15 greatest composers in history

1. Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (born in Eisenach, Germany, March 21, 1685 - died July 28, 1750 at age 65 years) was a German composer. He composed music for musical organ, harpsichord and clavichord, and also for the orchestra. His most famous work is the Brandenburg concertos.

The musicologist divide the whole composition of Bach in five days, each showing different style of composition is quite specific when compared with each other in the making. What makes the style of Bach is different from the others is that all the songs he made a good song Jesu Joy of Man's desiring or songs made ​​mostly devoted to God.

2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born in Salzburg, January 27, 1756 - died in Vienna, Austria, December 5, 1791 at age 35 years) was a composer. He is regarded as one of the composers of European classical music is the most important and most famous in history. His works (about 700 songs) includes compositions which are widely recognized as the pinnacle work of symphonic music, chamber music, piano music, opera music, and choral music. Examples of his work is the opera Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte. Many of the works of Mozart considered a standard repertoire of classical concerts and music recognized as masterpieces of antiquity. His works are listed in Kochel-Verzeichnis catalog.

3. Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 in Bonn, died March 26, 1827 in Vienna) was a German composer of classical music. His most famous is the fifth and ninth symphonies, piano songs as well as Für Elise. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers and an important figure in the transitional period between the Classical Period and Romantic Period. As a young man, he is a talented pianist, popular among the important people and rich in Vienna, Austria, where he lived. However, in 1801, he started to become deaf.

Increasingly severe deafness, and in 1817 he became completely deaf. Although he no longer could play in concert, he continues to create music, and at this time to create some of the greatest masterpieces. He lived the rest of his life in Vienna and never married.

4. Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 - 13 February 1883) was an influential German composer, music theorist, and writer, but is best known through the works of opera. His music is often played, most notably the "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre and the "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin. Wagner was also a highly controversial figure, because innovation and innovation plays music and also because he is a supporter of the ideas of anti-Semitism. In the history of music, he is classified as a composer of the Romantic Period

5. Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert (January 31, 1797-19 November 1828) is a composer of Austrian nationality.

When he was five, his father had taught her many things about music. Six years later he entered a very famous music school in Vienna. Meanwhile, Franz had started to compose a piece of music. The first song is produced at the age of 17 years, called Gretchen at the spinning whell. For a while he became a school teacher, but then he stopped because he needs more time to write a piece of music. To-day living expenses sehar she gave piano lessons. Sometimes he wrote eight songs per day. In fact, he slept without removing his glasses so he can immediately write if he woke in the middle of the night with the idea of ​​a song. Before the age of 20 years, he has written six symphony. On the whole he has produced nine symphony. Two of them are very famous Symphony No.. 8 in B minor (symphony No. 8 in B minor tone) which is known under the title Unfinished Symphony and the Symphony No. 9 in C minor, known by the title of Great Symphony for so long. Works of Schubert's works include music for orchestra in various forms with different sizes. He has written 100 songs. Among the best bet is to this day, that Ave Maria, Who is Sylvia?, The Trout, and Serenade. Franz Schubert died at the age of 31 years, but it was producing nearly 1,000 works of music.

6. Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (Zwickau, June 8, 1810, Bonn, July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the European Romantic music composers of the most important, as well as a famous music critic in history. Is a scholar and esthete, his music describes a very personal nature of romance. Introspective and often acting, musical works is the first attempt to break away from the tradition of classical forms and structure which he thought too restrictive.

7. Frédéric Chopin

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Poland on March 1, 1810. His father, Nicolas Chopin was one of Marainville, France. While his mother, Tekla Justyna Kryzanowka-Poles are. To avoid the mandatory army, in 1787 Nicolas Chopin left France and settled in Poland. Chopin was born shortly after his parents moved to Poland. Chopin thinking about natural talent in playing the piano, this is seen in the improvised-imporivasinya for piano. He was seven years old when one of her polonaise published (Mc Neill, 1998) however, other sources say that the first work that diterbitakan is a Rondo (op. 1) at the time he was fifteen. At age eight, he appeared in public playing the piano concerto's Gywortez. Chopin received his first musical education by Adalbert Bohemian pianist Żiwny.

8. Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.

Liszt became renowned throughout Europe during the 19th century for its expertise as a player. He said by his contemporaries have mastered the technical pianists of his age and perhaps the greatest pianist of all time. He is also an important and influential composer, a famous piano teacher, a conductor who contributed significantly to the development of modern art, and generous to other composers and players, notably Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin .

9. Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (born in Hamburg, May 7, 1833 - died in Vienna, 3 April 1897 at age 63 years) is a composer and pianist from Germany, one of the main musicians on the Romantic era. Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, but then a lot of work in Vienna, Austria. In his lifetime, Brahms is very popular and influential in the music world.

Brahms to compose music for piano, chamber music ensembles, symphony orchestras, and for the singers and chorus. As a skilled pianist, he often displays itself in the prime of his works, he also worked with headlining appearance at the time, including the pianist Clara Schumann (wife of composer Robert Schumann). Much of his work is part of the standard repertoire of classical concerts to date. One of his most famous work is Wiegenlied, Op. No. 49. 4 ("songs Nina Bobo", in English known as Brahms' Lullaby).

11. Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911) was an Austrian composer nationality. He became famous when he led as a conductor at the opera house. He was a career as a conductor since 1881. In 1901 he moved to a new villa on Lake Majernigg, Carinthia. He died in 1911.

12 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 [KJ: 25 April] - 6 November 1893 [OS October 25]), was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. Tchaikovsky wrote music in various genres, including symphony, opera, ballet, instrumental, chamber and song. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire today, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutkracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, seven symphonies, and opera Eugene Onegin.

13. Sergei Rachmaninov

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 (KG) or March 20, 1873 (KJ) - March 28, 1943) was a composer, pianist and conductor of Russia.

Rachmaninoff is regarded as one of the most influential pianist in the 20th century. He has the technical capability and the legendary rhythmic impulse. Large hands capable of covering the interval to-13 in the keys of the piano (her hands reach approximately 12 inches or 30.5 cm. Range of hands is approximately equal to his height, the which is 1.98 meters. He was also Able to play the Compositions complex after hearing it once. Many of Rachmaninoff performing his own recordings made ​​with the record label Victor Talking Machine Company, as well as works from the standard repertoire.

14. George Frederick Handel

George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685-14 April 1759) was a German-English Baroque composer, best known for opera, oratorio, and concert Grossi. His life and music may fairly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England. Born in Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg, he settled in England in 1712, became a naturalized subject of the crown of England on February 20, 1727. His works include Messiah, Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Greatly influenced by the techniques of the great composers of the Italian Baroque era, as well as English composer Henry Purcell, Handel's music became popular with many composers, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

15. Franz Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March or 1 April 1732 - May 31, 1809) was one of the most influential composers of the Classical Period, dubbed the "father of symphony" or "Father of Stringed Quartet". Haydn spent most of his career as a musician for Eszterházy family at their residence in Austria which are difficult to reach. Isolated from other composers, composers and music trends to date towards the end of his life, he was forced to, use of the term, "being original".

Joseph Haydn was the brother of Michael Haydn, a famous composer, and Johann Evangelist Haydn, a tenor singer.

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