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Agata della Pietà

Agata della Pietà (24 March 1712 - 17 October 1769) was an Italian composer, singer, and teacher of music at the Venetian charitable institution known as the Ospedale della Pietà. A foundling

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Agata Zubel

Agata Zubel (born 1978 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish composer and singer. Life Zubel is a graduate of Wrocław's Karol Szymanowski High School of Music (percussion and music theory) and the Karol

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Agatha Rosenius

Agatha Rosenius (10 September 1814 – 29 August 1874) was a Swedish hymnwriter. Biography She was born Agatha Ulrika Lindberg to county official Erik Lindberg and Elisabeth Catharina (née Nordlund) in

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Agathe Backer Grøndahl

Agathe Ursula Backer Grøndahl (1 December 1847 – 4 June 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. Her son Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl (1885–1959) was also a pianist and composer, who promoted his

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Agboola Shadare

Agboola Shadare is a Nigerian songwriter, composer and producer. He started as a church musician, then moved into club and studio production in Nigeria. He produced for popular Nigerian artistes such

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Agim Krajka

Agim Krajka (1 May 1937 – 1 March 2021) was an Albanian composer. He was known as one of the greatest masters of music at that time. Biography He was born on 1 May 1937, in the small city of Kavajë,

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Agnes Clune Quinlan

Agnes Clune Quinlan (20 September 187321 May 1949) was an Irish composer, lecturer and pianist who wrote Gaelic-influenced music for piano and voice and recorded commercially as a pianist. She moved

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Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck

Ella Overbeck, pseudonym Baroness Ella Overbeck or Overbach, also Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck, Elizabeth von Overbe(c)k, or Baroness Jo Overbeck (nicknamed Jimmy) (10 October 1870 – 12 November 1919)

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Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos

Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos (February 21, 1938 – March 29, 2000) was a Liberian professor of music, scholar of Liberian folk music, conductor, composer, and lawyer. Von Ballmoos contributed to the

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Agnes Tyrrell

Agnes Tyrrell (20 September 1846 – 18 April 1883) was a composer and pianist of English and Czech descent. Life Agnes Tyrrell was born in Brno, the regional capital of Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian

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Agnes Zimmermann

Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann (5 July 1847 14 November 1925) was a German concert pianist and composer who lived and worked in England, where she enjoyed a fifty-year performance career, one of the

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Agoria (musician)

Agoria, born Sébastien Devaud (born 16 January 1976) is a French electronic record producer, composer, and DJ. He has released four albums, including the soundtrack to the film Go Fast. He is one of

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Agostino Agazzari

Agostino Agazzari (2 December 1578 – 10 April 1640) was an Italian composer and music theorist. Life Agazzari was born in Siena to an aristocratic family. After working in Rome, as a teacher at the

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Agostino Agresta

Agostino Agresta (fl. 1600–1617) was a Neapolitan composer working at the beginning of the 17th century, who can be seen as having been strongly influenced by Carlo Gesualdo. Agresta's only known

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Agostino Steffani

Agostino Steffani (25 July 165412 February 1728) was an Italian bishop, polymath, diplomat and composer. Education Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto on 25 July 1654. As a boy he was admitted

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Agostino Tinazzoli

Agostino Tinazzoli (Bologna, ca. 1660Sant'Angelo in Vado, 10 February 1725) In jail, he may have written the "In carcere penoso privo" cantata. After being released, he went back to his birthplace,

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Agustín Barrios

Agustín Pío Barrios (also known as Agustín Barrios Mangoré and Nitsuga—Agustín spelled backwards—Mangoré; May 5, 1885 – August 7, 1944) was a Paraguayan virtuoso classical guitarist and composer,

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Agustín Fernández (composer)

Agustín Fernández (born 1958 ) is a Bolivian composer. Career In Bolivia Fernández began musical life as a child, singing and playing the charango in folk clubs, including Peña Ollantay, Peña Naira

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