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Dietrich Buxtehude
People; Composers
Dietrich (Diderik Hansen) Buxtehude (c. 1637 to 1639 — 9 May 1707) was a German/Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. Not only the year, but also the country of his birth is uncertain ...
Gioacchino Rossini
People; Composers
Gioacchino Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian opera composer, whose work includes the comic masterpiece The barber of Seville. After intensive work on the opera William ...
Béla Bartók
People; Composers
Béla Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was one of the leading Hungarian and European composers of his time, proficient also as a pianist. Through his collection and analytical study of ...
Paul Hindemith
People; Composers
Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor. His early works are in a late romantic idiom, and he later ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
People; Composers
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, operas, ballets, and chamber music. Some of these rate amongst the most popular ...
Hector Berlioz
People; Composers
Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant ...
Benjamin Britten
People; Composers
Benjamin Britten (Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten Of Aldeburgh, Nov. 22, 1913 - Dec. 4, 1976), leading British composer of the mid-20th century, whose operas are considered the finest English ...
