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An Englishman in New York
Don't know if this should go here, or as a User Journal, so if any mod wants to move it there, then that's fine, might be better there actually.
Thought about doing an A-Z of Classical Composers, remind myself of some fine works, and maybe if anyone into classical wants to join in, comment, post their own, etc maybe we will hear less familiar stuff too. I think as soon as I get to B I better ignore Beethoven, in the hope that LG will be tempted to chip in with a selection from his #1 composer, so we’ll see! So feel free to chip in if you like, as long as it’s some composer on the letter still current, I’ll change to the next letter in the alphabet every week or two, there’s no rush, and I don’t have time to spend too much time on this anyway, so let's just see what comes up alphabetically in due course. I’m also just going to be stealing a few words of bio from Wiki to save time.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded. The 'Adagio' has permeated popular culture, having been used as background music for such films as Gallipoli, in television programmes, and in numerous advertisements.
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003), and Shaker Loops (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings. His well-known operas include Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, theManhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
Gregorio Allegri (1582 – 17 February 1652) was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die. A 14-year-old boy called Mozart, who, on a visit to Rome with his father heard the now famous ‘Miserere’ sung only once, then transcribed the entire piece faithfully from memory, thus creating the first unauthorised copy, and proof of his genius.
Thought about doing an A-Z of Classical Composers, remind myself of some fine works, and maybe if anyone into classical wants to join in, comment, post their own, etc maybe we will hear less familiar stuff too. I think as soon as I get to B I better ignore Beethoven, in the hope that LG will be tempted to chip in with a selection from his #1 composer, so we’ll see! So feel free to chip in if you like, as long as it’s some composer on the letter still current, I’ll change to the next letter in the alphabet every week or two, there’s no rush, and I don’t have time to spend too much time on this anyway, so let's just see what comes up alphabetically in due course. I’m also just going to be stealing a few words of bio from Wiki to save time.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded. The 'Adagio' has permeated popular culture, having been used as background music for such films as Gallipoli, in television programmes, and in numerous advertisements.
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003), and Shaker Loops (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings. His well-known operas include Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, theManhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
Gregorio Allegri (1582 – 17 February 1652) was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die. A 14-year-old boy called Mozart, who, on a visit to Rome with his father heard the now famous ‘Miserere’ sung only once, then transcribed the entire piece faithfully from memory, thus creating the first unauthorised copy, and proof of his genius.
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