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Al Cres

Almando Cresso, better known by his stage names Al Cres and Don Wolfe, is an American songwriter and record producer who contributed to Beyoncé album Renaissance, co-writing "Energy", as well as

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Al Lerner (composer)

Al Lerner (1919 – January 19, 2014) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor from the big band era. He was a member of the Harry James band for many years, playing piano. He wrote

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Aladar Rado

Aladár Radó (26 December 1882, in Budapest – 7 September 1914, in Boljevci near Belgrade) was a Hungarian composer of classical music. Life and work Aladar Rado first studied under Hans Koessler

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Alain Bancquart

Alain Bancquart (20 June 1934 – 27 January 2022) was a French composer. Biography Bancquart had his musical formation at the Conservatoire de Paris (violin, viola, chamber music, counterpoint, fugue

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Alain Bernaud

Alain Henri Bernaud (8 March 1932 – 4 December 2020) was a French composer. Life Bernaud was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine of a polytechnician father, a good violinist and violist and a mother playing

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Alain Celo

Alain Celo (born 1960) is a French composer and violist with the . He has written about twenty works, mainly instrumental. He followed a complete cursus of music writing and musical composition at

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Alain Crépin

Alain Crepin (born 28 February 1954) is a Belgian saxophonist, composer, music educator and conductor. Crepin was born in Mettet near Dinant. He began his studies for saxophone, cello and piano at

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Alain Gagnon

Alain Gagnon (22 May 1938 − 26 March 2017) was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Laval, Quebec. His compositions have been performed by ensembles throughout Canada. Early life and

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Alain Goraguer

Alain Goraguer (; 20 August 1931 – 13 February 2023) was a French jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. He was a sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, and a composer/arranger for Gainsbourg,

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Alain Jomy

Alain Jomy (born 23 April 1941 in Nice) is a French film music composer, music critic, film critic, director, and writer. He trained at the École Normale de Musique de Paris where he was taught by

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Alain Louvier

Alain Louvier (born 13 September 1945) is a French composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Born in Paris, Louvier studied from 1953 to 1967 at the headed by Marcel Landowski, then from

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Alain Marcel

Alain Marcel (1952 — 9 March 2020) was an Algerian-born French music composer and author. An important figure of musical theatre and musical comedy in the 1980s, he notably adapted the French

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Alain Margoni

Alain Margoni (13 October 1934) is a French classical composer. Life Born in Neuilly-Plaisance, Margoni studied harmony with Henri Challan, counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon, orchestral

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Alain Mayrand

Alain Mayrand is a Canadian composer, orchestrator, and conductor known for his contributions to film music. He served as the lead composer for the animated feature film Mosley and has contributed to

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Alain Trudel

Alain Trudel (born 13 June 1966) is a Canadian conductor, trombonist and composer. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Trudel first became known to the public as a trombone soloist. He made his solo

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Alain Weber

Alain Weber (8 December 1930 — 14 November 2019 ) was a French composer and music educator. Training and activities Born in Château-Thierry, Weber began his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in

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Alakbar Taghiyev

Alakbar Taghiyev (; April 28, 1924 – April 16, 1981) was an Azerbaijani composer and author of popular Azerbaijani songs. Biography He was born in 1922, in Ganja, into a large, low-income family. At

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Alan Bush

Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were

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Alan Chang

Alan Peijei Chang (born December 4, 1979) is an American pianist and songwriter, best known for his work with Michael Bublé. Biography Originally from San Jose, California, he graduated from the

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Alan Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness (; born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising

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Alan John

Alan John (born 7 May 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian composer. He studied music at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1980. His compositions include original music for various plays, films

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Alan Laurillard

Alan Laurillard (born April 20, 1946) is a Canadian composer, workshop leader, saxophonist, keyboard player and sample artist, living in the Netherlands and Bulgaria. He plays jazz, improvisational

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Alan Lloyd (composer)

Alan Huber Lloyd (10 January 1943 – 31 March 1986) was an American composer, primarily known for his scores for the theatrical works of Robert Wilson and the ballets of Andy de Groat. His score for

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Alan Mauritz Swanson

Alan Mauritz Swanson (born Chicago, Illinois October 29, 1941) is an American composer and academic who lives in the Netherlands. He took his BA (1963) and MA (1965) at Indiana University and his PhD

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Alan Rattray

Alan MacKenzie Rattray was a lyricist, composer and arranger of music. Born in Concord, Sydney in 1878, Rattray was the son of pioneer capitalists George Allan and Catherine (Beames) Rattray. Rattray

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Alan Rawsthorne

Alan Rawsthorne (2 May 1905 – 24 July 1971) was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex. Early years Alan Rawsthorne was born in

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Alan Rees (composer)

Abbot Alan William Rees, O.S.B. (1 February 1941 – 2 October 2005) was a Welsh Roman Catholic monk, organist, and composer of choral and organ music. From 1986 to 1993, Rees was abbot of Belmont

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Alan Richardson (composer)

Alan Richardson (29 February 1904 – 29 November 1978) was a Scottish pianist and composer. Biography Richardson was born in Edinburgh, where he worked for some time as a pianist for the BBC before

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Alan Ridout

Alan Ridout (9 December 1934 – 19 March 1996) was a British composer and teacher. Life Born in West Wickham, Kent, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before

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Alan Shacklock

Alan Albert Shacklock (born 20 June 1950) is an English musician, composer, arranger and recording producer, who lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. His 1972 song "The Mexican" as performed by

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Alan Shulman

Alan Shulman (4 June 1915 – 10 July 2002) was an American composer and cellist. He wrote a considerable amount of symphonic music, chamber music, and jazz music. Trumpeter Eddie Bailey said, "Alan

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Alan Silvestri

Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and music producer of film scores. He has received two Grammy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards as

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Alan Wilson (composer)

Alan J. Wilson (26 May 1947 - 4 April 2026) was a British composer of church music. Professional career He was born in 1947, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, UK. He won a scholarship to the Royal

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Alard du Gaucquier

Alard du Gaucquier (c. 1534 – c. 1582) was a choirmaster at the Imperial Chapel of the Holy Roman Empire. He began composing noted Magnificats and masses in 1574. Approximately in the year 1558 he

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Alastair King (composer)

Alastair King (born 1967) is a British composer and conductor, perhaps best known for his musical contributions to film and television. He frequently collaborates with composers Charlie Mole, Geoff

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Alba Lucía Potes Cortés

Alba Lucía Potes Cortés (born 1954) is a composer of contemporary classical music, and teacher at the Mannes School of Music, College Preparatory Division, in New York. Life Born in Cali, Colombia,

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Alba Quintanilla

Alba Quintanilla (born July 11, 1944) is a Venezuelan composer, harpist, harpsichordist, pianist, singer, conductor, and pedagogue. Biography Quintanilla was born in Mérida, Mérida, and had her first

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Alba Rosa Viëtor

Alba Rosa Viëtor (July 18, 1889 – April 15, 1979) was an Italian-born violinist and composer who settled in the United States in 1919. One of his notable students was Jan Kubelík, who would become

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( ; ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone

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Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska

Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 20 October 1965 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-born Luxembourgish composer, a pianist and musical pedagogue. In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of

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Albéric Magnard

Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard (; 9 June 1865 – 3 September 1914) was a French composer, somewhat influenced by César Franck and Vincent d'Indy. Magnard became a national hero in 1914 when he

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Albert Alain

Albert Paul Alain (1 March 1880 – 15 October 1971 ) was a 20th-century French organist and composer. Biography Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Clarisse-Alphonsine Fouquet (born 1859) and Paul

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Albert Bokhare Saunders

Albert Bokhare Saunders (1880–1946) was a successful and prolific composer of romantic and light classical music. He worked as an arranger for Sydney music publisher W.H. Palings. He worked under

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Albert Chamberland

Albert Chamberland (12 October 1886 – 4 April 1975) was a Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, music producer, and music educator. As a violinist he performed as a chamber musician with a number

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Albert Dietrich

Albert Hermann Dietrich (28 August 182920 November 1908), was a German composer and conductor. In addition to his work, he is remembered for his friendship with Johannes Brahms. Dietrich was born at

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Albert Fuchs

Albert Fuchs (born 6 August 1858 in Basel; died 15 February 1910 in Dresden; full name: Leonhard Johann Heinrich Albert Fuchs) was a Swiss-German composer, conductor, music educator, and music

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Albert Gumble

Albert Gumble (September 10, 1883 – November 30, 1946) was an American composer, pianist, music arranger, and songwriter. After graduating from the Auditorium School of Music in Cincinnati, he lived

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Albert H. Oswald

Albert Heckles Oswald (Hetton-le-Hole, 1879 – 1929) was an English composer and organist. Albert Oswald was born to Robert Oswald, a shoemaker, and his wife Jane Oswald (née Thompson). He composed

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Albert Hay Malotte

Albert Hay Malotte (May 19, 1895 – November 16, 1964) was an American pianist, organist, composer and educator, best known for his musical setting of "The Lord's Prayer". Biography and career Malotte

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Albert Huybrechts

Albert Huybrechts (12 February 1899 in Dinant – 21 February 1938 in Brussels) was a Belgian composer. Life Albert Huybrechts was born into a musical family. His father, Joseph-Jacques, was a double

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Albert J. Pitman

Albert John Pitman is regarded by change ringing campanologists as a remarkable and versatile composer of peals in bell ringing methods. Described as 'perhaps the greatest of all time' in the Central

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Albert Ketèlbey

Albert William Ketèlbey (; born Ketelbey; 9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959) was an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music. He was born in

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Albert Lavignac

Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac (; 21 January 1846 – 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer. Biography Lavignac was born in Paris and studied

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Albert Lortzing

Gustav Albert Lortzing (23 October 1801 – 21 January 1851) was a German composer, librettist, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar

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Albert Mayr

Albert Mayr (1 August 1943 – 28 January 2024) was an Italian composer of experimental and contemporary music. He studied music and composition in three different cities: at conservatories in both

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Albert Methfessel

Albert Methfessel (6 October 1785 – 23 March 1869) was a German composer, singer, musicologist, and conductor. Originally destined by his parents for service in the church, like his older brother, he

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Albert Moeschinger

Albert Moeschinger (10 January 1897 – 25 September 1985) was a Swiss composer. Life Born in Basel, Moeschinger, son of a merchant, completed his musical studies in Bern, Leipzig (composition with

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Albert Patron

Alberto Patron (born December 26, 1969), known in America also as Albert Patron, is an Italian composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, aporetic

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Albert Périlhou

Albert Jacques Périlhou (2 April 1846 – 28 August 1936) was a French composer, organist, and pianist. Biography Born in Daumazan-sur-Arize on 2 April 1846, he was the only son of Jean-Justin Périlhou

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Albert Pieczonka

Albert Emil Theodor Pieczonka (February 10, 1828 – April 12, 1912) was a composer, pianist and music instructor who resided in Germany, England, and the United States. His most famous work, the

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Albert Pratz

Albert Pratz (13 May 1914 – 28 March 1995) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967. His compositional output was modest

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Albert Richard Sendrey

Albert Richard Sendrey, also Albert Richard Szendrei, (26 December 1911 – 18 May 2003) was an American composer, conductor and arranger of Austro-Hungarian origin. Sendrey is the son of the

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Albert Roussel

Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent

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Albert Schnelzer

Albert Schnelzer (born 3 June 1972, Värmland) is a Swedish composer. As a youth, Schnelzer was a keyboard player in a rock band. He later became a student at the Malmö Academy of Music from 1994 to

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Albert Stoessel

Albert Frederic Stoessel (October 11, 1894 – May 12, 1943) was an American composer, violinist and conductor. Biography He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1894. He studied music at the Berlin

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Albert Szirmai

Albert Szirmai (sometimes credited as Albert Sirmay) (2 July 1880 –15 January 1967) was a Hungarian operetta composer and music editor. Szirmai was a graduate of the Budapest Academy of Music,

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Albert Viau

Albert Viau (6 November 1910 – 27 June 2001) was a Canadian baritone, folksinger, composer, and music educator. After beginning his career as a musician in the classical repertoire, he specialized in

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Albert Vizentini

Albert Vizentini (9 November 1841 – 21 October 1906) was a French violinist, composer, conductor and music writer. His main centre of activity was the French capital, but he also worked for ten years

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Albertet de Sestaro

Albertet de Sestaro, sometimes called Albertet de Terascon (fl. 1194–1221), was a Provençal jongleur and troubadour from the Gapençais (Gapensés in Occitan). Of his total oeuvre, twenty three poems

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Albertine Caron-Legris

Albertine Caron-Legris (1906–1972) was a Canadian pianist, composer and music educator. Many of her manuscripts and personal papers are held in the collection at the Library and Archives Canada.

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Albertine Morin-Labrecque

Albertine Morin-Labrecque (sometimes Labrecque-Morin) (8 June 1886 – 22 or 25 September 1957) was a Canadian pianist, soprano, composer, and music educator. Her compositional output includes 4

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Alberto Domínguez (composer)

Alberto Domínguez Borrás (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 21 April 1913 – Mexico City, 2 September 1975) was a Mexican marimbist and composer. He began his career in a marimba ensemble, Los

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Alberto Franchetti

Alberto Franchetti (18 September 1860 – 4 August 1942) was an Italian composer and racing driver, best known for the 1902 opera Germania. Biography Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish

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Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916 – June 25, 1983) was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the

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Alberto Giurioli

Alberto Giurioli (born 24 July 1991) is an Italian pianist and composer, based in London. Born in Badia Polesine, Italy (a municipality in Rovigo), Giurioli is the son of Pietro Giurioli and Alice

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Alberto Hemsi

Alberto Hemsi (27 June 1898 – 8 October 1975) was a composer of the 20th century classical era. His work in the field of ethnomusicology and integration of Sephardic melodies has been noted as

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Alberto Jonás

Alberto Jonás (June 8, 1868 – November 10, 1943) was a Spanish pianist, composer, and piano pedagogue. Although not much is known about his life, as a pianist he was regarded as a virtuoso on the

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Alberto Mazzucato

Alberto Mazzucato (28 July 1813 – 31 December 1877) was an Italian composer, music teacher, and writer. Mazzucato was born in Udine. He trained at the Padua Conservatory and composed eight operas

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Alberto Nepomuceno

Alberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864 – October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor. Career and music Nepomuceno was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará in Northeastern

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Alberto Posadas

Alberto Posadas (born 1967 in Valladolid), is a Spanish composer. Biography Alberto Posadas was born in 1967 in Valladolid where he underwent his first musical education which he then continued in

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Alberto Soriano

Alberto Soriano (5 February 1915 – 1981) was an Argentine composer and ethnomusicologist. He was born in Santiago del Estero. Background Soriano was born on February 5, 1915, in Santiago del Estero,

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Albertus Bryne

Albertus Bryne (variants: Albert Bryan; Albert Brian) (ca. 1621 – 2 December 1668) was an English organist and composer. Biography His teacher was John Tomkins, organist of St Paul's Cathedral, a

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Albrecht Blumenstengel

Albrecht Blumenstengel (1835–1895) was a German composer, violinist, arranger and editor. Biography Albrecht Blumenstengel was born in Helmstedt on 7 January 1836. Son of the German architect Johann

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Alcides Lanza

Alcides Emigdio Lanza (June 2, 1929 – July 17, 2024) was an Argentine-born Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, and music educator. As both a composer and performer he was known as an exponent of

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Alden Jenks

Alden Jenks (born August 10, 1940) is an American composer. Biography Alden Jenks was born in Michigan and received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.A. from the University of California,

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Aldo Brizzi

Aldo Brizzi is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Brizzi was born in Alessandria, Italy, in 1960. He studied piano, viola and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and

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Aldo Clementi

Aldo Clementi (25 May 1925 – 3 March 2011) was an Italian classical composer. Life Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946 at the Conservatorio Santa

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Aldo Donati (singer)

Aldo Donati (2 September 1947 – 24 August 2014) was an Italian singer, composer and television personality. Born in Rome, he started his career at very young age as a member of the blues-rock group

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Aldo Finzi (composer)

Aldo Finzi (Milan, 4 February 1897 – 7 February 1945) was an Italian classical music composer. Biography Aldo Finzi was born to an ancient Jewish family in Milan on February 4, 1897. After completing

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Aldo Piga

Aldo Piga (1928–1994) was an Italian-American composer who worked mainly in New York. Aldo Piga's work was mainly produced in the 1950s and 1960s in Italy. He started as a song composer and later

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Ale Carr

Ale Carr is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist, music teacher and composer, known for his work with his Danish trio Dreamers' Circus and his collaboration with the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

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Aleandro Baldi

Aleandro Baldi (born 11 April 1959) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Greve in Chianti, Florence as Aleandro Civai, blind, Baldi began playing the guitar as an

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Alec Roth

Alec Roth (born 1948) is an English composer. He is best known for his collaboration with Vikram Seth to produce the opera Arion and the Dolphin in 1994 based on the myth of Arion. Roth studied music

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Alec Wilder

Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer, author, and radio host. Considered one of the most inventive and lyrical American composers, he wrote

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Alejandro Brittes

Alejandro Brittes (born July 5, 1976) is an Argentine composer, accordionist and researcher of the music of the littoral region of Argentina. He has been residing in Porto Alegre, Brazil since 2010.

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Alejandro García Caturla

Alejandro García Caturla (7 March 1906 – 12 November 1940) was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes. Biography Caturla was born in the town of Remedios, Villa Clara, Cuba. At only

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Alejandro Núñez Allauca

Alejandro Núñez Allauca (born April 18, 1943) is a Peruvian composer and accordionist who performed outside of his native country. Biography He was born in Moquegua, Peru on April 18, 1943, and first

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Alejandro Román

Alejandro López Román (born 1971) is a Spanish composer and pianist. Musician of eclectic style, his works cover both current symphonic composition like jazz or film music. Biography Born in Madrid,

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Alejandro Vega Matus

Alejandro Vega Matus (August 17, 1873 – November 26, 1937) was a Nicaraguan composer. He founded his own orchestra in 1894, which grew to become one of Nicaragua's most prominent groups. Matus was a

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Alejandro Viñao

Raul Alejandro Viñao (born 4 September 1951) is an Argentine composer based in London. Early life Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Ficher. In 1976 he was

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Aleksander Eduard Thomson

Aleksander Eduard Thomson (31 January 1845, in Pringi – 20 October 1917, in Petrograd) was an Estonian composer. He is regarded as the founder of Estonian national choral music. In 1865, he graduated

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Aleksander Gurilyov

Aleksander L'vovich Gurilyov (Russian: Александр Львович Гурилёв; 3 September 1803 – 11 September 1858) was a composer, pianist, violinist, and music teacher who largely enriched the traditional

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Aleksander Kolkowski

Aleksander Kolkowski (born 1959 in London) is a British musician and composer whose work combines instruments and machines from the pioneering era of sound recording and reproduction (Stroh violins,

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Aleksander Kunileid

Aleksander Kunileid (born Aleksander Saebelmann; 22 November 1845 – 27 July 1875), was an Estonian composer. He is one of the founding figures of Estonian choral music. Life and work Aleksander

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Aleksander Läte

Aleksander Läte (12 January 1860, in Pikasilla, Aakre Parish, Kreis Dorpat – 8 September 1948, in Tartu) was an Estonian composer, conductor and music critic. He is also known as the first Estonian

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Aleksandër Peçi

Aleksandër Peçi (born 11 July 1951 in Tirana) is an Albanian composer. Peçi has composed for movie soundtracks, symphonic, ballet, and operatic settings, among many others. Education He studied at

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Aleksander Szeligowski

Aleksander Robert Szeligowski (24 August 1934 – 4 May 1993) was a Polish composer, conductor, organist and pedagogue. He studied in Poznań and Warsaw, later working as assistant conductor for the

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Aleksandr Kasyanov (composer)

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kasyanov (13 February 1982) was a Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, pianist and professor. He studied privately in his youth with Mily Balakirev and Alexander Glazunov

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Aleksandr Lokshin

Aleksandr Lazarevich Lokshin () (1920–1987) was a Soviet composer of classical music. He was born on 19 September 1920 in the town of Biysk, in the Altai Region, Western Siberia, and died in Moscow

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Aleksandr Sheremetev

Count Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Sheremetev (11 March 1859 – 18 May 1931) was a Russian composer, conductor and entrepreneur. He founded his own private symphony orchestra in 1882, and from 1898

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Aleksandr Varlamov (composer, born 1801)

Alexander Egorovich Varlamov (or Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov; ; 27 November 1801 – 27 October 1848) was a 19th-century composer, singer, teacher, conductor, and one of the founding fathers of the

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Aleksandr Varlamov (composer, born 1904)

Alexander Vladimirovich Varlamov (; 19 June 1904 – 20 August 1990) was a Russian Soviet jazz composer and arranger. He was also the conductor of the jazz orchestra with the All-Union Radio Committee,

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Aleksandr Yurasovsky

Alexander Ivanovich Yurasovsky (June 15, 1890 – January 31, 1922) was a conductor and composer active in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union. Biography Yurasovsky was born in the town of

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Aleksandr Zatsepin

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Zatsepin (; born 10 March 1926) is a Russian composer, known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai. He received the titles of People's Artist

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Aleksandra Gryka

Aleksandra Gryka (born 17 May 1977) is a Polish classical composer of experimental music. Her works have been performed at such festivals as the Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum and Juilliard Focus!

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Aleksandra Vrebalov

Aleksandra Vrebalov (born September 22, 1970) is a Serbian-American composer based in New York City and Novi Sad, Serbia. Biography Vrebalov was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United

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Aleksandre Basilaia

Aleksandre Aleksandres dze Basilaia (11 March 19423 October 2009) was a Georgian composer and songwriter of popular music and film scores. He led the popular musical group Iveria since its founding

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Aleksi Eeben

Aleksi Eeben (born 2 July 1976), born Antti Aleksi Mikkonen, is a Finnish composer, sound designer, musician and programmer. He is best known for his musical contributions to the demoscene under the

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Alemdar Karamanov

Alemdar Sabitovich Karamanov (10 September 19343 May 2007) was a composer. Biography Karamanov was born on September 10, 1934, in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. His father, Sabit Temel

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AleMor

Alejandra Mor Tatis, known professionally as AleMor, is a Colombian-American musician, singer, and composer. Her musical style includes genres such as pop, latin alternative, rock, bolero, R&B, soul,

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Alen Ilijic

Alen Ilijic (Serbian Cyrillic: Ален Илијић), (born 30 January 1975 in Gevgelija, SFR Yugoslavia), is a Serbian new media avant-garde composer and polymedia artist. He studied film music with

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Alessandro Alessandroni

Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician and composer. He played multiple instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion and

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Alessandro Besozzi

Alessandro Besozzi (born 22 July 1702 in Parma – died 26 July 1793 in Turin) was an Italian composer and virtuoso oboist. He was a member of the ducal Guardia Irlandese from 1714, a hautboy band

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Alessandro Cicognini

Alessandro Cicognini (15 January 1906 – 9 November 1995) was an Italian composer who is chiefly remembered for his film scores. Biography Born in Pescara, Cicognini graduated with a degree in music

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Alessandro Cipriani

Alessandro Cipriani (born April 28, 1959) is an Italian composer of electronic music. Biography Cipriani was born in Tivoli, Italy. After ordinary musical studies Alessandro Cipriani completed his

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Alessandro Felici

Alessandro Felici (21 November 1742 in Florence, Italy – 21 August 1772 in Florence, Italy ) was an Italian composer and violinist, not to be confused with his contemporary, Roman composer Felice

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Alessandro Grandi

Alessandro Grandi (1590 – after June 1630, but in that year) was a northern Italian composer of the early Baroque era, writing in the new stile concertato (). He was one of the most inventive,

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Alessandro Grego

Alessandro Grego (born 18 March 1969, Trieste) is an Italian contemporary classical composer, theatre and film score author. Biography He studied composition with Giorgio Gaslini, electronic music

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Alessandro La Cava

Alessandro La Cava (born 21 February 2000) is an Italian songwriter and record producer. Biography He made his debut as a contestant on the third edition of the talent show Io canto hosted by Gerry

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Alessandro Longo

Alessandro Longo (31 December 1864 – 3 November 1945) was an Italian composer and musicologist. Early life Longo was born in Amantea. After studying at the Naples Conservatory under Beniamino Cesi

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Alessandro Marcello

Alessandro Ignazio Marcello (; 1 February 1673 – 19 June 1747 ) was an Italian nobleman and composer. Biography Born in Venice, Marcello was the son of a senator, and as a member of the noble

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Alessandro Melani

Alessandro Melani (4 February 1639 – 3 October 1703) was an Italian composer and the brother of composer Jacopo Melani, and castrato singer Atto Melani. Along with Bernardo Pasquini and Alessandro

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Alessandro Parisotti

Alessandro Parisotti (24 July 1853 – 4 April 1913) was an Italian composer and music editor. Life and career Though also a composer, Alessandro Parisotti is better known today as the original editor

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Alessandro Piccinini

Alessandro Piccinini (1566 – 1638) was an Italian lutenist and composer. Piccinini was born in Bologna into a musical family: his father Leonardo Maria Piccinini taught lute playing to Alessandro as

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Alessandro Poglietti

Alessandro Poglietti (early 17th century – July 1683) was a Baroque organist and composer of unknown origin. In the second half of the 17th century Poglietti settled in Vienna, where he attained an

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Alessandro Rolla

Alessandro Rolla (; 23 April 175714 September 1841) In 1782 he was appointed principal viola and the leader of the Ducale Orchestra in Parma, playing violin and viola until 1802. In 1795 he received

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Alessandro Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important

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Alessandro Solbiati

Alessandro Solbiati (born 9 September 1956) is an Italian composer of classical music, who has composed instrumental music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, art songs and operas. He received

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Alessandro Stradella

Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer,

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Alessandro Striggio

Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 29 February 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by

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Alette Due

Alethe "Alette" Wilhelmine Georgine Due, née Sibbern (28 February 1812 – 7 May 1887), was a Norwegian singer, composer and courtier. She was an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music,

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Alex Asher Daniel

Alex Asher Daniel (born May 14, 1973) is an American contemporary artist and composer. He uses a broad variety of materials including painting, sound installations, photography, drawing and film. A

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Alex Bradford

Alex Bradford (January 23, 1927 – February 15, 1978) was an American gospel composer, singer, arranger and choir director, who was an influence on artists such as Little Richard, Bob Marley and Ray

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Alex Burtzos

Alex Burtzos (born 1985 in Denver, Colorado, United States) is an American composer based in New York City and Orlando, Florida. Life and career Alex Burtzos was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up

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Alex Conrado

Álex Conrado (born 29 March 1969) is a Spanish soundtrack composer for TV and cinema. Biography Born and raised in Madrid, he has been musical since an early age. At seven he learnt to play the

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Alex Khaskin

Alex Khaskin (born 1961) is a Russian-Canadian composer living and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life and education He was born in St. Petersburg. He spent his early years studying

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Alex Lithgow

Alexander Frame Lithgow (1 December 1870 in Glasgow – 12 July 1929 in Launceston, Tasmania) was a Scottish-born, New Zealand and Australian based composer and bandleader known as the "Sousa of the

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Alex Otterlei

Alex Otterlei (born 17 September 1968) is a Belgian composer who writes music for orchestra, concert band and other ensembles. Otterlei has created music and sound effects for theatre, short films,

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Alex Pauk

Alexander Peter Pauk (born October 4, 1945) is a Canadian conductor and composer, most noted as the founder of the Esprit Orchestra. Awards and nominations At the Juno Awards of 1996, both Alexina

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Alex Prior

Alexander Prior (born 5 October 1992) is a British composer and conductor who is the music director of the Eugene Symphony. He studied from the age of 13 to 17 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

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Alex Shapiro

Alex Shapiro (born January 11, 1962, in New York City, NY) is an American composer and creator advocate. Her acoustic and electroacoustic music concert works are characterized by their genre

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Alex Temple

Alex Temple is a contemporary classical music composer and professor of music composition. Her pieces draw from multiple styles of both classical and popular music. Compositions Behind the Wallpaper

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Alexander Abramsky

Alexander Abramsky (; 22 January 1898 in Lutsk – 29 August 1985 in Moscow) was a Soviet composer. He was known for his adaptation of folk music within his compositions. Abramsky was born on January

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Alexander Acha

Raúl Alexander Acha Johnson-Alemán (born January 25, 1985) is a Mexican singer-songwriter. Life He is the son of Mexican pop singer Emmanuel and Mercedes Aleman, who taught Alexander piano and other

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Alexander Agricola

Alexander Agricola (; born Alexander Ackerman; c. 1446 – 15 August 1506) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance writing in the Franco-Flemish style. A prominent member of the Grande

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Alexander Albrecht

Alexander Albrecht (12 August 1885, Arad, Hungarian Kingdom - 30 August 1958, Bratislava) was a composer, an important exponent of the Slovak music in the first half of the 20th century. Biography

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Alexander Alyabyev

Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev (; 15 August 17876 March 1851), also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff, was a Russian composer known as one of the fathers of the Russian art song. He wrote seven

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Alexander Arkhangelsky (composer)

Alexander Andreyevich Arkhangelsky () (23 October 1846, in Staroye Tezikovo, Penza Governorate – 16 November 1924, in Prague) was a Russian composer of church music and a conductor. He "received his

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Alexander Arutiunian

Alexander Grigori Arutiunian (23 September 192028 March 2012), was a Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist, widely known for his 1950 Trumpet Concerto. A professor at Yerevan State Conservatory,

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Alexander Borodin

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known

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Alexander Brincken

Alexander Brincken (born 23 December 1952 in Leningrad) is a classical composer, pianist and organist. Since 1992 he has resided in Lucerne, Switzerland. Biography Graduated from Saint Petersburg

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Alexander Brott

Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915 – April 1, 2005), was a Canadian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher. Early life and education Brott was born in Montreal, Quebec. He

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Alexander Chuhaldin

Alexander Gregorovitch Chuhaldin () (27 August 1892 – 20 January 1951) was a Russian violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator who later emigrated to Canada. He spent his early career

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Alexander Courage

Alexander Mair Courage Jr. (December 10, 1919 – May 15, 2008) familiarly known as "Sandy" Courage, was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He

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Alexander Dreyschock

Alexander Dreyschock (15 October 1818 – 1 April 1869) was a Czech pianist and composer. He was the brother of Raimund Dreyschock and the uncle of Felix Dreyschock. Life and career Born in Žáky in

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Alexander Fridlender

Alexander Grigoryevitch Fridlender (; 2/15 July 1906 – 13 September 1980) was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, as well as professor at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire. Life

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Alexander Glazunov

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg

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Alexander Goedicke

Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke (; 4 March 18779 July 1957) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Early life Alexander Goedicke was born in Moscow on 4 March 1877. He was Nikolai Medtner's

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Alexander Goehr

Peter Alexander Goehr (; 10 August 1932 – 26 August 2024) was a German-born English composer of contemporary classical music and academic teacher. A long-time professor of music at the University of

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Alexander Goldscheider

Alexander Goldscheider (born 22 June 1950) is a Czech-born British composer, music producer, writer, computer specialist and photographer. Life and career He read music at Charles University in

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Alexander Gretchaninov

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (; 25 October 1864 – 3 January 1956) was a Russian Romantic composer. Life Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late, because his father, a businessman,

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Alexander Horowitz

Alexander Horowitz (born January 1991) is a British composer and pianist. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Glasgow School of Art. Horowitz received a BAFTA New Talent

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Alexander Ilyinsky

Alexander Alexandrovich Ilyinsky (; 24 January 185923 February 1920) was a Russian music teacher and composer, best known for the Lullaby (Berceuse), Op. 13, No. 7, from his orchestral suite "Noure

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Alexander Keuk

Alexander Keuk (born 13 October 1971) is a German composer and music journalist. Life Born in Wuppertal, Keuk completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman from 1990 to 1992 after his Abitur. From

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Alexander Knaifel

Alexander Knaifel (; also Alexandr Knaifel; 28 November 1943, Tashkent – 27 June 2024, Berlin) was a Soviet and Russian composer, often described as one of the most prominent Russian composers of his

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Alexander Kolker

Alexander Naumovich Kolker (; 28 July 1933 – 1 August 2023) was a Soviet and Russian composer and Honored Artist of the RSFSR, awarded in 1981. Biography Alexander Naumovich Kolker was born in

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Alexander Kopylov

Alexander Alexandrovich Kopylov or Kopilov (Александр Александрович Копылов, 14 July 1854 – 20 February 1911) was a composer and violinist from the Russian Empire. Kopylov studied for many years as a

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Alexander Krein

Alexander Abramovich Krein (; 20 October 1883– 25 April 1951) was a Soviet composer. Background Krein was born in Nizhny Novgorod on 20 October 1883. The Krein family was steeped in the klezmer

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Alexander Ledkovsky

Alexander Borisovich Ledkovsky (June 3, 1944 – December 24, 2004) was an American conductor, composer, and music editor of Russian descent. Life Alexander Ledkovsky was born in Teupitz, Germany

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Alexander Mackenzie (composer)

Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO (22 August 1847 – 28 April 1935) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and

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Alexander Moosbrugger

Alexander Moosbrugger (born 21 August 1972 in Bregenzerwald) is an Austrian composer, living since 2001 in Berlin. Biography Alexander Moosbrugger completed studies at the Vorarlberger

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Alexander Mosolov

Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov (; 11 August 1900 – 11 July 1973) was a Soviet-era Russian composer known for his early futurist orchestral music, piano sonatas, and vocal music. A Moscow Conservatory

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Alexander Moyzes

Alexander Moyzes (4 September 1906 – 20 November 1984) was a Slovak neoromantic composer. Biography Moyzes was born into a musical family in 1906 at Kláštor pod Znievom, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His

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Alexander Mullenbach

Alexander Mullenbach (born 1949) is a Luxembourgish pianist, composer and conductor. Since 2002, he has been director of the International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Career Born in

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Alexander Olshanetsky

Alexander Olshanetsky (October 23, 1892 – June 3, 1946) was a Russian-American composer, conductor, and violinist. He was a major figure within the Yiddish theatre scene in New York City from the

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Alexander Peloquin

C. Alexander Peloquin (June 16, 1918 – February 27, 1997) was an American composer of liturgical music, pianist, teacher, cathedral organist and director of music ministries. Inspired by the Second

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Alexander Radvilovich

Alexander Yuryevich Radvilovich (; born 1955) is a Russian composer, pianist, teacher, and lecturer from Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) who specializes in contemporary music discourses. He is the

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Alexander Raichev

Alexander Raichev () (11 April 1922 – 28 October 2003) was a Bulgarian music educator and composer. Biography Raichev was born in Lom, Bulgaria, and studied with Pancho Vladigerov at the State

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Alexander Raskatov

Alexander Mikhailovich Raskatov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Раска́тов; born 9 March 1953, in Moscow) is a Russian composer. Life Alexander Raskatov's father was a leading journalist of the

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Alexander Raytchev

Alexander Alexandrov Raytchev (, born 15 March 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian classical pianist und composer who lives in Germany. Biography The pianist and composer Alexander Raytchev comes

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Alexander Ritter

Alexander Sascha Ritter (7 June 1833 – 12 April 1896) was a German composer and violinist. He wrote two operas, Der faule Hans and Wem die Krone?; a few songs; a symphonic waltz; and two symphonic

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Alexander Schubert

Alexander Schubert (born 13 July 1979) is a German composer. Much of his music is experimental, involving multimedia, improvisatory, and interactive elements. He draws upon free jazz, techno, and pop

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Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 27 April 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Initially influenced by Frédéric Chopin, he composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom.

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Alexander Serov

Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (, 23 January 1820 – 1 February 1871) was a Russian composer and music critic. He is notable as one of the most important music critics in Russia during the 1850s and

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Alexander Shchetynsky

Alexander Shchetynsky (Shchetinsky) (; ; Aleksandr Stepanovich Shchetins'kiy) is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list

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Alexander Shenshin

Alexander Alexeyevich Shenshin (; 1890–1944) was a Russian composer. Shenshin studied music with Boleslav Yavorsky, Alexander Gretchaninov, Reinhold Glière, and Semyon Kruglikov from 1907 to 1915. He

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Alexander Shulgin (musician)

Alexander Valeryevich Shulgin (born August 25, 1964) is a Russian author and composer. He was born in Irkutsk, Russia, and currently lives in Moscow. Music career Shulgin's career began at the age of

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Alexander Spendiaryan

Alexander Afanasyevich Spendiarov (, November 1, 1871, Kakhovka, Russian Empire – May 7, 1928, Yerevan, Armenia) was a Russian composer and conductor of Armenian descent, founder of Armenian national

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Alexander Sukhanov

Alexander Alekseevich Sukhanov (, 25 May 1952) is a Soviet and Russian poet, composer, bard and mathematician who created more than two hundred songs. Biography Alexander Sukhanov was born on 25 May

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Alexander Taneyev

Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev (, also transliterated as Taneiev, Tanaiev, Taneieff, and Taneyeff in English; January 17, 1850, Saint Petersburg – February 7, 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian state

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Alexander Tcherepnin

Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (; 21 January 1899 – 29 September 1977) was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin (pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), and his sons,

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Alexander Uriah Boskovich

Alexander (Sándor) Uriah Boskovich (Boskovits, Boskowitz, etc.) (; August 16, 1907 – November 5, 1964) was an Israeli composer born to a Hungarian-Jewish family. Life and career Boskovich was born in

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Alexander Utendal

Alexander Utendal (1543/45 – 7 May 1581) was a Flemish composer. Life Utendal was a native of Ghent, nowadays a Belgian city, but at the time part of Flanders and the Netherlands which were part of

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Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (13 April 1883 – 8 July 1946; born Koptelov or Koptelev) was a Soviet and Russian composer and founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble, who wrote the music for the State

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Alexander Veprik

Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, also Weprik, (, ; 23 June 1899 – 13 October 1958) was a Russian-(Ukrainian) Soviet composer and music educator. Veprik is considered one of the greatest composers of the

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Alexander von Zemlinsky

Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky (14 October 1871 – 15 March 1942) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher. Biography Early life Zemlinsky was born in Vienna to a highly

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Alexander Vustin

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, also Voustin or Wustin (; 24 April 1943 – 19 April 2020) or COVID-19, as other sources report. Works Vustin's works were published by Hans Sikorski. * Three Poems of Moses

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Alexandra Fol

Alexandra Fol (born July 11, 1981 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Career Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which

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Alexandra Gardner

Alexandra Gardner (born 1967) is an American contemporary composer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her music employs diverse acoustic instrumentation and electronics, drawing on minimalist and

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Alexandra Pierce

Alexandra Pierce (February 21, 1934 – February 1, 2021) was an American composer, pianist, music theorist, movement educator, author, and Emerita Research Professor of Music and Movement at the

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Alexandra Stréliski

Alexandra Stréliski is a Canadian neo-classical composer and pianist based in Quebec. She has released three albums: Pianoscope (2010), Inscape (2018) and Néo-Romance (2023). Early life Stréliski was

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Alexandre Artus

Alexandre Artus (27 November 1821 – 19 August 1911 ) was a 19th-century French conductor and composer. Biography Alexandre Artus was born in Perpignan, the son of Joseph Pierre Artus (1791–1864) and

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Alexandre Boëly

Alexandre Pierre-François Boëly (19 April 1785 – 27 December 1858) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and violist. Career Born in Versailles into a family of musicians, Boëly received his

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Alexandre Danilevski

Alexandre Danilevski (; born in 1957 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian-born French composer, lutenist, vielle player, active in Metz, France. He is the artistic director of Syntagma, an early music

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Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe

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Alexandre Dubuque

Alexandre Ivanovich Dubuque, also Alexander and Dubuc (; 3 March 1812 – ), was a Russian pianist, composer and teacher of French descent. Life He was born and died in Moscow. His father was a

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Alexandre Eugène Cellier

Alexandre Eugène Cellier (17 June 1883 in Molières-sur-Cèze – 4 March 1968 in Paris) was a French organist and composer. Cellier studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant until 1908. In 1908, he won the

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Alexandre Georges

Alexandre Georges (25 February 1850 – 18 January 1938) was a French organist, teacher and composer. Of his compositions, his most successful opera was Miarka, given at the Opéra-Comique and later at

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Alexandre Goria

Alexandre Édouard Goria (21 January 1823 – 6 July 1860) was a French virtuoso pianist and composer of salon pieces. Biography Alexandre Goria was born in Paris and admitted as a student at the age of

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Alexandre Guilmant

Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (; 12 March 1837 – 29 March 1911) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of La Trinité from 1871 until 1901. A noted pedagogue, performer, and improviser,

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Alexandre Levy

Alexandre Levy (10 November 1864 – 17 January 1892) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil's popular folk music

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Alexandre Luigini

Alexandre Clément Léon Joseph Luigini (9 March 185029 July 1906) was a French composer and conductor, especially active in the opera house. As a composer, he is now remembered almost solely for his

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Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche

Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche (Paris, 1799 – Saint Petersburg, 31 July 1849) was a French violinist and composer, conductor at the Théâtre du Vaudeville from 1828 to 1848. The son of Joseph-Denis

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Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (; born 30 March 1945) is a Russian-born composer, conductor and classical pianist who lives in Switzerland. He is one of the first composers of minimalism (from

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Alexandre Tansman

Alexander Tansman (, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest

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Alexandre Villoing

Alexandre Villoing (; 12 March 1804 – 2 September 1878) was a Russian pianist and music teacher best known for teaching Anton and Nikolai Rubinstein. Biography Alexandre Villoing was born in Moscow

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Alexandro Marie Antoin Fridzeri

Alexandro Marie Antoin Fridzeri or Frixer (born Verona 16 January 1741, died Antwerp 1825) was the most renowned of mandolin virtuosi, a clever violinist, organist, and a composer whose works met

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Alexandros Mouzas

Alexandros Mouzas (born 1962) is a Greek composer. He studied composition with Theodore Antoniou, advanced theory with Haris Xanthoudakis and electronic music with Dimitris Kamarotos. He has composed

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Alexandru Mandy

Alexandru Mandy (; August 9, 1914 – October 10, 2005) was a Romanian Jewish composer. Career Mandy began his first major compositional debut with his Song of the Wind. He often wrote lyrics to

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Alexei Lvov

Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov (; 5 June 1798 – 28 December 1870) was a Russian composer, best known for the composition of the imperial-era Russian national anthem, God Save the Tsar. Biography Lvov was

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Alexej Gerassimez

Alexej Gerassimez (born 1987 in Essen) is a German solo percussion player and composer. Gerassimez was born in Essen, Germany. His brothers are also musicians: Nicolai Gerassimez is a pianist and

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Alexey Rybnikov

Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov (; born July 17, 1945) is a modern Russian composer. He is the author of music for Soviet and Russian musicals (rock operas) The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta (, 1976) and

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Alexey Shor

Alexey Vladimorovich Kononenko (born 1970) is an American composer. He is the Composer-in-Residence for the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and an associate composer at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

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Alexey Titov

Alexey Nikolayevich Titov (; July 12, 1769 - November 8, 1827 ), was a Russian composer and violinist. His son, Nikolai Titov, was a composer, as were several other family members. Titov was born and

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Alexey Verstovsky

Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky () (March 1 1799 – November 17 1862) was a Russian composer, musical bureaucrat and rival of Mikhail Glinka. Biography Alexey Verstovsky was born at Seliverstovo

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Alexina Louie

Alexina Diane Louie, (born 30 July 1949), is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. She has composed for various instrumental and vocal combinations in a variety of genres. She has

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Alexis Agrafiotis

Alexis Agrafiotis (born 1970) is a German-Greek composer, conductor and pianist. Life Alexis Agrafiotis was born the son of conductor Dimitris Agrafiotis and Evangelia Syngelakis. Soon after his

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Alexis Contant

Joseph Pierre Alexis Contant (12 November 1858 – 28 November 1918) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. Trained as a pianist, he became one of the first Canadians to

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Alexis de Castillon

Alexis-Marie de Castillon de Saint-Victor (13 December 1838 – 5 March 1873) was a French composer. Life and career Castillon was born in Chartres into an old aristocratic family from Languedoc. His

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Alexis Martin (musician)

Alexis Martin (born November 10, 1981) is a Canadian musician and composer, most noted as a frequent collaborator with Viviane Audet and Robin-Joël Cool on film and television scores. He has

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Alfi Kabiljo

Alfons "Alfi" Kabiljo (; 22 December 1935 – 1 April 2025) was a Croatian composer and musician. He was composing for over 60 years. Kabiljo was a president of the Croatian Composers' Society () and a

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Alfie Godfrey

Alfie Godfrey (born February 1996) is a British composer of music for film and television. He is known for his work on projects including Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning , A Town Called

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Alfons Karabuda

Alfons Karabuda, born 2 December 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish composer and EU cultural politics personality. Karabuda has been president of ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter

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Alfons Karl Zwicker

Alfons Karl Zwicker (born 22 April 1952) is a Swiss composer, pianist and painter. Life Born in St. Gallen, Zwicker began as a painter and designer. He created several paintings, which were exhibited

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Alfonso dalla Viola

Alfonso dalla Viola (also della Viola) (c. 1508 – c. 1573) was an Italian composer and instrumentalist of the Renaissance. He was the principal composer at the Este court in Ferrara for about four

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Alfonso Ferrabosco III

Alfonso Ferrabosco (junior) (died 1652) was an English composer and court musician. Biography Alfonso was the son of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (d. 1628), who was probably the 'Master Alphonso

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Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder

Alfonso Ferrabosco (baptized 18 January 154312 August 1588) was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the

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Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c. 1575 – March 1628) was an English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Biography Ferrabosco

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Alfonso Fontanelli

Alfonso Fontanelli (15 February 1557 – 11 February 1622) was an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance. He was one of the leading figures in the musically

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Alfonso Gibilaro

Alfonso Vinzenzo Giuseppe Gibilaro (28 September 1888, Porto Empedocle, Sicily – 5 January 1957, Wandsworth, London) was a pianist, Two of his compositions—an Ave Maria and a Sicilian dialect song

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Alfred Bartles

Alfred Howell Bartles (November 10, 1930 – December 28, 2006) was an American composer and musician. He played the cello and piano and he is best known for Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz

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Alfred Bruneau

Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857 – 15 June 1934) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. Life Born in Paris, Bruneau studied

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Alfred De Sève

Alfred De Sève (May or June 1858 – 25 November 1927) was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra;

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Alfred Desenclos

Alfred Desenclos (7 February 1912 – 3 March 1971) was a French composer of (modern) classical music. Desenclos was a self-described "romantic" whose music is highly expressive and atmospheric and

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Alfred Dufresne

Jacques Marie Alfred Dufresne (1822, Orléans – 18 March 1863, Paris) was a 19th-century French composer and playwright. A student of Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory, he is mostly known for

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Alfred G. Robyn

Alfred George Robyn (April 29, 1860 – October 18, 1935) was an American composer, organist, conductor, and music educator. While his compositional output consisted of a wide range of music, he is

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Alfred Gaul

Alfred Robert Gaul (30 April 1837 — 13 September 1913) was an English composer, conductor, teacher and organist. Life and career Gaul was born in Norwich, where he studied under Zechariah Buck. By

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Alfred Grünfeld

Alfred Grünfeld (4 July 1852 in Prague – 4 January 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Life Alfred Grünfeld was born as the second of eight children to Jewish leather merchant

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Alfred Hans Zoller

Alfred Hans Zoller (6 October 1928 – 14 October 2006) was a German composer, jazz pianist, church musician and organist. He is known for the 1964 song "Stern über Bethlehem", which is often used by

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Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles (26 February 1848 – 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian-era English writer – including as an anthologist, children's writer, editor, journalist, and poet – as well as a

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Alfred Hill (composer)

Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE (16 December 186930 October 1960) was an Australian-New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher. Life and work Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth

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Alfred Janson

Alfred Janson (10 March 1937 – 19 May 2019) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. He was born in Oslo as the son of sculptor Gunnar Janson and pianist Margrethe Gleditsch, and was brother of

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Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire

Alfred Jean-Baptiste Lemaire (15 January 1842 – 24 February 1907) was a French military musician and composer. He is known for teaching at the music department of Dar ul-Funun during the reign of

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Alfred Karindi

Alfred Karindi (born Alfred-Nikolai Karafin; 30 May 1901 – 13 April 1969) was an Estonian organist and composer. Life and work Alfred Karindi was born on 30 May 1901 in the village of Kõnnu, Illuka

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Alfred Kunz (composer)

Alfred Leopold Kunz (26 May 1929 – 16 January 2019) was a German-Canadian composer, conductor, and arts administrator from New Hamburg, Ontario. Early life Kunz was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan, and

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Alfred La Liberté

Alfred La Liberté (10 February 1882 – 7 May 1952) was a Canadian composer, pianist, writer on music, and music educator. He was a disciple and close personal friend of Alexander Scriabin. He was also

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Alfred Lefébure-Wély

Louis-James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (13 November 1817 – 31 December 1869) was a French organist and composer. He played a major role in the development of the French symphonic organ style and was

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Alfred Mignault

Alfred Joseph Édouard Mignault (8 December 1895 – 10 July 1961) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. A largely self-taught composer, his compositional output includes both vocal and

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Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky

Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky (; born 7 August 1970), also known as Fred Momotenko or just Momotenko, is a Russian and Dutch composer, percussionist, and sound engineer. Born to a musical family, he

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Alfred Newman

Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in

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Alfred Novello

Joseph Alfred Novello (12 August 1810 – 17 July 1896) was an English music publisher. He was the eldest son of Vincent Novello, and the creator of Novello and Company Ltd as a revolutionary force in

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Alfred Patusset

Armand Alfred Patusset (17 November 1853 – 13 or 20 March 1924 ) was a French composer, conductor and musical arrangeur. Life Born in Paris, the son of a musician, Patusset entered the Conservatoire

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Alfred Peschek

Alfred Peschek (14 May 1929 – 4 February 2015) was an Austrian composer and musician. Life and career Born in Linz, Peschek was drafted into the Volkssturm as a 15-year-old in the last year of the

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Alfred Prinz

Alfred Prinz (4 June 1930 – 20 September 2014) was an Austrian composer, clarinetist, and music educator. In 1947 he was awarded a gold medal at the Geneva Music Competition and in 1971 he won a

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Alfred Quidant

Pierre Robert Joseph (Alfred) Quidant (7 December 1815 – 9 October 1893) was a French pianist, composer and music teacher. Biography Born in Lyon, the son of a merchant of musical instruments, he

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Alfred Reed

Alfred Reed (born as Alfred Friedman) (January 25, 1921 – September 17, 2005) was an American neoclassical composer, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, orchestra, chorus,

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Alfred Reisenauer

Alfred Reisenauer (1 November 18633 October 1907) was a German pianist, composer, and music educator. Biography Reisenauer was born in Königsberg. He was a pupil of Louis Köhler and Franz Liszt. As

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Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described

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Alfred Sittard

Alfred Sittard (4 November 1878 –– 31 March 1942) was a German cantor, composer of church music and one of the most important organists of his time. Life and career Born in Stuttgart, Sittard was a

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Alfred Stier

Alfred Stier (27 November 1880 – 21 July 1967) was a German composer and music director of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony. Life Stier was born in Greiz. After attending primary schools, he

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Alfred Szendrei

Alfred Szendrei (29 February 1884 – 3 March 1976), also Alfred Sendrey and Aladár Szendrei, was an American musicologist, organist, conductor, and composer of Hungarian origin. He was one of the

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Alfred Uhl

Alfred Uhl (5 June 1909 – 8 June 1992) was an Austrian composer, violist, music teacher and conductor. Biography Uhl was born in Vienna and studied with Franz Schmidt at the Vienna Music Academy,

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Alfred Whitehead

Alfred Ernest Whitehead (10 July 1887 – 1 April 1974) was an English-born Canadian composer, organist, choirmaster, music educator, painter, whose works are held in a number of important private

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Alfredo Antonini

Alfredo Antonini (May 31, 1901 – November 3, 1983) was a leading Italian-American symphony conductor and composer who was active on the international concert stage as well as on the CBS radio and

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Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Casella was born in Turin, the son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family

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Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi

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Alfredo D'Ambrosio

Alfredo d'Ambrosio (13 June 1871 – 28 December 1914) was an Italian composer and violinist. He studied under Enrico Bossi at the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples, and later with Pablo de

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Alfredo Diez Nieto

Alfredo Diez Nieto (25 October 1918 – 23 October 2021) was a Cuban composer, conductor, and professor. He taught composition at Instituto Musical Kohly, the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, the National

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Alfredo Keil

Alfredo Cristiano Keil (3 July 1850 – 4 October 1907) was a Portuguese composer, painter, poet, archaeologist and art collector. Keil is best known as the composer of the Portuguese national anthem,

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Alfredo Mazzucchi

Emanuele Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972) was an Italian composer and musician, known for being the co-author of some famous pieces of the (Neapolitan songs) such as "", "Maria Marì", and "I' te vurria

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Alfredo Napoleão

Alfredo Napoleão dos Santos (31 January 1852, Porto – 20 November 1917, Lisbon) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. He was the youngest of three Napoleão pianist and composer siblings, the others

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Alfredo Pignagnoli

Alfredo "Larry" Pignagnoli (born 31 July 1951) is an Italian record producer, composer and musician. He is behind several international dance hits and he runs the production unit "Off Limits" in

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Alfredo Rolando Ortiz

Alfredo Rolando Ortiz (December 10, 1946) is an internationally acclaimed soloist of the Paraguayan harp, a composer, author, educator and recording artist. Biography Alfredo considers his "most

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Alfredo Sirica

Alfredo Sirica (born 25 April 1999) is an Italian composer, pianist and orchestrator. Best known for his activity as soundtrack composer, he has written and produced music for cinema, video games and

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Alfrēds Kalniņš

Alfrēds Bruno Jānis Kalniņš (23 August 1879, in Cēsis, Governorate of Livonia – 23 December 1951, in Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian composer, organist, pedagogue, music critic and conductor; the

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Algernon Ashton

Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (9 December 1859 – 10 April 1937) was a British composer, pianist, and Professor of piano at the Royal College of Music 1884–1910. Ashton was born in Durham. He studied

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Ali Ahmadifar

Ali Ahmadifar (, born 12 July 1976) is an Iranian composer, teacher and researcher. Book * Author of the book "Stylistics of Arvo Pärt music (Persian:سبک شناسی موسیقی آروو پارت)", published 2007.

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Ali Darmar

Ali Cemal Darmar (born May 13, 1946) is a Turkish pianist and composer. He studied piano with Verda Un at the Istanbul Conservatory and privately Ferdi Statzer, Popi Mihailides in his early years.

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Ali Radman

Ali Radman (born 20 June 1973) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor, pedagogue and pianist. Life Ali Radman was born on 20 June 1973 in Tehran, Iran. He was introduced to a classical music

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Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann

Alice Ellen Lauentine Charbonnet (12 October 1858, Cincinnati, Ohio – 1 June 1914, Paris, France) was an Australian composer of romantic and classical music. Her father was a French judge, and her

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Alice Crane Williams

Alice Ella Crane Williams (August 29, 1879 – October 24, 1964) was an American composer and literary editor. She was president of the Composers and Authors Association of America. Early life and

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Alice Doria-Gamilla

Alice Doria-Gamilla (born 20 September 1931) is a composer whose works include the 1960 song "A Million Thanks to You," which was later covered by Pilita Corrales in the first Philippine recording to

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Alice Ho (composer)

Alice Ping Yee Ho (Chinese: 何冰頤; pinyin: Hé Bīngyí; b. 1960) is a Canadian pianist and composer, considered to be "among the most important composers writing in this country". Ho performed a solo

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Alice Mary Smith

Alice Mary Smith (married name Alice Mary Meadows White; 19 May 1839 – 4 December 1884) was an English composer. Her compositions included two symphonies and a large collection of choral works, both

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Alice Maynard Griggs

Alice E. Maynard Woods Griggs (June 9, 1859 – April 9, 1939) was an American writer, artist, composer, clubwoman, and critic, based in Long Beach, California. Early life and education Alice E.

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Alice Nāmakelua

"Auntie" Alice Kuʻuleialohapoinaʻole Kanakaoluna Nāmakelua (1892–1987) was a Hawaiian composer and performer. Nāmakelua was also a kumu hula dancer and lei-maker. She was an expert performer of the

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Alice Parker

Alice Stuart Parker Pyle (December 16, 1925 – December 24, 2023), known professionally as Alice Parker, was an American composer, arranger, conductor and teacher. Early life and education Parker was

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Alice Samter

Alice Samter (11 June 1908 – 19 March 2004) was a German music educator and composer. Biography Alice Samter was born in Berlin to a middle-class family. She trained and worked as an accountant while

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Alice Sauvrezis

Alice Marie Marguerite Sauvrezis (4 April 1866 – 12 April 1946) was a French composer, pianist, choral conductor and concert organiser. As an active member of a group of Breton composers in Paris and

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Alice Shields

Alice Shields (born Alice Ferree Shields, Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943) is an American classical composer. She is one of the pioneers of electronic music, and is particularly known for her

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Alice Verne-Bredt

Alice Barbara Verne-Bredt (née Würm; 1864–1958) was an English piano teacher, violinist and composer. Three of her sisters were also noted pianists: Adela Verne, Mathilde Verne and Mary Würm (who

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Alicia Adélaide Needham

Alicia Adélaide Needham (née Montgomery; 31 October 1863 – 24 December 1945) was an Irish composer of songs and ballads. A committed suffragette, she was the first woman to conduct at the Royal

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Alicia Terzian

Alicia Terzian (born 1 July 1934) is an Argentine conductor, musicologist and composer of Armenian descent. Biography Alicia Terzian was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She studied at the National

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Alicia Urreta

Alicia Urreta (12 October 1930 – 20 December 1986) was a Mexican pianist, music educator, and composer. Biography Alicia Urreta was born in Veracruz, Veracruz. In 1952, she entered the Conservatorio

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Alissa Firsova

Alissa Firsova (Russian: Алиса Фирсова; born 24 July 1986) is a Russian-British classical composer, pianist and conductor. Biography Born in Moscow to the composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov,

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Alistair Hinton

Alistair Richard Hinton (born 6 October 1950) is a Scottish composer and musicologist with a focus on the works of his friend Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. He is the curator of the Sorabji Archive.

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Alla Pavlova

Alla Yevgenyevna Pavlova (born July 13, 1952, in Ukraine) is a Russian composer. Pavlova was born and initially raised in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. She and her family moved to Moscow in 1961, and she then

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Allan Blank

Allan Blank (December 27, 1925 – November 12, 2013) was an American composer who has more than 60 published works. He attended the Juilliard School of Music (1945–47) and obtained a bachelor's degree

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Allan Gilliland

Allan Gilliland (born 1965 in Darvel, Scotland) is a contemporary Canadian composer. Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies

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Allan Gordon Bell

Allan Gordon Bell, (born 24 May 1953) is a Canadian contemporary classical composer. Career Born in Calgary, Alberta, Bell received a Master of Music degree from the University of Alberta where he

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Allan Gray (composer)

Józef Żmigrod (February 23, 1902 – September 10, 1973), better known by his stage name Allan Gray, was a Polish composer active in the UK film industry from the late 1930s until the mid 1950s. Early

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Allan McIver

Joseph Allan McIver (17 January 1904 – 15 June 1969) was a Canadian composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor. As a pianist he performed with orchestras in the Quebec region in his early career and

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Allan Pettersson

Gustaf Allan Pettersson (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers and was described as one of

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Allan Rae (composer)

Allan Rae (born 3 July 1942 in Blairmore, Alberta) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and trumpeter based in Calgary, Alberta. An associate and former board member of the Canadian Music Centre and a

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Allan Stephenson

Allan Stephenson (15 December 1949 – 2 August 2021) was a British-born South African composer, cellist and conductor. Life Born in Wallasey, near Liverpool, he studied the cello in Manchester at the

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Allard de Ridder

Allard de Ridder (3 May 1887 – 13 May 1966) was a Dutch–Canadian conductor, violist, and composer. He was notably the first conductor of both the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Ottawa Symphony

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Allardyce Mallon

Allardyce Mallon is a Scottish composer, conductor, repetiteur and pianist. He was born in Hong Kong in 1965, moving to Scotland at age nine. He was educated at University of Edinburgh, University of

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Allee Willis

Alta Sherral "Allee" Willis (November 10, 1947 – December 24, 2019) was an American songwriter and art director. Willis co-wrote hit songs including "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind

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Allen Cohen (composer)

Allen Cohen (born 1951) is an American composer, arranger, conductor, vocal coach, pianist and university professor. Education Cohen holds his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Drama from Ripon

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Allen Shawn

Allen Evan Shawn (born August 27, 1948) is an American composer, pianist, educator, and author based in Vermont. His music Shawn began composing at the age of ten, but dates his mature work from

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Alliance for Women Film Composers

The Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC) is an organization dedicated to advocacy and visibility for women composers. As of 2019, there are nearly 400 members History The Alliance for Women Film

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Alliene Brandon Webb

Alliene Gibbons Brandon Webb (January 2, 1910 – November 16, 1965) was an American composer, singer, and teacher who was born in Palestine, Texas, to Blanche and George Thomas Brandon. She married

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Allison Cameron (composer)

Allison Cameron (born 1963) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. She composes works for conventional classical instruments, early music instruments, and modern electric instruments

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Allison Loggins-Hull

Allison Loggins-Hull is an American composer and flutist known for her work with the Cleveland Orchestra, Lizzo, Frank Ocean, Hans Zimmer, and as one half of the flute duo Flutronix. Loggins-Hull was

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Alluri (musician)

Shriram Alluri is an indie rock musician and songwriter from Hyderabad, India. He currently resides in the United Kingdom. Alluri was raised in India, He relocated to the UK first as a student Alluri

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Allyn Ferguson

Allyn Malcolm Ferguson Jr. (October 18, 1924 – June 23, 2010) was an American composer whose works include the themes for 1970s television programs Barney Miller (1975—1982) and Charlie's Angels

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Alma Bazel Androzzo

Alma Bazel Androzzo (17 October 1912 - 11 October 2001) was an American composer, pianist and songwriter. Biography Alma Androzzo was born Alma Irene Bazel in Harriman, Tennessee, USA. She had no

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Alma Deutscher

Alma Elizabeth Deutscher ( ; born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven,

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Alma Goatley

Alma Goatley Temple-Smith (1887 – 27 August 1969) was an English musician and composer. From 1935 to 1936, she was president of the Society of Women Musicians. Early life Alma Goatley was born in

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Alma Sanders

Alma M. Sanders (1882 – December 15, 1956) was an American songwriter and composer of popular music, including several Broadway musicals, with her composer husband, Monte Carlo. Early life Sanders

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Almir Chediak

Almir Santana Chediak (June 21, 1950 – May 25, 2003) was a Brazilian musical producer, entrepreneur, publisher, guitarist, teacher, composer, writer and researcher. Almir Chediak was born into a

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Alois Gobbi

Alois Gobbi (; December 20, 1842 in Pest, Terézváros, Austrian Empire – July 27, 1932, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian violinist, violin teacher, conductor and composer. Early life His father

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Alois Hába

Alois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of

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Alois Ickstadt

Alois Ickstadt (born 22 September 1930) is a German pianist, choral conductor, university professor and composer. He was professor at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. He promoted choral singing from

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Alois Melichar

Alois Melichar (18 April 1896, in Vienna – 9 April 1976, in Munich) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger, and music critic. He was a student of Joseph Marx at the Vienna Academy of Music,

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Alois Mizandary

Alois Iosebis dze Mizandary (; b. 13 September 1838 – d. 14 June 1912) was a Georgian virtuoso pianist, composer, and educator. He was one of the co-founders of a prominent music school in Tbilisi,

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Alois Taux

Alois Taux (5 October 1817 – 17 April 1861) was a German conductor and composer. He was important in the musical life of Salzburg, and initiated music festivals there dedicated to Mozart. Life Taux

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Aloísio de Oliveira

Aloísio or Aloysio de Oliveira (December 30, 1914 – February 4, 1995), also known as Louis Oliveira, was a Brazilian record producer, singer, actor and composer. A key figure in the

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Alojz Ajdič

Alojz Ajdič (born September 6, 1939, Fojnica) is a multiple-time awarded Slovenian composer. Ajdič lives in Britof pri Kranju. Recognitions In 1994, Ajdič received the Župančič Award for his second

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Alonso Lobo

Alonso Lobo (February 25, 1555 (baptised) – April 5, 1617) was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Tomás Luis de Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and

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Alonso Mudarra

Alonso Mudarra (c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar-shaped string instrument. He was an innovative composer of instrumental music

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Alonso Xuárez

Alonso Xuárez de la Fuente Fuensalida (Toledo), 14 de abril de 1640 - Cuenca, 26 de junio de 1696, renowned musician of the Spanish Baroque, and a disciple of Tomás Miciezes el mayor in the Convent

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Aloÿs Claussmann

Aloÿs Claussmann (5 July 1850 – 7 November 1926) was a French organist, pianist and composer. Biography Born in Uffholtz, Haut-Rhin (Alsace, France), Claussmann was a pupil of organist Eugène Gigout

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Aloys Fleischmann

Aloys Fleischmann (13 April 1910 – 21 July 1992) was an Irish composer, musicologist, professor and conductor. Early life and education Fleischmann was born in Munich to Ireland-based German parents.

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Aloys Fleischmann (Senior)

Aloys Georg Fleischmann (24 April 1880 – 3 January 1964) was a German composer, cathedral organist and choirmaster. Life Fleischmann was born in Dachau, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire. He was the

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Alpha Yaya Diallo

Alpha Yaya Diallo is a Guinean-born Canadian guitarist, singer and songwriter. He incorporates Guinea's rich musical tradition into his original compositions. Diallo has won two Juno Awards, shared a

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Alphons Czibulka

Alphons Czibulka (also written as Alfons or Alfonz; 14 May 1842 – 27 October 1894) was an Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, composer, pianist and conductor. Life Czibulka was born in the Spišské

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Alphons Diepenbrock

Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock (2 September 1862 in Amsterdam – 5 April 1921) was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist. Life and work Diepenbrock was not a musician by training. He was

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Alphonse Duvernoy

Victor-Alphonse Duvernoy (; 30 August 1842 – 7 March 1907) was a French pianist and composer. Life and career The son of noted bass-baritone Charles-François Duvernoy (1796–1872), Duvernoy was born

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Alphonse Hasselmans

Alphonse Jean Hasselmans (5 March 1845 – 19 May 1912) was a Belgian harpist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Hasselmans was born in Liège, Belgium. He studied initially at the Conservatory in

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Alphonsus Liguori

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic

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Alun Davies (guitarist)

Alun Davies (born 27 July 1942) is a Welsh guitarist, studio musician, recording artist, and composer who rose to fame primarily with his supporting guitar work and backing vocals as accompanist for

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Alun Hoddinott

Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 12 March 2008) was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition. Life and works Hoddinott was born in Bargoed,

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Álvaro Carrillo

Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón (2 December 1919 – 3 April 1969) was a Mexican popular music composer and songwriter, born in San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca. He wrote over 300 songs, mostly boleros, including

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Álvaro Cassuto

Álvaro Leon Cassuto Cassuto studied with Herbert von Karajan, whom he admired. External links * *

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Alvin Curran

Alvin Curran (born December 13, 1938) is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in Rome, Italy. He is the

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Alvin Etler

Alvin Derald Etler (February 19, 1913 – June 13, 1973) was an American composer and oboist. Career A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic, harmonically and texturally

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Alvin Lucier

Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American experimental composer and sound artist. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut,

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Alvin Singleton

Alvin Singleton (born December 28, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is a composer from the United States. Born and raised in New York City, he received his music education from New York University

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Alwynne Pritchard

Alwynne Pritchard (born 1968, Glasgow) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Bergen, Norway. She is of Scottish, Welsh, English, Polish and Irish heritage. Alwynne is the daughter of the composer

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