(1875–1937) Joseph Maurice Ravel Works: • Boléro (1928) • Concerto pour la main gauche (1932) • Concerto pour piano en sol majeur (1932) • Daphnis et Chloé (1909-12) • Gaspard de la nuit (1908) • L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (1925)…
Maurice Ravel
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Hector Berlioz
(1803–1869) Louis-Hector Berlioz Works: • Béatrice et Bénédict (1862) • Benvenuto Cellini (1838) • Grande messe des morts (1837) • Harold en Italie (1834) • La Damnation de Faust (1846) • Le Carnaval romain (1844) • L’Enfance du Christ (1854)…
Antonio Salieri
(1750–1825) Works: • Axur, re d’Ormus (1788) • Les Danaïdes (1784) • Requiem (1804) • Tarare (1787) Salieri in Film: Amadeus 1984 Director: Miloš Forman Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham Born August 18 1750 Legnago (Italia) Died May 7 1825 Vienna (Austria)…
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…
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) •…
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…
Bernard Herrmann
(1911–1975) Max ‘Benny’ Herman Works: • Movie Theme Songs • “Scene d’amour” from Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” • Vertigo (1958) Filmography as Composer: Citizen Kane 1941 Director: Orson Welles Starring: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore Vertigo 1958 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Kim…
John Williams
(1932) John Towner Williams Works: • Family Plot (1976) • Greatest Hits • How to Steal a Million (1966) • Sabrina (1995) Filmography as Composer: How to Steal a Million 1966 Director: William Wyler Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole …
Maurice Jarre
(1924–2009) Maurice-Alexis Jarre Works: • Doctor Zhivago (1965) • Dr. Zhivago: ‘Lara’s Theme’ • Jesus of Nazareth (1977) Filmography as Composer: Doctor Zhivago 1965 Director: David Lean Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie Isadora 1968 Director: Karel Reisz Starring:…