Poets and novelists. Painters. Modern composers. Film music composers.

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Composers who have also written poetry or novels. These may, for example, have been used as texts for their own songs, or as libretto for their own opera.


All these composers have also been seriously occupied with painting or drawing.


It is sometimes hard to tell when to call a composer modern, as opposed to Romantic. In general you can say that the Moder Eara in music started around the year 1900. However, many composers continued to write pieces in a romantic fashion long after that.


Composers that created music for the purpose of being used in a film, either as a main occupation, on a regular basis, or for an important film.

Not included are those composers whose music was used for films, but was not specially written for that purpose.


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(1813) Gioachino [Gioacchino] Rossini: Premiere of L'Italiana in Algeri, in Venice, Italy.
(1931) Albert Roussel: Premiere of Bacchus et Ariana, in Paris, France.
(1935) Werner Egk: Premiere of Die Zaubergeige, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
(1950) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Vier Letzte Lieder, in London, England.
(1960) Hans Werner Henze: Premiere of Der Prinz von Homburg, in Hamburg, Germany.

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