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Composers for piano
- Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the 22nd of November 1913. His father Robert Victor Britten worked as a…
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was baptized on the 17th of December 1770 in the Catholic Parish of St. Remigius. His father Johann claimed Ludwig was six years old for…
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on the 27th of January 1756 to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria at Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg.
- Igor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, on the 17th of June 1882. His father worked as a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint…
- Robert SchumannOn the 8th of June 1810, a local newspaper in Zwickau announced the birth of Robert Schumann to Herr August Schumann. He was the fifth and last child of an…
- Arnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was born on the 13th of September 1874 in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. His father Samuel worked as a shoe-shopkeeper and moved from…
- Johannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was born on the 7th of May 1833 in a poor apartment in the quarter of Hamburg. His father Johann Jakob worked as a double bass player and…
- Gaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was born on the 29th of November 1797 in the Borgo Canale quarter of Bergamo. His family lived in poverty and had no…
- Claude DebussyAchille Claude Debussy was born on the 22nd of August 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a town on the north-western fringes of Paris.
- 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…
- George GershwinJacob Gershwine entered the world on the 26th of September 1898, inside a second-floor apartment at 242 Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn.
- Maurice RavelJoseph Maurice Ravel entered the world on the 7th of March 1875 in Ciboure, a small town near Biarritz. His father Pierre-Joseph was an engineer and inventor…
- 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.
- Aaron CoplandAaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 14th of November 1900. He grew up above his family's store at 628 Washington Avenue.
- Béla BartókBéla Viktor János Bartók was born on the 25th of March 1881 in Nagyszentmiklós, a town in the Kingdom of Hungary. His mother spoke Hungarian fluently and…
- Felix MendelssohnFelix Mendelssohn was born on the 3rd of February 1809 in Hamburg. His father Abraham Mendelssohn was a banker who had converted to Christianity before…
- John WilliamsJohn Towner Williams was born on the 8th of February 1932, in Queens, New York. His father Johnny Williams played drums and percussion for the Raymond Scott…
- Charles Villiers StanfordOn the 30th of September 1852, Charles Villiers Stanford entered a Dublin household where music flowed as naturally as conversation.
- 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.
- Sergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born on the 23rd of April 1891 at a rural estate in Sontsovka, a village in the Bakhmut uezd of the Yekaterinoslav…
- Alexander ScriabinAlexander Scriabin was born on Christmas Day 1871 in Moscow into a Russian noble family. His father Nikolai worked as a military attaché and later became an…
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
- Alexander GlazunovSaint Petersburg, 1879. A fourteen-year-old high school student named Alexander Glazunov sat before Mily Balakirev with an orchestral score in hand.
- Carl CzernyVienna's Leopoldstadt district witnessed the birth of Carl Czerny on the 21st of February 1791. His father Wenzel worked as an oboist and pianist while his…
- 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…
- Muzio ClementiMuzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi was born in Rome on the 23rd of January 1752. He entered the world as the eldest child of Nicolò Clementi…
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang MozartFranz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born in Vienna on the 26th of July 1791. He arrived into this world four months and ten days before his famous father died.
- Anton RubinsteinAnton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in the village of Vikhvatinets, located within the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire.