Gustav Theodore Holst (September 21, 1874 - May 25, 1934) is recognized today as the composer of "The Planets," which remains wildly popular, but for little else except perhaps his "St. Paul Suite." However, Holst…
Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 - July 29, 1856) was the arch-Romantic composer, thoroughly committed intellectually and emotionally to the idea of music being composed to the feelings, thoughts and impressions…
Many artists have claimed to be products of the Bolshevik Revolution, but Dmitri Shostakovich (September 25, 1906 - August 9, 1975) stands alone in level of celebrity and artistic achievement. The Internet's Premier…
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Walter Piston, the grandson of an Italian seaman (the original family name was Pistone), was born in Maine in 1894. The family settled in Boston in 1904, and Walter was educated there at the Mechanic Arts High…
Thomas Tallis (c.1505 - 23 November 20 or 23, 1585) was the most influential English composer of his generation, as well as one of the most popular renaissance composers of today. Tallis served as an organist and in…
Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 - September 30, 1989), born in Kansas City and long resident in Paris and New York, is one of the few true modernists in America, since most of our moderns turn out Romantics in…
Dufay was one of the most highly regarded composers of his generation, and one of those principally responsible for inaugurating the Renaissance in music. Dufay was born in Cambrai, currently in France, and then in…
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg was a pupil of both Wilhelm Friedemann and Johann Sebastian Bach . The Goldberg Variations were named for him; he may have been their first performer. Born in Danzig in 1727, he showed early…
