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Friedrich Kalkbrenner

Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (November 2–8, 1785 – August 10, 1849) was a German pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer who spent most of his life in England and France

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844,[a 1] – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.[a 2] He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are considered staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects.

Dmitry Kabalevsky

Dmitry Kabalevski

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1904 – 14 February 1987) was a Russian composer.
He helped to set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures. He was a prolific composer of piano music and chamber music; many of his piano works have been performed by Vladimir Horowitz. He is probably best known in the West for the “Comedians’ Galop” from The Comedians Suite, Op. 26.

Aram Khachaturian

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) (born in Tiflis, Georgia) was a prominent Soviet Armenian composer. Khachaturian’s works were often influenced by folk music of Armenia.

Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak (12 September 1818 – 1 March 1882) was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.

Friedrich Kuhlau

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age.

Theodor Kirchner

Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner (10 December 1823 – 18 September 1903) was a significant German composer and pianist of the Romantic era.

Friedrich Kiel

Friedrich Kiel (8 October 1821 – 13 September 1885) was a German composer and music teacher.

Vasily Kalinnikov

Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (January 13 [O.S. January 1] 1866 – January 11, 1901 [O.S. December 29, 1900]) was a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particularly the First, were frequently performed in the early 20th century.

Leopold Kozeluh

020 Leopold Kozeluh

Leopold Kozeluh. (b Velvary, 26 June 1747; d Vienna, 7 May 1818). Bohemian composer, pianist, music teacher and publisher.

Johann Kalliwoda

Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda (Johann Baptist Wenzel Kalliwoda in German) (February 21, 1801 – December 3, 1866), was a composer, conductor and violinist of Bohemian birth.

Franz Krommer

Franz Krommer (November 27, 1759, Kamenice u Jihlavy – January 8, 1831, Vienna) was a Czech composer of classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Jacob Klein

Jacob Herman Klein

(b Amsterdam, bap. 14 Oct 1688; bur. Amsterdam, 6 March 1748). Dutch composer and amateur cellist. His father was Jacob Klein de oude (b Amsterdam, 1665), dancing-master at the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg from 1690 to about 1710, to whom Estienne Roger dedicated his reprint of Corelli’s op.5 (1702). His aunt Lidwina Klein was the wife of the musician Philippus Hacquart, brother of the composer Carolus Hacquart. Klein’s career was in commerce; his title-pages designate him as ‘amatore di musica’. As most of his music is for the cello, he must have been an amateur cellist himself.

Johann Philipp Krieger

Johann Philipp Krieger (also Kriger, Krüger, Krugl, and Giovanni Filippo Kriegher; 25 February 1649 – 7 February 1725) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder brother of Johann Krieger.

Johann Kropfgans

(b Breslau [now Wrocław], 14 Oct 1708; d c1771). German lutenist and composer.

Johann Krebs

(b Buttelstedt, Weimar, bap. 12 Oct 1713; d Altenburg, 1 Jan 1780). Composer and organist, eldest of the three sons of (1) Johann Tobias Krebs.

Joseph Kraus

012 Joseph Kraus

Joseph Kraus. (b Miltenberg am Main, 20 June 1756; d Stockholm, 15 Dec 1792). He received his earliest musical education in the central German town of Buchen im Odenwald and during the years 1768–73 was educated in Mannheim, where his teachers included members of the Mannheim Kapelle

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