Classical & Opera Codexery

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Classical & Opera (16)

• Victoria de los Ángeles — Spanish lyric soprano from Barcelona admired for Mimì, Butterfly and Carmen, and a lifelong recitalist.
• Tito Gobbi — Italian baritone with nearly 100 roles and international renown.
• Titta Ruffo — Italian operatic baritone known as the 'Voce del leone'
• Wilhelm Backhaus — German pianist known for Beethoven, Brahms, and pioneering recordings.
• Wilhelm Kempff — German pianist renowned for his lyrical interpretations of Beethoven and Schubert, and a leading figure of the Germanic…
• Wanda Landowska — Pioneer of the 20th-century harpsichord revival.
• Witold Lutosławski — Polish composer and conductor of 20th-century classical music.
• Unsuk Chin — South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, based in Berlin.
• Yundi — Chinese pianist and youngest winner of the Chopin Competition.
• Virgil Thomson — American composer and critic who shaped the 'American Sound'.
• William Billings — First American choral composer and singing master.
• Jerome Kern — American composer of over 700 songs for stage and film.
• Cole Porter — American composer and songwriter of witty Broadway and film standards.
• Richard Rodgers
• Stephen Sondheim — Composer and lyricist who reinvented the American musical.
• Kurt Weill — German-born American composer of stage works and Gebrauchsmusik.

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