Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until …

David Dubal: Reflections from the Keyboard: The World of the Concert Pianist. Summit Books, New York 1981, ISBN 978-0-671-49240-3. (englisch) Joachim Kaiser: Große Pianisten in unserer Zeit. 5. erweiterte Auflage, Piper Verlag, München 1982, ISBN 3-492-02810-1. Harold C. Schonberg: The Great Pianists. 1. aktualisierte Taschenbuchausgabe.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music.Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first …

J.Lo is the second studio album by American singer Jennifer Lopez.It was released on January 16, 2001, by Epic Records.Lopez began recording the album in April 2000, enlisting producers such as Cory Rooney, Troy Oliver, Dan Shea and Sean Combs, all of whom she had worked with on her debut album On the 6 (1999). The album's title refers to the nickname given to her by …

Étude Op. 10, No. 1 in C major, known as the Waterfall étude, is a study for solo piano composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1829. It was first published in 1833 in France, Germany, and England as the first piece of his Études Op. 10.This study in reach and arpeggios focuses on stretching the fingers of the right hand. The American music critic James Huneker (1857–1921) compared the …

Une momie (du latin médiéval mummia (en), « substance liquide extraite des corps embaumés utilisée comme drogue médicinale », lui-même issu de l’arabe مومياء, mūmyāʾ, « mélange de poix et de bitume, substance dont les anciens Égyptiens se servaient pour embaumer leurs morts », dérivé du persan موم, mūm, « cire, substances balsamiques » [1], [2]) est un cadavre ...

Sir András Schiff (Hungarian: [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈʃiff]; born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor, who has received numerous major awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services …

John Paul Corigliano Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar.. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City …

Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; () 25 December 1908 – () 21 November 1999) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances.Before becoming well-known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant.He afterwards became a gay icon due to his flamboyant …

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Italian: [arˈtuːro beneˈdetti mikeˈlandʒeli]; 5 January 1920 – 12 June 1995) was an Italian classical pianist.He is considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. According to The New York Times, he was perhaps the most reclusive, enigmatic and obsessive among the handful of the world's legendary pianists.