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Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the Yorkshire-born composer Haydn Wood.
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Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the Yorkshire-born composer Haydn Wood.
Peter Wintersgill tells of the composer Hugo Wolf, who wrote 300 songs.
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Malcolm Williamson, a former Master of the Queen's Music.
Peter Wintersgill tells something of John Wilbye, a composer of madrigals.
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the composer of church music.
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of Anton Webern, the Viennese composer who wrote music in the atonal style.
Peter Wintersgill paints a brief word portrait of Carl Maria Von Weber, the first operatic composer in the romantic nationalistic tradition.
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the Oldham-born composer, William Walton.
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of one of the most influential of all composers, Richard Wagner.
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Tomás Luis de Victoria, a Spaniard who composed church music.
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Antonio Vivaldi, who composed more than 400 concertos.
Peter Wintersgill tells of Heitor Villa-Lobos, the Brazillian composer.
Peter Wintersgill presents a pen-portrait of the great Guiseppe Verdi, composer of some of the best-loved of all operas.
Peter Wintersill introduces us to the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams who wrote his first piano piece when he was six.
Peter Wintersgill tells of an early Welsh composer.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the celebrated English composer, Michael Tippett.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the composer Virgil Thomson who was chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune.
Peter Wintersgill presents a pen portrait of George Philippe Telemann who, as a child prodigy, could play four instruments and also compose when he was 10 years old.
Peter Wintersgill presents an outline of the life and career of Russia's best-know composer, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Peter Wintersgill presents an outline of the life of Thomas Tallis, the Father of English cathedral music.
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of Karol Szymanowski, a Polish aristocrat.
Peter Wintersgill tells of Jan Sweelinck, the most famous Dutch music teacher of his day.
Peter Wintersgill presents a summary of the life of Arthur Seymor Sullivan, who wrote an anthem when he was eight years old.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Igor Stravinksy, composer of the revolutionary ballets, Firebird, Petrushka and Rite Of Spring.
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of Richard Strauss, the German composer who wrote his first symphony at the age of 16.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Johann Strauss II, composer of The Blue Danube.
Peter Wintersgill introduces is to the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen who devoted his life to experimenting with sound.
Peter Wintersgill introduces the prolific composer Charles Villiers Stanford.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to John Stainer who was a Professor of Music at Oxford.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the almost-forgotten composer, Louis Spohr.
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of the Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana.
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Jean Sibelius, the great Finnish composer.
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Dimitry Shostakovich, who some consider to be the greatest Twentieth Century composer.
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Heinrich Schutz who composed church music.
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of the troubled composer Robert Schumann.
Peter Wintersgill tells something of the life of Franz Peter Schubert, the man who some consider to have been the greatest of all composers.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, the composer of"new'' music.
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the life of Domenico Scarlatti who, as his father had done before him, wrote operas.
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Alessandro Scarlatti who composed 115 operas.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief word portrait of Camille Saint-Saens, said to be the greatest composer who wasn't a genius.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the English composer Emund Rubbra, who worked as a railway clerk at the age of 14.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief account of the life of Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini who wrote his first opera when he was a teenager.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of the Russian composer, Nicholas Andreivitch Rimsky-Korsakov, who served for a time as a naval officer.
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of the prolific French composer Maurice Ravel.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Jean Philippe Rameau who composed more than 20 operas.
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the life of the prolific and popular Russian composer Serge
Vassilyevitch Rachmaninov.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Henry Purcell who had already started composing music when he entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister at the age of 10.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the best-loved operas, who was descended from five generations of musicians.
Peter Wintersgill outlines the career of one of Russia's leading 20th Century composers.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of the French composer Francis Poulenc, whose composing career began when he was seven.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Giovani Battista Pergolesi, the composer of comic operas and religious music.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of the Polish composer Krystof Penderecki.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of Charles Hubert Parry, composer of choral works and Director of the Royal College of Music.
Peter Wintersgill presents a pen portrait of Yorkshire-born Walter Parratt who was organist to the Queen and chief professor of organ at the Royal College of Music.
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Giovanni da Palestrina, organist at Capella Giulia in Rome, where he wrote his first book of masses, and from which he was sacked for being married.
"Many people thought he was in league with the Devil, partly from his sinister appearance, partly from his skill, which they thought no ordinary mortal could possess. His fingers were abnormally flexible...''
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Nicolo Paganini.
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Ignacy Jan Paderewski who began composing at the age of six.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the celebrated English composer, Michael Tippett.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the celebrated English composer, Michael Tippett.
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Carl Orff, the composer of Carmina Burana.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Jacques Offenbach, composer of Orphee aux Enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld ), with its popular can-can.
...After getting thinner and weaker for some time, he finally died in Paris on October 5th, 1880, aged 61. A gentleman came to his house to be told by the maid "M. Offenbach died without realising it," to which the man replied, "He will be surprised when he finds out."...
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief biography of Ivor Novell, the composer of popular songs and musical comedies.
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Modest Mussorgsky, the composer of the opera Boris Godunov.
Today Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of the man that many consider the greatest of all composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of the composer Thomas Morley, who was one of Shakespeare’s friends.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Claudio Monteverdi, who composed a number of operas and took holy orders when he was 65.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the French composer Darius Milhaud, who spent some time in both South and North America.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Olivier Messiaen, who was imprisoned by the Germans for two years in World War II, then later became a professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief biography of the great musician and composer, Felix Mendlessohn-Bartholdy.
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Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Jules Massanet, composer of operas and Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire in Paris.
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of Pietro Mascagni, composer of the ever-popular opera Cavalleria Rusticana.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Bohuslav Martinu, a prolific composer of all kinds of music.
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the meticulous, demanding and highly strung composer Gustav Mahler.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of Edward MacDowell, the composer of choral works and piano music.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV of France.
Peter Wintersgill brings us a potted biography of Franz Liszt, who was known as the second Mozart.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Ruggiero Leoncavalla, composer and librettist of the famous opera Pagliacci.
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Franz Lehar, composer of The Merry Widow, The Count of Luxembourg and The Land of Smiles.
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Constant Lambert, a brilliant composer and conductor who was only 46 when he died.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief biography of Fritz Kreisler, recongised as the finest violinist of the 20th Century.
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Zoltan Kodaly, who worked with Bella Bartok for ten years, collecting Hungariaan folk songs which had a great influence on his own compositions.
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of the composer Leos Janacek, the composer of a number of successful operas which include Jenufa and The Cunning Little Vixen.
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the American composer Charles Ives.
Peter Wintersgill tells of the composer John Ireland, who set a number of famous English poems to music.
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of Herbert Howells, a professor of music and composer of the well-known work Hymnus Paradisi.
Peter Wintersgill sketches the life of Arthur Honneger, composer of the dramatic psalm King David.
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Gustav Holst, composer of the well-known work The Planets.
Peter Wintersgill tells of the life of the composer Paul Hindemth, whose music was banned by the Nazis in 1933.
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of the modern German composer Hans Werner Henze.