Biography: Alberto Alen, Alberto da Ripa, Alberto Ginastera, Alberto Randegger, Alejandro Caturla, Aleksander Zarzycki, Alessandro Besozzi, Alessandro Cicognini, Alessandro Coppini, Alessandro Grandi,

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Alberto Alen Biography, Photos, Pictures

Musicology students might want to consider making Spanish their language major simply to study the works of Alberto Alen Alen graduated from the Cuban Higher Institute of Art in the early ’80s with his own degree in musicology and since that time has been active as an instrumentalist, educator, researcher, and advisor to Cuban television on the subject of music programming

Alberto da Ripa Biography, Photos, Pictures

Ripa was an exceptional lutenist who played for the Cardinal of Mantua, before Henry VIII in 1529 and in service to Francois I It appears that Ripa remained in service to the French court for the remainder of his life

Alberto Ginastera Biography, Photos, Pictures

An Argentine composer of energetic and even ecstatic music in various forms — opera (Don Rodrigo, 1964), ballet, chamber, vocal, and choral Ginastera exhibits a Bartókian sense of harmony, bright orchestral colors, and gripping melodic and rhythmic gestures

Alberto Randegger Biography, Photos, Pictures

Randegger was a conductor born in Italy who settled in London in 1854 Prior to this he had lived in the country of his birth where he already had some repute as a conductor While in Italy he met Verdi (1850) and was later known as a great interpreter of this composer’s operas

Alejandro Caturla Biography, Photos, Pictures

Caturla studied in Havana and also with Boulanger in Paris He founded and conducted the Orquesta de Conciertos de Caibarién Caturla’s compositions were lively concoctions of Afro-Cuban rhythms, broken forms, unusual chord combinations and unbalanced orchestrations

Aleksander Zarzycki Biography, Photos, Pictures

As a pianist, Zarzycki had studied with Viole in Berlin and gave concerts in Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Germany and England He also studied composition in Paris with Reber and Reinecke

Alessandro Besozzi Biography, Photos, Pictures

Possibly the patriarch of the Italian family of musicians noted for their oboe playing and composition The family served in Italian courts such as Parma and Milan as well as in Dresden, Paris nd London

Alessandro Cicognini Biography, Photos, Pictures

Alessandro Cicognini was, for 20 years after World War II, the single most influential voice in film music in Italy, as the composer of choice for Italy’s most successful postwar filmmaker, Vittorio De Sica

Alessandro Coppini Biography, Photos, Pictures

An Italian composer, organist and theologian who earned his doctorate in theology as a member of the Servite monastic order He may have studied music with Giliardi; he spent most of his time in Florince

Alessandro Grandi Biography, Photos, Pictures

Perhaps second only to Monteverdi, Grandi was a prolific and important composer of motets and madrigals The contribution that he made to sacred music can be found in his motets with the then new concertato mannerisms