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Al Cres

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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 various Beam projects, albums from gospel artist Trip Lee, and DJ Khaled album Khaled Khaled. Career Musical beginnings Cresso, a native Floridian, was recruited in 2019 by rapper-producer Beam to join a Miami recording camp for his major-label debut EP 95 on Epic Records, forming a prolonged working relationship. Cresso has since appeared on subsequent Beam projects Crimson Soundtrack and debut album Alien. Selected songwriting & production credits Awards and nominations References

Al Lerner (composer)

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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 music for several artists, including Allan Sherman and Liza Minnelli. He also wrote the music for “So Until I See You”, the closing theme for The Tonight Show with Jack Paar in the early 1960s, and was the pianist for A Tribute to Eddie Duchin, which was a soundtrack for the 1956 biographical film pic The Eddy Duchin Story. Biography Lerner was born on April 7, 1919, in Cleveland, the youngest of three children. Their father Abraham had died on November 11, 1918, before Al’s birth, a victim of the 1918 flu pandemic. Lerner’s mother Jennie Takiff then married a sheet metal worker named Abe Lerner, who became Al’s adopted father. During the American Prohibition banning the sale of alcohol, Abe Lerner used his metalworking abilities on the side to make stills for Cleveland gangsters and bootleggers, and used his seven-year-old son Al as a courier for payments. It was a rough neighborhood with regular mob wars between rival gangsters, multiple killings on Lerner’s street, and payoffs to the

Aladar Rado

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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 (composition) at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music since 1904 with fellow students like Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly. He later continued his compositional studies under Leo Weiner. He was awarded the Hungarian State fellowship, the Franz-Liszt-fellowship of Budapest, a Bayreuth fellowship, and the Franz-Joseph-fellowship which allowed him to move to Berlin. There he continued to compose and also worked for the theatres of Max Reinhardt. In 1914 Aladar Rado was the designated principal conductor of the Reinhard Theatres with a contract starting on 1 September. But in July 1914 the World War I broke out and Aladar Rado enlisted for military service and was sent as a reserve officer to the front line in Serbia. There he was killed in action only a few weeks later. Compositions * Frühlingslied, for violin and piano (1906) * Suite for orchestra (1908) * String quartet * Symphony Petőfi (1909) * Symphonic poem for orchestra Falu végén kurta kocsma (1909) * Opera Der schwarze Kavalier (1910–11) on

Alain Bancquart

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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 and composition) with Darius Milhaud. He was a violist with the Orchestre National de France until 1973. He became Directeur Musical des Orchestres de Régions at the ORTF (1973–1974), then musical director of the Orchestre National de France (1975–1976). Since 1967, he had dedicated his compositional work to the study of micro-intervals in a neo-serial approach using quarter-tones, and more recently 16th tones. Bancquart was married to French poet Marie-Claire Bancquart. He died on 27 January 2022, at the age of 87. Selected works * Five symphonies for large orchestra * Two concertos for violin * Partition concertante for cello and ensemble * Two works for string trio and orchestra * Two chamber operas * Three string quartets * Many pieces for flute * Many vocal works * Baroques for viola and orchestra (1973) * Concerto for viola and orchestra (1965) * Jeux pour lumière for violin, viola, cello and orchestra (1969) * Les Tarots d’Ulysse for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, violin,

Alain Bernaud

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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 the piano, daughter of Marcel Chadeigne who was, before and after the First World War, choir conductor at the Paris Opera and pianist - accompanist - decipherer - reducer of orchestral scores. He had formed with Maurice Ravel, Maurice Delage, Déodat de Séverac, Florent Schmitt, Paul Ladmirault, Émile Vuillermoz, Désiré Inghelbrecht, Ricardo Viñes and Tristan Klingsor, a group they had named Les Apaches, and whose rallying call was whistling the first theme of Borodin’s Second Symphony. Arriving in Paris in 1938, he began studying piano and music theory with , wrote his Opus 1, a string quartet (for the family!) and then returned to the Conservatoire de Paris (direction of Claude Delvincourt) in specialized solfege class, at Lucette Descaves, where he met Michel Legrand, Roger Boutry, Jean-Michel Defaye and Alain Weber. He then followed Jules Gentil’s piano class (1st medal) - studied harmony with Jacques de La Presle (1st prize) - counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon (1st medal and 1st

Alain Celo

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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 the , with . He was awarded the SACEM Prize, and also received advice from Claude Lefebvre and George Crumb. His influences range from Debussy and Stravinsky to Ligeti, through jazz and ethnic music. His pieces most often feature the relationship between man and nature (from Oiseaux imaginaires pour piano in 1993 to Espaces désertiques for flute, violin, double bass and percussion in 2003) or are directly related to literary works (Commentaires sur Verlaine for viola, piano and narrator, 1996, Erlkönig after Goethe for voices and strings, 2001). Commissioned by the Pyxis Ensemble, his work, L’Amour et le Sablier (soprano voices, flute, viola and piano), on poems by , was premiered in 2004 (printed since at Éditions musicales européennes). His works have been performed by the Stravinsky ensemble, the Cergy-Pontoise Studio, Symblêma, Souffle d’ébène. References External links * Official website * Le mouton à cinq pattes composition by Alain Celo (YouTube)

Alain Crépin

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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 the Music Academy of Dinant. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and studied under François Daneels, Roland Cardon, Yvon Ducène and Jacques Leduc From 1975 to 1981 he was solo saxophonist in Musik Corps of the Gendarmerie and from 1981 to 1983 he also worked as a saxophonist in the Large Band of the Belgian Guides in Brussels. In 1984 he became conductor the band Chasseurs Ardennais. In 1985 he became music director of the Band of the Belgian Air Force. He has performed with the saxophone quartet Dinant. From 1986 to 1997 he was vice president of the International Association for the Promotion of the Saxophone. He was also professor of saxophone at the University of Gap, France and in Alicante, Spain. Since 1981 he has been a professor for saxophone at the Royal Conservatory of Music Brussels. As a composer, he has written numerous works for symphonic bands and orchestras and as a soloist or composer has featured on over 60 albums. Works * 1991 Relâche * 1991 Temptations * 2

Alain Gagnon

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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 education Gagnon was born in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec. He began teaching himself the piano as a young child; in 1951, at the age of 13, he began taking music lessons at the Rimouski Seminary with Father Philippe-Antoine Lavoie with whom he studied until 1958. In 1960 he entered the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec where he was an organ student with Henri Gagnon. Those honours enabled him to pursue graduate studies in France at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Henri Dutilleux and at the École César Franck with Olivier Alain in 1965–1966. He studied for a short period of time at the Institut de Sonologie of Utrecht in 1966 and in 1967 at the Geneva Conservatory with André-François Marescotti. He joined the Canadian League of Composers and was an associate of the Canadian Music Centre. The Quebec Symphony Orchestra commissioned his Prélude and performed the works premiere in 1969 under conductor Pierre Dervaux. In 1980 he composed “Pastourelle”, his first composition for orga

Alain Goraguer

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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, Salvatore Adamo, Jean Ferrat, Serge Reggiani, and Nana Mouskouri. In 1965 he was the orchestra conductor for Luxembourg’s winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, “Poupée de cire, poupée de son”. (Though it represented Luxembourg, the song had an entirely French creative team behind it, as it was sung by France Gall, written by Gainsbourg, and conducted by Goraguer.) He composed some or all of the music for films including La Planète Sauvage (1973), La Vie de bohème (1992), Deux jours à tuer (2008) and Saint Laurent (2014). Goraguer died on 13 February 2023, at the age of 91. Composer Soundtracks See also * List of jazz arrangers References External links * * https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/alain_goraguer - list of songs *

Alain Jomy

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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 Hélène Boschi. Filmography * 1972: La Soirée du baron Swenbeck, by Hubert Niogret (short film) * 1974: Nouvelles de Henry James, by Luc Béraud (TV series) (episode Ce qui savait Morgan) * 1976: The Best Way to Walk, by Claude Miller * 1977: This Sweet Sickness, by Claude Miller * 1980: L’Embrumé, by Josée Dayan (TV) * 1980: Haine, by Dominique Goult * 1980: The Little Mermaid, by Roger Andrieux * 1980: Anthracite, by Édouard Niermans * 1981: Instinct de femme, by Claude Othnin-Girard * 1981: Les Filles de Grenoble, by Joël Le Moigné * 1984: O Lugar do Morto, by António-Pedro Vasconcelos * 1985: L’Art d’aimer, by Dominique Cabrera * 1985: An Impudent Girl, by Claude Miller * 1988: The Little Thief, by Claude Miller * 1991: Flora de Dresde, by Alain Jomy (short film) * 1992: Ladrão Que Rouba a Anão Tem Cem Anos de Prisão, by (short film) * 1992: Le Lieutenant Lorena (Aqui D’El Rei!), by António-Pedro Vasconcelos (TV) * 1992: Un ballon dans la tête, by Michaëla Watteaux (TV) * 1992: The Acco

Alain Louvier

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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 1967 to 1970 at the Conservatoire de Paris with Henriette Puig-Roget, Olivier Messiaen, Tony Aubin, Robert Veyron-Lacroix, Norbert Dufourcq and Manuel Rosenthal. As a student in 1968, he won the 161st and last annual Prix de Rome for musical composition. Louvier headed the École Nationale de Musique of Boulogne-Billancourt from 1972 to 1986. From 1986 to 1991, he was the director of the Conservatoire de Paris. From 1991 to 2009, he taught music analysis and orchestration at the CNSMDP (Conservatoire) in Paris. From 2009 until 2013, he was again director of the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory (the École Nationale de Musique de Boulogne-Billancourt). Louvier has composed pieces for piano, harpsichord, chamber music and orchestra. He is particularly known for his invention of a new piano technique (also used on organ and harpsichord) centered around the “aggressors”: the 10 fingers, 2 palms, 2 fists and 2 forearms, treated individually. He forged a precise gestural vocabulary, and an adapt

Alain Marcel

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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 versions of Little Shop of Horrors, Kiss Me, Kate, and La Cage aux Folles. Biography Marcel studied musical theatre at the Conservatoire de Tours, then at the Conservatoire de Paris. He wrote his first song in 1975 when he was a student of Antoine Vitez. Marcel initially acted in television and films, while also composing, producing, and appearing in theatrical productions such as Essayez donc nos pédalos and Rayon femmes fortes. In total, he was involved in 570 performances. Essayez donc nos pédalos was choreographed by Tonie Marshall, and it explored homosexuality while it was still criminal. His greatest success was in the field of musical theatre. He starred in the French versions of Little Shop of Horrors, Kiss Me, Kate, and La Cage aux Folles. He performed at the Théâtre Déjazet, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Casino de Paris, and Théâtre Mogador. In the 2000s, Marcel gradually returned to music, composing music for the shows Le Paris d’Aziz et Mamadou, L’Opéra de Sarah (both at the T

Alain Margoni

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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 conducting with Louis Fourestier, musical analysis with Olivier Messiaen and Ondes Martenot with Maurice Martenot. at the Conservatoire de Paris. In the competition for the Prix de Rome in 1957 and 1958 he won a second prize each and in 1959 the Premier Grand Prix with the cantata Dans les Jardins d’Armide after Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered. After the four-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, he worked for nine years at the Comédie-Française, first as factotum musical, later as musical director. He then held a chair in musical analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris. He also acted as a conferencier, conductor, improviser with the Ondes Martenot, pianist and music theorist and musical comedian, the latter with Jérôme Deschamps and Alain Germain. For Germain he wrote the music for the play Un piano pour deux pianistes, in which he himself performed with Pascal Le Corre in 1987. In addition to some 150 film, television and dramatic music, Margoni composed a musical narrative about the di

Alain Mayrand

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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 the scores of major motion pictures such as Ender’s Game and Elysium, among others. Career Mayrand holds a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and guitar from Bishop’s University, as well as a master’s degree in composition from The University of British Columbia. In addition to his formal studies, he trained in cello and flute to enhance his compositional skills, with the cello remaining his favorite instrument. Mayrand served as Composer-in-Residence with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra for four years. Mayrand’s concert music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by ensembles worldwide. Among the orchestras that have performed his music are the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Russian Film Music Symphony Orchestra, the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra of Taipei, the Ramat-Gan Orchestra in Israel, and the Troy University Concert Band in Alabama. Mayrand was twice commissioned by the Dallas Chamber Symphony to compose original scores for their silent film series. In 2

Alain Trudel

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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 debut at the age of 18, with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Trudel was the first Canadian to be a Yamaha international artist, and Yamaha has named a trombone mouthpiece in his honour. He served on the faculty of the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal from 1995 to 2008, teaching trombone and chamber music. From 2004 to 2012, Trudel was conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. From 2006 to 2008, Trudel was music director of the CBC Radio Orchestra, the final conductor to hold the post whilst the orchestra was under the auspices of the CBC. Trudel was also interim music advisor for the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra from 2007 to 2008. He suffered from a rare cancer in his late 30s that caused him to cease work temporarily. In 2006, Trudel became music director of l’Orchestre Symphonique de Laval. He made his Opéra de Montréal debut in 2009, with Die Zauberflöte, as well as the 30th anniversary gala, which was released as a live CD and nominated for a

Alain Weber

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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 1941. First Grand Prix de Rome in 1952, he won the same year the Sogeda Prize for his ballet Le Petit Jeu. Lecturer at the Conservatoire de Paris since 1957, he taught preparation for the teaching profession, solfège and counterpoint, then in 1970 he assumed the function of professor advisor to studies. The Grand Prix du disque français was awarded to him in 1982 for his television work La Rivière Perdue. President of many juries, he was also a member of the symphonic commission of the SACEM (1980–83), then of the reading committee of Radio France. He carried out numerous educational missions abroad (Tunisia, Canada, Yugoslavia, Taiwan…). Alain Weber was an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite. Technique and aesthetics Weber’s work focuses on an exploration of forms of writing that are constantly being renewed. Parallel to some serials works freely treated (Variations pour dixtuor, 1965 - Synecdoque pour hautbois, 1970), he developed a writing in quarter tones (Saxophone Quartet, 19

Alakbar Taghiyev

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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 the age of 14, he began to work in case of need in secretariat of judicial trials. Soviet Union Judicial Institute and after graduation began to work in Goychay as an investigator. He worked in Public Procurators’ Office for more than 30 years and worked until he became the chief of investigation department of Public Procurators’ Office of Baku city. He died in Baku. Creativity From Alakbar’s youth people around him noticed his musical talent, but he chose the other way and engaged in jurisprudence. But absence of special musical talent didn’t prevent him from composing his first song called (“Neighbour Girl”) in 1958, which was heard on the air of Azerbaijan State Television performed by Zeynab Khanlarova. The prominent musician Akif Bakikhanov helped Alakbar Taghiyev to become a composer. Later, Alakbar Taghiyev composed more than 2000 songs and many of them are stored in archive of the composer’s son, and only more than 200 of them have been dubbed. There are such well known and popu

Alan Bush

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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 often reflected in his music. He composed prolifically across a range of genres but struggled through his lifetime for recognition from the British musical establishment, which largely ignored his works. From a prosperous middle-class background, Bush enjoyed considerable success as a student at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in the early 1920s and spent much of the decade furthering his compositional and piano-playing skills under distinguished tutors. A two-year period in Berlin from 1929 to 1931, early in the Nazi Party’s rise to power, cemented Bush’s political convictions and moved him from the mainstream Labour Party to the Communist Party of Great Britain, which he joined in 1935. He wrote several large-scale works in the 1930s and was heavily involved with workers’ choirs, for whom he composed pageants, choruses and songs. His pro-Soviet stance led to the BBC temporarily banning his music in the early years of the Second World War, and his refusal to modify his position in the pos

Alan Chang

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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 University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music with a degree in jazz studies in 2002. Chang began his passion for jazz at Castillero Middle School. At the age of 13, Chang began accompanying nearby Pioneer High School with their daily musical rehearsals as well as a local dance studio. When Chang attended Pioneer High School, he soon received local recognition for his playing, and by his senior year he had recorded an independent “senior project”. The CD included original compositions and was sold locally to recoup recording expenses. Later that year Chang was selected as one of two pianists to the San Francisco High School Grammy Band. After graduating from USC’s Thornton School of Music, Chang was discovered and asked to audition for an up-and-coming artist, Michael Bublé. Since 2003, Chang has been Bublé’s musical director and pianist, traveling the world to sold-out shows, radio, and television appearances. Works In 2005, Chang co-wrote “Home” with Bublé and Amy Foster-Gil

Alan Hovhaness

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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 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers. The true tally is well over 500 surviving works, since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works. The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: “Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism. The atmosphere is hushed, reverential, mystical, nostalgic.” Early life and education He was born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian () in Somerville, Massachusetts, to Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian (an Armenian chemistry professor at Tufts College who had been born in Adana, present-day Turkey) and Madeleine Scott (an American of Scottish descent who had graduated from Wellesley College). When he was five, his family moved from Somerville to Arlington, Massachusetts. A Hovhanes

Alan John

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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 (such as Holding the Man, Three Dollars and The Bank) and TV series (including Love My Way), and the musicals Jonah Jones, Orlando Rourke and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Operas His opera The Eighth Wonder was premiered in 1995 by Opera Australia. It was revived in 2000, during the Sydney Olympics Arts Festival, and again in 2016. In May 2008, his chamber opera Through the Looking Glass, to a libretto by Andrew Upton, was premiered by the Victorian Opera at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, conducted by Richard Gill. In May 2011, his opera How to Kill your Husband (and other handy household hints), to a libretto by Timothy Daly and based on Kathy Lette’s 2007 book of the same name, premiered at the same venue under the same conductor. Awards and nominations APRA-AGSC Awards The annual Screen Music Awards are presented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) for television and film scores and soundtracks. - 2004 Shark Net – John Best

Alan Laurillard

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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 music and non-Western music. For his work as a musician, orchestral and workshop leader, and driver of the jazz scene in Groningen, Laurillard received the Boy Edgar Prize in 1982, the most important jazz award in The Netherlands, and four years later received the Henri de Wolf Jazz Prize. Youth, education and early career in Canada From 1955 to 1963 Laurillard was a member of the North Vancouver School Orchestra, which won the Canadian championship for school orchestras in 1960. During this period, he studied music theory and composition with Gordon Webster. Besides the tenor saxophone Laurillard also studied the piano and percussion. Between 1959 and 1972 he worked as a semi-professional saxophonist and arranger for various rock and roll and rhythm and blues groups and big bands in Vancouver. The soul group the Accents (1962–1967) was the most prominent of them. At the University of British Columbia, he completed his studies in mechanical engineering, but did not pursue a career in tha

Alan Lloyd (composer)

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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 Wilson’s A Letter for Queen Victoria was nominated for Best Original Score at the 29th Tony Awards. He also composed works for solo piano and for chamber ensembles in a conservative tonal style. Life and career Lloyd was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Mary née Grant and Allen Huber Lloyd. His father was a mechanical engineer who founded the toy company Multifold Inc. in Milford, Ohio. Lloyd received his BA in Music from Antioch College where he studied under the composer Donald Keats. According to Laurence Shyer in Robert Wilson and his collaborators, Lloyd was the first of several composers with whom Robert Wilson would work. Their collaboration began when Lloyd composed the incidental music for Wilson’s 1969 production of The King of Spain. Lloyd also played the title role and constructed the gigantic pair of cat’s legs which hung from the proscenium throughout the play. Lloyd went on to compose incidental piano music for several more early works by Wilson, sometimes performin

Alan Mauritz Swanson

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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 at the University of Chicago (1973). In between he studied at Stockholm University. As an academic, he taught at Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois), Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah), and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and came to specialize in the theatre and opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Trained as a singer, many of his early compositions are for voice, but recent work has tended to be varied in form: string quartets, a viola concerto, a partita for piano, and others. In 2006, he was honored for his academic and community work by being appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau. Partial works list Vocal Choral * 1970: Prairie Conversation 2 voices Alto, Baritone * 1970: Carol “Child, sleeping, do not wake” Trebles, solo instrumental * 1971: Magnificat Choir SATB * 1975: God is gone up SSA, Triangle * 1980: Good Shepherd Variations for Choir, SSA * 1980: Preliminary Look at Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty” Baritone solo * 1986

Alan Rattray

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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 was a prolific lyricist and arranger, often collaborating with fellow Australian composers Edward Henry Tyrrell and Louis L. Howarde. Rattray is best known for the song “Boy in the Sailor Cap” which was the subject of a copyright claim He survived a shipwreck while on tour to India. Rattray was critical of Australian war time rationing, writing poetical polemics in the papers of the time. He died of pneumonic influenza at a temporary emergency hospital within the grounds of the Royal Agricultural Society in Moore Park, Sydney during the 1919 Spanish Flu pandemic. Works * Boy in the Sailor Cap * The Old Gum Tree performed most famously by Marie Eaton. * On the Briny * Jack Tar * 1908 Pansy Leaf * Somebody’s Sweetheart * My Black Canary * She’s somebody’s sweetheart still – words by Alan M. Rattray; the music by Alan M. Rattray & Clarence Vaughan * Oh! Angeline! – written by Alan M. Rattray; music by Clarence Vaughan * What would be a paradise to me – words by Alan M. Rattray; music by A

Alan Rawsthorne

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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 Deardengate House, Haslingden, Lancashire, to Hubert Rawsthorne (1868–1943), a well-off medical doctor, and his wife, Janet Bridge (1877/8–1927). Despite what appears to have been a happy and affectionate family life with his parents and elder sister, Barbara (the only sibling), in beautiful Lancashire countryside, as a boy Rawsthorne suffered from fragile health. Although he did at various times attend schools in Southport, much of Rawsthorne’s early education came through private tutoring at home. Despite his childhood aptitude for music and literature, Rawsthorne’s parents tried to steer him away from his dreams of becoming a professional musician. As a result, he unsuccessfully tried to take on degree courses at Liverpool University, first in dentistry and then architecture. Concerning dentistry, Rawsthorne is on record as having said “I gave that up, thank God, before getting near anyone’s mouth”, while his friend Constant Lambert quipped “Mr Rawsthorne assures me that he has given up th

Alan Rees (composer)

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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 Abbey, Herefordshire. Biography Rees was born in Morriston, near Swansea, to Hilda and John Rees. He was the ninth person to hold the position. Rees died suddenly after a fall in 2005. Rees had suffered from depression for much of his life, and attempted suicide the year before. *Congress Mass, for the National Pastoral Congress in Liverpool, 1980 *Cardiff Mass, for Pope John Paul II’s visit to Britain, 1982 *“A Winter Rose”, carol References

Alan Richardson (composer)

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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 going to London to study piano and composition, from 1929 to 1930, with Harold Craxton at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1931 he undertook a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. He was accompanist for violinist Carl Flesch from 1936 to 1939. Richardson married renowned oboist Janet Craxton, the daughter of his teacher Harold Craxton, in 1961. He was appointed Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music in 1960, a position he held until his death in 1978. Richardson composed many pieces for piano, as well as some chamber music, including several works for the oboe which he wrote for his wife. He made a recording of his Sussex Lullaby with the viola player Watson Forbes and also dedicated his brief Intrada for viola and piano to Forbes. Richardson died, aged 74, in London. Selected works : Richardson’s compositions are largely published by Augener Edition, Comus Edition, Oxford University Press, the Scottish Music Centre and Tobias Broeker. ;Vocal music * Animal Nursery Rhymes, f

Alan Ridout

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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 commencing four years of study at the Royal College of Music, London with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob. He was later taught by Michael Tippett, Peter Fricker and (under a Dutch government scholarship) Henk Badings. He went on to teach at the Royal College of Music, the University of Birmingham, the University of Cambridge, the University of London, and at The King’s School, Canterbury. He also broadcast musical talks on the radio. Alan Ridout lived for much of his life in Canterbury, but after a serious heart attack in 1990 he moved to France, settling in the town of Vitré, Brittany, before moving on to Caen at the very end of his life. Music Ridout’s style is mostly tonal, though in younger life he wrote some microtonal works. His works include church, orchestral and chamber music, often intended for amateurs and children. Much of the church music came out of a collaboration between Ridout and Allan Wicks, organist and master of the choristers at Canterbury Cathedral which began in 1964.

Alan Shacklock

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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 Babe Ruth is considered influential in the early development of b-boying and hip-hop culture. Life and career Alan Shacklock was born in London and began playing guitar as a child. His first band was The Juniors, which included the Rolling Stones’ guitarist Mick Taylor and Jethro Tull bassist John Glascock. He then joined Chris Farlowe’s Thunderbirds. Shacklock later completed classical guitar and lute studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with a master’s degree in music. Well-noted for never being seen without a hat, in 1969 Shacklock played in a band called the Gods, and in 1971 formed the band Babe Ruth. He worked as the group’s songwriter and producer from 1971 to 1975, and then left to work as a solo songwriter and record producer. He has received four Grammy Award nominations, and has produced a number of silver, gold and platinum recordings for artists, including Mike Oldfield, Bonnie Tyler, Jeff Beck (of the Yardbirds), Meat Loaf, the Alarm, the Look, Roger

Alan Shulman

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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 had the greatest ear of any musician I ever came across. He had better than perfect pitch. I’ve simply never met anyone like him.” Some of his more well known works include his 1940 Neo-Classical Theme and Variations for Viola and Piano and his A Laurentian Overture, which was premiered by the New York Philharmonic in 1952 under the baton of Guido Cantelli. Also of note is his 1948 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra which was also premiered by the New York Philharmonic with cellist Leonard Rose and conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos. Many of Shulman’s works have been recorded, and the violinist Jascha Heifetz and jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw have been particular exponents of his work both in performance and on recordings. Biography Early life and education Shulman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of a Russian immigrant father and Jewish mother. His father, who died when Shulman was one and a half, worked as a pharmacist and was a skilled amateur flautist. He had two siblings, Sylvan Shulm

Alan Silvestri

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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 well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He has been associated with director Robert Zemeckis since 1984, composing music for nearly all of his feature films, including the Back to the Future film series (1985–1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007), Flight (2012) and The Walk (2015). Silvestri also scored many other popular movies, including Predator (1987), The Abyss (1989), Father of the Bride (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), Eraser (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Practical Magic (1998), Stuart Little (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Van Helsing (2004), the first three Night at the Museum films, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), The A-Team (2010), Ready Player One (2018), and five Marvel Cinematic Universe films including Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Aveng

Alan Wilson (composer)

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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 College of Music. He studied piano with Phyllis Sellick, harpsichord with Dr. Thorntam Lofthouse, and composition with John Lambert. He attended composition masterclasses with Nadia Boulanger. He went on to study at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he studied keyboard with Gustav Leonhardt. From 1974 to 1986 he was Director of Music at the Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury, for which he wrote many choral works. In 1976, he became Director of Music at Queen Mary College, University of London. There, he composed ‘The Palace of Delights’ and ‘The Harmony of the Spheres.’ He conducted research to restore and edit songs from the Queen Mary College, including the ‘Westfield Songbook,’ and set writings of Constance Louisa Maynard to music, including ‘The Downs’ as well as several poems and hymns. In 1986, he became Organist and Director of Music at the Bow Bells Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, London. There, he researched music by William Babell and John Stanley and composed ‘2015 Requiem.’ Du

Alard du Gaucquier

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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 entered the service of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II as a tenor singer. He was indeed replaced by Philippe de Monte on 1 May 1568, In 1578, he requested release from his employment after having served the Holy Roman Emperor for twenty years, which was granted by Rudolf II along with a lifelong pension of 100 guilders. He moved to the Netherlands to become a conductor for his former pupil, Matthias, while the latter was acting as Governor-General there. He received an invitation from Archduke Ferdinand II to become Kapellmeister at his Innsbruck court. Gaucquier left Brussels on 29 October 1581 to accept this position but he never arrived there. There is no further mention of Gaucquier until his widow was granted a pauper’s pension of 50 florins in March, 1583. Works In 1574 eight Magnificats, scored for four to six voices, were published in Venice. A set of four masses scored for five to eight voices was published in Antwerp in 1581. An additional four-voice mass has been attribut

Alastair King (composer)

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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 Zanelli, Nicholas Hooper and Rupert Gregson-Williams by either conducting for them or acting as an orchestrator or both. Biography King studied music at Bath College of Higher Education, graduating in 1991. He then undertook postgraduate study at Birmingham University and the University of Kansas. His work Hit the Ground (Running, Running, Running) was the only European entry in the final of the composing competition Masterprize 2001. In addition to his concert works, King has composed music for various films, including Shrek, Chicken Run, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and television programmes, including the FIFA World Cup 2002, The Last Detective, Second Nature and William and Mary. King’s most recent roles include conducting and orchestrating on Doctor Who for Murray Gold and Segun Akinola. He replaced Ben Foster after his departure in 2015 and took on the full role for Series 10. He left the show after the 2017 Christmas special Twice Upon a Time, then returned in 2021 f

Alba Lucía Potes Cortés

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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, she studied at the Antonio M. Valencia conservatory, and the University of Valle in Cali Colombia, where she studied with Leon J. Simar. In 1983, she moved to the United States. She graduated from Temple University degree in music theory, cum laude, and with a master’s and doctorate in composition. She studied with Matthew Greenbaum, Ursula Mamlok and Maurice Wright. She lives in New York City. Career Alba Potes’ compositions have been performed by the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony of Colombia, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela, Darmstadt 2000 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Symphony Orchestra of Cali, Festival Internacional Cervantino, International Alliance for Women in Music, the ISCM in New York, Parnassus, the Composer’s Conference at Wellesley College, the Network for New Music, Momenta Quartet, The Stefan Wolpe Society, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Institute for New Music in Freiburg, Germany, the ISCM in Seoul, South Korea and at

Alba Quintanilla

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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 contact with music through her parents, especially her father, Venezuelan painter, sculpturist, and pedagogue Luis Felipe Quintanilla Ponce. At age 10 she matriculated at the Escuela Superior de Música José Ángel Lamas, where she studied piano, harp, harpsichord, singing (soprano), composition, and conduction; her instructors there included Vicente Emilio Sojo, Raimundo Pereira, Juan Bautista Plaza, Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar, Evencio Castellanos, Cecilia de Majo, Evelia Taborda, Lidya Venturini, and Pablo Manelski. She continued her music studies at the Conservatory in Warsaw, Poland, during one of her sabbatical years (1970). There, she studied with conductor Ryszard Dudek and composer Witold Rudzinski. From 1982 through 1984 Quintanilla attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany, continuing her postgraduate studies in composition with Prof. Helmut Weindland. Quintanilla was the first woman to conduct the Venezuela Symphony Orches

Alba Rosa Viëtor

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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 her mentor and to whose memory she dedicated her Elegie. In 1919 she settled permanently in the United States, and married Jan Fresemann Viëtor, a Dutch businessman who was a skilled amateur violinist. in 1916 she played alongside Camille Saint-Saëns on piano during a tour in Argentina, she decided to end this and dedicated herself completely to composing. After her divorce (the marriage was dissolved in 1940; Jan died in 1953 in Panama) she became a member of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors. She composed prolifically for orchestra, voice and various solo instruments. Her compositions were performed in the same program as Charles Ives, Aaron Copland and John Philip Sousa by the National Gallery Orchestra in 1950. The most important element that dominates all of Alba Rosa Vietor’s work is not the form but rather the mood she wishes to convey. Lawrence A. Johnson calls one of her best known works, Primavera Lombarda (Springtime in Lombardy), “an intriguing moo

Alban Berg

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Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Konrad Berg. His father ran a successful export business, and the family owned several estates in Vienna and the countryside. The family’s financial situation turned to the worse after the death of Konrad Berg in 1900, and it particularly affected young Berg, who had to repeat both his sixth and seventh grade to pass the exams. One of his closest lifelong friends and earliest biographer (under the pseudonym Hermann Herrenried), architect Hermann Watznauer, became a father figure (partly at Konrad’s request), being ten years Berg’s senior. Berg wrote him letters as long as thirty pages, often in florid, dramatic prose with idiosyncratic punctuation. Berg was more interested in literature than music as a child and would consider a career as a writer several times, turning to music slowly and at times unconfidently until the success of Wozzeck. He did not begin to compose until he was fifteen, when he started to teach himself music, although he did take piano lessons from his sister’s governess. With Marie Scheuchl, a maid in the family estate of Berghof in Carinthia and fifteen years his senior, he fathered a daughter, Albine, born 4 December 1902. In 1906 Berg met the singer (1885–1976), daughter of a wealthy family (rumoured to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I from his liaison with Anna Nahowski). Despite the outward hostility of her family, the couple married on 3 May 1911, although “her father insisted on a Protestant ceremony to facilitate the divorce he foresaw as inevitable.”

Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska

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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 the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of “Gladius” for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble. The Cultural Commission and Madam Mayor, Mrs. Theresa Gantenbein, granted her the “Cultural Award” and also the title of merits for services rendered to the cultural life of the municipality of Hesperange on the event of Excellence Awards. In 2007 she became a Jury member of the International Composition Competition “Valentino Bucchi” in Rome, Italy, representing Luxembourg. Very active as a composer, she devotes much of her creative energy to the musical CBT and teaching of young talented children. The idea, concept and creation of the Club “Artistes en Herbe” are in large part due to her efforts. Consequently, she is President-Founder of the International Composition Competition “Artistes en Herbe” under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg. Master in Musical Composition and Notation, she has been granted awards for piano, solfège

Albéric Magnard

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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 refused to surrender his property to German invaders and died defending it. Biography Magnard was born in Paris, the son of , a bestselling author and editor of Le Figaro. Albéric could have chosen to live the comfortable life that his family’s wealth afforded him, but he disliked being called “fils du Figaro” and decided to make a career for himself in music, based entirely on his own talent and without any help from family connections. After military service and graduating from law school, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied counterpoint with Théodore Dubois and went to the classes of Jules Massenet. There he met Vincent d’Indy, with whom he studied fugue and orchestration for four years, writing his first two Symphonies under d’Indy’s tutelage. Magnard dedicated his Symphony No. 1 to d’Indy; and the two men always respected each other, despite their marked political differences (Magnard was pro-Dreyfus). Francis Magnard did what he could to support Albéric’s career wh

Albert Alain

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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 François Alain (born 1851), he entered in adulthood into the Conservatoire de Paris and obtained a first prize for harmony in 1904. He pursued counterpoint studies with Georges Caussade, fugue and music composition with Charles Lenepveu and Gabriel Fauré, at the same time as he worked on the organ with Guilmant and Louis Vierne. In 1924, succeeding Albert Renaud, he became organist of the church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a position he held until his death. Passionate about organ building, he built over the years (1911–1970) an instrument with 4 keyboards and 43 stops in his house. This organ is now installed in Romainmôtier, Switzerland. He married Magdeleine Alberty in 1910, and they became parents of four children with exceptional gifts: Jehan, Marie-Odile, Olivier and Marie-Claire. Alain family tree *Albert Alain **Jehan Alain (1911–1940), organist, composer and soldier **Marie-Odile Alain (1914–1937), organist **Olivier Alain (1918–1994), organist, pianist, musicologist and composer **Mar

Albert Bokhare Saunders

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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 various pseudonyms including Albert Earl and Albert Trelba but is most widely known as Clement Scott. Saunders was born in Brewarrina, rural New South Wales. He has been credited as composer of “Swiss Cradle Song”, possibly collected from the Māori folk song “Po Ata Rau” and given English language lyrics as “Now is the Hour”, sung by departing troops in The Great War and recalled by patriotic New Zealanders. During his life, he successfully sued a Sydney entertainment producer for breach of copyright, but his widow was unsuccessful making the same claim on Palings for the famous cradle song. The song was an international hit. On at least one occasion, Saunders acted as bandmaster for a group playing brass. Several solo piano editions of Saunder’s popular “Comet March” are preserved in Australian libraries. The original 1910 edition for trio of piano, cornet and violin seems to have been lost, yet the piece was still being orchestrated by amateurs twenty years later. Works Orchestrated work

Albert Chamberland

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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 of ensembles, including the Beethoven Trio with whom he made some early recordings for His Master’s Voice during the first decade of the 20th century. He also made some solo recordings for His Master’s Voice and was a concert soloist. He performed with a variety of orchestras, serving as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s first concertmaster. Chamberland also created several compositions for band and orchestra. Early life and education Born in Montreal, Chamberland began his musical training in his native city with Jean A. Duquette, before entering the conservatory at McGill University, where he was a pupil of Alfred De Sève. His sister Luce was a concert pianist and was married to bassist Ulysse Paquin. Career Chamberland began his career as a violin soloist in 1904 at the age of 18. He soon began playing in J.-J. Goulet’s Montreal Symphony Orchestra (no relation to the current orchestra of that name). From 1907 to 1910 he was a member of the Beethoven Trio and from 1910 to 1920 he play

Albert Dietrich

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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 Golk, near Meissen. From 1851 he studied composition with Robert Schumann in Düsseldorf, where in October 1853 he first met Brahms and collaborated with Schumann and Brahms on the F-A-E’ Sonata for Joseph Joachim (Dietrich composed the substantial first movement). From 1861 until 1890 he was the musical director at the court of Oldenburg, where Brahms often visited him and where he introduced many of Brahms’s works. It was in Dietrich’s library that Brahms discovered the volume of poetry by Hölderlin that furnished him with the text for his Schicksalslied, which he began composing while visiting Wilhelmshaven dockyard in Dietrich’s company. Dietrich was also instrumental in arranging for the premiere of Brahms’s German Requiem at Bremen in 1868. Dietrich’s own works include an opera Robin Hood, a Symphony in D minor (1869, dedicated to Brahms), a Violin Concerto in the same key (composed for Joseph Joachim but premiered in 1874 by Johann Lauterbach), a Cello Concerto, Horn Concerto, cho

Albert Fuchs

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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 critic, as well as a collector of historical musical instruments. Life and work Fuchs was the son of a master bookbinder born in 1806, working in Basel, whose father came from Mannheim, where he was a tobacco manufacturer. Fuchs’ mother was born in 1834. Albert Fuchs attended gymnasium in Basel. Even at this time, he received musical training, which he deepened from 1876 to 1879 in Leipzig at the Conservatorium of Music. His final polish was given by the music theorist Salomon Jadassohn and the composer and pianist Carl Reinecke, completing their training with distinction. Reinecke was at that time the director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Just three years later, he retired to Saxony. In Oberlößnitz outside the gates of the residence city Dresden, he acquired a vineyard for a few years (today known as Haus Steinbach), on which he “realized his compositional plans”. At the end of the 1880s, Fuchs acquired the Conservatory originally founded by Wilhelm Freudenberg and bankrupt under Ott

Albert Gumble

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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 and worked briefly in Chicago during the early years of the twentieth century before moving to New York City where he worked as a Tin Pan Alley composer of ragtime pieces and songs. As a songwriter he was particularly associated with dixie tunes. He also was a prolific music arranger and contributed music to several Broadway musicals. From 1938 until his death in 1946 he was a resident pianist at the Ansonia Hotel. Life and career Albert Gumble was born in North Vernon, Indiana, on September 10, 1883. He was the younger brother of pianist, songwriter, and publisher Moses Edwin Gumble. He was educated at the Auditorium School of Music (later known as the Ohio Conservatory of Music) in Cincinnati where he was a pupil of Clarence Adler After graduating, he moved to Chicago where he began composing in the early 1900s. He composed several more rags for the music publisher Jerome H. Remick, including the “Bolo Rag” (1908), “Minstrel Band Rag” (1909), “Georgia Rag” (1910), and “Red Fox Trot” (

Albert H. Oswald

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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 many pieces for piano in light classical style, in the heyday of Edwardian Salon music. He was well known for his Wright Pianoforte Tutor. Selected works Tutors * The Wright Pianoforte Tutor * The Wright Edition, Albert H Oswald’s First Book of 36 Melodious Studies for the Pianoforte Other References External links * * “Albert H Oswald, Composer and Organist – Thornley”, Durham County Council

Albert Hay Malotte

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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 was the son of Charles and Katherine (Donavon) Malotte. He was in Boy Scouts of America Troop 1, the first Boy Scout troop in Philadelphia. Malotte graduated from Tioga High School and sang at Saint James Episcopal Church in Philadelphia as a choir boy. He studied with Victor Herbert, W. S. Stansfield, and later in Paris with organist Georges Jacob. His career as an organist began in Chicago where he played for silent pictures, and he later concertized throughout the US and Europe. During World War II he held the rank of captain in the Special Services for two years while he toured with the USO and entertained troops in New Guinea, Australia and Europe. At one point he sponsored his own troupe of entertainers that included Judith Anderson, Anne Triola and Helen McClure Preister. Malotte was an amateur pilot, avid golfer and even boxed with Jack Dempsey in Memphis, Tennessee. He spent most of his career as a composer in Hollywood. Malotte married Marguerite Stevens Hester on August 23,

Albert Huybrechts

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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 bassist in the orchestra of the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, and his great grand-uncle was the cellist Adrien-François Servais. Huybrechts enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels at age 11, where he studied under Joseph Jongen, P. Marchand, and Léon Du Bois. In 1915, Huybtechts won an award for oboe playing at the Conservatory. In 1920, Huybrechts’ father died; he left the composer a small inheritance. He won a prize for fugue with Jongen in 1922, and in 1926 his String Quartet No. 1 won first prize at the Frost-Coolidge Music Festival in Ojai, California. A few days later, his Violin Sonata won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge award. The Wall Street crash of 1929 depleted Huybrechts’ inheritance; a thwarted love affair in the 1930s added further stress. In January 1938, at Jean Absil’s recommendation, Huybrechts was appointed as a junior lecturer in harmony at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. On 21 February, he died unexpectedly of kidney failure. Works ;Stage * Agamemnon, Incid

Albert J. Pitman

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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 Council of Church Bell Ringers biography of him, An Unassuming Genius, he was an extraordinary talent in the field of peal composition. Life Born in Bridgend, Glamorgan in 1887, two years later he moved with his family some twenty miles west, to Baglan, Neath Port Talbot. He had very little education, leaving school at the age of twelve, but his teacher told him ‘there’s nothing more I can teach you.’ This was perhaps an early sign of an unusual talent. In 1903 at the age of sixteen he joined the Great Western Railway Company and worked for them until his compulsory retirement at sixty-five. He learned to ring bells the year he left school, probably from his father, who was a member of the bell-ringing band at St Catharine’s Church, Baglan. Only eleven years later, in 1910, he rang and conducted his own peal, of 5040 Grandsire Triples at St Mary’s Church, Aberavon, ‘a highly unusual step for a ‘first-timer.’ Later, his daughter Dolly, who, with her siblings, inherited his mathematical

Albert Ketèlbey

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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 Birmingham and moved to London in 1889 to study at Trinity College of Music. After a brilliant studentship he did not pursue the classical career predicted for him, becoming musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre before gaining fame as a composer of light music and as a conductor of his own works. For many years Ketèlbey worked for a series of music publishers, including Chappell & Co and the Columbia Graphophone Company, making arrangements for smaller orchestras, a period in which he learned to write fluent and popular music. He also found great success writing music for silent films until the advent of talking films in the late 1920s. The composer’s early works in conventional classical style were well received, but it was for his light orchestral pieces that he became best known. One of his earliest works in the genre, In a Monastery Garden (1915), sold over a million copies and brought him to widespread notice; his later musical depictions of exotic scenes caught the public imag

Albert Lavignac

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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 with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris, where later he taught harmony. Among his pupils were Henri Casadesus, Claude Debussy, Vincent d’Indy, Amédée Gastoué, Philipp Jarnach, Henri O’Kelly, Gabriel Pierné, Wadia Sabra, Florent Schmitt. In March 1864, at the age of eighteen, he conducted from the harmonium the private premiere of Gioachino Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle. His condensed work, La Musique et les Musiciens, an overview of musical grammar and materials, continued to be reprinted years after his death. In it he characterised the particular characteristics of instruments and of each key, somewhat in the way Berlioz and Gevaert (Traité d’orchestration, Gand, 1863, p. 189) had done: Major keys: *C-sharp major: ? ("?") *F-sharp major: Rough (“rude”) *B major: Energetic (“énergique”) *E major: Radiant, warm, joyous (“éclatant, chaud, joyeux”) *A major: Frank, sonorous (“franc, sonore”) *D major: Joyful, brilliant, alert ("

Albert Lortzing

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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 to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel. Life and career Lortzing was born in Berlin to Johann Gottlieb and Charlotte Sophie Lortzing. They had abandoned their leather shop and travelled through Germany as itinerant actors, founding the Berlin theatre company Urania, and turning their amateur passion into a profession. The young Lortzing’s first stage appearance was at the age of 12, entertaining the audience with comic poems during the interval in the Kornhaus at the Freiburg Münster. From 1817, the Lortzing family were part of Josef Derossi ensemble in the Rhineland, treading the boards at Bonn, Düsseldorf, Barmen and Aachen. Albert Lortzing became an audience favourite, playing the roles of a youthful lover, a country boy and bon vivant, sometimes also singing small tenor or baritone roles. On 30 January 1824 he married the actress Rosina Regine Ahles, with whom he subsequently had 11 children. The couple belonged to the Hoftheater (court theatre) in Detmold from

Albert Mayr

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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 Bolzano and Florence and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in German. In 1965, Mayr graduated in music and choral singing from the Florence Conservatory. From 1963 to 1969, Mayr worked with Pietro Grossi at “Fonologia Musicale’s study” in Florence and received commissions from the musicological division of CNUCE/CNR. He received commissions from Südtiroler Künstlerbund, from “Brixner Iniziative Musik und Kirche” and from Sound Art at Mobius, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. He is a composer of the Florentine artistic movement that has been active since the end of World War II up to the present, including Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Giancarlo Cardini, Sergio Maltagliati, Daniele Lombardi, Pietro Grossi, Lelio Camilleri, Francesco Giomi. These musicians have experimented with the interaction among sound, sign and vision, a synaesthetics of art derived from historical avant-gardes, from Wassily Kandinsky to futurism, to Alexander Scriabin and Arnold Schoenberg, all the wa

Albert Methfessel

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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 left theological studies because of his great interest in music. Given a scholarship by local nobility, he was able to formally study music, and then return to his hometown of Rudolstadt to perform and sing for twelve years. He spent three years in Hamburg before becoming an itinerant musician for seven years. His period of greatest income was as Kapellmeister in Braunschweig from 1832 to 1842. His career was then hampered by health difficulties, but he continued to compose, write musical treatises, and correspond with his fellow musicians until his death in 1869. He is most well known for his vocal compositions, in particular, his works for students and for male voices. Early life and family Born Albert Gottlieb Methfessel in Stadtilm, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, on 6 October 1785, he was the son of Johann Christian Methfessel (1733–1816) and Sophia Marie (née Gölitz) Methfessel (1745–1818). Johann Christian was the local school teacher and Cantor in Stadtilm, while Sophia was the daughte

Albert Moeschinger

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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 Paul Graener, piano with Robert Teichmüller) and Munich (composition with Walter Courvoisier). After several seasons as an ensemble pianist in café houses, Moeschinger settled in Bern, where he taught privately as a piano and theory teacher, and from 1937 also at the University of the Arts Bern, and resumed his compositional activities. In 1943, health problems led him to settle in the Valais mountain village of Saas Fee. From this time on, he devoted himself exclusively to composition. Reading Thomas Mann’s musical novel Dr. Faustus and the subsequent correspondence with the writer in 1948 encouraged him to integrate the twelve-tone technique into his work. After 1956, Moeschinger lived mainly in Ascona. He spent the rest of his life in Thun, where he died on 25 September 1985 at the age of 88. Moeschinger’s oeuvre, which includes all genres except opera, comprises over 400 titles. He received the following awards: in 1952 the , in 1957 the composition prize of the “Schweizerischer Tonkün

Albert Patron

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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 music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Patron is one of the leading figures of the contemporary trent aporetic music as well as aporetic philosophy. Critics have lauded him as one of the most innovative Italian composers since 1990. He also contributed to philosophy. Patron is perhaps best known for his 1990 compositions The Ten Aporetic Tropes, the ten movements of which are the tables of the contemporary trend called Aporetic Music, or Aporetic Philosophy. The content of these compositions is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the human being and its several faceted ethical ways, and the pieces became one of the most controversial compositions of the last 20 years. Patron played on the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous musical pieces, the best known of which is Hapax (1995). Life Patron was born in Pordenone, Italy. He is known as a composer, pianist, organist, committee director and

Albert Périlhou

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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 (born 1820 in Laroque-d’Olmes), an organist in Pézenas, and couturière Marie-Jeanne Balbine Carrière (born 1827 in Daumazan-sur-Arize) and received further instruction as an organist under Camille Saint-Saëns at the Niedermeyer school. After some time passed in which he became an organist and a piano teacher in Saint-Étienne, he became professor of piano at the Conservatoire de Lyon (1883). He later moved to Paris in 1888 as an artistic advisor of maison Erard, he became organist of Saint-Séverin (1889) at the new instrument rebuilt by John Abbey, and then auditioned for and was granted the position of titular organist of Saint-Eustache in 1905, resigned the following year. In 1910 he was named director of the Niedermeyer school. Périlhou was a prolific composer who wrote a large body of music for piano, organ, orchestra and voice. He retired in 1914 to Tain-l’Hermitage, where he died at the age of 90 on 28 August 1936. Probably following the example of his teacher and friend Saint-Saë

Albert Pieczonka

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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 “Tarantella in A Minor”, remains a popular piano standard more than 100 years after his death. Early life and education Albert Pieczonka was born in Königsberg on the Baltic coast of East Prussia. Pieczonka was the youngest of three children born to Gotthilf Immanuel (1801–1872) and Friederike Caroline Dorothea (Rehlander) Pieczonka (1803-1853). He briefly attended the University of Königsberg before enrolling in the Leipzig Conservatory in 1847. This institution, the oldest music university in Germany, was founded by composer Felix Mendelssohn in 1843. While at the conservatory, Pieczonka studied under famed pianist Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870). He may have also studied under Franz Liszt before undertaking a solo career. Career In 1858, or thereabout, the Pieczonka family emigrated from continental Europe to London, England. In England, Pieczonka performed concerts and gave music lessons to children of the wealthy. During the 1880s, Pieczonka, his wife, and his daughters performed together t

Albert Pratz

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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 and consists of only instrumental works. Some of his compositions, such as Melanie Waltz (1956) and A Tango (1957), were recorded by the CBC Symphony Orchestra; of which he was concertmaster from 1953 to 1961. He worked in the same capacity for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra from 1966 to 1969, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1979. He was also active as a teacher, both privately and at a number of universities, and made recordings as both a violinist and conductor. Education and early career Born in Toronto, Pratz studied in his native city with Broadus Farmer and Luigi von Kunits. During the early summer of 1930 he was a pupil of Mischa Mischakoff in the United States. In 1933 he studied with Michel Piastro in the US, and in 1936-1937 he studied under William Primrose in Europe. Pratz started his career playing in a radio orchestra for the CFRB with conductor Alexander Chuhaldin in 1929. Throughout the 1930s he played in various orchestras including the Canadian Rad

Albert Richard Sendrey

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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 Hungarian-born composer, conductor and musicologist Alfred Szendrei. His mother, Eugenie (birth name: Eugenie Weisz), worked as a soprano at the Vienna State Opera under Gustav Mahler. Life and career Sendrey was born into a family of musicians in Chicago in 1911 during his father’s time as a theatre conductor. He studied with his father and attended the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and the Conservatoire de Paris, as well as the Trinity College of Music in London. He was a student of Albert Coats, John Barbirolli and Henry Geehl. From 1935 to 1937, he worked as an arranger for film companies in Paris and from 1937 to 1944 in London. As a Jew, Sendrey fled from the National Socialists around 1933, first to Paris with his family. The Battle of France in May and June 1940 forced the family to flee further to the United States where they changed their Hungarian surname “Szendrei” to the Americanized spelling “Sendrey”. Albert Sendrey settled in Hollywood. Among other works, Sendrey wrote

Albert Roussel

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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 French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism. Biography Born in Tourcoing, Roussel’s earliest interest was not in music but mathematics. He spent time in the French Navy, and in 1889 and 1890, he served on the crew of the frigate Iphigénie and spent several years in southern Vietnam. French composer and musicologist Yvonne Rokseth also studied with Roussel. His sixtieth birthday was marked by a series of three concerts of his works in Paris; the concerts also included the performance of a collection of piano pieces, Homage to Albert Roussel, written by several composers, including Ibert, Poulenc, and Honegger. One 21st-century critic, in the course of discussing the Third Symphony, wrote: The Albert Roussel Collection The association Les Amis belges d’Albert Roussel (The Belgian Friends of Albert Roussel) was founded in 1979 by André Peeters. In 1986 the association don

Albert Schnelzer

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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 2000. His teachers in Sweden included Sven-David Sandström and Rolf Martinsson, and he was a conducting pupil of Gunnar Staern and Lars Jensen. In the UK, Schnelzer studied music at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Julian Anderson. He continued his conducting studies with John Carewe. In 1998, Schnelzer won the “Composer of Tomorrow” competition with the orchestral work Erupto. He joined the Society of Swedish Composers in 2001. He became better known outside of Sweden with his piano trio Predatory Dances, composed on commission from Radio France and premiered at the Présence Festival in 2004. Selected Compositions Orchestral and band works: * Erupto (1998) * Dance Ecstatic (for string orchestra; 2001) * Symphony No. 1 (“Azraeel”; 2006) * A Freak in Burbank (2007) * Azraeel Suite (for wind orchestra; 2008) * Emperor Akbar (for string orchestra; 2009/2010) * Tales from Suburbia (2012) Concertos: * Bassoon Concerto No. 1 (“Auroral Dances”; 2006) * Oboe Concerto (“The

Albert Stoessel

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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 Hochschule as a pupil of Emanuel Wirth and Willy Hess. At 19 he began his professional playing career with the Hess String Quartet, and toured as a violin soloist in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany. He returned to the United States in 1915 for a concert tour, appeared with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and lived in Boston until 1917 while pursuing his career as a violinist and composer. Stoessel enlisted in the United States Army in 1917, becoming a lieutenant in the 301st Infantry American Expeditionary Forces and leader of the regimental band at Camp Devens. Stoessel went to France in 1918 with the 76th Division as bandmaster of the 301st. He became director of the AEF Bandmaster’s School of Chaumont, France, organized by Walter Damrosch, after studying there with André Caplet. After his discharge in 1919, Stoessel performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and toured with Enrico Caruso’s last tour. In 1921 he became the ass

Albert Szirmai

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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, studying piano and composition (with Hans Koessler). Szirmai received a doctorate in music from the University of Budapest, and was devoted to creating works for the stage. He wrote music for 12 one-act plays and over 300 songs for the Budapest theater Népszínház-Vígopera, at which he was musical director. When his first operetta, The Yellow Domino, met with success, he decided to continue in the genre; it is due to the works of Szirmai, Emmerich Kálmán, and Victor Jacobi, among others, that the Hungarian operetta gained recognition internationally at the beginning of the 20th century. Szirmai was born in Budapest. On September 3, 1923, he arrived in New York City aboard the and took a post as music director for Chappell Music (a publishing house now owned by Warner Music Group). He was music editor for such Broadway luminaries as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin, and for a collection of the British duo Gilbert and Sullivan. Szirmai made headlines in 1965, when he

Albert Viau

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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 folk music and traditional songs. He released about 50 78 rpm records during his career, mostly for La Bonne Chanson. He also recorded a few songs under the pseudonym Jacques Dupont, including Partons, la mer est belle, Le Soir sur l’eau, and Le Lac des amours, and recorded the song Le Rêve passe with the Canadian Grenadier Guards Band for RCA. Many of his recordings include his own compositions. During his lifetime he wrote more than 200 songs, many of them comic patter songs, as well as hymns and two requiem masses. Early life and education Born in Montreal, Viau studied the piano in his youth with Arthur Caron. At the age of 17 he began studying singing seriously. He received his early training privately and only later in life pursued university studies. In 1966 he earned a Bachelor of Music from the Université de Montréal and that same year was awarded a teaching certificate from the Quebec Ministry of Education. His teachers included Victor Brault, Arthur Laurendeau (voice), Conra

Albert Vizentini

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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 in Russia and toured in Britain and Ireland. Life and career Vizentini came from an Italian musical family active in the theatre, one of whom had established himself at the Comédie-Italienne. As a child he appeared in various children’s roles at the Théâtre de l’Odéon, making his debut on 31 December 1847 in Le Dernier Banquet, a revue by Camille Doucet. He undertook musical studies at the Conservatoire in Brussels, under Leonard and Fétis, achieving first prize in violin in 1860 and a first prize in composition in 1861. After briefly acting as assistant conductor at the theatre in Antwerp he returned to Paris. The following year he attempted to rekindle the spirit and repertoire of the Théâtre Lyrique, by bringing on more substantial operas. He had much support, in particular from composers, the press and public administration, and secured a subsidy towards the running costs. The major premiere was to be Dimitri by Victorin de Joncières, an opera in 5 acts, for which Vizentini assembl

Albertet de Sestaro

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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 survive. “Albertet” or “Albertetz” is the Occitan diminutive of Albert. Unqualified, it usually refers to Albertet de Sestaro, but there was an Albertet Cailla. According to his vida he was the son of a noble jongleur named Asar, one of whose pieces may survive. Albertet was reputed for his voice and for the innovative melodies of his short cansós, but not for his lyrics. He was a welcomed performer and conversationalist in court society. In Italy he frequented the courts of Savoy, Montferrat, Malaspina, Genoa, and the Este in Ferrara. Eventually he returned to Sisteron in the Forcalquier, where he died. This tensó is evidence that Albertet called himself Albert, though later scribes usually employed the diminutive. Albertet also composed a tenso with Aimeric de Belenoi. He praised Augier and Gaucelm Faidit, and he honoured Peirol by name in one tornada: Asides from this request to Peirol, Albertet elsewhere begged his lady to learn his poems, possibly with an eye to the propagation thro

Albertine Caron-Legris

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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. Early life Born Albertine Caron in Louiseville, Quebec, Caron-Legris began her piano studies with Romain-Octave Pelletier I in Montreal in her youth. She later studied the piano with Michel Hirvy, voice with Rodolphe Plamondon, and music composition with Eugène Lapierre at the Conservatoire national de musique. Several years into her professional career she entered the Université de Montréal where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1942. Career Caron-Legris married Mr. Legris in 1918, after which she taught music in Montreal and toured throughout Quebec as a recitalist. In the 1920s, she began to gain recognition as a composer of vocal songs and piano works in Quebec. Many of her pieces used folksong harmonizations. Her most well-known composition is the 1947 song “La Berceuse de Donalda” which was featured on both the radio and television version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program Un Homme et son péché. In 1962, her collection of song melodies for piano, Mes Plus Belles

Albertine Morin-Labrecque

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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 ballets, 2 comic operas, the Chinese opera Pas-chu, 2 concertos for two pianos, the symphonic poem Le Matin, numerous symphonic works, and compositions for band. Her works have been published by a variety of companies. A square and a street in Montreal were named after her in 1984. Early education and career Born Albertine Rosalie Odile Labrecque in Montreal, Morin-Labrecque was a child prodigy and began her musical training at the Académie de musique du Québec (AMQ) at the age of five. She gave her first public piano recitals when she was seven and earned her senior class diploma with honours from the AMQ at age 8. She notably was awarded first prize in music theory in her academy class. She pursued further studies in piano privately with Romain-Octave Pelletier I for a number of years. With him she mastered the standard piano repertoire. Studies in Paris and later career Following the end of World War I, Morin-Labrecque went to Paris to study with J. Macaire (composition) and Arthur Plamond

Alberto Domínguez (composer)

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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 Hermanos Domínguez. His most famous songs, both from 1939, are “Frenesi” and “Perfidia”. Songs * “Frenesi” (1939) * “Perfidia” (1939) *“A Rendezvous In Rio” (Xavier Cugat, 1941) *“Un Momento” (Enric Madriguera, 1941) *“Ranchero Soy” / “Al Son De La Marimba” (Rafael Medina, 1942) *“Vamos A La Guerra” (Martin Y Malena, 1942) *“Mala Noche” (Carlos Ramírez, 1943) *“Juntos” (Eduardo Alexander, 1945) *“Maybe Love Is Nothing But An Illusion” (Benny de Weille, 1949) *“Bad Thoughts” (Lolita Garrido, 1949) *“I’ve Been Waiting A Lifetime” (The Four Aces, 1953) *“Amor Que Muere” (Lupita Palomera, 1957) *“Humanidad” (Fernando Rosas and the Orchestra of Pablo Beltrán Ruiz, 1958) Discography *Perfidia (‘Orquesta, canciones y arreglos de Alberto Dominguez’ RCA Victor MKL 1068, ca. 1955) References External links * Steve Huey, “Alberto Dominguez”, AllMusic.

Alberto Franchetti

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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 nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger, and finally in Dresden under Felix Draeseke. His first major success occurred in 1888 with his opera Asrael. His operatic style combined Wagnerianism and the traits of Meyerbeer with Italian verismo. During his life, critics sometimes referred to him as the “Meyerbeer of modern Italy.” The words of music critic G. B. Nappi sum up Franchetti’s primary talents: “His character is perhaps unsuitable for passionate dramas, but rather for those subjects, where the fantastic, romantic and epic are required in the symphonic texture and large choral pictures. In this regard Alberto Franchetti knows that he has no rival” (from “Orfeo” 6.3, 1915). Grove considers Cristoforo Colombo (1892) Franchetti’s best work. However, his most popular opera was Germania (1902; libretto by Luigi Illica). It clung to the general operatic repertoire until the First World War; it was performed worldwide,

Alberto Ginastera

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Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires to a Spanish father and an Italian mother. During his later years, he preferred to use the Catalan and Italian pronunciation of his surname – , with an initial soft ‘G’ like that of English ‘George’ – rather than with a Spanish ‘J’ sound (). Ginastera studied at the Williams Conservatory in Buenos Aires, graduating in 1938. As a young professor, he taught at the Liceo Militar General San Martín. After a visit to the United States in 1945–47, where he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood, he returned to Buenos Aires. He held a number of teaching posts. Among his notable students were Ástor Piazzolla (who studied with him in 1941), Alcides Lanza, Jorge Antunes, Waldo de los Ríos, Jacqueline Nova, Blas Atehortua, Rafael Aponte-Ledée. () In 1968 Ginastera moved back to the United States, and in 1970 to Europe. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 67 and was buried in the Cimetière des Rois in the Plainpalais district.

Alberto Giurioli

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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 Fasolin. He began studying piano at the age of 4 and studied at the music school Libera Espressione Musicale. He has also studied at the Cat Sound Studio under Patrizia Arduini and Mario Marcassa, and at the conservatory of music Conservatorio di Musica Francesco Venezze in Rovigo. Giurioli earned a degree in International Economics from the University of Padua. Giurioli also plays keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar and drums. He has appeared on television on channels such as 7 Gold, and performed in London on public street pianos. He lives in London. Giurioli’s first album, Ali, was released in July 2011 through Cat Sound Records. After moving to London in 2015, Giurioli began collaborating with the orchestrator Geoff Lawson, deepening his understanding of orchestration in the Neo-classical genre. Giurioli has performed as a guest for Sofar Sound in London. His collaboration with Classic FM led to a performance as part of Global’s Make Some Noise in October 2017, performing at Stein

Alberto Hemsi

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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 parallel to Béla Bartók’s collection of traditional Hungarian music and consequent integration to his music. Life Family and early years Hemsi was born in 1898 in Turgutlu in the Ottoman Empire to a family of Sephardic Jews. From an early age, Alberto’s parents detected a keen sensitivity and interest in music, especially during prayers sung in synagogue, and decided to send him to stay with his uncle in Smyrne (now Izmir). Hemsi studied at the school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (A.I.U.) from 1908 to 1913. At the A.I.U., he studied flute, trombone, cornet, and the clarinet, but his true passions were for the piano and for composition. 1913-1919: Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi In 1913, at the insistence of the director of the A.I.U., Hemsi moved to Italy after receiving a scholarship to study at the Conservatorio Royal di Milano. At the conservatorio, Hemsi was taught by internationally acclaimed professors such as Bossi Pirinello (composition, harmony, and counterpoint), Gal

Alberto Jonás

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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 level of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal, Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, and Josef Lhévinne. He also ranked among the greatest and most sought-after keyboard pedagogues of the 1920s and ’30s. Life and early career (Madrid, 1868–1886) Born in Madrid to German parents Julius Jonas, a businessman, and Doris Sachse, his musical talents were recognized at an early age. King Alfonso XII of Spain received the young child in a private audience at the Royal Palace of Madrid in 1880 and Jonás was immediately hailed as a prodigy. He initially studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Manuel Mendizábal (1817–1896) in piano (Mendizábal had been Isaac Albéniz’s piano teacher) and Ciriaco Olave in organ, graduating at the age of 12, in 1880. For the next six years he travelled and lived in Belgium, England, Germany, and France studying business, in accordance to his parents’ desires for a career in finance, and also giving some public performances. At this time, Jonás started also to become

Alberto Mazzucato

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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 between 1834 and 1843, the most successful of which was Esmeralda (1838). He also contributed music to the pastiche La vergine di Kermo (1870) which also contained music by Carlo Pedrotti, Antonio Cagnoni, Federico Ricci, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Giovanni Pacini. composers Arrigo Boito, Their daughter Eliza Mazzucato Young (1846-1937) was a composer, pianist, and music educator in the United States. Their son Giannandrea Mazzucato (1850-1900) was a music writer, librettist, and critic based in London. Operas *La fidanzata di Lammermoor (1834) *Don Chisciotte (1836) *Esmeralda (1838) *Coro dei penitenti (1838) *I corsari (1840) *I due sergenti (1841) *Luigi V, re di Francia (1843) *Hernani (1843) *La vergine di Kermo (1870) References

Alberto Nepomuceno

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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 Brazil. His parents were Vitor Augusto Nepomuceno and Maria Virginia de Oliveira Paiva. He began to study music with his father, a violinist, organist, teacher and chapel-master at the Fortaleza Cathedral. In 1872, Nepomuceno and his family moved to Recife, also in Northeastern Brazil, where he initiated piano and violin studies. He went on to become an outspoken defender of Republican and Abolitionist causes in Brazil, and was active in campaigns that ultimately led to the overthrow of the Monarchy and the establishment of the First Brazilian Republic in 1889. At the age of eighteen, he became director of the Clube Carlos Gomes (Carlos Gomes Club) in Recife. In 1885, a series of songs in Portuguese by Nepomuceno was premiered at the Brazilian Musical National Institute. The concert was intended at defying those who thought Portuguese was inappropriate for the bel canto. As criticism poured, he embarked on a battle against newspapers and music critics. His struggle on behalf of nationalism in c

Alberto Posadas

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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 Madrid at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. In 1988 he met Francisco Guerrero Marín with whom he studied composition and whom he considered his real master. This meeting represented an important turning point in his career. Together with Guerrero he discovered new techniques for musical form creation such as mathematical combinatorics and the fractals. Nonetheless, his determination and constant search for the integration of aesthetics in these procedures led him to employ another “model” of composing such as the translation of architectural spaces into music, the application of topology and painting techniques related to perspective or the exploration of the acoustic features of instruments at a micro level. He explored the possibilities of electro-acoustic music developing, in a self-taught way, through various projects starting with Liturgia de silencio (1995) and continuing with more recent pieces like Snefru or Versa est in luctum (2002). His interest in investigating the application of

Alberto Soriano

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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, (Argentina), where his family had settled in temporarily. But it was in Bahia (Brazil) where he spent his childhood and early youth. He began his musical studies at an early age at the El Salvador Music Conservatory, becoming a distinguished pupil of Maestro Dante de Souza in violin and of Maestro Silvio Deolindo Froes in harmony, composition and counterpoint. This academic formation, added to a permanent contact with the musical expressions of afro origins cultivated by the people of Bahia, left a mark on him for the rest of his life as a composer, also dedicated to ethno musicological investigation, music criticism, and teaching. He has written poetry in his early youth and published “Las cinco llegadas de la Madre d Agua” (Mother of Waters five arrivals), book than was prefaced by Jorge Amado and illustrated by Augusto Torres García. The practice of music dictation and the participation in popular rites and festivities, allowed Soriano to write down more than one hundred “Magical Cha

Albertus Bryne

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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 role in which he succeeded his teacher in 1638. He was dismissed from the post by the Puritans and, during the Commonwealth, taught the harpsichord. He returned to St Paul’s at the Restoration but was not granted a request to be made organist of the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. He took up a post at Westminster Abbey after the Great Fire of London, and was succeeded by John Blow upon his death in 1668. He continued to receive a salary from St. Paul’s until his death. According to Anthony Wood, he was buried in the cloisters at Westminster Abbey, but his grave has not been found. He was respected in his time as ’that famously velvet fingered Organist’ (J. Batchiler, The Virgin’s Pattern, 1661) and ‘an excellent musician (Wood). He was one of the finest English harpsichord composers of the time and exerted a significant influence on later composers. His suites are among the earliest surviving English examples with four movements. Albertus Bryne II His son, also called Albertus, worked with him at

Albrecht Blumenstengel

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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 Carl Heinrich Blumenstengel (1792–1867), he was the concertmaster of the ducal court. He published several works and important violin books, today used in music conservatories, like Scale and Arpeggios Studies and the 24 Etudes op.33 (published for major publishing houses like Fischer, Schirmer, Litolff, Peters). The first edition of these Etudes was in 1855 and the style is romantic (some editor wrote improperly “Preparatory Studies to Kreutzer”). He also wrote important pieces like 8 Transcritptionen, Op.13 for violin and piano (1872), Volkslieder-Album (2 books of 120 pieces for violin and piano – 1891). He died in Hamburg on 8 June 1895. Compositions * Scale and Arpeggio-Studies * 24 Violin Etudes, Op.33 * 8 Transcriptionen, Op.13 * Volkslieder-Album * Gavotte from Iphigénie en Aulide by C.W.Gluck Albrecht Blumenstengel dealt mainly with pedagogical works and duets, including all of Spohr’s violin duets and his Duo op. 13 for violin and viola. Discography In 2023 the Italian violist

Alcides Lanza

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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 contemporary classical music and avant-garde music. His works often utilize a combination of traditional and unusual instruments, and incorporate electronic sounds and extensions. Many of his compositions are published by Boosey & Hawkes, and Lanza himself owned his own publishing company, Shelan Editions. He was an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, a member of the Canadian League of Composers, and an Honorary Member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. In 2019 Lanza was named a Member of the Order of Canada. Lanza died on July 17, 2024, at the age of 95. Background Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Lanza received his initial musical training in Buenos Aires where he was a pupil of Julián Bautista (music composition), Ruwin Erlich (piano), Alberto Ginastera (composition), and Roberto Kinsky (conducting). He received a scholarship from the Torcuato di Tella Institute in 1963-1964 which enabled him to pursue advanced studies in music composition and electronic music. He received furth

Alden Jenks

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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, Berkeley. He studied composition with Lawrence Moss, Andrew Imbrie and Seymour Shifrin. He also studied composition in 1967 with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the University of California, Davis, and electronic music with David Tudor and Anthony Gnazzo. As a performer, he served as a controller of the live electronics for Stockhausen’s 1967 Darmstadt collective-composition project, Ensemble, and performed on synthesizer in the 25th anniversary concert of Terry Riley’s In C in 1989, released as a recording in 1995 on New Albion Records CD NA071. As a composer he is primarily known for his work in electronic media, and was Professor of Composition and Director of the E. L. Wiegand Composition Studio at the San Francisco Conservatory. John Adams has cited him as an influential colleague, crediting Jenks with introducing him to Wagner His composition Nagasaki won the Bourges Electronic Music Competition, and Marrying Music won the Viotti-Valsesia International Music Competition award. Compositions (sele

Aldo Brizzi

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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 later graduated in DAMS from the University of Bologna. As a composer and conductor, he has worked between Europe and Brazil. In 2016, he founded the Núcleo de Ópera da Bahia in Salvador. His stage works include Gabriel et Gabriel, performed at the Opéra de Tours in November 2015. He also composed Jelin, an opera in two acts, which premiered at the Teatro Alessandrino in Alessandria on 17 September 2021. Brizzi collaborated with Gilberto Gil on Amor Azul, an opera co-written by the two musicians and performed at the Auditorium de Radio France in Paris in December 2022. The production was presented in concerts on 2, 3 and 4 December 2022 by the Chœur de Radio France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with Brizzi conducting. In 2025, he co-composed the opera I-Juca Pirama with Gilberto Gil, with a libretto by Paulo Coelho. The work received its world premiere at the Theatro da Paz in Belém on 10 November 2025, with further performances on 11 and 12 November, as part of the XXI

Aldo Clementi

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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 Cecilia in Rome. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954 again at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962. Important influences during this period included meeting Bruno Maderna in 1956, and working at the electronic music studio of the Italian radio broadcaster RAI in Milan. Further reading * Clementi, Aldo, Maria Rosa De Luca, Salvatore Enrico Failla, and Graziella Seminara. 2005. Per Aldo Clementi: nell’occasione dei suoi ottant’anni, 25 maggio 2005. Catania: Università degli studi di Catania. * Cresti, Renzo. 1990. Aldo Clementi: studio monografico e intervista. Milan: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni. * Lux, Simonetta, and Daniela Tortora. 2005. Collage 1961: un’azione dell’arte di Achille Perilli e Aldo Clementi. Luxflux prototype arte contemporanea, Documenti 1. Rome: Gangemi. * Mattietti, Gianluigi. 2001. Geometrie di musica: il periodo diatonico di Aldo Cl

Aldo Donati (singer)

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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 “Gli Arciduchi”. In 1974 he was one of the co-founder and a stable member of the vocal group Schola Cantorum, that had a consistent success for the whole decade. As a solo singer, his main hits are the songs “Canterò canterò canterò”, which ranked fourth at the 1980 Sanremo Music Festival, and “Cantando”, which entered the competition at the 1982 Festivalbar. Donati was also very active as a composer, signing among others several songs for Mina. Among his compositions, the most successful was “Canzoni stonate”, a 1981 hit by Gianni Morandi which was later covered by several artists, including Andrea Bocelli and Stevie Wonder in a Spanish adaptation (“Cançion desafinada”) for the album Amore. A supporter of S.S. Lazio, for which he composed the hymn “So’ già du ore”, in the 2000s he was active in television sport programs as an opinionist and occasionally a presenter. In 2009 he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, due to an aneurysm, for which he fell into a coma. Never fully recovered, he di

Aldo Finzi (composer)

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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 his classical studies at the Parini high school in Milan, he graduated in law from the University of Pavia. Simultaneously, he graduated in composition as a private student at the Accademia S. Cecilia in Rome. He soon achieved success and fame among young Italian musicians: operas, chamber music, symphonic music, a comic opera “La serenata al vento”, a dramatic work inspired by anti-Semitic persecution, “Shylock”, which remained unfinished and was performed in this form (Milan and Marseille), are among his compositions. At 24, he had become one of the authors whose works were published by Ricordi, while previously his publishers were Fantuzzi and Sonzogno. In the 1931 Ricordi catalogue, his compositions include “Il chiostro” for female voices and orchestra, the symphonic poems “Cirano di Bergerac”, nominated in a competition whose judging panel included Arturo Toscanini and Ildebrando Pizzetti, and “Inni alla notte”, a “Sonata for violin and piano” (now published by Suvini & Zerboni),

Aldo Piga

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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 approached the movie soundtrack field. His participation in the pop music Italian market counts with two participations in the famous contest of Sanremo, one of which was overshadowed in the year of the famous Modugno’s song “Volare”. He recorded about one hundred film soundtracks. One film soundtrack that he contributed to was Il grido, a 1957 Italian drama directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, which included “Non lo saprai mai” (You will never know it) by Piga and Renato Barneschi. His activity as a composer was strongly influenced by classical music and bebop jazz roots of his early years in the New York music scene. Piga’s work was also known to British television audiences in the last late 1950s. “Come to My Arms”, which Piga wrote with Maurizio de Angelis and Jack Elliott featured on the British television programme Six-Five Special in 1958, where it was performed by Dickie Valentine. After a promising career as a music writer, he decided to start working as a film producer in the late

Ale Carr

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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. Notable instruments includes the Nordic cittern and the träskofiol (clog-fiddle). The Press & Journal has described Carr as “one of the leading players of plucked string instruments within the Nordic folk tradition.” Career In July 2023, Carr appeared at the BBC Proms in London, performing in a presentation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Pekka Kuusisto and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the Royal Albert Hall. According to Scan Magazine, Dreamers’ Circus have collaborated with artists such as The Chieftains, Sharon Shannon, and Japanese composer Yasunori Mitsuda, and have performed with orchestras in Denmark and Sweden. The trio also curate Folkets Festival, a Copenhagen event focused on Nordic folk music and related collaborative performances. Awards * 2008 - Zorn award in silver and the title of riksspelman (national folk musician) in Delsbo, Sweden, for playing violin in the tradition of Skåne * 2013 - Danish Music Awards Folk - Artist of the Year * 2015 - Danish Music Awards F

Aleandro Baldi

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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 autodidact while he was at the Reggio Emilia College for the Blind. He debuted in 1986, entering the Sanremo Music Festival with “La nave va”, a song he composed and arranged, ranking second in the “Newcomers” section. He later won the Newcomers section of the Festival in 1992, in a duet with Francesca Alotta, with the song “Non amarmi”, which later became an international hit with the title “No Me Ames”. Outside of his musical career, Baldi is also a massophysiotherapist. Discography Album * 1987 - Aleandro Baldi * 1989 - E sia così * 1992 - Il sole * 1994 - Ti chiedo onestà * 1996 - Tu sei me * 2002 - Il meglio e il nuovo * 2007 - Liberamente tratto * 2010 - Italian Love Songs References External links * * Aleandro Baldi at Discogs *

Alec Roth

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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 from 1976 as a mature student at Durham University, having previously completed a science degree at the University of Nottingham. He earned a doctorate from Durham in 1986. His thesis was entitled New composition for Javanese gamelan. Works, editions and recordings * California Songbook - settings of poems written by Vikram Seth when he was living on the West Coast of the US * Sometime I Sing - settings for solo voice and guitar, including: My Lute and I; Dark Night; 3 Night Songs; Autumnal; English Folk Songs; Lights Out. Mark Padmore, Morgan Szymanski piano. Signum Records, 2013 * Earth and Sky (2000) - A choral work for children’s choir, percussion, and piano on an entirely monosyllabic text by Vikram Seth. A BBC Proms commission, it was first performed by the Finchley Children’s Music Group, Joanna MacGregor (piano), and Ensemble Bash, conducted by Nicholas Wilks at Royal Albert Hall in London on July 18, 2000. According to Roth, “In keeping with the millennial theme, a piece prese

Alec Wilder

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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 thousands of pieces of music across various genres, including American popular song and classical music. Though his musical compositions were not always widely known during his lifetime, he became a notable figure in musical history for his 1972 book, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, which is widely regarded as a definitive work on the subject. He also hosted a Peabody Award-winning radio series, American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends, on National Public Radio (NPR) in the mid-1970s. Biography Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, While there, he edited a humor magazine and scored music for short films directed by James Sibley Watson. Wilder was eventually awarded an honorary degree in 1973. He was good friends with Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and others who helped develop the American popular music canon. Among the popular songs he wrote or co-wrote were “I’ll Be Around” (a hit for the Mills Brothers), “While We’re Young”

Alejandro Brittes

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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. He was the first accordionist of the genre to perform at the Library of Congress in the United States . Considered by The Boston Globe as one of the greatest exponents of contemporary chamamé, the complexity of his works is reminiscent of Astor Piazzolla . Career A son of parents from the province of Corrientes, at 12 years old, Alejandro began to study accordion with Nini Flores. When he was 15 years old, he formed his first musical group, and recorded his first album “Por la Senda Chamamecera”. In 1989, he went to study music at the Juan Pedro Esnaola School, later continuing his career as a musician. In 1996, he won the Cosquín de Oro award, for Best Instrumentalist with his national debut at the Próspero Molina plaza in the Festival Nacional de Folklore de Cosquín, Córdoba, Argentina. In the same year, Alejandro was invited by the rock group Los Piojos to record on the album “3er arco” playing accordion on the songs “Todo Pasa” and “Don’t say tomorrow”, and performing in the album r

Alejandro García Caturla

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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 sixteen years old, in 1922, he won a position as a member of the 2nd violins of the newly formed “Orquesta Sinfónica de La Habana”, where Amadeo Roldán was the concertmaster. He started to write music since he was a teenager, while studying both music and law. He felt attracted to Afro-Cuban rhythms since he was really young, and this became a common denominator in his compositions in a time when the division between art music and popular music did not influence Cuban composers. From 1925 to 1927 he continued his musical studies in Paris as a student of Nadia Boulanger. Together with composer Amadeo Roldán, Caturla became the leader of Afro-cubanismo, a nationalist musical trend, which mixed elements of white and black culture, incorporating Afro-Cuban songs, rhythms, and dances. Later on he used advanced techniques and French Impressionist styles combined with primitive tunes; as a result, some of his works show surprising juxtapositions of chords and moods. He composed Concierto de c

Alejandro Núñez Allauca

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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 performed on the radio in Cerro de Pasco as a soloist on accordion at the age of nine. His style was initially tonal, then moved toward pointillistic atonalism. Later, his work began to include ornamentation in a neo-Baroque style. His works exhibit a personal nationalism, incorporating elements of traditional Andean music as well as echoes of neo-Romanticism. Works *Suite Koribeni for orchestra. *Fisuras for two flutes. *Salmo 100 for chorus. *Trío para vientos (flute, oboe, bassoon). *Salmo 100 for 8 soloists. *Gravitación humana for magnetic tape. *String quartet. *El alba for chorus (1965). *Diferenciales I y II for piano (1967). *Variables for 6 and magnetic tape (1967). *Cuarteto de cuerda nº 1 (1970). *Concierto para orquesta (1970). *Moto ornamentale e perpetuo for piano (1970). *Sinfonía ornamental (1972). *Ornamenti per 3 flauti e pianoforto Op. 3 (1973-7). *Invention I, II, III and IV for orchestra (1978). *Ornamentos for piano (1979). *Movimiento ornamental for guitar (1980

Alejandro Román

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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, he studied composition with Antón García Abril, Valentín Ruiz and Zulema de la Cruz at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid. From 1991 to 1995 he was awarded scholarships by the AIE (Society of Artists and Performers) for studies of Jazz with Tony Heimer, Jorge Villaescusa and Ricard Miralles (piano), Claudio Gabis, Eva Gancedo and Miguel Blanco (harmony, composition and arrangements, music theater), Bob Sands and Victor Merlo (improvisation and ensemble). He belonged to several Jazz and Rock groups with whom he recorded a dozen albums. He has composed over seventy works for piano, voice, guitar, orchestra, chamber, electroacoustic, and teaching music, modern (jazz, pop) and film music, theatre and dance. He has scored fifteen short films and three feature films. In 2014 he obtained the Doctorate in Philosophy from the Department of Aesthetics, UNED, after completion of his thesis “Musivisual analysis, audition guide and study of film music”, where he analyses the connections betwe

Alejandro Vega Matus

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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 prolific composer, particularly known for his waltzes. Biography Matus was born on August 17, 1873, in Masaya, Nicaragua. His father was Pablo Vega y Raudes, a composer. His family included many musicians, including the composer of “Salve a ti, Nicaragua”, the Nicaraguan national anthem. Matus studied music as a child with Don Carmen and later moved to Guatemala where Giovanni Aberle taught him at the Guatemalan Conservatory of Music. However, Grove Music Online describes him as “essentially self-taught”. He eventually returned to Nicaragua in 1894, founding and conducting an orchestra, Orquesta Vega Matus. Grove Music Online writes that the group grew to become the “unrivalled musical performance group of dance and semi-classical music in the nation.” He died on November 26, 1937, in Masaya. Matus was well known and respected during his lifetime, and was one of the first composers in the region seeing their music recorded and distributed. Matus composed numerous works, predominantly funer

Alejandro Viñao

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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 awarded a British Council scholarship to study in London at the Royal College of Music and later on at the City University where he was awarded a PhD in composition. Career In the 1980s, Viñao worked at IRCAM in Paris where he developed a particular interest in sound interpolation (sound morphing) a technique that has featured in many of his compositions such as Chant D’Ailleurs which won the Prix Ars Electronica in 1992. Viñao has written orchestral and chamber music for the concert hall, opera and music-theatre, film scores, music for multimedia events and rock and popular music. He has also created and presented programmes for BBC Radio 3. He has written a number of percussion works, such as Khan Variations for solo Marimba, which have become very well known in the US, Europe and Japan. At the rhythmic level Viñao’s work has been influenced by non-western musical traditions as well as by the music of Conlon Nancarrow. In percussion pieces such as Estudios de Fronteras (2004), Viñao used

Aleksander Eduard Thomson

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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 from Latvian musical pedagogue Jānis Cimze’s seminar in Valga. From 1870 to 1872 he studied mathematics at the University of Tartu. He then worked as a teacher in Kanepi and Vana-Võidu near Viljandi and in the German church school in Petergof, Russia. At that time he was already organizing choral events with a relatively large number of participants. Songs * “Kantele” * “Sing, sing o mouth” * “Kannel” * “Laula, laula, suukene” * “Arg kosilane” * “Ketra Liisu” * “Pulmalaul” * “Sokukene” * “Tantsulaul” * “Oh mu armas isamaja” * “Mardilaul” * “Rootsi rahvaviis” * “Suur on, Jumal, Su ramm” References

Aleksander Gurilyov

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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 romantic Russian repertoire through his solid technical accomplishments. He composed well over 200 pieces imbued with romantic, sentimental moods and subtle lyricism which enjoyed great success in Russia. He wrote numerous morceaux (short pieces) in a proto-dramatic, lyric declamatory style, all pre-dating the aesthetics of Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky. Family Aleksander was born in Semyonovskoye, Serpukhov Oblast into the family of serf musicians in the court of Count V.G. Orlov. His father, Lev Gurilyov, was the first to teach him music, beginning with rudimentary introductions. Training Aleksander was raised as a member of the court of Count Vladimir Orlov’s country estate Otrada, near Moscow. He was taught violin by his father, Lev Gurilyov, a serf musician and kapellmeister in the orchestra of the Orlovs. Together with his children, he took lessons in piano playing from Russian-based pianist of Irish origin John Field and later studied music theory under the guidance of Ios

Aleksander Kolkowski

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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, wind-up Gramophones, shellac discs and wax-phonograph cylinders) to make live mechanical-acoustic music. He lives and works in London, England. About Kolkowski studied music at the University of London, Goldsmiths College, violin with Clarence Myerscough at the Royal Academy of Music. Taught by John Tilbury, Hugh Davies and in 1982 participated in seminars and performances directed by John Cage. In the late 1970s, Kolkowski played on the then burgeoning punk rock scene in London, featuring on the records of Henry Badowski, an early member of The Damned, a British multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer, who was a member of several punk rock bands in the 1970s. Kolkowski played violins on Badowski’s post punk album, Life Is a Grand…, alongside sometime Generation X (band) guitarist, James Stevenson (musician) and Dave Berk, drummer with Johnny Moped, an early Stiff Records punk rock band from the late 70s’ first wave of punk in England. Over the past 25 years he has worked inte

Aleksander Kunileid

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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 Peeter Karl Saebelmann (or Säbelmann) was born in 1845 in Audru in the district of Pärnu, the son of a teacher. Like his brother, Friedrich August Saebelmann, he displayed musical gifts from an early age. His first musical education was with his father, from whom he learned to play the organ and the piano. As a 16-year-old, Saebelmann attended the Vidzeme teacher’s seminary in Valka (the Latvian town of Valka lies alongside its Estonian twin, Valga), where he studied with the choral master Jānis Cimze. Saebelmann graduated from the teacher’s seminary in 1865 and took up a teaching post in the small village of Paistu for three years. There he frequently played the organ in the local church. He befriended prominent figures from the Estonian national awakening, including Carl Robert Jakobson, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, and the latter’s daughter, Lydia Koidula. He took the name “Kunileid”, in preference to the Germanic-seeming “Saebelmann”, from Jakobson’s motto Otsi, kuni leiad (“Seek, until you

Aleksander Läte

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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 professional music critic. In 1895, he started his education at Dresden Conservatory and graduated it in choir composition speciality. Since 1932, he led the piano factory Sprenk-Läte, located in Tartu. His brother was the piano master Eugen Sprenk-Läte (1871–1932), who ran the J. Moritz piano factory in Tartu, but was later a business manager. Founded his own piano workshop in Tartu in 1926, where he made pianos. Aleksander Läte continued his brother’s work after his death. Works * Five Cantatas * Kalevala (overture) (1901) * Eesti tants (for symphony orchestra, 1904) * Tempo di mazurka (for symphony orchestra, 1904) References

Aleksandër Peçi

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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 the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Academia Santa Cecilia, and the University of Arts, Tirana, where he worked with Çesk Zadeja. In Paris, he worked with Ton de Leeuw, Paul Méfano, and Jacques Charpentier. In Amsterdam, Peçi studied with Daan Manneke at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Career Peçi has written over 922 compositions and editions, and 35 CD albums of his music have been published. At the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, he composed “Etera Tondo”, modeled after Paradis of Dante Alighieri. Then, he worked as the director of the Palace of Culture in Përmet. In 1979, he became the artistic director of the National Ensemble of Popular Songs and Dances. In 1989, Peçi composed the song “Toka E Diellit”, which won the Albanian music contest, Festivali i Këngës. Since 1992, he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana. Aleksandër Peçi has participated in the Venice Biennale, the Manchester International Festival, and ISCM World Music Days. His m

Aleksander Szeligowski

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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 Poznań Philharmonic. Son of Tadeusz Szeligowski, he is the author of numerous compositions for piano, female and mixed choirs and others. Life and work Aleksander Szeligowski was born in Wilno, Poland, on 24 August 1934. He was initially educated in the class of Mariana Ochalskiego where he began playing organ, then at the State Music High School in Lublin. Later he began studying at the State School of Music in Poznań where he studied composition and organ, and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he was a conducting student of Stanisław Wisłocki and Bohdan Wodiczko. He also studied composition under the guidance of his father, Tadeusz Szeligowski, graduating in 1959, and again in 1960 in the class of Joseph Pawlak. From 1964 to 1993 he worked at the National School of music in Poznań, where he lectured, among other disciplines, score reading, orchestration, composition and pedagogy of improvisation. In the second half of the 1960s, he worked as assistant conductor

Aleksandr Kasyanov (composer)

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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 before pursuing studies at the Petrograd Conservatory from which he graduated. At that conservatory he studied under Nikolay Sokolov (music composition) and Sergei Lyapunov (piano). Works * Iola «Иола» (1923), * Stepan Razin, «Степан Разин» (1939) on the Cossack Stepan Razin revised 1953, 3rd revision 1977 given at the Bolshoi * Partizantka «Партизанка» (1941) * Foma Gordeyev «Фома Гордеев» (1946) revised 1966 Kromlyovsky Theatre * In the Far North «На дальнем Севере» (1947), * Yermak «Ермак» (1957) on the Cossack Yermak Timofeyevich Notes References

Aleksandr Lokshin

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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 on 11 June 1987. An admirer of Mahler and Alban Berg, he created his own musical language; he wrote eleven symphonies plus symphonic works including Les Fleurs du Mal (1939, on Baudelaire’s poems), Three Scenes from Goethe’s Faust (1973, 1980), the cantata Mater Dolorosa (1977, on verses from Akhmatova’s Requiem). Only his Symphony No 4 is purely instrumental; all his other symphonies include vocal parts. Symphony No 3 by Lokshin was written on Kipling’s verses, and a ballet Fedra was staged to music from Symphony No 4. Lokshin also wrote a cycle of piano variations for Maria Grinberg (1953) and another one for Yelena Kushnerova (1982). Life Early life The composer’s father, Lazar Lokshin, was an accountant and his mother, Maria Korotkina, a midwife. Lokshin’s sister, Maria, was born in 1914. The family suffered from communist repression, Lokshin’s father having been classified as a capitalist because of their small farm business. Their land and cattle were confiscated, and Maria was exp

Aleksandr Sheremetev

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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 organized public concerts in Saint Petersburg that involved the orchestra and a choir he had inherited from his father, Dmitri Sheremetev. He also founded the Musical Historical Society in 1910, which gave free lecture recitals involving his orchestra and choir. Sheremetev conducted the Russian premiere of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal in a series of three concerts in 1906; his conducting on that occasion was described by the press as “primitive”. This was followed by Sheremetev conducting the opera’s first Russian staging on 21 December 1913 (according to the Russian Old Style calendar; 3 January 1914 according to the standard Western calendar), performed at the Hermitage Theatre before the Imperial Family, the diplomatic corps, representative members of the State Duma and senior government officials. After two further performances there, the production transferred to the Theatre of Musical Drama. On 10 June 1883 Sheremetev married Marie Heyden (born 1863 in Reval), daughter of Governor-General of

Aleksandr Varlamov (composer, born 1801)

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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 genre of the Russian art song. He is recorded as being one of the first Russian creators to devise a technical process of singing in his monograph, Polnaya Shkola Penia - The Complete School of Singing (Moscow, 1840) He was also the notable father of Russian, 20th-century Actor Konstantin Varlamov and the great-grandfather of 20th-century composer Alexander Vladimirovich Varlamov. His art songs were famed for their Russian motives and authentic capture of everyday experiences. So much so that many of his songs were immortalized in literature by notable Russian and American authors and playwrights such as N. Gogol, I. Turgenev, and J. Galsworthy. Family Alexander Egorovich Varlamov was born into a poor family on the 15th (27th) of November, 1801. Education Alexander’s vocal talent and musical acumen pronounced itself early. Around the age of nine, he was able to learn music solely by hearing and was said to have a beautiful singing voice. He showed a particular interest in church music an

Aleksandr Varlamov (composer, born 1904)

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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, along with being a singer and the leader of the leading Jazz orchestras in the Soviet Union, called the State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR. Additionally, he is accredited with founding the first ever, Soviet group of musician-improvisers called “The Seven” Семерка . He played an instrumental role in popularizing jazz music in Russia during the 1930s and amassed a huge corpus of works during his lifetime, up to 400 compositions include pieces for variety orchestra, songs, and music for films and cartoons. He was the great-grandson of Alexander Egorovich Varlamov. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1979. See also * The Russian Jazz Quartet * Russian jazz * Music of the Soviet Union References Future reading * “Варламов Александр Владимирович — Джаз. XX век — Яндекс.Словари”. web.archive.org. 2013-01-27. Retrieved 2021-07-21. * “Исполнитель: Александр Варламов.. любители музыки психо-прог-арт-этно-блюз-рок VK”. vk.com. Retrieved 2021-07-21.

Aleksandr Yurasovsky

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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 Mishkovo located within the Oryol district. He studied piano with E.P. Savina and musical composition with Peter Nikolaevich Renchitsky, Reinhold Glière and Alexander Gretchaninov, graduating from Moscow University in 1913 with a degree in law. He made his conducting debut in 1912. After time in the Russian Army from 1914 to 1917, he resumed his musical activity, conducting concerts in Kharkiv, Odessa, and Rostov-on-Don. He held administrative and conducting positions, and orchestrated Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 as well as Suite of Preludes (containing preludes Op. 23, No 3, 4, 10, and Op. 32, No 12, 13). List of works Opera *Trilby (libretto by composer from the novel by George du Maurier) Orchestra works *In the Moonlight, op. 6 (1911) *Pastel (2 Pictures, 1911) *Ghosts, symphonic poem, op. 8 (1912) *Spring Symphony (1918) *Poem-concerto for piano and orchestra (1918) *Suite (1922) Chamber music *Dramatic sonata cello and piano. (1911) *Piano Trio (1911) Piano music *4 Preludes (

Aleksandr Zatsepin

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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 of Russia (2003) and Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2025). Biography Aleksandr was born on 10 March 1926 in Novosibirsk in the family of the surgeon Sergei Dmitriyevich Zatsepin and teacher Valentina Boleslavovna Oksentovich. In 1941, Aleksandr’s father was arrested under Article 58 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. After his release, he did not return to his family. The mother raised her son alone. After graduating from high school number 12, he entered the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers. In March 1945 he was expelled from the university and drafted into the army. While in the military service, he independently mastered playing several instruments. The platoon commander, where Aleksandr served, was the future artist Yevgeny Matveyev, who invited Aleksandr to participate in the army amateur performances. As a result, he was admitted to the Novosibirsk Army Song and Dance Ensemble. After leaving the reserve in 1947, he worked at the Novosibirsk Philharmonic as

Aleksandra Gryka

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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! Festival. Early life and education Aleksandra Gryka was born on 17 May 1977, in Warsaw. She started learning to play the piano at the age of six. In 2003, she graduated with honors in composition under Magdalena Długosz During her studies, she also took composition courses in Kraków, Helsinki, Buckow Gryka’s work has appeared in the repertoire of, among others, an_ARCHE new music ensemble and Kwadrofonik. was staged at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, to which Gryka composed music. The piece was inspired by the works of Stanisław Lem. Works * For D. for piano solo, 1999 * LIEN-AL for cello, harpsichord and accordion, 2000 * High3bbingNor. for symphony orchestra, 2000 * Interioryzacion for computer, 2000 * OXYGEN nr.369,1 for tape and piano, 2001 * NonStopping center for harpsichord solo, 2001 * (1”)exists as…(-1”) for flute, accordion, piano, 3 percussions and cello, 2001 * Project ien for tape, video and dancer, 2002 * JaIchIJe for string quartet and marimba, 2002 * Interialcell for instrume

Aleksandra Vrebalov

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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 States for study in 1995. She became a U.S. citizen in 2015. Vrebalov studied composition with Miroslav Statkic at Novi Sad University, then with Zoran Erić at Belgrade University, Elinor Armer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Ivana Loudová at the Prague Academy of Music. She was Composition Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center in summer 1999. Vrebalov earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan where she studied with Evan Chambers and Michael Daugherty. Aleksandra Vrebalov’s more than 100 works range from concert music and opera to music for modern dance and film. Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, Glimmerglass Opera with Cincinnati Opera, Serbian National Theater, English National Ballet, Rambert Dance, Sybarite5, Jorge Caballero, the Sausalito Quartet, ETHEL string quartet, Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, Ijsbreker, Moravian Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and Festival Ballet Providence, among others. Vrebalov’s c

Aleksandre Basilaia

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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 in 1968 through the mainstream success in the 1970s and 1980s until his death of a long and severe disease in Germany in 2009. He held the titles of Honored Artist of Georgia and Honored Citizen of Tbilisi. Basilaia was trained as a contrabassist at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and became active at the Soviet Georgian scene in 1963. In 1968 he founded an ensemble (VIA) which was named Iveria after an ancient Georgian kingdom. Basilaia was a principal composer and an art manager for Iveria which quickly gained popularity for its fusion of pop, rock and jazz with traditional Georgian music and attained to Soviet-wide fame with its musicals The Wedding of Jays (1980) and The Argonauts (1982). Basilaia’s third and the last musical Pirosmani was successfully staged in both Georgia and Russia in 1996. Basilaia’s last work “Something Has Ended” appeared shortly before the composer’s death in October 2009. He was buried at the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi. Notes References External links *Alexa

Aleksi Eeben

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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 alias Heatbeat, where he has composed hundreds of modules using music tracker software and developed his own tools. He has also composed for video games, and was employed as a sound designer at Nokia (later Microsoft Mobile) between 2002 and 2015, creating many ringtones and sounds. His brother is Konsta Mikkonen, also a demoscene musician and dance producer known under the alias Muffler. Biography Early life Eeben has been interested in music and computers since he was a child, where he played with bongos and sung, and took basic tutorials from magazines. This led to him programming in BASIC on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, as well as composing music. Demoscene and games Eeben joined the demoscene group Rebels in 1990, and later formed his own group Carillon, which merged with Cyberiad to form the group CNCD. He composed hundreds of tracks for demos and competitions, as well as the soundtrack for the Amiga game Elfmania. He later became inactive in the demoscene, although continued to c

Alemdar Karamanov

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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 Kağırman, of Turkish origin, left Turkey and emigrated to Crimea. His mother, Paulina Sergeyevna, was a Russian singer and librarian and taught him music. In 1992, he composed the anthem of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Karamanov died on 3 May 2007, in Simferopol. Honours The minor planet 4274 Karamanov, discovered in 1980 by Nikolai Chernykh, is named in his honour. Notes References

AleMor

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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, neo-soul, and hip hop. In 2021, AleMor released her debut extended play (EP) titled Alemorología, which was nominated for the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards in the category of Best Singer-Songwriter Album. In 2023, AleMor released her first album, Beautiful Humans Vol. 1, which was nominated, this time in Category 5 for Best Latin Pop Album at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards., Spain. Early life AleMor was born in Bogotá, Colombia At the age of 12, her family relocated to Miami, Florida in the US. Music career Between 2019 and 2020, AleMor participated in “La Voz US”, a singing competition. In 2021, AleMor independently released her debut album, titled Alemorología. This received a Latin Grammy nomination in the Best Singer-Songwriter Album category. In May 2023, AleMor released her second album, Beautiful Humans Vol. 1, produced by Juan Carlos Pérez Soto and Bruno Romano. The album received a nomination Category 5 for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards. Discography Studio albu

Alen Ilijic

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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 Professor Amit Sen at City of Westminster College in London, and composition, orchestration, electronic music, and sound engineering at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, with one of the most well-known composers, music theorists and modern music scholars in Eastern Europe, Srđan Hofman. Career During his studies in London as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, Alen Ilijic formed the band Zealot, in 1993. At the time, his musical expression was in the form of experimental rock, noise, and Byzantine music. Zealot performed at Rock Garden, Hope and Anchor, Islington, Red Eye, Mean Fiddler, etc. With its innovative sound, Zealot had a big impact on the British underground scene during the nineties. The band stopped performing in 1999, due to Alen’s return to Yugoslavia, Serbia. From this point onward, Alen Ilijic’s interest was in the avant-garde movement, under the influence of Béla Bartók, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Serbian polymedia artist and composer Vladan Radovanović. His album I have no

Alessandro Alessandroni

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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 piano, composed more than 40 film scores and countless library music tracks, and was renowned for his whistling technique. Biography Alessandroni collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns. Morricone’s orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni’s twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone’s films, including the Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Pervirella. He also collaborated with Morricone in scoring the 1974 film Around the World with Peynet’s Lovers. Alessandroni founded the octet vocal group (English: The Modern Choristers) in 1961. The group, which included his wife, , performed wordless vocals on several Italian movie soundtracks. Most notably, I Cantori Moderni are featured on the song “Mah Nà Mah Nà”, written by Piero Umiliani

Alessandro Besozzi

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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 created by Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma in 1702, where he worked with his father Cristoforo Besozzi and his brothers Giuseppe and Paolo Girolamo Besozzi. After leaving the company on 20 April 1731, he worked in Turin with his brother Paolo Girolamo at the court of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia. The uncle of Antonio Besozzi and Gaetano Besozzi, he played concerts in various European cities with his younger brother Paolo. They went to Paris to play in the Concert Spirituel from 30 March to 29 May 1735, taking part for a time in the musical chapel of Versailles. and had many students who became successful musicians themselves like Johann Christian Fischer and Georg Druschetzky. Works Alessandro Besozzi is the author of nearly two hundred chamber works composed for various groups of instruments, although only one of them was published in his lifetime. He wrote over a hundred sonatas, 65 trios, six oboe concertos, two for flute, and twelve trio sonatas. * 6 Trio sonatas for flute, viola wit

Alessandro Cicognini

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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 composition from the Milan Conservatory in 1927 where he was a pupil of Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Renzo Bossi. In 1933 his opera, Donna Lombarda, inspired by a popular folk ballad, premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Film scores * The Two Sergeants (1936, uncredited) * The Black Corsair (1937) * I due misantropi (1937, uncredited) * Ettore Fieramosca (1938) * Naples of Olden Times (1938) * Departure (1938) * The Two Mothers (1938) * An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939) * Backstage (1939) * The Document (1939) * Cavalleria rusticana (1939) * A Wife in Danger (1939) * Department Store (1939) * Castles in the Air (1939) * Naples Will Never Die (1939) * Senza cielo (1940) * Don Pasquale (1940) * A Romantic Adventure (1940) * The Sinner (1940) * Beyond Love (1940) * Eternal Melodies (1940) * The Birth of Salome (1940) * One Hundred Thousand Dollars (1940) * First Love (1941) * The Iron Crown (1941) * Ridi pagliaccio! (1941) * Giuliano de’ Medici (1941) * Four Steps in the Clouds (1942) *

Alessandro Cipriani

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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 studies in composition and electronic music at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He created a number of pieces involving instrumental music with electronic processing, including a string quartet and magnetic tape, entitled “Quadro”, and a 60-minute work for piano, percussions and magnetic tape, “Il Pensiero Magmatico” Cipriani then became interested in establishing concrete connections with the music of cultures that are dissimilar to the classical and contemporary western tradition. A fundamental piece by Cipriani in this context is the trilogy concerning Islamic, Jewish and Gregorian religious chants, composed by the author from 2001 to 2007 in various stereo, quadraphonic and 5.1 versions, both acousmatic and live. In these works Cipriani re-elaborates some traditional chants of these three monotheistic religions, while maintaining a strong connection between the original voice, its comprehensibility and its electronic processing. The three pieces are “Al Nur (The Light)”, ba

Alessandro Felici

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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 Alessandri. Life Alessandro Felici’s father was Bartolomeo Felici, Kapellmeister of the Florentine church of San Marco. Bartolomeo taught his son how to play the organ and music composition, while contemporarily, Felici studied with violinist Giuseppe Castrucci. When he was 14 years old, he was already well known in Florence for his virtuosity on the harpsichord and organ. He showed interest in composing for the theater, and in 1765 his father sent him to Naples, the Italian city known for its bustling opera scene. which guaranteed his immediate and notable success. not only performed in Florence but also in Rome, Venice, Turin, Milan, and even as far as Madrid and Leipzig. Simultaneously, he devoted himself to teaching organ and composition at his father’s music school. Their most celebrated student was the famous opera composer, Luigi Cherubini. Felici’s career was unexpectedly interrupted by tuberculosis, which was the cause of his death at the young age of twenty-nine. Sources Little i

Alessandro Grandi

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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, influential, and popular composers of the time, probably second only to Monteverdi in northern Italy. Life Grandi was born in Venice and spent the first part of his life there, likely studying with Giovanni Gabrieli. He held several posts in Ferrara as maestro di cappella at different cathedrals and academies. In 1617 he won a post at St. Mark’s in Venice, during the time Monteverdi was choirmaster there. Eventually he became Monteverdi’s assistant, and during this time seems to have chosen to write works in some of the smaller forms which Monteverdi was neglecting. In 1627 he went to Bergamo, probably because he had an opportunity to be maestro di cappella at a place where he could build up the music program from scratch. Most likely he met Heinrich Schütz on that composer’s second visit to Italy. Unfortunately, after only three years at Bergamo, Grandi died in 1630 during an outbreak of the plague. Works Most of Grandi’s music is vocal with instrumental accompaniment. Stylistically, his ear

Alessandro Grego

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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 with Curtis Roads, musicology at the School of Palaeography, Musical Philology of Cremona and Music for Films at the Experimental Film Centre in Rome. In 2023, in Radom, Poland, he won the first prize at the international composition competition “Arboretum,” conceived by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, with a violin concerto with string orchestra titled “The Eternal Sea,” inspired by a collection of poems by Biagio Marin and dedicated to the memory of Edda Serra, a literary critic and scholar of his work. Additionally, the composer received a special prize created by Elżbieta Penderecka, Penderecki’s wife. In 2025, he is recognized for his musical achievements by the Carl Reinecke International Music Competition. Theatre In 2008, he composed the original music for the show Senza vincitori né vinti (Without winners or losers). The play, starring Francesco Niccolini and Arnoldo Foà, is inspired by the novel Storia di Tönle by the Italian writer andveteran Mario Rigoni Stern. It de

Alessandro La Cava

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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 Scotti in 2011. Passionate about music from a young age, in 2018 he won the second edition of the Tour Music Fest in the “Junior Singer” category. He began writing his first songs at the age of twelve and began studying piano at Mogol’s CET, graduating as a lyricist in 2016 and as a pop music composer in 2019. In 2018, he decided to enter the seventh edition of the “Genova per voi” competition for authors and composers, reaching the finals. In 2019, he participated again in the Tour Music Fest in the “Songwriters” category, reaching the national finals. In 2020 he signed a contract with Universal Music Group and began working professionally as a songwriter for third parties. Also in 2021, he wrote the single “Guardare giù” as sole songwriter for Noemi, also collaborating on the song’s production with Francesco “Katoo” Catitti. In 2022, he competed as a songwriter at the 72nd Sanremo Music Festival with the songs “Farfalle” by Sangiovanni, “Insuperabile” by Rkomi, “Ti amo non lo so dire”

Alessandro Longo

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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 (and composition under Paolo Serrao), he began teaching piano at his alma mater in 1887, deputizing for Cesi as pianoforte professor, and succeeded him in 1897. One of Longo’s earliest students was Franco Alfano. Career As a pianist, Longo often played in chamber ensemble with the Ferni Quartet, and with the Quartetto Napoletano (with Cantani, Parmiciano, Scarano and Viterbini). He founded various musical institutions in Naples, and gained a high reputation as a concert pianist. In 1914 he began editing the review L’Arte Pianistica. He became Director of the Naples Conservatory in 1944, and died in Naples the following year, aged 80. Legacy Today, Longo is mainly remembered for compiling an almost comprehensive catalogue of the keyboard works of Domenico Scarlatti. For many years, Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas were conventionally identified by their Longo numbers, but these were later superseded by those found in Ralph Kirkpatrick’s catalogue. Longo’s Catalogue originated in his landmark f

Alessandro Marcello

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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 Marcello family, enjoyed a comfortable life that gave him the freedom to pursue his interest in music. He held concerts in his hometown and composed and published several sets of concertos, including six under the title of La Cetra (The Lyre), as well as cantatas, arias, canzonetti, and violin sonatas. A contemporary of Tomaso Albinoni, and a slightly older contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi, Marcello often composed under the pseudonym Eterio Stinfalico, his name as a member of the celebrated Arcadian Academy (Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi). Marcello died in Venice in 1747 and was buried on his family’s countryside estate in Paviola near Padua. Rosanna Scalfi, a singer and composer, was the widow of Alessandro’s better-known brother Benedetto Marcello. As their 1728 marriage had not been sanctioned by the state due to her being of common birth, she was unable to inherit his estate, and in 1742 filed suit against Alessandro seeking financial support. Works Although most of Marcello’s works are

Alessandro Melani

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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 Scarlatti, he was one of the leading composers active in Rome during the 17th century. He is also ranked among the second school of Roman opera composers which began with his brother’s 1668 opera Il Girello. He is chiefly remembered today for his large output of liturgical music that he wrote while serving in various musical posts in Rome. Of particular interest is the large number of polychoral motets that he produced and his eight ascribed oratorios. Three published collections of his liturgical music survive today along with numerous solitary motets from other published volumes. A number of original manuscripts also survive. Biography Born in Pistoia, Melani began singing at the Pistoia Cathedral at the age of 11, remaining there for ten years until he became maestro di cappella in Orvieto in 1663 and Ferrara in 1665. He returned to Pistoia in December 1666 to replace his brother as maestro di cappella of the cathedral in June 1667. The following October, he was appointed maestro di ca

Alessandro Parisotti

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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 of a collection of songs known as Arie antiche (Arie antiche: ad una voce per canto e pianoforte, Milan, 1885–1888). The original collection comprises three volumes of songs or arias published as a primer to study classical singing, but the three volumes have since been reduced to single-volumed extracts known as the 24 Italian Songs and Arias. The original Arie Antiche are still available through Ricordi, Schirmer, and Kalmus. Parisotti collected these antique arias (arie antiche is the Italian) in what was the 19th century vogue for discovering forgotten old or antique music from the classical and baroque eras. The most famous example of this practice of reclaiming forgotten music is Mendelssohn’s revival of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Berlin (1829). The taste for rediscovered music was de rigueur among musicians and audiences of the nineteenth century, with composers lesser than Mendelssohn and Brahms participating as well. Parisotti found forgotten scores and arranged their arias

Alessandro Piccinini

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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 well as his brothers Girolamo (died 1615) and Filippo (died 1648). He held appointments at the Este court in Ferrara (from 1582 to 1597) and with Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, papal legate at Bologna and Ferrara. Piccinini died around 1638, probably in Bologna. He is best known for his two volumes of lute music: Intavolatura di Liuto et di Chitarrone, libro primo (Bologna, 1623) and Intavolaturo di Liuto (Bologna, 1639), the latter published posthumously by his son Leonardo Maria Piccinini. The 1623 collection is of particular importance because of Piccinini’s lengthy preface, which includes a detailed manual on performance, as well as claims to have invented the archlute (Piccinini also made important modifications to the chitarrone). Piccinini concentrated on toccatas, courantes and galliards, as well as different kinds of variations. No other works by Piccinini are known; his music for La selva sin amor, the first opera performed in Spain, composed by his brother Filippo Piccinini is

Alessandro Poglietti

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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 extremely high reputation, becoming one of Leopold I’s favorite composers. Poglietti held the post of court organist for 22 years from 1661 until his death during the Turkish siege that led into the Battle of Vienna. Poglietti is primarily important for his keyboard music, particularly Rossignolo (1677), a collection of diverse pieces for harpsichord that includes a large number of imitations of natural sounds, and a collection of 12 ricercares, which was widely copied during his lifetime. Life Nothing is known of Poglietti’s origins and early life. Tuscany and Bohemia have been suggested as his possible birthplace. He may have received musical training in Rome or Bologna. Towards the 1660s Poglietti settled in Vienna: in early 1661 he became organist and Kapellmeister at the Jesuit church Zu den neun Chören der Engel (Nine Choirs of Angels), and on 1 July 1661 he was appointed organist of the court Kapelle under Leopold I (a post previously held by none other than Johann Jakob Froberger

Alessandro Rolla

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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 a visit by the father of the young Paganini, wishing him to teach his son. After the death of the Duke of Parma, Rolla was offered a position as leader and orchestra director of the La Scala Orchestra in Milan in 1802. Here the new governors, the French and later the Austrians, wanted to create the most important orchestra of Italy and therefore hired the best virtuosos of the time. Among his students during this period were Cesare Pugni, the prolific composer of ballet music, whom he taught the violin. Rolla would conduct many of Pugni’s operas for La Scala, among them Il Disertore Svizzero (1831) and La Vendetta (1832). Rolla remained at La Scala until 1833. There he was usually identified as the “Primo violino, Capo d’orchestra” being so responsible for leading the orchestra. He conducted the first Milanese performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito and The Marriage of Figaro and Beethoven’s first symphonies. During this period he also conducted about

Alessandro Scarlatti

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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 representative of the Neapolitan School of opera. Nicknamed by his contemporaries “the Italian Orpheus”, he divided his career between Naples and Rome; a significant part of his works was composed for the papal city. He is often considered the founder of the Neapolitan School, although he has only been its most illustrious representative: his contribution, his originality and his influence were essential, as well as lasting, both in Italy and in Europe. Particularly known for his operas, he brought the Italian dramatic tradition to its maximum development, begun by Monteverdi at the beginning of 17th century and continued by Cesti, Cavalli, Carissimi, Legrenzi and Stradella, designing the final form of the da capo aria, imitated throughout Europe. He was also the inventor of the Italian overture in three movements (which was of the highest importance in the development of the symphony), of the four-part sonata (progenitor of the modern string quartet), and of the technique of motivic development

Alessandro Solbiati

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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 international commissions and awards, and many of his works are recorded. He is also an academic, teaching in Italy and France. Career Born on 9 September 1956 in Busto Arsizio, * Quartetto con lied, Borciani string quartet (Stradivarius,) * Trio, trio Matisse (Ermitage) * Tre pezzi per chitarra, Filomena Moretti (Phoenix) * Alessandro Solbiati ensemble Alternance (Stradivarius) * Solbiati & Botter: Agli inquieti spiriti (Stradivarius) * By my Window (Stradivarius) * Piano Works (Stradivarius) * Crescendo, orchestra (EMA Vinci records) * Il suono giallo, Opera (EMA Vinci records – EMA Vinci contemporanea) * Leggenda, Opera (EMA Vinci records – EMA Vinci contemporanea) * INSIEME, ensemble (EMA Vinci records – EMA Vinci contemporanea) References External links * Profile, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni (in Italian) * * “Intervista con Alessandro Solbiati su Trittico per fisarmonica da concerto”, interview with Alessandro Solbiati on “Trittico for accordion” by Corrado Rojac and Lidia Bramani, 25 May 2

Alessandro Stradella

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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, writing on commission, and collaborating with distinguished poets, producing over three hundred works in a variety of genres. Life Stradella was born in Bologna on 3 July 1643 to the aristocrats Marc’Antonio Stradella (1579-1649) from Nepi (in the province of Viterbo), and his second wife, Vittoria Bartoli from Orvieto, and baptised Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella on 1 August 1643 in Bologna. His godfather in proxy was , who had appointed his father vice-marquis of Vignola on 7 June 1642. Although the family resided in Nepi, they were temporarily in Bologna, taking refuge from papal troops attacking Vignola. He was educated at Rome, and was already making a name for himself as a composer at the age of 24. In 1667 he composed a Latin oratorio (lost) for the Confraternity of Crocifisso di San Marcello and in the following year the serenata La Circe for the Princess of Rossano Olimpia Aldobrandini Pamphilj. In 1671–72 he collaborated in staging some operas, two by Francesco Cavalli

Alessandro Striggio

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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 combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. His compositions include the monumental Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno for up to 60 voices, rediscovered in 2005 after being lost for 400 years. His son, also named Alessandro Striggio, wrote the libretto for Monteverdi’s Orfeo. Life Striggio senior was born in Mantua, evidently to an aristocratic family. Records of his early life are sparse, but he must have gone to Florence as a young man. He began working for Cosimo de’ Medici on 1 March 1559 as a musician, eventually to replace Francesco Corteccia as the principal musician to the Medici court. In 1560 he visited Venice, and produced two books of madrigals in response to the musical styles he encountered there. In 1567 the Medici sent him on a diplomatic mission to England. Throughout the 1560s Striggio composed numerous intermedi for the Medici, for weddings, visits, and other state occasions. In the 1570s he continued to work for the Medici, but there is some evidence he began

Alette Due

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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, and served as Overhoffmesterinne for Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway in 1873–1887. Life Alette Due was born in Værne Kloster, the daughter of councillor of state Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern (1779–1853) and Anne Cathrine Stockfleth (1785–1865) and sister of prime minister Georg Sibbern and Carl Sibbern. In 1828 she married Frederik Due. She died in Oslo. Musician Her spouse was Norwegian state secretary stationed in Stockholm in 1822–1841, and Prime minister of Norway in 1841–1850. When her spouse was stationed in Stockholm, she became a central figure of the Swedish-Norwegian high society in the Swedish capital during the Union between Sweden and Norway. Due was a non-professional musician of note: she performed as singer and composed songs as well as piano music. She was a member of the musical society Harmoniska Sällskapet (‘Harmonic Society’) in Stockholm, and was inducted as Honorary member to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music 30 December 1850. Court career In 1840, when s

Alex Asher Daniel

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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 Los Angeles native, he has since lived and worked between London, New York City, and the Bay Area. Personal life Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Daniel received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was a fixture in the Oakland, California underground Hip-Hop scene in the 1990s. In college Daniel was inspired to dive deeper into his studies of mysticism and the esoteric by his then English teacher beat poet Michael McClure. Career As a visual artist Daniel has worked primarily in painting, portraiture, drawing, and collage. Inspired by nature, mysticism and the human form, Daniel’s work explores meaning within the unseen space around his subjects and their relationship between the inner and outer world. As a portraitist Daniel works specifically from live sittings spending time assessing the aura of the individual subject and incorporating the colors into his work. His works reside in numerous collections worl

Alex Bradford

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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 Charles, and who helped bring about the modern mass choir movement in gospel. Biography Born in Bessemer, Alabama, United States, he first appeared on stage at the age of four, then joined a children’s gospel group at the age of 13, soon obtaining his own radio show. He organized another group after his mother sent him to New York City following a racial incident; he continued singing after returning to attend the Snow Hill Institute in Snow Hill, Alabama, where he acquired the title “Professor” while teaching as a student. He moved to Chicago in 1947, where he worked briefly with Roberta Martin and toured with Mahalia Jackson, then struck out on his own with his own group, the Bradford Singers, followed by another group, the Bradford Specials. He recorded his first hit record, “Too Close To Heaven” (1954), billed as Professor Alex Bradford and the Bradford Specials, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc, then followed it with a number of other successes in the rest o

Alex Burtzos

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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 in nearby Colorado Springs. He studied music at Loyola University New Orleans before moving to New York City in 2010, where he earned his doctorate in composition from Manhattan School of Music in 2016. His primary teachers include James Paton Walsh, J. Mark Stambaugh, and Reiko Fueting. Burtzos’ music has been performed across four continents, and has received awards from numerous organizations within the United States. He has received particular attention for his compositions for authentic baroque-era instruments. Other of Burtzos’ compositions utilize rappers, metal guitar, and other sounds drawn from popular music. Burtzos is the founder of ICEBERG New Music, a composers collective based in New York City. In 2018, he was named the Endowed Chair of Composition Studies at The University of Central Florida. Compositions Solo * pWr (2021) for Cello Solo * Perforation (2018) for Piano Solo * Should the Wide World Roll Away (2018) for Piano Solo * Wilfred Owen at the Gates (2015) for Pia

Alex Conrado

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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 guitar and, at twelve, he and his brother formed a band and composed, sang and performed their own songs. He attended the Madrid Royal Conservatory, where he studied piano, orchestration and composition, and he graduated in 1996 with the Flora Prieto Award in harmony and composition. Between 1991 and 1999, he researched and studied under famous avant-garde composers such as György Ligeti, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Metzger, Mathias Espahlinger, Mauricio Kagel, Franco Donatoni, and Brian Ferneyhough. Interested in discovering new musical languages, he entered the field of electroacoustic music. In 1993 he co-founded the Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatorio Padre Soler, where he worked as a composer until 1996. That same year, the CDMC (Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music) granted Alex a scholarship that allowed him to research and work in the laboratories of the center. In 1996 he became the director of the Conservatorio Maestro Alonso, in San Lorenzo del Escorial

Alex Khaskin

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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 music, classical orchestration, and arrangement. Career Khaskin immigrated to Canada in 1981 and later began working as a film composer while residing in Toronto. IN 2015 he wrote the score for the film A Christmas Horror Story by creating spooky adaptations of traditional Christmas carols. Filmography *Fulltime Killer (2001) *Ginger Snaps Back (2004) *Chryzinium (2014) *A Christmas Horror Story (2015) *A change of Heart (Nature of Things - David Suzuki) *Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain *Nostradamus (2000) *My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner (2007) *Ghost Trackers (YTV Canada) CCI Entertainment *Erky Perky (CCI and Ambience Entertainment.) *The Fifth Estate (CBC) *Driving Dreams (Barna Alper) *Haunter. References External links * * “Alex Khaskin”. WorldCat Identities.

Alex Lithgow

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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 Antipodes”. Biography Known as Alec to his family, Lithgow was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1870. His family emigrated to Invercargill, New Zealand in 1876, where he attended Invercargill Grammar School and Presbyterian First Church of Invercargill. His family was musical, performing as the six-member Lithgow Concert Company around Southland. As a child, Lithgow learnt violin and cornet, initially being taught cornet by his father. In 1881, Lithgow joined the local brass band, the Invercargill Garrison Band. By 1886 he had advanced to be the band’s solo and principal cornetist. However, despite often being stated, he never was this band’s conductor. Lithgow began composing for brass band from a young age. His first composition to be published was the march Wairoa in 1887, named after a ship the band played on at the Invercargill estuary. In the following years, he played first violin with the Theatre Royal Orchestra and won national solo cornet titles. In 1893, aged 23, he toured New Zea

Alex Otterlei

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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, video games, roleplaying games and art installations. His music appears on various albums. Biography In the 1990s Otterlei pioneered the art of writing soundtracks for roleplaying games, resulting in popular rpg-soundtracks such as “Battlethemes”, “Arthur” and “Where Evil Lurks”. His Cthulhu-inspired orchestral soundtrack “Horror on the Orient Express” achieved international acclaim. Between 2003 and 2018 Alex Otterlei scored music and/or created sound effects for various videogames including the award-winning series Monkey Tales . Starting from 2009 Otterlei also began to write concert music for orchestra, concert band and other ensembles. Although considered mainly autodidact, Otterlei was later on mentored by Hans Lamal and prominent composer Luc van Hove. Style Best described as neo-tonal, Otterlei does not shun recognizable melodies. He employs modern as well as traditional harmonies, integrating consonance and dissonance in a fluid and logical way. His rhythmic structures can be co

Alex Pauk

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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 Louie and Harry Freedman received Juno nominations for Classical Composition of the Year, for works they had composed for the Esprit Orchestra album Music for Heaven and Earth, and Harry Somers was nominated at the Juno Awards of 2001 for “The Third Piano Concerto”, from the Esprit Orchestra album Celebration. Pauk and the Esprit Orchestra were themselves nominees for Classical Album of the Year (Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment) at the Juno Awards of 1998, for Tabuh-Tabuhan, Music of Colin McPhee. In 1999, Pauk and Louie received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Score at the 19th Genie Awards, for their work on the film Last Night. In 2007, he was a recipient of the Canada Council’s Molson Prize for distinguished achievement in the arts. In 2014, he was inducted as a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to Canadian orchestral music and longstanding support and fostering of new music and early career composers. Compositions *Fragmenta

Alex Prior

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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. He was Chief Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2022, appointed at the age of 23. In September 2022, the Edmonton Symphony and Prior released a video of Ian Tyson’s Four Strong Winds. Alex has also been a champion of music by younger living composers, especially the music of Nicole Lizée, Gabriella Smith, Vivian Fung, and Alissa Cheung. Life and career Prior was born in London to a British father and a Russian-Ukrainian mother, who is a direct descendant of Konstantin Stanislavski. Prior began composing at the age of eight and by his early teens had written 40 works, including symphonies, concertos, two ballets, two operas, and a requiem for the children of Beslan. At an early age, he began piano lessons. He later enrolled in the junior department of the Royal College of Music. At 13, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied composition with Boris Tishchenko and opera and symphonic conducting with Alexander Alexeev (a pupil of Hans Swarowsky).

Alex Shapiro

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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 eclecticism incorporating influences including minimalism, 12-tone serialism, pop, jazz, electronic dance music, and cinematically inspired sound worlds. Education Alex Shapiro was born in Manhattan and raised in its Yorkville neighborhood. Her early education began at the 92nd Street Y, followed by two years of elementary school at P.S. 158, and then entering The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, from which she graduated high school in 1980. Shapiro began composing at age 9 and in 1977 at age 15 began formal composition lessons when she enrolled in Mannes College of Music summer classes, studying electronic music with David Tcimpidis and composition with Leo Edwards. and studied ear training with George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music School and Festival in 1978 and 1979, and was accepted as a composition major at the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School in 1979 where she was a student of Craig Shuler and Bruce Adolphe, graduating in 1980. and theory with Ludmila Ulehla. In the summer of

Alex Temple

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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 is a narrative song cycle, with music and lyrics by Temple. In 2023, the Spektral Quartet released a recording featuring singer Julia Holter. According to Spin Magazine, the narrative was inspired by Temple’s gender transition as a trans woman, using surreal, dreamlike imagery to explore feelings of otherness. The Wall Street Journal compared elements of the piece to Beethoven’s “Pastorale” Symphony and David Ackles’s American Gothic, with chromatic melodies and various contemporary techniques. The poems use a second-person (“you”) perspective. Behind the Wallpaper contains cinematic elements reminiscent of horror films. The New York Times described the horror elements of a 2015 performance of the song cycle as “surreal transformations and spooky situations: a character who has been swallowing seawater and live fish, another wandering a house where the walls keep shifting.” In 2018, Temple’s piece Three Principles of Noir premiered at Carnegie Hall alongside composer Valerie Coleman’s P

Alexander Abramsky

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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 10 (22), 1898 in the city of Lutsk. His father, Savvaty Vasilyevich (Shevel Volfovich) Abramsky (1859 -?), was a Jewish hospital doctor, and was married to Anna Fedorovna Burdo who had two sons, Mikhail and Alexander. By all accounts, Abramsky’s relationship with his father was warm and congenial. Compositions Orchestral * Three symphonies Cantata * “Breath of the Earth” (poems by V. Khlebnikov) * “The stacks are burning” (poems by E. Verhaeren, translated by V. Bryusov) * “Juno’s Lover” (poems by V. Khlebnikov) Oratorio * “Man Walks” (text by V. Kuznetsov and V. .Semernin) * “Round Dances” (text by V. Kuznetsov and V. Semernin) Instrumental * “Five Compressed Messages” for strings and piano Piano * “Sonata laconique” (“Brief Sketch”) * “Pasionaria” (“Pasionary”) * “Spanish Rhapsody” Writings * 1936: “Opera On The Collective Farm.” Mass Musical Movement (5), no. 34. References

Alexander Acha

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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 instruments. Acha is also a pianist and a Berklee College of Music alumnus. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and still attends Mass. His debut album Voy (2008) reached gold status in his native country, with Te Amo being his first single. On November 5, 2009, he won the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist. Discography Albums * Voy (2008) * La vida es… (2011) * Claroscuro (2014) * Luz (2018) * Las Italianas (2022) References External links *Official Website

Alexander Agricola

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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 chapelle, the Habsburg musical establishment, he was a renowned composer in the years around 1500, and his music was widely distributed throughout Europe. He composed music in all of the important sacred and secular styles of the time. Life Agricola was the son, born out of wedlock, of Lijsbette Naps, a wealthy female merchant who lived in Ghent. He was probably born sometime in the late 1450s and had a brother named Jan. A commemorative motet first published in 1538 gave his age as 60 at the time of his death in 1506, but that may be due to a medieval convention concerning the number 60. He may have received his musical training from the parish church of St Nicolas in Ghent, as his mother made a substantial donation to its musical establishment in 1467. In 1474 Duke Galeazzo Maria wrote a letter of recommendation for a certain “Alexander de Alamania” to Lorenzo de’ Medici. That identification has since been questioned because the Milanese documents do not record the surname of this Alessandro

Alexander Albrecht

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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 His father Ján (Johann) Albrecht was a professor at the gymnasium, and his mother Mária von Vaszary came from an old Hungarian family. From 1895 to 1903 he attended the Royal Catholic Gymnasium in Bratislava, where he met and befriended Béla Bartók. Following his return to Bratislava in 1908, he accepted the post of organist at the St. Martin’s Cathedral. Simultaneously he perfected his organ playing technique with Rudolph Dittrich in Vienna. He also worked as a teacher at the Mestská hudobná škola (“City Music School”) in Bratislava. In 1918 he married the linguist Margaréta Fischerová. In 1921, after the death of Eugen Kossow, the director of the “City Music School” and bandmaster of the Kirchenmusikverein zu St. Martin, Albrecht took over his place. He gradually developed his original music language already in his juvenile works, such as Andante con moto for organ, Piano Suite or the String Quartet in D major. His compositions were also slightly influenced by Art Nouveau. In the period

Alexander Alyabyev

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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 operas, twenty musical comedies, a symphony, three string quartets, more than 200 songs, and many other pieces. Biography Born to a wealthy family of Governor Alexander Vasilievich Alyabyev in Tobolsk in Siberia, Alyabyev learned music in his early years. He joined the Russian Army in 1812, during the Napoleonic War, and fought as an officer until 1823. He participated in the entry of the Russian forces into Dresden and Paris, and he won two awards. In February 1825 Alyabyev and three others took part in an all-night card game which ended with retired colonel T.M. Vremev being accused of cheating and struck first by Alyabyev and then also by the two other players. The colonel died a few days later, possibly from a ruptured spleen, and Alyabyev was arrested on a charge of murder. While the evidence was not conclusive, Tsar Nicholas I expressly ordered him into exile to his native town of Tobolsk. Freed in 1831, he spent some years in the Caucasus before returning to Moscow, where he died in

Alexander Arkhangelsky (composer)

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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 initial musical education at the Penza Theological Seminary; from childhood sang in the choir of the Archbishop of Penza; later taught singing in the Penza Seminary; in 1872 passed the examination at the Imperial Court Chapel for the title of precentor. From 1873 served as conductor of a number of church choirs in St. Petersburg, among them the choir of Count Sheremetev (1889-1898). In 1880 organized his own choir in St. Petersburg, replacing boys’ voices with women’s; from 1883 toured with this choir in Russia and abroad, performing Russian and Western sacred music, secular choruses and arrangements of folk songs. In 1902 organized the Church Singers’ Benefit Society in St. Petersburg; taught choral singing in various educational institutions, and published choral anthologies. Arkhangelsky made an important contribution to Russian choral and church singing: beginning with simple arrangements of church chants, which included the complete cycle of hymns for the entire year, he later enri

Alexander Arutiunian

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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, he was recognized with many awards for his work, including the Stalin Prize in 1949 and People’s Artist of the USSR in 1970, as well as numerous honors from his homeland of Armenia. Biography Arutiunian was born in Yerevan, First Republic of Armenia, in the family of Grigor and Eleonora Arutiunian. His father was a military serviceman. In 1927, Arutiunian became a member of the Yerevan State Conservatory’s children group, then, at age 14, he was admitted to the Conservatory to the studios of Olga Babasyan (piano), and Sergei Barkhudaryan and Vardges Talyan (composition). He graduated from the Music Conservatory of Yerevan on the eve of World War II. After the war he moved to Moscow, where between 1946 and 1948 he participated in the workshops of House of Armenian Culture, and studied composition with Genrikh Litinsky. After graduation he returned to Yerevan to teach at the local Conservatory and in 1954 he was appointed artistic director of the Armenian State Philharmony. He was also a m

Alexander Borodin

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Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg as an illegitimate son of a 62-year-old Georgian nobleman, Luka Stepanovich Gedevanishvili, and a 25-year-old Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonova. Due to the circumstances of Alexander’s birth, the nobleman had him registered as the son of one of his Russian serfs, Porfiry Borodin, hence the composer’s Russian last name. As a result of this registration, both Alexander and his nominal Russian father Porfiry were officially serfs of Alexander’s biological father Luka. The Georgian father emancipated Alexander from serfdom when he was 7 years old and provided housing and money for him and his mother. Despite this, Alexander was never publicly recognized by his mother, who was referred to by young Borodin as his “aunt”. Despite his status as a commoner, Borodin was well provided for by his Georgian father and grew up in a large four-storey house, which was gifted to Alexander and his “aunt” by the nobleman. Although his registration prevented enrollment in a proper gymnasium, Borodin received good education in all of the subjects through private tutors at home. During 1850 he enrolled in the Medical–Surgical Academy in Saint Petersburg, which was later the workplace of Ivan Pavlov, and pursued a career in chemistry. On graduation he spent a year as surgeon in a military hospital, followed by three years of advanced scientific study in western Europe. During 1862, Borodin returned to Saint Petersburg to begin a professorship of chemistry at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy He began taking lessons in composition from Mily Balakirev during 1862. Music remained a secondary vocation for Borodin besides his main career as a chemist and physician.

Alexander Brincken

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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 Conservatory as composer (class of Prof. Sergei Slonimsky) and musicologist (class of Michail Druskin). Since 1992 Brincken is giving concerts as a composer and pedagogue, mainly in the Switzerland. Among the works written by Brincken are 5 symphonies, “The Queen of Snow” ballet, “The Song about Armenia” oratorio, a Mass, Sextett for strings, and a number of choral and chamber works. His Concerto grosso for solo viola and string orchestra (1991-1992) was premiered on 27 September 1998 in Maienfeld, Switzerland in the final concert of the “Kulturherbst Bündner Herrschaft” Music Festival in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden, performed by the Bündner Chamber Orchestra with Jürg Dähler (Zurich, Switzerland) as soloist, conducted by Christoph Cajöri (Switzerland). The Russian Premiere took place in 2003 in the Rakhmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, performed by “The Seasons” Moscow Chamber Orchestra with Aleksandr Barsukov (Moscow) as soloist, conducted by Vladislav Bulakhov (Moscow). Select

Alexander Brott

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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 earned degrees from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and the Juilliard School. Among his teachers were Albert Chamberland and Alfred Whitehead. Career Brott began his career as a concert violinist in the 1930s. He joined the faculty at McGill University in 1939, where he taught orchestration and music history. He founded and directed the McGill Chamber Orchestra. His work was also part of the music event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Brott was leader of the Montreal Orchestra, Les Concerts symphoniques de Montréal and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1945 to 1958. In 1939, he joined the Faculty of Music at McGill University, where he remained until 1980. He was also the founder and musical director of the McGill Chamber Orchestra. He also conducted the Kingston Symphony from 1965 to 1981. In 1967, he conducted the McGill Chamber Orchestra at the official opening of the Centennial Theatre at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. In 1979

Alexander Chuhaldin

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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 working in his native country but after 1927 he was active in Canada. His compositional output includes over 30 works for string orchestra; many of which were published by Carl Fischer Music. He also composed five pieces for solo violin which were published by Paling & Co in Australia and more recently by Thompson Publishing Group in Canada. Life and career Born in Vladikavkaz, Chuhaldin was the son of a Tsarist and White Army officer, Gregory Ivanovitch Chuhaldin, stationed there in a Cossack regiment, and of Maria Ivanovna Chuhaldina (née Rasskazova). He was a child prodigy and began studying the violin with Julius Conus at the Moscow Conservatory at just eight years of age. Chuhaldin gave his first public recital at the age of nine and quickly became active on the concert stage. In 1913 he joined the orchestra of the Imperial Grand Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre. He eventually served as the ensemble’s concertmaster from 1922 to 1924. He joined the faculty of the Moscow Conservatory in 1923 w

Alexander Courage

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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 is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original Star Trek series. Early life The son of a Scottish father and a French-American mother, Alexander “Sandy” Mair Courage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father Alexander Sr. immigrated to the United States in 1913 and obtained work in a munitions factory supplying France during World War I, where he met his future wife. They married in 1917. While Sandy was still a young child, his father joined the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as a salesman and moved the family to New Jersey. The family relocated regularly as his father earned promotions, requiring Sandy to switch schools. His gift for music was noticed and encouraged at an early age. Courage’s father arranged for young Sandy to learn the bugle as his own father had been in a band and he himself was an enthusiastic parlor singer. When Courage wanted to learn the cornet, his father got him one. Courage developed an uncanny ear for accompaniment. His tendenc

Alexander Dreyschock

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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 Bohemia, his musical talents were first noticed aged eight, and at age 15 he travelled to Prague to study piano and composition with Václav Tomášek. By the age of twenty, Dreyschock undertook his first professional tour in December 1838, performing in various northern and central towns in Germany. Subsequent tours saw him visiting Russia (1840–42), Paris (spring 1843), London, the Netherlands, Austria and Hungary (1846), as well as Denmark and Sweden in 1849. Elsewhere he caused a sensation with prodigious execution of thirds, sixths, and octaves, plus other tricks. When he made his Paris debut in 1843 he included a piece for the left hand alone. Dreyschock’s left hand was renowned, and his most famous technical stunt was to play the left-hand arpeggios of Chopin’s Revolutionary Étude in octaves. Observers of the time reported that he played it in correct tempo, and it is known that he programmed it in all of his recitals. Johann Baptist Cramer, who heard Dreyschock play in Paris, exclaime

Alexander Fridlender

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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 Fridlender was born in Saint Petersburg. He studied at the Leningrad Central Music College (1925–1929) and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1933. and the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (1943–1947). He taught at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire. He composed several operas, instrumental music such as suites, music for plays, songs. Selected compositions * 1941: The Mountain Fairy Tale (), a ballet based on “The Mistress of the Copper Mountain”. * 1944: The Stone Flower, a ballet based on the story of the same name. * 1958: Without a Dowry (), a ballet based on the play of the same name. * 1962: Snow (), a ballet * 1966: Zoya (), a choreographic poem * 1967: Petersburgers (), an opera based on the poem by Olga Bergholz. * 1970: The Cake in the Sky (), a comedy opera based on the story by Gianni Rodari La torta in cielo. * 1977: Lieutenant Lermontov (), a choreographic poem References External links * List of compositions

Alexander Glazunov

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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 Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued as head of the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. Glazunov successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music. While he was the direct successor to Balakirev’s nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin’s epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences. These included Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral virtuosity, Tchaikovsky’s lyricism and Taneyev’s contrapuntal skill. Younger composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich eventually considered his music old-fashioned, while also admitting he remained a composer with an imposing reputation, and a stabilizing influence in a time of transition and turmoil. Biography Prodigy Glazunov was born in Saint Petersburg, the son of a wealthy publisher. His father

Alexander Goedicke

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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 first cousin. Alexander’s father Fyodor Goedicke, a minor composer and pianist, was Medtner’s mother’s brother and his first teacher. Career Goedicke was a professor at Moscow Conservatory. With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. He received advice on music theory from Julius Conus, Nikolai Mikhailovich Ladukhin and Anton Arensky. He was also influenced by Sergei Taneyev. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900. Despite his lack of traditional guidance, his compositional efforts were rewarded when he won the Rubinstein Prize for Composition at the young age of 23. Goedicke died at the age of 80 in Moscow on 9 July 1957. Selected works ;Opera * Virineya (Виринея) (1913–1915); libretto by the composer * At the Crossing (У перевоза) (1933); libretto by the composer * Jacquerie (Жакерия) (1933–1937); libretto by the composer * Macbeth (Макбет) (1944); libretto by the composer after William Sh

Alexander Goehr

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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 Cambridge, Goehr influenced many notable contemporary composers, including Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, George Benjamin and Robin Holloway . Born in Berlin, Goehr grew up in London surrounded by musicians, including his father, the conductor Walter Goehr. Goehr emerged as a central figure in the Manchester School of post-war British composers, including Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, in his early twenties. He joined Olivier Messiaen’s masterclass in Paris in 1955. Back in England and working for the BBC, he experienced an international breakthrough in 1957 with his cantata The Deluge in 1957, conducted by his father Walter Goehr. He composed Little Symphony in 1963 as a memorial to his father, arriving at a serialism that allowed expressive freedom. He combined avant-garde techniques with elements from music history in works of many genres including the Piano Trio (1966), his first opera, Arden Must Die (1966), the music-theatre piece Triptych (1968–1970), the orchestral

Alexander Goldscheider

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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 Prague, and received a PhD for his analysis of the music of The Beatles in 1975. Initially a music writer, critic, and radio/club DJ (1968–73), he moved into songwriting and music production, becoming a staff producer at Supraphon (1976–79), where he produced a number of pop, rock, and jazz LPs of Czech singers and bands. He pioneered the use of synthesizers in Czechoslovakia and his music was released by Panton Records and Supraphon, used on TV and in films. He moved to London in 1981, recorded two solo albums (Themes for a One-Man-Band Vol. 1 & 2), and in 1983 worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop producing his own music for radio, TV, and films. Goldscheider then co-founded a music and computer company Romantic Robot, which initially designed and sold hardware (Multiprint, Videoface, Multifaces 1, 2, 3, 128 and ST) and published software (Music Typewriter, Trans-Express, Genie, Wriggler) for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Atari ST computers. Romantic Robot became a recording label in 1991

Alexander Gretchaninov

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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, had expected the boy to take over the family firm. Gretchaninov himself related that he did not see a piano until he was 14 and began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1881 against his father’s wishes and without his knowledge. His main teachers there were Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. In the late 1880s, after a quarrel with Arensky, he moved to St. Petersburg where he studied composition and orchestration with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov until 1893. Rimsky-Korsakov immediately recognized Gretchaninov’s extraordinary musical imagination and talent and gave him much extra time as well as considerable financial help. This allowed the young man, whose parents were not supporting him, to survive. Out of this came an important friendship, which only ended in 1908 with Rimsky’s death. As such, it is not surprising that Rimsky’s influence can be heard in Gretchaninov’s early works, such as his String Quartet No. 1, a prize-winning composition. Around 1896, Gretchaninov returned to Mosc

Alexander Horowitz

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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 nomination in 2011. The same year, Horowitz created a score for the theatre show Toi Toi Toi. Horowitz’s score blended themes from Mozart, Rossini, and Giuseppe Verdi with his original compositions. In 2020, Horowitz accompanied the harpist Heidi Krutzen for a performance of Alexander Scriabin’s Etude. He is the creative craft director at Electronic Arts in Guildford, and was previously head of audio at the games division of The Imaginarium in London, and the audio lead at Studio Gobo in Hove, which produced Hogwarts Legacy. His works The Room of Hidden Things and A Focused Mind appear on the Hogwarts Legacy album Study Themes from the Original Video Game Soundtrack. Accessibility work Horowitz’s doctoral research at the Glasgow School of Art led to SoundTown, an accessible music game designed for children and young people with complex physical and cognitive needs. The game was built in Unity and Wwise and can be played using one or two switches or buttons. Professional service Horowitz is Pre

Alexander Ilyinsky

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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 and Anitra”, and for the opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray set to Pushkin’s poem of the same name. Life Alexander Ilyinsky was born in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia, in 1859. His father was a physician in the Alexander Cadet Corps. His general education was in the First Cadet Corps at St Petersburg, and he served in the Artillery from 1877 to 1879. His music studies were in Berlin, under Theodor Kullak and Natanael Betcher He returned to Russia in 1885, graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory, His major work, the 4-act opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, to a libretto based on Alexander Pushkin’s poem, was produced in Moscow in 1911. He also wrote a symphony, a Concert Overture, He died in 1920 in Moscow. Orgy of the Spirits, an excerpt from The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, was used in the scores of the film East of Java (1935), as well as the adventure serials Tim Tyler’s Luck (1937) and Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938). References Sources * * Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5

Alexander Keuk

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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 1993 to 1999 he studied musical composition with Hans Jürgen Wenzel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. He graduated with a thesis on The 7 Sonatas for 2 Violins by Allan Pettersson, followed by a postgraduate education. (among others with Wilfried Krätzschmar) in composition, which he completed in 2001 with a Konzertexamen. Starting during his studies, Keuk has been working as a freelance author for the cultural editorial department of Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten since 1996. Since 2002 he has been working in Dresden as a freelance composer and music journalist. He regularly writes articles for the Neue Musikzeitung, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and the specialist magazine . From 2001 to 2003 Keuk was the managing director of the Saxon Society for New Music. Since 1992 he has been on the board of the International Allan Pettersson Society and was chairman of the Dresdner Kammerchor until 2018. In 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the Sächsische Kulturstiftung and the

Alexander Knaifel

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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 generation Music From the very beginning of his composing career he associated himself with the group of so-called “avant-garde” Soviet composers that include Andrey Volkonsky, Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Hrabovsky, Arvo Pärt, Tigran Mansuryan, and others. The works of the 1990s and 2000s were strongly influenced by religious themes and showed dramatic changes in his musical language. He wrote more than 80 compositions in various genres and also more than 40 scores for feature films and documentaries. His music often surprises by its extravagant ideas, strange combination of the instruments or incredibly long duration. For example, his very slow and quiet Agnus Dei (1985) written for four instrumentalists (each of whom plays several instruments including keyboards, percussion, electronics, saxophones and double bass) lasts exactly 120 minutes. Alexander Knaifel had a performance dedicated to his music in Ireland on 1 May 2009 as part

Alexander Kolker

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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 Leningrad. He was evacuated from the city in 1942 and returned in 1944. Since 1958 Alexander Kolker has worked as a professional composer. Kolker died in Saint Petersburg on 1 August 2023, a few days after his 90th birthday. Filmography * 1966 – We Fly to the Ocean * 1966 – White Night * 1967 – Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin * 1968 – Songs Address - Youth * 1969 – Tomorrow, on April 3rd… * 1969 – Singing Guitars * 1970 – And People Need a Song So… * 1970 – Magic Power * 1971 – Shadowboxing * 1971 – Singing by Maria Pakhomenko * 1972 – The Last Days of Pompeii * 1974 – Krechinsky’s Wedding * 1975 – Love Will Remain * 1976 – Truffaldino from Bergamo * 1978 – Leaving Go Away * 1979 – Travel to Another City * 1979 – Three Men in a Boat * 1980 – Two-voice Melody * 1981 – Three Short Stories about Love * 1981 – Two Voices * 1982 – No One Can Replace You * 1989 – Death of Tarelkin Awards and honours Kolker is Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981) and winner of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968). He

Alexander Kopylov

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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 chorister and violinist in the Imperial Court Choir, where he would later teach for much of his life. (The Court Choir was modeled after the more famous one in Vienna, known today as the Vienna Boys Choir). He was unable to gain entrance to either of the major conservatories in Russia, but was nevertheless able to study composition privately with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Liadov. Kopylov gained a reputation as a symphonist and composer of songs. Through his friendship with Rimsky-Korsakov, he became interested in chamber music, writing four string quartets. Wilhelm Altmann, the chamber music scholar and critic, writes in his Handbuch für Streichquartettspieler: Kopylov’s four carefully written string quartets show an outstanding command of proper quartet style. He gives all of the instruments mutually rich parts to play, alternating in exquisite fashion. His excellence is particularly strong in the sparkling themes. He is able to combine the external beauty of form with effec

Alexander Krein

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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 tradition; his father Abram (who moved to Russia from Lithuania in 1870) was a noted violinist. All of the seven Krein brothers received their first musical training from him and became musicians; Alexander and Grigori made names for themselves as composers, David gained a strong reputation as a violinist. Of the three Krein family composers, Alexander, his brother Grigori, and Grigori’s son Julian, it is Alexander who composed the most music and thus to whom the most attention has been paid. After decades of posthumous neglect, however, his very name seems to have disappeared from international reference books. Studies and career In 1896, at the early age of 14, Alexander Krein entered the Moscow Conservatory where his studies included cello classes with Alexander von Glehn and composition lessons with Sergei Taneyev and Boleslav Yavorsky. His first works were published by P. Jurgenson in 1901. During the years immediately prior to the 1917 Revolution, he was on the faculty of the People’s

Alexander Ledkovsky

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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 during war-time to parents Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky (née Fasolt) and Boris Mikhailovich Ledkovsky, a prominent choral director and composer/arranger of Russian Orthodox Church music. Having emigrated to the United States in 1951, Alexander was educated at Trinity School and Columbia University, where he earned a B.A. in Music. Although he developed a successful career as a computer expert and software developer, his life’s love was his work as a musician of the Russian Orthodox Church. Having studied choir direction both at university and under his father’s tutelage, he took on responsibilities as assistant choirmaster at the Russian Orthodox Synod Cathedral “Our Lady of the Sign” located on Park Avenue at 93rd Street in New York. He also ran a secondary choir for the cathedral’s English-speaking parish in the late 1960s. When his father’s health declined, Alexander assumed full responsibility for the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR)’s flagship choir, on Forgiveness Sunday i

Alexander Mackenzie (composer)

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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 works for the stage. Mackenzie was a member of a musical family and was sent for his musical education to Germany. He had many successes as a composer, producing over 90 compositions, but from 1888 to 1924, he devoted a great part of his energies to running the Royal Academy of Music. Together with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, he was regarded as one of the fathers of the British musical renaissance in the late nineteenth century. Life and career Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh, the eldest son of Alexander Mackenzie and his wife, Jessie Watson née Campbell. He was the fourth musician of his family. His great-grandfather was an army bandsman; his grandfather, John Mackenzie, was a violinist in Edinburgh and Aberdeen; his father was also a violinist, the conductor of the orchestra in the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, and editor of The National Dance Music of Scotland. Mackenzie’s musical talent emerged early: at the age of eight he was playing nightly in his father’s orchestra. Sh

Alexander Moosbrugger

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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 Landeskonservatorium (organ and harpsichord), at the Universität Wien (Philosophy) and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. Characteristic musical concerns Moosbrugger’s work encompasses a fine differentiation of the entire soft dynamic range. He primarily is writing in chamber ensemble settings, rarely doubled, preferring among other genres the string quartet. In the foreground of a composition Moosbrugger interweaves auditory and non-auditory sources, establishing musical relations through translations of historical, sociopolitical and private points of reference, analysis of symbolic functions, the devising of intonations, and “reconceived instrumental practices”. Playing techniques manifest the “speaking” of musical images and are devised anew in each piece, or series of works. His compositions are internationally played, for example in the Konzerthaus Berlin or at King’s College, Cambridge, in festivals of contemporary music (2013 at the London Ear Festival, F

Alexander Mosolov

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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 graduate, his piece now called Iron Foundry (1926) gained international fame. Under Stalinism, Mosolov adhered to Soviet realism, composing with Kyrgyz and Turkmen folk music. Conflicts with authorities led to his expulsion from the Union of Soviet Composers (1936), a Gulag term (1937) reduced by professors’ intervention, and lifelong loss of stature. His output includes five piano sonatas (four extant), two piano concertos (the second incomplete), two cello concertos, a harp concerto, four string quartets, twelve orchestral suites, eight symphonies, and many choral and voice pieces. Early life Mosolov was born to an upper-middle-class family in Kiev, in the Russian Empire. His mother, Nina Alexandrovna, was a professional singer at the Bolshoi Theater and a graduate of the Kiev school of music, and she gave Mosolov his first musical lessons. The family moved to Moscow in 1904. Mosolov’s father, Vasiliy Alexandrovich, died a year later when Mosolov was five years old. After his father’s

Alexander Moyzes

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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 father was the composer and educator Mikuláš Moyzes. After earlier technical studies, in 1925 he entered the Prague Conservatory, where he studied organ, conducting and composition. He graduated in 1929 and went on to study in the master class of Vítězslav Novák, from which he graduated in the following year with his Overture for Orchestra, Opus 10. It was Novák who directed his attention to Slovak music, the source of his inspiration. In 1929, Moyzes was appointed to the teaching staff of the Music and Drama Academy for Slovakia in Bratislava. He became professor of composition at the Bratislava Conservatory in 1941 and spent a number of years as principal music advisor to Radio Bratislava, until compelled to resign in 1948. On its foundation he was appointed professor of composition at the Bratislava Music Academy, where he taught no less than three generations of Slovak composers. He headed the Academy as Rector from 1965 until 1971, and over the years undertook many important functi

Alexander Mullenbach

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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 Luxembourg City on 23 January 1949, Mullenbach studied piano, chamber music and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Salzburg Mozarteum, where his teachers included Gerhard Wimberger and Cesar Bresgen. From 1970, he taught piano at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg and, from 1981, composition. Since then, he has also taught at the Mozarteum. Since 1978, he has composed over 100 works, of which thirteen for symphony orchestra, as well as an opera. They have been performed at major music festivals in Salzburg, Echternach, Strasbourg, St.Petersburg, London, Vienna and Munich. Performers have included Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenschikow, Marjana Lipovšek, Roberto Fabbriciani, Julius Berger, Alois Brandhofer, Irena Grafenauer, Elliot Fisk, Kurt Widmer, Edoardo Catemario, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Christina Ortiz, Ruggiero Ricci, Roberto Szidon, Edda Silvestri, Gottfried Schneider, Lewis Kaplan, Yair Kless, Frank Wibaut, Antonello Farulli, Frederico Mondelci, Maria Christina Kiehr,

Alexander Olshanetsky

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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 mid-1920s until his death in 1946. Biography Early life and education Olshanetsky was born in Odessa of Lithuanian Jewish descent into a non-musical family. After showing early talent on the violin, Olshanetsky studied from age 6 to 15 at the Odessa Royal Music School, studying multiple instruments. In 1911 he joined the orchestra of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater; notably touring with the ensemble throughout Imperial Russia. He quit to become chorusmaster for a touring operetta troupe in Russia. Immigration to the United States In 1922 Olshanetsky emigrated to the United States, where he was introduced to the Yiddish theater scene by his uncle Hyman Mayzel, an actor and playwright. Within two years he had two shows produced: Hayntige Meydlekh (Today’s Girls) written by Jacob Jacobs staged at Lenox Theater, and Zise Libe (Sweet Love) co-composed by Louis Gilrod and staged at Rolland’s Liberty Theater. Later years By the 1930s, Yiddish music had become so popular that Olshanetsky and o

Alexander Peloquin

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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 Vatican Council reforms, he is known for composing the first Roman Catholic Mass sung in English. Biography Peloquin was born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the son of Noe G. and Marie Louise (Bernard) Peloquin. Peloquin began his musical training at the age of eight, studying piano and organ. At the age of eleven, he performed classical piano on his own radio program for WTAG in Worcester, Massachusetts. Peloquin went on to study at the New England Conservatory where he earned a Boston Symphony Orchestra Scholarship to the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. At Tanglewood, Peloquin served as piano soloist for Leonard Bernstein and his orchestra. Also at that time, Peloquin had the privilege of knowing Aaron Copland. Peloquin was awarded honorary degrees by institutions including Brown University. During World War II, Peloquin served in the Army where he achieved the rank of Lieutenant. He served as bandmaster for the 314th Army Band and performed the music of George Gershwin for servicem

Alexander Radvilovich

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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 recipient of numerous domestic and foreign awards, and has had his compositions performed internationally, including Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His musical style focuses on exploiting the extremes of music in order to create from them new modes of communication which are both accessible in nature for listeners yet complex in its language. Education From 1962 to 1973, Alexander studied in the Secondary Specialized Music School within the St. Petersburg Conservatory in piano and theory with the composer Vladimir Arzumanov. Alexander happened to be his first graduate, and due to this close relationship he would introduce Alexander to Nikolas Slonimsky. Alexander would go onto study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the faculty of composition under Slonimsky, graduating in 1978 and continuing his education through participation in numerous courses and private tutorship with European (non-Russian) composers like Witold Lutoslavsky, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Ton de

Alexander Raichev

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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 Musical Academy in Sofia where he graduated in 1947. He then studied with Zoltán Kodály and Janos Ferencsik at the Budapest Conservatory from 1949-50. After completing his studies, he taught at the Bulgarian State Conservatory, serving as Rector from 1970 to 1978. Notable students include Rosica Petkova. In 1969 Vasheto prisatvie (Your Presence) was the earliest Bulgarian radio opera to be broadcast. Selected works *1937: Suite for chamber orchestra *1943: Largo and Scherzo for string orchestra *1945: Symphonic Suite for orchestra *1947: Piano Concerto (lost) *1949–50: Symphony No.1: Symphony/Cantata “He Shall Not Die” for chorus and orchestra *1949–50 “Pioneers Suite” for female chorus and orchestra *1953: Ballet “Haidouk Song” (and two Ballet Suites, 1954 and 1955) *1953 Oratorio “Dimitrov still Lives” for soloist, narrator, male chorus and orchestra *1954: Oratorio “Friendship” for bass, chorus and orchestra *1954: Sonata-Poem for Violin and Orchestra *1955: Suite for chamber orchestra *19

Alexander Raskatov

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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 magazine Krokodil, his mother was a medical doctor and war hero of World War II. Raskatov studied composition under Albert Leman and Tikhon Khrennikov at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990 he was composer in residence at Stetson University and 1998 in Lockenhaus. Raskatov was a member of the Union of Soviet Composers; after the collapse of the Soviet Union he is a member of the Composers’ Union of Russia. In the early nineties he moved to Germany, then to France in 2004. Raskatov is a member of the Russian Authors’ Agency (RAO). Musical style Raskatov’s music, especially his sound development, is influenced by Modest Mussorgsky and Anton Webern. His vocal works are often based on texts of Russian poets like Alexander Blok or Joseph Brodsky. His viola concerto ‘Path-Put-Chemin-Weg’ was commissioned on the occasion of the 50th birthdays of Yuri Bashmet and Valeri Gergiev and premiered in Le Chatelet in January 2003. A documentary on the concerto was recorded by the Dutch National Television (NTR

Alexander Raytchev

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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 from a multigenerational family of artists. His father is the composer Alexandar Ivanow Raytchev (born 11 April 1922 in Lom; died 2003 in Sofia), his mother Milena Atanassova is actress at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia. Alexander Raytchev received his first piano lesson at the age of five. Six years later, he won the national competition PROWADIA, was shortly afterwards invited as a composer at Baden-Baden’s Brahms Symposium and was honored in Japan for his compositions. After his secondary studies in 1993, Alexander Raytchev studied piano and composition at the University of Music Trossingen with Johannes van Beek in parallel with Jowtsho Kruschev in Sofia. He then successfully completed a Concert Exam with Arie Vardi and Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. He was awarded numerous prizes, including the Students’ Competition in Hanover, and won the “Performance of the Year” contest with the Sofia Radio Orchestra. In 2000, Alexander Raytchev was ap

Alexander Ritter

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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 fantasias. Ritter died in Munich. Life and career He was born in Narva, Estonia. He studied in Frankfurt am Main under Joachim Raff. In 1854 he married Wagner’s niece Franziska (1829–1895). They had a daughter Hertha, who in 1902 became the wife of the Austrian composer Siegmund von Hausegger. Ritter had a strong influence on Richard Strauss. He persuaded him to abandon the conservative style of his youth, and begin writing tone poems; he also introduced Strauss to the essays of Richard Wagner and the writings of Schopenhauer. He encouraged Strauss to write his first opera Guntram, but was deeply disappointed at the final version of the libretto, which Ritter took to be a rejection of Schopenhauerian-Christian ideals. See also * Wagner family tree External links * * *Grande Musica - Alexander Ritter *Libretti of some of his songs *Information about Wem die Krone?

Alexander Schubert

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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 styles. Biography Alexander Schubert was born in Bremen. He studied Bioinformatics in Leipzig, then spent a year at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe at the Institute of Music and Acoustics. He received a doctorate in multimedia composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, studying under Georg Hajdu and Manfred Stahnke. He teaches at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, directs the electronic studio at Musikhochschule Lübeck and has been a visiting lecturer at Darmstadt International Summer Courses. A founding member of ensembles Decoder, Trnn, Schubert-Kettlitz-Schwerdt, and Ember, he has also pursued an experimental pop music solo project under the name Sinebag. Schubert’s pieces have been performed at several international institutions, including Wien Modern, ICMC, SMC, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, DLF Forum neuer Musik, IRCAM, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Blurred Edges in Hamburg. Music

Alexander Scriabin

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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. Later, independently of his contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a highly dissonant musical language that transcended traditional tonality without being strictly atonal, aligning with his personal brand of metaphysics. He embraced the concepts of Gesamtkunstwerk and synesthesia, creating a colour-coded circle of fifths inspired by theosophy to associate colours with harmonies. Scriabin is widely considered the primary Russian symbolist composer and a major figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. Scriabin was an innovator and one of the most controversial composer-pianists of the early 20th century. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of him, “no composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed.” Leo Tolstoy described Scriabin’s music as “a sincere expression of genius.” Scriabin’s oeuvre exerted a salient influence on the music world over time, and inspired many composers, such as Nikolai Roslavets and Karol Szymanowski. His musical aesthetics have been r

Alexander Serov

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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 1860s and as the most significant Russian composer in the period between Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka and the works of Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky. Alexander Serov was the father of Russian artist Valentin Serov. Biography Alexander Serov was born in St. Petersburg on 11 January 1820, the son of Nikolai Ivanovich Serov, a Finance Ministry official. Serov’s maternal grandfather, Carl Ludwig Hablitz, was a naturalist of German-Jewish origin who was born in Königsberg and moved to Russia in childhood when his father was hired to be inspector of Moscow University’s printing department. In Russia, Hablitz became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences among other high official posts. Serov’s father Nikolai wanted him to become a lawyer as well and enrolled him in the inaugural class of the Imperial School of Jurisprudence. who eventually became a famous art critic. Serov completed his studies in 1840 and started working as a lawyer in the government bureaucracy in St. Petersburg

Alexander Shchetynsky

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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 includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas. Education and influences Shchetynsky graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute in 1983. Although he studied composition officially with Valentyn Borysov, another Ukrainian composer, Valentyn Bibik, strongly influenced him in those formative years. Another important source of inspiration was so called Soviet musical avant-garde: Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Valentin Silvestrov. Later Shchetynsky participated in master classes with Edison Denisov and Poul Ruders in Denmark, and summer courses in Poland, where he attended lectures by Louis Andriessen, Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Boguslaw Schaeffer, and Magnus Lindberg. Music of the Second Viennese School, Olivier Messiaen, and György Ligeti had a significant impact on Shchetynsky. (for chamber opera Annunciation in frame of the performance Voices of the Invisible – The Bible Triptych at the

Alexander Shenshin

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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 received a teacher’s appointment to the Moscow Conservatory in 1922, and by 1940 he was a member of the Academy of Arts and the composer of the Moscow Children’s Theater. Shenshin was a member of the first Presidium of the Moscow Institute of Artistic Culture and a close friend of its president, Wassily Kandinsky, a noted painter who shared an interest in using scientific methods to further a synthesis of the arts. Kandinsky praised Shenshin’s theoretical work, in particular an analysis of two parts of Liszt’s composition Années de Pèlerinage: the “Sposalizio”, inspired by Raphael’s painting The Marriage of the Virgin, and the “Penseroso”, inspired by Michelangelo’s statue atop the tomb of Lorenzo II de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino. Shenshin counted the notes and bars in the music and translated them into graphic form, and he measured the corresponding painting and sculpture, linking them to the same mathematical formula. Works ;Piano *14 Preludes (1910) *17 Preludes (1910) ;Ballet *Ancient

Alexander Shulgin (musician)

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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 19 in Russian rock band Kruiz. Shulgin wrote compositions for the albums “Anna”, released in 1995, “Famillia, and “The eyes of the sky colour”. Shulgin helped “FM GROUP” to record their debut album, MADE IN RUSSIA and recorded an album of Alexander Byinov. Afterwards Shulgin recorded a solo album for “FM GROUP” lead-singer Alevtina Egorova, and also worked with Tatiana Ovsienko, Nastya Shirokova. In spring of 2005, Shulgin got the suggestion to write music for the new music serial with the tentative title “Primadonna”, the serial made for showing on the Russian TV Channel. For this “Primadonna” serial Alexander wrote 20 original songs, and at the very least three leading themes from the film and all the songs of a composer got into the final variant of “Primadonna”. Shulgin also wrote all the music filling-out for the new socio-political TV Channel “SPAS” (The Festival of the Saviour). Shulgin released his first solo album “Predstavlenie” (The Introduction), and Shulgin signed with The

Alexander Spendiaryan

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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 symphonic music. Biography Alexander Spendiarov was born on 1 November (as 20 October) 1871 in Kakhovka, province of Tavrik (modern Ukraine). His artistic abilities were formed in early childhood. He inherited his musical abilities from his mother who played piano. When Alexander Spendiarov was seven he wrote a waltz. In 1890 he went to Moscow and studied for one year in the Natural Sciences faculty of Moscow University, and then in 1894 he graduated from the Law faculty. At the same time he continued his violin classes. In 1896 Alexander Spendiarov went to St. Petersburg to show his compositions to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who greatly admired his music and encouraged him to turn deeper into his people’s folklore. From 1896 to 1900 he took private composition lessons with Rimsky-Korsakov. According to Alexander Glazunov, “Rimsky-Korsakov was perfectly satisfied with the results of Alexander Spendiarov’s work and considered him a serious, talented composer with a great flair for composi

Alexander Sukhanov

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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 1952 in Saratov, Russia, USSR. During childhood he studied music, graduating from music school as a violin major. In 1974 Sukhanov earned an undergraduate degree (with honors) from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University. He later earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the same institution. He taught mathematics at Gagarin Air Force Academy; since 1981 he has worked at the computational methods laboratory at MSU. In 1969 Sukhanov began writing music to his own lyrics, as well as to the poetry of Samuil Marshak, Iosif Utkin, Percy Shelley, Alexander Vertinsky, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Rubtsov, and others. He gained wide success as a performer of his songs at concerts and festivals. Sukhanov composed scores for several plays, released a Melodia record as well several CD albums. Selected discography *Green Carriage, 1996 *Oh, you’re my cart …, 1998 *Romance of old age, 2000 *Snowdrops of tenderness, Disk 2, Disk 1, 2002 *Selected songs References Links * Home Pa

Alexander Taneyev

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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 official and composer of the late Romantic era, specifically of the nationalist school. Among his better-known works were three string quartets, believed to have been composed between 1898 and 1900. Alexander Taneyev is not well known outside Russia. His name is often confused with that of his distant cousin Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915). A member of Russian aristocracy, Taneyev was a high-ranking state official, serving for 22 years as the head of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery. His daughter Anna Vyrubova was a lady-in-waiting and best friend of Tsarina Alexandra. Vyrubova is best known for her friendship with the Romanov family and with the starets Grigori Rasputin. Background Alexander Taneyev inherited an enthusiasm for music from his parents. He was dissuaded from pursuing a career as a musician due to his position in the Russian upper class. After studying at university, he entered the Russian civil service, succeeding his father as director of the Imperial Chancellery. After 190

Alexander Tcherepnin

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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, Serge Tcherepnin and Ivan Tcherepnin, as well as two of his grandsons (sons of Ivan), Sergei and Stefan, were composers. His son Serge was involved in the earliest development of electronic music and instruments. His mother was a member of the artistic Benois family, a niece of Alexandre Benois. Biography He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and played the piano and composed prolifically from a very early age. He was stimulated in this activity by the atmosphere at home, which—thanks to his family’s Benois-Diaghilev connection—was a meeting place for many well-known musicians and artists of the day. By the time he began formal theory and composition studies in his late teens, he had already composed hundreds of pieces, including more than a dozen piano sonatas. Among his teachers in Russia were composer Victor Belyayev (pupil of Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Glazunov), who prepared Tcherepnin for Saint Petersburg Conservatory; Leokadiya Kashperova (renowned pianist, protégée of Anton Ru

Alexander Uriah Boskovich

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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 Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). The origin of his family and of his name was the town Boskovich in Moravia. In Cluj, Boskovich studied in a Jewish high school called “Culture” which accommodated both Neolog and Orthodox Jews. In 1937, Boskovich sent a piano version of his work “The Golden Chain” to the conductor Issay Dobrowen. This work, based on Jewish songs from the Carpathian Mountains, was originally written for piano and later on, in 1936, transcribed for orchestra. In 1938, Dobrowen suggested to the newly founded Jewish “Palestinian Orchestra”, which later on evolved into the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, to embed this work in a concert under his baton. Boskovich was invited from abroad to the premiere of his composition “Jewish Folk Songs”, which was performed by the Palestinian Orchestra. One consequence of that event was that Boskovich decided to stay in the country and settle in Tel Aviv. In the coming years, Boskovich often said that Do

Alexander Utendal

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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 the Holy Roman Empire. Like many Flemish musicians and composers of his time, he served the Imperial family, the Habsburgs. He began already at a young age as a choirboy at the court of Mary of Hungary, sister of emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire. She was given the position of Vogt (regent) of the Netherlands. In 1564, Utendal became alto of the court chapel of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol, another member of the royal Habsburg family. After Ferdinand was made Archduke of Further Austria in 1564 after his father’s death, he moved his court from Prague (he was the governor of Bohemia) to Innsbruck. Utendal followed his master to the Innsbruck court chapel to gain the position of vice chapel master in 1572 (as successor of Jacob Regnart); he was also in charge of the education of the choir boys. Until 1581, Utendal worked for Ferdinand II in Innsbruck, where he died. Many of his works are in honour of his master. He even refused the position of chapel master at t

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

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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 Anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2000 became the National Anthem of the Russian Federation (with new lyrics). During his career, he also worked as a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, and became a Doctor of Arts. His work was recognized by the awards of the title of People’s Artist of the USSR and two Stalin Prizes. Background Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, known as Sasha, was born on 13 April 1883 in Plakhino, a village in Ryazan Governorate south-east of Moscow. As a boy, his singing was so impressive that he traveled to Saint Petersburg to become a chorister at Kazan Cathedral. Career A pupil of Medtner, Alexandrov studied composition at Saint Petersburg and in Moscow, where he eventually became professor of music in 1918 and choirmaster at Christ the Savior from 1918 to 1922. Works In 1942, Stalin commissioned Alexandrov and lyricists Sergey Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on 1 January 1944 and was used

Alexander Veprik

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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 “Jewish school” in Soviet music. Life Veprik was born in Balta, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He grew up in Warsaw and studied piano with Karl Wendling at the Leipzig Conservatory. At the onset of World War I, the family returned to Russia. Veprik studied composition with Alexander Zhitomirsky (1881–1937) in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1918–1921) and Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory (1921–1923). Veprik was active in the musical life of 1920–1930s. In 1923 he was active in the creation of the Society for Jewish Music, a focal point for Jewish composers in Moscow, and Jewish music flourished as a result of the activities of the Society. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory (1923–1941; professor from 1930; dean from 1938). In 1927 during a business trip in Austria, Germany and France, he met Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel and Arthur Honegger. His music became well known in Europe and the United States during this time: nearly his

Alexander von Zemlinsky

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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 diverse family. Zemlinsky’s grandfather, Anton Semlinski, emigrated from Žilina, Hungary (now in Slovakia) to Austria and married an Austrian woman. Both were from staunchly Roman Catholic families, and Alexander’s father, , was raised as a Catholic. Alexander’s mother, Clara Semo, was born in Sarajevo to a Sephardic Jewish father and a Bosniak mother. Alexander’s entire family converted to the religion of his maternal grandfather, Judaism, and Zemlinsky was born and raised Jewish. His father added an aristocratic “von” to his name, though neither he nor his forebears were ennobled. He also began spelling his surname in Hungarian “Zemlinszky”. He was also a freemason. Alexander studied the piano from a young age. He played the organ in his synagogue on holidays, and was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory in 1884. He studied piano with Wilhelm Rauch and Anton Door, winning the school’s piano prize in 1890. He continued his studies until 1892, studying theory with Robert Fuchs and composition

Alexander Vustin

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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 Teif for bass and piano, in Russian, translated by Yunna Moritz, (1965) * String Quartet (1966) * Symphony (1969) * Three Toropets songs for piano (1972) * Nocturnes for chamber ensemble and high voice in three movements (1972–1982) * Sonata for six for piccolo, flute, clarinet, viola, cello, and 5 string double bass (1973 * Lamento for piano (1974) * Toropets Songs for ensemble (1975 * The Word for winds and percussions, dedicated. text by Fried (1975) * Capriccio (tunes from the collection of M. Beregovsky) fr voice (mezzo-soprano), male voices and ensemble (1977–1982) * In memory of Boris Klyuzner (1977) for voice, violin, viola, cello and double bass, to the text by Yuri Olesha * Memoria-2, oncerto for percussion, keyboards and strings (1978) * Fairy Tale (Skazka) for oboe solo (1979) * Homecoming for voice and 13 instruments (2 string quartets, 2 pianos, horn, 2 percussion players), verses by Dmitri Shchedrovirsky (1981) * The Leisure Time of Kozma Prutkov (Dosugi Kozmy Prutkova) fo

Alexandra Fol

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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 have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players, the thingNY ensemble, the Young Artists Orchestra, McGill University Orchestra, and others. Fol’s works have been performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Sofia Philharmonic, the New Score Chamber orchestra, among others. In 2005 she was one of four composers commissioned to write a children’s work for the 70th anniversary of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra’s Children’s series. “Pegasus”, op. 37 was performed throughout the 2005-2006 season and included in an educational CD for children. Important performances of her works include the premiere of her “Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra” by one of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestras in 1994 and the premiere of her Concerto for Violinon a 16 c. Storioni violin by Leonid Iogansen and the Boston University Orchestra in 2001. Fol teaches composition for the She was a finalist for the 2006 Gaudeamus In

Alexandra Gardner

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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 modernist influences as well as extra-musical sources and sounds. Critics note her work for its blend of contemplative and expressive qualities, clear structure and unexpected evolution, and complex rhythms. In a 2007 New Yorker essay, music critic Alex Ross placed Gardner among a “vital group of composers” creating a “new kind of interstitial music” that blurs genre boundaries. Gardner’s work has been performed in solo, chamber and orchestral contexts and as scoring for dance, theater and visual art performances, at venues including Kennedy Center, Aspen Music Festival, Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Strathmore Music Center and Symphony Space, among others. Gardner’s music is recorded on the Innova, Ars Harmonica, and Naxos labels. Early life and career Alexandra Gardner was born in 1967 and raised in Washington, DC. She studied percussion (focusing on marimba), composition and electronic music with Charles Barbour, Annea Lockwood and Richard Edward Wilson at Vassar College. In

Alexandra Pierce

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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 University of Redlands. Early life and education Born and raised in Philadelphia, her family later moved to Washington, D.C., where she studied piano with contemporary music specialist, Margaret Tolson. She received a Bachelor of Music, Phi Beta Kappa (1955), from the University of Michigan, where she majored in piano performance and medieval history; a Master of Music in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music (1958); a Master of Arts in music history from Harvard University (1959); and a Ph.D. in music theory and composition from Brandeis University (1968), where her teachers included composers Irving Fine and Harold Shapero. Her dissertation, written at Brandeis, is entitled The Analysis of Rhythm in Tonal Music. Career Pierce taught from 1968 to 2001 at the University of Redlands, where she was Professor of Music and Movement, and where she integrated movement research with the teaching of music theory, piano, and with her own composing. Prior to her arrival in Redla

Alexandra Stréliski

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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 born in Montreal, Quebec and is of Polish Jewish descent. After living a few years in Paris, she returned to Montréal where she studied at Collège international Marie de France, McGill University and Université de Montréal. Stréliski is the sister of Montreal-based comedian and writer Léa Streliski and Mathieu Stréliski. Career Stréliski released her debut album, Pianoscope, in 2010. Songs from the album have appeared in several films and movies, specifically those by Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée. This includes the Dallas Buyers Club, Demolition, and Big Little Lies. She collaborated with Vallée to create new compositions for the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects. Her second album, Inscape, was released in 2018; it was long-listed for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize. Inscape was the number one classical album on Apple Music at the end of 2018 in the United States and two of the tracks have reached over 20 million streams on Spotify. It was named number 9 on Exclaim’s Top 10 Experimental

Alexandre Artus

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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 Marie Angélique Salvo (1793–1864), both also from Perpignan. Incidental music and operettas coçmposer, he was the deputy chief and the conductor of the Théâtre de l’Ambigu, which he left in 1863 by disagreements with the director and then became director of the Théâtre du Châtelet from 1885 to his death. He is known to have composed the music for the play by Jules Verne, Michel Strogoff (1881), adapted from the novel. Alexandre Artus is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. Works *1851: L’Étoile du berger Chasse, arranged in doubled step for fanfare *1857: Les Chevaliers du brouillard, quadrille Anglo-français, with Amédée Artus *1857: Les Viveurs de Paris ** Chanson ** Polka pour piano ** Quadrille pour piano *1858: Faust, spectacle, choreography by Léon Espinosa *1858: Fanfan-la-Tulipe, quadrille for piano *1858: Les Fugitifs, quadrille for piano *1858: Le Martyre du cœur *1859: Fanfan-la-Tulipe, polka for piano *1859: Le Maitre d’école, quadrille for piano *1859: Polka du roi de carreau,

Alexandre Boëly

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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 first music lessons from his father, Jean-François, who was a countertenor at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and a composer and harp teacher at the court of Versailles. He also studied under the Tyrolian pianist Ignaz Ladurner, who introduced him to the work of Bach and Haydn, which Boëly would champion in his adult career. Besides mastering the piano and organ, Boëly was also a talented violist. As the Romantic movement swept through Europe during the 19th century, Boëly was shunned by the official mainstream of musical life in Paris because of his classical sensibilities and his “elitist” fidelity to writing serious music. Boëly regarded with distaste the music that was written and feted by many of his contemporaries. The most popular standards during the Napoleonic period were compositions that swelled with patriotism or operatic intensity. Entrenching his reactionary reputation, he used his appointment as organist at Saint Germain l’Auxerrois in 1840 to promote the works of deceased compo

Alexandre Danilevski

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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 ensemble noted in particular for interpretations of music by the trouvères, Italian composers from Trecento, and Russian and Ukrainian baroque composers. In 2012 Danilevski was profiled in an hour-long program on the Dutch radio station Concertzender. List of works Piano solo * Sonata N° 2 (1987) Sonata-Reminiscenza: In Memoriam Nikolai Medtner * Sonata “1985. In Memoriam Charles Ives” * Le Retour * Piano Suite in g * Raining on Kopenhagen; * Sonates I and II; * Night Music; * Concerto for two pianos Other instruments * Sonata I for violin and piano; * “Revelation” for cello solo, ed. by HH-Musikverlag: AD001 * Three Inventions for three melodic instruments * Ricercars (7 pieces for recorder or flute solo – in print now: Edition Tre Fontane); * “Tombeau de Messiaen” for organ, commissioned for the festival “La Route des Orgues”; * Dolce Suono for two recorders – ed. by Tre Fontane: ETF 2038 * “Antiphones – I” (1997 – in print Tre Fontane) and II * Senza Titolo * Organum for string orches

Alexandre Desplat

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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 Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Desplat was made an Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres both in 2016. Desplat has received two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of Water (2017). He was Oscar-nominated for The Queen (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The King’s Speech (2010), Argo (2012), Philomena (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Little Women (2019). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Golden Compass (2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) & Part 2 (2011), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Godzilla (2014), Unbroken (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), and Frankenst

Alexandre Dubuque

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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 refugee from the French Revolution who had fled to Russia. He studied piano under the tutelage of John Field. One of his works was “Do not scold me, my darling” (), which was played by Léon Theremin around the 1950s, and later by Kaia Galina Urb with Heiki Mätlik. Students * Mily Balakirev * Nikolai Zverev References Sources * External links *

Alexandre Eugène Cellier

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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 first prize for organ at the Conservatoire de Paris. Before that, he also studied with Henri Dallier and Charles-Marie Widor. He was the organist Titulaire of the Temple de l’Étoile in Paris from 1910 until his death in 1968. The organ he used was a 3-manual Cavaillé-Coll organ with 32 stops, which was extended by Mutin (Cavaillé-Coll) in 1914. In Louis Vierne’s biography Mes Souvenirs, he describes Alexandre Cellier as a “cultivated musician” with improvisation skills. He gave concerts abroad. He wrote a book about organ registration and is known as the French translator of the texts of the Bach Chorales. Selected compositions ;Orchestral * Paysages cévenols (1912) * Sur la colline d’Uzès (1928) * Le chant d’une flûte (1930) * Chacun son tour, Suite humoristique for wind soloists and string orchestra (1934) * Le Carnaval (1938) ;Chamber music * Piano Quintet No. 1 (1906) * String Quartet No. 1 in A minor (1911) * Piano Quintet No. 2 (1913) * Sonata in G major for cello and piano (1920)

Alexandre Georges

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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 the Opéra. His most popular work was the song-cycle, Chansons de Miarka. Life Born in Arras, Georges studied at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, after which he joined the army and subsequently became at the Basilica of Saint Clotilde, Paris, where César Franck was organist. He later became organist at Saint-Vincent de Paul. In addition to his church appointments he was a teacher, returning to the École Niedermeyer as professor of harmony, Strongly attracted by the theatre, Georges composed several operas, of which the most successful was Miarka, premiered at the Opéra-Comique and later revised for a production at the Opéra. It tells the story of a Romany girl destined, according to the tarot cards, to become a queen. Works According to Grove, Georges’ style, is “often restlessly chromatic”, showing the influence of Franck, but like many composers of his generation, “he introduced local colour into his works by using characteristic regional dances and songs”. Operas *Le Printemps (1888) *

Alexandre Goria

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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 seven to the Conservatoire de Paris on 15 November 1830. He had for piano teachers Adolphe-Francois Laurent (1796–1867), teacher of Jules Massenet, and Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman, teacher of Charles-Valentin Alkan and César Franck, following a course of harmony under the direction of Victor Dourlen shortly thereafter. being awarded the first prize the following year at the age of 12. His studies were completed in 1839. He was in very good terms with Bohemian composer Carl Czerny when he lived in Vienna for some time, and was also a very close friend of the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, who dedicated his composition Le Bananier to him. Awarded with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Charles III by the Queen of Spain, he died at the age of thirty-seven in Paris on 6 July 1860. following a cerebral convulsion and an aneurysm. His young wife was to follow him a few years later herself suffering from a cruel and painful illness. Music Goria wrote over a hundred works for

Alexandre Guilmant

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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, Guilmant helped found the Schola Cantorum de Paris. He was appointed as Professor of Organ in the Conservatoire de Paris in 1896. Biography Guilmant was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer. A student first of his father Jean-Baptiste and later of the Belgian master Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, he became an organist and teacher in his place of birth. In 1871 he was appointed to play the organ regularly at la Trinité church in Paris, and this position, organiste titulaire, was one he held for 30 years. Guilmant was known for his improvisations, both in the concert and church setting. His inspiration came from Gregorian chants, and he was greatly noted amongst his colleagues for his mastery of the melodies. Marcel Dupré was the most celebrated of his many students. Others included Augustin Barié, Joseph-Arthur Bernier, Joseph Bonnet, Alexandre Eugène Cellier, Abel Decaux, Gabriel Dupont, Charles Henry Galloway, Philip Hale, Edgar Henrichsen, Édouard Mignan, and Émile Poillot. Guilmant’s interest in Marcel

Alexandre Levy

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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 and rhythms. His hometown grants a prestigious award in his name. His Jewish family came from France and was musically active. His father, Henrique Luís Levy, was a musician who founded , a leading music store in São Paulo. Darius Milhaud, in his ballet Le Bœuf sur le toit, borrowed a theme from Levy’s Tango Brasileiro. Selected list of works Orchestra * Andante para cordas in E-flat major (1887) for String Orchestra (1887) * Werther, Symphonic Poem in E-flat major after Goethe (1888) * Marcha com coros, Orchestral Cantata (1888) * Hymne à 14 Juillet (1889) * Symphony in E minor (1889) ** Largo - allegro molto ** Andante ** Scherzo. Allegro vivo ** Allegro molto vivo * Comala, Symphonic Poem (1890) * Suite Brésilienne (1890) ** Prélude ** Dansa rustica: Canção Triste (lost) ** A beira do regato: Idyllio Sentimental ** Samba * Symphonic Poem (unnamed; n.d.) * Oedipe, Orchestral Cantata (n.d.) Chamber Music * Fantasia brillante sull’opera ‘Il Guarany’ for two pianos, Op. 2 (1880) * Piano

Alexandre Luigini

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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 Ballet égyptien. Life and career Luigini was born in Lyon in 1850. His grandparents had moved to Lyon from Modena, Italy, when his grandfather took up the post of trumpeter with the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre. Alexandre Luigini was brought up with music, his father Joseph also playing with, and later conducting, the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre. He was the nephew of César and (another) Alexandre Luigini, both noted instrumentalists. His daughter was the harpist Caroline Luigini, who married the painter Victor Tardieu. His grandson is the poet Jean Tardieu. After studying at the Conservatoire in Paris where he gained a second prize for violin, Luigini returned to Lyon and from 1872 played as a violinist in the theatre orchestra, which he went on to lead, becoming conductor in 1877. In 1897 he left Lyon to take up the conductorship of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and led a busy life until his sudden death there in 1906. At the Opéra-Comique he notably conducted the world premiere of J

Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche

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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 Doche, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and succeeded his father as composer and conductor at the Théâtre du Vaudeville. In January 1839, he married the Belgian actress Marie-Charlotte-Eugénie de Plunkett, known as Eugénie Doche after him. In 1848 he appeared at the theatre of Saint-Petersburg but suddenly died of cholera in 1849. Works Theatre *1838: A trente ans, ou une femme raisonnable, comedy in three acts mingled with couplets, with Joseph-Bernard Rosier *1840: Bonaventure, comédie-vaudeville in three acts and four tableaux, with Frédéric de Courcy and Charles Dupeuty *1841: La Journée d’une jolie femme, vaudeville, lyrics by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon *1843: L’Extase, comedy in three acts, mingled with song, with Auguste Arnould and Lockroy *1844: La Polka, vaudeville, with Alexis Decomberousse and Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle Songs and compositions *1842: L’Enlèvement des Sabines, quadrille for piano *1842: La Journée d’une jolie femme, grande valse brillante, ar

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky

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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 1969); “La Belle Musique N.3” (1977) is the first work for orchestra in the minimalist field. He emigrated to Paris from Moscow in 1974, and now lives in Switzerland. He has collaborated with numerous musical artists, notably with the pianist Martha Argerich, with whom he has recorded works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms. Selected works Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky defined his musical conceptions as >. Rabinovitch-Barakovsky’s main works are all part of a global work-in-progress called “Anthology of Archaic Rituals – In Search of the Center”. * “Les mots de Andrei Biely” (1969) cantata * “Le point d’appui trouvé” (1970) chamber music * “Happy end”" (1972) electro-acoustic piece * “La Belle Musique n°2” (1974) chamber music * “Perpetuum mobile?” (1975) amplified violin solo, amplified piano, amplified vibraphone" (+ amplified campanelli) * “Le récit de voyage” (1976) violin, cello, marimba, piano" (dedicated to Alexei Lubimov) * “La Belle Musique n°3” (1977) for orchestra * “Requiem pour une

Alexandre Tansman

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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 representatives of neoclassicism, associated with École de Paris, Tansman was a globally recognized and celebrated composer. The first artists he was fortunate to meet shortly after his arrival were Moritz Moszkowski and Sarah Bernhardt. In Paris, his musical ideas were appreciated, influenced and favoured by composers Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Jacques Ibert, Igor Stravinsky, musicologists and critics Émile Vuillermoz, Boris de Schloezer, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Arthur Hoérée, conductors André Caplet, Gaston Poulet, Vladimir Golschmann. Though Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud tried to persuade him to join Les Six, he declined, stating a need for creative independence. Nevertheless, he was one of the earliest and leading representatives of neoclassicism, along with Stravinsky, Les Six, Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Alfredo Casella. He was also one of the most respected members of the international music group École de Paris, along with Bohuslav Martinů, Tibor Harsányi, Alexander Tch

Alexandre Villoing

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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 to a French émigré. At twelve years old, he was sent to the Golitsyn Hospital to study pharmacy, where he stayed until 1821. He later abandoned pharmacy and studied music with Franz Xaver Gebel and John Field. Villoing lived and taught music across the country from 1823 to 1830. He moved to Moscow in the 1830s. Around 1837, he took on Anton Rubinstein as a pupil. Villoing accompanied Rubinstein on his trip to Paris, sent by his mother, where his pupil unsuccessfully sought to enroll in the Paris Conservatory and performed in the Salle Érard. Villoing took Rubinstein on a tour of Europe, where Rubinstein gave concerts to great success. His teaching was highly praised. He also taught Nikolai Rubinstein. Returning to Russia, he enjoyed a reputation as a piano teacher. He took his stepdaughters to Paris, where they first appeared in a concert on 17 February 1862. Villoing returned to Moscow in the same year and moved to Saint Petersburg in September. Aside from the piano, he also played the

Alexandro Marie Antoin Fridzeri

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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 with popular favor. Among his works were sonatas and chamber music and operas. His life began and ended with tragic notes, losing his eyesight and later his home and possessions. Music historian Philip J. Bone called Fridzeri " an artist of undoubted genius and a man of most remarkable character, which was fully tried under great adversity." The late Giuseppe Bellenghi, mandolinist and composer, dedicated his variations for mandolin and piano on the Carnival of Venice, to the memory of Fridzeri, the blind mandolin player and composer. Blind boy Fridzeri lost his eyesight in a childhood accident but the loss of this sense quickened and intensified others. He was taken with music at an early age and was taught singing and the elements of music while a child. However, apart from this first elementary instruction Fridzeri was self-taught in all the branches of the art, both practical and theoretical. He had learned to play the mandolin by age 11 and constructed his own instrument. He mastered

Alexandros Mouzas

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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 for various ensembles and has received commissions from organizations and orchestras. He has collaborated with the choreographer Konstantinos Michos and the Lathos Kinissi dance group in many productions, among them Trisha Never Left Home, Days of Vironas, Papageno and Calamity till the Dawn and with Airesis Dance Company. His professional activities include image-related music. He has written original music for short films, television series, documentaries and commercials for most of the Greek television channels. He was the artistic director of the Greek Section of the European programme New Media Edge Project (2003). In 2004, he composed under commission by the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee, original music for the Athens Olympic Games corporate videos. His recent professional activities include production management of various important CD releases of Greek orchestral music. He is the manager and founding member of the Ergon Ensemble. He runs his own production company, Anax – Cu

Alexandru Mandy

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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 preexisting instrumental music, but a majority of his songs consisted of completely original compositions. His soundtrack was sung by and . He was heavily inspired by Romanian artist Constantin Brâncuși. When he was 20, he first discovered Brâncuși’s work at a meeting of poet Elena Farago. Many of his pieces, such as the (), (), (), and found their way to be memorialized in Mandy’s songs. A lot of his work was also influenced by his pride in his homeland of Romania. In 1966, he composed Your Voice, a tribute to Maria Tănase. Additionally, he performed other pieces influenced by traditional Romanian culture such as Cânt pentru bradul meu (I sing for my tree) and Un grai, o vatră, un isvor (A voice, a hearth, a spring). His piece, Ierusalim, is a tribute to the victims of the Munich Olympic massacre victims. Mihai’s renditions of The endless column and Under a patch of sky won Mandy the prize of the . Personal life Mandy studied at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Bucharest for his tertiary education

Alexei Lvov

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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 born into a family which was very interested in music. He was the son of Feodor Petrovich Lvov, who was Maestro of the Imperial Chapel in St Petersburg from 1826 to 1836 (having succeeded Bortniansky). Lvov codified the traditional Russian liturgical musical style called “Obikhod,” which is the standard repertory of most Russian Orthodox churches in the world. It is a simple style. These melodies were later edited and improved by Bakhmetev. Alexei Fyodorovich began violin lessons at a very young age and performed regularly in concerts given at his home: for instance, at 9 he was the soloist in a performance of a violin concerto by Viotti. Although he had a number of teachers in his youth, from the age of 19 onwards he began to study independently, seeking to develop his own personal style through careful attention to the works of such celebrated violinists as Corelli, Tartini, Viotti, Kreutzer and Rode. He nevertheless continued to study composition formally under the supervision of I. G.

Alexej Gerassimez

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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 Wassily Gerassimez is a cellist. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory of Music, the Berlin Conservatory and the Munich Conservatory of Music. as well as the Audience Award and the Press Prize. In 2015 he took up a tutoring position at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in England. In 2022 he performed the New Zealand premiere performance of New Zealand composer John Psathas’s work Leviathan for orchestra and solo percussion. Gerassimez has made numerous recordings and CDs and is also a composer. External links * Alexej Gerassimez’s website References

Alexey Rybnikov

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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 Juno and Avos (, 1981, shown more than 700 times), for numerous plays and operas, for more than 80 Russian movies. More than 10 million discs with his music have been sold to 1989. Biography Alexey Rybnikov was born in Moscow on July 17, 1945. In 1962 he graduated from the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1967 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in the composition class of Aram Khachaturian. Alexey composed one of his first works, “The Thief of Baghdad”, being influenced by a very popular at those times trophy film under the same name. In 1969 Rybnikov was admitted to the Union of Soviet Composers. In 1999, by decree of the Moscow Government, the Alexey Rybnikov Theater was established under the Moscow Committee for Culture. Rybnikov is a member of the United Russia party; in 2022, he supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Movie soundtracks Since 1965 Alexey has already started composing movie music. Since 1979 Rybnikov has been a member of the

Alexey Shor

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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. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary professorship at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. Early life and mathematics career Alexey Vladimorovich Shor was born on 20 May 1970 in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). In 1991, he left the Soviet Union for Israel with his parents. Subsequently, he moved to the US for his graduate studies and obtained a PhD in mathematics in 1996. He worked as a mathematician until 2016 (in geometry and dynamical systems). From 1999 until 2016 he worked for the Long Island hedge fund Renaissance Technologies. Shor is a citizen of Israel, US, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Malta. His works have been published by several publishers and showcased in many venues. The overture to his ballet “Crystal Palace” was performed at the 40th Gramophone Classical Music Awards event in London. In 2019, a documentary about Alexey Shor was showcased on Medici.tv. An investigation by German Van Magazine showed that Shor built an extensive promotional ecosystem to promote his music, incl

Alexey Titov

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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 died in St. Petersburg. Alongside his musical career, Titov was a major general in the Russian cavalry. His music, most of which is for the stage (operas, ballets, and incidental music), was primarily written for local St. Petersburg theater and dance companies. Strong Russian themes run through his choice of libretti, and his music makes copious use of Russian folk music. He was most popular for his comic operas such as Yam, or The Post Station (1805), The Winter Party, or The Sequel to Yam (1808) and The Wedding Eve Party, or Filakin’s Wedding (1809), which form a trilogy. All of them were staged in St. Petersburg. Operas Note: this list is incomplete. *Andromeda and Perseus (1802) *King Solomon’s Judgment (; 1803) *Judge Cupid, or The Argument of the Three Graces (; 1805) *Yam, or The Post Station ; 1805) * Nurzakhad (; 1807) *The Winter Party, or The Sequel to Yam (; 1808) *The Wedding Eve Party, or Filakin’s Wedding (; 1809) *Polixena (1809) *The Cossack Woman (1810) * Emmerik Tek

Alexey Verstovsky

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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 Estate, Kozlovsky Uyezd, Tambov Governorate. The grandson of General A. Seliverstov and a captured Turkish woman, he was also a descendant of the Polish szlachta (gentry or aristocracy). A civil engineer by training, he became interested in music while he was studying at the Corps of Engineers in St Petersburg. He also studied piano, violin, musical theory and composition. John Field was among his teachers. At the age of 20 he became famous for his ‘opera-vaudeville’ Grandmother’s Parrots (1819). Excited by the success he continued to compose light music for this currently fashionable genre and composed more than 30 of them. He also created a series of ballads for voice and piano, which he called cantatas. The performance of them had often involved a theatrical action. One of them The Black Shawl or Moldavian Song (1823) a setting of Alexander Pushkin’s poem, became immensely popular in the aristocrats’ salons. In 1825 he was appointed as an ‘inspector of music’ in Moscow, in charge of the imper

Alexina Louie

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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 fulfilled a number of commissions, and her works, which have been performed internationally, have earned her a number of awards, including the Order of Canada and two Juno Awards. Early life and education Louie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned an ARCT in Piano Performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at the age of 17 while under the tutelage of Jean Lyons. Shortly thereafter, Louie received a Bachelor of Music in music history from the University of British Columbia in 1970. In 1974, she completed her M.A. degree in composition from the University of California, San Diego. Career While studying in the Greater Los Angeles Area, Louie was a member of an ensemble, and later she taught piano, theory, and electronic composition at Pasadena College and Los Angeles City College. One of her earliest compositions, completed in 1972, is an electronic piece for 4-channel tape entitled, Molly. The object in this composition, based on the last segment of James Joyce’s

Alexis Agrafiotis

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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 birth in Salzburg, the family moved to Reutlingen, where his father became principal conductor of the . In 1978, the family moved to Ettlingen, where he attended primary school and the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Ettlingen. He attended the last two years of secondary school at the German School of Athens (Abitur 1989). He graduated in piano at the Athens Conservatory “Athenaeum” and studied Orchestra Conducting with Uros Lajovic and Composition with Erich Urbanner (magister artium 1995 and 1996) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He attended courses with Roland Seiffarth, Péter Eötvös and Karl Österreicher and was assistant to Gunther Schuller, Rüdiger Bohn and Hans Drewanz. Stations as a solo répétiteur and conductor took him to the theatres in Görlitz, Lübeck, Bern, the Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin and the Theater Bielefeld. From 2011 to 2017 he was engaged as director of studies and Kapellmeister at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Since December 2017, he has been engag

Alexis Contant

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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 compose large-scale choral and orchestral works, in spite of the difficulty of finding suitable teachers of musical composition. His younger years were spent mostly in teaching, family, and work as a church organist, and many of his compositions were written later in life. Early life Contant was born in Montreal, the son of two amateur musicians. His father was a violinist who was involved in a number of community ensembles and his mother was a piano and voice student of Emma Albani. His younger siblings, Marie and Joseph-Albert, also became musicians. All three children had their initial musical lessons from their mother. At the age of 11, Contant became a pupil of organist and pianist Joseph-A. Fowler and two years later gave his first public recital. At the age of 17 he became a student of Calixa Lavallée, who had just returned from Paris. Contant himself wanted to pursue studies in Europe, but his father forbade him to go in fear that European society might be detrimental to Alexis’s reli

Alexis de Castillon

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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 parents initially intended him to pursue a military career, but Castillon gave up plans for professional soldiering in favour of music, which he learned first in his birthplace and then in Paris, where he studied piano and composition, initially with Charles Delioux. For composition, he attended the classes of Victor Massé and, from 1869, of César Franck at the Paris Conservatoire. Before his studies with Franck, he had completed his Opus 1, a piano quintet, probably inspired by the earlier example of his friend Camille Saint-Saëns. Both the quintet and the later piano quartet Op. 7 follow Schumann’s model. He disavowed earlier efforts, including a symphony in F major, which he had written in 1865. In fragile health at the best of times (volunteering during the War of 1870, he fell ill and was demobilized in 1871), he died of complications from fever in 1873 at age 34. His works include pieces for piano, chamber music, mélodies, a piano concerto, and other orchestral music. He was also a

Alexis Martin (musician)

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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 previously been a percussionist for artists such as Robert Charlebois, Daniel Bélanger, Jorane, Harry Manx and Damien Robitaille, and is a partner with François Richard in Studio Le Hublot. Filmography *My Daughter Is Not for Sale (Ma fille n’est pas à vendre) - 2017 *Cross My Heart (Les Rois mongols) - 2017 *Shadow Men (Nos hommes dans l’ouest) - 2017 *A Moon of Nickel and Ice (Sur la lune de nickel) - 2017 *Lovebirds (L’amour à la plage) - 2018 *50/50 - 2018 *Polytechnique: Ce qu’il reste du 6 décembre - 2019 *Passage - 2020 *The Paper Man (Lafortune en papier) - 2020 *The Benevolents (Les Bienvaillants) - 2022 *Virage: double faute - 2023 *Death to the Bikini! (À mort le bikini!) - 2023 *Family Game (Arseneault et fils) - 2022 *Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful (Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles) - 2023 *Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) - 2024 Awards References External links *

Alfi Kabiljo

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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 member of the FIDOF organization. Later, he wrote soundtracks for various films, including the 1991 film Scissors, starring Sharon Stone and Ronny Cox, and the 1986 film The Girl. He also wrote soundtracks for over 100 television episodes, including the Croatian TV mini-series Ljubav ili smrt, based on a novel by Ivan Kušan, the TV series Ne daj se Floki, and series about the famous inventor Nikola Tesla. His songs have been sung by award-winning singers such as Ivo Robić and Tereza Kesovija. Kabiljo’s best-selling and best known work is the musical Jalta, Jalta, for which he received the 2004 Porin award for the magnum opus. To date, the musical has been released in audio format three times and it had its first premiere in 1971. All three releases were sold out decades ago. References Further reading * External links * * Alfi Kabiljo’s filmography at Fandango.com * Alfi Kabiljo at Hollywood.com *

Alfie Godfrey

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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 Malice, Marching Powder, Top Gun: Maverick, Dopesick, and Man vs Bee. Career Godfrey began his career at 14th Street Music in Los Angeles, where he worked under the mentorship of Lorne Balfe and Hans Zimmer. References External links * *

Alfons Karabuda

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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 Alliance), executive chairman of SKAP (the Swedish Association of Composers, Songwriters & Lyricists) and expert in the field of artistic rights to the UN Human Rights Council. He has also been the president of the UNESCO founded IMC (International Music Council), member of the board of The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Musiksverige (Music Sweden) and STIM (The Swedish Performing Rights Society) and Svensk Musik (Swedish Music). Karabuda is also chair of the Polar Music Prize Award. As expert to the UN Human Rights Council, Karabuda was part of producing the first ever UNHRC report on artistic rights in 2013. The report was followed by new reports during 2014. As the president of ECSA, Karabuda was a driving force in getting the EU to decide on the new Copyright Directive in 2019 and the formation of a European–American collaboration between the music creator organisations ECSA and SGA (Songwriters Guild of America). The organisations have focused on the global issues of artistic rights,

Alfons Karl Zwicker

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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 between 1973 and 1980. Zwicker then studied piano from 1976 to 1981 with Hadassa Schwimmer at Zurich University of the Arts and from 1983 to 1987 with Werner Bärtschi in Zurich. From 1984 to 1988 he studied musical composition with Rudolf Kelterborn at the City of Basel Music Academy. With them he realized a music project for Paul Klee. In the context of the project he composed for the the work «Unter dem Grabhügel» (“Under the Grave Mound”) for saxophone and orchestra, which was performed with the soloist Vincent Daoud (saxophone) under the direction of Otto Tausk was premiered on 20 February 2015 in the Tonhalle St. Gallen. He completed a postgraduate course in Arts Management at the University of Basel in 2002 with a Master of Advanced Studies. Awards * 1989: Kulturförderungspreis der Stadt St. Gallen (for contribution to the music podium Contrapunkt) * 2012: – endowed with CHF 20,000 (for experimental music theatre and impressive stage productions) Works Stage music Operas * Die Hö

Alfonso dalla Viola

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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 decades in the middle sixteenth century, and was renowned as a player of several instruments, including the viola d’arco. While much of his incidental music, composed for court entertainments, is lost, several books of his madrigals have survived. His position as court composer in Ferrara paralleled that of Francesco Corteccia in the competing city of Florence. Biography Alfonso was one of a large family of musicians active at the court of Ferrara, including Andrea and his brother Zampaulo dalla Viola, active from the 1470s to shortly after 1500; Agostino, son of Andrea, a singer and instrumentalist who is documented from around 1497 to 1522; and the younger Alfonso and Francesco, whose exact relationship to the other three has not been firmly established. Few details have emerged about Alfonso’s early life. He was born in Ferrara, and his father may have been Agostino dalla Viola. If true, Alfonso was born out of wedlock. In 1528 he was already leading the Duke of Ferrara’s private music

Alfonso Ferrabosco III

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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 Ferrabosco’ who sang in ‘a Hymenœi’ on Twelfth Night 1606, on the occasion of the marriage of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, with Lady Frances, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk. He succeeded his father as one of the ‘viols’ in the king’s band in March 1627–1628, and, together with his brother Henry, was appointed to the place of musician in ordinary. The two brothers probably held jointly the post of composer in ordinary (see below). Alfonso died in 1652 and was buried at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, on 14 July 1652. His brother Henry Ferrabosco died around 1658, and their shared post as musician, was filled by Thomas Bates, who seems to have gained by the division of labour practised by his predecessors, as he is given £50 and £40 yearly. The brothers were succeeded in the post of composer in ordinary by Dr. William Child, who was appointed on 4 July 1661 “in the roome of Alfonso Ferrabosco and Henry Ferrabosco, deceased”; he, however, only received a grant of £40 a year. Works

Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder

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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 growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred music. He also may have been a spy for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy. His father, Domenico Ferrabosco, and son, Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger were also composers. Life and career He was the eldest son of Domenico Ferrabosco, and a member of an aristocratic Bolognese family which had many musicians among its members. Alfonso was born in Bologna. Little is known about his early life, but he is known to have spent part of it in Rome and part in Lorraine in the service of Charles of Guise. In 1562, probably with his uncle, he came to England for the first time, where he found employment with Elizabeth I. Throughout his life he made periodic trips to Italy, not without controversy, for evidently neither the Pope nor the Inquisition fully approved of his spending time in England, which was in the late 16th century actively at war with Roman Catholic countries. While in England, he lost his Italian inheritance, and while away in

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger

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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 was born at Greenwich, the illegitimate son of the Italian composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder. His mother might have been Susanna Symons, whom Alfonso the elder later married. Ferrabosco the younger was left under the guardianship of Gomer van Awsterwyke, a member of Queen Elizabeth I’s court. Although Alfonso the elder asked for Alfonso the younger to be sent to him in Italy, where he had moved with his wife, the Queen insisted that he stay in England. Ferrabosco remained in Gomer van Awsterwyke’s care until Awsterwyke’s death in 1592. At this time he started a long career as a court musician. After the Union of the Crowns he became the private music tutor of Prince Henry and a groom of privy chamber, with a salary of £50. Ferrabosco was paid for “making the songs” for Anne of Denmark’s masque, The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, performed in January 1604. Ferrabosco collaborated with Ben Jonson on several projects, including The Masque of Blackness (1605), and wrote music for sever

Alfonso Fontanelli

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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 progressive Ferrara school in the late 16th century, and one of the earliest composers in the seconda pratica style at the transition to the Baroque era. Life Fontanelli was born in Reggio nell’Emilia, the son of Count Emilio Fontanelli. His early musical education was with composer Gasparo Pratoneri, and he evidently showed a talent for writing as well; a number of his lyric poems survive. He married for the first time in 1580, and in 1584 began his career as a courtier, statesman, and musician to the Este family in Ferrara. It was in the employ of the Este family that he first went to Rome in 1586; while there he probably met the renowned madrigalist Luca Marenzio, as well as members of the Roman school of composition, aspects of whose style appear in his music. His diplomatic activity while in Rome enhanced his reputation greatly, for in 1588 he received two honors: he was named “music counselor” to the Accademia de Parteni in Ferrara, and he was made a gentleman of the Ferrara court

Alfonso Gibilaro

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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 entitled “Carrettieri” —were popularized by the interpretation and sound recordings made by the Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli for His Master’s Voice. Works * * * Fantasia on British Airs for oboe and strings, Oxford University Press * Burlesque Serenade * Menuet de la Poupie * Rondo des Marionettes References Sources *

Alfred Bartles

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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 Ensemble, a work that has been described as pioneering of the crossover between jazz and classical music. Bartles grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, He moved back to Nashville in 1997, where he spent the remainder of his career. At the University of Mississippi, he became interested in the cello as an instrument to take up despite not knowing much about it. Because of his musical past and devotion towards it, the learning curve was easier. Also while there he met Claus Adam, a cellist for the Juilliard String Quartet who would later become his mentor. At the University of Mississippi he met a piano student Martha Jean Smith. They married January 31, 1954, in the middle of their graduate studies at Ohio University (Athens Ohio). It was at Ohio University where Bartles studied composition with Karl Ahrendt and Roy Harris. Bartles received his master’s degree in composition from Ohio University in 1954. Alfred and Martha moved to New York City later that year where Bartles studied music theory wi

Alfred Bruneau

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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 the cello as a youth at the Paris Conservatory and played in the Pasdeloup Orchestra. He soon began to compose, writing a cantata, Geneviève de Paris, while still a young man. In 1884, his Ouverture héroïque was performed, followed by the choral symphonies Léda (1884) and La Belle au bois dormant (1886). In 1887, he produced his first opera (9 June 1887, théâtre du Château-d’Eau), Kérim. In 1888, Bruneau met Émile Zola, beginning a two-decade-long collaboration. Bruneau’s 1891 opera Le Rêve was based on the Zola story of the same name, and in the coming years Zola would provide the subject matter for many of Bruneau’s works, including L’attaque du moulin (1893). Zola himself wrote the libretti for the operas Messidor (1897) and L’Ouragan (1901). Other works influenced by Zola include L’Enfant roi (1905), Naïs Micoulin (1907), Les Quatres journées (1916), and Lazare (produced posthumously in 1954). Other operatic works by Bruneau contained themes by Hans Christian Andersen (Le Jardin du

Alfred De Sève

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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; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H. Ditson. Life and career Born in Saint-Henri, Montreal, De Sève was a child prodigy and began studying the violin with Oscar Martel at the age of seven. After just six months of lessons, he gave his first public recital to critical acclaim. He later studied with Frantz Jehin-Prume in Montreal and in 1876 studied in Paris with Pablo de Sarasate, Hubert Léonard, and Lambert Massart. From 1877 to 1879 he studied with Henri Vieuxtemps in Paris and during that time served as Isabella II of Spain’s court violinist in addition to his active career as a concert violinist with a number of Paris orchestras and musical ensembles. After building his reputation in Europe, he returned to his native country and quickly became active as a concert violinist. He was accompanied in recitals by the pianist Joséphine Bruneau and the two married in 1880. In 1881 De Sève relocated to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States to join the faculty o

Alfred Desenclos

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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 rooted in rigorous compositional technique. To support his large family (he was one of ten children), Desenclos had to renounce continuing his general studies and work as an industrial designer in the textile industry until the age of 20, but in 1929, he entered the Conservatory in Roubaix, France, to study piano. Until that time, he had played only as an amateur. He was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1932, where he won prizes in fugue, harmony, composition and accompaniment, supporting himself by fulfilling the role of ‘maître de chapelle’ (Kapellmeister) at the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. His sacred music belongs to the tradition begun by Saint-Saëns and continued by Fauré. He won the Prix de Rome in 1942, the year in which he co-wrote (with André Theurer) the music to the film The Blue Veil. Desenclos was the director of his alma mater, the Conservatoire de Roubaix, from 1943 to 1950 (where one of his pupils was film-maker Claude Chabr

Alfred Dufresne

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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 having written music for hundreds of songs by authors such as Jules Verne, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse de Lamartine or Victor Hugo. He also composed operettas and opéras comiques including L’hôtel de la poste on a libretto by Philippe Gille. Works *1851: La Chèvre perdue, poem by Lebaigue *1851: Heureuse !, mélodie, poem by Gustave de Penmarch *1853: La Chanson de Fortunio, poem by Alfred de Musset *1853: Reflets de Printemps, poem by de Penmarch *1853: Sérénade, poem by Victor Hugo *1853: Les Soirées d’automne, twelve melodies *1854: La Colombe, poem by de Penmarch *1854: Album de 10 mélodies, lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay *1854: L’Écho du lavoir !, ditty, lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay *1854: Écoute, poem by de Penmarch *1854: L’Étoile, melody, lyrics by de Penmarch *1854: La Fiancée du timbalier, poem by Victor Hugo *1854: Le Grillon, melody, poem by Alphonse de Lamartine *1854: Hélas !, poem by Lamartine *1854: Oh ! batteux battons la gerbe !, chant rustique *1854: Pendant l’orage, cavatin

Alfred G. Robyn

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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 best remembered as a composer of light operas and Broadway musicals. He composed the Broadway musicals Princess Beggar (1907), The Yankee Tourist (1907), All for the Ladies (1912), and Pretty Mrs. Smith (1914); many in collaboration with lyricist and playwright Henry Blossom. His compositional output also consisted of fourteen operas, two oratorios, Symphony in D minor, the symphonic poem Pompeii, a piano concerto, a piano quintet, numerous works for solo piano, and over two hundred songs. His best known work is the comic opera The Yankee Consul (premiered 1903 in Boston; Broadway production in 1904). Alfred G. Robyn was the son of German composer, organist, and conductor William Robyn (1814–1905). William also founded the music department at Saint Louis University in 1838 and both the St. Louis Brass Band and St. Louis German Vocal Association in 1839. William’s brother (Afred’s uncle), was the cellist, composer, and music educator Henry Robyn. Composer Alfred G. Robyn’s first composition

Alfred Gaul

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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 the age of nine he was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral, and at the age of seventeen he was appointed as the organist of the parish church at Fakenham. In 1859 he moved to Birmingham, where at the age of twenty two he was appointed organist at St. John’s Church, Ladywood. later becoming Professor of Orchestration and Composition at the school. In 1887 he succeeded William Cole Stockley as conductor of the Walsall Philharmonic Society. He taught singing and harmony at the King Edward VI High School for Girls At the time of Gaul’s death in 1913 it was the most performed work of English choral music in history, The Holy City and his earlier cantata Ruth (1881) were also popular in the United States. In 1914, following the composer’s death, his Executors published an announcement in The Musical Times to the effect that they were :“prepared to grant licences to approved applicants (under certain restrictions) to orchestrate Gaul’s The Bard of Avon for a public performance; and are further prep

Alfred Grünfeld

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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 Moritz Grünfeld (born 1817 Kolín nad Labem) and his wife Regina, nee Pick (born 1826 Osek), in Prague – New Town. Moritz Grünfeld was a leather merchant, and Grünfeld grew up in a middle-class, musical Jewish family. His siblings included: the cellist Heinrich Grünfeld; Ludwig Grünfeld, who worked for Deutsche Grammophon, and Siegmund Grünfeld, répétiteur at the Vienna Hofoper. The family lived at Zeltnergasse 38. He gave his first public concert on 12 April 1865 in the Konviktsaal in Prague. Grünfeld then studied under Josef Krejčí and Bedřich Smetana at the Prague Conservatory, and later at Theodor Kullak’s Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin. In the winter of 1871, Gustav Mahler was sent by his father to school in Prague, and boarded with the Grünfeld family. This proved to be an unpleasant experience for the eleven-year-old Mahler, and his wife Alma Mahler reported that his “clothes and shoes were taken from him and worn by others and he had to go barefoot and hungry also”. She also wro

Alfred Hans Zoller

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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 star singers, and appeared in 2004 as a cover version, She. Life Born in Neu-Ulm, Zoller was organist from 1956, then in 1960 also cantor in Reutti near Neu-Ulm. There he founded the “St. Margret Singers”, a gospel choir, which contributed to the fact that elements of jazz and “black music” found their way into German Protestant church services. He composed numerous songs in the genre Neues Geistliches Lied. Legacy Zoller’s song “Stern über Bethlehem” found its way into some regional parts of the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), for example in Bavaria EG 545, in Hesse EG 542, in Württemberg EG 540. In the Catholic prayer and hymn book Gotteslob (GL), the song is printed as GL 261. In the it can be found under the number 265. In some communities it is also sung by the star singers. This makes it one of the most important Christmas hymns of modern times. Compositions * “Lass uns spüren”, 3rd prize at the 2nd competition of the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing 1963 * “Schiff in

Alfred Henry Miles

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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 composer and lecturer. He published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry (The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 10 volumes. (London: Hutchinson, 1891)), warfare (Wars of the Olden Times, Abraham to Cromwell) to household encyclopaedias with information for every conceivable contingency (The Household Oracle: A Popular Referee on Subjects of Household Enquiry), and even advice to the lovelorn (Wooing: Stories of the Course That Never Did Run Smooth by R. E. Francillon and others. Issued as a volume in The Idle Hour Series, London: Hutchinson, 1891 ). He was Guardian of the Poor for six years and a member of the London Borough of Lewisham from 1904 to 1906. He was editor of the Fifty-Two Library, a series of children’s adventure stories published by Hutchinson & Co., London in the 19th century. He compiled some fifty volumes that appeared at five shillings apiece. Selected books * The Fifty-Two Library 52v 1889–1907 *The Poets and Poetry of the Century (ed.) 10v

Alfred Hill (composer)

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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 is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in Wellington before moving to Germany, where he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1887 and 1891 under Gustav Schreck, Hans Sitt and Oscar Paul. Later he played second violin with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, under guest conductors including Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Bruch, and Reinecke. While there, some of his compositions were played with fellow students, and several were published in Germany. These included the Scotch Sonata for violin and piano. Hill returned to New Zealand, where was appointed director of the Wellington Orchestral Society. In 1897 Hill returned to Australia, where he taught for a number of years. He married his first wife, Sarah Brownhill Booth, a New Zealander, on 6 October 1897 in Paddington, New South Wales. They were to have three children, who were given the Wagnerian names Isolde, Tristan and Elsa. and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St Geo

Alfred Janson

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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 journalist Mette Janson. He was first married to actress and singer Grynet Molvig and later to Berit Gustavsen. He made his piano debut in 1962. Among his early compositions is the piano piece November from 1962 and the orchestral Vuggesang from 1963. He composed the ballet Mot solen for the Bergen International Festival in 1969, and in 1991 he was the festival’s principal composer. Career A number of Janson’s works bear the mark of his jazz background, and several of his earliest compositions are written for a jazz line-up, including Patrice Lumumba (1961) for piano, bass, and drums. From 1962 onwards, Janson would gradually focus more on notated music and gained recognition with works such as November (1962) for piano and Vuggesang for 48 strykere og sopran (1963). 1966 saw his orchestral work Konstruksjon og hymne winning the prize for best non-Dutch work at the Bilhoven Festival. The same year also saw Janson’s international breakthrough at the ISCM World Music Days with the work Kanon for

Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire

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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 Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, and for composing the first Iranian national anthem. Life Lemaire was born in Aire-sur-la-Lys and entered the Paris Conservatory in 1855, graduating in flute and composition in 1863. By 1867 he had become Deputy Music Master for the Infantry of the Imperial Guard. When Naser al-Din Shah visited Paris, he admired the French military bands that had welcomed him. At the time Iranian military music had used only traditional drums (naqareh) and trumpets (karnay). On his return to Iran in 1867 the shah asked his ambassador to France, Hassan-Ali Garrussi, to hire a French musician to reorganize his military orchestras along Western European lines. Adolphe Niel, then France’s Defence Minister, selected Lemaire to take up the post. Once in Iran, Lemaire procured western instruments and organized the training of military musicians at the Dar ul-Funun, where his students included Darvish Khan, and Gholam Reza Minbashian (Salar Mo’azez), a leading pioneer of Western classical

Alfred Karindi

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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 Parish. In 1920 he entered the Tartu Higher School of Music where he studied organ under Johannes Kärt and composition under Heino Eller. He graduated in 1927, and then studied under August Topman and Artur Kapp as an external student of organ and composition at Tallinn Conservatory, graduating in 1931. He belonged to the “Tartu school” of musicians who studied under Heino Eller, others being Eduard Tubin, Eduard Oja, Olav Roots and Karl Leichter. Karindi taught music at the Tartu 2nd primary school (1921–1927), Tartu Higher Music School (1925–1928) and University of Tartu (1928–1932). Karindi was organist for Tartu Maarja Church (1925–1929), University of Tartu Church (1929–1933) and Tallinn Kaarli Church (1933–1940). He was known as a skilled improviser on the organ. He also conducted a number of choirs in Tartu and Tallinn from 1925 onward. As conductor of the “Cantate Domino” mixed choir of the University of Tartu Church from 1929 to 1933 he gave concerts throughout Estonia, often pe

Alfred Kunz (composer)

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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 grew up in this rural area. He later moved with his family to Kitchener where he took private music lessons. He studied at Toronto Conservatory of Music as well as privately in composition and conducting in Toronto from 1949 to 1955. In 1965 he completed the state examinations in choral conducting at the Musikhochschule Mainz and was assistant conductor of the opera of the Staatstheater Mainz. He directed the Waterloo Regional Police Male Chorus from 1973 to 1984. In 1985 he founded the Millennium Choir, and served as its director until 2015. Throughout his career Kunz composed hundreds of musical works, many for unaccompanied choir. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Waterloo on June 14, 2001. References External links *Official Website of Alfred Kunz

Alfred La Liberté

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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 an admirer of Marcel Dupré and Nikolai Medtner. Dupré notably dedicated his Variations, Opus 22 for piano to him and Medtner dedicated his Sonata minacciosa, Opus 53 no. 2 and his song The Captive, Opus 52 no. 7 to La Liberté. Most of his own compositions remain unfinished. He also contributed articles to Le Passe-Temps, including one on Scriabin in May 1946. Life and career Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, La Liberté was named after the Canadian sculptor of the same name. He began his piano studies as a teenager with a Miss Malsberg. His later piano teachers included J.-B. Denys, Dominique Ducharme, Romain-Octave Pelletier I, and Émiliano Renaud. In 1902 he entered the Stern Conservatory in Berlin where he studied with such teachers as Ernst Baeker (harmony), Paul Lutzenko (piano), and Wilhelm Klatte (counterpoint and composition) through 1906. The expenses of his education in Berlin were paid largely through grants obtained from the German government after winning a series o

Alfred Lefébure-Wély

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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 closely associated with the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, inaugurating many new Cavaillé-Coll organs. Biography Lefébure-Wély was born in Paris, son of an organist. He studied with his father, Isaac-François-Antoine Lefebvre (1756–1831), who had changed his name to Antoine Lefébure-Wely after being appointed organist of the church of Saint-Roch in the 1st arrondissement. In the manuscript of an unpublished Mass by his father is a note: Within two years of that occasion, Antoine Lefébure-Wely suffered a stroke, paralysing his left side. For the next five years, his son deputised for him. When Alfred was fourteen Antoine died, and the son succeeded the father as official organist of Saint-Roch. A reviewer in La France musicale praised Lefébure-Wely’s technical skill, but advised him to play music of a more serious style than he had developed. Lefébure-Wely, however, continued to perform music of a popular operatic type. When a new Cavaillé-Coll organ was installed at Saint-Roch in 1842,

Alfred Mignault

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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 instrumental works such as songs, works for solo piano, choral works, and works for orchestra. Some his compositions were published by Adélard Joseph Boucher and Archambault Musique. His most well known work is his 1944 Messe brève de requiem. Life and career Born in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Mignault received his earliest musical training from his mother who was an organist trained by Romain-Octave Pelletier I. In 1916 he began studying the piano with Alfred La Liberté. He briefly pursued studies at the Université de Montréal but dropped out to pursue private music studies with pianist Léo-Pol Morin and organists Eugène Lapierre and Émile Lambert. In the early 1920s, Mignault held organist posts briefly at St-Alphonse d’Youville, St-Étienne, Ste-Cunégonde, Ste-Catherine, and St-Georges in Montreal. In 1924 he was appointed organist at St-Enfant-Jésus Church, a position he held through 1957. He also served as that church’s choirmaster from 1944 to 1957. In 1937 he began working as a

Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky

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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 pursued studies in music in his native Soviet Union, where his experiences with vocal music and audio recording were important to his later development. An invitation to play in the Netherlands led him to settle there permanently. Initially composing electronic and multimedia works, a commission that led him to discover Alfred Schnittke’s Choir Concerto eventually resulted in his later works being increasingly influenced by Znamenny and Byzantine chant. Early life and education Momotenko was born in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR on 7 August 1970. His father was a military doctor, as well as a choirmaster and pianist; his mother was a singer and actress. Momotenko said that his later interest in vocal music was determined by his musical upbringing. The serious illness of one of Momotenko’s siblings forced his family to move to warmer regions. They initially went to the Moldavian SSR, then to the Georgian SSR, until they finally settled in the city of Sochi, Russian SFSR. Exposure to the various cultur

Alfred Newman

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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 the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the extended Newman family being the most Academy Award-nominated family with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Mark of Zorro, How Green Was My Valley, The Song of Bernadette, Captain from Castile, All About Eve, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Anastasia, The Diary of Anne Frank, How the West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his final score, Airport, all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. He is perhaps best known for composing the fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox’s productions. Prior to commencing his employment with 20th Century Fox, Newman composed the fanfares which are most often associated with Samuel

Alfred Novello

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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 music publishing. Life J. Alfred Novello was born in London, the eldest son of the famous organist and composer Vincent Novello, who was the father of eleven children; two died in infancy, two survived infancy but died in childhood, and a son died in early manhood. One son and five daughters survived to carry on the family musical tradition. In 1811 Vincent Novello founded the music publishing firm Novello & Co which carries his name, as he issued sheet music on a subscription basis from his own house and continued to do so until his son J. Alfred Novello took over the business in 1829 at the early age of nineteen. Before this business venture, Alfred, as a bass singer, had done some professional singing. In 1836 Novello began publishing The Musical World, a periodical that was the first weekly devoted to music; its publication continued until 1891. In 1842 Novello acquired Mainzer’s Musical Times and Singing Circular. This formed the basis of The Musical Times and Singing Class Circula

Alfred Patusset

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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 de Paris where he won a second solfège medal in July 1869 then a first medal in 1870 First choir director at the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs in 1873 and assistant conductor at the Alcazar in 1885, he became conductor of the Déjazet and Beaumarchais theatres, the Alcazar concert, he Eden-Concert, the Scala and the and ended his career at the Folies-Bergère from January 1901. Also known under the pseudonyms Saint-Amand and Fred Wardal, he is responsible for the music of about sixty songs with lyrics by, among others, Henri Darsay, Adolphe Jost, Eugène Rimbault, Victor de Cottens and Eugène Héros, as well as waltzes and many ballet pieces. Patusset died in Paris at the age of 70 and is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. His son, Raoul Patusset (1876-1956), a banker by profession, was also an actor, playwright, and theatre administrator. Works ;Operette music: * 1881: Nos belles petites, fantasy in 4 acts and 4 scenes, libretto by Amédée de Jallais and Iginio Manzoni, music by Alfred Patu

Alfred Peschek

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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 war, suffered a leg injury and was briefly taken prisoner of war in America. From 1946 he was able to continue piano lessons, received cello and music theory lessons and wrote his first compositions. Due to interruptions in his schooling caused by several months of hospitalisation, he did not complete the Matura until 1951 and then studied church music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as well as art history at the University of Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1957 with a dissertation on the masses of František Tůma. During his studies he was a member of the Akademie-Kammerchor, played organ concerts and appeared as a percussion substitute with the Wiener Symphoniker. Between 1957 and 1968 he wrote music reviews for daily newspapers and specialist journals and was on the staff of the ORF. In 1961, while working as a scientific advisor at the Anton Bruckner Private University, he conducted the first Brucknerfest in Linz and in nearby Sankt Florian, He worked as a f

Alfred Prinz

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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 composition award from the city of Vienna. His compositional output includes 7 symphonies, many concertos, several works for solo piano, songs, and chamber music. In 1998 his Fünf Goethe-Lieder (Five Goethe Songs) were premiered by soprano Caroline Dowd-Higgins for whom Prinz had composed the pieces. As a concert clarinetist, he performed as a soloist with orchestras throughout the world and performed in concerts of chamber music internationally. He recorded for Ariola Records, Decca Records, Deutsche Grammophon, His Master’s Voice, and the Telarc International Corporation among other record labels. Born in Vienna, Prinz began studying the clarinet at the age of 9 at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Leopold Wlach of the Vienna Philharmonic. He also earned a diploma in piano performance, studying from 1942 with Bruno Seidlhofer. He later studied music composition under Alfred Uhl and conducting under Hans Swarowsky. In 1945, at the age of 15, he became a clarinetist i

Alfred Quidant

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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 began studying music and piano in his hometown. In 1831, he went to study at the Conservatoire de Paris, but interrupted his studies to work for Sébastien Érard as piano demonstrator, a job that he held for more than thirty years. He died in Paris. Quidant had a son named R. Alfred Quidant (1856–1933). Selected works * La Fête au village, grande valse * Fantaisie, en forme de valse chromatique * Cantique, ou Fantaisie de Salon, Op. 13 * Mazeppa, grande étude-galop, Op. 21 * Grande étude-valse, Op. 29 * La Marche de l’Univers, fantaisie, Op. 34 * L’Horloge à musique, caprice, Op. 35 References External links *

Alfred Reed

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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, and chamber ensemble to his name. He also traveled extensively as a guest conductor (most notably for the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra after the retirement of Frederick Fennell) and served as a professor at the University of Miami School of Music. Life Alfred Friedman was born on January 25, 1921, in Manhattan, New York City, to Austrian immigrants Carl Friedemann von Mark and Elizabeth Strasser. Because of anti-German sentiment during World War I, Carl changed the family surname to Friedman shortly before having Alfred. Alfred began his formal music training at the age of ten studying cornet at the New York Schools of Music. In 1938, he started working in the Radio Workshop in New York as a staff arranger and assistant conductor. In the early 1930s, Reed hired an agent to help market himself around the New York circles. The agent suggested changing his original surname to something less Jewish- and German-sounding to help avoid discrimination. The agent took a syllable from “Friedman”, sho

Alfred Reisenauer

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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 one of the most important piano teachers and players of his time, Reisenauer became principal professor of piano at the Sondershausen Conservatory in 1885. He was in Liszt’s household when Liszt died in 1886 and was a torchbearer at the side of the coffin during the funeral procession. After beginning to teach piano at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1900, he was eventually appointed director of the same institution where his students included Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Sergei Bortkiewicz, , and Anna Schytte. Reisenauer led a highly successful career as a pianist, especially in Germany and Russia, and was well known for his sensitive playing, especially of Schumann. He also made a speciality of Liszt’s virtuosic piano music. Starting in 1886 he toured Central Asia and Russia as far east as Siberia. On 10 April 1905, he recorded ten piano pieces for the Welte-Mignon player piano for M. Welte & Sohn at the Popper Studio in Leipzig. Reisenauer also set numerous lieder to music. He was known to suffer

Alfred Schnittke

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Schnittke’s father, (1914–1975), was Jewish and born in Frankfurt. He moved to the Soviet Union in 1927 and worked as a journalist and translator from the Russian language into German. His mother, Maria Iosifovna Schnittke (née Vogel, 1910–1972), was a Volga German born in Russia. Schnittke’s paternal grandmother, Tea Abramovna Katz (1889–1970), was a philologist, translator, and editor of German-language literature. Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga German ASSR of the Russian SFSR. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna, where his father had been posted. It was in Vienna, Schnittke’s biographer Alexander Ivashkin writes, where “he fell in love with music which is part of life, part of history and culture, part of the past which is still alive.” “I felt every moment there,” the composer wrote, “to be a link of the historical chain: all was multi-dimensional; the past represented a world of ever-present ghosts, and I was not a barbarian without any connections, but the conscious bearer of the task in my life.” Schnittke’s experience in Vienna “gave him a certain spiritual experience and discipline for his future professional activities. It was Mozart and Schubert, not Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, whom he kept in mind as a reference point in terms of taste, manner and style. This reference point was essentially Classical … but never too blatant.” In 1948, the family moved to Moscow.

Alfred Sittard

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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 pupil of his father, the music teacher and musicologist Josef Sittard (1846-1903), as well as the Hamburg Petri-Cantor Wilhelm Köhler-Wümbach (1858–1926) and the Petri-organist Carl Armbrust (1849-1896). In 1896 and 1897, after the early death of Armbrust, he took over his post as a primate of the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. From 1897 to 1901 Sittard studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Friedrich Wilhelm Franke, Franz Wüllner and Isidor Seiß. He worked as a volunteer conductor at the Hamburg State Opera from 1901 to 1902 and was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship for composition in 1902. In 1903 he became organist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, then in 1912 organist at the newly rebuilt St. Michael’s Church, Hamburg with the then largest church organ of Eberhard Friedrich Walcker. He founded the choir at the Michaelis Church and conducted the Hamburger Lehrergesangverein from 1920 to 1925. In 1925 he was appointed professor for organ playing at the Royal Music Inst

Alfred Stier

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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 went to Leipzig in 1902 to study church music. In Limbach, he received his first position as a full-time church musician in 1904, and in 1911 he went to the Church of Reconciliation, Dresden. He was a Liedermeister and honorary Alter Herr of the "" Erato Dresden". From 1919 to 1945, he was editor of the Sächsische Zeitschrift für Kirchenmusiker, and from 1933 to 1944 he was co-editor of . In 1928 he was one of the Dresden co-founders of the . In 1933, he was appointed regional church music director. In 1947, he went to Ilsenburg, where from 1948 he was the regional singing director of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony. He led numerous singing weeks, courses for choir singing with lay people. He published old church music and composed chamber music, cantatas, choral works and Lieder himself. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald in 1955. He died in Ilsenburg in 1967 aged 86. Work * Die Erneuerung der Kirchenmusik. Kassel 1926 * Leit

Alfred Szendrei

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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 leading conductors and pioneers of German radio. In exile he changed his Hungarian surname “Szendrei” to the Americanized spelling “Sendrey”. Life and career Szendrei was born in 1884 to a Hungarian middle-class family in Budapest (Austria-Hungary); his father was a civil servant. From the age of six he learned to play the piano. At the request of his parents, he first studied jurisprudence at the Corvinus University of Budapest. From 1931 to 1933 he was music director of the Berliner Rundfunk and teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. After his emigration to France, he worked from 1933 to 1940 as program director at Radiodiffusion nationale in Paris. When the Germans attacked France in May and June 1939, he fled to the United States. There he changed his name to “Sendrey”. He first worked as a translator for the United States Department of State. Later he was invited by Abraham Binder to the Jewish community center 92nd Street YMHA in New York City. From 1944 to 1952

Alfred Uhl

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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, receiving a diploma in composition with honours in 1932. He subsequently worked as Kapellmeister of the Swiss Festspielmusik in Zürich. While there he composed scores for a variety of cultural and industrial films. He returned to Vienna in 1938 and in 1940 was drafted into the Austrian Army. From 1940 to 1942 he commanded a French prison camp in Neumarkt. He joined the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy in 1945, where he taught theory, orchestration and composition until his retirement in 1980. One of his notable students was Alfred Prinz. He was the recipient of the Vienna Schubert Prize (1943), the Austrian State Prize (1960), the Vienna Music Prize (1961), the Viennese Gold Medal of Honour (1969) and the Austrian Badge of Honour for Service and Arts (1980). He also served as the president of the Austrian Gesellschaft der Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger (1970) and the Künstler-Union (1976). As a composer, Uhl synthesized elements from neo-classicism, atonality, serialism and trad

Alfred Whitehead

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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 collections, and an internationally recognized authority in the field of philately. His The Squared-Circle Cancellations of Canada received its third edition shortly after his death. Whitehead’s music is tonal and sometimes modal; his output of motets and anthems was extensive and he took particular pride in the anthems Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (with organ accompaniment),Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem, Now God Be with Us, and O Light Beyond Our Utmost Light, the short motets Bread of the World, Grant Us Grace, and Almighty God, Whose Glory. Leo Sowerby, a leading American cathedral organist-composer, described Whitehead’s Benedicite, based on the Gregorian Tonus peregrinus, as the “best Benedicite” he knew. Whitehead’s eight-part motets Watch Thou, Dear Lord (words by St Augustine) and Love Unknown, the Brahmsian organ Prelude on Irby, and his many short carols for Christmas, are also noteworthy. Early life and education Whitehead was born in Peterborough, England, where he received his early mu

Alfredo Antonini

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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 television networks from the 1930s through the early 1970s. In 1972 he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Religious Programming on television for his conducting of the premiere of Ezra Laderman’s opera And David Wept for CBS television during 1971. In addition, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1980. Biography Antonini was born in Alessandria and pursued his musical studies at the Royal Conservatory in Milan. He was a student of the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, whom he first met at the age of thirteen while performing on the celesta in the Italian premier of Igor Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. He distinguished himself as both an organist and pianist with La Scala Orchestra in Milan prior to emigrating to the United States in 1929. His musical talents were shared by his father who served as a member of the Buenos Aires Opera company at the Teatro Colón after leaving Italy for Argentina. In addition, his wife Sandra was a both a piano accompanis

Alfredo Casella

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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 included many musicians: his grandfather, a friend of Paganini, was first cello in the São Carlos Theatre in Lisbon and eventually became soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin. Alfredo’s father, Carlo, was also a professional cellist, as were Carlo’s brothers Cesare and Gioacchino; his mother was a pianist, who gave the boy his first music lessons. Alfredo entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1896 to study piano under Louis Diémer and composition under Gabriel Fauré; in these classes, Lazare Lévy, George Enescu and Maurice Ravel were among his fellow students. During his Parisian period, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky and Manuel de Falla were acquaintances, and he was also in contact with Ferruccio Busoni, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. Casella developed a deep admiration for Debussy’s output after hearing Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune in 1898, but pursued a more romantic vein (stemming from Strauss and Mahler) in his own writing of this period, rather than turning to impressionism

Alfredo Catalani

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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 Illica, and features Catalani’s most famous aria “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana.” This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 film Diva. Catalani’s other operas were much less successful. Life and career Born in Lucca, Catalani came from a musical family. He was trained at the Milan Conservatory, where his teachers included Antonio Bazzini. Despite the growing influence of the verismo style of opera during the 1880s and early 1890s, Catalani chose to compose in a more traditional manner, which had traces of Wagner in it. As a result, his operas (La Wally excepted) have largely lost their place in the modern repertoire, even compared to those of Massenet and Puccini, whose style his own periodically resembles. (Catalani much resented Puccini’s emergence and even accused Puccini, falsely, of plagiarism.) The influence of Amilcare Ponchielli can also be recognized in Catalani’s output. Catalani’s reputation, like Ponchielli’s, now r

Alfredo D'Ambrosio

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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 Sarasate in Madrid and August Wilhelmj in London. He then settled in Nice, rue de Russie 2, and afterwards in Paris, Boulevard de Courcelle 71, and devoted himself to his compositions and his work as a teacher. His cousin Luigi d’Ambrosio was also a violinist and later teacher of Salvatore Accardo. Alfredo D’Ambrosio died in Paris, aged 43. His wife was Blanche Aida Malvano; he had three sons, one of them, Violette d’Ambrosio was a concert violinist and played until mid ‘900, often performing her father’s Violin Concertos. Works Born in Naples, Alfredo d’Ambrosio is the author of the opera Pia de’ Tolomei, based on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the ballet Hersilia, two violin concertos, a string quartet in c minor, Op. 42 (1908) and a quintet, as well as various concert pieces for violin and piano, which had a certain popularity in the early 20th century. His first violin concerto (in B minor, Op. 29, dedicated to Arrigo Serato) was written from April to October 1903 and premiered in

Alfredo Diez Nieto

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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 Art School, and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He founded and conducted the Orquesta Popular de Conciertos. Diez Nieto composed orchestral works including three symphonies and chamber music for various instruments, using and transforming elements from Cuban folk music. Life and career Alfredo Diez Nieto was born in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, on 25 October 1918. He enrolled at the Conservatorio Iranzo in Havana and studied composition, counterpoint, fugue, music history, music theory, orchestration, piano, and pedagogy with professors Rosario Iranzo, Jaime Prats, Juana Prendes, Amadeo Roldán, and Pedro Sanjuán. He completed his education at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar, orchestral conducting with Fritz Mahler and piano with Eduard Steuermann. he taught composition, counterpoint and fugue, harmony, music history, orchestration, and piano at the Instituto Musical Kohly, the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, the National Ar

Alfredo Keil

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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, A Portuguesa. Life Keil was born in Lisbon, the son of the tailor of the court, Johann Christian Keil (later João Cristiano Keil) and his wife Maria Josefina Stellflug, both of German origin. The boy developed an interest in both painting and music; at the age of 12 he composed the work Pensée Musicale and dedicated it to his mother. After studying painting in Munich and Nuremberg with the German romantic painters Wilhelm von Kaulbach and August von Kreling, he returned to Portugal in 1870, due to the Franco-Prussian War. Back home, he developed into a sought-after romantic painter. Painter At the time, the art world was moving towards Realism and Naturalist generation, but Keil still gained success with his melancholic intimate scenes and landscapes. Despite never becoming a full-time painter – also developing interests in poetry and musical composition – he continued painting and exhibiting throughout his life, and left hundreds of works. Predominantly a landscape painter, he also pai

Alfredo Mazzucchi

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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 vasà”. Alfredo Mazzucchi was a composer and mandolinist who, on behalf of the musical publishers, made some adjustments to the original melodies before the publication of the songs; in this capacity he was therefore the co-author, together with Eduardo di Capua, of some well-known pieces of the Neapolitan songs including “”. According to others, however, Mazzucchi was a talented young composer who worked with the already famous Di Capua: Mazzucchi played his compositions, Di Capua listened to them and made some changes, and then published them only in his name. His contributions were not recognized for many years. Only on November 6, 1973, when the publisher “Casa Editrice Ferdinando Bideri” filed a complaint with the Ufficio della Proprietà Letteraria, Artistica e Scientifica (UPLAS) (in English Office of Literary, Artistic and Scientific Property), it indicated Mazzucchi as co-author of between 18 and 23 pieces signed only by Eduardo Di Capua. The Presidency of the Council of Minister

Alfredo Napoleão

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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 being Arthur Napoleão (1843–1925), and Aníbal Napoleão (1845–1880). Biography Their parents were Portuguese, musician Alexandre Napoleão and Joaquina Maria dos Santos. The latter died, when Alfredo was only a year old. The father worked in London, and Alfredo spent his childhood with his maternal grandmother in Porto, his birthplace. In 1858 he was brought to London to study with a certain Professor Wood. These studies continued up to 1868, when he went to Brazil, like his two brothers. In 1869 he gave his debut recital in Rio de Janeiro, with great success. He made an extensive tour through the country and settled in Buenos Aires, and then in Montevideo, where he taught piano. In 1879 he was again in Rio de Janeiro and for some years toured the northern parts of Brazil. At that time he was at the height of his fame. Returning to Portugal in 1882, he gave concerts in Lisbon and Porto, then London and Paris. In 1889 he went to Brazil again and made a tour through the entire continent. In

Alfredo Pignagnoli

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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 Italy. Career Early career Starting from the 1960s, Pignagnoli took part to different bands, both as singer and musician, performing live in the Italian clubs and festivals. He was band member of Le Sfingi (beat music genre), I Marines and Gli Scorpioni. Then he met Ivana Spagna and together they founded the Van Larry band. One year after, Giorgio “Theo” Spagna (brother of Ivana) joined the band and they became the Opera Madre group. Ivana Spagna in her book “Quasi Una Confessione” wrote a section about that period. In the 80’s Pignagnoli and Ivana & Giorgio Spagna opened their own music studio and began to create some jingles for the TV advertisings as well as composing and producing the first success. Career as composer Called “one of the pop maestros of Italy” by Dino Stewart (managing director at BMG Rights Management Italy) on The Music Network, Pignagnoli began his career as composer writing tracks “Colour My Love” and “Happy Station” for the Fun Fun project. Then he composed many dan

Alfredo Rolando Ortiz

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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 important concerts” playing in the delivery room during the birth of his second daughter, on New Years Eve, 1980, and for the birth of a grandson from each of his two daughters. Dr. Alfredo Rolando Ortiz was invited to compose a piece to be premiered on July 22, 2008, during the Tenth World Harp Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Originally created for four harps or harp ensemble, the classical composition, titled “Cumbia Verde,” was performed by 232 harpists. Alfredo was born in Cuba. When he was eleven years old he immigrated with his family to Venezuela. Four years later he began studying the Venezuelan folk harp with his school friend Fernando Guerrero. A year later he became a pupil of Alberto Romero on the Paraguayan harp. Just two years after his first harp lesson, he began medical studies in Medellín, Colombia, began performing professionally and recorded his first album. Music supported his medical studies until graduation. Five years later he moved to the United States to con

Alfredo Sirica

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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 TV series. With his work for the Italian animated series Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa, produced by Rai Ragazzi, he became the first composer of a soundtrack suitable also for children with disabilities such as blindness or autism, merging narration with music therapy. With the third season of The Rising of the Shield Hero, he also became the first Italian musician to work with Kadokawa as music composer for an anime. Career He writes his first soundtrack at the age of sixteen for the feature film Porches and Private Eyes, after winning an online competition promoted by Running Wild Films. In 2017, he is chosen by HeR Interactive and Eric Lindstrom, screenwriter for Tomb Raider, to write the soundtrack for the videogame Odyssey – The Story of Science, promoted by the scientific communicator Vsauce and currently in use in several institutes for educational purposes. During the same year, he worked on the short film Pawns by David Barbeschi, which soon becomes viral, re

Alfrēds Kalniņš

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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 founder of national Latvian opera. Kalniņš is primarily remembered for his national opera Baņuta (1920). Life Kalniņš took piano and violin lessons at an early age. He attended the school of music in Riga. He often visited the Riga theatre, where he could listen to operas and concerts. He made acquaintance with Oskars Šepskis (1850-1914), a composer and organist, who gave him private lessons. From 1897 until 1901 he studied organ and composition at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. After a short stay in Riga, which he spent writing a series of songs, he accepted a post as an organist at the Saint Nicholas Church in Pärnu in 1903. At present Pärnu is located in Estonia, but then it belonged to the Russian Governorate of Livonia. Kalniņš also gave music lessons at the local grammar school and conducted the school choir. In Pärnu his son Jānis Kalniņš, who would become a composer too, was born in 1904. Kalniņš stayed in Pärnu until 1911. In that year he took the post of organist at the Church o

Algernon Ashton

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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 at the Leipzig Conservatory as a pupil of Carl Reinecke and Theodor Coccius. He later studied at Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt under Joachim Raff. Modern recordings of four of the highly virtuosic piano sonatas and two cello sonatas have been released. The Tarantella for clarinet, Op. 107, has also been recorded. In later years Ashton became well known for his many letters to English newspapers concerning the upkeep of the graves of distinguished people. These letters were published in two volumes - Truth Wit and Wisdom and More Truth Wit and Wisdom published by Chapman & Hall. Ashton was also well known for keeping a daily diary for the majority of his life from the age of 15 running to some 58 volumes. The diaries and the unpublished works are believed to have been destroyed during the Blitz when his family home was hit by German bombs. Recordings * Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1, Leslie De’ath, Dutton Epoch CDLX 7248 (2010) ** No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 164 (published 1925) ** No. 5 in

Ali Ahmadifar

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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. Works * “Where are you, o thou fairy?"(An Iranian variation) was performed by MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2006. * one of his works was performed by valid flute soloist Reza Najfar in 2008, Rasht. * “Minimove” (An Iranian variation for flute and strings) was performed by Camerata symphony orchestra led by Keyvan Mirhadi in 2008, Rasht. * “Bâng – e Robâb” was performed by the Avram ensemble in 2011. * Radio contemporary music program editor and writer in Iranian radio broadcast network culture, 1999-2000. * The founder and first conductor of Gilan sinfonietta orchestra and choir, performing concert at Vahdat Hall, September 2007. Lectures * Concepts and specification of Music * International Customary instruments and symphony orchestra * Composition * Orchestration * Variation * Canon and Fugue * Sonata * Form * Symphony from the beginning until today * Opera from the beginning until today * Concerto from the beginning until today * Chamber music from the beginning until today *

Ali Darmar

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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. Later he became a private student of Ayşegül Sarıca. He has a degree in Pharmacy. In 1974 he moved to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger and Annette Dieudonne privately, when he was also a registered student in Alfred Cortot’s Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, where he studied with Germaine Mounier, Monique Deschaussées and Cécille de Brunhoff. Darmar had scholarships from UNESCO (1976) and the French government (1981). He graduated from the composition department of the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory, under the direction of Francine Aubin, then got another degree in composition from Jacques Castérède’s class in the Ecole Normale De Musique. He came back to Istanbul in 1987 and became a piano teacher. He taught at Bilkent University from 1990 to 2000, and later at YTU Art and Design Faculty, until he retired in 2014. Darmar was encouraged to compose by his piano teacher, Ferdi Statzer. One of his first compositions, “Aşkın Elinden”, for piano and soprano, was performed by Suna Korat in 19

Ali Radman

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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 foundation and basic theory topics of music by his father, Mohammad Hassan Radman, from early age. He was improving his knowledge of basic elements of music, piano playing, and the theory of Iranian music under the conservatory teachers’ supervision. At the same time, he was a sophomore in the field of electronics at Kerman University. In 1990, he was a member of UNIMA as a composer and in 1995, he was accepted as a bachelor student in the field of music at the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran. In composition, he is an art graduate of the school of Alireza Mashayekhi. Besides music composing, he improved his knowledge of Iranian music repertoire through Majid Kiani ’s lessons, the basics of ethnomusicology through Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh. He acquired the techniques of piano playing under the supervision of . He learnt techniques of orchestra conducting from Edo Mičič, Manuchehr Sahbaei and Iradj Sahbaei as well. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts-University of Tehran.

Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann

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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 formative years were spent in a variety of countries. She married violinist Frederick William Kellermann; their daughter Annette Kellermann was a long-distance swimmer, vaudeville entertainer, film actress, and educator. Alice and Frederick established a music school in Phillip Street, Sydney, and Alice became a distinguished figure on Sydney’s concert scene. She gave many afternoon recitals at gatherings at Phillip Street and at her home in Potts Point, and appeared in many larger concerts. After moving to Melbourne in 1901 without her husband, Alice became a music teacher at Simpson’s School, Mentone, where she commanded a high fees because of her experience and the high results she obtained with students. In 1907 she retired to Paris, but continued giving concerts. Her piano students included Dame Nellie Melba, composer Lydia Larner and May Summerbelle Works * 1892 Saltarella in A minor * 1898 Le train du diable, galop de concert * Ye Olde English Dances * Tarantella * Mappari * Brise

Alice Crane Williams

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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 education Alice Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, the daughter of Arthur Edward Crane and Ella M. Beardsley Crane. Her brother was confectioner Clarence Arthur Crane, the inventor of Life Savers candy, and her nephew was poet Hart Crane. She graduated from Hiram College, and pursued further music studies in Europe. Career Crane was a pianist, composer, and lecturer. Her compositions were called “quite modern in trend and of immense interest” by a 1926 publication. She also taught music. Crane gave a performances of her recent works at the National League of American Pen Women conference in Washington in 1926, and at the Poetry Society of America’s annual concert in New York in 1927. She was president of the Composers and Authors Association of America in the 1940s. From 1945 to 1964, Williams edited American Weave, a literary journal based in Cleveland, with her husband, Loring Eugene Williams. Compositions * “Mountain Harmony” (1926) * “Touch Me Not” (1926) * “In the Cathedral” (1954,

Alice Doria-Gamilla

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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 sell a million copies. It became the signature song of Pilita’s musical television show An Evening with Pilita and was later recorded by Bobbi Martin of the Jackie Gleason Show in the United States under Coral Records. The song was recorded in seven languages. Born in Nagcarlan, Laguna, Philippines, Doria-Gamilla could play the piano by ear at the age of three and began formal instruction when she was six. She was raised in an atmosphere of music teaching by her mother (Socorro Plantilla Cuento), father (Santos Montañano Doria) and elder sister (Consuelo Cuento Doria). She completed Elementary Teacher’s Certificate at the National University. She first worked as a critic teacher for two years at the Elementary Department of National University. She became the pianist of the Division City schools of Manila, and a demonstrator and choral conductor of teachers and children’s group. As a new discovered composer in 1964, she was featured as a pianist playing her own compositions in The Tele

Alice Ho (composer)

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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 piano recital for CBC Radio 2. Her works have been featured at music festivals including the ISCM World Music Days, Ottawa Chamberfest, the CRUSH New Music Festival in Denmark and Asian Music Week in Japan. Her work has been performed by ensembles and solo performers including the China National Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Choir, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Penderecki String Quartet, violist Rivka Golani and percussionists Sumire Yoshihara and Beverley Johnston. She has received awards from the 2014 Prince Edward Island Symphony Composers Competition, the 2014 Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Friendship Orchestral Composition Competition, the 2013 Boston Metro Opera International Composition Competition, the du Maurier Arts Ltd. Canadian Composers Competition, the MACRO (Macro Analysis Crea

Alice Mary Smith

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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 sacred and secular. Biography Smith was born in London, the third child of a relatively well-to-do family. She showed aptitude for music from her early years and took lessons privately from William Sterndale Bennett and George Alexander Macfarren, publishing her first song in 1857. In November 1867, the year of her marriage to a lawyer, Frederick Meadows White, she was elected Female Professional Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society. In 1884 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. The same year, after a period of illness in which she went abroad to try to recover, she died of typhoid fever in London and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. Music Smith was a prolific composer, writing for a diverse range of ensembles. Among her chamber compositions are four piano quartets, three string quartets and a clarinet sonata (1870), perhaps the first British example, anticipating sonatas by Swinnerton Heap, Prout, Tovey and Stanford. Her orchestral compositions includ

Alice Maynard Griggs

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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. Maynard was born in Decorah, Iowa, the daughter of Guy C. Maynard and Colena Emogene Moore Maynard. Her father was a carpenter from New Hampshire and a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War, and her mother was from Vermont. She attended the Dana Musical Institute in Ohio, and the Chicago Art Institute. and arts critic for Musical America, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and Pacific Coast Musician, among other publications. She was a founder and longtime press chair of the Long Beach Musical Arts Club. Her compositions were part of a program at the Woman’s Music Study Club in Long Beach in 1924. Griggs was treasurer of the Long Beach Art Association. Her painting “Zinnias and Gourds” was part of the Association’s 1933 show. Two of her paintings, “Gourds” and a still life featuring “anemones and a brass basket”, were part of the Association’s show at the Ebell Club in 1935. She won a state prize for her painting “California Dahlias” in 1937. She exhibited her paintings in Palos Verdes in

Alice Nāmakelua

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“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 slack-key guitar and a master of the Hawaiian language. Nāmakelua was a mentor of other musicians and wrote around 180 songs of her own. As a teenager, she sang for the deposed queen, Liliuokalani. Nāmakelua spent most of her life on O’ahu. Nāmakelua would work on the Maui float for the parade, starting in 1944. While working for the city, she also taught hula, Hawaiian language and music classes. She was also the playground director. In 1978, she was one of the special award winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts. In 1980, she received a Na Makua Mahalo ia award, which was originally developed to recognize the musical accomplishments of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Selected works Songs * Haleakalā Hula (originally, Kuahiwi Nani 1941) * I‘iwi a‘o Hilo (1950) * Aia i Hilo ka Ua Kani Lehua (1956) * Hanohano nō ‘o Hawai‘i (1958) * Aloha K’olau (1959) * Lei Hala O Kaua’i (1959) * Polynesian Welcome (1967) * Ka’ahum

Alice Parker

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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 born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1925, to Gordon Parker, who worked in the hardwood business, and Mary Shumate Stuart, who founded and directed a plastics laminate company. Career Having begun her career as a high school teacher, Parker also collaborated with Robert Shaw on arrangements of materials to be recorded by the Robert Shaw Chorale, In addition to her work with the Chorale, Parker wrote a total of 5 operas, 11 song-cycles, 33 cantatas, 11 works for chorus and orchestra, 47 choral suites, and more than 40 original hymns. She also arranged spirituals, hymns, and folk songs, including French, Spanish, Hebrew, and Ladino folk songs, many of which have become part of the repertoire of choirs around the world. Having divided her time between a New York apartment and her home in Hawley, Massachusetts, Parker decided, at the age of 70, to move permanently to Singing Brook Farm in Hawley, which her father had purchased in 1920 and where she had spent her childhood summers.

Alice Samter

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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 studying piano, improvisation, choral work and school music at Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory and the Academy of Music in Berlin. In 1945 she received a degree in music and became a teacher in the Spandau schools where she began to compose school opera. After she retired from teaching in 1970, she became a composer full-time. She was a member of several organizations of composers, including GEDOK Berlin, the International Working Group on Women and Music and the International League of Woman Composers (USA). Her work has been performed internationally, and in 1988 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In 1999 she established the Alice Samter Foundation at the Berlin University of the Arts to support music students at the university. She also donated funds to the Berlin State Library for the purchase of Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn manuscripts. Samter’s family home was destroyed by a bomb during the war and she moved with her mother and adopted sister to an apartment i

Alice Sauvrezis

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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 as president of the Société Artistique et Littéraire de l’Ouest she promoted Celticist music and culture in France. Life and music Little is known about Alice Sauvrezis’ life. She was born in the Breton city of Nantes where she worked as a piano teacher. She studied first with César Franck and later with Ernest Guiraud and Paul Vidal. She joined the Paris-based Société Artistique et Littéraire de l’Ouest in 1891 and became its president in 1920. The society organised concerts of “Celtic” music (contemporary “classical” music in a Celticist style) and poetry readings in so-called “Soirées celtiques” at Sorbonne university that included the creative output of Breton, Norman, and Irish composers, writers and artists. During 1913–1914 she was also the only female member of the short-lived Association des Compositeurs Bretons. Her published music consists mainly of songs as well as piano and chamber music. There is also a limited number of choral and orchestral compositions. As a moral supp

Alice Shields

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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 cross-cultural operas. Her work is influenced by non-Western forms of music drama including Indian Bharata Natyam and Japanese Noh Theater, and has been performed by the New York City Opera VOX Festival of New American Operas, the Akademie der Künste and SAVVY-Contemporary in Berlin, the Venice Biennale, NYC-Electroacoustic Music Festival, American Chamber Opera Company, The Composers Chamber Theater, The American Virtuosi Baroque Opera Co., Association for the Promotion of New Music, New York Consort of Viols, American Composers Alliance, Ensemble Pi, Iktus Percussion, Dance Alloy (Pittsburgh), and the Arangham Dance Theater (India). Education Shields earned three degrees from Columbia University including the Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition, studying with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Jack Beeson, Otto Luening and Chou Wen-Chung. She served as Associate Director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and Director for Development of the Columbia University Computer Music

Alice Verne-Bredt

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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 returned to Germany and retained the original family name). Life and career The sixth of ten children, Her father, a music teacher who specialised in zither, violin, and piano, worked as an organist. Her mother was a violinist who taught her the violin from a very early age. Later in her childhood she moved to London, where she lived all her life, Alice wanted to become a singer, but typhoid fever affected her voice. It was recorded in 2005 by the Summerhayes Piano Trio. Chamber music * Cello Sonata * Phantasie Piano Trio (1908) – performed at the Aeolian and Bechstein Halls on 25 January 1912. * Phantasie Piano Quartet (1908) (unpublished) * Phantasie Piano Quintet (no date, unpublished) * Piano Trio, No. 2 * Piano Trio, No. 3 * Wiegenlied (lullaby) for violin and piano (1911) Piano music * Arrangement of Pavane: from King Henry VIII’s Pavyn (1924) * Four easy inventions for young pianists (1920) ** Musical box ** The little drum ** Concert study ** The doll’s promenade * Polacca (Polka)

Alicia Adélaide Needham

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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 Albert Hall, London, and the first female president of the National Eisteddfod of Wales (in 1906). Life Needham was born in Oldcastle, Co. Meath, daughter of John Wilson Montgomery (1834-1911), master of the Bailieborough Workhouse and a clerk to the poor law board of guardians; he was also an antiquarian, contributing to local newspapers on the subject, and produced some books of poetry, becoming known as the “Bard of Bailieborough”. The family subsequently lived at Downpatrick in County Down. She went to boarding school in Derry for four years and spent the following year in Castletown, Isle of Man. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, first for one year only (most likely the academic year 1880–1): piano with the Irish pianist and composer Arthur O’Leary, harmony and counterpoint with Francis William Davenport and occasionally with George Alexander Macfarren and Ebenezer Prout. It is not clear what she did in the intervening three years before she resumed her studies in 188

Alicia Terzian

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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 Conservatory of Buenos Aires under Alberto Ginastera, Gilardo Gilardi, Roberto García Morillo and Floro Ugarte. She received a degree in piano in 1954 and a degree in composition in 1958. In 1962 she continued her studies in electronic music and medieval Armenian church music with Father Leoncio Dayan at the Mekhitarist Monastery of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice. After completing her studies, Terzian taught music in Argentina at the National Conservatory, the Municipal Conservatory of Buenos Aires, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and at the Art Institute of the Teatro Colón. She founded the Fundación Encuentros Internacionales de Música Contemporánea (EIMC) festival in 1968 and the Grupo Encuentros in 1979. Terzian has served as a member of the Music Council of UNESCO, is Vice President of the International Women’s Council of UNESCO, Vice-President of the Argentine Composers Association, general secretary of the Argentine Society for Musicology, founder of the Latin-American Music Cou

Alicia Urreta

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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 Nacional de Música in Mexico City, studying harmony with Rodolfo Halffter, and other topics under Hernández Moncada, León Mariscal, and Sandor Roth. In 1969, she studied with Jean-Etienne Marie at Schola Cantorum of Paris, France. She also studied piano instruction from Alfred Brendel and Alicia de Larrocha. She later worked as a concert pianist for the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. She also taught at the University of Mexico and was an instructor in acoustics at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional of Mexico City. In 1984, she had begun organizing musical festivals to promote Mexican and Spanish contemporary music, collaborating with Spanish composer Cruz de Castro. She premiered her Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in 1982. She died in Mexico City in 1987. Works Urreta composed, among other works, a chamber opera, five ballets, pieces for solo instruments, a cantata, incidental music, a musique concrète composition for Noh theater and film scores. Stage *

Alissa Firsova

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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, she moved to the UK in 1991. In 2001 she won the BBC/Guardian/Proms Young Composer Competition with her piano piece “Les Pavots”. She graduated from Purcell School as a composer and pianist in 2004, and Royal Academy of Music as a pianist in 2009, where she also developed her conducting studies with Paul Brough. In 2009 she entered the Conducting Postgraduate Course in Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Colin Metters. Her piano teachers included Tatiana Kantorovich, Valéria Szervánszky, James Gibb, Simon Mulligan, Hamish Milne, Ian Fountain, and Stephen Kovacevich. Among her composition teachers were Jeoffrey Sharkey, Richard Dubugnon, Jonathan Cole and Simon Speare. She also participated in workshops and master classes with composers Nicholas Maw, Simon Holt, Anthony Gilbert, David Bedford, David Matthews, and Mark-Anthony Turnage. She had her Wigmore Hall debut in May 2009, followed by a Royal Albert Hall debut playing Stravinsky’s Les Noces in the Proms festival in August. H

Alistair Hinton

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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. Career and works Hinton, a native of Dunfermline, Fife, began studying music at the age of eleven; following the advice of Benjamin Britten, he studied at the Royal College of Music, where Humphrey Searle and Stephen Savage were among his teachers. Although he began composing at an early age, he later destroyed most of his pre-1985 output. His Op. 1 was a piano sonata (1962); although part of it was lost soon after it was written, the composer responded to a private request in 2020 to reconstruct it. His other compositions include sonatas, variations and other works for piano, a violin concerto (dedicated to Jane Manning), songs (amongst them settings of Rabindranath Tagore, Hinton’s Opp. 7 and 9), works for the organ, a string quintet (for two violins, viola, cello, double-bass and soprano, and lasting for 2 hours and 45 minutes in performance), and a Sinfonietta. They include homages to Karol Szymanowski (Szymanowski-Etiud, Op. 32, for 18 wind instruments), Richard Strauss (Passeggiata S

Alla Pavlova

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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 moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1990, where she has settled. She is best known for her symphonic work. Biography Soviet life During the Soviet era, the Pavlova family was transferred to Moscow in 1961. There Alla received her bachelor’s degree in 1975 from the Ippolitov–Ivanov Music Institute, and in 1983 her master’s degree from the Gnessin State Musical College. She studied with Armen Shakhbagyan, a composer with a reputation established in the 1970s, and paid special attention to the works of Anna Akhmatova. This influenced a good part of her output until the 1990s. Following the achievement of her master’s in 1983, Pavlova moved to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where she worked at the Union of Bulgarian Composers and the Bulgarian National Opera. She returned to Moscow three years later. From 1986, Pavlova worked for the Russian Musical Society Board in Moscow, before relocating in 1990 to New York City. American life Lieder and chamber music Following her arrival in New York, Pavl

Allan Blank

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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 from Washington Square College (1948). He received a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota (1970) and also studied at the University of Iowa. He was a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1950–52). He taught composition at Western Illinois University (1966–68), Paterson State Teachers College (1968–70), Lehman College (1970–77), and at Virginia Commonwealth University (1978–96). In 1985 he received a commission from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Presenting Organization to compose “Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet” for the Roxbury Chamber Players. Other awards mentioned in his University of Akron Bierce Library Archives composer profile are: First Prize in the George Eastman Competition (1985) sponsored by the Eastman School of Music for his Duo for Bassoon & Piano, and a grant (1985) from the National Endowment for the Arts to support his one-act opera, The Magic Bonbons. The Virginia Shakespeare Festival at Williamsburg commissioned Blank to write m

Allan Gilliland

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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 (trumpet) from Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the University of Alberta. His teachers were Violet Archer, Malcolm Forsyth and Howard Bashaw. He has written music for solo instruments, orchestra, chorus, brass quintet, wind ensemble, big band, film, television and theatre. His works have been performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, ProCoro Canada, the Canadian Brass, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the New York Pops, the Hammerhead Consort, and the brass section of the New York Philharmonic. From 1999 to 2004, Gilliland was Composer in Residence with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, composing nine major works, including concerti for violin, and two harps. Dreaming of the Masters I (2003), a jazz concerto written for clarinet soloist James Campbell, is perhaps his most popular work, and received its American premiere by the Boston Pops in 2004. Dreaming of the Masters II - GEB, a jazz rhapsody for piano and orchestra written for William Eddins and jointly

Allan Gordon Bell

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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 studied with Violet Archer, Malcolm Forsyth, and Manus Sasonkin, after completing undergraduate studies in philosophy. He also did advanced studies in composition at the Banff Centre for the Arts where his teachers were Jean Coulthard, Bruce Mather, and Oskar Morawetz. He has created works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, band, and electroacoustic media. Bell is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, for which he served as President of the National Board from 1984 to 1988. From 1978 to 1980, and from 1985 to the present, he has been a professor of composition and music theory at the University of Calgary, where he helped to create the Department of Music’s doctoral programme. He served on the jury of the 2002 SOCAN Awards for Young Composers and was a composer-in-residence at the 2001 Cantai Festival in Taiwan. In the works of Bell one can hear the influences of prairie cultures and scenes and the sounds of nature, which he illustrates with orchestration. I

Allan Gray (composer)

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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 life and education Gray was born Józef Żmigrod in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary, (present-day Poland) into a musical family: his father was a concert violinist. He studied philosophy in Heidelberg and later Berlin, where he composed a children’s opera, Wavelength ABC. There (during the 1920s) he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg, funding himself by composing jazz-influenced music for the cabaret. He later wrote music for Max Reinhardt’s theatre productions. As Schoenberg disapproved of such music, Żmigrod took up the stage name Allan Gray, naming himself after Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. Career Gray began writing film scores in the Weimar Republic. His films there included Emil and the Detectives (1931) and The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932). and the following year they settled in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, where they lived in Bois Lane. Like many of his fellow émigré composers he was arrested (on June 26 1940) as an “enemy alien” and taken to Liverpool, and from there interned on the Isle o

Allan McIver

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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 was the longtime accompanist and arranger for Trio lyrique. He had a long and fruitful relationship with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, serving as a music director, composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist for nearly four decades. Early life, education, and career Born in Thetford Mines, McIver grew up in Sherbrooke. In his youth he studied the violin and the flute and was a piano student of Alfred Whitehead. He later studied harmony with Oscar O’Brien. He started his performance career playing for silent films in Montreal in 1926. He began performing on Canadian radio programs as a pianist and singer (baritone) around 1930. In the early 1930s, he started appearing as a concert pianist with orchestras like the Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra. The TL continued to perform actively in public concerts and on CBC Radio programs like The Play of the Week, Light Up and Listen. and Serenade for Strings up until the mid-1960s when it disbanded. The group re-united briefly in the autumn o

Allan Pettersson

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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 the last great symphonists, often compared to Gustav Mahler. Pettersson’s music has a very distinctive sound and can hardly be confused with that of any other 20th-century composer. In the final decade of his life, his symphonies (typically one-movement works) developed an international following, particularly in Germany and Sweden. Of these, his best known work is Symphony No. 7. His music later found success in the United States. Gustaf Allan Pettersson was the youngest of four children. His father, Karl Viktor Pettersson (1875–1952), was a violent, alcoholic blacksmith, in Stockholm’s Södermalm district, where he lived throughout his life. He once said: With his parents and siblings, Pettersson lived in a damp, one-room basement apartment with bars on the window. Through strict self-discipline and with the help of music, Pettersson freed himself from his social misery and difficult family circumstances. He later made two unsuccessful attempts to enter the conservatory of the Royal Sw

Allan Rae (composer)

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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 member of the Canadian League of Composers, he is particularly known for his works for the theatre which include several musicals and operas as well as incidental music. He has been commissioned to write music for productions mounted by the National Arts Centre, the Shaw Festival, and the Stratford Festival, as well as Theatre Passe Muraille, Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, and the Globe Theatre, Regina. Between 1985 and 2000 he was composer-in-residence at Alberta Theatre Projects. He has also written numerous symphonic and many chamber works, including commissions for the Calgary Philharmonic and the Calgary Youth Orchestra. His music has been performed by Carol McLaughlin, Gloria Saarinen and Cenek J. Vrba among others. Rae studied composition and arranging at the Berklee College of Music. He later studied electronic music and composition with Samuel Dolin at The Royal Conservatory of Music from 1970 to 1973. He began his career as a trumpeter in the Band of Lord Strathcona’s H

Allan Stephenson

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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 Royal Manchester College of Music before moving to Cape Town in 1973 to join the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. He retained the position of associate principal cello until the CTSO closed in 1997. After landing in Cape Town on 13 January 1973, he quickly became involved teaching cello at SACS, and managed these two jobs until his fiancée Christine arrived from England to also teach at SACS. They were married in July 1973. He directed the UCT College Orchestra from 1978 to 1988 and taught as a part-time lecturer of both cello and composition at the University of Cape Town. Stephenson has written over 110 works including a large number of instrumental and chamber pieces, three operas, two symphonies and concertos for Piano, Oboe and Piccolo. Works Operas *The dark tale (1991) *Who killed Jimmy Valentine (1995), based on the novel with the same title by South African writer Michael Williams *Animals, based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm and written with Willem van der Walt and Michael Willi

Allard de Ridder

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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 Orchestra, the latter of which he founded in 1944. As a composer he produced several orchestral works, including a violin concerto, four symphonic poems, a Sketch for flute, violin, and orchestra, Overture in D, and Intermezzo. He also wrote a string quartet, the scherzo Beware of Love for a cappella choir, and a number of songs. Early life and career in Europe and the United States De Ridder was born in Dordrecht, Netherlands, as the son of Eudia Lina Pierson and Willem de Ridder, banker, cellist and president of the Dordrecht Music Society. From 1899 he studied violin in The Hague with Carl Bayer, and between 1903 and 1909 he studied violin and conducting at the Cologne University of Music under Fritz Steinbach and Hermann Abendroth. His conducting career started in Arnhem. Here Willem Mengelberg saw him and was so impressed that he invited him to be guest conductor with his Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. He later conducted the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague, where he took c

Allardyce Mallon

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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 Surrey and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, then subsequently studied piano and conducting at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1990 to 1994. Mallon’s style of composition has evolved over the last two decades. His early style was strongly influenced by his teachers Kenneth Leighton and James MacMillan, along with a number of American composers among them John Adams and William Schuman. His more recent work has crossed disciplines and has been permeated by influences spanning contemporary architecture, theatre and traditional diatonic elements. His “Visions and Interludes”, premiered in Chicago in 1997, demonstrates architectonic elements as represented by sonic structures. His many compositions include his 2008 Alba Song for Panpipes and Orchestra, which has been performed by the Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra (VDE Gallo). Mallon also demonstrates great skills at arranging and orchestration. For the Meiningen Opera he arranged Poulenc’s L

Allee Willis

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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 & Fire and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” by Pet Shop Boys featuring Dusty Springfield. She won two Grammy Awards for Beverly Hills Cop and The Color Purple, the latter of which was also nominated for a Tony Award. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for “I’ll Be There for You”, which was used as the theme song for the sitcom Friends. Her compositions sold over 60 million records and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. In June 2024, Willis was also inducted posthumously into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame. Early life Willis was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where she attended Mumford High School. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a journalism major, was a member of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority and later became an activist, “marching and demonstrating” during the 60s. Willis also wrote songs for artists including Debby Boone, Rita Coolidge, Crystal Gayle, Sister Sledge, Jennifer Holliday, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Cyndi La

Allen Cohen (composer)

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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 College and Master of Fine Arts in Music Composition from the State University of New York at Purchase. He received a doctorate in composition from the City University of New York, where he studied with Thea Musgrave, Bruce Saylor, and David Del Tredici. Awards Allen Cohen has received a Meet the Composer grant and several ASCAP Plus awards. Compositions Cohen’s work includes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and voice. His pieces on compact disc include Autumn Morning for orchestra (Vienna Modern Masters), Duo-Partita for cello and guitar (Artek), Grace for piano solo (New Ariel), Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (Song of Myself) and Wings of Desire for flugelhorn and piano (Capstone). He has written incidental scores for films and off-Broadway plays, and has arranged dance music for five Broadway musicals. Performance career He has conducted many operetta and musical theater productions on Broadway and elsewhere, and has performed extensively as a pianist. Teaching c

Allen Shawn

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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 1977. He has written a dozen orchestral works, including a symphony, two piano concertos, a cello concerto, and a violin concerto; three chamber operas; five piano sonatas and many additional works for piano; and a large catalogue of chamber music, songs and choral music. Among Shawn’s available recordings are several of chamber music, four CDs of piano music, including a CD devoted to his piano work by German pianist Julia Bartha, a piano concerto performed by Ursula Oppens with the Albany Symphony Orchestra under the direction of David Alan Miller, and the chamber opera The Music Teacher, with a libretto by his brother, Wallace Shawn. As author Shawn is the author of a book about Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey, and a book about Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician. He is also the author of Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life, which examines his experiences with anxiety and panic disorder, as well as his relationship with

Alliance for Women Film Composers

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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 Composers was founded in 2014 by Lolita Ritmanis, Laura Karpman, and Miriam Cutler. Its advocacy work includes a searchable online directory of women composers, interpersonal support, and live concerts. Leadership Current Source: * Co-Presidents: Heather McIntosh, Allyson Newman * Vice President: EmmoLei Sankofa * Secretary: Daisy Coole * Treasurer: Thomas Mikusz * Executive Director: Alexandra Borden * Board of Directors: ** Alexandra Petkovski ** Aisling Brouwer ** Arbel Bedak ** Carla Patullo ** Connor Cook ** Holly Amber Church ** Jenna Fentimen (UK) ** Lili Haydn ** Mandy Hoffman ** Raashi Kulkarni ** Sandrine Rudaz ** Taura Stinson ** Zoë Lustri Past * President: Catherine Joy * President: Lolita Ritmanis (2017-2019) Founders * Lolita Ritmanis * Laura Karpman * Miriam Cutler References External links *

Alliene Brandon Webb

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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 Robert Barron Webb in 1934. Webb completed a B.A. degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she lived for the rest of her life. She studied voice with Peter Tchach, and was a soloist and choir director at Park Cities Baptist Church for 12 years. She continued composing and also gave piano lessons until her death in 1965. Webb’s compositions were published by Carl Fischer Music, Chas. H. Hansen Music Corporation, Edward B. Marks Music (now Carlin America), Leeds Music Corporation (see Lou Levy), and Theodore Presser Company. Her compositions include: Orchestra *Sleepy Head (also arranged for medium voice) Piano *“Hop Scotch” (1955) *“Skates on the Zuider Zee” (1955) *Three Piano Solos in Early Grades (1953) Vocal *Are He Gone, Have He Went *Endless Song (mixed chorus) *Father, Teach Me to Pray (mixed chorus) *He’s Walking with Me (mixed chorus) *Hosanna to His Name (Christmas anthem; mixed chorus) *“Last Night I Walked in the Garden” (medium voice) *“Mule’s Tail” (medium voi

Allison Cameron (composer)

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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 such as the electric guitar. She is also a performer of free improvisation and experimental music. Early life and education Cameron was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and moved with her family to North Vancouver. She studied at the University of Victoria and York University. She has cited Michael Longton and Rudolf Komorous as significant influences. Career Cameron moved to Toronto in 1989. She founded a six-piece chamber ensemble, Arcana, in 1992, which performs a contemporary composition repertoire. Cameron’s 1998 composition, “Retablo”, was commissioned through the Canada Council for the Arts to be played by the classical music quartet The Burdocks. Her 2000 release, Ornaments, features her compositions performed by violinist Marc Sabat, pianist Stephen Clarke, and clarinetist Ronda Rindone. Cameron has worked with Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk, Per Nørgård, and Frederic Rzewski in Europe, and Rudolf Komorous, Michael Longton, and James Tenney in Canada. She was a member of the

Allison Loggins-Hull

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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 named the Daniel R. Lewis Composition Fellow of the Cleveland Orchestra, a three-season residency, in 2022. The Cleveland Orchestra released an album of her music in 2026, titled Allison Loggins-Hull: The Cleveland Residency, the orchestra’s first portrait album of work by a living composer. A second album of her chamber works, Patchwork, was released in 2026 as well, performed by Cleveland Orchestra Musicians alongside Loggins-Hull. She is the New Jersey Symphony’s Resident Artistic Partner. She was named 2026 Susan D. Boyd Composer-in-Residence at the Spoleto Festival USA. Her work has been commissioned and performed by institutions including The Knights, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Seattle Symphony, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The National Orchestral Institute, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Roomful of Teeth, and Third Coast Percussion. Loggins-Hull wrote the original score for “Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back”, a documentary about Maurice Hines

Alluri (musician)

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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 cites The Smiths, Joy Division, David Bowie, The Doves and Nick Cave as influences on his work. Franz Ferdinand ) on the single Evari Kosam (For Who’s Sake), his first recording to feature vocals performed in his native tongue, Telugu. His 2018 single Don’t Lose Touch With was recorded with Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols after Matlock saw and tweeted a video of Alluri’s live Telugu language cover version of Anarchy in the UK. When asked by Indian press as to what got him working with Alluri, Matlock said, “If somebody knows what they’re doing, they have some drive, and they’ve got a certain degree of accomplishment on their instrument, they kind of look alright. I think he’s got all of that. I find him interesting.” Matlock produced the single, working with Alluri and Tommaso Colliva in Italy. In interviews supporting the release of his 2018 Telugu language album O Katha: Tales of This Telugu Man, Alluri has stated that following the release of his 2015 album he experienced an identit

Allyn Ferguson

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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 (1976—1981), which he co-wrote with Jack Elliott. In its obituary, Variety called him “among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years.” After graduating from San Jose State University, he traveled to Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger and at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. During the 1970s, he collaborated extensively with composer Jack Elliott, co-writing the themes to Barney Miller and Charlie’s Angels. University of Southern California music historian Jon Burlingame called the themes “iconic in the sense that most people who were around in that era can easily recall those tunes”. Discography * Pictures at an Exhibition Framed in Jazz (1963) * Kenneth Patchen Reads With Allyn Ferguson And The Chamber Jazz Sextet (1983) * Master Of The Game (1984) * The Film Music of Allyn Ferguson Volume 1 (1993) * The Film Music of Allyn Ferguson Volume 2 (1994) * The Film Music of Allyn Ferguson Volume 3 (1997) See also * * References External links * *

Alma Bazel Androzzo

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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 formal musical education but was introduced to the piano at the age of five by her father Carl Frederick Bazel, who was a truck driver. She is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago. Published songs * If I can help somebody published by Boosey & Hawkes Ltd., London 1945 * Bless His name published by Martin and Morris Music Inc., Chicago Illinois 1950 * Keep marching on published by Martin and Morris Music Inc., Chicago Illinois 1950 * Deliver me from evil published by Martin and Morris Music Inc., Chicago Illinois 1950 * I’ll make it somehow published by Martin and Morris Music Inc., Chicago Illinois 1950 * I will walk with Jesus published by Martin and Morris Music Studio, Chicago Illinois 1952 * He’s such a great Saviour published by Martin and Morris Music Studio, Chicago Illinois c.1952 * Little me published by Hill and Range Songs Inc., New York City 1956 * Live in the sunlight published by Boosey & Hawkes, London 1964 * I have something to give copyright Alma Bazel Androzzo 17 Januar

Alma Deutscher

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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, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta, and its U.S. premiere a year later. Deutscher’s piano concerto was premiered when she was 12. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2018. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019 in a concert dedicated to her own compositions. Background and education Alma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England. She is the daughter of literary scholar Janie () and linguist Guy Deutscher. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Her strong affinity to music was apparent from an early age. She could sing in perfect pitch before she could speak, and she could read music before she could read words. She received a little violin

Alma Goatley

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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 Savoie, and raised in London, the daughter of British parents Grafton Goatley and Louisa Goatley. She won the Chappell Pianoforte Prize in 1911 at the Royal Academy of Music. Career Goatley composed music for recital songs and as settings for poems. She also taught harmony at Redhill, and performed as a diseuse at the piano. A 1919 reviewer found her “charming, both in her singing and in her fascinating humour.” In 1922, she was one of the composers featured at a concert of works by women composers in London, sharing the bill with composers including Ethel Smyth and Katharine Emily Eggar. She was president of the Society of Women Musicians from 1935 to 1936, during its “jubilee” year. Compositions * Four Nursery Rhymes (1912) * “As I hear your dainty Footstep” (1915) * “Now that April’s there” (1917, lyrics by Robert Browning) * “A Garden is a lovesome thing” (1917, with Thomas Edward Brown) * “A Dream Ship” (1918, lyrics by Crosbie Garstin) * “Hush-a-bye-low” (1918) * “Nesting-time” (1919

Alma Sanders

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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 was born in Chicago, Illinois. She studied music there, and sang in concerts and as a church soloist. Music On Broadway, Alma Sanders’ compositions and songs were heard in the shows The Voice of McConnell (1918–1919), Tangerine (1921–1922), Elsie (1923), The Chiffon Girl (1924), Princess April (1924), Oh! Oh! Nurse (1925–1926), Mystery Moon (1930), and Louisiana Lady (1947). She also co-wrote the score of a film, Ireland Today. included “Two Lips are Roses”, “Honeymoon Home”, “Sweet Lady”, “Every Tear is a Smile (in an Irishman’s Heart)”, “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!”, “Sleepytime Rag: Pickaninny Lullaby” (1914, lyrics by Florence Cooke), “Some Pepp” (1915), “Along the Road to Singapore” (1915, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), “That Dear Old Mother of Mine” (1915, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), “Dance of the Teenie-Weenies” (1916), “Ev’ry Sammy needs his smokin’ over there” (1917, lyrics by Monte Carlo), “Hong Kong” (1917, lyrics by Richard Pascoe), “The Wild Irish Rose That God Gave Me” (1917,

Almir Chediak

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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 Lebanese immigrant family and grew up on the state of Minas Gerais. He showed an early aptitude for music, starting guitar lessons at 7. As he moved to live in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 13, he started studying guitar under the instructions of reputed guitarist of that time Dino 7 Cordas. Precociously at age of 17, Chediak already began working professionally as a guitar instructor and also scoring soundtracks for films directed by Jece Valadão and others, also writing string and horn arrangements for recording sessions. Still young, he recorded a single with the actress and Belgian model living in Brazil Annik Malvil, introducer of the little tube dress fashion in the 1960s. His students included the likes of Gal Costa, Nara Leão, Cazuza, Tim Maia, Carlos Lyra, and Elba Ramalho, among numerous others. In 1984, Almir Chediak launched his first book “The Dictionary of Notated Chords” and in 1986 he founded his own publishing house, the “Lumiar Record”. At the same year, he launched his sec

Alois Gobbi

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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 Alois Gobbi-Ruggieri born in Mantua, Italy, to an aristocratic family was a violin professor in Pest, where he settled after his marriage with Viennese singer Maria Roth, mother of Alois junior. Alois Gobbi Jr was a younger brother of the Liszt pupil Henri Gobbi (1841–1920) and a grandfather of the actress Hilda Gobbi (1913–1988). Career He studied singing with Mathias Engesser and Gotthard Wöhler, composition and piano with Carl Thern, and violin with Karl Huber (musician) (father of Jenő Hubay) and David Ridley-Kohne at the National Conservatory in Budapest. After 1862 during one year he studied in Munich violin with Ferdinand Laub, whom he also assisted. In 1863 he was invited as first violinist at the National Theatre in Budapest. He held this position as well as orchestra director during the next 19 years. From 1884 to 1888 he played in the Royal Opera House orchestra. He was also a first committee member of the Budapest Philharmonic Society. In 1871 Gobbi was invited to teach violin a

Alois Hába

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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 microtonal music, especially using the quarter-tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones (e.g., in the 5th, 10th and 11th String Quartets), fifth-tones (Sixteenth String Quartet), and twelfth-tones. From the other microtonal conceptions, he discussed a “three-quarter tone” system (see three-quarter tone flat and the neutral second) in his theoretical works but he used scales in this tuning in sections of some of his compositions. In his prolific career, Hába composed three operas, an enormous collection of chamber music including 16 string quartets, piano, organ and choral pieces, some orchestral works and songs. He also had special keyboard and woodwind instruments constructed that were capable of playing quarter-tone scales. Life Alois Hába was born in the small town of Vizovice in Moravian Wallachia, into a family of 10 children. When he was five years old it was discovered that he had absolute pitch. He and his family often played and sang their native Wallachian folk songs, ac

Alois Ickstadt

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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 children’s choir to adult groups for the state broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, namely the Figuralchor Frankfurt which he founded in 1966 and conducted until 2011. Life Ickstadt studied music pedagogy at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. He also studied piano with Erich Flinsch, composition with Kurt Hessenberg and conducting with Walther Davisson and Karl Maria Zwißler. * Kritzel-Kratzel und was nun?Spannendes Hörspiel., audio play, 25712 XAW. Ariola Eurodisc. Munich 1979 * Bach: St John Passion, Sonntag, Browner, Kraus, Schramm, Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann (live recording at St. Gallus, Flörsheim), Opus 27042. Cappella Wiesbaden 1989 * Andrei Volkonsky: Der 148. Psalm and others. Wergo WER 6601-2. Schott Wergo Music Media. Mainz 1996. * Gedenk-Konzert, works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert. Melisma 7139/40-2. Cappella Wiesbaden 1998 * Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem. Melisma 7177-2. Cappella Wiesbaden 2001 * Mendelssohn: Elias. Frankfurter Museumsgesellschaft. Frankfurt am

Alois Melichar

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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, then of Franz Schreker at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, but later became increasingly culturally conservative. From 1923 to 1926 Melichar was in the Caucasus, where he collected materials on Caucasian folk songs. He then lived in Berlin and Vienna. As a composer, he followed the safe footpath of Max Reger, Hans Pfitzner, and Paul Graener; he wrote a symphonic poem, Der Dom (1934); Rhapsodie über ein schwedisches Volkslied (1939); Lustspiel-Ouvertüre (1942); lieder; and film music. Under contract to UFA he composed music for many films during the National Socialist period. After World War II Melichar became increasingly polemic in his attacks on modernist music. His pamphlets include Die unteilbare Musik (“Indivisible music” 1952), Musik in der Zwangsjacke (“Music in the Straitjacket” 1958), and Schönberg und die Folgen (“Schoenberg and his Consequences” 1960). Selected filmography * Court Waltzes (1933) * Night in May (1934) * Song of Farewell (1934) * Farewell Waltz (1934) * The Yo

Alois Mizandary

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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, which would decades later evolve into the Tbilisi State Conservatory. Biography Alois Mizandary was born in Gori, Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire. Between 1855 and 1863, he studied at the Faculty of Oriental Languages of St. Petersburg University. He performed with the university’s symphony orchestra. During his time there, he knew Mily Balakirev and Anton Rubinstein, who influenced Mizandary’s later work. Mizandary performed throughout Europe and received praise for his concert performances from various newspapers of the time. In 1874, Mizandary co-founded a music school in Tbilisi, which would grow into the Tbilisi State Conservatory by 1917. Mindary’s piano works are one of the earliest Georgian exemplars of their kind. Many works are presumed to be lost, including four-part masses composed for the Tbilisi Catholic Church. Mizandary died in 1912 and is buried at the Didube Pantheon. References Bibliography * მიზანდარი ლ., მიზანდარი (მონოგრაფია), „გრიფონი“ 2011; * ქართული საბჭ

Alois Taux

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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 was born in Baumgarten, in Silesia (now Braszowice in Poland); he showed musical talent at an early age, and during school years he learned to play violin and organ, and composed church pieces. He took lessons in piano and organ from the organist at the abbey of Camenz (now Kamieniec Ząbkowicki). He was admitted to Prague Conservatory in 1834, where he studied with Bedřich Diviš Weber and the horn player Johann Nepomuk Janatka. In 1837 he joined the theatre orchestra in Graz, playing second violin and later horn. In 1839 he went to Linz, where he was assistant director of the theatre orchestra. He founded in 1847 the Salzburger Liedertafel, a men’s choir, of which he was musical director to 1850 and from 1858 until his death. He became in 1858 choirmaster of the Salzburg Singakademie. Invited to conduct at various venues, he travelled to Germany, Belgium, England and France; an autograph collection, preserved by the Salzburger Liedertafel, shows that he met cultural figures including Hec

Aloísio de Oliveira

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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 internationalization of Brazilian popular music, he contributed to Carmen Miranda’s career abroad with his own musical ensemble: Bando da Lua, which he founded in 1929 with Hélio Jordão Pereira, Afonso Osório, Stênio Osório, Armando Osório, Osvaldo Éboli, Ivo Astolfi, Diego Astolfi and some other cousins of the latter for a total of 12 people. With the death of Miranda in August 1955 the group disbanded. Back in Brazil, Aloísio directed the command of Odeon Records, then created his own record label: the Elenco, producing dozens of discs and launching important names of bossa nova as Tom Jobim. Biography Aloísio graduated in dentistry, but never practiced this profession. From an early age, he had a strong relationship with music. In 1929, Aloísio joined Bando da Lua band and already in 1931 the group recorded their first album 78 rpm, in which he sang one of the two tracks, samba Tá de Mona. Later, in 1939, he traveled to the United States with his group to accompany Carmen Miranda (with whom he had a

Alojz Ajdič

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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 symphony, named Window of the Soul. In 1997, he received the Prešeren Fund Award for his third symphony, entitled Symphony for Percussion and Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, he received the Kozina Award, bestowed by the Society of Slovenian Composers. In 2012, his work Concert for Trombone and Orchestra was performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. In April 2012, Ajdič’s Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra was performed in Huddersfield by the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra, with guest soloist, Rebecca Robertson. The composition received great acclaim. Avdič listened to it in the honorary lodge in the company of the mayor of Huddersfield and the leadership of the orchestra. Works Among the more notable Ajdič’s works are: * Phantasy (Slovene: ; 1971) * Colour Vision (; 1972) * Concert Music for Horn and Orchestra (; 1978) * Concert for Piano (; 1988) * Mirage (; 1984) References See also *List of Slovenian composers

Alonso Lobo

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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 Victoria himself considered him to be his equal. Biography Lobo was born in Osuna, and after being a choirboy at the cathedral in Seville, he received a degree at the University of Osuna, and took a position as a canon at Osuna´s collegiate church sometime before 1591. In that year, the Seville Cathedral appointed him as assistant to Francisco Guerrero, and he later became maestro de capilla during Guerrero’s leave of absence. In 1593, Toledo Cathedral hired him as maestro de capilla; he remained there until 1604, when he returned to Seville, where he died. Lobo’s music combines the smooth contrapuntal technique of Palestrina with the sombre intensity of Victoria. Some of his music also uses polychoral techniques, which were common in Italy around 1600, though Lobo never used more than two choirs (contemporary choral music of the Venetian school often used many more — the Gabrielis often wrote for as many choirs as there were choir-lofts at St Mark’s Basilica). Lobo was influential far be

Alonso Mudarra

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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 as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar. Biography The place of his birth is not recorded, but he grew up in Guadalajara, and probably received his musical training there. He most likely went to Italy in 1529 with Charles V, in the company of the fourth Duke of the Infantado, Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana. When he returned to Spain he became a priest, receiving the post of canon at the cathedral in Seville in 1546, where he remained for the rest of his life. While at the cathedral, he directed all of the musical activities; many records remain of his musical activities there, which included hiring instrumentalists, buying and assembling a new organ, and working closely with composer Francisco Guerrero for various festivities. Mudarra died in Seville, and his sizable fortune was distributed to the poor of the city according to his will. Mudarra wrote numerous pieces for the vihuela and the four-course guitar, all contained in

Alonso Xuárez

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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 of Las Descalzas Reales of Madrid. He worked as chapel master in the cathedrals of Cuenca and Seville. The historiographical ambiguity about the nature of this prominent polychoralist persisted until 2011, when Profesor of Music at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, José Luis de la Fuente Charfolé, managed to locate his birth certificate in the parish of San Juan Bautista in the town of Fuensalida (Toledo). En la parroquial de Fuensalida en veintiocho de abril de mil y seisçientos y cuarenta años yo el licenciado Alonso del Caño y Robles, cura propio de la dicha villa bauticé a Alonso, hijo de Juan Bautista y de Ana de la Fuente, su mujer, el cual nació a catorce de abril de este año, fueron sus padrinos el licenciado Francisco Díaz Romo, y comadre mayor doña Maria Romo y Aguilar, su hija, y se les advirtió el parentesco espiritual que contraían con este bautizado y con sus padres, y lo firmé, Juan Ximenez. His works are distributed among the cathedrals of Cuenca and Seville; individu

Aloÿs Claussmann

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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 at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, where he obtained first prizes in piano and organ, before winning the Grand Prix of the Ministry of Fine Arts in 1872. The following year, he settled in Clermont-Ferrand, where he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral. The new Merklin organ was inaugurated in 1877 by Edmond Lemaigre, the first holder. Claussmann succeeded him in 1888 until his death in 1926. A virtuoso interpreter, he chose to pursue his entire career in the Puy-de-Dôme area, while a Parisian position would have been readily accessible to him. He also founded the Conservatory of Clermont-Ferrand in 1909, directing it until his death. Although he wrote many works for piano as well as chamber music and vocal music, it is to the organ that he reserved the essential and most characteristic of his production, with about 350 compositions, fully in the post-Romantic music that he celebrated with brilliance but yet with sensitivity. He fulfilled his duties as organist o

Aloys Fleischmann

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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. Both were musicians, both graduates of the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. His father, Aloys Fleischmann senior of Dachau, organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St Anne, Cork and his mother, Tilly Fleischmann née Swertz (1882–1967), born in Cork to German parents, pianist and piano teacher. Fleischmann was educated in Scoil Íte, the school founded by Terence MacSwiney’s sisters in 1916, in Christian Brothers College, Cork, and in St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris. He graduated from University College Cork with a BA in 1930, was awarded the BMus in 1931, an MA in 1932, and a doctorate in music (DMus) from the National University of Ireland in 1963. In 1932, he went on to study composition, conducting and musicology at the Academy of Music and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Joseph Haas. Career Fleischmann returned to University College Cork in 1934; he held the position of professor of music there until 1980. When Fleischmann took up his post in 1

Aloys Fleischmann (Senior)

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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 only child of the Dachau shoemaker and founding member of the Dachau choir, the Liedertafel, Alois Fleischmann (1844–1914) and of Magdalena née Deger (1846–1928). From 1887 to 1894 he attended the Dachau primary school for boys. He was given private classes in music, music theory and Latin and in 1896 he was admitted to the preparatory two-year course at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich. Having passed the entrance examination, he studied there from 1898 to 1901 taking the subjects organ, conducting and, with Josef Rheinberger, composition. He graduated with first class honours in all subjects. In January 1902 he was appointed organist and choirmaster to the parish church of St. Jakob in Dachau. There he founded a choir school and a school of music, in which children could learn music and purchase instruments at minimal cost. With the support of musician friends in Munich and members of the artists’ colony of Dachau (Hans von Hayek, Adolf Hölzel, August Pfaltz, Hermann Stockmann) he

Alpha Yaya Diallo

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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 third, and was nominated another three times. Biography Diallo was born in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. When Guinea gained its independence from France in 1958, its Marxist first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, launched a cultural program aimed at the rediscovery and support of “Guinea’s music, arts, dance and languages.” Diallo recalled that, “At the time every family had a member who was being trained in music.” or 12, He won the Best World Artist-Solo at the inaugural Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2006. He plays with Ghanaian guitarist Pa Joe Diallo, Adam Solomo and Mighty Popo in African Guitar Summit. In addition to the guitar, he also plays the balafon and the djembe. * 2005: Djama (Jericho Beach Music) – nominated for a Juno Award * 2010: Immé (Jericho Beach Music) References External links *

Alphons Czibulka

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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 Podhradie ( ) district of Spiš () in Upper Hungary, now Slovakia. He first came to prominence from the age of 15 touring Southern Russia giving piano recitals and concerts. He eventually became musical director at the French Opera in Odessa and at the National Theatre in Innsbruck, in 1865 he was second under Franz von Suppé as conductor at the Carl Theatre in Vienna. From 1866 to 1869 he served as a military bandmaster in Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment No. 17 in Bolzano. From 1869 to 1870 he held the same position at the “23ern” in Petrovaradin and then, until 1871, with Infantry Regiment No. 20 in Kraków. Success as conductor and composer in the military led Czibulka onwards to Kapellmeister for Infantry Regiment No. 25 in Prague from 1872 to 1880. In 1880 he was appointed representative of Austria-Hungary’s military orchestra at the International Exhibition in Brussels. There he won First Prize at the exhibition’s Internationalen Musikkapellenkonkurrenz. When Rudolf, Crown Prince

Alphons Diepenbrock

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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 brought up in a prosperous Catholic family. Although he showed musical ability as a child, the expectation was that he would enter a university rather than a conservatory. He studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his doctorate cum laude in 1888 with a dissertation in Latin on the life of Seneca. The same year he became a teacher, a job which he held until 1894, and decided to devote himself to music. As a composer, he had been completely self-taught from an early age. He created a musical idiom which, in a highly personal manner, combined 16th-century polyphony with Wagnerian chromaticism, to which in later years was added the impressionistic refinement that he encountered in Debussy’s music. His predominantly vocal output is distinguished by the quality of the texts used. Apart from the Ancient Greek dramatists and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, he was inspired by, among others, Goethe, Novalis, Vondel, Brentano, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Verla

Alphonse Duvernoy

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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 in Paris and became a student of Antoine François Marmontel, François Bazin, and Auguste Barbereau at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied piano from 1886. He subsequently made his career as a piano virtuoso, a composer and professor of piano at the Conservatoire. He composed operas, a ballet, symphonic and chamber music works, as well as music for piano. His 1880 symphonic poem La Tempête for soloists, chorus and orchestra after William Shakespeare’s The Tempest won the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris in 1900. Duvernoy counts composer Alexander Winkler (1865–1935) and Norah Drewett de Kresz (1882–1960) among his students. His brother was singer and pianist Edmond Duvernoy. He died in Paris. Selected works ;Stage * Sardanapale, opera in 3 acts (1882, Paris, Concerts Lamoureux); libretto by Pierre Berton after Lord Byron * Le Baron Frick, operetta-pasticcio in 1 act (1885, Paris); libretto by Ernest Depré and Charles Clairville * Hellé, opera in 4 acts (1896, Opéra de Paris); libr

Alphonse Hasselmans

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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 Strasbourg, which was led since 1854 by his father Joseph Hasselmans (1814–1902). He continued his studies with Gottlieb Krüger (1824–1895) in Stuttgart and with Ange-Conrad Prumier (1820–1884) in Paris. He began his performing career in the orchestra of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. A series of eight solo concerts in Paris in 1877 resulted in contracts for performances as a soloist with several Paris orchestras. At the death of Prumier in 1884, Hasselsmans succeeded him as professor of harp at the Conservatoire de Paris where he had Caroline Luigini as assistant, a position he held until his sudden death in Paris at age 67. Hasselmans trained a generation of the most important French harpists of the 20th century, including Henriette Renié, Marcel Tournier, Carlos Salzedo, Marcel Grandjany, Lily Laskine, and Pierre Jamet. He became a French citizen in 1903. Hasselmans’ daughter, Marguerite Hasselmans (1876–1947), was a concert pianist; she was also the mistress of Gabriel Fau

Alphonsus Liguori

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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 philosopher, and theologian. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, in November 1732. In 1762, he was appointed Bishop of Sant’Agata de’ Goti. A prolific writer, he published nine editions of his Moral Theology in his lifetime, in addition to other devotional and ascetic works and letters. Among his best known works are The Glories of Mary and The Way of the Cross, the latter still used in parishes during Lenten devotions. He is also associated with the manualist tradition of moral theology and seminary education, which was highly influential in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was canonised in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1871. A frequently cited Catholic author, he is the patron saint of confessors. Early years He was born in Marianella, near Naples, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, on 27 September 1696. He was the eldest of seven children of Giuseppe Liguori, a naval officer and Captain of

Alun Davies (guitarist)

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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 English musician Cat Stevens from early 1970 to 1977. Prior to his association with Stevens, Davies co-wrote, sang, and played on two albums: in 1963, with Jon Mark (known then as John Michael Burchell), and in 1968, as a member of the band Sweet Thursday with Mark, keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, Harvey Burns and Brian Odgers, when folk-rock music was still in its infancy. When their label declared bankruptcy, Davies was invited to join Cat Stevens as a session musician, who was attempting to change his sound and advance in the music world. Davies’ experience, similar tastes in the emerging folk-rock genre, and capabilities with guitar and voice placed him in a pivotal role in Stevens’ career, resulting in hit songs and a string of RIAA platinum certified breakthrough albums. Two such albums, Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat, propelled Stevens to stardom and a stellar musical career, and solidified a friendship between the two men. Davies, who recorded a solo album after a f

Alun Hoddinott

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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, Glamorganshire, Wales. His first major composition, the Clarinet Concerto, was performed at the Cheltenham Festival of 1954 by Gervase de Peyer with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir John Barbirolli. This brought Hoddinott a national profile, which was followed by a string of commissions by leading orchestras and soloists. These commissions continued up to his death, and he was championed by some of the most distinguished singers and instrumentalists of the 20th century. These include singers such as Dame Margaret Price, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Sir Thomas Allen, Jill Gomez, Sir Geraint Evans and more recently Claire Booth, Helen Field, Gail Pearson and Jeremy Huw Williams. Instrumentalists have included Ruggiero Ricci, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dennis Brain, Osian Ellis, Cecil Aronowitz, Nia Harries, Roger Woodward and John Ogdon to name a few, and more recently euphonium player David Childs, cellist Kathryn Price, trombonist Mark Eager and song pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen. Hoddinott was prolific, writi

Álvaro Carrillo

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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 the great hits Amor mío, Sabor a mí, Como se lleva un lunar, El andariego, Luz de luna, Sabrá Dios, Seguiré mi viaje and La mentira. Early life and education Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón was born in 1921 to a father of Spanish descent and a mother of Indigenous Mixtec and African descent. He came from a very humble family as they lived in extreme poverty . His father owned three cows which he believed made him a “rich” man. Since his father was a farmer who came from a long line of farmers, he was eagerly set on keeping all his sons within his family’s business. A young Alvaro was not interested in obeying his father’s wishes and would often hide instead of working. Carillo would spend his time reading poetry, as he was fascinated by Greek mythology from an early age. At the age of eight, his mother died. Into his adolescence, he had discovered an interest in the guitar. As he grew older, his musical talent developed following the many types of music while growing up in San Juan Cacahuatepe

Álvaro Cassuto

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

Alvin Curran

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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 co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran’s music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds. He was a professor of music at Mills College in California until 2006 and now teaches privately in Rome and sporadically at various institutions. He is an artistic advisor at the American Academy in Rome. His works include solo performance pieces such as Endangered Species, TransDadaExpress, and Shofar; radio works such as Crystal Psalms, Un Altro Ferragosto, I Dreamt John Cage Yodeling at the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, and Living Room Music; large-scale musical choreographic works such as Oh Brass on the Grass Alas, for 300 amateur brass-band musicians, and the Maritime Rites series of performances on and near water; sound installation works such as Magic Carpet, Floor Plan, The Twentieth Century, and Gardening with John; chamber music such as For Cornelius for piano, the trio Schtyx, the st

Alvin Etler

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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 complex compositional style, taking inspiration from the works of Bartók and Copland as well as the dissonant and accented styles of jazz. Though he played with the Indianapolis Symphony in 1938, he abandoned his orchestral life shortly thereafter to focus on his increasingly successful compositional career (which earned him two Guggenheim Fellowships during this period). In 1942 he joined the faculty at Yale University as conductor of the university band and instructor of wind instruments, where he began his studies with Hindemith. He also taught at Cornell University and University of Illinois before accepting a position at Smith College, which he held until his death. Notable works include his two woodwind quintets (from 1955 and 1957), a bassoon sonata, the 1963 “Quintet for Brass Instruments”, and “Fragments” for woodwind quartet. Etler is also the author of Making Music: An Introduction to Theory, an introductory-level theory text published posthumously in 1974. Works list Orchestral

Alvin Lucier

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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, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which also included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of Lucier’s work explores psychoacoustic phenomena and the physical properties of sound. Early life Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. was born on May 14, 1931, in Nashua, New Hampshire, to Kathryn E. Lemery, a pianist, and Alvin Augustus Lucier Sr., a lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Nashua from 1934 to 1937. He was educated in Nashua public and parochial schools; the Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Yale University; and Brandeis University. In 1970, Lucier left Brandeis for Wesleyan University, where he would remain until his retirement. In 1972, Lucier became a musical director of the Viola Farber Dance Company, a position he held until 1979. Personal life Lucier was married to his first wife, Mary, until their divorce in 1972. He then married Wendy Stokes; they had one daughter and remained together until his death. Other works Other ke

Alvin Singleton

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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 (B.A.), studying with Hall Overton and Charles Wuorinen. Singleton then moved to study at Yale School of Music (M.M.), studying with Yehudi Wyner and Mel Powell. Singleton was a Fulbright Scholar, he studied with Goffredo Petrassi at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1971-1985. After living and working in Europe for fourteen years, Singleton returned to the United States to become a Composer-in-Residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1985-88). He subsequently served as Resident Composer at Spelman College in Atlanta (1988-91), as UNISYS Composer-in-Residence with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (1996-97), and was the 2002–03 Composer-in-Residence with the Ritz Chamber Players of Jacksonville, Florida. In addition, he has served as Visiting Professor of Composition at the Yale University School of Music. Awards * Recipient of 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship Singleton’s music shows the evidence of a wide range of influences - “from Mahler to Monk, Bird to Bernstein, James Baldw

Alwynne Pritchard

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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 Gwyn Pritchard. She studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has a Master’s degree in Musicology and a PhD in Composition from the University of Bristol. Her work combines her skills as a composer, singer, actor, physical performer and violinist with her interest in text, costume and video. Alwynne’s performances, compositions and installations have been presented around the world and in 2005 her electro-acoustic composition Decoy, created at the Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg for the Donaueschingen Musiktage, received the special prize given by the Foundation Ton Bruynèl, STEIM and the Foundation GAUDEAMUS. In 2019, she was nominated by BIT Teatergarasjen for the Bergens Tidende Audience Award (Publikumspris) and in 2024, her work Counting Backwards was nominated for Work of the Year (Årets Verk) by the Norwegian Society of Composers. In 2016, Alwynne was awarded the commission to create a fanfare or ‘marker’ to celebrate the opening of the University of B