Music Box

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven is the greatest phenomenon in the world music culture, the composer has become a legend in his lifetime. He was so incredibly talented and goal-oriented that, even having lost his hearing, he continued to create his own, unparalleled, brilliant masterpieces. The eminent maestro stood on the threshold of Romanticism in Western European music and was the immediate founder of a new era that replaced the exhausted Classicism.

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Gioacchino Rossini Maitre of the 19th century opera art was recognized by the public during his lifetime: each new musical creation was perceived as the perfect embodiment of melody in the context of complex dramatic and "light-weight" comedy scenes. Gioacchino Rossini applauded the aristocracy, outstanding art figures sought his friendship, the monarchs personally invited him to secular receptions and showed favor.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald von Gluck is a musical genius whose work in the history of world music is hard to overestimate. His reforming activity can be called a revolution that reversed the previous foundations that existed in opera art. Having created a new operatic style, he determined the further development of European operatic art and had a significant influence on the work of such musical geniuses as L.

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Imre Kalman was called "the King of the operetta" and "Emperor of Vienna". They said during his lifetime that he belonged to the whole world. D.D. Shostakovich called this composer a genius, and his friends called him a "sullen bear." A melancholic and pessimist, a modest person who couldn’t have fun, but created almost two dozen works filled with joy, love and kindness, immersing into the world of celebration and triumph of justice.

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Johannes Brahms Contemporaries of Brahms, as well as later critics, considered the composer to be both an innovator and a traditionalist. His music in its structure and compositional techniques revealed a continuity with the works of Bach and Beethoven. Although contemporaries found the works of German romance too academic, his skill and the contribution he made to the development of musical art aroused the delight of many eminent composers of subsequent generations.

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Reinhold Glier A man with a kind heart and a poetic soul, so contemporaries called Reinhold Moritsevich Glier - a remarkable Soviet composer, who devoted his whole life to musical art. The outstanding maestro was sincerely convinced that love and beauty would transform our world, make it much better and kinder.

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Frederic Chopin The life story of the great Polish composer Frederic Chopin is touching to the depths of his soul. This extraordinarily gifted, charming romantic with refined manners and sensitive heart for all the short years of his life allotted to him by the heavens never really experienced a feeling of real happiness. He was always a favorite of the public and the object of adoration of many fans, who continually showered him with expensive gifts.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart National pride of Austria, the greatest mystery of the Creator, a symbol of Genius - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His life and death left more questions than answers. His story is overgrown with legends and myths. About him written hundreds of books. But we are unlikely to ever come close to unraveling this phenomenon.

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Bela Bartók The musical pride of the Hungarian people - this is how the Bela Bartók, an outstanding composer, brilliant pianist and innovator, is hailed around the world. The name of this aspiring person, who throughout his life, despite various obstacles and difficult circumstances, went to his goal, is remarkable for not only the history of Hungarian musical culture, but also European music of the 20th century.

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Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach is a German Baroque composer and musician who collected and combined traditions and the most significant achievements of European musical art in his work, as well as enriching it with a virtuoso counterpoint and a fine sense of perfect harmony.

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Antonin Dvorak The great son of the Czech people - as compatriots lovingly call Antonin Dvorak - a remarkable composer, one of the founders of the national school of composition. He is considered one of the most famous Czechs of all time, since Dvorzak’s composer talent was appreciated not only in Europe, but also across the ocean, even during his lifetime.

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Georges Bizet How else can you characterize the composer, whom P.I. Tchaikovsky called the genius, and his work - the opera "Carmen" - a real masterpiece, imbued with genuine feeling and true inspiration. Georges Bizet - an outstanding French composer who worked in the era of romanticism. His entire creative path was thorny, and life was a continuous obstacle course.

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Sergei Taneyev A man of spiritual purity, genuine kindness, great cordiality, sensitivity, delicacy and surprising modesty - contemporaries of Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev - a prominent composer, a brilliant pianist, the greatest musicologist and innate teacher, a true professional of his work, endowed with such virtuous qualities.

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Alexander Glazunov History knows a lot of Russian composers who, with their creative work, made an invaluable contribution to the development of world music culture. One of them was Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, an outstanding musician, whose works embodied the progressive traditions of Russian democratic art.

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