* November 18th 1786, Eutin – † June 5th 1826, London
Von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber’s works, especially his operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. His compositions for the clarinet, which include [...] Continue Reading…
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* December 8th 1890, Policka — † August 28th 1959, Basel
Martinu was a Czech composer of modern classical music, who was educated in the classic romantic style and deliberately withdrew after the First World War from the previous generation of teachers. He went through a trial period of expressionism and constructivism, and became an admirer of the current technical [...] Continue Reading…
*March 2nd 1824, Litomysl – † May 12th 1884, Prague
Smetana was a Czech composer. He is best known for his symphonic poem Vltava (better known as The Moldau), the second in a cycle of six which he entitled Má vlast (“My Country”), and for his opera The Bartered Bride.
He studied piano and [...] Continue Reading…
* September 8th 1841, Nelahozeves CZ – † May 1st 1904, Prague
Antonin Dvorak employed the idioms and melodies of folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia in symphonic, oratorial, chamber and operatic works.
When Dvořák composed his second string quintet in 1875, and in 1877 it attracted the attention of Johannes Brahms, whom he later befriended.
When asked later in his life why he [...] Continue Reading…
* February 9th, 1885, Vienna – † December 24th 1935, Vienna
Alban Berg an Austrian composer, was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined romanticism with a personal adaptation of other contemporary technique.
Berg had little formal music education before [...] Continue Reading…
*August 22nd 1862, Saint-Germain-en-Laye – † March 25, 1918, Paris
Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel he is considered the most prominent figure working within the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Debussy was not only among the most important of all French composers but also a [...] Continue Reading…
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