Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, (born May 7, 1840, Votkinsk, Russia—died Nov. 6, 1893, St. Petersburg), Russian composer. Sensitive and interested in music from his early childhood, Tchaikovsky turned to serious composition at age 14. In 1862 he began studying at the new St. Petersburg Conservatory; from 1866 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. His Piano Concerto No. […]
Max Steiner
Max Steiner (born May 10, 1888, Vienna, Austria—died Dec. 28, 1971, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) was an Austrian-born U.S. composer and conductor. A prodigy, he wrote an operetta at age 14 that ran in Vienna for a year. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1914 and worked in New York City as a theatre conductor and arranger, and then he moved to Hollywood in 1929. […]
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff (born March 20 [April 1, New Style], 1873, Oneg, near Semyonovo, Russia—died March 28, 1943, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.) was a composer who was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism and a leading piano virtuoso of his time. He is especially known for his piano concerti and the piece for piano and orchestra titled Rhapsody on a Theme of […]
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (born May 29, 1897, Brünn, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]—died November 29, 1957, Hollywood, California, U.S.) was an American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth, best known as one of the originators of the genre of grand film music. He was also noted for his operas, especially for Die tote Stadt (1920; “The Dead City”), which earned him an international reputation. A child prodigy, Korngold […]
To Hollywood and Beyond
Join Maestro David Amado, and pianist Lindsay Garritson for spectacular opening concerts featuring music from the silver screen. Two works written for Hollywood classics join two concert works whose drama, beauty, and tunefulness have made them cinema staples. Korngold’s score to Errol Flynn’s swashbuckling 1940 classic The Seahawk is a paragon of the lush “Hollywood […]