Composers Biographies

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Mendelssohn's recommendation to the famous editor, Breitkopf and Härtel and a favorable review from Schumann, convinced the young Raff to ...

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Johannes Brahms
(Hamburg, 1833 – Vienna, 1897)

Another precocious talent, at the age of 10 Brahms gave his first public concert, but because he came from a ...

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Perhaps it is not by chance that composers' life stories lend themselves so well to being romanticized: but in the ...

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Edvard Hagerup Grieg
(Bergen, 1843 – 1907)

Very talented, Grieg displayed his impatience for the arid study of technique and traditional forms, right from the first years ...

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Another child prodigy, the name Rachmaninov is permanently tied to that famous piece, Prelude in C sharp minor, the second ...

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Balakirev , the soul of the Group of Five (César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), proposed freeing ...

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Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov
(Yaroslavl, 1859 - Paris, 1924)

A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, Lyapunov was close to the Group of Five, the circle of musicians who favored ...

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Alfredo Casella
(Turin 1883 – Rome 1947)

Young Casella from Turin, completed his musical education in Paris where he studied the piano with the famous virtuoso Louis ...

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Jean Sibelius
(Hämeenlinna, 1865 – Järvenpää, 1957)

Sibelius was the musical symbol of the Finnish national identity. Born under Russian domination, he belongs to the trend in ...

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Olivier Messiaen
(1908-1992)

A precocious talent, Messiaen entered the Conservatory of Paris at the age of 11 where he studied harmony counterpoint, fugue, ...

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