Composers

Gyrowetz, Adalbert

Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (Adalbert Gyrowetz) (1763 – 1850) was a Bohemian composer. He primarily wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies; his operas and singspiele number more than thirty, including Semiramide, Der Augenarzt, and Robert, oder Die Prüfung. Wikipedia

Chailley, Jacques

Jacques Chailley (1910 – 1999) was a 20th-century French musicologist and composer. Wikipedia

Ballif, Claude

Claude Ballif (1924 – 2004) was a French composer born in Paris. His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism – a system that he named metatonality. He was a committed pedagogue who taught composition and analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1971 to 1990. Wikipedia

Brüll, Ignaz

Ignaz Brüll (1846 – 1907) was a Moravian-born pianist and composer who lived and worked in Vienna. His operatic compositions included Das goldene Kreuz, which became a repertory work for several decades after its first production in 1875. Wikipedia

Guastavino, Carlos

Carlos Guastavino (1912 – 2000) was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over five hundred works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. His style was quite conservative, always tonal, and lushly romantic. Wikipedia

Erbse, Heimo

Heimo Erbse (1924 – 2005) was a German composer from Rudolstadt. Erbse studied in Weimar, and then worked from 1947 to 1950 in the theater before studying under Blacher in 1950. He lived most of his life in Austria. Wikipedia

Marx, Karl

Karl Julius Marx (1897 – 1985) was a German composer and music teacher. Wikipedia

Galuppi, Baldassare

Baldassare Galuppi (1706 – 1785) was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. P. E. Bach whose works are emblematic of the prevailing galant music that developed in Europe throughout the 18th century. Wikipedia