Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa

Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa (born December 27, 1943 in Barcelona) is a Spanish Catalan singer-songwriter.

Serrat is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages. He became involved with music at the age of 17, when he got his first guitar, to which he dedicates one of his earliest songs, “Una guitarra.”
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Berlioz Louis Hector

Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande Messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with over 1,000 musicians. At the other extreme, he also composed around 50 songs for voice and piano.
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John Winston Ono Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer, writer, songwriter, artist, actor and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. Lennon along with Paul McCartney formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and “wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history”.
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Manzanero Canché Armando

Armando Manzanero Canché (born in Mérida, México on December 7, 1935) is a Modern Mayan and Mexican musician and composer, widely considered the premiere Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era. One of the most successful composers of Latin America.
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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91), Austrian composer, a centrally important composer of the classical era, and one of the most inspired composers in Western musical tradition.
Born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, and baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, he was educated by his father, Leopold Mozart, who was concertmaster in the court orchestra of the archbishop of Salzburg and a celebrated violinist, composer, and author.
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Falla Manuel de

Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946), most important Spanish composer of the 20th century.
De Falla was born in Cádiz on November 23, 1876. As a child he studied music with his mother and with local teachers; as a young man he studied composition with the noted musicologist and teacher Felipe Pedrell. From 1905 to 1907 de Falla taught piano in Madrid, and from 1907 to 1914 he studied and worked in Paris. He lived and composed principally in Spain from 1914 to 1939, when he took up residence in Argentina. He died on November 14, 1946, in Buenos Aires.
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Schubert Franz Peter

Schubert, Franz Peter (1797-1828), Austrian composer, whose songs are among romantic masterpieces in that genre and whose instrumental works reflect a classical heritage as well as 19th-century romanticism.

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Antonio Salieri

Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825), Italian composer, highly admired in his time and remembered for his rivalry with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Born in Legnago, he studied with the Austrian composers Florian Gassmann and Christoph Willibald Gluck and became a court composer in Vienna. His works are primarily operas, church music, and cantatas; his students included the Hungarian Franz Liszt and the German Franz Schubert. Salieri intrigued against Mozart, whom he saw as a formidable rival. The unproven legend that he murdered Mozart was the subject of an opera by the Russian Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, set to a drama by the Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin; it was also the subject of both the play and film version Amadeus, written by British playwright Peter Shaffer.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), German organist and composer of the baroque era, one of the greatest and most productive geniuses in the history of Western music.

Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, into a family that over seven generations produced at least 53 prominent musicians, from Veit Bach to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach. Johann Sebastian received his first musical instruction from his father, Johann Ambrosius, a town musician. When his father died, he went to live and study with his elder brother, Johann Christoph, an organist in Ohrdruf.

Early Years
In 1700 Bach began to earn his own living as a chorister at the Church of Saint Michael in Lüneburg. In 1703 he became a violinist in the chamber orchestra of Prince Johann Ernst of Weimar, but later that year he moved to Arnstadt, where he became church organist. In October 1705, Bach secured a one-month leave of absence in order to study with the renowned Danish-born German organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude, who was then in Lübeck and whose organ music greatly influenced Bach’s. The visit was so rewarding to Bach that he overstayed his leave by two months. He was criticized by the church authorities not only for this breach of contract but also for the extravagant flourishes and strange harmonies in his organ accompaniments to congregational singing. He was already too highly respected, however, for either objection to result in his dismissal.
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