Search results for "Organist" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Michael Praetorius (February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He was one of the most versatile ...3 KB (369 words) - 17:08, 9 November 2022
- Hans Leo Haßler (baptized October 26, 1564 – June 8, 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance music and early Baroque ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- He studied under the organist and famous madrigalist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ... helped him obtain the position as an organist at the church of Santa ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- Francesco Landini, or Landino, (around 1325 – September 2, 1397) was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, and instrument maker. He ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1533 – 1586) was an Italian composer and organist ... #039;s there. He is known to have been organist in Cannaregio in 1557, at ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- John Blow (1649 – October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant English composer of his time. ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- the most important English composer and organist of his era. Taverner reflected ... Taverner was the first organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- 11, 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was ... Jacques Thomelin. In 1685 he became the organist at the church of Saint-Gervais ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554 to 1557 – August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 16:30, 14 November 2021
- at St Mark's in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella. He is, however, chiefly remembered ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- known appointment to a musical position was as organist of Dover Priory, a Benedictine priory at Dover (now Dover College) in 1532. His career took ...6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
- Heinrich Schütz (October 8, 1585 in Bad Köstritz; November 6, 1672 in Dresden) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- He shows up again in his mid-twenties as organist and choirmaster of Lincoln ... He worked there as a singer, composer and organist for more than two decades ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor singer ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- Rameau's father was the organist at the cathedral of Dijon, and had his son practicing harpsichord as soon as he could sit at the bench ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- 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
- Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Dieterich Buxtehude (Dietrich, Diderich) (c. 1637 – May 9, 1707) was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 21:17, 15 July 2020
- (also named John Field) a professional organist, and later under Tommaso Giordani. He was the eldest son of Robert Field, who was a violinist ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- of Stephen Foster. Ives became a church organist at the age of 14 and wrote ... men. He continued his work as a church organist until as late as 1906. In ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- 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
- tradition, Puccini served as a church organist and choir director until ... Puccini took the position of church organist and choir master, but it ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 22:49, 28 August 2021
- from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, the organist of the Liebfrauenkirche ... he abandoned law for music, becoming the organist at the Calvinist Cathedral ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- in Newcastle, Leeds, and Halifax (he was organist at the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Halifax, West Yorkshire), he became organist of ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- He was born in Teuchern (in the Weißenfels district), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought ... training from Georg Caspar Wecker, organist of the Church of Saint Sebald ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- creative student, became a talented cellist and organist in his time at the school, playing the organ for the church. At the school, the children ...8 KB (1,163 words) - 02:52, 4 November 2022
- Johann Michael Haydn (September 14, 1737 – August 10, 1806) was an Austrian composer and organist, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 17:05, 9 November 2022
- in Europe is in sixteenth century Germany in organist Arnold Schlick's Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten. He called it hültze glechter ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- and from October 1624 to October 1627 he was the organist. In 1628 Carissimi moved north to Assisi, as maestro di cappella (chapel master) at the Cathedral ...7 KB (995 words) - 20:11, 26 May 2021
- Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a prolific and versatile German composer and organist of the Baroque era, whose ...38 KB (5,977 words) - 19:57, 7 May 2024
- His father was a schoolmaster and organist with whom Anton first studied ... Bruckner was a renowned organist in his time, impressing audiences ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2023
- French composer and organist Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764) published his Traité de l'harmonie in 1722 in which he posited that there ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was the organist of the principal church of his native city (St. Agapito), and in the last year became maestro ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- |Occupation = Composer, organist |Years_active = ... as a significant composer. He became the organist at St. Adalbert's Church ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- Alfred Lefébure-Wely at the eminent position of organist at the Église de la Madeleine, which he kept until 1877. His weekly improvisations stunned ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- [[Image:Organist at Lausanne Cathedral.jpg|thumb|300px|Organist at the Lausanne Cathedral]] Liturgical music is a form of music originating as ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- Holst's father Adolph Holst, an organist, pianist, and choirmaster ... Holst's father was the organist at All Saints' Church in ...22 KB (3,380 words) - 18:13, 24 July 2023
- and orchestra, Toccata Festiva, for the famed organist E. Power Biggs in the early 1960s. The New York Philharmonic commissioned an oboe concerto ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- player Jerry Garcia, guitarist Bob Weir, organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ... and electronic music background, while organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- (known as Valesi), and with the organist J.N. Kalcher. 1798 also saw Weber's first published work, six fughettas for piano, published in ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- musical family, not unusual for the child of an organist and both his father and grandfather were known composers. Legend has it he could sing an air ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- Turnbull had "a jeweled soul" and became a renowned organist, but these qualities were not particularly rewarded. His teachers at the ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- band cornetist and his stepmother a church organist. Hines at first intended to follow his father's example and play cornet but "blowing ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- example, have a basso continuo part for an organist to play. ==Figured bass notation== A part notated with figured bass consists of a bass-line ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- over his lunch break to study. When the organist of St. Paul's, John Stainer, noticed Budge's hard work, he decided to help the boy ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- also gained a reputation as a prominent organist and musical theorist who ... until 1913. He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- as one of nine children of Józef Rejment, an organist. He spent his childhood in Tuszyn near Łódź, to which his father had moved in order to work ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
