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Music Resources: Composers & Composition

Ludwig van Beethoven

Leonard Bernstein

Milton Babbitt

Marianna Martines

Christiane Mariane von Ziegler

George Walker

Teresa Stolz

Peter Lieberson

Aaron Copland

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Nadia Boulanger

Early Women Masters: Arts, Music & Spirituality

Le Chevalier de Saint Georges Violin Concertos

Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges - L'amant anonyme (1780) - Ballet no 1

Giuseppe Verdi

Enrique Granados

Rebecca Clarke

Florence Beatrice Smith Price

Alban Berg & Anton Webern

Felix Mendelssohn

Claudio Monteverdi

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)

Composers and Composition

Here are some resources on composers and composition.  Please also see the "Musicology/Music History" section.

Famous Composers

Grazyna Bacewicz

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Francesca Caccini

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alma Mahler-Werfel

Antonia Padoani Bembo

Harry T. Burleigh

Johannes Brahms

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

John Harbison

Albany Symphony Plays Harbison, Gershwin, Morton Gould

"An all-American program featuring a suite from John Harbison's opera The Great Gatsby; Gershwin's Second Rhapsody, with piano soloist Kevin Cole; and the local premiere of Morton Gould's Symphony No. 3. The Albany Symphony recorded this four-movement work from 1946, which spans moods ranging from stormy to sardonic."---WQXR

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)

Bright Cheng

Germaine Tailleferre

R. Nathaniel Dett

Chou Wen-Chung

Michael Price Summer School Series

Queensborough Community College, Music Dept., Songwriting Workshop I with Larry Dvoskin

Michael Price Summer School Series

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