George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) was an American composer, the first African American to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. [1] He received the Pulitzer for his work Lilacs in 1996.[2] Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker[3] and playwright Ian Walker. Contents […]
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Josef Suk Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married. Contents 1 Biography 2 Musical style 3 Chronological list of compositions 4 References 5 Sources 6 External links Biography[edit] Josef Suk, early 1900s From a young age, Josef Suk […]
This list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the “Lists Consulted” section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri, who wrote the first ever opera in late 16th century Italy, to John Adams, one of the leading […]
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Not to be confused with Quartz Compositor. Quartz Composer is a node-based visual programming language provided as part of the Xcode development environment in macOS for processing and rendering graphical data. Quartz Composer uses OpenGL (including GLSL), OpenCL (only in Mac OS X 10.6 and later), Core Image, Core Video, JavaScript, and other technologies to […]