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C. A. Bracco

C. A. Bracco (Calogero Adolfo Bracco, 45 years old, Biella (Piedmont); born ?, Genova; died 1905.01.22) was an Italian mandolinist, violinist and conductor, deserving notice by his compositions for

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Cacilda Borges Barbosa

Cacilda Campos Borges Barbosa (18 May 1914 – 6 August 2010) was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer. She was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Brazil. After completing her education,

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Caesar Hochstetter

Caesar Hochstetter (also known by the pen name Caesar Ahrlsteller) was an organist and a composer, arranger and critic of music from a talented Jewish family. Born 12 January 1863 in Ladenburg, a

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Caiphus Semenya

Caiphus Semenya (born 19 August 1939) is a South African composer and musician. As a young musician he sang in the cast of the jazz musical King Kong. After moving to the United States in the 1960s

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Cajus Schmiedtlein

Cajus Schmiedtlein (c. 15551611) was a German Renaissance composer and organist and is best known for his time as the organist at St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk. His name appears in different spelling

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Caleb Simper

Caleb Simper (12 September 1856 – 28 August 1942) was an English composer and church organist. He gained fame for his prolific output of choral cantatas, anthems and organ works, which were widely

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Calixa Lavallée

Calixa Lavallée (; December 28, 1842 – January 21, 1891) was a Canadian musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War. He was born in the Province of Canada. He is best known

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Callie Bonney Marble

Callie Bonney Marble was an American author and lyricist. Early life Callie Bonney was born in Peoria, Illinois, where her father, Charles C. Bonney, was a young lawyer just beginning practice. He

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Calliope Tsoupaki

Calliope Tsoupaki (; born 27 May 1963) is a Greek pianist and composer. Biography Calliope Tsoupaki was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellinicon Conservatory in

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Calvin Jackson (pianist)

John Calvin Jackson (May 26, 1919 – December 9, 1985) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Background He was born in Philadelphia in 1919 to Harry and Margaret Jackson. His mother

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Calvin Jones (composer)

Calvin P. Jones (born May 3, 1966) is an American musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and pianist. He composed the hit song "Whitewater Chopped Sticks" popular in talent shows, recitals

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Camara Kambon

Camara Kambon (born February 4, 1973) is an American film composer, songwriter, pianist, music producer and educator. He is known for collaborating with Dr. Dre on Chronic 2001, as well as Eminem on

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Camargo Guarnieri

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer. Guarnieri was born in Tietê, São Paulo. He studied piano, composition, and conducting in São Paulo and Paris.

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Cameron Sinclair (composer)

Cameron Sinclair is a Scottish composer, conductor and percussionist based in London. Education He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the University of Sussex, studying

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Camilla de Rossi

Camilla de Rossi (fl. 1670–1710) was an Italian composer known for her oratorios composed in Vienna during the early 1700s. She is recognized for having the most surviving works of any female

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Camilla Gottschalck

Camilla Gottschalck is a Danish composer, singer, and musician. She has a musical education as a singer and musician (drums, piano). Camilla Gottschalck has also many years of experience as a

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Camilla Kolchinsky

Camilla Alexandrovna Kolchinsky (Russian: Камилла Александровна Кольчинская; 25 December 1931 – 16 February 2016) was a Jewish conductor who was born in Russia. She was born in Moscow and made her

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Camille Decreus

Camille Léo Ernest Decreus (sometimes spelt as "Camille DeCreus" or "Camille de Creus") (23 September 1876 – 26 September 1939) was a French composer and pianist. Biography Decreus was born in Paris

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Camille Erlanger

Camille Erlanger (25 May 186324 April 1919) was a French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes (composition), Georges Mathias (piano), as well as Émile Durand and

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Camille Kerger

Camille Kerger (born 1957) is a Luxembourgish composer, opera singer and music teacher. In 1996, he was a founding member of the Théâtre National de Luxembourg which he directed until 2006. Since

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (, ; 9October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo

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Camillo Cortellini

Camillo Cortellini (24 January 156112/13 February 1630) was an Italian composer, singer, and violinist. Biography Cortellini was born in Bologna, and was the son of the composer Gaspare "the viola"

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Camillo Schumann

Camillo Schumann (10 March 1872 – 29 December 1946) was a German late Romantic composer and organist. Life Schumann was born in Königstein as one of twelve children of the city music director Clemens

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Camillo Sivori

Ernesto Camillo Sivori (June 6, 1817 – February 18, 1894) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer. Life Early life Born in Genoa, he was the only known pupil of Niccolò Paganini. He also

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Camillo Togni

Camillo Togni (18 October 1922 – 28 November 1993) was an Italian composer, teacher, and pianist. Coming from a family of independent means, he was able to pursue his art as he saw fit, regardless of

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Canadian League of Composers

The Canadian League of Composers (CLC) is an organization formed in 1951 of Canadian composers primarily interested in raising awareness and acceptance of Canadian music. Its activities are overseen

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Canary Burton

Canary Lee Burton (born September 16, 1942) is an American keyboardist, composer and writer. Biography Burton was born on September 16, 1942, in Richmond, California. In 1972 she moved to Moscow,

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Candelario Huízar

Candelario Huízar García de la Cadena (2 February 1883 – 3 May 1970, Mexico City) was a Mexican composer, musician and music teacher. He completed four symphonies, leaving a fifth unfinished, and a

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Capel Bond

Capel Bond (14 December 1730 – 14 February 1790) was an English organist and composer. Life and career He was born in Gloucester, the son of William Bond and the younger brother of painter and

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Caravelli

Caravelli (born Claude Vasori; 12 September 1930 – 1 April 2019) was a French orchestra leader, composer and arranger of orchestral music. Biography He was born on 12 September 1930 in Paris. The son

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Carel Anton Fodor

Carel Anton Fodor or Carolus Antonius Fodor (12 April 1768 – 22 February 1846) was a Dutch pianist, conductor, and the most prominent composer of his generation in the Netherlands, writing in the

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Carin Bartosch Edström

Carin Bartosch Edström (born 1965 in Malmö) is a Swedish composer and author, and is especially interested in opera. Biography Bartosch Edström had an international upbringing. Though she spent some

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Carl Almenräder

Carl Almenräder (3 October 1786 – 14 September 1843) was a German bassoonist, inventor and composer. The design of the modern bassoon owes a great deal to Almenräder, who, assisted by the German

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Carl Andreas Göpfert

Carl Andreas Göpfert (or Goepfert) (1768–1818) was a German virtuoso clarinettist, and composer. Göpfert composed in several genres, including symphonies, concerti, wind ensembles, sonatas, and

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Carl Arnold (composer)

Carl Arnold (full name Friedrich Carl Gottfried Arnold; 6 May 1794 – 11 November 1873) was a German pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and organist. From 1848 he lived in Christiania (now Oslo) in

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Carl August Thielo

Carl August Thielo (February 7, 1707 – December 3, 1763) was a Danish composer. theatre entrepreneur, music teacher, organist from the Electorate of Saxony. He spent most of his life in Copenhagen

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Carl Baermann

Carl Baermann (24 October 1810 – 23 May 1885) was a clarinetist and composer from Munich, Germany. He should not be confused with his son, the pianist and composer Carl Baermann (1839–1913). Life and

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Carl Baermann (pianist)

Carl Baermann (9 July 1839 – 17 January 1913) was a German-born American pianist and composer. He should not be confused with his father, the clarinetist and composer Carl Baermann. Life and career

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Carl Bertil Agnestig

Carl Bertil Agnestig (né Andersson; 7 March 1924 – 14 July 2019) was a Swedish music teacher and composer. He was son to engineer Anders Ruben (Andersson) Agnestig (1897–1982) and Karin, née Grahn

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Carl Blum

Carl Wilhelm August Blum (1786 – 2 July 1844) was a German singer, librettist, stage actor, director, guitarist and opera and song composer. Philip J. Bone wrote that Blum was "a universal genius,

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Carl Bohm

Carl Bohm (also known by Karl Bohm and his pseudonym Henry Cooper; 11 September 1844 – 4 April 1920) was a German pianist and composer. Biography Bohm was born in 1844 in Berlin. He received training

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Carl Cannabich

Carl August Konrad Cannabich (christened on 11 October 1771 – 1 May 1806) was a German composer, violinist, concertmaster and music director. Family Born in Mannheim, Cannabich was the son of the

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Carl Christian Møller

Carl Christian Møller (2 June 1823 – 2 April 1893) was a Danish concertmaster and composer. His father was a musician and early in his life Carl Christian was hired in the Danish Civil Artillery

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Carl Cohn Haste

Carl Cohn Haste (December 7, 1874 – June 4, 1939) was a Danish pianist, organist and composer. Blind from the age of 5, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He was concert pianist, a

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Carl Czerny

Carl Czerny (; ; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, music educator, and pianist of Czech origin. His music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical

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Carl de Groof

Carl de Groof (born Karl Krof; 3 December 1923, in Vienna, Austria – 18 January 2007, in Javea, Spain) was an Austrian composer, film composer and orchestra conductor. De Groof began his career

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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (2 November 1739 – 24 October 1799) was an Austrian composer and violinist. He was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart. His best-known works include the German singspiel

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Carl Faia

Carl Faia (born 1962 at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma) is an American composer and live electronics designer and performer. Faia studied composition at the University of California, Santa

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Carl Friedrich Abel

Carl Friedrich Abel (baptised 22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the early Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions

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Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch

Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736–1800) was a German composer and harpsichordist. Born in Zerbst, he was the son of the composer Johann Friedrich Fasch. He was initially taught by his father. In

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Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen

Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen (first name also sometimes given as Karl; 27 September 1778 – 21 December 1851) was a German composer and academic teacher at the Prussian Academy of Arts. Life Rungenhagen

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Carl Friedrich Zelter

Carl Friedrich Zelter (11 December 1758 15 May 1832) was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music. Working in his father's bricklaying business, Zelter attained mastership in that

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Carl Frühling

Carl Frühling (28 November 186825 November 1937) was an Austrian composer and pianist. Born in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), he attended from 1887 until 1889 the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde where he

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Carl Gottlieb Reissiger

Carl Gottlieb Reißiger (also Karl Reissiger, Carl Reissiger, Karl Reißiger) (31 January 1798 – 7 November 1859) was a German Kapellmeister and composer. Biography Born in Belzig, Reissiger attended

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Carl Greith

Carl Greith, also Karl Greith (21 February 182817 November 1887), was a Swiss composer and church musician. Life Emil Franz Carl Greith came into the world on 21 February 1828 in Aarau, Switzerland,

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Carl Guhr

Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Guhr, also Karl Guhr (27 October 1787 – 23 July 1848) was a German violinist, composer and from 1821 until his early death, theatre Kapellmeister and music entrepreneur in the

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Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen

Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen (April 25, 1903 – November 8, 1984) was a Norwegian violinist and composer. His composition style is lyrical with a strong grounding in Norwegian folk tunes. Life Carl Gustav

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Carl Hanke

Johann Carl Hanke (c.1749 - 10 June 1803) was a German composer and conductor. Life He was baptised at Markt Roßwald on 5 December 1749, son of Anton (a citizen of that village) and Maria Magdalena.

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Carl Hardebeck

Carl Gilbert Hardebeck or Carl G. Hardebec (10 December 1869 – 10 February 1945) was a British-born Irish composer and arranger of traditional music. Biography Hardebeck, whose father was German and

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Carl Heinrich Graun

Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his

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Carl Heins

Carl Heins (8 June 1859 - 10 September 1923) was a German pianist, and a composer of light salon music in classical music style. He wrote both solo piano works and parlor songs. Heins' pieces show a

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Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Carl Jonas Love Ludvig Almqvist (28 November 1793 – 26 September 1866) was a Swedish author, romantic poet, romantic critic of political economy, realist, composer and social critic. Biography Carl

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Carl Lachmund

Carl V. Lachmund (27 March 185320 February 1928) was an American classical pianist, teacher, conductor, composer, and diarist. He was a student of Franz Liszt for three years, and his detailed

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Carl Leibl

Carl (Karl) Leibl (3 September 1784 – 4 October 1870) was a German musician, conductor, cathedral organist and cathedral conductor in Cologne. Life Born in Fußgönheim (Palatinate), Leibl comes from a

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Carl Loewe

Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (; 30 November 1796 – 20 April 1869), usually called Carl Loewe (sometimes seen as Karl Loewe), was a German composer, tenor singer and conductor from the late Classical

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Carl Ludvig Lithander

Carl Ludvig Lithander (26 January 1773 – 17 December 1843) Carl Ludvig Lithander appears to have stayed briefly in Königsberg, as he is listed as enrolled at the university there; in 1790 he however

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Carl Ludwig Hübsch

Carl Ludwig Hübsch (born 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German jazz and improvisation musician who plays tuba. Life and career Hübsch initially learned clarinet, then switched to drums, and in

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Carl Ludwig Matthes

Carl Ludwig Matthes (born 1751) was a German oboist and composer of the classical era. While Matthes' surviving works are relatively few in number, they do provide some insight into his compositional

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Carl Maria von Bocklet

Carl Maria von Bocklet (30 November 1801 – 15 July 1881) was a composer, pianist and teacher of music. Bocklet was born in Prague. He studied with Bedřich Diviš Weber and in 1821 he moved to Vienna,

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18/19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic in the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Best

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Carl Martin Reinthaler

Carl Martin Reinthaler (13 October 1822 – 13 February 1896) was a German organist, conductor and composer. Alternative spellings include Karl Martin Reinthaler and Carl Martin Rheinthaler. Biography

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Carl Michael Ziehrer

Carl Michael Ziehrer (more rarely spelled Karl Michael Ziehrer) (2 May 1843 – 14 November 1922) was an Austrian composer. In his lifetime, he was one of the fiercest rivals of the Strauss family;

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Carl Michalski

Carl Michalski (18 January 1911 – 11 December 1998) was a German composer and conductor, focused on operetta and dance music. Career Born in Bochum, Further reading * Wilhelm Kosch (editor):

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Carl Millöcker

Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( – ), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. __NOTOC__ He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding

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Carl Nielsen

Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor yet musically

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Carl Orff

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator who is best known for composing the cantata Carmina Burana and formulating concepts of his Schulwerk

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the

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Carl Reinecke

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (23 June 182410 March 1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era. Biography Reinecke was born in what is today the Hamburg district of

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Carl Ritschl

Georg Carl Benjamin Ritschl (1 November 1783 – 18 June 1858) was a German evangelist theologian, bishop and composer in Pomerania. Biography Carl Ritschl was born to Georg Ritschl von Hartenbach and

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Carl Ruggles

Carl Ruggles (born Charles Sprague Ruggles; March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) was an American composer, painter and teacher. His pieces employed "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by fellow

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Carl Schimmel

Carl Schimmel is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He has been awarded the Joseph H. Bearns Prize from Columbia University, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a commission from the Fromm

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Carl Siegemund Schönebeck

Carl Siegemund Schönebeck (26 October 1758 in Lübben, Germany – early 1800s) was a German composer and cellist. Few of his works have survived. The compositions attributed to him show features of

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Carl Stamitz

Carl Philipp Stamitz (; born in Mannheim and baptized 8 May 17459 November 1801), was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry of the Classical era. He was the most prominent representative of the

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Carl Stone

Carl Stone (born Carl Joseph Stone, February 10, 1953) is an American composer, primarily working in the field of live electronic music. His works have been performed in the United States, Canada,

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Carl Thiel

Carl Josef Thiel (9 July 1862 − 23 July 1939) was a German organist, church musician and professor of music. Life Born in Oleśnica Mała (formerly german Klein Öls), Thiel was born as the son of the

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Carl Tucker

Carl James Tucker (1905–1949) was a composer and pianist. In Europe, some theater credits may have had his name as Karl Tucker. he was the author of a variety of musical scores for stage and screen.

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Carl Venth

Carl Venth (February 16, 1860 – January 29, 1938) was a German-American composer, violinist, conductor, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in the first half

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Carl Viggo Meincke

Fritz Carl Viggo Meincke (8 March 1902 – 27 September 1959) was a Danish composer, revue author, theater manager and actor. Early years Carl Meincke was born on 8 March 1902 on Frederiksborggade 5,

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Carl Vine

Carl Edward Vine, (born 8 October 1954) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance

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Carl W. Stalling

Carl William Stalling (November 10, 1891 – November 29, 1972) was an American composer, voice actor and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and

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Carl Walter Roskott

Carl Walter Roskott (March 4, 1953 - June 18, 2008) was an American composer, conductor and academic. He served as associate professor of music at Northern Illinois University and the University of

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Carl Wittrock

Carl Wittrock (born 1966 in Goor) is a composer, conductor, music educator, violinist and clarinettist from the Netherlands. Biography Wittrock started with lessons in violin and clarinet at the

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Carl Zeller

Carl Adam Johann Nepomuk Zeller (19 June 1842 – 17 August 1898) was an Austrian composer of operettas. Zeller was born in Sankt Peter in der Au, the only child of physician Johann Zeller and Maria

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Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe

The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe (short WeGA) is a scientific-critical edition of all works of the composer Carl Maria von Weber, published by the Schott Music publishing house in Mainz.

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Carla Patullo

Carla Patullo is an American singer, songwriter, film composer, and director. She won Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards for her debut studio album, So She Howls

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Carla Scaletti

Carla Scaletti (born April 28, 1956) is an American harpist, composer, music technologist and the inventor of the Kyma Sound Design Environment as well as president of Symbolic Sound. Biography Carla

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Carleton Elliott

Carleton Weir Elliott (15 March 1928, Welland, Ontario24 August 2003, Fredericton, New Brunswick) was a Canadian composer, music theorist, choir conductor and music educator. Early life and education

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Carlisle Floyd

Carlisle Sessions Floyd (June 11, 1926 – September 30, 2021) was an American composer primarily known for his operas. These stage works, for which he wrote not only the music but also the librettos,

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Carlo Agostino Badia

Carlo Agostino Badia (1672 – 23 September 1738) was an Italian court composer best known for his operas and oratorios. Badia was born in Verona and around 1697 moved to Vienna, where many of his

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Carlo Albanesi

Carlo Albanesi (22 October 1858 – 26 September 1926) was an Italian-born composer, pianist, teacher and examiner who spent most of his working life in England. His Exercises for Fingering, first

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Carlo Alessandro Landini

Carlo Alessandro Landini (born April 20, 1954) is an Italian composer, scholar, and essayist. Educated in Italy, France, and the United States, he has been active in contemporary classical music

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Carlo Ambrogio Lonati

Carlo Ambrogio Lonati, baptized Giovanni Ambrogio Leinati, also Lunati; (c.1645 – c.1712) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer. Francesco Maria Veracini described him in 1760 as one of the

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Carlo Antonio Nagli

Carlo Antonio Nagli (c. 16805 November 1756) was an Italian composer of Baroque music who was one of a number of Italian Baroque musicians to live in Croatia. He is considered a central figure of

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Carlo Arrigoni

Carlo Arrigoni (6 December 1697 – 19 August 1744) was an Italian composer and musician who was active in several countries during the first half of the 18th century. Life and work Arrigoni was born

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Carlo Besozzi

Carlo Besozzi (1738 – 22 March 1791) was an Italian oboist composer and member of an extensive family of oboists from the eighteenth-century Naples. Nephew of Gaetano Besozzi, he was employed in the

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Carlo Caproli

Carlo Caproli or Caprioli (c. 1614 – 1668), also called Carlo del Violino, was an Italian violinist, organist, and a leading composer of cantatas in mid-17th-century Italy. Life Early life and career

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Carlo Cecere

Carlo Cecere (7 November 170615 February 1761) was an Italian composer of operas, concertos and instrumental duets including, for example, some mandolin duets and a concerto for mandolin. Cecere

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Carlo Coccia

Carlo Coccia (14 April 1782 – 13 April 1873) was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria. Life and career Coccia was born in Naples, and studied in his native city

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Carlo Curti

Carlo Curti (6 May 1859 – 8 May 1922), also known as Carlos Curti, was an Italian musician, composer and bandleader. He moved to the United States whose most lasting contribution to American society

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Carlo Curti (Bolognese composer)

Carlo Curti (4 November 1807 - 29 December 1872) was a Bolognese Italian cellist, educator and composer. He studied violin under Rolla (possibly Antonio Rolla), and then the cello under Parisini.

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Carlo Domeniconi

Carlo Domeniconi (born 20 February 1947) is an Italian guitarist and composer. Although his compositions include a wide variety of genres and instrumentation choices, he is best known for his works

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Carlo Donida

Carlo Donida Labati (30 October 1920 in Milan – 22 April 1998 in Porto Valtravaglia) was an Italian composer and pianist. Carlo Donida Labati was born in Milan on 30 October 1920. He graduated in

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Carlo Evasio Soliva

Carlo Evasio Soliva (27 November 1791 – 20 December 1853) was a Swiss-Italian composer of opera, chamber music, and sacred choral works. Soliva was born in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont to a family of

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Carlo Farina

Carlo Farina (ca. 1600 – July 1639) was an Italian composer, conductor and violinist of the Early Baroque era. Life Farina was born at Mantua. He presumably received his first lessons from his

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Carlo Forlivesi

Carlo Forlivesi (born 23 October 1971) is an Italian composer, performer and researcher. Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the

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Carlo Francesco Pollarolo

Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (ca. 1653 – 7 February 1723) was an Italian composer, organist, and music director. Known chiefly for his operas, he wrote a total of 85 of them as well as 13 oratorios. His

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Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (between 8 March 1566 and 30 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for

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Carlo Graziani

Carlo Graziani (1st half of the 18th century-1787) was an Italian composer and cello virtuoso. His compositions reflect both elements of galant style and advancements in cello playing throughout the

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Carlo Innocenzi

Carlo Innocenzi (29 April 1899 – 24 March 1962) was an Italian composer. Life and career Born in Monteleone di Spoleto, Innocenzi is best known as a composer of musical scores for films; he composed

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Carlo Jachino

Carlo Jachino (1887–1971) was an Italian composer of the 20th century. Born in Sanremo on February 3, 1887, he studied in Leipzig under Hugo Riemann. Jachino's 3-act opera, Giocondo and his King won

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Carlo Milanuzzi

Carlo Milanuzzi (c. 1590 – c. 1647) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. Life Carlo Milanuzzi was born in Santa Natoglia, or Esanatoglia in the Marche region, to Milanuzzo and donna

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Carlo Pallavicino

Carlo Pallavicino (Pallavicini; c. 163029 January 1688) was an Italian composer. Pallavicino was born at Salò. From 1666 to 1673, he worked at the Dresden court; from 1674 to 1685, at the Ospedale

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Carlo Pedini

Carlo Pedini (born 19 June 1956) is an Italian classical composer. Life Born in Perugia, Pedini taught himself music from the age of 13, before studying with Fernando Sulpizi at the Perugia

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Carlo Pedrotti

Carlo Pedrotti (12 November 1817 – 16 October 1893) was an Italian conductor, administrator and composer, principally of opera. An associate of Giuseppe Verdi, he also taught two internationally

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Carlo Rustichelli

Carlo Rustichelli (24 December 1916 – 13 November 2004) was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions, as well as

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Carlo Tessarini

Carlo Tessarini (1690 – after 15 December 1766), was an Italian composer and violinist in the late Baroque era. Tessarini was born 1690 in Rimini and died in Amsterdam, Netherlands aged 76. Works The

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Carlo Yvon

Carlo Yvon (29 April 1798 in Milan – 23 December 1854 in Milan) was an Italian composer, virtuoso oboist and English horn player, and music educator. He studied at the Milan Conservatory in his

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Carlo Zangarini

Carlo Zangarini i (9 December 1873 – 19 July 1943) was an Italian librettist, poet, and academic. He lived his entire life in the city of Bologna, and is best remembered today for penning the

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Carlo Zuccari

Carlo Zuccari (November 10, 1703 – May 3, 1792) was an Italian composer and violinist. Active during the late Baroque and early Classical music periods, Zuccari worked mainly in Milan, Olomouc, and

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Carlos Almenar Otero

Carlos José Almenar Otero (21 March 1926 – 7 August 2018) was a Venezuelan tenor and composer. Nicknamed "La voz de oro de Venezuela" (), he rose to international prominence after taking part in the

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Carlos Azevedo

Carlos Azevedo (29 March 1949 – 26 October 2012) was a Portuguese composer and pianist. Biography Having studied composition with Jorge Peixinho in Lisbon, he was a 20th-century music composer and a

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Carlos Cabral Jr.

Carlos Cabral Junior, also known as Junior Cabral, is a songwriter, producer, and arranger. Multiple Latin Grammy and Grammy Award winner, as well as music director for several Award-Winning World

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Carlos Cachaça

Carlos Cachaça (born Carlos Moreira de Castro; 3 August 1902 – 16 August 1999) was a Brazilian samba composer and performer. He was one of the founders of the Mangueira Samba School. Early life

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Carlos Chávez

Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic

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Carlos Guastavino

Carlos Guastavino (5 April 1912 – 29 October 2000) was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs

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Carlos Jiménez Mabarak

Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (January 31, 1916 in Tacuba, Mexico – June 21, 1994 in Mexico City) was one of the most prolific Mexican composers of the 20th century. His music belongs to the transition from

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Carlos Lazzari

Carlos Ángel Lazzari (Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 9, 1925 – ibidem, June 7, 2009), also known by his pseudonym Palmer, was a bandoneonist, composer, arranger, and orchestra conductor dedicated

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Carlos Lyra

Carlos Eduardo Lyra Barbosa (11 May 1933 – 16 December 2023) was a Brazilian singer, and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He has also worked as a writer, with

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Carlos Micháns

Carlos Eduardo Micháns (born 18 August 1950) is a Dutch composer, writer and draughtsman of Argentine origin. He has lived in the Netherlands since 1982. His works (from solo pieces to large

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Carlos Roqué Alsina

Carlos Roqué Alsina (19 February 1941 – 5 August 2023 ) was a French composer and pianist of Argentinian origin. Biography Alsina was born in Buenos Aires. His career as a pianist began at the age of

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Carlos Sandoval

Carlos Sandoval Mendoza (born 1956, Mexico City) is a Mexican/German multidiscipline artist mostly recognized for his work joining technology and a Gestalt approach to the art of music composition,

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Carlos Seixas

José António Carlos de Seixas (; 11 June 1704 – 25 August 1742) was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century. An accomplished virtuoso of both the organ and the harpsichord, Seixas

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Carlos Simon (composer)

Carlos Simon (born 1986) is an American composer of Western classical music. He is the composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center, inaugural composer chair for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and

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Carlos Stella

Carlos Stella (born 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine composer. Training and career Self-taught in composition, Stella studied piano at the Buenos Aires National Conservatory of Music and in 1985

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Carlos Surinach

Carlos Suriñach (or Carles Suriñach) i Wrokona (; March 4, 1915 – November 12, 1997) was a Spanish-born composer and conductor. Early life Carlos Suriñach was born in Barcelona, Spain on March 6 of

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Carlos Veerhoff

Carlos Enrique Veerhoff (3 June 1926 in Buenos Aires – 18 February 2011 in Murnau) was an Argentine-born German composer of classical music. Life and work Carlos Enrique Veerhoff was born with his

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Carlos Villalobos (composer)

Carlos Jonathan VillaLobos, Jr. (born January 28, 1975) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, who writes and produces original music for rock and pop artists, and composes

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Carlotta Ferrari

Carlotta Ferrari (27 January 183122 November 1907) was an Italian composer, poet, pianist and singer, noted for opera. She wrote her first opera Ugo at the age of twenty. Faced with a lack of

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Carlton Cooley

Samuel Carlton Cooley (April 15, 1898 in Milford, New Jersey – November 1981 in Stockton, New Jersey) was an American violist and composer. Biography Cooley studied at the Philadelphia Musical

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Carlton Gamer

Carlton Edwin Wesley Gamer (February 13, 1929 – July 14, 2023) was an American composer and music theorist. Gamer composed more than seventy works in a variety of genres, including songs, music for

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Carly Paradis

Carly Paradis is a Canadian-British composer, songwriter, and pianist. She composes soundtracks for movies, TV series and solo albums. In 2007, she worked with film composer Clint Mansell arranging

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Carmel Gunning

Carmel Gunning is an Irish composer and musician, from Sligo, Ireland. Gunning is one of Ireland's most accomplished tin whistle players who is also known for her singing and flute playing and also

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Carmela Mackenna

Carmela Mackenna Subercaseaux (31 July 1879 – 30 January 1962) was a Chilean pianist and composer. She was successful as both a pianist and composer in Europe, and is identified with the

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Carmelo Pace

Maestro Chev. Carmelo Pace (August 17, 1906 – May 20, 1993) was a Maltese composer, and a professor of music theory and harmony. Born in Valletta, Malta on August 17, 1906, Pace was the eldest of

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Carmen Barradas

Maria del Carmen Perez Jimenez Barradas (18 March 1888 – 12 May 1963) was a Uruguayan pianist, composer, and choral teacher. Life Maria del Carmen Pérez Jiménez was born in Montevideo, the daughter

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Carmen Karr

Carme Karr i Alfonsetti (Spanish, Carmen Karr; Barcelona, 16 March 1865 – 29 December 1943) was a Spanish Catalan feminist, journalist, writer, musicologist and song-composer. Karr was one of the

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Carmen Lombardo

Carmen Lombardo (July 16, 1903 – April 17, 1971) was lead saxophonist and featured vocalist for his brother Guy Lombardo's orchestra. He was also a successful composer. In 1927, Carmen Lombardo was

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Carmen Petra Basacopol

Carmen Petra Basacopol (5 September 1926 – 15 October 2023) was a Romanian composer, pianist, musicologist and academic teacher. She taught at the National University of Music Bucharest, between 1962

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Carmine Coppola

Carmine Valentino Coppola (; June 11, 1910 – April 26, 1991) was an American composer, flutist, pianist, and songwriter who contributed original music to the films The Godfather, The Godfather Part

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Carmine de Laurentiis

Carmine de Laurentiis was a 19th-century Italian mandolinist, musical educator, author and composer who taught mandolin and guitar in Naples. His only well-known student was Carlo Munier. The article

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Carmino Ravosa

Carmino Ravosa (January 29, 1930 – July 19, 2015) was an American composer and lyricist, singer, pianist, as well as a producer, director, and musical historian. Ravosa, who wrote music for children

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Caro Roma

Caro Roma (September 10, 1866 – September 22, 1937) was the stage name of Carrie Northey, an American singer and composer known for Tin Pan Alley era songs. Early life and education Carrie Northey

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Carol Ann Weaver

Carol Ann Weaver (born May 6, 1948) is an American-Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher. Biography Weaver was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to a Mennonite family. At the time of her birth, her

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Carol E. Barnett

Carol Edith Barnett (born 23 May 1949) is an American composer. She was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and studied at the University of Minnesota with Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler (composition), Bernard

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Carol Hall

Carol Hall (April 3, 1936 – October 11, 2018) was an American songwriter. She was best known for composing the music and lyrics for the Broadway stage musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

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Carola Bauckholt

Carola Bauckholt (born 21 August 1959) is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld, West Germany. She worked at the Marienplatz Theater in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel at the

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Carolina Uccelli

Carolina Uccelli (1801–1858) was an Italian composer known for opera. Biography Carolina Pazzini was born into a minor noble family in Florence and married Filippo Uccelli, a prominent surgeon from

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Caroline Charrière

Caroline Charrière (26 December 1960 – 1 October 2018) was a Swiss composer, conductor, flautist and educator. From 2000 on she concentrated on composing, creating chamber music, choral music and

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Caroline Lloyd

Caroline Grace Parkhurst Lloyd (April 12, 1924 – 1980) was an American composer, pianist and music director. Her best-known composition was the Spanish-language opera Doña Bárbara performed in the

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Caroline Sawath

Caroline Sawath (mid 19th century) was a German composer of piano pieces. She performed in at least one concert in 1848 and taught at the Mitternast Piano School in Vienna from 1855 to 1863. Her

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Caroline Shaw

Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She is a founding member of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. In 2013

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Caroline Wiseneder

Caroline Schneider Wiseneder (20 August 1807 – 25 August 1868) was a German composer and music educator who developed a musical notation system for the blind, as well as a kindergarten music

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Caroline Wuiet

Caroline Wuiet (Vuyet, Vuïet), later Baronne Aufdiener (Auffdiener) (17 August 1766 – 22 May 1835) was a French journalist, novelist and composer, best known for opera. Life Caroline Wuiet, daughter

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Carolus Hacquart

Carolus Hacquart (the latinised form of his original name: Carel Hacquart) (c. 1640 - after 1686) was a Flemish composer and musician. He became one of the most important 17th-century composers in

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Carolyn Waters Broe

Carolyn Waters Broe is an American conductor, composer, violist and writer, who founded Four Seasons Orchestra in 1992. Early life Broe was born to the physicist Warren P. Waters and Lois Virginia

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Carolyn Yarnell

Carolyn Yarnell (born 1961) is an American composer and visual artist. A recipient of the Rome Prize, Charles Ives Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is particularly noted for works which

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Carpentras (composer)

Carpentras (also Elzéar Genet, Eliziari Geneti) (ca. 1470 – June 14, 1548) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous during his lifetime, and was especially notable for his settings of

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Carrie B. Wilson Adams

Carrie Belle (Wilson) Adams (1859–1940) was the first American woman to conduct a public performance of Handel's oratorio, "Messiah." An Ohio native and musical child prodigy who performed in concert

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Carson Kievman

Carson Kievman (December 27, 1949 – October 12, 2021) was an American composer, director and producer and an innovator of contemporary classical music. His works were noted for their originality,

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Carsten Bo Eriksen

Carsten Bo Eriksen (born 2 October 1973) is a Danish composer, pianist, guitarist, vocalist, and producer. He works both under his own name and under the artist monikers My Beautiful Decay 1973 and

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Casella (Divine Comedy)

Casella (died before 1300) was an Italian composer and singer, none of whose works has survived. Biographical fragments and identity He was probably a friend of Dante Alighieri who made him into the

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Casey MQ

Casey Manierka-Quaile (born 4 December 1991), better known as Casey MQ, is a Canadian singer, musician, film composer, songwriter, and record producer. In 2022, he won the Canadian Screen Award for

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Casimir Gide

Casimir Gide (4 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a 19th-century French composer, bookseller as well as prints and maps editor. Biography The son of the Parisian bookseller Theophile Etienne Gide

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Casimir von Blumenthal

Casimir von Blumenthal (August 1787 – 22 July 1849) was an Austrian violinist, composer and conductor who worked in Switzerland. Biography Casimir von Blumenthal was born in August 1787 in Brussels,

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Casimir von Pászthory

Casimir von Pászthory (1 April 1886 – 18 February 1966) was an Austrian composer. His music, which is stylistically rooted in the Wagner-Strauss tradition, without renouncing elements of his own

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Caspar Joseph Brambach

Caspar Joseph Brambach (14 July 1833 – 20 June 1902) was a 19th-century German musician, pedagogue and composer whose reputation extended beyond Germany to America, and a renowned conductor of the

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Cassandra Miller

Cassandra Miller (born Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada, 1976) is a Canadian experimental composer currently based in London, UK. Her work is known for frequently utilising the process of

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Cassandra Vasik

Cassandra Vasik is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter from Blenheim, Ontario. Signed to Epic Records, she released two albums and 11 singles for the label between 1991 and 1994. In 1992, she

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Castil-Blaze

François-Henri-Joseph Blaze, known as Castil-Blaze (1 December 1784 – 11 December 1857), was a French musicologist, music critic, composer, and music editor. Biography Blaze was born and grew up in

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Cataldo Amodei

Cataldo Vito Amodei (6 May 1649 13 July 1693) was an Italian composer of the mid-Baroque period who spent his career in Naples. His cantatas were important predecessors to the active cantata

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Catalina Berroa

Catalina Berroa Ojea (28 February 1849 – 23 November 1911) was a Cuban pianist, music teacher and composer. Cuba's first female conductor. She was the first female conductor in Cuba and mastered

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Catalogues of Beethoven compositions

The catalogues of Beethoven compositions are all of the different ways in which the musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven have been organized by researchers into his music. The problem Most of

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Caterina Assandra

Caterina Assandra (c. 1590 – after 1618) was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. In her surviving motet book, Motetti a due a tre voci op.2, Assandra alludes to her birthplace being in the

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Caterina Barbieri

Caterina Barbieri (born September 14, 1990) is an Italian composer and musician. Education Barbieri studied electroacoustic composition and classical guitar at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista

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Catharina van Rennes

Catharina van Rennes (2 August 1858, Utrecht – 23 September 1940, Amsterdam) was a Dutch music educator, soprano singer and composer. Van Rennes was the daughter of Jan van Rennes and Marianna

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Catharinus Elling

Catharinus Elling (13 September 1858 – 8 January 1942) was a Norwegian music teacher, organist, music critic, and composer. He was also a folk music collector and the author of a number of books.

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Catherine Delaunay

Catherine Delaunay (born 31 October 1969) is a French jazz clarinet player and composer, best known as a leader of Y'en a qui manquent pas d'air. She is also a member of the French Laurent Dehors's

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Catherine Lamb

Catherine Lamb (born 1982 in Olympia, Washington) is an American composer and violist, and a winner of the 2020 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. Career Lamb describes her music as exploring "the

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Catherine Murphy Urner

Catherine Murphy Urner Shatto (March 23, 1891 – April 30, 1942) was an American composer. Early life and education Catherine Murphy Urner was born in Mitchell, Indiana, the third of seven children of

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Catterino Cavos

Catterino Albertovich Cavos (; ; October 21, 1777 – May 10 1840) was an Italian composer, organist and conductor who settled in Russia. He played an important role in the history of Russian opera and

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Cayetano Puglisi

Cayetano Puglisi (2 January 1902 – 2 November 1968) was an Argentine violinist, composer, and orchestra conductor of Italian origin. Life He was born in Messina, Sicily, Italy, into a family of

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