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Great Composers ~ The Impressionists. Paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention.

Great Composers ~ The Impressionists. Paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention.

Great Composers ~ The Impressionists. Paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention.

Great Composers ~ The Impressionists. Paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention.

Great composer paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention. Highlighting great composers that will

Got the Blues to Haunt Me has a syncopated Latin feel that moves along nicely. Lots of rich chord harmonies. The easy skeletal presentation leaves lots of room for added notes and syncopated

Great composer paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention. Highlighting great composers that will

Great Composers ~ The Impressionists. Paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention.

Dora Pejačević 1885-1923, Budapest, Kingdom of Hungry.
Dora Pejačević is considered a major Croatian composer. She left behind a considerable catalogue of 58 opuses (106

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, 1867-1944, Henniker, New Hampshire was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony,

Ethel Smyth, 1858-1944, Sidcup, Kent, England. An English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral

Cécile Chaminade 1857-1944 Paris, France. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer

Melanie Helene Bonis, 1858-1937, Paris, France. Mel Bonis was a prolific French post romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber

High Time is a fun piece to play. It's uplifting feeling is optimistic and hopeful. It has a jazz gospel feeling to it reminiscent of Ray Charles and David "Fathead" Newman. Dynamics and phrase

Great composer paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention. Highlighting great composers that will

Great composer paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention. Highlighting great composers that will

This piece has a funky feel that is set up by the block chord intro.  The theme maintains that bouncy feeling with rich harmonies that provide lots of color for this fun piece. Dynamics and phrase

Liu Tianhua Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China (1895–1932)

Liu was a noted erhu and pipa player, and an early pioneer in the modernization of traditional Chinese music. He joined Cai Yuanpei's Peking

Great composer paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention. Highlighting great composers that will

Great Composers ~ The Impressionists. Paintings by artist Al Moretti

A modern take on traditional composer portraits. Full of color and brightness to attract visual attention.

Origin is based on an ostinato bass line that sets the feeling and emotion of the composition. The ostinato also makes the piece pulsate.  This primal feel builds in momentum throughout the

Rabindranath Tagore Calcutta, India (1861–1941)

Tagore was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as

Rue Song is one of our favorite songs to play. It has an up-tempo pop feel that is contagious and light-hearted. This composition is roughly based on the jazz classic, "Road Song", from which it

Storm King is based on a strong, rhythmic bass line complimented by an epic melody. The feeling and emotion of the composition builds all the way to the closing statement at the end. You can feel