Search results for "Pianist" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist ... He began to tour again as a pianist in the late 1850s, before settling ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist from the swing era. His sophisticated ...6 KB (859 words) - 04:40, 27 February 2023
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- strong musical personality of its leader, pianist John Lewis, the extraordinary ... with swing and creativity. Whiteman’s pianist Frank Signorelli and violinist ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was an extremely prolific German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- | Occupation = Pianist | Years_active = | Label = Blue ... of bebop, and his virtuosity as a pianist led many to call him "the ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- his Italian–German mother was a pianist, his Italian father, a clarinetist ... 1891 to 1894 where he also toured as a virtuoso pianist. ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- A gifted concert pianist, Adams chose a career in photography after ... He originally trained himself as a pianist, but Yosemite and the camera ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- and flowing melody in the fifth finger of the pianist's right hand, over a background of rapid pedaled arpeggios. One of Sergei Lyapunov's ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843 – September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso jazz pianist, bandleader, and songwriter ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- for his elegance, was a major African American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, who played a decisive role in the development of big band ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- Hampton was also an unconventional pianist and a singer. ... he was equally amazing as a two-fingered pianist. The bars on the vibraphone ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
- William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was a prominent American jazz pianist and band leader. Like his contemporary ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- April 27, 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin began composing ... only one year old, his mother, a concert pianist, died of tuberculosis. Scriabin ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- in life, Rachmaninoff's skill as pianist was well-known and highly ... in silence, but Zverev saw him only as a pianist and severed his links with ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- baton technician, but as a composer and pianist, he was known for his preparedness ... He began his formal music training as a pianist, studying with Richard Robert ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
