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Robin MilfordHis use of diatonic melodies, often harmonised with gentle discords, and with false relation s occurring occasionally, has led Erik Blom (1942) to crystallise these musical traits (also shown by other English composers of the period) as'' musical Englishry''.
John CageThis concept of circus was to remain important to Cage throughout his life and featured strongly in such pieces as Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake (1979), a many-tiered rendering in sound of both his text Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake, and traditional musical and field recordings made around Ireland.
Johannes BrahmsSchoenberg's pupil Anton Webern, in his 1933 lectures, posthumously published under the title The Path to the New Music, claimed Brahms as one who had anticipated the developments of the Second Viennese School, and Webern's own Op. 1, an orchestral passacaglia, is clearly in part a homage to, and development of, the variation techniques of the passacaglia-finale of Brahms's Fourth Symphony.
Joseph Payne (musician)He started a recording career with the Haydn Society and from the 1960s onwards he made over a hundred solo recordings, recording for Vox, Turnabout, Decca and Musical Heritage labels : in 1964 his was the first recording of selections from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book a contemporaneous anthology of Elizabethan works for keyboard.
Emmanuel ChabrierHe began his music lessons at the age of six ; the earliest of his compositions to survive in manuscript are piano works from 1849.
Gustav HolstShe and Matthews have asserted that Holst found his genuine voice in his setting of Whitman's verses, The Mystic Trumpeter (1904), in which the trumpet calls that characterise Mars in The Planets are briefly anticipated.
Henry CowellMany of the scores published in Cowell's journal were made even more widely available as performances of them were issued by the record label he established in 1934, New Music Recordings.
Yo-Yo MaA collaboration with Bobby McFerrin (where Ma admitted to being terrified of the improvisation McFerrin pushed him toward) ; as well as the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass in such works as the 2002 piece Naqoyqatsi.
Zhang ChuThis is a collection of Zhang's early compositions (all written before 1990), though more than half of the songs were performed by other singers.
Richard StraussThe Canadian pianist Glenn Gould described Strauss in 1962 as'' the greatest musical figure who has lived in this century.''
Kyra VayneLater she recorded (at the age of 81) a disc of songs and operetta pieces, and wrote her autobiography, `' A Voice Reborn'' (1999).
Marek KopelentThe first piece to come to the attention of the musical world outside of Czechoslovakia was his 3rd string quartet (1963), in large part due to the interpretation of the piece by the Novák Quartet which performed it in its concerts throughout Europe.
Franz SchrekerThe outbreak of World War I interrupted the composer's success but with the première of his opera Die Gezeichneten, in Frankfurt on 25 April 1918, Schreker moved to the front ranks of contemporary opera composers.
Olivier MessiaenHe compiled his Technique de mon langage musical ('' Technique of my musical language'') published in 1944, in which he quotes many examples from his music, particularly the Quartet.
Arnold ScheringIn 1920 Schering gathered evidence that composer Johann Sebastian Bach usually used 12 singers in his cantatas and other vocal works.
Clifton Williams (composer)One of his earliest works, Fanfare and Allegro, was completed in 1954 but was considered, at the time, exceptionally difficult by the bands (including some military bands) that attempted to perform it.
Eduard ErdmannAs early as 1920 Erdmann issued a credo in which he declared himself opposed to the extreme individualism in music from Ludwig van Beethoven to Arnold Schoenberg, and dedicated instead to the creation of a more objective music characterized by what he called the' third-person forms' created by composers from Heinrich Schütz to Anton Bruckner.
Richard Strauss The metaphor'' Indian Summer'' is often used by journalists, biographers, and music critics to describe Strauss's late creative upsurge from 1942 to the end of his life.
Richard StraussThroughout his life, from his earliest songs to the final Four Last Songs of 1948, he preferred the soprano voice to all others, and all his operas contain important soprano roles.
Alexander Uriah BoskovichDespite its success, Boskovich lost interest in this Concerto and, in 1957, he re - wrote its middle section as a separate piece for violin and piano.
Dmitri ShostakovichMany of his Russian contemporaries, and his pupils at the Leningrad Conservatory, however, were strongly influenced by his style (including German Okunev, Boris Tishchenko, whose 5th Symphony of 1978 is dedicated to Shostakovich's memory, Sergei Slonimsky, and others).
Richard StraussWhen the opera was premiered in Dresden in 1935, Strauss insisted that Zweig's name appear on the theatrical billing, much to the ire of the Nazi regime.
Charles IvesPerhaps the most remarkable piece of orchestral music Ives completed was his Fourth Symphony (1910 -- 16).
Robert BeaserHis incorporation of extant folk materials came in the 1980s though his widely performed Mountain Songs nominated for a Grammy award in 1986, and continues to the present decade with works such as Souvenirs for piccolo and piano and Evening Prayer -- an orchestral tone poem which incorporates and deconstructs a Hungarian folk tune.
Antoine MariotteHe brought back sketches that became the suite Kakimonos, initially written for the piano, but later orchestrated and performed at the Concerts Poulet on 29 January 1923 (Panorama, Geishas, Temple au Crépuscule, Fête).
Andr?s Segoviahtml cornerstone'' of every serious student's technique since its publication in 1945, although somewhat ironically Segovia in the preface to that work disparaged Sor as'' not among the vigorous talents'') as well as compositions written for him, including by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Federico Mompou, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Kaikhosru Shapurji SorabjiEllis held progressive views on the subject, and Sorabji expressed high admiration for him, dedicating his Piano Concerto No. 7, Simorg-Anka (1924), to him as an expression of gratitude.
Jascha HeifetzWhile many earlier Heifetz recordings used close miking, which led to a dry sound, the post 1954 RCA concerto recordings have somewhat more distant and effective miking, creating a more effective concert ambience that shows Heifetz's tone to excellent advantage.
David HykesHe was one of the earliest modern western pioneers of so-called overtone singing, and has developed since 1975 a comprehensive approach to contemplative music which he calls Harmonic Chant (harmonic singing).
Richard Wagner Parsifal Wagner's final opera, Parsifal (1882), which was his only work written especially for his Bayreuth Festspielhaus and which is described in the score as a'' Bühnenweihfestspiel'' ('' festival play for the consecration of the stage''), has a storyline suggested by elements of the legend of the Holy Grail.
Nikos SkalkottasIn 1930 Skalkottas devoted considerable effort to having some of his works performed in Athens, but they were met with incomprehension, and even in Berlin his few performances did not make much better headway.
Spyridon XyndasIn the 1840s, Xyndas began to compose concert arias and songs in demotic Greek, a contribution that eventually resulted to the creation of the opera called O ypopsifios (The Parliamentary Candidate) in 1867.
Stephen MontagueHe comments :'' I have lived in Britain since 1974 but my musical heroes remain American : I admire Charles Ives's unapologetic juxtaposition of vernacular music and the avant-garde, Henry Cowell's irreverent use of fist and arm clusters, the propulsive energy of minimalism, and John Cage's radical dictum that' all sound is music'.
Sigismond ThalbergHis fantasy op. 33 on melodies from Rossini's'' Moïse'' became one of the most famous concert pieces of the 19th century, and was still praised by Berlioz in his Memoirs (1869).
Julius ReisingerIndications of Reisinger's Moscow endeavors are readily found in the writings of several Russia n historians, the first one being a staging of the five-act ballet The Crystal Slipper (1871, a ballet of the Cinderella story) to Muhldorfer's music, which Yuri Bakhrushin referring to original sources, notes as quite successful.
Camillo Tognin. d.) His last project was a trilogy of operas on texts by Georg Trakl, a poet whose works had engaged Togni's attention since 1955.
Charles IvesOne of the more unusual recordings, made in New York City in 1943, features Ives playing the piano and singing the words to his popular World War I song They Are There !
Arturo ToscaniniAt a memorial concert for Italian composer Giuseppe Martucci on May 14, 1931 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he was ordered to begin by playing Giovinezza, but he refused, even though the fascist foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano was in the audience.
Michael WoltersThis has resulted in pieces with unusual instrumentations (His 2012 twelve minute long opera The Voyage in collaboration with Birmingham based theatre company Stan's Cafe, for example, is written for mezzo soprano, eleven recorders and double bass), performances in unusual places (wahnsinnig wichtig on ice -LSB- with New Guide to Opera -RSB- took place on and around an ice rink) or projects of unusual duration (his Spring Symphony : The Joy of Life is the shortest symphony in the world and lasts around 17 seconds and the performance of Wir sehen uns morgen wieder -LSB- with New Guide to Opera -RSB- lasted for one month).
Glenn BrancaStarting with Symphony No. 3 ('' Gloria'') (1983), he began to systematically compose for the harmonic series, which he considered to be the structure underlying not only all music but most human endeavors.
Pierre BoulezHis early twelve miniatures for piano, Notations (1945), has, since the 1970s, been in the process of being expanded as an orchestral cycle.
Filippo Colettiit/enciclopedia/gaetano-braga _ % 28Dizionario_Biografico % 29 / Alfonso Buonomo (who lost his voice and turned to composition - composer of Cicco e Cola), Gaetano Braga, Vincenzo Curti (pianist), Nicolò Gabrielli, Erennio Gammieri and Raffaele Mirate, See also : Lucie Manén, Bel Canto : The Teaching of the Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline and Restoration, Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0193171091, numerous mentions of Busti's technique He débuted at the Teatro del Fondo (1834) as Prosdocimo in Rossini's Il turco in Italia.
Richard Trunk Most of Trunk's musical works were choral pieces or songs with piano accompaniment, though he also composed an operetta (Herzdame, 1916) and some instrumental works and chamber music.
Gaetano Pollastrihtm The Violin making Tradition of Bologna View a fine example of Gaetano Pollastri violin Bologna circa 1936 : jordansandquist.
Karlheinz Stockhausen As reported in the German magazine Der Spiegel, the première (and only performance to date) on 15 November 1969 of Stockhausen's work Fresco for four orchestral groups (playing in four different locations) was the scene of a scandal.
Thomas Beecham Maggie Teyte as Cherubino in Beecham's 1910 production of -LSB- -LSB- The Marriage of Figaro -RSB- -RSB- The earliest composer whose music Beecham regularly performed was Handel, whom he called,'' the great international master of all time... He wrote Italian music better than any Italian ; French music better than any Frenchman ; English music better than any Englishman ; and, with the exception of Bach, outrivalled all other Germans.''
Neville CardusCardus had first heard Ferrier at the Edinburgh Festival in 1947 ; he became a devoted admirer to the extent that, eventually, questions were raised about his critical blindness to her technical weaknesses.
John CageThe process of composition, in many of the later Number Pieces, was simple selection of pitch range and pitches from that range, using chance procedures ; One11 (i. e. the eleventh piece for a single performer), completed in early 1992, was Cage's first and only foray into film.
David Amram David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the scores for the films Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate ; two operas, including the Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient, a comic opera Twelfth Night with a libretto by Joseph Papp ; and the score for the 1959 film Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac.
Julius SternThe first performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah (October 1847) established Stern's reputation as one of the foremost conductors of his day, and his choir constantly increased in size and efficiency, so that the repertoire of the society soon embraced not only the standard works of Handel, Haydn, and Bach, but also those of contemporary composers.
Oscar Bystr?m (composer)However, already in the 1840s he gained recognition as both a pianist and song composer, and by late 1850 Byström was active as a teacher.
David LumsdaineShortly after composing his dense and energetic' Kali Dances' for ensemble in 1996, Lumsdaine retired from composition, so that an overview of his oeuvre is already possible, unusually for a living composer.
Dmitri Shostakovich The composer's response to his denunciation was the Fifth Symphony of 1937, which was musically more conservative than his earlier works.
Sofia GubaidulinaFor example, in the Cello Concerto Detto-2 (1972) she notes that a strict and progressive intervallic process occurs, in which the opening section utilizes successively wider intervals that become narrower toward the last section.
Karl RistenpartWhen it became clear at the end of 1952 that the RIAS could not go on subsidizing all its orchestras, Ristenpart accepted an offer to create a new chamber orchestra for the Saar radio, with which he was also to produce LPs for Les Discophiles français (an unusual arrangement linked to the fact that the'' autonomous'' Saar region was still under French administration at the time).
Henry James MetcalfeHe claimed to have been the first composer of dance music for brass bands : e. g. quadrilles, valses : (i. e. waltzes), schottische, polka, galop & c., from circa 1860.
Walter LevinIn September, 1948, while still at Juilliard, Levin met the violinist Henry Meyer, recently arrived in America from Paris, following years of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, who joined Levin's quartet and remained its second violin throughout the quartet's forty-year career.
Alberto Randegger His earliest compositions were masses and other pieces of church music and, with two other young pupils of Ricci, produced two ballet s and an opera, Il Lazzarone, in 1852.
Marjorie Lynette Sigley Marjorie Sigley was born on December 22, 1928, known to everyone as'' Sigi'', she took passionate pleasure in the arts and would travel huge, impractical distances to see a play, a ballet or an opera.
Hector Berlioz Journal pour rire, 27 June 1850 Gustave Doré, published in Journal pour rire, 27 June 1850 Berlioz's work as a conductor was highly influential Berlioz initially began conducting due to frustrations over the inability of other conductors -- more used to performing older and simpler music -- to master his advanced and progressive works, with their extended melodies To Berlioz this was an ideal opportunity.
Dmitri ShostakovichDespite this, Shostakovich continued to compose the symphony and planned a premiere at the end of 1936.
Michael TippettAfter completing his Piano Sonata No. 3 (1973),'' a formidable piece of abstract composition'' according to Bowen, Although the work was generally regarded as a critical and public failure, aspects of its music have been recognised as among Tippett's best.
Peter Paul KoprowskiAs a composer he is chiefly known for his large output of symphonic works which began with his still frequently performed In Memoriam Karol Szymanowski (1963).
Ingvar LidholmHe remained active in composition throughout his school years and completed what may be considered his final student work early in 1940 : the Elegisk svit (`` Elegiac Suite'') for string quartet.
Benjamin GodardThese include eight opera s, among them : Jocelyn (the'' Berceuse'' from which remains Godard's most well-known composition) given in Paris in 1888 ; Dante, played at the Opéra-Comique two years later ; and La Vivandière, left unfinished and completed by another hand.
Sophie CookeThe political emphasis in Cooke's work continued in 2009 with the performance of her first dramatic monologue, Protective Measures, at the Kikinda Short Story Festival in Serbia.
Alexander von Zemlinsky Zemlinsky's best-known work is the Lyric Symphony (1923), a seven-movement piece for soprano, baritone and orchestra, set to poems by the Bengal i poet Rabindranath Tagore (in German translation), which Zemlinsky compared in a letter to his publisher to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (though the first part of Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder is also a clear influence).
Toru TakemitsuAlthough the immediate influence of Cage's procedures did not last in Takemitsu's music -- Coral Island, for example for soprano and orchestra (1962) shows significant departures from indeterminate procedures partly as a result of Takemitsu's renewed interest in the music of Anton Webern -- certain similarities between Cage's philosophies and Takemitsu's thought remained.
Tobias MatthayHe founded a piano school in 1900 and soon became known for his teaching (known as the Matthay System) that stressed proper piano touch and analysis of arm movements.
Franz LisztConcerning Liszt's relation with his Hungarian contemporaries at the end of his life, for example, in spring 1886 the journal Zenelap wrote : :'' It is solely in Budapest, where musicians are wandering on such high clouds that they hardly take notice when Liszt is among them.''
Benjamin BrittenAmong the closest of Britten's kindred composer spirits -- even more so than Purcell -- was Mahler, whose Fourth Symphony Britten heard in September 1930.
Richard WagnerHis essay'' About Conducting'' (1869) advanced Hector Berlioz's technique of conducting and claimed that conducting was a means by which a musical work could be re-interpreted, rather than simply a mechanism for achieving orchestral unison.
Arthur SullivanSullivan's 1898 ballet Victoria and Merrie England was one of several late pieces that won praise from most critics : Although the more solemn members of the musical establishment could not forgive Sullivan for writing music that was both comic and accessible, he was, nevertheless,'' the nation's de facto composer laureate''.
Alan HovhanessIn recognition of the musical styles he studied in Japan, he wrote Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op. 211 (1965), a concerto for xylophone and orchestra.
Lotte ReinigerReiniger attempted to make a third animated feature, inspired by Maurice Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Bewitched Things, 1925), but was unable to clear all of the individual rights to Ravel's music, Colette's libretto and an unexpected number of copyright holders.
Oscar Edelstein As well as a prolific composer, Edelstein has a'' formidable'' piano technique that was most recently commented on in his work, Rivers and Mirrors : Part I during his UK tour in 2007.
Robert Gilbert (musician)Jean Gilbert found work as orchestra conductor for Buenos Aires Radio in 1939, certainly a comedown from his earlier wealth and renown in Germany, but still a good position where he could use his musical talents.
Michael TippettTippett revised the quartet in 1943 by merging the first two movements into one, a change about which, Whittall records, he later expressed some reservations.
John CageFor instance, in String Quartet in Four Parts (1950) Cage first composed a number of gamuts : chords with fixed instrumentation.
Reynaldo HahnPaul Verlaine, another poet whose lyrics inspired many of Reynaldo's songs, had on one occasion a chance to hear the young composer's settings of his poems (which Hahn entitled Chansons grises, begun in 1887 when Hahn was twelve years old and finished three years later).
Steven SametzHis Dudaryku -- A Village Scene (2001), written for Chanticleer and The Princeton Singers, is an extended double-choir work that poignantly portrays the loss of a musician and musical life in a small Ukrainian town.
Benjamin BrittenRimbaud, Owen and Verlaine William Blake | Blake, Rimbaud, Owen and Verlaine The first of Britten's song cycles to gain widespread popularity was Les Illuminations (1940), for high voice (originally soprano, later more often sung by tenors) Matthews comments that the work is'' so much more sensuous when sung by the soprano voice for which the songs were conceived''.
Nora GuthrieIn 1995, Guthrie approached Billy Bragg, an English folk/pop singer of similar sociopolitical philosophy, to create music for some of the many poems that her father wrote but never developed into songs.
Erich Wolfgang KorngoldHe completed a Concerto for Piano Left Hand for pianist Paul Wittgenstein in 1923 and his fourth opera, Das Wunder der Heliane four years later.
Sergei ProkofievIn 1944, Prokofiev moved to a composer's colony outside Moscow in order to compose his Fifth Symphony (Op. 100) which would turn out to be the most popular of all his symphonies, both within Russia and abroad.
Isolde AhlgrimmBefore some 600 subscribers at the preconcert lectures for four of the programs in the first Bach Cycle, Ahlgrimm was the first harpsichordist to argue the case for performing Bach's last work, The Art of Fugue, in its original form as a keyboard work, an idea also adopted at that time by her younger colleague, Gustav Leonhardt (born 1928).
Gustav HolstShe and Matthews have asserted that Holst found his genuine voice in his setting of Whitman's verses, The Mystic Trumpeter (1904), in which the trumpet calls that characterise Mars in The Planets are briefly anticipated.
Nicolas SlonimskyThen in 1953, Slonimsky brought out the Lexicon of Musical Invective ('' Critical Assaults on Composers since Beethoven's Time''), a collection of hilariously scathing, insulting, vituperative, and enraged contemporary critiques of musical greats in their time.
Isadore FreedHis work as a synagogue musician led him to compose Jewish liturgical works, beginning with his Sacred Service for Shabbat Morning, published in 1939.
Alexander Borodin Opera and orchestral works Borodin met Mily Balakirev in 1862.
Mily Balakirev Balakirev began his First Symphony after completing the Second Overture but cut work short to concentrate on the Overture on Czech Themes, recommencing on the symphony only 30 years later and not finishing it until 1897.
Curt SachsHis numerous books include works on rhythm, dance and musical instruments, with his The History of Musical Instruments (1940), a comprehensive survey of musical instruments worldwide throughout history, seen as one of the most important.
A. E. HousmanButterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman (Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly (but wrongly) believed to have originated from shell-shock.
Robert HelpmannHelpmann claimed that this was the'' first one hundred per cent Australian ballet to have been choreographed'', however it was predated by several works and the true first all-Australian ballet was Edouard Borovansky's Terra Australis which premiered in Melbourne on 25 May 1946.
Charles IvesIves had composed two symphonies, but it is with The Unanswered Question (1906), written for the highly unusual combination of trumpet, four flute s, and string orchestra, that he established the mature sonic world that became his signature style.
Deanna C. C. PelusoThe Music Box Circus includes the entire orchestra in its orchestration, and is about 5 minutes 20 seconds in length - It is unknown whether Peluso has revised the piece since the 2006 performance.
Mikhail Ippolitov-IvanovHis own style had been formed in the 1880s under Rimsky-Korsakov, and to this he added a similar interest in folk-music, particularly the music of Georgia, where he returned in 1924 to spend a year reorganizing the Conservatory in Tbilisi.
Benjamin Till In early 2009, Till recorded all the bells mentioned in the nursery rhyme, Oranges and Lemons (two hundred bells in seventeen London churches), and wrote a piece of music to feature them all playing in harmony, alongside a choir of people who live or work in one of the areas around the churches.
Ieuan GwylltAlthough composing music from an early age, it was not until 1859 that he produced Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaolfter a labour of some six years, with which publication began a new era of Welsh congregational hymn singing.
Andr? Laporte Laporte's earliest compositions, such as the 1954 Piano Sonata, are neoclassical in character but, beginning in the 1960s, his work was increasingly influenced by the Darmstadt avant garde.