Owner: Great composers and their Lives URL:http://www.ferrisguitar.com/blog Join Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:56:32 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Updated weekly, this is a collection of short articles on composers focusing on their lives and what they had to go through to give their gift of music to humanity. Site statistics:Click here
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber 1782 – 1871 2008-01-26 04:08:20 Auber was the son of a hunter that became quite wealthy by going into the business of dealing art in Paris. Auber was actually born in Normandy. This was on account of his parents once making a trip from Paris to Caen, the capital of lower Normandy.
Showing a great deal of talent on [...] Read more:Daniel
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Johann Pachelbel 1653 – 1706 2008-01-13 14:51:44 Anyone who reads the name of this composer immediately thinks of the Canon in D. Of course, JohannPachelbel
wrote many great pieces, but the 3-part canon he had once written will come to mind every time we hear his name. And vice versa, when we hear this piece at a wedding, we will [...]
Hugo Wolf 1860 – 1903 2008-01-04 15:43:30 Hugo Philipp Jakob Wolf was a very interesting Austrian composer. A true picture of how detrimental it can be for a composer to get a venereal disease. Yet, due to his genius, he was able to truly give a lot to the world in an incredibly short time.
Having been taught violin and piano by [...]
Luigi Boccherini 1743 - 1805 2007-12-15 02:49:30 This Italian composer was actually born into a family full of artists. Amazingly enough, he wrote 300 chamber works, 18 symphonies, and 93 string quartets. His chamber works also included 9 guitar quintets, which guitarists are quite grateful for.
What made this composer special was the fact that he not only came from Italy [...] Read more:Luigi
Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828 2008-03-14 08:39:53 There have been a great deal of classical composers that were centred in Vienna, Austria, whom we associate with the city itself. Among them are Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Mozart, although Franz Schubert was only one of the above-mentioned who was actually born in the city. Unfortunately, he was also the only one of these [...]
Gregorio Allegri 1582 – 1652 2008-05-26 11:04:54 Little is known about the early life of Gregorio Allegri. At the age of 9, he was a choirboy in Rome until his voice broke. He then went on to become a tenor at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where he remained between the ages of 14 and 22. It was during this time [...]
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