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To keep Seikilos's wife's ashes. -
Pope Gregory invented it and it became rally popular. -
He originated the current musical writing, the tetagram and the name of our notes with a hymn of Saint John the Baptist. -
She was a german saint, and one of the best known composers of Ars Antiqua -
He was a troubadour, a cultured and noble artist that composed music in the Middle Ages -
Leonin and Perotin were Notre Dame students, and main composers of organum in Ars antiqua. -
Leonin and Perotin were Notre Dame students, and main composers of organum in Ars antiqua. -
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He was Castilla's king. -
He was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. -
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He was an Italian composer, organist, singer and instrument maker, one of the most famous of Ars Nova. -
He was a German inventor, and he made the design of a movable-type printing press, the first with that speed. -
He was an important Spanish musician, poet and theatrical composer of the XV century. He made very important compositions of polyphonic and profane music. -
Martin Luther promoted the Protestant Reformation and separated his followers, also called the Protestants, from the Catholic Church. -
Cristobal de Morales was an important spanish polyphonic choral religious music. -
He was the first important keyboard composer in Spain. -
He was an Italian composer that was considered the best of the XVI century. -
He was an important Franco-flemish and religious compositor from the Renaissance. -
She was a composer and italian organist composer of polychorality in Venice with her nephew, Giovanni. -
She was an Italian singer and musician that played the lude. -
Tomás was a catholic priest that wrote a lot of important polyphonic compositions. -
With his uncle, Andrea Gabrieli, he was one of the most important italian composers of polychorality -
Carlo Gesualdo was one of the most important composers of the madrigal. -
He was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and very important in the development of opera. -
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He was a teacher of the Roman School of music and Italian composer, that established the Latin oratorio. -
Barbara Strozzi was an Italian Baroque singer and composer of mostly secular music. -
He was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps. -
He was a Italian composer, violinist, teacher, priest from Venice that consolidated the concerto form. -
He was a German Barroque compositor, and musical director of five churches in Hamburg. -
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, musician, conductor, Kapellmeister, cantor, and teacher of the Baroque period. He was the most prominent member of one of history's most distinguished musical families, the Bach family. -
Händel was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, concerti, and organ concerti. -
He was an English composer, considered one of the greatest English composers of all time, he incorporated French and Italian stylistic elements into his music. -
He was a German composer of Italian and French opera, well-known in the Hasburg court, in Vienna. He composed operas such as Orpheo ed Euridice. -
Haydn was an important composer of chamber music forms like the string quartet and piano trio. Although he arose from humble origins, he became chorist, music director and, finally, composer. -
Maria Anna Mozart was a highly regarded musician from Salzburg. She became a child prodigy with an incredibly talent with the keyboard and went on concert tours through Europe with her parents and her younger brother, W. A. Mozart. At age 17, her career as a musician came to an end, though she continued teaching piano. -
Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in Western music. He made more than 800 works such as chambers, opera, and choral repertoires. -
She was an Australian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom her close friend Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major. -
He was a German composer and pianist. One of the most known Western music, his works reflect the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era. In 1812, he began to grow increasingly deaf, and a few years later, he died. -
He was an Italian composer who gained fame for his operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties. -
He was an Austrian composer. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind more than 600 art songs in German and other vocal works, such as seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, lots of piano music, etc. -
Louis-Hector Berlioz was a composer and conductor. He made orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of various genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust. -
He was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor. His compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include his solo piano compositions such as the overture for A Midsummer Night's Dream (which includes his "Wedding March"). -
Robert Schumann was a 19th-century German composer, pianist, and music critic, considered one of the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism. -
Chopin was a French-Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and teacher, considered one of the most important in history, who wrote mainly for solo piano. -
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher. With more than six decades of compositions, he is considered to be one of the most important compositors of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded. -
Wagner was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright, and music theorist. His operas (which he himself called "music dramas") are particularly noteworthy, as he, unlike other composers, also wrote the libretto and designed the sets. -
Verdi was an Italian opera composer, one of the most important of all time. His most famous works were Aida, Don Carlo, La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Falstaff. -
She was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher and prodigy. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format of the piano recital. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto, chamber music, choral pieces, and songs. -
He was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his 1866 opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"). -
Johannes Brahms was an Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor, with a Lutheran family and a great fame. -
He was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music and wanted to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often defiancing the established conventions of Western music. -
He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Chaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. -
Dvorak was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. -
Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the most important composers of his time, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity. -
Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are essential in the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his fifteen operas. -
He was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism, although he rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. -
Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a visionary, a creator of musical concepts that would define cinema throughout the 20th century. -
Hugo Wolff was an Austrian composer of Slovenian origin who lived in Vienna and was an enthusiastic follower of Richard Wagner. -
Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian composer and conductor whose works are considered one of the most important of the post-Romantic period. -
He was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped Finland develop a stronger national identity when the country was having problems with several Russian attacks. -
He was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motivic processes as a means of coherence. He propounded concepts like developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and the "unity of musical space". -
He was a Spanish composer and pianist. He was one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. He has a claim to being Spain's greatest composer of the 20th century, although the number of pieces he composed was relatively modest. -
He was a Hungarian musician who distinguished himself as a composer, pianist, and researcher of Eastern European folk music. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. -
Kodály was a prominent Hungarian musician whose musical style is characterized by a mixture of folklore and complex 20th-century harmonies. -
He was a Russian composer and conductor, and one of the most important and influential musicians of the 20th century. -
He was a Spanish composer and musicologist, a leading figure in Spanish nationalism during the first half of the 20th century. He and Manuel de Falla composed some of the most important works of Impressionism in Spain. His most significant works include Danzas fantásticas and La procesión del Rocío. -
Heitor was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos one of the most important South American composers in music history. A prolific composer, he wrote many orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 works by his death in 1959. -
He was an American musician, composer, and pianist. His music is characterized by its combination of classical music and jazz. -
He was a French composer, organist, pedagogue, and ornithologist, one of the most outstanding musicians of the entire century. His fascination with Hinduism, his admiration for nature and birds, his Christian faith, and his love of instrumental variety were all fundamental to his development as a person and an artist. -
Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II -
John Cage was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments, he has been hailed by critics as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the development of modern dance. -
He was a French musician, considered the creator, along with Pierre Schaeffer, of the so-called musique concrète and one of the fathers of electroacoustic music. -
He is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass' work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. He described himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped to evolve stylistically