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(1813-83) German
Style/Period: Middle German Romantic
Quantity of Work Produced: considerable
Best Known For: operas and opera overs. & preludes---'Siegfried Idyll' (orch.)---orchestration
Notable Works: . . . The Flying Dutchman [opera] (1841, r1846 & 1852) . . . Over. to (the opera) The Flying Dutchman [orch.] (1841, r1852 & 1860) . . . Tannhäuser [opera] (1843-5, r1861 & 1865) . . . Over. to (the opera) Tannhäuser [orch.] (1845) . . . Lohengrin [opera] (1845-8) . . . Götterdämmerung [opera] (1848-74) . . . Preludes to Acts I & III of (the opera) Lohengrin [orch.] (1850) . . . Das Rheingold [opera] (1851-4) . . . Die Walküre [opera] (1851-6), incl. 'Ride of the Valkyries' [orch.] . . . Siegfried [opera] (1851-71), incl. 'Forest Murmurs' [orch.] . . . Tristan und Isolde [opera] (1857-9) . . . Prelude & Death of Isolde from (the opera) Tristan und Isolde [orch.] (1857-9) . . . Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [opera] (1861-7) . . . Prelude to (the opera) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [orch.] (1867) . . . Siegfried Idyll [small orch.] (1870) . . . Parsifal [opera] (1876-82)
Musical Influences: BEETHOVEN; Bellini; Berlioz; Chopin; --Gluck; Halévy; Liszt; Meyerbeer; -Mozart; Rossini; Spohr; Spontini; Weber
Has Influenced: Alfvén; Bartók; Bax; Beach; +Berg; Bloch; Boito; +Boulanger; BRUCKNER; CHABRIER; G Charpentier; CHAUSSON; Debussy; DELIUS; Dohnányi; DUKAS; Duparc; Dvorák; ELGAR; Enescu; Fauré; Fibich; Franck; Glière; GOLDMARK; ++Henze; Herbert; Holst; HUMPERDINCK; INDY; Janácek; Lalo; Leoncavallo; -Liszt; Lyadov; MacDowell; Mahler; Massenet; Miaskovsky; Offenbach; PARRY; ++Penderecki; PFITZNER; Pizzetti; Ponchielli; Puccini; Reger; Reinecke; Rimsky-Korsakov; Saint-Saëns; Schoenberg; Schreker; SCRIABIN; Sibelius; Sinding; Smetana; Stanford; Stenhammar; J Strauss Jr.; Jos Strauss; R Strauss; Szymanowski; Vierne; +Villa-Lobos; Webern; WOLF; Wolf-Ferrari; Zemlinsky |
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(1685-1750) German; Leipzig-based from 1723
Style/Period: Late German Baroque (w/eclectic German, French & Italian elements)
Genre Profile: 003---3323---2222---033---00---330
Quantity of Work Produced: immense
Best Known For: solo organ---sacred & secular cantatas---concs. & concerti grossi---masses---orchestral pcs---passions---works for solo player---sonatas---harpsichord (solo, chamber combs., w/orch.)---motets
Christ Lag in Todesbanden [church cantata for 4 solo vv, chorus & orch.] BWV4 (1707-8?) . . . Toccata & Fugue in D minor [org] BWV565 (before 1709) . . . Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor [org] BWV582 (1708-12?) . . . Prelude & Fugue in D [org] BWV532 (1708-17) . . . Toccata & Fugue in F [org] BWV540 (1708-17) . . . Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C [org] BWV564 (1708-17) . . . Brandenburg Concertos [6 concerti grossi for featured instrs. & strings] BWV1046-51 (1708-21
Musical Influences: Albinoni; [G Böhm]; BUXTEHUDE; F Couperin; --Frescobaldi; -Froberger; [F Gasparini]; [R Keiser]; [G Legrenzi]; Lully; Pachelbel; -Schütz; --Sweelinck; Vivaldi; Zelenka
Has Influenced: ++Alkan; CPE BACH; JC BACH; WF BACH; +++Bartók; +Beethoven; ++Brahms; ++Bruckner; +++BUSONI; ++Chopin; +Clementi; +++Dupré; +++Elgar; +++Enescu; +++Finzi; [+++W Fortner]; +++Foss; ++FRANCK; ++Franz; ++Gounod; +++Grainger; +++Hanson; +++Harbison; Hasse; +++Hindemith; +++HONEGGER; +++Ives; +++Kagel; +++Karg-Elert; +++Kodály; +++Koechlin; +++Kokkonen; KREBS; +++Ligeti; ++Loewe; +++Mahler; +++MARTIN; +++Martinu; ++MENDELSSOHN; ++Mendelssohn-Hensel; +Mozart; +++Nancarrow; ++Paine; ++PARRY; +++Penderecki; +++REGER; ++Rossini; +++Ruggles; +++Schnittke; +++Schoenberg; ++R Schumann; +++Shchedrin; +++Shostakovich; +++Stanford; +++Stravinsky; +++Taneyev; +++Villa-Lobos; +++Webern: ++WIDOR; [+++BA Zimmermann] |
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(1862-1918) French; Paris-based
Style/Period: Impressionist
Genre Profile: 023---2120---0223---302---23---030
Quantity of Work Produced: considerable
Best Known For: piano (solo, chamber combs.)---orchestral pcs---songs & song cycles---chamber music---ballets---harp (chamber combs., w/orch.)---Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)---orchestration
Notable Works: . . . songs [solo v & pf] (c1879-1915) . . . 2 Arabesques [pf] (1888-91) . . . Clair de Lune (from 'Suite Bergamasque') [pf] (1890, r1905) . . . Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun [sym. poem] (1892-4) . . . String Quartet in G minor Op.10 (1893
Musical Influences: Albéniz; Borodin; Chabrier; Chausson; -Chopin; ---F Couperin; +Dukas; Fauré; Gounod; Lalo; Liszt; Massenet; Mussorgsky; --Rameau; +Ravel; +Satie; Wagner; gamelan & other East Asian music; French Renaissance music
Has Influenced: Alain; -Albéniz; Barber; Bartók; Bax; Beach; Berg; BLOCH; Boulanger; +Boulez; Carpenter; Casella; Castelnuovo-Tedesco; -Chausson; Copland; +Crumb; Dallapiccola; Delius; Dukas; Dutilleux; Enescu; Falla; GRIFFES; Hindemith; Honegger; Ibert; Ireland; Jolivet; |
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(1882-1971) Russian-French-American; Paris-based 1911-39, U.S.-based thereafter
Style/Period: Russian Nationalist (Impressionist) to 1924; French Neoclassical 1924-1951; Post-Webernian Serial thereafter
Genre Profile: 232---2222---2222---202---32---220
Quantity of Work Produced: extensive
Best Known For: significant or important contributor to most main genres; pre-eminent 20th Century composer of ballets
Notable Works: . . . The Firebird [ballet] (1909-10; Suite #2 for reduced orch. 1919, r1945) . . . Petrushka [ballet] (1910-1, r1946) . . . The Rite of Spring [ballet] (1911-3, r1940s) . . . The Wedding [ballet for 4 solo vv, 4 pf, perc ensemble & chorus] (1914-7, r1921-3) . . . The Soldier's Tale [ballet for narr., spoken vv & ensemble of 7 instrs.]
Musical Influences: ---JS Bach; Borodin; Debussy; Dukas; ---Gesualdo; Glazunov; -Glinka; ---Machaut; --Mozart; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV; Schoenberg; Scriabin; Tchaikovsky; +Webern; Renaissance, Baroque & Classical music; ragtime; jazz
Has Influenced: [G ANTHEIL]; Barber; -Bartók; Berio; Berkeley; Bernstein; [H Birtwistle]; Bliss; Blitzstein; Boulez; Britten; Carter; Casella; Chávez; Copland; Creston; Diamond; Dutilleux; [W Egk]; -Falla; Fine; [W Fortner]; Foss; Françaix; Ginastera; KA Hartmann; Henze; Hindemith; |
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(1756-91) Austrian
Style/Period: Classical (Viennese Classical)
Genre Profile: 333---3333---3333---322---23---330
Quantity of Work Produced: immense
Best Known For: important contributor to all main genres
Notable Works: . . . Exsultate, Jubilate in F [sacred motet for solo v & orch.] K165/158a (1773) . . . Bassoon Conc. in B flat K191/186e (1774) . . . Sym. #29 in A K201/186a (1774) . . . Violin Conc. #3 in G K216 (1775) . . . Violin Conc. #4 in D K218 (1775) . . . Violin Conc. #5 in A K219 (1775) . . . Conc. for Flute, Harp & Orch. in C K299/297c (1778) . . . Sonata for Violin & Keyboard in E minor K304/300c (1778) . . . Flute Conc. #1 in G K313/285c (1778) . . . Oboe Conc. in C K314/285d/271k (1778) . . . Mass #16 in C 'Coronation' [4 solo vv, chorus & orch.] K317 (1779) . . . Sinfonia Concertante in E flat
Musical Influences: CPE Bach; JC BACH; -JS Bach; Cimarosa; -Fux; Gluck; Handel; Hasse; J Haydn; M Haydn; [L Mozart]; Paisiello; -Pergolesi; Sammartini; J Stamitz
Has Influenced: +++Argento; Beethoven; +Bellini; +++Berkeley; ++Bizet; Boieldieu; ++Brahms; ++Bruckner; ++Busoni; Carulli; Cherubini; +Chopin; -Cimarosa; -Clementi; +++Corigliano; -Dittersdorf; ++Dvorák; -J Haydn; +++Henze; HUMMEL; ++Leoncavallo; ++Mascagni; Mayr; |
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(1770-1827) German; Vienna-based from 1792
Style/Period: Late Viennese Classical
Genre Profile: 332---3302---3333---310---23---320
Quantity of Work Produced: extensive
Best Known For: syms.---piano (sonatas, chamber combs., concs.)---chamber music (string quartets, violin sonatas, trios, etc.)---overs.---Violin Conc. in D---Fidelio (opera)---Mass in D 'Missa Solemnis'
Notable Works: . . . Piano Conc. #2 in B flat Op.19 (1793-5, r1798) . . . Piano Conc. #1 in C Op.15 (1795, r1800) . . . Quintet for Piano & Winds in E flat Op.16 (1796) . . . Piano Sonata #8 in C minor 'Pathetique' Op.13 (1797-8?) . . . Septet in E flat [winds & strings] Op.20 (1799-1800) . . . Sym. #1 in C Op.21 (1800) . . . Sonata for Violin & Piano in F 'Spring' Op.24 (1800-1) . . . Piano Conc. #3 in C minor Op.37 (1800?) . . . Piano Sonata #14 in C sharp minor 'Moonlight' Op.27 no.2
Musical Influences: CPE Bach; -JS Bach; Cherubini; Clementi; Gluck; -Handel; J Haydn; Méhul; Mozart; ---Palestrina; Salieri
Has Influenced: Alkan; ++Bartók; Berlioz; Berwald; +Bizet; ++Bloch; +Boito; +Borodin; +BRAHMS; BRUCKNER; Carulli; Chopin; Czerny; ++Dukas; +Dvorák; Franck; Giuliani; ++Honegger; +Indy; +Ives; +++Kagel; Lalo; Liszt; ++Mahler; ++Medtner; Mendelssohn; Mendelssohn-Hensel; Nicolai; Paganini; +Paine; ++Reger; Reicha; ++Schoenberg; SCHUBERT; C Schumann; R Schumann; ++Shostakovich; ++Sibelius; Spohr; ++Stenhammar; ++Tippett; +++Tower; WAGNER; Weber; ++Webern |
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(1811-86) Hungarian-French-German
Style/Period: Middle German Romantic (Paris virtuoso school to c1850; New German school thereafter)
Genre Profile: 203---3000---2112---330---01---220
Quantity of Work Produced: immense
Best Known For: piano (solo, w/orch., transcriptions of other composers' works)---symphonic poems & other orchestral pcs---solo organ---songs---sacred choral music
Notable Works: . . . songs [solo v & pf] (1839-83) . . . Années de Pèlerinage (3 sets) [pf] S160, S161 & S163 (1837-54, 1867-77) . . . 6 Transcendental Etudes after Paganini [pf] S140 (1838) . . . Piano Conc. #2 in A S125 (1839, r1849-61) . . . 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies [pf] S244 (1846-85; orch. arrs. S359 (d?)) . . . Concert Study 'La Leggierezza' [pf] S144 no.2 (c1848) . . . Symphonic Poem #1 'Les Préludes' S97
Musical Influences: Beethoven; Bellini; Berlioz; Chopin; Czerny; Field; PAGANINI; ---Palestrina; Reicha; Salieri; Schubert; R Schumann; +Wagner; Weber
Has Influenced: Albéniz; Alkan; Balakirev; Bartók; Bax; Borodin; Bruckner; BUSONI; Debussy; Dohnányi; Duparc; Dvorák; Fauré; FRANCK; Glazunov; Glière; Granados; Indy; Lalo; MacDowell; Mahler; Mussorgsky; Paderewski; Parry; Rachmaninov; Raff; Ravel; Reger; Rimsky-Korsakov; Rubinstein; SAINT-SAËNS; Scriabin; Sinding; Smetana; J Strauss Jr.; Jos Strauss; R Strauss; Tchaikovsky; Wagner; Widor; Wolf |
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(1874-1951) Austrian-American; mainly Vienna-based to 1933; U.S.-based thereafter, mainly in Los Angeles
Style/Period: Late German Romantic to 1909; German Expressionist 1909-1922; Serial (Second Viennese school) thereafter
Genre Profile: 202---2202---2222---210---02---230
Quantity of Work Produced: considerable
Best Known For: orchestral pcs---chamber music---songs & song cycles---dramatic vocal music---operas
Notable Works: . . . songs [solo v & pf] (1893-1933) . . . String Sextet 'Transfigured Night' Op.4 (1899; string orch. arr. 1917, r1943) . . . Gurrelieder [secular cantata for narr., 5 solo vv, choruses & orch.] (1900-3, r1910-1) . . . Pelleas und Melisande [sym. poem after the Maeterlinck play] Op.5 (1903) . . . Chamber Sym. #1 in E
Musical Influences: ---JS Bach; --Beethoven; Brahms; Busoni; Dukas; Mahler; --Mozart; Reger; R Strauss; Wagner; Wolf; Zemlinsky
Has Influenced: BABBITT; Bartók; BERG; Bliss; Blitzstein; Boulez; Britten; Cage; Carter; Casella; Copland; Dallapiccola; Davies; GERHARD; Ginastera; HÁBA; Harrison; Henze; Honegger; -Janácek; Kagel; Karg-Elert; [L Kirchner]; KRENEK; Martin; Nono; Pärt; Penderecki; Piston; Powell; Ravel; Riegger; Rochberg; Scelsi; Schuller; Sessions; [N SKALKOTTAS]; Stravinsky; Takemitsu; Varèse; WEBERN; Weill; [E Wellesz]; Wuorinen; -Zemlinsky |
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(1810-49) Polish-French; mainly Paris-based from 1831
Style/Period: Early French Romantic (Paris virtuoso school) w/Polish Nationalist tendencies
Genre Profile: 000---3000---0012---300---00---020
Quantity of Work Produced: considerable
Best Known For: piano (solo, chamber combs., w/orch.)
Notable Works: . . . over 60 mazurkas [pf] (1820-49) . . . 19 waltzes [pf] (1827-48) . . . Piano Conc. #2 in F minor Op.21 (1829-30) . . . 12 Etudes [pf] Op.10 (1829-32) . . . Piano Conc. #1 in E minor Op.11 (1830) . . . Nocturne #2 in E flat [pf] Op.9 no.2 (1830-1) . . . Andante Spianato in G & Grande Polonaise in E flat [pf & orch.] Op.22 (1830-1, 1834) . . . Ballade #1 in G minor [pf] Op.23 (1831-5) . . . 12 Etudes [pf] Op.25 (1832-6) . . . Nocturne #8 in D flat [pf] Op.27 no.2 (1835) . . . 24 Preludes
Musical Influences: --JS Bach; Beethoven; Bellini; Clementi; Field; Hummel; -Mozart; Paganini; Rossini; Weber; folk music
Has Influenced: +Albéniz; Alkan; +Arensky; Balakirev; Borodin; Cui; +Debussy; +Delius; Dvorák; +Falla; Fauré; Franck; -Glinka; Gottschalk; +Granados; Grieg; -JPE Hartmann; Liszt; ++Lutoslawski; +Lyadov; -Mendelssohn-Hensel; ++Mompou; +Paderewski; +Rachmaninov; ++Ravel; +Reger; Rubinstein; Saint-Saëns; +SCRIABIN; Smetana; ++Szymanowski; Tchaikovsky; Wagner; Wieniawski |
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(1810-56) German
Style/Period: Early German Romantic
Genre Profile: 322---3302---2222---310---01---230
Quantity of Work Produced: extensive
Best Known For: piano (solo, chamber combs., w/orch.)---syms.---songs & song cycles
Notable Works: . . . Carnaval [pf suite] Op.9 (1833-5) . . . Piano Sonata #2 in G minor Op.22 (1833-8) . . . 12 Symphonic Etudes [pf] Op.13 (1834-7) . . . Phantasie in C [pf] Op.17 (1836-8) . . . 8 Phantasiestücke [pf] Op.12 (1837) . . . Kinderszenen [pf suite] Op.15 (1838) . . . Kreisleriana [8 fantasies for pf] Op.16 (1838) . . . Arabeske in C [pf] Op.18 (1838) . . . Romance #2 in F sharp
Musical Influences: --JS Bach; Beethoven; Hummel; Mendelssohn; Paganini; Schubert; +C Schumann; Weber
Has Influenced: Balakirev; Borodin; BRAHMS; Bruch; ++Butterworth; ++Chávez; Cui; +Elgar; Fibich; FRANZ; Gade; Goldmark; ++Grainger; +Granados; Grieg; Lalo; Liszt; +MacDowell; +Medtner; Mussorgsky; +Novák; Parry; ++Persichetti; +PFITZNER; +Reger; REINECKE; Rubinstein; -C Schumann; Sinding; Smetana; Stanford; Svendsen; Tchaikovsky; +WOLF |
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(1833-97) German; Hamburg-based to 1862; Vienna-based thereafter
Style/Period: Middle German Romantic (Neoclassical)
Genre Profile: 303---3302---3333---320---00---330
Quantity of Work Produced: extensive
Best Known For: important contributor to most main genres (except ballet & opera)
Notable Works: . . . songs [solo v & pf] (1851-96) . . . 21 Hungarian Dances (in 4 books) [pf 4 hands] (1852-69) . . . Piano Sonata #3 in F minor Op.5 (1853) . . . Piano Conc. #1 in D minor Op.15 (1854-8) . . . Sym. #1 in C minor Op.68 (1855-76) . . . A German Requiem [cantata/oratorio for 2 solo vv, chorus & orch.] (1857-68) . . . Serenade #1 in D [orch.] Op.11 (1857-8) . . . Serenade #2 in A [small orch.] Op.16 (1858-9, r1875) . . . 25 Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Handel in B flat
Musical Influences: --JS Bach; -BEETHOVEN; ---Buxtehude; --Handel; Mendelssohn; --Mozart; -Schubert; C Schumann; R SCHUMANN; ---Schütz; Spohr; folksong; ---Baroque & Renaissance music
Has Influenced: +Barber; Bartók; Beach; Berg; Bridge; Busoni; DOHNÁNYI; Dvorák; Elgar; Enescu; Fibich; Glazunov; Hindemith; Ireland; +Kokkonen; Mahler; Medtner; Nielsen; PARRY; Pfitzner; REGER; -Reinecke; -C Schumann; Schoenberg; Schreker; STANFORD; Stenhammar; R Strauss; Szymanowski; [E Toch]; Webern; Wolf-Ferrari; Zemlinsky |
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(1809-47) German
Style/Period: Early German Romantic (Biedermeier; Neoclassical)
Genre Profile: 333---3302---2222---220---01---320
Quantity of Work Produced: extensive
Best Known For: important contributor to all main genres except ballet & opera
Notable Works: . . . choral songs [unacc. chorus] (1820-47) . . . songs [solo v & pf] (1820-47) . . . Rondo Capriccioso in E [pf] Op.14 (1824) . . . Octet for Strings in E flat Op.20 (1825) . . . Over. to (the Shakespeare play) A Midsummer Night's Dream [orch.] Op.21 (1826) . . . String Quartet #2 in A minor Op.13 (1827) . . . Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage [concert over.] Op.27 (1828) . . . Songs without Words (8 vols.) [pf] (1829-45) . . . Hebrides ('Fingal's Cave') Over. Op.26
Musical Influences: --JS BACH; Beethoven; Field; --Handel; -J Haydn; Hummel; Mendelssohn-Hensel; -Mozart; Spohr; WEBER
Has Influenced: Alkan; +Arensky; [WS BENNETT]; -Berwald; Borodin; Brahms; Bruch; Bruckner; +Elgar; +Fibich; GADE; Goldmark; Gounod; Grieg; -Mendelssohn-Hensel; Nicolai; Parry; Raff; ++Reger; REINECKE; RUBINSTEIN; Saint-Saëns; R Schumann; Smetana; +Stanford; Sullivan; Svendsen; Widor |
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Strauss, Richard Style/Period: Late (post-Wagnerian) German Romantic (Neoclassical after 1910)
Genre Profile: 223---2232---0212---111---23---13x
Quantity of Work Produced: extensive
Best Known For: symphonic poems---operas---lieder---wind concs.---orchestration
Notable Works: . . . songs [solo v & pf] (1870-1942) . . . Sonata for Cello & Piano in F Op.6 (1880-3) . . . Horn Conc. #1 in E flat Op.11 (1882-3) . . . Sonata for Violin & Piano in E flat Op.18 (1887) . . . Don Juan [sym. poem] Op.20 (1888-9) . . . Death & Transfiguration [sym. poem] Op.24 (1888-9) . . . Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Musical Influences: Berlioz; Brahms; Liszt; --Mozart; J Strauss Jr.; Wagner
Has Influenced: Bartók; Bax; Bloch; Casella; Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Dukas; Griffes; -Herbert; Hindemith; Holst; Honegger; KORNGOLD; Lehár; Prokofiev; -Puccini; Ravel; Reger; RESPIGHI; Ruggles; Schoenberg; -Sinding; Suk; Szymanowski; Varèse; Villa-Lobos; [E Wellesz]; Wolf-Ferrari; Zemlinsky |
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(1732-1809) Austrian; in part Vienna-based
Style/Period: Classical (Viennese Classical)
Genre Profile: 322---2332---2332---330---02---330
Quantity of Work Produced: immense
Best Known For: syms.---string quartets---concs.---oratorios---masses---keyboard (piano) sonatas & trios---songs
Notable Works: . . . Cello Conc. #1 in C (c1761-5) . . . Horn Conc. #3 (old #1) in D (1762) . . . Sym. #22 in E flat 'Philosopher' (1764) . . . Conc. for Violin & String Orch. #1 in C (before 1770) . . . Keyboard Sonata #33 (HXVI:#20) in C minor [pf or hpschd] (1771) . . . String Quartet in D Op.20 no.4 (1772) . . . Sym. #44 in E minor 'Trauer' (before 1773) . . . Sym. #45 in F sharp minor 'Farewell' (1772) . . . Cello Conc. #2 in D Op.101 (1783) . . . Conc. for Keyboard & Strings #11 in D Op.21 (1784 or before) . . . String Quartet in D minor Op.42
Musical Influences: CPE BACH; Fux; Gluck; HANDEL; Hasse; +Mozart; Sammartini
Has Influenced: Beethoven; BOCCHERINI; +Bruckner; Cherubini; Cimarosa; Clementi; Dittersdorf; ++Dvorák; ++Elgar; Hummel; ++Martinu; Méhul; +Mendelssohn; Mozart; ++Persichetti; [I Pleyel]; Reicha; Rossini; Schubert; Sor; Viotti |
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Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) Italian
Style/Period: Post-Classical (bel canto)
Genre Profile: 032---0022---2202---200---03---220
Quantity of Work Produced: extensive
Best Known For: operas & opera overs.---sacred vocal/choral music---chamber music---songs---solo piano
Notable Works: . . . 6 String Sonatas [2 vlns, vc & double-bass] (c1804) . . . Over. to (the opera) La Scala di Seta [orch.] (1812) . . . The Italian Woman in Algiers [opera] (1813) . . . Over. to (the opera) The Italian Woman in Algiers [orch.] (1813) . . . Otello [opera] (1816) . . . The Barber of Seville [opera] (1816) . . . Over. to (the opera) The BMusical Influences: --JS Bach; Cimarosa; J Haydn; Mayr; -MOZART; Spontini
Has Influenced: -Auber; BELLINI; Bizet; -Boieldieu; -Carulli; Chopin; Dargomïzhsky; DONIZETTI; Flotow; -Giuliani; Mercadante; -MEYERBEER; Offenbach; PACINI; Saint-Saëns; Schubert; -Spontini; Verdi; Wagner; Widor
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(1813-83) German
Style/Period: Middle German Romantic (New German school; German Nationalist)
Genre Profile: 132---0100---0002---200---03---120
Quantity of Work Produced: considerable
Best Known For: operas and opera overs. & preludes---'Siegfried Idyll' (orch.)---orchestration
Notable Works: . . . The Flying Dutchman [opera] (1841, r1846 & 1852) . . . Over. to (the opera) The Flying Dutchman [orch.] (1841, r1852 & 1860) . . . Tannhäuser [opera] (1843-5, r1861 & 1865) . . . Over. to (the opera) Tannhäuser [orch.] (1845) . . . Lohengrin [opera] (1845-8) . . . Götterdämmerung [opera] (1848-74) . . . Preludes to Acts I & III of (the opera) Lohengrin [orch.] (1850) . . . Das Rheingold [opera] (1851-4) . . . Die Walküre [opera] (1851-6), incl. 'Ride of the Valkyries' [orch.] . . . Siegfried
Musical Influences: BEETHOVEN; Bellini; Berlioz; Chopin; --Gluck; Halévy; Liszt; Meyerbeer; -Mozart; Rossini; Spohr; Spontini; Weber
Has Influenced: Alfvén; Bartók; Bax; Beach; +Berg; Bloch; Boito; +Boulanger; BRUCKNER; CHABRIER; G Charpentier; CHAUSSON; Debussy; DELIUS; Dohnányi; DUKAS; Duparc; Dvorák; ELGAR; Enescu; Fauré; Fibich; Franck; Glière; GOLDMARK; ++Henze; Herbert; Holst; HUMPERDINCK; INDY; Janácek; Lalo; Leoncavallo; -Liszt; Lyadov; MacDowell; Mahler; Massenet; Miaskovsky; Offenbach; PARRY; ++Penderecki; PFITZNER; Pizzetti; Ponchielli; Puccini; Reger; Reinecke; Rimsky-Korsakov; Saint-Saëns; Schoenberg; Schreker; SCRIABIN; Sibelius; Sinding; Smetana; Stanford; Stenhammar; J Strauss Jr.; Jos Strauss; R Strauss; Szymanowski; Vierne; +Villa-Lobos; Webern; WOLF; Wolf-Ferrari; Zemlinsky |
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