Fomerius Hellebrand (1856-1912)
No photo. Fomerius Hellebrand (1856-1912) Profession: Pastor. Relation to Mahler: Pastor Petrus Fomerius Hellebrand led Gustav Mahlers’ funeral service but did not know him. The only thing we know is that within a year he was found dead himself at Grinzing cemetery. He is also buried at Grinzing cemetery. Residences: Himmelstrasse 25, Grinzing, Vienna, Austria. Born: 1856. Died: […]
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868). Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola (Cinderella), and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume […]
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). Carl August Nielsen was a Danish musician, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country’s greatest composer. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age. He initially played in a military band before attending the Royal Danish Academy […]
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum, […]
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945). Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary’s greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, […]
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889)
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889). Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban was a cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini’s virtuosic technique on the violin and successfully proved that the cornet was a true solo instrument by developing virtuoso technique on the instrument. […]
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions – Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade – are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with […]
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as “The Five”. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of his works were inspired […]
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and ’30s Ravel was internationally regarded as France’s greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France’s […]