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This is an incomplete list of plays for which incidental music has been written.
A very large number of such works have been written, and to limit the size of this article, only items where the composer and/or the playwright has a specific Wikipedia article should be included.
Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers. A renowned teacher, he taught many future jazz and classical composers, including Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis among others.
"Les Six" is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The name has its origins in two 1920 articles by critic Henri Collet in Comœdia. Their music is often seen as a neoclassic reaction against both the musical style of Richard Wagner and the Impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Roger Désormière was a French conductor. He was an enthusiastic champion of contemporary composers, but also conducted performances of early eighteenth century French music.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1902.
This article is about music-related events in 1865.
Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.
Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was a Soviet composer.
Henri-Pierre Sauguet-Poupard was a French composer.
Alice Theresa Hildagard Swanson Esty was an American actress, soprano and arts patron who commissioned works by members of Les Six and other French composers, and American composers such as Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson. Claire Brook, and Marc Blitzstein, among others.
Literaturoper, a term coined by the German music critic Edgar Istel, describes a genre of opera that emerged during the late 19th century. When an existing play for the legitimate theatre is set to music without major changes and without the intervention of a librettist, a “Literaturoper” is the result. Although the term is German, it can be applied to any kind of opera, irrespective of style or language.
Georges Samuel Tzipine was a French violinist, conductor and composer. He was of Russian-Jewish origin.
The Pasdeloup Orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in France.
In classical music, it is relatively rare for a work to be written in collaboration by multiple composers. This contrasts with popular music, where it is common for more than one person to contribute to the music for a song. Nevertheless, there are instances of collaborative classical music compositions.
Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long is a collaborative orchestral suite written by eight French composers in 1956, in honour of the pianist Marguerite Long.
Doda Conrad was a Polish-born American bass operatic singer.
Jean-François Gardeil is a French baritone and theatre director. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Chants de Garonne.
Louis-Jacques Rondeleux was a 20th-century French lyrical artist (baritone).
Billy Eidi is a French classical pianist of Lebanese background.
Suzanne Jeanne Marie Peignot, néeRivière, was a French soprano, privileged interpreter of The Six. Her friends nicknamed her la Reine des mouettes, an allusion to one of the melodies she successfully sang. As for him, Erik Satie had nicknamed her ma très petite da-dame.