List of notable or famous composers from Japan, with bios and photos, including the top composers born in Japan and even some popular composers who immigrated ...
List of notable or famous film score composers from France, with bios and photos, including the top film score composers born in France and even some popular ...
One of the greatest English composers. Self taught. Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1 iTunes Amazon In America, it's the walking down the aisle at graduation music. In Britain, it's the music to the patriotic song, "Land Of Hope And Glory." The entrance music for wrestler Macho ...
Teresa Carreño was a celebrated concert pianist who influenced a crop of young pianists and composers during her time. Aside from being a pianist, she was also a composer, conductor and a mezzo-soprano. In 1876, Carreño made her debut as an opera singer in New York City. 12 of ...
Bernstein, like so many great composers, knew how to give perfectly placed nods to music of the past, to bring even more emotion and meaning to the present.
“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.” — Sergei Rachmaninoff Russia...
Beethoven’s compositions are familiar to virtually everyone, and he is one of the most admired and respected composers of Western music of all time. However, when Beethoven was younger, he was awkward with the violin and often neglected his practice, leading his teachers to believe he had no...
Calvin Hampton was an American composer, organist, and choirmaster, known for his contributions to contemporary church music. He studied music composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music and later at Syracuse University, under the tutelage of composers such as Gian Carlo Menotti and Arthur Fracke...
including Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky’s violin concertos and several violin and cello sonatas. She is also active in the contemporary classical music scene. Among her commissions include works by Korean-American composers James Ra and Solbong Kim. She also frequently performs the music of the late...
He is one of the most successful composers and performers in music history, and one of two left handed people in the Beatles, the other being Ringo Starr. At the time of writing he is also one of the wealthiest, with an estimated net worth of around £800 million. ...