Music

Modest Mussorgsky 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as “The Five“. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He… Read more »

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite… Read more »

Grażyna Bacewicz : [ɡraˈʐɨna baˈt͡sɛvit͡ʂ]; (Łódź, 5 februari 1909 – Warschau, 17 januari 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in… Read more »

 25. Apriljul./ 7. Mai 1840greg. in Wotkinsk, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 25. Oktoberjul./ 6. November 1893greg. in Sankt Petersburg, Russisches Kaiserreich), auch Pyotr Tchaikovsky, deutsch Peter Tschaikowsky oder Tschaikowski, war ein russischer Komponist. Bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten wurden viele seiner Werke international bekannt. Heute zählen sie zu den bedeutendsten der Romantik…. Read more »

Arthur Honegger ; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was… Read more »

Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Soviet and German composer. Schnittke’s early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic Symphony No…. Read more »

“Sheet music is a bunch of black marks; they have no significance … I play violin, but in order to play well you have to be much more than a… Read more »

Henry Purcell (c. 10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Although it incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, Purcell’s was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one… Read more »

BORN: 22 May 1813 (Leipzig) DIED: 13 Feb 1883 (Venice) NATIONALITY: German Was there anything Richard Wagner couldn’t do? He wrote enormous operas (story, words and music), conducted them and… Read more »

Françaix ; 23 May 1912, in Le Mans – 25 September 1997, in Paris) was a French neoclassicalcomposer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style. Françaix’s natural gifts were encouraged from an… Read more »