Search results for "Organist" - New World Encyclopedia

Michael Praetorius (February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He was one of the most versatile ...

Hans Leo Haßler (baptized October 26, 1564 – June 8, 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance music and early Baroque ...

He studied under the organist and famous madrigalist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ... helped him obtain the position as an organist at the church of Santa ...

Francesco Landini, or Landino, (around 1325 – September 2, 1397) was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, and instrument maker. He ...

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 ...

John Blow (1649 – October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant English composer of his time. ...

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ...

the most important English composer and organist of his era. Taverner reflected ... Taverner was the first organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ ...

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 ...

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554 to 1557 – August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heinrich Schütz (October 8, 1585 in Bad Köstritz; November 6, 1672 in Dresden) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the ...

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 ...

Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one ...

Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member ...

Dieterich Buxtehude (Dietrich, Diderich) (c. 1637 – May 9, 1707) was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque ...

(also named John Field) a professional organist, and later under Tommaso Giordani. He was the eldest son of Robert Field, who was a violinist ...

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 ...

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was an extremely prolific German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher ...

tradition, Puccini served as a church organist and choir director until ... Puccini took the position of church organist and choir master, but it ...

from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, the organist of the Liebfrauenkirche ... he abandoned law for music, becoming the organist at the Calvinist Cathedral ...

in Newcastle, Leeds, and Halifax (he was organist at the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Halifax, West Yorkshire), he became organist of ...

He was born in Teuchern (in the Weißenfels district), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other ...

was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought ... training from Georg Caspar Wecker, organist of the Church of Saint Sebald ...

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 ...

Johann Michael Haydn (September 14, 1737 – August 10, 1806) was an Austrian composer and organist, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn ...

in Europe is in sixteenth century Germany in organist Arnold Schlick's Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten. He called it hültze glechter ...

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 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a prolific and versatile German composer and organist of the Baroque era, whose ...

His father was a schoolmaster and organist with whom Anton first studied ... Bruckner was a renowned organist in his time, impressing audiences ...

French composer and organist Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764) published his Traité de l'harmonie in 1722 in which he posited that there ...

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 ...

|Occupation = Composer, organist |Years_active = ... as a significant composer. He became the organist at St. Adalbert's Church ...

Alfred Lefébure-Wely at the eminent position of organist at the Église de la Madeleine, which he kept until 1877. His weekly improvisations stunned ...

[[Image:Organist at Lausanne Cathedral.jpg|thumb|300px|Organist at the Lausanne Cathedral]] Liturgical music is a form of music originating as ...

Holst's father Adolph Holst, an organist, pianist, and choirmaster ... Holst's father was the organist at All Saints' Church in ...

and orchestra, Toccata Festiva, for the famed organist E. Power Biggs in the early 1960s. The New York Philharmonic commissioned an oboe concerto ...

player Jerry Garcia, guitarist Bob Weir, organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ... and electronic music background, while organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ...

(known as Valesi), and with the organist J.N. Kalcher. 1798 also saw Weber's first published work, six fughettas for piano, published in ...

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 ...

Turnbull had "a jeweled soul" and became a renowned organist, but these qualities were not particularly rewarded. His teachers at the ...

band cornetist and his stepmother a church organist. Hines at first intended to follow his father's example and play cornet but "blowing ...

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 ...

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 ...

also gained a reputation as a prominent organist and musical theorist who ... until 1913. He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of ...

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 ...

a creature of court, but instead was an organist and entrepreneurial presenter ... Scarlatti, was an Italian composer, organist and choirmaster who was ...

the Precentor, the Chaplain and Sacrist, the Organist, and the (honorary) High Steward and High Bailiff. Lastly, the educational role of the abbey ...

1992) was an influential French composer, organist, and ornithologist whose ... In 1931 Messiaen was appointed organist at the Église de la Sainte ...

either by a computer or by a live "organist" operating the fountain through a switchboard. Notable examples of this are fountains on ...

The son of a musician (his father was a church organist) Elgar was exposed to liturgical music from his earliest years and was deeply inspired ...

French composer, theorist and organist, Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764) published his Traité de l'harmonie in 1722 and this theoretical ...

New Jersey with guitarist Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, drummer Vini Lopez, and later bassist Vinnie Roslin, in a band called Child, ...

worked as a session guitarist and keyboardist/organist for film music composers and directors such as Salil Chowdhury from West Bengal, who often recorded ...

of saxophonist Steve Grossman, electric organist Keith Jarrett, bassist Dave Holland, percussionist Airto Moreira, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and ...

Nat's mother, Perlina, was the church organist. Nat learned to play the organ from his mother until the age of 12, when he began formal lessons ...

Traffic, drummer Buddy Miles and former Dylan organist Al Kooper, among others, were all involved in recording sessions for the album, Electric Ladyland. ...

received his first music lessons from a local organist. When his grandmother died in 1878, the two brothers were reunited in Paris with their father, ...

had taken a new turn when he was appointed organist at Chelsea Hospital in 1783) to request that she be released from the post, which she was. She ...

lessons at the parsonage from the Keighley parish organist. The Brontë children received art lessons from John Bradley of Keighley and all of them drew ...

to keep Sullivan afloat. He worked as a church organist and taught to earn his living, as as well composing hymns and songs.Stephen Turnbull, [https://www ...

solace, however, by studying with the local organist, a German-American named Kretzschmar who happens to have an extensive musical education and who ...

by one Saemann, and counterpoint by a Polish organist named Podbieski, who was to be the prototype of Abraham Liscot in Kater Murr. Ernst showed ...

In 1977, Jane had met organist Jonathan Hellyer Jones when singing in a church choir. Hellyer Jones became close to the Hawking family, and by ...

and No. 6 in B minor were also played. The organist was Louis Lefébure-Wély. The funeral procession to Père Lachaise Cemetery, which included ...