Composerinos. Flashcards
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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"
Claude Debussey
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German, 1653-1706 Baroque composer, BKF Canon is D Major
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
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
George Frideric Handel
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German, 1714-1787 Music teacher for Marie Antoinette. BLF opera Orpheus and Eurydice
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
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
Carl Maria von Weber
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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
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
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
Richard Wagner
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German, 1833-1897 Close friend of Clara Schumann. Works: Academic Festival Overture, German Requiem, Lullaby (aka Wiegenlied), Hungarian Dances
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
Richard Strauss
37
Armenian, 20th century Best known works are ballets Spartacus and Gayane, which includes the Sabre Dance
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
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
Bela Bartok
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Hungarian, 1882-1967 BKF Hary Janos
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.
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.
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
Antonio Vivaldi
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Italian, 1865-1757 Baroque composer BKF writing more than 550 keyboard sonatas
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
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
Giachino Rossini
47
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
Gaetano Donizetti
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Italian, 1801-1835 Operas include Norma, La Somnambula, I Puritani and The Capulets and the Montagues
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
Giuseppi Verdi
50
Italian, 1858-1924 Prolific composer. Works include Manon Lescaut; La Boheme; Tosca; Madame Butterfly; The Girl of the Golden West; Turnadot
Giacomo Puccini
51
Italian 1863-1945 Alone with Leoncavallo, considered one of the masters of the "verisimo" style. BKF opera Cavalerria Rusticana.
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
Ottorino Respighi
53
Norwegian, 1843-1907 Wrote Lyric Pieces, the Holberg Suite, Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak
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
Frederic Chopin
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Polish, 1860-1941 Notable pianist and composer, but BKF being the prime minister of Poland
Ignacy Jan Padeewski
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"The Five" - important group of Russian Composers, given their nickname by critic Vladimir Stasov.
Mily Belakirev Cesar Cui Modest Mussorgsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Alexander Borodin
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Russian, 1837-1910 Led 'The Five'. Wrote Islamey; Tamarai
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
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
Modest Mussorgsky
60
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
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
61
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
Alexander Borodin
62
Russian, 1804-1857 Considered first important Russian composer. BKF Ruslan and Ludmila; A Life for the Czar
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.
Peter Tchaikovsky
64
Russian, 1872-1915 Wrote Poem of Fire; Poem of Ecstasy
Alexander Scriabin
65
Russian, 1873-1941 Piano virtuoso with Marfan's Syndrome. BKF Isle of the Dead; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; The Bells
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
Igor Stravinsky
67
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
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
Dmitri Shostakovich
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Spanish, 1860-1909 Catalan composer BKF piano suite Iberia
Isaac Albeniz
70
Spanish, 1876-1946 Important works include Nights in the Gardens of Spain; The Three Cornered Hat
Manuel De Falla
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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.
John Philip Sousa
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American, 1868-1917 Regime composer BKF Maple Leaf Rag; The Entertainer; ragtime opera Treemonisha
Scott Joplin
73
American, 1874-1954 Connecticut-born composer. Insurance agent. Major works: Concord Sonata; Three Places in New England; Central Park in the Dark
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
George Gershwin
75
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.
Aaron Copland
76
American, 1910-1981 BKF Adagio for Strings; The School for Scandal and operas Vanessa; A Hand of Bridge
Samuel Barber
77
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
John Cage
78
American, 1918-1990 Director of NY Philharmonic. Wrote ballet Fancy Free and symphonies like Jeremiah; Kaddish; The Age of Anxiety. BKF West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
79
American, 1937-present Minimalist composer noted for operas Einstein on the Beach; Akhnaten; Satyagraha
Phillip Glass
80
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
John Adams
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Joseph Haydn
Austrian, 1732-1809 "Father of the Symphony", wrote more than 109 symphonies. Worked for the Esterhazy family
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Dates
Nationality
Works
1756-1791
Austrian, Most famous works: Paris, Prague, Jupiter (symphonies 31, 38, 41) and operas Abduction from the Seraglio, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute
83
Franz Schubert
Austrian, 1797-1828 More than 600 art songs, famous symphony #8 (The Unfinished), Symphony #9 (The Great) and symphony #10 (the last)
84
Johann Strauss, the younger
Austrian, 1825-1899 "Waltz King", best known for "Blue Danube Waltz" and operetta "Die Fledermaus" (the Bat)
85
Gustav Mahler
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
86
Arnold Shoemberg
Austrian, 1874-1951 Created the 12 tone system. Works include Transfigured Knight, Moses and Aaron, A Survivor from Warsaw
87
Alban Berg
Austrian, 1885-1961 Atonal operas such as Lulu and Wozzeck
88
Cesar Franck
Belgian Spent most of life in Paris. Master organist, one of best organ virtuosos w/Bach
89
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian Guess him if question mentions Brazilian Composer
90
Bedrich Smenata
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,
91
Antonin Dvorak
Czech, 1841-1904 Best known for From New World. Other works include Slavonic Dances, Moravian Duets, Stabat Mater and Rusalka(an opera)
92
Leos Janacek
Czech, 1854-1928 Best known for Sinfonietta
93
Henry Purcell
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
94
Edward Elger
English, 1857-1934 Best known for Pomp and Circumstance. Early in career, composed for lunatic asylums
95
Frederick Delius
English, 1862-1934 BLF: Brigg Fair, On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring, A Village Romeo and Juliet
96
Ralph Vaughn Williams
English, 1872-1958 Related to C Darwin. Major Works: Sinfonia Antarctica, The Sea Symphony, The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
97
Gustav Holst
English, 1874-1934 BKF: The Planets. Influenced by Hinduism, as seen in Songs from the Rig Veda and Savitri
98
Benjamin Britten
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
99
Jean Silbelius
Finnish BKF: Finlandia. Also wrote Valse Triste, The Swan of Tuolena
100
Hector Berlioz
French, 1803-1869 Obsession with actress Harriet Smithson inspired Symphonie Fantastique. Other works: Harold in Italy, The Damnation of Faust
101
Charles Gounod
French, 1818-1893 BKF Faust. Outlier compared to his other works
102
Jaques Offenbach
French, 1819-1880 Born in Germany w/ Jewish parents, moved to France young. Tales of Hoffman, Orpheus in the Underworld, Robinson Crusoe
103
Camille Saint-Saens
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
104
George Bizet
BKF The Fair Maid of Perth and The Pearl Fishers. BKOpera: Carmen.
105
Claude Debussey
French, 1862-1918 Music described as equivalent to "Impressionism", often referred to as "symbolism"
106
Johann Pachelbel
German, 1653-1706 Baroque composer, BKF Canon is D Major
107
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Dates
Nationality
Works (4+)
1685-1750
German,
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
108
George Frideric Handel
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
109
Cristoph Gluck
German, 1714-1787 Music teacher for Marie Antoinette. BLF opera Orpheus and Eurydice
110
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Dates
Nationality
Works
1770-1827
German, Student of Haydn. Deafness developed because if lead poisoning, typhus and childhood beatings.
Works: The Kreutzer Sonata, Fur Elise, Fidelio, The Creatures of Prometheus
111
Carl Maria von Weber
German, 1786-1826 Cousin in-law of Mozart. BKF founding German Romantic Opera. Works: Oberon Euryanthe, Die Freischutzu
112
Felix Mendelssohn
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
113
Robert Schumann
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
114
Richard Wagner
German, 1813-1883 Married daughterof Franz Liszt. BKF operas Riezi, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Parcifal, The Ring of the Nibelung
115
Johannes Brahms
German, 1833-1897 Close friend of Clara Schumann. Works: Academic Festival Overture, German Requiem, Lullaby (aka Wiegenlied), Hungarian Dances
116
Richard Strauss
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
117
Aram Khachaturian
Armenian, 20th century Best known works are ballets Spartacus and Gayane, which includes the Sabre Dance
118
Franz Liszt
Hungarian, 1811-1886 Student of Salieri. Wildly popular. Works include Les Preludes, Faust Symphony, Mephisto Waltz, Totentanz, Hungarian Rhapsodies
119
Bela Bartok
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
120
Zoltan Kodaly
Hungarian, 1882-1967 BKF Hary Janos
121
Giovanni Palestrina
Italian, 1525-1594 Renaissance composer of sacred music. His Pope Marcellus Mass supposedly convinced the council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music.
122
Claudio Monteverdi
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.
123
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian, 1678-1741 Cleric who worked for a girl's orphanage. Nicknamed the Red Priest. BKF The Four Seasons, opera Orlando Furioso
124
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian, 1865-1757 Baroque composer BKF writing more than 550 keyboard sonatas
125
Niccolo Paganini
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
126
Giachino Rossini
Italian, 1792-1868 BKF operas The Italian Girl in Algiers; Cinderella; William Tell; Barber of Seville, The Thieving Magpie, Tancredi
127
Gaetano Donizetti
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
128
Vincenzo Bellini
Italian, 1801-1835 Operas include Norma, La Somnambula, I Puritani and The Capulets and the Montagues
129
Giuseppi Verdi
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
130
Giacomo Puccini
Italian, 1858-1924 Prolific composer. Works include Manon Lescaut; La Boheme; Tosca; Madame Butterfly; The Girl of the Golden West; Turnadot
131
Pietro Mascagini
Italian 1863-1945 Alone with Leoncavallo, considered one of the masters of the "verisimo" style. BKF opera Cavalerria Rusticana.
132
Ottorino Respighi
Italian, 1879-1936 BKF Roman Trilogy (Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome; Roman Festivals). Also wrote Ancient Airs and Dances, and Brazilian Impressions
133
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian, 1843-1907 Wrote Lyric Pieces, the Holberg Suite, Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak
134
Frederic Chopin
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
135
Mily Belakirev Cesar Cui Modest Mussorgsky Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Alexander Borodin
"The Five" - important group of Russian Composers, given their nickname by critic Vladimir Stasov.
136
Mily Belakirev
Russian, 1837-1910 Led 'The Five'. Wrote Islamey; Tamarai
137
Cesar Cui
Russian, 1835-1918 Best known opera: The Prisoner of the Caucasus. Also wrote children's opera Puss in Boots
138
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian, 1839-1881 Wrote the operas Boris Gudonov Khovanschina; Soroschintsi Fair. Most important orchestral works: Night on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition
139
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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
140
Alexander Borodin
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
141
Mikhail Glinka
Russian, 1804-1857 Considered first important Russian composer. BKF Ruslan and Ludmila; A Life for the Czar
142
Peter Tchaikovsky
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.
143
Alexander Scriabin
Russian, 1872-1915 Wrote Poem of Fire; Poem of Ecstasy
144
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian, 1873-1941 Piano virtuoso with Marfan's Syndrome. BKF Isle of the Dead; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; The Bells
145
Igor Stravinsky
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
146
Sergei Prokofiev
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
147
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian, 1906-1975 Perhaps the most important Soviet composer. Operas The Noseri; Lady Macbeth of Mtensk. Wrote symphonies Leningrad; The Year 1905; Babi-yar
148
Isaac Albeniz
Spanish, 1860-1909 Catalan composer BKF piano suite Iberia
149
Manuel De Falla
Spanish, 1876-1946 Important works include Nights in the Gardens of Spain; The Three Cornered Hat
150
John Philip Sousa
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.
151
Scott Joplin
American, 1868-1917 Regime composer BKF Maple Leaf Rag; The Entertainer; ragtime opera Treemonisha
152
Charles Ives
American, 1874-1954 Connecticut-born composer. Insurance agent. Major works: Concord Sonata; Three Places in New England; Central Park in the Dark
153
George Gershwin
American, 1898-1937 BKF Rhapsody in Blue. Other important works include ballet An American in Paris; Cuban Overture, and opera Porgy and Bess
154
Aaron Copland
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.
155
Samuel Barber
American, 1910-1981 BKF Adagio for Strings; The School for Scandal and operas Vanessa; A Hand of Bridge
156
John Cage
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
157
Leonard Bernstein
American, 1918-1990 Director of NY Philharmonic. Wrote ballet Fancy Free and symphonies like Jeremiah; Kaddish; The Age of Anxiety. BKF West Side Story
158
Phillip Glass
American, 1937-present Minimalist composer noted for operas Einstein on the Beach; Akhnaten; Satyagraha
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John Adams
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
