Robert NIchols wrote about a composer who received what honor in 1903?
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Roger Nichols (musical scholar) Roger David Edward Nichols (born 6 April 1939) is an English music scholar, critic, translator and author. After an early career as a university lecturer he became a full-time freelance writer in 1980. He is particularly known for his works on French music, including books about Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and the Parisian musical scene of the years after the First World War. Among his translations is the English version of the standard biography of Gabriel Fauré by Jean-Michel Nectoux. Nichols was decorated by the French authorities in 2006 for his contribution to French musical studies.
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Claude Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy (] , 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918), known since the 1890s as Claude-Achille Debussy or Claude Debussy, was a French composer. He and Maurice Ravel were the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though Debussy disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed.
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Luis H. Salgado Luis Humberto Salgado (1903 Cayambe - 1977 Quito) was an Ecuadorian composer. He was regarded as one of the most influential and prolific composers of his country.
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Ethelbert Nevin Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (November 25, 1862February 17, 1901) was an American pianist and composer.
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1903 in Australia The following lists events that happened during 1903 in Australia.
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Frederic Curzon Frederic Curzon (4 September 18996 December 1973) was an English composer, conductor and musician.
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Prelude in D major (Rachmaninoff) The Prelude in D major, Op. 23 No. 4 is a 1903 composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is part of Rachmaninoff's Ten Preludes, Op. 23.
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Lev Naumov Lev Nikolayevich Naumov (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Нау́мов ; February 12, 1925, Rostov – August 21, 2005, Moscow) was a Russian classical pianist, composer and educator. Received a title of People's Artist of Russia and was nicknamed the "Godfather of the Russian piano school".
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Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein (born "Yuda-Leyb Gornshteyn"; c. December 11, 1895 – February 24, 2002) (also Лев Орнштейн, Lev Ornchteïn) was a Russian-American composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Marvin Hamlisch Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch was one of only twelve people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. This collection of all four is referred to as an "EGOT". He is one of only two people (along with Richard Rodgers) to have won those four prizes and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Parker Bailey Parker Bailey (1902 - 1980) was an American composer, pianist, and lawyer. He was a nephew of Horatio Parker, with whom he had hoped to study at Yale University, but Parker died before taking him on. Bailey served for a time as a lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission, but remained active as a composer for much of his life.
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1993 International Rostrum of Composers The 1993 International Rostrum of Composers was the 39th edition of the forum. Finnish composer Kimmo Hakola won the UNESCO Mozart Medal with "Capriole", a 1991 composition for cello and double bass.
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Hector the Hero "Hector the Hero" is a classic lament penned by Scottish composer and fiddler James Scott Skinner in 1903. It was written as a tribute to Major-General Hector MacDonald, a distinguished Scottish general around the turn of the century. MacDonald, a friend of Skinner's, had not long before committed suicide following accusations of homosexuality.
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Peter Paul Koprowski Peter Paul Koprowski (born 24 August 1947 in Łódź) is a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and pianist of Polish descent. He became a Canadian citizen in 1976. As a composer he is chiefly known for his large output of symphonic works which began with his still frequently performed "In Memoriam Karol Szymanowski" (1963). He has twice won the Jules Léger Prize (in 1989 for "Sonnet for Laura" and in 1994 for his "Woodwind Quintet") and received the Canada Council's Victor M. Lynch-Staunton Award in 1989. His first "Viola Concerto" was awarded the Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award in 1997. He was nominated for a Juno Award in 2002 for "Redemption", a concerto for viola and orchestra.
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Simon Morrison Simon Morrison is a music historian specializing in 20th-century music, particularly Russian and Soviet music, with special interests in dance, film, and historically informed performance based on extensive archival research. He is a leading authority on composer Sergey Prokofiev and has received unprecedented access to the composer's papers, housed in Moscow at RGALI. Morrison received his B.Mus. from the University of Toronto (1987), a Master's in Musicology from McGill University (1993), and Ph.D. from Princeton University (1997), where he is Professor of Music. His distinctions include the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society (1999), an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2001), a Phi Beta Kappa Society Teacher Award (2006), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011).
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Robert Simpson (composer) Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.
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Safford Cape Safford Cape (28 June 1906 - 26 March 1973) was an American conductor, composer and musicologist.
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Robert Nichols (actor) Robert Nichols (July 20, 1924 – March 21, 2013) was an American character actor, singer, and dancer. His television, theater and film career spanned more than seventy years.
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Willis Patterson Willis Charles Patterson (born November 27, 1930) is an African-American bass-baritone, editor, music arranger, and professor emeritus/longtime Associate Dean of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. A Fulbright Scholar and the winner of the Marian Anderson Award, he has performed in opera houses and concert halls internationally. He has served as president of the National Association of Negro Musicians and as executive secretary of the National Black Music Caucus. In 1977 he edited what "The New York Times" described as a "groundbreaking anthology of black art songs."
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Robert Leaf Robert Daniel Leaf (February 20, 1936 – October 11, 2005) was an American composer".
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1903 in Australian literature This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1903.
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Todd Duncan Robert Todd Duncan (February 12, 1903 – February 28, 1998) was an American baritone opera singer and actor.