Biography: Ernst Gottlieb Baron, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Toch, Ernst Von Dohnányi, Ervin Schulhoff, Esaias Reusner, Esprit Joseph Antoi Blanchard, Esquivel, Estavao de Brito, Esteban Daza,

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Ernst Gottlieb Baron Biography, Photos, Pictures

The musicographer, lute player and composer who studied lute with Kohott, and traveled to a great extent throughout Germany until he was able to find steady work under Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia

Ernst Krenek Biography, Photos, Pictures

An influential Austrian/American composer whose compositional style mirrors many of the important developments of the 20th century His highly intellectual and eclectic style may be the reason his works are not heard more often

As a youth, Ernst Toch was almost entirely self-taught as a musician; his earliest compostional efforts involved copying out Mozart’s string quartets, which in turn served as models for his own essays in the genre

Ernst Von Dohnányi Biography, Photos, Pictures

A widely respected Hungarian pianist, melodist, and composer of orchestral and chamber music with a stylistic mix of Brahms (who admired his earlier chamber and pieces) and Liszt; known for “Variations on a Nursery Song” (1914)

Ervin Schulhoff Biography, Photos, Pictures

A Czech pianist and composer (and a student of Reger) who was influenced by jazz, dadaism, and the quarter-tone music of H…ba Schulhoff died in a concentration camp ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide

Esaias Reusner Biography, Photos, Pictures

Reusner was an important figure in German lute composition during the middle of the seventeenth century; the late Renaissance and Early Baroque He worked in Silesia before going to Berlin in 1674 becoming the lutenist for the electoral court

Esprit Joseph Antoi Blanchard Biography, Photos, Pictures

Blanchard was a French composer most highly influenced by both the Italian style and Handel He is considered to be the last important composer standing for church music to employ the figured bass to be read by cembalist or organist, doubling the lowest violin part

In the mid-’90s, Juan Garcia Esquivel enjoyed one of the most unexpected resurgences of popularity — and hipness — in the annals of 20th-century pop The composer and arranger skirted the lines between lounge music, eccentric experimentalism, and stereo sound pioneer in the late ’50s and early ’60s on a series of albums aimed at the easy listening market

Estavao de Brito Biography, Photos, Pictures

Presently little is known concerning the life and compositional style of Estevao de Brito He was a Portuguese composer who wrote predominantly sacred music ~ Keith Johnson, All Music Guide

Esteban Daza Biography, Photos, Pictures

Vihuelas, strummed, plucked by finger or pick, costituted a staple of Spainish music for the middle of the sixteenth century Daza wrote a great deal of music for the vihuela and was a composer who helped to clarify the difficult intablature