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Composers whose names start with AU.
August Alexander Klengel
August Stephan Alexander Klengel (29 June 1783, Dresden22 November 1852, Dresden) was a German pianist, organist and composer. Biography Klengel was the son of landscape painter . He showed an early
Read → 20th CenturyAugust Baeyens
August Louis Baeyens (5 June 1895 in Antwerp – 17 July 1966 in Antwerp) was a Belgian violist and composer. Baeyens studied viola, harmony and counterpoint with Napoleon Distelmans and August de
Read → RomanticAugust Bungert
Friedrich August Bungert (14 March 1845 – 26 October 1915) was a German opera composer and poet. Biography Early life Bungert was born in Mülheim. His unusual musical talent was noticed and nurtured
Read → ClassicalAugust Christian Niemann
August Christian Heinrich Niemann (30 January 1761 – 21 May 1832) was a German forestry engineer and political economist. He is known as a composer and collector of student songs. Born in Altona, he
Read → RomanticAugust Conradi
August Conradi (27 June 1821 – 26 May 1873) was a German organist and composer. Life Born in Berlin, Conradi was originally intended by his father to study theology. Instead, he was enrolled at the
Read → Late RomanticAugust de Boeck
Julianus Marie August De Boeck (May 9, 1865 in Merchtem, Belgium – October 9, 1937 in Merchtem) was a Belgian composer, organist and music pedagogue. He was the son of organist and director
Read → ClassicalAugust Eberhard Müller
August Eberhard Müller (13 December 1767, Northeim – 3 December 1817, Weimar) was a German composer, organist and choir leader. Life Trained by his organist father, he made his first public
Read → Late RomanticAugust Enna
August Enna (13 May 1859 – 3 August 1939) was a Danish composer, known mainly for his operas. Biography Enna was born in Nakskov, Lolland, Denmark, but his ethnic origins lay in Sicily. His
Read → Early RomanticAugust Freyer
Karol August Freyer (15 December 1801 – 28 May 1883) was a Polish musician and composer, specializing in both performance and composition on the organ. Biography Freyer was born in Saxony in 1801. He
Read → Late RomanticAugust Högn
August Högn (2 August 187813 December 1961) was a German teacher, composer and historian. Biography August Högn was born on 2 August 1878, the middle of five children to married bookbinders Andreas
Read → RomanticAugust Klughardt
August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (30 November 1847 – 3 August 1902) was a German composer and conductor. Life Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the
Read → ClassicalAugust Kohn
August Kohn (1732 – c. 1801/1802) was a German violinist and composer of the late Baroque to Classical transition era. Life Kohn (also Kohne; Cohne; Coun;
Read → Late RomanticAugust Reuß
August Reuß (6 March 1871 – 18 June 1935) was a German composer. Life Reuß was born in Liliendorf, Moravia. His father ran a railway construction company, and his grandfather had worked as a teacher
Read → RomanticAugust Röckel
Carl August Röckel (1 December 1814 – 18 June 1876) was an Austrian-born German composer and conductor. He was a friend of Richard Wagner and active in the German revolutions of 1848–1849. Biography
Read → RomanticAugust Söderman
Johan August Söderman (17 July 1832 – 10 February 1876) was a Swedish composer. He was born and died in Stockholm, and has traditionally been seen as the pre-eminent Swedish composer of the Romantic
Read → Late RomanticAugust Stradal
August Stradal (17 May 1860 – 13 March 1930) was a Czech virtuoso pianist, arranger, composer, author and music teacher. Career Stradal was born on 17 May 1860 in Teplice, Bohemia, Austrian Empire
Read → RomanticAugust Wilhelm Ambros
August Wilhelm Ambros (17 November 181628 June 1876) was an Austrian music historian, critic and composer of Czech descent. Life He was born in Mýto, Rokycany District, Bohemia. (1773–1850), the
Read → Late RomanticAugust Wiltberger
August Wiltberger (17 April 1850 – 2 December 1928) was a German royal music director, composer and professor at a teachers' seminary. Career Wiltberger was born in Sobernheim. He received his first
Read → RomanticAugust Winding
August Winding (24 March 183516 June 1899) was a Danish pianist, teacher and composer. Life Early life and education August Henrik Winding was born in Tårs, near Sandby on the island of Lolland. His
Read → RomanticAugusta Browne
Augusta Browne (1820–1882) was an American composer, publisher, and author. She started the first wave of female composers in the country. Wake, Lady Mine, written in 1845, is one of her best known
Read → RomanticAugusta Holmès
Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (16 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent. In 1871, while living with the poet Catulle Mendès, Holmès became a French national and added the
Read → 21st CenturyAugusta Read Thomas
Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the
Read → Early RomanticAuguste Andrade
Jean (or Jacob) Auguste Andrade (12 August 1793 – 11 January 1843 ) was a French singer and composer. Biography Born in Saint-Esprit (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), son of Rabbi Abraham Andrade, a student of
Read → Early RomanticAuguste Barbereau
Mathurin Auguste Balthasar Barbereau (14 November 1799 – 14 July 1879) was a French composer and music theorist. Barberau was born in Paris. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1810 and received
Read → RomanticAuguste Bazille
Auguste Bazille (27 May 1828 – 18 April 1891) was a French organist, composer, and professor of music. Career Auguste Bazille was a brilliant student at the Conservatoire de Paris (1st prize in music
Read → Late RomanticAuguste Chapuis
Auguste Chapuis (; 25 April 1858 – 6 December 1933) was a 19th/20th century French composer, organist, and professor. He was a student with César Franck. The in the 20th arrondissement of Paris was
Read → Early RomanticAuguste de Peellaert
Auguste Philippe de Peellaert (Bruges, March 12, 1793 – Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, April 16, 1876) was a Belgian officer who, after his military career, became a painter, composer, and writer. Biography
Read → RomanticAuguste Durand
Marie-Auguste Massacrié-Durand (; 18 July 1830 – 31 May 1909) was a French music publisher, organist, and composer. Biography Durand was born in Paris and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with
Read → Early RomanticAuguste Franchomme
Auguste-Joseph Franchomme (10 April 180821 January 1884) was a French cellist and composer. In addition to his work in Paris, he collaborated with Spanish cellist Víctor Mirecki Larramat and Belgian
Read → Late RomanticAuguste Le Guennant
Auguste Joseph-Marie François Le Guennant (10 January 1881 – 17 May 1972) was a French organist, church musician and composer. He was, after positions as organist and head of the chapel in Paris and
Read → Late RomanticAuguste Sérieyx
Auguste Sérieyx (14 June 1865 – 19 February 1949) was a French music pedagogue, musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Amiens, Auguste Sérieyx, musicographer and composer studied at the
Read → RomanticAuguste van Biene
Auguste van Biene (16 May 1849 – 23 January 1913) was a Dutch composer, cellist and actor. He became best known for his composition The Broken Melody, performed by the composer as part of a musical
Read → RomanticAuguste Vaucorbeil
Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, born Veaucorbeille, (15 December 1821 – 2 November 1884) was a French composer and theatre manager. He was the director of the Paris Opera from 1879 until his death at
Read → BaroqueAugustin Pfleger
Augustin Pfleger (1635 – after 23 July 1686) was a German Bohemian composer. Life Pfleger was born at Schlackenwerth (now Ostrov) and became a court musician at Schlackenwerth. In 1662 he moved to
Read → BaroqueAugustin Reinhard Stricker
Augustin Reinhard Stricker (c. 1675 – between 1718 and 1723) was a German baroque composer, conductor and tenor singer. He was Johann Sebastian Bach's predecessor as Kapellmeister (music director) at
Read → ClassicalAugustin Šenkýř
Augustin Šenkýř (born Václav Šenkýř; ) was a Czech violinist, gambist, composer, organist and Roman Catholic priest. Biography Augustin Šenkýř was born in Dobruška. Not much is known about his early
Read → RomanticAugustine Lorotte
Marie-Augustine-Aimée-Hippolyte Lorotte (4 October 1826 – 19??) was a French pianist, organist and composer of the late Romantic period. Life and career Augustine Lorotte was born on 4 October 1826
Read → Post-WarAugustinus Franz Kropfreiter
Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter (9 September 1936 – 26 September 2003) was member of the Austrian , composer and organist. Life Born in Hargelsberg, Kropfreiter spent his school years from 1948 at the
Read → 20th CenturyAugusto Berto
Augusto Pedro Berto (Bahía Blanca, 4 February 1889 – 29 April 1953) was an Argentine composer and bandoneón player who was the first composer to spread popular Argentine music in Europe. He is best
Read → Post-WarAugusto Martelli
Augusto Martelli (15 March 1940 – 3 November 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and television personality. Life and career Born in Genoa, the son of conductor and composer Giordano
Read → ClassicalAugustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann
Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (21 March 1756 – 19 April 1829) was a German-born composer and musical theorist who lived and worked in England from 1782 until his death. He has been called
Read → Late RomanticAugustus Stephen Vogt
Augustus Stephen Vogt (August 14, 1861 – September 17, 1926) was a German Canadian organist, choral conductor, music educator, composer, and author. Vogt was born on 14 August 1861 in Washington,
Read → Post-WarAurel Stroe
Aurel Stroe (5 May 1932, in Bucharest – 3 October 2008, in Mannheim) was a Romanian composer, philosopher and linguist. In 2002 he was awarded the Herder Prize from the University of Vienna. Life and
Read → 20th CenturyAurelio Giorni
Aurelio Carlo Pietro Teodoro Giorni (15 September 1895 – 23 September 1938) was an Italian-American pianist and composer. After emigrating to the United States in 1914, he toured the nation as a
Read → Post-WarAurlus Mabélé
Aurlus Mabélé (24 October 1953 – 19 March 2020) was a Congolese singer and composer. He was commonly referred to as the "King of Soukous". Biography Aurlus Mabélé, real name Benoit Aurélien
Read → 21st CenturyAurora Nealand
Aurora Nealand is an American multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, clarinet, accordion), singer and composer. Among her many musical endeavors, she leads her own traditional jazz band, Aurora Nealand
Read → RomanticAurore von Haxthausen
Aurore von Haxthausen (Gustava Charlotta Märta Aurora: 1830 – 7 February 1888), known also by her artist pseudonym as Klara or Clara Kuhlman, was a Swedish author, composer, pianist and lady in
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