COMPOSERS
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www.zemlinsky.at
Alexander Zemlinsky.
Alexander Zemlinsky is one of those composers who do not enjoy great renown and yet were very highly regarded in their time. His works did not change the history of music but are an authentic testimony of the turbulent developments in music between 1890 and 1940. Zemlinsky stands between times and styles but in this intermediary position he found a rich, unmistakeable, musical language. His personality and work epitomise one of the most fascinating epochs of art in Europe.
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www.jolivet.asso.fr
André Jolivet, compositeur (1905-1974).
Association "Les amis d'André Jolivet".
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www.classical-composers.org
Classical composers database.
One of the greatest online resources of information about classical music composers. Biographies, compositions, news, concerts. Classical sheet music and recordings. Books about composers and classical music.
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www.krenek.com
Ernst Krenek Institute.
(...) Prior to the establishment of the Ernst-Krenek-Institute-Private-Foundation in Krems, the Ernst Krenek Institute in Vienna, for five years, not only promoted his works but worked toward preserving them thus laying the ground work for establishing a foundation, which was its ultimate goal.
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Fondation Internationale Nadia Boulanger et Lili Boulanger |
www.fondation-boulanger.com
Fondation Internationale Nadia Boulanger et Lili Boulanger.
La Fondation a été créée en 1983 par Annette Dieudonné, Cécile Armagnac, Doda Conrad, François Dujarric de la Rivière afin de garder vivant le souvenir des deux sours musiciennes qui ont marqué leur époque d'un sceau indélébile. La Fondation internationale Nadia et Lili Boulanger est l'héritière morale et patrimoniale de Nadia Boulanger et de Lili Boulanger. (...)
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www.puccini.it
Puccini. Centro Studio Giacomo Puccini. In onore dei due compositori più rappresentativi del teatro musicale italiano ottocentesco sono stati aperti la Fondazione Rossini a Pesaro e l' Istituto di studi verdiani a Parma, da qualche anno promosso al rango di istituto nazionale. Il primo organismo comprende una sorta di laboratorio musicologico che ha avviato da oltre vent'anni un'edizione critica degli Opera omnia, iniziativa che ha servito da motore e "raison d'être" del Rossini Opera Festival, del quale la Fondazione è collaboratore scientifico. (...)
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www.fondazionerossini.org
Rossini. Fondazione Rossini.
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www.giuseppeverdi.it
Giuseppe Verdi.
Il sito ufficiale. Nato a Le Roncole, vicino a Busseto (Parma), il 10 ottobre 1813 da un oste e da una filatrice, Giuseppe Verdi manifestò precocemente il suo talento musicale, come testimonia la scritta posta sulla sua spinetta dal cembalaro Cavalletti, che nel 1821 la riparò gratuitamente "vedendo la buona disposizione che ha il giovinetto Giuseppe Verdi d'imparare a suonare questo istrumento"; la sua formazione culturale ed umanistica avvenne soprattutto attraverso la frequentazione della ricca Biblioteca della Scuola dei Gesuiti a Busseto, tuttora in loco. (...)
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www.javierjacinto.com
Javier Jacinto.
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Desarrolla su labor docente e investigadora como profesor de Informática Musical en el "Laboratorio de Informática Musical y Composición por Ordenador" del Conservatorio Profesional "Pasaia Musikal" (Guipúzcoa) desde 1996 hasta el 2001.
Durante el período 2001- 2003 es Profesor de Composición en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Badajoz.
En la actualidad compagina su actividad artística con la pedagógica. Colabora con la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) como especialista en música sinfónica y es Funcionario de Carrera (especialidad Dirección de Orquesta) de la Comunidad de Madrid en el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Majadahonda, dirigiendo su Orquesta Sinfónica desde 2006 hasta 2009 y en el Centro Integrado de Enseñanzas Musicales CIEM "Federico Moreno Torroba" dirigiendo su Orquesta Sinfónica desde 2009 hasta la actualidad.
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joaquin-rodrigo.com
Joaquin Rodrigo International Voice and Guitar Competition Official Site.
La Fundación Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo fue constituida a finales de 1999, unos meses después del fallecimiento, en Madrid, del ilustre compositor el 6 de julio de 1999, y en vísperas del Centenario de su nacimiento, que se celebró en 2001. Nació para responder a la necesidad de constituir y preservar el Archivo Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo, que propicia el acceso al valioso fondo documental contenido en el mismo, y para fomentar la realización de actividades encaminadas a difundir la personalidad y la obra de este compositor universal. En torno a tan valioso legado, la Fundación desarrolla una extensa labor cultural que incluye, entre otros, la realización de actividades para los niños, la organización de un Concurso Internacional de Música, el montaje de exposiciones, la celebración de recitales de música española y la donación de becas para investigadores universitarios. La Fundación Rodrigo tiene su sede en Madrid, en la misma dirección que Ediciones Joaquín Rodrigo, en la Calle General Yagüe 11.
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www.jules-massenet.com
Jules Massenet.
Ce site a pour objectif de présenter la vie et l'oeuvre de Jules Massenet, né à Saint Etienne en 1842, et mort à Paris en 1912, ainsi que les acteurs de la vie musicale de son époque. Massenet est l'un des plus significatifs représentants de l'esprit français dans l'art musical du XIXème siècle, par ses qualités d'élégance, de finesse, de clarté, de charme et de grâce. Les interprètes d'aujourd'hui s'accordent à dire combien chanter Massenet leur est agréable du fait de la parfaite adéquation de sa musique aux capacités vocales, aux tessitures. (...)
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www.lvbeethoven.com
Ludwig van Beethoven a été baptisé le 17 décembre 1770 à Bonn.
Sa famille était originaire du Brabant, en Belgique. Son père était musicien à la Cour de Bonn, avec un penchant certain pour la boisson. Sa mère a toujours été décrite comme une femme douce, effacée et attentionnée. Beethoven disait d'elle qu'elle était "sa meilleure amie". La famille Beethoven eut sept enfants, mais seuls trois garçons survivront, dont Ludwig sera l'aîné. (...)
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MÉdiathÈque Musicale Mahler |
www.bgm.org
Médiathèque Musicale Mahler.
La médiathèque musicale mahler est née de la volonté et de la générosité de deux musicologues, Maurice Fleuret et Henry-Louis de La Grange qui ont souhaité mettre à la disposition d'un large public leurs collections personnelles. La médiathèque musicale mahler est une association régie par la loi de 1901 et agréée par la Fondation de France. (...)
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www.meetthecomposer.org
Meet the composer.
Meet The Composer was founded in 1974 as a project of the New York State Council on the Arts. Led by the visionary composer John Duffy, Meet The Composer sought to enable composers to make a living writing music, and to increase their visible presence as creative artists. In its first two decades, Meet The Composer has grown to become a national organization, serving composers of every kind of music throughout the United States. Through a range of commissioning, residency, education, and audience interaction programs, Meet The Composer has revolutionized the environment for composers in this country, establishing broadly accepted standards of payment and opening the doors for them to work in cultural institutions of all kinds. Meet The Composer's mission is to increase opportunities for composers by fostering the creation, performance, dissemination, and appreciation of their music.
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www.michaelnyman.com
Michael Nyman.
When Michael Nyman published his study "Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond" (1974), he could hardly have foreseen his own contribution to that 'beyond'. Disaffected with the then current orthodoxies of international modernism, Nyman had abandoned composition in 1964, preferring to work as a musicologist. Later he wrote criticism for several journals, including "The Spectator", where, in a 1968 review of Cornelius Cardew's "The Great Digest", he became the first to apply the word 'minimalism' to music.
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www.michelruntz.net
Michel Runtz, French-Swiss pianist and composer born in Paris, lives and works in Fribourg (Switzerland).
Michel Runtz studied classical piano at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He soon showed a lively interest for musical composition by setting poems to music. Between 1976 and 1980 along with composing songs, Runtz had already begun teaching and recording his first instrumental scores. The fruit of an early meeting with Pierre Gabaye, Grand Prix de Rome, was a hearty encouragement to pursue his own style.
In 1982 Runtz settled in Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was to meet the composer and choir director Pierre Kaelin, who provided him with extensive possibilities to work with a variety of vocal groups and even to record his composition for choir and piano, Le bel âge.
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Between 1984 and 1992 Michel Runtz received commissions to compose incidental music and sound tracks for clips, videos and television documentaries while all the time furthering his career as piano recitalist. Working with Claude Helffer and Pierre-Laurent Aimard put him in contact with such musical personalities as Xenakis, Takemitsu, Murail and Arphegis.
Influenced by the pictorial work of Paul Delvaux, Runtz titled a score after this artist, Paul Delvaux.
From 1992 onwards, Runtz gradually took to performing programs made up almost exclusively of his own compositions. The successful reception of his work brought him commissions for composing for brass band, clarinet quartet, cello and four-hand piano as well as other instrumental and vocal scores.
In 2001, he founded the Association "Jeune Musique" which organizes every two years the International Piano Competition of Fribourg. This competition proposes a program exclusively dedicated to the 20th and 21th century´s music and is open to young pianist up to the age of 18.
In 2006 Runtz creates Notes and Light, a musical concept which proposes a new type of concert, transforming the traditional piano recital (with conventional and static lighting) into a new visual concert, an exciting and unexpected dialogue between the musical sounds and their transposition into light. This spectacle was performed in Switzerland and China.
Runtz’s eclectic talents have allowed him to compose suitably for events ranging from fashion shows to musical theater with a humoristic score for four-hand piano.
His music now figures on programs for international competitions and has been interpreted by artists like Jay Gottlieb.
In 2010, several of his works are created in Paris, London and Shanghai.
In 2011, he created his own Edition: Runtz Music Edition.
In 2012, Michel Runtz is working on the composition of an opera from the work of Yasmina Khadra, Cousin K.
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www.philipglass.com
Philip Glass.
November 1968 was the first time that music by Philip Glass was heard in a U. S. concert. The work was "Strung Out", a solo for amplified violin. On the same all-Glass program, Glass himself played.
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www.mascagni.org
Pietro Mascagni.
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) is one of the most important Italian composers of the turn of the 20th century. The formidable success of his first masterpiece in 1890, "Cavalleria Rusticana", unfortunately eluded many of his following works. Mascagni however wrote 15 operas, an operetta, several beautiful orchestral and vocal works, as well as songs and piano music. He enjoyed amazing operatic successes during his lifetime, and at the same time pursued a very successful career of conductor. Mascagni's approach to opera differed a lot from that of his friend and rival Puccini, which arguably was one of the factors that led to an under-appreciation of the value of his music by critics. (...)
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www.riccardoriccardi.it
Riccardo Riccardi.
Nasce nel 1954 a Rimini. Prende le prime lezioni di pianoforte da Guido Zangheri. Continua lo studio del pianoforte con Franco Scala a Imola. Incomincia lo studio della composizione al Conservatorio ‘Cherubini’ di Firenze, prima con Pier Luigi Zangelmi, poi con Carlo Prosperi. Nell’estate del 1980, lavora come maestro collaboratore allo Jugend-Festspieltreffen di Bayreuth. Nel 1982 si trasferisce in California.
Nel 1983 vince il Composer's Award del 21th Southwestern Youth Music Festival. Nel 1984 è nuovamente in Italia. Dal 1988 al 1991 conduce programmi radiofonici alla Radio Nacional de Espana a Madrid e alla RAI a Roma.
Dal 1994 è stato ‘artist in residence’ in vari centri musicali ed università in Arizona, California, Indiana e Maryland. Nel 1995 è stato scelto dalla California State University come compositore italiano per il progetto: Esplorazione di tradizioni musicali - un programma di cooperazione culturale fra gli Stati Uniti e l’Italia.
Attualmente insegna composizione al Conservatorio ‘Cherubini’ di Firenze, alla New York University, Florence Program, ‘Music Appreciation’ al Saint Mary’s College, Rome Program e History of Italian Music’ alla USAC di Viterbo.
In maggio del 2009 gli è stata assegnata una borsa di studio dal CFAI - Indiana per la sua opera Il ritorno di Casanova, in settembre dello stesso anno, nell’ambito del progetto di Opera Bazar ‘Lucca città di compositori’ è andata in scena la sua opera Talk Show. Nel 2010, a chiusura del Festival barocco di San Gimignano ha avuto luogo la prima di una sua nuova opera: Una questione d’onore.
Riccardo Riccardi ha scritto per una vasta gamma di organici dal teatro musicale , al balletto, alla musica orchestrale. Ha composto un nutrito numero di lavori per organici cameristici, serie di cicli per la voce e numerose pagine pianistiche.
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