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Baba Sunder

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Baba Sunder, also spelt as Sundar, was one of the four Gursikhs whose gurbani is present in Guru Granth Sahib. Biography He was the great-grandson of the third Sikh Guru, Guru Amar Das. Works He was known for his composition, Ramkali Sadu, which was composed by him, and is present on Angs (pages) 923–924 of the Guru Granth Sahib. The composition contains six stanzas, or padas. Sadh literally means “call” (ਸੱਦਾ). The hymn states how Guru Amardas has become one with Almighty God and appoints Guru Ramdas as the next guru, and how he told his family not to weep for him after his death. The composition also explains the reaction of a Sikh towards physical death. It also expounds on the importance of kirtan on the spiritual path and describes the nature of the Sikh gurus as different physical bodies embodied by one spirit. It is also one of the earliest surviving literature documenting the death of a Sikh guru, as it testifies that around the time Guru Amar Das died, he anointed Bhai Jeṭhā (later Guru Ram Das) as his successor, placed sandal paste on his forehead (as a mark of passing on the Guruship, and requested that all of his familial relations pay obeisance to him. References

Balázs Havasi

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Balázs Havasi (born 18 September 1975) is a Hungarian pianist and composer. As a contemporary composer, he has founded four different musical projects, including compositions for a symphony orchestra, rock drums, and piano. Education Havasi first played the piano at the age of 4. During his years at the Academy of Music, Havasi won first prize at a piano competition of Yamaha Foundation of Europe. Early albums (2000–2005) In 2000, Havasi signed a five-year exclusive record contract with EMI. During the term of his EMI contract, he produced two soundtrack albums. Havasi did not extend the contract, instead establishing his own record company. The Unbending Trees Havasi founded the band The Unbending Trees with singer-lyricist Kristóf Hajós in 2006. The band was offered its first record contract by British record publisher and producer Ben Watt, and soon released its first album called Chemically Happy (Is The New Sad). Hajós wrote lyrics to the music of Havasi on the album. The Unbending Trees made its debut in London in 2007 and its first four-song EP was called “The First Day”. Later, their song “You Are A Lover” was reworked by British singer Tracey Thorn. The Guardian newspaper

Baldassare Donato

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Baldassare Donato (also Donati) (1525-1530 – June 1603) was an Italian composer and singer of the Venetian school of the late Renaissance. He was maestro di cappella of the prestigious St. Mark’s Basilica at the end of the 16th century, and was an important figure in the development of Italian light secular music, especially the villanella. Life Details of his early life are unavailable; it is not even known where he was born. The first record of Donato is as a singer at St. Mark’s in Venice in 1550, and he was given charge of the musical training of the boys there in 1562. When Gioseffo Zarlino took over the post of maestro di cappella from Cipriano de Rore in 1565, Donato was demoted back to being a singer; conflict between the two men seems to have been a feature of life at St. Mark’s, culminating in a climactic fight in 1569, publicly and scandalously, during the Feast of St. Mark. In 1577 Donato took a position at the Scuola Grande di S Rocco, another Venetian church with an impressive musical tradition and substantial performing ensemble; however he failed to get along with his employers there as well, resigning by 1580. In 1588 he became assistant maestro di cappella at St.

Baldassare Galuppi

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Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 17063 January 1785) was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. P. E. Bach, whose works are emblematic of the prevailing galant music that developed in Europe throughout the 18th century. He achieved international success, spending periods of his career in Vienna, London and Saint Petersburg, but his main base remained Venice, where he held a succession of leading appointments. In his early career Galuppi made a modest success in opera seria, but from the 1740s, together with the playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni, he became famous throughout Europe for his comic operas in the new dramma giocoso style. To the succeeding generation of composers, he was known as “the father of comic opera”. Some of his mature opere serie, for which his librettists included the poet and dramatist Metastasio, were also widely popular. Throughout his career Galuppi held official positions with charitable and religious institutions in Venice, the most prestigious of which was maestro di cappella at the Doge’s chapel, St Mark'

Balduin Sulzer

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Balduin Sulzer (Cistercians) (as Josef Sulzer (15 March 1932 – 10 April 2019) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest. He became known as a music educator and composer. Life Sulzer was born in Großraming. At the age of ten Sulzer came to Linz, where he attended grammar school. He sang as an altar boy in the New Cathedral, Linz in the “Domschola” under the direction of Josef Kronsteiner. After the Matura, he joined the religious order of the Cistercians in Wilhering Abbey in 1949 and received the religious name “Balduin”. He began his philosophical-theological studies in Linz and Rome, as well as studying history at the University of Vienna. He completed his musical education at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, among others with Hans Gillesberger. In 1955, Balduin Sulzer received the priesthood ordination. From 1959 to 1977, he was a music teacher at the Wilhering Abbey, where he led the Wilhering Boys’ Choir and the Wilhering Kantorei. From 1974 to 1997, Sulzer was a music professor at the Linzer Musikgymnasium. He was also répétiteur at Linz’s Anton Bruckner Private Unive

Bálint Bakfark

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Bálint Bakfark (; in contemporary sources Valentin Bakfark or (from 1565 onward) Valentin Greff alias Bakfark, his name is variously spelled as Bacfarc, Bakfarc, Bakfarkh, Bakffark, Backuart) (c. 1507 – 15 or 22 August 1576) was a Hungarian composer of Transylvanian Saxon origin, and lutenist of the Renaissance. He was enormously influential as a lutenist in his time, and renowned as a virtuoso on the instrument. Life He was born in Brassó, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (today Brașov in Romania), into a family of Transylvanian Saxon origin. An orphan, he was brought up by the Greff family and was educated in Buda at the court of John Zápolya. Bakfark remained there until 1540, though he possibly traveled to Italy once during this time. Sometime in the 1540s he traveled to Paris, but, finding the position of lutenist to the king filled, he left for Jagiellon Poland in 1549, where he was employed as a court lutenist by Sigismund II Augustus. From then until 1566, he traveled extensively around Europe, with his renown increasing, but remained faithful to his employer in spite of numerous efforts by other monarchs to win him away; the riches bestowed on him by Sigismund may have aff

Balthasar Christian Bertram

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Balthasar Christian Bertram (died 1787) was a German violinist and composer of the late Baroque era. Life Bertram was born in Salzwedel.

Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx

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Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx ( modernized French: Balthazar de Beaujoyeux ), originally Baldassare da (or di) Belgiojoso ( modern Italian pronunciation: ; died c. 1587 in Paris) was an Italian violinist, composer, and choreographer. Career Beaujoyeulx moved to Paris in 1555, where he became a servant at the court of Catherine de’ Medici. He tutored two of her sons and displayed a talent for arranging elaborate entertainments for the court. He participated in the masquerade Défense du paradis in 1572 and mounted the Ballet aux ambassadeurs polonais in 1573: one of the first works to be recognized as a true court ballet, staged to honor the Polish ambassadors who were visiting Paris upon the accession of Henry of Anjou to the throne of Poland. the music by “Lambert de Beaulieu” (in fact Girard de Beaulieu), the sets by Jacques Patin, and Beaujoyeulx, who created the scenario, choreographed, stage managed, and directed. Since it incorporated a story line about the legend of the mythological enchantress Circe, it is generally regarded as the first ballet. The title page of his published account of the event states that he was employed as valet de chambre to both the King (Catherine’s son,

Balthasar Resinarius

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Balthasar Resinarius (born Balthasar Harzer; c. 1483 – 12 April 1544) was a German composer, and a Lutheran bishop, one of the first Lutherans in Bohemia. Life and career It is regarded as proven the Resinarius, listed by the music publisher Georg Rhau, is identical with the composer Balthasar Harzer, also listed by Rhau. He died in Leipa. After Resinarius’ death, the Renaissance humanist Georg Hansch, who lived in Leipa, published several commemorative publications (“Epitaphs”) in memory of him; these present him as a kind and friendly, also helpful and with a beautiful voice talented person. In particular, Hansch repeatedly praises his striking, outstanding gift as a speaker and his theological scholarship and persuasiveness – with which he had won many followers for the Protestant teaching. Importance As a composer, Resinarius is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the first Protestant generation. His works are only known through the publications of Georg Rhau. He was directly inspired to write these works by the latter, who also introduced him, in the preface to his Responsories, as an aged and hitherto unknown master. In his publication Encomion Musicae (1

Banda Osiris

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Banda Osiris are an Italian ensemble of musicians, actors and composers. Career The group formed in 1980, in Vercelli. Their name is a pun/tribute to Italian revue soubrette, actress and singer Wanda Osiris. They initially started their career with street performances, mixing music, acting and comedy. Personnel * Gianluigi Carlone: voice, flute, soprano sax * Roberto Carlone: bass, keyboard, trombone * Giancarlo Macrì: percussion, tuba * Sandro Berti: guitar, mandolin, trombone Discography ;Albums * 1987 – Volume 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12 * 2000 – Colonne sonore * 2002 – Amore con la S maiuscola * 2002 – L’imbalsamatore * 2004 – Primo amore * 2005 – Tartarughe sul dorso * 2005 – Il cinema di Matteo Garrone * 2006 – Anche libero va bene * 2006 – Banda.25 ; DVD * 2007 – Banda 25 – Lo spettacolo * 2007 – Guarda che luna! References External links * * *

Bang Si-hyuk

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Bang Si-hyuk (; born August 9, 1972), also known as “Hitman” Bang, is a South Korean music executive, record producer and songwriter who is the co-founder of JYP Entertainment, founder of record label Big Hit Music, and chairman of HYBE Corporation. One of the 50 wealthiest people in South Korea according to Forbes Asia, Bang is the only billionaire in the South Korean entertainment industry. , his reported net worth is an estimated $1.25 billion, according to Forbes 2026 Korea’s 50 Richest List. Early life and education Bang was born to Bang Geuk-yoon, former president of the Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Corporation at the Korea Social Insurance Research Institute, and his wife, Choi Myung-ja. Bang has a younger sister. Bang developed a passion for music from an early age, having grown up in a musical home, but was discouraged from pursuing a career in the industry by his parents. Bang formed a band with his friends while in middle school and wrote and performed songs he composed. He attended Kyunggi High School before graduating from Seoul National University with a degree in aesthetics. Career Bang debuted as a composer while in college. He met Park Jin-young in 1997,

Bang Ye-dam

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Bang Ye-dam (; born May 7, 2002) is a South Korean singer, songwriter and producer. He is best known as a former member of South Korean boy band Treasure and for competing in the second installment of K-pop Star (2012–2013), where he finished as runner-up. He debuted as a soloist with the digital single titled “Wayo” () on June 5, 2020. In August 2023, he signed with GF Entertainment as soloist and producer. Life and career 2002–2011: Early life Bang Ye-dam was born on May 7, 2002, in Seoul, South Korea. Coming from a musically oriented family, his father, is well known for creating over forty songs for commercials and animations including the Korean-dub for Japanese anime opening songs Pokémon, Dragon Ball and more. His mother, Jung Mi-young is well known for singing soundtracks in Korean drama Friends and film After the Show Ends (). Within his family, he is an only child. Five-year-old Bang (Korean age) participated in the opening songs for EBS’ television series Bboong bboong-E () and the Korean-dub version of the Japanese anime Onegai! Samia-don (). On March 5, 2007, he made his first television appearance on EBS’ documentary 15 Second Fever, Hold the World with his parents. D

Banks & Wag

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Banks & Wag are composers based in London. Chris Banks and Wag Marshall-Page studied Commercial Music together at the University of Westminster (1996-1999). After graduation, Chris studied Composition For Screen at the Royal College of Music (1999-2000), continuing to perform with Wag as members of indie band Nnook. The group disbanded in 1999, and the pair went on to work with pop acts including McFly, Sugababes, Busted, Blue, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor; and Wag joined Infadels as bassist. As composers, they have written for The X Factor, ZingZillas, Year Dot, Strictly Dance Fever, The National Lottery Awards, Ross Noble, Dead Ringers, and Spain’s Tele Madrid News, winning a Silver Broadcast Design Award for Best News Theme. Their title song for How To Start Your Own Country was described as “brilliant” by the Radio Times, “dangerously catchy” by Bella Online, and “worthy of Top of the Pops” by the Daily Mirror. The series went on to win two BAFTAs and spawned an iTunes #1 single in 2005. Banks was also behind the CBeebies series Space Pirates, whose theme tune topped the iTunes Children’s Chart for 11 weeks in 2007–2008. In 2010, they wrote and produced all the music for the CBeebie

Barbad

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Barbad (; ) was a Persian musician-poet, music theorist and composer of Sasanian music. He served as chief minstrel-poet under the Shahanshah Khosrow II (). A barbat player, he was the most distinguished Persian musician of his time and is regarded among the major figures in the history of Persian music. Despite scarce biographical information, Barbad’s historicity is generally secure. He was highly regarded in the court of Khosrow, and interacted with other musicians, such as Sarkash. Although he is traditionally credited with numerous innovations in Persian music theory and practice, the attributions remain tentative since they are ascribed centuries after his death. Practically all Barbad’s music or poetry is lost, except a single poem fragment and the titles of a few compositions. No Sasanian sources discuss Barbad, suggesting his reputation was preserved through oral tradition, until at least the earliest written account by the poet Khaled ibn Fayyaz ( c. 718). Barbad appears frequently in later Persian literature, most famously in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. The content and abundance of such references demonstrate his unique influence, inspiring musicians such as Ishaq al-Mawsili.

Barbara Benary

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Barbara Benary (April 7, 1946 – March 17, 2019) was an American composer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Indonesian and Indian music. Benary composed music for a number of theatrical productions at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club during the 1970s. She composed music for the ETC Company of La MaMa’s repertory production of The Only Jealousy of Emer, which was produced during the early 1970s at La MaMa’s East Village theater and on tour. She composed music for Gauntlet or the Moon’s on Fire, written and directed by John Braswell and produced at La MaMa in 1976. In 1976, she co-founded Gamelan Son of Lion with Philip Corner and Daniel Goode. She constructed most of the group’s instruments. Benary performed with Gamelan Son of Lion in a production called 1001 Instruments You’ve Never Seen or Heard at La MaMa in 1979. Her major works include two shadow puppet operas entitled Karna and The Story of Esther. Personal life Barbara Benary was born in 1946 in Bay Shore, NY. Daughter of Harold and Blanche Benary. She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT where her areas of specialization were music

Barbara Buczek

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Barbara Buczek (9 January 1940 – 17 January 1993) was a Polish composer and music teacher who taught at the Academy of Music in Kraków. Early life and education Barbara Buczek was born on 9 January 1940 in Kraków. She began learning to play the piano under her father’s instruction, She studied with Kazimierz Mirski and Maria Bilińska-Regierowa at the State Music School (now the Academy of Music) in Kraków, and graduated from the latter’s piano class in 1959. Buczek then continued her piano studies with Ludwik Stefański from 1959 to 1965, before studying composition with Bogusław Schaeffer between 1969 and 1974. She graduated with distinction from both classes. Career Buczek stayed at the State Music School as a teacher, and taught piano, counterpoint and composition there. Works *Sonata breve per pianoforte (1968) 5'20" (Ariadne) *Mikrosonata for violin solo (1968) 2'45" (Ariadne) *Study No. 1, for flute (1968) 4'10" (Ariadne) *String Quartet no. 1 (1968) 8'18" *Quintet for wind instruments (1969) 7'20" (Ariadne) *Intermezzo for piano and instrumnets (1969) 5'50" *Koncert wokalny Vocal Concerto for twelve solo voices (1969) *Fuga *Study for violin solo (1970) 2'40" (Ariadne) *Metaf

Barbara Giuranna

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Elena Barbara Giuranna (18 November 1899 – 30 July 1998) was an Italian pianist and composer. She taught at the Rome Conservatory from 1937 until 1970, and also edited 18th-century music. She composed works for stage, orchestra, chamber ensemble and piano, and arranged the works of Paisiello, Vivaldi, and Cimarosa. She was an elected member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Life Elena Francesca Paola Maria Giuseppa Barbera was born in Palermo, Italy and studied piano at the Palermo Conservatory with Guido Alberto Fano. She also studied composition at the Naples Conservatory with Camillo De Nardis and Antonio Savasta. She continued her education in composition at the Milan Conservatory with Giorgio Federico Ghedini. She made her piano debut in 1923, playing with the Naples Symphony Orchestra. In 1924 she married conductor Mario Giuranna. After completing her studies, Giuranna taught at the Rome Conservatory from 1937 to 1970 and worked as an editor of 18th-century music. She was a music consultant to RAI in Rome from 1948 to 1956, and she was elected a member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in 1982. She won the international prize of the City of Trieste for a

Barbara Heller

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Barbara Heller (born 6 November 1936) is a German composer and pianist. She lives in Darmstadt, in the Odenwald and at times on the Canary Island of La Gomera. Biography Barbara Heller was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Her father Eugene Heller was a restorer of church art. After the parental home was bombed in 1943, the family moved to Hammelbach/Odenwald. In 1948 they returned to Ludwigshafen, in 1949 moved to Mannheim, then to Cologne and Darmstadt. Barbara Heller studied music in Mannheim and Munich and graduated in 1957. Her first attempts at composition were in 1949, though self-taught. She studied composition with Hans Vogt and Harald Genzmer and film music for a short time in Siena. She received several scholarships to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse where she studied under Hermann Heiss and David Tudor, among others. From 1958 to 1962 she was a lecturer and piano teacher at the School of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim. In 1970 she established the “Hermann Heiss Archive, Darmstadt” from the estate of the composer, and continued to collect documents for the archive. In 1978 she participated in the construction of the Internationaler Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik (Internatio

Barbara Jazwinski

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Barbara Jazwinski is a Polish-American composer and pianist known for her contributions to contemporary music. She is Head of the Composition Program at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University in New Orleans. She was honored with the Prince Pierre of Monaco Composition Award for her work on the Sextet, and she also secured the top position in the Nicola De Lorenzo Composition Contest for her composition of Music for Chamber Orchestra. Education She studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and earned her M.A. in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York. Career Jazwinski’s music has been selected for programming at Diffrazioni Multimedia Festival in Florence, the London Festival of American Music, Laboratorium Muzyki Wspolczesnej in Poland, Washington Square Contemporary Music Series, the New York University New Music Ensemble, and the International Music by Women Festival in Oxford, Mississippi. Her works have been performed or recorded by ensembles and organizations such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Polish Radio and TV Orchestra of Cracow, the Kos

Barbara Kluntz

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Barbara Kluntz (born 5 February 1661 in Ulm; buried 22 May 1730 in Ulm) was a German composer and music teacher. On all of her book titles, she calls herself “Barbara Kluntz, Lover of the Noble Art of Music”, in order to explicitly emphasize her position: She did not consider herself a professional musician. Biography Barbara Kluntz, called “Schneiderbärbele”, was the daughter and third child of the tailor Peter Kluntz and his wife Katharina Kluntz, née Messerschmid. She joined the charitable Third Order of the Ulm Collection Women who were evangelicals after the Reformation. The monastery-like association also owned several villages around Ulm and was located on Ulmer Frauenstrasse at the corner of Sammlungsgasse. The building was destroyed in World War II. Since the women who entered the order did not have to take any vows, Barbara Kluntz was not a nun. Entry into the Ulm Collection Foundation When she entered the collection, Barbara Kluntz was widely known as a “piano virtuoso, organ player and poet”, according to older research. Excerpts from her will, which no longer exists, show that she had her own organ, a clavichord, many books, and music. How Barbara Kluntz came to her sk

Barbara Kolb

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Barbara Kolb (February 10, 1938 – October 21, 2024) was an American composer and educator, the first woman to win the Rome Prize in musical composition. Her music features sound masses of colorful textures, impressionistic sounds and atonal vocabulary, with influences from literary and visual arts. She taught at the Third Street Music School Settlement, Rhode Island College and Eastman School of Music. Life and music Kolb was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 10, 1938 (many sources erroneously state her birth year as 1939). As her father was the music director of WTIC there, she was exposed to music early, meeting musicians. She went to jazz clubs with her parents. At the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, she studied composition with Lukas Foss and Gunther Schuller. Following her graduation, Kolb relocated to Vienna, Austria, from 1966 to 1967 with a Fulbright Fellowship grant. Kolb’s composition Soundings was premiered by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1972. It was performed in a revised version for orchestra in 1975, played by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Boulez, with the orchestra positioned in three groups on the stage. From 1979 to

Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk

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Barbara Maria Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk (Poznań, 1 January 1946 – Poznań, 30 November 2023) was a Polish composer and musicologist. She studied composition with Florian Dąbrowski at the Poznań Academy of Music, graduating in 1969. She finished her postgraduate studies in library and information science in 1974; two years later she received a doctorate at the Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She studied electronic music for three months in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1981, and in Oxford, England. Life and career Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk began working in the music collection of the Poznań University Library in 1972. From 1982 through 1998 she was the chair of the Polish national committee of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) in New York, and through this time she prepared over 800 abstracts of Polish music books and articles. In 1996 she began working as a bibliographer for another database project, the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale; RIPM), and by 2000 she fully indexed five Polish music periodicals published during the 19th century (Echo Muzyczne, 1879-1882; Ruch Muzyczny, 1857-18

Barbara Monk Feldman

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Barbara Monk Feldman is a Canadian composer. She was born in 1953, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Education She studied composition with Bengt Hambraeus at McGill University from 1980 to 1983 where she achieved her MMus and then at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. Stage * Pyramus and Thisbe (2010) * Io and Prometheus (2019) Orchestra * Design for String Orchestra (1980) * The Northern Shore for Percussion, Piano and Chamber Orchestra (2018) Chamber * Movement for Solo Viola (1979) * Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1984) * Variations for Six String Instruments (1986) * Two Flutes and Vibraphone (1987) * Duo for Piano and Percussion (1988) * The Immutable Silence (1990) * Pure Difference (1990) * Shadow (1991) * Three Clarinets and Percussion (1994) * Verses for Metal, Wood and Drums (1994) * Verses for Five (1996) * The Northern Shore (1997) * Verses for Vibraphone (1997) * Pour un nuage violet (1998) * Proche et lointaine…la femme (2001) * Glockenspiel (2004) * The Loons of Black Sturgeon Lake (2004) * String Quartet, ‘Desert-Scape (2004) * The Chaco Wilderness (2005) * The Pale Blue Northern Sky (2007) * Landscape Near La Pocatière, Québec (2007) * A Veil for Time (20

Barbara of Portugal

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Barbara of Portugal (Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa; 4 December 1711 – 27 August 1758) was an Infanta of Portugal, and a Queen of Spain by marriage to Ferdinand VI. Life Infanta of Portugal Barbara was the daughter of King John V of Portugal and his wife Maria Anna of Austria. Their marriage remained childless for nearly three years, and thus the king made a promise to God that if an heir to the throne was born, a great convent would be built as a sign of gratitude. Upon the birth of a daughter in late 1711 began the building of the Convent of Mafra. The child was baptised Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa, honouring a number of saints and relatives, and styled Princess of Brazil as the heiress presumptive to the Portuguese throne. She was usually referred to as Bárbara or Maria Bárbara after Saint Barbara, the saint of her birthday, a name never used before among Portuguese royalty. Two years later, Barbara’s mother gave birth to a son, Pedro, and she ceased to be heir presumptive. Pedro died at the age of two, but by that time, the queen had already had another son, Joseph, and hence Barbara never became heiress presumptive aga

Barbara Pentland

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Barbara Pentland C.M. (January 2, 1912 – February 5, 2000) was one of the pre-eminent members of the generation of Canadian composers who came to artistic maturity in the years after World War II. Pentland’s parents, especially her mother, intended for their daughter to adopt their values and pursue a life spent amongst the upper classes of Canadian high society, rather than a career as a professional composer. Despite her family’s objections, Pentland continued to compose privately as a young teenager. She finally was encouraged in this pursuit by one of her teachers, the organist and conductor Frederick H. Blair, who taught her piano and music theory while she attended boarding school at Miss Edgar’s and Miss Cramp’s School in Montreal from 1927 to 1929. In 1929, Pentland was surprised when her parents finally allowed her to study composition with Cécile Gauthiez, professor of harmony at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Under Gauthiez’s tutelage, Pentland received a formal, conservatory style music education, including lessons in form, harmony, and analysis by composers such as Cesar Franck, Vincent d’Indy, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Compositional Style One of Pentland’s first known

Barbara Strozzi

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Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was a Venetian composer and singer of the middle Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. She was baptized in the church of Santa Sofia in the Cannaregio district of Venice. Although her birth certificate does not state her father’s identity, it is assumed that her biological father was Giulio Strozzi, a poet and librettist, and a very influential figure in seventeenth-century Venice. He was a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti, one of the largest and most prestigious intellectual academies in Europe and a major political and social force in the Republic of Venice and beyond. He wrote in many literary media, for example, poetry, operas, prose, plays and lyrics for songs. Little is known about Barbara’s mother, but historians suspect that Isabella was a servant of Giulio, as both Barbara and her mother lived in Giulio’s household and were listed in his will. Barbara grew up in a household frequented by the greatest literary and musical minds of the age. More detailed accounts

Barbara White (composer)

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Barbara White (born December 3, 1965) is an American composer, clarinetist, and musicologist. A 2003 Guggenheim Fellow, she has released four albums, all but one of which she performs as the clarinetist, and she is a professor of music at Princeton University. Biography Barbara White was born on December 3, 1965, in Boston, Massachusetts. She obtained her BA (1987) from Radcliffe College and MA (1994) and PhD (1997) from University of Pittsburgh; During her early career, White was awarded a 1995 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Young Composer Award, as well as both a 1997 Charles Ives Prize and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Interdisciplinary Arts Award. She was later a 1999-2000 Continental Harmony Composer-in-Residence and a 2000 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellow, In The New York Times review of Speculum Musicae’s 2002 concert at Merkin Hall, Paul Griffiths praised White’s piece “Learning to See” as “a real discovery” because “she writes no more notes than she needs, and she has a way of making straightforward quotations (from Varése, Stravinsky and others) her own”. In 2002, her composition album When the Smoke Clears was released; it later recei

Barbara York

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Barbara York née Spence (23 February 1949 – 6 November 2020) was a Canadian-American composer and pianist. She is noted for her many contributions to chamber and solo repertoire for low brass instruments like tuba, trombone, and euphonium. Biography Barbara York was born in Winnipeg to Edith (née Pitblado) and Howard Spence and was the youngest of their three children. She began taking piano lessons when she was around four years old, and then learned cello in middle and high school. She began composing original music as early as age seven. York attended McGill University and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in music when she was twenty years old. After graduating, she worked at the Manitoba Theater School as a teacher, but soon after moved to Toronto. For the next ten or so years, York worked in theater, performing a variety of roles including arranging, directing, and composing. York asked Fischer if he would mind if she wrote a piece for him, and her very first work for tuba, Sea Dreams, was the result. Awards and Honors Barbara York (at the time Barbara Spence Potter) won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Score in 1981 for a production entitled Colette. A recordi

Bard

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A bard was a poet and singer who composed and performed verse in the service of a patron, a calling attested among the ancient Celts and continued in the medieval Celtic-speaking world. The ancient bard is known from Greek and Roman authors writing about Gaul between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, who count the bards, with the druids and the vates, among the learned orders of Gaulish society. They describe them singing the praises of chieftains, and the satire of their rivals, to an instrument resembling the lyre. The name goes back to the Proto-Celtic noun (‘praise-maker’), the source of Old Irish , Welsh , and the related forms in the other Celtic languages. The word and the calling survived in medieval Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany, where praise and satire of rulers remained central to the poet’s office. The word bard had also been extended, inaccurately, to the poets and singers of the Germanic world, and it now serves loosely for poets in general, most familiarly as “the Bard” for William Shakespeare. Etymology The English term bard is a loanword from the Gaelic and Irish . Linguistically related terms appear in various Celtic languages, including Gaulish b

Barnabás von Géczy

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Barnabás von Géczy (4 March 1897 – 2 July 1971) was a Hungarian violinist, composer and bandleader. Biography von Géczy was born in Budapest, and studied at the Budapest Academy of Music. After World War I, he left Hungary and found work as a violinist in Trondheim, Norway before settling in Berlin in 1924; von Géczy also received offers from the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and the Philadelphia Opera (then led by Leopold Stokowski), but turned them down. From 1925 to 1937 von Géczy’s orchestra had a long term engagement at the Hotel Esplanade in Berlin. He soon arose as one of Europe’s most popular bandleaders, and also appeared in films such as This One or None and The Countess of Monte Cristo. As the classically trained von Géczy favored strings over reeds and brass, he became a favorite of Hitler and Goebbels and continued his career in the Third Reich. His orchestra performed at the Volksbühne in Berlin in 1933–1934, and von Géczy was invested with the title of “Professor” by Hitler in 1939. After the fall of the Third Reich, von Géczy was banned from performing for a few years. In 1952, he formed a new orchestra at the Café Luitpold in Munich, a city in which he would liv

Barney Childs

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Barney Sanford Childs (February 13, 1926 – January 11, 2000) was an American composer and teacher. Born in Spokane, Washington, he taught and composed avant-garde music and literature at universities in the United States and United Kingdom. Childs and Elliott Schwartz edited the 1967 anthology Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music; a revised and expanded edition, co-edited with Jim Fox, was published in 1998 by Da Capo Press. Music He was a musical autodidact till his association in the 1950s with Leonard Ratner and Elliott Carter in New York and with Aaron Copland and Carlos Chavez at Tanglewood . He was associated later with double bass player Bertram Turetzky and clarinet player Phillip Rehfeldt. He wrote several pieces for these and other players, often using extended techniques. Much of his music employs improvisation and indeterminacy (see his “Roachville Project,” 1967). However, his influences are diverse and include jazz artists, John Cage, Charles Ives, and Paul Hindemith. Childs won the Koussevitzky Award at Tanglewood in 1954. Education and teaching career Trained originally as a literary scholar, Childs studied at Deep Springs College (1943–45), the University o

Barry Anderson (composer)

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Michael Barrie Gordon Anderson (22 February 1935 – 27 May 1987), known as Barry Anderson, Biography Anderson was born in Stratford, New Zealand, in 1935. His father was a civil engineer and his mother played the piano as an amateur to a high level. Anderson learned the piano and performed in New Zealand. In 1971, he began to work full-time at the South Bank Institute (later part of Morley College). Recordings * Mask, Songs Penyeach, Sound the Tucket Sonance and the Note to Mount, Colla Voce (Continuum, CCD 1008, 1989) * Electroacoustic Fanfare, ARC, Piano Piece No.1, Piano Piece No.2, Piano Piece No.3, Domingus (Continuum, CCD 1009, 1989) * The Mask of Orpheus (with Harrirson Birtwistle) electronic music (NMC Recordings, NMCD050, 1998) Works Anderson completed around 20 works. *Maui (1959-64) full-length opera based on Polynesian legends of the Pacific *Sound Frames (1964-66) for instrumental ensemble (10 players) *Songs Penyeach (1971) for mezzo-soprano, amplified violin, bass clarinet, and percussion * Piano Pieces 1,2,3 (1969-74) for piano, tape mix, and sine tone ring modulation *Topograph (1973) for 3 percussion groups, filters, and ring modulators *Synt Axis-Mix (1973) The Me

Barry Conyngham

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Barry Ernest Conyngham (born 27 August 1944) is an Australian composer and academic. He has over 70 published works and over 30 recordings featuring his compositions, and his works have been premiered or performed in Australia, Japan, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe. He is former Dean of the Faculty of the Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. Biography Conyngham was born in Sydney. He was initially interested in jazz and studied with Raymond Hanson but turned his attention to orchestral writing in the mid-1960s with encouragement from Peter Sculthorpe. He completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney in 1967, and a Master of Arts (Hons.) This was unusual at the time, as Australian composers typically chose Europe and Britain as their location for further study. In 1972, he went to the United States on a Harkness Fellowship and gained a Certificate of Post-Doctoral Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 1973. He was a Fellow of Princeton University 1973–74, and Composer-in-Residence at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1974–75. He was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne from 1975 to 1979, then Senior Lecturer 1

Barry Guy

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Barry John Guy (born 22 April 1947, in London, England) is an English composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras in the UK and Europe. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music under Buxton Orr, and later taught there. Other activities Guy has also written for other large improvising ensembles, such as the NOW Orchestra and ROVA (the piece Witch Gong Game inspired by images by the visual artist Alan Davie). His current improvising activities include piano trios with Marilyn Crispell and Agusti Fernandez. He has also recorded several albums for ECM, which often focus on the interface between improvisers and electronics, including his work in Evan Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and his own Ceremony. Guy’s session work in the pop field includes playing double bass on the song “Nightporter”, from the Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids. He is married to the early music violinist Maya Homburger. After spending some years in Ireland, they now live in Switzerland. They run the small label Maya, which releases a variety of records in the genres

Barry Truax

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Barry Douglas Truax (born 10 May 1947) is a Canadian composer of electroacoustic music, a writer, and a teacher. He is best known for his association with the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and his development of granular synthesis using sampled sounds to create multi-channel soundscape compositions, such as Riverrun (1986) and Wings of Nike (1987). He is also known for his books Acoustic Communication (1984, 2001) and the Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (1978, 1999). He is the only Canadian recipient of the Magisterium award at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, France, in 1991. He is a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University (SFU). In June 2025, SFU awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts. Biography Barry Truax was born in Chatham, Ontario. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and mathematics from Queen’s University in 1969, and a Master of Music degree from the University of British Columbia in 1971. His academic path further led him to the Institute of Sonology at Utrecht University from 1971 to 1973, where he studied electronic and computer composition under the guidance of Gottfried Michael Koe

Bart Berman

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Bart Berman (; born 29 December 1938) is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th-century music. Career Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at a predecessor of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and complemented his piano education with Theo Bruins and a master class by Alfred Brendel. In 1978 he moved to Israel. the Friends of the Concertgebouw Award and four first prizes at competitions for young soloists. He has performed in Israel, Europe and the United States, as a soloist and in chamber music. Berman was a soloist with many Dutch and Israeli orchestras and has recorded for radio and television. Collaborations included those with flautist Abbie de Quant (since 1970), Duo 4 with pianist Meir Wiesel, the Tamar Piano Trio with violinist Itzhak Segev and cellist Louis Rowen, as well as ensembles with several vocalists among whom Bat-Sheva Zeisler. Past partnerships include Duo Beer Sheva with the late pianist Sara Fuxon, Ensemble M, and Negev Baroque. From 2004 until 2008 Berman accompanied the remake of Hanoch Levin’s satirical cabaret You, Me and the Next War, in 2007 he was the pianist and musical director of Schube

Bartholomäus Gesius

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Bartholomäus Gesius (also: Göß, Gese, c. 1562 – 1613) was a German theologian, church musician, composer and hymn writer. He worked at Schloss Muskau and in Frankfurt (Oder) and is known for choral Passions in German and Latin and for the melody and first setting of the Easter hymn “Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn”, which was used in several compositions including a cantata by Dieterich Buxtehude and a chorale prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 630), concluding the Easter section of his Orgelbüchlein. Life Born in Müncheberg, Gesius studied theology between 1578 and 1585 at the Alma Mater Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He worked from 1582 as Kantor (church musician) in Müncheberg and from 1587 as teacher and musician at Schloss Muskau (now a World Heritage Site). In 1588, he began to compose a Passion after the Gospel of John in German, a St John Passion for five-part chorus. In spring of 1593, Gesius became Kantor at the Marienkirche, Frankfurt (Oder) and at the same time teacher at the Ratsschule, today the Karl-Liebknecht-Gymnasium. In 1613, he composed a six-part St Matthew Passion in Latin. He died the same year in Frankfurt (Oder) from the plague. External links * * *

Bartłomiej Pękiel

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Bartłomiej Pękiel (; b. ca. 1600; fl. from 1633; d. ca. 1670) was a Polish composer of baroque music. Biography The writer and composer Johann Mattheson claimed that the composer was German and his name is sometimes recorded as “Peckel”. Pękiel served the court in Warsaw from about 1633. After the Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655 he then moved to Wawel Cathedral Chapel in Kraków, where he was Kapellmeister after the death of Franciszek Lilius in 1657. After 1664 there are few references to him; the next Kapellmeister was appointed in 1670. 29 of Pękiel’s works survive, mostly in manuscript. The musicologist Bartłomiej Gembicki divides these into two stages; early baroque (Warsaw) and church music in the style of (Kraków). He wrote the only Polish church oratorio , on the topic of The Last Judgement. Works Choral * (CATB) * (ATTB) * (ATTB) * (CATB + CATB) * * (ATTB) * (ATTB) * (ATTB) * . Motet (ATTB) * . Motet (ATTB) * . Motet (ATTB) * . Motet (CATB) * . Motet (CATB) * . Motet (CATB) * . Motet, (ATTB) * . Motet, (ATTB) * , Motet, (ATTB) * . Motet (ATTB) Instrumental * (for 3 viole da gamba, six voices and basso continuo) * (“Three Polish Dances”): Uroczysty (moderato) - Dostojny (

Bartolino da Padova

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Bartolino da Padova (also “Magister Frater Bartolinus de Padua”) (fl. c. 1365 – c. 1405) was an Italian composer of the late 14th century. He is a representative of the stylistic period known as the Trecento, sometimes known as the “Italian ars nova”, the transitional period between medieval and Renaissance music in Italy. Life Next to nothing is known for certain about his life, but some information can be inferred from his music. He was probably from Padua, and he was a Carmelite, because a picture of him appears in the Squarcialupi Codex in which he is wearing the garb of that order. Most likely he was in the employ of the Carrara family, since references to them appear in his music. There is a possibility he spent some time in Florence around 1389–1390. References to the Visconti family in his music have been variously interpreted: some scholars have suggested that he was away from Padua, and may have been working in support of Gian Galeazzo Visconti during the period of his campaign of conquest in northern Italy, which included Padua, while more recent scholars have attempted to refute this view, suggesting instead that the references may be either satirical or in support of t

Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja

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Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja (ca. 1440 – after 1490), Life By his own testimony at the end of his Musica practica, Ramos de Pareja was born in Baeza, possibly around 1440. Most of the biographical details of his life must be culled from this treatise. At Salamanca he had many debates with Pedro de Osma concerning his musical theories. He moved to Italy in the 1470s, likely due to his treatment by the university. However, another source from 1521 describes Pareja as having “long been dead”, though it is not known whether this is meant figuratively or literally. Ramos de Pareja’s new division was only slowly accepted. Afterwards he worked in Italy, primarily at Bologna, where his theories engendered serious controversy, even polemics, from conservatives such as Franchino Gaffurio. After a long stay there he moved to Rome, where he died shortly after 1521. Ramos de Pareja sought to heal the divide between music in theory and in practice. To this end he sought to render the dissonant thirds and sixths consonant. He proposed the intervals 5/4, 6/5, 5/3, and 8/5 for the division of the monochord, subsequently accepted universally. Less successful was his attempt to replace hexachordal notat

Bartolomeo Barbarino

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Bartolomeo Barbarino (known as “il Pesarino”) (c. 1568c. 1617 or later) was an Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque era. He was a virtuoso falsettist, and one of the most enthusiastic composers of the new style of monody. Life Nothing is known about his early life; his birthdate is inferred from the description by an English visitor in 1608 who described him as being “about forty.” The first record concerning him is from 1593, when he was employed as an alto in Loreto at Santa Casa. Until 1602 he was in Urbino, where he served both Monsignor Giuliano della Rovere and the Duke of Urbino. From 1602 to 1605 he worked as organist at Pesaro Cathedral, and afterwards worked in Padua for the Bishop of Padua. In 1608 he went to Venice to take part in the Festival of San Rocco. Evidently his fame as a singer was widespread at this time, as he was one of the most distinguished visitors. An English visitor to Venice, Thomas Coryat, left this description of his singing (Coryats Crudities, London, 1611): :“Of the singers there were three or foure so excellent that I thinke few or none in Christendome do exell them, especially one, who had such a peerelesse and … supernaturall voic

Bartolomeo Bortolazzi

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Bartolomeo Bortolazzi (born Toscolano-Maderno 1772; died 1846 ) was a performing musician, composer, author, and virtuoso of both the guitar and the mandolin. He was credited by music historian Philip J. Bone as helping to pull the mandolin out of decline. Early life Bortolazzi was born to musical parents, and when quite a child studied the mandolin. At a very early age, he made concert tours through northern Italy, meeting with considerable success. In the year 1800, he visited England where he was well received, remaining there two years and surprising the English audiences with his instrument. Among his published works we find a method for the guitar entitled: New theoretical and practical guitar school, Op. 21, and a method for the mandolin entitled School for the mandolin, violin system. The guitar method was published in French and German by Haslinger, Vienna; it was a standard work in Austria during the first part of the nineteenth century, and met with such success that it passed through eight editions up to the year 1833. The first eleven chapters, of his method are devoted to the theoretical part, and the twelfth concerns the instrument. After these twelve introductory ch

Bartolomeo da Bologna

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Bartolomeo da Bologna (fl. 1405 – 1427) was an Italian composer of the transitional period between the late medieval style of the Trecento and the early Renaissance. Life Little is known with certainty about his life, but he was probably from Bologna or nearby, and seems to have spent part of his life in Ferrara. He was a Benedictine, and may have been the prior of San Nicolò in Ferrara; in addition he was the organist there in 1407, and he is documented in that cathedral at the beginning of 1427. He also seems to have been connected with the chapel of John XXIII in Bologna, since one of his ballades (Arte psalentes) is probably addressed to the singers in his choir. (He is frequently referred to in manuscripts with the Latin form of his name, “Bartolomeus de Bononia”) Music Bartolomeo is one of only a few native Italian composers of the early 15th century of whom works have survived with reliable attribution; many of the musicians in Italy during the 15th century were foreigners, and it was not until later in the century that there were as many Italians as there were émigrés from northern Europe composing music there. Seven pieces by Bartolomeo have survived, all for three voices:

Bartolomeo degli Organi

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Bartolomeo degli Organi (24 December 1474 – 12 December 1539) was an Italian composer, singer and organist of the Renaissance. Living in Florence, he was closely associated with Lorenzo de’ Medici, and was music teacher both to the Florentine composer Francesco de Layolle and Guido Machiavelli, the son of the famous writer. Life He was born in Florence, and seems to have spent most of his life there. He was a singer in the cathedral of Santissima Annunziata from 1488, and was appointed as a singer in the baptistry chapel by Lorenzo de’ Medici himself. In addition he worked as an organist at several locations in Florence, finally obtaining the position of organist at the cathedral in 1509, a position he retained for the rest of his life. Bartolomeo was well-connected with the artistic and cultural life in Florence. In addition to being part of the circle of Lorenzo de’ Medici, his friends included the poet Lorenzo Strozzi, and he was the music teacher of the son of Niccolò Machiavelli. He also may have been one of the teachers of Francesco Corteccia, the most prominent Florentine musician of the middle of the 16th century. Some of Bartolomeo’s children and grandchildren also became

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

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Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c. 1470 – 1535 or later) was an Italian composer of the middle Renaissance. He is mainly famous as a composer of frottole; he is principally infamous for murdering his wife. He was born in Verona and died in or near Venice. Life There is little information on his early life, as is common for most composers of the time. He mentions in a letter that he was originally from Verona, and it is most likely that he grew up in Mantua. Until around 1500 he lived and worked in Mantua, though he made occasional trips to adjacent cities such as Ferrara, Este, Vicenza, Milan, and Pavia, especially when he was in trouble. He fled Mantua in 1495 for unknown reasons, returning later that same year. In 1499 he murdered his wife when he discovered her in flagrante delicto but, unlike Gesualdo a hundred years later, he may have spared the man (the sources are contradictory on this detail). Curiously, he seems to have been pardoned again and again for his misdeeds, but he left Mantua again “without permission, and for despicable reasons”, as recorded in a letter from one of the Gonzaga family, his employers. His skill as a composer probably endeared him to Isabella d’Este, one o

Barton McLean

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Barton McLean (born 8 April 1938) is an American composer, performer, music reviewer, and writer. Life Barton McLean was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of John and Grace McLean, on April 8, 1938. He graduated from State University of New York (SUNY) Potsdam (BS 1960), Eastman School of Music (MM 1965), where he was a student of Henry Cowell, and Indiana University (DMA 1972). He taught music theory and double bass at SUNY (1960–66), while performing on double bass in jazz groups and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1969–76 he taught music composition and theory at Indiana University South Bend. From 1969–76 he directed the Electronic Music Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1967 he married fellow composer Priscilla Taylor, and by 1974 they began professional touring as The McLean Mix, presenting their electro-acoustic music, which became a full-time occupation by 1983. He created a series of solo instrument and stereo tape pieces, best known of which is Dimensions II (1974), championed by pianist David Burge, who performed it extensively for several years. Another extensively performed set in this series, Dimensions III and IV for saxophone and s

Bartosz Chajdecki

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Bartosz Chajdecki (born 28 September 1980) is a Polish film music composer. Biography He started composing at the age of 12. Four years later, he was already working with the Akne Theatre in Kraków, including on the play “A Little Requiem for Kantor”, which was staged in England, Germany, France, Brazil. He received the Fringe First award at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival for it. He has worked for the Yale School of Drama, the New York School of Visual Arts and the Samuel Beckett Theatre in London, among others. In 2004, he graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Kraków. Composer of music for feature films and TV e.g. The Duel, Simona Kossak, Gods, Breaking the Limits, Little Rose 2, Feast of Fire, The Champion of Auschwitz, Colors of Evil: Red, Life feels good, I’m a Killer, My Daughters of the Cow, Baczynski, Warsaw Uprising, Animals, Le temps d’Anna, the TV series Furia (season 2), Raven, The Behaviourist, Chyłka, Langer, Mission Afghanistan, A Vote of No Confidence, Days of Honor. Winner of the Transatlantyk Oceans Award granted by composer Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, the special “Bo wARTo!” award as part of RMF Classic’s MocArt and the Polish Soundtrack of t

Baruch Berliner

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Baruch Berliner (; born in 1942) is an Israeli composer, mathematician and poet. He is the author of musical works, songs, books, and articles. Biography Baruch Berliner was born in Tel Aviv. He completed his doctoral studies in mathematics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where he also worked as an actuary at the Swiss reinsurance company “Swiss Re”, One of The largest Reinsurance in the world, until 1990, when he returned with his family to Israel. From 1990 until his retirement in 2007, he served as a senior researcher at the Faculty of Management at Tel Aviv University and as the chairman of the Erhard Scientific insurance Institute. As part of his work and research, he was invited to lecture at many universities and actuarial conferences. Wrote two books and over 100 articles on actuarial, finance and economics. For years he has been writing poetry in Hebrew, German and English. Besides the work “The Creation of the World”, other works such as “Abraham” which is a symphonic poem for a philharmonic orchestra, a narrator and a male choir, as well as pleasant South American dances to the waltz rhythm. In 2016 a memorial concert was held in Kyiv that marked the 75th ann

Basil Harwood

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Basil Harwood (11 April 1859 – 3 April 1949) was an organist and composer in the English church music tradition, best known today for his liturgical works, particularly his anthem O How Glorious is the Kingdom (1898) and his Service in A flat (1892), which still remain popular in English churches. He wrote numerous hymn tunes, several of which became well-known including Luckington (“Let All the World in Every Corner Sing”) and Thornbury (“O Jesus I Have Promised” and “Thy hand, O God, has guided”). Early life Basil Harwood was born on 11 April 1859 at Woodhouse, Olveston, Gloucestershire, the youngest child of Edward Harwood (1818–1907), a banker. His mother Mary, née Sturge (1840–1867), was of Quaker extraction, and Harwood was brought up in that faith until a switch to Anglicanism in 1869 following his father’s second marriage. Education As a boy, Harwood attended Walton Lodge preparatory school in Clevedon, followed in 1864 by Charterhouse. In 1876 he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, where he was placed in the second class in classical moderations (1879) and the third in modern history (1881). He took his music degree (BMus) in 1880, studying with C. W. Corfe, then

Basil Poledouris

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Basil Konstantine Poledouris (; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors Simon Wincer, John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Among his works are scores for the films Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Iron Eagle (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993), Starship Troopers (1997) and Les Misérables (1998). Poledouris won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special for his work on the four-part miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1989, and was a four-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award. Life and career Born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Greek immigrant parents from Messenia, he credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Miklós Rózsa; the second his own Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the Church, and he used to sit in services enthralled by the choir’s sound. At the age of seven, Poledouris began piano lessons, and after graduation from Garden Grove High School, he enrolled at the University of Southern

Batu Sener

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Batu Sener is a Turkish composer, orchestrator, and arranger based in Los Angeles. Sener is known for his work on the Ice Age franchise, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and Better Man. He actively works alongside Oscar-nominated composer John Powell and has written additional music for films including Pan, Jason Bourne, Ferdinand, Solo: A Star Wars Story, as well as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Migration and most recently Wicked and the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon. His recent works include the studio album Lugano Impressions, an a cappella choir single titled ‘LII Dies Tenebrarum,’ and the score for the film Better Man, which earned him his AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score. He was a nominee for Breakthrough Composer of the Year in 2022 at IFMCA Awards. Early life and education From the age of 3, he trained as a pianist for 17 years at Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performance Arts and Anadolu University State Conservatory before moving to the United States to study film scoring at Berklee College of Music and composition at Columbia College Chicago. Once in Los Angeles, he met John Powell and has been his collaborator on every sing

Baude Cordier

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Baude Cordier () was a French composer in the style of late medieval music. Virtually nothing is known of Cordier’s life, aside from an inscription on one of his works which indicates he was born in Rheims and had a Master of Arts. Some scholars identify him with Baude Fresnel, a harpist and organist in the court of Philip the Bold, though other scholars have rejected this. He is best known for his unique and experimental notational methods, often with shapes relating to the subject matter. These include a heart-shaped staff in Belle, Bonne, Sage, a rondeau about love, and numerous circles in the Tout par compas suy composés rondeau. Such an approach is thought to have inspired later composers, ranging from Gilles Binchois to Karlheinz Stockhausen. Identity It has been suggested that Cordier was the pen name of Baude Fresnel. Music Cordier’s works are considered among the prime examples of . In line with that cultural trend, he was fond of using red note notation, also known as coloration, a technique stemming from the general practice of mensural notation. The change in color adjusts the rhythm of a particular note from its usual form. (This musical style and type of notation has

Baudime Jam

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Baudime Jam (born 1972 in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French violist, composer and musicologist. Biography He has made himself known by composing original scores for accompanying silent films, performing numerous transcriptions for string quartet, as well as his research on the composer George Onslow, to whom he has devoted two works and several articles. He is the founder and violist of the Prima Vista Quartet in which he has performed in France and abroad since 1997. Composer Soundtracks Feature films * The General (Buster Keaton) * Nosferatu (Friedrich Murnau) * The Black Pirate (Douglas Fairbanks) * Orphans of the Storm (David Griffith) * The Goddess (Wu Yonggang) * (André Sauvage) * Deux Étoiles dans la voie lactée (Shi Dongshan) * Wings (William Wellman) * La Grande Guerre : # La Femme française pendant la guerre (Alexandre Devarennes) # Les Enfants de France pendant la guerre (Henri Desfontaines) # No Man’s land (archives ECPAD) * Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (John Robertson) Short films * The Haunted House (Buster Keaton) * One Week (Buster Keaton) * The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin) * A Film Johnnie (George Nichols) * L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat (Louis Lumière) * Le Barbier

Bayan Northcott

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Bayan Peter Northcott (24 April 1940 – 13 December 2022) was an English music critic and composer. Biography Born in Harrow on the Hill, London to Roy and Cecilia Northcott (née Venning) on 24 April 1940 he was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. Northcott read English at Oxford University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford in 1962. He then taught English from 1964 to 1970 at Chichester High School For Boys. Subsequently he read music at the University of Southampton, where his instructors included Goehr and Jonathan Harvey. Northcott earned a BMus degree from Southampton in 1971. He mentored other composers such as Robin Holloway and Julian Anderson. Northcott served as a music critic for the New Statesman, for The Sunday Telegraph from 1976 to 1986, He also wrote on music for Tempo and BBC Music Magazine. He was a director of the independent recording company NMC. He died in London on 13 December 2022, aged 82. Compositions As a composer, Northcott’s output was modest and mainly scored for small forces. Choral pieces include Hymn to Cybele (1983, performed at the 2010 Proms), the Four Votive Antiphons, Op. 7 (2003, a cumulative cycle), and Canticle: T

Bazyli Bohdanowicz

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Bazyli Bohdanowicz (born in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1740, died on 23 February 1817 in Vienna) was a Polish violinist and composer. He was a member of the orchestra in the Leopoldstädter Theater after moving to Vienna in 1775. He and his wife performed unconventional concerts in Vienna in the years 1785-1803 accompanied by their eight children. Some of the pieces performed included: the 3-part sonata for violin Les prémices du monde (played on one instrument by three children), Non plus ultra for four female voices and violin (played on one instrument by three children and the father), the three-part Sinfonía vocale ed origínale senza parole (for 8 vocal voices, choir, and pipes called Sprach-tone), Aria con variazioni for solo soprano, andantino with variations Rareté extraordinaire de la musique for piano for 8 hands, concerto with cadenza Europa’s Erstling (for three vocal voices accompanied by a whistle and orchestra). Bohdanowicz’s circus performances sparked criticism and earned him the nickname of a “musical charlatan”. He composed a symphony in which he adapted motifs from Polish folk music, one vocal symphony, polonaises and other dances, two violin duets, other works of c