AGNES TYRRELL - CZECHIA
BORN 20 SEPTEMBER
Agnes Tyrrell was born in Brno, Moravia. She was the daughter of English teacher Henry Tyrrell and his wife Josefine Kotulan. She performed in her first recital at age nine, and attended the Conservatory in Vienna at age sixteen. She studied composition under Otto Ritzler and published her first compositions in 1872. Tyrrell became one of the few women to compose symphony works before 1900. Tyrrell died in Brno at the age of thirty-five.
Tyrrell composed over three hundred works for solo instrument, orchestra, chamber ensemble and voice. Selected works include: Andante, op. 6; Theme and Variations in F Major, op. 8; Nocturno, op. 16; Etudes, op. 48; Grand Sonata, op. 66; String quartet in G Major for chamber ensemble; Symphony in C Major for orchestra and others.
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Overture to the Oratorio Die Könige by Agnes Tyrrell
HARUNA MIYAKE - JAPAN
BORN 20 SEPTEMBER
BORN 20 SEPTEMBER
Haruna Miyake (三宅 榛名 Miyake Haruna, born 20 September 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese pianist and composer who also uses the name Haruna Shibata. She was born in Tokyo and studied music there, making her debut as a pianist at age 14 playing Mozart with the Tokyo Symphony orchestra. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, and afterward worked as a pianist and composer, touring in the United States. She often collaborates with pianist and composer Yuji Takahashi. Her composition Poem for String Orchestra received the Edward Benjamin Award.
Miyake combines Japanese and Western idiom, and often uses traditional Japanese instruments in her compositions. Selected works include: Why Not, My Baby? for soprano, piano and trumpet; Shiyoku; Piano Concerto; Fantasy for Milky Way Railroad; Phantom of a Flower and others.
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Musik for piccolo, flute and guitar by Haruna Miyake
Musik for piccolo, flute and guitar by Haruna Miyake
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