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Amadeo Roldán

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Amadeo Roldán y Gardes (Paris, 12 June 1900 – Havana, 7 March 1939) was a Cuban composer and violinist. Roldán was born in Paris to a Cuban mulatta and a Spanish father. It was his mother, the pianist Albertina Gardes, who initiated her children to music (his sister María Teresa was a mezzo-soprano and his brother Alberto a cellist). Roldán came to Cuba in 1919 after studying music theory and violin at the Madrid Conservatory, graduating in 1916. He became the concertmaster (leader of the first-violin section) of the new Orquesta Sinfónica de la Habana in 1922. In the mid-1920s he was appointed concertmaster of the Orquesta Filarmónica of Havana (he would assume the position of conductor in 1932) and founded the Havana String Quartet. During this period, Roldán, one of the leaders of the Afrocubanismo movement, wrote the first symphonic pieces to incorporate Afro-Cuban percussion instruments. Roldán’s best-known composition is the 1928 ballet La Rebambaramba, described by a critic of the era as “a multicolored musicorama … depicting an Afro-Cuban fiesta in a gorgeous display of Caribbean melorhythms, with the participation of a multifarious fauna of native percussion effects, inc

Amalia Larraín y Vicuña

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Amalia Larraín y Vicuña (married name Amalia Larraín de Armstrong; 16 June 1832 – 14 July 1928) was a Chilean composer, socialite and philanthropist. Biography Larraín was born on 16 June 1832 in Santiago to and María de las Mercedes Vicuña. Larraín’s 1922 composition was based on the work of , and was created to benefit the victims of the Vallenar earthquake. Larraín and Armstrong had three children. On 14 July 1928 Larraín died in Santiago, aged 96. References

Amalie Scholl

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Amalie Karoline Luise Scholl Gatspar (28 September 1823 - 18 September 1879) was a German composer who wrote songs and works for piano. She published under the name Amalie Scholl. Scholl was born and died in Dresden. Little is known about her education or her husband, Gatspar. She composed some piano pieces, as well as the following songs: Works *“Abendfriede” opus 4 no. 2 (text by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) *“Aus dem Frühlingstagebuch” opus 4 no. 1 (text by Emanuel Geibel) *“Mein Kirchlein” opus 2 no. 4 (text by Carl Ebersberger) *“Reue” from Drei Lieder, (text by Emanuel Geibel) *“Siehst du das Meer?” from Drei Lieder (text by Emanuel Geibel) *“So schlaf in Ruh!” (text by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) References

Amanda Aldridge

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Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge, also known as Amanda Ira Aldridge (10 March 1866 – 9 March 1956), was a British opera singer and teacher who composed love songs, suites, sambas, and light orchestral pieces under the pseudonym of Montague Ring. Born into an artistic family, the Aldridge legacy included her father who was a successful African-American Shakespearian actor, Ira Frederick Aldridge. He was dubbed the ‘African Roscius’ when he first starred as Othello at the Royalty Theatre in London. Her mother, Amanda Brandt, was a Swedish opera singer. Amanda’s sister, Luranah Aldridge was a star operatic contralto in Europe and the United States. Aldridge studied voice under Jenny Lind and George Henschel at the Royal College of Music in London, and harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Bridge and Francis Edward Gladstone. Career After completing her studies, Aldridge worked as a concert singer, piano accompanist, and voice teacher. A throat condition ended her concert appearances, and she turned to teaching and published about thirty songs between the years 1907 and 1925 in a romantic parlour style, as well as instrumental music in other styles. Among her pupils were the child

Amanda Black

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Amanda Benedicta Antony (born 24 July 1993), known professionally as Amanda Black, is a South African singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Gcuwa, her career began in 1999 at the age of 6 singing in church choirs. Amanda was a contestant on Idols South Africa season 11. Black relocated to Johannesburg in 2016 to pursue her music career. She signed a record deal with Ambitiouz Entertainment in 2016 and achieved recognition in the same year following the release of her hit single “Amazulu”, which was nominated for several music awards. Her debut studio album Amazulu (2016), was commercially successful and won “Album of the Year”, “Best Newcomer of the Year,” “Best Female Artist of the Year” and “Best R&B Soul/Reggae Album”. In 2019, she was named the most-streamed artist on Apple Music. Amanda’s third studio album, Mnyama was released in 2021. It was preceded by two singles; “Kutheni Na” and “Let It Go”. Early life and education Amanda Benedicta Antony is Xhosa. She was born on 24 July 1993 in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and grew up in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, where she spent most of her early life; she also lived in East London. She later moved to Port Elizabeth, wher

Amanda Jones (composer)

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Amanda Jones is an American composer and musician who has composed scores for films, commercials, and television series. She is a member of the indie rock band The Anti-Job and has earned the distinction of becoming the first African American woman nominated in a score category at the Emmys for her work on the Apple TV+ series Home. Life Jones was born on October 26, 1988, in Columbia, Maryland and began playing piano at the age of three and guitar around the age of fourteen. Jones attended Vassar College intending to study chemistry but subsequently changed her major to music. Her work during that time included the films How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Kingsman: The Secret Service. In 2018, Jones got an opportunity to score her first feature film, One Angry Black Man. Jones has since scored numerous short and feature films, including Andre Hormann’s documentary feature Ringside; Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan’s Oscar-nominated documentary St. Louis Superman; and Sujata Day’s feature film Definition Please. Jones television credits include OWN’s anthology series Cherish the Day, produced by Ava DuVernay; BET’s Twenties produced by Lena Waithe; HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show produced b

Amanda Röntgen-Maier

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Amanda Röntgen-Maier (20 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female to graduate with the title “Musikdirectör” from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1873. Biography Amanda Maier was born into a musical home in Landskrona and discovered her musical talent early. Her first instruction in violin and piano was from her father. At the age of sixteen (1869), Maier began studying at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where she studied violin, organ, piano, cello, composition and harmony. After graduation, she continued to study composition with the conservatory teachers Reinecke and Richter in Leipzig and violin from Engelbert Röntgen, concert master at Gewandhaus Orchestra in the same city. During this time in Leipzig (1873-76) she composed a violin sonata, a piano trio and a violin concerto for orchestra. Her Violin Concerto in D Minor was premiered in Halle in 1875 with Maier as soloist and received good reviews. It was repeated on 8 February 1876 in Leipzig at the Gewandhaus with Carl Reinecke conducting, and again in Stockholm on 18 November 1876. From 1876 to 1880, she went on three major concert tours. In the summer

Amanda Sandborg Waesterberg

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Amanda Teresia Waesterberg (1842–1918) was a Swedish composer. Biography Amanda (née Sandborg) was born in Stockholm on 16 December 1842 as the daughter of Carl Sandborg (1793−1862), a cantor at Maria Magdalena Church and the Royal Swedish Opera, and his wife Frederica Cecilia (née Hagberg). At her baptism, Jacob Niclas Ahlström, conductor at the Royal Court of Sweden, was one of Amanda’s godfathers. After having received her first music lessons at home together with her siblings, she enrolled in the class choir at the educational institution of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She was married to Lars Magnus Waesterberg, and became the mother-in-law of the industrialist Fredrik Ljungström. From 1875, under the pen name “A S-g”, Amanda Sandborg Waesterberg composed hundreds of works. She was also active in piano pedagogy. Further reading *Bernskiöld, Hans (1986). “Amanda Sandborg-Waesterberg”. Sjung, av hjärtat sjung (Göteborg, 1986): sid. 67–69. Libris 9221031 *Sköldmark, Katarina (1990). Amanda Sandborg-Waesterberg: 1842–1918 : kort biografi och verkförteckning. Stockholm: Musikvetenskapliga institutionen. Libris 877184 *Bernskiöld, Hans (1992). “‘Vem som helst’: musiksyn och m

Amandus Ivanschiz

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Amandus (Matthias Leopold) Ivanschiz (bapt. 24 December 1727 – 1758) was an Austrian composer of the early classical period and a member of the Pauline order. Other spellings of his surname adopted in Slavic musicological literature (“Ivančić” or “Ivančič”) are not evidenced in historical accounts. His father came from the village of Baumgarten (presently in the Austrian Burgenland) inhabited by the Croatian minority. Matthias Leopold was baptized on 24 December 1727 in Wiener Neustadt. He entered the Pauline order in his hometown and choose the name of Amandus likely by the end of 1742. After his novitiate in the Ranna monastery at the age of 16 (25 December 1743) he took his monastic vows. He then studied in Maria Trost and Wiener Neustadt, where he was ordained a priest on 15 November 1750. Between 1751 and 1754 he stayed in Rome as an assistant to the Procurator General of the order, from where he returned to Wiener Neustadt. In 1755 he was sent again to the Maria Trost monastery, where he died in 1758, at the young age of 31. Despite his early passing, Ivanschiz left behind a remarkable number of compositions. His output comprises about 20 symphonies, 15 string trios, 17 masse

Amarachi

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Amarachi Uyanne (born 17 July 2004), popularly known by her stage name Amarachi, is a Nigerian singer and dancer. She is best known for winning the maiden edition of Nigeria’s Got Talent. Background Amarachi is a native of Delta State in the South-South region of Nigeria. She grew up in Edo State, South-South Nigeria, where she started dancing at the age of 5. In 2012, she won a cash prize of N10,000,000 after she was announced as the winner of the first edition of Nigeria’s Got Talent. She was subsequently dubbed the “youngest millionaire in Nigeria”. Education She attended University Preparatory Secondary School in Benin City, Edo State. The young celebrity recently graduated from secondary school in July 2019 and had her tertiary education from Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Career After emerging as the winner of Nigeria’s Got Talent, Amarachi released her debut single titled “Amarachi Dance”. She proceeded to feature Phyno in a song titled “Ova Sabi”; her first two singles received massive airplays and positive reviews from music critics. She currently runs the Amarachi Talent Academy, a talent school conceived with the aim of nurturing and training

Amber Ferenz

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Amber Ferenz (born 1972) is an American musician, music educator and composer. Life Amber Ferenz graduated with a bachelor’s degree in bassoon performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts in orchestral performance from the California Institute of the Arts, and they studied with Mark Popkin, Julie Feves and Steven Dibner. After completing their studies, they worked as a bassoonist, becoming principal bassoonist of the Fayetteville Symphony, and the second bassoonist with the Asheville Symphony. They have also taught bassoon at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California Institute of the Arts, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Wake Forest University. Ferenz is also a violinist and has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. They are a founding member of the Los Angeles-based chamber music collective inauthentica and have performed with the Open Dream Ensemble. Works Ferenz composes mainly for solo bassoon and chamber ensemble. Selected works include: *Love Medicine *Unfinished Conversations *Ice Cream Truck, for bassoon quartet *Songs for Wicked children *Los Angeles Sketches, for 4 bassoons *Ice Crea

Ambrogio Crotti

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Ambrogio Crotti (also known as “Amadeus”) is an Italian musician, arranger, composer and producer. Biography After a long life as a musician touring around the world, he started his studio career in Studio 33 in Hamburg, Germany, where he worked together with Luis Rodriguez and Dieter Bohlen. After 22 years with the Team 33, he currently lives in Mallorca and working as a freelance producer. Discography His long discography includes big names of the music business such as Modern Talking, Fun Factory, David Tavaré, Matthias Reim. Here is a selection of his works: References

Ambrogio Minoja

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Ambrogio Minoja (22 October 1752 – 3 August 1825) was a classical composer from Italy, born in Ospedaletto Lodigiano, in the territory of Lodi, in the region of Lombardy. He was professor of composition and writer on vocal music, having written Solfeggi, and Lettera sopra il canto (Luigi Mussi, Milan). Biography Minoja began his musical studies when he was fourteen years old, acquiring further musical training from renowned professor Nicola Sala, in Naples. On his return to Milan from Rome in 1772, where he stayed for a short period of time, he was appointed first klavier player at the theatre, succeeding then Giovanni Battista Lampugnani as director of music. From 1789 to 1809 he was maestro al cembalo at Teatro alla Scala (1789–1809). A highly esteemed composer, chapel-master and honorary member at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Milan, he became inspector of studies at the conservatory from 1814 to 1824. Musical works Minoja was a composer of opera and church-music. He composed two operas, which were performed successfully, Tito nelle Gallie (1787) and Zenobia (1788), a march and a funeral symphony on the death of General Hoche, having him received then a gold medal from Napo

Ambrose Akinmusire

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Ambrose Olusiji Akinmusire ( born May 1, 1982) is an American avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer. Biography Born and raised in Oakland, California, Akinmusire was a member of the Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble, where he caught the attention of saxophonist Steve Coleman, who was visiting the school to lead a workshop. Coleman hired him as a member of his Five Elements band for a European tour. Akinmusire was also a member of the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. The same year, he released his debut recording, Prelude… to Cora, on the Fresh Sound New Talent label. Akinmusire made his debut on the Blue Note label in 2011 with the album When the Heart Emerges Glistening, featuring his quintet of tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown. Akinmusire’s third album, entitled The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint, was released in 2014. His album Origami Harvest was included in The New York Times Best Jazz of 2018. His sixth studio album, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment, again with his quartet of longtime bandmates and received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumenta

Ambrose Lupo

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Ambrose, Ambrosius or Ambrosio Lupo (died 10 February 1591) was a court musician and composer to the English court from the time of Henry VIII to that of Elizabeth I, and the first of a dynasty of such court musicians. He is thought to have been born in Milan, though he and his family lived in Venice for a while just before being called to England. He and five other viol players, including Alexandro and Romano Lupo, were summoned to England by Henry in November 1540, to bring English music up to speed with music on the continent. Ambrose, also known as ‘Lupus Italus’ and de Almaliach, was the longest-serving of the group. Ambroso da Venezia was cited as a music-player of the Queen of England by the testimony of Orazio Cogno before the Venice Inquisition on 27 August 1577 regarding his recent stay in England with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Cogno stated Ambroso has two children and had married in England, even though, as Cogno stated he has heard, he has a wife living in Venice whom he sends money. He also stated that Ambroso wanted to teach him the doctrine of heretics and to read heretical books. Living in the parish of St Alphege, Cripplegate, he was granted leases on la

Ambrosio Cotes

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Ambrosio (Coronado de) Cotes (c. 15501603) was a Spanish Renaissance composer. Cotes was born in Villena, Alicante around 1550 of noble birth. He studied theology with the Theatines of Yecla. In 1573 he was maestro de capilla at the church of St. James Church in his hometown. In 1581 he was appointed maestro de capilla of the Royal Chapel of Granada, in the place of Rodrigo de Ceballos. In 1596 he was maestrescuela in Cathedral of Valencia, until 1600 when he succeeded Guerrero at the Cathedral of Seville. His works were copied and carried to the New World. He died in Seville in 1603. Extant works and editions Like many other Spanish composers of the period, his secular villancicos and canzonetas have been lost. Of the sacred works 25 polyphonic compositions are preserved in Granada, a mass in the Cathedral of Valencia, and a further 3 motets in the Colegio del Patriarca. Four separate pieces without words have been published by López Calo, who believes they are the only instrumental works for church to survive from the sixteenth century. * Lamentations (3 sets) * Officium Defunctorum * Mass * Mortus est Phillipus Rex, a 7 voces * Non in solo pane vivit homo, a 4 voces * Visionem q

Amédée Artus

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Amedée Urbain Louis Henry Joseph Artus (28 October 1815 – 26 March 1892) was a 19th-century French conductor and composer, author of more than eight hundred incidental music pieces. Born in Perpignan, Amédée Arthur was the son of Joseph Pierre Artus (1791–1864) and Marie Angélique Salvo (1793–1864), both also from Perpignan. Works * 1842: Paris la nuit, drama in 5 acts and 8 scenes by Charles Dupeuty and Eugène Cormon, at Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (26 June) * 1843: Un Français en Sibérie, drama in 3 acts by Charles Lafont and Noël Parfait, at Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (27 July). * 1843: Les Bohémiens de Paris, drama in 5 acts by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Grangé, at Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (27 September) * 1844: Les Amants de Murcie, drama in 5 acts and 6 scenes by Frédéric Soulié, at Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (9 March) * 1845: Les Mousquetaires, drama in 5 acts and 12 scenes by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, at Théâtre de l’Ambigu (27 October) * 1846: La Closerie des Genêts, drama in 5 acts and 8 scenes by Frédéric Soulié, at Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (14 October) * 1847: Le Fils du diable, drama in 5 acts and 12 scenes by Paul Féval and Saint-Yves, at Théâtre de

Amédée de Jallais

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Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier. Biography The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon then entered in the insurance company La Nationale (1845–1850) as employee, a position he will leave to devote himself entirely to literature after the success of his comedy Un de perdu, une de retrouvée. Collaborator of the Gazette des théâtres, then of the Messager des théâtres, he became managing director of the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (1871) then after the blaze of this theatre on 22 May 1871, of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Administrator dof the Théâtre Déjazet (1874–1875), general secretary of the Théâtre de la République (1897), he married the actress Eudoxie Laurent in 1862. He wrote more than two hundred plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques etc. Works * Capitaine… de quoi ?, vaudeville in 1 act, with Xavier Eyma, 1850 * Un de perdu, une de retrouvée, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, 1850 * Le Colporteur, comédi

Amédée de Vallombrosa

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Amédée Joseph Gabriel Marie Manca-Amat, Comte de Vallombrosa (24 March 1880 – 9 February 1968) was a French organist and composer. Early life Born in Cannes, Amédée de Vallombrosa was the son of Riccardo Manca-Amat, 4th Duke of Vallombrosa and Asinara (b. 1834), and Geneviève (b. 1836). He was the younger brother of Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès, who was a well-known frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West who was assassinated in Algeria in 1896. His paternal grandparents were Vincenzo Maria Giuseppe Manca-Amat, 3rd Duke of Vallombrosa and Asinara and Léontine Alexandrine Claire de Galard de Béarn. His maternal grandparents were Amédée-François-Régis de Pérusse des Cars, Comte des Cars and Duc des Cars, Peer of France, and Augustine-Joséphine du Bouchet de Sourches de Tourzel (a granddaughter of Louise-Élisabeth du Bouchet de Sourches, Duchess of Tourzel). His aunt, Marie-Paule de Pérusse des Cars, was the first wife of Louis, Duke of Blacas. Career Despite his family fortune, the Comte de Vallombrosa did not choose the path of business but devoted his life to music and the orga

Amédée Gastoué

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Amédée Henri Gustave Noël Gastoué (19 March 1873 – 1 June 1943) was a French musicologist and composer. Biography A Kapellmeister at the , professor of gregorian chant at the Schola Cantorum of Paris, Gastoué was particularly interested in Byzantine music, that of the Middle Ages and Armenian musical art. He also taught choral chant and Medieval music at the Institut catholique de Paris, the Collège Stanislas and the Lycée Montaigne. He was president of the (1934–1936) and remains known for his studies and writings. He was raised to the dignity of Commander of the Pontifical Order of Pope Gregory I by Pope Pius X. Gastoué is the great-great-grandfather of Emmanuel Trenque, himself an organist and choral conductor. Studies List according to the « Principaux ouvrages du même auteur » of Graduel et l’antiphonaire romains, histoire et description (fac-similé) * Le Graduel et l’antiphonaire romains, histoire et description, Jeanin frères, Lyon 1913, 302 p. (fac-similé). * Histoire du chant liturgique à Paris I, Dès origines à la fin des temps carolingiens, Poussielgue, Paris, 86 p. * Cours théorique et pratique de plain-chant romain grégorien, Bureau de l’édition de la Schola cantorum,

Amédée Méreaux

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Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux (18 September 1802 – 25 April 1874) was a French composer, pianist, piano teacher, musicologist and music critic. He is best known for his 60 Grandes Études, Op. 63. Family background Amédée Méreaux came from a family of musicians. His father, Joseph-Nicolas Lefroid de Méreaux, composed for the piano and organ, whilst his grandfather, Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux, mainly composed operas. Going up the family tree, one more generation is known; it consists of Pierre Lefroid de Méreaux (Méreaux’s great-grandfather) and an unknown person (Méreaux’s great-grandmother). According to Antoine François Marmontel, Méreaux’s father was “a professor of good merit, in ongoing relationships with all the musical celebrities at the time”. The Lefroid de Méreaux seemed to have above-average status in French society, which comes from the fact that both Méreaux’s father and grandfather had been professors with their own respective musical reputations. If this wasn’t the case, they also wouldn’t have connections to aristocracy, since a handful of Méreaux’s early works are dedicated to noblemen and baronesses, which creates room for the possibility that Méreaux himself

Amédée Tremblay

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Pierre-Joseph Amédée Tremblay (14 April 1876 – 14 July 1949) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. A largely self-taught composer, his output includes several motets, two masses, a few patriotic songs, works for solo organ, and the operetta L’Intransigeant (produced in Ottawa in 1906). His organ piece Suite de quatre pièces pour grand orgue is his most well known composition. Dedicated to Joseph Bonnet, it is noted for its “brilliant toccata” at the finale. His works have been published by Orme, Le Passe-Temps, and Ed. Archambault. Composers Guillaume Couture and Vincent d’Indy were admirers of Tremblay’s music. Life and career Born in Montreal, Tremblay, along with Alexis Contant, was one of the first major Canadian composers to be trained exclusively in his native country. At the age of 12 he began studying music with Father Sauvé, the organist at Saint Joseph’s Church in Montreal. He later studied with Alcibiade Béique (piano and organ), Father Cléophas Borduas (Gregorian chant), and Romain-Octave Pelletier I (organ and fugue). Tremblay became the organist at Saint Joseph’s Church in 1892 after having turned down a similar position at the Dominican Church in Sai

Amedeo Minghi

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Amedeo Minghi (born 12 August 1947) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and producer. Life and career Born in Rome, Minghi started his career in the mid-1960s participating in a large number of musical contests, and then making his professional debut in 1966 with the single “Alla fine”, with lyrics by Mogol. The disappointing commercial results of the song and the military service took him away from the musical industry for several years. His subsequent albums got him an increasing following, until the exploit in 1990 thanks to “Vattene amore”, a duet with Mietta, a singer he produced; the song ranked third at the Sanremo Music Festival and topped the Italian hit parade for several weeks. Discography ;Albums * 1973 – Amedeo Minghi (Apollo DZSLA-55165) * 1980 – Minghi (CBS 84156) * 1983 – 1950 (It ZPLT 34186) * 1984 – Quando l’estate verrà (EP) (RCA Italiana PG 70349) * 1986 – Cuori di pace (RCA Italiana PL 71141) * 1987 – Serenata (Durium ms al 77471) * 1988 – Le nuvole e la rosa (Fonit Cetra LPX 210) * 1991 – Nené (Fonit Cetra TAL 1002) * 1992 – I ricordi del cuore (Fonit Cetra TDL315) * 1994 – Come due soli in cielo (Fonit Cetra TLPX 380) * 1996 – Cantare è d’amore (EMI Ita

Amelia Lehmann

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Amelia Lehmann (née Chambers) (3 February 1838 – 1 April 1903 ) was a British composer and arranger of art songs and popular ballads, many of which she published under the pseudonym “A. L.”. She was also considered a gifted singer and was the first singing teacher of her daughter Liza Lehmann. Among her other students of voice was the soprano Evangeline Florence. Several of her works were performed at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts between 1897 and 1928, and her song “When love is kind” was recorded by Ada Forrest for Pathé Records. Lehmann Spent some of her life living in Rome, Italy. In 1861, after a lengthy courtship, she married the painter Rudolf Lehmann. Their daughter Liza wrote in her memoirs: My mother certainly had extraordinary gifts, but suffered all her life from quite abnormally developed diffidence. As a girl, she was so musical that her father declared she did not require lessons! It was, therefore, not until after her marriage that she began to study music seriously. I have met most of the artists of my day, and I have never met any one so naturally gifted as my beloved mother. She had a lovely voice, and studied singing with several vocal teachers of renown; bu

Amelia von Ende

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Amelia Kemper von Ende (; sometimes Amalie) (June 19, 1856 – August 25, 1932) was a Polish-born American writer, pianist, composer, teacher, and translator. Born in Warsaw of Polish and French extraction, von Ende emigrated to the United States when she was six, settling with her family in Milwaukee. She moved at 19 to Chicago, becoming a radical journalist in partnership with her husband, Heinrich von Ende, who died in 1879. The following year she opened a boarding school for girls of German-American extraction, the Minerva Institute. In 1893 she moved to New York City, where she would become a journalist writing for American and German audiences, largely on cultural themes; during her career she would contribute to the Musical Courier, Die Musik of Berlin, the New York Post, and The Nation. She soon became known as an intermediary between the German and American cultures. She championed the work of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, whose poetry she introduced to German-language audiences; she was the first writer to translate Dickinson into German. 1914 saw the publication of her article “Women as a Creative Force in Music” in Musical America. Von Ende had an active career as a p

Amélie Nikisch

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Amélie Heussner Nikisch (28 December 1862 – 18 January 1938) was a Belgian soprano, actress, voice teacher, and composer. Early life Amélie Augusta Heussner was born in Brussels. Career As a young woman, Heussner played soubrette roles in operas in Kassel and Leipzig. While her husband, Arthur Nikisch, was conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1890 to 1893, she frequently performed with the orchestra as a soprano soloist. “If anything, Mme. Nikisch’s work as a vocalist might be characterized as too finished for the appreciation of the general public”, noted an American newspaper in 1891, “free from all the tricks and devices that are too frequently resorted to for effect and applause”. Nikisch wrote music and lyrics for light operas. Her compositions included the operettas Prinz Adolar und das Tausendschönchen (1907, with Ilse Friedlaender), Meine Tante, deine Tante (1909), Daniel in der Löwengrube (1914, with Friedlaender), and Immer der Andere (1915). One of her voice students was American soprano Eleanor Painter Strong. Personal life Amélie Heussner married Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922) in 1885. Amélie Nikisch died in 1938, in Berlin, aged 75 years. Her

Amélie-Julie Candeille

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Amélie-Julie Candeille (; night of 30/31 July 1767, parish of Saint-Sulpice, Paris – 4 February 1834, Paris) was a French composer, librettist, writer, singer, actress, comedian, and instrumentalist. Life Early life Julie Candeille described herself in her Mémoires as having “bright blonde hair, brown eyes, white, fine and clear skin, and a soft and laughing air”. According to her colleague Louise Fusil, Candeille was pretty, with “a well-taken size, a noble gait, and traits and whiteness as held by creole women”. Her ancestry was actually Flemish, with no known Creole elements, Candeille, like many women musicians of her time, came from a musical family. Her father Pierre-Joseph Candeille (1744–1827) was a composer, actor and low-bass opera-singer in the chorus, though he ended up exiled in Moulins where he became a theatre director. Her father was her primary teacher, and some have speculated that his deeply invested interest in his daughter’s education was an effort to bolster his career. Candeille developed her natural talents for song and harpsichord and performed extensively while still a child in chamber orchestras. Aged 7 she played in a concert before the French king and s

Ami Maayani

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Ami Maayani (; January 1936 – February 17, 2019 ) was an Israeli composer. The founder and conductor of the Israel National Youth Orchestra, the Tel Aviv Youth Orchestra, the Haifa Youth Orchestra and the Technion Symphony Orchestra, from 1970 to 1973 and 1976–1980 he was the chairman of the Israel Composers’ League. Of note is Maayani’s Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, Qumran and Serenade in D. Zvi Keren in his book Contemporary Israeli music: its sources and stylistic development (1980) said “The works of Ami Maayani, which have formed a continuation and extension of this school, have a style which might be described as post-Eastern-Mediterranean.” The American Organist said, “The lush improvisatory elements and Arabic modal influences in the music of Ami Maayani complement the pandiatonic polyphony of Yuval Rabin. Sabin Levi, on the other hand, employs minimalism and Sephardic folklore.” Ami Maayani died of cancer on 17 February 2019, at age 82. - Four Baroque Sonatas Sonata for Solo Violin; Sonata for Solo Cello; Sonatina for Guitar; Sonatine en trio Bing Jing Yu, violin; Natalia Khoma, cello; Tali Roth, guitar; Orit Wolf, piano IMP Digital / FONS 01-2096 - Piano Music – Perc

Amilcare Ponchielli

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Amilcare Ponchielli (, ; 31 August 1834 – 16 January 1886) was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera La Gioconda. He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla. Life and work Born in Paderno Fasolaro (now Paderno Ponchielli) near Cremona, then Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old. The ballet Le due gemelle (1873) confirmed his success. The following opera, I Lituani (The Lithuanians) of 1874, had a three-night run in 1903 at La Scala, where the casting was particularly poorly reviewed; it was scheduled for performances in 1939 that did not take place because the Second World War broke out, and it was not performed again until 1979, when RAI recovered the score. It has been revived several times since then. His best-known opera is La Gioconda (1876), which his librettist Arrigo Boito adapted from the same play by Victor Hugo that had been previously set by Saverio Mercadante as Il giuramento in 1837 and Carlos Gomes as Fosca in 1873. The opera contains the famous ballet Dance of the Hours as the third act finale. It was first

Amilcare Zanella

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Amilcare Zanella (26 September 1873 – 9 January 1949) was an Italian composer. Born in Monticelli d’Ongina, Zanella studied in Cremona under Andreotti before entering the Parma Conservatory, where he studied under Giovanni Bottesini and graduated in 1891. The following year he went to South America, where he worked as an opera conductor and a pianist; upon his return to his native land in 1901, he organized an orchestra that traveled the country giving symphonic concerts. It was with this group that he introduced some of his own music. In 1903 he became director of his alma mater, remaining in the post for two years; in 1905 he was tapped to succeed Pietro Mascagni as head of the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Gioachino Rossini” in Pesaro. There he was to remain until 1939, when he was succeeded in the post by Riccardo Zandonai. He died in Pesaro. Zanella’s compositional output consisted mainly of orchestral and chamber works. He also composed three operas; Aura (1910, to a libretto by Ida Finzi), premiered at the Liceo Rossini; La Sulamita (1926, to a libretto by Antonio Lega), premiered at the Teatro Politeama Piacentino in Piacenza; and Il revisore (1940, after The Government

Amintore Galli

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Amyntor “Amintore” Flaminio Claudio Galli (12 October 1845 – 8 December 1919) was an Italian music publisher, journalist, historian, musicologist, and composer. Born in the Marecchia valley, Galli was educated under Alberto Mazzucato at the Milan Conservatory. Galli’s birth deed records that he was baptised in Talamello – Perticara’s church did not have a baptismal font – but his parents are recorded as living in Perticara. After graduating from Rimini’s Lyceum, in 1862, he enrolled in the Milan Conservatory. He was a pupil of Alberto Mazzucato, with whom he studied composition and the history of aesthetics and music. Galli was a contemporary of Arrigo Boito, and was introduced to the Scapigliatura artistic environment. In 1866, Galli enlisted with Boito, Franco Faccio, and Emilio Praga in Giuseppe Garibaldi’s army, Four of his band arrangements of compositions by great masters were performed in Finale Emilia. by publishing, in Galli’s words, “a collection of economically priced masterworks by the great maestri”. Galli wrote many piano reductions himself, Evaluating his directorship, some critics reproach Galli for his inability to identify operatic successes, leading them to rival

Amir Shpilman

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Amir Shpilman (; born December 4, 1980) is an Israeli composer. Education and career Shpilman was born in Tel Aviv where he started his composition studies at the age of 17. After three years in Paris where he studied solfege, harmony piano and composition, he moved to the United States, in 2006, to study at the City University of New York where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in music composition under the tutelage of Tania León, Jason Eckardt and with close mentorship of pianist Ursula Oppens. He received his master’s degree in composition with a focus on conducting from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden under the tutelage of Mark Andre, Manos Tsangaris, and Franz Martin Olbrisch. In 2011, He founded the Ensemble Moto Perpetuo, a New York-based chamber orchestra specializing in contemporary music and collaborative creations, and served as its artistic director until 2015. During his career, Shpilman has worked with a variety of performers, orchestras, and ensembles including the Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), International Contemporary Ensemble (New York), Mivos Quartet, Ensembles Meitar and Nikel (Tel Aviv), Interface (Frankfurt), AuditivVokal Dresden

Amit Golan

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Amit Golan (; 1964 - 2010) was an Israeli pianist, composer, and jazz educator. Born in Haifa and educated first at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and then at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, he returned to Israel in the 1990s to teach the style. He was the founder of the Center for Jazz Studies at the Israel Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv and performed with the Amit Golan Jazz Quintet. Life and career Golan received his initial music education at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where he studied classical music and composition. After he finished his classical studies, he went to New York City where he discovered his passion for jazz. He was influenced by Bill Evans’s playing, but decided that to understand Evans’s technique he had to learn what influenced Evans himself. He then attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York and studied privately with “old school” players like Walter Bishop, Jr., Reggie Workman, Billy Harper, Jim Hall, Kenny Werner, and Barry Harris. He focused his studies on Jazz History, studying with Phil Schaap and Ira Gitler. Between 2004 – 2007, he was the music director of many jazz worksho

Amman Abbasi

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Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani American writer, director, editor and composer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. He came to wider attention in 2016 when Filmmaker magazine named him one of its annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film”, and his debut feature, Dayveon (2017), premiered at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals. Early life and background Abbasi grew up in Paragould and Jonesboro before his family moved to Little Rock when he was nine; he attended Hall High School and completed his senior year at Little Rock Central High School. He has cited the Dardenne brothers and Martin Scorsese as principal influences on his filmmaking. In 2011 he travelled to Haiti for The New York Times to cover the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake; the resulting short documentary received an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia Award. He served as editor on the Renaud Brothers’ series Last Chance High (2015), which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding editing. He also worked as director’s assistant to David Gordon Green on Manglehorn (2014) and Our Brand Is Crisis (2015). Feature films Abbasi’s debut feature, Dayveon, tells the story of a 13-year-old African-American boy in rural Wrigh

Amnon Wolman

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Amnon Wolman (; born 1955) an Israeli-American musician. He holds a doctorate degree in music composition. His catalogue of compositions includes works involving computer generated and processed sounds, symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different ensembles, film music, and music for theater and dance. His recently premiered pieces include “Picnic Site” used for a choreography by Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton for the Lyon Biannale; “End Divided Road” for Flute and electronics for Mario Carolli at the TRAIETTORIE Festival in Parma, Italy; “Cruising Prohibited when Lights Flashing” for the Gay Gotham Chorus at the Greenwich House, New York; and “and her mind moves upon silence”, for harpsichord and electronic sounds, for Vivienne Spiteri in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Career His scores are published by the Israel Music Institute and the Israel Music Center. Before Joining the faculty at Brooklyn College he taught at Northwestern University, Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. At Brooklyn College he was a member of the composition faculty and Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM). Wolman’s film mus

Amos Elkana

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Amos Elkana (Hebrew: עמוס אלקנה; born 1967) is a composer, guitarist, and electronic musician. His works span chamber, orchestral, electroacoustic, and multimedia forms, often integrating algorithmic and fractal processes with narrative and philosophical elements. Biography Elkana studied composition at the New England Conservatory in Boston and Jazz guitar at the Berklee College of Music. He pursued graduate studies in computer music at Bard College, where he worked with Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, and Larry Polansky. His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras worldwide, including Ensemble Meitar, the Israel Contemporary Players, Ensemble Reconsil (Vienna), UMZE (Budapest), the Tel Aviv Soloists, and the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion. His chamber and electronic works have been featured at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, ISCM World Music Days, the Cervantino Festival (Mexico), and the MISE-EN Festival (New York). In 2025, Elkana released Que sais-je? on New Focus Recordings, performed by Ensemble Meitar under Pierre-André Valade. The album was included on the 2026 First Round GRAMMY® Ballot. His next album, Gefunden, is scheduled for

Amy Ashmore Clark

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Amy Ashmore Clark (May 6, 1882 – January 9, 1954) was a Canadian-born American songwriter, composer, and businesswoman, “equally popular and successful as a writer of lyrics for other people’s music, and a writer music for other people’s lyrics”, despite being unable to read or write music. She also appeared in musical comedy and vaudeville, worked in music publishing, and at several magazines. Early life Amy Ashmore was born in Toronto, Ontario. Career Clark wrote songs in various genres: hymns, ballads, novelties, “every kind of song except ragtime”, noted one publication. Titles of her songs (either as lyricist or composer) included “The Flowers are Calling, Sweetheart”, “My Rosary for You”, “Where You Are is Paradise”, “Long Lost Mama, Daddy Misses You”, “Toys are Not Only for Children”, “And So Your Soul was Born”, “With Love He Cleanses Every Sin”, “Laddie Dear”, “Rockabye Rose”, “The Heart of You”, “Lambie Love” “I’m Telling the World That I Love You”, “You and I”, “To You”, “Just a Cloud”, and “I am One with Thee”. One of her songs (co-written with Florence Turner-Maley), “In a Little Town Nearby”, was used in theatres during showings of the silent film The Bond Boy. Clark

Amy Beach

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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her “Gaelic” Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers of her era to succeed without the benefit of European training, and was known as one of the most respected American composers. She was acclaimed for piano concerts she gave, featuring her own music, in the United States and Europe. Life Early years and musical education Amy Marcy Cheney was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, on September 5, 1867 to Charles Abbott Cheney (nephew of Oren B. Cheney, who co-founded Bates College) and Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney. Amy was an only child. Artistic ability ran in the family: Clara was reputedly an “excellent pianist and singer,” while Amy showed every sign of being a child prodigy. She was able to sing forty songs accurately by age one, she was capable of improvising counter-melody by age two, and she taught herself to read at age three. At four, she composed three waltzes for piano

Amy Fay

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Amelia Muller Fay (May 21, 1844 – November 9, 1928) was an American concert pianist, manager of the New York Women’s Philharmonic Society, and chronicler best known for her memoirs of the European classical music scene. A pupil of Theodor Kullak, Fay traveled to Europe to study with Franz Liszt. Her letters home from Germany, including descriptions of her training and the concerts she attended, were published in 1880 as Music Study in Germany. These memoirs include a comprehensive biographical sketch of Liszt. Fay was born in 1844 in Bayou Goula, Louisiana. She was the third of six daughters and the fifth of nine children of the Rev. Charles Fay and Emily (Hopkins) Fay of Louisiana and St. Albans, Vermont. She was Charles Jerome Hopkins’s niece. Her sister Rose Emily Fay married the conductor Theodore Thomas, and her sister Melusina Fay Peirce was the wife of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Amy Fay studied piano under Professor John Knowles Paine of Harvard and at the New England Conservatory of Music. From 1869 to 1875, she continued her lessons in Germany. She had made it her goal to become a pupil of Carl Tausig who had just opened a piano class in Berlin. She w

Amy Horrocks

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Amy Elise Horrocks (23 February 1867 – 4 December 1919) was an English music educator, composer (particularly of songs) and pianist, born to English parents (Francis James Horrocks 8 July 1829 – 27 April 1913) and Hannah Horrocks (née Allen 1833 – 22 April 1913) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where it is suggested that Francis Horrocks was constructing tramways. Amy had an elder sister, Marian, also born in Brazil, but who died there in 1862 aged 1 year. Contrary to one report, she did not have a brother. She had a close association with the Royal Academy of Music as both a student, teacher and Fellow and enjoyed a degree of professional success, including several performances of her work at the Proms. Early life The family (Francis, Hannah, Amy aged 4 and their servant Mary Thompson) are recorded in the Scottish census of 1871, as lodgers in Edinburgh, so presumably they left Brazil between 1867 and 1871 and are possibly taking a holiday. When they return from Brazil the family settles initially in Cheshire. Francis had a loose family connection to the area with his elder brother Thomas having been born and died in Chester as an infant in 1827, during the time their father (also ca

Amy Patterson

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Amelia Cabeza de Pelayo Patterson (16 July 1912 – 28 December 2019) was an Argentine composer, singer, poet, and teacher responsible for writing the anthem of the Province of Salta. She was very popular in Argentina, and much of her music received state approval from the Ministry of Education of Argentina. Biography Patterson was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán Province, but at a young age her family moved to Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires. In 1946, Patterson found work as a music teacher at the Zorrilla, Alberdi and Peter Pan music schools, but resigned for personal reasons four years later. When she resigned from the Peter Pan school, she was given a gold medal for writing a version of The Adventures of Peter Pan, which had been presented twice consecutively at the Victoria Theater in Salta and at the Miter Theaters in San Salvador de Jujuy and San Miguel de Tucumán. Over the next decade, she would herself become a private tutor for the piano, violin, guitar, and singing. She was the Director of the Polyphonic Choir of Salta, which in 1962 gave 14 public and radio recitals. Patterson died on 28 December 2019 at the age of 107. References

Amy Scurria

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Amy Scurria (born September 24, 1973) is an American composer. Biography Amy Scurria was born into a military family and showed an early interest in music, memorizing the piano assignments of her sister Jackie. At age 11 she took lessons under the Suzuki method and began composing. Scurria graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in composition. In 1998, she received a master’s degree in composition from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her doctoral degree in 2015 from Duke University in Durham. Dr. Scurria has also studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. Teachers she studied with include: Chen Yi, Robert Sirota, Narcis Bonet, Anthony Kelley, and Stephen Jaffe. Her compositions have been performed in the United States, England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, France, and Japan. She was a composer-in-residence at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 2001. Personal life In 2004, Amy Scurria married Zane Corriher. They have a daughter, Lily, Works Selected works include: * Beyond All Walking for Full Orchestra, (1998) * A Prayer for SATB Choir, (1999) * And He Shall Be Like a Tree for SATB Choir and Organ/Piano, (2000)

Amy Upham Thomson McKean

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Amy Upham Thomson-McKean (b. 22 February 1893 d. 1972) was an American pianist, songwriter and composer. Amy Thomson’s father, Ralph E. emigrated from Glasgow in Scotland as a young man. Her mother was Anna J. Thomson and she had one brother Robert Stanley Thomson. She married Alexander Mathew McKean Sept. 17, 1917 at Lafayette Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, and had a daughter, Elaine (May 4, 1924) and son, Robert Alexander (September 25, 1918). Amy Thomson attended high school in Boston where she studied with Felix Fox at the Fox-Buonamici School of Pianoforte at 403 Marlborough Street. She began to write compositions, and studied with Bainbridge Christ and went on to publish songs and short works for violin and piano under both the names Amy Upham Thomson and Amy Thomson-McKean. Thomson-McKean appeared on concert and recital programs in Brooklyn in the 1910s - 1930s. She broadcast on Margaret Speaks on WOR NY in the 1920s. Her papers are archived by her great-niece, artist Jamieson Thomas of Wilmington, DE. Selected works *“The Throstle” (text by Tennyson) *“A Day in June” *“Liebislied” *“Tone Poem” *“Bolero” *“Chason du Soir” *“Little Boy Blue” *“Forever” *“Dream in Town” *“At S

Amy Williams (composer)

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Amy Williams (born 1969) is an American composer and pianist. She was born in Buffalo, New York, into a musical family, with her mother, a violist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and her father Jan Williams, percussionist and professor emeritus at the university at Buffalo. One of Williams’s most notable works is her ambitious Cineshape series of chamber pieces inspired by different films. This was presented in May 2016 with live performances by the JACK Quartet, flautist Lindsey Goodman and percussionist Scott Christian, with a new video component by Aaron Henderson. Education Williams began playing piano at the age of four and took up the flute a few years later with Robert Dick. Throughout her childhood, she was exposed to the latest contemporary music performed at the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, meeting composers who would later become great influences on her own works, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss and Elliott Carter. She made the decision to devote her life to performing and composing contemporary music whilst studying at Bennington College and after a fellowship year in Denmark, she completed a master’s degree in piano performance

Amy Woodforde-Finden

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Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 – 13 March 1919) was a composer who is best known for writing the music to “Kashmiri Song” from Four Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope. Biography Amy Woodforde-Finden was born Amelia Rowe Ward in 1860 at Valparaíso, Chile, the youngest daughter of American parents, Alfred and Virginia Worthington Heath Ward. Alfred served as a US Consul after being recommended by Balie Peyton, US Ambassador to Chile under President Zachary Taylor. Her father died in 1867 and her mother moved the family to London, where Virginia became a naturalized British citizen in 1873. Around that time Amy displayed a skill for composition and became a student of Carl Schloesser and Amy Horrocks. Her early work, published as Amy Ward, though promising, was received only tepidly. At the age of 34, she married Brigade-Surgeon Woodforde-Finden, who served during the Second Afghan War and Third Burmese War with the Bengal establishment of the Indian Medical Service; they lived in India for several years, and during her time there she wrote and published what would become her most famous pieces: Kashmiri Song (1902) and A Lover in Damascus (six songs, 1904, text Charles Hanson Towne). Ka