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Artist: Igor Stravinsky
An important Russian composer of totally original and exciting music in many forms. Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring (1913), a work of exotic and primal character, marked a shift in modern Western music. In early pieces like Fireworks (1908) and the marvelous King of the Stars for chorus and orchestra (1911), Stravinsky exhibits a love of... [+] Read More
Artist: Ingolf Dahl
An American composer of orchestral and instrumental works in a style similar to Stravinsky's. His works include "Sinfonietta for Concert Band" (1961) and "Aria Sinfonica" (1965). ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Jim Lynch 22
I've been creating music with guitar and synthesizers since 1984. My musical influences include John Coltrane, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Ennio Moricone, Muddy Waters, Gustav Holtz, so many more. [+] Read More
Artist: Bob Houston
Percussionist Bob Houston, who performed and recorded with modern jazz bandleader Stan Kenton, is not the same Bob Houston who sang with big bands in the '40s. In 1976 the percussionist published an instructive tome with the self-explanatory title of The Use of Percussion Instruments in the Works of Igor Stravinsky. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All... [+] Read More
Artist: Joan Tower
Tower studied at Columbia University. She founded The Da Capo Chamber Players group and participated in the group as pianist. Her compositions are mainly instrumental and are characterized by strong rhythms. Her influences range from Beethoven to Stravinsky. ~ Lynn Vought, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Martin Boykan
Boykan studied at Harvard with Piston and at Yale with Hindemith, and accepted a position at Brandeis University in 1957. His compositions are in a serial style influenced by Stravinsky and Webern and are noted for their long melodic lines. Many of his works are long pieces for small ensembles such as quartets. ~ Lynn Vought, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Bohuslav Martinu
Martinu managed to become not only the greatest Czech composer of his generation, but a major international figure, known especially for his concerti and chamber music. His work tends to command attention from its opening bars. Its rhythmic vitality and pronounced lyricism recall the styles of both Dvorak and Stravinsky.
Martinu began as a... [+] Read More
Artist: livingmatter
dark, downtempo electromath music with hypnotic atmospheres, richly layered textures, and complex rhythms.influences, in no particular order: beethoven, ministry, wagner, front 242, thrill kill kult, mozart, skinny puppy, greater than one, john williams, herbie hancock, stravinsky, prokofiev, nitzer ebb, holst, art of noise, dan wentz,... [+] Read More
Artist: Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Birtwistle studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he became interested in contemporary and medieval music. He was appointed the director of the National Theatre in 1975. Influenced by Stravinsky, Varese and Webern, Birtwistle's early works are ritualistic, often dealing with the myths of birth, death and regeneration. During the... [+] Read More
Artist: Brian Barley
Brian Barley was a Canadian tenor sax player who combined an improvisational jazz aesthetic with elements of modern composition not far removed from Stravinsky or Bartók. Sadly, Barley's career was short-lived -- he passed away from a severe epileptic seizure in 1971. He was just 28 years old. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland, on November 11, 1883. His father was a mathematician and schoolteacher, and his mother taught him music. He studied mathematics at Lausanne University, graduating in 1903. He became a schoolteacher, and then a professor of mathematics in Lausanne (1905-1906). During this time he also studied music... [+] Read More
Artist: Cathy Berberian
Berberian's education included the study of mime, writing and opera at Columbia and New York Universities, Hindu and Spanish dancing, a position as soloist for the Armenian Dance Group and vocal study with Vigo. She debuted in Naples in 1957 and in the USA in 1960 at Tanglewood. Many composers have written works for her, including Stravinsky and... [+] Read More
Artist: Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners
Berners, educated at Eaton, was an eccentric English gentleman. He had some musical training in Dresden and in England and also received some advice from Stravinsky and Casella, but he was essentially a self-taught composer. A dilettante with ample means to pursue his interests, Berners created whimsical works such as Three Little Funeral... [+] Read More
Artist: Arthur Honegger
A Swiss composer of operas, chamber music, and orchestral music who was influenced in his early work by the impressionists and Stravinski's modernism. Honegger used a personal style in his main work that is densely bitonal, classically polyphonic, and emotionally austere. This is especially apparent in the beautiful Symphony for String Orchestra... [+] Read More
Artist: Domenico Gallo
Gallo was an Italian composer and violinist who wrote sonatas and symphonies as well as music for the church. One collection contains six sonatas for two violins and a second includes thirty six trio sonatas. Gallo achieved his renown, unfortunately, for being associated with the Pergolisi forgeries. A set of twelve trio sonatas was ascribed to... [+] Read More
Artist: Murray Adaskin
Adaskin served as the head of the music department and later as composer in residence at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. He received many commissions from the CBC as well as one from The National Arts Centre Orchestra for its inaugural concert, which resulted in Diversion for Orchestra. Adaskin is a meticulous craftsman of... [+] Read More
Artist: Cesar Bresgen
Bresgen studied at the Munich Music Academy. He has taught composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg since 1939, the same year that he founded a young people's conservatory in that city. He studied with Hindemith in 1950 and made some experiments in composing with 12-tone serialism. His compositions include orchestral and stage works, some of... [+] Read More
Artist: Alexandre Tansman
Poland, France Composer, pianist, conductor 232words Tansman was an eclectic and prolific composer whose work encompasses most of the trends of the twentieth century: Impressionism, neo-classicism, polytonality, atonalism, serialism, jazz, and movie soundtracks. It is uncommon that the mature works of a composer betray clear influences the way... [+] Read More
Artist: Abel Mortis
Abel Mortis' interest in writing narrative fiction draws heavily on the classic influences of Dashiell Hammet, J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Edgar Allan Poe. The additional influence of composers such as Elgar, Mahler & Stravinsky inspired him to pursue a career as a professional sound recordist.The nature of his work in the film and music industries... [+] Read More
Artist: Pavel Borkovec
After a period of study as a philosophy student, Borkovec studied music with Foerster and Kricka and attended Suk's master class at the conservatory. These musicians influenced him in his early lyrical, romantic style. He soon developed a style derived from the neo-classicism of Stravinsky, Hindemith and Honegger. The finest examples of this... [+] Read More
Artist: Alfredo Casella
After considering careers in both science and music, Casella settled on music and entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1896. He later turned his focus to composition and studied with Fauré. During this time, he counted Ravel and Enescu as his friends and developed a taste for the work of Debussy, the Russian nationalists, Strauss, Mahler,... [+] Read More
Artist: The Other Quartet
Originally formed in 1996 in New York City, the Other Quartet specializes in a style of jazz that alternates between the notated and the improvised, and is never ever dull. Comprised of members Ohad Talmor (tenor and soprano saxophones), Russ Johnson (trumpet), Jim Hershman (guitar), and Michael Sarin (drums and percussion), the group plays... [+] Read More
Artist: Jay Cloidt
Humor is the key to the technically sophisticated sound sculptures of Omaha-born and San Francisco-based Jay Cloidt. Splicing together digitally sampled deconstructions of classical and pop references, Cloidt creates pieces that have provoked comparisons with Spike Jones, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, and P.D.Q. Bach. His compositions have been... [+] Read More
Artist: Columbia Symphony Orchestra
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra was a name linked to numerous ensembles recording at different times for Columbia Records. The name itself was an artifact from a time in which record labels and radio networks assembled and named their own orchestras, or used the name as a "cover" for the use of an orchestra that was contracted elsewhere.
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Artist: Abandoned Pools
Multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Tommy Walter goes by the alias of Abandoned Pools. Walter picked up a bass guitar in grade school and by high school was a classically trained French horn player. He enrolled at the University of Pacific in Stockton, CA, where he studied and taught music theory (and such early 20th century, 12-tone and... [+] Read More
