Pavel Haas

Pavel Haas

Pavel Haas was born in Brno, into a Jewish family. His father, Zikmund, a shoemaker by trade, was from the Moravian region; while his mother, Olga (née Epstein), was born in Odessa. After stud ... [1899-1944] More info
Alois Hába

Alois Hába

The composer, theorist and teacher Alois Hába (Vizovice, Moravia, 21 June 1893 – Prague, 18 November 1973) played a very prominent role in Czech musical life. He studied with Novak in Prag ... [1893-1973] More info
Rodolfo Halffter

Rodolfo Halffter

Rodolfo Halffter Escriche (Madrid, October 20, 1900 – Mexico, October 14, 1987) was a Spanish composer. Born into a family of musicians, he was the brother of Ernesto Halffter and uncle of Cr ... [1900-1987] More info
Norbert Hannenheim,von

Norbert Hannenheim,von

Norbert von Hannenheim, with full name Norbert Wolfgang Stephan Hann von Hannenheim (1898 Nagyszeben - 1945 in the Landeskrankenhaus Obrawalde near Międzyrzecz) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Ge ... [1898-1944] More info
Tibor Harsányi

Tibor Harsányi

Tibor Harsányi (Magyarkanizsa, June 27, 1898 – Paris, September 19, 1954), a Hungarian by birth, spent more than half his life in Paris and has therefore gone down in history as a French composer. ... [1898-1954] More info
Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Karl Amadeus Hartmann Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, well known there for his flower paintings, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became pa ... [1905-1963] More info
Josef Hauer

Josef Hauer

Josef Mattias Haue ... [1883-1959] More info
Hermann Heiss

Hermann Heiss

Hermann Heiss (1897-1966) English translation of biography in Dutch will follow soon. ... [1897-1966] More info
Philip Herschkowitz

Philip Herschkowitz

Philipp Herschkowitz (Romanian: Filip Herşcovici; Russian: Филипп Гершкович, Filipp Gershkovich) (September 7, 1906 – January 5, 1989) was a Romanian-born composer and music theorist ... [1906-1989] More info
Werner Richard Heymann

Werner Richard Heymann

Werner Richard Heymann (1896 Königsberg – 1961 Munich) was active as a classical composer in Berlin from 1912. By the end of the decade, he also wrote songs for cabaret and served as musical ... [1896-1961] More info
Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963) (alt)violist, leraar, organist, theoreticus en dirigent, wordt gerekend tot Duitslands belangrijkste componisten.
Hij was avontuurlijk en eigenzinnig, talentv ... [1895-1963] More info
Friedrich Hollaender

Friedrich Hollaender

Friedrich Hollaender (1896 – 1976), was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Friedrich had a s ... [1896-1976] More info
Rudolph (Rodolfo) Holzmann

Rudolph (Rodolfo) Holzmann

Rodolfo (Rudolph) Holzmann (* 27 November 1910 in Breslau; † 3 April 1992 in Lima) was a German-Peruvian composer, teacher and musicologist. After breaking off medicine studies he moved to Be ... [1910-1992] More info
Karl Horwitz

Karl Horwitz

Karl Horwitz (1884 - 1925), composer from Vienna who studied with Schoenberg between 1904 - 1908. He started as a conductor but concentrated on composing at an early age. His musical style can ... [1884-1925] More info