He is also famous for his much loved " Toccata " for organ, commissioned by Simon Preston and joined over a decade later by a fugue, as well as his " Occasional Trumpet Voluntary ".

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

Complementing his language studies, Sapir studied music in the department of the famous composer Edward MacDowell, though it is uncertain if Sapir studied with MacDowell, or with other faculty.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Musical comedian Victor Borge often referred to the famous composer as " Joe Green " in his act, saying that " Giuseppe Verdi " was merely his " stage name ".

Matteo Carcassi ( 1792 – 16 January 1853 ) was a famous Italian guitarist and composer.

By far the most famous composer of the Roman School is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

The ragtime composer Scott Joplin became famous through the publication in 1899 of the " Maple Leaf Rag " and a string of ragtime hits that followed, although he was later forgotten by all but a small, dedicated community of ragtime aficionados until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s.

By far the most famous ragtime composer was Scott Joplin.

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.

He produced operas in each of the prevailing styles: opera buffa, such as The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte ; opera seria, such as Idomeneo ; and Singspiel, of which Die Zauberflöte is the most famous example by any composer.

* Petur Alberg ( 1885 – 1940 ), composer, most famous for composing the national anthem

He also met the American composer George Gershwin in New York and went with him to hear jazz in Harlem, probably hearing some of the famous jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington.

Holst became something of " an anomaly, a famous English composer ", and was busy with conducting, lecturing and teaching obligations.

Her second husband was the famous Mexican musician and composer Agustin Lara El Músico Poeta.

During his lifetime, Berlioz was as famous a conductor as he was as a composer.

He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School.

Another famous citizen was Anton Bruckner, who spent the years between 1855 and 1868 working as a local composer and church organist in the city.

The effective and integral score was written by the Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma, who also wrote the famous song " Autumn Leaves.

( It is interesting, in this regard, to note that Schnabel was a close friend of Arnold Schoenberg, his Austrian-American compatriot, who was famous as a pioneering composer of atonal and twelve-tone music.

Like any great cathedral, Lincoln has had its share of organists who have achieved international renown: perhaps the most famous is William Byrd, the Renaissance composer.

A famous poet and composer of songs, active in the early Middle Ages, was the philosopher Peter Abelard ( 1079 – 1142 ).

In 1906, Tertis was temporarily in the famous Bohemian Quartet to replace the violist / composer Oskar Nedbal.

He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

The custom of naming all asteroids in Jupiter's and points after famous heroes of the Trojan War was suggested by Johann Palisa of Vienna, who was the first to accurately calculate their orbits.

Mozart's most famous pupil, whom the Mozarts took into their Vienna home for two years as a child, was probably Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a transitional figure between Classical and Romantic eras.

Liszt chose the date in honour of Weimar's most famous citizen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749.

Archenholz commissioned a Berlin artist, Johann Friedrich Bolt, to produce a copper etching for Archenholz's History of Gustav Vasa of the famous Swedish Nobility.

In April 1763, Johann Kaspar Lavater, then a young theology-student from Zurich, made a trip to Berlin, where he visited the already famous Jewish philosopher with some companions.

Bloch diagnosed the disease as due to ' congestion of blood in the brain ' ( a meaningless diagnosis in modern medical practice as such congestion is anatomically impossible ), and after some controversy this diagnosis was also accepted by the famous Hanoverian court physician, Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, an admirer of Mendelssohn.

It became the most famous of Frescobaldi's works and was studied centuries after his death by numerous composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach.

Other famous scholars who have taught at the University of Vienna are: Theodor W. Adorno, Manfred Bietak, Theodor Billroth, Ludwig Boltzmann, Franz Brentano, Anton Bruckner, Rudolf Carnap, Conrad Celtes, Viktor Frankl, Sigmund Freud, Eduard Hanslick, Edmund Hauler, Hans Kelsen, Adam František Kollár, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Fran Miklošič, Oskar Morgenstern, Otto Neurath, Johann Palisa, Pope Pius II, Baron Carl von Rokitansky, August Schleicher, Moritz Schlick, Ludwig Karl Schmarda, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Josef Stefan, Leopold Vietoris, Jalile Jalil, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Olga Taussky-Todd.

Accompanying his body were three of his famous students: Johann Baptist Cramer, John Field and Ignaz Moscheles.

The town is famous as the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach as well.

* Johann Michael Ackner, famous Saxon archaeologist

Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include The Blue Danube, Kaiser-Walzer, Tales from the Vienna Woods, the Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, and the Pizzicato Polka.

Strauss was born in St. Ulrich near Vienna ( now a part of Neubau ), Austria, on October 25, 1825, to the famous composer Johann Strauss I.

In addition, the Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester, which was formed in 1966, pays tribute to the touring orchestras which once made the Strauss family so famous.

Johann Strauss I ( March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849 ; ; also Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss, Sr., the Elder, the Father ), born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty.

Dupré became famous for performing more than 2000 organ recitals throughout Australia, the United States, Canada and Europe, which included a recital series of 10 concerts of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1920 ( Paris Conservatoire ) and 1921 ( Palais du Trocadéro ), both performed entirely from memory.

It gained ground due to the Congress of Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century and the famous compositions by Josef Lanner, Johann Strauss I and his son, Johann Strauss II.