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Composers, Musicians and Artist
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
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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)
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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