Hans (Hanns) Aldo Schimmerling

Hans (Hanns) Aldo Schimmerling

Hanns Aldo Schimmerling (5 September 1900, Brno -  10 November 1967, Kingston, NY) commenced medicine studies in Vienna, but studied composition and orchestral conducting with Zemlinsky in ... [1900-1967] More info
Julius Schloss

Julius Schloss

Julius Schloss (1902 - 1972), Jewish composer in Vienna and his later days in exile in Shanghai and the United States. Schloss was born in Saarlouis, Germany on 3 May 1902 and studied compositi ... [1902-1972] More info
Erich Schmid

Erich Schmid

Erich Schmid (1 January 1907, Balsthal/CH - 7 December 2000, Zurich) studied composition, piano and orchestral conducting at the Hoch Konservatorium in Frankfurt (1927-1930). It was there that ... [1907-2000] More info
Artur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel (17 April 1882, Liprik/Galicia - 15 August 1951, Axenstein/Switzerland), a pianist and composer, resided in Berlin from 1898 until Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933. His parent ... [1882-1951] More info
Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schönberg

 Arnold (Franz Walter) Schönberg  (Wenen, 13 september 1874 – Los Angeles, 13 juli 1951) remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of music. From the final years ... [1874-1951] More info
Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Born in Monaco, the eldes ... [1878-1934] More info
Erwin Schulhoff

Erwin Schulhoff

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942), born in Prague into a German Jewish family, is a composer whose contribution to early 20th-century music has fallen into undeserved oblivion. His musical talent was ... [1884-1942] More info
Mátyás Seiber

Mátyás Seiber

Mátyás György Seiber (4 May 1905 Budapest – 24 September 1960 Kruger National Park, South Africa) was a Hungarian-born composer who lived and worked in England from 1935 onward. He was kil ... [1905-1960] More info
Vladimir Shcherbachev

Vladimir Shcherbachev

Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachev, (24 January 1889, Warsaw - 5 March 1952, Leningrad) was a Russian composer of the Soviet era. He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jas ... [1889-1952] More info
Dimitri Shostakovitch

Dimitri Shostakovitch

Dmitri Shostakovich (St. Petersburg, 1906 – Moscow, 9 August1975) was a Russian composer and pianist and was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. Despite Shostakovic ... [1906-1975] More info
Nikos Skalkottas

Nikos Skalkottas

 The Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas was born on Euboea on 8 March 1904 and died in Athens on 19 September 1949. He was born into a musical family, and as a five-year-old he already ... [1904-1949] More info
Nicholas Slonimsky

Nicholas Slonimsky

Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27 1894, St.Petersburg – December 25 1995, San Francisco) was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author.
He ... [1894-1995] More info
Leopold Spinner

Leopold Spinner

Leopold Spinner (26 April 1906 - 12 August 1980), born in the Austrian Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), grew up in Vienna and received violin and piano lessons from an early age. He studied composi ... [1906-1980] More info
Hans Walter Süsskind

Hans Walter Süsskind

Hans Walter Süsskind (1 May 1913, Prague - 25 March 1980, Berkeley/California), was a Czech-British conductor, pianist and composer. He studied composition with Joseph Suk and Alois Hába, pia ... [1913-1980] More info
George Szell

George Szell

Georg Szell (Budapest, 7 June 1897 - Cleveland, 30 July 1970) was an American conductor of Hungarian birth. He made his debut as a pianist and composer at the age of ten in Vienna, were he grew ... [1897-1970] More info