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Gordon Charles Watson was born in Parkes, New South Wales in 1921. He served with the Australian Imperial Force for four years in World War II. [1]He studied piano under Laurence Godfrey Smith in Sydney, and later had advanced studies at Mills College, Oakland, California with Egon Petri (piano), [2] [3] [4] and Darius Milhaud (composition).
Alphonse Duvernoy (Professor of Piano) Rolande Falcinelli (Professor of Organ, 1954–1986) Louise Farrenc (Professor of Piano, 1842–1873) César Franck (Professor of Organ, 1872–1890) Eugene Gigout (Professor of Organ, 1911–1925) Alexandre Guilmant (Professor of Organ, 1896–1911) Antoine Marmontel (piano) Yves Nat (pianist, 1890–1956)
Arthur Benjamin . Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893 in Sydney – 10 April 1960 in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher.He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much, in 1934 and 1956.
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) [1] was an American jazz pianist and composer.A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, [2] Powell's application of complex phrasing to the piano influenced both his contemporaries and later pianists including Walter Davis Jr., Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Barry Harris.
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, 1917–1920) Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919) Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921) Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926) Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932) Romantic, Impressionist: Emile-Robert Blanchet: 1877: 1943: Swiss: Sergei Bortkiewicz: 1877: 1952: Ukrainian: York Bowen: 1884: 1961: English: Romantic: Frank Bridge: 1912: 1941: English: Late ...
The modern form of the piano, which emerged in the late 19th century, is a very different instrument from the pianos for which earlier classical piano literature was originally composed. The modern piano has a heavy metal frame, thick strings made of top-grade steel, and a sturdy action with a substantial touch weight.
[4] [5] He began studying classical piano at the age of seven, but was more interested in the popular music of the age. Eventually, his mother sent him to a popular-music piano teacher. [ 6 ] At this early age, he began writing show tunes , which eventually helped him as a satirical composer and writer in his years of lecturing at Harvard ...
In 1960, the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble recorded Perry's Homunculus, C.F. for 10 percussionists. [12] The piece is scored for timpani, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum, wood blocks, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano, and harp. Perry termed the work "pantonal" since is it neither in a major or minor key and it uses all available tones.