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B.I (rapper)

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Kim Han-bin (; born October 22, 1996), known professionally as B.I () is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer. He debuted in the South Korean boy band iKon under YG Entertainment in September 2015. On June 12, 2019, he departed from the group due to substance allegations. During his time with the group, he played a significant role in the production and songwriting of their music, and is credited as the sole record producer for all of the group’s releases. His contributions to iKon’s second studio album, Return, for the lead single “Love Scenario”, earned him the prestigious “Songwriter of the Year” award at the 2018 Melon Music Awards. Cosmos, the first half of his second studio album was released in November 2021. In 2022, he launched his global album project Love or Loved, starting with the single “BTBT” in May, followed by the EP Love or Loved Part.1 in November. B.I released his second studio album To Die For on June 1, 2023, and the last part of the Love or Loved project, the EP Love or Loved Part.2, in November 2023. His third studio album, Wonderland, was released on June 1, 2025. In 2009, B.I made his first appearance by featuring and participating in

Biagio Marini

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Biagio Marini (5 February 1594 – 20 March 1663) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer in the first half of the seventeenth century. Marini was born in Brescia. He may have studied with his uncle Giacinto Bondioli. His works were printed and influential throughout the European musical world. He travelled throughout his life, and occupied posts in Brussels, over thirty years in Neuburg an der Donau and Düsseldorf, and Venice in 1615, joining Monteverdi’s group at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Padua, Parma, Ferrara, Milan, Bergamo, and Brescia in Italy. There is evidence that he married three times and fathered five children. He died in Venice. Although he wrote both instrumental and vocal music, he is better known for his innovative instrumental compositions. He contributed to the early development of the string idiom by expanding the performance range of the solo and accompanied violin and incorporating slur, double and even triple stopping, and the first explicitly notated tremolo (in the sonata La Foscarina, op. 1 No. 14; 1617) effects into his music. He was also among the first composers, after Marco Uccellini, to call for scordatura tunings. He made contributions to most of the

Bianca Maria Meda

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Bianca Maria Meda (c. 1661 – c. 1732) was an Italian nun and Baroque composer. Life Little is known about Bianca Maria Meda’s life, but she was a Benedictine nun at the convent of San Martino del Leano in Pavia. Although her profession is unknown, she first appears in convent records between August 1677 and February 1678, likely at the age of 16. Meda’s death is also undocumented, however, due to the omission of her name in a convent record dated September 1733, it can be assumed that she died before that date around the age of 70. Based on this knowledge, Meda was about 30 years old when her motet collection was published. Meda was among the final nun composers in 17th-century Italy to publish their music, only being followed by Isabella Leonarda. Given the rarity of female composers being published at the time, Meda’s work is a valuable contribution to early modern Italian convent music through its artistic and expressive qualities. Meda’s motet collection includes 12 pieces. There are two for solo voice, two duets, four trios, and four quartets. Meda’s music is presented in six partbooks: Canto, alto, Tenore, Basso, and two books labeled ‘Violone’ and ‘Organo." While Meda’s mote

Biancamaria Furgeri

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Biancamaria Furgeri (born 6 October 1935) is an Italian organist, music educator and composer. Life Biancamaria Fugeri was born in Rovigo, Italy, and studied at the Conservatorio di Padova and in Milan and Venice with Wolfgango Dalla Vecchia, Bruno Coltro, Bruno Bettinelli, Giuseppe Piccioli and Giorgio Federico Ghedini. After completing her studies, Furgeri taught music in Ferrara and Padua, and in 1969 took a teaching position at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna. Her works have been performed internationally. She has placed first in a number of international competitions, including the 1973 National Sacred Music competition in Verese, the 1985 GEDOK competition in Mannheim, and the 1987 International Competition for Women Composers in Zürich. She was director (1977-1979) of the Conservatory of Music in Rovigo. Works Fugeri composes mostly orchestral, choral, chamber and vocal works. Selected compositions include: *1958 Sonata, Opus 1 *1960 Piano Suite, Op 2 *1963 Sonata, Opus 3 for organ *1965 Suite by Gioconda, Opus 4 *1968 Toccata and Ricercare, Opus 5 for organ *1970-71 Piccoli Musici (Volume 1), Op 6 *1970-71 Piccoli Musici (Volume 2), Opus 7 *1972 Il libro dei Ritmi

Bidzina Kvernadze

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Bidzina Kvernadze (), (29 July 1928, Sighnaghi, Georgia, – 8 July 2010, Tbilisi), was a famous Georgian composer. Bidzina was born in Sighnaghi, the Kakheti region of former Soviet Georgia to Alexander Kvernadze, a pharmacist, and Nino Nadirashvili, a music teacher. In 1948, Bidzina presented his musical works to Examination Commission, and he was accepted to the Tbilisi State Conservatoire with the highest score. He finished the composition class in 1958, taught by Andria Balanchivadze. In the same year he was accepted as a member of the Union of Soviet Composers. Among his honors are the title of “People’s Artist of the USSR” (1979), the “Z. Paliashvili Prize” (1981, for My Entreaty, Old Georgian Inscriptions and Vocal-Symphonic Poem) and the “Shota Rustaveli State Prize” (1985, Opera “And it was in the eighth year”). He was also named an Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi (1995). Filmography * 2001: Antimoz iverieli * 1996: Qva (Short) * 1995: Tsarsulis achrdilebi * 1991: Premiera (TV Movie) * 1990: Omi kvelastvis omia * 1990: White Banners * 1985: Ert patara qalaqshi * 1985: Christmas tree of Neilon * 1983: Andredzi (Short) * 1983: Tsigni pitsisa (TV Movie) * 1981: Me davbrundebi * 19

Big George

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George Webley (29 May 1957 – 7 May 2011), better known by the stage name Big George, was a British musician, composer, bandleader and broadcaster who has been described as one of Britain’s most successful theme music writers. Early life Webley was born in Clapham, London. His aunt Vera was the fan club secretary for Frankie Laine, who was Webley’s godfather on 1 June 1957. His first introduction to music was when Donald Swann attended his primary school to play to all the pupils after the school’s music teacher died. Webley later said “From the first moment he lifted the piano lid, I knew the direction my life was going to take.” Webley left school at the age of 14 to go on the road with a showband. He became friends with and regularly accompanied Herbie Flowers in his late teens after writing to the bassist for advice and was a session bass player until the age of 30. Music career Webley became a musical director for EMI at 30 and produced dozens of chart records. In 1989 he became bandleader on Jameson Tonight with Derek Jameson and Shane Richie. He composed or arranged the theme music for the television programmes Have I Got News for You, The Office, Room 101, and The Graham Nor

Bijan Khadem-Missagh

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Bijan Khadem-Missagh (; born 26 October 1948) is an Austrian violinist, composer and conductor of Iranian descent. He is the founder and was the artistic director of the International Chamber Music Festival until 2016. . Concerts and Festivals Khadem-Missagh celebrated an early debut as a violin soloist, which was followed by numerous international concert tours. In 1971, he became first concertmaster of the Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester. In the same year he won the Grand Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition in Colmar, France. Also in 1971 he founded the Eurasia Quartet and in 1977 the Tonkünstler Chamber Orchestra, later called Academia Allegro Vivo. In 1979, he founded Allegro Vivo, the international chamber music festival in Horn, where the summer academy also takes place, where young musicians can attend master classes. Allegro Vivo also sees itself as a place of encounter and a fixed component of public life in the region. From 1980 to 1990, the musician was artistic director of the Midsummer Music Festival in Umeå, Sweden. In 1981, he founded the Badener Beethoventage in Baden near Vienna, of which he was artistic director until 1998. In 1997, he

Bijan Mofid

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Bijan Mofid (; May 31, 1935 – November 12, 1984) was an influential Iranian playwright and stage director. His most famous work, Shahr-e Ghesseh, is an allegorical satire written in the form of a musical play using elements of Iranian folklore, for which he also composed the music. Bijan Mofid (playwright/director) was one of very few serious modern Iranian artists whose writing has reached beyond the intelligentsia to a broad general audience. Life He was born in Tehran in 1935. After teaching for several years at the University of Tehran, he founded a theater workshop, where many of Iran’s finest actors received their training. The workshop’s major production was Bijan’s own City Of Tales (Shahr-e-Ghesseh), a profound satire that weaves social comment through adaptations of traditional music and folk tales. It toured for 3 years, was made into an award-winning film and is recognized as a classic of Iranian literature. Bijan’s work as playwright and director has had a continuous and controversial presence in Iranian theater, both on the popular stage and in experimental productions. Nine of his plays have been produced and published and their songs recorded. He directed over fifty

Bijan Olia

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Bijan Olia is an Iranian-American composer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Early life and education Olia was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Iranian father and an Italian-American mother. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and studied piano at the All Newton Music School. He is a 2007 graduate of Newton South High School. Olia attended the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he majored in computer music, composition and minored in piano performance. During his last year at Peabody, Olia interned for Dan Deacon, where he arranged and performed piano on Deacon’s America album. After completing the 2012 BMI Composing for the Screen Workshop in New York City, Olia moved to Los Angeles. Career Film and television Olia’s film credits include scores to Better Half, Miracles Happen Elsewhere, and songs featured in 80 for Brady and FOX’s Animal Control. He has written additional music for Freeform’s Siren, Warner Brothers’ Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain, and Netflix’s The Lost Pirate Kingdom. Concert music Olia’s concert works include his piano quartet with toy piano and melodica, Streicher, Tasti et Bizarreries, which premiered at the Will Geer Theat

Bilge Özgen

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Bilge Özgen (born in Viranşehir, Turkey in 1935) is a Turkish composer and lyricist. Özgen graduated from Ankara Boys’ Senior Technical School of Teaching in 1959. He received his first music instruction from his father Sabri Özgen, an amateur musician. Özgen met Vedia Tunççekiç and Erol Sayan while he was a student in Ankara, a period which he calls his “second period in music”. He worked as an instrument builder for a while, and retired in 2000 from his job as a lute performer at Istanbul Radio. Özgen was encouraged as a composer by Alaeddin Yavaşça, Niyazi Sayın, Yılmaz Pakalınlar and Mustafa Erses. A composer of memorable works, Özgen has produced more than 300 pieces. See also * List of composers of classical Turkish music References

Bill Brown (composer)

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Bill Brown IV (born 1969) is an American composer of music for video games, films, and television productions. He is best known for creating the system sounds and tour software music for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, as well as his work on the soundtracks of CSI: NY and several Quake, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Command & Conquer, and Wolfenstein games in the 1990s and 2000s. His father was New York City radio disc jockey Bill Brown III (d. 2011). Filmography Video games *Quake II (1997) *Trespasser (1998) *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (1998) *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999) *Disney’s Villains’ Revenge (1999) *Quake III (1999) *Timeline (2000) *Shadow Watch (2000) *Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001) *Clive Barker’s Undying (2001) *Anachronox (2001) *Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon (2001) *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Black Thorn (2001) *The Sum of All Fears (2002) *Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Island Thunder (2002) *Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2 (2004) – theme co-written with Tom Salta *Command & Conquer: Generals (2003) *Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (2003) *Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle (2003) with Inon Zur *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (2003) *Wolfenst

Bill Fontana

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Bill Fontana (born April 25, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio) is known internationally for his pioneering experiments in sound art. Life and career Fontana attended the New School for Social Research in New York and studied both music and philosophy. He traveled to Australia, and also stayed in Japan and Germany composing. Fontana began making sound sculptures in 1976. In a career spanning 40 years, Fontana’s sound sculptures use the urban environment as a living source of musical information, all with the potential to conjure up visual imagery in the mind of the listener. He has made works all over the world and has presented his sound sculptures extensively, including at the Venice Biennale (1999), the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (1995), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1991), Tate Modern, London (2006), Madison Square Park, New York (2007), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1987, 1997, 2010). Some of his more famous works include Distant Trains, Satellite Ear Bridge Cologne-San Francisco, Journey Through My Sound Sculptures, The Sound of an Unblown Flute, Panoramic Echoes and “Acoustical Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge” In 2005, Fontana was an Artadia Awardee. Fon

Bill Hopkins (composer)

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George William Hopkins (5 June 1943 – 10 March 1981), known as Bill Hopkins, was a British composer. He also published music criticism, mostly under the name G. W. Hopkins. Biography Hopkins was born in Prestbury, Cheshire, and educated at Hillcrest Grammar School and Rossall School, Lancashire; his mother’s disability meant she was unable to look after him, and he was raised by aunts. Studies with Luigi Nono at Dartington Summer School consolidated his interest in serialism; subsequently he studied at Oxford University with Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz. In 1964 he went to Paris in order to study with Olivier Messiaen, and with an ambition to meet Jean Barraqué. Returning to England, he supported himself as a music critic in London and then, after moving first to Tintagel, Cornwall and subsequently to Peel, Isle of Man, by translation and writing music criticism. He married Clare Gilbert in 1972. Subsequently, he taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne before succumbing to a heart attack, in Chopwell, near Newcastle, at the age of 37. His few pupils included the British composers Paul Keenan and Patrick Ozzard-Low. Career Hopkins’ music is published

Bill Justis

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William Everett Justis Jr. (October 14, 1926 – July 16, 1982) was an American pioneer rock and roll musician, composer, and musical arranger, best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song, “Raunchy”. As a songwriter, he was also often credited as Bill Everette. Biography Justis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, but grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and studied music at Christian Brothers College (high school department) and Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. A trumpet and saxophone player, while in university he performed with local jazz and dance bands. He returned home to Memphis in 1951 and was eventually taken on by Sam Phillips at Sun Records where he recorded music for himself as well as arranged the music for Sun artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and Charlie Rich, the latter of which he is credited with discovering. and reached No. 11 in the UK Singles Chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Justis had one other significant hit record, “College Man”, that went to U.S. No. 42, and No. 11 in Canada In 1961, Justis moved to Nashville where he became a successful record producer and music arranger for b

Bill Lee (musician)

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William James Edwards Lee III (July 23, 1928 – May 24, 2023) was an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, his compositions for jazz percussionist Max Roach, and his session work as a “first-call” musician and band leader to many of the twentieth-century’s most significant musical artists, including Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Billy Strayhorn, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger, among many others. Lee recorded three critically acclaimed albums at the Black independent label Strata-East Records: (1) The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe: A Spirit Speaks; (2) The Brass Company: Colors, in collaboration with his two sisters; and (3) The New York Bass Violin Choir, a collaboration of seven basses, which JazzdaGama described as “a true Holy Grail for all musicians,” and which Lee classified as one of his “narrative folk, jazz operas” along with “One Mile East,” both of which were inspired by memories of the former slave quarters near his childhood home. Stagings at New York City’s Central Park, Lincoln Center and Newport Jazz Festival followe

Bill MacKay

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Bill MacKay is an American composer, guitarist and singer based in Chicago. He grew up in Pittsburgh, PA where he studied with guitarists Joe Negri and Eric Susoeff and in Rochester, NY where he studied with Kevin Morse. He also studied at Berklee College of Music. In 2017 he began working with Chicago record label Drag City. Mackay’s first Drag City release, Esker, was described by reviewer John Mulvey of Uncut “as a neat sampler of his unshowy virtuosity, at once brisk and mellow.” His arrangement of the Steely Dan song Deacon Blues appeared on the collaborative covers album by Bonnie Prince Billy and Bill Callahan, Blind Date Party (Drag City, 2021) MacKay is a member of Black Duck, along with Douglas McCombs (Tortoise, Brokeback) on guitar and bass, and drummer Charles Rumback. and BCMC with Bitchin’ Bajas’ Cooper Crain. In April 2023, MacKay’s scored music for artist Michael Rakowitz’ film I’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it’s in between I freeze MacKay has also been involved musically in theatre, appearing as musical guest in Chicago experimental theater troupe Neo-Futurists show Elements of Style in June 2023, and in Little Carl, a production by Theatre Y in April 2023. "

Bill Milbrodt

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Bill Milbrodt is a composer and creator of the Car Music Project, a band that plays music on instruments made from car parts. The instruments have names like “exhaustaphone”, “tank bass”, “doorimba”, “tube flute”, and “percarsion”. The band plays music that is written by Milbrodt and also does improvising in which the written music is played by some members of the band while other members improvise, sometimes several at one time. Milbrodt won an Emmy Award in New York City for a 1991 musical score he composed electronically for a short avant-garde video called “American Venus”. He made his living mainly as a composer of music for commercial purposes, and as a sound designer, and did occasional performances for the Car Music Project. In 2005 he formed an ensemble called “The Car Music Project”, with regular members/sidemen, for the purpose of performing on a regular basis. Milbrodt is a self-taught composer. He studied Film Production at the New York University Film School, and graduated in 1977. He refers to some of his compositions as “sonic pantomimes”. Car Music Project The Car Music Project is both the name of a project and the name of a band conceived and led by American compo

Bill Richards (musician)

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Bill Richards (28 March 1923 – 28 February 1995) was a Canadian musician. His compositional output includes several film scores, a Flute Quartet (1964), and a number of fiddle tunes. He recorded two of his own fiddle compositions for Spiral Records in 1957 and another of his fiddle compositions was featured in the movie The Pyx. He also was active as a musician and concertmaster on a number of studio recordings from the 1950s through the 1990s, and can be heard on recordings by artists Moe Koffman, Catherine McKinnon, Anne Murray, and Gordon Lightfoot among others. In 1962 he and a quartet featuring the organist Lou Snider recorded two LP albums for the Canadian Talent Library Trust. Early life and education Born William Francis Caven Richards in Ottawa, Ontario, Richards began his musical training as a child at the Canadian Conservatory of Music in his native city with Jack Cavill (violin) and Herbert Sanders (piano). He started his performance career at the age of eight working as a violin soloist on radio programs in Ottawa and Hull. He continued with violin studies in Ottawa with David Shuttleworth and then in Toronto with Broadus Farmer in 1939. Career In 1942 Richards joined

Bill Russell (composer)

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William Russell (February 26, 1905 – August 9, 1992) was an American music historian and modernist composer. Named Russell William Wagner at birth, when he decided to become a classical music composer, he dropped his last name—as it already “was taken” by Richard Wagner. He was commonly known as “Bill Russell”. Composer Born in the small Missouri city of Canton, Bill Russell was a leading figure in percussion music composition, influenced by his acquaintances John Cage and Henry Cowell. In turn, Russell also influenced Cage, in his emphasis of percussion. During the 1930s, predating Cage’s main work, Russell’s percussion works called for vernacular textures such as Jack Daniels bottles, suitcases, and Haitian drums, as well as “prepared pianos”, although it is not clear how specifically he wanted the piano to be prepared. One notable performance of his “Fugue for eight percussion instruments” took place in 1933, with the ubiquitous and influential critic-writer-performer Nicholas Slonimsky conducting. The fugue was performed at Carnegie Hall on a program that included Varèse’s iconic percussion composition “Ionisation.” These performances took place under the auspices of the Pan-Am

Bill Sherman

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Bill Sherman is an American composer, producer, arranger, and orchestrator. He is known for his work on In the Heights, Hamilton, and Sesame Street. Sherman is also a member of Team Supreme that co-hosts the Questlove Supreme podcast. Biography Sherman was born in New York to Susan B. Sherman and Dr. Fredrick T. Sherman. Sherman graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 2002. In 2003, he joined his roommate Lin-Manuel Miranda to form the freestyle rap group Freestyle Love Supreme, while also working with Miranda to orchestrate and arrange the music for In the Heights. His work on In the Heights won him the 2008 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. He collaborated again with Miranda to produce the Hamilton album, for which he won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Sherman is the musical director for several Sesame Workshop shows, including Sesame Street, for which he has written over 3000 songs. He has won three Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Original Song – Children’s and Animation” for his work on Sesame street: “What I Am” in 2011, “The Power of Yet” in

Bill Whelan

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William Michael Joseph Whelan (born 22 May 1950) is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The result, “Riverdance”, was a seven-minute piece of original music accompanying a new take on traditional Irish stepdance that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish traditional music and dance. The corresponding soundtrack album earned him a Grammy. “Riverdance” was released as a single in 1994, credited to “Bill Whelan and Anúna featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra”. It reached number one in Ireland for 18 weeks and number nine in the UK. The album of the same title reached number 31 in the album charts in 1995. Whelan has also arranged a symphonic suite version of Riverdance, with its premiere performed by the Ulster Orchestra on BBC Radio 3 in August 2014. A studio recording was released on CD (on the RTÉ lyric fm label) in 2018. Whelan is second cousin to British-Irish comedian, Jimmy Carr. Biography Whelan is a native of Limerick city, and was educated at Crescent College. He gained his Bachelor of Civil Law degree at University College Dublin in 1973 and then we

Billy Burnette

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Dorsey William Burnette III (born May 8, 1953, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was part of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1987 to 1996. Burnette also had a brief career in acting. Family background The son of Dorsey Burnette and Alberta Burnette, Billy Burnette was born into a musical family. He toured with Brenda Lee After Fleetwood Mac went on hiatus in 1996, Burnette and Bramlett formed the country duo Bekka & Billy. They moved to Nashville and attracted the attention of producer Garth Fundis. They released the album Bekka and Billy in 1997 but they broke up in 1998. Discography Albums * Billy Burnette (Entrance, 1972) * Billy Burnette (Polydor, 1979) * Between Friends (Polydor, 1979) * Billy Burnette (Columbia, 1980) * Gimme You (Columbia, 1981) * Try Me (Curb, 1985) * Soldier of Love (Curb, 1986) * Brother to Brother (Curb, 1988) * Coming Home (Capricorn, 1993) * Bekka & Billy (Almo, 1997) (with Bekka Bramlett) * All Night Long (Grand Avenue, 1999) * Are You With Me Baby (Free Falls, 2000) * Memphis in Manhattan (Chesky, 2006) * The Bluegrass Elvises, Volume 1 (American Roots, 2007) (with Shawn Camp) * Rock & Roll With It

Billy Goldenberg

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William Leon Goldenberg (February 10, 1936 – August 3, 2020) was an American composer and songwriter, best known for his work on television and film. Early life Goldenberg was born on February 10, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, New York. His mother played the violin, and she taught him how to play the violin and the viola. Then he played it in chamber and symphonic groups. His father was a staff percussionist at WOR and the NBC Symphonic Orchestra. At age five, he played piano and sang Broadway shows. He wanted a musical career but since his father was laid off, he was dissuaded in the early 1950s. Instead of attending Juilliard, he studied physics and mathematics at Columbia College. Career After college, Goldenberg was a computer programmer, but he quit the job due to an ulcer. He found work as a pianist and arranger. He was hired to write the soundtrack for comedy sketches of Mike Nichols and Elaine May in the Broadway show, An Evening with Nichols and May. In the mid-1960s, Goldenberg met Steven Spielberg at Universal Studios. He started to compose music for Spielberg’s television episodes on shows such as The Name Of The Game, Night Gallery and the 1971 TV film, Duel. His other f

Billy Mayerl

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William Joseph Mayerl (31 May 1902 – 25 March 1959) was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees, including his best-known composition, “Marigold” (1927). He also ran the successful School of Syncopation, for whose members he published hundreds of his own arrangements of popular songs. He also composed works for piano and orchestra, often in suites with evocative names such as the Aquarium Suite (1937), comprising “Willow Moss”, “Moorish Idol”, “Fantail”, and “Whirligig”. Early life and education Mayerl was born in 1902 on London’s Tottenham Court Road, near the West End theatre district. His father, a violin player, attempted to introduce him to the violin age of four, but failed. After noticing his affinity to the piano, he started him with piano lessons. By age seven he was studying at the Trinity College of Music, paid for with a series of scholarships. His first major concert was at age nine, playing Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto. In his teens, he supplemented these lessons by accompanying silent movies

Billy Peterson

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Billy Peterson (born Willard Peterson in Minnesota) is an American bass player, songwriter, composer, session musician and producer. Peterson, who grew up in a family of professional musicians, became involved with music at a very young age. Billy is the brother of Paul Peterson (bass guitarist/singer/songwriter/keyboardist) and Ricky Peterson (keyboardist/singer/song writer/producer). Career Early career In 1967, Peterson joined The Righteous Brothers on a summer tour. While in school, he played bass and drums in local orchestras, big bands, and R&B bands, and toured with the Lawrence Welk Show All Stars. After graduating high school, he played bass with trumpet legend Clifford Brown’s pianist Billy Wallace until 1973. Peterson was the bassist on three of folk guitarist Leo Kottke’s albums in the mid ’70s, and played electric and upright bass on Bob Dylan’s multi-platinum Blood On The Tracks for Columbia Records. Peterson joined the Gibson guitar staff in 1976, giving him the opportunity to perform with B.B. King, Johnny Smith, Lenny Breau, Les Paul, and Howard Roberts. During this decade, record producer and engineer David Rivkin (aka David Z, who produced Prince in the 1980s) in

Billy Strayhorn

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William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include “Take the ‘A’ Train”, “Chelsea Bridge”, “A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing”, and “Lush Life”. Early life Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Return to Pittsburgh and meeting Ellington Strayhorn returned to Pittsburgh while still in grade school. He worked odd jobs to earn enough money to buy his first piano and took lessons from Charlotte Enty Catlin. He attended Westinghouse High School, later also attended by jazz pianists Erroll Garner and Ahmad Jamal. He played in the school band, and studied under Carl McVicker, who had also instructed Erroll Garner and Mary Lou Williams. He studied classical music for a time at the Pittsburgh Music Institute, writing a musical, forming a trio that played daily on a local radio station, and writing/composing the songs “Life Is Lonely” (later renamed “Lush Life”), “My Little Brown Book”, and “Something to Live For”. By age 19, he was writing for a professional musical, Fantastic Rhythm. Strayhorn’s origi

Biographies of Frédéric Chopin

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By the first decades of the 21st century, over a hundred biographies of Frédéric Chopin had been published. Full biographies Book-length biographies of Chopin’s entire life include: * ** ** * (first name in German: ): ** (2 vols.) ** ** (2 vols.) * Partial biographies Book-length biographies concentrating on a limited number of episodes in Chopin’s life include: * * Collections of primary documents Bundled primary documents, such as letters and diaries, pertaining to Chopin’s life include: * Chopin’s Letters (1931). ** Based on Henryk Opieński’s collection ** Translations by Ethel Voynich * Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin (1962). ** Based on Bronisław Edward Sydow’s collection ** Translations by Arthur Hedley * Chopin’s Polish Letters (2016). . ** Published by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. ** Translations by David Frick References Sources * * * * * * External links * Chopin Biography at Fryderyk Chopin Institute website. * The Online Books Page: Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849 at University of Pennsylvania Libraries website.

Birgitte Alsted

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Birgitte Alsted (born 15 June 1942) is a Danish violinist, teacher and composer. Life and career Alsted was born in Odense, and was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and in Warsaw. She has done much within the electronic music and often uses creative expressions, which includes other forms. Thus, she has been a part in theater and performance / dance in Denmark. Her work list, besides the music theater includes works for soloists and chamber ensembles, often unconventional compositions and the use of acoustic instruments. Birgitte Alsted also worked some with multimedia performances in which the use of electronic resources, poetry, dance and slides have been compounded in experimental fashion. Literature and poetry, both old and new have been an important source of inspiration for her. Birgitte Alsted was a founder of the “Gruppen for Alternativ Musik”, which was important for her career as a composer. The group experimented with alternative forms and collective improvisation and performed the members’ own compositions in unusual places, such as the Nørreport Station and Copenhagen Zoo. Alsted has worked as a teacher in Hørsholm municipality in St. Annæ Gymnasium and in

Birgitte Grimstad

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Birgitte Grimstad (born 15 December 1935) is a Danish-born Norwegian singer, guitarist, composer and writer. Personal life Grimstad was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of Aksel Schiøtz and Gerd Haugsted. She was married to ambassador Per Øystein Grimstad from 1958 to 1988. Career Grimstad studied theatre and mass media at the University of Minnesota, United States. She made her musical debut in 1966 with the single “Det første som jeg ønsker meg”, with lyrics by Alf Prøysen, and “Å være barn en sommerdag” (lyrics by André Bjerke). Later in the 1980s she performed Bach’s Geistliche Lieder and the medieval ballad Draumkvedet in churches in Denmark and Norway. Her album Pas på de vilde fugle from 1983 included a Danish version of Prøysen’s “Vise for gærne jinter”, Nordahl Grieg’s poem “Til Ungdommen” to Otto Mortensen melody, and a translation of the Elvis Presley hit “Love Me Tender”. Later albums are Wondering And Calling from 1986, and Love Is A Flow from 1996. She was awarded a Musikkritikerprisen in 1972, and a Prøysenprisen in 1999. References

Birke J. Bertelsmeier

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Birke Jasmin Bertelsmeier (born 23 April 1981) is a German composer. Life Born on 23 April 1981 in Hilden, Bertelsmeier received piano lessons from Barbara Szczepanska and composition lessons from as a schoolgirl. After graduating from high school, she studied piano with Pavel Gililov at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (diploma 2005) and composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (diploma 2008, concert exam 2011). She also completed a master’s degree in musicology in 2009. Her works are performed at international festivals and by various performers, such as the Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble ascolta, Ensemble recherche, Fukio Saxophone Quartet, , Marc Bouchkov, Erik Nielsen, Christoph Eschenbach, Tabea Zimmermann, Orchester Nationale de Lorraine, , Bamberg Symphony and by members of the Berliner Philharmonic. In 2017, her orchestral work for the 80th anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica was premiered for the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa with choir and children’s choir. In 2014, two music theatre works, Querelle of Brest after Jean Genet and The Nightingale and the Rose after Oscar Wilde’s short story of that name, were p

Bishop Simms

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Bishop Simms (1767 – 30 January 1829) was an English organist and composer. Background He was born in 1767, the eldest son of John Simms of Staffordshire. Many of his siblings were also musicians in the Midlands. He was appointed as organist of St Philip’s Church, Birmingham in succession to Joseph Harris who was appointed to Worcester Cathedral. Bishop Simms was also organist of St. Mary’s Chapel in Birmingham He was a violinist, and one of the orchestra at the Birmingham Festivals from 1805. In 1809 he gave the opening recital on the new Elliot organ in the Church of St John the Baptist, Bromsgrove. His brother, James Simms, was then the organist at this church for some 45 years. He died in Birmingham in 1829, and his post at St Philip’s Church, Birmingham was filled by his nephew. Appointments *Organist of St. Mary’s Chapel, Birmingham *Organist of St Philip’s Church, Birmingham 1803 - 1829 Compositions In 1810 he published an adaptation of Haydn’s chorus, The Heavens are Telling, from his oratorio, The Creation. References