dramatic in nature but not intended to be staged -
Georg Philipp Teleman
Born- March 14,1681
Died- February 19,1550
Nationality German Composer
Telemann's style remained contrapuntally and harmonically complex, and already in 1751 he dismissed much contemporary music as too simplistic. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Born-March 21,1685
Died-July 28,1750
Nationality German composer
Bach replaced his friend Georg Philipp Telemann as the director of the popular orchestra known as Collegium Musicum, which he led from 1729-1750 -
Wolfgang Amadeous Mozart
Born-January 27,1756
Died- december 5,1791
Nationality-composer of the classis era
He continued his professional functions for some time, and conducted the premiere of The Magic Flute on 30 September -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Born-1770
Died-March-26,1827
Nationality-German composer
Beethoven's Ninth and final symphony, completed in 1824, remains the illustrious composer's most towering achievement. -
Hector Berlioz
Born-December 11,1803
Died-March 8,1869
Nationality-French Composer
Berlioz found his financial footing in the 1850s, when his L'Enfance du Christ (1854) was a success and he was elected to the Institut de France, thus enabling him to receive a stipend. -
Guiseppe Verdi
Born-October 10,1813
Died-January 27,1901
Nationality-Italian Composer
1894 -Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur -
Claude Debussy
Born-August 22,1862
Died-March 25,1918
Nationality- Spanish Composer
In a letter of 1908, he wrote "I am trying to do 'something different'—an effect of reality -
Manuel De Falla
Born-November 23,1876
Died-November 14,1946
Nationality-Spanish Composer
Regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the twentieth century, -
Percy Grainger
Born-July 8,1882
Died-February 20,1961
Nationality-Australian Composer
The conductor John Eliot Gardiner describes Grainger as "a true original in terms of orchestration and imaginative instrumentation -
Zoltan Kodaly
Born-December 16,1882
Died-March 6,1967
Nationality-Hungarian Composer
In 1906 he wrote the thesis on Hungarian folk song ("Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong") -
Igor Stavinsky
Born-June 17,1882
Died-June 25,1767
Nationality-German Composer
1954: Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal -
Aaron Copland
Born-November 4,1900
Died-December 2.1990
Nationality-american Composer
On September 14, 1964, Aaron Copland was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson -
Aram Khachaturian
Born-June 6,1903
Died-May 1,1978
Nationaliy-Soviet american composer
Lenin Prize (1959) for the ballet Spartacus -
Benjamin Britten
Born-November 22,1913
Died-December 4,1976
Nationality-English composer
State honours awarded to Britten included Companion of Honour (Britain) in 1953; Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star (Sweden) in 1962; -
John Adams
Raised in New England
Born- February 15,1947
Adams won the annual American Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 for his 9/11 memorial piece, On the Transmigration of Souls
