Composers, Musicians and Artist

Germany

Saint Hildegard of Bingen(composer)• Born:1098

Bermersheim, Germany

• She was a nun• Died September 17,

1179• Was a church musician

part of the cuiar• The Dresden

Frauenkirche, the Church of Our Lady

Albrecht Durer(artist)

• Born May 21, 1471 in Nurnberg

• Moved to Italy and echoes of Italian art

• Died in 1528• Wiki Loves

Monuments

Matthias Grunewald(artist)

• Born in 1475• Died in 1528• Real name

was Mathis Gothart and was a Renaissance painter.

Hans Holbein(artist)

• Famous painting of Henry the 8th.

• Painted over 150 portraits of royalty and nobility.

Johann Pachelbel(composer)

• Born in Nuremberg south Germany in 1653.

• Died on March 1706

• Burried in Saint Rochas Cementary in Nuremberg.

Johann Sebastian Bach(composer)• One of germanies and the worlds

most famouse composers.• Came from a dynasty of

7generations of musicians from the 16th-18th century.

• Born March 31st 1685 in Eisenach, Germany

• His father was Johann Ambrosius Bach, organist. He taught him how to play violin and harpischord. He died in 1695 leaving his son orphaned at age 10.

• He moved with his brother who taught him how to play the organ.

• Died July 28 1750 in Leipzig.

Ludwing van Bethoven(composer)• Another of the worlds most

famous musical composers.• He was a pianist and a

composer.• Born December 17, 1770 in

Bonn, Germany.• His father Johann Bethoven

was also a musician at the Court of Bonn.

• He had no children.• Died of cirrhosis, jaundice and

liver failure in March 26 1827. Vienna, Austria.

Felix Medelssohn(composer)

• Was a German composer, conductor and pianist.

• Was a very famous composer in the Romantic period.

• Born February 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany.

Richard Wagner(composer)

• Was a 19th century German composer, conductor and theatre director.

• Best know for his operas.• He built his own opera

house.• Born in Leipzig, Germany

May 22, 1813.• Died in Venice, Italy

February 13 1883.

Franz Ittenbach(Artist)

• Born in Konigswinter, Germany in 1813.

• Was a pupil at age 19 at the Academy of Dusseldorf.

• Was a religious man• One of his important

frescos wa spainted in 1844 in a church at Remagen.

Friedrich Albert Lange(artist)

• Born on September 28, 1828 Wald, Germany.

• He was a painter, philisopher and sociologist.

• Died on Novermber 23, 1875

Johannes Brahms(composer)• Known as one of the “Three B’s” along with Bach and

Bethoven.• Word famous composers of all time.• Giant of classical music.• Called by some “Last of the Classicists” and classified in the

early Romantic period. • Born May 7, 1833, Hamburg, Germany.• Died in April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria. Liver or pancreas

failure.

Max Ernst(artist)

• Was born on April 2, 1891 in Bruhl, Germany.

• Served in the Germany army during WW2. he later became an artist in the Dada movement, in 1922 he moved to Paris and helped found Surrealism.

• He died in 1976

Carl Orff(composer)

• He enjoyed teaching music to children and developed methods on teaching them.

• He was born on July 10, 1895 in Munich, Germany.

• Died on March 29 1982 in Munich, Germany

Anselm Kiefer(artist)

• He was born on March 8, 1945 in Donausechingen, Germany.

• He is a artist, sculptur and photographer.

• Much of his work is based on his home countries sensibilities and culture.

• He also did art on Nazism