Tag: composer

Amilcare Ponchielli

(1834–1886) Works: • Danza delle ore (1876) • La Gioconda (1876) Born August 31 1834 Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli (Italia) Died January 16 1886 Milano (Italia) Cause of death Pneumonia Buried Cimitero Monumentale (Milano) Pupil Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Occupation Composer Conductor…

Giacomo Puccini

(1858–1924) Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Puccini Works: • Edgar (1889) • Gianni Schicchi (1918) • Il tabarro (1918) • Il Trittico: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi (1918) • La Bohème (1896) • La fanciulla del West (1910) •…

Gioachino Rossini

(1792–1868) Giovacchino Antonio Rossini Works: • Guglielmo Tell (1829) • Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) • Il turco in Italia (1814) • La Cenerentola (1817) • La gazza ladra (1817) • Le Comte Ory (1828) • L’italiana in Algeri (1813)…

Franz Liszt

(1811–1886) Liszt Ferenc Works: • A Faust Symphonie (1857) • Années de pèlerinage (1842) • Christus (1872) • Danse macabre (1865) • Dante Symphony (1857) • Études d’exécution transcendante (1852) • Fantasy and Fugue on the name “B.A.C.H.” (1856) •…

Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (1842)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Le compositeur Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique (The composer Cherubini and the Muse of lyric poetry) 1842 Oil on canvas, 105 x 94 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Cherubini seated, elbow resting on a…

Luigi Cherubini (1841)

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Luigi Cherubini 1841 Oil on canvas, 83.2 x 71.1 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Cherubini et la Muse de la poésie lyrique 1842 Musée du Louvre, Paris     See also: • Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842)

Luigi Cherubini

(1760–1842) Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini Works: • Marche funèbre (1820) • Médée (1797) • Piano Sonatas • Sinfonia in re maggiore (1815) Cherubini in Art: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Luigi Cherubini 1841 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati    …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712–1778) Works: • A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (English) • Emile (English) • Émile eli Kasvatuksesta (Finnish) • Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire (French) • Quotes and Images From The Confessions (English)…

John Barry

(1933–2011) John Barry Prendergast, OBE Works: • James Bond Theme • Out of Africa • Somewhere In Time • Soundtracks Filmography as Composer: From Russia with Love 1963 Director: Terence Young Starring: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi     Goldfinger 1964 Director: Guy Hamilton Starring: Sean…

Dave Grusin

(1934) Robert David Grusin Works: • Love Theme from Heaven Can Wait (1978) Filmography as Composer: The Graduate 1967 Director: Mike Nichols Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman     Murder by Death 1976 Director: Robert Moore Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote     Heaven Can Wait…