Samuel Barber

Samuel Barbers Kompositionen - besonders sein Adagio für Streicher - gehören zu den meistaufgeführtesten Musikwerken Amerikas. Als Vertreter der neuromantischen Musik wurde er bekannt und zählt heute zu den wichtigsten Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. ...

James Barnes

James Barnes werd op 9 september 1949 in Hobart in de Amerikaanse staat Oklahoma geboren. Na zijn studie compositie en muziektheorie aan de universiteit van Kansas verkreeg hij in 1974 de Bachelor of Music en in 1975 de Master of Music. Hij ...

Aaron Copland

Norman Dello Joio

Don Gillis

Morton Gould

Samuel R. Hazo

Samuel R. Hazo resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and children. In 2003, Mr. Hazo became the first composer in history to be awarded the winner of both composition contests sponsored by the National Band Association. He has composed ...

David Maslanka

David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1943. He attended the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied composition with Joseph Wood. He spent a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and did masters and doctoral study in ...

Stephen Leonard Melillo

Stephen Melillo's works range from interactive video scores to three symphonies commissioned by Gerhardt Zimmerman and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, a Concerto for Violin & Orchestra composed for Anne Akiko Meyers, and over 14 hours of ...

Vaclav Nelhybel

Vincent Persichetti

Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed ist einer der bedeutendsten Komponisten für die Entwicklung der Blasorchestermusik. Seine Kompositionen gelten als wichtige Standardwerke für diese ...

H. Owen Reed

Steven Reineke

Claude T. Smith

Claude T. Smith was born in Monroe City, Missouri. He received his undergraduate training at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri and at the University of Kansas. He composed extensively in the areas of instrumental and choral music and ...