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Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze is a German composer well known for his left-wing political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his politics and homosexuality. He continues to live in the village of Marino in the Lazio region of Italy. An avowed Marxist and member of the Italian Communist Party, Henze has produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. The librettist of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled ''Das Floss der Medusa'' , was... More »
Carl Reinecke
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German musician. Reinecke was born in Altona, which was part of Denmark at his time. The son of a teacher of music with whom he studied, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, Carl began to compose at the age of seven, and his first public appearance as a pianist was when he was twelve years old. He undertook his first concert tour in 1843 which eventually led, in 1846, to his appointment as Court Pianist for Christian VIII in Copenhagen. More »
Siegfried Wagner
Siegfried Wagner was the son of Richard Wagner and Cosima von Bülow and the grandson of Franz Liszt. He was a very productive opera composer, composing more operas than his father. In 1896 he started conducting at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and around Germany. Siegfried was the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Though his works are numerous, none has entered the standard repertory. Siegfried Wagner was an active homosexual throughout his life. More »
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
:''This article has been partially translated from the German wikipedia article.'' Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a post-WWII West German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten which is regarded as one of the most important operas of the 20th century. As a result of his individual style, it is hard to label his music as avant-garde, serial or postmodern. His music employs a wide range of materials including the twelve-tone row and musical quotation. More »
Hanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler was a German and Austrian composer. More »
Christoph Willibald Gluck
thumb Christoph Willibald Gluck was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered for ''Orfeo ed Euridice''. He is also remembered as the music teacher of Marie Antoinette who as Queen of France promoted Gluck and was his patron. Some regard him as the father of the Rococo and Classical age of music---at least in Opera. Gluck's operatic reforms, eliminating all that was undramatic, were a turning point in the history of the... More »
Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer, best known for his opera, ''Hänsel und Gretel'' . Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces. In 1872 he entered the Cologne Conservatory under Ferdinand Hiller. In 1876 he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Munich, where he studied with Franz Paul Lachner and later with Josef Rheinberger. He won the Mendelssohn Stiftung of Berlin in 1879, and went to Italy, and became acquainted with Richard Wagner in Naples. More »
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill , was a German, and in his later years German-American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage, as well as writing a number of concert works. Over fifty years after his death, his music continues to be performed both in popular and classical contexts. In Weill's lifetime, his work was most associated with the voice of his wife, Lotte Lenya, but shortly after his death "Mack the Knife" was established by Louis Armstrong and... More »
Carl Orff
Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for ''Carmina Burana'' . He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. More »
Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer is an Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe award-winning film score composer. More »
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