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Bo Linde

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Anders Bo Leif Linde (1 January 1933 – 2 October 1970) was a Swedish composer whose style resembled that of notable 20th-century neoclassical composers like Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber. Born in Gävle, Linde studied music theory with Eric Harald Bengtson before enrolling at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1948, where he studied composition with Lars-Erik Larsson and piano with Olof Wibergh. In 1953, one year after leaving the academy, he went to Vienna to study conducting and traveled around Europe before returning to Sweden. His most performed pieces are his violin concerto, and his Preludio E finale for string orchestra of 1955. His piano concertos display a raucous humour, also found in his children’s opera for radio Slotts-skoj (1959). Works Symphonies * Symphony No. 1 (Sinfonia fantasia), op. 1 (1951) * Symphony No. 2 (dedicated to the Lions Club of Gävle), op. 23 (1960) * Symphony No. 3 Piano Concertos * Piano Concerto in E major (without op.9 (1950-51) * Piano Concerto No. 1, op.12 (1954) * Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 17 (1956) Other Orchestral Works * Cello Concerto (written for Guido Vecchi), op. 29 (1964-65) * Violin Concerto (dedicated to Josef Grunfard), op. 1

Bo Nilsson

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Bo Nilsson (1 May 1937 – 25 June 2018) was a Swedish composer and lyricist. Career Bo Nilsson was born in Skellefteå, and first drew notice as a composer at the age of 18 when his Zwei Stücke (Two Pieces) for flute, bass clarinet, percussion, and piano were performed in a 1956 Westdeutscher Rundfunk “Musik der Zeit” concert in Cologne. He had taught himself composition by listening to the radio, having previously had only basic training from a local music teacher and some experience as a jazz pianist. Though his early style owes much to Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, it also displays a number of personal features: the use of bright percussion sounds behind finely wrought vocal or flute (usually alto flute) lines, a “nervous” fluttering of tonal nuances, and a feeling for miniature, calculated forms. Because he has chosen to live in the small town of Malmberget, he received the journalistic epithet “the genius from Malmberget”. By 1957 Nilsson remained largely unknown in his own country, but had attracted considerable attention in Germany with a succession of small chamber-music compositions characterised by their unusual instrumentation. The best-known of these is Frequen

Bob Belden

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James Robert Belden (October 31, 1956 – May 20, 2015) was an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and producer. As a producer, he was mostly associated with the remastering of recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis for Columbia Records. Biography Belden, born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in the Charleston, South Carolina suburb of Goose Creek. He briefly attended the University of South Carolina where he met composer Jay Knowles who introduced him to the music of Gil Evans. He then studied saxophone and composition at the University of North Texas before joining the Woody Herman band. He recorded his first album Treasure Island in 1990. This was followed by a series of adventurous albums featuring jazz-tinged arrangements of contemporary pop songs culminating with Black Dahlia in 2001. In 2008, he arranged and produced Miles from India, a world fusion music recording based on the compositions of Miles Davis for which he assembled a group made up of Davis alumni and musicians from India. In addition to his work as arranger, composer, conductor and A & R director, Belden contributed numerous liner notes for noted recordings, such as “Lou’s Blues” by Lou Marini and the

Bob Chilcott

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Robert Chilcott (born 9 April 1955) is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxfordshire, England. He was a member of the King’s Singers from 1985 to 1997, singing tenor. Early life and early career Chilcott was born in Plymouth, Devon, in 1955. While still young, he relocated with his family to a new home near Watford, Hertfordshire. Although his family was not musical, he joined the local church choir, where the assistant organist was Andrew Davis. Chilcott sang in the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, both as a boy and as a university student, when he conducted the voluntary Choral Society, which included many singers from other colleges. He performed the Pie Jesu of Fauré’s Requiem on the 1967 King’s College recording. Composer Chilcott is well known for his compositions for children’s choirs, including Can You Hear Me?, which he has conducted in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, and the Czech Republic. In 2008, Oxford University Press published his Aesop’s Fables for SATB and piano (“The Hare and the Tortoise”; “The Mountain in Labour”; “The Fox and the Grapes”; “North Wind and the Sun”; “The Goose and the Swan”). Chi

Bob Cobert

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Robert W. Cobert (October 26, 1924 – February 19, 2020) was an American composer of film and television scores. He is best known for his work with producer/director Dan Curtis, notably the scores for the ABC gothic fiction soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71) and the TV mini-series The Winds of War (1983) and its sequel War and Remembrance (1988), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. Together, the latter two scores constitute the longest film music ever written for a film. Early years Cobert was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. and wrote songs for bandleader Freddy Martin and jazz singer Frances Wayne. and the two tie-in feature films House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971). Cobert composed the scores for the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker, the sequel The Night Strangler (1973), and the offshoot 1974–75 television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. His other scores include the horror films Burnt Offerings (1976) and Scalpel (1977), the comedy film Me and the Kid (1993), and the television movies The Norliss Tapes (1973), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1974), Scream of the Wolf (1974), Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974) and the 1975 sequel The Kansas City Massacre

Bob Cole (composer)

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Robert Allen Cole Jr. (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911 ) was an American composer, actor, and playwright who produced and directed stage shows. In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown (1898), the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola (1898) was a result of their collaboration. Cole later partnered with brothers J. Rosamond Johnson, a pianist and singer, and James Weldon Johnson, a pianist, guitarist and lawyer, creating more than 200 songs. Their vaudeville act featured classical piano pieces and their musicals featured sophisticated lyrics without the usual stereotypes such as “hot-mamas” and watermelons. Success enabled Cole and Rosamond to tour America and Europe with their act. The trio’s most popular songs were “Louisiana Lize” and “Under the Bamboo Tree” (1901?). Their more successful musicals were The Shoo-Fly Regiment (1906) and The Red Moon (1908, written without Weldon). Cole was the preeminent leader in the world of black musical theater both as a composer and as a performer. His skills in acting, writing, and directing were brought to the public eye through his early works: first, h

Bob Curnow

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Robert Harry Curnow (born November 1, 1941) is an American musician who served as a trombonist, staff arranger and producer for the Stan Kenton Orchestra during the 1960s and 1970s. As a composer and arranger, he has become well known for large ensemble jazz music set to contemporary fusion and rock music of groups such as Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and the Yellowjackets. Most notably, he arranged the music for and produced the award-winning and critically acclaimed CD, Bob Curnow’s L.A. Big Band Plays The Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. His compositions and arrangements are heavily influenced by earlier writers for the Stan Kenton Orchestra such as Pete Rugolo, Bill Russo, Johnny Richards and Bill Holman. Curnow is currently owner and President of Sierra Music Publications, Inc., he is also prominent in the instrumental music and jazz education fields. Early life, musical education and influences Bob Curnow was born and grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania and was first exposed to music through learning the trumpet at age 9 but then switched to baritone horn. He ultimately started to play the trombone at age 12. Curnow had started high school when he first heard the Stan Kent

Bob Hardwick

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Bob Hardwick was an American bandleader, pianist, and composer. He is best known as the bandleader of two long-established dance orchestras based in New York City, The Bob Hardwick Sound and The Bob Hardwick Sound Sensation. The Bob Hardwick Sound is a multi-style big band dance orchestra that performs swing, society/two-step, rock, pop, soul, funk, R&B, disco, jazz, and latin. The Bob Hardwick Sound Sensation is primarily a pop-rock band, performing a full range of current and past Top 40 hits including rock ‘n’ roll, disco, funk, and R&B. Hardwick and his musicians continue to be society regulars throughout the decades, performing for royalty, five Presidential Inaugural Balls, charity balls, and collaborating with musicians such as Paul McCartney and Natalie Cole. Early life and education Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents John H. Hardwick, a banker and chairman of Louisville Trust, and June Warden, a model. Born with perfect pitch, he began playing the piano and composing at age four. He began taking classes at the University of Louisville School of Music when he was twelve. Hardwick earned a B.A. from Centre College in Danville, KY, and continued his educatio

Bob Nolan

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Bob Nolan (born Clarence Robert Nobles; April 13, 1908 – June 16, 1980, name changed to Robert Clarence Nobles in 1929) was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards “Cool Water” and “Tumbling Tumbleweeds.” He is generally regarded as one of the finest Western songwriters of all time. As an actor and singer, he appeared in scores of Western films. Early years Nolan was born April 13, 1908, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Harry Nobles and Flora Elizabeth Hussey Nobles. The couple separated in 1915, and Flora raised her two little boys in Winnipeg. In the summer of 1916, Flora temporarily moved her children to her husband’s parents’ home in Hatfield Point, New Brunswick, but due to the machinations of his father, Nolan never saw his mother again. There he attended The Belmont School until 1921, when, at the age of thirteen, he moved to Tucson, Arizona, to live with his father Harry, a United States Army officer. Film career In 1934, Nolan began his career in film as the singing voice for Ken Maynard in the 1934 film In Old Santa

Bob Pritchard (composer)

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Bob Pritchard (born 1956 in Calgary, Alberta) is a composer and teacher. His creative work includes experimental concert music, interactive music and video pieces, sound installations, direct synthesis, video/film, radiophonic works, and software development. His music is represented by AMP. Education Bob Pritchard received a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition and Theory from the University of British Columbia. He subsequently obtained the Master of Music degree from the University of Toronto, where he became active with the Structured Sound Synthesis Project in the U of T Computer Systems Research Group. In the late 1990s, Pritchard returned to UBC to complete his Doctor of Music degree in composition, with a specialty in computer applications. Career Pritchard has taught music at Brock University and Douglas College, and acoustics in the University of British Columbia Dept. of Physics, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Music. He is a researcher at the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC), and the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) He has received research funding through the

Bobby (rapper)

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Kim Ji-won (; born December 21, 1995), known professionally as Bobby (), is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and member of iKon. In 2016, he formed a sub-unit with Mino under the name MOBB. He is best known for finishing in first place on Mnet’s survival show Show Me the Money 3. Early life Kim Ji-won was born on December 21, 1995, in Seoul, South Korea. In 2005, he and his family moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where he auditioned for YG Entertainment and later met Kim Jin-woo of Jinusean in New York City. In January 2011, he was signed as a trainee under the label. Career After over two years of training, Bobby participated in the 2013 survival show Win: Who Is Next? under Team B. He started using his stage name Bobby, named after his idol, Bob Marley. Because Team A won the program, Bobby continued training under YG Entertainment. In November 2013, while still a trainee, Bobby appeared in the music video for “Ringa Linga” by label-mate Taeyang of Big Bang alongside B.I and Jinhwan from Team B, Winner’s Mino and Taehyun, and Blackpink’s Lisa. In May 2014, together with B.I, Bobby competed on Mnet’s Show Me The Money 3. He finished in first place under Team Illionaire, mento

Bohdan Sehin

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Bohdan Dariiovych Sehin (born 1976, in Borshchiv) is a Ukrainian composer. Early life and education Sehin was born in 1976, in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast. In 1999, he graduated from the Lviv Conservatory, having studied with Myroslav Skoryk. Career Sehin’s music is often performed in Ukraine and abroad. He has been part of musical collaborations with the Polish Institute in Kyiv, the Goethe-Institut, and the Austrian Cultural Forum. In 2012, Sehin began working as commercial director for the development of contemporary music of the Lviv Regional Philharmonic and executive director of the Contrasts contemporary music festival. He is a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. As program organizer *Contrasts, 1998 to 2006, Lviv *Velvet Curtain, 2006, Lviv *Kyiv Music Fest, 2009, Kyiv *International Youth Music Forum 2009 and 2011–2012, Kyiv *Ensemble Nostri Temporis, 2009–present *Kyiv International Master Classes of New Music course, 2012–present *Ukrainian Biennale of New Music, March 2013, Kyiv and Lviv *StART All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Artists 2nd prize (2003) *Gaude Polonia scholarships (2003, 2006) *Levko Revutsky award (2004) *Gulliver Connect grant (2008)

Bohdan Syroyid

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Bohdan Syroyid (Ukrainian: Богдан Сироїд, born 13 April 1995) is a Ukrainian-born Spanish composer and Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Salamanca. Career Syroyid was born in Lviv (Ukraine). At the age of six, he began studying piano through private lessons. At the age of seven, he moved to Spain, where he continued his piano studies at the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Elementary Music Conservatory and at the Gonzalo Martín Tenllado Professional Music Conservatory. At the age of fourteen, he was the youngest student to enroll in the bachelor’s program of music composition at the Higher Conservatorio of Music of Málaga, where he studied with Jesús Manuel Ortiz Morales and Diana Pérez Custodio. In 2012 he participated as a pianist in the opera staging of Suor Angelica with the staging at the Echegaray Theater in Málaga. In February 2014, he completed his bachelor’s degree in music composition with honors obtaining a high distinction awarded by the Musical Foundation of Malaga for the best academic record of the 2013-14 promotion. He received a major commission from the Musical Foundation of Málaga for a piano concerto, titled Capricho Andaluz, which was premiered in 2

Bohdana Frolyak

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Bohdana Oleksiivna Frolyak (born 5 May 1968) is a modern Ukrainian composer. Biography Frolyak was born in , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, and made her first musical steps in her native village under the guidance of Vasyl Kufliuk, a village teacher who gained educational and musical graduation in Warsaw. In 1986, she graduated from Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Musical School after studying piano, music theory and composition. In 1991, she graduated from Lviv Conservatory as a composer. Her teachers in the academy were Volodymyr Flys and Myroslav Skoryk. In 1998, Frolyak completed a non-degree postgraduate course of the same university. In 2009, she attended two courses at the faculty of composition and faculty of contemporary music and jazz of Academy of Music in Kraków (Poland). Since 1991 she has been a lecturer at faculty of musical composition at Lviv Conservatory. She is also a member of the Ukrainian Composers’ Union. Scholarships and awards * Scholarships: ** 2001 — scholarship of Warsaw Autumn Friends’ Foundation and Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung; ** 2004 — scholarship Gaude Polonia from Minister of Culture of Poland; * Awards: ** 2000 — Levko Revutsky award in th

Bohumil Fidler

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Bohumil Fidler (also Fiedler) (May 27, 1860 - June 2, 1944) was a Czech composer, choirmaster, choral conductor and music teacher. He was born in Příbram, where he lived and worked his entire life. Biography Fidler was a foremost figure in the musical life of Příbram and the surrounding region. Upon completing his education, he taught at the local teachers college until 1889, and subsequently served as choir director at St. Jacob’s Church. For more than 15 years Fidler was also the choirmaster of Příbram’s “Lumir-Dobromila” choral association. Additionally, he founded the Příbram Philharmonic Orchestra and was its conductor from 1908-1913. Style Bohumil Fidler’s compositions include two Missa brevi, two Pastorale Masses, a celebratory Mass for mixed choir, soloists, orchestra and organ, and numerous smaller works for chorus as well as songs for solo voice. For the stage he wrote music for two fairy tales: Mikeš Lumidřevo and Zvířátka a Petrovští. His Slavonic Waltz was composed for the Příbram Philharmonic Orchestra; he also wrote 20 funeral marches for military band. Selected works Church music: *Missa solemnis in D major (1901) - performed in 1903 *Missa pastoralis II. (1937) *Mi

Bohuslav Martinů

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1890–1923: Polička and Prague#

The setting of Martinů’s birth was unusual. He was born in the tower of the St. Jakub Church in Polička, a town in Bohemia, close to the Moravian border. His father, Ferdinand, a shoemaker, also worked as the church sexton and town fire watchman. For this, he and his family were allowed to live in the tower apartment. As a small boy Bohuslav was sickly, and frequently had to be carried up the 193 steps to the tower on the back of his father or his older sister. In school he was known to be very shy, and did not participate in the plays or pageants with his classmates. But as violinist, he excelled and developed a strong reputation, giving his first public concert in his hometown in 1905. The townspeople raised enough money to fund his schooling, and in 1906 he left the countryside to begin studies at the Prague Conservatory. Whilst there he fared poorly as a student, showing little interest in the rigid pedagogy or the hours of violin practice required. He was far more interested in exploring Prague and learning on his own, attending concerts and reading books on many subjects. This was in contrast to his roommate, Stanislav Novák, an excellent student and brilliant violinist. They frequently attended concerts together at which Martinů became engrossed in analyzing new music, particularly French impressionist works. He could memorize much of it, to the extent that when back in their room, he could write out large parts of the score almost perfectly. Novák was astonished at how meticulously Martinů could do this. He became convinced that his roommate, while lacking in other subjects, possessed an incredible brain for analyzing and memorizing music. They became friends for life. Dropped from the violin program, Martinů was moved to the organ department that taught composition, but dismissed in 1910 for “incorrigible negligence”. Martinů spent the next several years living back home in Polička, attempting to gain some standing in the musical world. He had written several compositions by this time, including the Elegie for violin and piano, and the symphonic poems Angel of Death (Anděl smrti) and Death of Tintagiles (Smrt Tintagilova), and submitted samples of his work to Josef Suk, a leading Czech composer. Suk encouraged him to pursue formal composition training, but this would not be possible for years. In the meantime, he passed the state teaching examination and maintained a studio in Polička throughout World War I, while continuing to compose and study on his own. It was during this time that he studied the ancient choral hymns of the Bohemian Brethren, which influenced his style and musical scope. As World War I drew to a close and Czechoslovakia was declared an independent republic, Martinů composed the celebratory cantata Czech Rhapsody (Česká rapsodie), which premiered in 1919 to great acclaim. He toured Europe as a violinist with the National Theatre Orchestra, and in 1920 became a full member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra that was led by the inspired young conductor Václav Talich, who was the first major conductor to promote Martinů. He also began formal composition study under Suk. During these last years in Prague he completed his first string quartet and two ballets: Who is the Most Powerful in the World? (Kdo je na světě nejmocnější?) and Istar.

Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský

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Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (16 February 1684 – 1 July 1742) was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the Baroque era. He wrote among other works motets, other choral works (a fugue Laudetur Jesus Christus is cited by the Baroque Music Library as an excellent example of its kind) and organ solo works. Life Černohorský was born on 16 February 1684 in Nymburk, Bohemia. He was a son of a Nymburk cantor named Samuel Černohorský. From 1700 to 1702, he studied philosophy at the Prague University. In 1704, Černohorský became a member of the Conventual Franciscan; later, in 1708 he was ordained as a priest. Nevertheless, in 1710 he left for Assisi, Papal States to study music. Because he left without consent of his superiors he was expelled from Czech lands for ten years. From 1710 to 1715 he worked as an organist in the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi. He was called “Padre Boemo” in Italy. One of his students in Italy was Giuseppe Tartini. After the expiration of his punishment, he came back to Prague, where he devoted himself to teaching. Among the important pupils are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Josef Seger, František Tůma and others. In 1731 he came to Italy again, and worked as

Bolesław Szabelski

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Bolesław Szabelski (3 December 1896 in Radoryż – 27 August 1979 in Katowice) was a Polish composer of modern classical music. While his style shifted and varied over the course of his life, he is best known for his atonal work composed during the 1950s and 1960s. Szabelski studied at the Polish Musical Society School with Łysakowski in 1915. He attended the Warsaw Conservatory under Karol Szymanowski. Between 1929 and 1939, he taught organ and composition at the Conservatoire of Katowice. Szabelski began working in the neoclassical and romanticism modes typical of the early 20th century. He adopted the serialist technique in the 1950s and was one of a number of Polish New Wave composers to embrace atonality. His early work had been characterised by monumental forms and fanfare motifs and Szabelski adapted to the new aesthetic while retaining his old signatures. As a result, he developed a style described as “strikingly innovative”. He composed five symphonies (1926, 1934, 1951, 1956 and 1968), as well as concertos, chamber and choral works. Szabelski was highly influential on the “New Polish School” composers of the early 1950s and had a formative influence on his student Henryk Mi

Boleslaw Szczeniowski

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Boleslaw Szczeniowski (20 July 1898 – 1985) was a Canadian aeronautical engineer and composer of Polish descent. A graduate of the school of engineering at Lviv Polytechnic, Szczeniowski made a living as an engineer in Montréal. He published two books: Theory of the siphon jet (published by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1955) and Theoretical analysis of combustion gases (Montreal, 1946). As a composer and musician, Szczeniowski was largely self-taught. He composed a significant amount of vocal music and works for solo piano and a small amount of chamber music. Compositions Symphonic *Rustic Dance Vocal music * 1954 The rainbow, - text: Marja Konopnicka * 1954 Will-o’the wisp, - text: Hanna Gross * 1955 Entends tu…/ Do you hear…, text: Mario Gross * 1955 Les tenebres/Dusk, - text: Mario Gross * 1955 Mon chant, - text: Mario Gress * 1955 Poranek/Morning, - text: Marja Konopnicka * 1956 Poeme, - text: Marc Gelinas * 1956 Little Jack Horner * 1958 La lune dans l’eau, - textt: Wilfrid Lemoine * 1958 Le petit lapin de la lune, - text: Cecile Duchene * 1958 Pierrot, - text: Wilfrid Lemoine * 1959 A poor young Sheppard - text: Paul Verlaine * 1959 Un grand sommeil noir,

Bonaventura Furlanetto

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Bonaventura Furlanetto (27 May 1738 - 6 April 1817) was an Italian composer and music teacher, also known in his lifetime by the nickname Musin. His pupils included Anselmo Marsand and Giovanni Pacini. Life Born in Venice, he spent his childhood in the parish of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, where he learned music almost completely self-taught except for some lessons from his amateur organist uncle Nicolò Formenti and the priest Giacopo Bolla. At the same time he was also taught philosophy and literature by Jesuits. He then embarked on an ecclesiastical career, but declined to be ordained. *Dies extrema mundi (1780) *David Goliath triumphator (1780) *Jonathas (1781) *Salomon rex Israel electus (1782) *Aurea statua a rege Nabucodonosor erecta vel pueri Hebraei in fornace ardentis ignis (1783) *Prudens Abiga (1784) *Moyses ad Rubum (1785) *Absalonis rebellio (1785) *Sisara (1786) *Abraham et Isach (1786) *De solemni Baltassar convivio (1787) *Judith triumphans (1787) *De solemni nuptiae in domum Lebani (1788) *Triumphus Jephte (1789) *Bethulia liberata (based on Betulia liberata by Pietro Metastasio, 1790) *Gedeon (1792) *De filio prodigo (1800) *Primum fatale homicidium (1800) *Il trion

Bonaventura Somma

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Bonaventura Somma ( Chianciano Terme 30 July 1893Rome 23 October 1960) was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor and organist. Life Bonaventura Somma was born in Chianciano Terme - small town located in the province of Siena, on July 30, 1893. As a young man he attended the conservatory in Rome, where he was trained in music, having been a student of various modern composers including Ottorino Respighi. After finishing his studies, he became a professor for many years at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and directed the Choirs of the “Augusteo” for several years. Always in Rome, he founded the Polyphonic Choir of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, in which he was permanent director until end of his life. He also worked with the most important conductors and composers of his time (Karajan, Toscanini, Perosi, etc.). For many years he was director of the Musical Chapel of San Luigi dei Francesi. Choirs * Requiem Mass * Pentecost * Hail Mary * Symphony and Variations Revisions and transcripts Somma carried out an intense activity of transcription and revision of XVI to XVII century scores for choir, including several Palestrina’s Masses and Madrigal works by Banchieri stand out

Bongani Ndodana-Breen

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Bongani Ndodana-Breen (born 1975, in Queenstown, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa), is a South African-born composer, musician, academic and cultural activist. He is a member of the Xhosa clan. He was educated at St. Andrew’s College and Rhodes University in Grahamstown (where he graduated with a PhD in Music Composition ) and also studied composition in Stellenbosch under Roelof Temmingh. In 1998 Ndodana-Breen was the first Black classical composer to be awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music, by the National Arts Festival and sponsored by Standard Bank of South Africa. He was one of Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans and was profiled on CNN African Voices for his work Harmonia Ubuntu commissioned for the centenary of Nelson Mandela and based on his writings and speeches. He is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University for the 2019/2020 academic year. Dr. Ndodana-Breen’s music is a blend of African and classical styles. Some of his music reflects on various scenes from his native Xhosa culture (such as Hintsa’s Dances, which is based on the life of Paramount Chief Hintsa ka Khawuta, Apologia at Umzimvubu and Sons of The Grea

Bonifazio Asioli

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Bonifazio Asioli (30 April 176926 May 1832) was an Italian composer of classical and church music. Biography Born in Correggio, Asioli was a child prodigy, commencing his study of music at five years of age, and having composed several masses and a piano concerto by the age of eight. By the time he was eighteen, he had composed five masses, twenty-four other works for church and theatre, and many instrumental pieces. Later, Asioli became a student of Angelo Morigi. Asioli is the author of theoretical treatises on music, which were published by Ricordi in Milan, and also a Trio for mandolin, violin and bass; a Duo for two voices with guitar accompaniment, published by Ricordi, and two methods for the guitar — a short one published by Ricordi and a more comprehensive work published by B. Girard & Co., of Naples. This latter work contained a diagram of the instrument and airs arranged for guitar solo. In 1787, he moved from Correggio to Turin, where he resided for nine years. In 1796, he accompanied the Duchess Gherardini to Venice, where he remained until 1799. He lived in Paris in 1810 in the service of the Empress Marie Louise, and remained there until the fall of the empire, when

Bonifazio Graziani

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Bonifazio Graziani (1604/05 in Marino near Rome – 15 June 1664, in Rome) was an Italian organist, composer and clergyman in the Baroque period. Works Published in print: * Motetti a due, tre, quattro, cinque, e sei voci (Op. 1), Rom Vitale Mascardi, 1650 * Il secondo libro de motetti a due, tre, quattro, cinque e sei voci(Op. 2), Rom Vitale Mascardi, 1652 * Il primo libro de motetti a voce sola (Op. 3), Roma, Vitale Mascardi 1652; weitere Auflagen bei Maurizio Balmonti 1655, Ignazio de Lazzari 1661 * Psalmi vespertini quinque vocibus cum organo, et sine organo decantandi… lib. I, opus quartum (Op. 4), Rom Nicolo Germani/Vitale Mascardi 1652 * Psalmi vespertini quinque vocibus concinendi, opus quintum (Op. 5), Rom Vitale Mascardi, 1653 * Il secondo libro de motetti a voce sola. opera sesta (Op. 6), Rom Maurizio Balmonti, 1655 * Motetti a due, tre, e cinque voci… libro terzo, opera settima (Op. 7), Rom Maurizio Balmonti, 1656 * Il terzo libro de motetti a voce sola… opera ottava (Op. 8), Rom Giacomo Fei, 1658 * Responsoria hebdomadae sanctae, quatuor vocibus concinenda, una cum organo si placet (Op. 9), Rom Ignazio de Lazari, 1663 * Del quarto libro de motetti a voce sola… op

Borghild Holmsen

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Borghild Holmsen (22 October 1865 – 4 December 1938) was a Norwegian pianist, teacher, music critic and composer. She is thought to be the first Norwegian woman to perform a concert featuring only her own compositions. Early life and education Borghild Holmsen was born on 22 October 1865 in Vevelstad, Akershus to proprietor Thorvald Holmsen. When she was 7 years old, her family settled in Christiania (now Oslo). She began playing the piano at an early age and soon began composing compositions. Holmsen studied piano with Agathe Backer-Grøndahl and Otto Winter-Hjelm, and then in 1885 joined the Music Conservatory in Leipzig where she was tutored by Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn, as well as by Albert Becker in Berlin. She made her debut in 1890 in Christiania. Her first work, a violin sonata in G major, was performed at one of the conservatory’s public student concerts, which received positive attention. Despite this, she was rejected for a scholarship to further her studies. Holmsen remained in Leipzig, where she became a piano teacher. But she still continued to perform concerts during this time, including a matinee in December 1895 at the Blüthner-Saal in Berlin. Between 1890

Boris Arapov

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Boris Aleksandrovich Arapov (; 12 September 1905 in Saint Petersburg – 27 January 1992 in Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian composer. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1976). Life and career Arapov grew up in Poltava, Ukraine, and took his first musical instruction class there. He moved to Petrograd (formerly Saint Petersburg) in 1921, and took piano lessons with Maria Yudina. However, a hand disease later forced him to abandon piano playing. Arapov oriented himself first of all towards the officially desirable composition style and worked primarily with nationalist elements, mainly restricting his subject matter to Russian folklore. However, from around 1960, his compositional style started to become more experimental, introducing a more complicated harmonic, rhythmic and sound colour. As subject matter, he more often selected works of literature. Although this later work is generally tonal, the levels of internal discord are higher than previously. In his very last works, Arapov introduced a religious subject matter. Selected works Orchestral * Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1947) * Symphony No. 2 in D major (1959) * Symphony No. 3 (1963) * Symphony No. 4 for voices, choir and o

Boris Asafyev

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Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev (29 July 188427 January 1949; also known by pseudonym Igor Glebov) was a Russian and Soviet composer, writer, musicologist, musical critic and one of founders of Soviet musicology. He is the dedicatee of Prokofiev’s First Symphony. He was born in Saint Petersburg. Asafyev had a strong influence on Soviet music. His compositions included ballets, operas, symphonies, concertos and chamber music. His ballets included Flames of Paris, based on the French Revolution, and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, which was first performed in 1934, and was performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 2006. His writings, under the name Igor Glebov, included The Symphonic etudes , The Book about Stravinsky and Glinka (for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1948). Selected works ;Opera * The Cashier’s Wife * Minin and Pozharsky * The Girl without a Dowry ;Ballets * The Fairy Gift (1910) * White Lily (1911) * Flames of Paris (1931) * The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (1936) * The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1938) * The Rustic Lady * The Stone Guest (1946) ;Orchestra * 5 Symphonies * Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (1939) * Concerto for guitar and chamber orchestr

Boris Berlin

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Boris Berlin (27 May 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a Canadian pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer of Russian birth. He is primarily remembered for his work within the field of piano pedagogy, having published an extensive amount of material in that area and teaching a large number of notable pianists. His more than 20 books on the subject of piano pedagogy sold more than 4 million copies. In 2000 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada with the citation “Known as the teacher of teachers, he profoundly influenced musical instruction in our country. Having taught some of Canada’s most illustrious musicians, he was known for his extensive contribution to pedagogical material and for his piano pieces for young performers.” In February 2026, The Toronto Star published a first-person account by a former student who alleged that Berlin sexually abused her during piano lessons when she was 15 years old while studying at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Life and career Born in Kharkov, Russian Empire, Berlin began his professional musical education at the Sevastopol Conservatory. From 1923 to 1925 he attended the Conservatoire de Genève and then pursued further studies at the

Boris Blacher

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Boris Blacher (19 January 190330 January 1975) was a German composer and librettist. Life Blacher was born when his parents (of German-Estonian and Russian backgrounds) were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang () (hence the use of the Julian calendar on his birth record). He spent his first years in China and in the Asian parts of Russia, and in 1919, he eventually came to live in Harbin. In 1922 he went to Berlin where he began to study first architecture, mathematics, and then music at the Berlin Hochschule fuer Musik. He found work arranging popular and film music. Two years later, he turned to music and studied composition with Friedrich Koch. His career was interrupted by National Socialism. He was accused of writing degenerate music and lost his teaching post at the Dresden Conservatory. His career resumed after 1945, and he later became president of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and is today regarded as one of the most influential music figures of his time. His students include Aribert Reimann, Isang Yun, Maki Ishii, Fritz Geißler, Giselher Klebe, Heimo Erbse, Richard Aaker Trythall, Klaus Huber, Francis Burt, Gottfried von Einem, Ka

Boris Brott

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Boris Brott, (March 14, 1944 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker. He conducted on stages around the world, including Carnegie Hall, La Scala, and Covent Garden. Over his career, he commissioned, performed, and recorded a wide variety of Canadian works for orchestra. Brott was the founder and artistic director of the Brott Music Festival, National Academy Orchestra of Canada and BrottOpera all based in Hamilton, Ontario. He was the founding Music Director and Conductor Laureate of the New West Symphony in Thousand Oaks, CA and artistic director and conductor of the Orchestre classique de Montreal (formerly the McGill Chamber Orchestra). He was a former Principal Youth and Family conductor with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, where he led family and education programs. Early life and emerging career Boris Jeremiah Brott was born in Montreal in 1944 to violinist and composer Alexander Brott and cellist Lotte/Charlotte Brott (née Goetzel). His younger brother is cellist Denis Brott. His mother was born in Mannheim, Germany, a country she had left in 1939 because of the Nazis. His family was Jewish. He studied v

Boris Fitinhof-Schell

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Baron Boris Alexandrovich Fitinhoff-Schell (; 26 August 1829 in Morshansk – 26 September 1901 in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian composer of Baltic German descent. Biography Fitinhoff-Schell was born to Baltic German noble Baron Alexander Otto von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel and Yelisevet Pavlovna Yazykova. The Vietinghoff family, was considered part of the Uradel (or old nobility), the family was of Westphalian origin, originating in Essen. The Baltic branch had moved to the Baltics since the 14th Century. Even though Boris’ father was a Lutheran, he was baptised an Orthodox, because his mother was a Russian. Fitinhoff-Schell was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Field and Henselt, and was a classmate of Tchaikovsky’s. His most noted work are the ballets The Haarlem Tulip (1887) and Cinderella (1893), composed for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. He also scored four operas for the St. Petersburg Imperial Opera, which were commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres. His Wedding March, scored especially for the wedding of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna is still occasionally heard. Fitinhoff-Schell is also noted for his F

Boris Kõrver

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Boris Kõrver (12 April 1917 – 17 August 1994) was an Estonian composer. Biography Kõrver was born in Revel 12 April 1917. In 1950, he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in composition specialty. During World War II, he belonged to State Artistic Ensembles of the Estonian SSR in Yaroslavl. Since 1944, he was a member of Estonian Composers’ Union. From 1953 to 1966, he was deputy chairman and from 1966 to 1974 chairman of Estonian Composers’ Union. His daughter is director and cinematographer Marianne Kõrver. He died 17 August 1994 in Tallinn. Awards * Two Estonian SSR State Prizes (1949, 1950) * Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1951) * Merited Art Worker of the Estonian SSR (1955) * Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1956, 1971) * People’s Artist of the Estonian SSR (1965) * Order of the Badge of Honour (1967) * Order of Friendship of Peoples Works * Author manuscript “Our school life” (1955) https://www.emic.ee/?sisu=kasikirjad&mid=230&lang=eng&action=view&id=11468&tid=15879 * operette “Ainult unistus” (1955) * operette “Laanelill” (1959) * operette “Teie soov palun?” (1962) * musical “Mees pisuhännaga” (1968) * musical “Kapsad ja kuningad” (1971) References

Boris Kovač

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Boris Kovač (; born 1955) is a Serbian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Biography Kovač was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina region of Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. He studied on the accordion as a child and later received one year of instruction on saxophone, but is self-taught on a wide array of instruments. In 1977 he formed Meta Sekcija, a jazz group. Kovač released his first album, Ritual Nova, in 1986 in Yugoslavia, and Recommended Records of the United Kingdom released its 1989 follow-up, Ritual Nova 2, as part of its eastern European music series, Points East. In 1989, Kovač established Ogledalo, a chamber music theater group in Novi Sad. From 1991 to 1996, Kovač lived in Italy, Slovenia and Austria to escape the Yugoslav wars, but he returned to Serbia following the cessation of fighting. Inspired by the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the Kosovo War, he formed La Danza Apocalyptica Balcanica, shortened to LaDaABa Orchest, in 2001. The group played ballroom dance music “to exorcise the madness of war.” In 2002, Kovač founded Kachara Records (from the Serbian качар kačar) named for his family house in Bukovac (part of the Petrovaradin municipality in the city of Novi Sa

Boris Krasin (composer)

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Boris Borisovich Krasin (3 (15) April 1884, Tyumen–21 June 1936) was a Russian musician who was politically active in Proletkult and the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians. Early life Boris was the fifth and youngest son of Boris Ivanovich Krasin, chief of police in Tyumen. Leonid Krasin was one of his brothers. Musical career Krasin was head of the Moscow Proletkult’s Music Department in which capacity he claimed that the music provided in restaurants and cabarets was anti-art. He set poems to music such as Andrei Bely’s “Чающие” (Tea Lovers), “Одиночество” (Loneliness) and “Осень” (Autumn). He is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. Texts *1920 “С чего и как начинать работу в области музыкального искусства” (Where and how to start working in the field of musical art) Proletarskaya Kul’tura, No.17-19, August – December, 1920 References

Boris Midney

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Boris Midney (born October 22, 1937) is a Soviet-born American musician, producer, composer and conductor. Biography Midney was born in Moscow to a conductor and pianist father and classical singer mother. He studied classical composition and clarinet also teaching himself to play saxophone. In 1964 he defected from the USSR via the US embassy in Japan. After arriving in New York City, he formed The Russian Jazz Quartet with whom he recorded an album for Impulse Records. In the 1960s, Midney married Tania Armour from the Armour & Company family. Later, Midney became a prolific composer and producer of disco music although he rarely was credited under his own name. Using guises such as USA-European Connection, Masquerade, Double Discovery, Caress, Companion and Festival, Midney produced a large body of disco music. He is recognised as being among the first producers to take full advantage of 48-track recording and one of the creators of the Eurodisco genre. Among his productions were disco adaptations of the Broadway musical Evita and of the score for The Empire Strikes Back. Describing his disco music, critics Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen wrote: On the Mount Olympus of disco there

Boris Parsadanian

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Boris Khristoforovich Parsadanian (, ; May 14, 1925 – May 14, 1997) was a Soviet Armenian and Estonian composer, violinist, and arts administrator. Biography Parsadanian was born in Kislovodsk, Russian SFSR, in 1925. He began his musical studies in Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR, studying violin with Anton Gerbler. Later he moved to Moscow and enrolled at the Armenian House of Culture, where he studied with . His studies were interrupted by his military service in World War II, during which he was decorated. After the war Parsadanian enrolled in the Gnessin Institute where he studied composition and violin. He resumed studies with Litinsky and also began studying orchestration with Nikolai Timofeyev. He was well liked by his classmates for his playing and personality, but school staff initially disapproved of his behavior, particularly his constant playing of excerpts from Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto. Parsadanian graduated in 1950. His first work to earn success was his Piano Trio, which was premiered at a student concert; the piano part was played by fellow student Yevgeny Svetlanov. This was followed by his tone poem David of Sassoun, which was based on the eponymous hero from the

Boris Porena

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Boris Porena (Rome, 27 September 1927 - Cantalupo in Sabina, 3 May 2022) was an Italian thinker, music composer and didactical expert. He was married to Paola Bučan, a famous Croatian cellist and teacher who, until her retirement in 2014 was a tenured professor at the Conservatorio di Musica in Perugia (Italy). He was a disciple of Goffredo Petrassi – alongside other distinguished musicians such as Ennio Morricone, Aldo Clementi, and Sergio Cafaro. Although he was initially influenced by neoclassical poetics, he later evolved towards the use of the harmonic language of the late Renaissance period, which he has used with originality in order to build his own musical research which directly influenced his later compositional processes. He started composing when only 12 years old. His career is effectively in two distinct and different periods – the first being up until 1967 during which time he gained a wide national and international success. From 1968, as consequence of the evolution of both his thought and his social involvement, he abstained from composing, a period which lasted for the next twenty years. During that time he devoted himself to a grassroots cultural practice and s

Boris Sobinov

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Boris Leonidovich Sobinov (; 1895 in Moscow – 1956 in Klin) was a Russian composer and a son of Leonid Sobinov, Russia’s leading lyric tenor during the first quarter of the 20th Century. Biography Boris was the first child born to Maria Karzhavina, a dramatic actress, and Leonid Sobinov, a famous opera singer, who had met as schoolmates at the Philharmonic Society. Though their union dissolved after only a few years, Leonid remained an active and loving presence in the lives of Boris and his younger brother Yuri (1897-1920). Boris received a military education while obtaining musical training. His younger brother Yuri (1897–1920) was a visual artist and painted the pictured oil portrait of Boris at the piano (1910). Both brothers served in the tsarist army, and then in the White Army during the Civil War. Yuri was killed near Melitopol. Boris, along with army baron Pyotr Wrangel, managed to escape to Germany. He later graduated from Berlin’s High Art School, where he later taught. Throughout his professorial years, he continued to compose his own works. Leonid and Boris reunited as Leonid toured Berlin. In 1931 Boris settled in Riga, where Leonid spent much of a one-year sabbatical

Boris Tchaikovsky

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Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (; 10 September 1925 – 7 February 1996), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music, and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (to whom he was not related ) and especially Mussorgsky. He was admired by Dmitri Shostakovich, with whom he studied, who (according to Per Skans in his notes for a recording) suggested in a letter of 1 February 1969 to Isaak Glikman, that “If Barshai’s orchestra (the Moscow chamber orchestra) makes a guest appearance in Leningrad playing Vainberg’s Tenth Symphony and Boris Tchaikovsky’s Sinfonietta, you really have to hear them”. Of his larger-scale works almost all have been recorded. Boris Tchaikovsky generally wrote in a tonal style, although he made brief forays into serialism. Selected works ;Stage * The Star (Звезда), unfinished opera in three scenes (1949); libretto by David Samoilov after the novel by Emmanuil Kazakevich; Moscow Conservatory diploma-work ; Orchestral * Procession (Шествие) (1946) * Symphony No.1 (1947) * Fantasia on Russian Folk Themes (Фа

Boris Tishchenko

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Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko (Russian Бори́с Ива́нович Ти́щенко; 23 March 1939 – 9 December 2010) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Life Tishchenko was born in Leningrad. He studied at the Leningrad Musical College from 1954 to 1957. There he learnt composition under Galina Ustvolskaya and piano under Mikhelis. Then from 1957 to 1963 he studied composition with Vadim Salmanov, Victor Voloshinov and Orest Evlakhov, and piano with L. Logovinski at the Leningrad Conservatory. He took a postgraduate course with the composer Dmitri Shostakovich from 1962 to 1965. He subsequently joined the faculty of the Leningrad Conservatory from 1965, and became a professor there in 1986. Tischenko was married three times. His first marriage, to the pianist Anastasia Braudo, produced a son, Dmitri. His second wife was the singer Galina Kulichenko, and the couple had a son, Vsevolod. Both of these marriages ended in divorce. His third wife was the harpist Irina Donskaya, and their marriage produced a son, Andrei. His third wife and all of his sons survived him. Music His output includes eight numbered symphonies, nine unnumbered symphonies, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, a piano

Boris Yoffe

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Boris Yoffe (, ; born 21 December 1968 in St. Petersburg) is a Russian-born Israeli composer, resident of Karlsruhe, Germany. Biography Boris Yoffe initially studied violin but turned to composing early, premiering his first works in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1983. He emigrated to Israel before the break-up of Soviet Union and completed his composition studies at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Later he moved to Karlsruhe, Germany to study with Wolfgang Rihm in 1997. Yoffe was a scholarship holder from various foundations; In 2000 he received the prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Around that time, the composer began composing a series of short one-page pieces for string quartet. These were given a performance at ZKM in Karlsruhe in May 2003 and recorded on the ECM label by the Rosamunde Quartett with the Hilliard Ensemble. Boris Yoffe himself considers his work not specifically national: Russian, Israeli or German, but in principle ″belonging to all three cultures″. Yoffe is also the author of numerous arrangements and arrangements as well as several musicological and philosophical essays. References *Website of Boris Yoffe *Profil Boris Yoff

Borja Penalba

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Borja Penalba Catalá (born 1975 in Valencia, Spain) is a composer, record producer, arranger and musician. He has worked with and for, among others, Feliu Ventura, Lluís Llach, Maria del Mar Bonet, Lluís Danés, Obrint Pas, Miquel Gil, , , Sílvia Pérez Cruz, , Albert Pla, , Elena Gadel, , and . He also was a member of the Valencian rock band Dropo. Main works * Original soundtrack for “3D Flames”, the first 3D documentary about the Falles of Valencia, directed by Paulí Subirà, released at l’Hemisfèric (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) of València on 27 February 2013. * Original soundtrack for the documentary film “Interior de Paisatge”, directed by Elisenda Trilla. A production by Setmàgic Audiovisual and Televisió de Catalunya. * Original soundtrack for the documentary film “Enxaneta”, directed by Paulí Subirà. A 3D production by TV3. (review:* Original soundtrack, together with Lluís Llach, musical director, arranger and live musician for the http://www.lluisdanes.com Lluís Danés’ show Llits (Beds) * Original soundtrack and sound effects for some flashes or visual poems created by Lluís Danés for the cultural TV show Ànima broadcast by the Catalan channel Canal 33 * Original sou

Borlet

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Borlet was a 14th- and 15th-century composer. Little is known about his life. It is thought that his name is an anagram of Trebol, a French composer who served Martin of Aragon in 1409 at the same time as Gacian Reyneau and other composers in the Codex Chantilly. If this Trebol is the same as Trebor then he has seven surviving compositions. If not then he is only known for his virelai ‘He tres doulz roussignol’ and its variation ‘Ma tre dol rosignol’, which is also a virelai. See also *Trebor References Further reading * * French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950 . * Fuller, Sarah. The European Musical Heritage 800-1750, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987 . * Besseler, Heinrich. ‘Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts’, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252 ( Hé, tres doulz roussignol joly; Roussignolet du bois, dounés). * Günther, Ursula. ‘Der Gebrauch des tempus perfectum diminutum in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047’, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960): 277-297, p. 297 ( Hé, tres doulz roussignol joly; Roussignolet du bo

Borys Lyatoshynsky

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Borys Mykolaiovych Lyatoshynsky, also known as Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshinsky, (3 January 1895 15 April 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of 20th century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin Prizes. He received his primary education at home, where Polish literature and history was held in high esteem. After completing school in 1913, he entered the Faculty of Law at Kyiv University, and as a graduate was employed to teach music at the Kyiv Conservatory. During the 1910s, Lyatoshynsky wrote 31 works of various musical genres. During the 1930s he travelled to Tajikistan to study folk music and compose a ballet about the life of local people. From 1935 to 1938, and from 1941 to 1944, he taught orchestration at the Moscow Conservatory. During the war, Lyatoshynsky was evacuated and taught at the Conservatory’s branch in Saratov, where he worked on arrangements of Ukrainian songs, and organised the transportation of Ukrainian musical manuscripts away to safety. Lyatoshynsky’s main works are his operas The Golden Ring (192

Borys Yanovskyi

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Borys Karlovych Yanovskyi or Janowsky () (31 December 1875, Moscow19 January 1933, Kharkiv) was a Russian/Ukrainian composer, music critic, conductor and teacher of German origin. His actual surname was Siegl. Yanovskyi lived and worked in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kyiv and Kharkiv. Biography Borys Karlovych Yanovskyi was born on 19/31 December 1875 in Moscow, the son of a German, Karl Siegl. His initial musical training was undertaken by his father, before he became a student of E. A. Ryb. Yanovskyi lived in Kyiv until 1910, where he graduated from and Kyiv University (1903). He worked as a conductor, teacher, and critic. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1910. Between 1916 and 1917, he was the conductor of the Zimin Opera in Moscow. In 1918, he travelled back to Ukraine, becoming a teacher at the Music Technical College and the Music and Drama Institute in Kharkiv. Member of the editorial board of the journal. “Music”, head of the music department of the newspaper “Communist” in Kharkiv. Member of the Kharkiv branch of MTL. He worked in Kyiv as an employee of periodicals and magazines, at the same time he taught, had conducting practice and wrote critical articles. He was the first e

Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg

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Sigwart Botho Philipp August zu Eulenburg, Count of Eulenburg (10 January 1884 – 2 June 1915) was the second son of Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921) and his wife Augusta, born Countess of Sandels (1853–1941) and a German late romantic composer who fell in the First World War. Childhood and studies Prince zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld was born in Munich, but the family seat was the castle and estate of Liebenberg in the region of Brandenburg, north of Berlin. Art and music played a central role in family affairs. The prince himself played and composed music and wrote poetry and romances (the famous Rosenlieder and Scandinavian Cantos) and was a friend and confidant of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who regularly visited Liebenberg. He supported his gifted son and daughter Victoria, familiarly called Tora, who was a pianist, and they grew up in a musical environment at the castle of Liebenberg Sigwart showed his musical talent at a young age. Already at seven he composed songs by ear and at eight years old he began music lessons in Munich and Vienna, devoting himself to musical composition and improvising at the piano, often when the emperor visited them at Liebenberg. Emperor Wilhelm even comm

Boudewijn Buckinx

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Boudewijn Buckinx (born 28 March 1945, in Lommel) is a Belgian composer and writer on music. Buckinx attended the Antwerp Conservatory, and from 1964 studied composition and serial music with Lucien Goethals in Ghent, where he also studied electronic music at the IPEM. In 1968 he attended Stockhausen’s composition studio in Darmstadt and participated in the composition of Stockhausen’s Musik für ein Haus, contributing a quintet for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, and cello titled Atoom. However, his principal influences are Mauricio Kagel and John Cage. He also studied musicology at the Catholic University of Leuven, graduating in 1972 with a dissertation on Cage’s Variations. Writings *1994. De kleine pomo: of, de muziekgeschiedenis van het postmodernisme. Peer: Alamire. . *1999. (With Yves Knockaert). Muziek uit de voorbije eeuw. Peer: Alamire. . *2001. Aria van de diepe noot: verzamelde commentaren. Peer: Alamire. . Compositions (selective list) * Sløjd, for mixed media (1968) * Piotr Lunaire, for narrator, one singer, and piano (1985) * Ce qu’on entend dans la salle de concert, for orchestra (1987) * In de buurt van Neptunus, for cello and piano (1987) * 1001 Sonatas, for

Bowser and Blue

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George Bowser and Rick Blue (real name Richard Elger), better known as Bowser and Blue, are a musical duo from Montreal who write and perform comedic songs. Their material ranges from absurdist humor (“I’ve Got a Great Big Dick”, “Canadian Psychedelic Snowboarding Team”, “I’m in Like with a Dyke Named Spike”) to pointed political and cultural satire (“You Should Speak French”, “Driving in Quebec”, “Bouchard’s Speech”, “Clinton’s Thing”, “Rappin’ Rambo”). History Elger spent the 1960s performing folk music in coffee houses, and played in two bands: Mantis, and The British North American Act. He met singer/songwriter George Bowser, also a long-time member of the Montreal music scene, and they began performing as a duo in 1978. Their first gig was at Montreal’s Irish Lancer pub, but comedy clubs were becoming very popular and the duo discovered their comedic talent early in the 1980s. They then went on a North American tour as the opening band for Katrina and the Waves; that tour introduced them to the college market. In 1986, they were signed to Justin Time Records and released their first album, Bowser & Blue, which featured contributions from Katrina and the Waves members Kimberley

Boyd McDonald (composer)

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Boyd McDonald (born 28 September 1932) is a Canadian pianist, fortepianist, composer, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output includes works for choirs, bands, orchestras, and art songs. His works have been performed throughout Canada and Europe by ensembles like the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Renaissance Singers, the Scholars of London, Symphony Hamilton, the Waterloo Chamber Players, and the Wellington Winds among others. A documentary film regarding Boyd’s life, “From the City of Bridges to the City of Lights”, premiered on 27 October 2024 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Early life and education Born in Tuberose, Saskatchewan, McDonald studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music where he earned an associate diploma in 1951 and a licentiate diploma in 1953. Among his teachers were Murray Adaskin (music composition) and Lyell Gustin (piano). A grant from the Canada Council enabled him to pursue further studies in Paris from 1957 to 1960 with Nadia Boulanger (composition) and Jean Casadesus (piano). He also studied composition in the summers with John Cage, Darius Milhaud, and Stefan Wolpe. Career In 1963 McDonald won the Lescheti

Božidar Kantušer

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Božidar Kantušer (Bozidar Kantuser) (December 5, 1921, Pavlovski Vrh, Slovenia – May 9, 1999, Paris) was a Slovene composer of classical music. He was a Slovenian citizen and an American citizen. Kantušer is the author of symphonic music, ballets, chamber music and solo pieces. He lived in France since 1950. He was married to the American painter Grace Renzi. Since 1968, Kantušer was the director of the International Library of Contemporary Music (B.I.M.C.). He is buried in Paris, at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Music List of compositions by Božidar Kantušer Life Božidar Kantušer was born on the farm of Pavlovski vrh, in the countryside of northeastern Slovenia. He was the first of the five children of Blaž Kantušer and his wife Katarina, born Hočevar. The father, from a family of farmers near Celje, and the mother, from a family of blacksmiths from Kamnik, were both employed in Ljutomer after World War I and lived at Pavlovski vrh, close to Ljutomer, from 1919 to 1929. The rural environment, the cultural heritage and the nature of his native Prlekija, where he lived the first seven years, left a lasting impression on the composer. The dances of masks of pagan origin (Kurenti) and t

Božidar Širola

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Dr. Božidar Širola (1889 in Žakanje – 1956 in Zagreb) was a Croatian composer, organologist, musicologist, ethnomusicologist, and museum administrator. He is known as a composer of almost all musical forms in classical music. Compositions * V protuletju: pet stavaka za sopran i gudački kvartet op. E.5 * 24 dvoglasne invencije u svim dur i mol premetima za klavir (24 two part inventions in all major and minor keys for piano) * Suita iz “Šume Striborove” for piano * Düsseldorfer Foxtrott (Text: Peter Korfmacher) (22.VI.1955) * Koncertni andante, op. D 24 * Plavo more - tango * Žudnja : (sopran i klavir) (12.II.1947) Oratorios * Zrtva Abrahamova (Abraham’s Sacrifice)(1924) * Zivot, i spomen slavnih ucitelja sv. brace Cirila i Metoda, apostola slavenskih (The Lives and Memory of the Glorious Teachers and Brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs - oratorio)(1927) * Posljednja pricest sv. Jeronima (The Last Communion of St. Jerome)(1928) * Muka i smrt Kristuseva (The Passion and Death of Christ)(1928) * Seljak (The Peasant)(1931) Piano sonatas * IX. sonata za klavir f-mol (25-IX-1955) * VIII. sonata za klavir F-dur (Zagreb 1954) * VII. sonata za klavir d-mol (Zagreb 19