Tag Archives: 1890s – 1920s

German composer and organist Sigfrid Karg-Elert, though not well known, had a prodigious result, having composed his ideal bulk of function for the body organ and harmonium. A reappraisal of his function began with some ambitious recording tasks in the 1990s, cataloguing his most significant efforts. The composer’s dad, Johann …

A Russian author of orchestral works and operas influenced by Caucasian and Georgian folk music, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov was created with the easy Ivanov as his last name. He afterwards added his mother’s maiden name to tell apart himself from a music critic with an identical surname. He produced his visual …

The pianist and composer Zygmunt Stojowski gained popularity both in his local Poland and in the U.S., and he designed the musical civilizations of both countries. Stojowski was created in 1869 or 1870 in a little village, Strzelce; today in southeastern Poland, it had been then area of the Russian …

Eugène Ysaÿe was one of the biggest violinists who ever lived. He combined beauty of firmness and remarkable specialized ability having a depth of musical manifestation that few violinists before or since could be said to possess equalled, and even contacted. Ysaÿe been successful in breathing new lease of life …

Sir Charles Stanford continues to be called the main single element in the renaissance of British music through the past due nineteenth and early twentieth decades; indeed, also if one had been to disregard Stanford’s own huge catalog of compositions, it might be impossible to disregard the pronounced impact Stanford’s …

Before Madonna or Midori, before Liberace, almost a complete century before the one-name artists with whom we today feel therefore comfortable, there is Komitas, very most likely the first one-name musician today (ancient and Medieval times were, alternatively, filled with one-name people). The person who passed the name Komitas was …

When Robert Kajanus appeared around the Finnish music picture through the 1880s, he was considered — and he considered himself — a composer/conductor. But actually before his loss of life some 50 years later on, he previously become, for some music artists and biographers, a conductor/composer. That sort of variation …

Among the relatively couple of ladies composers of her period to accomplish great recognition, Cécile Chaminade was a kid prodigy; she started playing the piano extremely early, and her 1st compositions day from age eight. Her dad wouldn’t enable her to wait the Paris Conservatoire, but she do work privately …

Paul Dukas’ music, like his lifestyle, straddled the Intimate and modern intervals (and encompassed a even now wider selection of affects), and he remained true to classical buildings well in to the twentieth hundred years. Blessed in 1865 towards the category of a cultured Parisian banker, he was the next …

Pianist and composer Eugen d’Albert was an integral amount in German post-Romanticism, given birth to to German parents in Glasgow, Scotland. His dad, Charles Louis Napoléon d’Albert, was a favorite orchestra head in the U.K. who customized in light music. D’Albert started his musical schooling under his dad, carrying on …