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Folke Rabe

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Folke Rabe (28 October 1935 – 25 September 2017 ) was a Swedish composer. He was born in Stockholm and studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where his teachers included Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Ingvar Lidholm, György Ligeti and others. He died in Stockholm, aged 81. His works include the electronic drone pieces What?? (also translated as “Was??”) (1968), Basta for solo trombone (1982), Escalations for brass quintet (1988), Concerto for trombone: “All the Lonely People” (1989) featuring quotes from The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”, and With Love No. 1 and 2 for piano (1988). A more extensive list is given below. Works Orchestral music *Hep-Hep for symphony orchestra (1966) *All the Lonely People…, concert for trombone and chamber orchestra (1989) *Naturen, flocken och släkten (”Nature, Herd and Relatives”), concert for French horn and string orchestra (1991) *Sardine Sarcophagus, concert for trumpet and sinfonietta (1995) *Så att denna sång inte dör (”So That this Song Will Not Die”) for symphony orchestra (1998) *L’Assiuolo caprese, concert for brass quintet and orchestra (2002) Works for band *Henry IV (1964) *Altiplano (1982) Works for radio *ISNOT, music dramatic work for

Fortunato Chelleri

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Fortunato Chelleri (originally: Keller, also: Kelleri, Kellery, Cheler) (May or June 1690 in Parma – 11 December 1757 in Kassel) was a Baroque Kapellmeister and composer. Biography Chelleri’s father had emigrated from Germany to Italy; his mother was from the Italian family of musicians Bazzani (or Bassani, see also Giovanni Battista Bassani). After the early death of his parents, he grew up with his uncle Francesco Maria Bazzani in Piacenza, who trained him as a musician. Chelleri started to compose operas for different opera companies in Northern Italy in 1708. He served in noble families in Barcelona, Florence and Venice, among others, including a post as maestro di capella of Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici. In 1722 Fürstbischof Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn engaged him as Hofkapellmeister in Würzburg, together with Giovanni Benedetto Platti. After the death of the Fürstbischof in 1724, Chelleri was in Kassel Hofkapellmeister of the Landgraf Karl von Hessen-Kassel. Between 1732 and 1734, he followed Karl’s son and successor Frederick of Sweden to the royal court of Stockholm. He returned to Germany with the title and fund of Hofrat (Court Councillor) and directed the private o

Fortunato Santini

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Fortunato Santini (Rome, 5 January 1777 was an Italian priest, composer and music collector. Life Santini was born in Rome and raised in an orphanage, where he studied counterpoint with Giuseppe Jannacconi. Later on he took organ lessons with G. Giudi. Between 1798 and 1801 he studied theology and philosophy and was ordained a priest in 1801. In those years he already started to copy and collect music manuscripts of the Roman School. He believed that he would only fully understand these old scores if he were able to copy them. Even in the 19th century it was not easy to understand the complicated handwritten scores of the 16th century. These first copies he made, set up the base for his collection which soon became more and more important. To copy musical compositions, Santini went to look for the originals in the different libraries and archives of Rome’s churches and monasteries. Thanks to cardinal Carlo Odescalchi, who quartered Santini’s collection in his private palace in Rome, Santini had access to private archives held by the Roman nobility, like the Ruspoli family. In 1820 Santini published a catalog of about a thousand musical scores in his growing collection. This catalog