The Big Foto Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country’s aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera [...]
Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous “Unfinished Symphony”), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music.
Schubert was born into a musical family, and received formal musical training through much [...]
Niccolo PAGANINI (born: Genoa, Italy – October 27, 1782, died: Nice, France – May 27, 1840) was one of the most famous virtuosi of his day and is considered to be one of the greatest violinists ever. He was taught to play the violin from a very young age and and was immediately recognized as [...]
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671, Venice, Republic of Venice – 17 January 1751, Venice, Republic of Venice) was a Venetian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, some of which is regularly recorded.
He wrote some fifty operas of which twenty-eight were [...]
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin’s compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar.
He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works, including more than a dozen Broadway shows, in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin.
George [...]
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, Samson and Delilah, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony).
Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French [...]
Well my classical music knowledge is scarce, so I have decided to explore more on the subject of those classical melodies that we can hear from time to time but we aren’t able to identify them.
Last week I posted about Aranjuez and its concert.Today, after an stressing week, I need something relaxing…
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was [...]
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