Composer: Moisey Weinberg From Wikipedia: Mieczysław Weinberg, also Moisey (8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. From 1939 he lived in the Soviet Union and Russia and lost most of his family in the Holocaust. He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string…
Month: September 2016
#154 CHAVEZ | NO 5
Composer: Carlos Chavez from wikipedia: Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six symphonies, the second, or Sinfonía india, which uses…
#153 MCEWEN | SOLWAY
Composer: Sir John Blackwood McEwen from University of Glasgow: Sir John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948) was a University graduate who became an influential teacher and a renowned composer of classical music. He donated his manuscripts to the University in 1947 and founded the McEwen Bequest to encourage the performance of music by Scottish composers. Music: Solway Symphony…
#152 Kallinikov | NO 2
Composer: Vasily Kalinnikov from wikipedia: Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov ( January 13, 1866 – January 11, 1901 ) was a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particularly the First, were frequently performed in the early 20th century. Music: Symphony No. 2 Impression: This symphony…
#152 B. Tchaikovsky | NO 2
Composer: Boris Tchaikovsky from wikipedia: Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky(10 September 1925 – 7 February 1996) was a Soviet composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (to whom he was not related)…
#151 CHAVEZ | NO 1
Composer: Carlos Chavez from wikipedia: Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six symphonies, the second, or Sinfonía india, which uses…
#150 LUTOSLAWSKI | NO 4
Composer: Witold Lutoslawski from wikipedia: Witold Roman Lutosławski (25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He is one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. … During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in…
#149 GLAZUNOV | NO 3
Composer: Alexander Glazunov from wikipedia : Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory,…
#148 ATTERBURG | NO 8
Composer: Kurt Atterberg from wikipedia: Kurt Magnus Atterberg (12 December 1887 – 15 February 1974) was a Swedish composer and engineer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets. Atterberg was born in Gothenburg. His father was Anders Johan Atterberg, engineer and brother of famous chemist Albert Atterberg. His mother, Elvira Uddman, was the daughter…
#147 NORGARD | NO 6
Composer: Per Norgard from wikipedia: Nørgård was born in Gentofte, Denmark. He studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe. In the 1960s, Nørgård…
#146 ANTHEIL | NO 3
Composer: George Antheil from the composer’s official site: George Antheil (1900-1959) was an American composer—born in Trenton, New Jersey—who began his professional career in Europe, where he was friends with, among many others, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ernest Hemingway, Eric Satie, and Igor Stravinsky. In the early ’20s, he…
#145 WEINBERG | NO 12
Composer: Moisey Weinberg From Wikipedia: Mieczysław Weinberg, also Moisey (8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. From 1939 he lived in the Soviet Union and Russia and lost most of his family in the Holocaust. He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string…
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