ARCT - Composers Lives and People

Moses Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn's grandfather

Abraham & Lea Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn's parents

Fanny Hensel

Felix Mendelssohn's sister

Marie Bigot (Paris)

Felix Mendelssohn's 1st piano teacher (age 7)

Carl Fredrich Zelter

Felix Mendelssohn's theory teacher (age 10)

Goethe, Liszt, Cherubini

Famous men Felix Mendelssohn met (ages 12-16)

G.W.F Hegel

Felix Mendelssohn's law/asthetics teacher (1827)

Cecile Jeanrenaud

Felix Mendelssohn's wife (m. 1835)

Queen Victoria

admired and played Felix Mendelssohn's work

Ignaz Moscheles

Pianist; Robert Schumann's early inspiration

Heinrich Heine

poet; Robert Schumann's inspiration/source for much of the Lieder

Fredrich Wieck

Robert S's first piano teacher

Clara Wieck

Robert S's wife (m. 1840)

Heinrich Dorn

Conductor of the Leipzig opera; Robert S's theory/counterpoint teacher

Chopin

inspiration for Robert S.

Johannes Brahms

Schumann's last article catapulted him to fame; formed a close friendship with Clara Schumann after Robert's death

Fredrich and Marianne Wieck

Clara Schumann's parents

Goethe, Paganini, and Liszt

Clara Schumann's admirers

Joachim, Mendelssohn, Brahms

musicians drawn to the Schumanns' salon

Adam Liszt

Franz Liszt's father and first piano teacher

Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy

Liszt's father's employer: his father played in Haydn's orchestra

Carl Czerny

Liszt's piano teacher

Antonio Salieri

Liszt's composition teacher

Hector Berlioz

One of Liszt's friends; Liszt also assisted Berlioz in his career

Verdi, Schumann, Wagner

Liszt helped to put on their productions and further their careers

Bellini, Donizetti, Chopin, Paganini; Heine, Hugo

musician and writer friends of Liszt

Marie d'Agoult

Liszt's partner from 1835-1839. The relationship ended bitterly despite their 3 children

Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein

Liszt's partner from 1847-1861

Ferdinando Provesi

Verdi's first music teacher

Antonio Barezzi

merchant and amateur musician who was Verdi's patron. Verdi also gave lessons to his daughter

Margherita Barezzi

Antonio Barezzi's daughter; Verdi married her in 1836

Giuseppina Strepponi

Opera singer. In a relationship with Verdi after Margherita died. They married after 12 years

King Victor Emmanuel

Unified Italy. Verdi's name was used as an acronym for the unification of Italy under Victor

Allesandro Manzoni

Italian author. Verdi's Messa de Requiem was composed in his honour

Giulio Ricordi

Verdi's publisher. Encouraged him to work with Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito

Librettist who collaborated with Verdi on his final triumphs, "Otello" and "Falstaff"

Johanna Wagner & Ludwig Geyer

Wagner's mother and stepfather

Christian Theodor Weinlig

Wagner's teacher

Wilhelmine (Minna) Planer

Wagner's wife (m. 1836 until her death in 1866, despite his numerous affairs)

Robert Schumann and "Neue Zeitshcrift fur Musik)

Wagner's articles were published in this journal of Schumann's

Franz Liszt

helped Wagner escape to Zurich when he grew over-zealous in his political activism

Cosima von Bulow

Liszt's daughter, married to the conductor Hans Von Bulow. She and Wagner had 3 children together before the von Bulow's divorced

Ludwig II of Bavaria

admirer of Wagner

Gabriel Faure

Ravel attended his composition class

"Les Apaches" included Ricardo Vines and Erik Satie

Ravel and his group of friends known as progressive and non-conforming artists

Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

commissioned Ravel to write the music to "Daphnis et Chloe"

Commissioned Prokofiev for a ballet "Scythian Suite"

George Gershwin

Ravel developed a friendship with him when he visited the States in 1927

Bach, Beethoven, Brahms

Their works had a profound effect on Schoenberg; influenced his approach to counterpoint and structure

Alexander von Zemlinsky

conductor of an amateur orchestra who became Schoenberg's only composition teacher

Mathilde von Zemlinsky

Zemlinsky's sister; married Schoenberg in 1901

Richard Strauss

1)Supported Schoenberg when he applied for a teaching position at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin

2)inspiration for Bartok

Alban Berg and Anton Webern

Schoenberg's students in Vienna (1903)

John Cage and Lou Harrison

Schoenberg's students in Los Angeles

Zoltan Kodaly

Shared Bartok's interest in Ethnomusicology

Igor Stravinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky, Ballets Russes

Inspiration for Bartok

Marta Ziegler

Bartok's first wife

Ditta Pasztory

Bartok's second wife

Bela and Peter

Bartok's sons (Bela with Marta, Peter with Ditta)

Joseph Szigeti and Benny Goodman

Artists who recorded "Contrasts" with Bartok in 1940

Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Commissioned the Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok

Sergei and Maria Prokofiev

Prokofiev's parents: his mother gave him his first piano lessons

Reinhold Gliere

Russian pianist; Prokofiev's teacher

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glauzunov

Prokofiev's composition teachers at the St. Petersburg Conservatory

Lina Llubera

Prokofiev's first wife

Mira Mendelssohn

Prokofiev's second wife: a poet who collaborated with him on two operas "Betrothal in a Monastery" and "War and Peace"

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator who died just hours after Prokofiev passed. News of Prokofiev's death was withheld in order to not eclipse the news of Stalin's death

Strauss, Wolf; Debussy, Ravel

post-Romantic and Impressionistic composers who inspired Copland

Nadia Boulanger

composition teacher of Copland

President Eisenhower

Copland excluded from the roster of musicians to mark the inauguration of the president