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Composers • Performers born active died
1732, Mar 31 1739-1803 1809, May 31
a prominent and prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet". He sang for nine years in a choir at the beginning of his career.
Mentions Franz Asplmayr ...symphonies and string trios of his which were attributed to Joseph Haydn Marianna von Auenbrugger ...her sister Caterina Franziska, she was a student of Joseph Haydn Marie Bigot ...highly accomplished at the keyboard and played for Joseph Haydn Wenzel Raimund Birck ...along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil tutored a young Joseph Haydn Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely ...of his chamber music follows models established by Joseph Haydn Joao de Sousa Carvalho ...similar to that of Niccolò Jommelli and, sometimes, Joseph Haydn Giuseppe Cervellini ...was influenced by the Viennese classicism of Mozart, Joseph Haydn Mme Delaval ...Square in London in 1790 and played for the first Joseph Haydn Johann Sebastian Demar ...Later he travelled to Vienna and became a pupil of Joseph Haydn Albert Christoph Dies ...survives today. Dies was a great admirer of the music of Joseph Haydn Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ...best works, quite unlike those of his greater peers Joseph Haydn Annette von Droste-Hulshoff ...Maximilian-Friedrich von Droste zu Hülshoff (a friend of Joseph Haydn Juan Pedro Esnaola ...of his days, in a personal style based upon Mozart, Joseph Haydn Georg Friedrich Fuchs ...student of Composition Johann Christian Cannabich and Joseph Haydn Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia ...Viennese composers of the period, such as Mozart and Joseph Haydn Franz Xaver Hammer ...cellist and composer. From 1771 to 1778, he worked under Joseph Haydn Peter Hansel ...principal representative of the true quartet school of Joseph Haydn Michael Haydn ...composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn Roman Hoffstetter ...classical composer and Benedictine monk who also admired Joseph Haydn Ivan Mane Jarnovic ...pupil of Antonio Lolli and he was an acquaintance of Joseph Haydn Antonin Kraft ...Czech cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Joseph Haydn Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith ...Bohemian horn player and versatile composer influenced by Joseph Haydn August Eberhard Muller ...conducted the first performance outside Vienna of Joseph Haydn Sigismund Neukomm ...older composer's approval he made arrangements of Joseph Haydn Franz Nikolaus Novotny ...composed mainly church music and his work was esteemed by Joseph Haydn Nicola Porpora ...Other students included composers Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn Giovanni Battista Sammartini ...seriousness and use of thematic development that prefigure Joseph Haydn Charles Eugene Sauzay ...compositions, he wrote a study of the string quartets of Joseph Haydn William Shield ...composer for Covent Garden and, in that capacity, he met Joseph Haydn Johannes Spech ...Bratislava about 1767 and studied for a time with Joseph Haydn Luigi Tomasini ...in the court orchestra of Prince Paul II. In 1761 Joseph Haydn Erik Tulindberg ...occasional clumsiness" and the influences of Mozart, Joseph Haydn Antonin Vranicky ...much is known of his life. He was a pupil of Mozart, Joseph Haydn Anton Zimmermann a Silesian-born composer and contemporary of Joseph Haydn
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Joseph Haydn 1732, Mar 31 1739
1803 1809, May 31
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A complete collection of Durante's works, consisting almost exclusively of... Charles Dolle unknown 1735 1755 1755 ca a French viol player and composer. Very little is known about his life. He was active in Paris an... Mlle Guerin 1739 ca 1755 1755 unknown a French composer. She composed an opera at age 16, titled Daphnis et Amalthée which was perform... Mme Papavoine 1735 ca 1755 1755 1761 a French composer. She married violinist Louis-August Papavoine some time before 1755. Nothing el... Richard Mudge 1718 1741 1757 1763, Apr an English clergyman and composer of the late baroque period. Mudge became curate of the villages... Manuel Jose de Quiros unknown 1730 1760 1765 an 18th-century Guatemalan composer. Quirós is the first musician in the New World to receive a ... Giovanni Giorgi unknown 1719 1762 1762 a priest and an Italian composer. His style of polychoral church compositions are influenced by e... Francesco Araja 1709, Jun 25 1729 1765 1768 ca an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imp... Elisabeth de Haulteterre 1720 ca 1737 1768 1768 a French composer and violinist. Despite the similarity of the name, she did not come from La Cou... Johann Joachim Quantz 1697, Jan 30 1716 1769 1773, Jul 12 a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, ... Jan Zach 1699, Nov 1724 1772 1773, May 24 a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable... Johann Peter Kellner 1705, Sep 28 1725 1772 1772, Apr 19 a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner. He was appointed c... Giovanni Cifolelli 1750s ca 1764 1775 unknown an Italian mandolin virtuoso and dramatic composer whose date and place of birth are unknown. In ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712, Jun 28 1739 1776 1778, Jul 2 a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the ... Francesco Uttini 1723 1743 1776 1795, Oct 25 an Italian composer and conductor who was active mostly in Sweden. an Italian composer and conduc... Antonin Kammel 1730, Apr 21 1750 1779 1784/5, Oct 5 a composer and violinist. Kammel was born at Belec, now in the Czech Republic. He was part of the... Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis 1746 1760 1779 1825, Mar 29 a French composer, pianist, and salonnière. Very little is known for certain about her life. The... Vincenta Da Ponte unknown 1770 1780s 9 unknown an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. As a composer, Da Ponte is known only from an un... Vincenta Da Ponte unknown 1770 1780s 9 unknown an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. She was a member of the coro, or music school, o... James Nares 1715, Apr 19 1734 1781 1783, Feb 10 an English composer of mostly sacred vocal works, though he also composed for the harpsichord and... Johann Philipp Kirnberger 1721, Apr 24 1741 1783 1783, Jul 27 a musician, composer (primarily of fugues), and music theorist. Kirnberger played a significant r... Michel Yost 1754 1770 1786 1786, Jul 5 a famous French clarinetist and cofounder of the French clarinet school. He was a brilliant instr... Christian Gottlob Neefe 1748 1760 1789 1798 a German opera composer and conductor. He studied law at Leipzig University, but subsequently ret... Maddalena Laura Sirmen 1745, Dec 9 1766 1789 1818, May 18 an Italian composer, violinist, and later unsuccessful singer. In 1771, she debuted her "Concerto... Franz Christoph Neubauer 1760, May 1780 1789 1795, Oct 11 a German composer and violinist, Bohemian origin. Neubauer's life is preserved only in fragments,... Francis Hopkinson 1737, Sep 21 1761 1791 1791, May 9 designed the first official American flag. He was an author, a composer, and one of the signers o... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, Jan 27 1761 1791 1791, Dec 5 a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era, born in Salzburg. Mozart showed prodigi... Carl Michael Bellman 1740, Feb 4 1768 1791 1795, Feb 11 a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swe... Carlo Zuccari 1704, Nov 10 1720 1792 1792, May 3 an Italian composer and violinist of the late Baroque and early classical; he worked mainly in Mi... Claude Balbastre 1724, Dec 8 1750 1792 1799, May 9 a French composer, organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist. He was one of the most famous music... Benjamin Cooke 1734, Nov 28 1743 1793 1793, Sep 14 an English composer, organist and teacher. He was the organist at Westminster Abbey, master of th... William Billings 1746, Oct 7 1770 1794 1800, Sep 26 regarded as the first American choral composer. He possibly received musical instruction from Jo... Polly Young 1749 1755 1795 1799 an English soprano, composer and keyboard player. Following her marriage, Young mostly appeared i... Justin Morgan 1747, Feb 28 1771 1798 1798, Mar 22 a U.S. horse breeder and composer. Morgan was a composer, best known for his hymns and fuguing tu... Mme Delaval unknown 1790 1799 1802 an English harpist, pianist and composer. She was born into the Delaval family of Seaton Delaval,... Yevstigney Fomin 1761, Aug 5 1785 1800 1800, Apr 16 a Russian opera composer of the 18th century. He composed about 30 operas. The most successful fo... Agata della Pieta unknown 1800 1800 unknown an Italian composer, singer, and teacher of music. Only two motet settings by della Pietà, a Nov... Katerina Maier unknown 1800 1800 unknown a Russian composer, the daughter of violinist and composer Luigi Schiatti, and played in the cou... Carlos Baguer 1768, Mar 1786 1801 1808, Feb 29 a Spanish classical era composer and organist. Perhaps Baguer's most important works are his nine... Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry 1741 1759 1803 1813 a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onward... Johann Christoph Kellner 1736, Aug 15 1762 1803 1803 a German organist and composer, the son of Johann Peter Kellner. He wrote a treatise on music the... Joseph Abaco 1710, Mar 27 1729 1805 1805, Aug 31 an Italian violoncellist and composer. He wrote nearly 40 cello sonatas, the Capricci for Violonc... Madame Ravissa unknown 1778 1807 1807 an Italian singer and composer. She was from Turin, but apparently lived in Paris from 1778 until... Alexander Reinagle 1756 1786 1807 1809 an English-born American composer, organist, and theater musician. His earliest compositions, fro... Joseph Quesnel 1746, Nov 15 1766 1809 1809, Jul 2/3 a French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Co... John Antes 1740, Mar 24 1769 1809 1811, Dec 17 the first American Moravian Missionary to travel and work in Egypt, one of the earliest American-... Ekaterina Likoshin unknown 1800 1810 1810 a Russian pianist and composer who published short works for keyboard in St. Petersburg through p... Friedrich Heinrich Himmel 1765 1794 1813 1814 a German composer, was born at Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg, Prussia, and originally studied the... Jean-Baptiste Davaux 1742, Jul 19 1760 1816 1822, Feb 2 a French violinist and composer. He started playing the violin and the mandolin. In 1767 Davaux w... Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach 1759, May 24 1780 1819 1845, Dec 25 the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to ... William Herschel 1738, Nov 15 1774 1820 1822, Aug 25 a German-born British astronomer, composer, and brother of Caroline Herschel. His interest in ast... Ludwig van Beethoven 1770, Dec 1778 1826 1827, Mar 26 a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Roman... Wenzel Muller 1767, Sep 26 1786 1830 1835, Aug 3 an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a popular and prolific composer producing more than 25... Ludwig Abeille 1761, Feb 20 1782 1832 1838, Mar 2 a German pianist and composer. He wrote several folk songs, concerts, and two operas, Amor und Ps... Niccolo Paganini 1782 1800 1836 1840 an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuos... Thomas Attwood [1] 1765, Nov 23 1787 1838 1838, Mar 24 an English composer and organist. His compositions, which show the influence of his teacher Wolfg... Karol Kurpinski 1785, Mar 6 1797 1840 1857, Sep 18 a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. Kurpinski was one of the most revered composers befor...
