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Michael Giacchino (/ dʒ ə ˈ k iː n oʊ / jə-KEE-noh, [1] Italian: [dʒaˈkiːno]; born October 10, 1967) is an American composer of music for film, television, and video games.He has received many accolades for his work, including an Oscar for Up (2009), an Emmy for Lost (2004), and three Grammy Awards.
Franz Peter Schubert (/ ˈ ʃ uː b ər t /; German: [fʁants ˈpeːtɐ ˈʃuːbɐt]; 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
The Baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) Chronological lists of classical composers list composers of classical music in chronological order, either organized by era or style, or by nationality.
Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children. In European-influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment and educational functions.
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1]
This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820.Prominent classicist composers [1] [2] [3] include Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Boccherini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert.
Maximilian Raoul Steiner [a] (10 May 1888 – 28 December 1971) was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers. Steiner was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, proficient at composing, arranging, and ...
Portrait of Mikhail Glinka by Karl Bryullov, 1840. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаил Иванович Глинка [a], romanized: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka [b], IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡlʲinkə] ⓘ; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 – 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often ...