Great Composers
Musically talented from a very early age, Beethoven would become one of the most celebrated composers in the history of music.
At the age of 22 Beethoven moved from Germany to Vienna and r....
Bizet was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era. Bizet’s most celebrated work, Carmen, is one of the most famous operas ever produced.
Bizet's other works of n....
An English Romantic composer, Elgar’s foremost works include The Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
Stylistically Elgar's work often implemented bol....
George Gershwin was an American composer who possessed great musical versatility; he had the ability to write successfully across a number of different genres; from classical music to populist son....
Handel was born in Germany but having spent most of his adult life in England became a subject of the British Crown in 1727.
A Baroque composer, he began his musical vocation at the age of....
In spite of his life being cut short at just 36, Mozart’s musical legacy was phenomenal. His prolific genius made him one of the greatest composers in the history of music. Indeed his extraordinar....
Carl Orff was a German composer who is ultimately known for the triumphant work Carmina Burana. He studied at the Munich Academy of Music with Heinrich Kaminski and later became an influenti....
Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas include La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly; he also composed the well-known melodies O Mio Babbino Caro and Nessun Dorma.
Puccini was born i....
Tchaikovsky was a musical patriot in that his work is distinctly Russian in character; this was born from his childhood love of Russian popular song. His work placed Russia firmly on the mus....
A Venetian priest, Baroque music composer and violinist, Antonio Vivaldi’s most prominent masterpiece is The Four Seasons (consisting of four violin concertos).
As a boy he was tutored in ....