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Ada Gentile

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Ada Gentile (born 26 July 1947) is an Italian pianist and composer. She has taught at the Rome Conservatory and been artistic director of uovi Spazi Musicali, Rome, Goffredo Petrassi Chamber Orchestra, Rome and the opera house in Ascoli Piceno, and advisor to the Venice Biennale Festival. Her works have been performed internationally, and she was honoured by the Polish Ministry of Culture in 1988 ‘for cultural services’. She was also awarded the Cavaliere al merito of the Italian Republic. Life Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree in composition at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi. She was successful in international competitions, including Gaudeamus in 1982, ISCM, Budapest in 1986 and Essen in 1995. Gentile was honoured by the Polish Ministry of Culture in 1988 ‘for cultural services’. Works Selected works include: *Adagios for string orchestra (1993–94) *Adagio for a Summer for flute and strings (1998) *Concertante for flute, guitar and orchestra (1989) *Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1995) *Concert (“Veni Lumen Cordis”) for femal

Ada Jordan Pray

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Adagerta “Ada” G. Jordan Pray (April 9, 1884 – August 25, 1961), B.L., was a composer, teacher and concert singer, the director of the Ada Jordan Pray Music School. Early life Adagerta “Ada” G. Jordan Pray was born on April 9, 1884, in Livermore, California. Swiss Echo Song, words and music, Wishing on a Star in the Valley of the Moon, words by Nell Griffith Wilson, sung by Connie Von Loben Sels, and “Schubertiana”: symphony movement in rondo form: to be used with unison chorus if desired. She was a lecturer on Appreciation of Music. For a woman of her time, she travelled extensively abroad. She was vice-president of the California Music Teachers’ Association. She was a member of the Durham Woman’s Club and the Butte County Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. In 1936 she was appointed to supervise the promotion of musical activities in her district in Butte County, California, where she was assigned the role to make sure all of these musical activities in the district were being directed and developed properly. Personal life Ada Jordan Pray moved to Oroville, California, in 1916. In 1915 she married Lee Walker Pray (1881–1958). In 1919 she moved to San Francisco an

Ada Kent

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Ada Twohy Kent (8 February 188823 July 1969) was a Canadian musician, composer, and music educator. She was described as “probably Canada’s most successful woman composer” in a 1943 profile. Early life and education Ada Jane Fairlane Twohy was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of William Humphrey Twohy and Ada Lutz Twohy. Her parents were both Canadian. Her piano teachers included J. E. P. Aldous and A. S. Vogt. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music at the University of Toronto in 1906, at age 18, and an LRAM from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Career Kent was a pianist and composer from her teens, and a music educator. In Hamilton, Ontario, she was a church organist beginning in her teens, In 1938, she gave a recital of her own works at London’s Wigmore Hall. She gave a similar program in 1939, at the Prince Edward Hotel in Windsor. Kent composed works for piano, violin, and voice, and wrote several books of songs for children. She often used texts by Canadian writers as the lyrics of her songs. “Ada Twohy Kent has the precious gift of melodic sense,” wrote a reviewer in 1937, about her first book of songs. “There’s a simple vigor and often a lyric enchantment in the

Adalbert Gyrowetz

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Adalbert Gyrowetz (; 20 February 1763 – 19 March 1850) was a Czech-Austrian composer. He mainly wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies; his operas and singspiele numbered more than 30, including Semiramide (1791), Der Augenarzt (1811), and Robert, oder Die Prüfung (1815). Biography Gyrowetz was born 20 February 1763 in České Budějovice. His father was the choirmaster in the cathedral there, and Adalbert first studied with him. He then travelled to Prague, where he studied law but continued to learn music. At around this time Gyrowetz was in the employ of Count Franz von Fünfkirchen in Brno, whose employees were all musicians. Here he started composing (among other things) symphonies, of which he was eventually to write more than 60. In 1785, he moved to Vienna and met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who performed one of Gyrowetz’s symphonies in the same year. From 1786 to around 1793, he travelled throughout Europe. He spent some time in Paris, where he established that some symphonies that had been published as the work of Joseph Haydn were in fact his work. He spent three years in Italy, meeting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Rome and studying

Adam Bałdych

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Adam Bałdych (born 18 May 1986 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) is a Polish violinist, composer, and music producer. Baldych is an ACT MUSIC (Germany) recording artist. He is known from a series of record releases and collaborations with musicians like Marius Neset, Morten Lund, and Lars Danielsson. Career Bałdych picked up the violin at the age of 9 years and started at a music school in Gorzow Wielkopolski under guidance of Grazyna Wasilewska. He is a graduate of the Institute of Jazz and Popular Music at Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music and got a scholarship to continue at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At the age of 16 he had already achieved great recognition, and was called a “prodigy” in Poland. He started touring with prominent Polish and American musicians in Poland, Germany, Serbia, England, Finland, Hungary, Spain, France, Indonesia and the US. His second album for ACT The New Tradition was recorded together with Israeli pianist Yaron Herman and released on 30 May 2014. Recently ACT released Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IV – Accordion Night which is a recording from the concert within the Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic series. 28 August 2015 his third album for ACT wil

Adam Darr

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Adam Darr (29 September 1811 – 2 October 1866) was a German classical guitarist, singer, zither player and composer. Biography Adam Darr was born in Schweinfurt, Kingdom of Bavaria, and started playing the guitar as a youth. Sometime after the age of 23, he left his hometown of Schweinfurt, performing abroad. Although secondary sources state that he performed for royal courts, no primary sources have been discovered to verify this claim. The first known performance of Darr is in April 1837 as a guitarist/vocalist in an ensemble known as the Bavaria Nature-Singers. It is known that he traveled with this ensemble in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia. According to Bone (1914), he spent three years in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1836 to 1839, after which he returned to Germany, where, in Würzburg, he became the private tutor of an English family resident there named Whitbread. It is believed that he performed in Paris, and it has been verified that he performed in Berlin. In Würzburg he met fellow-guitarist Friedrich Brand. Together they formed a duo and for a year or two, they traveled through southern Germany, performing in Munich, Weimar, and elsewhere. At Munich, Darr

Adam de la Halle

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Adam de la Halle (1245–50 – 1285–8/after 1306) was a French poet-composer trouvère. Among the few medieval composers to write both monophonic and polyphonic music, in this respect he has been considered both a conservative and progressive composer, resulting in a complex legacy: he cultivated admired representatives of older trouvère genres, but also experimented with newer dramatic works. Adam represented the final generation of the trouvère tradition and “has long been regarded as one of the most important musical and literary figures of thirteenth-century Europe”. Adam’s literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates) in the style of the trouvères; polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony; and a musical play, Jeu de Robin et Marion (c. 1282–83), which is considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music. He was a member of the Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d’Arras, a fraternity of jongleurs. Life and career Adam’s other nicknames, “le Bossu d’Arras” and “Adam d’Arras”, suggest that he came from Arras, France. The sobriquet “the Hunchback” was probably a family name; Adam himself points out that he

Adam Drese

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Adam Drese (December 1620 – 15 February 1701 in Arnstadt) was a German composer, kapellmeister, and bass viol player of the baroque period. Life Adam Drese was born in the German state of Thuringia. He became a musician at the court of Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar in Weimar before being sent by the duke to Warsaw to study with Marco Scacchi. He returned to Weimar and was appointed as the duke’s Kapellmeister in 1652. In 1662, after the death of Duke Wilhelm IV, the Hofkapelle was disbanded, the duke’s son, duke Bernhard took Drese to Jena, where he appointed him as his Kapellmeister, secretary and also the town mayor from 1672. Despite Duke Bernhards’s death in 1678, Drese remained in Jena until 1683, when he found another post as Kapellmeister, to the Count of Schwarzburg at Arnstadt. He remained in Arnstadt until his death in 1701. Works It is thought that most of Drese’s output has been lost. His surviving pieces include sacred and secular vocal works, as well as some instrumental Sonatas and Suites. Most notably, 3 sonatas by Drese were included in the 1662 manuscript collection Partiturbuch Ludwig. He became known in his time for the composition of several chorale melodies w

Adam Fong

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Adam Fong (born June 21, 1980) is an American composer, performer and producer active in the San Francisco Bay area. He studied English and Music at Stanford University earning an M.A. in 2004. He then completed an M.F.A. in media studies at Cal Arts in 2006 where his teachers included James Tenney and Wadada Leo Smith. Career He began working with Charles Amirkhanian for the well known concert organization Other Minds in 2006 where he served as Associate Director. In addition he co-founded Emerging Arts Professionals, a network for people working in the arts sector in or near San Francisco. He continues to be a part of the Leadership Group of this organization. He is active as a performer with various groups in the bay area. Center for New Music San Francisco, Inc. The Center for New Music San Francisco, Inc.was founded in 2012, and is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. The Center was conceived in 2011 by Adam Fong and Brent Miller. Partial List of Compositions *Yizkor (2002) for clarinet, piano and cello Premiered May, 2003 at Stanford *String Quartet No. 1 (2003) Premiered May, 2003 at Stanford *Five Times Remembered (for Bill Evans, 2004) for piano and tape Premiered Novem

Adam Gwon

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Adam Gwon is an American composer and lyricist living in New York City. Personal life Gwon was born in Boston, and spent his childhood in Baltimore before attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts. While studying acting at NYU, Gwon was encouraged to pursue writing by a teacher, David Bucknam, and was later mentored by the musical theater writing team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Gwon is of Chinese-American and Jewish descent. Professional life Gwon made his off-Broadway debut in 2009 with Ordinary Days, the first musical production in Roundabout Theatre Company’s black box space, Roundabout Underground. In 2011, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, premiered Gwon’s musical The Boy Detective Fails, based on the novel by Joe Meno, as part of their American Musical Voices Project. South Coast Repertory commissioned and premiered his musical Cloudlands, written with Octavio Solis, in 2012. In 2015, Gwon had two simultaneous world premieres, both co-written with Julia Jordan: Bernice Bobs Her Hair, adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and Cake Off at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. Cake Off received a He

Adam Jarzębski

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Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590 in Warka – 1648/49 in Warsaw) was an early Baroque Polish composer, violinist, poet, and writer. His main extant work Canzoni e concerti (copied in 1627) is not only one of the most important collections of early baroque instrumental ensemble music in Europe but also stands as a unique historical landmark as containing the first purely instrumental compositions to bear the designation concerto. The first documented mention of Jarzębski was in 1612, when he became a member of the chapel of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg in Berlin. After he had stayed in Italy for a year (1615–16), he became a member of the royal musical establishment, first at the court of Sigismund III Vasa and then of Władysław IV. He was held in great esteem by the royal court and was very popular among the members of the patriciate of Warsaw. In 1635 he managed the construction of the royal palace at Ujazdów. In 1643 he published a literary work Gościniec, albo krótkie opisanie Warszawy (The Main Road, or a Short Description of Warsaw) describing the customs and the musical life of the town. He died in Warsaw in 1649. He was an outstanding figure in the history of the Polish cultu

Adam Michna z Otradovic

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Adam Michna z Otradovic, or also Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic – literally Adam Michna of Otradovice (c. 1600 – 2 November 1676, Jindřichův Hradec), was a Czech Catholic poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of the early Baroque era. He is also known in simplified form as Adam Michna and during his life as Adamus Wenceslaus Michna de Ottradowicz. He was the most important Czech composer and poet of the early Baroque who initiated the development of Czech art in that era and became a significant inspiration for Czech artists of future generations. Life Michna was descended from the noble and musical family of Michna z Otradovic in Jindřichův Hradec in South Bohemia, bearing the title of Knight. His father was the organist and trumpeter Michael Michna (many of his other relatives were also trumpeters). In the 1620s the literary fraternity in the town was restored by the highest Lord Chancellor of the Kingdom of Bohemia Vilém Slavata and that act, together with the activities of the Jesuit College, founded in 1594, contributed greatly to the development of cultural life in the town. Adam Michna became the first student at the Jesuit College, where he studied in 1611–

Adam of Fulda

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Adam of Fulda (c. 1445 – 1505) was a German composer and music theorist of the second half of the 15th century. He was born in Fulda and died in Wittenberg. In Heinrich Glarean’s Dodecachordon he is described as Francum Germanum, i.e., of German origin. Adam of Fulda calls himself at times musicus ducalis (musician of the Court). He also mentions Guillaume Dufay (1397 - 1474) as his contemporary. Biography Adam of Fulda was born approximately 1445. He was educated at the Benedictine Monastery at Vornbach Abbey, where he wrote his De musica. After leaving the monastery, he was a lecturer at the Wittenberg University in Torgau, where he was one of the scholars involved with Renaissance humanism. From 1490 he was choir director. Writings Three writings of his are known. De musica is a four-part manuscript written in Strasbourg, dated 4 November 1490. It deals in 7 chapters with an explication, invention and praise of music; in 21 chapters with the human hand, the chant, the voice, the clefs, the mutation and the keys; in 13 chapters with mensural music and in 8 chapters with proportions and consonances. He wrote “Ein ser andechtig Cristenlich Buchleī aus hailigē schrifften vnd Lerern

Adam of Saint Victor

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Adam of Saint Victor (; c. 1068 – 1146) was a prolific composer and poet of Latin hymns. A central figure of the sequences in high medieval music, he has been called “…the most illustrious exponent of the revival of liturgical poetry which the twelfth century affords.” Music and poetry Adam of St Victor’s surviving works are sequences for liturgical use, not theological treatises. Jodocus Clichtovaeus , a Catholic theologian of the 16th century, published thirty-seven of his hymns in the Elucidatorium Ecclesiasticum (1516). The remaining seventy hymns were preserved in the Abbey of Saint Victor until its dissolution during the French Revolution. They were then transferred to the Bibliothèque Nationale, where they were discovered by Léon Gautier, who edited the first complete edition of them (Paris, 1858). Anglican Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench characterized Adam of Saint Victor as “the foremost among the sacred Latin poets of the Middle Ages”. In Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams wrote that Adam “aimed at obtaining his effect from the skillful use of the Latin sonorities for purposes of the chant”. The translator of medieval hymns, John Mason Neale, described Adam

Adam Peters (composer)

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Adam Peters is a British composer. He is known for his work with various bands and artists, as well as film and television scoring. Career Band Peters’ first band was called the Disruptive Patterns, where he played as a keyboardist. He began playing cello, piano and keyboards with Echo & the Bunnymen and during his time with the band, they released several albums, including Ocean Rain, Evergreen and Reverberation. His collaboration with lead vocalist Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant resulted in some of the band’s most beloved tracks, such as “The Killing Moon”, “Seven Seas” and “Never Stop”. Peters had a collaboration with the Australian band The Triffids for the albums Born Sandy Devotional, Calenture and The Black Swan. Peters and David McComb contributed to the Leonard Cohen tribute album I’m Your Fan with a cover of “Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On” in 1991. The Flowerpot Men was an early electronic music group formed by Peters and Ben Watkins, the band released three 12-inch EPs, including the track “Beat City”, which was featured in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Peters’ cello was featured on The Dream Academy’s albums. In 1994, he co-founded the band Family

Adam Pounds

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Adam Pounds (born ) is a British composer and conductor, mostly active in Cambridge. Biography Adam Pounds is the first living British composer recorded by the Sinfonia of London and its conductor, John Wilson. Born in Walthamstow, in London, to Edward Pounds and Annie Pounds (née Crisp)., he moved to Cambridge with his wife, Dinah Pounds, and their two children, in 2000. Education As a child, Pounds was a chorister at St Michael’s Church, in Walthamstow. Pounds continued his studies at Goldsmiths’ College, graduating with a BMus (Hons) degree. In 2002, Pounds began studying for a MEd at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where his research focused on the decline of classical music provision in state schools. During his studies at Trinity Hall, Pounds joined the choir of Great St Mary’s, the University Church. He subsequently founded the Academy of Great St. Mary’s at the University Church in Cambridge, where some of his later works have received their debut. Pounds also conducts the Stapleford Choral Society. Between 2015 and 2021, then again from 2024, Pounds also served as the chairman of the Lennox Berkeley Society, which encourages the performance, study, recording and broadcast of his

Adam Schoenberg

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Adam Schoenberg (born November 15, 1980) is an American composer. A member of the Atlanta School of Composers, his works have been performed by numerous orchestras and ensembles in the U.S. Schoenberg was the 2010–2012 guest composer for the Aspen Music Festival, the 2012–2013 composer-in-residence for the Kansas City Symphony, the 2013–2014 composer-in-residence for the Lexington Philharmonic, and the 2015–2017 composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony. Schoenberg’s honors include a 2009 and 2010 MacDowell Colony fellowship, the 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP, and the 2006 Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Schoenberg earned his master’s degree and Doctor of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School, where he studied composition with John Corigliano and Robert Beaser and wrote his thesis about noted film composer Thomas Newman. While at Juilliard, Schoenberg was awarded the Palmer-Dixon Prize (for “Most Outstanding Composition”). A resident of Los Angeles, Schoenberg is assistant professor of Composition at Occidental College. He is married to playwright and screenwriter Janine Salina

Adam Scime

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Adam Scime (born 1982) is a Canadian composer and double bassist based in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education Scime was born in Hamilton. Career Scime played bass on Jim MacDonald’s 2005 album Weights and Measures. In 2012 Adam’s piece Mirage earned third prize in the Sir Ernest MacMillan category of the Annual Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada Foundation Awards for Young Composers. Also in 2012 Adam’s piece After the rioT was awarded the Karen Keiser Prize in Canadian Music. He has received commissioning grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council that include works for Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, The Esprit Orchestra, Array Music, and New Music Concerts. In 2015 Scime won the Canadian Music Centre Toronto Emerging Composer Award. Scime became an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, and serves as music director for FAWN Chamber Creative in Toronto. References External links *Official website *

Adam Songbird

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Aluko Damilola, professionally known as Adam Songbird, is a Nigerian film score composer, singer-songwriter and sound designer. Early life and education Adam Songbird is a Nigerian born in Lagos State. Adam Songbird spent his childhood days in Mainland Lagos and later Lagos Island. Adam Songbird attended Ikeja High School and Federal Polytechnic Offa for his diploma in Computer Science graduating in 2006 before moving on to Lagos State University for a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science graduating in 2016. Career Adam Songbird who spent his childhood in Lagos Mainland was exposed to music like Fuji, Reggae and traditional music during his time in Lagos Island. Adam Songbird was signed under Mike Abdul’s record label. During this time, Adam Songbird traveled around the country as an artiste and stage performer. Saheed Balogun’s Eti Keta which was produced in 2012 marked Adam Songbird’s first film composition. As a singer-songwriter, Adam Songbird has a five-tracks extended play, No Strings Attached, which was well directed by Lare Sanneka, featuring Wati and Walesax. EP * No Strings Attached Singles * “Lomi” * “Awe O” * “Elyon” * “Full Control” * “Terms and Conditions” * “Ina My

Adam Vincent Clarke

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Adam Vincent Clarke (born 1992) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, opera, and dance. Clarke was born in Nova Scotia, later moving to Antwerp, Belgium where he co-founded the dance-theatre company Âmok/Âmok in 2016. His style of composition is characterized by a fusion of folk traditions, contemporary classical music, and melodic structures. Early life and education Clarke was born in 1992 in Nova Scotia, Canada, growing up in the community of Greenwood. He developed an interest in music as a child, beginning to learn to play the bagpipes at the age of nine. During this period he cultivated a fascination for Eastern Canadian folk music, which later influenced his compositions. Clarke was also inspired by heavy metal, and learned to play the electric guitar prior to pursuing formal musical education. He studied composition at Acadia University under Dinuk Wijeratne and Derek Charke, going on to earn a master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in Belgium. Career Clarke’s work spans contemporary classical music, opera, and interdisciplinary performance. His compositions have been commissioned and performed internationally by ensembles and companies such

Adam Wingard

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Adam Wingard ( ; born December 3, 1982) is an American filmmaker. He has served as a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, actor, and composer on numerous American films. Following an early career as a member of the mumblecore movement, he became notable for his works in the horror and action genres, especially the films You’re Next (2011), and The Guest (2014), and the bigger-budget franchise films Blair Witch (2016), Death Note (2017), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), and its sequel Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). Early life Wingard was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and graduated from Full Sail University in 2002. Career His first feature, the horror comedy Home Sick, starring Bill Moseley and Tiffany Shepis, was a stepping stone to his second feature, the psychotropic ghost story horror film Pop Skull. Made on a total budget of $2,000, Pop Skull had its international premiere at the Rome Film Festival and its domestic premiere at the AFI Film Festival in 2007. A Horrible Way to Die (2010) and What Fun We Were Having (2011) that followed. The romantic horror film A Horrible Way to Die premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in the Vangu

Addie Anderson Wilson

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Addie Anderson Wilson (August 17, 1876 – October 8, 1966) was an American composer, organist and carillonist who was born in Lawrenceville, Alabama, and lived in Alabama for most of her life. She studied music with Mary Carr Moore and M. Wilson. She married William Sidney Wilson on November 9, 1892, and they had one son. Life and career Wilson was active in civic affairs and music organizations, winning awards and holding several elected positions, such as: *First Vice President, Alabama Federation of Music Clubs *President, Harmony Club of Dothan, Alabama *President, Music Study Club *Woman of the Year, Dothan, Alabama Works Wilson composed several operettas and piano pieces, which were initially published by George Willig & Co and Carl Fischer Music. She also composed: Piano *“Southern Breezes” Vocal *“Apple Blossoms” *“Evening Song” *“Faith” (text from Mark X:36–52) *“Goodnight, Mr. Moon” *“Hi, Mr. Sunshine” *“I Will Give You Rest” (a cappella chorus; text from Matthew XI:28–30) *“Lullaby” *“Under the Rose” (words by Richard Henry Stoddard) *“Whenever Skies are Gray” References

Adegoke Steve Colson

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Adegoke Steve Colson is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. A member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since the early 1970s, Colson has performed and recorded with musicians including Joseph Jarman, Reggie Workman, David Murray, Henry Threadgill, Malachi Favors, Kahil El’Zabar, among many others. His work incorporates themes of African American identity and social consciousness, and has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, JazzTimes, All About Jazz, and The New York City Jazz Record. Early life and education Colson was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in East Orange, where he graduated from East Orange High School. He studied piano at Northwestern University’s School of Music beginning in 1967 and also studied alto saxophone with Fred Hemke. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education (BME) in 1971. where he is referenced alongside his spouse, vocalist, composer and educator Iqua Colson, as part of the AACM’s second generation Career Colson’s early recordings were with The Unity Troupe, a group he founded in the 1970s. Their debut album, Triumph!, was released in 1979 and followed by No Reservation in 1980 on t

Adel Heinrich

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Adel Verna Heinrich (July 20, 1926 – August 10, 2022) was an American composer, organist, and university teacher. She taught music at Colby College until her retirement in 1988. Personal life and career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Heinrich graduated from Flora Stone Mather College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951, and a master’s degree in sacred music from the Union Theological Seminary in 1954. In 1976, she received a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison based on her thesis Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge : a living compendium of fugal procedures. Her book Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers was published in 1991. Her compositions for organ include A Carol is Born (a music drama for two sopranos, alto, flute, organ) and the oratorio The Nazarene. Heinrich taught at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, from 1964 to 1988, where she was associate professor of music and director of chapel music. Heinrich died on August 10, 2022, at the age of 96. Awards Heinrich received the Award of Merit from the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Clemens Award in music. She also received three grants, the Maximum Humanities Travel Grant to use and study old organs in Europe, a

Adela Maddison

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Katharine Mary Adela Maddison, née Tindal (15 December 1862 (1811–76) On 4 October 1882 at Marylebone parish church, she married barrister and former footballer Frederick Brunning Maddison (1849–1907); the ceremony was repeated on 14 April 1883 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, where her status as a minor was correctly recorded. Maddison and her husband were prominent figures in the London music scene starting around 1890, alongside patrons such as Mabel Batten and Frank Schuster. From around 1894, Maddison and her husband played a major part in encouraging and facilitating Gabriel Fauré’s entry onto the London musical scene. was a success. She continued to compose opera and songs, and to produce concerts, into the 1920s. From the early 1920s, Martha Mundt lived in Geneva, having joined the secretariat of the International Labour Organization (ILO) as an information officer on the strength of the recommendation of leading German socialist Eduard Bernstein to the ILO director, Albert Thomas. Mundt became the ILO’s officer dealing with employment issues for women and children, and the ILO’s liaison with feminist organisations. She represented the ILO at a number of internatio

Adelaide Orsola Appignani

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Adelaide Orsola Appignani (also known as Orsola Aspri; 1807 – 30 September 1884) was an Italian singer, conductor, music educator and composer. She was a singer and conductor in Florence and Rome in 1839. She was a member of the Roman Academie Filarmonica at Pallazio Lancelotti and was granted an honorary membership in 1842 of the Academie de St. Cecelia. Appignani also taught singing, and one her students was notable tenor Settimio Malvezzi. Life Adelaide Orsola Appignani (also known as Orsola Aspri) was born in Rome around 1807. After her widowed mother married the well-known violinist Andrea Aspri, Appignani changed her name to Orsola Aspri. After completing her studies, she was active as a singer and a conductor in Florence and Rome in 1839. She was a member of the Roman Academie Filarmonica at Pallazio Lancelotti, and performed Smeton in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena there in 1833. Some of her romances and duets were printed in Rome by Ambrosini. Works Her selected works include: *Le advventure de una giornata (melodrama) 1827 *I riti indiani (opera) 1834 *I pirati (melodrama) 1843 *Clara de Clevers (melodrama) 1876 *Sinfonia for instruments (symphony), 1834 *Le redenzioni de Roma (

Adelaide Pereira da Silva

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Adelaide Pereira da Silva (São Paulo, July 5, 1928 - São Paulo, August 8, 2021) was a Brazilian pianist, composer and painter. Biography Adelaide Pereira da Silva was born in São Paulo. She started studying piano with her mother from an early age, and later with Nair de Souza. She became a well-accomplished pianist, when she took advanced interpretation classes with Professor Hans Bruch. According to pianist Gilberto Tinetti, she was one of Bruch’s most talented students, along with Tinetti himself; Isolde Bass, Bruch’s wife; Rudolf Frisch; Elisa Capocchi; Arnaldo Antunes; Maria Elisa Figueiredo; and Roberto Delollio. In her thesis, as well as in an article about Pereira da Silva’s compositions, Maria Mati Sakamoto quotes Gilberto Tinetti, who referred to Prof. Pereira da Silva’s “exuberant sonority” as a pianist. Initially, Adelaide Pereira da Silva studied composition with Dinorah de Carvalho and Osvaldo Lacerda. Later, she was Camargo Guarnieri’s student, and became one of the major figures of his composition school, along with famous composers such as Lacerda, Almeida Prado, , Nilson Lombardi, Lina Pires de Campos and Kilza Setti. She began working as a music teacher in 1960, a

Adélard Joseph Boucher

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Adélard Joseph François-Arthur Boucher (28 June 1835 – 16 November 1912) was a Canadian publisher, importer, choirmaster, organist, conductor, writer on music, composer and numismatist. In 1865 he founded the A.J. Boucher Co. in Montreal which published the works of Canadian and foreign composers until it closed in 1975. In 1862, he founded the Société de numismatique de Montréal, serving as the organization’s first president. He composed several works for solo piano, of which his most well known are Coecilia, a mazurka caprice; Les Canotiers du St-Laurent, a ‘quadrille canadien’; Jolly Dogs Galop; and Souvenir de Sabatier, a suite of waltzes. Most of his compositions were written and published before 1866. Early life and education Born in Maskinongé, then in Lower Canada, Boucher’s parents died in 1845 when he was 10 years old. He spent the next six years living and studying at the St. Joseph’s College and Mother Seton Shrine in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He was particularly influenced by his music teacher at the school, Henry Dielman, who instructed him in the organ, piano, flute, violin, and singing. He then was a pupil at the Séminaire d’Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris where his fost

Adele Laeis Baldwin

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Adele Laeis Baldwin (1864 – 1927) was an American composer, contralto singer, and voice and speech teacher at the Institute of Musical Art. Early life and education Laeis was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Felix Laeis and Theresa Laeis. Her father was a veteran of the American Civil War, born in Holland; her mother was born in Belgium. She studied voice with Achille Errani, Francesco Lamperti, and Anna de la Grange. Career Baldwin, a contralto, performed with the New York Oratorio Society under Walter Damrosch, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Frank Damrosch’s Musical Art Society choir. and sang at private musicales. “Her spirit and methods are at home in oratorio, and the larger arias were delivered by her with infinite sympathy and taste,” noted on 1897 review. “Her diction deserves commendation, being unusually clear, impressive and refined.” Baldwin taught vocal technique in New York City, at her own studio in Carnegie Hall, and at the private Finch School. She was on the faculty of the Institute of Musical Art, precursor to the Juilliard School. She was an authorized teacher of the Yersin method of French elocution, devised by Marie and Jeanne Yersin. She was pr

Adelheid Maria Eichner

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Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787) was a German composer, singer and pianist who was noted during her brief lifetime for her fine three-octave singing voice and vocal technique. She was the only child of bassoonist and composer Ernst Eichner and his wife, Maria Magdalena Ritter. Critics claim her compositions to be more effective instrumentally than vocally. As a composer, Adelheid Eichner had difficulty combining words and music effectively. Early years Adelheid Eichner grew up in Zweibrücken, in the homonymous state. Her father, Ernst Eichner, was employed in the Hofkapelle of Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from autumn 1762 to November 1772. She was taught singing in Mannheim by an elderly Italian castrato of a good school while it is thought her father taught her the piano. At the end of 1773 she and her mother joined her father in Potsdam, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He had travelled to Paris and London to give concerts and had begun his employment in the Hofkapelle of the Prince Frederick William in August 1773. Career From 1773, Adelheid was employed in the Hofkapelle, with her father, as the only German woman singer. She appeared in public concerts in Berlin as t

Adelina de Lara

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Adelina de Lara OBE (23 January 1872 – 25 November 1961) was a British classical pianist and composer. Early life She was born Lottie Adelina Preston in Carlisle, Cumberland on 23 January 1872 to parents George Matthew Tilbury (aka Preston) of Southampton and Anna de Lara. Her grandfather was David Laurent de Lara, a Dutch-born illuminator, who, according to Adelina de Lara, was the son of the Spanish Count Laurent de Lara. Her mother was the sister-in-law of Sir Landon Ronald. She was given the performing name of Adelina de Lara after a visit to a music shop with her father, to secure her first engagement. The music shop proprietor considered the name Adelina Preston far too ‘English’ to perform under and thus suggested her mother’s maiden name as a suitable replacement. She first appeared in public at the age of six, and gave recitals throughout the UK until the age of twelve. Career She was educated at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt under Iwan Knorr, and studied piano with Fanny Davies and Clara Schumann, whose work she championed for most of her life. She was close friends with Johannes Brahms through her studies. As an adult, Adelina de Lara performed in public for the fir

Adeline Frances Fitz

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Adeline Frances “Fanny” Slade Fitz (July 12, 1861 – March 7, 1938) was an American composer and clubwoman, based in Boston. She was state president of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and also held national office in the organization. Early life and education Slade was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the daughter of David Slade and Elizabeth Wilson Whitaker Slade. Her father was a spice importer; her mother was born in England. She was a student at Carolyn Johnson’s School for Girls in Boston. She also studied voice with Mrs. L. P. Morrill. Career Fitz was Massachusetts state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and held national offices in the organization as well. She was also a founding member of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and the Society of Colonial Dames. Compositions Slade wrote music and songs for school and community use, including children’s songs, patriotic songs, and hymns. * “The Sweetest Flower that Blows” (lyrics by Frederick Peterson) * “The Dandelion and the Daisy” * “The Siren of Old” * “Alouette” * “Sailing Away to Slumberland” (lyrics by Grace Lawrence) * “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” (lyrics by F

Adiescar Chase

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Adiescar Chase is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer. She composed the soundtrack of the Netflix series, Heartstopper. Early life and education Adiescar is from Bedford, England. Without her knowledge, her mother enrolled her in the “Sound and Music Summer School” course at the Purcell School for Young Musicians. She earned a master’s degree in Composition for Film and Television at the National Film and Television School in 2021. She sound sampled the face of a leaf, converting the data into an electronic sound. Heartstopper marked her first project after graduating from the National Film and Television School. She read the webcomic prior to composing and was given direction to have her music complement the pre-existing songs used. She would play chords on her keyboard, then add riffs on a synthesiser, then add sound effects. Some of the tracks, including the titular one, aided the “Heartstopper moments” by further emphasizing the feeling of electricity and excitement. In 2024, Adiescar, along with Claude Samard Polikar, accompanied Jarre at several events, including the Starmus Festival concert in Bratislava, the Les Francofolies de La Rochelle concert on the French Na

Adina Izarra

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Adina Izarra (born 1959) is a Venezuelan musician, music educator and composer. Biography Adina Izarra was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied music under Alfredo del Mónaco in Caracas and received her Ph.D. in composition from York University, England, in 1988, after studying with Vic Hoyland. After 1988 Izarra returned to Caracas where she took a position as professor of composition at Simón Bolívar University. Between 1999 and 2001, she was a member of the executive committee of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). Currently residing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where she is a professor at the University of the Arts. She works in the areas of live electronics and audio-reactive visuals. She has a duet with Rubén Riera, who plays ancient and contemporary plucked string instruments, with whom she performs original improvisations, works by both, as well as covers a lot of old music, transformed through electronics. Adina has just received a Master’s degree in Digital Audiovisual Postproduction from ESPOL, Guayaquil and has a PhD in composition from the University of York, England.Currently residing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, working as a professor at the University of

Adolf Bernhard Marx

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Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx, also known as A. B. Marx (15 May 1795 – 17 May 1866), was a German music theorist, critic, and musicologist. Life Marx was the son of a Jewish doctor in Halle who, though a member of the congregation, was according to his son a convinced atheist. Marx was given the names Samuel Moses at birth, but changed these at his baptism in 1819. He began his career studying law at Halle, but also learned musical composition there—a fellow student was the composer Carl Loewe. After rejecting an offer for legal appointment at Naumburg, in 1821 he went to Berlin, where in 1825 Adolf Martin Schlesinger appointed him editor of the music journal he had founded, the Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. Marx’s intellectual critiques were appreciated by, amongst others, Beethoven, although they often offended the Berlin establishment, including Carl Friedrich Zelter. Marx became an intimate of the family of Felix Mendelssohn, who was greatly influenced by Marx’s ideas about the representational qualities of music—Marx’s influence in the revision of Mendelssohn’s overture to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1826) was noted by their mutual friend Eduard Devrient

Adolf Busch

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Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Busch was born in Siegen in Westphalia. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Eldering. His composition teacher was Fritz Steinbach but he also learned much from his future father-in-law Hugo Grüters in Bonn. In 1912, Busch founded the Vienna Konzertverein Quartet, consisting of the principals from the Konzertverein orchestra, which made its debut at the 1913 Salzburg Festival. After World War I, he founded the Busch Quartet, which from the 1920–21 season included Gösta Andreasson, violin, Karl Doktor, viola, and Paul Grümmer, cello. The quartet was in existence with varying personnel until 1951. The additional member of the circle was Rudolf Serkin, who became Busch’s duo partner at 18 and eventually married Busch’s daughter, Irene, 1935 in Basel. The Busch Quartet and Serkin became the nucleus of the Busch Chamber Players, founded in Basel, a forerunner of modern chamber orchestras. In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch decided he could not in good conscience stay in Germany, so he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland. Busch w

Adolf Fredrik Lindblad

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Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1 February 1801 – 23 August 1878) was a Swedish composer from the Romantic era. He is mostly known for his compositions of Swedish song or lieder, of which he produced over 200. His other well-known compositions include his Symphony No. 1 in C major, Symphony No. 2 in D major, and an opera titled Frondörerna (The Rebels). He was a well-respected friend of Felix Mendelssohn, and had a collaborative relationship with the famous Swedish soprano, Jenny Lind. Biography Born of an “unknown father” in the town of Skänninge on February 1, 1801, he spent most of his early life with his mother and foster-father in the Östergötland province. He started his studies in music at a fairly young age, and primarily studied piano and flute. At the age of fifteen, he gained recognition for composing a flute concerto that was performed in the nearby city of Norrköping in 1816. After achieving his first compositional success, Lindblad was sent by his foster-father to work in a shipping office in Hamburg to learn a trade, at the age of seventeen, but he stayed only a year. Returning to Sweden, he became more determined exclusively on music. Apart from opening a piano school, whic

Adolf Friedrich Hesse

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Adolf Friedrich Hesse (30 August 1809 – 5 August 1863) was a German organist and composer. Life Hesse was born and died in Breslau. He studied in his home town with the organists Friedrich Wilhelm Berner and Ernst Köhler (1799–1847). He was taught within the Bach tradition of Silesia. On his first concert tour in Germany he met the organist Christian Heinrich Rinck, with whom he returned to study for six months in 1828-1829: Rinck was a student of Johann Christian Kittel, who in turn was a student of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1831, he became the principal organist at the Bernhardinerkirche in Breslau. Considered one of the most important organists in Germany, his virtuosic playing and agile pedalwork dazzled audiences in Paris, where he played an all-Bach programme—a novelty in France—for the inauguration of the organ at Saint-Eustache in 1844; and in London, where he played at Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition of 1851. Back in Breslau, he conducted the symphonic concerts of the city’s Opera Orchestra. One of Hesse’s pupils was the Belgian organist Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, who would later teach Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor. Works for organ Dates of publicatio

Adolf Jensen

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Adolf Jensen (12 January 1837 – 23 January 1879) was a German pianist, composer and music teacher. Biography Jensen was born in Königsberg to a family of musicians. Although largely self-taught, he also had instruction from Louis Ehlert, Louis Köhler and Friedrich Marpurg (1825–1884). Marpurg was the director of the Königsberg Theater and the great-grandson of the music theorist Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg. In 1856, Jensen went to Russia to teach in the hope of earning enough money to take lessons with Robert Schumann with whom he had been in correspondence. However, Schumann had died in the interim. In 1857, he became was the music director of the Posen municipal theatre. From 1858 until 1860, he lived in Copenhagen and befriended Niels Gade. He returned to Königsberg and composed much of his music during that time. He taught advanced piano at Carl Tausig’s Schule des höheren Clavierspiels in Berlin from 1866 until 1868 when serious illness forced him to retire. He went to Dresden, then to Graz in 1870, and finally to Baden-Baden where he died of tuberculosis at the age of 42. His brother was Gustav Jensen (1843–1895), a violinist and composer. Works Jensen wrote about 160 art songs

Adolf Reichel

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Adolf Reichel (30 August 1816 – 5 March 1896) was a German-Swiss orchestral conductor and composer. Life Adolf Reichel was a son of an East Elbian German landowning family in Tursnitz, West Prussia (now Turznice in Poland). He studied composition with Siegfried Dehn in Berlin, piano with Ludwig Berger and instrumentation with Carl Gottlieb Reissiger in Dresden. He found his first job as music teacher to the young hereditary prince Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen. He travelled to Vienna, Bern and Brussels and made a living as a piano teacher in Paris from 1844, where he associated with George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. In 1842, he met the professional revolutionary and anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in Dresden, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In his circle in Paris he met opposition figures such as Georg Herwegh, Gottfried Kinkel, Karl Marx, Georg Weber, Vasily Petrovich Botkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Richard Wagner, without himself taking an active part in the 1848 Revolution. In 1850, he and Mariya Kasparovna Ern (1823–1916), whom he had met as an associate of Alexander Herzen, married. They had four sons, one of whom was the later Swiss judge and politician Alexander Reichel. I

Adolf Schulz-Evler

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Adolf Andrey Schulz-Evler (12 December 185215 May 1905) was a Polish-born composer. Born in Radom, Poland (at that time part of the Russian Empire), he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory, then under Carl Tausig in Berlin. From 1884 to 1904 he taught at the Kharkiv Music School. He wrote about 52 original pieces. His piano transcription of Johann Strauss II’s Blue Danube Waltz: Arabesques on “An der schönen blauen Donau” has been recorded by many pianists, including Jorge Bolet, Jan Smeterlin, Marc-André Hamelin, Zlata Chochieva, Earl Wild, Leonard Pennario, Piers Lane, Byron Janis, Isador Goodman, Benjamin Grosvenor and Josef Lhévinne. His list of works includes: * Op 2: Invitation a la Valse (Jurgenson) * Op 4: Variations in G major (Jurgenson) * Op 5: Melodie (Jurgenson) * Op 6: Nocturne in F major (Jurgenson) * Op 8: Revelation I in B major (Jurgenson) * Op 9: Revelation II in E major (Jurgenson) * Op 10: Revelation III in F major (Jurgenson) * Op 11: Serenade (Jurgenson) * Op 12: “Arabesques” Variations on the Blue Danube Waltz Strauss (Jurgenson) * Op 14: Rhapsodie Russe for Piano & Orchestra (Jurgenson) * Op 17: Etude pour les octaves (Jurgenson) * Fantaisie (Johansen) * Melo

Adolf Strauss (composer)

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Adolf Strauss (16 August 1902 – 28 September 1944) was a Czech pianist, violinist, accordion and harmonica player, composer and kapellmeister. Biography Strauss was born to Jewish parents, Josef and Rosa Strauss, in Žatec, a historic town in Louny District, Ústí nad Labem Region, in the Czech Republic (at the time still part of the Austrian Empire). He was killed on 28 September 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, under the Nazi regime. He studied music at the Prague Conservatory, earning his living by playing music in Prague’s cafes. Due to an antisemitic incident in Prague, he eventually continued his studies at the conservatory in Leipzig, Germany. There, he became the conductor at the Leipzig Kristallpalast. In Leipzig, he also published his first composition, “Karawanen Fox Trott” (Caravan Fox Trot), which was published by the Fritz Brandt Musikverlag Leipzig in 1923, and which was often played in the radio at the time. When the Nazis gained in power in Germany and the musicians refused to play under a Jewish conductor, Adolf and his wife Maria, herself a musician from Bohemia (singer, violinist and pianist) decided to go back to Czechoslovakia. They opened a shoe sh

Adolf von Henselt

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Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 May 181410 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist. Life Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Josepha von Fladt (1778–1843), who had trained in composition with Franz Danzi, Abbé (George Joseph) Vogler, Joseph Graetz and studied piano with Franz Lauska (who later coached Meyerbeer, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn). His concert debut was at the Odeon in Munich, where he played the opening Allegro to one of Mozart’s C major concertos, a free fantasy with variations on a theme from Weber’s Der Freischütz, and a rondo by Kalkbrenner. It was through Fladt’s influence with King Ludwig I of Bavaria that Henselt was provided the financial means to undertake further study with Johann Nepomuk Hummel in Weimar in 1832 for some months. Later that year, he went to Vienna, where, besides studying composition under Simon Sechter (the later teacher of Anton Bruckner), he was successful as a concert pianist. In 1836, to improve his health, he made a prolonged tour through the chief German towns. In 1837, he settled at Breslau, where he had married Rosalie Vogel—but the

Adolfo Fumagalli

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Adolfo Fumagalli (19 October 18283 May 1856) was a 19th-century Italian virtuoso pianist and composer, known today primarily for his virtuosic compositions for the left hand alone. Life Born in Inzago, Italy, he grew up in a very musically oriented environment. He had three brothers who also became musicians and composers, these being Carlo (1822–1907), Luca (1837–1908), Disma (1826–1893) and Polibio (1830–1901). Fumagalli stuided from 23 November 1837 to 7 September 1847 at the Milan Conservatory under Pietro Ray for counterpoint and Angeleri for piano. Afterwards in 1848, at the age of 20, made his Milan debut with some success. He had a series of popular concert tours throughout the major cities of Italy, France and Belgium until 1854. His greatest sensation when he began performing his compositions for left hand alone. He was among the first to make piano pieces for one hand, along with Alexander Dreyschoc. Although he looked rather frail, as is evident from paintings of him, he had a phenomenal technique and strong fingers that astonished everyone. In 1854 he returned to Italy, where he alternated between concert tours and composing. In 1856 he was given an Erard grand piano f

Adolfo Mejía Navarro

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Adolfo Mejía Navarro (1905–1973) was a Colombian musician and composer. He lived and worked in Cartagena and Bogotá and spent time in New York and several European countries. His 1938 suite “Pequeña Suite para Orquesta” is notable for its inclusion of cumbia in the final movement. Biography Early life and education Mejía was born on 5 February 1905 in Sincé, in the Colombian department of Sucre, to Adolfo Mejía and Francisca Navarro. His father was a guitarist and notable singer. In 1916 Mejía moved to Cartagena, where he studied at the and sang in the choir of the San Pedro Claver church. Around this time he wrote his first composition, a piano piece called “Primicias”. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and letters from the University of Cartagena. Music career In 1923 Mejía enrolled at the , where he studied under Juan de Sanctis and Eusebio Celio Fernández. Concurrently he was a member of the Estudiantina Revollo, the Orquesta Eureka, and the Jazz Band Lorduy, and was composing in several traditional Colombian styles including fandango, , bambuco, and pasillo. Mejía moved to New York in 1930, where he formed the Trío Albéniz with Terig Tucci on mandolin and Antonio F

Adolfo Salazar

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Adolfo Salazar Ruiz de Palacios (6 March 1890 – 27 September 1958) was a Spanish music historian, music critic, composer, and diplomat of the first half of the twentieth century. He was the preeminent Spanish musicologist of the Silver Age. Fluent in Spanish, French, and English, he was an intellectual and expert of the artistic and cultural currents of his time, and a brilliant polemicist. He maintained a close connection with other prominent Spanish intellectuals and musicians including José Ortega y Gasset, Jesús Bal y Gay, and Ernesto Halffter. In his writings, he was a defender of the French musical aesthetic of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. He composed over twenty works for orchestra, string quartet, solo piano, voice and piano, chorus, and guitar. While his compositions are significant in the context of the 1920s Spanish musical avant-garde, today his critical writings are deemed of greater importance. He is most known for his insightful commentary and analysis in his eighteen years as music critic (1918-1936) for the Madrid daily El Sol. Biography Salazar was born in Madrid. He attended Madrid University, first studying history but then switching to music. He was co-dir

Adolphe Adam

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Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j’étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol “Minuit, chrétiens!” (“Midnight, Christians”, 1847, known in English as “O Holy Night”). Adam was the son of a well-known composer and pianist, but his father did not wish him to pursue a musical career. Adam defied his father, and his many operas and ballets earned him a good living until he lost all his money in 1848 in a disastrous bid to open a new opera house in Paris in competition with the Opéra and Opéra-Comique. He recovered, and extended his activities to journalism and teaching. He was appointed as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, France’s principal music academy. Together with his older contemporary Daniel Auber and his teacher Adrien Boieldieu, Adam is credited with creating the later Romantic French form of opera. Life and career Early years Adam’s father, Louis, 1834 thumb upright alt=middle aged, clean-shaven white man with full head of neatly cut white ha

Adolphe Biarent

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Adolphe Biarent (16 October 1871 – 4 February 1916) was a Belgian composer, conductor, cellist and music teacher. Biarent studied at the conservatories of Brussels and of Ghent, and was a pupil of Émile Mathieu. He won a Belgian Prix de Rome with his cantata Oedipe à Colone in 1901, after which he remained near his home in Charleroi, composing, conducting and teaching (or more accurately, engaging in pedagogy, for example the writing of manuals as well). He was the teacher of Fernand Quinet. Although still little known now, Biarent composed music that successfully combines “the structural solidity” of César Franck and Vincent d’Indy with “something of the orchestral brilliance and clarity” of Emmanuel Chabrier. Selected works *Orchestral works **Trenmor, after Ossian (1905) **Rapsodie wallonne (für Klavier und Orchester) (1910) **Deux sonnets pour violoncelle et orchestre – d`après José-Maria de Hérédia (1909-1912) ***I Le réveil d’un dieu ***II Floridum Mare *Chamber music **Piano Quintet in B minor **Cello Sonata in F minor *Vocal **Song Cycle Huit mélodies pour mezzo-soprano ***I Lied ***II Désir de mort ***III Le chant de ma mère ***IV Il passa ***V Chanson ***VI La lune blanch

Adolphe Danhauser

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Adolphe-Léopold Danhauser (26 February 1835 – 9 June 1896) was a French musician, educator, music theorist and composer. Life and career Adolphe Danhauser was born in Paris and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with François Bazin, Fromental Halévy and Napoléon Henri Reber. He won the Second Prix de Rome in 1863 and began to develop an interest in early music education while still at the Conservatoire. In 1872 he published Theory of Music which is still printed and considered authoritative. In 1875, Danhauser was appointed chief inspector of instruction in singing in the schools of Paris. Later he took the position of professor of solfeggio at the Paris Conservatoire. He conducted a tour through the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland to survey systems of music pedagogy. Danhauser died in Paris. Notable students include Charles Malherbe. Works Selected compositions include: *Maures et Castillans, opera in three acts (unproduced) *Le Proscrit, one-act musical drama with chorus, 1866 *Orphéoniques evenings, collection *Mélodies Vocales Danhauser books on music theory and teaching have been reprinted, translated, and reviewed. These include: *Music theory, Paris, H. Lemoine, 1872 *M

Adolphe Deslandres

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Adolphe Édouard Marie Deslandres (22 January 1840 – 30 July 1911) was a French composer and organist. Life Born in the former village of , Adolphe Deslandres was the son of Laurent Deslandres, who was for a long time the Maître de chapelle and organist of . At the Conservatoire de Paris, he studied counterpoint and fugue with Aimé Leborne and pipe organ with François Benoist. In 1860, he won the Second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Ivan IV. In 1862, he succeeded his father as organist of the Sainte-Marie church. He played on an organ of the Stoltz Frères company, and on a choir organ of the Merklin firm. In addition to his extensive works of sacred music such as the Messe de Saint-André, premiered at Notre Dame de Paris, and his Messe solennelle, Deslandres composed several successful opéras comiques. In 1872, his opera Dimanche et Lundi was premiered at the Opéra-Comique and received the praise of Gounod. The premiere of Le Baiser took place in 1884. His other operas were performed at the Alcazar. Deslandres also composed some works for organ, piano (an Air de ballet and Études in staccato), a Scherzo for orchestra, and four Méditations for violin, cello, French horn, harp,

Adolphe Gutmann

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Adolphe Gutmann (originally Wilhelm Adolf Gutmann) (12 January 1819 – 27 October 1882) was a German pianist and composer who was a pupil and friend of Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. Life Gutmann was born in Heidelberg. He came to Paris in 1834, at the age of 15, to study with Chopin, becoming one of the composer’s favourites. He performed in concert with Chopin, Liszt, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Pierre-Joseph Zimmerman, Alkan’s transcription of part of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony at a concert of 1838. Gutmann was also the dedicatee of Chopin’s Scherzo, Op. 39, published in 1839. Gutmann acted as copyist for a number of Chopin’s works, and acted as a courier to take Chopin’s letters to his family in Warsaw. Gutmann’s own set of Etudes (his Op. 12) is dedicated to Chopin. He was present at Chopin’s death bed and preserved the glass from which Chopin took his last drink of water. Both he and Alkan were bequeathed the notes that Chopin had compiled in preparation for a piano teaching method. Gutmann died in La Spezia. Works Inspired by the style of his master, Gutmann is the author of several nocturnes, and twelve studies, studies characteristics that seem to announce the coming of

Adolphe Marty

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Adolphe Alexandre Silvain Marty (29 September 1865 – 28 October 1942) was a French organist, improviser, composer and music educator who was blind for most of his life. Early life and education Born in Albi in the Tarn department in the south of France, Marty became blind at the age of two and a half years. He entered the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris in 1874 and worked the organ with Louis Lebel (1831–1888). From 1884 to 1886 he studied music composition with Ernest Guiraud and pipe organ with César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning the first prize for organ in 1886, the first blind person to do so. Career In 1888 Marty succeeded Louis Lebel as organ teacher at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, where he taught until 1930. His students included Louis Vierne, Augustin Barié, Paul Allix, André Marchal, Jean Langlais and Gaston Litaize. Léonce de Saint-Martin also worked with him privately. Marty served as organist of Saint-Paul d’Orléans church from 1887 to 1888. In 1891 he succeed Albert Renaud as organist of Saint-François-Xavier church in Paris, a position he held until 1941. He was closely linked to the organ builder Puget, inaugurating a num

Adolphus Hailstork

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Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III (born April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice. He currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Career Hailstork began his musical career in 1963, when he studied composition with Mark Fax at Howard University, Washington, D.C. (BMus 1963). In the summer of 1963 he attended the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. In 1965, Hailstork received a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, and in 1966 received a Master of Music at the same institution. In October 2022, he was featured as “Composer of the Week” on BBC Radio 3. Hailstork married in 2007. * 1977: Belwin-Mills Max Winkler Award, presented by the Band Directors National Association ** Out of Depths * 1987: Fulbright fellowship for study in Guyana * 1992: named a Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia * 1999: Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association *2001: Doctor of Humane Letters honorary doctorate from the

Adriaan Bonsel

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Adriaan Bonsel (4 August 1918 - 9 July 2011) was a Dutch composer. He was born in Hilversum, Netherlands, and died at the age of 92 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Education Bonsel studied the flute at the Amsterdam Conservatory and studied composition with Jan Koetsier. Professional Activities Bonsel was principal flautist of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at its inception in 1945. He was a co-founder of the Radio Philharmonic Sextet. He was also a professor of flute at Utrecht Conservatory and the conductor of the Faso Flute Ensemble. Bonsel composed works that were commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Arts and Sciences, the AVRO, the Dutch Radio Union, the Dutch Pipers Guild, and the Johan Wagenaar Foundation, among others. His students include Mirjam Nastasi, Professor of Flute at University of Freiburg. Compositions * Suite for flute and string orchestra (1947) * Folkloristische Suite for winds and percussion (1958), part of the repertoire of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. * Jozef in Dothan (1958) * Suite voor blokfluit en clavecimbel of hobo en piano (1958) * Symphony No. 2 for orchestra (1959) * Souvenir for flute solo (1959) * Elegie for viola solo (1961) * Mijn moede

Adrian Batten

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Adrian Batten (c. 1591 – c. 1637) was an English organist and Anglican church composer. He was active during an important period of English church music, between the Reformation and the English Civil War in the 1640s. During this period the liturgical music of the first generations of Anglicans began to diverge significantly from music on the continent. Among the genres developed during this period by Batten and other Anglican composers was the ‘verse anthem’, in which sections alternate between the full choir and soloists, underlain and unified by an independent organ accompaniment. Early life Batten was born in Salisbury, and was a chorister and subsequently an organ scholar at Winchester Cathedral, where he studied under John Holmes. (The date of his birth is uncertain, but since Holmes, Batten’s organ instructor, left that post in 1602 when his chorister pupil would have been about twelve years of age, Batten must have been born in about 1590. Most sources give the year as 1591.) Batten remained with the cathedral choir after his voice had changed, as evidenced by graffiti carved into the wall of Bishop Gardiner’s chantry that reads “Adrian Battin: 1608”. Career In 1614, Batten

Adrian Enescu

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Adrian-Floru Enescu (31 March 1948 – 19 August 2016) was a Romanian composer of film soundtracks and contemporary music. As an individual musician, he also pioneered the local electronic scene during the 1970s and 1980s. He graduated from the Ciprian Porumbescu Music Conservatory in Bucharest, following the composition class of Aurel Stroe and in harmony. Among his list of accomplishments are music for ballet in Italy, China, and Australia, music for theater in Romania, Holland, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Canada, Colombia, and Costa Rica. Other accomplishments * In 1976, Basorelief (symphonic pop) * In 1980, Funky Synthesizer vol 1 (electronic music) * In 1983, vocal lead Stereo Group (pop music) * In 1984, Funky Synthesizer vol 2 (electronic music) * In 1988, (vocal lead, Loredana Groza (pop music)) * In 1989, (vocal lead, Loredana Groza) (pop music) * In 1999-2000, Jingle for “Arcadia Jingle Bank”, Germany * In 2000, Millennium Angel (produced by PRO TV Romania) * In 2001, Diva (vocal lead, Loredana Groza) (pop music) * In 2001, November Dreams produced by Axel Springer Company, Germany * In 2001, EarthTone records division of Sonic Images Records USA published Invisible Music ch

Adrian Jack

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Adrian Frederick Joseph Jack (16 March 1943 – June 2026) was a British composer. Life and career Adrian Frederick Joseph Jack was born in Datchet, near Slough, Buckinghamshire, England, on 16 March 1943. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood (1954–1960), and the Royal College of Music, London (1961–1964), where he studied composition with Peter Racine Fricker, fugue and orchestration with Gordon Jacob, piano with Antony Hopkins and organ with John Birch. From 1967 to 1969 he studied composition and electronic music with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, Poland. Jack started composing at the age of 13. He later studied at the Royal College of Music. The main conscious influence at that time was Messiaen. Hearing Boulez’s “Le marteau sans maitre” brought a new atonal complexity to his music, replaced by an austere paring-down following his discovery of Edgard Varèse. He actually wrote to Varèse to ask if he could study with him in New York and received a letter of refusal, not very long before Varèse died in November 1965. For the next 20 years, Jack composed somewhat intermittently, but his works included “Holly Bush”, written in Po

Adrian Johnston (musician)

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Adrian Johnston (born 1961) is an English musician and composer for film and television scores, who resides in London and Samois-sur-Seine. Early life and education Born in the county of Lancashire, Johnston attended the University of Edinburgh, studying English. He has been a drummer in bands including Moles for Breakfast, The Waterboys, the Wanglers, Combo Zombo, and The Mike Flowers Pops. Career During his twenties, Johnston travelled the world providing music accompaniment to silent films at film festivals. He later scored productions for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Johnston’s first film score was for the 1996 Thomas Hardy adaptation Jude. He has also composed original scores for The Turn of the Screw (1999), Becoming Jane, a 2007 film about Jane Austen, and the 2008 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. In 2008, he was awarded a BAFTA for the score of the BBC film Capturing Mary. Johnston’s score for Charles Sturridge’s mini-series Shackleton won a 2002 Primetime Emmy. In 2009, he scored the British science-fiction procedural TV series Paradox. He composed the theme music for the BBC detective series Zen, which won him a 2011 RTS

Adrian Knight (composer)

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Adrian Knight (born 3 January 1987 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish composer, songwriter and musician living and working in New York City. Between 2006 and 2009 he studied with Pär Lindgren and Jesper Nordin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and between 2009 and 2011 with David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Ingram Marshall at the Yale School of Music in New Haven. He is a member of a pop group, Blue Jazz TV, as well as ambient duo Private Elevators and the experimental jazz collective Synthetic Love Dream Ensemble. His music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Living Earth Show, the Swedish Wind Ensemble, Red Light New Music, loadbang, Yale Philharmonia and Kungliga Musikhögskolans Symfoniorkester. In 2011, he composed the music for a Yale School of Drama production of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Since 2008, he has operated what he calls “the smallest record label in the world”, Pink Pamphlet. Knight’s works are published by Schott Music New York through their new digital initiative Project Schott New York, Svensk Musik and Pink Pamphlet. and the Society of Swedish C

Adrian Le Roy

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Adrian Le Roy (c.1520–1598) was an influential French music publisher, lutenist, mandore player, guitarist, composer and music educator. Life Le Roy was born in the town of Montreuil-sur-Mer in northern France to a wealthy family. Very little is known about his formative years, but he was probably a chorister and studied the lute, guitar and cittern with various teachers. He became an accomplished musician and entered the service of, first, Claude de Clermont, then, Jacques II (Baron de Semblançay and Viscount of Tours), both members of the aristocracy who had influence at court. In 1546 he met the publisher Jean de Brouilly in Paris and married his daughter Denise de Brouilly. Le Roy and his cousin Robert Ballard (c.1525–1588) founded the printing firm “Le Roy & Ballard”, and in August 1551 obtained a royal privilege from Henry II to print music. The music movable type was supplied by Guillaume Le Bé. In February 1553, the company was awarded the title of “Imprimeur du Roi en musique” (previously held by Pierre Attaignant). This office, which was renewed by successive monarchs, gave the company legal protection against competitors and commercially valuable prestige. Royal patronag

Adrian Sutton

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Adrian Geoffrey Sutton (15 August 1967 – 10 October 2025) was a British composer, best known for his theatre music but also widely known for his symphonic and chamber music for the concert hall. He composed the scores for a series of well received National Theatre productions, including War Horse (2007) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2011). In September 2022, Sutton was diagnosed with an incurable cancer from which he died in 2025. Life and career Sutton was born on 15 August 1967 in Tenterden near Ashford, Kent. His family then moved to Zimbabwe and later to South Africa where he grew up. Before his success at the National Theatre, Sutton spent 15 years as a composer of “applied music”, especially music for television commercials. Sutton was introduced to his brother, the theatre director Tom Morris. That led to a commission from the National Theatre in 2005 to write the score for Helen Edmundson’s “play with music” Coram Boy, for which Sutton adapted and extended the music of Handel. The score for War Horse two years later is interspersed with simple folk songs on which Sutton collaborated with John Tams. The orchestral sections combine an English folk idi

Adrian Willaert

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Adrian Willaert (c. 1490 – 7 December 1562) was a Flemish composer of High Renaissance music. Mainly active in Italy, he was the founder of the Venetian School. He was one of the most representative members of the generation of northern composers who moved to Italy and transplanted the polyphonic Franco-Flemish style there. Life He was born at Rumbeke near Roeselare or Bruges. According to his student, the renowned 16th century music theorist Gioseffo Zarlino, Willaert went to Paris first to study law, but instead decided to study music. In Paris he met Jean Mouton, the principal composer of the French royal chapel and stylistic compatriot of Josquin des Prez, and studied with him. Sometime around 1515 Willaert first went to Rome. An anecdote survives that indicates the musical ability of the young composer: Willaert was surprised to discover the choir of the papal chapel singing one of his own compositions, most likely the six-part motet Verbum bonum et suave, and even more surprised to learn that they thought it had been written by the much more famous composer Josquin. When he informed the singers of their error – that he was in fact the composer – they refused to sing it again.

Adrian Younge

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Adrian Younge (born May 7, 1978) is an American composer, arranger and music producer based in the Los Angeles area. Background Younge grew up in Fontana, California, United States. His father is a lawyer and Younge himself earned a Juris Doctor degree from the American College of Law in Orange County. Younge has worked as a lawyer and law professor—having taught entertainment law at his alma mater. Early in his career, Younge worked for the legal department of MTV. He played bass and keyboards in a band during the late 1990s, and began composing after sampling records with an MPC. He quickly learned to play several instruments and experimented with analog recordings which resulted in the Italian influenced Venice Dawn, which he released on EP. In 2009, his soundtrack for the film Black Dynamite was released on the Wax Poetics label. In 2011, Younge revived and expanded Venice Dawn into a longer work called Something about April. In 2013, he released Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics with William Hart of the Delfonics and Twelve Reasons to Die with Ghostface Killah. Younge also operates a vinyl record store in Los Angeles called Artform Studio. and Something About April III (202

Adriana Basile

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Adriana Basile (baptized 21 December 1586 – after c. 1642) was an Italian composer, musician, poet, and singer of the Baroque period. Life She was born and died in Naples. From 1610, she worked for the Gonzagas in Mantua. Members of her family also worked for the court, including her brothers, Giambattista Basile, a poet, Lelio Basile, a composer, and her sisters, Margherita and Vittoria, who were both singers. Her husband, Mutio Baroni, and her three children, her son Camillo, and two daughters, Leonora and Caterina were also at the court. Leonora and Caterina were both successful singers in their own right. Claudio Monteverdi declared that Basile was a more talented singer than Francesca Caccini, who was at that time at the Medici court. Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga awarded Basile a barony in the Monferrato, and she was also well regarded by Vincenzo’s sons Francesco and Ferdinando. While still working for the Mantuan court, she travelled to Florence, Rome, Naples, and Modena. She performed in Alessandro Guarini’s Licori, ovvero L’incanto d’amore. In 1626 she retired from the service of the Gonzagas, and moved to Naples and later Rome. None of Basile’s music survives, but she is known t

Adriana Hölszky

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Adriana Hölszky (born 30 June 1953) is a Romanian-born German music educator, composer and pianist who has been living in Germany since 1976. During her studies she performed as a pianist of the Trio Lipatti, together with her twin sister, violinist Monika Hölszky-Wiedemann and cellist Hertha Rosa-Herseni. In 1977 and 1978, she participated in the International Mozarteum Summer Academy, and in 1978–1984 regularly in the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1980 she received a teaching position at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, and in 1983 a grant from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg. In 1986 she took first place at the Composers’ Forum of the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1987 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony. In 1992 she took composition seminars in Tokyo and Kyoto, and at the IRCAM in Paris. Her increasing international popularity was shown by three concerts she performed in Athens, Thessaloniki and Boston in 1993. Between 1997 and 2000, Hölszky was professor of composition at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre, and since 2000 she has been professor of composition at the Moza

Adriano Banchieri

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Adriano Banchieri (Bologna, 3 September 1568 – Bologna, 1634) was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna. Biography He was born and died in Bologna (then in the Papal States). In 1587 he became a monk of the Benedictine order, taking his vows in 1590, and changing his name to Adriano (from Tommaso). One of his teachers at the monastery was Gioseffo Guami, who had a strong influence on his style. Like Orazio Vecchi he was interested in converting the madrigal to dramatic purposes. (1613), while systematizing the legitimate use of the monodic art of figured bass. Banchieri’s last publication was the Trattenimenti da villa of 1630. According to Martha Farahat he wrote five madrigal comedies between 1598 and 1628 with “plot and character development”, starting with La pazzia senile of 1598, the last of them La saviezza giovenile. Works Secular vocal works * Primo libro di Madrigali a 4 voci (Milano, 1597) * 6 Libri di canzonette a 3 voci ** I Libro: (Venezia, 1597) ** II Libro: (Venezia, 1598) ** III Libro: (Milano, 1600) ** IV Libro: (Venezia, 1601) ** V Libro: Op.15 (Milano

Adriano Guarnieri (composer)

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Adriano Guarnieri (born 10 September 1947, in Sustinente, Italy) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Guarnieri studied at the Conservatory in Bologna, where he got his diploma in musical composition with Giacomo Manzoni and another diploma in choral music with Tito Gotti. He started his activity as a conductor as well, founding the Nuovo Ensemble Bruno Maderna in Florence. He taught musical composition at the Milan Conservatory, Florence, Pesaro Conservatory and Bologna Conservatory. In his earliest works, from Musica per un’azione immaginaria to L’art pour l’art?, he tries to incorporate graphical elements into the music, and in so doing, he clearly shows his structuralist approach, which only later becomes more informal. Nafshi, Recit and other compositions show a turning point in his way of composing, since he pays more attention to the form, which is thought of as a synthesis of a fluid episodic multiplicity. Through his Pierrot series, he was able to reveal a “melodic” component of his music, which broadens in the opera Trionfo della notte (1986–87 season at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna), which won the Premio Abbiati as the best composition of t

Adrianus Petit Coclico

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Adrianus Petit Coclico (1499 in Flanders – after September 1562 in Copenhagen) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance. Biography Like many Renaissance composers, very little is known about Coclico’s early life. He was raised Catholic but became a Protestant and left Flanders for Germany. The earliest known reference to him in official documents is at Wittenberg University in 1545, and though he later claimed to have been a pupil of Josquin des Prez and to have worked for Henry VIII, the French royal court, and the Pope, scholarship has not been able to substantiate any of these claims. In 1546, Coclico applied for a position as chair of music at Wittenberg, composing a lost piece on a text by Philipp Melanchthon, and was denied the position. He married around this time, though his wife soon left him, and his attempts to have the union dissolved failed. He then moved to Frankfurt an der Oder and founded a musicians’ society with members of the circle of humanist Jodocus Willich. In poor financial straits, Coclico left Frankfurt for Stettin in 1547, where he was again denied a position; in September of that year he graduated from Königsberg University and entered into the se

Adrianus Valerius

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Adrianus Valerius, also known as Adriaen Valerius, (c. 1575 – 1625) was a Dutch poet and composer, known mostly for his poems dealing with peasant and burgher life and those dealing with the Dutch War of Independence, assembled in his great work Neder-landtsche gedenck-clanck. Life Valerius was born about 1575 in Middelburg to an ethnic French notary, François Valéry. His father had a somewhat prosperous career as a notary and customs official and in 1592 obtained a position as Court Scribe to Pieter van Reigersbergh, the burgemeester (mayor) of the city of Veere in the province of Zeeland. Six years later, Adriaen Valerius was named the Toll and Customs Controller for Veere, starting a prosperous career as both a burgher and a patrician of his city. Having married the burgemeester’s daughter in 1605, he advanced to Tax Collections and later was appointed to the City Council. Work and influence A poet of not inconsiderable talent, Valerius worked on the great Zeelander compendium Zeeusche Nachtegael with a number of other poet-colleagues. The work would be published in 1623. His primary individual opus, on the other hand, is the collection of folk poems and melodies on the Dutch Wa

Adrien Basin

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Adrien Basin ( 1457 – 1476; died after 1498) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and diplomat of the Burgundian School of the early Renaissance. He was listed along with Antoine Busnois and Hayne van Ghizeghem as one of the personal singers to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. Life and career Little is known about his early life, and he first appears in the records as a singer to Isabella of Bourbon, who was the wife of Charles the Bold. Later he seems to have joined the personal chapel of Charles, when Charles became Duke. Unlike many of the musicians of the Burgundian court, who travelled along with Charles on his military exploits (who loved music as much as war, and enjoyed having musical entertainment during his military adventures), Basin seems to have remained in Bruges most of the time. After the death of Charles at the Battle of Nancy in 1477, Basin served the court as a diplomat, according to records from the 1480s. The last record of his life is dated to 1498, when he was named as heir to his brother Pierre. All of Basin’s surviving music is secular, although some of the anonymous music in the manuscripts of the time may be by him. Of his secular songs, one became i

Adrien-François Servais

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Adrien-François Servais (6 June 180726 November 1866) was one of the most influential cellists of the nineteenth century. He was born and died in what is now Halle, Belgium. He is one of the founders of the Modern Cellistic Schools of Paris and Madrid, which began through collaboration with his friend Auguste Franchomme and his disciple Víctor Mirecki Larramat. His compositions are still studied, performed and recorded all over the world. Two of his sons also had musical careers and performed his music. Biography Servais was originally trained as a violinist before switching to cello. Known by his contemporaries for his virtuosity and excessive vibrato, he was given the gift of a Stradivarius cello from 1701, which today bears his name. He is also known as the first cellist to adopt the bassists’ use of an endpin because of the large size of his Stradivarius. (The use of the endpin was, however, not generally adopted by most cellists until the early 20th century. For instance, Carlo Alfredo Piatti never used an endpin, though Lisa Cristiani’s use of it in the 1840s and 1850s popularized the practice for female cellists.) had several children, including two sons who also pursued mus