Arditi, Luigi (1822–1903), conductor and composer, was born on 16 July 1822 in Crescentino, Piedmont, the son of Maurizio Arditi and his wife, Caterina Colombo. He studied the violin with Carossini and Capitani in his home town, with Caldera in Turin, and with ...
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Arditi, Luigi (1822–1903), conductor and composer
John Warrack
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Bainton, Edgar Leslie (1880–1956), composer and conductor
Michael Jones
Bainton, Edgar Leslie (1880–1956), composer and conductor, was born on 14 February 1880 at 2 Florence Villas, De Beauvoir Square, Hackney, London, the second son among the three children of the Revd George Bainton, a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary Cave, both Londoners by birth. They moved to ...
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Barnby, Sir Joseph (1838–1896), composer and conductor
Anne Pimlott Baker
Barnby, Sir Joseph (1838–1896), composer and conductor, was born on 12 August 1838 at Swinegate, York, the youngest child in the family of fifteen children of Thomas Barnby, a shoemaker and organist, and his wife Barbara, née Robinson. At the age of seven he became a chorister at ...
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Benedict, Sir Julius (1804–1885), conductor and composer
Clive Brown
Benedict, Sir Julius (1804–1885), conductor and composer, was born at Stuttgart, Germany, on 27 November 1804 (in some nineteenth-century reference works the date was given incorrectly as 24 December 1804), the son of Moses Benedict, a rich German Jewish banker. At the Stuttgart Gymnasium...
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Benedict, Sir Julius (1804–1885)
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Berlioz, (Louis) Hector (1803–1869), composer and conductor
Diana Bickley
Berlioz, (Louis) Hector (1803–1869), composer and conductor, was born on 11 December 1803 in La Côte St André, in the département of Isère, France, the first of four children of Dr Louis-Joseph Berlioz and his wife, Marie-Antoinette-Joséphine, commonly known as Joséphine, the daughter of ...
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Berlioz, (Louis) Hector (1803–1869)
Maker: Pierre Petit
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(Louis) Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) by Pierre Petit, 1863 Getty Images
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Bridge, Frank (1879–1941), composer and conductor
Paul Hindmarsh
Bridge, Frank (1879–1941), composer and conductor, was born on 26 February 1879 at 7 North Road, Brighton, the tenth of twelve children of William Henry Bridge (1845–1928) and the first of the three children from his third marriage, to Elizabeth Warbrick (1846–1899). Frank's...
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Brown, (Elizabeth) Iona (1941–2004), violinist and conductor
Raymond Holden
Brown, (Elizabeth) Iona (1941–2004), violinist and conductor, was born on 7 January 1941 at the Cedars Nursing Home, Manor Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire, the first of four children of Antony Francis Brown, pianist and organist, and his wife, Fiona Mary, née Whitham, violinist. At the time of her birth her parents lived at ...
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Cellier, Alfred (1844–1891), composer and conductor
F. G. Edwards
revised by James J. Nott
Cellier, Alfred (1844–1891), composer and conductor, the son of Arsène Cellier, a French master at Hackney grammar school, was born at Hackney, Middlesex, on 1 December 1844. He was educated at the grammar school there, and at the age of eleven he became a chorister at the ...
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Chisholm, Erik William (1904–1965), composer and conductor
Raymond Holden
Chisholm, Erik William (1904–1965), composer and conductor, was born on 4 January 1904 at 2 Balmoral Villas, Cathcart, Glasgow, son of John Chisholm, master house painter, and his wife, Elizabeth McGeachy Macleod. His formal schooling was short: at the age of thirteen he was removed from ...
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Coates, Albert Henry (1882–1953), conductor and composer
Raymond Holden
Coates, Albert Henry (1882–1953), conductor and composer, was born on 23 April 1882 at St Petersburg, Russia, the youngest of seven sons of Charles Thomas Coates, businessman, and his wife, also born near St Petersburg, daughter of James Gibson and Mary Randall.
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Costa, Sir Michael Andrew Angus [formerly Michele Andrea Agniello] (1808–1884), conductor and composer
J. A. F. Maitland
revised by John Warrack
Costa, Sir Michael Andrew Angus [formerly Michele Andrea Agniello] (1808–1884), conductor and composer, was born in Naples on 4 February 1808, the son of Pasquale Costa. He studied with his father, his maternal grandfather Giacomo Tritto, and Giovanni Furno, then at the ...
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Costa, Sir Michael Andrew Angus (1808–1884)
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Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (1808–1884) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cowen, Sir Frederic Hymen [Hyman Frederick] (1852–1935), conductor and composer
George Biddlecombe
Cowen, Sir Frederic Hymen [Hyman Frederick] (1852–1935), conductor and composer, was born on 29 January 1852 in Kingston, Jamaica, the younger son of Frederick Augustus Cowen (d. 1876) and his wife, Emily, the second daughter of James Davis of Kingston. Back in ...
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Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (Max) (1934–2016)
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016), by Neil Drabble, 1990
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Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (Max) (1934–2016), composer and conductor
Ivan Hewett
Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (Max) (1934–2016), composer and conductor, was born on 8 September 1934 at Holly Street, Salford, the adopted only child of Thomas Davies (1901–1984), foreman at a high-precision instrument factory, and his wife, Hilda Davies (...
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Dewar, James (1793–1846), conductor and composer
Anne Pimlott Baker
Dewar, James (1793–1846), conductor and composer, was born on 26 July 1793 in Edinburgh, the son of Daniel Dewar, a violinist and composer of reels, and his wife, Catharine, née Ballantyne. His brother John Dewar was a composer. In 1817 he succeeded his teacher, ...
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Dvořák, Antonín Leopold (1841–1904)
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Dvořák, Antonín Leopold (1841–1904), composer and conductor
Graham Melville-Mason
Dvořák, Antonín Leopold (1841–1904), composer and conductor, was born on 8 September 1841 in Nelahozeves, to the north of Prague, the eldest of nine children of František Dvořák (1814–1894), musician, butcher, and innkeeper, and his wife, Anna Zdeňková (1820–1882). Recognition of his early musical talent led to his being sent at the age of twelve to ...
