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4 days ago · Ennio Morricone OMRI (Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; 10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles.
5 days ago · In this post, we’ve created a timeline of some of the most influential classical composers in history. From Bach to Beethoven, and Dufay to Webern, these composers have made major contributions to modern music and are often considered among the best.
5 days ago · Johannes Brahms (born May 7, 1833, Hamburg [Germany]—died April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti, chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs.
- Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, but he was more a disciple of the Classical tradition. He wrote in many g...
- Throughout Johannes Brahms’s career there is a variety of expression—from the subtly humorous to the tragic—but his larger works show an increasing...
- Johannes Brahms was the son of Jakob Brahms, an impecunious horn and double bass player, who was Johannes’s first teacher. Johannes never married,...
- The violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whom Johannes Brahms befriended in 1853, instantly realized Brahms’s talent and recommended him to the composer...
- In 1896 Johannes Brahms was compelled to seek medical treatment, in the course of which his liver was discovered to be seriously diseased. He appea...
1 day ago · Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire.
5 days ago · "The Girl from Ipanema" (Portuguese title "Garota de Ipanema") is one of the most recorded songs of all time, allegedly only second to The Beatles' "Yesterday," as well as one of the most famous bossa nova jazz songs ever. It was composed in 1962 with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius
5 days ago · Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.
6 days ago · Os fadistas Sara Correia e António Pinto Basto estreiam-se na sétima edição do Festival Caixa Fado em Angola, agendado para 04 de outubro, partilhando o palco com Kátia Guerreiro, Marco Rodrigues e artistas angolanos, foi hoje anunciado.