Opera composers

Alferaki, Achilles Nikolayevich ( ); ( ), sometimes spelled as Akhilles or Ahilles was a Russian composer and statesman of Greek descent. He was born in 1846 in Kharkov (present-day Ukraine). He spent all of his childhood in the city of Taganrog in the magnificent palace on Catholic Street (currently “ Alferaki Palace” on Frunze Street). Achilles received good home education and easily entered the historical and philological faculty at the Moscow University, where he also studied music theory. Music was his favorite pastime, but he could not dedicate all of his time for it. The family business made him return to Taganrog, where he settled in the end of 1870. ...more on Wikipedia about "Achilles Alferaki"

Adolphe Charles Adam ( July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. He is best known today for his ballets Giselle and Le Corsaire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adolphe Adam"

Agostino Steffani ( July 25, 1653- February 12, 1728), an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer, was born at Castelfranco. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agostino Steffani"

Alan Bush ( December 22, 1900 – October 31, 1995) was a British composer and pianist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Bush"

Alan John (born in Sydney on February 14, 1958) is an Australian composer. He studied music at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1980. His compositions include original music for various plays, films and TV series, and the musical theatre works Jonah Jones and Orlando Rourke. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan John"

Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that combined Mahlerian romanticism with a highly personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alban Berg"

Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard (born in Paris, June 9, 1865, died in Baron, Oise, September 3, 1914) was a French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Bruckner". ...more on Wikipedia about "Albéric Magnard"

Gustav Albert Lortzing ( October 23, 1801 - January 21, 1851) was a German composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Lortzing"

Alberto Franchetti ( 18 September, 1860 – 4 August, 1942) was an Italian opera composer. A nobleman of independent means, he studied in Venice and Munich. His operas combine Wagnerianism with Italian verismo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alberto Franchetti"

Alessandro Nini (born Fano near Pesaro, 1 November, 1805 – died in Bergamo, 27 December, 1880) was an Italian composer of operas and church music, also chamber music and symphonies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alessandro Nini"

Alessandro Scarlatti ( May 2, 1660 – October 24, 1725) was a Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other Baroque composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alessandro Scarlatti"

Alexander Porfyrevich Borodin (Алекса́ндр Порфи́рьевич Бороди́н, Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) ( November 12, 1833 – February 27, 1887) was a Russian composer who made his living as a chemist. He was a member of The Five, or "The Mighty Handful", a group of composers dedicated to producing a specifically Russian music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Borodin"

Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Александр Николаевич Серов in Cyrillic; Aleksandr Nikolaevič Serov in transliteration) (11/23 Jan. 1820- 20 Jan./1 Feb. 1871 was a Russian composer and music critic. He was also the father of the painter Valentin Serov. He was not only one of the most important music critics in Russia during the 1850s and 1860s, but also the most significant Russian composer of opera in the years between Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and the early operas by Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Serov"

Alexander von Zemlinsky or Alexander Zemlinsky, ( October 14, 1871 - March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer of classical music, a conductor and a teacher. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander von Zemlinsky" Can you feel it? www.shortopedia.com.

Alexandre Tansman ( June 12, 1897, Łódź– November 15, 1986) was a prolific composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life. His music is primarily neoclassical, drawing on his Polish and Jewish heritage as well as his French musical influences. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexandre Tansman"

Alfred Garyevich Schnittke ( Russian: Альфре́д Га́ррьевич Шни́тке, November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian- German Jewish composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Schnittke"

Alfredo Catalani ( Lucca June 19, 1854– Milan August 7, 1893), was an Italian operatic composer, best known for the works La Wally (1892, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, containing Catalani's most famous aria, the soprano/mezzo soprano duet "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Act I) and Loreley (1890). Other operas were less successful, hampered by poor libretti. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfredo Catalani"

Alois Hába ( June 21, 1893 – November 18, 1973) was a Czech composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones. His brother Karel Hába was also a composer, and their father was a musician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alois Hába"

Alun Hoddinott (born 1929) is a Welsh composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alun Hoddinott"

Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas ( Metz August 5, 1811 - Paris February 12, 1896) was a French opera composer. He is best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and his Shakespearean Hamlet (1868). ...more on Wikipedia about "Ambroise Thomas"

Amilcare Ponchielli ( August 31, 1834 – January 17, 1886) was an Italian composer, largely of operas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amilcare Ponchielli"

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André Campra ( December 4, 1660 - June 29, 1744) was a French composer and conductor. ...more on Wikipedia about "André Campra"

André Jolivet ( August 8, 1905 – December 20, 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times. He composed in a wide variety of forms for many different types of ensembles. ...more on Wikipedia about "André Jolivet"

André Previn (born April 6, 1929)¹ is a prominent pianist, orchestral conductor, and composer. (Previn himself is unsure in which year he was born, as his birth certificate was lost when he emigrated to the United States.) ...more on Wikipedia about "André Previn"

Andrea Luca Luchesi ( May 23, 1741, Motta di Livenza - March 21, 1801, Bonn), was an Italian composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrea Luchesi"

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