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Beat Furrer

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Beat Furrer (born 6 December 1954) is a Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor. He has served as professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 1991. He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2018. Biography Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Furrer relocated to Vienna in 1975 to pursue studies with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (composition) and Otmar Suitner (conducting) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 1985 he co-founded what is now one of Europe’s leading contemporary music ensembles, Klangforum Wien, which he still conducts. Recent awards and honors include the Music Prize of the City of Vienna in 2003 and the Golden Lion, for the monodrama “FAMA”, at the 2006 Venice Biennale. Since 1991, he has served as professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Furrer is co-founder and chairman of “impuls”, an International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music. The 25th anniversary of the Klangforum Wien was celebrated in 2010 at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik with the premiere of his Xenos-Szenen for eight voices and ensemble. Works Since 1989, Furrer’s main pro

Beata Hlavenková

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Beata Hlavenková, née Morávková (born 2 February 1978) is a Czech composer, singing pianist, arranger and producer. In June 2020 Hlavenková received an award as a Best female singer at Anděl Awards 2019. Discography Studio albums *S’aight (2004) *Eternal Seekers (2008) *Joy for Joel (2009) *Eternal Seekers (2012) (reedition from 2008) *Theodoros (2013) *Pišlické příběhy (2015) *Scintilla (2015) *Bethlehem (2017) *Sně (2019) *Žijutě (2021) References External links *

Beata Moon

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Beata Moon (born 1969) is a Korean-American classical pianist and composer. Biography Moon was born in North Dakota and raised in Indiana. She made her musical debut at age 8 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Moon trained as a pianist at the Juilliard School with Adele Marcus earning both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees there. She is self-taught as a composer. Work Moon’s compositions are compared to post-minimalist, but defy a strict definition of genre. She released Perigee & Apogee in 2001 on the Albany label and Earthshine on her own label, Bibimbop Records in 2004. In 2007, Naxos Records added a CD of her works for solo piano, performed by Moon herself, to their catalog of important 21st-century composers. Her work has been acclaimed by Kyle Gann, Gramophone, Allmusic, and others. Moon has frequently collaborated with choreographer Henning Rübsam and his company SENSEDANCE. “After Yet Another Fall” (1992), “Dolphins and Antelopes” (1996), “Moonpaths” (1998), “Dinner is West” (2005) and “Tenancy” (2011) are among her commissions for the company. Rübsam choreographed to other works by Moon, including her “In Transit” from 1999 which was used for the choreographer’s "

Beatrice Schroeder Rose

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Beatrice Schroeder Rose (15 November 1922 – 12 October 2014) was an author, composer, harpist and teacher who was best known for her classic reference work, The Harp in the Orchestra: A Reference Book for Harpists, Teachers, Composers and Conductors. She was the principal harpist of Houston Symphony for 31 years. Life Rose was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to Ida LeHovey and Henry William Schroeder. She performed on the harp as a student at Ridgewood High School. She studied harp at Blue Ridge College in New Windsor, Maryland, and at Mannes School of Music. Her teachers included Lucile Lawrence and Carlos Salzedo. In 1936, Rose received First Prize in the Federated Music Clubs contest. Rose debuted as a harpist at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. In 1940, she performed on the Damrosch Music Appreciation Hour and in 1945, she won the New York Hour of Music award. She was an associate harpist in the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra from 1944 to 1950. In 1952, then a resident of Bergenfield, New Jersey, she travelled to Europe for a tour of France, Italy and Switzerland that included a performance in Genoa that was attended by the United States Ambassador to Italy. She joined the Houst

Beatrice Siegrist

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Beatrice Houllier Siegrist (born 21 December 1934) is a French composer, music educator, and organist who is best known for winning an Honorable Mention for composition in the Prix de Rome and for her compositions for trombone. Siegrist was born in Paris. She studied music at the Paris Conservatory and the Ecole Normale de Musique. After graduating, she taught solfege at the Toulouse Conservatory and several other schools in Paris and Toulouse. She also worked as an organist in Paris. Siegrist won an Honorable Mention in the Prix de Rome and first prize for counterpoint and fugue at the Ecole Normale de Musique. Her music is published by Editions Francaises de Musique Her compositions include: Chamber *Essai (two percussion) Vocal *Chorus for Three Equal Voices *“Melodies” (text by Paul Fort) *“Soleils Couchants” (text by Paul Verlaine) References

Beatrice Witkin

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Beatrice Braverman Witkin (May 13, 1916 – February 7, 1990) was an American composer and pianist who was best known for her electronic music, especially the theme she composed for the TV show Wild, Wild World of Animals in 1973. Career Witkin studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Roger Sessions, Mark Brunswick and Stefan Wolpe. She received a B.A. from Hunter College and a master’s degree from New York University. She married Louis Witkin in 1938 and they had one daughter (Judy) and one son (Steve). Witkin received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Hebrew Arts Music School. She released two LPs of chamber music, and received the Creative Arts Public Service Grant and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Standard Award. In 1963, Witkin helped establish the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a performing group that commissioned new works. She was a guest composer at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire as well as a longtime member of the Women’s Composers Forum and ASCAP. In 1968, she was invited to work at the Electronic Music Studio at the New York University Schoo

Beatriz Bilbao

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Beatriz Bilbao (born 8 December 1951) is a Venezuelan composer. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied piano with Judith James and Gerty Haas, composition with Modesta Bor, and conducting with Alberto Grau and Gonzalo Castellanos in Venezuela. She continued her studies at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington with Frederick Fox, Juan Orrego Salas and John Eaton and at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Cluj Napoca Conservatory in Romania. After completing her studies, Bilbao worked as a composer and music teacher. In 1991 she took a teaching position at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales (IUDEM) in Caracas and from 2001 to 2002 served as director of the Ministry of Culture’s Prudencio Esáa Music School. Her music has been performed internationally. Honors and awards *1995 Ramón Delgado Palacios National Prize for her piano work Secuencias Mestizas *1994 Munizipal Prizes for Trilogía Aborígen and Four Color Dances *1989 First Symphonic Composition Contest Seguros la Previsora prize for Concierto de las Tres Esferas Works Bilbao works with both electronic media and acoustic instruments, composing for orchestra, chamber ensembl

Beatriz Ferreyra

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Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (born 21 June 1937) is an Argentine composer. She lives and works in Hameau de Hodeng, France. Early work and study Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and worked with Earle Brown and György Ligeti in Germany. Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She assisted with Henri Chiarucci’s and Guy Reibel’s Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d’un son musical, published in 1966 in Revue Internationale d’Audiologie and Pierre Schaeffer’s Solfège de l’Objet Sonore. During this time she also lectured at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Film music In 1973, Ferreyra was invited to write the music for Fiorella Mariani’s film Homo Sapiens (Fiorella is the niece of filmmaker Roberto Rossellini). The hour-long work was completely electroacoustic, for which Ferreyra also did the performing, editing, and mixing. Mariani’s fi

Bebu Silvetti

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Juan Fernando Silvetti Adorno (March 27, 1944 – July 5, 2003), professionally known as Bebu Silvetti or simply Silvetti, was an Argentine-Mexican pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, and record producer. In the 1970s he moved to Mexico and became a citizen. Popularly known for the 1975 instrumental disco hit, “Lluvia De Primavera” (“Spring Rain)” in English), the album was produced in Spain and for the 1980 modern instrumental mariachi album. Silvetti was also a successful, Grammy-winning producer for a wide variety of Latin and international music performers. He was the father of six children, including the actress . Silvetti also worked in the music of successful films and telenovelas in Mexico. Biography Early life Silvetti was born in the city of Quilmes, Argentina, located in the province of Buenos Aires, approximately 17 kilometers from the capital city of Buenos Aires. He started his piano education at the age of six. During his teenage years he formed his own jazz quartet and a few other musical groups. At 19, Silvetti left Argentina to go to Spain where he stayed a few years working as a pianist at some of the most popular jazz clubs of the time. Career In the early 197

Bechara El Khoury (composer)

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Bechara El Khoury (born 18 March 1957 ) is a Franco-Lebanese composer. Biography Born in Beirut, he moved to Paris in 1979. Before his departure he was extremely active as a composer, pianist, conductor as well as Kapellmeister. He became a French national in 1987, and as a result many French institutions commissioned works for him like Orchestre de Paris, Musique nouvelle en liberté, Radio France, Festival Menuhin in Gstaad, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Mecklenburg Festival etc. He received the Prix Rossini (Institut de France) in 2000 and his work was performed by many orchestras. as the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Orchestre philharmonique du Liban, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Basel Chamber Orchestra … Among the musicians who conducted his music, Pierre Dervaux (who recorded “Danse des aigles, opus 9” with the Orchestre Colonne), Kurt Masur, Daniele Gatti, Paavo Järvi, Daniel Hard

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann

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Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (10 November 1883 – 5 November 1951) was a Czech organist, composer, teacher and organ builder. Life Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann was born on 10 November 1883 in Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He graduated from the classical lyceum in Prague, where his teacher for elective singing was the organist Josef Klička (who also taught at the Prague Conservatory). He worked briefly as a finance clerk in Kroměříž before deciding to study theology at Olomouc. During his studies in Olomouc, he was the organist and choirmaster at the St. Wenceslas cathedral. After seven semesters of study, shortly before he would have graduated, he abandoned theology and enrolled in the Prague Conservatory, where he would study from 1908 to 1910, organ with Josef Klička and composition with Vítězslav Novák. Between 1910 and 1919 he worked as a church organist, first at the cathedral in Brno, then in Prague at the Emmaus Church and at the Church of Cyril and Methodius in Karlín. At the same time, he played the viola in the Czech Philharmonic for three years. In the meantime, he also joined the faculty of the Prague Conservatory, where he would teach from 1917 to 1944 and ag

Bedřich Diviš Weber

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Bedřich Diviš Weber (; 9 October 1766 – 25 December 1842) was a Czech composer and musicologist. He is primarily remembered as the first director of the Prague Conservatory, in whose foundation he played a leading role. Life Weber was born on 9 October 1766 in Velichov, Bohemia. He studied philosophy and law in Prague before turning his attention definitively to music, studying under Abbe Vogler. He became an advocate for the music of Mozart after meeting him in Prague, and his compositions bear evidence of this influence, being firmly rooted in that stylistic period. He was antagonistic towards the work of Beethoven and Carl Maria von Weber (no relation), although an enthusiast for the work of Richard Wagner. In 1832 he conducted the first performance of Wagner’s Symphony in C major, a student performance at the Prague Conservatory. As director of both the conservatory and the Prague Organ School, he effectively controlled higher musical education in the region, so was arguably the most influential figure in the music of Prague at that time. He also wrote several music theory textbooks considered important in their time. Despite his conservative style, he was happy to explore the

Bedrich Smetana

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Family background and childhood#

Bedřich Smetana, first named Friedrich Smetana, was born on 2 March 1824, in Litomyšl (German: Leitomischl), east of Prague near the traditional border between Bohemia and Moravia, then provinces of the Habsburg Empire. He was the third child, and first son, of František Smetana and his third wife Barbora Linková. František had fathered eight children in two earlier marriages, five daughters surviving infancy; he and Barbora had ten more children, of whom seven reached adulthood. The Smetana family came from the Hradec Králové (German: Königgrätz) region of Bohemia. František had initially learned the trade of a brewer, and had acquired moderate wealth during the Napoleonic Wars by supplying clothing and provisions to the French Army. He subsequently managed several breweries before coming to Litomyšl in 1823 as brewer to Count Waldstein, whose Renaissance castle dominates the town. František Smetana played violin in a string quartet, and Barbora Smetana was a dancer. Bedřich was introduced to music by his father and in October 1830, at the age of six, gave his first public performance. At a concert held in Litomyšl’s Philosophical Academy he played a piano arrangement of Auber’s overture to La muette de Portici, to a rapturous reception. In 1831 the family moved to Jindřichův Hradec in the south of Bohemia—the region where, a generation later, Gustav Mahler grew up. In 1835, František retired to Růžkovy Lhotice Castle. whose departure for Prague in 1838 may have influenced Smetana’s own desire to experience life in the capital. The following year, with František’s approval, he enrolled at Prague’s Academic Grammar School under Josef Jungmann, a distinguished poet and linguist who was a leading figure in the movement for Czech national revival.

Beethoven (Mähler)

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There are at least two surviving portraits created by German painter Joseph Willibrord Mähler in oils of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. One, painted in approximately 1804 or 1805, is the first of up to four untitled portraits the painter made of the composer. Today it hangs in the Beethoven Museum in Probusgasse, Vienna, part of the Vienna Museum. A copy of this painting, once owned by Beethoven’s biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer, is now owned by the New York Public Library. Mähler’s 1814 portrait of Beethoven exists in two versions, and is part of a series of portraits he made of Viennese composers at this time. The portrait of 1804–1805 Background Joseph Willibrord Mähler was introduced to Beethoven by the writer Stephan von Breuning (1774–1827). Though eventually a court secretary, Mähler was interested in music, was a good singer and did some composing. Beethoven took him to one rehearsal of Leonore in 1805. What is known about the painting stems from Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s biography. He first came across the original Mähler painting during a research visit (for his Beethoven biography) to Caroline Barbara van Beethoven (born Naske), the widow of Karl van Beethoven

Beethoven and C minor

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The compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven in the key of C minor carry special significance for many listeners. His works in this key have been said to be powerful and emotive, evoking dark and stormy sentiments. Background During the Classical era, C minor was used infrequently and often for works of a particularly turbulent cast. Mozart, for instance, wrote only very few works in this key, but they are among his most dramatic ones (the twenty-fourth piano concerto, the fourteenth piano sonata, the Masonic Funeral Music, the Adagio and Fugue in C minor and the Great Mass in C minor, for instance). Beethoven chose to write a much larger proportion of his works in this key, especially traditionally “salon” (i.e. light and diverting) genres such as sonatas and trios, as a sort of conscious rejection of older aesthetics, valuing the “sublime” and “difficult” above music that is “merely” pleasing to the ear. Paul Schiavo wrote that C minor is a key “that Beethoven associated with pathos, struggle, and expressive urgency.” The key is said to represent for Beethoven a “stormy, heroic tonality”; he uses it for “works of unusual intensity”; and it is “reserved for his most dramatic music”. P

Beethoven and his contemporaries

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During the course of his lifetime, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) established relationships with many of his musical contemporaries. Beethoven was notoriously temperamental, eccentric and difficult to get along with; the history of his many relationships is replete with arguments, misunderstandings, and reconciliations. Beethoven had well-known quarrels with his one-time teachers, Joseph Haydn and Antonio Salieri, with the piano virtuoso and composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and the German composer Carl Maria von Weber. Conversely, he regarded Franz Schubert positively, praising the latter’s compositions. Luigi Cherubini Beethoven met the composer Luigi Cherubini on the latter’s journey to Vienna in 1805. Cherubini, a longtime resident of Paris, was invited to mount a production of his opera Die Tage der Gefahr (or Der Wasserträger) after the success of his 1791 opera Lodoïska, which was staged by Emanuel Schikaneder on 23 March 1803 at the Theater an der Wien. Cherubini’s time in Vienna was generally unhappy, but he did have the opportunity to meet Beethoven. Cherubini was in attendance for the first performances of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, to which he reacted sneeringly. He als

Beethoven and Mozart

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) had a powerful influence on the works of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Beethoven held Mozart in high regard. Some of his music recalls Mozart’s; he composed several variations on Mozart’s themes and he modeled a number of his compositions on those of the older composer. Whether the two men ever actually met remains a matter of speculation among scholars. Beethoven’s years in Bonn Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770, about 14 years after Mozart (born Salzburg, 1756). In 1781, during Beethoven’s childhood, Mozart had moved from Salzburg to Vienna, the Austrian imperial capital, to pursue his career. While Bonn was politically and culturally affiliated to Vienna, it was geographically even more remote than Salzburg, lying around 900 km distant on the opposite side of German-speaking Europe. During his youth and musical training in Bonn, Beethoven had extensive, intimate exposure to Mozart’s music. He played Mozart piano concertos with the Bonn court orchestra and performed (playing viola) in Mozart’s operas. Lewis Lockwood writes, “Just as Mozart had once told his father that he was ‘soaked in music’, so Beethoven was soaked in Mozart.” In Beetho

Beethoven-Haus (Krems an der Donau)

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The Beethoven House (Beethoven-Haus) is a private museum in the village of Gneixendorf near Krems an der Donau in Austria. It is a former residence of Ludwig van Beethoven and it is part of the cultural heritage of Austria. The current house museum is in dire need of restoration and is run as a private museum. History and description The cubic building, known as the Trautingerhof, dates back to the 16th century at its core and received a mansard hipped roof in the late 18th century. The ground floor features groin vaults. The former Trautingerhof, now the Beethoven House, was owned in the 16th century, along with the Wasserhof Castle, by the Berchtesgaden Abbey. Both properties in Krems an der Donau were given to the Jesuits as a gift in 1630. From 1820 onwards, both properties were owned by Johann van Beethoven, the brother of Ludwig van Beethoven. The elaborate neoclassical furnishings and decor date from around 1800 and the early 19th century. Wallpapers in the house depict romantic landscape paintings, trompe-l’œil architecture, and trompe-l’œil frames. Beethoven came to his brothers house with his nephew and ward. His nephew had attempted suicide on 6 August 1826 and he had sp

Beethoven-Haus Baden

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Beethoven-Haus Baden, is a museum in Baden bei Wien in Lower Austria. Ludwig van Beethoven stayed here during three summers in the 1820; it is dedicated to the composer, and in particular his Symphony No. 9, on which he worked here during 1823. History Beethoven visited Baden, a spa town, several times, in order to improve his health, living in various lodgings in the town. In 1821, 1822 and 1823 he lived in this house, then known as the Kupferschmiedhaus (coppersmith’s house), renting an apartment on the first floor. During his stay in the summer of 1823 he worked on the fourth movement of the Symphony No. 9; the building is known as the Haus der Neunten – “House of the Ninth”. Description In October 2014 the museum was reopened, after closure for two years for renovation. The first floor is restored into the appearance of Beethoven’s day; there is memorabilia of the composer, including texts from letters he wrote from Baden. The ground floor is about his Ninth Symphony. The basement includes a separate area where the phenomenon of sound can be explored, and visitors can experience Beethoven’s progressive deafness first-hand. Exhibits in the museum include a piano made by Conrad G

Beethoven's compositional method

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer in the transition between the classical and romantic period. He composed in many different genres including nine symphonies, five piano concertos, and a violin concerto. Process Beethoven’s process of composition changed over the course of his career. Many scholars divide his career into three main time periods; the early, middle, and late period. During the early period (ended in 1802) the driving force behind his compositions was his desire to master the Viennese style of composition. He was strongly inspired by Mozart and Haydn during this period, but he also wanted to create his own individual style and not merely emulate his predecessors. It was also the start of his hearing loss. By the final period, he was completely deaf. When his hearing was only mildly impaired, he would use ear trumpets to compose at the piano. He would also use a wooden stick between his teeth to feel the vibrations when he played. The sketches do not dictate how audiences should interpret or experience the piece. However, they do reveal information about Beethoven himself and act more as a bibliographic aid rather than an analytical tool. Beethoven

Beethoven's musical style

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Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most influential figures in the history of classical music. Since his lifetime, when he was “universally accepted as the greatest living composer”, Beethoven’s music has remained among the most performed, discussed and reviewed in the Western world. Scholarly journals are devoted to analysis of his life and work. He has been the subject of numerous biographies and monographs, and his music was the driving force behind the development of Schenkerian analysis. He is widely considered among the most important composers, and along with Bach and Mozart, his music is the most frequently recorded. Beethoven expanded the formal and emotional scope – not to mention length – of nearly every genre in which he wrote. While he is most famous for his heightening of the symphonic form, Beethoven also had a crucial influence on the piano sonata, violin sonata, string quartet and piano concerto, among several others. Only in the realm of vocal composition – opera and the mass – was his effect on later generations muted. Beethoven’s stylistic innovations bridge the Classical and Romantic periods. The works of his early period brought the Classical form to its highe

Béla Bartók

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Childhood and early years (1881–1898)#

Bartók was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, part of Austria-Hungary (present-day Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on 25 March 1881. On his father’s side, the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsodszirák, Borsod. His paternal grandmother was a Catholic of Bunjevci origin, but considered herself Hungarian. Bartók’s father (1855–1888) was also named . Bartók’s mother, (1857–1939), spoke Hungarian fluently. A native of Turócszentmárton (present-day Martin, Slovakia), she had German, Hungarian and Slovak or Polish ancestry. Béla displayed notable musical talent very early in life. According to his mother, he could distinguish between different dance rhythms that she played on the piano before he learned to speak in complete sentences. By the age of four he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano, and his mother began formally teaching him the next year. In 1888, when he was seven, his father, the director of an agricultural school, died suddenly. His mother then took Béla and his sister, Erzsébet, to live in Nagyszőlős (present-day Vynohradiv, Ukraine) and then in Pressburg (present-day Bratislava, Slovakia). Béla gave his first public recital aged 11 in Nagyszőlős, to positive critical reception. Among the pieces he played was his own first composition, written two years previously: a short piece called “The Course of the Danube”. Shortly thereafter, accepted him as a pupil.

Béla Kéler

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Béla Kéler (13 February 182020 November 1882) was a Hungarian composer of romantic music period and orchestral conductor. Béla Kéler was born as Albert Paul Keler (Adalbert Paul von Keler). He is also known in Hungarian as Kéler Béla. He was born on 13 February 1820 in City of Bártfa, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (present-day Bardejov, Slovakia), and died on 20 November 1882 in Wiesbaden, German Empire. He was active in Hungary, Austria and Germany. Biography Béla Kéler was born in 1820 in Bártfa (, ), Kingdom of Hungary as Albert Paul Keler, but German and Austrian sources also give Adalbert Paul von Keler. He descended from an ethnic German family on his father’s side, but was ethnic Magyar on his mother’s side. His father Stefan Keler (17811849) was a principal magistrate of Bártfa, from an old Bártfa burgher’s family. His mother Anna Bóth (17931848) was from the Hungarian Both de Botfalva noble family. They raised 13 children. Albert’s siblings were Frederika, Stefan, Emilia, Antonia, Matilda, Augusta, Apollonia, Ferdinand, Viktor, Josefina, and Amalia. The household was German speaking; the majority of residents of Bártfa that time were Carpathian Germans.

Ben Goldberg

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Ben Goldberg (born August 8, 1959) is an American clarinet player and composer. Career In the early 1990s, Ben Goldberg performed alongside electric bassist Dan Seamans and percussionist Kenny Wollesen as the New Klezmer Trio. They went on to produce three albums and the free improvisation on “Masks and Faces” was described as having “kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music.” Goldberg’s musicality has influenced and inspired local musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Goldberg is also the founder of the music label BAG Production. Recently Goldberg has branched out into songwriting. His “Orphic Machine” project, largely commissioned by Chamber Music America, was performed in Los Angeles. Regarding songwriting and composing, in a 2010 profile piece in All About Jazz, Goldberg said, “I don’t just want to give people something that they can appreciate or understand, or that makes them think, or something like that. I used to kind of feel that that’s what I wanted to do, but that’s not what I want anymore. I want to give people something that they can love.” In 2011, Goldberg was named the No. 1 Rising Star Clarinetist by the Down Beat Critic’s Poll.

Ben Jerome

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Benjamin M. Jerome (1881 – March 29, 1938), was an American composer, arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and conductor. In his early career he worked in New York City as a Tin Pan Alley composer of popular music, and was a notable arranger of ragtime music. He also composed music and/or wrote lyrics to several musicals staged on Broadway. Jerome died in Chicago on March 29, 1938, after a five-day illness. Broadway premiere at the Sam H. Harris Theatre on October 3, 1927 References External links * *

Ben Johnston (composer)

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Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr. (March 15, 1926 – July 21, 2019) was an American contemporary music composer, known for his use of just intonation. He was called “one of the foremost composers of microtonal music” by Philip Bush and “one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer” by John Rockwell. Biography Johnston was born in Macon, Georgia, and taught composition and theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1951 to 1986, before retiring to North Carolina. During his time teaching, he was in contact with avant-garde figures such as John Cage, La Monte Young, and Iannis Xenakis. Johnston’s students included Stuart Saunders Smith, Neely Bruce, Thomas Albert, Michael Pisaro, Manfred Stahnke, and Kyle Gann. He also considered his practice of just intonation to have influenced other composers, including Larry Polansky. In 1946 he married dance band singer Dorothy Haines, but they soon divorced. In 1950 he married artist Betty Hall, who died in 2007. Johnston began as a traditional composer of art music before working with Harry Partch. He helped the senior musician to build instruments and use them in the performance and recording of new composition

Ben McPeek

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Benjamin Dewey McPeek (28 August 1934 – 14 January 1981) was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Early life McPeek was born in Trail, British Columbia. He earned an associate degree from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1954 and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto in 1956. He was a pupil of John Beckwith, Gordon Delamont, Talivaldis Kenins, Oskar Morawetz, Godfrey Ridout, and John Weinzweig. Career McPeek began performing as a pianist with dance bands in Toronto during the mid-1950s. In the late 1950s he performed with the Five Playboys with some frequency on CBC Radio. In 1960 McPeek made his first foray into musical theatre when he became music director of the revue Up Tempo 60 at the King Edward Hotel. He went on to compose music for several other theatrical productions between 1963 and 1968, including That Hamilton Woman, Suddenly This Summer, Actually This Autumn, and Spring Thaw. In 1963 he wrote his first opera, The Bargain, which was based on the legend of Faust. The opera was filmed for CBC Television in 1966 and was later staged for the first time in 1978 by the COMUS Music Theatre of Canada. McPeek’s original handwritten piano score fo

Ben Molar

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Ben Molar (3 October 1915 – 25 April 2015) was an Argentine author, composer, musical producer, and talent scout. He created the National Day of the Tango, held annually on 11 December, placed bronze plaques on all 40 corners of Calle Corrientes and produced an interdisciplinary artistic project that combined art, poetry, and music to promote Argentine tango. Biography Moisés Smolarchik Brenner was born on 3 October 1915 at Calles Montevideo and Corrientes in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Jewish immigrants León Smolarchik and Fanny Brenner. From childhood Molar sang with the neighborhood street musicians and at a very early age began writing songs. Molar was an ambitious talent scout, a shrewd businessman, who had a good ear for what the general public and young people were interested in hearing. He was one of the key figures who helped promote Argentine tango albums from the 1950s to the 1970s. As the owner of the label Fermata he both promoted local talent like Mercedes Sosa, El Club del Clan, Los Abuelos de la Nada and Los 5 Latinos Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Cañás, Juan D’Arienzo, Florencio Escardó, Raquel Forner, Another of his ideas to promote the tango was to place bronze plaque

Ben Moore (composer)

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Ben Moore (born January 2, 1960) is an American composer whose works include art song, musical theatre, cabaret, chamber music, choral music and opera. His songs have been recorded by Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham Nathan Gunn and Lawrence Brownlee on the EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Classics and Opus Arte labels. Other singers who have performed his music include Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Robert White, and Audra McDonald. Biography Ben Moore – 14 songs was published by G. Schirmer in 2006. The Metropolitan Opera’s farewell gala for Joseph Volpe, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2006, featured two of his operatic parody songs. His song cycles include So Free Am I commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Ode to a Nightingale and Dear Theo. Moore wrote the score for the opera Enemies, a Love Story which premiered at Palm Beach Opera in February, 2015, and for Odyssey, commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival. Moore was born in Syracuse, New York and received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design. *Henry and Company (musical theatre) *Bye Bye Broadway (musical theatre) References External links * Official website

Ben Neill

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Ben Neill (born November 14, 1957) is an American composer, trumpeter, producer, author, and educator. He is the inventor of the “Mutantrumpet”, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. Early life, family and education Neill was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His early studies included the North Carolina School of the Arts and Eastern Music Festival, where he played alongside many notable young musicians including Wynton Marsalis. He attended the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University, where he earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. His primary trumpet teacher was Esotto Pellegrini, but he also studied trumpet with Bernard Adelstein and James Darling. In 1983 he moved to New York City, and earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music. He also studied privately with La Monte Young and was mentored by Jon Hassell. Career In 1980 Neill formed The B-Minors, a new wave band with drummer Don Yallech, and became an active participant in the Northeast Ohio punk/new wave scene, frequently performing at The Bank in Akron, JB’s in Kent, and the Cedars in Youngstown. Neill began writing his own music and developed the prototype for h

Ben Steinberg

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Ben Steinberg (22 January 1930 – 10 February 2023) was a Canadian composer, conductor, organist, and music educator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he is known for his contributions to Jewish music. He has presented many programs of Jewish music (some featuring his own compositions) for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and has presented similar programs in lecture-recitals throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, and Japan. He has also contributed articles on Jewish music to a number of publications. Several of his original manuscripts and papers are held in the collection at the library of the University of Calgary. Steinberg was a founding member of the Guild of Temple Musicians, an affiliate of the American Conference of Cantors. The GTM named their most prestigious award for young composers of Jewish music after Steinberg, the Ben Steinberg Young Composer Award. Steinberg was an honorary member of the American Conference of Cantors and a featured composer for Transcontinental Music Publications, the largest and oldest publisher of Jewish music. Steinberg died on 10 February 2023, at the age of 93. Early l

Ben-Zion Orgad

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Ben-Zion Orgad (Hebrew: בן ציון אורגד, originally Ben-Zion Büschel; born Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 21 August 1926; died Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 April 2006) was an Israeli composer. His family emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933, where he started violin lessons in 1936. From 1942 until 1946, Orgad studied violin and composing with Rudolf Bergmann and Paul Ben-Haim in Tel Aviv and in 1947 with Josef Tal in Jerusalem. In the years 1949, 1952, and 1961 he took part in composing courses at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, with Aaron Copland and others. From 1960 until 1962 he studied composing at Brandeis University in Waltham. Beginning in 1956, Orgad was employed by the Israeli Ministry of Education, in the department of its school of music. His musical works consist primarily of choir music and songs, although he also wrote orchestral works and chamber music. Awards *In 1952, Orgad received the Kussewitzky Prize of UNESCO. *In 1961, he received the Joel Engel Prize of the city of Tel Aviv. *In 1997, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for music. See also *List of Israel Prize recipients References External links * Ben-Zion Orgad bio * Bibliography on Ben-Zion Orgad, in Ronit Sete

Benedetto Ferrari

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Benedetto Ferrari (c. 1603 – 22 October 1681) was an Italian composer, particularly of opera, librettist, and theorbo player. Biography Benedetto Ferrari was born in Reggio nell’Emilia. He worked in Rome (1617–1618), Parma (1619–1623), and possibly in Modena at some time between 1623 and 1637. He created music and libretti in Venice and Bologna, 1637–1644. Ferrari’s Andromeda, with music by Francesco Manelli, was the first Venetian opera performed in a public theatre (in 1637). Subsequently, he provided both the text and the music for two operas, both presented in Venice: La maga fulminata (1638) and Il pastor regio (1640). The 1641 Bolognese staging of the latter included, as its final duet, the text “Pur ti miro, pur ti godo,” which was later reused, possibly with Ferrari’s music, for the final duet in the surviving manuscripts of Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea. Ferrari went to Vienna in 1651, serving the emperor Ferdinand III. Upon returning to Modena in 1653, he was appointed court choirmaster. His post was eliminated in 1662 but reinstated in 1674, after which he served until his death at Modena. Many sources recount his virtuosity as a theorbo player. None of his oper

Benedetto Ghiglia

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Benedetto Ghiglia (27 December 1921 – 4 July 2012) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist. Life and career Born in Fiesole, Ghiglia graduated in composition and piano from the Florence Conservatory. He then started an activity as a chamber musician, both as solo and in couple with cellist Pietro Grossi. In 1976 he formed the stage company “Teatro-Canzone” with his wife Adriana Martino. He also composed incidental music for all the stage plays by Mario Missiroli. Between 1980 and 1985 he was vice-president of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Selected filmography * Adiós gringo (1965) * Six Days a Week (1965) * Espionage in Tangier (1965) * I Knew Her Well (1965) * Balearic Caper (1966) *El Rojo (1966) * Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966) * 4 Dollars of Revenge (1966) * Johnny Colt (1966) * A Stranger in Town (1967) * The Strange Night (1967) * Pigsty (1969) * Psychout for Murder (1969) * Corbari (1970) * Tulips of Haarlem (1970) * Lover of the Great Bear (1971) * St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972) * Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam (1973) * To Forget Venice (1979) References External links * *

Benedetto Marcello

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Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (; 31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. Life Born in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of the noble Marcello family and in his compositions, he is frequently referred to anonymously as Patrizio Veneto (Venetian patrician, i.e. aristocrat). Although he was a music student of Antonio Lotti and Francesco Gasparini, his father wanted Benedetto to devote himself to law. Benedetto managed to combine a life in law and public service with one in music. In 1711 he was appointed a member of the Council of Forty (in Venice’s central government), and in 1730 he went to Pola as Provveditore (district governor). Due to his health having been “impaired by the climate” of Istria, Marcello retired after eight years in the capacity of Camerlengo (chamberlain) to Brescia where he died of tuberculosis in 1739. Benedetto Marcello was the brother of Alessandro Marcello, also a notable composer. On 20 May 1728 Benedetto Marcello married his singing student Rosanna Scalfi in a secret ceremony. However, as a nobleman, his marriage to a commoner was unlawful; after his death, the marriage was declared nu

Benedetto Pallavicino

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Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551 – 26 November 1601) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. A prolific composer of madrigals, he was resident at the Gonzaga court of Mantua in the 1590s, where he was a close associate of Giaches de Wert, and a rival of his younger contemporary Claudio Monteverdi. Biography He was born in Cremona in either 1550 or 1551. While little is known about his early life, a mid-17th century document by Cremonese writer Giuseppe Bresciani indicates he served as an organist at several churches in the Cremona region while young, and it is possible he studied with Marc’ Antonio Ingegneri, the same man who was the teacher of Monteverdi. His older brother Germano was also a prominent local organist. The Gonzaga family employed Benedetto at Sabbioneta beginning in 1579 and probably lasting until 1581, first as a singer, and in 1583 he began service with the Gonzagas in Mantua, a musical center of immense importance in the last decades of the 16th century; he stayed there for the rest of his life. While there he associated with some of the most famous composers of the last two decades of the 16th century, including Giaches de Wert, Francesco Sor

Benedict Mason

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Benedict Mason, born on 23 February 1954, is a British composer. Mason was educated at King’s College, Cambridge (1971–75) and took a degree in film-making at the Royal College of Art (1975–78). He did not turn to composition until his early 30s, but his first acknowledged work, Hinterstoisser Traverse (1986), attracted attention from the European new music scene. His early works are decidedly postmodern in inclination, with considerable use of stylistic irony (some commentators have noted in these works a similarity to the music of Mauricio Kagel). Mason then developed an interest in polyrhythmic music, and in works such as his Double Concerto one can hear a stylistic affinity to the later works of György Ligeti. More recent works have concentrated on the spatial dimension of music, such as in his Music for European Concert Halls series, and sometimes have come close to installation art. Mason has composed in different genres, and his soccer opera Playing Away, with a libretto by Howard Brenton, was commissioned by the Munich Biennale and premièred there in 1994 by Opera North. References ;Sources * * Further reading *Kennedy, Michael (2006). The Oxford Dictionary of Music, *Toop,

Benedictus Appenzeller

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Benedictus Appenzeller (between 1480 and 1488 – after 1558) was a Franco-Flemish singer and composer of the Renaissance, active in Bruges and Brussels. He served Dowager Queen Mary of Hungary for much of his career, and was a prolific composer of vocal music, both sacred and secular, throughout his long career. Life Appenzeller was probably born in Oudenaarde in East Flanders, and his approximate birthdate is inferred from a document late in his life, dated July 1558, in which he gave his age as “over 70”. Appenzeller is first mentioned in cathedral records in 1518, when he is a singer, and in 1519, when he became choirmaster at the cathedral of St. Jacob in Bruges. His several publications during the following years show that he was active then as a composer, but nothing is known of his actual whereabouts or employment until 1536, when Dowager Queen Mary of Hungary (daughter of Philip I and Joanna the Mad of Castile) brought him into her Brussels chapel as a singer. By the next year he had become the master of the choirboys – the one responsible for teaching them music, and caring for them – and he was to hold this position, or its equivalent, until either 1551 or 1555. While he s

Benedictus Buns

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Benedictus Buns, Benedictus à Sancto Josepho (born Josephus Henricus Buns; also Buns Gelriensis in Latin; 1643 – 6 December 1716), was a Carmelite priest and composer. Biography Buns was born in Geldern (near Kevelaer), which is now a part of Germany, and died in Boxmeer, the Netherlands. In 1659 Buns entered the monastery of the Carmelites in Geldern. His first name is unknown. Work in Boxmeer Buns was professed in 1660 and was ordained in 1666. Sometime between 1666 and 1671 Buns moved to the monastery of the Carmelites in Boxmeer. He was appointed sub-prior in the periods 1671–1674; 1677–1683; 1692–1701; and 1704–1707. Hubertus à Sancto Joanne Vlaminck (1633–1679) a well known organist in Boxmeer (from 1668 to 1679). The Basilica at Boxmeer was part of an independent Catholic enclave. In 1688, Buns initiated the completion and expansion (under-Positive) of the Bremser organ in Boxmeer by Jan van Dijck. From 1699 onward, Buns worked as private composer, conductor and organist (“Aulae Bergis phonascus et organista”) - to the Count Oswaldo van den Bergh at Boxmeer and the family van den Bergh at ’s-Heerenbergh. Buns was also an organ-expert and an organ-advisor, and In 1703 he appr

Benedikt Schack

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Benedikt Emanuel Schack (; 7 February 175810 December 1826) was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. Early life Benedikt Schack (also spelled as Žák, Ziak, Cziak or Schak) was born on 7 February 1758 in Mirotice, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic, then part of the Habsburg monarchy). Like Joseph and Michael Haydn, he worked as a chorister as a child, singing from 1773 in the cathedral in Prague, then moved to Vienna (1775) to study medicine, philosophy and singing. His voice teacher in Vienna was , a tenor who performed under Joseph Haydn. From 1780, Schack worked for several years as Kapellmeister to Prince Heinrich von Schönaich-Carolath in Silesia. In 1786, Schack joined the traveling theatrical troupe of Emanuel Schikaneder, working both as a tenor and as a composer of Singspiele. The troupe settled in Vienna in 1789, performing in the suburban Theater auf der Wieden. Friendship and collaborations with Mozart It was around this time that Schack became a friend and professional colleague of Mozart, who was gradually increasing his involvement with Schikaneder’s troupe. S

Benet Casablancas

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Benet Casablancas Domingo (born 2 April 1956 in Sabadell) is a Catalan composer and musicologist. Biography Casablancas started to study music in Barcelona’s Conservatory of Music and privately with Josep Soler Sardà and then moved to Vienna, where he attended lessons in the Vienna Academy of Music with Friedrich Cerha and Karl Heinz Füssl. He also graduated in philosophy in Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (1982) and has a PhD in musicology by the same university. He has always combined composition with teaching and research. Career In 2000, Casablancas published the book “El humor en la música” and in 2002, he was appointed Academic Director of the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu of Barcelona. His “New Epigrams” (1997) represented Spain at the ISMC World Music Days Vilnius in 2008. Also in 2008, the “Seven Scenes of Hamlet” had its UK premiere in a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and in 2009, his work “Alter Klang. Impromptu for Orchestra” was played by the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and the Belgian National Orchestra. In the chamber field, the Arditti Quartet gave the premiere of Casablancas’ “String Quartet n

Bengt Hambraeus

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Bengt Hambraeus (29 January 1928 – 21 September 2000) was a Swedish-Canadian organist, composer and musicologist. Biography Hambraeus was born in Stockholm. He studied organ with Alf Linder and musicology with Carl-Allan Moberg, earning his doctorate in 1956 on a thesis about medieval musical notation. From 1957 to 1972 he worked at the music department of the Swedish Radio, eventually holding executive and producer posts, and during this time became a very high-profile emissary of new music in Sweden, encouraging discussion of new musical forms, a renewal of organ music with new tonal/technical concepts and the integration of performance art, improvisation, live electronics and stereo/spatial effects into traditional concert performing. He was also a prolific composer. In 1972 he became professor of composition at McGill University, Montreal, and he remained in Canada until his death in Glen Roy, Ontario, in 2000. Among his notable pupils are composer Peter Allen and pianist Richard Hunt. He was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1967 and received the Swedish Royal Medal Litteris et Artibus in 1986. Hambraeus wrote music for a large number of instruments, but he is

Béni Egressy

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Béni Egressy (; 21 April 1814 – 17 July 1851) was a Hungarian composer, librettist, translator and actor. He created a number of popular melodic compositions, including the one to Mihály Vörösmarty’s patriotic poem Szózat. He also authored the librettos of the operas Hunyadi László and Bánk bán by Ferenc Erkel. Biography Egressy was born in 1814 in Sajókazinc, today a part of Kazincbarcika, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary, to a Protestant pastor. He entered the stage in 1834, like his older brother Gábor Egressy, and in 1837 became a member of the national theatre in Prague. During the Revolution of 1848, he took part in the fighting and became a member of the Hungarian Honvéd resistance. He was wounded in the Battle of Kápolna and was present during the defense of Komárom under György Klapka, where he wrote the Klapka March. After the rebellion, he received amnesty and returned to the stage. Works Egressy was more notable for his acting rather than his compositions. Nevertheless, he composed music for “Szózat”, a famous poem by Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty. The song later became the unofficial “second Hungarian national anthem”, besides the Himnusz. His musical works are

Benjamin Bilse

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Benjamin Bilse (17 August 1816 – 13 July 1902) was a German conductor, composer, and violinist. Biography Bilse was born in Liegnitz (present-day Legnica) in the Prussian Silesia Province. As a teenager, he had an apprenticeship with Scholz alongside 11 other boys. Through this apprenticeship, Bilse was able to accustom himself with all instruments commonly found in a choir as well as gain conducting experience conducting the town pipers. Later on, he obtained a rich musical education at the Vienna Conservatory under violinist Joseph Böhm, and played in the orchestra of Johann Strauss I. He returned to Liegnitz and became municipal Kapellmeister in 1842. From 1867 he regularly performed with the “Bilse’s Band” (Bilse’sche Kapelle) at the Concerthaus on Leipziger Straße in Berlin. Although initially facing trouble gaining traction, the orchestra became increasingly popular by targeting the middle class as its audience through offering food and drink during concerts. Bilse ignited the music scene in Berlin through this method, the effects of which are still felt today. This concept of a laid-back experience aimed at the middle class also spread across the Atlantic where it inspired P

Benjamin Boretz

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Benjamin Aaron Boretz (born October 3, 1934) is an American composer and music theorist. Life and work Benjamin Boretz was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham Jacob Boretz and Leah (Yullis) Boretz. He graduated with a degree in music from Brooklyn College in 1954, studied composition with Tadeusz Kassern, and later studied composition at Brandeis University with Arthur Berger and Irving Fine, with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Music Festival and School, with Lukas Foss at UCLA, and with Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions at Princeton University. Boretz was one of the first composers to work with computer-synthesized sound (Group Variations II, 1970–72). In the late 1970s and 1980s he converged his compositional and pedagogical practices in a project of real-time improvisational music-making, culminating in the formation at Bard College of the music-learning program called Music Program Zero, which flourished until 1995. He has written extensively on musical issues, as critic, theorist, and musical philosopher, from the perspective of a practicing composer. His earliest (1970) large-scale music-intellectual essay was the book-length “Meta-Variations, Studies in the Foundations of Mu

Benjamin Britten

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Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft in Suffolk, on the east coast of England on 22 November 1913, the feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. He was the youngest of four children of Robert Victor Britten and his wife Edith Rhoda, née Hockey. Robert Britten’s youthful ambition to become a farmer had been thwarted by lack of capital, and he had instead trained as a dentist, a profession he practised successfully but without pleasure. While studying at Charing Cross Hospital in London he met Edith Hockey, the daughter of a civil service clerk in the British Government’s Home Office. They were married in September 1901 at St John’s, Smith Square, London. The consensus among biographers of Britten is that his father was a loving but somewhat stern and remote parent. Britten, according to his sister Beth, “got on well with him and shared his wry sense of humour, dedication to work and capacity for taking pains.” Edith Britten was a talented amateur musician and secretary of the Lowestoft Musical Society. In the English provinces of the early 20th century, distinctions of social class were taken very seriously. Britten described his family as “very ordinary middle class”, but there were aspects of the Brittens that were not ordinary: Edith’s father was illegitimate, and her mother was an alcoholic; Robert Britten was an agnostic and refused to attend church on Sundays. Music was the principal means by which Edith Britten strove to maintain the family’s social standing, inviting the pillars of the local community to musical soirées at the house. When Britten was three months old he contracted pneumonia and nearly died. The illness left him with a damaged heart, and doctors warned his parents that he would probably never be able to lead a normal life. He recovered more fully than expected, and as a boy was a keen tennis player and cricketer. To his mother’s great delight he was an outstandingly musical child, unlike his sisters, who inherited their father’s indifference to music, while his brother, Robert, though musically talented, was interested only in ragtime. Edith gave the young Britten his first lessons in piano and notation. He made his first attempts at composition when he was five. He started piano lessons when he was seven years old, and three years later began to play the viola. He was one of the last composers brought up on exclusively live music: his father refused to have a gramophone or, later, a radio in the house.

Benjamin Burrows

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Dr Benjamin Burrows (20 October 1891 – 28 January 1966) in Leicester, England) was an English organist, pianist, music teacher, inventor, composer of art songs and instrumental music. He was known as a modest man and one of the finest teachers of his times. Biography Burrows was born in Leicester, England. He was the son of Benjamin Harper Burrows (1864–1915), a scholar and teacher of some repute, who played violin, viola and later cello, and was closely involved with the Leicester Orchestral Union from 1884 until his death. His mother was Mary Elizabeth (born Gray 1867) who was an excellent pianist. His sister was violinist, teacher and orchestra conductor Grace Burrows. He was born at 12 College Street, Leicester and attended Alderman Newton’s Boys School. He tutored students in organ and composition up to PhD level for 27 years. He was known to be generous, sympathetic and encouraging. Music Burrows is best known for his art songs. Under the influence and friendship of Jane Vowles, a soprano to whom he taught theory, he composed 93 songs in 21 months. After her parents insisted on her abandoning studies with him, Burrows wrote only one more song (in 1953). His songs have been co

Benjamin C. S. Boyle

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Benjamin C. S. Boyle (born September 1, 1979) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Life and career Benjamin C. S. Boyle was born on September 1, 1979, in Monterey, California, United States. His compositional output includes opera, orchestral music, chamber music, choral music, art songs, and works for piano. Notable performances include the premiere of Boyle’s Hudson Sinfonia for brass ensemble premiered by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Riverside Church in New York City in April 2009. His Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra was premiered with marimbist Makoto Nakura and Montreal Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Wanda Kalusny in June 2015. Chicago Lyric Opera premiered Boyle’s choral work The Holly and the Ivy in December 2008. His Concerto for Organ and Orchestra was commissioned by Hope College Orchestra and premiered with organist Huw Lewis, conducted by Richard Piippo in November 2007. In May 2005, Bachanalia Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Lande, premiered the Cantata To One in Paradise for string orchestra and four vocal soloists at Merkin Hall in New York . That same year he won the Young Concert Artists composition competition. He has b

Benjamin Dale

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Benjamin James Dale (17 July 188530 July 1943) was an English composer and academic who had a long association with the Royal Academy of Music. Dale showed compositional talent from an early age and went on to write a small but notable corpus of works. His best-known composition is probably the large-scale Piano Sonata in D minor he started while still a student at the Royal Academy of Music, which communicates in a potent late romantic style. Christopher Foreman has proposed a comprehensive reassessment of Benjamin Dale’s music. Dale married one of his students, the pianist and composer Kathleen Richards in 1921. Early life and education Benjamin Dale was born in Upper Holloway, Islington, London, to Charles James Dale, a pottery manufacturer from Staffordshire, and his wife, Frances Anne Hallett, daughter of a furniture manufacturer from Clerkenwell. His father, who had migrated first to Derbyshire and then to London, was a director of the Denby Pottery Company and London manager of James Bourne & Son. He was also a self-taught but enthusiastic amateur musician, church organist and Methodist hymn tune writer who nurtured the Finsbury Choral Association (attracting composers such

Benjamin Dwyer

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Benjamin Dwyer (born 3 August 1965) is an Irish composer, guitarist and musicologist. Life Dwyer was born in Dublin and studied the classical guitar at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin, and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He also studied music at Trinity College Dublin, and in 2000 he received a PhD in composition from Queen’s University Belfast. As a guitarist, he made his concerto debut with Rodrigo’s Concierto d’Aranjuez with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany; since then he has performed as soloist with most of the major Irish orchestras and string quartets, and he has given recitals throughout Europe and North America. He has also performed with a variety of chamber music partners, including tenor John Elwes, saxophonist Kenneth Edge, flautist Susan Doyle, jazz guitarist Mike Nielsen and classical guitarist Dario Macaluso. Dwyer spent the years 2002 to 2007 in Spain (Andalusia and Barcelona), before returning to Ireland, where he has taught guitar at the Royal Irish Academy of Music since 2009. Since 2012 he holds the first professorship in music at Middlesex University. Dwyer has a strong interest in contemporary art music. He has been

Benjamin Frankel

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Benjamin Frankel (31 January 1906 – 12 February 1973) was a British composer. His best known pieces include a cycle of five string quartets, eight symphonies, and concertos for violin and viola. He was also notable for writing over 100 film scores and working as a big band arranger in the 1930s. During the last 15 years of his life, Frankel also developed his own style of 12-note composition which retained contact with tonality. Biography Frankel was born in London on 31 January 1906, the son of Polish Jewish parents. He began to learn the violin at an early age, showing remarkable talent; at age 14, his piano-playing gifts attracted the attention of the American pianist and teacher Victor Benham (1867–1936) who persuaded his parents to let him study music full-time. He spent six months in Germany in 1922, then returned to London, where he won a scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and attempted his first serious compositions while earning his income as a jazz violinist, pianist and arranger. Known then as Ben Frankel, his jazz work can be heard on recordings by Fred Elizalde’s band. He also played violin with Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans. By the ear

Benjamin Franklin Baker (musician)

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Benjamin Franklin Baker (July 10, 1811 – March 11, 1889) was an American educator and composer. Biography Benjamin Franklin Baker was born on July 10, 1811, in Wenham, Massachusetts, to John and Sally Baker. When he was 14 years old, his family moved to Salem, Massachusetts, where he began his musical studies. After this he moved to Bangor, Maine, for a time, making a living as a businessman, but moved to Boston in 1837. With his cousin Isaac Baker Woodbury, he began a series of teacher’s conventions. Beginning in 1839, he spent the next 24 years in Boston in the capacity of music conductor for various churches there. That same year he married Sabra L. Heywood. During this time period, he continued performing, often as featured soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society. By the late 1850s he was traveling to other parts of the United States as a conductor. Towards the end of his career in the 1870s, Baker was the editor of the Boston Music Journal. Publications Baker published more than 25 collections of hymns, songs, and music theory books. *Baker’s American School Music Book (1844) Compositions Baker composed numerous anthems, hymns, and other various vocal works. Of particular no

Benjamin Franklin White

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Benjamin Franklin White (September 20, 1800 – December 5, 1879) was a shape note “singing master”, and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp. He was born near Cross Keys in Union County, South Carolina, the twelfth child of Robert and Mildred White. Musical career White and Elisha J. King published The Sacred Harp in 1844, using the four-shape shape note notation. King died in 1844. In 1845, White led in the establishment of the Southern Musical Convention. In 1850, he issued a second edition of The Sacred Harp, adding 97 songs and 103 pages. With the 1850 and future editions, White was assisted by a musical committee appointed by the Southern Musical Convention. In 1859, a third edition of The Sacred Harp was released, adding 74 more songs on 63 pages. A fourth edition came out in 1869. For the first time, in this revision White replaced old songs with new ones, rather than simply adding the new songs to the back of the book. A year later, he released a copyright of the same book signed only by himself and his son, D. P. White, perhaps clarifying ownership. In 1911, White’s youngest son, James Landrum White, reissued this fourth edition with a supplement of

Benjamin Godard

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Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 184910 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera Jocelyn. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) of tuberculosis and was buried in the family tomb in Taverny in the French department of Val-d’Oise. Life and career Godard was born in Paris in 1849. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Henri Vieuxtemps (violin) and Napoléon Henri Reber (harmony) and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany. In 1876, his Concerto romantique was performed at the Concerts Populaires, and other of his large works were also performed at these concerts. In 1878, Godard was the co-winner of the Prix de la Ville de Paris. His winning composition, a dramatic symphony entitled Le Tasso, remains one of his most admired works. From that time until his death Godard wrote a large number of compositions. These include eight operas, among them: Jocelyn (the “Berceuse” from which remain

Benjamín Gutiérrez

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Benjamín Gutiérrez (born January 3, 1937, in Guadalupe, Costa Rica) is a celebrated composer in Costa Rica. He is a conductor, composer, and pianist. Gutiérrez began by studying music with his grandmother, Rosa Jiménez Nuñez, daughter of the composer Pilar Jiménez.” Gutiérrez then studied music in Guatemala City, Boston, Ann Arbor, Aspen, and Buenos Aires. The following were among his teachers: Ross Lee Finney, Darius Milhaud, and Alberto Ginastera. Gutiérrez has written music for piano, orchestra, violin, viola, clarinet, flute, saxophone, trombone quartet, bassoon quartet, marimba, opera, and several other instruments. Early years Benjamín Gutiérrez was born into a musical family outside of San José; they all played instruments. Gutiérrez’s father was an amateur violinist who owned a shoe factory. His mother, Lupita Sáenz Jiménez-Núñez, played the piano. Gutiérrez’s grandmother recommended that he join the Conservatorio de Música in San José. Gutiérrez took piano lessons from the conservatory under the tutelage of Professor Miguel Angel Quesada until he was thirteen years old. Gutiérrez was persuaded by one of his professors to drop out of high school and enroll at Omar Dengo Sch

Benjamin Lazar Davis

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Benjamin Lazar Davis is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and record producer. He is a member of several bands, including Okkervil River and Cuddle Magic. Davis attended New England Conservatory of Music. Early life Davis was raised in Saratoga Springs, New York. His father, Peter, started being a musician at the age of five. Davis has a brother and two sisters. He collaborates with his brother Tim on songs. Bands and collaborations In 2006 while students at The New England Conservatory of Music Davis, Alec Spiegelman, Christopher McDonald, Kristin Slipp, Cole Kamen-Green, and David Flaherty founded Cuddle Magic in 2006. The band is known for collaborations with many artists including Fred Frith, Ran Blake, the David Wax Museum, Larkin Grimm, Mike & Ruthy (formerly of the Mammals), Phyllis Chen, Joy Kills Sorrow. Individuals from Cuddle Magic have also performed with Dirty Projectors, Bridget Kearney, Railbird, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Baby States, Ronald Reagan, Bird Fly Yellow, Margaret Glaspy, The People’s Champs, Girls Guns and Glory, Lake Street Dive, Petal Shield, Split Red, Yapp! and The Superpowers Horns. Davis went to West

Benjamín Solís Menéndez

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Benjamín Solís Menéndez (4 May 1932, in Chalchuapa – 26 July 2019) was a Salvadoran composer, pianist, organist and choir director. As choirmaster, he participated in the opening and closing of the V Central American Games in 1994 with the choir “Nueva Vida”, and also formed part of the Vienna Opera, presenting the operetta “Die Fledermaus” by Johann Strauss and the “Merry Widow” by Franz Lehar, in the same year. Coro de la Primera Iglesia Bautista de El Salvador, and the Opera de El Salvador. As a composer, his best known works are “Mis Caites”, “Guanaquita Ausente”, “Casamiento Pueblerino”, “Acuarela Campesina” and “Los Inditos”. He has also composed the hymns “Himno al trabajador Pueblo Salvadoreño”, Himno del Liceo Cristiano “Revdo. Juan Bueno” (with lyrics by his wife), Himno de la Escuela Ciudad Normal “Alberto Masferrer” and others. In 2004 he was recognized by the FLADEM (Foro Latinoamericano de Educación Musical), and awarded a Distinguished Honorary membership, the first Salvadoran to receive this recognition for his contributions to Latin American identity. References

Benjamin Staern

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Benjamin Staern (born 6 December 1978) is a Swedish composer. He was born in Gothenburg, the son of Gunnar Staern. Education Staern studied in his childhood cello, piano and percussion at the local music school in Malmö. During his studies in musicology at Lund University and before he felt that composition proved to be an interesting path to pursue. The following year he was accepted at the composition department at Musikhögskolan in Malmö, where he studied during the years 1998 to 2005 with professors Rolf Martinsson, Hans Gefors, Kent Olofsson (electronic music), Björn-Tryggve Johansson (instrumentation and counterpoint), Per Mårtensson and Lars Sandberg. During his masters his main professor was Luca Francesconi. He was awarded a Diploma of Fine Arts and Music at the latter mentioned academy. Career Staern’s music has been performed at festivals for new music, such as Ung Nordisk Musik, Stockholm New Music and Sirenfestivalen in Gothenburg. In August 2006, his work The Threat of War was performed twice by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm Concert Hall, conducted by Michael Christie. Staern also received grants from the Swedish Royal Musical Academy, Helge

Benjamin Verdery

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Benjamin Verdery (born 1955) is an American classical guitarist, composer and teacher. Verdery has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, and Wigmore Hall (London). He has played and recorded with a wide range of classical and other musicians, including guitarists William Coulter, Leo Kottke, Paco Peña, Andy Summers and John Williams, vocalist Hermann Prey, composer Anthony Newman, and his wife, flutist Rie Schmidt. New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn described Verdery as “one of the guitar’s grand individualists” and “an iconoclastic player,” known as much for his devotion to new music and transcriptions of Jimi Hendrix songs as for inventive interpretations of Bach. As of 2021, Verdery had released 19 albums and been featured on several others. He has taught at the Yale School of Music since 1985. He became interested in music after hearing The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” in 1963. After learning four pieces in order to audition for conservatory, he was accepted at SUNY Purchase in 1974, where he studied with composer-organist Anthony Newman and guitarist-composer Frederic Hand, and ear

Benjamin Yusupov

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Benjamin Yusupov (; born November 22, 1962, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is a classical composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Yusupov was born in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR (today in Tajikistan) in 1962. He studied piano, composition and conducting at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow with Roman Ledeniov, Yuri Fortunatov and Dmitri Kitajenko. He received his PhD degree at Bar-Ilan University. Yusupov works closely with outstanding artists as Maxim Vengerov, Mischa Maisky, Vadim Repin, Alexander Kniazev, Maxim Rysanov, Sergei Nakariakov, Konstantin Lifschitz, Reinhold Friedrich and others. His extensive catalogue, which is published exclusively by Sikorski Musikverlag (Hamburg), has been performed extensively by a wide range of renowned artists and orchestra across the globe the likes of the London Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Bogota Philharmonic, New World Symphony, NDR Radio-Philharmonie Hannover, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, to name a few. In 2005, Yusupov’s Viola Tango Rock Concerto - written for the internationally renowned violini

Benna Moe

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Benna Olufine Charlotte Moe (December 15, 1897 - Dec. 27, 1983) was a Danish composer and musician. In addition to her compositional gifts, Benna Moe was an organ soloist, pianist and singer. She composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, and organ music. Most known among her works is the ballet Hybris, which was premiered in Copenhagen in 1930. Her compositions, Hymn of Praise (4th movement of Alpine Suite), Shepherds’ Flutes (2nd movement of Alpine Suite) and Cantilena have been used at royal weddings. Early life Moe entered the Moltke Citizen School for girls, and it was here that her special musical abilities stimulated her musical participation. Moe often played at school party events and family gatherings, and began to compose at the age of 12. Eventually, she delved into larger compositions, such as an overture to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Johanne Luise Heiberg’s birth in 1913. She maintained contact with the school long after she was grown. At Moltke’s funeral in 1928, she played his elegy on the Frederik church organ. She played at numerous charity events before, during and after World War II, and for many family celebrations. She wrote music for fe

Benny Andersen

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Benny Andersen (7 November 1929 – 16 August 2018) was a Danish poet, author, songwriter, composer and pianist. He is often remembered for his collaboration with the singer Povl Dissing; together they released an album with Andersen’s poems from the collection Svantes viser. This album and Andersen’s book “Svantes viser” (Svante’s Songs) from 1972 were included by the Danish Ministry of Culture in the Danish Culture Canon in 2006, in the category “Popular music”. Andersen’s “Samlede digte” (Collected poems) have sold more than 100,000 copies in Denmark. In Denmark, Benny Andersen was also a well-known author of children’s literature and in 1971, he was awarded the Ministry of Culture’s children book prize (“Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris”). In the 1980s, his books about the fantastical creature Snøvsen, became widely popular and later inspired two films in the early 90s. Andersen became a member of the Danish Academy (Det Danske Akademi) in 1972. His wife, the jurist Elisabeth Ehmer, reported that Benny Andersen died in the family home in Sorgenfri, north of Copenhagen, on 16 August 2018. Selected bibliography Some of Benny Andersen’s notable poem collections, includes: * Den musi

Benny Andersson

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Göran Bror Benny Andersson (; born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he also worked as an executive producer. Since 2001, he has been active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester. Early life Göran Bror Benny Andersson was born 16 December 1946 in the Vasastan district of Stockholm to civil engineer Gösta Andersson (1912–1973) and his wife Laila (1920–1971). His sister Eva-Lis Andersson followed in 1948. Andersson’s musical interest was spurred by his father and grandfather (Efraim), who played the accordion. At the age of six, they bought him one, too, and introduced him to Swedish folk music, traditional music, and schlager. The first records he owned were “Du Bist Musik” by Italian schlager singer Caterina Valente and Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock”. He was especially impressed by the flip side, “Treat Me Nice”, as this featured a piano. This variety of different kinds of music influenced him through the years. At ten, Andersson got hi

Benoît Delbecq

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Benoît Delbecq (born 6 June 1966) is a French pianist and composer. Early life Benoît Delbecq was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and raised in a musical environment. He started studying piano in Bougival at the age of seven with Nicolle Mollard, a former student of Alfred Cortot. He first studied jazz harmony with parisian pianist Jean-Pierre Fouquey, then joined IACP in Paris (in 1982), a jazz and improvised music school founded and directed by bassist Alan Silva, while he continued high school and furthermore sound engineering studies. In 1983 he met Mal Waldron who encouraged him to work on his own music. As he had become an assistant director for films as well as an assistant in sound engineering, Delbecq finally opted to become a professional musician after attending the Banff Centre Jazz Workshop, Canada, in the summer of 1987, where he studied with Dave Holland, Steve Coleman and Muhal Richard Abrams among others. He then studied composition and music analysis with Solange Ancona at the Versailles National Conservatory, studied with pianist Georges Delvallée at Cachan Conservatory. Together with saxophonist Guillaume Orti from France, he went back again to the Banff Jazz wor

Benoît Jutras

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Benoît Jutras (born 1963) is a Canadian composer. Jutras is best known for his work with the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil, first as music director and later as composer for several of the company’s contemporary circus shows. Jutras’ music often blends eclectic influences, including world beat, classical, rock, trip hop, and electronica. His scores for Cirque du Soleil shows include O, Mystère, Quidam, and La Nouba. His work outside Cirque du Soleil has included original soundtracks for Le Rêve (a show at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas), the Glow in the Park Parade (a nighttime parade at Six Flags theme parks), and The House of Dancing Water (a show at the City of Dreams resort in Macau). He has also composed for film and television. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Jutras now resides in Barbados. He has one daughter, Audrey Brisson-Jutras, who performed and sang in Quidam as the principal character Zoé. (Her performance can be seen on the DVD that Cirque du Soleil has released of the show.) Jutras also has a brother, François Jutras. His sister-in-law is Roxane Potvin, lead singer for the Cirque du Soleil show O. “With globalization, a merging of musical styles is

Benoît Poirier

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Benoît Poirier, (17 October, 1882 – 7 October, 1965) was a Canadian organist, composer and music educator. Benoît Fidèle Poirier (17 October 1882 – 7 October 1965) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. He was a church organist and taught at several educational and religious institutions in Montreal, Quebec. He created a number of compositions for organ and piano. Early life and education Poirier was born Benjamin Perry in Tignish, Prince Edward Island. His parents were Laurence Poirier Perry & Emelia Margaret Desroches. His pipe organ study began when he was 13. He studied at the francophone University of St. Joseph’s College, Memramcook, New Brunswick, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1902 and was granted an honorary Master of Arts in 1928. While an undergraduate there, he was also organist of St Thomas Church, Memramcook. Career In 1903 Poirier relocated to Montreal to study for the priesthood. He taught at the Collège de Montréal and became the organist of the Séminaire de Philosophie. In 1919 he was elected to the board of the Schola cantorum, later serving as its president from 1923 to 1925. He was the director of the Conservatoire national de musiqu

Benoît Verdickt

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Benoît Verdickt (27 September 1884 – 28 April 1970) was a Canadian organist, choirmaster, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth. His compositional output consists mainly of sacred music, some of which he self-published. His most notable works are his Cantique de mariage for soloist and two-part choir (1918) and his Missa pro defunctis for three-part choir and organ (1941). Early life Born in Steenhuffel, Londerzeel, Verdickt studied in Mechelen, first at the Interdiocesan School of Sacred Music, and then at the Mechelen Conservatory where he ultimately graduated with his diploma. Career In 1906 Verdickt immigrated to Canada to assume a church organist post in Victoriaville, Quebec. He remained there until 1912 when he became an organist/choirmaster at a church in Rochester, New York in the United States. After just one year there, he returned to Canada in 1913 to assume a similar role at Sts-Anges Church in Lachine, Quebec near Montreal. He remained there until his retirement in 1963. References

Benson Taylor

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Benson Taylor (born Mark Davison) is an English composer, songwriter, record producer, and humanitarian. He is best known for his music in The Big Bang Theory, Orange is the New Black, London Fields, and the eighth highest-grossing Mexican film of all time The Perfect Dictatorship. In November 2016, Taylor was awarded an honorary doctorate for services to humanitarian causes and music. He founded A Remarkable Idea in 2017, a sub label of Universal Music, located in Santa Monica, California & London. Taylor has collaborated with, and produced a range artists for the label, including MOBO-winning jazz quartet Kairos 4Tet, The Halle Orchestra, Mercury Prize-nominated Maxïmo Park and Kele Okereke, Bloc Party, Good Charlotte’s Billy Martin, Pulled Apart by Horses, Robot Koch, Lack of Afro, Benoît Pioulard, Freddie Cowan, Bo Ningen, James Brown, and Menace Beach. Taylor won the “Best Original Music” award at the 2014 Monaco International Film Festival. In 2018, he scored and produced the music to Mathew Cullen’s thriller adaptation of the Martin Amis novel, London Fields, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jason Isaacs, Cara Delevingne, Theo James and Johnny Depp. In 2020, he scor

Bent Fabric

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Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (7 December 1924 – 28 July 2020), better known internationally as Bent Fabric, was a Danish pianist and composer. Biography Bent Fabricius-Bjerre was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He started a jazz ensemble after World War II and founded a label, Metronome Records, in 1950. He released a series of ten inch albums on the Metronome label entitled 50 Years Of Evergreens in 1955, under the pseudonym Frank Barcley. However, he is best known for his 1961 instrumental “Omkring et flygel” (literally, “Around a Grand Piano”) which became a hit in Denmark. The song was re-released worldwide under the name “Alley Cat” on Atco Records the following year, and went to No. 1 in Australia and No. 49 in Germany. The tune also became a hit in the United States; the song hit No. 2 on the AC chart and no. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the LP of the same name hit No. 13 on the Billboard 200. “Alley Cat” also won a Grammy Award for Best Rock & Roll Recording. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The follow-up single, “Chicken Feed”, hit No. 63 in the U.S. Fabricius-Bjerre had done extensive work in film scores prior to the success of his singles, and co

Bent Lorentzen

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Bent Lorentzen (11 February 1935, Stenvad – 3 October 2018, Copenhagen) was a Danish composer. He was one of the outstanding figures in contemporary Danish music. His works are frequently performed at festivals at home and abroad, and he had established particularly close links with musical life in Poland and Germany. He was honoured with several international prizes and was named Choral Composer of the Year in Denmark in 1989 (Source: Edition·S – music¬sound¬art – Denmark). Bent Lorentzen was born in Stenvad, a village on Djursland, East Jutland. He studied musicology at the university in Aarhus and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. He was a pupil of Knud Jeppesen, Finn Høffding, Vagn Holmboe and Jørgen Jersild. After his final examination he taught at the Academies of Music in Aarhus and Copenhagen for several years. (Source: Bonde 2005) Lorentzen was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of Danish electronic music (The Bottomless Pit in 1972 for the Nordic Music Days in Oslo, and Visions 1978), which was also introduced with an educational aim: the LP Elektronmusikkens materiale The Material of Electronic Music, 1968 and the LP Water – electronic music for

Bent Sørensen (composer)

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Bent Sørensen (born 18 July 1958) is a Danish composer. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2018 for L’isola della Città (2016). He studied composition with Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and with Per Nørgård at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. Works Organ * Lais (1985) Piano * Angelus (?) * The Shadows of Silence (2002) * The Masque of the Red Death (1990) * Lullabies (2000) * Berceuse No.2 (2007) * Twelve Nocturnes (2000–2014) * Fantasia Appassionata (2017) Solo * The Songs of the Decaying Garden for clarinet (?) * Troldspil for clarinet (1982) * The Lady of Shalott for viola (1987) * The Bells of Vineta for trombone (1990) * The Shadows of the Shepherds for oboe (1990) * Plainte d’un Troubadour for oboe (1993) * Angelus Waltz for guitar (1996) * Shadow Siciliano for guitar (1997) * Sliding Sarabande for guitar (1999) * Looking on Darkness for accordion (2000) * The Hill of the Heartless Giant for double bass (2001) * Midnight Mazurka for guitar (2006) * Doll March & Dark Jig for guitar (2008) Chamber music (2 to 6 players) * Trotto for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon and horn (1983) * Mädelein for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn (1985)

Berenguier de Palazol

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Berenguier de Palazol, Palol, or Palou (fl. 1160–1209) was a Catalan troubadour from Palol in the County of Roussillon. Of his total output twelve cansos survive, and a relatively high proportion—eight—with melodies. Other evidence suggests that his family was well-off. Berenguier does not seem to have had much contact with his fellow troubadours. He may have met Pons d’Ortaffa late in life, and the latter may address him in one of his songs as Senher En Berenguier. All of Berenguier’s surviving works deal with the theme of courtly love. According to Berenguier’s vida, Arnaut was a son of Maria de Peiralada, but this is probably a confusion with Maria domina de Petralata, the mother of Soremonda, the lover of Guillem de Cabestany. Nonetheless, the developing of the theme corresponds to stages in the life of a lover. *Aital dona cum ieu sai ::In this work Berenguier praises the perfection of his lady. She is proud and has many suitors. She does, however, lend him ear. *Dona, si totz temps vivia ::Berenguier pledges to seek no other lover, even though his lady seems out of reach. *Dona, la genser qu’om veya ::Berenguier resolves to be patient. *Aissi quon hom que senhor ochaizona ::B

Berenice Wyer

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Annie Berenice Crumb Wyer (October 5, 1873 – January 29, 1960) was an American pianist, composer, and lecturer. Wyer composed for both piano and organ, and wrote art song and works for violin. She collaborated with Ethan Allen Taussig in performances of spoken recitation accompanied by the piano. Early life Annie Berenice Crumb was born in North Windham, Connecticut, on October 5, 1873, to Ellen V. (née Peck) and Desevignè Starks Crumb, but spent most of her childhood in Missouri. In 1911 Wyer lectured before the Piano Club of Kirkwood and gave lecture recitals in St. Louis. Wyer also composed for both piano and organ, as well as works for violin and for voice and piano. As of 1922, they were unpublished. Her solo piano compositions included “Concert Etude in D flat”, the ballades “Chivalric Poem” and “Of Romance”, and a Ballade in C-sharp minor that won the Prize for a Piano Composition in the 1916 St. Louis Art League Music Competition; organ works included “Etude in D minor”, “Lento Assai”, and “Meditation”. Her works for violin included “Serenade”, “Spring Fantasie”, and “Twilight in the Garden”. Personal life and family Back home from her European tour, on June 11, 1901, Beren

Bernadetta Matuszczak

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Bernadetta Matuszczak (10 March 1937 – 3 September 2021 ) was a Polish composer. She was born in Toruń, Poland, and studied with Zygmunt Sitowski for music theory and with Irena Kurpisz-Stefanowa for piano at the State Higher School of Music in Poznań. Later she studied with Tadeusz Szeligowski and Kazimierz Sikorski for composition at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (now the F. Chopin Academy of Music). She continued her education in composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1968. After completing her studies, she worked as a composer. Her works have been performed internationally. Honors and awards *Prize from the Young Polish Composers’ Competition, Association of Polish Composers (1965) *Prizes from the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Composers (1966) *Jeunesses Musicales Competition (1967) *Prix Italia for radio opera-oratoria (1973, 1979) Works Selected works include: *Septem Tubae, 1969 *Juliet and Romeo, chamber opera, 1972 *Diary of a Fool, opera monodrama, 1976 *Musica da camera per 3 flauti, 4 timpani e 5 tom-toms (1967) *Humanae voces, (1970–71) *Apocalypsis according to St. John, (1976–77) *Ballet Miniatures for orchestra (1985) *Notturno - Karol Szyma

Bernard B. Brown

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Bernard B. Brown (July 24, 1898 – February 20, 1981) was an American sound engineer and composer, who wrote the scores for many early animated cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects. He worked on more than 520 films between 1930 and 1958. Composer In 1933, animation producer Leon Schlesinger set up his new animation studio: Leon Schlesinger Productions. The company would later be known as Warner Bros. Cartoons. Schlesinger had to hire new staff for his studio. According to animation historian Michael Barrier, Schlesinger “knew almost nothing about making cartoons” and took help wherever he could find it. Among his new employees was Bernard Brown, who was in charge of recording sound and scores for the studio’s films. According to a later interview with Brown, he worked on animated short films in addition to his regular work. This “regular work” was recording film scores for the feature films of Warner Bros. Pictures. Brown would reportedly spend many

Bernard Barrell

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Bernard Clements Barrell (15 August 1919 – 2 January 2005) was an English musician, music educator and composer. Biography Bernard Barrell was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and studied at Trinity College of Music, London. He served in World War II and returned to England, where he took various teaching appointments in Hollesley Bay Borstal, Ipswich schools, the Suffolk Rural Music School and the Workers’ Educational Association. He served as conductor of the Woodbridge Orchestra and as an adjudicator for the British Federation of Musical Festivals. He married composer Joyce Howard Gedye. Selected works Orchestra * Hommage à Ravel, Suite for small orchestra, Op.1 (1938) * Diversions on an Original Theme for string orchestra, Op.2 (1938) * Sarabande for small orchestra, Op.4 (1939) * Four Studies for string orchestra, Op.8 (1951) * Fugue for string orchestra, Op.11 (1954) * East Anglian Holiday Overture, Op.14 (1956) * A Carol Prelude for string orchestra and 3 recorders, Op.17 (1958) * Festival Voluntary for string orchestra and 3 recorders, Op.18 (1959) * Meditation on an Old French Melody for small orchestra, Op.27 (1960) * Two Christmas Preludes for recorders and string orchestra, Op

Bernard de Bury

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Bernard de Bury or Buri (20 August 1720 – 19 November 1785) was a French musician and court composer of the late Baroque era. Biography Bernard de Bury was born at Versailles, a member of a family of musicians, many of whom had appointments to the French court, and was taught music as a young boy. He wrote his first – and only – harpsichord book in 1737, at the age of seventeen, and dedicated it to his teacher, François Colin de Blamont, uncle of his future wife. In 1741, he bought the charge of Claveciniste de la Chambre from Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, which she had inherited from her father François Couperin as a survivance. In 1743, he began a successful career with his opéra-ballet Les Caractères de la Folie (“Characters of Madness”) which was performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (today’s Paris Opera). His works continued to be staged during the festivities given in Versailles, Sceaux, and Fontainebleau for more than thirty-five years. He also wrote several cantatas and motets, notably De profundis. De Bury received a royal pension beginning in 1779, and was ennobled by Louis XVI in 1785, a few months before his death, which occurred at Versailles. Selected composit

Bernard Galais

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Bernard Galais (30 January 1921 – 14 August 2009) was a French classical harpist and composer. His work, which is highly stylistically independent, reflects the multiple influences of his own career: soloist at the Paris Opera, and the French Republican Guard Band. He also left many transcriptions and recorded recitals in the 1970s. Life Youth Galais was born on 20 January 1921 in Le Havre. His mother introduced him to music, with solfège and piano. In 1934, Galais joined Marcel Tournier’s class, His 80th birthday is celebrated at the International Association of Harpists and Friends of the Harp the Divertimento No 2 by Paul Arma, the Nocturne in E major by Glinka and he composed cadenzas for the concertos in G minor and B flat major by Krumpholz. Discography * 1970: Trois siècles de harpe - three vinyls in a box set, Vega * 1970: Bernard Galais, série de transcriptions pour la harpe, Vega. References External links * Official website * Discography on Discogs * Bernard Galais plays Krumpholtz (YouTube)

Bernard Gates

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Bernard Gates (23 April 1686 in The Hague – 15 November 1773 in North Aston) was an English composer, and a bass singer employed by Handel in his oratorios. He was director of the choir at Westminster Abbey from 1740 to 1757. Surviving music, in a conservative style, includes six anthems and a morning service. Life He was the second son of Bernard Gates, gentleman, of St. Margaret’s, Westminster. His name appears in the list of children of the Chapel Royal in 1702. At the end of 1708 he was sworn a gentleman of the Chapel Royal in the place of J. Howell, who died on 15 July in that year. He held the sinecure office of tuner of the regals at court, and was a member of the choir of Westminster Abbey. At some time before 1732 Gates was made master of the children of the Chapel Royal. On 23 February 1732 Handel’s Esther was performed at Gates’s house in James Street, Westminster, by the children of the chapel. The same singers sang the work at a subscription concert at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, and again at the room in Villiers Street, York Buildings. In 1734 Gates seceded from the Academy of Vocal Music, taking the children of the chapel with him. He had been a prominent member of

Bernard Grun

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Bernard Grun (; 11 February 1901 28 December 1972) was a Central European composer, conductor, and author. He is primarily remembered as the compiler of The Timetables of History. Early life Grün was born on 11 February 1901 in Startsch, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Stařeč, Czech Republic). He completed a degree in philosophy and a doctorate in law at Vienna and Prague, From 1924 to 1929 he worked as a conductor in Prague at the Neues Deutsches Theater (New German Theatre). His first major work was the 1929 Bohemian Musicians, In 1946, he published his compilation The Timetables of History, adapted from Werner Stein’s Kulturfahrplan, presenting human history since 5000BC in tabular form. Each century, then decade, then year, is presented with its major events (if known) divided under the seven headings: * Influential leaders and political events * Literature & Theater * Religion, Philosophy, Learning * Visual Arts * Music * Scientific and technological inventions * Daily Life, innovations, trends. It has been in constant publication, with the most recent update in 2005. In the postwar period, Grun continued writing film music for titles such as White Cradle Inn (1947), The Blind G

Bernard Jumentier

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Bernard Jumentier (24 March 1749 – 7 December 1829) was a French composer of classical and sacred music as well as maître de chapelle. Biography The son of a vine-grower, destined for the ecclesiastical state by his parents, Bernard Jumentier entered the seminary of Chartres to attend his studies. More interested in music than in orders, he has been placed according to his wish in the mastership of the Chartres Cathedral, under the direction of Michel Delalande (1739–1812), master of music of this church since 1761. It is therefore in this capacity of “choir boy” (child singing in the choir) that he learned singing, (including plainsong) and more generally the main musical disciplines, harmony, counterpoint and musical composition. He was also trained to play the pipe organ and the harpsichord. He was only eighteen years old, in 1767, when he became a music master at Senlis before returning to Notre-Dame de Chartres, as early as 1768, as cantor. He later served in Saint-Malo and subsequently in the Coutances Cathedral. At the end of 1776 he was appointed chapel-master of the collégiale et royale de Saint-Quentin. He remained in control until his death in 1829, despite an interrupti

Bernard Naylor

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Bernard Naylor (November 22, 1907 – May 19, 1986) was an English and Canadian composer, conductor and organist. Early life Bernard James Naylor was born in Cambridge, England, on November 22, 1907. His father, Edward Naylor, was an English composer. Career In 1930, he received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Oxford. In the 1920s, and studied with Gustav Holst, John Ireland and Vaughan Williams at The Royal Conservatory of Music. He became an organ scholar at Exeter College during the late 1920s and early 1930s. In the 1930s, He founded the Little Symphony of Montreal in 1942 and composed in Montreal for five years. After singing in the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir for a year, in the 1950s he again returned to England. He taught at both at the University of Oxford and the University of Reading. He returned to Canada in 1959 and spent the rest of his life there with his wife, continuing to compose, first in Winnipeg and then in Victoria in 1968, despite retiring officially in 1964. In 1980, he received honorary doctorates of law from both the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. He and his wife, donated art to the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Death On May 19, 198

Bernard Parmegiani

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Bernard Parmegiani (27 October 1927 − 21 November 2013 ) was a French composer best known for his electronic or acousmatic music. Biography Between 1957 and 1961 he studied mime with Jacques Lecoq, a period he later regarded as important to his work as a composer. He joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1959 for a two-year master class, shortly after its founding by Pierre Schaeffer. After leaving his studies with Lecoq, he was first a sound engineer and was later put in charge of the Music/Image unit for French television (ORTF). There he worked in the studio with several notable composers, Iannis Xenakis, for example. While at ORTF Parmegiani produced music for numerous film directors including Jacques Baratier and Peter Kassovitz, and for A, a 1965 short film animated by Jan Lenica. He also wrote a number of jingles for the French media and the “Indicatif Roissy” that preceded every PA announcement at Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris until 2005. In April 2010 he sat on the jury at the sixth Qwartz Electronic Music Awards, a promotional project and support group for electronic music artists. Parmegiani has been cited as a major influence by younger e

Bernard Rands

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Bernard Rands (2 March 1934 – 4 March 2026) was a British and American contemporary classical composer and professor. He composed orchestral works and chamber music, often with a vocal element, and a series of Memos for solo instruments. His Canti del Sole for tenor and orchestra received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1984. He taught at Harvard University from 1988 to 2005. Life and career Rands was born on 2 March 1934. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan. He taught at the University of California, San Diego, the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Boston University. Rands was married to American composer Augusta Read Thomas. Works Rands’s music was published by Schott. The publisher maintains works and their performances on its website. Opera *Belladonna (1999) *:opera in two acts, with a libretto by Leslie Dunton Downer, commissioned by the Aspen Festival. Première: 1999, Aspen Music Festival, Colorado *Vincent (c. 1973–2010) *:opera based on the life of Vincent van Gogh, with libretto by J. D. Mc

Bernard Rogers

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Bernard Rogers (4 February 1893 – 24 May 1968) was an American composer. His best known work is The Passion, an oratorio written in 1942. Life and career Rogers was born in New York City. He studied with Arthur Farwell, Ernest Bloch, Percy Goetschius, and Nadia Boulanger. He taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, The Hartt School, and the Eastman School of Music. His pupils included Stephen Albert, Dominick Argento, Jacob Avshalomov, William Bergsma, David Borden, Will Gay Bottje, David Diamond, Walter Hartley, Ronald Lo Presti, Ulysses Kay, Louis Mennini, John La Montaine, W. Francis McBeth, Ron Nelson, Burrill Phillips, Alice McElroy Procter, Gardner Read, H. Owen Reed, Margaret Vardell Sandresky, Robert Ward, John Weinzweig, Norma Wendelburg, Richard Lane, Clifton Williams and Laurence Rosenthal among others. He joined the Eastman faculty in 1929. He composed five operas, five symphonies, other works for orchestra, chamber music, three cantatas, choral music and Lieder. His one-act opera “The Warrior,” for which Norman Corwin wrote the libretto, received its premiere at The Metropolitan Opera on January 11, 1947. Rogers retired from Eastman in 1967. He died in Rochester on

Bernard Rose (musician)

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Bernard William George Rose (9 May 1916 – 21 November 1996) was a British organist, soldier, composer, and academic. A graduate of Cambridge University, he is best known for his compositions of Anglican church music; his Preces and Responses, for use in the Anglican services of Mattins and Evensong, is widely performed. He served as a soldier in the Second World War, and went on to become a noted choir master and music tutor, counting among his pupils the composer Kenneth Leighton, musicians Professor Roger Bray, Professor David Wulstan and Harry Christophers, and actor Dudley Moore. Education Bernard Rose was at Salisbury Cathedral School and sang as a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral from 1925 to 1931. There, he also studied the organ under Walter Galpin Alcock and was appointed as an assistant organist at the cathedral aged just 15. From 1933 to 1935, Rose studied at the Royal College of Music where he continued his organ studies under Alcock. In 1935, he won the organ scholarship to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, beating Edward Heath to the position. At Cambridge, Rose studied under Hubert Middleton and Edward Joseph Dent from 1935 to 1939. He saw action in the North Africa

Bernard Stevens

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Bernard (George) Stevens (2 March 1916 – 6 January 1983) was a British composer who first became known to the wider public when he won a newspaper composition prize for a ‘Victory Symphony’ post-war in 1946. The broader success was not sustained, but Stevens went on to become a respected composer and teacher at the Royal College of Music, using traditional forms for his compositions while extending his essentially tonal harmonic language towards serialism. Early career Born in Stamford Hill, London, Stevens grew up in Essex, and received his first musical education at Southend High School, where his teacher was Arthur Hutchings. Called up for war service in 1940, he was rejected for a combat role due to his poor eyesight, so he served in the Royal Army Pay Corps. While there, he composed his Piano Trio and his Violin Sonata, Op. 1, written for his wife Bertha, a violin teacher whom he married in 1941. The sonata attracted the attention of Max Rostal, who commissioned a Violin Concerto, which Stevens also wrote during his army service. In 1946 his First Symphony, entitled Symphony of Liberation, won first prize in a competition sponsored by the Daily Express newspaper for a ‘Victory

Bernard van Dieren

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Bernard Hélène Joseph van Dieren (27 December 188724 April 1936) was a Dutch composer, critic, author, and writer on music, much of whose working life was spent in England. Biography Van Dieren was the last of five children of a Dutch Rotterdam wine merchant, Bernard Joseph van Dieren, and his French second wife, Julie Françoise Adelle Labbé. Details of his education are unknown but it seems that his early training was as a scientist, as a research assistant in a laboratory. Gifted in science, extremely intelligent and with a phenomenal memory, he was also well-versed in literature as well as an able violinist and amateur artist. His career as composer began when he was twenty when some of his early works were published in the Netherlands. In 1909 he relocated to London as a correspondent for the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant with his wife-to-be, Frida Kindler (1879–1964), a very gifted concert pianist whom he married on 1 January 1910. By this time he had decided to study music seriously. A son, Hans Jean Jules Maximilian Navarre Benvenuto Bernard van Dieren (1910–74), was born the same year, during which he took British nationality. They settled at 35A St George’s Road, West Hamps

Bernard Zweers

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Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (18 May 1854 – 9 December 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper and piano tuner. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business. Being fundamentally self-taught, he had some minor musical successes before his parents finally approved and sent him to study with Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig in 1881–1883. Of crucial importance to Zweers’ musical education was his first exposure to the work of Richard Wagner when he was present at the Berlin premiere of the Ring des Nibelungen, in 1881: I, who never ventured farther than Nijmegen and who had never heard even a normal opera before, I was in Berlin, listening to Wagner’s Ring! … and I returned a full-blooded Wagnerian. After his return, he became active in Dutch musical life and took on various appointments, including the conductorship of various choirs. However, due to deterioration of his hearing abilities and his own wish to concentrate on teaching, he relinquished most of thes

Bernardo Bonezzi

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Bernardo Silvano Bonezzi Nahón (6 July 1964 – 30 August 2012) was a Spanish film music composer and musician who was born in Madrid. He won a Cinema Writers Circle Award for Bendito infierno, and was nominated for three Goya Awards and won one for his work on Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto. He was a frequent collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar on his early films, having composed for five, before being succeeded by Alberto Iglesias. He began his career as a member of the 1980s teen group “Los Zombies”. They are best known for the song “Groenlandia”, which is perhaps Bonezzi’s most famous composition. On the fifth anniversary of his death, the song “Fade to Black” was released as a tribute to him. It was written and recorded by his long time friend, actress, and singer Tres Hanley. Bonezzi was found dead in his home on 30 August 2012. It is reported that his last Facebook post to friends was “I’m fading to black”. Which is where the title of the song comes from. The music video for “Fade To Black” features clips from Bonezzi’s home movies as well as clips with Los Zombies. Filmography *Labyrinth of Passion (Laberinto de Pasiones) 1982 *What Have I Done to Deserve This? (

Bernardo De Pace

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Bernardo De Pace (March 31, 1881 – June 15, 1966) was an actor, musician and comedic vaudeville entertainer of the 1910s and 1920s, billed as “the Wizard of the Mandolin”. He learned to play mandolin in the Italian tradition under Francesco Della Rosa. De Pace’s repertoire and technique was described in the Brooklyn Life as involving “the most difficult violin and piano compositions, executed at inconceivably rapid tempi demanding an uncanny technique seldom heard on fretted instruments”. In 1927 the Minneapolis Star said that he had been recognized as one of the best mandolinists in the United States. He worked in England for nearly 10 years, starting in 1900, playing with the Blackpool Winter Gardens’ Orchestra for 3 seasons and touring the country for nearly 7 seasons with his brother Nicolas, until 1909 when they emigrated to the United States from Italy. By 1921 he had toured extensively both as a musician and a vaudeville performer. European tours Bernardo moved to Naples with his family when he was two. He began to play the mandolin at five years of age and it became his passion “to the exclusion of all else”. He impressed Luigi with his musical aptitude and received lessons

Bernardo Kuczer

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Bernardo Mario Kuczer (30 April 1955 – 22 June 2023 ) was an Argentinian composer, music theoretician and architect. Biography Argentina Bernardo Mario Kuczer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 30 April 1955. Until his early twenties, he was involved in rock music as composer and guitarist, also writing music for the theatre. Simultaneously, he studied architecture and graduated in 1978. Through the study of the classical guitar with Hector Rocha and then with Jorge Panitsch he came into classical music. He studied harmony and musical analysis with Nestor Zadoff and then with Sergio Hualpa and later Renaissance counterpoint with Nestor Zadoff. He became a member of an interdisciplinary music investigation group, collaborating with psychologists, biologists, doctors and musicologists. In 1979 he presented a thesis under the supervision of Sergio Hualpa with own ideas about “the Basic Components of Music, their multiple interrelations and a special kind of “energy” generated by their uni- and multidimensional dynamic interactions, an energy which determines and enables the micro and macro Articulation of the Music-stream”. The thesis was first named: “La forma natural de la músi

Bernardo Pasquini

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Bernardo Pasquini (7 December 1637 – 21 November 1710) was an Italian composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas and keyboard music. A renowned virtuoso keyboard player, he was one of the most important Italian composers for harpsichord between Girolamo Frescobaldi and Domenico Scarlatti, having also made substantial contributions to opera and oratorio. Biography Pasquini was born in Massa in Valdinievole (today Massa e Cozzile, in the province of Pistoia, Tuscany). He was a pupil of Mariotto Bocciantini in Uzzano (Pistoia). When he was 13, he moved to Ferrara with his uncle Giovanni Pasquini, where, at the age of 16, he would become the organist of Accademia della Morte and serve from 1653 to 1655, a prestigious post that would later serve as a launching pad for his successors. He was quickly drawn to Rome, and, in 1657, he was appointed as the organist of Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa nuova). In February 1664 he was appointed organist of the basilicas of Santa Maria Maggiore and Santa Maria in Ara Coeli. Finally, after ten years in Rome, in November 1667 he entered into a long period of service of the Borghese family, enjoying the patronage of Prince Giovanni Battista Borghese,

Bernardo Pisano

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Bernardo Pisano (also Pagoli) (October 12, 1490 – January 23, 1548) was an Italian composer, priest, singer, and scholar of the Renaissance. He was one of the first madrigalists, and the first composer anywhere to have a printed collection of secular music devoted entirely to himself. Life He was born in Florence, and may have spent some time in Pisa (hence his name). As a young man, he sang and studied music at the church of Annunziata in Florence. In 1512 he became maestro di cappella there, a job which held in addition to supervising the choristers and singing in its various chapels. Evidently, he was favoured by the Medici, for they not only hired him for his church job but gave him a post as a singer in the papal chapel in Rome in 1514, immediately after Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici became Pope Leo X. Sometime during the period 1512 to 1520, he was the teacher of Francesco Corteccia, organist and composer to Cosimo I de’ Medici. Pisano remained based in Rome for the rest of his life. In addition to singing in the papal chapel choir, he acquired ecclesiastical benefices from the Pope, including one each at the cathedrals of Seville and Lerida. Between 1515 and 1519 he travelled

Bernardo Porta

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Bernardo Porta (1758 in Rome – 11 June 1829 In 1788 Porta moved to France, During the French Revolution, he wrote Agricol Viala, ou Le héros de treize ans (1794), a one-act opéra comique, which glorified a martyr of the revolution, Joseph Agricol Viala. Porta’s 3-act opera Les Horaces with a libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard (based on a play by Corneille) was premiered by the Paris Opéra at the Théâtre de la République et des Arts on 18 October 1800. Guillard’s libretto had already been set by Antonio Salieri as Les Horaces (premiered by the Opéra in 1786), but this work had been a failure and was dropped after three performances. However, Porta’s opera did not do much better and was presented on only nine occasions. Porta’s was the third work with this name to be performed at the Opéra. The first was a 5-act ballet, premiered in 1777 with music by Josef Starzer and choreography by Jean-Georges Noverre. Porta’s opera would be totally forgotten today, except for an attempted assassination of Napoleon, which occurred at the theatre during one of its performances. His opera paid homage to the painting Oath of the Horatii by his friend Jacques Louis David. His last opera to be perf

Bernardo Storace

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Bernardo Storace (fl. 1664) was an Italian composer. Almost nothing is known about his life; his only surviving collection of music contains numerous variation sets and represents a transitory stage between the time of Girolamo Frescobaldi and that of Bernardo Pasquini. Life Very little is known about his life, except that in 1664 he served as Vice-Maestro di cappella to the senate of Messina. *Three sets of variations on the Passo e mezzo: **Capriccio sopra il Passo e Mezzo **Passo e Mezzo **Altro Passo e Mezzo *Variations on the Romanesca *Variations on the Spagnoletta (Aria sopra la Spagnoletta) *Variations on the Monica *Variations on the Ruggiero (Capriccio sopra Ruggiero) *Variations on the Cinque passi (Partita sopra il Cinque passi) *Variations on the Folia (Follia) *Four passacaglias: **Passagagli sopra A la mi re **Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut **Passagagli sopra D sol re per ♯ **Passagagli sopra Fe fa ut per ♭ *Chaconne (Ciaccona) *Variations on the Balletto *Ballo della Battaglia *Two correntes *Two Toccata e canzon pairs *Two ricercars: **Ricercar **Ricercar di legature *Pastorale References Further reading *Apel, Willi. 1972. The History of Keyboard Music to 1700, pp.

Bernart de Ventadorn

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Bernart de Ventadorn (also Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn; c. 1130–1140 – c. 1190–1200) was an Occitan poet-composer troubadour of the classical age of troubadour poetry. Generally regarded as the most important troubadour in both poetry and music, his 18 extant melodies of 45 known poems in total is the most to survive from any 12th-century troubadour. He is remembered for his mastery as well as popularization of the trobar leu style, and for his prolific cançons, which helped define the genre and establish the “classical” form of courtly love poetry, to be imitated and reproduced throughout the remaining century and a half of troubadour activity. Now thought of as “the Master Singer,” he developed the cançons into a more formalized style which allowed for sudden turns. Bernart was known for being able to portray his women as divine agents in one moment and then, in a sudden twist, as Eve – the cause of man’s initial sin. This dichotomy in his work is portrayed in a “graceful, witty, and polished” medium. Life and career According to the troubadour Uc de Saint Circ, Bernart was possibly the son of a baker at the castle of Ventadour (Ventadorn), in today’s Corrèze (Fr

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten, which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. His eclectic music, which employs a wide range of techniques including dodecaphony and musical quotation, encompasses the styles of the avant-garde, serial, and postmodern. Life Zimmermann was born in Bliesheim (now part of Erftstadt), near Cologne. He grew up in a rural Catholic community in western Germany. His father worked for the German Reichsbahn and was also a farmer. In 1929, Zimmermann began attending a private Catholic school, where he had his first real encounter with music. After the NSDAP closed all private schools, he switched to a public Catholic school in Cologne where, in 1937, he received his Abitur. That same year he fulfilled his duty for the Reichsarbeitsdienst and spent late 1937–early 1938 studying pedagogy at the Hochschule für Lehrerausbildung (lit. University for Teacher Training) in Bonn. He began studying music education, musicology, and composition in early 1938 at the University for Music in Cologne. In 1940, he was draft

Bernd Franke (composer)

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Bernd Franke (born 14 January 1959) is a German composer. Career Franke was born in Weißenfels/Saale. From 1975 to 1981, he studied musical composition in Leipzig at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Siegfried Thiele and conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. As a founder, he presided over the “Junge Musik” group in Leipzig from 1980 to 1983. In 2003, Franke became adjunct professor at the Alma mater lipsiensis (University of Leipzig). He gave master classes and lectures (among others at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, the Pitea Festival Sweden or also the Music Academy Prague and the Music Academy Vilnius/Lithuania). 2008/09 Composer in Residence at ARS NOVA Copenhagen and Paul Hillier. ** “Konform – Kontraform”, scene for 8 instruments (1988) ** Music for wind quintet in five movements (1989) ** Music for violin, violoncello and piano (Hope as a breath…) (1992) ** Seasons of Light (for Richard Pousette-Dart), for bassoon and ensemble (1994) ** “ATTEMPT AT CLOSENESS” – Fragments for string quartet (in memory of Louis Krasner) (1999–2000) ** “Prambanan”, for bassoon and piano (2000) ** CANZONI (1), for brass ensemble (1999–

Bernd Redmann

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Bernd Redmann (born 10 May 1965 in Bamberg) is a German composer, music theorist, and musicologist. Career Born in Bamberg, Bernd Redmann studied at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, music pedagogy and composition with Dieter Acker, and music theory. He was also enrolled for musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, with Peter Michael Braun, among others. From 1992 he studied musicology at the Mozarteum. In 1997 he worked at the IRCAM on a scholarship of the . From 1993 Redmann taught at the Musikhochschule München, first accompaniment of Lied, from 1995 also music theory. In 1998/99 he taught at the Mozarteum. From 1999 to 2005 he was Professor for “Tonsatz und Improvisation” at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 2005 he was appointed Professor of music theory and ear training at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, where he served as president from 2014 to 2022. Since 2022 he is president of the Lübeck Academy of Music. Redmann has been a member of the board of the (Association of German-speaking Music Theory) from 2004 to 2006. He has been in the jury of the comp

Bernhard Cossmann

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Bernhard Cossmann (17 May 1822 – 7 May 1910) was a German cellist. Born in Dessau, he first studied under Theodore Muller. During his life, he worked for the Grand Opera in Paris and became acquainted with Franz Liszt, with whom he went to Weimar. In 1866, Cossmann was appointed professor of cello studies at the Moscow Conservatory. However, in 1878, Cossmann helped found the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he occupied the post of teacher of cello. Cossmann was not only a frequent soloist and quartet member, but was also a composer. His works include three fantasias, Tell, Euryanthe, and multiple solo works for various instruments. In addition, he composed many etudes and studies for the cello, many of which are still used today. In 1890 Cossmann adapted Schubert’s Erlkönig for solo cello for the exclusive use of his student Heinrich Kiefer. He wrote this in his score on Frankfurt 28. Nov. 1890 by B. Cossmann. Bernhard Cossmann, author of many original works and of diverse “Phantasien” on motifs from operas (such as Freischutz, Euryanthe, etc.) as well as on well-known pieces (also for solo cello such as “Paraphrase sur une chanson populaire allemande Ach, wie ist’s möglich d

Bernhard Crusell

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Bernhard Henrik Crusell (15 October 1775 – 28 July 1838) was a Finland-Swedish clarinetist, composer and translator, “the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born classical composer and indeed, – the outstanding Finnish composer before Sibelius”. Early life and training Crusell was born in Uusikaupunki (Nystad), Finland, into a poor family of bookbinders. His grandfather, Bernhard Kruselius had learned the trade of bookbinding in Turku and Stockholm, then settled in Pori where he fathered nine children, including Crusell’s father Jakob, who also became a bookbinder. In 1765, after Jakob completed his apprenticeship, he moved to Uusikaupunki and married Helena Ylander, but she died about one year later. In 1769 he married Margaretha Messman. The couple had four children, but Bernhard was the only one who lived to become an adult. Later in life Crusell described this period of his life, writing in the third person: In his little town of birth there was only one person who had an active interest in music: a shop assistant who could be heard in the evenings playing the flute for his own amusement. One night, the four-year-old Berndt was sitting in the street, leanin

Bernhard Eichhorn

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Bernhard Eichhorn (17 April 1904 – 6 February 1980 In 1927, he joined the Universität und Akademie für Tonkunst in Munich, under Arthur Kutscher. From 1945 to 1947, Eichhorn was Kapellmeister at the Städtische Bühnen München. Selected filmography * Anuschka (1942) * Doctor Crippen (1942) * Journey into the Past (1943) * Under the Bridges (1946) * In Those Days (1947) * The Time with You (1948) * The Orplid Mystery (1950) * Royal Children (1950) * The Violin Maker of Mittenwald (1950) * The Cloister of Martins (1951) * White Shadows (1951) * House of Life (1952) * The Monastery’s Hunter (1953) * Hubertus Castle (1954) * Rose-Girl Resli (1954) * The Silent Angel (1954) * The Dark Star (1955) * Sky Without Stars (1955) * Lost Child 312 (1955) * The Vulture Wally (1956) * The Girl from Flanders (1956) * The Captain from Köpenick (1956) * Love From Paris (1957) * Iron Gustav (1958) * Jons und Erdme (1959) * The Goose of Sedan (1959) * A Glass of Water (1960) * The Good Soldier Schweik (1960) * The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (1961) * Blind Justice (1961) Bibliography * References External links *

Bernhard Heiden

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Bernhard Heiden (b. Frankfurt am Main, August 24, 1910; d. Bloomington, Indiana, April 30, 2000) was a Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany and a German-American composer who taught as a professor at the Indiana University School of Music from 1946 until his retirement in 1981. The son of Martha (née Heiden-Heimer) and Ernst Levi, Heiden was originally named Bernhard Levi and later changed his name. Drawn to music as a youngster, he composed his first pieces at age six. When he began formal music lessons, he learned music theory in addition to three instruments: piano, clarinet, and violin. Following his secondary schooling at Frankfurt’s noted Goethe Gymnasium, where a classmate was the later émigré author Richard Plant, Heiden enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in 1929 at the age of nineteen and studied music composition under Paul Hindemith, one of the foremost German composers of the twentieth century. In 1933, his last year at the Berlin conservatory, he was awarded the Mendelssohn Prize in composition. He was subsequently employed as an orchestral clarinetist. In 1934 Heiden married pianist Cola de Joncheere, who had been a classmate at the Hochschule für Musik. In 193

Bernhard Heinrich Irrgang

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Bernhard Heinrich Irrgang (23 July 1869 – 8 April 1916) was a German organist, composer and docent for organ practice. Life Irrgang was born in Zduny, former Province of Posen. His father was a Protestant cantor and teacher in Zduny. Bernhard was educated at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin from 1890 to 1896 and in the academic master class in composition. Active as an organist in various parishes from the beginning of his studies, Irrgang was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1897.Memorial Bernhard Irrgang. In Berlin.Friedparks.de. The pupil worked from 1894 to 1905 as organist at the newly built in Kreuzberg, The organ virtuoso was known in Berlin for his “groundbreaking” concerts. In 1909 Irrgang made a concert tour to Sweden. From 1905, he taught organ playing at the Stern conservatory and from 1912 at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin. Among his pupils was John J. McClellan. Irrgang composed organ sonatas and sacred songs, motets and aria in his sonatas following the tradition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Josef Rheinberger. For Irrgang’s appreciation of Rheinberger, see his letter dated 5 October 1901: Bernhard Irrgang introduces himself to Rheinberger by let

Bernhard Kaun

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Bernhard Kaun (5 April 1899 – 3 January 1980) was an American composer and orchestrator. He is known for the Frankenstein (1931) theme. Filmography *Platinum Blonde (1931) *Frankenstein (1931) *What Price Hollywood? (1932) *Doctor X (1932) *The Most Dangerous Game (1932) *Thirteen Women (1932) *A Bill of Divorcement (1932) *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) *A Farewell to Arms (1932) *20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) *Frisco Jenny (1932) *Employees’ Entrance (1933) *Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) *King Kong (1933) *I Loved a Woman (1933) *The Kennel Murder Case (1933) *Little Women (1933) *Lady Killer (1933) *Son of Kong (1933) *Flying Down to Rio (1933) *The Lost Patrol (1934) *The Gay Divorcee (1934) *The Little Minister (1934) *The Informer (1935) *Becky Sharp (1935) *She (1935) *The Three Musketeers (1935) *The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) *Peter Ibbetson (1935) *The Petrified Forest (1936) *Modern Times (1936) *The Walking Dead (1936) *The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) *Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) *Hearts Divided (1936) *China Clipper (1936) *The Garden of Allah (1936) *Black Legion (1937) *Marked Woman (1937) *Lost Horizon (1937) *A Star Is Born (1937) *Souls at Sea

Bernhard Kießig

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Bernhard Kießig is a German pianist, especially jazz pianist, composer and lecturer. He composed part of the oratorio Eins for Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021. Career Kießig studied Protestant church music and jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, on a scholarship of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. He was a recipient of prizes of both Jugend musiziert and Jugend jazzt, and played in the Landesjugendjazzorchester Hesse. He founded a jazz quartet, The Academic Project, supported by the “Live Music Now” foundation, and recognised in the Frankfurt jazz scene. He worked at the Staatstheater Darmstadt as pianist and repetiteur for opera and ballet. In 2013, Kießig became referent for pop music at the Evangelische Landeskirche in Hessen und Nassau. Beginning in 2018, he has also worked as pianist for the dance faculty at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. External links * * 1000 and 1 Years archiv.luminale.de 18 March 2018 * Bernhard Kießig: Einschätzung zum Monatslied-Projektder Nordkirchebezogen auf dessenWirkanalyse (in German) popularmusik-nordkirche.de April 2021 * Trumpet meets Organ (in German) trumpetmeetsorgan.de

Bernhard Lang

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Bernhard Lang (born 24 February 1957 Linz, Austria) is an Austrian composer, improviser and programmer of musical patches and applications. His work can be described as contemporary classical, with roots, however, in various genres such as 20th-century avant-garde, European classical music, jazz, free jazz, rock, punk, techno, EDM, electronica, electronic music, and computer-generated music. His works range from solo pieces and chamber music to large ensemble pieces and works for orchestra and musical theatre. Besides music for concert halls, Lang designs sound and music for theatre, dance, film and sound installations. Bernhard Lang came to prominence with his work cycle Differenz/Wiederholung (DW, Difference/Repetition), composed since 1998, in which he illuminated and examined the themes of reproductive and DJ cultures based on the philosophic work of Gilles Deleuze. Sociocultural and socially critical questions, as in Das Theater der Wiederholungen/The Theatre of Repetitions (2003) are examined as closely as intrinsically musical and music-cultural problems (“I hate Mozart”, 2006). Another focus is the “recycling” of historic music, which Lang creates using self-programmed patc

Bernhard Molique

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Bernhard Molique (Wilhelm Bernhard Molique; 7 October 180210 May 1869) was a German violinist and composer. Biography He was born in Nuremberg. His father was a musician and the boy studied various instruments, but finally devoted himself to the violin. In 1815, he received some lessons from Louis Spohr, and then studied the violin for two years at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Pietro Rovelli. Career In 1820, Molique succeeded Rovelli as court violinist in Munich and, after several successful tours, in 1826 he became music director at Stuttgart. His pupils there included the violinist Henry Blagrove; the violinist, conductor and composer Alfred Mellon; and the composer Jane Roeckel. Molique was well received on a visit to London when he played his own Piano Concerto No 5 on 14 May 1840. He visited England several other times before settling in London from 1849 until 1866. He died in Cannstatt in 1869. Compositions As a composer, Molique was unapologetically self-taught. His music displays the influence of Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn and, especially, Louis Spohr. The then radical developments represented by Berlioz (who publicly praised his violin playing) and

Bernhard Ruchti

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Bernhard Ruchti (born in 1974 in Berkeley, California, USA) is a Swiss pianist, organist, composer and music researcher. Life Ruchti studied piano with Eckart Heiligers and organ with Rudolf Scheidegger, Stefan Johannes Bleicher, and Bernhard Haas. Since 2013, he has been organist at the ev.-ref. Stadtkirche St. Laurenzen in St. Gallen. During his time as a student he became interested in the performance practice and playing technique of the 19th century. Inspired by his studies with Bernhard Haas, he published an essay “Thoughts on the stimulation of organ playing by a pianistic playing technique” in 2006. In 2010 and 2011, Ruchti spent a sabbatical in the United States and lived in San Francisco for 10 months. He began composing music and wrote a number of piano pieces, including “Five Songs of The Wind.” These were released on his album “Liszt & The Black Hills” in 2012. He released another album of his own works (“Echoes from Chrysospilia”) in 2017. In 2017 he was awarded by the city of St. Gallen with the Förderpreis Kultur. In 2018, the world premiere of his choral cantata “Auf die Tiefe: ein irdisch Fahrtenlied” on a text by Bernd Gonner took place. The same year, he began h

Bernhard Scholz

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Bernhard E. Scholz, (30 March 1835 – 26 December 1916) was a German conductor, composer and teacher of music. Life Bernhard Scholz was born in Mainz in 1835. He was intended by his father to take over his father’s business (Lithographische Druckerei und Verlag Jos. Scholz) and studied to be a printer at Imp. Lemercier in Paris. But music became his career. He was a student of Ernst Pauer (piano) in Mainz, and 1855-56 of Siegfried Dehn (counterpoint) in Berlin. He also took voice lessons with Antonio Sangiovanni in Milan. He first taught at the Munich Conservatory and was court Kapellmeister in Zürich, Nuremberg and 1859-65 in Hanover. Between 1865 and 1866 he was director of the Cherubini Society in Florence and also taught at the Stern Conservatory and the Kullak Conservatory. From 1871-83 he directed the Orchestra Society in Breslau. In 1883 he was appointed director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, a post he held until 1908. He died in Munich in 1916. His Piano Concerto was championed by Clara Schumann, who included it in her repertory. He was one of four signatories to an anti-“Music of the Future” (anti-New-Weimar-School) Manifesto published in the Berliner Musik-Zeitung

Bernhard Sekles

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Bernhard Sekles (20 June 1872 – 8 December 1934) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue. Life and career Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna (née Bischheim). The family name Seckeles was changed by Bernhard Sekles to Sekles. From 1894 to 1895 he was the third Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater in Mainz. In 1896 he became a teacher at the Hoch’sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main; here he started the first jazz class anywhere in 1928. He was the director of the Hoch’sche Konservatorium from 1924 to 1933. For his composition students, He was one of the first German Jewish academics to lose his job when Hitler came to power in Germany. He died in his native Frankfurt am Main. Selected compositions Publishers: Schott, Eulenberg, Leukart, Brockhaus, Oehler, Rather. Stage works * Der Zwerg und die Infantin, (The Birthday of the Infanta), ballet, op. 22, 1913, based on an Oscar Wilde fairy tale * Scheherazade, opera, op. 26, 1917 * Die Hochzeit des Faun, comic opera, 1921 * Die zehn Küsse, comic opera, 1926 Orchestra * Aus den Gärten der Semiramis, symphonic poem, op. 19 * Kleine Suite, dem Andenken E. T. A. Hoffmanns,

Bernhard Stavenhagen

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Bernhard Stavenhagen (24 November 1862 – 25 December 1914) was a German pianist, composer and conductor. His musical style was influenced by Franz Liszt, and as a conductor he was a strong advocate of new music. Biography Born in Greiz, he commenced piano study in 1868. His family moved to Berlin in 1874 where he began studying with Theodor Kullak. He entered university there in 1878, privately studying composition with Friedrich Kiel. In 1885 Stavenhagen became a pupil of Franz Liszt in Weimar, travelling with him to Rome, Budapest, Paris, London and Bayreuth. After Liszt’s death in 1886, Stavenhagen embarked on a ten-year series of piano concert tours in Europe and to North America. In April 1890 he was appointed court pianist to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar and the following July he married Agnes Denninghoff (better known as Agnes Denis-Stavenhagen, 1860-1945), a soprano with the Weimar Court Opera. In 1893 he composed his Third Piano Concerto in B minor. He fulfilled conducting appointments in Weimar, where he was appointed court Kapellmeister and conducted Weimar premieres of six new operas in eighteen months, and from 1898 a similar appointment in Munich. Then in 1907 he mov

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024) was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Albany Movement for civil rights in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. She was the founder/the 1st member of Sweet Honey in the Rock from 1973 to 2006. Reagon, along with other members of the SNCC Freedom Singers, realized the power of collective singing to unify the disparate groups who began to work together in the 1964 Freedom Summer protests in the South. The Albany Singing Movement became a vital catalyst for change through music in the early 1960s protests of the Civil Rights era. Reagon devoted her life to social justice through music via recordings, activism, community singing, and scholarship. She earned her Ph.D. from Howard University, becoming a cultural historian, centered on the role of music. She was professor emerita in the Department of History at the American Unive

Bert Peters (composer)

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Bert E. Peters was a composer in the United States. His work was published as sheet music. The song “Tattle Tales” he composed with words by Harold Atteridge reportedly had good sales for music publisher Victor Kremer. In 1919 he gave a favorable opinion of the song “Who Said So” performed by Clarence Williams. Music *Give the boy a chance, Sam!" *“Morning Cy!: Barn Dance” *“While the band is playing Dixie”, lyrics by Howard McCarver *“When I dream of old Erin” *“Hollywood” (1929), arranger *“Mrs. O’Harahan”, words by Harold Atteridge *“Tattle Tales” with words by Harold Atteridge *“Can’t You Hear the Cuckoo Calling” (1938) References

Bert Potter (composer)

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Albert Lincoln “Bert” Potter (March11, 1874 – January29, 1930) was a composer of popular songs active between 1904 and 1917. Biography Bert Potter, born in Boston, was the first child of Algernon S. and Flora E. Potter. Algernon was a wholesale dealer in clothing, and Bert was raised in an upper-middle-class family, with two Irish servants in the household. After his marriage to Eleanor Dodge (August 2, 1898), Bert worked in his father’s business; but early in the twentieth century he migrated into music, publishing his first songs in 1904. Shortly afterwards he settled in Dorchester, in a house that he occupied the rest of his life. The 1908 city directory identified him as a “musician”, and at least from 1910 to 1914 he worked as a salesman in piano stores. By 1918, however, he had abandoned the musical profession and become an agent with John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co., serving in that capacity until his death. Composer Between 1904 and 1907 eighteen publications by Potter were copyrighted; in 1912 there were two more, and in 1917 a single, final one. He wrote piano pieces and songs, the latter usually to his own texts. Most pieces are uptempo rags, marches, and novelties; at lea

Bert Selen

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Bert Jacobus Martinus Selen (born 30 August 1985) is a Dutch music producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Los Angeles. His scoring work includes Rules of Engagement, (Sony/CBS), Fast Layne (Disney Channel), Raven’s Home (Disney Channel), K.C. Undercover (Disney Channel), Lab Rats (Disney XD), Lab Rats: Elite Force (Disney XD), Mystery Girls (ABC Family) and Power Rangers Dino Fury, Power Rangers Cosmic Fury (Nickelodeon & Netflix). His music has been featured on Parks and Recreation (NBC), NCIS Los Angeles (CBS), The Mentalist (CBS), Gossip Girl (CW), Awkward (MTV), Finding Carter (MTV), Trailers: Danny Collins (Al Pacino), Advertising: American Music Awards (E! Network), Verizon, Vogue, Logitech, Head & Shoulders, as well as in the video game WET (Artificial Mind and Movement/Bethesda Softworks) Stage productions include The Pee-Wee Herman show on Broadway (HBO), and Pee-Wee Herman live at the Nokia Theatre. Early life Selen was born in Kessel-Eik, The Netherlands. Musical career At age 17, Selen moved to the United States with his band. Selen assumed producer duties on their first record. He then worked with local and international music acts. His songs

Berta Alves de Sousa

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Berta Alves de Sousa (8 April 1906 – 1 August 1997) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. Biography Candida Berta Alves de Sousa was born in Liège, Belgium. She grew up in Porto, Portugal and studied at the Music Conservatory. She continued her studies in Paris with Wilhelm Backhaus and Theodor Szántó for piano and George Mingot for composition, and in Lisbon with Vianna da Motta. She also studied orchestral conducting with Clemens Krauss in Berlin and Pedro de Freitas Branco in Lisbon. After completing her studies, Alves de Sousa took a position at the Music Conservatory of Porto in 1946 teaching chamber music, (she later became chair) and performed as a concert pianist, accompanist and conductor. She also worked as a music critic for the newspaper O Primeiro de Janeiro in Porto. In 1941, she was awarded the Prix de Sa Moreira established by Orpheon Portuense. Alves de Sousa died in Porto at the age of 91, and her documents are archived by the Porto Conservatory of Music. Works Alves de Sousa composed chamber music, choral music and symphonic works. She also experimented with Symmetry Sonora, a method developed by composer Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira. Selected works include: *Abr

Bertha Des Verney

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Bertha Des Verney (October 5, 1890 – January 1, 1975) was an American pianist, composer, music educator, singer, and playwright. She was choir and drama director at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Harlem for over forty years, director of the Washington Music School in Albany, New York, and organized the Ministers of Music and Drama League. She was active in the National Association of Negro Musicians. Early life Bertha Wheeler was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Sam Wheeler and Sarah J. Spence Wheeler (later Sarah J. Whitaker). Her mother was a music teacher. As a child she won a gold medal for singing at the State Fair of Texas. She trained as a teacher at Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, and studied music at the A. Smythe Music Conservatory in Oak Cliff, Texas. In New York after 1912, she took further classes, at the City College of New York, and the New York School of Social Work Administration. Career Bertha Des Verney (her married surname is sometimes written as Desverney or DesVerney) was choir director at Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem for over forty years, director of the Washington Music School in Albany, New York, and organi

Bertha Tammelin

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Bertha Carolina Mathilda Tammelin (; 21 March 1836 – 2 January 1915 ) was a Swedish actress, operatic mezzo-soprano, pianist, composer and drama teacher. Her mother was actress Karolina Bock. Tammelin taught at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, where two of her notable students were Ellen Hartman and Ebba Lindkvist. Life Bertha Tammelin was born in Stockholm, the daughter of actress Karolina Bock and a musician of Kungliga Hovkapellet, C. Bock. She was educated at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy 1853–1855 and hired at the Royal Swedish Opera and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre as a premier actress in 1856. She performed both operatic parts and dramatic parts. As an actress, her most noted part was Ingrid in Bröllopet på Ulvåsa by Frans Hedberg, and as a singer, Puck in Oberon. References

Bertha Tapper

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Bertha Johanne Feiring Maass Tapper (25 January 1859 – 2 September 1915) was a Norwegian composer, pianist, and teacher, best known for editing the piano works of Edvard Grieg for publication in America. She published under the name Bertha Feiring Tapper. Biography Tapper was one of nine children born in Christiania, Norway, to Berthe Iversdatter and Lars Olsen Feiring. She married Carl Ludvig Otto Maass and they had a son (Louis) and a daughter (Klea). She later married musicologist Thomas Tapper in New York in 1894. Tapper studied music with Johan Svendsen and Agatha Backer Grondahl in Norway. In 1878, she graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Leipzig, Germany (today the University of Music and Theatre), and later studied with Theodor Leschetizkey in Vienna. Tapper emigrated to America in 1881. She taught and performed, both as a piano soloist and as an accompanist, and with the Kneisel Quartet and other musicians. She taught piano at the New England Conservatory from 1889 to 1897, and at the Institute of Musical Art (which became the Juilliard School) from 1905 to 1910. Her students included Abram Chasins, Lev Ornstein, and Kay Swift. She often hosted her students at her s

Bertha Weber

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Bertha Anna Weber (March 31, 1887 – April 17, 1961) was an American composer and organist. Life and career Weber was born in New Baden, Illinois, to John and Elizabeth Weber. The family moved to Pomona, California, in 1887. Weber studied music at Pomona College, the University of Southern California, and in Europe. She was an organist at Pomona First Presbyterian Church in 1907, and later at Trinity Methodist Church for a number of years. She moved to Berkeley and maintained a studio at the Hotel Claremont there from around 1924 until she moved to Oakland in 1947. She continued composing and giving music lessons and recitals until her death in 1961, when she committed suicide by stepping in front of a train. She was a member of the professional music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota. Works Weber’s compositions were published by Willis Music Company. They include: Opera *The Mysterious Characters of Mr. Fu (1932) Vocal *“Abraham Lincoln” *“Angels and Shepherds Song” *“Lincoln So Brave and True” References

Berthe di Vito-Delvaux

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Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (17 May 1915 – 2 April 2005) was a Belgian composer. Biography Berthe di Vito-Delvaux was born in Angleur, Belgium. She studied theory with Désiré Duysens, harmony with Louis Lavoye and piano with Jeanne House at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège, and composition under Léon Jongen at the Brussels Royal Academy of Music. She married at eighteen, but completed her studies and then took a position teaching harmony at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège. In 1949, Berthe di Vito-Delvaux moved to Hasselt, and then in 1964 back to Angleur where she died in 2005. Awards and honors Di Vito-Delvaux received honors and awards including: *Maria Prize from the City of Liège 1938 *Prix de Rome in 1943 *Composition prize from the province of Limburg 1952 *Modeste Grétry Prize from Société d’Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappi (SABAM) in 1962 *Consecration Prize from the Province of Liège in 1978. Works Di Vito-Delvaux composed ballets, opera, and theatrical works, as well as works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and instruments. Selected works include: *Sonata for horn and piano, Op. 109 *A Jacqueline op. 157, 1985 for violin and piano *Abandon op. 169, 1

Berthold Goldschmidt

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Berthold Goldschmidt (18 January 190317 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many modernist critics elsewhere dismissed his “anachronistic” lyricism, stranded the composer in the wilderness for many years before he was given a revival in his final decade. Life Goldschmidt was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1903. His musical career began in earnest during the heyday of the Weimar Republic. While studying philosophy at the University of Hamburg, he was encouraged by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni to write music. In 1922, Goldschmidt entered the Berlin Hochschule für Musik and joined Franz Schreker’s composition class, where his fellow pupils included Ernst Krenek, Alois Hába, Felix Petryek, and Jascha Horenstein. He also studied conducting, played freelance for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 1923, coached the choir for the Berlin premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder. In 1925, Goldschmidt achieved his first major success with his Passacaglia, Op. 4, which earned him the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize. Hailed as one of the brightest hopes of

Bertil Palmar Johansen

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Bertil Palmar Johansen (born 18 February 1954) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and violinist. Johansen was born in Brattvåg. He studied violin at the Trøndelag Music Conservatory (today the NTNU) and took composition classes with Per Hjort Albertsen, Holger Prytz and Olav Anton Thommessen. His list of works spans a wide spectrum of styles and instrumentation and includes a number of commissioned works for domestic as well as international ensembles and soloists. Key works includes his ballet Tiden Bygger Byen written for the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the oratory De varme vinder as well as the symphonic work Tors Hammer – a work that earned him the 2002 Edvardprisen. In 2000, his opera Hjerter Dame til Ringve saw its premiere as part of the millennial celebration. Other major works written in recent years includes Johansen’s opera Madonna Furiosa, premiered in Nidarosdomen in 2005 and 2010’s major scenic work Drømmen og Ilden, premiered at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival. 2010 marked the Kristiansund premiere of a new opera, Med Kniven På Strupen, a work that was later performed at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. 2012 saw the premiere of the opera Den Unge Pil

Berto Pisano

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Berto Pisano (born Umberto Pisano, Cagliari, 13 October 1928 – Rome, 29 January 2002) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician. Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Pisano started his career as a double bassist in the jazz groups Quartetto Astor and Asternovas. He later learned to play the trumpet. He is best known as a song writer for Italian pop star Mina and his work as film composer. Selected filmography References External links * * * Berto Pisano at Discogs

Bertold Hummel

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Bertold Hummel (27 November 1925 – 9 August 2002) was a German composer of modern classical music. Life Bertold Hummel was born in Hüfingen, Baden. He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis. He toured as a cellist and composer between 1954 and 1956, worked as choirmaster in Freiburg, as well as for the Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden broadcasting station from 1956 to 1963. He became a teacher of composition at Würzburg in 1963 where he directed the Studio for New Music for the next 25 years. After becoming a professor in 1974, he was president of the Würzburg College of Music from 1979 to 1987 (and was an honorary president after 1988), and in 1982 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Hummel travelled as a guest lecturer, and received performances of his work in countries all over the world. He died on 9 August 2002 in Würzburg. Awards In 1956, Hummel received a scholarship from the Federal Association of German Industry. In 1960, the city of Stuttgart awarded him a prize in composition. He was given the Robert Schumann prize in Düsseldorf in 1961. In 1968, he received a s

Bertram Luard-Selby

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Bertram Luard-Selby (12 February 1853 – 26 December 1918) was an English composer and cathedral organist. As an organist, he served in Salisbury Cathedral and Rochester Cathedral. As a composer, he wrote prolifically for the church, the concert-hall and the theatre. Family Luard-Selby was born at Ightham Mote, Kent, to Robert Luard-Selby (1800−1880) and his second wife Lewis Marianne Selby. His father was the brother of Lt.-Col. John Luard and the uncle of the antiquarian Henry Richards Luard and Lt.-Gen. Richard George Amherst Luard. His half-brother Charles was married to Caroline Mary Luard, the victim of an unsolved murder. Life and works Luard-Selby studied the organ at the Leipzig Conservatoire under Carl Reinecke and was appointed organist at, successively, St. Barnabas, Marylebone, and Highgate School (1876); Salisbury Cathedral (1881); St John’s Church, Torquay, 1884; and St. Barnabas, Pimlico, 1887. He was appointed organist of Rochester Cathedral on the death of the incumbent, John Hopkins, in 1900, He was the musical editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, published in 1904. He also gave chamber music concerts in London in the 1880s. At the Three Choirs Festival of 1877, Lu

Bertram Shapleigh

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Bertram Lincoln Shapleigh (15 January 1871 – 2 July 1940) was an American composer, heavily interested in the culture of Asia. Education He studied composition with G.E. Whiting and George Whitefield Chadwick at the New England Conservatory; graduating in 1891. He continued his studies with Edward MacDowell in the United States, and gave piano recitals and accompanied singers in the Boston area. He also studied in France and Germany. A man of wide interests, he entered the Vermont Medical College, graduating with an MD degree in 1893. Career He became a lecturer on the arts, but a developing concern with South Asian music that led him to give his attention fully to music and to composition. He played the piano and cello, and gave lecture-recitals on music history, Eastern music and Wagner’s operas. In 1898 he left the United States for Europe, living in Cologne and Brussels, eventually settling in Longfield, Kent in his home he named “Weird Wood”. He became an editor for Breitkopf & Härtel. However, after his house, with his library of 7000 volumes, had been destroyed by fire, he returned to the USA in 1917, settling in Chicago and then Washington DC, to serve as an adviser to Brei

Bertram Turetzky

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Bertram Jay Turetzky (born February 14, 1933) is an American double bass player, composer, teacher, and author of The Contemporary Contrabass (1974). Early life and education Turetzky was born in Norwich, Connecticut, He received a master’s degree in music history from the University of Hartford. He started out playing classic jazz. Career Turetzky has performed and recorded many pieces written by and for him. Turetzky’s first recording was in 1964, featuring the work of American composers George Perle, Jay Sydeman, Donald Martino, Kenneth Gaburo, Ben Johnston, and Charles Whittenberg. His recording activities continued with records on labels Nonesuch, Son Nova, Ars Antigua, and Desto. He also made a series of recordings on the Nine Winds label with improvisational musicians George E. Lewis, Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, Mike Wofford, and others. Turetzky is the most widely recorded double bass soloist, with seven albums on the Advance Records, Ars Nova Records, Nonesuch, Takoma, Desto, and Finnadar Records music labels. Turetzky plays chamber music, baroque music, jazz, renaissance music, improvisational music, klezmer music and many other genres of world music. Bernard Jacobson

Bertramka

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Bertramka () is a villa in Prague where Mozart was a frequent guest. Bertramka is now a museum dedicated to the memory of Mozart and to the former owners and Mozart’s hosts: Mr and Mrs Dušek. Bertramka is situated about a mile from the city centre. In the late 18th century it would still have been well outside the walls of the city, beneath the vineyards on the slopes of Černý vrch (Black Hill). Today the villa with its grounds still maintains tranquillity. History of Bertramka It is not known who built Bertramka. The estate had belonged to a Carthusian monastery for several centuries. The present villa was constructed around 1700 and consists of a large home with two-winged staircase and several outbuildings, all surrounded, as now, by a wall. It had been customary for the wealthy inhabitants of Prague to build grand houses for their relaxation not far from the city. These were often combined with agricultural activities. The grounds of Bertramka were certainly used for farming as well as vine culture. It produced fruit, wheat, milk, poultry and vegetables. The villa appears to have got its name around the mid-18th century from Franziska and Franz von Bertram. Bertramka was purcha

Beryl Price

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Beryl Price (born 7 March 1912) was a British composer who created original works in many genres and arranged folk tunes as teaching pieces for young music students. Several of her original compositions were for historic instruments such as clavichord, virginal and viol. Price was born in London. She attended the Royal Academy of Music, and studied with Harry Farjeon, Ernest Read, and Charles Reddic. In 1959, her String Trio won the W. W. Cobbett Memorial Prize In 2003, her song “I Love to Tell the Story” was recorded commercially on CWMNI Recordio Talent TAL 012CD. Price’s works were published by Curwen Press, Oxford University Press, and Stainer & Bell. *Emerald Isle (cello) *“Duke of Wellington” *“First Came the Primrose” *Songs from Cavalcanti (text by Guido Cavalcanti) *Songs of Heroes *“Sweet Afton” *Two Songs of the Nativity (chorus and piano) *“We Saw Him Sleeping” *Wise Men’s Riddles (a capella double chorus) References

Bessie Marshall Whitely

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Bessie Marshall Whitely or Whiteley (December 25, 1871 - November 7, 1944 ) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. She attended the Oakland Conservatory of Music in Oakland, California, and studied with H. G. Pasmore, J. P. Morgan, and Louis Lesser. Whitely was a piano teacher and music supervisor in Kansas City, Missouri, for 32 years. Whitely published an article on Form and Spirit in Music in the journal Music in 1892. Her opera Hiawatha’s Childhood won the National Federation of Music Clubs award in 1912. Her music was published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and C. C. Birchard & Co. (later Summy-Birchard, then Birchtree Ltd.). Her compositions include: Opera *Hiawatha’s Childhood (for unchanged voices; composer) *Pandora (text based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Masque of Pandora) *Sarita Orchestra *Five Symphonic Sketches Vocal *Four Winds (men’s quartet) *Garden of Buddha (woman’s voice + men’s quartet) *Goblin (words by Florence C. Fox; music by Bessie Marshall Whitely) *Hymn *Landing of the Pilgrims *Missouri *Muramadzu (tenor and orchestra) *Shadows (voice and piano; unspecified award winner) *Three Madrigals (a capella chorus) References

Beth Anderson (composer)

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Beth Anderson is an American neo-romantic composer. She studied with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, and Larry Austin, among others. She studied at the University of Kentucky, UC Davis, New York University and Mills College. Education Anderson attended the University of Kentucky after graduating from high school. After two years there she transferred to the University of California at Davis. After completing her undergraduate degree she received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Piano Performance. Shortly before completing that degree, her piece Peachy Keen-O was performed at Mills College. Bob Ashley, director of the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music, upon hearing the performance, urged her to stay there and study. She completed her M.A. in Composition there. Later life In California, Anderson became known as one of the prominent “avant-garde feminist composers, critics, and poets.” External links * Listening *NewMusicJukeBox.org: Beth Anderson

Beth Denisch

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Beth Denisch (born Augusta, Georgia, Feb. 25, 1958) is an American composer. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, and an MM and (in 1993) a DMA from Boston University, where her teachers in composition were John Harbison and Bernard Rands. She has taught at UMass Dartmouth and Northeastern University. She is currently Professor of Composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1996 she founded the New England chapter of the American Composers Forum, and she served as their director until 2005. She presently serves as Co-Chair of Gender Research in Music and Education International. Denisch’s music has had many prominent performances, and she has received notable prizes and commissions. For instance in 2002, the Handel and Haydn Society performed her “Sorrow and Tenderness” as part of a collaborative youth concert at Brockton High School in Massachusetts. Her “Fire Mountain Intermezzo” for string orchestra was performed by Chamber Orchestra Kremlin (directed by Misha Rachlevsky) in Moscow and New York City, after it was one of the winners of their Homage to Mozart competition. Writing in The New York Times, Bernard Ho

Betsy Jolas

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Elizabeth MacDonald Jolas (born 5 August 1926) is a French and American composer. Life and career Jolas was born in Paris on 5 August 1926. Her mother, the American translator Maria McDonald, also studied singing. Together with Betsy’s father, the poet and journalist Eugene Jolas, she founded and edited the magazine transition, which published over ten years many of the great writers of the interwar period. Her family settled in the United States in late 1940. While completing her general studies in New York, then specializing in music at Bennington College, she joined the Dessoff Choirs, discovering Renaissance music, which had a lasting influence on her work. After graduating from Bennington College, Jolas returned to Paris in 1946 to continue her studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique, notably with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen. From 1971 to 1974 she served as Messiaen’s assistant at the Conservatoire, and in 1975 was appointed to the faculty. She has since then also taught in the U.S., at Yale, Harvard, Mills College, the University of California, Tanglewood, and the University of Michigan. Jolas is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Bettina Skrzypczak

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Bettina Skrzypczak (born 25 January 1963) is a Polish/Swiss composer. Biography Skrzypczak was born in Poznań, Poland. She studied piano at Bydgoszcz and music at the Academy of Music in Poznan. In 1985 she graduated with a degree in music theory, and in 1988 with a degree in composition, studying with Andrzej Koszewski. From 1984-88 she studied with Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur, and Iannis Xenakis in composition courses organised in Kazimierz by the Polish section of the ISCM. In 1988 she studied electronic music with Thomas Kessler and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn in Basel, Switzerland. She also studied musicology with Jürg Stenzl and complementary studies in cultural philosophy with Hans Saner in Fribourg. In 1990 she studied computer music with Klarenz Barlow in Cologne. In 1999 she received a doctorate degree from the Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2002 Skrzypczak took a position as a professor at the Music University Lucerne. She also served as a guest lecturer at schools and universities including the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt in 2004, the European Chamber Music Academy, Hannover, and Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich. Skr

Bettina Walker

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Bettina or Bessie Walker (1837 – 4 February 1893) was an Irish pianist and composer. She wrote a memoir of her musical education, published in 1890. Biography Walker was born in Dublin, the daughter of physician William Augustus Walker, who died in 1838. Her mother encouraged her study of music, but opposed Walker’s hopes of a career as a pianist. Walker studied in the 1870s, first with William Sterndale Bennett in London and Carl Tausig in Berlin and Giovanni Sgambati in Rome. In 1883 she came to Weimar and continued her studies with Franz Liszt. She also studied under Ludwig Deppe, Xaver Scharwenka and Adolf Henselt. She advertised herself as an “honorary associate of the St. Cecilian Academy of Rome.” After Henselt’s death in 1889 she settled in Fulham, London, where she taught her piano methodology, but died four years later, in 1893, in her sixties. memoirs, My Musical Experiences (1890), in which she details her numerous encounters with important musicians. “The book is pleasantly written with perfect freshness and innocence and freedom from affectation,” commented one reviewer. Critics compared Walker’s book to Amy Fay’s Music Study in Germany (1880), an American woman’s mem

Betty Ann Wong

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Betty Ann (Siu Junn) Wong (born September 6, 1938) is an American author, composer, and multi-media musician. She received the 1988 Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement for Original Music Theater for her work on Eugene O’Neill’s Marco Millions. She has also composed film scores for Academy Award-winning movie producers Allie Light and Irving Saraf. Early life and training A native of San Francisco, Wong and her twin sister Shirley grew up speaking Cantonese at home as well as English. Wong began piano lessons at age seven with Eva Chan, then studied with Lev Shorr. She received a B.A. in music from Mills College in 1960, where she studied with Morton Subotnick, Nathan Rubin, and Colin Hampton, and performed with Hysteresis, a women’s creative arts group that included several Bay-area artists. In 1971, she completed a master’s degree in music at the University of California, San Diego, where she studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, Robert Erickson, and Kenneth Gaburo. Wong also studied Chinese music with David Liang, Lawrence Lui, and Leo Lew. Career In addition to piano, Wong plays sitar, guzheng, saz (a Turkish lute), kanjira and several other tradi

Betty Beath

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Elizabeth Margaret Beath, née Eardley, (born 19 November 1932) is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator. Life and career Betty Beath was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, and began piano lessons at the age of three. She was twice a finalist in the ABC Concerto competition when in her teens. In 1950, she was awarded a University of Queensland Music Scholarship, After completing her education, Beath settled in Brisbane and took positions as an accompanist and later teacher at Queensland Conservatorium and was Head of Music at St. Margaret’s Girls’ School, Brisbane. She is an Examiner with the Australian Music Examinations Board. Beath received a Southeast Asian Fellowship from the Australia Council in 1974 to conduct research in Bali and Java. She is married to author/illustrator, David Cox. She represented women composers of Australia at the 3rd International Congress on Women in Music, held in Mexico City in 1984. She has also been an executive member of the International League of Women Composers. Her most performed music is perhaps the piano solo piece “Merindu Bali” (Bali Yearning), written for the Indonesian pianist Ananda Sukarlan and dedicated to the memory of the

Betty Boije

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Betty Natalie Boije af Gennäs (14 February 1822 - 14 November 1854), was a Swedish–Finnish opera and concert singer (contralto) and composer. Biography Boije was born on 14 February 1822 in Jakobstad, Grand Duchy of Finland to the Swedish nobleman Klas Otto Boije af Gennäs and Marianna Horn af Rantzien. Through her father Boije was a member of the family. Boije was one of eight children and was the sister of the pianist . Boije was raised in Finland, were her father had a position at the customs office of Pori. Betty Boije debuted as a concert singer in Turku in 1847. From 1847 to 1848, Boije was a student of the Swedish composer . She made a successful tour as a concert singer in Turku, Helsinki, Reval and Saint Petersburg. In 1849, she made her debut in Stockholm in Sweden. She was active as an opera singer at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in 1850-1851. She was described as an excellent alto and was given particular praise as Nancy in Martha, in which she made such a success that she was made to act in it again and again. She herself chose to leave the stage and return her profession as a concert singer. She performed in Finland, Denmark and Norway. In 1853-54, she toured

Betty Jackson King

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Betty Jackson King (Feb 17, 1928 – June 1, 1994) was an American pianist, singer, teacher, choral conductor, and composer. She was best known for her vocal works. Biography King, who was of African American heritage, was born in 1928 in Chicago. She first started learning music from her mother, Gertrude Jackson Taylor. King’s father, Reverend Frederick D. Jackson a pastor at the Community Church of Woodlawn, helped expose her to church hymns and spirituals. Along with her mother and sister Catherine, she sang in the Jacksonian Trio. She was married to Vincent King, had one daughter, Rochelle King, and has two granddaughters Vincena and Joysaleen. King wrote arrangements of spirituals, operas (Saul of Tarsus, My Servant Job), a cantata (Simon of Cyrene) and a requiem. Saul of Tarsus has had several performances since it was premiered in 1952. She wrote a ballet, Kids in School With Me, and various other chamber and choral compositions. Piano and Organ * Aftermath (A Tone Poem) (1975) * Four Seasonal Sketches for piano (1973) * Mother Goose Parade (1971) * Nuptial Suite for organ (1969) Songs * A Lullaby for You (1973) * A Set of Three Dunbar Poems (1975) * Calvary (1954) * Climbing

Betty Olivero

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Betty Olivero (; born 16 May 1954) is an Israeli composer and music educator. Biography Olivero was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to parents Dora Kapon and Eli Olivero. She graduated with a Bachelor in Music from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University in 1978, where she studied with Ilona Vincze-Kraus for piano and Yizhak Sadai and Leon Schidlowsky for composition. She continued her studies at Yale University where she studied under Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands and Gilbert Amy, and graduated with a Masters in Music in 1981. She continued her studies in Florence with Luciano Berio from 1983 to 1986 and began her develop career as a composer in Europe. She married Raffaello Majoni and had two children, and returned to Israel in 2002 to take a position as professor of composition at Bar-Ilan University, where she received her tenure in 2008. She was the first female professor of composition at an Israeli institution. In 2004-2008, she served as composer-in-residence at the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Olivero’s music has been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Ensemble, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the N

Betty Roe

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Eileen Betty Roe MBE (30 July 1930 – 19 May 2026) was an English composer, singer, vocal coach and conductor. Life and career Eileen Betty Roe was born in North Kensington, London, England on 30 July 1930. Her father was a fishmonger at the Shepherd’s Bush Market, and her mother was a bookkeeper. Roe took piano lessons from the age of six with local teacher Madam Dorina. She began writing music and arrangements in her teens during World War II when assisting with choirs at the local church. As a Junior Exhibitioner she studied piano with Fiona Addie, Muriel Dale, and Sadie MacCormack, and cello with Alison Dalrymple at the Royal Academy of Music, but left school in 1947 and took a job as a filing clerk. She continued at the Royal Academy in 1949, studying piano with York Bowen, cello with Alison Dalrymple, and voice with Jean McKenzie-Grieve. She continued her study of singing with Clive Carey, Roy Hickman, Peter van der Stolk, and Margaret Field-Hyde, and studied composition with Lennox Berkeley. In the 1950s Roe became involved with a drama group where she began writing for musicals. She also worked as a sessions singer with London ensembles, and in light entertainment with celeb

Betty Rose Wishart

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Betty Rose Wishart is an American composer and pianist. Born on September 22, 1947, in Lumberton, North Carolina, she earned music degrees from Queens College (Charlotte, North Carolina) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then pursued further studies in New York City. Her major teachers were Roger Hannay, Richard Bunger Evans, Donald Waxman, Michael Zenge, and Wolfgang Rose. Wishart taught piano, theory, and composition at Kohinoor Music Company from 1972 to 1973, and joined the staff of Argo Classical Records in 1973. She started composing in 1974, initially under the name B. R. Wishart to disguise her gender. She served as president of the Southeastern Composers’ League in 2008. Wishart has received awards from: *American College of Musicians *American Pen Women *American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) *Broward County Music Teachers Association *Composers Guild *Delta Omicron *Fayetteville/Cumberland County Arts Council *Vox Novus Her compositions include: Chamber *Ch’ien (four violins, temple blocks) *Dreams (clarinet and piano; 1983) *Experience (string quintet; 1971) *Memories of Things Unseen (violin, flute, clarinet, cello; 1973) *Mem

Beverly Grigsby

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Beverly Grigsby (née Pinsky, January 11, 1928 – August 22, 2022) was an American composer, musicologist and electronic/computer music pioneer. Early life Beverly Pinsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied music and ballet as a child. She danced in Chicago Civic Opera’s ballet chorus. She moved to California with her family at the age of 13 and graduated from Fairfax High School at age 16. Education Grigsby entered the University of Southern California to study pre-med, and also studied composition with Ernst Krenek at the Southern California School of Music and the Arts. She earned Bachelor of Arts (in 1961) and Master of Arts (in 1963) degrees in composition from San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge); upon graduation she was hired to teach at her alma mater. In 1971 she earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in composition from the University of Southern California. She later studied computer music generation at Stanford University’s Center for Artificial Intelligence (CCRMA) and at M.I.T. in 1975-1976. She taught theory, composition, and musicology there until her retirement in 1993. Her studio focused on analog synthesis, electronic m

Bevlyn Khoo

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Bevlyn Khoo (; is a jazz pop singer songwriter based in Singapore. Her ability to sing in 5 languages has generated international interest and acclaim for each of her 5 albums. Despite her commercial success, she is credited with being a pioneer within the Singaporean DIY and independent musician community, having founded two music-based companies in addition to her own artistic pursuits since 2002. After parting ways with Japanese record label S2S in 2011, Bevlyn returned to her independent status focused efforts on The Storyteller Wave, the music production and consultancy company she founded in 2013. She currently teaches pop vocals to private students and at various music colleges. Early life and education Khoo was born in Singapore and was educated at River Valley High School, Singapore and Hwa Chong Junior College. She started singing part-time in 1999 at Singapore’s Ark Cafe with Dennis Chew and Kelvin Tan while she was a student at the National University of Singapore. Singing career Khoo signed as a part-time singer with the A Cappella Society of Singapore until 2006, during which she sang in two A Cappella groups. In 2003, Khoo joined Singapore’s national Mandarin-Pop Son