NOTABLE PERSONS IN MUSIC

Child prodigy touring Europe at 6

Mozart
Waltz king who composed “The blue Danube”
and “Die Fledermaus”

Johann Strauss
Father of symphony

Joseph Haydn
Greatest Master of Roman Catholic church

Giovanni de Palestrina
Inventor of Opera
ORFEO (1607)

Monteverdi
 Messiah:

Handel
Music composer for piano

Frederic Chopin
 The red priest

Antonio Vivaldi
Asia’s Queen of Songs

Pelita Corales
Play music with a leaf

Levi Celerio
Claude Debaussy of the Philippines

Antonio Molina
Father of Impressionism in Music

Claude Debaussy
Triumvirate of Filipino Composers

Nicanor Abelardo
Francisco Santiago
Antonio Molina
Father of the String Quartet

Haydn
The Devil’s violinist

Paganini
 Avant-garde

Jose Maceda
Deaf; “Prince of all Composers”

Beethoven
Musique concerto

Jose Maceda
Mixed the concept in Music of the Western and
Eastern Countries; National Artist in Music

Lucresia Kasilag
Composer of kundiman Songs

Nicanor Abelardo
One of the Most influential and important
composers of the 20th Century

Igor Stravinsky
Influenced by American Jazz

George Gershwin
Aaron Copland
Darius Milhaud
Monk suggested the use of a staff

Guido de Arezzo