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Ana Lara

Ana Lara (born 30 November 1959) is a Mexican composer. Life Ana Lara was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Conservatory of Music with Mario Lavista and Daniel Catán and later with .

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Ana Sokolovic

Ana Sokolovic (; born 1968 in Belgrade) is a Canadian music composer based in Montreal, Quebec, whose contemporary pieces have won several awards in Canada. She is also the artistic director of the

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Ana Villamil Icaza

Ana Villamil Icaza was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador (January 19, 1852) and died in Guayaquil, Ecuador (October 23, 1916). She was a composer, artist and a teacher of piano and singing. Biography Ana

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Ana-Maria Avram

Ana-Maria Avram (1961– 1 August 2017) was a Romanian composer, pianist, conductor and musicologist. Avram was the co-conductor of the Hyperion Ensemble and co-founder and artistic director of the

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Analia Llugdar

Analia Llugdar (born 1972) is an Argentine composer living and working in Montreal, Quebec since 1999. She has created both instrumental and vocal compositions and has won several music competitions.

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Anatii

Anathi Bhongo Mnyango (born 8 January 1993), known professionally as Anatii, is a South African rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Career Anatii began his professional musical journey

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Anatol Provazník

Anatol Provazník (10 March 1887 in Rychnov nad Kněžnou – 24 September 1950 in Prague) was a Czech organist and composer. Anatol Provazník was son of Alois Provazník, a regional composer. He studied

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Anatol Vieru

Anatol Vieru (; 8 June 1926 – 8 October 1998) was a Romanian music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, concertos,

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Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky

Anatoliy Yosypovych Kos-Anatolsky (; 1 December 1909 – 30 November 1983) was a Ukrainian composer, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1969) and winner of Shevchenko National Prize (1980), and

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Anatoly Alexandrov (composer)

Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov (, Moscow – April 16, 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian composer of works for piano and for other instruments, and pianist. His initial works had a mystical

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Anatoly Bogatyrev

Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev (, ; 13 August 1913 – 19 September 2003) was a Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music.

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Anatoly Lyadov

Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (; 12 May 185528 August 1914) was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor. Biography Lyadov was born in 1855 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, into a family of

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Anđelka Bego-Šimunić

Anđelka Bego-Šimunić (23 October 1941 – 9 February 2022) was a Bosnian-Herzegovinian composer of Croatian descent. She taught at the Sarajevo Music Academy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Anders Eliasson

Anders Erik Birger Eliasson (3 April 1947 – 20 May 2013 ) was a Swedish composer. Life Eliasson was born in Borlänge. His "earliest musical experiences originated from within myself: they were my own

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Anders Hillborg

Per Anders Hillborg (born 31 May 1954 ) is one of Sweden’s leading composers. Education Anders Hillborg was born in Sollentuna, and studied composition, counterpoint and electronic music at the

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Andersen Viana

Andersen Viana (born 1962) is an international composer. Life Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Viana has a Ph.D. in music composition from the Federal University of Bahia. He began composing at

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Andi Almqvist

Andi Almqvist (born 2 July 1968) is a Swedish singer, musician and composer known for his dark, cinematic sound and haunting lyrics. Almqvist has released six solo albums, Can't Stop Laughing (2005),

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Andi Spicer

Andrew John Preston "Andi" Spicer (1959 – 30 April 2020) was an English electroacoustic classical music composer who used electronics (see Electronic Music) in his compositions. The composer was also

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André Almuró

André Almuró (3 June 1927 – 17 June 2009) was a French radio producer, composer, and film director. Early years Almuró was born in Paris in 1927 and studied piano from an early age. In 1946,

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André Amellér

André Amellér (2 January 1912 – 14 May 1990) was a French composer and conductor. He is considered part of the French school of 20th-century classical music. Amellér played double bass for the Opéra

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Andre Asriel

Andre Asriel (22 February 1922 – 28 May 2019) was an Austrian-German composer. Life Born in Vienna, Asriel first attended the Akademisches Gymnasium and then the Bundesgymnasium IX (Gymnasium

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André Bloch (composer)

André Bloch (14 January 1873 – 7 August 1960) He was Jewish, and the son of a rabbi. Bloch studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1893, he

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André Bon

André Bon (born August 17, 1946) is a French composer. A student of Olivier Messiaen, he has composed over fifty works including several chamber operas. He is Professor of Composition at the

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André Boucourechliev

André Boucourechliev (28 July 1925 – 13 November 1997) was a French composer of Bulgarian origin. Born in Sofia, Boucourechliev studied piano at the Conservatory there. Subsequently, he studied in

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André Campra

André Campra (; baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and

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André Caplet

André Léon Caplet (; 23 November 1878 – 22 April 1925) was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy who orchestrated several of his compositions, as well

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André Cardinal Destouches

André Cardinal Destouches (sometimes called des Touches) (baptised 6 April 1672 – 7 February 1749) was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les élémens. Biography Born in Paris, the son

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André Casanova

André Marcel Charles Casanova (12 October 1919 – 7 March 2009) was a French composer. He was an early disciple of René Leibowitz, a teacher and composer who maintained a strict adherence to the

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André Danican Philidor the Elder

André Danican Philidor the elder French: l'aîné (c. 1652, Versailles – 11 August 1730, Dreux), a member of the Philidor family of French musicians and referred to as André Danican Philidor le père

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André Duchesne (musician)

André Duchesne (born 1949) is a Canadian experimental music guitarist and composer. He was a co-founder of Ambiances Magnétiques, a Canadian musical collective and record label, and formed several

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André Ducret

André Ducret (4 June 1945 – 1 February 2025) was a Swiss singer, composer, choir conductor and teacher. Life and career Born in Fribourg on 4 June 1945, Ducret was gifted a tenor voice and performed

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André Filho

Antônio André de Sá Filho, known as André Filho (21 March 1906 – 2 July 1974) was a Brazilian actor, violinist, mandolinist, banjo player, guitarist, pianist, composer and singer. He worked with some

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André Fleury (organist)

André Edouard Antoine Marie Fleury (25 July 1903 – 6 August 1995) was a French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue. Life André Fleury was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He received his

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André Gagnon

André Gagnon (2 August 1936 – 3 December 2020) was a Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, and actor, known for his fusion of classical and pop styles, including compositions Neiges,

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André Gedalge

André Gedalge (27 December 1856 – 5 February 1926) was a French composer and teacher. Biography André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères in Paris where he first worked as a bookseller and

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André Grétry

André Ernest Modeste Grétry (; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and

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Andre Hajdu

André Hajdu (; ; 5 March 1932 – 1 August 2016) was a Hungarian-born Israeli composer and ethnomusicologist. Biography Hajdu studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Endre

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André Hossein

André Aminollah Hossein, born Aminulla Huseynov, also known as Aminollah Hossein (; ; 1905, Samarkand – 9 August 1983, Paris) was a French composer of Iranian Azerbaijani origin and a tar soloist.

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André J. Thomas

André Jerome Thomas (born 15 August 1952) is an American composer and conductor. He served as a professor of music at the College of Music at Florida State University and the artistic director for

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André Jolivet

André Jolivet (; 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as

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André Laporte

André Laporte (; born 12 July 1931) is a Belgian composer. Biography Laporte was born in Oplinter, near Tienen in Flemish Brabant. He studied music with Edgard de Laet, Flor Peeters, and Marinus De

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André Mathieu

André Mathieu (18 February 1929 – 2 June 1968) was a Canadian pianist and composer. Life Mathieu was born René André Rodolphe Mathieu on 18 February 1929 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, were received

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André Mehmari

André Ricardo Mehmari (born April 22, 1977) is a Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger. His works were played by the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP), Orquestra Petrobras

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André Messager

André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty , opérettes and other

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André Moraes

André Moraes (born 6 March 1977 as André Torres Moraes) is a Brazilian Latin Grammy-nominated musician, film director, music producer and soundtrack composer. He has worked in the entertainment

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André Popp

André Charles Jean Popp (19 February 1924 – 10 May 2014) was a French composer, arranger and screenwriter. Biography Popp was born into a family of German-Dutch background, in Fontenay-le-Comte,

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André Previn

André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German and American conductor, composer, and pianist. His career had three facets: Hollywood films, jazz,

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André Prévost (composer)

André Prévost, (30 July 193427 January 2001) was a Canadian composer and music educator. He was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1977 and in 1985 he was made an Officer of the Order of

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André Raison

André Raison (c. 1640 – 1719) was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He

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André Ristic

André Ristic (born December 19, 1972) is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000

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André Souris

André Souris (; 10 July 1899 – 12 February 1970) was a Belgian composer, conductor, musicologist, and writer associated with the surrealist movement. Biography Souris was born in Marchienne-au-Pont,

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André Tchaikowsky

André Tchaikowsky (also Andrzej Czajkowski; born Robert Andrzej Krauthammer; November 1, 1935 – June 26, 1982) was a Polish composer and pianist. In addition to his musical work, he is also notable

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Andre Vibez

Alexander Uwaifo (born 25 September 1988) known professionally as Andre Vibez, is a Nigerian music producer and songwriter. He is best known for producing "Rush" from Ayra Starr's album 19 &

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André Vida

André Vida (born 1974) is an American-born German saxophonist, lyricist, avant-garde musician, and experimental composer. Vida has been on the forefront of several major developments in experimental

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André Wormser

André Alphonse Toussaint Wormser (1 November 1851 – 4 November 1926) was a French Romantic composer. Life and career André Wormser was born in Paris and studied with Antoine Marmontel and François

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Andrea Adolfati

Andrea Adolfati (1721 or 1722, Venice – 28 October 1760, Padua) was an Italian composer who is particularly remembered for his output in the opera seria genre. His works are generally conventional

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Andrea Antico

Andrea Antico (also Andrea Antico da Montona, Anticho, Antiquo) (c. 1480 – after 1538) was a music printer, editor, publisher and composer of the Renaissance born in the Republic of Venice, of

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Andrea Belfi

Andrea Belfi (born 1979) is an Italian electro-acoustic musician and composer. He began playing drums at the age of 14. From 1995 to 1998 he was involved in numerous punk bands. He studied art in

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Andrea Centazzo

Andrea Centazzo (born 1948) is an Italian-born American composer, percussionist, multimedia artist and record label founder. Music career Centazzo was born in Udine, Italy. In the 1970s he played

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Andrea Cera

Andrea Cera (born 1969 in Vicenza) is an Italian electroacoustic composer, sound designer and sound installation artist. Biography Andrea Cera graduated with MA degree (diploma) in piano and music

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Andrea Clearfield

Andrea Clearfield (born 1960) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Her works include music for opera, orchestra, chorus, soloists, chamber ensembles, dance, film, and multimedia

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Andrea Di Paolo

Andrea Di Paolo (born in Atessa, Italy, on 24 February 1978) is an Italian pianist and composer of modern classical, contemporary, postminimalism and neoclassical music. Biography Andrea Di Paolo

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Andrea Farri

Andrea Farri (born 11 February 1982) is an Italian film composer. Life and career Born in Rome, Farri is the son of actress Lucia Poli and the nephew of actor Paolo Poli. An autodidact, he started

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Andrea Ferrante

Andrea Ferrante (born 16 August 1968, Palermo, Italy) is an Italian composer whose music is performed throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas and published by Videoradio and Rai Trade Labels,

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Andrea Gabrieli

Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533 – August 30, 1585) was an Italian In 1566 Gabrieli was chosen for the post of organist at St. Mark's, one of the most prestigious musical posts in northern Italy; he

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Andrea Guerra (composer)

Andrea Guerra is an Italian composer. He is known for his film scores of Facing Windows (2003), Hotel Rwanda (2004), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). Biography Guerra is the son of poet and

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Andrea Liberovici

Andrea Liberovici (born 1962) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and a theatre director. Biography Andrea Liberovici was born in Turin, the son of Sergio Liberovici (musician,

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Andrea Luchesi

Andrea Luca Luchesi (also spelled Lucchesi; 23 May 1741 – 21 March 1801) was an Italian composer. He knew Mozart and Beethoven. Biography Andrea Luchesi was born at Motta di Livenza, near Treviso the

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Andrea Mingardi

Andrea Mingardi (born 1 August 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, musician, author and occasional actor. Life and career Born in Bologna, Mingardi approached the music at young age,

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Andrea Molino

Andrea Molino (born 1964 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Andrea Molino was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich

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Andrea Reinkemeyer

Andrea Reinkemeyer (born 1976) is an American composer from Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon and continued her studies in composition at the

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Andrea Stefani (composer)

Andrea Stefani (fl. 1400s) was an Italian monk, flagellant, poet, singer and composer. He was active in Florence and Lucca during the late medieval and early renaissance periods, and was a late

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Andrea Zani

Andrea Teodoro Zani (11 November 1696 – 28 September 1757) was an Italian violinist and composer. Life Zani was born at Casalmaggiore in the Province of Cremona. He received his first instruction in

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Andreas de Florentia

Andreas de Florentia (also known as Andrea da Firenze, Andrea de' Servi, Andrea degli Organi and Andrea di Giovanni; died 1415) was a Florentine composer and organist of the late medieval era. Along

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Andreas de Silva

Andreas de Silva (fl. 1520) was a composer, probably of Portuguese origin, who is known mainly from inclusion of five motets in the Medici Codex. Now attributed to de Silva is a madrigal Che sentisti

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Andreas Düben

Andreas Düben (c. 1597 – 7 July 1662) was a Swedish Baroque composer and organist, and father of Gustaf Düben. Early life Born in Leipzig, Saxony, into the Düben family, which would later be renowned

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Andreas Hallager

Andreas Hallager (28 August 1796 – 9 December 1853) was a Danish musician, orchestra leader, and composer. Most of Hallager's career as a musician was spent in the service of the Danish Military. He

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Andreas Hallén

Johan Andreas Hallén (22 December 1846 – 11 March 1925) was a Swedish Romantic composer, conductor and music teacher, primarily known for his operas, which were heavily influenced by Richard Wagner’s

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Andreas Hammerschmidt

Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – 29 October 1675) was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of

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Andreas Hofer (composer)

Andreas Hofer (ca. 1629 – 25 February 1684) was a German composer of the Baroque period. Hofer was born at Reichenhall. He was a contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, whose predecessor he

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Andreas Kneller

Andreas Kneller (variants: Kniller, Knöller, Knüller) (23 April 1649 – 24 August 1724) was a German composer and organist of the North German school. Life Born in Lübeck, he was the younger brother

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Andreas Kunstein

Andreas Kunstein (born 25 June 1967) is a German composer who was born in Brühl (North Rhine-Westphalia). In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing

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Andreas Oswald

Andreas Oswald (also: Johann Andreas Uswalt or Ußwaldt, baptised 9 December 1634 in Weimar – 1665 in Eisenach) was a German organist and composer of the baroque period. Life Born in Weimar, Andreas

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Andreas Peter Berggreen

Andreas Peter Berggreen (March 2, 1801 – November 8, 1880) was a Danish composer, organist, and pedagogue. Berggreen was born and died in Copenhagen. As a child Peter began composing songs and

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Andreas Pevernage

Andreas Pevernage or Andries Pevernage (1542 or 1543 – 30 July 1591) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance and a choirmaster in Bruges, Kortrijk, and Antwerp. He was one of a few composers

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Andreas Randel

Andreas Randel (6 October 1806 – 27 October 1864) was a Swedish composer and violinist. The overture to his The People from Vårmland was recorded by Kungliga Hovkapellet Stig Westerburg. Biography

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Andreas Raselius

Andreas Raselius, also known as Andreas Rasel (c. 1563 – 6 January 1602) was a German composer and kapellmeister during the Renaissance. He worked for much of his career as a teacher and cantor in

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Andreas Weidinger

Andreas Weidinger (born 1970) is a German composer, producer, conductor, and arranger for film, television, and records. Early life and education Weidinger began his musical training at age nine with

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Andreas Werckmeister

Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 – October 26, 1706) was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was responsible for a temperament that resulted in all

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Andrée Bonhomme

Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1 December 1905 – 1 March 1982) was a Dutch composer. Life Andrée Bonhomme was born in Maastricht on December 1, 1905. She studied from age seven piano with Maria

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Andree Rochat

Andree Aeschlimann Rochat (12 January 1900 – 8 January 1990) was a Swiss composer, music critic, and pianist who used the pseudonym Jean Durand. She spent more than forty years in Milan, where she

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Andrei Eshpai

Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai (15 May 19258 November 2015) was a Soviet composer. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1981. Biography Eshpai was born at Kozmodemyansk, Mari ASSR,

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Andrei Petrov

Andrei Pavlovich Petrov (; 2 September 1930 – 15 February 2006) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Andrey Petrov is known for his music for

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Andrei Volkonsky

Prince Andrei Mikhaylovich Volkonsky (also Andrey, André, Mikhailovich, Michailovich, Volkonski, Volkonskiy) (; 14 February 1933 – 16 September 2008) was a Russian composer of classical music and

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Andreia Pinto Correia

Andreia Pinto-Correia (born 23 August 1971) is a Portuguese composer based in the United States. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she has performed for the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute and New

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Andrej Aćin

Andrej Aćin is a Serbian director, screenwriter and composer from Belgrade, currently residing in Toronto, Canada. In the 1990s, he fronted the gothic rock band BAAL, with which he released one

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Andrejs Jurjāns

Andrejs Jurjāns (September 30, 1856 – September 28, 1922) was a Latvian composer and musicologist. He was Latvia's first classical composer, having composed instrumental pieces and cantatas. Jurjāns

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Andrés Lewin-Richter Ossiander

Andrés Lewin-Richter Osiander (born 1937) is a Spanish composer of electronic music. Background Born in Miranda de Ebro, Spain, he began his studies in engineering at Polytechnic University of

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Andres Uibo

Andres Uibo (born 16 April 1956) is an Estonian organist, composer, music producer and pedagogue. He has been the organist of St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn, now the Niguliste Museum-Concert Hall,

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Andreu Jacob

Andreu Jacob Martínez Foglietti (born 18 September 1971) is an international film composer, orchestrator and sound designer based in Norway. He is known for composing original scores for feature

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Andrew Ager

Andrew Ager (born 12 February 1962) is a Canadian composer of symphonies, operas, chamber, and solo music. He lives in Ottawa, where he composes full-time. Early life Andrew Ager was born to a

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Andrew Cadima

Andrew William Cadima (born October 8, 1984) is an American composer and painter. Biography Cadima is currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written for a wide variety of

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Andrew Carter (composer)

Andrew Carter (13 December 1939 – 5 January 2026) was an English composer, pedagogue, conductor and arranger. Carter conducted choral concerts in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. As a singer at

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Andrew Choi

Andrew Choi (born December 25, 1980), is a South Korean singer and composer. He is best known for providing the singing voice for the character Jinu in the Netflix animation, KPop Demon Hunters

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Andrew Chubb

Andrew Chubb (born 1975 in Sydney, Australia) is a Newcastle, New South Wales based pianist, composer, teacher, and lecturer. Since 1999, he has taught and lectured at the Newcastle Conservatorium of

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Andrew Culver (composer)

Andrew Culver (born August 30, 1953) is a Canadian-American composer and software entrepreneur. Culver's works have included chamber and orchestral music, electronic and computer music, sound

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Andrew Downes (composer)

Andrew Downes (20 August 1950 – 2 January 2023) was a British classical composer. He was head of the School of Composition and Creative Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire from 1992 until 2005. His

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Andrew Ford (composer)

Andrew Ford (born 1957) is an English-born Australian composer, writer, and radio presenter, known for The Music Show on ABC Radio National. Early life and education Andrew Ford was born in 1957 in

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Andrew Gant

Andrew John Gant (born 6 August 1963) is a British composer, singer, author, teacher and Liberal Democrat politician. He was organist, choirmaster and composer at Her Majesty's Chapel Royal from 2000

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Andrew Gordon Macpherson

Andrew Gordon Macpherson is a Canadian film and television composer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is most noted for his work on the television documentary series Dark Side of the Ring and its

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Andrew Hugill

Andrew Hugill (born 1957) is a British composer, writer and academic. He is both a professor of music and a professor of creative computing. He directs the Creative Computing programme at University

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Andrew Imbrie

Andrew Welsh Imbrie (April 6, 1921 – December 5, 2007) was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist. Career Imbrie was born in New York City and began his musical training as a

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Andrew March

Andrew March is an English composer (born 1973). He was the winner of the first-ever Masterprize Composition Competition with his piece Marine — à travers les arbres. Andrew studied composition at

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Andrew Norman

Andrew Norman (born October 31, 1979) is an American composer of contemporary classical music whose texturally complex music is influenced by architecture and the visual arts. His string trio The

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Andrew Paul MacDonald

Andrew Paul MacDonald (born 30 November 1958) is a Canadian classical composer, guitarist, conductor, and music educator. Early life and education Born in Guelph, Ontario, MacDonald studied music

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Andrew Poppy

Andrew Poppy (born 29 May 1954, Kent) is an English post-minimal composer, pianist, and record producer. Life and work Poppy studied at Goldsmiths College in the 1970s. In 1981 he was a founder

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Andrew Prahlow

Andrew Prahlow (born March 5, 1988, in Winter Park, Florida) is an American video game, film, and television composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is a BAFTA-nominated composer. Prahlow is

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Andrew Synnott

Andrew Synnott is an Irish composer and conductor. In 1997, he co-founded Crash Ensemble, a contemporary music group. In 2017, he became the first living Irish composer to have an opera staged at the

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Andrew Thomas (composer)

Andrew William Thomas (October 8, 1939 - April 19, 2026) was an American composer. He studied with Karel Husa at Cornell University, with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and earned his M.M. and D.M.A.

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Andrew Waggoner

Andrew Waggoner (born November 10, 1960) is an American composer and violinist. Biography Andrew Waggoner grew up in New Orleans, Minneapolis and Atlanta, and studied at the New Orleans Center for

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Andrew Wilson-Dickson

Andrew Wilson-Dickson (born 1946) is a British composer, pianist and an authority on early music practice. Biography Wilson-Dickson was born in London on 20 January 1946. He attended Marlborough

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Andrew York (guitarist)

Andrew York (born 1958) is an American Grammy Award winning classical guitarist and composer. Biography York was born in 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and grew up in Virginia. He received

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Andrey Gubin

Andrey Viktorovich Gubin (; born 30 April 1974), born Andrey Valerevich Klementyev () is a Russian pop-singer, poet, composer, hitmaker and record producer. Honored Artists of the Russian Federation

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Andrey Kasparov

Andrey Rafailovich Kasparov (; ; born 6 April 1966) is an Armenian-American pianist, composer, and professor, who holds both American and Russian citizenship. Biography Early life and education

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Andria Balanchivadze

Andria Melitonis dze Balanchivadze (28 April 1992) was a Georgian composer. He was the son of composer Meliton Balanchivadze and brother of ballet choreographer George Balanchine. Biography Born in

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Andriy Shtoharenko

Andriy Shtoharenko () (15 October 1902 – 15 November 1992) was a Soviet Ukrainian composer and teacher. Biography Andriy Shtoharenko was born in the Ukrainian village of Novi Kaidaky (now part of the

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Andrzej Bujakiewicz

Andrzej Bujakiewicz (21 September 1939 – 31 March 2022) was a Polish conductor. Biography Bujakiewicz was born in Winna Góra, Greater Poland Voivodeship. In 1983, he was honored with the Honorary

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Andrzej Cwojdziński

Andrzej Cwojdziński (28 January 1928 – 23 March 2022) was a Polish composer, conductor and music teacher. He attended the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he studied composing and conducting.

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Andrzej Dobrowolski

Andrzej Dobrowolski (September 9, 1921 – August 8, 1990) was a Polish composer and teacher. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatoire during the war and afterwards in the State High School of Music in

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Andrzej Kurylewicz

Andrzej Roman Kurylewicz ( Polish pronunciation : ; 24 November 1932 – 12 April 2007), was a Polish composer, pianist, trombonist, trumpet player and conductor. His works range from classical music,

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Andrzej Panufnik

Sir Andrzej Panufnik ( pronounced : ; 24 September 1914 – 27 October 1991) was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was

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Andrzej Szpilman

Andrzej Szpilman (born March 28, 1956) is a Polish dentist, composer, music producer, publisher, and son of the pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman. Biography Szpilman started his music education

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Andrzej Trzaskowski

Andrzej Trzaskowski (23 March 1933 – 16 September 1998) was a Polish jazz musician, composer and musicologist. From the mid-1950s onward, he was regarded as an authority on syncopated music.

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Andy Akiho

Andy Akiho (born February 7, 1979, Columbia, South Carolina) is an American musician and composer of contemporary classical music. A virtuoso percussionist based in New York City, his primary

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Andy Garfield

Andrew Douglas Garfield (born January 31, 1974, in Fullerton, California) He is best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Adam Green, as the composer of films including Hatchet, Frozen, and

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Andy Hunter (DJ)

Andy Hunter (born 23 April 1974) is a British Christian DJ and electronic dance music artist. Born in Leicester and starting his career in the drum and bass scene of Bristol during the 1990s, he has

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Andy Sturmer

Marvin Andrew Sturmer (born March 11, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and composer who co-founded the rock band Jellyfish in 1989. He was the group's lead vocalist, drummer, and

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Andy Vores

Andy Vores (born 1956) is a Welsh classical music and opera composer. He has lived in the United States since 1986 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Vores studied composition at

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Andys Skordis

Andys Skordis (born in Nicosia, 24 August 1983) is a Cypriot composer. Skordis was awarded the Buma Toonzetters Prize 2012 for the best Dutch composition for that year, as well as the Berlin Opera

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Ángel Mahler

Ángel Jorge Pititto (23 May 1960 – 25 May 2025), known by the pseudonym Ángel Mahler, was an Argentine composer and conductor. He was the Minister of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires between July

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Ángel Tavira

Ángel Tavira Maldonado (July 3, 1924 – June 30, 2008) was a Mexican composer, musician and violinist of son calentano. He was awarded the Best Actor Award on the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in the Un

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Angel-Eye

Angela Shuman (; born 11 September 1974), known professionally as Angel-Eye, is a Dutch artist, composer and producer, who since her solo record deal with EMI Belgium has been collaborating with René

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Angela Morley

Angela Morley (born Walter Morley Stott, 10 March 1924 14 January 2009 ) was an English composer and conductor who became familiar to BBC Radio listeners in the 1950s under the name of Wally Stott.

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Angèle Ravizé

Angèle Ravizé (1887 - 1980) was a French ethnomusicologist, composer and educator who preserved French folk music and specialized in music education for young children. Biography A native of

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Angelica Morales von Sauer

Angelica Morales von Sauer (1911–1996) was a Mexican composer, pianist and professor of piano. Life von Sauer was born on January 11, 1911, in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, the daughter of Puerto Rican

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Angélica Negrón

Angélica Negrón (born 1981) is a Puerto-Rican composer and multi-instrumentalist recognized for composing music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics, as well as for chamber

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Angelo Berardi

Angelo Berardi (c. 1636 in Sant'Agata Feltria – 9 April 1694 in Rome) was an Italian music theorist and composer. Berardi was born in Sant'Agata Feltria. From 1662 he was maestro di cappella in

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Angelo Branduardi

Angelo Branduardi (born 12 February 1950) is an Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium,

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Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (22 February 1909 – 21 August 1987) was an Italian composer, born in Genoa. He is best known for scoring many films, including Legend of the Lost, Conspiracy of Hearts,

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Angelo Gilardino

Angelo Gilardino (16 November 1941 – 14 January 2022) was an Italian composer, guitarist, and musicologist. Life and career Gilardino was born in Vercelli, Italy, on 16 November 1941. During his

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Angelo Maria Benincori

Angelo Maria Benincori (28 March 1779 – 30 December 1821) was an Italian composer. He wrote string quartets and, in Paris, endeavoured to be a successful composer of operas; his greatest success, the

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Angelo Mascheroni (composer)

Angelo Mascheroni (1855 in Bergamo, Italy – 1905) was a pianist, composer, conductor, and music teacher, brother of the conductor Edoardo Mascheroni. He is most famous for his "Eternamente" for voice

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Angelo Tarchi (composer)

Angelo Tarchi (c. 1760 – 19 August 1814) was an Italian composer of numerous operas as well as sacred music. Between 1778 and 1787, he worked primarily in Italy, producing five or six new operas each

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Angharad Davies

Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist and composer, known for her work in the field of free improvisation, her use of prepared violin (using techniques similar to the prepared piano), her extensive

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Angy Palumbo

Angelo Palumbo (died 1960) was an Italian musician, composer and music teacher, mainly active in London. As a musician and teacher Palumbo was a specialist of various fretted instruments, and his

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Aníbal Velásquez

Aníbal Velásquez Hurtado (born June 3, 1936) is a Colombian singer, composer and musician, recognized for playing the accordion. He is also known by his nicknames "El Mago" ("The Magician") and "El

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Aniceto Ortega

Aniceto de los Dolores Luis Gonzaga Ortega del Villar (17 April 1825 – 17 November 1875) was a Mexican physician, composer, and pianist. Although he had a distinguished career as a physician and

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Anirudh Ravichander

Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990), also credited mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian composer and playback singer who works primarily in Tamil cinema, in addition to Telugu and Hindi

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Anita Andreis

Anita Andreis (Zganec) is a Croatian composer, singer-songwriter, musician and producer in the field of film music. Andreis has worked on a variety of films, theatre and ballet productions, both

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Anita Sleeman

Anita Sleeman (née Andrés) (December 12, 1930 – October 18, 2011) was a Canadian contemporary classical music composer. She was also a conductor, arranger, educator, and performer. Biography Life

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Ann Callaway

Ann Marie Callaway (born October 28, 1949) is an American composer. Life and career Callaway was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Langley Park. She began her musical training in Baltimore

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Ann Carr-Boyd

Ann Kirsten Carr-Boyd (born 13 July 1938) Her formal music studies were at the University of Sydney, where in 1960, she was one of two students (the other was Norma Tyer) to graduate with a Bachelor

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Ann Loomis Silsbee

Ann Loomis Silsbee (21 July 1930 - 28 August 2003) was an American composer and poet who composed two operas, published three books of poetry, and received several awards, commissions, and

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Ann Millikan

Ann E. Millikan (born June 10, 1963) is an American composer. Life and career Ann Millikan was born in San Diego County, California. Millikan composes in several genres, including orchestral, opera,

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Ann Mounsey

Ann Mounsey or Ann Sheppard Mounsey or (after her marriage) Ann Mounsey Bartholomew was born on 17 April 1811 and died on 24 June 1891. She was well known in London as a teacher, conductor, and

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Ann Southam

Ann Southam, (4 February 1937 – 25 November 2010) was a Canadian composer and music teacher. She is known for her minimalist-influenced style, her work in electronic music, her long-term

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Ann Valentine

Ann Valentine (11 January 1762 – 13 October 1842 or 13 October 1845 Her father John Valentine (1730–91) was a great-nephew of the composer Robert Valentine. John Valentine was a composer, music

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Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (9 November 1723 – 30 March 1787) was an early modern German composer and music curator who served as princess-abbess of Quedlinburg. She was a princess of Prussia as

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Anna Appleby

Anna Appleby (born 1993, Newcastle Upon Tyne) is an English composer and songwriter of contemporary classical and experimental pop music, based in Manchester, UK. Her pop music is released under her

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Anna Bofill Leví

Anna Bofill Leví (; born 25 April 1944 in Barcelona) is a Catalan Spanish pianist, architect and composer. Life Anna Bofill Leví was born on 25 April 1944 in Barcelona, Spain, daughter of Catalan

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Anna Caroline Oury

Anna Caroline Oury (née de Belleville), also known as Ninette de Belleville, Ninette von Belleville or Ninette de Belleville-Oury (24 January 1806 – 22 July 1880), was a German pianist and composer

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Anna Cramer

Anna M. Cramer (15 July 1873 – 4 June 1968) was a Dutch composer. Life and career Anna Cramer was born in Amsterdam and studied at the Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam. After graduating in 1897,

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Anna Diller Starbuck

Anna Maria Diller Starbuck (August 29, 1868 – February 12, 1929) was a composer, music educator, organist, and pianist. She was one of the first two women to attend Harvard University. Starbuck was

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Anna Drubich

Anna Drubich (born Anna Solovieva Drubich, 27 June 1984) is a Russian composer, pianist, and actress known for her film scores in horror films and frequently working with the composer Marco Beltrami.

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Anna Gardner Goodwin

Anna Gardner Goodwin (October 1874 – 1959) was a Black American composer of classical music. Early life Anna Gardner was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1874 to Daniel and Anna Gardner. Daniel Gardner

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Anna Höstman

Anna Höstman (born 1972 in Port Hardy, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer. She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Höstman studied with John Celona, Christopher Butterfield, Gordon

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Anna Jalkéus

Anna Jalkéus (born 4 May 1992 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz singer, harpist, composer and educator. She has been active professionally since 2012 and is an associate professor of jazz voice

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Anna K. Jacobs

Anna K. Jacobs is an Australian composer, lyricist, and book writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is best known for composing the music and co-writing the book for the musical Teeth. Career Jacobs made

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Anna Magdalena Bach

Anna Magdalena Bach (née Wilcke; 22 September 1701 – 27 February 1760) was a German professional singer and the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography Anna Magdalena Wilcke was born at

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Anna Maria Erdődy

Countess Anna Maria (Marie) von Erdődy (21 August 1778 – 17 March 1837) was a Hungarian noblewoman and among the closest confidantes and friends of Ludwig van Beethoven. Dedicatee of four of the

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Anna Maria Klechniowska

Anna Maria Klechniowska (15 April 1888 – 28 Aug 1973) was a Polish music educator and composer. She was born in Borowka, Ukraine, and studied at the Warsaw and Lemberg (Lviv) Conservatories, and then

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Anna Pessiak-Schmerling

Anna Pessiak-Schmerling (1834 – 14 March 1896) was an Austrian composer born in Vienna. Life and career She was born Anna Schmerling, daughter of Maria Anna Giannatasio del Río (1792–1868), and the

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Anna Rubin

Anna Rubin (born 1946) is an American composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music. Biography Anna Rubin studied with composers Mel Powell, Earle Brown, and Pauline Oliveros while completing

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Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir

Anna Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir (Anna Thorvaldsdottir) (born 11 July 1977) is an Icelandic composer. She has been called "one of Iceland's most celebrated composers", and was the 2012 winner of the

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Anna Sick

Anna (or Anne) Laura Mahir Sick (10 July 1803 – 19 February 1895) was a German composer and pianist who served as the court pianist and Mistress of Piano to the court in Stuttgart. Sick was born in

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Anna von Schaden

Anna Leopoldine Theresia Elisabetha Nanette von Stadler von Pranck von Schaden (January 1763 – January 1834) was an Austrian composer and pianist who was known for her improvisational skills but left

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Anna Weesner

Anna Weesner (born 1965) is an American classical composer. Originally a flute student, educator, and performer, she later shifted towards composing in the 1990s. A 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, she has

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Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean

Anna-Maria Yordanova Ravnopolska-Dean (), Sofia, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian and American harpist, composer, pedagogue, musicologist and TV host. Biography Education as a Harpist By a recommendation of

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Anne Danican Philidor

Anne Danican Philidor (11 April 1681 – 8 October 1728) was a French woodwind player and composer of the Philidor family. Born in Paris on 11 April 1681, his grandfather and father were also

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Anne Dudley

Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the BBC Concert Orchestra's first Composer in Association in 2001. She

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Anne Eggleston

Anne Elizabeth Eggleston (September 6, 1934 – November 27, 1994) was a Canadian composer and educator. The daughter of Wilfrid Eggleston, a journalism professor, and Magdelana Raškevičiutė, a writer,

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Anne La Berge

Anne La Berge was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1955. Her father, David LaBerge is a neuropsychology scientist and her mother, Jane Schuneman, a violinist. She is a composer, performer and

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Anne Lauber

Anne Lauber (born 28 July 1943) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, she has been

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Anne LeBaron

Alice Anne LeBaron (born May 30, 1953) is an American composer, harpist, academic, and writer. Frequently combining tonal and atonal techniques with an experimental approach, LeBaron's compositions

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Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy

Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (née Boyvin d'Hardancourt; 13 December 1744 – 5 December 1824) was a French musician and composer. Born in Paris, she lived in Passy and played and composed for the

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Anne Lovett (musician)

Anne Lovett is a French pianist and composer residing in London. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and King's College London. She released her first album, Beyond (and Below), in 2012 under

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Anne Mathilde Bilbro

Anne Mathilde Bilbro was an American composer and music educator. Early life and career A native of Tuskegee, Alabama, who spent the lion's share of years 20 through 49 in Gadsden, and the remainder

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Anne Vanschothorst

Anne Vanschothorst (born 9 July 1974 in Emmen, Drenthe) is a Dutch harpist and composer. She plays the pedal harp, celtic harp and historical harps as well; an antique Erard harp (double action) and

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Anne-Marie Ørbeck

Anne-Marie Ørbeck (1 April 1911 – 5 June 1996) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. She studied piano in Oslo and in Berlin with Sandra Drouker. She continued her studies in music and composition

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Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939) is a New Zealand-born American composer. Her work incorporates microtonal, electroacoustic, and vocal music, as well as field recordings; she has also composed

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Annelies Van Parys

Annelies Van Parys (born 5 June 1975) is a Belgian classical composer of chamber music, symphonic music, music for theatre productions and opera. Life Born in Bruges, Van Parys studied at the Royal

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Annelu Burns

Annelu Burns (November 12, 1889 – July 11, 1942) was an American lyricist and violinist from Selma, Alabama. She wrote lyrics for songs, theater productions, and films. She frequently wrote songs

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Annette LeSiege

Annette LeSiege (1947 – August 26, 2012) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and teacher. She studied French horn and then composition at the San Jose State University, later

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Annette Schlünz

Annette Schlünz (born 23 September 1964) is a German musician and composer. Biography Schlünz was born in Dessau, East Germany. She studied music at the Dresden Music School from 1983 to 1987 with

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Annette Thoma

Annette Schenk Thoma (23 January 1886 – 26 November 1974) was a German author, composer, and folklorist who is best remembered for her composition Deutsche Bauernmesse (English: German Farmers’

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Annette Vande Gorne

Annette Vande Gorne (born 6 January 1946) is a Belgian electroacoustic music composer currently living in Ohain, Belgium. Biography Annette Vande Gorne was born in Charleroi, Belgium. She initially

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Annibal Gantez

Annibal Gantez (24 December 1607 – 1668) was a French composer and singer from the Baroque era. He is undoubtedly one of the most striking examples of a "vicarious" chapel master, that is, moving

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Annibal Napoleão

Annibal Napoleão dos Santos (3 January — 1880) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. He was the second of three Napoleão pianist and composer siblings, the elder being Arthur Napoleão (1843–1925),

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Annibale Padovano

Annibale Padovano (1527 – March 15, 1575) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was one of the earliest developers of the keyboard toccata. Life Padovano

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Annibale Stabile

Annibale Stabile (c.1535 – April 1595) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composition, and probably was a pupil of Palestrina. He was active mainly at

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Annibale Zoilo

Annibale Zoilo (c. 1537–1592) was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance Roman School. He was a contemporary of Palestrina, writing music in a closely related style, and was a

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Annie Gosfield

Annie Gosfield (born September 11, 1960) is a New-York-based composer who works on the boundaries between notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds, refined timbres and noise. She

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Annie Patterson

Annie Wilson Patterson (27 October 1868 – 16 January 1934) was an Irish organist, music educator, writer, composer, and arranger. Life Annie Patterson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, and

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Anoushavan Ter-Ghevondyan

Anoushavan Ter-Ghevondyan (Armenian: Անուշավան Գրիգորի Տեր-Ղևոնդյան; 8 March 1887 – 6 June 1961) was an Armenian composer, pedagogue, and sociocultural activist. His father was the photographer

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Anoushka Lucas

Anoushka Barbara Lise Lucas (born 24 December 1987) is an English singer, composer, actress, and playwright. She began releasing music in 2009. She later went into theatre and earned a Laurence

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Anselm Hüttenbrenner

Anselm Hüttenbrenner (13 October 1794 – 5 June 1868) was an Austrian composer. He was on friendly terms with both Ludwig van Beethovenhe was one of only two people known to be present at his bedside

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Anselm Viola i Valentí

Pere Viola i Valentí, better known as Anselm Viola (Torroella de Montgrí, Baix Empordà, 1738 - Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, Bages, 25 January 1798), was a composer and teacher of music at the

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Anslem Douglas

Anslem Douglas (born 23 July 1964) is a Trinidadian musician and composer. He is best known for the hit single "Doggie", which was later covered by the Bahamian junkanoo band Baha Men as "Who Let the

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Antal Doráti

Antal Doráti (, , ; 9 April 1906 – 13 November 1988) was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943. Biography Antal Doráti was born in Budapest to a

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Anthony Bernard

Anthony Bernard (25 January 18916 April 1963) was an English conductor, organist, pianist and composer. Early life Anthony Bernard's birth was registered as Alan Charles Butler in West Ham, then

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Anthony Brandt

Anthony K. Brandt (born 1961) is an American composer, academic, and writer. He is Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and the co-author with

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the

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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains

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Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux

Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux (born April 27, 1977 in Geneva, Switzerland, ) is a multi-instrumentalist composer. He is the founder of Plombage Records and produces his own movies. Anthony Cedric

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Anthony Davis (composer)

Anthony Davis (born February 20, 1951) is an American pianist and composer. He incorporates several styles including jazz, rhythm 'n' blues, gospel, non-Western, African, European classical,

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Anthony Gilbert (composer)

Anthony Gilbert (26 July 1934 – 5 July 2023) was a British composer and academic, long associated with the Royal Northern College of Music. He also taught for extended periods as head of composition

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Anthony Hedges

Anthony J. Hedges (5 March 1931 – 19 June 2019) was an English composer, the son of children's writer Sidney Hedges. Life Hedges was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, and studied music at Keble College

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Anthony Heinrich

Anthony Philip Heinrich (March 11, 1781 – May 3, 1861) was the first "full-time" American composer, and the most prominent before the American Civil War. He did not start composing until he was 36,

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Anthony Holborne

Anthony Antony Holborne Holburne (c. 1545 – 29 November 1602) was a composer of music for lute, cittern, and instrumental consort during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Life An "Anthony Holburne"

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Anthony Iannaccone

Anthony Joseph Iannaccone (born October 14, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American composer and conductor. His music has been performed by major orchestras and chamber ensembles, and he has

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Anthony Kellman

Anthony Kellman (born 24 April 1955) is a Barbados-born poet, novelist, and musician. In 1990, the British publishing house Peepal Tree Press published his first full-length book of poetry,

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Anthony Lledo

Anthony Lledo (born 11 January 1972) is a Danish composer. He has composed music for several films and tv-series and made his feature film debut with the score for the Swedish film Frostbite. His

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Anthony Moore

Anthony Moore (also known as Anthony More) (born 13 August 1948) is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry

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Anthony Payne

Anthony Edward Payne (2 August 1936 – 30 April 2021) was an English composer, music critic and musicologist. He is best known for his acclaimed completion of Edward Elgar's third symphony, which

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Anthony Powers

Anthony Powers (born 13 March 1953) is a British composer of classical music. He has received a number of commissions, including the BBC and the Three Choirs Festival Society and a number of

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Anthony Suter

Anthony Suter is an American composer and music educator. Dr. Suter has a deep interest in mentoring younger musicians and is a vocal advocate for public school music programs, often serving as a

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Anthony Whittaker

Anthony John Whittaker-Mahoney (born 1968) is an English composer. His first musical experiences were in the local church choir age 7 and as a tenor recorder player; he did not begin formal study of

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Anthony Young (musician)

Anthony Young (January 1683 – 8 May 1747) was an English organist and composer. He was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during

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Antimo Liberati

Antimo Liberati (3 April 1617 – 24 February 1692) was an Italian music theorist, composer, and contralto singer. Born in Foligno, Liberati began his musical training began in Rome in 1628 when he was

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Antoine Banès

Antoine Banés, real name Antoine Anatole, (8 June 1856 – 9 January 1924) was a French composer of operettas and ballets. Biography Antoine Banes studied music under the direction of Émile Durand,

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Antoine Boësset

Antoine Boësset, Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset (1586 – 8 December 1643), Sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Régime French court and a composer of secular

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Antoine Brumel

Antoine Brumel (; c. 1460 – 1512 or 1513) was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, and, after Josquin des Prez, was one

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Antoine Bullant

Antoine Bullant, also Anton Bullandt (, 9 February 1751 in Mělník, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire – 25 OS 13 June 1821 St Petersburg) was a bassoon player and opera composer who worked first in France

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Antoine Busnois

Antoine Busnois (also Busnoys; c. 1430 – before 6 November 1492) was a French composer, singer and poet of early Renaissance music. Busnois and colleague Johannes Ockeghem were the leading European

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Antoine Dauvergne

Antoine Dauvergne (3 October 1713 – 11 February 1797) was a French composer and violinist. Dauvergne was born in Moulins, Allier. He served as master of the Chambre du roi, director of the Concert

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Antoine de Bertrand

Antoine de Bertrand (also Anthoine) (1530/1540 – probably 1581) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he

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Antoine de Cousu

Antoine de Cousu Du Cousu was a French cleric, Kapellmeister, composer and theorist, active in Picardy in the first half of the 17th century. Biography Noyon De Cousu was born in Amiens in the early

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Antoine de Févin

Antoine de Févin (ca. 1470 – late 1511 or early 1512) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was active at the same time as Josquin des Prez, and shares many traits with his more famous

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Antoine de Lhoyer

Antoine de Lhoyer L'Hoyer (6 September 1768 – 15 March 1852) was a French virtuoso classical guitarist and an eminent early romantic composer of mainly chamber music featuring the classical guitar.

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Antoine de Longueval

Antoine de Longueval (fl. 1498–1525) was a French singer and composer of the Renaissance. A contemporary of Josquin des Prez, he was singing master of the French royal chapel under King Francis I,

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Antoine Duhamel

Antoine Duhamel (30 July 1925 – 11 September 2014) was a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher. Life and career Born in Valmondois in the Val-d'Oise département of France, Antoine

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Antoine Elwart

Antoine Aimable Elie Elwart (19 September 1808 – 14 October 1877) was a French composer and musicologist. Biography Childhood Elwart was born in Paris in the family home. At the age of ten, he became

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Antoine Forqueray

Antoine Forqueray (September 1672 – 28 June 1745) was a French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba. Forqueray, born in Paris, was the first in a line of composers which included his sons

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Antoine Francisque

Antoine Francisque (c. 1570 in Saint-Quentin – 1605 in Paris) was a 16th-century French lutenist and composer. Biography Little is known of the details of Francisque's life. Francisque was born in

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Antoine François Marmontel

Antoine François Marmontel (; 18 July 1816 – 16 January 1898) was a French pianist, composer, teacher and musicographer. He is mainly known today as an influential teacher at the Paris Conservatory,

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Antoine Marcel Lemoine

Antoine Marcel Lemoine (3 November 1763, in Paris – 10 April 1817, in Paris) was the founder of the music publishing establishment in Paris and a virtuoso and skillful performer on the violin and

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Antoine Mariotte

Antoine Mariotte (22 December 187530 November 1944) was a French composer, conductor and music administrator. Biography Mariotte was born in Avignon (Vaucluse) in 1875. After studies at the School of

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Antoine Simon (composer)

Antoine Simon, commonly known as Anton Simon () (5 August 1850 – 1 February 1916), was a French composer, director and pianist, who made most of his career in Russia. Biography Born in Paris, Antoine

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Antoine Taudou

Antoine-Barthélémy Taudou (24 August 1846 – 6 July 1925) was a French music educator, violinist and composer. Life Born in Perpignan, Taudou studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Premier

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Antoine Tisné

Antoine Tisné (29 July 1932 – 19 July 1998) was a French composer. Life Tisné was born in Lourdes. He began his musical studies at the Tarbes Conservatory. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in

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Antoinette Kirkwood

Antoinette Adell Mahoney Kirkwood (26 February 1930 - 28 January 2014) was an English composer born in London, with Irish family connections. Early life Kirkwood studied music with Claud Biggs at the

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Antoinette Roberson

Antoinette Roberson is an American songwriter, record producer, and vocalist known for her work in R&B and hip-hop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. She co-wrote the Grammy-nominated single

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Anton Arensky

Anton Stepanovich Arensky (; 12 July 1861 – 25 February 1906) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, pianist, conductor and professor of music. He is known especially for his chamber

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Anton Beer-Walbrunn

Anton Beer-Walbrunn (29 June 1864 – 22 March 1929) was a German composer. Life Beer was the 4th of five children of the teacher, cantor, sacristan and community writer Anton Beer and his wife

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Anton Bernhard Fürstenau

Anton Bernhard Fürstenau (born 20 October 1792 in Münster; died 18 November 1852 in Dresden, Germany) was a German flutist and composer. He was the most famous virtuoso in Germany on his instrument

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Anton Bruckner

Joseph Anton Bruckner (; ; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets. The

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Anton de Kontski

Anton de Kontski (25 September 18167 December 1899) was a Polish-American pianist and composer. He was also known as Antoni Kątski and Antoine de Kontski, sometimes with the appellation "Chevalier."

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Anton Diabelli

Anton (or Antonio) Diabelli (5 September 17818 April 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of

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Anton Eberl

Anton Franz Josef Eberl (13 June 1765 – 11 March 1807) was an Austrian composer, teacher and pianist of the Classical period. He was a student of Salieri and Mozart. He was also seen as an early

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Anton Fils

Anton Fils (also Antonín Fils, Johann Anton Fils, Johann Anton Filtz), 22 September 1733 (baptized) – 14 March 1760 (buried) was a German classical composer. Fils was born in Eichstätt, in the

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Antón García Abril

Antón García Abril OAXS (19 May 1933 – 17 March 2021) was a Spanish composer and musician. He composed many classical orchestral works, chamber and vocal pieces, as well as over 150 scores for film

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Anton Heiller

Anton Heiller (15 September 1923 – 25 March 1979) was an Austrian organist, harpsichordist, composer and conductor. Biography Born in Vienna, he was first trained in church music by Wilhelm Mück,

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Anton Mailyan

Anton Mayilyan (Armenian: Անտոն Մայիլյան, 1880–1942) was an Armenian Soviet composer, musical and public figure, prose writer, librettist, conductor, teacher, folklorist and Honored art worker of

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Anton Reicha

Anton (Antonín, Antoine) Joseph Reicha (Rejcha) (26 February 1770 – 28 May 1836) was a Bohemia-born, Bavarian-educated, later naturalized French composer and music theorist. A contemporary and friend

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Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (; 28 November 182920 November 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai

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Anton Stamitz

Anton Thadäus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz (November 1750 – c. 1798–1809) was a German composer and violinist. He was born in the Holy Roman Empire. Anton was born during a family visit to Německý Brod and

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Anton Teyber

Anton Teyber (8 September 1756 (bapt.) – 18 November 1822) was an Austrian organist, Kapellmeister and composer. Anton Teyber was born and died in Vienna. His brother was Franz Teyber. He taught the

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Anton Webern

Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic

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Antonello da Caserta

Antonello da Caserta, also Anthonello de Casetta, Antonellus Marot, was an Italian composer of the medieval era, active in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Life and career Essentially nothing

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Antoni Kocipiński

Antoni Kocipiński (1816 – 26 May 1866) was a Polish composer, musician, and music publisher. He was mostly active in what is now Ukraine, at the time the areas where he operated were part of the

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Antoni Radziwiłł

Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł (; 13 June 1775 – 7 April 1833) was a Polish–Lithuanian and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician, and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieśwież and Ołyka, as

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Antoni Stolpe

Antoni Stolpe (23 May 1851 – 7 September 1872) was a Polish composer and pianist. Life Antoni Stolpe was born in Puławy, Congress Poland, as a descendant of a musical family. His first teacher of

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Antonia Bembo

Antonia Padoani Bembo (c. 1640 – c. 1720) was a Venetian composer and singer. Life Antonia Padoani Bembo was born in Venice around 1640 as the only daughter of Giacomo Padoani (1603–1666), a doctor,

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Antonie Brentano

Antonie Brentano (28 May 1780 – 12 May 1869 in Frankfurt), born Johanna Antonie Josefa Edle von Birkenstock and known as Toni, was an Austrian philanthropist, art collector, arts patron, and a close

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Antonietta Gambara Untersteiner

Composer and pianist Antonietta Gambara Untersteiner (1846 – 27 May 1896) was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, but lived in Italy most of her life. Untersteiner studied music at the Milan

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Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8September 18411 – May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic

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Antonín Kammel

Antonín Kammel (21 April 1730 – 5 October 1784) was a Bohemian composer and violinist of the Classical period. He is known for his instrumental works composed primarily for strings, though he did

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Antonín Kraft

Antonín Kraft (30 December 1749 – 28 August 1820) was a Czech cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. He worked in the Holy Roman Empire and later in the Austrian

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Antonín Tučapský

Antonín Tučapský (27 March 1928 – 9 September 2014) was a Czech composer. From 1973 until his death he lived in the United Kingdom. Biography Tučapský was born in 1928 in Opatovice (part of Vyškov)

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Antonín Vranický

Antonín Vranický, Germanized as Anton Wranitzky, and also seen as Wranizky (13 June 1761 – 6 August 1820), was a Czech violinist and composer of the 18th century. He was the half brother of Pavel

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Antonina Armato

Antonina Armato is an American songwriter, record producer, music producer and businesswoman. She is the co-founder and member of Rock Mafia, a record production/songwriting team. She has worked with

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Antonino Barges

Antonino Barges (fl. 1546–1565) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Venice and Treviso. While known as a composer of light popular secular forms such as the villotta, he also

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Antonino Gandolfo Brancaleone

Antonino Gandolfo Brancaleone (24 April 1820, in Catania – 6 June 1888, in Catania) was an Italian composer. His masterpiece was Il Sultano (1851). Biography He began his studies in Palermo with

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Antonino Palminteri

Antonino Palminteri (3 October 1846 – 31 July 1915) was an Italian conductor and classical composer. Life and career Born in Menfi, the son of a doctor, in 1970 Palminteri graduated in piano,

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Antonino Riccardo Luciani

Antonino Riccardo Luciani (10 August 1931 – 29 January 2020) was an Italian classical composer, conductor and academic. Life and career Born in Palermo, Luciani moved with his family in Florence when

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Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni

Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni (28 January 1757 – 6 August 1821) was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor. Bruni was born and died in Cuneo, Italy. During most of his life, he resided, played and

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Antonio Bazzini

Antonio Bazzini (11 March 181810 February 1897) was an Italian violinist, composer and teacher. As a composer, his most enduring work is his chamber music, which earned him a central place in the

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Antonio Besozzi

Antonio Besozzi (1714–1781) was an Italian oboist and composer and also member of an extensive family of musicians from the eighteenth-century Naples. He composed several concertos for oboe and a few

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Antonio Bibalo

Antonio Gino Bibalo (18 January 1922 – 20 June 2008) was an Italian-Norwegian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music, primarily operas. Biography Bibalo was born in Trieste and studied

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Antonio Boroni

Antonio Boroni (Rome, 1738 - Rome, 21 December 1792) was an Italian composer. Operas *Demofoonte (dramma per musica, libretto di Pietro Metastasio, 1761, Senigallia) *La moda (dramma giocoso,

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Antonio Breschi

Antonio Breschi, also known as Antóni O'Breskey (born in Florence, Italy, with Argentine roots) is a composer, pianist and trumpet player, singer, writer, poet and music educator. Oliver Sweeney, in

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Antonio Brunelli

Antonio Brunelli (20 December 1577 – 19 November 1630) was an Italian composer and theorist of the early Baroque period. He was a student of Giovanni Maria Nanino and served as the organist at San

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Antonio Buonomo

Antonio Buonomo (13 December 1932 – 23 November 2025) was an Italian composer, solo percussionist and music educator. A professor of percussion at the conservatories of "S.Pietro a Majella in Naples"

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Antonio Buzzolla

Antonio Buzzolla (2 March 1815 – 20 March 1871) was an Italian composer and conductor. Life Antonio Buzzolla was born on 2 March 1815. A native of Adria, he studied in Venice from 1832, and he joined

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Antonio Cagnoni

Antonio Cagnoni (8 February 1828 – 30 April 1896) was an Italian composer. Primarily known for his twenty operas, his work is characterized by his use of leitmotifs and moderately dissonant

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Antonio Caldara

Antonio Caldara ( – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Life Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice,

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Antonio Capuzzi

Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (also Capucci; 1 August 1755 – 28 March 1818) was an Italian violinist and composer. He studied in Venice, Italy under the direction of A. Nazari (violin) and F. G. Bertoni

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Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Jobim is

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Antonio Casimir Cartellieri

Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (27 September 1772 – 2 September 1807) was a Polish-Austrian composer, violinist, conductor, and voice teacher. His reputation dissipated after his death, not to be

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Antonio Cesti

Antonio Cesti (; baptised Pietro Cesti, 5 August 1623; died 14 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor) and organist. He was "the most

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António Chagas Rosa

António Chagas Rosa (born 1960) is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music. His output includes chamber operas, song-cycles and numerous works for chamber and symphony orchestras. His

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Antonio Cifra

Antonio Cifra (1584? – 2 October 1629 in Loreto) was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the significant transitional figures between the

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Antonio da Cividale

Antonio da Cividale (also Antonius de Civitate Austrie) (fl. 1392–1421) was an Italian composer of the early Quattrocento, at the end of the musical medieval era and beginning of the Renaissance. He

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Antonio de Cabezón

Antonio de Cabezón (30 March 1510 – 26 March 1566) was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist. Blind from childhood, he quickly rose to prominence as a performer and was eventually employed by

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Antonio de Literes

Antoni de Literes, also known as Antonio de Literes or Antoni Literes Carrión (18 June 1673 – 18 January 1747), was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas. As with other national forms of baroque opera,

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Antonio de Salazar (composer)

Antonio de Salazar (or Zalazar) (c.1650–1715) was a Novohispano composer of the Baroque period. Life Salazar was born in Puebla de los Angeles, current Mexico. He was first given the role of maestro

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Antonio Draghi

Antonio Draghi (17 January 1634 – 16 January 1700) was a Baroque composer. He possibly was the brother of Giovanni Battista Draghi. Draghi was born at Rimini in Italy, and was one of the most

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Antonio Florio

Antonio Florio (born 1956) is an Italian conductor, musicologist and composer. In 1987, Florio founded the Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini music ensemble, renamed Cappella Neapolitana in 2016.

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Antonio Gardano

Antonio Gardano (also Antoine Gardane) (1509 – 28 October 1569) was a French-born Italian composer and important music publisher and printer based in Venice. Life and career Gardano arrived in the

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Antonio Gianettini

Antonio Gianettini (also Giannettini, Zanettini, Zannettini; 1648 – 12 July 1721) was an Italian organist, concertmaster and composer. Biography Born in Fano, almost nothing is known about

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Antonio il Verso

Antonio Il Verso (1565 – August 23, 1621) was an Italian composer. Il Verso was born at Piazza Armerina, and began his musical studies under the guidance of Pietro Vinci. He was active in Venice in

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Antonio José Martínez Palacios

Antonio José Martínez Palacios (12 December 190211 October 1936), professionally known as Antonio José, was a Spanish composer. Maurice Ravel apparently said of Antonio José: "He will become the

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Antonio Juanas

Antonio de Juanas (c. 1762 – after 1819) was a composer in Spain and Mexico. The birthplace of Antonio Juanas is known from two letters sent to the Cathedral of Jaén in 1784. He was born in either

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Antonio Lotti

Antonio Lotti (5 January 1667 – 5 January 1740) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. Biography Lotti was born in Venice, although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hanover at the time.

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Antônio Maria

Antônio Maria de Araújo Morais, known as Antônio Maria (17 March 1921—15 October 1964), was a Brazilian writer of pop music lyrics as well as radio sports commentator, poet, composer, and chronicler.

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Antonio Maria Abbatini

Antonio Maria Abbatini (c. 1609 or 1610 – c. 1677 or 1679) was an Italian composer, active mainly in Rome. Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He composed church music, and published three books

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Antonio Maria Mazzoni

Antonio Maria Mazzoni (4 January 1717 – 8 December 1785) was an Italian composer. Born in Milan, the son of a clockmaker, Mazzoni first gained an interest in music at the age of six, and at age

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Antonio Masini

Antonio Masini (c. 1639 – 20 September 1678) was born in Florence. During the last years of his life in Rome he was the Kapellmeister of the Cappela Giulia in Rome and furthermore the chamber

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Antonio Montanari

Antonio Maria Montanari (29 November 1676 in Modena – 2 April 1737 in Rome) was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque period. Life Nothing is known of Antonio Maria Montanari's childhood

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Antonio Nani

Antonio (or Anton) Nani (6 October 1842 – 25 February 1929) was a Maltese composer and a member of a prominent family of Maltese musicians and composers. He composed both sacred music and operas.

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Antonio Orefice

Antonio Orefice (floruit 1708–1734) was an Italian opera composer active in Naples. His Patrò Calienno de la Costa was the first opera buffa in Neapolitan dialect to be performed on a public stage.

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Antonio Pasculli

Antonio Pasculli (13 October 1842 – 23 February 1924) was an Italian oboist and composer, known as "the Paganini of the oboe". Biography Pasculli was born in Palermo, Sicily on 13 October 1842. He

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Antonio Pedrotti

Antonio Pedrotti (August 14, 1901 – May 15, 1975 in Trento) was an Italian conductor and composer. He was born in Trento, at the time part of the County of Tyrol, part of the Austrian empire. He

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António Pinho Vargas

António Pinho Vargas (born 15 August 1951 in Vila Nova de Gaia) is a Portuguese composer and pianist specializing in jazz and contemporary music. He has also authored books, essays, and articles on

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Antônio Pinto (composer)

Antônio Alves Pinto (born 1967) is a Brazilian film score composer. He is the son of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo and the brother of the film-maker Daniela Thomas. His work earned him a World

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Antonio Quintavalle

Antonio Quintavalle (c. 1665) was an Italian opera composer. Biography He was probably born in Rome, where the beginning of his activity is documented starting from 1688; on 6 February of that year,

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Antonio Rey

Antonio Rey Navas (Madrid, born 9 March 1981) is a Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer. He is a winner of several national and international flamenco guitar competitions including the Concurso

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Antonio Rodríguez de Hita

Antonio Rodríguez de Hita (18 January 1722 – 21 February 1787) was a Spanish composer. Life Rodríguez was born at Valverde de Alcalá. He became maestro de capilla at Palencia Cathedral

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Antonio Rolla

Giuseppe Antonio Rolla (18 April 1798 – 19 March 1837) was an Italian violin and viola virtuoso and composer. Life and career Antonio Rolla was born in Parma, Italy, where he studied violin with his

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Antonio Rosetti

Francesco Antonio Rosetti (c. 1750 – 30 June 1792) was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. There is considerable confusion regarding his name.

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Antonio Ruiz-Pipó

Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (27 April 1934 – 24 October 1997) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist and composer. Ruiz-Pipó was born in Granada, Spain. He studied the piano with Alicia de Larrocha and composition

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Antonio Russolo

Antonio Russolo (1877–1943 Antonio learned music early through his father, who successfully prepared him and another brother, Giovanni, to pass the entrance exam at the Milan Conservatory. This

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Antonio Sacchini

Antonio Maria Gasparo Gioacchino Sacchini (14 June 1730 – 6 October 1786) was an Italian classical era composer, best known for his operas. Sacchini was born in Florence, but raised in Naples, where

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António Sala

António Manuel Sala Mira Gomes (born in 1949) is a Portuguese radio and television presenter and journalist, as well as a singer and songwriter. He has worked in various capacities throughout his

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Antonio Salieri

Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life

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Antonio Sapienza

Antonio Sapienza (18 June 1794 – 1855) was an Italian composer and conductor. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire where he began his musical studies with his father who was also called

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Antonio Sartorio

Antonio Sartorio (1630 – 30 December 1680) was a composer active mainly in the Republic of Venice and in the Principality of Calenberg. He was a leading composer of operas in his native Venice in the

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Antonio Smareglia

Antonio Smareglia (5 May 1854 – 15 April 1929) was an Italian opera composer. Life Antonio Smareglia was born in Pola, in the Istrian peninsula, then part of the Austrian Empire. In the house where

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Antonio Soler (composer)

Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, also known as Padre ('Father', in the religious sense) Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos (baptized 3 December 1729 – died 20 December

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Antonio Squarcialupi

Antonio Squarcialupi (27 March 1416 – 6 July 1480) was a Florentine organist and composer. He was the most famous organist in Italy in the mid-15th century. Life He was born in Florence to a butcher

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Antonio Tublén

Antonio Tublén is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, composer, and author. Career Tublén began his career with short films: Hollywood (2004), Havanna (2005), and The Amazing Death of Mrs Müller

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Antonio Vandini

Antonio Vandini (1691 – 1778), a close friend of Giuseppe Tartini, was a cellist and composer. He was an eighteenth-century cellist and composer known for his performances in northern Italy. and

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence

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Antonios Liveralis

Antonios Liveralis or Liberalis (Greek: Αντώνιος Λιβεράλης or Λιμπεράλης, Italian: Antonio Liberali; 1814 in Corfu – 1842 in Corfu) was a Greek conductor and composer of the early Ionian school. He

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Antonius Divitis

Antonius Divitis (also Anthonius de Rycke, and Anthoine Le Riche – "the rich") (c. 1475 – c. 1530) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance, of the generation slightly younger than Josquin des Prez.

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Antonius Janue

Antonius Janue (?Antonio da Genova) (fl. ca. 1460) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of few known Italian composers of polyphony in the middle of the 15th century, and left one

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Antony Choudens

Antony Choudens (11 February 1849 – 15 July 1902) was a French music publisher and occasional composer. Life and business history Choudens was born in Paris. He succeeded his father Antoine de

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Antony le Fleming

Antony R le Fleming (born 1941 in Wiltshire, England) is an English composer of classical music. He is a former student of Raymond Leppard, Herbert Howells and Malcolm Arnold. The bulk of his

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Antun Dobronić

Antun Dobronić (; 2 April 1878 – 12 December 1955) was a Croatian composer and pupil of Vítězslav Novák. He studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1910 to 1912. From 1922 to 1940, he served as

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Antun Nikolić Tuca

Antun Nikolić Tuca (Županja, Croatia, 10 June 1943) Croatian musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, music producer, ethnographer, tamburitza virtuoso Biography Antun Nikolić Tuca is a

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Antun Sorkočević

Antun Sorkočević (, ; 12 December 1775 – February 1841) was a diplomat, writer, composer and member of Ragusan nobility (chevalier des odres de Saint Maurice et de Saint Lazare demeurant a Paris). He

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Đặng Hữu Phúc

Đặng Hữu Phúc (born June 4, 1953) is a Vietnamese pianist and composer best known for his film scores. A graduate of the Hanoi Conservatory, he has penned over 60 works, primarily for film and

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