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Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1, 1865 – May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music. Paul Dukas was from a French-Jewish family. He studied under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became friends with the composer Claude Debussy. After completing his studies Dukas found work as a music critic and orchestrator; he was unusually gifted in orchestration and was one of the most sensitive and insightful critics of the era. ...

Antonio Lotti (January 5, 1667 – January 5, 1740) was an Italian composer of classical music. Lotti was born January 5, 1667 Venice although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hannover at the time. In 1682, Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni Legrenzi, both of whom were employed at St Mark's Basilica, Venice's principal church. Lotti made his career at St Mark's, first as an alto singer (from 1689), then as assistant to the second organist, then as second organist (from...

Erkki Melartin (February 2 1875–February 14 1937) was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. Interestingly enough, he shares identical birth and death years with more famous composer Maurice Ravel. As well as composing, Melartin also taught and directed music at the Helsinki Music College, later the Helsinki Conservatory. As conductor of the Viborg Orchestra in 1908-11, and despite chronic health problems, Melartin...

Domenico Alberti (around 1710 – 1740) was an Italian singer, harpsichord and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods. Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti. He wrote opera, song and sonatas for keyboard instrument, for which he is best known today. These sonatas frequently employ a particular kind of arpeggiated accompaniment in the left hand which is now known as the Alberti bass. It consists of regular broken chord, with the lowest note...

Camille Erlanger (May 24, 1863 - April 24, 1919) was a Paris-born French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes and in 1888 won the Prix de Rome for his opera Velléda. Erlanger died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Maria Grenfell (born 1969) is an Australia/New Zealand composer. Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia in 1969 and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating with a Master of Music degree from the University of Canterbury. She completed further studies in the USA, gaining a Master of Arts from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was also a lecturer. Her teachers have included Stephen Hartke,...

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (, (often pronounced in English as ) ; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia. His works include opera, symphonic, choral and chamber music. Dvořák was born on September 8, 1841 in Nelahozeves, near Prague (then Austrian Empire, today the Czech Republic), where he spent most of his life. His father was a butcher, innkeeper, and professional player of...

Antonio Maria Bononcini (June 18, 1677 - July 8, 1726), was an Italian cellist and composer, the younger brother of the better-known Giovanni Bononcini. Bononcini was born and died at Modena in Italy. He worked for some years with his brother, and joined him in the court orchestra at Vienna, where in 1705 he became Kappellmeister to the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. In 1713 he returned to Italy, and in 1721 he became the maestro di cappella in his home city of Modena, where he remained....

Webster A. Young is a composer of ballets and operas. He is the artistic director of the Long Island Opera Company. Young, Webster A.Young, Webster A.

Grigory Samuilovich Frid also Grigori Fried (Russian: Григо́рий Самуи́лович Фри́д, born September 22 N.S., 1915, Petrograd, now St. Petersburg) - is a Russia composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera. Frid studied in the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Litinsky and Vissarion Shebalin. He was a soldier in the Second World War. The style of his early music may be explained as conventional, written in the tradition of so-called "Socialist realism". At the age...

Eduard Künneke (also spelled Künnecke) (27 January 1885 - 27 October 1953) was a German composer of operetta, opera and theatre music. He was born in Emmerich. His daughter was the actress and singer Evelyn Künneke. Künneke studied musicology and literature in Berlin, and was also an advanced student of Max Bruch. He worked as a repetiteur and chorus master at a Berlin operetta theater, the Neues Operettentheater am Schiffbauerdamm, but relinquished his post as chorus master after his opera...

Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky (, ) (June 17 1882 – April 6 1971) was a Russia composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by ''Time'' magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the century. In addition to the recognition he received for his compositions, he also achieved fame as a pianist and a conductor, often at the premières of his works. ...

Vasily Pavlovich Lobanov also Vassily Lobanov (Васи́лий Па́влович Лоба́нов, born January 2, 1947) is a Russian composer and pianist. Lobanov studied at the Moscow Conservatory 1963 - 1971: piano with Lev Naumov and composition with Sergey Balasanyan. He also studied with Yuri Kholopov (analysis) and Alfred Schnittke (instrumentation).From 1997 he has been professor for piano at the 'Hochschule für Musik' in Cologne, Germany. He has lived in Germany since 1991. He has composed operas,...

Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings became his most famous composition and is widely considered a masterwork of modern classical music. Barber was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of Marguerite McLeod (née Beatty) and Samuel LeRoy Barber. At a very early age, Barber became profoundly interested in music, and it was apparent that he had great musical talent and...

Francesca Caccini (September 18, 1587 – c. 1640) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was probably the most famous and influential female European composer, in any genre, between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century. Her opera, La liberazione di Ruggiero, was the first opera by a woman composer. Caccini was born in Florence, most likely receiving her early musical...