One composer who was influential in spreading the more serious style that Mozart and Haydn had formed is Muzio Clementi, a gifted virtuoso pianist who tied with Mozart in a musical " duel " before the emperor in which they each improvised and performed their compositions.

* 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss virtuoso pianist and composer ( d. 1871 )

Evans ' basement apartment had become the meeting place for several young musicians and composers such as Davis, Roach, pianist John Lewis, and baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan who were unhappy with the increasingly virtuoso instrumental techniques that dominated the bebop scene.

Also interred within Kensico Cemetery and Gate of Heaven Cemetery are the big band leader Tommy Dorsey ; the New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno ; the former CBS News president Fred Friendly ; the legendary New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig ; the film star and comedian Danny Kaye ; the virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff ; the author Ayn Rand ; NBC founder David Sarnoff ; and the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West.

He is a virtuoso jazz and classical pianist and an accomplished arranger and conductor who performs with orchestras all over the world.

Arthur " Art " Tatum, Jr. (, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956 ) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso who played with phenomenal facility despite being nearly blind since birth.

In some of his other roles during the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet several of the films were of uneven quality, down to demands or limitations set by the studio or their scripts: The Angel Wore Red ( 1960 ), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War ; Song Without End ( 1960 ), as Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, a flawed film made under the initial direction of Charles Vidor ( who died during shooting ), and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor, the actor's only disappointing foray into Hollywood ; the campy The Singer Not the Song ( 1961 ), as a Mexican bandit co-starring John Mills as a priest ; H. M. S.

From 1835 to 1839 she lived with virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt, who was five years younger, and was then a rising concert star.

He taught in Moscow in 1890, and in the United States from 1891 to 1894 where he also toured as a virtuoso pianist.

Busoni was a virtuoso pianist, and his works for piano are difficult to perform.

The late pianist Earl Wild prepared a virtuoso piano arrangement in the manner of Liszt, entitled, Fantasy on Gershwin's " Porgy & Bess ".

Louis Moreau Gottschalk ( May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869 ) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel ( November 14, 1778October 17, 1837 ) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist.

In their original piano form, the Hungarian Rhapsodies are noted for their difficulty ( Liszt was a virtuoso pianist as well as a composer ).

Frederic Anthony Rzewski ( born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts ) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.

Clara Schumann, the composer's wife and a noted pianist, gave the first public performance of the work on 8 January 1843, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and often played the work throughout her life, despite criticism of her performance from her husband late in his life and a statement that only a man could understand it ( it is said, though, that Schumann said this in a moment of jealousy, as it is well known that he sometimes had problems with being " Mr. Clara Schumann ", husband of the renowned virtuoso ).

Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, ( born September 5, 1961 ) is a French Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer.

Josef Casimir Hofmann ( originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann ; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957 ) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.

But, I think, Horowitz was the greater pianist, the greater virtuoso — he somehow appealed to the whole world.

* Cecile Licad-a renowned Filipina virtuoso classical pianist dubbed as a " a pianist's pianist " by The New Yorker, " her artistry, a blend of daring musical instinct and superb training.

* Jean-Henri Ravina, a French virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher

Several surviving members of the Buena Vista Social Club, such as trumpeter Manuel " Guajiro " Mirabal, laúd player Barbarito Torres and trombonist and conductor Jesus " Aguaje " Ramos currently tour worldwide, to popular acclaim, with new members such as the singer Carlos Calunga, virtuoso pianist Rolando Luna and occasionally the solo singer Omara Portuondo, as part of a 13 member band called Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club.

His pieces include six symphonies, a number of concertos, including two for violin, one for marimba and orchestra ( premiered by Ruth Stuber ), one for one piano, one for two pianos, one for accordion and one for alto saxophone ( the latter dedicated to Cecil Leeson ), a fantasia for trombone and orchestra ( composed for and premiered by Robert Marsteller ), and a Rapsodie again for alto saxophone-written for famous virtuoso Jean-Marie Londeix.

Russian Bayan virtuoso Stas Venglevski has premiered contemporary works by Yehuda Yannay, Anthony Galla-Rini and William Susman.

Other recent works include Alleluia for chorus and orchestra, composed for the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall (" The London Philharmonic Choir, with nowhere to hide in such a revealing acoustic, maintained pitch admirably and delivered a virtuoso cadenza of animated susurration "), and Fantasias, a 25-minute orchestral work premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra in November 2009 displaying a new interest in multi-movement structures.

Haydn was not a virtuoso at the international touring level ; nor was he seeking to create operatic works that could play for many nights in front of a large audience.

The popularity of an exaggerated vibrato among many ( but by no means all ) Mediterranean tenors and singing teachers of this era has been traced back by musicologists to the influential example set by the early-19th-century virtuoso vocalist Giovanni Battista Rubini ( 1794 – 1854 ).

Dolphy's virtuoso instrumental abilities and unique style of jazz, deeply emotional and free but strongly rooted in tradition and structured composition, heavily influenced such musicians as Anthony Braxton, members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, Arthur Blythe, Don Byron and many others.

However, given the fact that many composers wrote marches for their own band ( typically a professional community or circus band ), some require almost virtuoso skill to perform.

Rephlex has released the music of many notable and influential electronic artists, among them Mike Paradinas, the founder of Planet Mu Records, synth pop revivalist and electro pioneer Ed Upton, prolific dance musician Luke Vibert, and electronic musician and virtuoso bass player Squarepusher.

He became known as a virtuoso saxophonist in the 1910s, made more than 300 recordings for many different record labels, and did much to popularize the saxophone as an instrument in both the U. S. and overseas.

In many ways Dupré may be viewed as a ' Paganini ' of the organ-being a virtuoso of the highest order, he contributed extensively to the development of technique ( both in his organ music and in his pedagogical works ) although, like Paganini, his music is relatively unknown to musicians other than those who play the instrument for which the music was written.

Victor Wooten is widely lauded in jazz and bass-playing circles for his sometimes hyperkinetic slap and pop technique on bass guitar, and many consider him the leading bass virtuoso in music today.

Romani virtuoso like Bela Babai, Lajos Veres, the many members of the Lakatos family and others became famous.

His compositions were largely neglected for many years after his death, but he was remembered as a great virtuoso and arranger of Bach for the piano.

José Feliciano ( born September 10, 1945 ) is a Puerto Rican singer, virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including " Light My Fire " and the best-selling Christmas single " Feliz Navidad ".

Well-known jazz names include Alice Babs who worked with Duke Ellington for many years from 1963 and onwards, Arne Domnerus who has recorded albums with James Moody, Art Farmer and Clifford Brown, Bengt Hallberg, Bobo Stenson, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, composer and jazz musician Georg Riedel, Georg Wadenius, best-selling jazz musician Jan Johansson, the jazz duo Koop, Lars Gullin, the multi-instrumentalist and compose Magnus Lindgren, singer and actrss Monica Zetterlund, Nils Landgren, Putte Wickman, Rolf Ericsson, guitar virtuoso Ulf Wakenius, and Åke Hasselgård.

With the rise of the piano virtuoso, many composer-pianists did likewise, notably Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, and also the somewhat lesser-known Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber, John Field, Ferdinand Ries, and F. X. Mozart.

The above mentioned Mike Mosiello contributed a number instrumental numbers ( many often released on several issues with varying titles ) which apart from solo work by himself and Andy Sannella often featured the accordionist Charles Magnante and xylophone virtuoso George Hamilton Green.

Primarily known as a virtuoso player of the English concertina, Alistair Anderson also plays Northumbrian smallpipes and has composed many tunes on and for the instrument.

Kathryn Tickell ( a protegée of Anderson's in her youth ) has composed many virtuoso pieces for the smallpipes and has explored an even wider range of collaborations ; besides The Chieftains and The Boys of the Lough, she has worked with the Penguin Café Orchestra, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard and Sting, as well as having had a modern classical piece, Kettletoft Inn, composed for her by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Most notably there are many virtuoso bass players who draw inspiration from the early renaissance of the double bass.

A virtuoso defi player can decorate the rhythm of the songs in many exciting ways.

He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso and teacher.

He was a Native Hawaiian guitarist, claimed by many as the all-time best lap steel guitar virtuoso, and he is one the most famous original Hawaiian steel guitarists, along with Joseph Kekuku, Frank Ferera, Sam Ku West and " King " Bennie Nawahi.

For many of the L. A. recordings, members of the Wrecking Crew -- the prominent group of session musicians including drummer Earl Palmer, bassist Carol Kaye, guitar virtuoso Tommy Tedesco, and keyboard genius Larry Knechtel -- joined the team at Motown.

In addition to his virtuoso playing, he is famous for his many choro compositions, which range from the lyrical melodies of " Noites Cariocas " (" Carioca Nights ") and " Doce de Coco " to the aggressively jazzy " Assanhado ", which is reminiscent of bebop.

Walter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green ( Burmese ), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez ( ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio ).

" Ebert later placed the film on his list of " The Best 10 Movies of 2000 ", writing: " Tarsem, the director, is a visual virtuoso who juggles his storylines effortlessly ; it's dazzling, the way he blends so many notes, styles and genres into a film so original.