Curated category
Classical composers of church music
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on the 27th of January 1756 to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria at Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg.
- Franz SchubertOn the 31st of January 1797, a boy named Franz Peter Schubert was born in the Himmelpfortgrund suburb of Vienna. He entered the world as the twelfth child of…
- Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyOn the 7th of May 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in the small town of Votkinsk within the Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Antonín DvořákAntonín Leopold Dvořák entered the world on the 8th of September 1841 in Nelahozeves, a small village near Prague. His father František worked as an…
- Hector BerliozOn the 11th of December 1803, Louis-Hector Berlioz was born in the commune of La Côte-Saint-André. His father, a physician named Louis Berlioz, expected his…
- Joseph HaydnIn the village of Rohrau, Austria, a child named Joseph Haydn was born on the 31st of March 1732. His father Mathias worked as a wheelwright and served as…
- Sergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff entered the world on the 28th of March 1873 in a family estate located near Staraya Russa.
- Tomás Luis de VictoriaTomás Luis de Victoria was born around 1548, most likely in Ávila, the main residence of his family at the time. His birthplace remains unclear since no…
- Josef MyslivečekJosef Mysliveček entered the world on the 9th of March 1737 in Prague. He was one of twin sons born to a prosperous mill owner who lived on Melantrichova…
- Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel arrived in the world on the 14th of November 1778 within Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary. His father Johannes Hummel served as a…