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Cecil Coles

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Cecil Frederick Coles (7 October 1888 – 26 April 1918) was a Scottish composer who was killed on active service in World War I. Life and career Coles was born in Tongland, near Kirkcudbright, to Frederick Coles and Margaret Coles (née Blacklock), and was educated at George Watson’s School, Edinburgh. In 1907 he went to the London College of Music on a scholarship. He later studied at the University of Edinburgh and Stuttgart Conservatory. On completion of his studies, he became assistant conductor to the Stuttgart Royal Opera and was organist of St. Katherine’s, an English church in the city. In 1912, he married Phoebe Relton at St Saviour’s Church, Brockley Rise, London, and took his wife back to Germany; the couple returned to the UK the following year. When World War I broke out, he joined the Queen Victoria’s Rifles and became their bandmaster. While on active service, he sent manuscripts home to his friend Gustav Holst. He was killed by German sniper fire on the Western Front, while helping recover casualties. He was buried at Crouy. Holst dedicated his composition, Ode to Death Op. 38, to Coles. Coles’ work was “rediscovered” in a 2001 recording. His music was used as the ope

Cecil Effinger

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Cecil Effinger (July 22, 1914 – December 22, 1990) was an American composer, oboist, and inventor. Life Effinger was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and resided in the state for most of his life. Reversing the usual cliché, he was the son of musicians and teachers, but initially studied mathematics at Colorado College, receiving a BA in 1935, before deciding to follow in his parents’ footsteps. In the meantime, he had studied harmony and counterpoint with Frederick Boothroyd in 1934–36, and went to Paris in 1939 to study composition with Nadia Boulanger. He was first oboe in the orchestras of Colorado Springs (1934–41) and Denver (1937–41) and taught at the Colorado College before the Second World War (1936–41). A lifelong friendship with Roy Harris began in 1941. During the Second World War he served as conductor of the 506th US Army Band in Fort Logan. After the war, he resumed his position at the Colorado College from 1946 to 1948, when he was appointed professor of composition at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He remained in that position, becoming the head of the composition department until 1981, and was composer-in-residence there until his retirement in 1984. In

Cecil Forsyth

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Cecil Forsyth (30 November 1870, in Greenwich – 7 December 1941, New York City) was an English composer and musicologist. Career He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the Royal College of Music (with Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry), and played viola in various London orchestras (including the Queen’s Hall Orchestra) while establishing himself as a composer. In 1914 he moved to the US and took up a position at the music publishers H.W. Gray, who also became his publisher. He continued to compose and secure performances in the US, though mostly with choral societies and glee clubs. and repeated in 1904 and 1906. According to Lewis Foreman, it is “possibly the first full blown concerto for viola by a British composer”. (York Bowen’s Viola Concerto followed in 1907). There is a modern recording by Lawrence Power and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Chanson Celtique (1906) for viola and piano, also achieved some popularity and was later orchestrated. The orchestral suite Four Studies from Victor Hugo also had its debut at the Proms in 1905. There were two comic operas, Westward Ho! and Cinderella, both produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, and a setting of

Cecil Gray (composer)

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Cecil William Turpie Gray (19 May 1895 – 9 September 1951) was a Scottish music critic, author and composer. Biography Born in Edinburgh, he took an arts degree at the University of Edinburgh and studied composition privately with the Anglo-Canadian composer Healey Willan. From there he developed his career as editor, music critic, and author. Gray first met Philip Heseltine (another writer/critic who also composed music under the name Peter Warlock) at the Café Royal in the spring of 1916 and they were soon sharing a studio – 2 Anhalt Studios, close to Battersea Park. This led to Gray’s first musical venture, the co-sponsoring with Heseltine in 1917 of a concert of works by the then completely unknown composer Bernard van Dieren. Three years later Gray co-founded the early music periodical The Sackbut, also with Heseltine. Gray subsequently worked as music critic for publications including The Daily Telegraph, The Manchester Guardian, and The Morning Post, and occasionally for the Radio Times and The Listener. His first published book, A Survey of Contemporary Music, was published in 1924, and was notable for its contrary opinions. Frank Howes, The Times chief music critic, pointe

Cecil Mack

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Cecil Mack (November 6, 1873 – August 1, 1944) was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher. Biography Born as Richard Cecil McPherson in Portsmouth, Virginia, he attended the Norfolk Mission College and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (class of 1897) before leaving to go to New York City where the 1900 Federal Census lists his occupation as a stenographer. Mack started writing song lyrics, starting with “Good Morning, Carrie” in 1901. He co-founded the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company in May 1905, in New York City; it was likely the first black-owned music publishing company. In July 1906, an article in The New York Age referred to Mack as the company’s “secretary and treasurer and general business director.” In 1907 he wrote the lyrics for the musical The Black Politician. In 1925 he co-wrote the book for the musical Mooching Along. Mack also formed a choir, the Southland Singers, that year. In 1931 he co-wrote the music for the musical Rhapsody in Black. Birth date His birthdate is also given as 1880 and 1883, and an 1876 date is shown by his World War I Draft Registration card, as referenced above, and the 1900 US Census, but an 1891 Navy Enlistment Record a

Cécile Chaminade

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Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d’Honneur, a first for a female composer. Biography Born in Batignolles (a village then outside Paris), Chaminade was raised in a musical family. She received her first piano lessons from her mother. Her father forbade it because he believed it was improper for a girl of Chaminade’s class. and music composition with Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard and Benjamin Godard. Chaminade experimented in composition as a young child, composing pieces for her cats, dogs and dolls. In 1869, she performed some of her music for Georges Bizet, who was impressed with her talents. . In her early years, she gave recitals throughout France, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland. In 1892, she debuted in England, where her work was popular. She visited England again in 1907 and performed at the Aeolian Hall in London, and in Bath. Queen Victoria was known to enjoy Chaminade’s music and in 1901 at her funeral, the Prélude for Organ, Op. 78, by Chaminade was played. Chaminade married a music publisher from Marseille, Louis-Mathieu Carbonel, in 1901. In 1908, she performed conce

Cécile Hartog

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Cécile Sarah Hartog (1857–1940) was an English composer and pianist, born in London. She was the daughter of French school teacher, author and editor Marion Moss Hartog, and her husband Alphonse Hartog, and her siblings were the artist Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, natural historian Marcus Hartog, mathematician Numa Edward Hartog, and the chemist Philip Hartog. The mathematician and engineer Hertha Ayrton was her cousin. She studied music with Charles Salaman, and later at the Royal Academy of Music, where she took the gold medal for composition in 1889 and had a piano quartet performed, as well as an orchestral Andante and Gavotte. Her teachers there and elsewhere included Frederick Cowen, Woldemar Bargiel, Oscar Beringer, and (in Berlin) Karl Klindworth. She was active as a soloist and sometimes conductor from the 1880s until the First World War. She also taught harmony at the Maida Vale High School for Girls in London. While conducting the orchestra for the play Beethoven’s Romance at the Royalty Theatre on 1 December 1894, the sleeve of her muslin dress was set alight by one of the lamps on her music desk. A member of the orchestra managed to extinguish it quickly with an opera cl

Cecile Paul Simon

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Cecile Paul Simon (April 12, 1881 – January 3, 1970) was a French composer who published under male pseudonyms and was the mother of composer Claude Arrieu. Simon was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a daughter of the philanthropist Clarisse Simon. She studied music with Théodore Dubois, Paul Vidal, and Charles Tournemire. She married Paul Simon and their daughter Louise Marie (composer Claude Arrieu) was born in 1903. Some of Simon’s compositions were published by Durdilly and Rouart. Chamber *Sonata (violin and piano) *Trio (violin, cello and piano) Vocal *“L’heure Exquise” (text by Paul Verlaine) *“Simple Tale” (medium voice and orchestra or piano; text by Jean Cocteau) External links *Download free public domain sheet music by Cecile Paul Simon *La Boite à Pépites References

Cecilia Arizti

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Cecilia Arizti Sobrino (28 October 1856 – 30 June 1930 ) was a Cuban composer, pianist and music educator. Biography Cecilia Arizti was born in La Loma del Angel, Havana, the daughter of pianist Fernando Arizti and his wife Teresa Sobrino. Arizti studied music with her father and composition with Francisco Fuentes and Espadero Ruiz, and showed an early talent for composition. After completing her studies, Arizti performed as a concert pianist in Cuba and the United States. She became a professor at the Conservatory Peyrellade, and published a manual of piano technique. Works Arizti’s works are for piano and composed in Romantic style. Selected works include: *Impromptu in F minor *Vals lent *Romanza *Nocturn *Caprici *Reverie, Op. 16 *Chamber Trio for piano, violin and cello References Further reading * * * * * * * * * *

Cecilia Chailly

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Cecilia Chailly (born February 2, 1960) is an Italian harpist, composer, singer and writer. Biography Chailly was born in Milan, Italy into a family of Romagnol and French descent. She is the daughter of the composer Luciano Chailly, and sister of the conductor Riccardo. She studied musical composition with Azio Corghi at the musical conservatory in Milan. At the age of 19, she became first harp at La Scala. Afterwards, she collaborated with Giorgio Strehler’s Piccolo Teatro and played in many concerts, culminating with her debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Along her career, she collaborated, among others, with John Cage, David Parsons, Mina, Andrea Bocelli, Fabrizio De André, Teresa De Sio, Giorgio Conte, Lucio Dalla, Ron, Morgan, Planet Funk, Gianni Morandi, Le Vibrazioni, Alex Britti, Hector Zazou. She pioneered the use of the electric harp in Italy, performing the album Stanze (BMG Ricordi, 1992), composed by Ludovico Einaudi. Some of the tracks in the album were later used for the soundtrack of the film Fuori dal mondo (1999) by Giuseppe Piccioni. In 1997, Chailly was awarded the Premio De Sica (De Sica Prize) for her album Anima (Warner, 1996), recorded in California in coll

Cecilia Damström

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Cecilia Damström (born 28 July 1988) is a Finnish award-winning composer. She is known for expressing strong political opinions through her works for orchestra and choir. Career Born in Helsinki, Damström studied composition at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (2008–2014) and at Malmö Academy of Music (2014–2015 and 2017–2018) under the instruction of Hannu Pohjannoro and Luca Francesconi. Damström’s music has been performed by the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Brodsky Quartet, among others Damström has won the first prize at the International Vocal Espoo Choral Composition Competition, the International Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award and the International Josef Dorfman Composition Competition. List of works Orchestra * Extinctions (2023), sinfoniaorkesterille, 20 min * Wasteland (2022), symphony orchestra, 20 min * ICE (2021), symphony orchestra, 10 min * Fretus (2021), string orchestra, 10 min * Nixus (2020), symphony orchestra, 10 min * Lucrum (2018), symphony orchestra, 7 min * Tundo! (2016/2018), symphony orchestra, 10 min * Infirmus (2015), string orchestra, 7 min * Unborn (2012–2014), symphony orchestra, 10 min

Cecilia Livingston

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Cecilia Livingston is a Canadian composer of opera and orchestral music. She is composer-in-residence at the Canadian Opera Company, and was composer-in-residence at Glyndebourne Opera. A profile in Opera Canada headlined Livingston as “a true storyteller” in new opera. Her work has drawn comparisons from reviewers and musicologists to both Missy Mazzoli and Jeanine Tesori, the first two female composers commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, and to Benjamin Britten. A cover story for La Scena Musicale concluded that “the range of Livingston’s achievements is undeniable.” During her graduate studies, Livingston joined Tapestry Opera’s 2013 Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab), composing opera scenes with various librettists, including Morris Panych, Nicolas Billon, and David Yee. Three of these early Livingston opera scenes, two written for Krisztina Szabó, were singled out in a review for The Globe and Mail as exemplary new opera written in “a tradition of creative imagination being brought to bear on the human condition… that Mozart would have recognized instantly.” That same year, Livingston received her first opera commission, from indie producer Opera 5, for an adaptation

Cecilia Maria Barthélemon

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Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1 September 1767 – 5 December 1859) Early life Cecilia Maria Barthélemon was born in 1767. Her mother, Maria Barthélemon, was a singer and composer, and her father, François-Hippolyte Barthélemon, was a violinist and a singer. From a young age, Barthélemon learned to sing and play the harpsichord, piano, organ, and harp from her parents. Until 1788, she studied harpsichord, piano, and organ with Johann Samuel Schröter. in 1771–1772, while Barthélemon was an infant, her parents brought her on tour to Dublin. In 1776, the family toured Germany, France, and Italy, where Barthélemon sang for the King of Naples and the Queen of France. Professional life Barthélemon debuted in London as a singer on 3 March 1779 at the Haymarket Theatre, where she sang an Italian duet with her mother. Her next large-scale performance was in April 1782, when she played the part of First Fairy in the musical “The Arcadian Pastoral.” Her father led the orchestra and her mother directed the off-stage chorus. At a benefit concert for her father in April 1784, Barthélemon played a piano concerto after Act I of Thomas Arne’s opera Eliza. Her father accompanied her on the viola d’amore.

Cecilia McDowall

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Cecilia McDowall (born 1951 in London, England) is a British composer, particularly known for her choral compositions. Life and career Born in London, McDowall attended Grey Coat Hospital School and read music at the University of Edinburgh, continuing her studies at Trinity College of Music in London and later completing an MMus in composition. She studied with Joseph Horovitz, Robert Saxton and Adam Gorb. She has won many awards and has been short-listed seven times for the British Composer Awards. In 2014 she won the British Composer Award for her choral piece Night Flight. Her publisher since 2010 has been Oxford University Press. Since 2015, she has been Visiting Composer in Dulwich College, London. In 2015, she served on the panel for a Women Composers Competition of The Arcadian Singers of Oxford. She lives in Chiswick. Music McDowall’s music has been commissioned and performed by both professional and amateur choirs. A commission from the Portsmouth Festival Choir, The Shipping Forecast, gained her national media attention in June 2011. The work draws together the poetry of Seán Street, the psalm ‘They that go down to the sea in ships’, and the words of the Shipping Forecas

Cecilie Ore

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Cecilie Ore (born 19 July 1954) is a Norwegian composer. Biography Cecilie Ore was born in Oslo, Norway, and studied piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She also studied piano in Paris, and composition at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, and with Ton de Leeuw at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. During the eighties, Ore gained international acclaim for several of her electro-acoustic works. 1988 saw her winning both the first and second prize at the International Rostrum for Composers in the Electro Acoustic category for her work Etapper. The same year saw Ore bestowed with the Norwegian Society of Composers´ Work of the Year Award for the orchestral work Porphyre. Towards the end of the 80s, Orce gradually introduced a compositional focus on time, a focus that would lead to work cycles Codex Temporis and Tempura Mutantur. Codex Temporis comprises works Praesens Subitus (for string quartet 1989), Futurum Exactum (for 12 strings 1992), Erat Erit Est (for sinfonietta 1991) and Lex Temporis (for string quartet 1992). The ideas presented in Codex Temporis were further developed in Tempura Mutantor which is made up of works Non Nunquam (for string trio 1999), Nu

Cedric Thorpe Davie

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Cedric Thorpe Davie OBE (30 May 1913 – 18 January 1983) was a musician and composer, most notably of film scores such as The Green Man in 1956. A high proportion of his film and documentary music and his concert pieces have a Scottish theme. Life He was born in Lewisham in south London, the son of Thorpe Davie, a music teacher and choir master. The family moved to Glasgow early in his life and he attended the High School of Glasgow. He studied at the Scottish National Academy of Music in Glasgow and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In London he studied piano with Egon Petri and Harold Craxton, and horn with Aubrey Brain. His composition teachers were Ralph Vaughan Williams, Eric Thiman and R. O. Morris. In 1935 he travelled to both Helsinki and Budapest for further training under Yrjo Kilpinen and Zoltán Kodály, returning to Glasgow in 1936 where he began lecturing in music. Early works include the Piano Trio in C minor (1932), the Phantasie Quartet (1935), the one act opera Gammer Gurton’s Needle (1936) and the Concerto for Piano and Strings (1944). He was involved in the newly created Edinburgh Festival in the 1950s, and oversaw production of important new Scottish musical w

Célanie Carissan

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Célanie Carissan (13 February 1843 – 30 November 1927) was a French composer, writer and pianist. Biography Marie-Charlotte-Élisabeth Célanie Carissan was born on 13 February 1843 in Nantes to Creole parents. Her father Eugène Carissan was a professor at the Ecole Supérieure des Lettres, Sciences et Arts in Nantes. During a concert at the Société nationale de musique on 10 January 1891, two of Carissan’s works, Écho and Chanson de l’abeille, were performed at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The same year, her La Fiancée de Gaël, based on a poem by Adrien de Carné with Breton influences, was performed in Nantes and Paris. Sonneur de Bretagne critic Sullian Collin praised the use of Breton themes and stated that Carissan had “made excellent use” of it. In 1893, she was invited to exhibit her works at the Palais des Femmes during the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, along with Augusta Holmès, Cécile Chaminade and Gabrielle Ferrari. Carissan died on 30 November 1927, at the age of 84. References

Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria

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Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria (5 April 1873 – 9 September 1938) was a Brazilian composer, pianist, poet, singer and teacher who used the pseudonym Stella Bomilcar. Biography She was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of João Paulo Gomes de Mattos and Joana de Alencar Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos. She first studied piano in Fortaleza, and she was drawn towards music, literature, and design. She moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1900, and in 1901 she enrolled in the Instituto Nacional de Música, where she studied voice, theory, and solfeggio with Frederico Nascimento; composition with Alberto Nepomuceno; and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Francisco Braga. She became a singing monitor at the Instituto Nacional de Música in 1905, an adjunct professor in 1907, and a theory and solfeggio professor in 1911. She went on to study voice in Paris in 1914 with Mme. Bauer, and later returned to Europe to study in Berlin in 1928. As a teacher, she would organize salons featuring her students at a home on Rua Fonte da Saudade, creating a well-known space for musical gatherings. Celeste Jaguaribe combined several aspects of her artistry into her career. In addition to teaching at the Instituto Nacio

Célestin Lavigueur

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Célestin Lavigueur (19 January 1831 – 11 December 1885) was a French Canadian musician and composer. Early life and education Lavigueur was born in Quebec City, Lower Canada. He attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec, but left to devote his time to musical pursuits. He studied violin with an amateur musician, François Huot. He learned to play several more instruments with little formal training. Career Lavigueur taught piano, violin, and wind instruments at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1853 to 1881. Lavigueur was a composer and a concert artist. He composed three operas: “La fiancée des bois”, “Un mariage improvisé”, and “Les enfants du manoir”. With poet Pierre-Gabriel Huot, he composed a song for the Huron people, “La Huronne, Romance for voice and piano” in about 1861. In 1880 Lavigueur’s patriotic song, “O Canada, beau pays, ma patrie” was published. In 1881, he moved to Lowell, Massachusetts to be with one of his sons. He participated in the local music scene there, presenting a play with musical accompaniment. He died in 1885 in Lowell. Personal life Lavigueur’s mother, Marguerite, was the daughter of General Sir Howard Douglas, 3rd Bt, Governor of New Brunswick. He mar

Celestina Ekel

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Celestina Terezija Ivana Ekel, Sister Alakok, (November 15, 1867 – April 20, 1935), was a Slovenian music teacher, musician, organist and composer. Childhood and youth Celestina was born on November 15, 1867, in Novo Mesto, into a wealthy and prominent family. Her father was Joseph Ekel, a district governor and government councilor in Novo Mesto, and her mother was Cölestine von Stransky, a noblewoman. Celestina as composer As a composer, in 1925 Celestina published her first 12 church songs through the Graz-based publishing house Styria: 10 benediction hymns and 2 in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the booklet Lasset uns anbeten! (Let Us Adore!). This work was also published in Slovene in 1927 under the title Pridite molimo! (Come, Let Us Pray!) by the Yugoslav Bookstore in Ljubljana. The main difference between the two editions was that the German version was arranged for a women’s choir, while the Slovene version was arranged for a mixed choir. References

Celestine Ukwu

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Celestine Ukwu (1940 – 7 May 1977) was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician during the 1960s and 1970s, best known for his hit songs “Ije Enu”, “Igede” and “Money Palava”. Described as a “prolific and outstanding composer” by music critic Benson Idonije of Radio Nigeria Two, Ukwu’s works have been featured on various world music compilations including The Rough Guide to Highlife and The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa. Early life Ukwu was born in Enugu, the capital city of Enugu State in southeastern Nigeria, and raised in Abor, located in the Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. His father was a local performer of the igede, ikpa and ode genres of Igbo music while his mother was lead singer in a women’s musical group. He learned to read music and play the harmonium through his uncle, a choirmaster, with whom he would frequently travel. He briefly attended primary schools in the locales they lived in, namely Onitsha, Port Harcourt, Igbariam, and Buguma, and completed his primary education in Abor in 1955. He spent the next three years at the Teacher Training College in Zaria, where in 1958 he would obtain his teachers’ grade three certificate and begin teaching. He returned to

Celia Torrá

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Celia Torrá (18 September 1889 – 16 December 1962) was an Argentine composer, conductor, and violinist. She was the first woman to conduct an orchestra at the Teatro Colón. Torrá was born in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina. Her father was her first violin teacher. She later studied music with Andres Gaos, Athos Palma, and Alberto Williams. In 1909, she won a National Commission of Fine Arts prize which funded her studies in Europe with Vincent d’Indy, Jenő Hubay, Zoltán Kodály, Paul Le Flem, and César Thomson. She won the Royal Conservatory of Brussels’ Grand Prix for violin in 1911. The Entre Rios provincial government gave her a grant to continue her studies in Europe. She remained in France during World War I, where she gave benefit concerts for the Red Cross. Torrá conducted both groups in over 200 concerts. In 1952, she founded a choir for the employees of Philips Argentina S.A., the first workers choir in Argentina. *Pieces (violin and piano) Vocal References External links * *Watch

Celius Dougherty

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Celius Hudson Dougherty (May 27, 1902 – December 22, 1986) was an American pianist and composer of art songs and other music. Biography Celius Hudson Dougherty was born to William Francis Dougherty and Louise Martha Dougherty in Glenwood, Minnesota. Celius was interested in music and poetry from childhood. He claimed that he wrote his first song when he was seven years old. He was part of a musical family, and his mother, a music teacher and church musician, organized her seven children into a band. Celius performed as accompanist for one of his mother’s song recitals at age ten. where he studied piano with Donald Ferguson and composition. As an undergraduate, he performed his own piano concerto with the school orchestra. He toured as an accompanist to several important singers, such as Maggie Teyte, Eva Gauthier, Povla Frijsh, Jennie Tourel, Marian Anderson, and Alexander Kipnis. These performers often included Dougherty’s songs on their programs. Beginning in 1939, he also toured with Vincenz Ruzicka in duo-piano recitals. During the next 16 years, they gave the first performances of duets by Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud, and othe

Cem Adrian

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Cem Filiz (born 30 November 1980), better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak descent, singer-songwriter and record producer. Early life His father was a merchant, while his mother was a housewife. Adrian was born to a family from Bosnia in Edirne, as the second child of his parents. His real name is Cem Filiz. Adrian chose his stage name after Adrianople, the name of Edirne in ancient times. He later met Fazıl Say through Demet Sağıroğlu, and with Say’s invitation, he enrolled in Bilkent University’s Department of Performing Arts. Career Career beginnings In 2003, he worked as a soloist and dancer for the group Mystica. In February 2005, he released his first album, Ben Bu Şarkıyı Sana Yazdım. This album includes the songs which Adrian had recorded by himself between 1997 and 2003 in Edirne. In January 2006, he started working on his second self-produced album. Aşk Bu Gece Şehri Terk Etti, which contained 13 songs written by himself, was released in December 2006. Artists Umay Umay, Denizhan and Suicide were featured on three of the album’s songs. In 2008 he released two albums, Seçkiler (Essentials) and Emir, and produced the music for Abdullah Oğ

Cenobio Paniagua

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Cenobio Paniagua y Vásques (September 30, 1821, Tlalpujahua, Michoacán – November 2, 1882, Córdoba, Veracruz) was a Mexican musician and composer, who is known for both his romantic operas and his religious music. Biography Paniagua’s first music teacher was his uncle, Eusebio Vázquez. He studied various instruments in his youth in the city of Toluca, State of Mexico. He created some of his first salon pieces during this time, which were received well. Encouraged by this success, he set his sights on Mexico City. After several failed attempts to secure instruction from José Antonio Gómez, he decided to study at his own direction using foreign methods before completing his studies in violin and becoming the Second Conductor of the Cathedral Orchestra of Mexico City. In 1852, he received and, for six years, hosted his compatriot Miguel Meneses, to whom he taught musical composition and who subsequently worked for him at the Metropolitan Cathedral Orchestra. Paniagua took the initiative to create his first opera; and, finding no available librettos or librettists, he selected one by Felice Romani — Vincenzo Bellini’s librettist — and brought to life his first work, titled Catalina de

César Camargo Mariano

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César Camargo Mariano (born 19 September 1943) is a Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer and music producer. Biography Mariano was born in São Paulo. In June 1957 the American trombone player Melba Liston invited thirteen-year-old Mariano to participate in her concert at a jazz club in Rio de Janeiro, and he appeared in a program on Rio’s Globo Radio called “The Boy Prodigy Who Plays Jazz”. Thar same year, Mariano met Johnny Alf, who went to live with Mariano’s family due to their great friendship. Together at the family home in São Paulo, Mariano became familiar with arranging, composing, and the arts of cinema and theatre, thanks to Johnny Alf’s encouragement. Through his own instincts, tenacity and raw talent, Mariano formed amateur instrumental and vocal groups, when TV Record in São Paulo invited him for a special called “Passport to Stardom” (Passaporte para o Estrelato). In the early 1960s, a teenaged Mariano became famous for his ability to swing and for his legendary left hand. His ensembles of that era, notably Sambalanço Trio and Som Três, are regarded today as high points in Brazilian jazz; so for his 1981 album Samambaia, one of his thirty-plus instrumental albums. Ma

César Cui

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César Antonovich Cui (; ; ; 18 January 183526 March 1918) was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers gathered by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, he rose to the rank of engineer-general (equivalent to full general), taught fortifications in Russian military academies and wrote a number of monographs on the subject. Biography Upbringing and career Cesarius-Benjaminus Cui was born in Vilna in the Russian Empire (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) into a Catholic family of French and Polish–Lithuanian descent, the youngest of five children. The original French spelling of his surname was “Queuille.” His French father, Antoine (Anton Leonardovich) Cui, entered Russia with Napoleon’s army; in 1812, he was injured during the battle near Smolensk and (following the defeat) would settle in Vilna. He married local noblewoman Julia Gucewicz; some sources indicate that her father was the Lithuanian architect Laurynas Gucevičius. The young César grew up learning French, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian. As a secondary school (gymnasium) student in Vilan, he took musi

César Franck

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Child and student (1822–1842)#

Franck was born in Liège, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, to Nicolas-Joseph Franck (1794–1871), a bank clerk whose family came from the then German-Dutch border, and Marie-Catherine-Barbe Franck (née Frings, 1788–1860), who was from Aachen, Germany. Although young César-Auguste, as he was known in his early years, showed both drawing and musical skills, his father envisioned him as a young prodigy pianist-composer, after the manner of Franz Liszt or Sigismond Thalberg, who would bring fame and fortune to his family. His father entered Franck at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, studying solfège, piano, organ, and harmony with Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul and other faculty members. César-Auguste gave his first concerts in 1834, one before Leopold I of the newly formed Kingdom of Belgium. In 1835, his father resolved that the time had come for wider audiences, and brought César-Auguste and his younger brother Joseph to Paris, to study privately: harmony and counterpoint with Anton Reicha, piano with Pierre Zimmerman, and solfège with Hippolyte-Raymond Colet. When Reicha died some ten months later, Nicolas-Joseph sought to enter both boys into the Paris Conservatoire. However, the Conservatoire would not accept foreigners; Nicolas-Joseph was obliged to seek French citizenship, which was granted in 1837. In the interval, Nicolas-Joseph promoted concerts and recitals in Paris featuring one or both boys playing popular music of the period, to mostly good reviews. Young Franck and his brother entered the Conservatoire in October 1837, César-Auguste continuing his piano studies under Zimmerman and beginning composition with Aimé Leborn. He took the first prize in piano at the end of his first year (1838) and consistently maintained that level of performance. His work in counterpoint was less spectacular, taking successively third, second, and first prizes between 1838 and 1840. He added organ studies with François Benoist, which included both performance and improvisation, taking second prize in 1841, with the aim of competing for the Prix de Rome in composition in the following year. However, for reasons that are not explicit, he made a “voluntary” retirement from the Conservatoire on 22 April 1842. His withdrawal may have been at his father’s behest. While César-Auguste was pursuing his academic studies, he was, at his father’s demand, also teaching privately and giving concerts. “It was a hard life for him, . . . and not made easier by the ill-tempered and even vindictive behavior of his father . . . .” Concerts performed by young Franck (some with his brother on the violin, some including Franck’s own compositions) were at first received well, but increasingly Nicolas-Joseph’s commercial promotion of his sons antagonized the Parisian musical journals and critics. César-Auguste’s technical abilities as a pianist were acknowledged; his abilities as a composer were (probably justly at this point) felt to be wanting. The whole situation was aggravated by what in the end became a feud between Nicolas-Joseph and Henri Blanchard, the principal critic of the Revue et Gazette musicale, who lost no opportunity to castigate the aggressive pretensions of the father and to mock the “imperial” names of the elder son. This animosity, “undoubtedly personal”, may well have caused Nicolas-Joseph to decide that a return to Belgium was in order, and in 1842 “a peremptory order” to young Franck compelled the latter to leave the Conservatoire and accompany him.

César Guerra-Peixe

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César Guerra-Peixe (March 18, 1914 – November 26, 1993) was a Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor. Guerra-Peixe was born in Petrópolis, son of Portuguese immigrants with Romani origins. Throughout his lifetime, Guerra-Peixe held numerous positions playing in orchestras and working as a composer and arranger in the production of radio broadcasts, recording, films, and cultural documentaries. His music can be heard in many Brazilian films, such as Terra é Sempre Terra, O Canto do Mar, Quero Essa Mulher Tanto Assim, Riacho de Sangue, Meu Nome é Lampião, and Soledade. Although he strongly embraced serialist techniques through his compositional studies with Koellreutter, Guerra-Peixe took a strong interest in northeastern Brazilian traditional music and culture and integrated elements of Brazilian nationalism to varying degrees in his compositions. While living in Recife, Guerra-Peixe conducted field work on traditional Brazilian music and culture, and he published numerous articles based on his research in the Revista Brasileira de Folclore. He is particularly well known for his lifelong dedication and contributions to the research and promotion of Brazilian culture. The Conce

César Pérez Sentenat

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César Pérez Sentenat (1896-1973) was a Cuban pianist and composer. He has been recognized as an important professor of classical piano in Cuba. Professional background César Pérez Sentenat began to study piano in 1913 with Hubert de Blanck, Rafaela Serrano and Antonio Saavedra, and music theory with José Molina. In 1922 he travelled to Paris, where he studied with Joaquín Nin Castellanos. He also studied musical pedagogy and musicology at the Schola Cantorum. Upon his return to Havana he studied contemporary harmony with Pedro Sanjuán and Amadeo Roldán, between 1924 and 1926. At a later time he travelled to the US, where he continued studying Children Musical Pedagogy with John M. Williams from 1939 to 1940. In 1953 he travelled to Madrid to take courses on Musical Folklore at the Madrid Conservatory, with professor Manuel García. Professor In 1922, Pérez Sentenat was appointed as professor of piano and harmony at the National Conservatory, and in 1940 he served as associate professor at the Sherwood Music School in Chicago. Sentenat served as professor at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música, and in 1931 he was appointed as director of that educational institution. Also in 1931,

César Thomson

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César Thomson (18 March 1857 – 21 August 1931) was a Belgian violinist, teacher, and composer. Biography He was born in Liège in 1857. At age seven, he entered the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and studied under Désiré Heynberg, Rodolphe Massart and Jacques Dupuis (1830-1870). By age 16, he was considered to have “a technique unrivalled by any other violinist then living”. He was also a student of Hubert Léonard, Henryk Wieniawski and Henri Vieuxtemps. In 1873, he became concertmaster of the private orchestra (52 players) of Baron , a Russian banker and railroad magnate, who, in 1870, had built the Castello di Trevano as a temple to music, in the vicinity of Canobbio, by Lugano, Switzerland. After von Derwies lost his mind and disappeared, Thomson left Lugano in 1877, but not before he had married a local noblewoman, Luisa Riva. César Thomson revived many of the then obscure works of Niccolò Paganini, and he did much work in editing, arranging and transcribing works from the early Italian school, by composers such as Corelli, Handel, Tartini, J. S. Bach, Nardini and Vitali. His own compositions included a Zigeuner Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1909). Many well-known violinists

Cesare Bossi

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Cesare Bossi (1773—September 1802) was an Italian-born composer. He is most known as a composer of ballets which he wrote for the King’s Theatre in Haymarket in London. Career Bossi was born in Ferrara in 1773. None of the sources provide information about his training or early career. One source states that while in Italy he wrote operas as well as piano music including sonatas. There he became associated with the King’s Theatre in Haymarket where he was a composer of ballets, a conductor, and responsible for the musical preparation of operas. “In this task there have been few who could excel him.” - Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene 26 March 1801 Charles Didelot co-composed with Vincenzo Federici - L’amant statue 21 April 1796 Giacomo Onorati - L’amour vangé 2 June 1796 Charles Didelot - Apollon berger 27 December 1796 Sébastian Gallet - Bacchus and Ariadne 28 November 1797 Sébastian Gallet - Barader 29 May 1800 James Harvey D’Egville - La chasse d’amour 2 January 1798 Sébastian Gallet - Cinderella or The glass slipper 1803? - Constante et Alcidonis 1798 Sébastian Gallet - Les délassements militaires 16 January 1797 Sébastian Gallet co-composed with Joseph Mazzinghi - The des

Cesare Ciardi

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Cesare Ciardi (28 June 1818 – 13 June 1877) was an Italian flautist and composer. Life Born at Prato to a Tuscan family, Ciardi eventually settled in 1853 in Russia, where he was appointed in 1862 as professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and became Tchaikovsky’s flute teacher. Ciardi himself played as first flute in the orchestras of the Imperial Theatres in Saint Petersburg, including the orchestra of the Imperial Italian Opera and of that of the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre. He died at Strel’na and was succeeded in his orchestral role by Ernesto Köhler. Ciardi possessed many talents and was also a sculptor and caricaturist. Work Flute/s alone Scherzo per due flauti op. 2 Trio scolastico op. 24 Ricordi d’Album op. 43 6 Capricci “I Piaceri della Solitudine” 22 Petite trio concertant s.o. Entr’acte for the ballet The Pharaoh’s Daughter, 1862 Flute & piano Capriccio su melodie belliniane op. 12 Fantasia sui motivi della “Beatrice da Tenda” op. 21 Scherzo “Il Carnevale di Venezia” op. 22 Fantasia sui motivi di “Luisa Miller” op. 23 Simpatie pel Rigoletto op. 27 Duo concertante sui motivi de “I due Foscari” op. 29 Fantasia “L’eco dell’Arno” op. 34 Fantasia sui motivi del “

Cesare Cutolo

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Cesare Cutolo (1826-1867) was an Italian-Australian composer of romantic music. His Magnum Opus was a Victorian Christmas Waltz. He was killed in a boating accident. A memorial concert was held in his name on 21 February 1867 with proceeds collected to present to his wife. Works * The Victorian Christmas waltz * Song of the volunteers with words by H. E. Smith * Remembrances of the Pyramids : nocturne / by C. Cutolo * Come where my love lies dreaming * Hail fair Australia / words by Ellie ; music by Cutolo * March and Chorus * Oh, Gently breathe with lyrics by J. R. Thomas Recordings * The Victorian Christmas waltz, arranged by Richard Divall in Australia unite! : the road to Federation : songs and dances of colonial Australia. OCLC Number: 224672714 References

Cesare Pugni

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Cesare Pugni (; ; 31 May 1802, in Genoa – 26 January 1870) was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. He studied composition with Bonifazio Asioli and violin with Alessandro Rolla. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed for Her Majesty’s Theatre in London (1843–1850), and for the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, Russia (1850–1870). The majority of his ballet music was composed for the works of the ballet master Jules Perrot, who mounted nearly every one of his ballets to scores by Pugni. In 1850 Perrot departed London for Russia, having accepted the position of Premier maître de ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres at the behest of Carlotta Grisi, who was engaged as Prima ballerina. Cesare Pugni followed Perrot and Grisi to Russia, and remained in the imperial capital even after Grisi’s departure in 1853 and Perrot’s departure in 1858. Pugni went on to compose for Perrot’s successors Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa, serving as the Imperial Theatre’s official composer of ballet music until his death in 1870. Cesare Pugni was renowned fo

Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli

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Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born 1573 - ) was an Italian composer of the Baroque period. She published a book of twenty madrigals in 1597, dedicated to Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, which survives as two partbooks and a manuscript tablature. The book contains two madrigals by Alberto Ghirlinzoni, and has texts by Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Battista Guarini, and Antonio Ongaro. Life and career Ricci was born circa 1573 in Cingoli, near Ancona. She was related to the family of Cardinal Giovanni Ricci (1497–1574) by birth, and the noble family of Tingoli by marriage. Ruggiero Giovannelli might have been her teacher, as evidenced by similarities of style in her compositions. Ricci published Il Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, con un dialogo a otto novamente composti & dati in luce in Venice in 1597, which is a composition known as a madrigal. This collection includes 20 madrigals, and is dedicated to Monsignore il Cardinale San Giorgio, the Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini. It survives in two partbooks and a manuscript tablature also survives. The cantus and quintus partbooks do not survive. Il primo libro contains 14 five-voice madrigals and an eight-voice dialogue by Ricci, and two m

Çesk Zadeja

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Çesk Zadeja (born Françesk Zadeja; 8 June 1927 – 15 August 1997) was an Albanian composer, conductor and music educator. He is often described as the “father of Albanian classical music” or “father of Albanian professional music” because of his role in the formation of Albania’s cultivated music tradition after the Second World War. Zadeja studied in Italy and the Soviet Union, worked in radio and military ensembles, and later held leading posts in major Albanian musical institutions. He was associated with the development of the National Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances, the Higher Institute of Arts in Tirana, and the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania. His works include symphonic music, concertos, chamber works, piano music, ballets, vocal music and film scores. Music Zadeja’s music has been described as combining European art-music forms with Albanian folk elements. His Symphony No. 1, written in 1956, is widely cited as the first Albanian symphony. Tirana Times described him as the author of more than 100 works of concert music, including ballets, chamber music, symphonies and songs. Selected works Orchestral and concert works * Symphony No. 1 (1956) * Concerto fo

Čestmír Gregor

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Čestmír Gregor (14 May 1926 – 2 March 2011) was a Czech composer, theorist and publicist. His career as a composer lasted from 1942 to 2005, and encompassed a variety of styles and formats. Life and career Čestmír Gregor was born in Brno, the son of composer and theorist Josef Gregor (1892-1957) and Františka Gregorová Koldová. After graduating from grammar school, he studied composition at the Brno Conservatory with Jaroslav Kvapil and musicology at the Masaryk University in Brno. He then continued studies in studio tracks with Kvapil at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, which he eventually completed in 1970. Gregor settled in Nový Jičín and worked as a composer. He married and had one son, Vit Gregor. He served as secretary of the creative branch of the Union of Czechoslovak Composers. Beginning in October 1959, he moved to Ostrava to work as head of the music broadcast station for Ostrava Czech Radio. In 1968 the arrival of Warsaw Pact troops disrupted his work at the radio station, and in 1972 Gregor was banned from publishing. In 1976 he moved to Prague, where he continued working as a composer. As a composer, Gregor was initially heavily influenced by 20th cen

Cezary Skubiszewski

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Cezary Jan Skubiszewski (born 1948) is a Polish-born Australian film and television composer whose work has received international acclaim winning numerous awards. Most notably Cezary is the recipient of four Australian Academy Film Television Awards (AACTA). He composed the film scores for Two Hands (1999), Death Defying Acts (2008) Red Dog (2011), The Sapphires (2012) and the TV series, Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018). Personal life and education Skubiszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His mother was a classical pianist. Skubiszewski, himself began piano lessons at 8 years of age and received a classical musical education over a period of 10 years under the tutelage of the choir director of the Warsaw Opera. In the late 1960s, Skubiszewski played in bands including ACB with other Warsaw musicians such as Aleksander Bem. He then spent one year in Paris and did not return to Poland due to the nation’s political situation and his own sense of wanderlust. They have two children, Viva Bianca and Jan Skubiszewski. Both work in the Australian entertainment industry. Career In Australia, during 1978 and 1979, Skubiszewski played the Moog synthesizer, Rhodes piano and Clavinet in his jazz