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A sampling of the men who composed some of the most familiar orchestral music. Includes a summary of their popular pieces and illustrations.
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Famous Classical Composers At this website you can find detailed biographical information on some of the world's most famous classical composers. These include Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin, Haydn, Mozart, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky. Just click on any of the composers to begin! Bach1685-1750 Beethoven1770-1827...Short biographies with discography.
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Classical Net Composer Master Index This index lists those composers for which there is a dedicated page at this site that may include a biography, recommended works, recommended recordings, and other related reviews and articles. It is not meant to be a comprehensive index of...Extensive link collection.
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Classical Net Composer Data These are all composers from the database I keep for my CD collection. For instance, it has been brought to my attention many times that my lists omit Carl Orff (1895-1982 except for the graphical timelines. This is largely because...Information on composers, works by genre, MIDI and MP3 files. Available in several languages.
http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/
Brief biographies with recommended recordings by Naxos-HNH.
http://www.hnh.com/qcomp.htm
Brief listings, some with illustrations, by Michael Norrish. Insludes a degree of informed speculation and editorializing.
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Classical composer biographies This document does not attempt to be a final word on anything. It has always been in a state of flux, and I expect it will continue to be so for a while to come. Some of my information is...Includes timelines, birthdays, essays, links, contact information, and gift shop. Search by date or name.
http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/
Excellent database of composer biographies and other music history materials.
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The Classical Music Pages This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. It is designed to...Birth and death dates, pronunciation, and nationality of composers.
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Classical Music Composer Index Send blank email to join our MUSIClassicaLIST (ALL ERAS) Welcome to the CLASSICAL COMPOSER Index Page of aMUSIClassical Directory Our Classical Music website for good music lovers. ARTS NEWS resources ALMANACSearch ANNIVERSARIES significant this year CLASSICameosprofiles CLASSICurrentsarticles PERFORMERS dates/nationality/links MUSICIANS...Arizona Republic columnist James Reel's introduction for those not familiar with the subject. Includes biographies and the essays Classical Music and Onions and A Guide to Classical Listening.
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The Timid Soul's Guide to Classical Music: Contents Freeing instrumental color (1862-1918) John Dowland: Exquisitely sorrowful music (1563-1626) Antonin Dvork: Music as nationalism (1841-1904) George Gershwin: The rhythm master (1898-1937) George Handel: Prolific Baroque composer (1685-1759) Franz Joseph Haydn: The string quartet (1732-1809) Franz Liszt: The ultimate Romantic...Alphabetical index of names with birth and death dates. Comprehensive.
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Compositeurs Elle ne contient que les compositeurs rencontrs au cours de l'opration de catalogage des lments contenus dans ma discothque personnelle. This list is not by far exhaustive. Only the composers mentioned while compiling catalogue data for my personal CD and...1500 pictures, 450 biographical sketches; alphabetical, nationality, and chronological indexes; composer of the day.
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Classical Composers Information Archive Please note that pop-ups must be enabled in your browser in order to use this site. One moment, please....A music portal for composers.
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I Write The Music.com The Best Composer Music Sites On The Net This site is devoted to creative musicians composers, songwriters, improvisers, interpreters. Music resources point the way to education, tools, music genres, creative techniques A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q...A brief discography of classical music by African, African American, and African European composers.
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Composers of African Descent Welcome to a new world of classical music! Some of the music at this site was famous in France in 1800 or the U.K Canada and the U.S. in 1900, but is nearly unknown today even to people who listen...Name, nationality, birth and death dates, pronunciation and links for 3000+ composers.
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Classical Music Composer Index Send blank email to join our MUSIClassicaLIST (ALL ERAS) Welcome to the CLASSICAL COMPOSER Index Page of aMUSIClassical Directory Our Classical Music website for good music lovers. ARTS NEWS resources ALMANACSearch ANNIVERSARIES significant this year CLASSICameosprofiles CLASSICurrentsarticles PERFORMERS dates/nationality/links MUSICIANS...Contains information about the madness and creativity of some famous composers.
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/madnessbehindthemusi
Links to sites on individual composers as well as those of more general interest.
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Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Composers A schedule of live performances worldwide (Old) Christos Hatzis Bernard Herrmann Edward Dudley Hughes Andrew Hugill Charles Ives (From Classical Music Pages) Leos Jancek Archives at the Moravian Museum The Organization of American Kodly Educators Stephen Lias Magnus Lindberg Franz...Contains thousands of classical music files in MIDI format as well as live recordings. New contributions are solicited. A search engine is included. Suggests books, links to free sheet music, alphabetical index, featured composers.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES CLASSICAL MUSIC Click to renew your subscription: it's 20% less before expiration Click to send a personalized Gift Membership at 20% off Login to be recognized as a subscriber. Click to subscribe to the Archives for $25/year Link the CMA Send the...Classical, contemporary, and film Composers, with biographies, major works, influences and styles, CD reviews, free sheet music, MIDI and MP3 files.
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mfiles composers of classical and film music, biographies, reviews and music files Christmas a musical with composer Danny Elfman providing all the music, the songs and the voice of the main character. In many ways Corpse Bride is similar. It is also an animated movie by Burton and Elfman, with the same...Series of Kennedy Center lectures by Dr. Michael Broyles in AU audio format with transcripts. Includes music history with emphasis on classical and romantic composers.
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What to Listen for in Music University share his knowledge and understanding of Classic and Romantic music in a six part lecture series entitled What to Listen for in Music Before You Begin Dr. Broyles lectures comprise several hours of audio. To hear the entire lectures...Extensive listing of resources relating to composers of different genres.
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Royal Holloway's Golden Pages Classical and contemporary composers (large alphabetically ordered list) Necrology of composers maintained at Gaylord Music Library, Washington University in St Louis Composer resources maintained by the online journal Sonances British contemporary composers British Music Information Centre (including the Centre's fully...Information about composers, their life and works.
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BigEye Music Center Classical Composers A database of classical composers. You can find information on their life, works and links to other sites concerning these composers. Bach Digital This site makes Bach exhibits from several institutions available world-wide via the Internet. It also includes digital...View and download online composer information and classical music audio clips and opera videos by famous composers.
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Danny Griego and the Country Thunder Band. .E-Mail Danny 1997 Lightning Production...Representative listing from the 14th century onward with links to music in MIDI, MP3, WMA formats.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: General Timeline Click to renew your subscription: it's 20% less before expiration Click to send a personalized Gift Membership at 20% off Login to be recognized as a subscriber. Click to subscribe to the Archives for $25/year J.S.Bach Beethoven Brahms Chopin Debussy...Composers from various periods including the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Decca Music Group Composers List Classical Music Composers Decca Philips Worldwide Help Contact Terms of Use Composers Soundtracks DVDs SACDs Composers Genre Themes Series Search our Catalogue Detailed Search Select a letter a href R onMouseOver changeImages R images/alphabet/R1.gif return true onMouseOut changeImages R images/a...Biographies, illustrations, and links for more than 15 composers. MIDI audio on selected pages.
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Island of Freedom Composers To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher Blaise Pascal Home Theologians Philosophers Poets Composers Artists The Tao Confucius Corner Bhagavad Gita Siddhartha Classical Net Composers Biographies and their works Classical Midi Archives Classical Midi Connection...Composer biographies and compositions database.
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ccm composers-classical-music com Z dates and places and recommended music of 14427 composers by tim de brie www this site MAIL HELP LINKS COMPOSITIONS COMPOSITIONS FEEDBACK READ1st...Basics about the major creators of classical (art) music, with terms, historical eras, RAM audio examples, and purchase links. From Essentials of Music, sponsored by Sony Classical and W. W. Norton
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Essentials of Music Composers Click on a letter above to jump to composer names Composers create the music we listen to. Western music, even going back to the Middle Ages, has placed a great emphasis on the individual creators of music. An anonymous thirteenth...Listing with over 2400 entries includes on-site and remote links to biographies, discographies, various analyses of style and methodology, and forums. Owner Jos Smeets accepts and solicits links and contributions accepted.
http://www.classical-composers.org/
Works of classic music composers. Downloadable Sheet Music, complete sets of parts. Includes Virtual Performer with which each score becomes a midi instrument with interactive control.
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BravoBisMusic.com listen, read play The bookstore contains thousand of scores and materials of orchestra that you can download on line. The integral instrumental works of Bach, Hndel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Chopins, over important collections of Vivaldi, Corelli, Pachelbel, Scarlatti, Paganini,...The focal point of classicaldata.org is the classical composer database which is steadily growing. List of composers with dates.
http://www.classicaldata.org/
a growing database of composer biographies.
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Composers Page This page is devoted to composers of all the centuries, past and present. It will contain information, snippets of music, opinions, recommendations of pieces, and more but in order to become something worthwhile to the musical community, it needs help....Database of well-known composers and other individuals with the musical ability of perfect pitch.
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Famous People with Perfect Pitch FEATURED PRODUCT The Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse by David Lucas Burge [other books Name Occupation Nationality Abbado, Claudio Conductor Italy Anderson, Christine Pianist, singer, songwriter USA Andrews, Julie Actress, singer England Argerich, Martha Pianist Argentina Arrau, Claudio Pianist Chile...Search for composers biographies and works.
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Boosey Hawkes Composer and Repertoire Home Page Resources range from soundclips to composer news, catalogue information and programme notes. Steve Reich Dutch premiere of You Are (Variations) at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (29 October The work has just been released on disc by Nonesuch. Adams's Doctor Atomic in...Links from Mississippi Public Radio.
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting home /contact MPB/search MPB A C D F G J K M N Q R T U W X Z Classical Composers Index: A C A Top A B C D E/F G H I/J K L M N/O P/Q...More than thirty concise biographies from the Renaissance Period through the Twentieth Century. Each with artist's portrait or photograph.
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mycomposers.co.uk Click to Enter Site Daniel Nolan-Neylan 1999-2003...The Wiener Walzer Werkstatt are two Viennese composers, continuing the tradition of the Viennese Walzers in their works. List of works.
http://www.wiwawe.at/en/waltz.htm
Listing and links to biographies of artists represented by European American Music Corporation, Helicon Music Corporation, or Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Composer Profiles European American Music Distributors LLC is the exclusive United States representative for: Belwin-Mills Publishing Corporation Deutscher Verlag fr Musik European American Music Corporation Glocken Verlag Limited Helicon Music Corporation Hug Musikverlage Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, Inc. Moeck Verlag Schott Co Ltd....Free classical, popular, and contemporary music scores from Brazilian and international composers. Archive based in Finale, PDF, SIB, and image files with some MIDI [English and Portuguese].
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Virtual Library of Musical Scores Leia esta pgina em portugus. Link for this page: http library.paulinyi.com Listen to brazilian music for 2 violins Audio Virtual Library of Music Profile Mac Java software Virtual Library of Music Scores 8212; Brazilian, latin-america international vocal and instrumental music...A carefully edited introduction to the composers, history, culture, and music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods. Detailed with considerable background material, illustrations, and commentary.
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Conservatory is dedicated to classical music. From early Baroque to Modern classical, here you will find composer biographies, lists of key works and further resources for those who would like to know more about their favourite composers. The site is...Internet Public Library entry categorizes according to musical period, including Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century. Includes Real Audio RAM files.
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Internet Public Library: Music History 102 The sound files that form a part of Music History 102 are encoded using RealAudio. To be able to access and play these files, you will need to download a copy of RealAudio Playersoftware on your computer. This software is...