Category: Little Known Composers
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Little Known Composer: Fernando Sor
Fernando Sor, whose name has been variously rendered as Ferdinand Sor, Joseph Fernando Macario Sors, Ferdinando Sor, and Ferran Sors, was a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century composer and performer of the classical guitar. In modern times, when the guitar is more closely associated with jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll – to…
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Little Known Composer: Arvo Part
Arvo Part is a comparatively recently composer, born in 1935 and still alive today. Part was born in Estonia and received heavy training as a musician in his early years, unlike some other composers who were basically autodidacts. He began composing works when he was only a teenager, and a biography states that “He just…
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Little Known Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar
Wilhelm Stenhammar is a now obscure but very talented Swedish composer who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A child prodigy who initially composed pieces for the piano, his musical aspirations were transformed by the influence of other Scandinavian composers such as Jean Sibelius. Sibelius’s example led him to overhaul his musical…
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Little Known Composer: Anton Reicha
Recently, I have been listening to the music of Anton Reicha, also known as Antonin or Antoine Reicha or Rejcha.
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