Composers Posters & Prints Index, “C...-”
for the music and social studies classrooms, theme decor for office, studio or home.

Pablo Casals
Ernest Chausson

Luigi Cherubini
Frederic Chopin

Domenico Cimarosa
Muzio Clementi

Pablo Casals
b. 12-29-1876; El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain
d. 10-22-1973; San Juan, Puerto Rico

Pablo Casals, regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time, was also a composer - one of his last compositions was the “Hymn of the United Nations”. Casals studied in Barcelona.

Among the notable people Casals played for were Queen Victoria and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1904) and John F. Kennedy (1961).

• Casals in Hispanic Heritage posters

Amedee-Ernest Chausson
b. 1-20-1855; Paris, France
d. 6-10-1899; bicycle accident

Luigi Cherubini
b. 9-14-1760; Florence, Italy
d. 3-15-1842; Paris

Luigi Cherubini, whose most significan compositions were operas and sacred music, was regarded by Beethoven as his greatest contemporary.

Frederic Chopin
b. 3-1-1810; Poland
d. 10-17-1849

Frederic Chopin, 19th Century Romantic composer and pianist, of Polish and French ancestry, was a child prodigy.

• selection of Fredric Chopin posters

Domenico Cimarosa
b. 12-17-1749; near Naples, Italy
d. 1-11-1801

Cimarosa was an opera composer. His masterpiece was Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage - 1792).

Muzio Clementi
b. 1-23-1752; Rome, Italy
d. 3-10-1832; England

Pianist Muzio Clementi, who is acknowledged as the first composer to write specifically for the piano, was also a piano teacher and piano manufacturer.