Category archives: Composer's Corner

Composer's Corner - Alexander Siloti

Alexander Ilyich Siloti (Ziloti) (October 9, 1863 - December 8 1945) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. Biography: Siloti was born on his father's estate near Kharkiv,[...]

COMPOSER'S CORNER - Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin (c. 1868 – 1917) Joplin's Legacy Scott Joplin played an essential role in the development of ragtime music. His work also laid the groundwork for jazz, anothe[...]

Composers Corner - Patriotic Music in America

While all patriotic and national music is to a greater or less extent popular music, it may be classed apart in that its growth mainly is due to the circumstance of war and is the [...]

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra / 2001 Space Odyssey opening theme

Life Strauss’s father, Franz, was the principal horn player of the Munich Court Orchestra and was recognized as Germany’s leading virtuoso of the instrument. His mother came fro[...]

Composer's Corner: Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of classical music particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. He was also a noted conductor. He [...]

Composer's Corner: Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. He was the ninth son of Carl Friedrich Wagner and Johanna Rosine. Richard's father died of typhus six months after his[...]

Composer's Corner: Dinu Lipatti

Dinu Lipatti Romanian pianist and composer Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950) had a brief but exceptional career. Remembered mostly for his technical and interpretative skills, Lipatti was [...]

Composer's Corner: Frederic Chopin

Considered Poland's greatest composer, Frédéric Chopin focused his efforts on piano composition and was a strong influence on composers who followed him. Synopsis Born on March 1[...]

Chopin - Spring Waltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzFDEu2RoA

Composer's Corner: Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy. His father Giuseppe was town trumpeter and inspector of slaughterhouses, his mot[...]