Composers – Sakka Music

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Valborg Aulin (9 January 1860 – 11 January 1928) Two of her string quartets are the most important Swedish music compositions in that genre from the 1880s.

Mélanie Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937) was a prolific late-romantic composer who wrote more than 300 pieces.

Georgy Lvovich Catoire (27 April 1861 – 21 May 1926) was a composition teacher but he had a series of disappointments where he almost gave up composing.

Dora Pejačević (10 September 1885 – 5 March 1923) was one of the composers to introduce the orchestral song to Croatian music.

Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 1822 – 24/25 June 1882) was an acclaimed composer, pedagogue, pianist and Conservatory director.

Robert Volkmann (6 April 1815 – 30 October 1883) was a professor of harmony and counterpoint at Budapest’s National Academy of Music.