Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

Erik Satie — an eccentric, an esteemed music composer and a performing pianist of extremely anti-establishment nature is hailed as a genius in contemporary classical music. Versatile as he was, Satie composed theatre and ballet music and performed for café and cabaret audiences. Often criticized by critics for being dull, his music compositions were original, humorous, weird, and minimalistic. Termed as furniture music, his works are said to be the reflection of everyday life. However, it was only after his death that his achievements were acknowledged and he was hailed a genius. Simple in structure and marked by an innovative and characteristic wit, his works were explicitly anti-romantic and anti-impressionistic. His works were also a kind of revolt against the works of Romantic composers such as Richard Wagner, whose works were jazzier than his. He left a scarce work behind as most of his works were composed for piano. However, his revolutionary usage of bitonal and polytonal not...

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini  (February 29, 1792 — November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include  Il Barbiere di Siviglia  ( The Barber of Seville ), and 'Guillaume Tell'  William Tell  (the overture of which is popularly known for being the theme song for  The Lone Ranger ). Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a small town on the Adriatic coast of Italy. His father Giuseppe was town trumpeter and inspector of slaughterhouses, his mother Anna a singer and baker's daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the age of six he was playing the triangle in his father's band. Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French, and welcomed Napoleon's troops when they arrived in Northern Italy. This became a problem when in 1796, the Austrians restored...

Biographical details 1895  Born on 10 July in Munich 1898  Birth of his sister Maria (Mia) 1900  First piano tuition and first recording of compositions on a slate 1905  Music composed for his own puppet theatre 1912-14  Studies at the Academy of Music in Munich 1914  Further studies with Hermann Zilcher 1916  Musical director of Munich Chamber Theatre 1917  Military service, trapped on the Eastern front 1918  Musical director in Mannheim and Darmstadt 1919  Study of old masters of the 16th and 17th century; private circle of students in Munich 1920-27  Married to Alice Solscher 1920  Studies with Heinrich Kaminski 1921  Birth of daughter Godela  (Carl Orff 1921 with his daughter Godela) 1924  Foundation of Günther School in Munich 1925  First performance of new arrangement of ›L'Orfeo‹ by Monteverdi 1926  Begins cooperation with Gunild Keetman 1930  Perfor...