Composers Biographies Samples For Students

Alban Berg was an Austrian composer, teacher and one of the most prominent representatives of the Second Viennese musical expressionism and composer school. Alan Berg was a student and a follower of A. Schoenberg, who was Alban Berg’s teacher in years 1904 - 1911.
One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his works characteristic of expressionist artists thoughts, feelings and images: dissatisfaction with the social life, feelings of helplessness and loneliness. The hero of his works can be expressed asa little man, driven to despair by a hostile environment of bourgeois society. Ground for ...

Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician of playing manifold instruments. He started performing in public at the pretty early age of 6. Over the years, Mozart has had a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works: symphonies, sonatas, concertos and operas, distinguished as ones with vivid emotion and sophisticated textures.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s was the only living son of Leopold and Maria Pertl Mozart. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist, and assistant of the concert master at the Salzburg court. He also had a sister named Anna Maria. Music as ...

Fryderyk Chopin, also known as the poet of piano, was an amazing composer and virtuoso pianist. He played in various genres and his compositions were music to the ears in both meanings. Even the shortest compositions have people listening to them over and over again.
Fryderyk Chopin was born on the 1st of March in 1810 in Warsaw. He mostly wrote for the solo piano and gained popularity throughout the whole world as a leading musician of the Romantic era. Chopin was born and raised in a family of four children, his mother was Polish and his father was ...

Thelonious Monk is known as one of the most gifted jazz musicians. He was the pioneer of bebop and his influence as a pianist and composer had significant effects on different kinds of music (Monkinstitute). Music of Thelonious Monk is based on Ingrid Monson’s and Paul Berliner’s work (Solis 3). Nevertheless, Monk is famous for his improvisations, which are so outstanding that a jazz critic Whitney Balliett once pointed out “His improvisations were molten Monk compositions, and his compositions were frozen Monk improvisations.” (Deveaux 169)
Thelonious was born in North Carolina on October 10, 1917, but his ...

Born on 11th may 1894, Martha Graham was an American choreographer and contemporary dancer whose effect on dance can only be matched to Frank Wright’s influence on architecture, Picasso’s on arts and Stravinsky’s impact on music (Graham, 08). Martha was born of George Graham and Jane Beers in Allegheny City. Her parents were strict Presbyterians. She began her studies at Denishawn School of Dancing and Correlated Arts in the mid-1910s and stayed until 1923 (Thoms, 03). Her career in dancing and music started in 1922 when she performed one of Shawn's Egyptian discos with Lillian Powell ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, nearby the French border. His father and grandfather were court musicians. Little Ludwig discovered his musical abilities early and his father began lessons with him when he was five, hoping to bring up his son to be, like Mozart, a child prodigy and get out of this financial benefit. Classes were disorderly. Beethoven's father was often rude, cruel, overly demanding. He forced the boy to spend hours playing the same exercise. Sometimes, coming home late at night drunk, he woke his son and made him play.
Ludwig's mother was kind ...