Haydn Wood
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the Yorkshire-born composer Haydn Wood.
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February 14, 2008
February 07, 2008
Hugo Wolf
Peter Wintersgill tells of the composer Hugo Wolf, who wrote 300 songs.
January 31, 2008
Malcolm Williamson
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Malcolm Williamson, a former Master of the Queen's Music.
January 24, 2008
John Wilbye
Peter Wintersgill tells something of John Wilbye, a composer of madrigals.
January 17, 2008
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the composer of church music.
January 10, 2008
Anton Webern
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of Anton Webern, the Viennese composer who wrote music in the atonal style.
January 03, 2008
Carl Maria Von Weber
Peter Wintersgill paints a brief word portrait of Carl Maria Von Weber, the first operatic composer in the romantic nationalistic tradition.
December 27, 2007
William Walton
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the Oldham-born composer, William Walton.
December 20, 2007
Richard Wagner
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of one of the most influential of all composers, Richard Wagner.
December 13, 2007
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Tomás Luis de Victoria, a Spaniard who composed church music.
December 06, 2007
Antonio Vivaldi
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Antonio Vivaldi, who composed more than 400 concertos.
November 29, 2007
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Peter Wintersgill tells of Heitor Villa-Lobos, the Brazillian composer.
November 22, 2007
Giuseppe Verdi
Peter Wintersgill presents a pen-portrait of the great Guiseppe Verdi, composer of some of the best-loved of all operas.
November 15, 2007
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Peter Wintersill introduces us to the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams who wrote his first piano piece when he was six.
November 08, 2007
Thomas Tomkins
Peter Wintersgill tells of an early Welsh composer.
November 01, 2007
Michael Tippett
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the celebrated English composer, Michael Tippett.
October 25, 2007
Virgil Thomson
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the composer Virgil Thomson who was chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune.
October 18, 2007
George Philippe Telemann
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.
October 11, 2007
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Peter Wintersgill presents an outline of the life and career of Russia's best-know composer, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
October 04, 2007
Thomas Tallis
Peter Wintersgill presents an outline of the life of Thomas Tallis, the Father of English cathedral music.
September 27, 2007
Karol Szymanowski
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of Karol Szymanowski, a Polish aristocrat.
September 20, 2007
Jan Sweelinck
Peter Wintersgill tells of Jan Sweelinck, the most famous Dutch music teacher of his day.
September 13, 2007
Arthur Seymor Sullivan
Peter Wintersgill presents a summary of the life of Arthur Seymor Sullivan, who wrote an anthem when he was eight years old.
September 06, 2007
Igor Stravinsky
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Igor Stravinksy, composer of the revolutionary ballets, Firebird, Petrushka and Rite Of Spring.
August 30, 2007
Richard Strauss
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of Richard Strauss, the German composer who wrote his first symphony at the age of 16.
August 23, 2007
Johann Strauss II
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Johann Strauss II, composer of The Blue Danube.
August 16, 2007
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Peter Wintersgill introduces is to the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen who devoted his life to experimenting with sound.
August 09, 2007
Charles Villiers Stanford
Peter Wintersgill introduces the prolific composer Charles Villiers Stanford.
August 02, 2007
John Stainer
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to John Stainer who was a Professor of Music at Oxford.
July 26, 2007
Louis Spohr
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the almost-forgotten composer, Louis Spohr.
July 19, 2007
Bedrich Smetana
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of the Bohemian composer Bedrich Smetana.
July 12, 2007
Jean Sibelius
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Jean Sibelius, the great Finnish composer.
July 05, 2007
Dimitry Shostakovich
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Dimitry Shostakovich, who some consider to be the greatest Twentieth Century composer.
June 28, 2007
Alexander Scriabin
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin.
June 21, 2007
Heinrich Schutz
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Heinrich Schutz who composed church music.
June 14, 2007
Robert Schumann
Peter Wintersgill presents a word portrait of the troubled composer Robert Schumann.
June 07, 2007
Franz Peter Schubert
Peter Wintersgill tells something of the life of Franz Peter Schubert, the man who some consider to have been the greatest of all composers.
May 31, 2007
Arnold Schoenberg
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, the composer of"new'' music.
May 24, 2007
Domenico Scarlatti
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the life of Domenico Scarlatti who, as his father had done before him, wrote operas.
May 17, 2007
Alessandro Scarlatti
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Alessandro Scarlatti who composed 115 operas.
May 10, 2007
Camille Saint-Saens
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief word portrait of Camille Saint-Saens, said to be the greatest composer who wasn't a genius.
May 03, 2007
Edmund Rubbra
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the English composer Emund Rubbra, who worked as a railway clerk at the age of 14.
April 26, 2007
Gioachino Antonio Rossini
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.
April 19, 2007
Nicholas Andreivitch Rimsky-Korsakov
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of the Russian composer, Nicholas Andreivitch Rimsky-Korsakov, who served for a time as a naval officer.
April 12, 2007
Maurice Ravel
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of the prolific French composer Maurice Ravel.
April 05, 2007
Jean Philippe Rameau
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Jean Philippe Rameau who composed more than 20 operas.
March 29, 2007
Serge Vassilyevitch Rachmaninov
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the life of the prolific and popular Russian composer Serge
Vassilyevitch Rachmaninov.
March 22, 2007
Henry Purcell
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.
March 15, 2007
Giacomo Puccini
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the best-loved operas, who was descended from five generations of musicians.
March 08, 2007
Serge Prokofiev
Peter Wintersgill outlines the career of one of Russia's leading 20th Century composers.
March 01, 2007
Francis Poulenc
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of the French composer Francis Poulenc, whose composing career began when he was seven.
February 22, 2007
Giovani Battista Pergolesi
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Giovani Battista Pergolesi, the composer of comic operas and religious music.
February 15, 2007
Krystof Penderecki
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of the Polish composer Krystof Penderecki.
February 08, 2007
Charles Hubert Parry
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of Charles Hubert Parry, composer of choral works and Director of the Royal College of Music.
February 01, 2007
Walter Parratt
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.
January 25, 2007
Giovanni da Palestrina
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.
January 18, 2007
Nicolo Paganini
"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.
January 11, 2007
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Ignacy Jan Paderewski who began composing at the age of six.
Michael Tippett
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the celebrated English composer, Michael Tippett.
Michael Tippett
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the celebrated English composer, Michael Tippett.
January 04, 2007
Carl Orff
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Carl Orff, the composer of Carmina Burana.
December 28, 2006
Jacques Offenbach
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."...
December 21, 2006
Ivor Novello
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief biography of Ivor Novell, the composer of popular songs and musical comedies.
December 14, 2006
Modest Mussorgsky
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Modest Mussorgsky, the composer of the opera Boris Godunov.
December 07, 2006
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Today Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of the man that many consider the greatest of all composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
November 30, 2006
Thomas Morley
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of the composer Thomas Morley, who was one of Shakespeare’s friends.
November 23, 2006
Claudio Monteverdi
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Claudio Monteverdi, who composed a number of operas and took holy orders when he was 65.
November 16, 2006
Darius Milhaud
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the French composer Darius Milhaud, who spent some time in both South and North America.
November 09, 2006
Olivier Messiaen
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.
November 02, 2006
Felix Mendlessohn
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief biography of the great musician and composer, Felix Mendlessohn-Bartholdy.
To read more portraits of the great masters of musical composition please click on Classical Composers A-Z in the menu on this page.
October 26, 2006
Jules Massanet
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Jules Massanet, composer of operas and Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire in Paris.
October 19, 2006
Pietro Mascagni
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of Pietro Mascagni, composer of the ever-popular opera Cavalleria Rusticana.
October 12, 2006
Bohuslav Martinu
Peter Wintersgill presents a portrait of Bohuslav Martinu, a prolific composer of all kinds of music.
October 05, 2006
Gustav Mahler
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the meticulous, demanding and highly strung composer Gustav Mahler.
September 28, 2006
Edward MacDowell
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of Edward MacDowell, the composer of choral works and piano music.
September 21, 2006
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV of France.
September 14, 2006
Franz (Ferencz) Liszt
Peter Wintersgill brings us a potted biography of Franz Liszt, who was known as the second Mozart.
September 07, 2006
Ruggiero Leoncavalla
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Ruggiero Leoncavalla, composer and librettist of the famous opera Pagliacci.
August 31, 2006
Franz Lehar
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Franz Lehar, composer of The Merry Widow, The Count of Luxembourg and The Land of Smiles.
August 24, 2006
Constant Lambert
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Constant Lambert, a brilliant composer and conductor who was only 46 when he died.
August 17, 2006
Fritz Kreisler
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief biography of Fritz Kreisler, recongised as the finest violinist of the 20th Century.
August 10, 2006
Zoltan Kodaly
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.
August 03, 2006
Leos Janacek
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.
July 27, 2006
Charles Ives
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the American composer Charles Ives.
July 20, 2006
John Ireland
Peter Wintersgill tells of the composer John Ireland, who set a number of famous English poems to music.
July 13, 2006
Herbert Howells
Peter Wintersgill presents a brief portrait of Herbert Howells, a professor of music and composer of the well-known work Hymnus Paradisi.
July 06, 2006
Arthur Honneger
Peter Wintersgill sketches the life of Arthur Honneger, composer of the dramatic psalm King David.
June 29, 2006
Gustav Holst
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Gustav Holst, composer of the well-known work The Planets.
June 22, 2006
Paul Hindemith
Peter Wintersgill tells of the life of the composer Paul Hindemth, whose music was banned by the Nazis in 1933.
June 15, 2006
Hans Werner Henze
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of the modern German composer Hans Werner Henze.
June 08, 2006
Franz Joseph Haydn
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Franz Joseph Haydn, sometimes called the Father of the Symphony.
June 01, 2006
George Frederick Handel
Peter Wintersgill presents a “pocket’’ biography of George Frederick Handel, the prolific composer whose works included the timeless, immensely famous oratorio Messiah,
May 25, 2006
Edward Greig
Peter Wintersgill introduces the Norwegian composer Edward Greig.
May 18, 2006
Percy Grainger
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of the Australian composer Percy Grainger - a sado-masochist and a keep-fit enthusiast, a very odd character.
May 11, 2006
Charles Francois Gounod
Peter Wintersgill sketches the life of Charles Francois Gounod, composer of operas and the exquisite St Cecilia Mass.
May 04, 2006
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Peter Wintersgill gives details of the life of Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer of operas such as Orfeo et Eurydice and Alceste.
April 27, 2006
Mikhail Glinka
Peter Wintersgill sketches the career details of the composer Mikhail Glinka, who led a life of luxury, playing and singing in the aristocratic drawing rooms of St Petersburg.
April 20, 2006
Orlando Gibbons
Peter Wintersgill tell us of Orlando Gibbons, who became the organist in the Chapel Royal when he was 22.
April 13, 2006
George Gershwin
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of George Gershwin, perhaps the best-loved of all American composers.
April 06, 2006
Edward German
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Edward German, who, among other compositions, wrote incidental music for plays.
March 30, 2006
Cesar Franck
Peter Wintersgill features the Belgian-born composer, Cesar Frank, whose best works were composed towards the end of his life
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March 23, 2006
John Field
Peter Wintersgill tells us of John Field, an Irishman who spent most of his life in Russia and originated the term nocturne.
March 16, 2006
Gabriel Faure
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of Gabriel Faure, composer of the well-known Requiem and a great music teacher.
March 09, 2006
Edward Elgar
Peter Wintersgill provides us with details of the life of Edward Elgar, the quintessential English composer.
March 02, 2006
Antonin Dvorak
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the great Antonin Dvorak who had an astonishingly productive musical life.
February 23, 2006
Paul Dukas
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Paul Dukas, composer of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
February 16, 2006
Gaetano Donizette
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the Italian composer Gaetano Donizette who wrote dozens of operas.
February 09, 2006
Vincent D'Indy
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Vincent D’Indy, composer of five operas and numerous other works.
February 02, 2006
Manuel De Falla
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Manuel De Falla, whose compositions included the well-known Ritual Fire Dance.
January 26, 2006
(Fritz) Frederick Delius
Peter Wintersgill tells us something of the life of Frederick Delius, the Yorkshire-born composer.
January 19, 2006
Leo Delibes
Peter Wintersgill tell us something of Leo Delibes, composer of the ballets Coppelia and Sylvia.
January 12, 2006
Claude Debussy
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the French composer, Claude Debussy, the most important composer in the first half of the 20th Century.
January 05, 2006
Francis Couperin
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to “Le Grand’’ Couperin, the keyboard composer and organist.
December 29, 2005
Archangelo Corelli
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of the 17th Century composer Archangelo Corelli, who lived in the palace of a cardinal.
December 22, 2005
Aaron Copland
Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Aaron Copland, one of the best-known American composers.
December 15, 2005
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the composer of Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.
December 08, 2005
Frederick Chopin
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Frederick Chopin, who was already composing significant works for the piano when he was ten years old.
December 01, 2005
Luigi Cherubini
Peter Wintersgill presents a potted biography of Luigi Cherubini, who wrote a quantity of church music.
November 24, 2005
Marc Antoine Charpentier
Peter Wintersgill introduces Marc Antoine Charpentier, music master to the Jesuits in the 17th Century.
November 17, 2005
Emmanuel Chabrier
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier, a man with a great sense of humour which showed through in his music.
November 10, 2005
William Byrd
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to William Byrd, one of the greatest figures, along with William Shakespeare, of the English Renaissance.
November 03, 2005
Dietrich Buxtehude
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude.
October 27, 2005
Anton Bruckner
Peter Wintersgill tells of the life of Anton Bruckner, the composer of monumental symphonies.
October 20, 2005
Max Bruch
Peter Wintersgill summerises the life of Max Bruch, who was born in Cologne.
October 13, 2005
Benjamin Britten
Peter Wintersgill introduces Benjamin Britten, perhaps the greatest Twentieth Century British composer.
October 06, 2005
Johannes Brahms
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to the great German composer Johannes Brahms.
September 29, 2005
Pierre Boulez
Peter Wintersgill tells something of Pierre Boulez, one of the leaders of the European avant garde musical scene.
September 22, 2005
Alexander Borodin
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of the Russian composer Alexander Borodin,
September 15, 2005
Luigi Bocherini
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of Luigi Bocherini, a prolific composer who worked in Madrid.
September 08, 2005
George Bizet
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to George Bizet, composer of the operas The Pearl Fishers and Carmen.
September 01, 2005
Franz Berwald
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to Franz Berwald, a Swedish composer whose works were not internationally recognised until long after his death.
August 25, 2005
Leonard Bernstein
Peter Wintersgill presents a word sketch of Leonard Bernstein, the American conductor and composer.
August 18, 2005
Hector Berlioz
Peter Wintersgill continues his series of "potted'' biographies of clasical composers with this word portrait of a giant of the French musical scene.
August 11, 2005
Lennox Berkley
Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of English-born composer Lennox Berkley.
August 04, 2005
Alban Berg
Continuing his guide to the great classical composers Peter Wintersgill summarises the life of Alban Berg, whose most famous work was the opera Lulu.
July 28, 2005
Beethoven
Peter Wintersgill presents a resume of the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of the greatest of the great classical composers.
July 20, 2005
Arnold Bax
Peter Wintersgill, continuing his series on the great classical composers, introduces us to Arnold Bax.
July 06, 2005
Bela Bartok
Continuing his series in which he introduces us to the great classical composers, Peter Wintersgill outlines the life of the Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok.
June 29, 2005
Bairstow And Balakirev
Peter Wintersgill introduces us to two more classical composers whose music lives on down the decades.
June 22, 2005
The Bach Family
Peter Wintersgill introduces the four sons of the great Johann Sebastian Bach - all of them considerable composers in their own right.
June 15, 2005
Johann Sebastian Bach
Retired doctor Peter Wintersgill, continuing his series on classical composers, presents a moving portrait of the great Johann Sebastian Bach.
June 08, 2005
Albinoni And Arne
When he retired after a lengthy career as a family doctor Peter Wintersgill decided to learn all he could about the lives of the great classical composers. His researches produced a series of talks to a University of the Third Age study group. Those talks eventually resulted in an informative book, Music Makers - Maladies and Melodies.
Week by week, Open Writing will feature extracts from Peter's book. He, and we, hope that after you have learned something of the lives of these gifted composers you will be inspired to listen to their music.
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