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MONCAYO CENTENNIAL
José Pablo Moncayo García (June 29, 1912–June 16, 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez." He produced some of the masterworks that best symbolize the essence of the national aspirations and contradictions of Mexico in the 20th century.
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Thea Musgrave
(b. 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave studied at the University of Edinburgh and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger. In 1970 she became Guest Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a position which confirmed her increasing involvement with the musical life of the United States, where she has lived since 1972. She has received the Koussevitsky Award (1974) as well as two Guggenheim Fellowships (1974/5 and 1982/3). From 1987 to 2002 she was Distinguished Professor at Queen’s College, City University of New York. She holds honorary degrees from Old Dominion University (Virginia), Glasgow University, Smith College and the New England Conservatoire in Boston. In 2002 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List.
Among Musgrave’s earlier orchestral works, the Concerto for Orchestra of 1967 and the Concerto for Horn of 1971 display the composer’s ongoing fascination with ‘dramatic-abstract’ musical ideas. More recent works continue the idea though sometimes in a more programmatic way: such as the oboe concerto Helios of 1994, in which the soloist represents the sun god. Another frequent source of inspiration is the visual arts - The Seasons took its initial inspiration from a visit to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Turbulent Landscapes (commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra) depicts a series of paintings by JMW Turner. Musgrave has written more than a dozen operas and other music theatre works, many taking a historical figure as their central character, among them Mary Queen of Scots (1977), Harriet Tubman (Harriet, the Woman called Moses, 1984), Simón Bolívar (1993) and Pontalba (2003).
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Among Musgrave’s earlier orchestral works, the Concerto for Orchestra of 1967 and the Concerto for Horn of 1971 display the composer’s ongoing fascination with ‘dramatic-abstract’ musical ideas. More recent works continue the idea though sometimes in a more programmatic way: such as the oboe concerto Helios of 1994, in which the soloist represents the sun god. Another frequent source of inspiration is the visual arts - The Seasons took its initial inspiration from a visit to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Turbulent Landscapes (commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra) depicts a series of paintings by JMW Turner. Musgrave has written more than a dozen operas and other music theatre works, many taking a historical figure as their central character, among them Mary Queen of Scots (1977), Harriet Tubman (Harriet, the Woman called Moses, 1984), Simón Bolívar (1993) and Pontalba (2003).
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
(Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; 20 April [O.S. 8 April] 1881 – 8 August 1950) was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony". Myaskovsky was born in Novogeorgiyevsk (Polish - Modlin Fortress), near Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, the son of an engineer officer in the Russian army. After the death of his mother the family was brought up by his father's sister, Yelikonida Konstantinovna Myaskovskaya, who had been a singer at the Saint Petersburg Opera. The family moved to Saint Petersburg in his teens.
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Georg Matthias Monn
Georg Matthias Monn (born Johann Georg Mann) (April 9, 1717, Vienna – October 3, 1750, Vienna)
Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music.
Together with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Josef Starzer, Monn formed the Viennese Pre-Classical movement (Wiener Vorklassik in German), whose composers are nowadays mostly known only by their names. However, his successful introduction of the secondary theme in the symphony was an important condition for the First Viennese School that would come some fifty years later.
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Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music.
Together with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Josef Starzer, Monn formed the Viennese Pre-Classical movement (Wiener Vorklassik in German), whose composers are nowadays mostly known only by their names. However, his successful introduction of the secondary theme in the symphony was an important condition for the First Viennese School that would come some fifty years later.
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Classical Composers ~ M
Guillame de (gee ohm duh mah SHO) (1300 - 1377)
MACKENZIE, Alexander Campbell (1874-1935)Scot
MACONCHY, (Dame) Elizabeth
(19 MAR 1907
- 1987)Irish-English
Gustav (GOO staf MAH ler) (7 JUL 1860 - 1911)Austrian=Comp-Cond (
father/husband-above)
- BIOGRAPHY
- READ:Gustav Mahler :
Vienna, Triumph and Delusion (1904-1907) by Henry-Louis de La Grange - More Mahler links, discussion group and books
- Mahlerites Site
-
Selected Works - ON CDs
- HREF="http://www.austria-info.at/personen/mahler/">Mahler...Austrian
Site
- Mahler Pages Jason
Greshes site - Mahler Fans
Page
- The Mahlerite Home Page
(18 MAR 1882 - 1973)It
Albert Hay ( Philadelphia, 19 MAY 1895 - los Angeles, 16 NOV 1964)
Am Organist and Composer, Disney animations.
-
Lord's Prayer setting. - Songs
ann mah RAY)(1656 - 1728)
1750)
MARCHAND, Louis (lou ee mahr SHAH) (1669 - 1732)
MARENZIO, Luca (1553 -1599)
MARKEVITCH, Igor ( 1912 - 1983 ) Comp-Cond.
- On CD:
Danzón
Marszalek, Franz
- aka Padre Martini
- MARTINI, Padre
(BOH' hoo slaf MAR' tin oo) ( 8 DEC 1890 - 1959)Czech
- More
Martinu...J S Meets page
(zhool Mahs NAY') (12 MAY 1842 - 1912)Fr
(13 FEB 1946- )Eng
(1943- )Eng
(Grantham, Lincolshire 5 NOV
1935 - )Eng=Comp-Clar.-P
MAY, Frederick ( - ) Ir
( - )
DEC 1845)Ger=Opera Composer
Studied music theory at the Univ AZ, Tucson 1928-35. Member of the Tucson Sym Orch, 1928-35. On Univ Az faculty 1957-78. Wrote over 1000 pieces with Mexican influences. Mexican Rhapsody 1934.
- webpage: Marco Melanson The Autistic Hunk (or Asperger's Syndrome Hunk)
- Site
- Site
- Messenger: m2esectr@hotmail.com
Felix Bartoldy (MEN' dl son bar tol dee) (3 FEB 1809 - 1847)Ger
(brother)
- HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/biz/musiclassical/felixm.html"> Selected
Works -
HREF="http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/mendelssohn/menf.html">Works
List -
Felix Mendelssohn Classics World - HREF="http://users.intercomm.com/chadt/serious/mend.html">Felix
Mendelsson, by C Twedt
(MENNINI)IT-AM=C Pres. Juilliard Music School
MENOTTI, Gian Carlo (Jon KAR' loh mah NOT tee) (7 JUL 1911 - )
Am-It
- Gian Carlo Menotti: A Bio-Bibliography
(Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by Donald L. Hixon
Our Price: $79.50
Binding: Hardcover
Subjects: Menotti, Gian Carlo,; 1911-; Bibliography
More Info: ON Sale!
Edgar ( - )Am=Com-bassist
Giacomo (JAH koh mo MY ur bare) ( 5 SEP 1791 - 1864)Ger
- Meyerbeer Fan Club Home Page
Yakovlevich (my ah SKOF skee)(20 APR 1881 -
1950)Rus
MINKUS, Leon [Aloisius Ludwig] (Vienna, 23 MAR 1826 - Vienna, 7 DEC 1917)AUSTRIAN Comp
MOERAN,
Ernst
Joseph (MEER an) (31 DEC 1894
- 1 DEC 1950)British
City, 16 JUN 1958)Mex
MONTEMEZZI, Italo (1875 - 1952 )
Claudio (KLOW dee oh mon teh VAIR dee)(15 MAY 1567 -
1643)It
Xavier (11 MAR 1912 - Barcelona, 7 MAY 2002 )Sp
Morata, Gines de
Moree, Louis de
TORROBA, Frederico (freh der EE koh moh RAY noh TOR oh bah)
( - )sp
- See TORROBA
aka Michael Brand Hugarian
SOPHIE WEBER HAIBL: MY BELOVED NEPHEW,
FRANZ XAVER MOZART
a more complete page on Mozart's sister-in-law, Sophie, which you
can access here:
Mozart's Favorite
Sister-In-Law, Sophie Weber Haibl: An Eighteenth Century
Woman
Wolfgang Amadeus (27 JAN 1758 - 5 DEC 1791, died in the early
morning
1 o'clock. In most literature the exact time of death is stated as
00:55
hrs.)Austrian
- A Mozart Koechel listing
- 15 MAR 2001 Score discovered
- Selected
Works - Major Mozart List
of LINKS
- Mozart Addicts Homepage
- The Mozart Lover's Page
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The W. A. Mozart Page
- The Mozart Mailing
List
- HREF="http://www.classical.net/~music/composer/works/mozart/index.html">Kochel's
Catalog of Mozart's Works - Ludwig von
Kochel
- W.A. Mozart -
Bibliography
- HREF="http://classicals.com/music/WolfgangAmadeusMozarthall/live/chat.cgi">Mozart
- Live Chat
- The Ultimate Mozart Source Page
Alonso ( c.1510 - 1580 )Sp
MUFFAT, George (moo fhat') (Mégève, 1 JUN 1653 - Passau, 1704 )
23 FEB 1704)FR
- Brief Bio
- BOOK:
Georg Muffat on Performance Practice :
- The Texts from Florilegium Primum, Florilegium
Secundum, and Auserlesene Instrumentalmusik--A New Translation - CD:
Georg Muffat:Suites & Ctos.
A Tributo, Duftschmid / Audio CD / Published 1999
Our Price: $16.99 (Special Order)
Dominic ( - )Eng
(thee ah muhss grave) (27 MAY - )Scot
Modest(moo suhr' skee) (21 MAR 1839 - 1881)(See MOUSSORGSKY)
- Mussorgsky, Modest
Petrovich HNH Bio (moh DEST' MOO sork skee)
Mendelssohn Birth Bicentennial

3 FEB 1809 Birth of German composer Felix MENDELSSOHN (Bartholdy) in Hamburg. Wrote Symphonies and from A Midsummer Night's Dream the popular 'Wedding March'. Also Elijah, Fingal’s Cave. d-Leipzig, 4 NOV 1847.
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and generally known as Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist and conductor of the early Romantic period. The grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was born to a notable Jewish family which later converted to Christianity. His work includes symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality is now being recognized and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era.
WEB - Wiki Bio - SHOP Mendelssohn
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