Composers Biographies

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Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti
(Vienna 1730 – Pisa 1793)

Called the "Jerusalem of the North", Amsterdam was Baruch Spinoza's the native city and was home to one of the ...

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Carlo Grossi
(Vicenza 1634 – Venice1688)

He was probably the first composer to use the term "fun" when he published, in 1681, Il divertimento de' grandi: ...

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He escaped his father's ambition for him to become a man of the law (much as Tartini's father who also ...

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Nino Rota
(Milan 1911 – Rome 1979)

Born in Milan in 1911 into a family of musicians, Nino Rota was first a student of Orefice and Pizzetti. ...

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Michele Dall'Ongaro
(Rome, 1957)

He graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, where he studied Composition, Electronic Musica, Choral Music, Choral Direction, and Theory ...

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Vittorio Fellegara
(Milan, 1927)

Italian composer. He studied with Chailly and at Darmstadt and has taught at the Donizetti Institute in Bergamo. His music ...

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Ferruccio Busoni
(Empoli, 1866 – Berlin, 1924)

Born to a family of musicians (mother, pianist; father, clarinetist) he studied piano and music from his childhood, debuted as ...

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Born into a family of sephardic Jews, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco demonstrated his talent for music at an early age, graduating in ...

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Nicola Fiorenza
(? - Naples 1764)

We know little about Nicola Fiorenza. He had taught violin and violoncello for a long time at the Conservatory of ...

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Pasquale Anfossi
(Taggia 1727, Rome 1797)

Anfossi was from Taggia, Liguria, and, after travelling throughout Europe, died in Rome. But in Naples he had studied during ...

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