b. 1942 Italian pianist After studying at the Milan Conservatory, Pollini won the 1960 Warsaw Chopin Competition. His repertory includes works by J. S. Bach and the Viennese Classical composers. He is also an advocate of twentieth-century music, including works by Schoenberg and Boulez. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Sviatoslav Richter | Contemporary | Classical ...
the violin solos on the soundtrack of the film Schindler’s List. He performed as director/soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1997. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Maurizio Pollini | Contemporary | Classical ...
(Loo-e’-je No’-no) 1924–90 Italian composer Nono studied with Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966) and through him attended Darmstadt, where met Stockhausen and embraced the principles of integral serialism, exploiting them idiosyncratically but powerfully and expressively in Il canto sospeso (‘The Song Unsung’, 1955–6), which sets the words of Resistance fighters killed by the Nazis. Nono’s political commitment was as strongly evident ...
(Yo’-han Pakh’-el-bel) 1653–1706 German composer Pachelbel held the position of court organist at Eisenach (where he taught J. S. Bach’s eldest brother Johann Christoph) before taking up the same post at Erfurt. It was here that he published his first organ music, Musicalischen Sterbens-Gedancken (‘Musical Meditation on Death’, 1683). In 1690 he moved to Stuttgart and then Gotha before becoming organist ...
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