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Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck, since 1756 knight of Gluck (Ritter von Gluck, in German), (Erasbach, July 2,1714-Vienna, November 15, 1787) was a bohemian composer. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of Classicism of the second half of the eighteenth century -
J. Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (pronouncedAbout this sound ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩ (? ·i))1 (Rohrau, near Vienna; March 31, 1732 - Vienna; May 31, 1809), known as Joseph Haydn, was an Austrian composer. He is one of the greatest representatives of the Classical period, in addition to being known as the "father of the symphony" and the "father of the string quartet" thanks to his important contributions to both genres. -
Nannerl Mozart
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (Salzburg, July 30, 1751 - ibid, October 29, 1829), also called Nannerl1 and Marianne, was a famous music of the 18th century. She was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. -
W.A. Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozarta (Salzburg, January 27, 1756 - Vienna, December 5, 1791), better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, conductor and teacher of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg (formerly part of the Holy Roman Empire, currently part of Austria), master of Classicism, considered one of the most. -
Maria Theresia Von Paradis
Maria Theresia von Paradis (Vienna, May 15, 1759 - idem, February 1, 1824) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Despite the fact that since the age of three she completely lost her sight, this was not an impediment for the production and work of this great pianist, singer and composer to stand out. -
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethovena (Bonn, Archbishopric of Cologne; December 16, 1770b - Vienna, March 26, 1827) was a composer, conductor, pianist and German piano teacher. His musical legacy covers, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. He is considered one of the most important composers in the history of music and his legacy has decisively influenced the subsequent evolution of this art. -
Gioacchino Rossini
Gioachino Rossinia (Pésaro, Papal States; February 29, 1792 - Passy, Paris, Second French Empire; November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some pieces of chamber and piano music and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serial opera before retiring from large-scale composition when he was still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity. -
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was born in Himmelpfortgrund on 31 January 1797. He was the first great lieder composer. He composed more than six hundred. He was also the promoter of the schubertiadas, intimate concerts and musical gatherings to enjoy music. -
Hector Berlioz
He was born on December 11, 1803. He was a French composer and a leading figure in Romanticism. His best known work is the Fantastic Symphony, premiered in 1830. -
Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (Hamburg, November 14, 1805 -Berlin, May 14, 1847), also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and by marriage Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, was a composer and pianist of early Romanticism. His compositions include a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral opening, four cantatas, more than 125 piano pieces and more than 250 lieder, most of which were published posthumously -
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was a German composer, conductor and pianist of romantic music, and brother of the also pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn. He was the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and was born into an outstanding Jewish family that later converted to Lutheranism, adopting the surname Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumanna ( 1810 - 1856) was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the nineteenth century, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical romanticism.
Schumann left his law studies, with the intention of pursuing a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher Friedrich Wieck had assured him that he could become the best pianist in Europe, but an injury to his hand ended this dream and focused his musical energies on the composition. -
Fréderic Chopin
Frédéric François Chopinnote was a Polish teacher, composer and virtuoso pianist, considered one of the most important in history and one of the greatest representatives of musical Romanticism. Chopin's pedagogical offspring has reached pianists such as Maurizio Pollini and Alfred Cortot, through Georges Mathias and Emile Descombes, respectively. -
Franz Liszt
He was born on October 22, 1811. Liszt became famous throughout Europe during the 19th century for his great skill as a performer. His contemporaries claimed that he was the most technically advanced pianist of his day and perhaps the greatest of all time. He was also an important and influential composer, a notable piano teacher, a conductor who contributed significantly to the modern development of art, and a benefactor to other composers and artists. -
Richard Wagner
He was born on May 22, 1813. He was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright and musical theorist of Romanticism, his operas stand out mainly. Creator of German drama, opera conceived as a total work of art. -
Giuseppe Verdi
He was born on October 10, 1813. He is considered one of the most important composers in the history of opera. Through his works he manages to convey the political and nationalist situation of his country, Italy. -
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Early Romanticism
In the second decade of the nineteenth century, the change to new sources for music, together with a more accentuated use of chromaticism in melodies and the need for more harmonic expressiveness, produced a palpable stylistic change. The reasons that motivated this change were not merely musical but also economic, political and social. The stage was prepared for a new generation of composers who could speak to the new post-Napoleonic European environment. -
Clara Schumann
She was born on September 13, 1819. She was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. She toured Europe to offer concerts of her creations and also those of her husband, Robert Schumann. Today it is not known how many of the works awarded to Robert are actually by Clara -
Bedrich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana was a composer born in Bohemia, a region that in the musician's lifetime was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer in the development of a musical style that was intimately linked to Czech nationalism. -
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Average Romanticism
The romantic movement spread throughout Europe. Paris becomes an important center of musical culture. It is the time of instrumental virtuosity with composers like Listz or Paganini. Two of the most important pianist composers of this period will develop a large part of their careers in this city: Chopin, who arrived in Paris in 1831, and Liszt, who arrived in Paris as a teenager. -
Johanes Brahms
He was born on May 7, 1833. He was a German romantic composer, pianist and conductor, considered the most classical of the composers of that period. Born in Hamburg to a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice. I work with some of the main artists of his time, such as Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim -
Musorgski
Modest Músorgski (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Romanization Modest Petrovich Músorgsky)1 (Karevo, Pskov Among his works are the operas Boris Godunov (1872) and Jovánschina (1886), the symphonic poem Una noche en el Monte Pelado (1867) and the piano suite Cuadros de una exposición (1874) -
Piotr llich Chaikovski
Piotr Ilich Chaikovski was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He is the author of some of the most famous classical music works of the current repertoire, such as the ballets The Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the Overture 1812, the overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet, the First Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto, his fourth, Fifth and Sixth symphonies and the operas Eugenio Oneguin and The Lady of Peak. -
Anton Dvorak
He was born on September 8, 1841. He was a post-romantic composer. Dvorák showed his musical gifts at an early age, being a good violin student from the age of six. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with particular success, in 1873, when he was 31 years old. -
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered He adapted many songs and songs from the folklore of his country, thus contributing to creating a Norwegian national identity, just as Jean Sibelius did in Finland or Antonín Dvořák in Bohemia. His most important works are: the piano concert in the minor, the intimate lyrical pieces (for piano) and especially Peer Gynt. -
Rimski Korsakov
Nikolai Andreievich Rimski-Kórsakova (Tijvin, March 6jul./ March 18, 1844greg. - Lubensk estate, June 8jul./ June 21, 1908greg.b was a Russian composer, conductor and pedagogue member of the group of composers known as The Five.c Considered a master of orchestration, his best-known orchestra Scheherezade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tales and popular themes. -
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Late Romanticism
At the end of the second half of the nineteenth century, many of the social, political and economic changes that began in the post-Napoleonic era were affirmed. The telegraph and the railway tracks united Europe much more. Nationalism, which was one of the most important sources at the beginning of the century, was formalized in political and linguistic elements. -
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (Lucca, December 22, 1858 - Brussels, November 29, 1924), better known simply as Giacomo Puccini, was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf (March 13, 1860, Windischgraz, Austrian Empire - February 22, 1903, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire) was an Austrian composer of Slovenian origin, who lived during the late 19th century in Vienna. Enthusiastic follower of Richard Wagner, he mixed in the disputes existing in Vienna, at that time, between Wagnerians and formalists or Brahmsians. He was a very enthusiastic person, but very unbalanced as well. -
Gustav Mahler
He was born on July 7, 1860. In the first decade of the 20th century, Gustav Mahler was one of the most important conductors and opera conductors of his time. As a composer, he focused his efforts on the symphonic form and the lied. The Second, Third, Fourth and Eighth symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) combined both genres in his scores. -
Debussy
Achille Claude Debussya (pronounced /aʃil(ə) klod(ə) dəbysi/; Saint-Germain-en-Laye, August 22, 1862 - Paris, March 25, 1918) was a French composer, one of the most influential of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some authors consider him the first Impressionist composer, although he categorically rejected the term. -
Sibelius
Jean Sibelius (About this sound in Swedish), registered at birth as Johan Julius Christian Sibelius1 (Hämeenlinna, December 8, 1865 - Järvenpää, September 20, 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of late Romanticism and early Modernism. He is widely recognized as the best composer in his country and, through his music, he is often credited with having helped Finland develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia. -
Schönberg
Arnold Schönberg (Vienna, September 13, 1874 - Los Angeles, July 13, 1951) was an Austrian composer, musical theorist and painter of Jewish origin. Since he emigrated to the United States in 1934, he adopted the name Arnold Schoenberg, and this is how he usually appears in English-language publications and around the world. -
Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (French pronunciation: /ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl/; Ciboure, Labort, March 7, 1875 - Paris, December 28, 1937) was a French composer of the twentieth century. His work, often linked to Impressionism, also shows a bold neoclassical style and, sometimes, features of Expressionism, and is the result of a complex heritage and musical findings that revolutionized piano and orchestral music. -
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (Cádiz, November 23, 1876 - Alta Gracia, Argentina, November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the twentieth century, along with Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Joaquín Rodrigo, and one of the most important Spanish composers of all time. -
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (Nagyszentmiklós, Austro-Hungarian Empire - Sânnicolau Mare, since 1920 part ofRomania-, March 25, 1881 - New York, September 26, 1945), known as Béla Bartók (in Hungarian, Bartók Béla) was a Hungarian musician who stood out as a composer He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of ethnomusicology, based on the relationships that unite ethnology and musicology. -
Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский; Oranienbaum, June 17, 1882 - New York, April 6, -
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina Pérez (Seville, December 9, 1882 - Madrid, January 14, 1949) was a Spanish composer and musicologist representing nationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albéniz and he composed the most important works of Impressionism in Spain. His most important works are Fantastic Dances and The Rocío Procession. -
Zoltán Kodály
He was born on December 16, 1882. He was a prominent Hungarian musician whose musical style first went through a post-Romantic-Viennese phase and later evolved into its main characteristic: the mixture of 20th-century folklore and complex harmonies, shared with Béla Bartók -
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (Rio de Janeiro, March 5, 1887 - Abidjan, November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian conductor and composer.1 His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and classical European music. He received some musical instruction from his father. Already before 1899, the year of his father's death, Villa-Lobos had begun to devote himself to music as a professional. -
Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershovitz; Brooklyn, September 26, 1898 - Beverly Hills, July 11, 1915) was an American musician, composer and pianist. He is popularly recognized for having managed to make a perfect amalgam between classical music and jazz, which is evident in his prodigious works. -
Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen (Aviñón, December 10, 1908 - Clichy, Île-de-France, April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most outstanding musicians of the entire century. Both his fascination with Hinduism, his admiration for nature and birds, his deep Christian faith and his love for instrumental color, were paramount for his training as a person and artist. -
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (August 14, 1910 – August 19, 1995) was a French composer. He is considered the creator of the specific music. He is the author of the book entitled Treatise on Musical Objects, where he exposes all his theory about this type of music. He composed different works, all of them based on the technique of the specific music. Among them, it is worth highlighting its Study for locomotives. -
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (Los Angeles, September 5, 1912 - New York, August 12, 1992), artistically John Cage,1 was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher.2 Pioneer of random music, electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments,3 Cage was one of the main figures of the post-war avant-garde.4 Critics have applauded him as life.8 -
Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry (Paris, December 9, 1927 - ibid., July 5, 2017)1 was a French musician, considered the creator, along with Pierre Schaeffer, of the so-called concrete music and one of the godfathers of electroacoustic music -
Philipp Glass
Philip Glass (Baltimore, Maryland, January 31, 1937) is an American composer of classical music. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York. His international recognition has increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach (1975).