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Giovanni Battista Lulli (Lully Jean Baptiste)
... a scullery-boy. 1653 - He came into Louis XIV's service. 1660 - Lully composed many ballets for the King, in which ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Fri 27th Apr 07
Tagore, Rabindranath (also Ravindranatha Thakura)
... ("Sun Lion") in this year. He also arose to notability when he composed several works, including a long poem set in ...
[ 27% ] Last updated: Mon 28th May 07
Gershwin, George (orig. Jacob Gershvin)
... arranging piano rolls. 1924 – He composed his first classical work, Rhapsody in Blue for orchestra and piano, which was arranged ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Sat 07th Apr 07
Morgan, Justin
... 18th century musical rendition of poetry and psalms known as figuring tunes of psalmody. 1774 - He married his first cousin ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Mon 14th May 07
Wieniawski, Henryk (Henri)
... put emphasis on technical difficulty and virtuoso effects. They were performance pieces which he composed with himself as a performer in ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Mon 02nd Jul 07
Chausson, Ernest (Amédée)
... gain recognition when he was killed in a bicycle accident at Limay, Seine-et-Oise. 1903 - He also composed several operas, among ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Wed 20th Jun 07
Gounod, Charles Francois
... Appeared "Mors et Vita", his last great work, the text for which he selected from Holy Scripture. - He composed the ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Thu 12th Jul 07
Dowland, John
1562 - Born on Westminster, London, England. English composer, virtuoso lutenist, and skilled singer, one of the most...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Sat 07th Apr 07
Carter, Elliott Cook Jr.
... by Elizabeth Bishop , Night Fantasies for piano, Changes for guitar, Adagio Tenebroso for ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Mon 17th Sep 07
Bryant, Diadorius Boudleaux
... full-time songwriters. - They began writing songs together and working for Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee, composed the classic 50s Pop ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Tue 04th Sep 07
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
... and the last epistle of Book I. - He composed the Secular Hymn (Carmen saeculare) for ancient ceremonies called the Secular ...
[ 26% ] Last updated: Thu 22nd Feb 07
Alfred Garyevich Schnittke
... - 1972 - He continued to develop the polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony. 1972 - 1976 ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Sat 22nd Jan 11
Zimmerman, Robert Allen (Dylan, Bob)
... he was signed to Columbia Records, releasing his eponymous debut. 1963 - The record was primarily composed of versions of folk ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Fri 03rd Aug 07
Carlton, Doyle Elam (Doyle)
... to the Florida state senate for a two-year term as the State Senator from the 11th District, composed of Hillsborough and ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Fri 14th Sep 07
Carter, Bennett Lester (Benny)
... big band, in part, because of his growing Hollywood career. 1959 - He played, arranged and composed for a large group ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Mon 17th Sep 07
Rozsa, Miklos
... organist and composer Marcel Dupré, moved to Paris in this year. He composed classical music, including his Hungarian Serenade for small ...
[ 25% ] Last updated: Tue 12th Jun 07
Curtis, George William
... Putnam's associate editor; and a number of volumes, composed of essays written for that publication and for Harper's Monthly. 1855 - ...
[ 24% ] Last updated: Fri 10th Nov 06
Babbitt, Milton Byron
... synthesized accompaniment (including the recorded and manipulated voice of Bethany Beardslee, for whom the piece was composed) stored on magnetic tape. ...
[ 24% ] Last updated: Thu 20th Jan 11
Bartok, Bela
... He wrote for Divertimento. 1940 - Bartók sailed for America with his wife. 1945 - On 26th of September Bartók died ...
[ 23% ] Last updated: Sat 02nd Dec 06
Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus (Costello, Elvis)
... during this period. 1984 - Released "Goodbye Cruel World" with only limited critical and commercial success. 1985 - Divorced his wife, ...
[ 23% ] Last updated: Fri 23rd Feb 07
Mahler, Gustav
... since the audience was unaccustomed to the sound of this complex, modern work. 1892 - Composed the Second Symphony, a mammoth ...
[ 23% ] Last updated: Thu 12th Apr 07
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (C. P. E. Bach)
... teacher and theorist of his time. 1960-1968 - Composed the set Mit veränderten Reprisen and a few of those für Kenner ...
[ 23% ] Last updated: Wed 06th Dec 06
Khajé Shams-ed-Din Mohammad (Hafez; Hafiz; Chagarlab;)
... 69 when he died, he composed more than half of his ghazals., and continued to teach his small circle of disciples. ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Wed 18th Apr 07
Chowdhury, Robindro Shaunkar (Shankar, Ravi)
... Ke Lal and Neecha Nagar. - He also composed the song Sare Jahan Se Accha, which is the most widely known ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Wed 28th Mar 07
Szymanowski, Karol Maciej
... influence of Strauss, Wagner, and Scriabin. 1914-1917 - Isolated from the European musical community, he composed copiously and studied Islmic culture ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Fri 25th Dec 09
Bloch, Ernest
... choir and orchestra. Other pieces from this period include a violin concerto written for Joseph Szigeti and the rhapsody America for ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Sun 01st Apr 07
Victor August Herbert (Herbert, Victor)
... took over leadership of Gilmore’s civilian band following Gilmore’s death. 1894 - Composed the first of his operettas, Prince Ananias, and ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Wed 02nd May 07
Warren, Harry (orig. Salvatore Guaragna)
... 1946. 1939 – His son also named Harry died of pneumonia in this year at age 19. 1956 - The only ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Fri 22nd Jun 07
Augustine (St. Augustine)
... further treatise to the same Marcellinus on The Spirit and the Letter (De spiritu et littera). 415 - Composed the treatises ...
[ 22% ] Last updated: Fri 09th Feb 07
Feliciano, Jose
... and written by Feliciano.
[ 22% ] Last updated: Thu 26th Apr 07
