Composerinos

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Austrian, 1732-1809

“Father of the Symphony”, wrote more than 109 symphonies. Worked for the Esterhazy family

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Joseph Haydn

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Austrian, 1756-1791
Most famous works: Paris, Prague, Jupiter (symphonies 31, 38, 41) and operas Abduction from the Seraglio, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute

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Wolfgang Mozart

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Austrian, 1797-1828

More than 600 art songs, famous symphony #8 (The Unfinished), Symphony #9 (The Great) and symphony #10 (the last)

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Franz Schubert

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Austrian, 1825-1899

“Waltz King”, best known for “Blue Danube Waltz” and operetta “Die Fledermaus” (the Bat)

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Johann Strauss, the younger

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Austrian, 1860-1911
Lieder (art songs) and song circles. Best known for symphonies like Resurrection, Tragic, Symphony of a Thousand. Believed he would dir after writing 9th symphony, left his symphony unnumbered after #8

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Gustav Mahler

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Austrian, 1874-1951

Created the 12 tone system. Works include Transfigured Knight, Moses and Aaron, A Survivor from Warsaw

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Arnold Shoemberg

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Austrian, 1885-1961

Atonal operas such as Lulu and Wozzeck

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Alban Berg

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Belgian

Spent most of life in Paris. Master organist, one of best organ virtuosos w/Bach

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Cesar Franck

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Brazilian

Guess him if question mentions Brazilian Composer

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

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Czech (bohemian) 1824-1884
Suffered from Tinnitus, constantly heard a high note. Best known for Ma Vlast, From my Life, The Bartered Bride, The Moldau,

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Bedrich Smenata

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Czech, 1841-1904

Best known for From New World. Other works include Slavonic Dances, Moravian Duets, Stabat Mater and Rusalka(an opera)

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Antonin Dvorak

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Czech, 1854-1928

Best known for Sinfonietta

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Leos Janacek

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English, 1659-1695
Only notable baroque composer. Organist for Westminster Abbey. Also known for operas and semi operas like Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen and Abdelazar

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Henry Purcell

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English, 1857-1934

Best known for Pomp and Circumstance. Early in career, composed for lunatic asylums

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Edward Elger

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English, 1862-1934

BLF: Brigg Fair, On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring, A Village Romeo and Juliet

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Frederick Delius

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English, 1872-1958
Related to C Darwin. Major Works: Sinfonia Antarctica, The Sea Symphony, The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

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Ralph Vaughn Williams

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English, 1874-1934

BKF: The Planets. Influenced by Hinduism, as seen in Songs from the Rig Veda and Savitri

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Gustav Holst

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English 1913-1976
Collaborated w/ poet WH Auden on works like opera Paul Bunyan. Other works: A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, operas Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, Turn of the Screw

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Benjamin Britten

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Finnish

BKF: Finlandia. Also wrote Valse Triste, The Swan of Tuolena

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Jean Silbelius

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French, 1803-1869
Obsession with actress Harriet Smithson inspired Symphonie Fantastique. Other works: Harold in Italy, The Damnation of Faust

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Hector Berlioz

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French, 1818-1893

BKF Faust. Outlier compared to his other works

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Charles Gounod

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French, 1819-1880

Born in Germany w/ Jewish parents, moved to France young. Tales of Hoffman, Orpheus in the Underworld, Robinson Crusoe

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Jaques Offenbach

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French, 1835-1921
Fought in Franco-Prussian war, had public feud with Claude Debussy. Major works: Carnival of the Animals, Dance Macabre, Organ Symphony, opera Samson and Delilah

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Camille Saint-Saens

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BKF The Fair Maid of Perth and The Pearl Fishers. BKOpera: Carmen.

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George Bizet

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French, 1862-1918 | Music described as equivalent to "Impressionism", often referred to as "symbolism"

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Claude Debussey

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German, 1653-1706 | Baroque composer, BKF Canon is D Major

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Johann Pachelbel

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German, 1685-1750 Long line of Bach family musicians. Noted for contrapuntal technique. Works include St Matthew's Passion, Bradenburg Concertos, The Well-Tenpered Clavier and Goldberg Variations

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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German, 1685-1759 Kapellmeister to George, Elector of Hanover (later George I of England). Water Music, Nero, Xerxes, Almira, The Messiah, Music for Royal Fireworks

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George Frideric Handel

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German, 1714-1787 | Music teacher for Marie Antoinette. BLF opera Orpheus and Eurydice

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Cristoph Gluck

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German, 1770-1827 Student of Haydn. Deafness developed because if lead poisoning, typhus and childhood beatings. Works: The Kreutzer Sonata, Fur Elise, Fidelio, The Creatures of Prometheus

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Ludwig Van Beethoven

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German, 1786-1826 | Cousin in-law of Mozart. BKF founding German Romantic Opera. Works: Oberon Euryanthe, Die Freischutzu

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Carl Maria von Weber

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German, 1791-1864 Jewish operatic composer. Mentor to Richard Wagner. Relationship soured when Wagner wrote Jewry in Music, had public feud. BKF Les Huguenots Le Prophete

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

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German, 1809-1847 Criticized by Wagner in Jewry in Music. Works: Songs Without Words, Hebrides Overture, Italian Symphony, Scottish Symphony, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Felix Mendelssohn

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German, 1810-1856 Married Clara, daughter of his teacher Fredrich Wieck. Wrote Papillions, Spring Symphony, Rhenish Symphony. Went mad from Hg posioning and syphilis, tried throwing himself into the Rhine

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Robert Schumann

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German, 1813-1883 Married daughterof Franz Liszt. BKF operas Riezi, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Parcifal, The Ring of the Nibelung

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Richard Wagner

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German, 1883-1897 Close friend of Clara Schumann. Works: Academic Festival Overture, German Requiem, Lullaby (aka Wiegenlied), Hungarian Dances

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Johannes Brahms

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German, 1864-1949 Leader of State Music Bureau for nazi germany, but removed from position bc his views didn't align with the nazi's. Wrote tone poems like Also sprach Zarathustra and Don Quixote, but BKF operas like Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos

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Richard Strauss

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Armenian, 20th century | Best known works are ballets Spartacus and Gayane, which includes the Sabre Dance

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Aram Khachaturian

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Hungarian, 1811-1886 Student of Salieri. Wildly popular. Works include Les Preludes, Faust Symphony, Mephisto Waltz, Totentanz, Hungarian Rhapsodies

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Franz Liszt

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Hungarian, 1881-1945 Primarily interested in folk song, which influenced his compositions. BKF opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle and ballet The Miraculous Mandarin. Also wrote Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and Mikrosmos

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Bela Bartok

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Hungarian, 1882-1967 | BKF Hary Janos

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Zoltan Kodaly

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Italian, 1525-1594 Renaissance composer of sacred music. His Pope Marcellus Mass supposedly convinced the council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music.

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Giovanni Palestrina

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Italian, 1567-1643 Wrote Madrigals Books. BKF writing one of first operas ever performed, Orfeo. Also wrote Coronation of Poppaea, The Combat Between Tancred and Clorinda.

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Claudio Monteverdi

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Italian, 1678-1741 | Cleric who worked for a girl's orphanage. Nicknamed the Red Priest. BKF The Four Seasons, opera Orlando Furioso

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Antonio Vivaldi

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Italian, 1865-1757 | Baroque composer BKF writing more than 550 keyboard sonatas

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Domenico Scarlatti

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Italy, 1782-1840 Violin virtuoso so skilled that people claimed he had a pact with the devil. Commissioned Berlioz's Herold in Italy. BKF La Campanella and 24 Caprices

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Niccolo Paganini

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Italian, 1792-1868 | BKF operas The Italian Girl in Algiers; Cinderella; William Tell; Barber of Seville, The Thieving Magpie, Tancredi

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Giachino Rossini

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Italian, 1797-1848 Along with Bellini and Rossini, considered one of the masters of the "bel canto" style. Operas include Don Pasquale; Daughter of the Regiment; The Elixir of Love; Lucretia Borgia, Anne Boleyn; Lucia di Lammermoor

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Gaetano Donizetti

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Italian, 1801-1835 | Operas include Norma, La Somnambula, I Puritani and The Capulets and the Montagues

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Vincenzo Bellini

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Italian, 1813-1901 Romantic operatic composer whose works include Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, II Trovatore, La Traviata, Sicilian Vespers, A Masked Ball, The Force of Destiny, Aida, Otello, Falstaff

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Giuseppi Verdi

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Italian, 1834-1886 | Romantic composer BKF La Gioconda

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Amilcare Ponchielli

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Italian, 1857-1919 Along with Mascagni, considered one of the masters of the "verisimo" style. BKF operas I Pagliacci; much less well known version of La Boheme

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

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Italian, 1858-1924 Prolific composer. Works include Manon Lescaut; La Boheme; Tosca; Madame Butterfly; The Girl of the Golden West; Turnadot

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Giacomo Puccini

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Italian 1863-1945 | Alone with Leoncavallo, considered one of the masters of the "verisimo" style. BKF opera Cavalerria Rusticana.

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Pietro Mascagini

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Italian, 1879-1936 BKF Roman Trilogy (Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome; Roman Festivals). Also wrote Ancient Airs and Dances, and Brazilian Impressions

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Ottorino Respighi

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Norwegian, 1843-1907 | Wrote Lyric Pieces, the Holberg Suite, Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak

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Edvard Grieg

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Polish, 1810-1849 Best known Polish composer. Wrote hundreds of piano pieces, most notably etudes, polonaises and preludes. Long relationship with french writer George Sand

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Frederic Chopin

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Polish, 1860-1941 | Notable pianist and composer, but BKF being the prime minister of Poland

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Ignacy Jan Padeewski

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"The Five" - important group of Russian Composers, given their nickname by critic Vladimir Stasov.

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``` Mily Belakirev Cesar Cui Modest Mussorgsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Alexander Borodin ```

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Russian, 1837-1910 | Led 'The Five'. Wrote Islamey; Tamarai

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Mily Belakirev

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Russian, 1835-1918 | Best known opera: The Prisoner of the Caucasus. Also wrote children's opera Puss in Boots

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Cesar Cui

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Russian, 1839-1881 Wrote the operas Boris Gudonov Khovanschina; Soroschintsi Fair. Most important orchestral works: Night on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition

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Modest Mussorgsky

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Russian, 1844-1908 Naval officer in the Russian Navy. Wrote Scheherazade; Capriccio Espagnol; Russian Easter Festival Overture. Operas include The Snow Maiden; Mozart and Salieri; The Golden Cockerel; The Tale of the Tsar Saltan

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Russian, 1833-1887 Accomplished chemist. Discovered the Aldol reaction while composing in his spare time. BKF In the Steppes of Central Asia; opera Prince Igor

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Alexander Borodin

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Russian, 1804-1857 | Considered first important Russian composer. BKF Ruslan and Ludmila; A Life for the Czar

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Mikhail Glinka

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Russian, 1840-1893 Supported by the wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck. Major works include: The 1812 Overture; Romeo and Juliet. Ballets liks Swan Lake; The Nutcracker; Sleeping Beauty. Operas like Eugene Ogenin; The Queen of Spades. Symphonies like Winter Daydreams; Little Russian; Pathetique.

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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Russian, 1872-1915 | Wrote Poem of Fire; Poem of Ecstasy

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Alexander Scriabin

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Russian, 1873-1941 | Piano virtuoso with Marfan's Syndrome. BKF Isle of the Dead; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; The Bells

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Russian, 1882-1971 Wrote some opera (like The Rake's Progress). BKF Ballets such as The Firebird; The Rite of Spring; Pulcinella. Wrote concertos Dumbarton Oaks; The Symphony of Psalms

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Igor Stravinsky

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Russian, 1891-1953 BKF The Love for Three Oranges; Peter and the Wolf. Wrote several other important works like Scythian Suite; The Prodigal Son; Lieutenant Kije Suite; Alexander Nevsky

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Russian, 1906-1975 Perhaps the most important Soviet composer. Operas The Noseri; Lady Macbeth of Mtensk. Wrote symphonies Leningrad; The Year 1905; Babi-yar

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Spanish, 1860-1909 | Catalan composer BKF piano suite Iberia

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Isaac Albeniz

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Spanish, 1876-1946 | Important works include Nights in the Gardens of Spain; The Three Cornered Hat

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Manuel De Falla

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Swiss | Member of 'Les Six'. BKF Pacific 231.

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Arthur Honegger

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American, 1854-1932 Known as the March King. Bandmaster for the Marine Corps. Marches include Semper Fidelis; Stars and Stripes Forever; Washington Post March. Wrote operetta El Capitan.

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John Philip Sousa

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American, 1868-1917 | Regime composer BKF Maple Leaf Rag; The Entertainer; ragtime opera Treemonisha

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Scott Joplin

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American, 1874-1954 Connecticut-born composer. Insurance agent. Major works: Concord Sonata; Three Places in New England; Central Park in the Dark

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Charles Ives

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American, 1898-1937 BKF Rhapsody in Blue. Other important works include ballet An American in Paris; Cuban Overture, and opera Porgy and Bess

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George Gershwin

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American, 1900-1990 BKF ballets like Rodeo; Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid. Other notable works include opera The Tender Land, orchestral works Lincoln Portrait; El Salon Mexico; Fanfare for the common man.

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Aaron Copland

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American, 1910-1981 | BKF Adagio for Strings; The School for Scandal and operas Vanessa; A Hand of Bridge

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Samuel Barber

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American, 1912-1992 avant-garde composer BKF his "chance music". Works include Imaginary Landscape; Music of Changes; Number Pieces; 4'33", ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible), a 639-year performance currently in progress in Halberstadt, Germany

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John Cage

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American, 1918-1990 Director of NY Philharmonic. Wrote ballet Fancy Free and symphonies like Jeremiah; Kaddish; The Age of Anxiety. BKF West Side Story

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Leonard Bernstein

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American, 1937-present | Minimalist composer noted for operas Einstein on the Beach; Akhnaten; Satyagraha

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Phillip Glass

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American, 1947-present Minimalist composer whose works include operas Nixon in China; The Death of Klinghoffer; Dr. Atomic. Orchestral works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine; On the Transmigration of Souls; The Dharma at Big Sur; Shaker Loops; Phrygian Gates

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John Adams