Personalities to the letter «C»

Spanish operatic soprano. She sang a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the works of Verdi and of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of&nbs...

Spanish composer, notably of zarzuelas. He also composed religious works and salon songs. The Murcian musician was one of the great Spanish composers of the nineteenth century, having such a n...

American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpr...

Italian organ builder. In 44 years of activity he built 430 organs in the Republic of Venice (north-east Italy, Istria and Dalmatia ), in Emilia-Romagna, in Trentino in the Marches, in Malta and in...

Maltese composer. As a teenager, composed many works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta. He moved from his early influences by Maltese folk music to a musical form "in wh...

Leading Italian operatic tenor, whose career reached its height in London in the 1870s and in New York City in the 1880s and 1890s. He had a repertoire of 80 operas and was the brother of the orche...

American comedian, writer, and country singer. He had several hits for RCA Victor in the 1960s. Campbell was a charter member of the cast of Hee Haw on CBS-TV from its beginning in 1969, ...

American guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor and television host. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS televis...

Belgian opera singer, conductor and composer. He composed the music for the Belgian national anthem, "La Brabançonne". He worked initially as an office clerk, but soon pursued a career ...

Italian composer and musical pedagogue, a pupil of Gioachino Rossini. From the very first compositions he showed a marked tendency for sacred music. In Mantua, in addition to giving ...

Prolific French-Italian composer who represented a link between Baroque compositional methods and those of the Classical style. He composed many instrumental pieces for harpsichord a...

French composer and conductor. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several tragédies en musique and opér...

Master carillonneur from 1880 and author of the melody of the carillon of the hotel of his native town Saint-Quentin. He initiated the reconstruction of the carillon destroyed and looted ...

Moldovan and Russian statesman and scientist. In 1703-1704 he created the "Book of the Science of Music". Cantemir made a great contribution to the development of Turkish music livin...

Italian composer of both sacred and secular music. He was the maestro di cappella of several Neapolitan churches; the composer of ten operas, five of which premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Napl...