Personalities to the letter «G»

Russian-born American pianist, conductor and composer. He studied the piano and composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, with Anton Rubinstein, Anatoly Lyadov, Alexander Glazunov and ...

Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. Together with Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, he was the leading Danish musician of his day. He began his career as a violinist with ...

German music teacher, composer and organist. From 1874 Eugen Gageur worked in the capital and residence city of Karlsruhe as organist and choir director at the Catholic city church of St. Step...

Belgian-born Swiss composer. He studied the piano with Auguste Laufer and harmony with Justin Bischoff. In 1905, he spent eight months in Berlin, where he studied compositi...

French musician, singer-songwriter, actor, author and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative and scandalous releases which cau...

Hungarian cellist

Italian composer, conductor and music teacher. He graduated from Milan Conservatory. Author of the operas Il grillo del focolare (1873, one of the Christmas ...

French violinist and composer. He studied violin and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, and won the Prix de Rome in 1944. His works include a violin concerto and the symphony...

French composer, choir conductor, and music educator. His compositional output consists of six antiphons for strings and organ, one mass, one ballet, and several art songs. He was the elder brother...

Italian composer. Very prolific and inspired, he had no great luck and soon the memory of him and his music was lost. This was helped by the fact that he had only a very few of his many composition...

Late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity.  Gallus's name has been Slovenianized as Jakob Petelin. Gallus most likely was educated at the Cistercian Stična Abbey in Carniola...

French conductor and composer of operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. He studied under César Franck and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. He con...

Austrian composer. His father, a schoolmaster and teacher of music, undertook his son's early education, which the boy continued under various masters until 1802, when he became the pupil of t...

Austrian music educator. He was the son of the composer and conductor Johann Baptist Gänsbacher. After he graduated the University of Vienna with a doctorate in law he took sing...

Swedish violinist and conductor of Hungarian origin. Studied as a violinist with Henri Marteau, worked in orchestras in Sweden. In 1942-1953 he was the chief conductor of the Stockholm Philharmonic...