Scheidemann was among the leading body organ composers of the first to mid seventeenth hundred years; as a creator from the north German body organ college, he was a significant forerunner of Buxtehude and Bach. From 1611 to 1614, Scheidemann researched in Amsterdam with Sweelinck. It isn’t very clear what …

Though a ten year period in Schildt’s life as an organist are undocumented he’s recognized to have studied along with his father and Crappius after that with Sweelinck in Amsterdam from 1609 until about 1612. By 1623 he was the organist for the Hauptkirche in Wolfenbuttel, 1626 to Ruler Christian …

Pablo Bruna is normally regarded as the best Spanish keyboard author of his period. Of his 33 making it through functions all except one are for body organ and 20 of these are so-called tientos, a method of piece well-known in past due seventeenth hundred years Spain, sort of Iberian …

As a tuned string participant Legnani became specialized in your guitar and singing. He made an appearance like a tenor in arias by Cimarosa, Donizetti and Rossini but his acoustic guitar virtuosity was unequalled. Legnani produced his acoustic guitar overall performance debut in 1819 in Milan and was later on …

Recognized to his friends simply as Maximum, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was probably one of the most prolific and sometimes performed of English composers. His many hundred compositions drew from an eclectic selection of affects, from Indian music to serialism to Renaissance polyphony. Davies also worked well tirelessly in the …

The Guami category of Lucca was one of the most important and more durable of Renaissance Italy’s regional music dynasties, and Gioseffo Guami (born ca. 1540 in Lucca, passed away right now there in 1611) is definitely today regarded as its most crucial representative — and even, Gioseffo’s popularity as …

In his youth, Felix Draeseke was a keen follower of the brand new German School, whose music drew the interest of Liszt. In his later years, however, deaf as well as perhaps disillusioned by way too many years spent teaching and too little years attaining accolades being a composer, Draeseke …

Wilhelm Middelschulte was a uniquely paradoxical number in the history of music, a modernist pioneer whose function is squarely grounded in custom, a German composer who was simply also American and one of the biggest organists ever. Middelschulte was the scion of the farming family members and gifted in the …

John Bull, an early on exemplory case of the types of virtuoso performer/composer, lived in a period of cultural and political ferment in Britain. Unlike the majority of his contemporaries, nevertheless, he traveled thoroughly and became familiar with the musical varieties of other Europe, specially the Netherlands. At about age …

Jordi Savall (given birth to 1941), among the world’s leading players from the viola da gamba, founded the ensemble Hespèrion XX in 1974. Savall’s objective — which of cofounders Montserrat Figueras, Hopkinson Smith, and Lorenzo Alpert — was to explore lesser-known repertories from the European DARK AGES, Renaissance, and Baroque …