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Leroy Anderson (/ ləˈrɔɪ / lə-ROY) (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as "one of the great American masters of light orchestral music."
Concerto Romantique (Concerto de Québec, 1943) Piano Concerto No. 4 (1947) Romantic: Nikolai Medtner: 1880: 1951: Russian: Erkki Melartin: 1875: 1937: Finnish: Olivier Messiaen: 1908: 1992: French: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus (1944) Quatre études de rythme (1949–1950) Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956–1958) Federico Mompou: 1893: 1987 ...
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz -influenced effects. Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman and written by George Gershwin, the work premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York ...
Sergei Rachmaninoff. Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff[a][b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
Luciano Berio. Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1973) Points on a Curve to Find – Piano Concerto (1973–4) Lennox Berkeley. Piano Concerto in B-flat, Op. 29 (1947) Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Op. 30 (1948) Leonard Bernstein. Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety (1948, rev. 1965), after W. H. Auden.
Franz Liszt [n 1] (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.
Arnold Schoenberg. Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg[a] (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-century classical music, and a central element of his music was its use of motives as a means of ...
Ferde Grofé. Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé, known as Ferde Grofé (March 27, 1892 – April 3, 1972) (pronounced / ˈfərdiː ˈɡroʊfeɪ /) was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and instrumentalist. He is best known for his 1931 five-movement symphonic poem, Grand Canyon Suite, and for orchestrating George Gershwin 's Rhapsody in Blue ...