Brightcecilia Gallery

[Philidor]

There’s a new feature here. Click Henry Purcell to access the composers gallery. It contains 216 portraits of dead and living Western art music composers and is fully searchable. You don't need to login or join. There's no similar resource on the net.

Click the ‘Item Actions’ button:

to show them as a slideshow. If you add cooliris to your browser the effect is spectacular:






Send eCards of composer mugshots. It’s quick and easy,







designed to avoid being caught in spam filters,







and you can include your own message.








Future Galleries:

- Conductors - almost finished
- Performers
- Musical Instruments
- Concert Halls Worldwide
- BrightCecilia Members (Composers, Performers, Early Music Societies, Instrument Makers, etc) - photos, biography, MP3s, videos, contact information

What else would you like to see? And which composers have been missed out?

[micrologus]

That's great Philidor

[micrologus]

Originally Posted by Philidor

And which composers have been missed out?

The Flemish Renaissance Composers

[Philidor]

Confession: I stole, shamelessly, pictures from people's albums*, particularly micrologus so I'm surprised the Flemish Renaissance Crew weren't picked up. Please give me the names and I'll include them.


* Plus names of modern composers from HG's thread -- thanks Herzeleide & Reiner -- and the Women Composers and Conductors thread. Thank you everybody. It would have taken days and days to track them down otherwise -- an impossible task which simply wouldn't have got done.

[micrologus]

The name of the album: Flemish renaissance composers

List of composers:

Dufay and Binchois
Adrian Willaert
Josquin Des Prez
Jacob Obrecht
Orlando di Lasso
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

[haydnguy]

Fantastic Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Florestan]

Isn't it fab?

The e-card facility is just brilliant.

Oh, and I recommend adding the Cooliris widget to your browser. It's fantastic. In my job, it's going to be a godsend for quick illustrations.

[Florestan]

As well as using it in the gallery to great effect, you can do a Google image search, click on cooliris and...

[maureen]

i have one thought
attribution where possible
it's more difficult with illustrations however with the famous paintings i think it would be lovely to indicate who the portrait painter was
most are not obscure and are probably indicated in the source material

[maureen]

http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Gabriel_Faure.htm

i recognize some of the painters in our gallery and would be willing to do the research for the attributions