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Chad Klinger

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Chad Klinger is a Canadian country music artist. Klinger recorded his self-titled debut CD in Nashville in 1998, produced by Dean Sams of Lonestar. Two singles released from the project, “Who Needs the Moon” and “Bring It On,” reached the Top 30 of the RPM Country Tracks chart. He took a break from his recording career in 2000 to enroll in the University of Alberta. Klinger returned to the music business in November 2009 with the single “Minivan Man,” which has reached the Top 50 of the Billboard Canadian Country Singles chart. His second album, The Man I Am Inside, was released in April 2010. Discography Albums Singles References External links *

Chage

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, known professionally as Chage, is a Japanese musician and radio personality. He was born in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture. He dropped out from Japan University of Economics. He is also a singer-songwriter, and he is the main vocalist and lyricist-composer of Chage and Aska. Discography Albums Original albums Best albums Project albums Limited albums Live albums Singles As Yuko Ishikawa and Chage Original singles Limited singles Videography Books, photo collections Limited editions Fan clubs Filmography Radio Television Guest Advertisements References External links ; Official website * ; Record companies * * this deals with his released works until 2000 ; Blogs * (25 March 2009 –) * (8 October – 26 December 2008) ; Regular radio programmes * ; Related * *

Chan Ka Nin

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Chan Ka Nin (born 3 December 1949) is a Canadian composer and music educator of Chinese descent. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1971. He has been commissioned to write works for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, New Music Concerts, the Quebec Contemporary Music Society, and Symphony Nova Scotia among many others. He has also been awarded funds to compose works by the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario’s Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, and the Toronto Arts Council. He has won two Juno Awards for Best Classical Composition. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan immigrated with his family to Canada in 1965 at the age of 15. The family settled in Vancouver and after completion of high school, Chan entered the University of British Columbia where he studied music composition with Jean Coulthard while pursuing degrees in both music and electrical engineering. He graduated from the UBC in 1976 and proceeded to enter the graduate composition program at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University where he was a pupil of Bernhard Heiden. He e

Chan Wing-wah

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Chan Wing-wah (JP (; born 1954, in Hong Kong) is a Chinese conductor and composer. He is professor of music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and president of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong. He was also chairman of the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild, vice president of the Asian Composers’ League and board member of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). He composed over 100 works, including eight symphonies. He was awarded several times, e.g. with the ACL Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award and the composition award of the International Double Reed Society in Florida. Life and work Chan Wing-wah earned a teacher’s diploma from Northcote College of Education in 1974. 1975 he graduated from the Sir Robert Black College of Education. From 1975 to 1979 he studied composition with David Gwilt at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Music). In 1979 he received the Fellowship Diploma in Music Composition (FTCL) from Trinity College of Music in London. From 1980 to 1985 he was Commonwealth Fellow with John Beckwith at the University of Toronto (Master of Music and Doctor of Music). S

Chañaral Ortega-Miranda

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Chañaral Ortega-Miranda (born 1973) is a Chilean composer of classical music. Born in Arica, Chile, in 1973, Ortega-Miranda was exiled in France for the first six years of his life. After studying musical theory and composition in Buenos Aires from 1989 to 1993, he attended Sergio Ortega’s composition classes at the École Normale de Musique de Paris until 2000. He then attended the Conservatoire de Strasbourg where he studied with Ivan Fedele. He participated in the annual Musiques à l’encre fraîche festivals from 1993 to 2000. He has also worked with Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Zoltán Jeney and Péter Eötvös at the Acanthes Centre and participated in the composition session at the Fondation Royaumont: Voix Nouvelles with Brian Ferneyhough and Stefano Gervasoni. Ortega-Miranda is a cofounder of the Association Syntono, Boulogne-Billancourt, which supports the composition and promotion of contemporary music. Q’inti, his award-winning composition for orchestral ensemble, is inspired by an Inca legend. Works *Q’inti, orchestral ensemble (2004) *Oba ’loube oba ‘ye, guitar and live electronics (2002) *Kelleñutún, cello solo (2001) *Tzinin-oc, soprano, mezzo=soprano, tenor, baritone

Chancha Vía Circuito

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Pedro Pablo Canale, better known as his stage name Chancha Vía Circuito is a producer, DJ/remixer and composer, from Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fusion of electronic music and cumbia is key factor of Chancha Vía Circuito’s music. He explores the minimal side of digital cumbia with inspiration from Afro-dance, murgas, minimal dub, IDM, and downtempo. Computer bleeps share sonic space with folkloric chant. Candombe drums are accompanied by the sample of a machete splicing the air and a vocal line of indigenous bebop is layered over hints of dub. Canale launched an EP “Bienaventuranza remixes”, with collaborations from Nicola Cruz, El Búho, Rafael Aragon and Baiuca. He released an album in December 2018 with his project “Pino Europeo”, in collaboration with accordion player Chango Spasiuk. Since 2010 Chancha Vía Circuito is one of the favorite artists of NPR’s Alt.Latino. Discography Source: Albums * Rodante (2008) * Río Arriba (2010) * Los Pastores Mixtape (2010) * Amansara (2014) * Bienaventuranza (2018) * Pino Europeo (2018) * La Estrella (2022) Singles & EPs * Bersa Discos (2008) * Rodante (2008) * Bosques Via Temperley (2008) * Semillas EP (2012) * Coplita (2014) * Amansara

Chandrabose (composer)

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Chandrabose (11 July 1950 – 30 September 2010) was an Indian composer and singer. He composed music for more than 300 films between 1977 and 1995. In 2007 he made his debut on the silver screen as an actor. Personal life Chandrabose’s son, Bose Santhosh, has also worked in films as a composer, working in the Malayalam film Sandwich (2011) and the Tamil films, Meenkothi and Deva Kumaran. He is married twice, since 2007 he started acting in Kalaignar TV serials. Career Chandrabose began his career as child artist in the film Thaayum Magalum, he then started to concentrate on music by composing for stage plays of R. S. Manohar and Prameela drama group. His debut film as composer was Madhura Geetham (1977). During the 1980s, he was the official composer of the AVM Productions, in particular the Tamil movies, some of which starred Rajini Kanth. Filmography Composer ;Films * Madhurageetham (1977) * Mangudi Minor (1978) * Machanai Paatheengala (1978) * Tharayil Vaazhum Meengal (1979) * Saranam Ayyappa (1980) * Vadivangal (1981) * Parvaiyin Marupakkam (1982) * Paasa Madal (1982) * Ithu Engal Rajyam (1984) * Oru Malarin Payanam (1985) * Rajathi Rojakili (1985) * Yemaatrathe Yemaaraathe (198

Chanyeol

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Park Chan-yeol (; born November 27, 1992), better known mononymously as Chanyeol, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group Exo, its sub-group Exo-K and sub-unit Exo-SC, and debuted as soloist on August 28, 2024, with his first extended play (EP) Black Out. Apart from his group’s activities, Chanyeol has also starred in various television dramas and movies such as So I Married an Anti-fan (2016), and Secret Queen Makers (2018). Early life Park Chan-yeol was born on November 27, 1992, in Yeokchon-dong, Eunpyeong District, Seoul, South Korea. He attended Hyundai High School in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul. He has an elder sister named Park Yoo-ra, who is a former announcer at South Korean broadcasting station YTN, and MBC. Chanyeol was admitted to a private acting institution when he was sixteen years old, where he became good friends with Block B’s P.O. After watching School of Rock in elementary school, Chanyeol became interested in music and soon began playing the drums. Chanyeol wanted to be a singer after listening to Unconditional Kismet by Yoo Young-jin. Chanyeol has cited Jason Mraz and Eminem as his bigge

Char (musician)

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, known professionally as Char, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is considered one of Japan’s greatest guitar players. In 2003, Char was ranked by HMV at number 38 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. Rolling Stone Japan ranked his album Psyche number 36 on their 2007 list of the greatest Japanese rock albums of all time. Char came in third in a 2011 goo poll on who the Japanese people thought was the best guitarist to represent the country. Char was named the greatest Japanese guitarist in a 2017 list by Guitar Magazine, as voted on by professional musicians, and in a 2019 public poll held by goo. His song “A Fair Wind” was named the 34th best guitar instrumental by Young Guitar Magazine in 2019. Char endorses Fender, with whom he has signature model guitars. He also has signature models with ESP. Career Char started learning piano in elementary school, and playing guitar at age eight. Although he listened to various guitarists, it was Eric Clapton who got him hooked on the instrument. At 17, Char formed the band Smoky Medicine in 1973 with Mari Kaneko. In 1976, Char made his solo debut on Canyon Records with the single “Navy

Charity Bailey

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Charity Alberta Bailey (September 7, 1904 – September 15, 1978) was an African American music educator in New York City and a children’s television pioneer who hosted the programs Sing-A-Song (1954–1956) and Here’s Charity (late 1960s). In both her classroom and educational programs, Bailey featured songs and instruments from around the world, with particular influence from Creole music and folk music. Bailey was a teacher at the Little Red School House in Manhattan and the Heathcote School in Scarsdale, New York, as well as other schools. She released children’s music recordings throughout her life. In the early 1950s she published the bestselling children’s song book Playtime with Music. Early life and education Charity Bailey was born in 1904 to a prominent African American family in Providence, Rhode Island. At age 16, she was described as a music prodigy with “sympathetic feeling as an accompanist” by The New York Age. Her sister Amy Bailey was noted as a soprano. In 1927, Bailey graduated with a degree in education from the Rhode Island College. Due to racial discrimination in Providence, she moved to Atlanta to teach at Spelman College Laboratory School, which was associated

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

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Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick was an American soprano and presenter. A recipient of two bilateral (double) lung transplants, she spoke and performed frequently at concerts, conferences and events around the United States. Early life Tillemann-Dick was born in Denver, Colorado, the fifth of eleven children, including siblings diplomat and technologist Tomicah S. Tillemann, and author Levi Tillemann. She received a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Regis University and studied music at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she was also a Fulbright scholar. Music A full lyric coloratura soprano, Tillemann-Dick performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as The Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio; The National Symphony Hall in Budapest, Hungary; the American Embassy in Beijing, China; and the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. She collaborated or performed with noted conductors and musicians including Bruno Rigacci, Joella Jones, Marvin Hamlisch, Bono, Zoltán Kocsis, Joan Dorneman

Charlemagne Palestine

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Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine (born August 15, 1945 or ‘47), known professionally as Charlemagne Palestine, is an American visual artist and musician. He has been described as being one of the founders of New York school of minimalist music, first initiated by La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Phil Niblock, although he prefers to call himself a maximalist. Formational years Born in Brooklyn, New York, From 1962 to 1969, Palestine was carillonneur for the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan, eventually creating a piece that consisted of 1,500 15-minute performances. From 1968 to 1972, Palestine studied vocal interpretation with Pandit Pran Nath, in Tribeca in the company of his bevy of stuffed animals. From 1980 to 1995, Palestine performed only rarely, exhibiting instead at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and in documenta 8. During that time, he also founded the Ethnology Cinema Project in New York, which is dedicated to preserving films that document disappearing traditional cultures. After moving to Europe in 1995, he settled in Brussels. In addition to creating exhibitions, Palestine performed regularly, re-releasing old

Charles A. E. Harriss

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Charles Albert Edward Harriss (16 or 17 December 1862 – 31 July 1929) was a British-Canadian composer, impresario, educator, organist-choirmaster and conductor. Early life and education Harriss was born in London, England, around midnight between 16 and 17 December 1862. He was the son of Edwin Harriss, organist and choir conductor. He studied at St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, with Sir Frederick Ouseley. Upon graduation, his first job was that of choir master at St. John’s church in Wrexham, Wales. Career At the age of 18 Harriss was appointed organist in a church in Welshpool, Wales. Through his teacher Ouseley’s connections in Canada, and after a direct petition from Agnes Macdonald, wife of the Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John Macdonald, Harriss was invited to audition for the job of organist at St. Alban the Martyr in Ottawa, Canada. After moving there in 1882, he became the organist at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal (1883–1886). In 1886 Harriss succeeded his own father as organist in St. James the Apostle church, also in Montreal. Harriss composed a number of hymns and other choral works. His most famous composition is his opera Torquil, conceived firstly in 1896 as a

Charles A. Zimmermann

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Charles A. Zimmermann (1861 – January 16, 1916) was an American composer of marches and popular music. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, he was appointed bandmaster at the United States Naval Academy in 1887 at the age of 26. Zimmermann served as the academy’s bandmaster until his death from a brain hemorrhage in 1916. Zimmermann is buried at the Naval Academy cemetery. Zimmermann composed his most famous march, “Anchors Aweigh”, in 1906 when he was a lieutenant in the United States Navy. The lyrics were written by Alfred Hart Miles, a midshipman. The march was intended from the beginning to serve as a rousing tune for football games. The familiar strain is actually the trio of the larger work. Zimmermann also composed numerous songs for the 1902 stage play The Wizard of Oz. List of compositions *with Frank Keesee: **Only You (Sir Dashemoff Daily) *with Mr. Hollister: **When the Heart is Sad (Sir Dashemoff Daily) *with Vincent Bryan: **Marching Thro’ Georgia (Scarecrow and Tin Woodman) **Sitting Bull (Scarecrow) **Football (Scarecrow and Tin Woodman) **Marching Through Port Arthur (Scarecrow and Tin Woodman) Bibliography *Holsinger, M. Paul, ed. (1999).

Charles Ambrose

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Charles Ambrose (1791 – 17 February 1856) was an English organist, composer, choir director, and music educator who was active in his native country during his early career and later in Canada. Ambrose was the organist-choirmaster at Chelmsford Cathedral during the 1820s and 1830s. Early life Ambrose was born in England, where he trained as an organist. Career In 1837 he emigrated to Canada where he settled with his wife Sophia and his children on a farm just outside Guelph, Ontario. He was appointed organist-choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral in Hamilton in 1845, a position he held up until his death 11 years later. He also actively taught the piano and organ privately throughout his career. Ambrose’ compositional output was small, consisting of a few sacred works and pieces for solo organ and piano. His most notable work is Three Grand Sonatas for piano which was published in 1825; a copy of which is held in the collection at the Library and Archives Canada. Ambrose died in Hamilton, Ontario in 1856 at the age of 65. He was the father and teacher of composer and organist Robert Ambrose and the grandfather of composer and organist Paul Ambrose. References

Charles Amirkhanian

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Charles Benjamin Amirkhanian (born January 19, 1945; Fresno, California) is an American composer. He is a percussionist, sound poet, and radio producer of Armenian origin. He is mostly known for his electroacoustic and text-sound music. Career Amirkhanian received his Master of Fine Arts from Mills College in 1980, where he studied electronic music and techniques of sound recording. He was music director of Pacifica Radio’s KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, from 1969 to 1992, where he initiated the long-running program dedicated to avant-garde music, Ode to Gravity. He was also a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Creative Arts Department at San Francisco State University from 1977 to 1980. In 1984, the American Music Center awarded him its Letter of Distinction for service to American composers through his work at KPFA FM in Berkeley, California. This was followed in 2005 by another for his co-founding and directing the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco. From ASCAP in 1989 he received the Deems Taylor Award, also for service to American composers. Amirkhanian received a 1997 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. In 2009, Chamber Music America and ASCAP honore

Charles Ancliffe

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Charles William Ancliffe (25 July 1880 – 20 December 1952) was an Irish-born composer of light music, chiefly remembered for his salon piano music, genre dance pieces, light character pieces and his “Nights of Gladness” waltz. Early life and education Ancliffe was born on 25 July 1880 at Curragh Camp, Kildare, Ireland. His father, John Benjamin Ancliffe (1854–1916), was bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment from 1884 and the 2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry from 1894 until he was discharged in 1908. When aged 11, he was organist at the military church in Secunderabad where his father was stationed. At the age of 15 in 1896 he joined the 2nd Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry in Guernsey as a boy bandsman. He studied at the Royal Military School of Music in Kneller Hall (1899–1900), graduating at the age of 20 having been awarded the gold baton for composition for a suite called “Gipsy Pictures”. Career Ancliffe followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a bandmaster himself; from 11 December 1900 he was bandmaster of the First Battalion, South Wales Borderers, seeing much service in India (1901–1910). In 1902 he joined the Freemasons. In 1903, when he was

Charles Auchester

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Charles Auchester is a novel by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard, published in 1853. Its hero is an idealised portrait of the composer Felix Mendelssohn. The novel, which is notable for its positive portrayal of Jewish musicality, was praised by Benjamin Disraeli and was initially very popular, remaining in print for over seventy years. Novel The novel, which was written between the years of 1846 and 1849, reflects the author’s adulation of Felix Mendelssohn, who had died in 1847 (when the author was 17 years old), and who appears in the book as ’the Chevalier Seraphael’. The book, which is set in England and Germany, describes Seraphael’s artistic and moral influence on a body of gifted friends and students, as narrated by the eponymous Auchester. Auchester has been assumed to represent Charles Horsley. Other thinly veiled members of Seraphael’s circle are his pupil ‘Starwood Burney’ (Sterndale Bennett), the singer ‘Clara Benette’ (Jenny Lind) and the composer ‘Anastase’ (Hector Berlioz). The book attributes much of Seraphael/Mendelssohn’s musical ability to his Jewish origins. At one point, a conversation between the character Aronach (based on Mendelssohn’s teacher Carl Zelter), and Auch

Charles Auguste de Bériot

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Charles Auguste de Bériot (; 20 February 18028 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist, artist and composer. Biography Charles de Bériot was born in 1802 in Leuven, France (now part of Belgium) into a noble family but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was given to the custody of his music teacher and friend of his father, Jean-François Tiby (1772–1844). De Bériot began studying violin with Tiby, who trained him in the French style as exemplified by Giovanni Battista Viotti. In 1811 he performed for the first time in public, playing a concerto by Viotti. François-Joseph Fétis says that Tiby sent de Bériot to Paris at the age of 12 (1814), however de Bériot’s own correspondence confirms that he only arrived in Paris in 1821. (This mistake is attributed to the advanced age at which Fétis wrote his final biographical note on de Bériot. ) While in Paris, de Bériot studied briefly at the Paris Conservatory under Pierre Baillot and played for Rodolphe Kreutzer and Viotti. The latter encouraged de Bériot to “..listen a lot…and take what seems good to you, be like the bees and you will create a genre…” After being refused a subsidy by William I of the Netherlands, he returned briefly to B

Charles Avison

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Charles Avison (; 16 February 1709 (baptised)9 or 10 May 1770) was an English composer during the Baroque and Classical periods. He was a church organist at St John The Baptist Church at St John the Baptist Church, in Newcastle. According to The New Grove Dictionary, he was also born in this city. while others claim that he was the seventh of ten children. Regardless, Avison was born into a family with a high rate of infant mortality, as many of his siblings died at a young age. His education may have included an apprenticeship with a local merchant named Ralph Jenison, a patron of the arts, and later a Member of Parliament, as well as further study of music. The local composer William Shield, who was born south of the River Tyne in Swalwell, County Durham, studied under Avison. Avison was married to Catherine Reynolds on 15 January 1737. The couple had nine children, of whom only three – Jane, Edward, and Charles – survived to adulthood. Edward succeeded his father as both the director of the Newcastle Musical Society and the St Nicholas’s organist after his father’s death. Charles was also an organist and composer. Compositions Description Avison’s best-known compositions are his

Charles Balmer

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Charles Balmer (September 21, 1817 – December 15, 1892), pseudonyms: Charles Remlab, T. van Berg, Alphonse Leduc, Charles Lange, Henry Werner, August Schumann, T. Meyer, F. B. Rider, was a German-American violinist, pianist, organist, composer, conductor, choir director, concert organizer, and music publisher in St. Louis, where, as part of the first generation of German emigrants to the USA, he was part to the musical life of Missouri in the second half of the 19th century. Life Karl Balmer grew up as the eldest son of Gottfried Balmer (died 1846) and his wife Eva, née Heyse (died 1875), in a wealthy, educated family in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. Balmer showed musical talent from an early age and was taken by his father to Göttingen for further musical education, presumably with Heinrich Wilhelm Jacobi. At the age of nine, he received a prize from Louis Spohr for playing a work by Spohr. At ten, he played first violin in the orchestra. At sixteen, he was assistant to the conductor. In 1836, his father emigrated with the family in the USA to St. Louis, Missouri. Charles Balmer himself headed first to New Orleans, to make use of his musical skills there. He then spent two years in Mobil

Charles Baudiot

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Charles-Nicolas Baudiot (29 March 1773 – 26 September 1849) was a French classical cellist and composer. Biography Baudiot received lessons from Jean-Baptiste Janson the older, and succeeded his master as professor at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1802. Shortly after his entrance into this school, he was commissioned to do with Jean-Henri Levasseur a cello method which was written by Pierre Baillot. Baudiot, who held a post at the Ministry of Finance, was one of the professors who retained their seats at the Conservatoire, when it was reorganized in 1816 as the Royal School of Music, and he gained the title of first cello of the King’s Chapel. In 1822 he applied for and obtained his retirement as professor of the Conservatoire with a pension for his former services. From then on, he made several trips to France to give concerts before dying at the age of seventy-four. Baudiot is buried in the 17th division of the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. Compositions * Two cello concertos; Paris, Frey * Two concertinos for the same instrument, works of the 19th and 20th; Paris, Pleyel * Trio for violin, viola and cello, Op. 3 * Two works of duets for two cellos, Op. 5 and 7 * Pot-pourri for cello, w

Charles Bernstein (composer)

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Charles Bernstein (born February 28, 1943) is an American composer of film and television scores. He is a Daytime Emmy Award winner, and a two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee. Since 1995, he has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors for both the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the Society of Composers & Lyricists. Early life and education Bernstein was born in Minneapolis to mother Mildred Wolf (1910–2011) and father Charles Bernstein, Sr. (). Western horror film Hex (also 1973). His first score for a major Hollywood studio was for the United Artists film, White Lightning (1973), starring Burt Reynolds. The film marked the first of many collaborations between Bernstein and director Joseph Sargent. He even wrote the dance music in the latter film. Bernstein also scored non-horror films such as Foolin’ Around (1980). Bernstein reunited with Cujo director Lewis Teague to score his independent films, Cante Jondo (2007) and Charlotta-TS (2010). A Nightmare on Elm Street Under the recommendation of his agent, Bernstein met with Wes Craven and

Charles Boone (composer)

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Charles Boone (born Cleveland, on June 21, 1939) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living in San Francisco. Biography Charles Boone studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the University of Southern California, and San Francisco State College. Karl Schiske, Adolph Weiss, and Ernst Krenek were among his teachers. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Commissions as well as a two-year Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) artist-in-residency in Berlin. His works have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as the Berlin, Avignon, and Ojai Festivals. Performers have included Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Michael Tilson Thomas, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan Williams, Bertram Turetzky, and Karl Kohn. An archive of the composer’s scores, manuscripts, recordings, letters, and other documents is being gathered at the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. Boone has encountered a number of young people, through teaching and otherwise, who have been meaningful to him. They include Jon Beacham, Dicky Bahto, Claire Jackel, P

Charles Camilleri

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Charles Camilleri (7 September 1931 – 3 January 2009) was a Maltese composer. Early life Camilleri was born in Ħamrun on 7 September 1931 He received initial piano tuition and grounding in the rudiments of music from his father, and also played the accordion. In 1959, he studied under John Weinzweig at the University of Toronto for four years. Whilst in Toronto, he had contact with Stravinsky around the time of April 1962. Career Camilleri moved from his early influences by Maltese folk music to a musical form “in which nothing is fixed and his compositions evolve from themselves with a sense of fluency and inevitability”. He composed over 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and solo instruments. During the 1970s he gained international attention. Camilleri’s work has since been performed throughout the world and his research of folk music and improvisation, the influences of the sounds of Africa and Asia, together with the academic study of European music, helped him create a “universal” style. Camilleri himself identified four key influences in his world music: According to the Historical Dictionary of Malta, Camilleri is the most internationally recognized of major

Charles Chaynes

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Charles Augustin Chaynes (11 July 1925 – 24 June 2016) was a French composer. Biography Chaynes was born in Toulouse in 1925. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier. In 1951 he won the Prix de Rome with the cantata Et l’homme se vit les portes rouvrir. During his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome he wrote the First Concerto for String Orchestra and the Ode for a Tragic Death. In 1956 he became a producer at the Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (RTF). In 1964 he succeeded Marius Constant as head of the channel France Musique. From 1975 to 1990 he headed the service de la création musicale at Radio France. In addition to several operas, one symphony and chamber works Chaynes composed numerous concertos, etc. for trumpet, violin, piano and organ, and two orchestral concerts. In 1966 he composed a concerto for organ, string orchestra, timpani and percussion for Marie-Claire Alain. His Piano Concerto was premiered in 1967 by Yvonne Loriod, the wife of Olivier Messiaen. He died on 24 June 2016 in Saint-Mandé at the age of 90. Selected works * Symphony (1955) * Concerto for organ, string orchestra, timpani and percussion (1966) * Piano Concerto (196

Charles Curtis (musician)

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Charles Curtis is a performer and composer of a wide variety of music, with particular emphasis on the avant-garde. Curtis is most strongly associated with minimalism, modern classical, and so-called “downtown music.” A graduate of Juilliard School, Curtis has since been involved with the music department at Princeton University and at the University of California, San Diego. He has served as Professor of Contemporary Music Performance at UCSD since 2000, where he serves as artistic director for the chamber music series Camera Lucida. Curtis has studied under such masters as vocalist Pandit Pran Nath and composer La Monte Young and still regularly records and performs. He has also worked closely with composers such as Éliane Radigue and Alvin Lucier. Selected discography External links *Charles Curtis UCSD faculty page *Charles Curtis main page at Squealer Music *Biography at Kunst im Regenbogenstadl

Charles Cuvillier

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Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas La reine s’amuse (1912, played as The Naughty Princess in London) and with The Lilac Domino, which became a hit in 1918 in London. Biography Cuvillier was born in Paris, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet. He began writing for the Paris musical stage and had a success with Avant-hier matin (1905), a small scale work with piano accompaniment. Later stage works to achieve success in France and abroad included Son p’tit frère (1907), his first collaboration with André Barde, and La reine s’amuse (1912). Cuvillier fought in the trenches against Germany during the war, and thereafter made his career in France and the U.K. His greatest international success was the operetta The Lilac Domino, originally Der lila Domino (Leipzig, 1912). The critic Andrew Lamb writes that Cuvillier composed “light, insinuating music, distinguished by typically French phrasing.” Cuvillier also composed film music, including Mon amant l’assassin (1931), Occupe-toi d’Amélie (1932) and (1935). Cuvillier died in Paris in 1955, at the ag

Charles d'Helfer

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Charles d’Helfer (1598–1661) was a French baroque composer and maître de musique at Soissons Cathedral. His masses follow a strict one syllable per note style. He is best remembered for his requiem for four voices of 1656 which was used for the funeral of composer Michel Richard Delalande in 1726 and was the basis of Julien-Amable Mathieu (1734-1811) and François Giroust’s requiem mass for Louis XV in 1775. Works * Missa quatuor vocum ad imitationem moduli Benedicam Dominum, Paris 1653 * Missa pro defunctis quatuor vocum, Paris 1656 * Missa quatuor vocum ad moduli Lorsque d’un désir curieux, Paris 1658 * Missa sex vocum ad imitationem moduli In aeternum cantabo, Paris 1658 * Vespres et Hymnes de l’année avec plusieurs motets du St. Sacrement, de la Vierge des SS. et patrons de lieux etc à 4 parties, Paris 1660 * Missa quatuor vocum ad imitationem moduli Deliciae Regum, Paris 1664 * Missa sex vocum ad imitationem moduli Quid videbis in Sunamitae, Paris 1674 * Missa quatuor vocibus ad imitationem moduli Laetatus sum, Paris 1678 Recordings * Requiem, with funeral oration for Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d.1608). A Sei Voci. 1994 References Sources Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, The Polyph

Charles Dancla

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(Jean Baptiste) Charles Dancla (; 19 December 181710 November 1907) was a French violinist, composer and teacher. Biography Dancla was born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre. When he was nine years old, violinist Pierre Rode in Bordeaux heard his music; he was so impressed that he sent a recommendation letter to Pierre Baillot, Luigi Cherubini and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Thus Dancla went to the Paris Conservatory and studied with Baillot for violin and Fromental Halévy for composition. He was strongly influenced by Niccolò Paganini, whom he heard in 1830, as well as by Henri Vieuxtemps. From 1835 onward Dancla was solo violinist in the Paris Opéra, and shortly thereafter he became concert master. In 1857 he was made a professor at the Paris Conservatory where he was a successful teacher for over 35 years, being awarded the Prix Chartier in 1861. He died in Tunis. His two brothers were Arnaud Dancla (1819–1862), cellist and author of a considerable cello teaching method, and Leopold Dancla (1822–1895), violinist and composer of chamber music. Works *violin concertos *string quartets *string trios *violin duos *Airs variés, Op. 89 for violin (each of the six airs are based on themes by different com

Charles Deenen

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Charles Deenen (born 15 January 1970 in Holthees), is a Dutch video game audio director, composer, sound designer, and mixer. He wrote music created sound effects for many Commodore 64 and Amiga games, in addition to working for Interplay, Electronic Arts, and other video game developers. Video games In 1987, Deenen, Jeroen Tel, and others started the sound and music group Maniacs of Noise and composed game music for the Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST, being hired by Sega, U.S. Gold, and Probe Software. Initially he was a programmer for the group, while Tel was the composer, but after their first few games he began working on music as well. He composed music for the home computer versions of Double Dragon, Soldier of Light, and Jukka Tapanimäki’s game Zamzara. Maniacs of Noise composed the music for over 300 Commodore 64 and Amiga games. In 1990, he moved to the US and worked for Virgin Games for six months. In 1991, Interplay hired him where was a composer and sound designer on Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, Another World, Planescape: Torment, The Lost Vikings, and Descent 2. In 2002 he left Interplay and briefly worked for Shiny on Enter the Matrix. Other work Deenen also works on s

Charles Delioux

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Jean-Charles Delioux (de) Savignac (17 April 1825 – 12 November 1915) was a French composer, a pupil of Halévy and potentially Chopin, who was quite popular in the Paris salons of the nineteenth century. Life Charles Delioux was born in the Breton town of Lorient, Morbihan. He received his early musical education from his father, a local naval commissioner, and appeared as a child prodigy on the piano in Lorient and as early as 1839 at the Tuileries before King Louis Philippe. During his early years in Paris, he was a pupil of Pierre Zimmerman. In 1845, he began his studies at the Paris Conservatory with Fromental Halévy (composition) and Auguste Barbereau (harmony) and won an award (“1er Accessit”) in the same year for counterpoint and fugue. There are also hints that he studied privately with Frédéric Chopin as witnessed by his pupil Victor Gilles (1884–1964). He was admitted to compete for the Prix de Rome in 1847, but after he failed, he never re-entered. From 1849 he established himself as piano teacher in Paris and was so much sought after that he could support his wider family, after his father had died shortly before. Among his better known pupils was Alexis de Castillon. H

Charles Dieupart

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Charles Dieupart (16761751) was a French harpsichordist, violinist, and composer. Although he was known as Charles to his contemporaries according to some biographers, his real name was actually François. He was born in Paris, rue aux Ours, August 10th, 1676. His father was Nicolas Dieupart (? - 1700) an ordinary musician to Louis XIV’s Grande Ecurie. At some point, he befriended Elizabeth Wilmot of Rochester, countess of Sandwich, and Jacques Paisible who were visiting James II of England in his exile at Saint-germain-en-Laye near Paris. This is the main reason for his coming to London around 1700. A prominent member of the Drury Lane musical establishment, Dieupart was active both as composer and performer and actively participated in the musical life of the city. However, after about 1712 he earned his income mostly by teaching, and in his later years lived in poverty. He is best remembered today for a collection of six harpsichord suites which influenced Johann Sebastian Bach’s English Suites. Life Details of Dieupart’s early life and training are sketchy. The earliest document to refer to the composer is a parisian tax roll dated 1695 where he is said to have mastered the harp

Charles Dodge (composer)

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Charles Malcolm Dodge (born June 5, 1942 in Ames, Iowa) is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music. He is a former student of Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller. Education and teaching career Dodge earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa in 1964, studying composition with Richard Hervig. He studied with Jack Beeson, Chou Wen-chung, Otto Luening, and Vladimir Ussachevsky during a Master of Arts (1966) and Doctor of Arts (1970) from Columbia University. There he was active in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. At Princeton University (1969–1970), he studied computer music with Godfrey Winham. Dodge became a leading innovator in computer music composition, as distinct from the analog electronic composition norm through the 1970s. He taught at Columbia (1970–1977), then founded the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music in 1977 at Brooklyn College (City University of New York), serving as Professor of Music. In recent years he is best known, with his wife Katharine, as co-owner of the Putney Mountain Winery in Putney, Vermont, which has grown annually since its 1998 founding. Music Dodge created many work

Charles E. King

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Charles Edward King (January 29, 1874 – February 27, 1950) was a Hawaiian-born American educator, Hawaii territorial legislator, and a songwriter who is most widely known as the composer of “Ke Kali Nei Au”. King was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1995. Music historian George Kanahele regarded King as the “Dean of Hawaiian Music”, although this sobriquet is more associated with John Kameaaloha Almeida. Teaching and legislative career Charles E. King was born of part Hawaiian ancestry, at the Nuʻuanu Valley estate of Queen Emma of Hawaii, in Honolulu, to Walter and Mary Ann Brash. He was adopted by his maternal grandfather John Lewis King after the death of his mother, and was christened by his godmother Queen Emma at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. King was educated in public schools in Hawaii and the Kamehameha School for Boys. In 1914, Kamehameha alumni circulated a petition requesting that King be named school principal, but Ernest C. Webster was chosen instead. When Bishop Estate trustee Samuel Mills Damon resigned in 1916, the trustees named former teacher William Williamson, a white man, to fill the vacancy. As established by the original trust deed, any trustee app

Charles Fussell

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Charles Clement Fussell (born February 14, 1938, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American composer and conductor of contemporary classical music. He has composed six symphonies and three operas. His symphony Wilde for solo baritone and orchestra, based on the life of Oscar Wilde and premiered by the Newton Symphony Orchestra and the baritone Sanford Sylvan in 1990, was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received a citation and award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992. Fussell received advanced degrees in composition and conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Thomas Canning and Bernard Rogers. He received a Fulbright grant to study at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where he worked with Boris Blacher. He also attended the Bayreuth masterclasses of Friedelind Wagner. He was an assistant and close friend of the composer Virgil Thomson. He served as the president of the Thomson Foundation for many years. Fussell has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the North Carolina School of the Arts (1976–1977), Boston University (1983–2003), and Rutgers University. Catalogue of works Late 1

Charles Gavin

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Charles de Souza Gavin (born 9 July 1960) is a Brazilian drummer and music producer, perhaps best known for his 25-year tenure with rock band Titãs. Before Titãs, he had brief stints at Ira! and RPM. Early life and first works At age 8, his friends invited him to participate on 7 September (Brazil’s Independence Day) festival. The problem was the absence of decent percussion instruments. So, the school decided to improvise these with kitchen utensils. But there was still an instrument remaining, which would be quite difficult for a not so skillful drummer to play. Gavin, who was already used to beat the table at school, was chosen for the job. The band, commanded by Gavin, won the originality prize. In 1975, at the year of 15, living in Jabaquara, Gavin joined ten neighbors, and during the weeks that preceded the Carnaval, they promoted noisy beats around the streets. However, his ears were focused on the discs of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Once the drumming life was chosen, he built himself his first own drum kit, using pieces of his father’s Opala, his sofa, and two ash trays. In 1979, when he was 19, Gavin convinced his father to buy his first true d

Charles Godfrey (bandmaster)

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Charles Godfrey (November 22, 1790, Kingston-upon-Thames – December 12, 1863, London) was an English bandmaster, drummer and bassoonist, and the founder member of an extensive musical family. He began his career as a drummer in the band of the 1st Royal Surrey Militia. From 1813 he played in the band of the Coldstream Guards as a bassoonist. He was appointed director of this band in 1825. He served in that position until 1834 when he was discharged from military duty, but continued to direct the group as a civilian musician. In 1831 Godfrey was appointed musician-in-ordinary to King William IV. He was editor of the first English publication devoted to military music, Jullien’s Military Journal. His other son was the bandmaster Dan Godfrey who was the father of the bandmaster and Bournemouth conductor Daniel Eyers Godfrey. Musical family * Charles Godfrey (1790–1863) **Daniel Godfrey (1831–1903), bandmaster, Grenadier Guards ***Daniel Eyers Godfrey (1868–1939), conductor, founder of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra ****Dan Godfrey III (1893–1935), BBC Manchester (1920s), first full-time conductor of the BBC Wireless Orchestra **Fred Godfrey (1837–1882), bandmaster, Coldstream Gua

Charles Gounod

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Charles-François Gounod ( , ; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893) was a French composer, conductor, and organist of the Romantic era. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been Faust (1859); his Roméo et Juliette (1867) also remains in the international repertoire. He composed a large amount of church music, many songs, and popular short pieces including his “Ave Maria” (an elaboration of a Bach piece) and “Funeral March of a Marionette”. Born in Paris into an artistic and musical family, Gounod was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris and won France’s most prestigious musical prize, the Prix de Rome. His studies took him to Italy, Austria and then Prussia, where he met Felix Mendelssohn, whose advocacy of the music of Bach was an early influence on him. He was deeply religious, and after his return to Paris, he briefly considered becoming a priest. He composed prolifically, writing church music, songs, orchestral music and operas. Gounod’s career was disrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. He moved to England with his family for refuge from the Prussian advance on Paris in 1870. After peace was restored in 1871 his family returned to Paris but he remained in Lon

Charles Greenberg

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Charles Louis “Charlie” Greenberg is an American composer and arranger of instrumental and vocal arrangements for classical, jazz, contemporary and musical theater productions. His career spans more than 40 years. His compositions have been performed at Off-Broadway venues including the Vineyard Theater, Circle Repertory, Symphony Space, Lincoln Center Summer Festival, Eugene O’Neil Theater Foundation, Westbeth Theater, Stanford Lively Arts, Tribeca Performing Arts, Abrons Performing Arts Center, 42nd Street’s Clurman Theater and Mint Theater. Career In 1996, Greenberg began a long-time collaboration with librettist and lyricist, Barbara Zinn Krieger. Together, they have staged numerous productions for the New York City Children’s Theater, including Little Kit (1997 & 1999) Butterfly (2008 & 2012), Jose Limon: The Making of an Artist (2009), Sky Boys (2011) and Young Charles Dickens, a 2016 nominee for Best Family Show by the Off-Broadway Alliance. Greenberg has also written incidental music for The Emperor’s New Clothes and other Magical Stories, which opened at the Clurman Theater on November 24, 2018. Greenberg wrote the incidental music for Circle Repertory’s premiere of A.R. G

Charles Gross

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Charles Gross (May 13, 1934 – March 24, 2026) was an American film and television composer who lived in New York City. Life and career Gross was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 13, 1934. He was educated at Harvard University (BA), the New England Conservatory and Mills College (teaching fellowship), and a student of Darius Milhaud. He arranged for the West Point Band for three years, and served in the US Army. Later, he became a writer for industrial films and cartoons. He wrote original music for the 1976 Broadway production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. His film and television scores included Valdez Is Coming (1971), The Tenth Level (1976), Blue Sunshine (1977), The Dain Curse (1978), Heartland (1979), My Body, My Child (1982), Terrible Joe Moran (1984), Country (1984), The Burning Bed (1984), The Night They Saved Christmas (1984), Arthur the King (1985), Sweet Dreams (1985), Between Two Women (1986), Punchline (1988), Turner & Hooch (1989), Air America (1990), Another You (1991), A Family Thing (1996), and Fakin’ Da Funk (1997). Gross died on March 24, 2026, at the age of 91. References External links *

Charles Hamm

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Charles Edward Hamm (April 21, 1925 – October 16, 2011) was an American musicologist, writer, composer, and music educator. He is credited with being the first music historian to seriously study and write about American popular music. He also was one of the founders of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Hamm graduated from the University of Virginia in 1947 where he was a member of the Virginia Glee Club. Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times that “Mr. Hamm was one of the first scholars to study the history of American popular music with musicological rigor and sensitivity to complex racial and ethnic dynamics, and both oral and written traditions. He traced pop’s history not just to its full recent flowering in the 1950s or to the 19th century and Stephen Foster, but also to the colonial-era compositions that created the context for all that followed.” Hamm was a 1967 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. In 2002 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for American Music. He died of pneumonia, leaving 3 sons. Works *Yesterdays: Popular Song in America (1979) *Music in the New World (1983) *Put

Charles Harford Lloyd

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Charles Harford Lloyd (Thornbury, 16 October 1849 – Eton, 16 October 1919) was an English composer who became a well-known organist in his time. His most successful area was organ and choral works but he wrote three clarinet pieces for his friend Randle Fynes Holme (1864–1957), (a talented amateur musician), a number of chamber works, a Festival Overture for orchestra, an organ concerto with orchestra and a number of songs for voice and piano. He served as organist and choir-master at Gloucester Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, Eton College Chapel and organist at the Chapel Royal. His most frequently performed works today are his settings of the Anglican Church liturgy. He had a lifelong friendship with Hubert Parry. Early years Charles Harford Lloyd was born on 16 October 1849 to a Gloucestershire solicitor, Edmund Lloyd. Charlie, as his intimates called him, began to play the piano at an early age, receiving his first instruction from a governess. When he was ten years old, he played the organ at the neighbouring church of Rangeworthy, where his brother-in-law was the vicar as well as another nearby village of Falfield. He attended the grammar school of his native to

Charles Hommann

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Charles Hommann (July 25, 1803-?1872) was an American composer. A native of Philadelphia, he was among the first American-born composers to produce chamber and orchestral music successfully. Life Charles Hommann was the son of John C. Hommann and his wife Constantia. His father, who had immigrated to the United States from Germany in the 1790s, worked as a music promoter and publisher in Philadelphia. Charles Hommann was one of the first American composers to be trained exclusively in the United States, though his musical training likely came mostly from his German father. Early in his career, Charles held positions at St James’s Church and the Third Dutch Reformed Church in Philadelphia. As a violinist and violist for the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, Hommann was exposed to the works of the major European composers of his time. His own music was performed by the Bethlehem Philharmonic Society as well as the Philadelphia Philharmonic Society, and he won a gold medal prize from the latter for his overture in D in 1835. Although his music was relatively unknown by the time of his death, he left behind a significant body of orchestral, chamber, and church music that is importa

Charles Houdret

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Charles Houdret (6 July 1905 – 1965) was a Canadian conductor, cellist, radio producer, and composer. He began his career in Belgium and was highly active as a conductor throughout Europe during the 1940s. In 1952 he immigrated to Canada where he ultimately became a naturalized citizen. He was active as a radio producer, cellist, and conductor in Canada up through 1964, after which nothing is known about his whereabouts or activities. Early life and career in Europe Born in Liège, Belgium, Charles Houdret was trained at the Royal Conservatory of Liège where he was a pupil of Sylvain Dupuis in music composition. He also studied in Paris with André Hekking (cello), in Vienna with Felix Weingartner (conducting), and in Brussels with Eugène Ysaÿe (chamber music). Through Ysaÿe he was introduced to Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria. Impressed with Houdret, the two monarchs appointed him to the post of director of the royal chapel orchestra. With this ensemble, he notably conducted Franz Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B flat major in a 1942 recording on the His Master’s Voice music label. He spent the 1940s conducting this orchestra and others in concerts throughout Europe. During

Charles Hurel

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Charles Hurel was a French Baroque composer, lutenist and theorbist active between 1665 and 1692. Biography Charles Hurel was a musician and eminent professor from a prosperous family of Parisian luthiers which included some of the main instrumental factors of Paris in the 17th century. He was listed as “ordinary officer of the Academy of Music” in 1684 and as a professor of theorbo in Paris. He died in Paris c. 1692. who was a master painter and sculptor, active among others in the realization of ceilings painted “à la française”. Works * Tablature de luth et de théorbe (c. 1675 or 1680 ) * Theorbo pieces by Charles Hurel, together with lute and theorbo pieces by many other composers can be found in the (c. 1699) housed at the Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon. Discography * Christopher Wilke: Works for Theorbo - Centaur Records CRC 2875 See also * Lute * Theorbo References External links * Prélude - Charles Hurel on YouTube * Charles Hurel on Musicalics

Charles Hylton Stewart

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Arthur Charles Lestoc Hylton Stewart (21 March 1884 – 14 November 1932 ) was an English organist and composer. Early life and education The son of the Rev. Charles Henry Hylton Stewart and Florence Hope Dixon, Stewart was born at Chester and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. Like his younger brother Bruce, he was an organ scholar at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Career After teaching music at Sedbergh School from 1907 to 1908, Stewart composed several works for the organ and for choirs, including the tune “Rochester” for the hymn ‘Light of the lonely pilgrim’s heart’ by Sit Edward Denny (New English Hymnal 399). Family In 1917 Stewart married Gladys Maud Priestley Inglis, the daughter of Charles John Inglis and granddaughter of Dr. James Inglis. References

Charles Ives

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Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut, on October 20, 1874, the son of George (Edward) Ives, a US Army bandleader in the American Civil War, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Ives. The Iveses, descended from founding colonists of Connecticut, were one of Danbury’s leading families, and they were prominent in business and civic improvement. They were similarly active in progressive social movements of the 19th century, including the abolition of slavery. George Ives directed bands, choirs, and orchestras, and taught music theory and a number of instruments. Charles got his influences by sitting in the Danbury town square and listening to his father’s marching band and other bands on other sides of the square simultaneously. His father taught him and his brother (Joseph) Moss Ives (February 5, 1876 – April 7, 1939 ) music, Ives moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1893, enrolling in the Hopkins School, where he captained the baseball team. In September 1894, Ives entered Yale University, studying under Horatio Parker. Here he composed in a choral style similar to his mentor, writing church music and even an 1896 campaign song for William McKinley. On November 4, 1894, his father died, a crushing blow to him, but to a large degree, he continued the musical experimentation he had begun with him. His brother Moss later became a lawyer. At Yale, Ives was a prominent figure; he was a member of HeBoule, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter) and Wolf’s Head Society, and sat as chairman of the Ivy Committee. he started work in the actuarial department of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. In 1899, Ives moved to employment with the insurance agency Charles H. Raymond & Co., where he stayed until 1906. In 1907, upon the failure of Raymond & Co., he and his friend Julian Myrick formed their own insurance agency Ives & Co., which later became Ives & Myrick, where he remained until he retired. During his career as an insurance executive and actuary, Ives devised creative ways to structure life-insurance packages for people of means, which laid the foundation of the modern practice of estate planning. His Life Insurance with Relation to Inheritance Tax, published in 1918, was well received. As a result of this he achieved considerable fame in the insurance industry of his time, with many of his business peers surprised to learn that he was also a composer. In his spare time, he composed music and, until his marriage, worked as an organist in Danbury and New Haven as well as Bloomfield, New Jersey, and New York City. Following his recovery from the 1907 attack, Ives entered into one of the most creative periods of his life as a composer. In 1908, he married Harmony Twichell, daughter of Congregational minister Joseph Twichell and his wife, Julia Harmony Cushman. There have been numerous theories advanced to explain the silence of his late years. It seems as mysterious as the last several decades of the life of Jean Sibelius, who stopped composing at almost the same time. While Ives had stopped composing, and was increasingly plagued by health problems, he continued to revise and refine his earlier work, as well as oversee premieres of his music. were privately printed in 1920). Ives died of a stroke in 1954 in New York City. His widow, who died in 1969 at age 92, bequeathed the royalties from his music to the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the Charles Ives Prize.

Charles J. Orth

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Charles Joseph Orth (April 11, 1867 – February 1, 1921) was an American pianist, composer, and businessman known primarily for American march music and the novelty descriptive piece “In a Clock Store”, which featured in popular music repertoire of the early 20th century. Biography Orth was born on April 11, 1867, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he showed interest in music as a child, but his father planned for him to take over the family business instead. Due to his father’s disapproval, he studied music in secret with the help of his mother. He became a student of Christopher Bach, Otto von Gumpert, William Dohrbeck, Hugo Kaun and Franz Neumann. His father eventually found out, and was impressed by his son’s musicianship, allowing him to continue his music studies as long as he balanced it out with his business education. He began to play piano in public throughout the city and the state. Orth eventually completed his study of business and joined his family’s business according to the wishes of his father, but the business failed. Wanting to now pursue a career as a musician, his father still refused to allow it. They came to a compromise, with Orth working for a music d

Charles Jerome Hopkins

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Charles Jerome Hopkins (April 4, 1836 November 4, 1898) was a 19th-century musician, Composer and Champion of the Arts. He is often confused, in historical texts, with his nephew, Edward Hopkins, who was also a musician and composer. Early life and inspirations Charles Jerome Hopkins was born April 4, 1836, in Burlington, Vermont. He was the 9th child of that state’s first Episcopal Bishop, John Henry Hopkins, and Mellusina Muller Hopkins. Born prematurely, with a weak heart, it was uncertain that he would live beyond infancy. In a letter addressed to him from his aunt Amelia, many years later, it was observed that Charles labored at breathing when he was a child, suffered a lifelong heart murmur and was missing the “pinkie toe” on one of his feet – this latter physical feature responsible for keeping him out of the service during the Civil War. Charles did survive though he lived a protected and, some would say, a spoiled life due to his delicate health. From the earliest ages right up through adolescence he was exempt from the work that was required of his older brothers who helped clear land, cut forest, plant an apple orchard and help build the family home and their father’s sc

Charles John Frederick Lampe

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Charles John Frederick Lampe (173910 September 1767) was an English composer and organist, and the son of composer John Frederick Lampe and the singer Isabella Lampe (maiden name of Young). Biography Charles Lampe was born in London, one year into his parents’ marriage. His father was a successful composer of stage music and his mother was a celebrated soprano who often appeared in her husband’s operas. Isabella was also a part of the well-known Young family of musicians. Charles was named after his grandfather, Charles Young, who was a notable organist and composer. His great uncle, Anthony Young, was also a notable organist and composer. Charles’s Aunt Cecilia (1712–1789), was one of the greatest English sopranos of the eighteenth century and the wife of composer Thomas Arne. His Aunt Esther was a well-known contralto and wife to Charles Jones, a successful music publisher in England during the eighteenth century. Three of his cousins, Isabella, Elizabeth, and Polly Young were all successful singers, and his cousin Michael Arne was a successful composer. In 1758 Charles succeeded his grandfather Charles as organist at All Hallows, Barking-by-the-Tower, a post which he held until

Charles Jones (composer)

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Charles Jones (June 21, 1910 – June 6, 1997) was a Canadian-born music educator and composer of contemporary classical music who lived and worked mainly in the United States. Early life and education Jones was born in Tamworth, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Toronto at the age of ten, eventually traveling to New York City in 1928. He studied at the Juilliard School, where his primary instructor was Bernard Wagenaar. Career By 1937 Jones had composed a number of classical works; that year a concert by Francis James and his string quartet, consisting entirely of Jones’ compositions, was held in Toronto at the Eaton Auditorium. Jones began teaching at Mills College in California from 1939 to 1944, and at the Music Academy of the West in 1949 and 1950. He taught at the Juilliard School between 1954 and 1960, and again in 1973. During the 1970s he taught composition at the Mannes College of Music, starting in 1972. His works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra. The music critic Tim Page and composer Walter Buczynski were among Jones’s notable students. Jones lived at 311 East 58th Street, a house in Manhattan de

Charles Kensington Salaman

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Charles Kensington Salaman (3 March 1814 – 23 June 1901) was a British Jewish composer, pianist, and writer. He was the composer of more than one hundred settings of Hebrew texts for the West London Synagogue, as well as numerous songs in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and Greek. Biography Early life Charles Salaman was born in 1814 at 11 Charing Cross, London, the eldest son and one of the fourteen children of Alice () and Simeon Kensington Salaman. He was the brother of Rachel, Rose Emma, Annette, and Julia Salaman. Salaman showed musical talent from a young age, and began to play the violin when seven, but after a year left it for the piano. He had his first lessons on the piano from his mother, and was soon placed under the tutelage of Stephen Francis Rimbault. He elected a candidate for admission to Royal Academy of Music at the age of ten, but his mother decided that he should remain at school to pursue general studies. He nonetheless studied independently under Charles Neate, William Crotch, and Henri Herz. As a boy Salaman played duets with Franz Liszt and came to know Muzio Clementi. His first public appearance was at Gesualdo Lanza’s concert at Blackhea

Charles Knox (composer)

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Charles C. Knox (April 19, 1929 – December 11, 2019 ) was an American composer and music educator. He is particularly noted for his music for brass instruments and chamber music, among his over 100 compositions. Knox received a B.F.A. in music from the University of Georgia, where he joined the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity (Epsilon Lambda chapter) in 1950 and was later elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He subsequently earned both his Master of Music and Ph.D. from Indiana University School of Music, where he studied composition with Bernhard Heiden. Knox was professor of music at Georgia State University for over three decades. In 2001 he was recipient of a Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts from the City of Atlanta. Examples of Knox’s chamber works can be found in audio format on two compact discs, Clouds Are Not Spheres (1997, Albany Records #254) and 2002: Chamber Music of Charles Knox (2000, ACA Digital #ACD 20066). Selected works *Music for Brass Quintet (1953, revised 1967) *Symphony for band (1955) *Concert Piece for bassoon and orchestra (1959) *Suite for piano 4-hands (1959) *A Dedication Litany for mixed chorus a cappella (1960) *Solo for trumpet with brass trio (1966) *So

Charles Koechlin

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Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (; 27 November 186731 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his better known works is Les Heures persanes, a set of piano pieces based on the novel Vers Ispahan by Pierre Loti and The Seven Stars Symphony, a 7 movement symphony where each movement is themed around a different film star (all Silent era stars) who were popular at the time of the piece’s writing (1933). He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars (especially Lilian Harvey and Ginger Rogers), traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. He once said: “The artist needs an ivory tower, not as an escape from the world, but as a place where he can view the world and be himself. This tower is for the artist like a lighthouse shining out across the world.” Life and career Charles Koechlin was born in Paris and baptized Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin. He was the youngest child of a large family. His mother’s family came from Alsace and he identified with that region; his maternal grandfath

Charles Lecocq

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Alexandre Charles Lecocq (; 3 June 183224 October 1918) was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed considerable success in the 1870s and early 1880s, before the changing musical fashions of the late 19th century made his style of composition less popular. His few serious works include the opera Plutus (1886), which was not a success, and the ballet Le Cygne (1899). His only piece to survive in the regular modern operatic repertory is his 1872 opéra comique La Fille de Madame Angot (Mme Angot’s Daughter). Others of his more than forty stage works receive occasional revivals. After study at the Paris Conservatoire, Lecocq shared the first prize with Georges Bizet in an operetta-writing contest organised in 1856 by Offenbach. Lecocq’s next successful composition was an opéra-bouffe, Fleur-de-Thé (Tea-flower), twelve years later. His comic operas Les Cent Vierges (The Hundred Virgins, 1872), La Fille de Madame Angot (1872) and Giroflé-Girofla (1874) were all successes and established his international reputation. Critics remarked on the elegance of the music in Lecocq’s best

Charles Legh Naylor

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Charles Legh Naylor (14 October 1869 – 22 November 1945) was a composer and organist based in Harrogate. Life He was the son of John Naylor and Mary Ann Chatwin. His father was organist of York Minster from 1883 to 1897. He was educated at St Peter’s School, York and later he was awarded a first class degree in music from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1890. He married Ada Emily Binns in Scarborough in 1902, and they had one daughter, Carolina Mary Naylor, in 1905. Appointments *Organist at Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1889–1892 *Deputy organist at York Minster 1891–1892 *Organist at St. Peter’s Church, Harrogate 1892 –1902 *Conductor of the Kursaal Orchestra, Harrogate 1902–1911 *Organist of All Souls, Blackman Lane, Leeds 1911–1917 *Organist at St. Peter’s Church, Harrogate 1917–1935 Compositions He was the musical advisor to the Methodist School Hymnal and composed 50 tunes for it. He also composed: *psalm chants *Communion Service in D 1883 *O Perfect Love 1889 *Where sunless Rivers weep 1892 *Lead Kindly Light 1895 *God that Madest Earth and Heaven 1896 *Through the Day thy love has spared us 1898 *Ye Mariners of England. 1900 *We sing a song of Christmas-time 1909 *Will God in

Charles Lenepveu

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Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu (4 October 1840 – 16 August 1910), was a French composer and teacher. Destined for a career as a lawyer, he defied his family and followed a musical career. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and won France’s top musical award, the Prix de Rome in 1867. Much of Lenepveu’s career was as a professor at the Conservatoire from 1880. He was known as a strict conservative, hostile to musical innovation, as was much of the French musical Establishment of the time. He was expected to succeed Théodore Dubois as director of the Conservatoire in 1905, but his chances evaporated when he was implicated in an attempt to rig the results of that year’s Prix de Rome in favour of his own pupils. Life and career Early years Lenepveu was born in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), the son of Charles-François Lenepveu, a prominent lawyer, and his wife Marie-Françoise-Armande, née Petit. The young Lenepveu received a traditional education in his home town, while at the same time teaching himself musical theory and learning to play the violin. Lenepveu senior was strongly opposed to his son’s seeking a musical career and enrolled him at the Sorbonne Law School in Paris. Lenepveu was an

Charles Lucien Lambert

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Charles Lucien Lambert (1828–1896), also known as Lucien Lambert, Sr. or Lucien Lambert père, was an American pianist, music teacher and composer. Born a free person of color in New Orleans, he was part of a family of prominent Creole composers who gained international acclaim. Early life and education Lambert was born in New Orleans to Charles-Richard Lambert, a native of New York, and his wife, a free Creole woman of color. They were a very musical family. After his mother’s death, his father married Coralie Suzanne Orzy, also a free woman of color. They had a son Sidney Lambert, born in 1838, and the half-brothers learned to be musicians together. Marriage and family Lambert married a French woman. Their son Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert, born in Paris in 1858, became a musician and composer, more well-known than his father. He was sometimes called Lucien Lambert fils (son), Sometime in the 1860s, he moved his family to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he served as chief musician in Dom Pedro’s court. Lambert died in Rio. Numerous of his compositions are held by the Bibliothèque nationale de Paris. References

Charles Macintosh (composer and naturalist)

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Charles Macintosh (1839–1922), known as ’the Perthshire Naturalist’, was a musician and self-taught amateur naturalist from Inver, near Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. He, with his younger brother James, who was a fiddler and himself a composer, represented the third generation of an important musical family in the area. Their grandfather, James (1791–1876), had learned fiddle from Niel Gow, who also lived in Inver. Macintosh spent nearly all his life in the small cottage in Inver where he was born, only moving in with his brother in Dunkeld for the last few months of his life. He worked as a postman, after losing the fingers of his left hand in an accident at a sawmill when young. This disability stopped him playing the fiddle, but he was able to play the cello, stopping the strings with the edge of his hand. He was also precentor in the local Free Church, as his father, Charles Sr, had been before him. He was also superintendent of the Sunday School. He composed several dance tunes, including the strathspey “The Auld Boat of Logierait,” and a reel, “Miss Murray Threipland of Fingask”. He had a collection of old tune books, including the William Dixon manuscript, which he gave to D

Charles Malherbe

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Charles Théodore Malherbe (; 21 April 1853 – 5 October 1911) was a French violinist, musicologist, composer and music editor. Life and career Malherbe was born in Paris, son of Pierre Joseph Malherbe (1819–1890) and Zoé Caroline Mozin (1832–1921) the youngest daughter of French painter Charles Mozin (1806–1862). He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but instead decided on music as a profession. He studied music with Adolphe Danhauser, Jules Massenet and André Wormser, and served as Danhauser’s secretary on a tour through Holland, Belgium and Switzerland to survey systems of music pedagogy in the public schools. He afterward settled in Paris, and became assistant to Charles Nuitter, the archivist-librarian of the Paris Opera Library in 1896, succeeding him in 1899. He edited the music periodical Le Ménestrel and also wrote for a number of other publications, including Le Guide musical, Progrès artistique, Revue internationale de musique and Le Monde artiste. Beginning in 1895, Malherbe annotated sixteen volumes of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Œuvres complètes (“Complete works”) (1895–1913), providing much information concerning performance practice and genre history, as well as Rame

Charles Manry

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Charles Casimir Manry (8 February 1823 – 18 January 1866) was a French composer and choral conductor. Life Charles Manry was the son of Jean Manry, a physician at the hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and a member of the Académie de médecine. He first studied law and took his legal argument but his fortune enabled him to indulge in his penchant for music. He then studied harmony and counterpoint with Antoine Elwart. Music He had his first Mass for three voices with organ accompaniment performed 1 November 1844 at Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. He later had several pieces of sacred music played in Parisian churches: * 1852: Mass for four men voices without accompaniment, given at Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Easter, * 1854: Les Deux Épagneuls, opéra comique in one act and free verse, text by Édouard Fournier, presented at Néo-Thermes, 19 December * 1855: Mass for three voices with organ and string instruments accompaniment, given in the same church for Christmas, * 1860: Mass with full orchestra with soloists and chorus, played at Saint-Roch 1 May, * Second Mass for three voices with organ accompaniment, * Te Deum four solo voices and choirs, * Eight motets for three voices with or withou

Charles Martin Loeffler

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Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (January 30, 1861 – May 19, 1935) was a German-born American violinist, composer, and viola d’amore player. Family background Charles Martin Loeffler was born Martin Karl Löffler on January 30, 1861, in Schöneberg near Berlin to parents who were both from Berlin families. The family moved repeatedly, first to Alsace, and then to Smila, 200 km from Kiev , while Loeffler was still a small child, and then to Debrecen, in Hungary, where his father Karl taught at the Royal Academy of Agriculture. Later he lived in Switzerland. The father, Karl Löffler, was an agricultural chemist who espoused republican ideals in writing as a journalist under the name “Tornow” or “Tornov”. When his son was about twelve years old, Prussian authorities arrested Karl Loeffler and he died of a stroke in prison. Throughout his career, Charles Martin Loeffler claimed to have been born in Mulhouse, Alsace; in his lifetime, articles were published dissecting his “typically Alsatian” temperament. He sometimes used his father’s pseudonyms as one of his middle names. Career Loeffler decided to become a violinist and studied in Berlin with Joseph Joachim, Friedrich Kiel and Woldemar B

Charles Mayer (composer)

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Charles Mayer (21 March 1799 – 2 July 1862), also known as Carl Mayer or Charles Meyer, was a Prussian pianist and composer active in the early 19th century. Life Mayer was born in Königsberg. His father was a clarinetist who, soon after Charles’s birth, moved to Saint Petersburg and four years later to Moscow. He received his early musical education from his mother, followed by extended studies with John Field (1782–1837), with whom he continued to study after the family returned to Saint Petersburg after the Moscow fire of 1812. His first successful tour as a concert pianist in 1814 led him to Poland, Germany, Holland, and France, before he settled in Saint Petersburg in 1819. During another celebrated concert tour of 1845 he travelled through Scandinavia (where he became an honorary member of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm), Germany (Hamburg, Leipzig) and Austria (Vienna). Following the rise of Adolf von Henselt in Saint Petersburg, Mayer withdrew to Dresden in 1846, and died there. Mayer was a busy and successful teacher who is supposed to have taught some 800 pupils in Saint Petersburg. He was reputed to have taken over the calm and musical (rather than virtuoso) tech

Charles Michael Alexis Sola

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Charles Michael Alexis Sola morales de alaquas (born as Carlo Michele Alessio Sola, mostly known as “C.M. Sola”) (6 June 1786 – 21 January 1857) was an Italian guitarist, flutist, and composer active in England after 1817. Biography Sola was born in Turin, where he studied the violin (with Gaetano Pugnani), the guitar (with Pipino), and the flute (with Vondano) and played flute in the orchestra of the local Teatro Regio. His date of birth has recently been put into doubt; he may have been born in 1781 or in 1789. According to Bone, “he served four years on the band of the 73rd Regiment of French Infantry and tiring of a military life settled in 1809 in Geneva”, where he also received tuition in composition from Dominique Bideau, a local cellist. 1816 saw the production of his opera Le Tribunal in Geneva. After having published some of his music in Geneva and Paris, Sola moved to London in 1817, where he “numbered among his pupils members of the royal family”. Sola was the author of a method for the guitar, Sola’s Instructions for the Spanish Guitar, and published numerous works for solo guitar, duos for guitar and piano, songs with guitar accompaniment and also works for the flute.

Charles Naginski

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Charles Naginski (Cairo, Egypt, May 29, 1909 – Lenox, Massachusetts, August 4, 1940) was an American composer of art songs and other musical works. Biography Charles Naginski was the son of Russian Jewish parents. His father, who was his first piano teacher, recognized his talent for music and composition at a very early age. From 1928 to 1933 Naginski held a fellowship at the Juilliard Graduate School as a pupil of Rubin Goldmark. Other students there at the time included composers Paul Nordoff, Sergius Kagen, Celius Dougherty, and Vittorio Giannini. One of his other Juilliard colleagues, George Newton, reported that he “spoke five languages, including English, all equally badly.” As a result, the Juilliard dean asked Newton to help Naginski with his English, so the two traded lessons in English grammar for accompanying lessons. He also studied with Roger Sessions. Later he studied at the American Academy in Rome, winning the American Rome Prize in 1938. In the summer of 1940 he went to the Tanglewood institute to study with Paul Hindemith. He died by drowning in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1940. Music As a student, Naginski composed several large instrumental works and cha

Charles Nicholson (flautist)

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Charles Nicholson (1795–1837), was a Liverpool-born flautist and composer, who performed regularly in London. He was soloist at many of the Philharmonic Society Concerts from 1816-1836, and first flautist with the principal theater orchestras. He toured extensively in Britain, but never on the Continent. Besides giving classes to many students, he wrote tutors for flute-playing which were published throughout the 19th century. Nicholson used a flute made by George Astor & Co., a London-based firm operating from c1778 to c1831. His father, also a celebrated flautist, modified the instrument, lining the headpiece with metal, enlarging the embouchure and toneholes with a view to making the flute’s tone more powerful, yet still delicate, permitting the usual fingerings in the third octave, facilitating glides and vibratos. Once his bravura style on the modified flute had become accepted in London, he licensed several London flute makers such as Clementi & Co., Astor, Rudall and Rose, and Potter to produce the ‘Nicholson’s Improved’. The structure of his new flute favoured flat keys such as E flat, A flat, and F and C minor. Nicholson’s variations on Roslin Castle, in F minor which he w

Charles O'Neill (musician)

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Charles O’Neill (31 August 1882 – 9 September 1964) was a Canadian bandmaster, composer, organist, cornetist and music educator of Scottish birth and Irish parentage. Although he wrote many symphonic and choral works, the majority of his compositional output was devoted to band music. Education and early career Born in Duntocher to Irish parents, O’Neill began his musical training in the piano as a young child. He then studied the organ with Albert Lister Peace in Glasgow and music theory with Archibald Evans in London. From 1897 to 1901 he serves as organist at Grimsby, Lincolnshire and was a cornet player in a local band in that city. In 1901, O’Neill moved to the United States, settling first in Boston, Massachusetts and then in New York City in 1903. He moved again in 1905 to Kingston, Ontario in Canada, where he played in the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Band as a cornet soloist. In 1908, he returned to England to receive training as a bandmaster for at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall through the support of the Canadian Department of National Defence. After earning a diploma from the RMSM in 1909, O’Neill returned to Canada in 1910 to succeed Joseph Vézina

Charles Oberthür (composer)

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Charles Oberthür (born as Carl Oberthür) (4 March 1819 – 8 November 1895) was a German harpist and composer active in Germany, Switzerland and England. Biography The son of a violin maker, Oberthür was born in Munich, Germany. and studied the harp there with Elisa Brauchle and composition with Georg Valentin Röder (1776–1848), music director at the Bavarian court. He was successively employed at theatres in Zürich (1837), Wiesbaden (1839), and Mannheim (1842), before he settled in London, England, in 1844, initially as harpist at the Royal Italian Opera House. In 1861, he became the first Professor of Harp at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He died in London in 1895. Oberthür was the composer of more than 450 works, most for or including the harp. He also published a useful harp method, his opus 36. His large-scale works have not been performed for many years and included the opera Floris de Namur (performed at Wiesbaden) and the cantatas The Pilgrim Queen, The Red Cross Knight, and Lady Jane Grey. As a harpist, he became “unrivalled as a virtuoso and teacher”. A contemporary source described him as “the leading harpist in Britain, and on the Continent he is held in the highest

Charles Piroye

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Charles Piroye (c. 1668–16721724) was a French Baroque organist and composer. Biography Very little is known about his life, and even the dates of his birth and death have not yet been determined. He may have been born in Paris. His teachers were Jean-Baptiste Lully and Michel Lambert, but some of the surviving music suggests not their influence, but that of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. From 1690 to 1712 Piroye was organist of the Jacobins Church at Rue Sainte-Honoré, and from 1708 to 1712 organist at Saint-Honoré. He started publishing his music at least as early as 1695; a tax register from that year lists him among the organists of the second rank (the “first rank” included François Couperin, Louis Marchand, and others). By 1712 he was evidently very well known, for the publisher of Piroye’s Pièces choisies mentioned the composer’s exceptionally high reputation (“each day renewed applause”) in the preface. Évrard Titon du Tillet, writing in 1732, referred to Piroye as one of the “most able organists recently deceased”, providing the only clue as to when the composer died. Another clue of the composer’s death can be found in the archives of the church Sainte-Catherine of Lille, indi

Charles Poisot

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Charles Poisot (7 July 1822 – 4 March 1904) was a French musician from the second half of the 19th century. A pianist, composer and musicographer, he was also director of the Dijon Conservatory, where he spent his life. Biography Charles Poisot was born in Dijon, but his family moved to Paris in 1834. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1844 where he studied piano with Adolphe Adam, counterpoint with Leborne and musical composition with Fromental Halévy until 1848. In 1850, he composed an Opéra comique in an act, Le Paysan, on a traditional theme mixing nobility and love (the libretto is by Pujol). He returned to Dijon in 1852 where he devoted himself to teaching, musicology and composition, continuing his piano interpretations. In 1868, he was appointed Director of the Municipal School of Music, the future , and was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon in 1869. He played an active role in the city’s cultural life until his sudden death in his home at 4 Buffon Street at the age of 81. He had his works performed in the city, gave talks on the glories of Burgundy (sculptor François Rude, poet and playwright Charles Brifaut and created a

Charles Racquet

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Charles Racquet (1597–1664) was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie. He came from a large family of Parisian organists and himself was appointed organist of Notre-Dame de Paris at an early age, in 1618. He held the post until shortly before his death and was succeeded by another member of the Racquet family. He also served as musician to Marie de’ Medici (a post that his father Balthazar occupied earlier) and to Anne d’Autriche, the Queen Mother. Racquet was very highly regarded by his contemporaries: his pupils included the famous lutenist Denis Gaultier (who wrote a tombeau on his teacher’s death), Jesuit scholar Marin Mersenne was a close friend of his. In the 18th century writer Jean-Benjamin La Borde named Racquet “the best organist of his time.” .The layout is as follows: * Section 1: traditional imitative counterpoint with several countersubjects * Section 2: imitative counterpoint on an ornamented version of the subject, with faster counterpoints * Section 3: subject in augmentation, stated once in each voice * Section 4: a bicinium duplici contrapuncto, a two-voice section in which the subject in its original form is combined with

Charles Ravier

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Charles Ravier (5 June 1934 – 5 March 1984) was a 20th-century French composer, music director and choral conductor. Biography Born in Savigny-sur-Grosne in Saône-et-Loire, Charles Ravier first studied the violin, then entered the conservatoire de Lyon where he won prizes in harmony, counterpoint and fugue. He was interested in polyphonic music, and particularly in the early repertoire of the Middle Ages in the 17th century. At the end of the 1950s, he formed the Ensemble Polyphonique de la RTF, and performed with this group the music by Guillaume de Machaut, Clément Janequin, Gesualdo, Claudio Monteverdi among others. Interested in the works of Safford Cape, he chose to have the vocal pieces of the Renaissance, and mainly the songs of the 16th century, interpreted by one voice per vocal part. As a composer he is the author of the pieces Les Espaces oubliés, Les chemins de l’imaginaire, L’Apocalypse d’Angers, and Liturgie pour un Dieu mort (cantata). He also premiered contemporary works by Girolamo Arrigo and Sylvano Bussotti. He died in Paris as a result of suicide by jumping. Bibliography * Alain Pâris, notice “Charles Ravier” in Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l’interprétatio

Charles Sanford Skilton

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Charles Sanford Skilton (August 16, 1868 – March 12, 1941) was an American composer, teacher and musicologist. Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Blair Fairchild, Arthur Nevin, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he was one of the leading Indianist composers of the early twentieth century. Life Skilton was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1889. From that year until 1891 he taught languages at a preparatory school in Newburgh, New York; while there, he studied composition with Dudley Buck and organ with Harry Rowe Shelley. Skilton traveled to Berlin for further study in 1891, remaining there until 1893 and studying at the Hochschule für Musik with Woldemar Bargiel and Otis Boise. Returning to the United States, he became director of music at the Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in which position he served until 1896. In 1897 he found work as an instructor of piano and music theory at the State Normal School in Trenton, New Jersey (now The College of New Jersey); he moved west in 1903, when he became a professor of organ, theory and history at the University of Kansas. He served as the Dean

Charles Sauvageau

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Michel-Charles Sauvageau (October or November 1807 – 16 June 1849) was a Canadian conductor, composer, and music educator. He is believed to be the first native of what is now Quebec to devote his entire life to music. An August 1844 article in the periodical Le Ménestrel described him as the “first national musician of Canada “. Life Born in Quebec City, Sauvageau was a largely self-taught musician, although he most likely received some instruction from Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis I for whose band he played in 1831–1832. In 1833 he founded his own quadrille band, which he conducted until his death 16 years later. He also conducted several other enemies, including the Quebec Militia Artillery Band (1833–1836), the band of the Petit Séminaire (1841–1844), Musique Canadienne (beginning in 1842), the band for the St Jean-Baptiste Society (from 1842), and the Quebec Philharmonic Union (1848–49). Sauvageau was also active as an organizer of concerts and informal evenings of musical entertainment within his native city. Many of these events featured performances by his private students, such as Joseph Lyonnais and Napoléon Aubin; the latter of whom became his brother-in-law. His son Flavie

Charles Shere

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Charles Shere (August 20, 1935 — December 15, 2020) was an American composer. He studied composition briefly with Robert Erickson and Luciano Berio but was largely self-taught. His music was primarily in unconventional notations and open form through the 1970s and early 1980s, but turned to more conventional forms (though not expression) thereafter. He was Music Director of radio KPFA in Berkeley in the late 1960s, a producer at KQED-TV in San Francisco from 1967 to 1971, and music critic of the Oakland (California) Tribune from 1971 to his retirement in 1988, and taught music history (and occasionally composition) at Mills College (Oakland, California) from 1971 to 1986. Principal work includes the opera The Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (1964–1986), after the painting by Marcel Duchamp, a Symphony in three movements (1989), concerti for piano and for violin (1964; 1989), a number of songs, the piano sonatas Bachelor machine (1985) and Compositio ut explicatio (2006), and various pieces for chamber ensembles. His books include Thinking sound music: the life and work of Robert Erickson, “How I Read Stein,” “How I Saw Duchamp,” and (as co-editor) Everbest ever: correspo

Charles Theodore Pachelbel

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Charles Theodore Pachelbel (baptized Carl Theodorus, also spelled Karl Theodor, on 24 November 1690; buried 15 September 1750) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era. He was the son of the more famous Johann Pachelbel, composer of the popular Canon in D. He was one of the first European composers to take up residence in the American colonies, and was the most famous musical figure in early Charleston, South Carolina. Life Early years (1690–1732) He was born in Stuttgart and baptized in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde (Protestant parish) there on 24 November 1690, son of Johann Pachelbel and his second wife Judith Drommer. (his name appears in a 1732 list of subscribers to a volume of harpsichord music published in London ). The colonies (1733–50) The circumstances of his emigration to the colonies are unknown. Pachelbel was living in Boston, Massachusetts, by spring 1733, when he was asked to assist in the installation of the new organ of Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island. The instrument was donated to Trinity by George Berkeley, the famous philosopher. Pachelbel was subsequently hired as organist of the church and held the post until appr

Charles Thomas Carter

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Charles Thomas Carter (c. 1735 – 12 October 1804) was an Irish composer and organist with mixed success as an opera composer in London, but with some songs that remained popular beyond his lifetime. Life There is considerable confusion about the identity and potential family connections of various musicians called Carter in Dublin and London, three of whom abbreviated their name as “T. Carter”. The first was Timothy Carter (c. 1715–1772), a Dublin musician who became the father of the present (Charles) Thomas Carter and of Sampson Carter (c.1749–1815). Another Irish-born composer named Thomas Carter (1769–1800) was considerably younger, but died earlier – the London-published music of these two Thomas Carters during the 1790s is difficult to distinguish. (Charles) Thomas often, but not always, abbreviated his name as “C.T. Carter”. According to John O’Keeffe, Thomas was a choirboy in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, but there is no other evidence for this. He was organist at St Werburgh’s Church, Dublin, from 10 December 1751 to 7 November 1754, when the organ was destroyed by fire. There were benefit concerts on his behalf in Dublin in 1754 and 1756. He was then appointed organist

Charles Tomlinson Griffes

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Charles Tomlinson Griffes ( ; September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German style, After early studies on piano and organ in his home town, on recommendation of Broughton, he went to Berlin to study with pianist Ernst Jedliczka and Gottfried Galston at the Stern Conservatory. Although recognised as a performer, Griffes grew more interested in composition. Despite being advised against it by Broughton, he left the conservatory and was briefly taught by composer Engelbert Humperdinck. His post has been described as “grim and unrewarding”, though it gave him financial stability. He continued to compose at Hackley in his free time and promoted his music during the summer. In 1918, Ito gave three dance recitals interpreting White Peacock, with Griffes at the piano. Personal life Griffes died of influenza in New York City during the 1918 worldwide Spanish flu pandemic at the age of 35 and is buried in Bloomfield Cemetery in Bloomfield, New Jersey. His papers passed to his younger sister Marguerite, who chose to destroy many that explicitly re

Charles Tournemire

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Charles Arnould Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphonies (one of them choral), four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos. He is mainly remembered for his organ music, the best known being a set of pieces called L’Orgue mystique. Biography Born in Bordeaux, Tournemire moved in adolescence to Paris, and there became one of César Franck’s three youngest students (the other two were Henri Büsser and a Belgian, Guillaume Lekeu, the latter having been born only two days before Tournemire). From 1898 (on the resignation of Gabriel Pierné) to 1939, Tournemire served as the organiste titulaire at Franck’s old church, the Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris. He was also professor of chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1931, he published a biography of Franck. A year before the biography appeared, Tournemire recorded five organ improvisations, which were later transcribed by Maurice Duruflé from phonograph recordings. Of ten 78-rpm discs which Tournemire made in 1930, playing the Aristide Ca

Charles Turner (English composer)

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Charles Turner (1907 – 1977) was an English composer and part-time spy, who took the last recorded British pre-World War II photographs of Adolf Hitler. Born in the early 1900s, Turner’s life changed when his father died and his godfather Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of Newcastle took care of the young boy. Turner attended Worksop College, the public school endowed by the Duke of Newcastle. He gained a place at Cambridge university to study music. In the late 1920s into the 1930s he became a broadcast composer and fluent German speaker. In 1934 Turner made the first of a series of annual visits to the Wagner festival in Bayreuth in Bavaria. In 1938 the British secret service MI5, convinced war was imminent, needed to urgently examine and assess the German threat. Approached by mutual friend Alan Angles, later of the War Office and Directorate of Ministry of Aircraft Production, Turner was recruited to infiltrate Hitler’s entourage at the 1939 Bayreuth Festival. Registered as a guest of the Führert, Turner was hosted by Dr Fritz streit Chairman of the Bavarian Chamber of Commerce, through whom he received an invitation to follow the Führer’s itinerary on Wednesday 26 July 1939. This unexp

Charles Villiers Stanford

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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it. While still an undergraduate, Stanford was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1882, aged 29, he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. From 1887 he was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. As a teacher, Stanford was sceptical about modernism, and based his instruction chiefly on classical principles as exemplified in the music of Brahms. Among his pupils were rising composers whose fame went on to surpass his own, such as Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. As a conductor, Stanford held posts with the Bach Choir and the Leeds Triennial Music Festival. Stanford composed a substantial number of concert works, including seven symphonies, but his be

Charles Wakefield Cadman

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Charles Wakefield Cadman (December 24, 1881 – December 30, 1946) was an American composer. For 40 years, he worked closely with Nelle Richmond Eberhart, who wrote most of the texts to his songs, including Four American Indian Songs. She also wrote the librettos for his five operas, two of which were based on Indian themes. He composed in a wide variety of genres. Life and career Cadman’s musical education, unlike that of most of his American contemporaries, was completely American. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he began piano lessons at 13. Eventually, he went to nearby Pittsburgh where he studied harmony, theory, and orchestration with Luigi von Kunits and Emil Paur, then concertmaster and conductor, respectively, of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This was the sum of his formal training, although he has been said to have been a pupil of Anna Priscilla Risher as well. By the age of eighteen, he was working as a clerk in a railroad office in Homestead, also in steel country. On the side, he continued writing music. In 1902 he met neighbor Nelle Richmond Eberhart and learned that she was interested in music. They began to work together, she writing the text and he the music fo

Charles Williams (composer)

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Charles Williams (8 May 1893 – 7 September 1978) was a British composer and conductor, contributing music to over 50 films. While his career ran from 1934 through 1968, much of his work came to the big screen as stock music and was therefore uncredited. Biography Williams was born in London as Isaac Cozerbreit in 1893. He began his career as a freelance violinist in theatres, cinemas and symphony orchestras and later studied composition with Norman O’Neill at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1933, he went to Gaumont British Films as composer and stayed there until 1939. He composed for many British films and radio shows and after the end of World War II, he became the conductor of the new Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra. Later, he formed his own Concert Orchestra. He died in Findon Valley, Worthing, West Sussex, aged 85. Light music compositions He composed many orchestral pieces and marches for his ensembles, which were recorded in the “Mood Music” category of light music and during the 1950s became familiar as film and television signature themes, often in his own recordings: * “Blue Devils” is a popular march and Williams’ first success as a composer. It was originally published as "

Charles Wilson (composer)

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Charles Mills Wilson (8 May 1931 – 13 June 2019) was a Canadian composer, choral conductor, and music educator. Early life and education Wilson was born in Toronto, Ontario. He began studying piano at age six with Wilfred Powell and later studied organ with Charles Peaker. He studied composition with Godfrey Ridout at the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Music in 1952 and a Doctor of Music degree in Composition in 1956. While at the University of Toronto, Wilson also studied at the Berkshire Music Center, at Tanglewood, during the summers with Lukas Foss, Aaron Copland and Carlos Chávez. He became interested in choral music and spent much of his time studying choral conducting. In 1953, Wilson taught music theory and conducted the University Chorale at the University of Saskatchewan while simultaneously finishing his doctoral thesis/composition, Symphony in A. Career From 1954-1964 Wilson served as the organist and choirmaster at Chalmer United Church in Guelph, Ontario. While there he founded the Guelph Light Opera and Oratorio Company (later the Guelph Opera and Concert Singers) in 1955, conducting their performances until 1974. During these years he conducted choirs

Charles Wood (composer)

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Charles Wood (15 June 1866 – 12 July 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as an Anglican church music composer, but he also wrote songs and chamber music, particularly for string quartet. Early life and education Born in Vicars’ Hill in the Cathedral precincts of Armagh, Ireland, Charles was the fifth child and third son of Charles Wood Sr. and Jemima Wood. The boy was a treble chorister in the choir of the nearby St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Church of Ireland). His father sang tenor as a stipendiary ‘Gentleman’ or ‘Lay Vicar Choral’ in the Cathedral choir and was also the Diocesan Registrar of the church. He was a cousin of Irish composer Ina Boyle. Teaching career He began teaching harmony and counterpoint at Selwyn College. In 1889 he attained a teaching position at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, first as organ scholar and then as fellow in 1894, becoming their first director of music and organist. He was instrumental in the reflowering of music at the college, though more as a teacher and organiser of musical events than a

Charles Wugk Sabatier

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Charles-Désiré-Joseph Wugk Sabatier (1 December 1819 – 22 August 1862) was a Canadian pianist, organist, composer, and music educator of French birth. Early life and career in Europe Born Charles Wugk in Tourcoing, Sabatier was the son of an immigrant from Saxony. He enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris under his birth name in 1838, studying there through 1840. He adopted the last name of Sabatier some time during his early career. An article in the Toronto Globe published on 25 September 1856 claimed that Sabatier was pianist to the Duchess of Montpensier and that he had conducted opera in Brussels. The former account is most likely accurate but music historians largely reject the latter claim. Life and career in Canada Sabatier most likely arrived in Canada in 1848, although an exact year is not definitely substantiated. He first resided in the city of Montreal and then lived in Quebec City from 1854 to 1856. During these years he worked as a music teacher, church organist, and concert pianist for both public and private performances. He played concerts of his own work as a guest artist at St Lawrence Hall in Toronto in 1856. His composition Le Drapeau de Carillon was published

Charles Wuorinen

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Charles Peter Wuorinen (, ; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He also performed as a pianist and conductor. Wuorinen composed more than 270 works: orchestral music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal works, and operas, such as Brokeback Mountain (2014). His work was termed serialist but he came to disparage that idea as meaningless. Time’s Encomium, his only purely electronic piece, received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize. Wuorinen taught at several institutions, including Columbia University, Rutgers University and the Manhattan School of Music. Life and career Background Wuorinen was born in New York City on June 9, 1938. His father, John H. Wuorinen, the chair of the Columbia University history department, with Paul Zukofsky and the BSO conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. In 1976 Wuorinen completed his Percussion Symphony, a five-movement work for 24 players including two pianos for the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and his longtime colleague Raymond Des Roches, as well as his opera subtitled “a baroque burlesque”, The W. of Babylon with an original libretto by Renaud Charles Bruce. The New Jersey Pe

Charles Young (musician)

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Charles Young (September 1686 – 12 December 1758) was an English organist and composer. He was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Biography Charles Young was born sometime during September 1686 in the Covent Garden area of London and was baptised on 7 October of the same year. Born into a musical family, his initial studies were with his father alongside his elder brother Anthony Young, who would also become a successful organist and minor composer. He became a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral in the late 1690s where he sang for over a decade. In 1713, Young was appointed organist of All Hallows, Barking-by-the-Tower, where he remained until his death in 1758. His grandson, Charles John Frederick Lampe, replaced him as organist at All Hallows after his death. As a composer, Young wrote music mostly for the Church of England. He was not prolific, producing only a handful of anthems and some organ preludes. He also composed a few vocal art songs. His reputation lies more on his skills as an organist and he was regarded as one of the finest players in England during

Charles-Alexis Chauvet

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Charles-Alexis Chauvet (; 7 June 1837 – 29 January 1871) was a French organist and composer. Biography Born in Marines, Charles-Alexis Chauvet made his debut at the organ of St. Remi church in Marines, only 11 years old. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 13 to study organ with François Benoist (1st Prize of organ in 1860) and music composition with Ambroise Thomas, of which he became assistant in composition class. In 1860, he was appointed to the choir organ of the Église Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin (Paris), then to the great organ the following year. He then appeared in the gallery of the Church of Saint-Bernard de la Chapelle where he inaugurated the organ in 1863, at Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle, then at Saint-Merri in 1866. Finally, he was appointed titular organist of the new Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Église de la Sainte-Trinité in 1869, a position he held until his premature death at the age of 34 years of tuberculosis. Renowned for its interpretations of J. S. Bach and his improvisations, he was also regularly invited to participate in the inauguration of organs in Paris (e.g. in 1868, Notre-Dame de Paris), with Édouard Batiste, César Franck and Camille Saint-Sa

Charles-Antoine Campion

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Charles-Antoine Campion, italianized as Carlo Antonio Campioni (16 November 172012 April 1788 ) was a French-Italian composer who was born in the Duchy of Lorraine. He was a prolific composer and represented a link between Baroque compositional methods and those of the Classical style. Life Early years and employment in Livorno Campion was born in Lunéville (Meurthe-et-Moselle) in Lorraine to Jacques and Charlotte Bruget. Not much is known about his early musical education in Lorraine, but he may have been a student of Henri Desmarets. Given that his father was serving in the Lorraine court, his family was transferred to Florence, Italy at the same time as the rise to the throne of the Tuscan Granduca (Grand Duke) Francis of Lorraine in 1737. During this period of time, he presumably came into contact with Giuseppe Tartini, who was Campion’s teacher. From 1752 to 1762, Campion was Chapel Master of the Cathedral in Livorno. He was fortunate to be friends with some aristocrats, and succeeded in having his opera (Venere placata, libretto by Marco Coltellini) performed for the celebration in Livorno (at the Avvalorati Academy) of the royal wedding of Joseph II and Princess Isabella of

Charles-Frédéric Kreubé

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Charles-Frédéric Kreubé (Lunéville, 5 November 1777 – Saint-Denis, 3 May 1846) was a 19th-century French violinist, conductor and composer. Biography A student of Rodolphe Kreutzer, he was admitted in 1801 into the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique, originally as first violin, became deputy conductor in 1805 and succeeded Frédéric Blasius as first chief in 1816, a position that he would leave in 1828. He authored music for opéras comiques, arrangements for operas and compositions of numerous plays for Parisian boulevard theatres of the 19th century. Works *1803: Aline, reine de Golconde, opera in three acts, by Jean-Baptiste Vial and Edmond Favières, (arrangements) *1805: Le Vaisseau amiral opera in one act, by Saint-Cyr, (arrangements) *1809: Françoise de Foix, in three acts by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Dupaty, (operture) *1813: Le Forgeron de Bassora, opéra comique in two acts by Charles Augustin de Bassompierre *1814: Le Portrait de famille ou Les Héritiers punis, opéra comique by Eugène de Planard *1814: La Redingotte et la perruque, opéra comique by Eugène Scribe *1816: Une nuit d’intrigue ou Le Retour du bal masqué, opéra comique by Jean Michel Constant Leber *1816: La J

Charles-Gaston Levadé

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Charles-Gaston Levadé (3 January 1869 – 27 October 1948) was a French composer. A pupil of Jules Massenet, Grand Prix de Rome in 1863, Levadé wrote chamber music, melodies, religious music, drama and opéras comiques. He was very successful in his time. Life Levadé was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. At the age of 13 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he followed the solfège classes of Albert Lavignac, Charles de Bériot, Georges Mathias, and Auguste Bazille. A few years later, at Lavignac’s that he met Erik Satie who dedicated one of his Ogives and one of his Gymnopédies to him. He was a student of Jules Massenet, of whom he wrote in 1911, in the Annales politiques et littéraires, 17 December 1911: After Massenet’s resignation in 1896, Levadé attended the classes of Charles Lenepveu and obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1899 with his cantata Callirhoe to a text by Eugène Adénis. In 1895 he produced a Japanese pantomime: Coeur de magots, a “sketch” given at the “Grand Guignol” in 1897, and a “salon opera” in 1903. He wrote a three-act opera: The Heretics, a lyrical tragedy on a poem by Ferdinand Hérold. In 1908, he composed the music for La Courtisane de Corinthe,

Charles-Guillaume Alexandre

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Charles-Guillaume Alexandre (ca.1735 – 1787 or 1788) was a French classical violinist and composer. Biography Born in Paris, Alexandre was a violinist at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique from 1753 to 1755. Master of music at the Dubugrarre School of Music (1760), he became first violin of the Duke of Aiguillon then in 1783, violin teacher in Paris. He wrote operas and instrumental music. Works *1755: Le Triomphe de l’amour conjugal, spectacle orné de machines, lyrics by Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni *1756: La Conquête du Mogol par Thamas Kouli-Kan, roi de Perse, et son triomphe, spectacle à machines, lyrics by Servandoni *1761: Georget et Georgette, one-act opéra-comique, libretto by Harny de Guerville *1764: Dictionnaire lyrique portatif, ou Choix des plus jolies ariettes de tous les genres disposées pour la voix et les instrumens avec les paroles françoises sous la musique, 2 volumes, Didot *1765: La Belle Arsène, opéra-comique, lyrics by Charles-Simon Favart, music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, ouverture by C-G Alexandre *1765: Les beaux airs ou simphonies chantantes pour deux violons, deux hautbois ou flute, basso fagotto et cors à volonté *1765: Le Tonnelier, one-act opéra comique

Charles-Henri de Blainville

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Charles-Henri de Blainville (1711–1769 or after 1771 ) was a French composer, cellist, pedagogue and music theorist. Biography The birthplace of Charles-Henri de Blainville remains uncertain. François-Joseph Fétis wrote that he came from Tours, which all the other biographers have copied. In the preface of his Sonatas Op. 1 of 1740 is mentioned “By Mr. Blainville de Roüen”. Blainville entered the service of the Marquise de Villeroy. He wrote vocal and instrumental works which had little success. In 1751, he made himself known by affirming that there existed a “third mode” between minor and major. He wrote two theoretical works: L’Esprit de l’art musical ou réflexions sur la musique and L’Histoire générale, critique et philosophie de la musique. He died in Paris. Works (selection) Operas *Thésée, opera (lost) *Miadas, one-act heroic comedy (Paris, 1753) (lost) Orchestral music *Symphonie à double quatuor, presented at the Concert Spirituel in 1741, lost *Six simphonies, Op. 1, c. 1750 *Six simphonies, Op. 2, c. 1750 Chamber music *Six sonates en trio, for two violins or two flutes and bass, Op. 1 (c. 1740) *Premier livre de sonates pour le dessus de viole (c. 1750) *Second livre de

Charles-Henri Plantade

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Charles-Henri Plantade (14 October 1764 – 18 December 1839) was a French classical composer and singing professor. His compositions included several operas, numerous romances, sacred music, and a sonata for harp. He taught singing at the Conservatoire de Paris and was the maître de chapelle to the courts of Louis Bonaparte in Holland and Louis XVIII in France. From 1812 to 1815 he was also the singing master and stage director of the Paris Opéra. Plantade was born in Pontoise and died in Paris at the age of 75. His elder son, Charles-François Plantade, was also a composer. Life and career Plantade was born in Pontoise, a suburb of Paris. According to his obituary in Le Ménestrel, he came from a noble family whose origins were in Languedoc. Plantade began his musical training in singing and the cello at the age of eight when he entered the school for pages in the Musique du roi, the King’s personal troupe of musicians. He went on to study singing and composition with Honoré Langlé, piano with Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel, and the harp with Francesco Petrini. On completing his studies Plantade became a singing teacher and began publishing collections of romances which brought him to the

Charles-Hubert Gervais

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Charles-Hubert Gervais (19 February 1671 – 14 January 1744) was a French composer of the Baroque era. The son of a valet to King Louis XIV’s brother, Monsieur, Gervais was born at the Palais Royal in Paris and probably educated by Monsieur’s musical intendants, Jean Granouillet de Sablières and Charles Lalouette. He worked as a musician for the Duc de Chartres, the future regent of France. In 1701, he married Françoise du Vivier (she died in 1723). In 1721 he was named sous-maître de musique at the Chapelle royale along with André Campra, Nicolas Bernier and Michel Richard Delalande (who had previously held the post alone). Gervais composed sacred music, 42 grand motets, 7 petits motets, cantatas, and operas, including two tragédies en musique. Works Operas *Idille sur le retour du duc de Chartres (1692) *Méduse (tragédie en musique, 1697) *Divertissement de Fontainebleau (1698, attributed to Gervais) *Hypermnestre (tragédie en musique, 1716) *Les amours de Protée (opéra-ballet, 1720) *Divertissement de Villers-Cotterêts (1722) Discography * Grand motet - Te Deum, Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France, Orchestre Des Jeunesses Musicales De France, conducted by Louis Martini. Vin

Charles-Louis Hanon

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Charles-Louis Hanon (2 July 181919 March 1900) was a French piano pedagogue and composer. He is best known for his work The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises, which is still used today for modern piano teaching, but over the years the method has also faced criticisms. Biography Charles-Louis Hanon was born in northern France in the village of Renescure on 2 July 1819. Trained as an organist by a local teacher, it is not known if he received more advanced musical education. At age 27, Hanon moved east from Renescure to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he lived with his brother François, who was also a musician. Music was never the exclusive focus of Hanon’s life: he was also a devout Roman Catholic, a Third Order Franciscan and a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Some critics have questioned the merits of the independent finger technique which the exercises seek to cultivate, with some pedagogues, such as Abby Whiteside, considering them to be actively harmful. It has become a custom in some music schools to hold a Hanon Marathon where the exercises are played competitively. The Church Street School for Music and Art was the first to have coined the term and hold the event. Other

Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens

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Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, known under the name Hanssens the elder (4 May 1777 – 6 May 1852), was a Belgian violinist, composer, conductor and theatre director. His brother Joseph-Jean Hanssens (c1770-1816) was also a conductor. His son was the cellist, conductor and composer Charles-Louis Hanssens (1802–1871). Life Hanssens was born in Ghent. After studying violin in his hometown, Hanssens went to Paris to study harmony with Henri Montan Berton. Back in Ghent, he directed the Theatre of Rhetoric, then followed Mademoiselle Fleury’s troupe to Holland. Called back to Ghent as conductor, he held this position until 1825, then succeeded Charles Borremans as conductor of the orchestra of La Monnaie in Brussels. In 1826, he was one of the founders of the Société d’Apollon with his friend, the composer Joseph-François Snel. In 1827, King William I of the Netherlands chose him to conduct the court music and appointed him inspector of the Royal Music School of Brussels the following year. After a few years of eclipse, he took over the direction of the Monnaie orchestra in 1835, was dismissed in 1838 and returned a third time in 1840. From 1840 to 1847, he shared the direction of La Mon

Charles-Marie Widor

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Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the late Romantic era. As a composer he is known for his ten organ symphonies, especially the toccata of his fifth organ symphony, which is frequently played as recessional music at weddings and other celebrations. The Sixth Symphony is also famous for its opening movement Allegro. The Seventh and Eighth Symphonies are the longest and least performed of Widor’s Symphonies. The Seventh Symphony contains six movements, and the first version of the Eighth Symphony had seven. (Widor subsequently removed the Prélude for the 1901 edition.) The ninth and tenth symphonies, respectively termed “Gothique” (Op. 70, of 1895) and “Romane” (Op. 73, of 1900), are much more introspective. They both derive thematic material from plainchant: Symphonie Gothique uses the Christmas Day Introit “Puer natus est” in the third and fourth movements, while the Symphonie Romane has the Easter Gradual “Haec dies” woven throughout all four movements. They also honored, respectively, the Gothic Church of St. Ouen, Rouen and the Romanesque Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse, with the new Cavaillé-Coll o

Charles-Simon Catel

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Charles-Simon Catel (; 10 June 1773 – 29 November 1830) was a French composer and educator born at L’Aigle, Orne. Biography Catel studied at the Royal School of Singing in Paris. He studied composition with François-Joseph Gossec and by the age of 16 became his chief assistant at the orchestra of the National Guard in 1790. A member of the Institute , he jointly composed pieces of military music for official state ceremonies, including L’Hymne à la Victoire (Victory Hymn), with words by Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun. He was appointed inaugural professor of harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, but was relieved of his duties in 1814. Amongst his students were the Prix de Rome winning composers Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul and Victor Dourlen, the Belgian composer Martin-Joseph Mengal, and the famous, if eccentric, harpist Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. Catel died in Paris. His works include a Treatise on Harmony (1802), which was used by the young Berlioz, several concert band works, several dramatic compositions at the Opéra National de Paris: Sémiramis, Les bayadères; at the Opéra-Comique: Artistes par occasion, L’Auberge de Bagnères (1807); Wallace (1817); symphonies, quartets etc. Works Lyri

Charles-Valentin Alkan

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Charles-Valentin Alkan (; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, among the leading pianists in Paris, a city in which he spent virtually his entire life. Alkan earned many awards at the Conservatoire de Paris, which he entered before he was six. His career in the salons and concert halls of Paris was marked by his occasional long withdrawals from public performance, for personal reasons. Although he had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the Parisian artistic world, including Eugène Delacroix and George Sand, from 1848 he began to adopt a reclusive life style, while continuing with his compositions – virtually all of which are for the keyboard. During this period he published, among other works, his collections of large-scale studies in all the major keys (Op. 35) and all the minor keys (Op. 39). The latter includes his Symphony for Solo Piano (Op. 39, nos. 4–7) and Concerto for Solo Piano (Op. 39, nos. 8–10), which are often considered among his masterpieces and are of great musical and technical complexity

Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot

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Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot (12 February 183322 October 1914) was a French pianist, teacher and composer. He was born in Paris in 1833, the son of the violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot and his then common-law wife, the famed soprano Maria Malibran (they were to marry when Charles-Wilfrid was three, but his mother died only three months later as a result of a fall from a horse, while pregnant with Charles-Wilfrid’s sibling). Charles-Wilfrid was brought up mostly by his aunt, Pauline Viardot. His stepmother, Maria Huber, was an orphan who had been adopted by Prince von Dietrichstein, the alleged natural father of Sigismond Thalberg. Thalberg was one of Charles-Wilfrid’s earliest teachers. He became a professor of piano at the École Niedermeyer, and later at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Maurice Ravel and Ricardo Viñes. His private students included Enrique Granados. As a teacher, he insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados’s own teaching of pedal technique. He composed four piano concertos. There is also a Sonata for Two Pianos, Op. 61. His Flute Sonata, Op. 64 has been recorded. Many of his scores are preserved at the

Charley Straight

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Charles Theodore “Charley” Straight (January 16, 1891 – September 22, 1940) During the 1920s, Straight worked with Roy Bargy on the latter’s eight Piano Syncopations. In describing “Rufenreddy”, the fifth in the series, the ragtime historian “Perfessor” Bill Edwards stated: :The actual parentage of this piece will likely remain obscured to some degree, since Bargy’s collaborator, Charley Straight, more or less may have let Bargy take credit when the piano rolls of the Eight Piano Syncopations were transcribed into sheet music form. It is likely that Straight wrote the bulk of the composition in 1918, and Bargy added many of his individual touches to it in the performance, the end result being that there is some of each of them within. Straight died in Chicago on the evening of September 22, 1940, after being struck by a car. See also *List of ragtime composers References Sources * External links * * “Work-in-progress YouTube playlist of recordings and piano rolls made by Charley Straight” * Charley Straight recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

Charlie Chaplin

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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, singer, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry’s most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from his childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977. Chaplin’s childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. His father was absent and his mother struggled financiallyhe was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. When he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian. At 19, he was signed to the Fred Karno company, which took him to the United States. In 1914, Chaplin gained widespread popularity through his appearances in Keystone Studios films. He soon introduced and adopted the Tramp as his screen persona. He directed his own films and continued to hone his craft as he moved to Essanay Studios, where the Tramp persona was developed emotionally in The Tramp (1915). He then at

Charlie Parker

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Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed “Bird” or “Yardbird”, was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. He was a virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Parker primarily played the alto saxophone. Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than just an entertainer. Early life Charles Parker Jr. was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Charles Parker Sr. and Adelaide “Addie” Bailey, who was of mixed Choctaw and African-American background. He was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, near Westport Road. His father, a Pullman waiter and chef on the railways, was often required to travel for work, but provided some musical influence because he was a pianist, dancer, and singer on the Theatre Owners Booking Association c

Charlotte Blake

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Charlotte M. Blake (May 30, 1885 – August 21, 1979) was an American composer of waltzes, marches and ragtime. Blake was the oldest of six children born to Edward and Caroline Blake of Ohio. At age 18, she got a job as a writer and arranger for Jerome H. Remick. Her first published composition, “King Cupid” appeared in 1903. After retiring from the music business, she worked as a clerk at Douglas Aircraft Company for two decades. * “King Cupid” (1903) * “The Missouri Mule March” (1904) * “Dainty Dames - A Novelette” (1905) * “The Mascot” (march, 1905) * “My Lady Laughter” (waltzes, 1905) * “Love Is King” (waltzes, 1906) * “Could You Read My Heart” (with words by Arthur Gillespie, 1906) * “A Night, A Girl, A Moon” (1907) * “Curly: March And Two Step” (1907) * “Orchids, Novelette Three Step” (1907) * “Hip Hip Hoorah” (march, 1907) * “The Last Kiss” (waltzes, 1907) * “I Wonder If It’s You” (with words by Vincent P. Bryan, 1907) * “Bogie Man - A Creep-Mouse Tune” (1907) * “So Near and Yet So Far” (with Arthur Gillespie, 1907) * “Love Tree” (1908) * “The Gravel Rag” (1908) * “In Mem’ry of You, Sweetheart” (song, with words by Arthur Gillespie, 1908) * “It Makes A Lot Of Difference When Y

Charlotte Bray

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Charlotte Bray (born 1982) is a British composer. Her work has been performed by The Royal Opera, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Biography Charlotte Bray was born in 1982 and raised in High Wycombe. She then completed a Master of Music with Distinction in composition at the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Mark-Anthony Turnage. She participated in the Britten–Pears Contemporary Composition Course in 2007 with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews, and Magnus Lindberg and studied at Tanglewood Music Center in 2008. resulting in a piano quartet commission for Cheltenham Music Festival for which she wrote Replay. She was also winner of the 2014 Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Prize. Bray was appointed Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music Apprentice Composer-in-Residence for 2009/10, during which time violinist Alexandra Wood and the BCMG premiered her violin concerto Caught in Treetops under conductor Oliver Knussen. Her orchestral work Beyond a Fallen Tree (a UBS Soundscapes: Pioneers commission)was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding on 23 May 2010. Her song cycle Verre de Venise (fo

Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann

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Charlotte Caroline Wilhelmine Bachmann, née Stöwe (2 November 1757 – 19 August 1817) was a German soprano, harpsichordist and composer. She was born in Berlin, the daughter of musician Wilhelm Heinrich Stöwe, and studied singing and harpsichord as a child. At the age of nine, she made her debut in the (Amateur Concerts) which had been established by Friedrich Benda, son of Franz Benda. She married Berlin violist Karl Ludwig Bachmann on 20 September 1785. She was one of twenty founding members of the Berlin Singakademie in 1791, and was instrumental in establishing annual performances of C. H. Graun’s Der Tod Jesu between 1797 and 1806, a tradition that continued at the Berlin court until 1884. She was well regarded as a performer in Berlin. One of her songs was published in Rellstab’s Clavier-Magazin in 1787. She died in Berlin. Works Bachman composed songs. Selected works include: *"", 1787 References

Charlotte le Pelletier

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Elizabeth Charlotte Taillevis de Perrigny le Pelletier (1778–) was a French-born musician, composer, and music teacher. She is thought to be the first female composer in Maryland. Life Charlotte le Pelletier was born on 1778 in Perrigny, France, the youngest of eight children of Charles Léon de Taillevis (1730–95), Marquis of Perrigny, and Anne Marie Madeleine de La Tuste (1739–93). Both of her parents died during the Reign of Terror. In 1797 she married Victor Le Pelletier. They had a son, also named Victor. In 1801 the couple sailed to Saint-Domingue, where the Perrigny family owned slave plantations. The Haitian Revolution had already begun, and her husband was killed at Torbeck in 1803 while serving in the French National Guard. Like thousands of other French people there, Charlotte le Pelleteir fled to the United States. She settled in the French Town neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland and opened a studio with her brother, the Abbé George Taillevis de Perrigny. (A Catholic priest, George de Perrigny also served as chaplain to Charles Carroll of Carrollton and was the second librarian of the Library Company of Baltimore. ) She taught music and performed concerts. Sometime in o

Charlotte Ruegger

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Charlotte Ruegger (17 November 187616 June 1959) was a Swiss composer, conductor, violinist, and music educator who taught at several colleges in the United States. She received Belgium’s Medal for Bravery for her service during World War I. Early life Ruegger was born in Lucerne to a musical family. Her father Julius was a government official. Her mother was a music teacher, her sister Elsa Ruegger was known as the “world’s best cello player”, and her sister Valeria taught piano. The family moved to Belgium during Ruegger’s childhood, and she graduated from the University of Brussels at age 16, although girls were not awarded diplomas at the time. She won first prize in violin at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, then continued postgraduate work in Italy at the University of Florence and in Berlin at the Stern Conservatory. Her teachers included Jean-Baptiste Colyns, Cesar Thomson (she also worked as his assistant), and Florian Zajic. Career Ruegger presented violin recitals throughout Belgium, France, Germany, and Switzerland before going to America in 1913, where she taught violin at Oberlin Conservatory. In 1926, she was a faculty member of the summer assembly at Bay

Charlotte Schlesinger

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Charlotte Schlesinger (1909–1976) was a German pianist and composer. She was a student of Franz Schreker at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik from 1925 to 1930. In 1935 she left the Vienna Conservatory to teach at the Ukrainian S.S.S.R. Conservatory. Schlesinger migrated to America as a refugee in 1938. She taught piano at Black Mountain College from fall 1946 through spring 1949, when she resigned along with several other faculty, including Theodore Dreier, Josef Albers, Anni Albers, and Trude Guermonprez. She went on to teach for many years at the Wilson School of Music in Yakima, Washington. Recordings * EntArteOper Festival - Kammermusik & Lieder songs : Es ziehen die Reihe lang; Wie hell das Licht mir scheinet; Was hör ich - on recital Hermine Haselböck (soprano) References

Charlotte Sohy

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Charlotte Sohy (7 July 1887 - 19 December 1955) was a French composer. Life Charlotte Sohy was born as Charlotte Marie Louise Durey on 7 July 1887 in Paris, the daughter of an industrialist. A precocious child, she received a broad education including musical training from George Marty on piano and music theory. She was introduced to the musical world at a young age and was friends with both Nadia Boulanger and Mel Bonis. She continued her musical studies at the Schola Cantorum (Paris), where she studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant and later with Louis Vierne, as well as composition with Vincent d’Indy. She was the cousin of Louis Durey, a member of Les Six. Compositions The complete works of Charlotte Sohy, published as Présence Compositrices, comprises 35 opus numbers. Vocal works * Berceuse triste, op. 1, for soprano and piano, text by Sohy (1905) * Chants de la Lande, op. 4, for mezzo-soprano and piano, text by Sohy (1908) * Trois chants nostalgiques, op. 7, for mezzo-soprano and piano (or orchestra), text by Cyprien Halgan (1910) * Poème, op. 8, for Alto, Baritone, Choir and Orchester (1911), premiered by Claire Croiza and Morel under the direction of Marcel Labey on 24 May

Charlotte Sporleder

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Charlotte Wilhelmine Eringarde Freiin Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim Sporleder (November 8, 1836 – January 9, 1915) was a German composer who won a medal at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. She published her music under the name Charlotte Sporleder. Sporleder was born in Kassel to Josepha von Warnsdorf and General Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim. She married Lt Col Justus Henrich Sporleder, who was 29 years her senior, in 1855 and was widowed in 1865. and a special diploma from the Chicago Women’s Committee because she “contributed significantly to the success of the exhibition by sending in her beautiful and numerous compositions.” Bote & Bock, Johann Andre, Her compositions include: Band *some military band music *Idylle for the Left Hand, opus 19 *Impromptu, opus 8 *Valse Brillante *Four Songs, opus 15 *Two Songs, opus 11 (text by Heinrich Heine) *Weihnachtslied (Christmas Carol), opus 20 *Listen to Ich hab im Traum geweinet by Charlotte Sporleder References

Charlotte W. Hawes

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Charlotte White Hawes (7 February 1840 – 5 September 1926) was an American composer, lecturer, music educator, poet and critic from Massachusetts. “God Bless the Soldier”, written in 1890, was dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic. Early years and education Born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, she was of Puritan ancestry, her ancestors on the father’s side having settled in Massachusetts in 1635. A large part of her early education was received in at home. She was the oldest daughter of a large family and became a close companion of her father, from whom she inherited her musical talent. She had her preliminary musical training in Boston and New York City, continuing her studies in Germany, in Berlin and Dresden, under the’ direction of Friedrich Wieck. During her stay in Dresden she formed the acquaintance of many eminent musicians, among them the most notable being Franz Liszt. In 1877, she returned to Boston, where she made her home. Career She was notables as a composer of music, a musical lecturer and critic, and a teacher of music. She was well versed in the literature of music. One of her popular achievements in the double role of composer and poet was, “God Bless the Sold

Charly Oleg

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Charles Olejniczak (7 August 1931 – 8 September 2025), better known by the stage name Charly Oleg, was a French organist, pianist, composer and orchestra conductor. Life and career Born in Hayange on 7 August 1931 into a family with Polish origins, Olejniczak grew up in Nilvange. He attended the and was a pianist for the French Armed Forces during his military service. At the age of 20, he accompanied Josephine Baker on a tour through London and took over when she got sick. From 1979 to 1982, he was the head conductor at the Théâtre de la Renaissance and directed opérettes such as Dédé alongside Georges Guétary, , . In 1988, he held a small role in the film The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In 1998, he had an uncredited role in . Charly Oleg died in Le Blanc-Mesnil on 8 September 2025, at the age of 94. Albums *Musique douce n°3 (1957) *Les Plus Belles Mélodies de “Tournez Manège” (1992) *Variations personnelles (2007) References External links * *

Chava Flores

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Salvador Flores Rivera (14 January 1920 – 5 August 1987), known as Chava Flores, was a Mexican composer and singer of popular and folkloric music. His songs often described the lives of Mexico City’s ordinary people. Biography Flores was born in the old La Merced neighborhood, in Mexico City’s historical center, on calle de La Soledad. It is presumed he grew up in Tacuba, in Colonia Roma and in Santa Maria la Ribera, although he is also located in Azcapotzalco and Unidad Cuitláhuac, where he lived until 1933, when he moved to Morelia, Michoacán. His father died in 1933, so he had to start working to contribute to the support of his family. El Álbum de Oro de la Canción Chava Flores had many jobs since his childhood; he worked as a tailor, warehouse manager, collector, door-to-door salesman, a hardware store administrator, owner of a shirt and sausage store and a printer, among other things. Tribute On 14 January 2017, Google celebrated his 97th birthday with a Google Doodle. Some of his songs Flores’s songs featured a popular language, with double entendres and wordplays. Some of his compositions are: Interpreters of his songs Filmography Actor * La esquina de mi barrio, 1957, dir.

Chaya Arbel

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Chaya Arbel (; June 8, 1921 – December 14, 2006) was an Israeli composer. She is one of Israel’s best known female classical composers and the recipient of the ACUM Prize. Biography Arbel studied piano and composition in Germany, until she immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine (1936), where she worked in agriculture at kibbutz HaMa’apil. Only 25 years later, Arbel resumed her composition studies, with professor Leon Schidlowsky. Arbel remained a kibbutz member for the rest of her life. She won the ACUM Prize for Dialogue for Clarinet and Orchestra. * 1992 Agada for woodwinds, brass and percussion (IMC) * 1995 Conzertino for double bass solo, winds and percussion (IMC) * 1996 Time Beats, Quartet for harp, flute, viola and percussion (IMC) Small ensemble * 19?? Roots, Ballad in 2 parts for violin, cello and piano (IMC) * 1986 Drama for clarinet, cello and piano (IMC) * 1987 Roundarounds for tuba and piano (IMC) * 1990 In Memory of Our Soldiers for trombone and piano (IMC) * 1991 The Turtles Voice for horn, violin, cello and piano (IMC) * 1995 Intermezzo for viola and piano (IMC) Solo instruments * 1984 Lament for piano (IMC) * 1985 Remembrance for piano (IMC) * 1983 Fantasia

Chaya Czernowin

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Chaya Czernowin (, ; born December 7, 1957) is an Israeli American composer and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is the lead composer at the Schloß Solitude Sommerakademie, a biannual international academy of composers and resident musicians at the landmark Schloß Solitude, in Stuttgart, Germany. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Education and early career Czernowin was born in Haifa and raised in Israel. She studied in Israel, Germany, and the United States. She also received fellowships to compose in Japan and in Germany. Czernowin studied at the Rubin Academy of music at Tel-Aviv University, Bard College, and received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1993. At UCSD, she studied with Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds. Czernowin spent several years after her formal studies on residencies and fellowships in Japan, Europe, and the United States. She was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2003. From 1997 to 2006, she was professor of composition at UCSD, and between 2006 and 2009 she was professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Musical works Source: Early works *Dam Sheom Ha

Chelsea Chen

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Chelsea Chen (born December 30, 1983, in San Diego) is an internationally renowned American organist and composer. Chen has been successful in establishing a concert career in North America, Europe and Asia. She has composed several original compositions, and has adapted music ranging from major classical repertoire to video game soundtracks to Taiwanese folk songs for the organ and other instruments. Education and career Chen began piano studies at a young age, studying with Jane Smisor Bastien and Lori Bastien Vickers. At age 15, she began studying organ, first with Leslie Robb, and later with Monte Maxwell, Chapel Organist for the United States Naval Academy. After only two years of lessons, she was accepted into the Juilliard School, where she studied first with John Weaver and then with Paul Jacobs, completing her undergraduate degree in 2005 and her graduate degree in 2006. In 2006, she was accepted for a Fulbright Fellowship and spent the next year composing and performing in Taiwan, where she played an important role in increasing exposure to the pipe organ in that country. In 2007, she was accepted into the Artist Diploma program at Yale University, where she studied with

Chen Ta-ju

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Chen Ta-ju (; 10 February 1917 – 24 October 1992), also known by his style name Fa Sheng (), was a Taiwanese pop song lyricist born in , Taipei. He wrote about 300 lyrics in his lifetime, and his masterpieces include , , “Bitter Heart” (), “Youthful Sorrows and Joys” (), “Farewell by the Harbor” (), and . For his achievements, he was awarded the Special Prize of the 1st Golden Melody Awards in 1989. Biography Early life Chen Ta-ju was born near the Bangka Qingshui Temple in , Taipei during the Japanese rule in Taiwan. He received a Japanese education at a “public school” (kōgakkō), while his father also arranged for him to study Taiwanese Chinese at a private school. At that time, students in “public schools” would be severely reprimanded if caught speaking anything other than Japanese by their Japanese teachers. If they dared to talk back, they could even be slapped. As a teenager, Chen was deeply aggrieved by the way Taiwanese people was bullied. He resolved to diligently study Chinese every evening, a commitment he sustained for three years. Join Victor records In 1930s Taiwan, under the active promotion and guidance of the Columbia Records, Taihei (), In 1935, JVC hired Chang F

Chen Yi (composer)

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Chen Yi () (born April 4, 1953) is a Chinese-American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist. Chen Yi has earned global fame as a prolific composer who integrates Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Chen was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Si Ji (Four Seasons), and has received awards from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters (Lieberson Award), as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. and in 2012, she was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019. Early life Born to parents who are both doctors and enthusiasts of Western classical music and culture, Chen Yi and her two siblings began music lessons at age three. She began learning piano and at age four was introduced to violin. She memorized works by classical composers like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikov

Chen Zi

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Chen Zi (陈紫, Huiyang, 1919–1999) was a Chinese composer. He was one of the composers at the original revolutionary Lu Xun Academy in Yan’an and one of the collaborators assisting Ma Ke in composition of 1945’s The White-Haired Girl. Among his works are the 1954 opera Liu Hulan (opera), and the 1956 opera Spring Blossoms (迎春花开了; Yingchunhua Kaile) co-composed with Liang Kexiang to a libretto by Lu Cang () and Wang Lie (). In 1981, Xiang Sihua (guzheng player), Chen Ailian (dancer), Wang Bingyan (gaohu player), Li Yuanhua (singer), Zhang Xiaoping (dancer), Ye Jianping (dancer), Wang Shuren (erhu player), and An Qingduan (yangqin player) formed a group of Chinese performing artists from China Opera and Dance Drama Theater to visit Europe, with Chen Zi as the leader. References

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

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Cheryl Ann Frances-Hoad (born 1980) is a British composer. Early life Frances-Hoad began composing at the age of eight while studying cello and piano at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She graduated from Gonville and Caius College (Cambridge University) with a Double 1st in 2001 and an MPhil (with Distinction) in Composition, also at Cambridge. Composer She has had two ballets choreographed by Lynn Seymour and Geoffrey Cauley; the second was performed by Scottish Ballet in the Britten Theatre, London. Her commissions include works for the BBC, the Surrey Philharmonic, the Manchester International Cello Festival, the Chard Festival of Women in Music, the Bass Club, Bass Fest and the Almeida Festival. In 2000 the Cambridge Music Festival commissioned a work to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, which was performed by the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Nicholas Daniel. In November 2001 Frances-Hoad had her first chamber opera, broken lines: sonata for opera, premiered by the New Cambridge Opera Group, as part of the Britten@25 Festival, with generous funding from the R.V.W. Trust. June 2002 saw two premieres: the Spitalfields Festival commission (a

Chester Biscardi

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Chester Biscardi (b. Kenosha, Wisconsin, October 19, 1948; nicknamed Chet) is an Italian American composer and educator. He received a B.A. degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1970); he studied during 1969–1970 at the University of Bologna and the Conservatorio di Musica “G. B. Martini”; he received an M.A. in Italian literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1972); he received an M.M. in composition from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1974); he received a M.M.A. in composition from Yale University (1976); and he received a D.M.A. in composition from Yale University (1980). His composition instructors have included Les Thimmig, Mario Davidovsky, Robert Morris, Frank Lewin, Yehudi Wyner, Krzysztof Penderecki and Tōru Takemitsu. He has been a member of the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College since 1977. He is openly gay. Biscardi’s music has been released on the Albany, American Modern Recordings, Bridge, CRI (New World Records), Furious Artisans, Intim Musik (Sweden), Naxos, New Albion, New Ariel, North/South Recordings, Perfect Enemy Records, and Sept Jardins (Canada) labels. Selected works : Works by Biscardi are published by Merio

Chevalier d'Herbain

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Jean-Louis Cuchot d’Herbain (Chevalier d’Herbain; 10 April 1720 – 28 May 1768) was an 18th-century French baroque composer with a professional career in the military. Short biography Born in Strasbourg, d’Herbain was destined to a military career, and became a captain in the regiment of Tournaisis. While he was stationed in Italy, he began to compose operas: Il geloso (Rome, 1751), Il trionfo del Giglio (Bastia, 1751) and La Lavinia (Bastia, 1753). Back in Paris, he composed the music for the ballet Célime (1756) and the opéras comiques Les Deux talents (1763, on a libretto by Jean-François de Bastide) and Nanette et Lucas (1764, on a libretto by Nicolas-Étienne Framery). Some of his vocal works, including many ariettes, enjoyed lasting success. He died in Paris aged 48. Works *1751: Il geloso, intermezzo *1751: Il trionfo del Giglio / Le Triomphe du lys, opera *1753: La Lavinia, opera *1756: Iphis et Célime, ou Le Temple de l’indifférence détruit pas l’amour, opera-ballet *1763: Les Deux talents, opéra comique *1764: Nanette et Lucas, ou La Paysanne curieuse, comedy, prose with ariettes References External links * His works and presentations on CÉSAR * Operone - Chevalier d’Herbai

Chevalier de Saint-Georges

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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (; ; 25 December 17459 June 1799) was a French violinist, conductor, composer, and soldier of African descent. Moreover, he demonstrated excellence as a fencer, an athlete, and a dancer. His historical significance lies partly in his distinctive background as a biracial free man of colour. Bologne was the first classical composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in Western music. He composed an array of violin concertos, string quartets, sinfonia concertantes, violin duets, sonatas, two symphonies, and an assortment of stage works, notably opéra comique. Born in the French colony of Guadeloupe, his father, Georges Bologne de Saint-Georges, was a wealthy, white plantation owner, while his mother was one of the Senegalese people Georges kept enslaved. At the age of seven, he was taken to France where he began his formal education. As a young man he won a fencing contest leading to his appointment as a “" by king Louis XVI. Having received music and musical composition lessons, he joined the orchestra , culminating in his appointment as its conductor in 1773. In 1776, Saint-Georges began conducting the Paris Opera. However, t

Chiang Wen-yeh

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Kang Bûn-iā, Chiang Wen-yeh or Jiang Wenye (; June 11, 1910 – October 24, 1983) was a Taiwan-born composer, active mainly in Japan and later in China. He was born in Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan and died in Beijing. While often known in the West by renditions of his Chinese name, the three Chinese characters that form his name are pronounced Kō Bunya () in Japanese, and thus he is also known as Koh Bunya in the West. In his compositions, which range from for piano to choral and orchestral works, he merged elements of traditional Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese music with modernist influences. Due to the political turmoil surrounding his life, he came to be largely forgotten during the latter part of his life. After his death, however, his work has started to gain new recognition in East Asia as well as in the West. Biography Chiang was born in 1910 to Chinese parents in Tamsui, Taiwan – a Japanese territory at the time, and so his nationality was Japanese from birth. He is of Yongding, Fujian Hakka ancestry. In 1923, he went to Ueda, a small town in the prefecture of Nagano, Japan, to attend secondary school. He later proceeded to the Tokyo Engineering and Commerce Advanced School (

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

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Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (27 November 1602 – ca. 1676–1678), was a Baroque music composer, singer and Benedictine nun. She spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where she served as prioress and abbess and stopped composing. She was one of more than a dozen cloistered women who published sacred music in seventeenth-century Italy. Life and career Margarita Cozzolani was the youngest daughter of a wealthy merchant family in Milan, Italy. She entered the convent and took her vows in 1620. She added “Chiara” as her religious name. She was a prolific composer, her style characterized by sequences and the switching of modes. The duets and solos in her 1642 Concerti Sacri followed the Lombard style. of St. Benedict, but they seem to any listener to be white and melodious swans, who fill hearts with wonder, and spirit away tongues in their praise. Among these sisters, Donna Chiara Margarita Cozzolani merits the highest praise, Chiara in name but even more so in merit, and Margarita for her unusual and excellent nobility of invention…". Donna Chiara Margarita Cozzolani disappears from the convent’s records after 1676. The first modern edition of her co

Chie Mukai

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is a female Japanese composer and musician, best known for her underground improv-folk group Ché-SHIZU. She has been involved in improvised performance since 1975, when she participated in the East Bionic Symphonia group, a graduation project for students of Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko art school in Tokyo. Her primary instrument is the bowed Chinese er-hu, although she is also a vocalist, and plays piano and percussion. Every year she organizes the Perspective Emotion mixed media arts festival in Tokyo. She has been frequently collaborating with Kenya Kawaguchi, Masayoshi Urabe, Seiichi Yamamoto since 2010. Discography Solo *Kokyu Improvisation (胡弓インプロヴィゼイション) CD (PSF, 1990) CD *Three pieces, solo improvisations LP (Siwa, 2000; CD, 2007) *Crossing CDR (there, 2004) *V.A., Somethings #1 CD (Last Visible Dog, 2007) Ché-SHIZU *Yakusoku wa dekinai (約束はできない) LP (zero records, 1984; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001) *V.A., Aura Music LP (zero records, 1984) *V.A., Welcome to Dreamland LP/CD (celluloid, 1985) *Nazareth (ナザレ) CD (PSF, 1993) *A Journey CD (PSF, 1994) *Live 1996 Suisho CD (PSF, 1997) *Glimmering Star (瞬きの星) LP (Aleutian Retto, 1999; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001)

Chiel Meijering

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Michael Maria “Chiel” Meijering (born 15 June 1954, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer. He studied composition with Ton de Leeuw, percussion with Jan Labordus and Jan Pustjens, and piano at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He composed over 1000 works. Meijering has a fondness for outrageous titles. Some examples include “I Hate Mozart” (for flute, alto saxophone, harp and violin); *Niet te stuiten *Twee eieren, zuurstok en spinrag * Two men and a lady Operas * Alzheimer Opera * The Last Days of Mankind (1988) *St. Louis Blues References External links * Chiel Meijering official site * Chiel Meijering page at Donemus/MuziekGroup Nederland

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

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Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (, born 1970) is a composer of contemporary classical music. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently an invited professor of composition at Ewha Womans University, in Seoul, Korea, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two master’s degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan. Her teachers included William Albright, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Yen Lu, Mark Phillips, Yann-Jong Hwang and Loong-Hsing Wen. She has previously taught music at Johnson County Community College, Washburn University, Rhodes College, and the University of Michigan, and is currently on the faculty of the University of South Florida. She has received numerous honors; these include winning the 1st Brandenburg Biennial Composers Competition , the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harvard Fromm Music Fellowship, Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation commissions, Theodore Front Prize from International Alliance for Women in Music, ISCM/League of Composers Competition, International Festival of Women Composers Composition Prize, Florida Artist Enhancement Grant, Arts Council of Hillsborough County Individual

Chihiro Fujioka

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is a Japanese video game designer, composer, and rock drummer. He has worked at Xtalsoft, Square, and AlphaDream where he is primarily known for directing Super Mario RPG as well as his involvement in several Mario & Luigi games. He is currently a member of Earthbound Papas, a band led by Nobuo Uematsu. Career Fujioka began his career as a sound designer and composer at Xtalsoft in 1983 and quickly distinguished himself in a management capacity. He first collaborated with Ryuji Sasai on the soundtrack to Mugen no Shinzou III. When Xtalsoft was absorbed to become the Osaka branch of Technology and Entertainment Software in 1990, Fujioka became a director of the department. His first work with Square was as director of Final Fantasy Legend III on which he work with Sasai again on the soundtrack. Fujioka left Square in 2000 with a number of other employees to form AlphaDream, where he directed a number of their early games, including Tomato Adventure and a number of Hamtaro games, as well as helped design multiple Mario & Luigi games. In addition to his game development work, Fujioka served as a drummer for a progressive rock band called Mr. Sirius. He also joined Nobuo Uematsu’s band

Chinary Ung

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Chinary Ung ( ) (born November 24, 1942, in Takéo, Cambodia) is a composer currently living in California, United States. Career After arriving in the US in 1965 to study clarinet, he turned to composition studies with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in 1974. In 1988, he became the first American to win the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for musical composition. Additionally, he received the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, as well as awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Asia Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. In October 2007 the Del Sol String Quartet was invited to premiere the composer’s Spiral X playing the Library of Congress’ collection of Stradivarius instruments. Ung taught music at Northern Illinois University, Connecticut College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Arizona State University, before being appointed to the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. In 2013, UC San Diego promoted Ung to the rank of Distinguished Professor. Ung’s music is

Chino Toledo

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Josefino “Chino” Javier Toledo (born March 6, 1959) is a Filipino composer and conductor. Biography Early life Josefino Toledo is born on March 6, 1959, to Victor Toledo and Lolita Javier. Born to a musical family, his father Victor was the founder and directors of Pangkat Kawayan, a musical ensemble of bamboo instruments played by elementary school students. It was his father who first taught him the rudiments of music. He likewise played in his father’s ensemble during his childhood days, playing the marimba and xylophone. Education His first formal music studies was at the Laperal Music Academy which he simultaneously took alongside his high school education at the Far Eastern University. He enrolled at the University of the Philippines College of Music, graduating with a Bachelor’s of Music in Composition in 1979. His teachers at the conservatory include the national artists Lucio San Pedro, Ramon Santos, and Jose Maceda. in Paris through a grant by the French government. A rockefeller grant enabled him to pursue graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, graduating in 1986. He eventually became the music director and conductor of the Manila Symphony Orchestra from 1

Chiquinha Gonzaga

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Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga, better known as Chiquinha Gonzaga (; October 17, 1847 – February 28, 1935) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and the first woman conductor in Brazil. Chiquinha Gonzaga was the first pianist of “choro” and author of the first carnival march, “Ó Abre Alas” (1899). Her plays and operettas, such as Forrobodó and Jurití, were a great success with the public because they used elements of Brazilian popular culture of the time. Biography Early life Chiquinha Gonzaga was born in Rio de Janeiro, from a pardo mother and a wealthy white father – after she was born her father became a marshal. Her godfather was Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. For her mother, a mestizo and poor woman, the birth of Chiquinha was a very difficult, in part because of the risk that the father would not recognize the paternity of her daughter. Indeed, José Basileu, the military promising career, from a wealthy family, suffered from the pressure of his parents, who were against his marriage with Rosa. Despite these disagreements, he accepted the child as his daughter and married. Like all girls of a military family in the 19th century, Chiquinha Gonzaga was very well educat

Choi Hyun-suk

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Choi Hyun-suk (; born April 21, 1999) is a South Korean rapper, singer and dancer under YG Entertainment. As a member of boy band Treasure, Choi debuted on August 7, 2020, with the single album entitled The First Step: Chapter One. He is also known for his television appearance as a contestant on Mix Nine (2017–2018). Life and career 1999–2016: Early life Choi Hyun-suk was born on April 21, 1999, in South Korea. He is the eldest in his family and has a younger sister. 8-year-old Choi (Korean age) first discovered rap and hip hop in first grade through Big Bang’s documentary The Beginning (2006), In result, he solely fixated his eyes on the hip hop label, YG Entertainment. or alternatively become a footballer, stemmed by his interest in the sport in result of his stance as an avid fan of Real Madrid CF. Preceding his interest in hip hop, Choi also joined a choir in fifth grade, following a family tradition situated in elementary school, as a sopranist and won first place as its school representative in contests. In his adolescence, he enrolled at an academy for lessons and attended a private audition held by YG Entertainment through the facility; as a result, Choi was successfully r

Choi Seung-hyun

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Choi Seung Hyun, also known as Shawn Choi, is a South Korean film score composer. He was one of the composers of Oldboy References External links *https://www.schoimusic.com/?lang=en * * * Shawn Choi Official YouTube

Choi Si-won

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Choi Si-won (; born April 7, 1986 ), known mononymously as Siwon, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, model, and actor, known for his work as a member of South Korean boy group Super Junior. Choi was a special representative for UNICEF Korea from 2015 to 2019, before being chosen as a UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office ambassador in November 2019. Aside from being a member of Super Junior, Choi has also ventured into solo activities, mainly acting. He played lead roles in the Korean dramas Oh! My Lady (2010), Poseidon (2011), Revolutionary Love (2017), My Fellow Citizens! (2019), and Love Is for Suckers (2022) and had supporting roles in Athena: Goddess of War (2010), The King of Dramas (2012), She Was Pretty (2015), and Bloodhounds (2023). Choi has also participated in various Chinese language films such as Helios, To the Fore, and Dragon Blade. Early life Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, on April 7, 1986. He has one younger sister, Ji-won. His father was the former CEO of Boryung Medicine, a pharmaceutical company. Choi graduated from Apgu Jeong High School in February 2006 and from Inha University in February 2012 alongside fellow member Kim Ryeowook. Career Choi

Chopin National Edition

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The National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin (), also known as the Chopin National Edition and the Polish National Edition, is an urtext edition of the complete works by Frédéric Chopin, aiming to present his output in its authentic form. Started by Jan Ekier in 1959, the entirety of Chopin’s known works were published in 37 volumes from 1967 to 2010, accompanied by source and performance commentaries. The Chopin National Edition is considered the authoritative edition of Chopin’s works, and is recommended to contestants of the International Chopin Piano Competition. History In 1959, Jan Ekier started the project of a new critical edition of Chopin’s works, as he came to the conclusion that the prevailing Paderewski edition presented a “false image of Chopin’s music in many aspects”. The first volume of Ballades was published in 1967 by PWM Edition, featuring a minimalist design with white covers. A total of nine volumes were published up to 1991, with a publication rhythm that correlated to each edition of the quinquennial International Chopin Piano Competition. After the Revolutions of 1989, the edition was re-evaluated from a market perspective. While the first editions

Chopin, a Sonata in Paris

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Chopin, a Sonata in Paris () is a 2025 Polish period biographical drama film directed by Michał Kwieciński. Starring Eryk Kulm as Frédéric Chopin, it follows the life of Chopin in the 1830s. It opened the Polish Film Festival on 22 September 2025 and received a theatrical release in Poland on 10 October 2025. Cast * Eryk Kulm as Frédéric Chopin * Lambert Wilson as Louis Philippe I * Joséphine de La Baume as George Sand * Victor Meutelet as Franz Liszt * Maja Ostaszewska as Tekla Justyna Chopin * Karolina Gruszka as Delfina Potocka * Michał Pawlik as Jan Matuszyński * Kamil Szeptycki as Julian Fontana * Martyna Byczkowska as Maria Wodzińska * Dominika Ostałowska as Madame Wodzińska Production Development The film was announced in March 2024. Director Michał Kwieciński had previously worked with Eryk Kulm on his 2022 film, Filip. When Kulm expressed that Frédéric Chopin was his dream role, Kwieciński began researching the composer. He was inspired by Joachim Trier’s 2021 film The Worst Person in the World in deciding to present Chopin’s life in distinct vignettes. With a budget of PLN 72 million, it is one of the most expensive productions in Polish history. Casting Eryk Kulm joined

Chou Wen-chung

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Chou Wen-chung (; July 28, 1923 – October 25, 2019) was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. He emigrated in 1946 to the United States and received his music training at the New England Conservatory and Columbia University. Chou is credited by Nicolas Slonimsky as one of the first Chinese composers who attempted to translate authentic East Asian melo-rhythms into the terms of modern Western music. Life Early years in China Chou was born in Yantai (Chefoo), Shandong. He grew up in China and developed an early love for music. (“Sights and Sounds” is an essay by Chou on early influences on his music.) Qin music, in particular, has proved fertile ground for his future exploration. Chou described his early explorations of musical instruments: While in Qingdao, I first discovered the meaning of music in life when I heard our household help enjoying their free time by playing instruments, singing, and drinking. I also became fascinated with harmonium pedals, which I played with at first as a car accelerator, and then discovered their dynamic effect… However, it was in Wuhan that I discovered the violin when my older brothers and I bought a child-size violin as a

Chrétien Urhan

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Chrétien Urhan (Baptised as Christian Urhan; 16 February 1790 – 2 November 1845) was a French violinist, violist, organist and composer. Career outline Born in Montjoie, Urhan’s father first introduced him to the violin. He was first publicly mentioned in 1804 by Joséphine de Beauharnais, having replaced a violinist for a performance of Joseph Haydn’s The Creation, at the young age of 14. He was sent to work in Paris where he took instruction from Jean-François Le Sueur, master of the chapel of the Tuileries Palace. He also learned from prominent teachers such as François Habeneck, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Pierre Rode. He was invited to join the imperial chapel as a violinist in 1810. In this period the young Urhan shared lodgings with his friends, the harpist Franz Anton Stockhausen (father of Julius Stockhausen), and the painter Carl Joseph Begas the elder (who was studying with Antoine-Jean Gros from 1813 to 15). In 1815, through a quartermaster in the Prussian army of occupation, Urhan and Stockhausen (who corresponded with Ludwig van Beethoven) obtained a score of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony and set it before Habeneck, with the result that the work was introduced to Paris. The tw

Chris Alvares

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Christiaan Hermanus Cornelis Alvares (1901–1994), more commonly known as Chris Alvares, was a Surinamese musician, composer, conductor, and educator known for his contributions to classical music in both Suriname and the Netherlands. His diverse talents encompassed playing the organ, piano, flute, and cello, as well as conducting, composition, and teaching. Early life and education Born in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a family of Creole and Sephardic Jewish descent, Alvares grew up in a deeply religious environment. Under the mentorship of Brother Anselmus (Carel Bonten), Alvares received formal music education, which began with training in organ and piano. His skills expanded to include the flute and cello. Alvares’ musical abilities caught the attention of Brother Anselmus, leading him to become the organist of the St. Alphonsus Church at a young age in 1916. Career Throughout his tenure in Suriname, Alvares held positions as an organist and conductor. Notably, in 1929, he assumed the role of organist at the St. Rosa Church, a position he held for decades, interrupted only by his service as a deputy organist at the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral in Paramaribo. His contributions exten

Chris Botti

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Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album Impressions. He was also nominated in 2008 for his album Italia and received three nominations in 2010 for the live album Chris Botti in Boston. Four of his albums have reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard jazz albums chart. Coming to prominence with the 2001 recording of his Night Sessions album, Botti established a reputation as a versatile musician in both jazz and pop music for his ability to fuse both styles together. Early life Botti was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Corvallis, although he also spent two years of his childhood in Italy. His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher. He started playing the trumpet at nine years old, and committed to the instrument at age 12 when he heard Miles Davis play “My Funny Valentine”. In 1981, he was selected as a member of McDonald’s All American High School Jazz Band, which marked his first Carnegie Hall performance. At the age of 17, he ended up at Mount Hood Community Colle

Chris Brown (composer)

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Chris Brown (born 1953) is an American composer, pianist and electronic musician, who creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. He was active early in his career as an inventor and builder of electroacoustic instruments; he has also performed widely as an improviser and pianist with groups as “Room” and the “Glenn Spearman Double Trio.” In 1986 he co-founded the pioneering computer network music ensemble “The Hub”. He is also known for his recorded performances of music by Henry Cowell, Luc Ferrari, and John Zorn. He has received commissions from the Berkeley Symphony, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, the Gerbode Foundation, the Phonos Foundation and the Creative Work Fund. His recent music includes the poly-rhythm installation “Talking Drum”, the “Inventions” series for computers and interactive performers, and the radio performance “Transmissions” series, with composer Guillermo Galindo. His 1992 electroacoustic work “Lava”, for brass, percussion, and electronics is produced by Tzadik Records. He teaches Composition and Electronic Music at Mills College in Oakland, where he

Chris Cummings

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Christopher Allen Thomas Cummings (born August 11, 1975) is a Canadian country music artist. In his career, he has released five studio albums, one compilation album, and one extended play. Several of his singles have charted on the Canadian country charts, including the Number One hits “Sure Enough” and “The Kind of Heart That Breaks”. Biography Chris Cummings began performing in 1980, at the age of five years. In 1990, Chris released an independent CD, which found its way to Reprise Records president Jim Ed Norman, who signed him on in 1992. At age 17, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed. His first single, “I Waited,” was released in Canada in the fall of 1995, and shot into the top 5. Produced by Jim Ed Norman and Rick Scott, Chris released his debut CD, Somewhere Inside, on June 18, 1996. The second single, “Sure Enough,” went straight to No. 1. Follow-up songs “Somewhere Inside” and “Almost Always” also reached the top 5 in Canada reaching No. 3 and No. 4 respectively, and the album was certified gold. Chris’ second CD, Chris Cummings, was released in both the United States and Canada on February 24, 1998. Since 7 of the songs were already on Chris’ Canadian debut,

Chris de Souza

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Christopher Edward de Souza (born 6 June 1943) is an English composer, teacher, music director, broadcaster, opera producer and author. He has presented programmes on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and World Service. Education and career Chris de Souza is a graduate in music from Bristol University (1966) and a graduate of the Directors’ Course of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. From then on De Souza produced over 100 operas around the world, Since 1966 he wrote and performed several compositions like 8 Epithalamia for Organ, Maharajahs, The Ides of March, Children of the Light. In 1977 he devised the Liszt Festival of London editing and directing the first modern performance of Franz Liszt’s opera Don Sanche. and Discovering Music on BBC Radio 3 and Sky Digital. As a presenter his own programme Tuning Up, focusing on young musicians, won a Silver Medal at the New York Radio Festival in 1992. He has also presented on TV, BBC World Service, and broadcasts classical channels for many airlines. De Souza is an author of classical music guides like Looking at music, Listening to Music, The Kingfisher Young People’s Book of Music, and wrote articles to The Listener, Music and Musicians, Musica

Chris Field (composer)

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Chris Field is a Los Angeles-based composer, songwriter, producer and musician, best known as a founding member of X-Ray Dog. He was raised in the San Fernando Valley, and played guitar in Los Angeles for groups among multiple genres including electric guitar, jazz, and rock music. He learned how to compose music by inputting compositions from Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergei Prokofiev into his computer. Through his music associates, he became acquainted with two friends who started X-Ray Dog, and he began to contribute musical compositions to this company. Field also works with Extreme Music, and through them, Field’s music has been placed in numerous television shows. In December 2014, a part of Field’s catalogue was acquired by BMG Chrysalis, with whom he continues to work, on major film and television campaigns. Field’s work as a musical composer for movie theatrical trailers has included Valerian, X-Men, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, XXX, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Hotel Rwanda, Kinsey, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of

Chris Hung (composer)

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Chris Hung (洪銘健; born 13 April 1977) is a Hong Kong composer and teacher. Early life and education Chris Hung was born on 13 April 1977 in Hong Kong. He pursued research in the field of composition. In 2009, Hung obtained the Doctor of Music degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the tutelage of professors Chan Wing Wah and Victor Chan. Music compositions Hung’s creative outputs amount to over 70 works, including orchestral and large-scale ensemble works. His works have appeared in over 20 countries in various contemporary music festivals, such as the 2015 ISCM World Music Days in Slovenia, the 2016 Beijing Modern Music Festival in China, and the 2017 Music Biennale Zagreb in Croatia. In 2015, Chris Hung was invited to compose “Variation of Chung Chi College Theme Song” to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2016, he composed “We Are All Jubileans”, a theme song celebrating the 55th Anniversary of his alma mater, Bishop Hall Jubilee School. Style and reception Hung’s music is often mixed with order but contains a palette of chaotic complexity. His compositions are inspired by a fusion of Western and Eastern

Chris Jones (American musician)

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Chris Jones (November 11, 1958 – September 13, 2005) was an American singer and guitarist who worked mainly in Europe, having moved to Germany after he joined the United States Army. He often recorded with the German audiophile label Stockfisch Records. Biography Christopher Paul Jones was born in Reno, Nevada. At the age of five, he began playing the guitar. A few years later, he decided to become a professional musician, and when he was 11 years old, he was admitted to a program at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. There he discovered Johann Sebastian Bach, to whom he dedicated his student composition “Sonata in D”, and for which Jones was awarded the conservatory’s “Young Composer of the Year” award. Shortly thereafter, he discovered the blues and started listening to Robert Johnson, James Taylor, and Little Feat. In 1976, Jones joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Adenine’s, Germany. During this time, the foundation for his musical career in Europe was laid. Over the following decades, he played guitar on albums of artists such as Sara K., Allan Taylor, and Reinhard Mey. He toured and recorded solo and with the blues harmonica musician Steve Baker.

Chris Mary Francine Whittle

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Chris Mary-Francine Whittle (born 23 May 1927) is a Belgian composer, performer (harpsichord and piano) and teacher. Biography Chris Mary-Francine Whittle was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 23 May 1927. Whittle studied music at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp, where she won several prizes, including the Albert de Vleeschower prize for composition. Whittle also studied music in France with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Whittle spent 20 years on concert tours throughout Europe. Works Whittle’s compositions were published by Schott frères. They include: * Trio, Op. 11 (violin, cello and piano; 1949) * Variations for Carillon, Op. 1 (1951) * Woodwind Quintet (1951; won the Albert de Vleeschower prize) Orchestra * Concerto for Piano (1948) * Variations on an Old Scottish Song (1952) Piano * 24 Preludes, Op. 14 (1952) * Ballade, Op 15 (1949) * Berceuse, Op. 4 (1947) * Diurne, Op. 22 (1965) * Impromptu, Op. 27 (1966) * Intermezzi, Op. 32 * Ondine, Op. 12 (1952) * Scottish Dances, Op. 16 (1951) * Sonata, Op. 4 (1947) * Sonata, Op. 9 (1948) * Sonatine, Op. 30 (1967) * Two Nocturnes, Op. 6 (1967-68) * Two Small Pieces, Op. 25 (four hands; 1960) * Two Suites, Op 1 (

Chris Newman (artist)

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Chris Newman (born 1958 in London) is an English-born contemporary composer, painter, author and performance artist. He lives in Berlin. Biography Newman is an experimental interdisciplinary artist using the medium of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. From 1976 to 1979 he studied music at King’s College London, taking a Bachelor of Music. During this time he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and started to translate Russian poets (Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov), this process of translating proving important for his later work (e.g. from one medium to another / from life to art). Started writing own poems in 1979. Moved to Cologne, Germany, in 1980 to study with Mauricio Kagel (New Music, Theatre / Video) at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. First public performance singing own songs in 1982. Founded chamber-punk rock band Janet Smith in 1983; met Morton Feldman in 1984. First concerts and video showings: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Theater am Turm, Frankfurt; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Cooper Union, New York. Started to paint in 1989, which led (from 1994) to the two medium installations; in recent years presented paintings in a more sculptural a

Chris Tilton

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Chris Tilton (born June 9, 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American soundtrack composer and has helped compose several television, film and video game scores. He has collaborated with Michael Giacchino and J. J. Abrams on several of his projects. His projects include the video games Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Black, Fracture, SimCity, Assassin’s Creed Unity, and the television series Zoo and Fringefrom season 2 to season 6. He also collaborated with Giacchino and Andrea Datzman for J. J. Abrams’ series Undercovers,. He also composed the score for the serie “From” Video games References External links * Official web site *

Chriss Rune Olsen Angvik

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Chriss Rune Olsen Angvik (born 12 August 1988 in Molde, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (guitar and vocals) and composer, and known from the bands Red Hot and Envy and the current member of Point and the former member of backing band guitarist and composer for Nico & Vinz. Career Angvik started the R&B band Red Hot together with friends from Romsdal in 2006. In 2008 they were invited to play together with Vidar Busk at the international festival Moldejazz. He won the final of the Emergenza festival 2011, with the band Envy (Nico & Vinz). Residing in Oslo, Angvik led his own band Chemical Music. Honors *2011: Emergenza festival winner within the band Envy (Nico & Vinz) Discography ;With Red Hot *2008: Hotter Than Georgia Asphalt (Bluesnews Records) *2010: My Arrival EP (Bluesnews Records) ;With Envy alias Nico & Vinz *2012: The Magic Soup and the Bittersweet Faces (Universal Music Group) *2014: Black Star Elephant (Warner Bros. Records) Point *2021: Icon *2022 :Echo *2022 : “Hold Me Now " and “The Fire” *2023 Marionette References External links *Red Hot Website

Christiaan Kriens

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Christiaan Pieter Wilhelm Kriens (April 29, 1881 – December 17, 1934) was an American composer, pianist, violinist and conductor of Dutch parentage. He was born in Germany while his father, clarinetist Christiaan Pieter Willem Kriens, was playing with the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden during the 1880/1881 season. he came to the United States in 1906. He wrote a number of pieces for orchestra, including two symphonies (when he was very young); he also composed songs and some chamber music, including a string quartet. He received his education from his father and at the Haagse Muziekschool. When he was fourteen he gave a concert with the orchestra led by his father, during which he was the violin soloist in the Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven, and the pianist the Piano Concerto No. 5 by the same composer and led his own second symphony as a conductor. He became solo violinist in the Haarlemse Orkest Vereeniging (predecessor of Noordhollands Philharmonisch Orkest) before joining orchestras in France and the United States. He ran an orchestra school in Carnegie Hall (Kriens Symphony Club) and a string quartet. In November 1910, Musical America published an interview with

Christian Benda

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Christian Benda is a conductor, composer and cellist, descended from the eighteenth-century Benda family of composers. He performs worldwide both as a soloist and a conductor. His numerous recordings include many classical standards such as Mozart, Rossini and Schubert overtures (notably, performances of Boccherini cello sonatas, with his brother accompanying on the fortepiano, for the Naxos label) as well as the compositions of his ancestors Georg Anton (Jiří Antonín) Benda, František Benda and Jan Jiří Benda. (Another ancestor of his was the conductor Hans von Benda, who was particularly active between the 1930s and the 1950s.) He is chief conductor and artistic director of the Prague Sinfonia. Between 2012 and 2014 he recorded a four-volume cycle of Gioacchino Rossini’s complete operatic overtures for Naxos Records with the Prague Sinfonia Orchestra. He was a Climate Ally in the “Tck Tck Tck: Time for Climate Justice” campaign. References External links *Benda’s Home page *ChristianBendaVEVO

Christian Biegai

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Christian Biegai (born 14 December 1974) is a film composer, sound designer and saxophonist. Education He studied music at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Royal College of Music in London and at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States. Career He has written film scores for feature films, documentaries, TV drama and animated films. Whistle (2002), directed by Duncan Jones, was shown at festivals around the world, including several broadcasts on Film Four. In 2004, he refined his audio-post production skills under the leadership of Frank Verderosa at Planet V, New York City. Working with digital artist and multimedia producer Helena Bulaja resulted in composing and recording the score for the fairytale Regoch (2006), which can be heard on the release of “Croatian Tales of Long Ago, Part Two” and collaborating in Helena Bulaja’s latest project about Nikola Tesla, which features Laurie Anderson and Terry Gilliam amongst other artists. Christian composed the score for director Marc Meyer’s film Sunday, in August, which was broadcast on France 3, and won the Minister of Art Promotion Prize at the Film Festival in Dresden in 2005. The same year he teamed up with New York-ba

Christian Calon

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Christian Calon (born 5 September 1950) is a French-born Canadian composer who is active in electroacoustic music. He has worked extensively in large computer-based studios in Canada and Europe and has received commissions from the Canada Council, the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, and the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec. His work is written in an expressionist and narrative style and his pieces are characterized by acousmatic diffusion. Life Born in Marseille, he immigrated to Canada in 1966 and settled in Montréal. Calon is a largely self-taught musician who became interested in electroacoustic music through his friend and mentor, Francis Dhomont. He received his only formal training at McGill University where he pursued graduate studies in computer music for one year. Calon began his composing career in Montréal. In 1986 he co-founded the Canadian Electroacoustic Community with some 100 other musicians, serving as the organization’s vice-president in 1989–90. In 1985 his work Portrait d’un Visiteur won first prize at the 1985 Luigi Russolo International Competition. He moved to Europe in 1990, and in 1991 was appointed music director of the studios of

Christian Cannabich

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Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (baptised 28 December 1731 – 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of around 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamitz and helped turn the Mannheim orchestra into what Charles Burney described as “the most complete and best disciplined in Europe.” The orchestra was particularly noted for the carefully graduated crescendos and diminuendos characteristic of the Mannheim school. Together with Stamitz and the other composers of the Mannheim court, he helped develop the orchestral texture that paved the way for the orchestral treatment of the First Viennese School. Biography Background Christian Cannabich was born in Mannheim, the third child of Martin Friedrich Cannabich (1690–1773), a flautist, oboist and music teacher at the Mannheim court. Cannabich’s father was the personal flute teacher of the Prince elector Carl Theodor, which in itself created favourable conditions for Christian Cannabich’s later career. The family originally hailed from Alsace, which through history, tradition and custom has always had (and still has) close ties to the Palatinate. It is po

Christian Cappelen

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Christian Cappelen (26 January 1845 – 11 May 1916) was a Norwegian organist and composer. Biography Cappelen was born in Drammen, Norway. He studied under Ludvig Mathias Lindeman and at the Leipzig Conservatoire. In 1887, after 20 years as organist in Drammen (Strømsø and Bragernes), he became organist at Vår Frelsers kirke (Oslo Cathedral), a position he held until his death in 1916. He gained a prominent position of the Norwegian Church music. He was also teacher at the practical-theological seminary at the University of Oslo from 1890 until 1916. Cappelen was known as a highly skilled organ player and improviser, and he gave concerts all over Norway. As a composer he is within the romantic era, and was influenced by Mendelssohn and Schumann. He published some songs, piano pieces, organ works, cantatas, and more. Especially known is his melody to the hymn “Min lodd falt mig liflig”, which was part of the cantata for the 25-year anniversary of (Oslo Deacon Hospital) in 1894. In the Norwegian hymn book (1986), it was called “Min Herre har kalt meg”. This hymn is missing from the Norwegian hymn book of 2013, but the melody is passed on to the hymn “Mer hellighet gi meg”. Cappelen al

Christian Darnton

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Philip Christian Darnton (born Philip Christian von Schunck; 30 October 1905 – 14 April 1981), also known as Baron von Schunck, was a British composer and writer. Amongst his admirers was Vaughan Williams. Early life and family He was born in Leeds as Philip Christian von Schunck, the son of Mary Gertrude Illingworth (1871–1952) and John Edward, Baron von Schunck (1869–1940), a landowner who renounced his title before the First World War. Christian’s paternal grandfather, Edward, Baron von Schunck, had been born in Leipzig, part of an old German family that had, since 1715, held a Barony in the Holy Roman Empire (Freiherr). He settled in Britain and married Kate Lupton, who had been born into the progressive, land-owning and political Lupton family and educated at the school of her relative Rachel Martineau. Edward died in 1889. Kate survived him until 1913, the eve of the First World War, and insisted in her will that their only son – John Edward, Baron von Schunck – change his surname to that of her father, Darnton Lupton, the former Mayor of Leeds. Thus he and his children dropped the noble von Schunck name in favour of the family name Darnton-Lupton; the surname Darnton was acq

Christian Dierstein

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Christian Dierstein (born 1965) is a German percussionist and academic teacher. He has performed internationally as a soloist and as a regular chamber music player with ensemble recherche and Trio Accanto, performing several world premieres. who commissioned several new compositions. In 2012, the pianist was succeeded by Nicolas Hodges. He also performed at the Wiener Festwochen, the Munich Biennale, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, and the Biennale di Venezia. He played Stockhausen’s Refrain in the Studio Neue Musik of the broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Dierstein participated in several world premieres of compositions by Manos Tsangaris, including in 1998 of Drei Orte with the Trio Accanto at the MusikBiennale Berlin, and in 2000 Initium in Rümlingen. In 2007, he played the world premiere of Beat Boxer, a composition for solo percussion and narrator by Manfred Stahnke. At the 2007 Donaueschinger Musiktage, Dierstein and the ensemble recherche played several world premieres, recorded by the SWR. Dierstein wrote compositions for radio plays and theatre productions. As a soloist and chamber musician, Dierstein participated in radio and CD recordings. He has recorded works by Wolfga

Christian Flor

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Christian Flor (162628 September 1697) was a German composer and organist. Working at churches in Rendsburg and Lüneburg, he was widely known for vocal and organ compositions. He composed one of the earliest Passion oratorios, in 1667. Life Born in Neukirchen, Ostholstein, He included chorales in the Passion. and may have been influenced by them. According to other sources, Bach is said to have known Flor personally and to have appreciated his compositions. Work Flor’s works include: * with Rist: Neues Musikalisches Seelenparadis (New Testament), 1662 * Das gläubige Senffkorn – 23 Lieder für Singstimme und Basso continuo nach Gedichten von Georg Heinrich Werbern, 1665 (Vocal works, vol. VIII), Edition Baroque Bremen. * Organ works: 2 Prealudia und eine Fuge in d, Choralprelude: Ein feste Burg “für 2 Claviere”, Auf Meinen Lieben Gott (With double inverted counterpoint) The title page of the collection of settings of Biblical verses from the Old Testament bears the title: Recordings * Nicolaus Bruhns: Complete Organ Works, including Christian Flor: Chorale preludes, Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen at the Havgaard Rasmussen Organs in Eckernförde and Husum (Kontrapunkt 32198) * G. A. Pandolfi M

Christian Frederick Hassé

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Christian Frederick Hassé (1771–1831) was a composer of church music and an organist. He was a member of the Moravian community. In an 1829 “directory of trades and professions” for Pudsey he is listed twice, and identified as a “processor of music” and as a “gent.”. Life He was born in Sarepta, a small town near the confluence of the Volga and Sarpa Rivers. In 1808, Christian Friedrich Hassé married Ann Cossart. The marriage produced six recorded children, including church bishop Alexander Hassé. At the age of 60 (or 61: Output In 1851 it was recorded that Hassé had written many hymns which had not been “collected”, In addition, he had published in Leeds a compilation entitled, Sacred Music, partly original, partly selected; this appeared in two volumes, the first of which appeared in 1829 and the second of which appeared posthumously in 1832. The original compositions, apparently written by himself, included a chorus, “Blessed are they”, a recitative and air, “The Mountains shall depart”, and a bass solo with chorus entitled, “Amen, praise the Lord”. References

Christian Friedrich Penzel

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Christian Friedrich Penzel (25 November 173714 March 1801) was a German musician. Although he was a composer in his own right, he is remembered more for his association with Johann Sebastian Bach. He was one of Bach’s last pupils. He continued to be involved in performances of Bach’s music after the composer’s death, and he is known for making copies of some of Bach’s works. Life and career Born in Oelsnitz, Vogtland on 25 November 1737, Penzel was the son of a church sexton. He began his formal musical training in his native city where he studied under the cantor J. G. Nacke. He entered the St. Thomas School, Leipzig in 1749 and, given Penzel’s age at the time, this raises the question of the type of teaching Penzel received from Bach. Penzel described himself as a pupil of Bach, but perhaps he was simply referring to general teaching that Bach gave his choirboys and instrumentalists. It would seem unlikely that he attended private lessons, but this cannot be ruled out. After Bach’s death, Penzel became a prefect at the school under Bach’s successor Gottlob Harrer. The position involved him directing the boys’ choir (Thomanerchor) on occasion. Harrer needed the services of a deput

Christian Friedrich Witt

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Christian Friedrich Witt, or Witte (c. 1660 – 13 April 1716 ) was a German composer, music editor and teacher. Biography Christian Friedrich Witt was born in Altenburg, where his father, Johann Ernst Witt, was court organist; he had come from Denmark around 1650 when a Danish princess married into the house of Saxe-Altenburg. Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg probably gave Witt a scholarship in 1676 to study in Vienna and Salzburg, and then from 1685–1686 to study composition and counterpoint in Nuremberg with Georg Caspar Wecker, returning for a further period of study in 1688. He moved to Gotha to take up a post as chamber organist to the court in June 1686; he remained there for the rest of his life. He became a substitute for W.M. Mylius, the kapellmeister, in 1694, and succeeded him after his death in 1713; Duke Frederick II was one of his pupils. He is mentioned as a good keyboard player and kapellmeister in J.P. Treiber’s Der accurate Organist im General-Bass (1704) and Telemann’s Beschreibung der Augen-Orgel (1739). He was also valued by the courts of Ansbach-Bayreuth, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and Saxe-Weissenfels. While on Witt’s deathbed, Johann Sebastian Bach was

Christian Geisler

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Christian Peder Wilhelm Geisler (28 April 186919 August 1951) was a Danish organist and composer. He graduated at the Conservatory of Music in the years 1887–1890 of, among others, Niels W. Gade, J.P.E. Hartmann and Gottfred Matthison-Hansen and studied 1895–96 with Max Bruch in Berlin. After his return, he acted as a composer, vocalist and organist. He was a teacher at the United Church Schools and Ingrid Jespersen School. From 1893 to 1911 he was employed as an organist at Reformed Church and from 1911 to 1939 at the church of Garnison. He was a temporary with both Hartmann and Gade, who both embraced his musical attitude. His music is in the same style as theirs, and most of it was composed before the First World War. He composed in many genres. Notable works * Arnes Sange, 3 Songs of Björnetjerne Björnsons Arne, Op. 1 (1889) * Sonatine in G major for piano, Op. 2 (1897) * String Quartet in B minor, Op. 3 (1893) * Foraar (Spring), Poem Cycle for soprano and piano, Op. 4 (1910); words by Christian Richardt * O, welch ein Tiefe for chorus, Op. 5 (1902) * Julekantate for chorus, Op. 8a * Ode til den menneskelige stemme for chorus, Op. 8b * Under Egetræet for soloist, chorus and orc

Christian Geist

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Christian Geist (c. 1650 – 27 September 1711) was a German composer and organist, who lived and worked mainly in Scandinavia. Biography He was born in Güstrow, where his father, Joachim Geist, was cantor at the cathedral school. From 1665–1666 and 1668–1669 he was a boy member of the court orchestra conducted by Daniel Danielis (1635-1696) of Duke Gustav Adolph of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. He was a bass singer at the Danish court music ensemble in Copenhagen in 1669 and in June 1670 moved to the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben the elder (ca. 1628-1690), a position he held until June 1679, having applied unsuccessfully for the position of choirmaster of St. John’s in Hamburg in 1674. He became organist of the German church in Gothenburg, and in November 1684 moved to Copenhagen, where he succeeded J.M. Radeck as organist of the Helligaandskirke, a post he held to his death, and also the Trinitatis Church, after marrying his widow Magdalena Sibylla in May 1685 (a practice by no means rare). He succeeded Johann Lorentz as organist of the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen in 1689. He died, with his third wife and all their children, of the bubonic plague. Music Sixty of his vocal wo

Christian Gottfried Krause

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Christian Gottfried Krause (17 April 1717 – 4 May 1770) was a German lawyer, composer and music commentator. Life Krause was born in Winzig (today Wińsko, Poland) into a musical family. His father was a Stadtpfeifer from whom he learned to play the flute, violin, keyboard and timpani. Krause studied law at the University in Frankfurt an der Oder, where he attended lectures by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, among others. Baumgarten’s ideas on aesthetic had a profound influence on Krause. In 1746 he moved to Berlin, where he died. Krause’s treatise Von der musikalischen Poesie (1753) marked the beginning of the Ersten Berliner Liederschule (first Berlin Lieder School). Musical works * Gelobet sey der Herr (Cantata) 1758 * Der Tod Jesu (Cantata, text by Karl Wilhelm Ramler) 1758 * Oden mit Melodien 1761 * Der lustige Schulmeister (Singspiel, text by Friedrich Nicolai) 1766 * Lieder der deutschen mit Melodien in four volumes 1767-8 Krause’s instrumental output includes a small amount of chamber music, orchestral sinfonias and partitas and keyboard works. There are also numerous pieces listed in 18th century catalogues which have not survived. Literary works * Lettre à Mr. le Marquis de

Christian Gottlob Höpner

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Christian Gottlob Höpner, also Hoepner (7 November 1799 – 26 October 1859) was a German composer, organist and music educator. Life and career Born in Frankenberg, Höpner grew up in the family of a weaver in Frankenberg near Chemnitz, and he acquired his first musical knowledge by self-taught means. At the age of 14, he could already play the piano by listening to pianoforte lessons given by his older brother. At the age of 17, Höpner also wanted to learn to play the organ. He found the opportunity to do so after attending Sunday services by using the organ in the Frankenberg church. From the wages he received after his apprenticeship as a journeyman weaver, Höpner bought musical textbooks, practised independently on a small organ and attempted compositions. He presented these compositions in 1824 to the cantor August Ferdinand Anacker (1790–1854) in Freiberg for review. The verdict was so encouraging that in 1827 Höpner applied to the court conductor Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) in Weimar, who advised him to devote himself entirely to music. Höpner moved to Dresden, where from 1827 he was professionally taught by Johann Gottlob Schneider junior (1789–1864) for four years, whe

Christian Gottlob Neefe

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Christian Gottlob Neefe (; 5 February 1748 – 28 January 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor. He was known as one of the first teachers of Ludwig van Beethoven. Life and career Neefe was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He received a musical education and started to compose at the age of 12. He studied law at Leipzig University, but subsequently returned to music to become a pupil of the composer Johann Adam Hiller under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas. In 1776, Neefe joined the Seyler theatrical company of Abel Seyler (then) in Dresden, and inherited the position of musical director from his mentor, Hiller. He later became court organist in Bonn and was the principal piano teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven. He helped Beethoven produce some of his first works. His best known work was a Singspiel called Adelheit von Veltheim (1780). In Bonn, Neefe became prefect of the local chapter of the Illuminati, the . He died in 1798 in Dessau, 8 days before his 50th birthday. Works Operas Other works *Oden von Klopstock: Serenade for piano and voice. Flensburg 1776 *Variations on the Priestermarsch aus der Zauberflöte *Twelve piano sonatas *Rondo in C major References Externa

Christian Heinrich Hohmann

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Christian Heinrich Hohmann (March 7, 1811 in Niederwerrn – May 12, 1861 in Schwabach) was a German composer, music educator and the author of Violin School. Life Hohmann was a son of farmer and tailor Georg Hohmann and Anna Hörlein. He worked as a teacher at a teacher training college Altdorf and Schwabach, and wrote several educational books including violin school, which is now known as “Hohmann-Heim” (ISMN M-700014-11-7). He also reissued the original (formerly of Universal Edition Vienna, now in the FIRMAMENT music publishing and music sales mbH, Berlin). He composed commissioned work including chamber music, organ, piano, song for solo and choir, and gave the songs of Stuntz, Kreutzer, Salieri, Mozart, Breidenstein, Maurer, Hohmann, Freck, Call, Nägeli, Haydn, Schneider, Marschner, Graun, Tröger, Mendelssohn, Keller, Zöllner, Wölfel, Lindpaintner for men’s choir with special consideration to pedagogical aspects. Quote: “So all the songs are given in score so that the singer has all 4 voices before him. This facility gives unmistakable advantages.” Work * “Violin school I” 1835 (by Karl Nowotny) ISMN M-008-00848-1 * “Violin school II” 1836 (by Karl Nowotny) ISMN M-008-00849-8 *

Christian Heinrich Rinck

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Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (18 February 1770 – 7 August 1846) was a German composer and organist of the late classical and early romantic eras. Life and career Rinck was born in Elgersburg (in present-day Thuringia), and died in Darmstadt, aged 76. He studied with Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809), (a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach), and eventually became Kantor at the music school in Darmstadt, where he was also a court organist from 1813. He composed prolifically, and an organ primer of his enjoyed wide popularity. Among his works is a set of Variations on ‘Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman’, Opus 90, published by Simrock in 1828. It is based on a tune made familiar by Mozart (K. 265) (and generally associated with the words Twinkle Twinkle Little Star). Notable students include composer Georg Vierling and Benedict Jucker (1811–1876). Works Piano works * XXX zweistimmige Übungen durch alle Tonarten (30 Exercices à deux parties dans tous les tons) op. 67. Verlag Dohr * Neuausgabe der Klaviervariationen, krit. rev. Neuausgabe. Heft 1: Freut euch des Lebens op. 39; Das Vögelchen op. 61; Brüder lagert euch im Kreise op. 44; Heft 2: Zieht ihr Krieger, zieht von dannen op. 51; Zu Steffen

Christian Henson

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Christian Henson is a British composer, primarily working on television and film soundtracks. He has also soundtracked video games, and is the co-founder of Spitfire Audio with fellow composer Paul Thomson. Henson has been nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello Award for his music. Early life Henson is the eldest son of actors Una Stubbs and Nicky Henson. His half-brother Keaton Henson is also a composer. His uncle was the farmer and television presenter Joe Henson and Adam Henson is his cousin. His great-uncle was the cricketer Geoffrey Howard. His great-great-grandfather was Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement and the first garden cities Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City. His paternal grandfather was the English actor and comedian Leslie Henson, who was perhaps best known for founding the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) during the Second World War. As a child, Henson acted in the 1980 film Never Never Land. After attending Holland Park Comprehensive in the 1980s, Henson worked for three years as a baker, with a home studio that he used in his spare time. He suffered a brain haemorrhage at 25, gave up his bakery job and moved into music a

Christian Jost (composer)

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Christian Jost (born 17 October 1963) is a German composer and conductor. He has served as composer-in-residence for several German orchestras; in 2003, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. In 2009, Jost was described by Musical Opinion as “one of the most exciting young composers at work in Germany today.” Biography Born in Trier, Jost studied in Cologne from 1983 to 1988 and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1988 to 1989. Between 1996 and 1998, he frequently visited China, where he collaborated with a number of orchestras. He has been composer in residence of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Grafenegg Festival. His opera Hamlet, commissioned by the Komische Oper Berlin in 2008 and premiered there in 2009, was voted “World Premiere of the Year” by the German music magazine Opernwelt. In 2020, his opera Egmont was premiered at the Theater an der Wien as part of the theatre’s Beethoven Year. Family Jost was married to the German mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis, who died in 201

Christian Julius Hansen

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Christian Julius Hansen (6 May 1814 – 15 March 1875) was a Danish composer, organist, voice teacher and choirmaster. He studied with Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann; his works include songs, choral and orchestral pieces as well as light operas. In several of his song compositions Hansen revealed an uncommon sense of choral movement and considerable melodic vein, sometimes used fresh and cheerfully, sometimes on a quiet, slightly melancholic way. Life Christian Hansen was born in Christianshavn, the son of stonemason Nicholas Hansen (1775–1834) and his second wife Frederikke Christine, née Hess (1775–1850). He was admitted to the Giuseppe Siboni Conservatory when he was 11 years old, but soon had to focus his attention on composition because his beautiful voice began to change. He was encouraged by both J.P.E. Hartmann and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, to whom he dedicated his first printed work Six Romances written in 1835. In 1840 he took part in the Musikforeningen’s overture competition in Copenhagen, where Gade won first prize with his Echoes of Ossian. Hansen’s Overture in E major received “honorable mention”. It was performed by the Music Society on 6 April 1842 and posthumou

Christian Kalkbrenner

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Christian Kalkbrenner (Hann. Münden, September 22, 1755 – Paris, August 10, 1806 ) was a German Kapellmeister, violinist, organ and keyboard player, and composer. Almost an exact contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was a prolific composer in many fields and a force in the musical world. He rose to high honours at the courts of the Prussian Kings. For unknown reasons, Kalkbrenner left his position as Kapellmeister to Prince Henry of Prussia and went first to Naples and later on to Paris. He was the father of Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, one of the great piano virtuosos of the first half of the 19th century. Biography Christian Kalkbrenner was born in Münden, Germany. Münden, nowadays called Hann. Münden, an old town with a historic inner city, is situated 17 kilometres north-east of Kassel. Kalkbrenner had his first musical education from his father who was town musician (Stadtmusikus) in the Hessian town of Kassel. Kalkbrenner learned to play violin and organ. In violin he was taught by Carl Rodewald; his organ teacher was Johannes Becker (born 1726), the Hessian court organist. By the time he was seventeen Kalkbrenner sang in the choir of the French opera house of Kassel

Christian Keymann

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Christian Keymann (also Christian Keimann; 27 February 1607 – 13 January 1662) was a German hymnwriter. He is known for writing the chorale “Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht” in 1658, which served as the base for Bach’s chorale cantata Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124, and other compositions. Career Keymann was born in Pankratz, Habsburg Bohemia, in 1607, the son of Zacharias Keimann, a Lutheran pastor. From 1627 to 1634, he studied at the University of Wittenberg. After graduation he worked at the gymnasium of Zittau, first as associate director, then as rector in 1638. He died of a stroke in 1662. Hymns Two of his most popular hymns were translated into English; “O rejoice, ye Christians, loudly” (“Freuet euch, ihr Christen alle”) found in Chorale Book, No. 33, and “Jesus will I never leave” (“Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht”) found in United Brethren’s Hymn Book, No. 464. Donald G. Bloesch in his book The struggle of prayer (1980) describes it as a “moving hymn”. His hymns in general have been described as “being of genuine poetic ring, fresh, strong, full of faith under manifold and heavy trials, and deeply spiritual”. Music Keymann collaborated with composer Andreas Hammerschmidt who

Christian Lauba

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Christian Lauba (born 26 July 1952) is a Tunisian-born French composer and teacher, especially noted for his compositions for saxophone. His compositions often incorporate the music of his native North Africa as well as Japanese influences. He sometimes composes under the name of Jean Matitia, particularly for jazz and rag music. Biography Lauba was born in Sfax, Tunisia. His family later settled in Bordeaux, France, where he studied languages at the University of Bordeaux and music at the Conservatory of Bordeaux with composer Michel Fusté-Lambezat. Early in his compositional career, he also worked with saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix. He has also composed literature for other solo instruments as well as ensembles. He has given master classes in composition and lectured at many universities including Bowling-Green in Ohio, Winnipeg in Canada, and the University of Maryland as well as at several European conservatories including those of Milan, Madrid, Lisbon (Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa), and Amsterdam. He chaired the jury of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1996. From 2004 to 2007, Lauba was artistic director of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and from

Christian Lindberg

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Christian Lindberg (born 15 February 1958) is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer. Biography Early life and career Lindberg was born in Danderyd. As a youth, he learned to play the trumpet, and subsequently began to learn the trombone at age 16. He originally borrowed a trombone to join his friends’ Dixieland jazz group, inspired by records of Jack Teagarden. He attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, where his teachers included Sven-Erik Eriksson. By age 18, he had obtained a professional position in the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra. At age 20, he left his orchestral career behind to study to become a full-time soloist. He studied with John Iveson at the Royal College of Music (1979–1980) and with Ralph Sauer and Roger Bobo in Los Angeles (1983). Professional career In 1981, Lindberg won the Nordic Soloists’ Biennale competition. His concert debut was in 1984 with the Trombone Concerto by Henri Tomasi. That same year, he signed a 3-CD recording contract with BIS Records. His first solo recording was “The Virtuoso Trombone”. Lindberg has recorded over 60 albums, for BIS and several other labels. His musical collaborators in Sweden have included pianist Roland Pöntine

Christian Manen

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Christian Manen (3 July 1934 – 11 September 2020 ) was a French composer and music teacher. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Manen studied at the Conservatory of Nice and between 1949 and 1961 at the Conservatoire de Paris. Here he was a student of Berthe Duru (solfège), Jules Gentil (piano), Félix Passerone (drums), Marcel Dupré and Rolande Falcinelli (organ and improvisation), Louis Fourestier (conducting), Noël Gallon (counterpoint and fugue), Henri Challan (harmony), Norbert Dufourcq (music history) and Tony Aubin (composition). In 1961 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata La Loreley. This was followed by a stay at the Villa Medici in Rome until 1965. Career Manen had been teaching at the Conservatory of Asnières since 1954 and a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris since 1965. He also taught at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNR) and other music schools, including the École supérieure de musique César-Franck. Since 1985 he gave regular lectures at the Académie internationale d’été de Nice. Among his students were Thierry Escaich, Selman Ada, Pascal Devoyon, Nicolas Bacri, Pascal Godart, Raphaël Sanchez, Rémi Guillard, Alexandre Tharaud and Cédric Tiber

Christian Mengis

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Christian Mengis (flourished c. 1745 – c. 1766) was a German composer and horn player of the late Baroque era. Life Mengis was born in Treffurt, Thuringia.

Christian Münch

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Christian Münch (born 11 April 1951) is a German composer, organist, pianist and conductor. Life Münch was born in Freiberg in 1951 in a cantor’s family. With his father he learned trumpet and organ. Since his childhood he received piano and clarinet lessons at the music school in Freiberg. From 1971 to 1976 he studied musical composition with Manfred Weiss and Wilfried Krätzschmar, conducting with Rudolf Neuhaus and piano with Günter Händel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. From 1983 to 1985 he was with Georg Katzer at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. During this time he was engaged in electroacoustic music. Subsequently Münch worked as répétiteur at the Semperoper in Dresden. He conducted the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, the “musica-viva-ensemble dresden” and the “Ensemble für Neue Musik Berlin” as well as a guest conductor at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Münch has conducted more than 100 world premieres. His compositions, including a ballet, have been performed by the Dresden Philharmonic, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresdner Kreuzchor, among others. Münch has taught at the Dresden Academy of Music since 1976 and was honorary professor there f

Christian Petzold (composer)

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Christian Petzold (1677 – 1733) was a German composer and organist. He was active primarily in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, and achieved a high reputation during his lifetime, but his surviving works are few. It was established in the 1970s that the famous Minuet in G major, previously attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, was in fact the work of Petzold. The sprightly melody was used in the 1965 pop music hit “A Lover’s Concerto” by the American group The Toys. Life Petzold was born in Weißig near Königstein at some stage in 1677; his exact date of birth is unknown. From 1703, he worked as an organist at St. Sophia (Sophienkirche) in Dresden, and in 1709 he became court chamber composer and organist. He led an active musical life, giving concert tours that took him as far as Paris (1714) and Venice (1716). In 1720, he wrote a piece for the consecration of the new Silbermann organ at St. Sophia, and he performed a similar task at Rötha, near Leipzig, where another Silbermann organ was built. He was also active as a teacher. His pupils included Carl Heinrich Graun. Petzold died on 25 May 1733 and was buried three days later. His cause of death was recorded in the Dresden Kirchenwoc

Christian Ritter

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Christian Ritter (probably 1645 to 1650 – probably after 1725) was a composer and organist of the North German organ school. Biography Ritter, likely a pupil of Christoph Bernhard in Dresden. A notice on one of his works described him as Kammerorganist (chamber organist) in Halle in 1666, although this position does not appear in the records until 1672. In 1677 he was the Hoforganist (court organist). The composer David Pohle was Kapellmeister at Halle during these years. Ritter may have left Halle in 1677, as the role of Kammerorganist was filled by Johann Philipp Krieger that year. Some years later he went to Sweden. In 1681, he was mentioned on a record of the Stockholm court, a year later as deputy Kapellmeister. Ritter went back to Dresden in 1683, becoming Kammerorganist and deputy Kapellmeister under Christoph Bernhard. In 1688, he was evidently back in Stockholm as Kapellmeister, remaining there until 1699. According to a detail on a vocal work, Ritter was living in Hamburg in 1704. In 1717, he described himself in a letter to Johann Mattheson as “Emeritus, who did his part at the royal, electoral and princely courts for more than 30 years in re musica”. Works As well as mo

Christian Samuel Barth

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Christian Samuel Barth (13 January 1735 – 8 July 1809) was a German oboist and composer of the classical period. Life Christian Samuel Barth was born in Glauchau, as the son of the merchant George Samuel Barth. He studied at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig, where he was educated by Johann Sebastian Bach. As an oboist, Barth worked from 1753 in the court orchestra in Rudolstadt, from 1762 in Weimar, from 1768 in Hannover and from 1772 in Kassel. Finally, in 1786, he became a member of the Hofkapelle at the royal court in Copenhagen, which was then briefly under the direction of Johann Gottlieb Naumann. On account of his age and infirmity, he was relieved from his duties in 1798 and received an annual pension of 500 Reichsthaler until his death in 1809. Barth’s two sons, Frederik Philip Carl August (1774–1804) and Christian Frederik (1787–1861), having been taught by their father, both became virtuoso performers on the oboe as well as composers. The youngest son became renowned as a touring soloist. Works It seems that most of Barth’s compositions have been lost. He is known to have composed an Ouverture in E major, op. 18, 4 oboe sonatas, a Cantata Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ, and at l

Christian Sinding

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Christian August Sinding (11 January 18563 December 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his successor. Personal life Sinding was born at Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway. His parents were mine superintendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell. He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding. His sister Thora Cathrine Sinding was married to jurist Glør Thorvald Mejdell. Christian Sinding was a nephew of Nicolai Mejdell and Thorvald Mejdell. He was also a first cousin of journalist and writer Alfred Sinding-Larsen. In November 1898 he married actress Augusta Gade, née Smith-Petersen (1858–1936). She was the daughter of Morten Smith-Petersen and Cathrine von der Lippe. She had previously been married to physician and art patron Fredrik Georg Gade. Career He studied music first in Christiania (now Oslo) before going to Germany, where he studied at the conservatory in Leipzig under Salomon Jadassohn and fell under the musical influences of Wagner and Liszt. He lived in Germany for much of his life, but re

Christian Theodor Weinlig

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Christian Theodor Weinlig (July 25, 1780 – March 7, 1842) was a German music teacher, composer, and choir conductor, active in Dresden and Leipzig. Biography Born in Dresden, Weinlig initially studied and then practised law until 1803. He then began musical training with his uncle Christian Ehregott Weinlig, with whom he studied for two years before travelling to Bologna to study with Stanislao Mattei in 1806. From 1814 to 1817, he worked as Cantor of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. In 1823, he became Cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, an office he kept until his death. Among his most well-known pupils were pianist Clara Schumann and composer Richard Wagner; he taught Wagner at Saint Thomas school in Leipzig. In 1877, Wagner recalled Weinlig’s teaching style to Edward Dannreuther: References Sources * *

Christian Wolff (composer)

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Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music and classicist. Biography Wolff was born in Nice, France, to the German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who had published works by Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin. After relocating to the U.S. in 1941, they helped to found Pantheon Books with other European intellectuals who had fled Europe during the rise of fascism. The Wolffs published a series of notable English translations of European literature, mostly, as well as an edition of the I Ching that came to greatly impress John Cage after Wolff had given him a copy. Wolff became an American citizen in 1946. When he was sixteen (in 1950) his piano teacher Grete Sultan sent him for lessons in composition to the new music composer John Cage. Wolff soon became a close associate of Cage and his artistic circle which was part of the New York School and included the fellow composers Earle Brown and Morton Feldman, the pianist David Tudor, and the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Cage relates several anecdotes about Wolff in his one-minute Indeterminacy pieces. Almost completely self-taught as composer, Wolff

Christian Zanési

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Christian Zanési (born 22 May 1952) is a French composer. Biography Born in Lourdes, Zanési studied with Guy Maneveau and Marie-Françoise Lacaze at the Pau University (South of France) (1974–1975), and with Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel at the Paris Conservatory (1976–1977). In 1977 he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). There, he learned and practised all the technical skills linked to sound, thanks to a wide range of experiences, productions and encounters. He has initiated many projects in the field of radio, publications and musical events including: the Electromania radio show on France Musique, the festival Présences électronique and the CD box sets Archives GRM, Bernard Parmegiani, l’œuvre musicale, Luc Ferrari, l’œuvre électronique. He currently is the artistic director of the Ina GRM. Since the 1990s Christian Zanési has been composing from his home studio and drawing his inspiration from the poetic encounter with remarkable sounds. In 2011, Christian Zanési took part in Jérémie Carboni’s Musique(s) électronique(s) documentary on Electronic music. Discography * D’un jardin à l’autre (extrait)—Concert Imaginaire Ina C1000 * Stop! l’horizon/ Profil-Désir/—Cour

Christina Agamanolis

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Christina Agamanolis (born August 31, 1975) is an American composer and songwriter of Hellenic descent. Her work includes film scoring, classical composition, and experimental and electroacoustic music. Her works are included in the Greek National Archives of Composers. Career Agamanolis co-founded Siren Music Productions with composers Mariana Bernoski and Willow Williamson. The trio collaborated on film and television scores, and also performed as a band, releasing the album This Side of North. The album featured tracks mixed by DJ Orion Keyser and produced by Lee Mars, with drummer Chris Vrenna providing percussion. She co-composed the score for David Jacobson’s Dahmer (2002), a film starring Jeremy Renner, which earned multiple nominations, including for the Independent Spirit Awards’ John Cassavetes Award. The Variety review of Dahmer recognized the film’s soundtrack for its “unnerving” atmosphere, created by blending selected sounds and electronic elements. Agamanolis also co-composed the score for the Emmy Award-winning documentary Be Good, Smile Pretty (2003), directed by Tracy Droz Tragos. Other notable works include the opening titles for Fata Morgana, which won the Young

Christina Kubisch

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Christina Kubisch (born 31 January 1948) is a German composer, sound artist, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. She gained recognition in the mid-1970s from her early works including concerts, performances and installations. Her work focuses on synthesising audio and visual arts to create multi-sensory experiences for participants. She focuses on finding sounds and music in unusual places that participants would normally not think of as somewhere to experience sound. She is mostly known for her sound installations and “electrical Walks”. Personal life and education Kubisch was born in Bremen, Germany in 1948. She studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart from 1967 to 1968. She studied flute, piano and composition at the Academy of Music in Hamburg, Germany and the Jazz Academy of Graz, Austria from 1969 to 1972. From 1972 to 1974, she continued studying music at the Conservatory of Zurich. In 1974 she moved to Milan, Italy where she began studying composition and electronic music at the Milan Conservatory, graduating with a diploma in 1976. Career Kubisch moved to Milan in 1973

Christina's World (opera)

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Christina’s World is a 1983 Australian operetta, composed by Ross Edwards with libretto by playwright Dorothy Hewett. An old woman recalls her youthful memories of her family and her tragic love affair on a lonely Western Australian beach. Hewett describes the piece as “an allegory or fable about illusion or reality and the truth and lies of memory”. Characters * Christina (old) : an elderly lady in a hospital * Christina (young) : a hesitant and idealistic dream figure; a contradictory, perverse, tragi-comic adolescent with a fierce egocentric life of her own. * Dick : a numbed and disappointed father * Harry : uncle deranged by World War I experiences * Tom : a playful and carefree fisherman Synopsis Elderly Christina reflects on (or imagines) her youth living with her father and uncle in a decaying house on a remote but beautiful beach. Her memory of her young self begins as a fantasy but soon takes on real life. Christina’s father Dick is numbed and disappointed by the loss of her mother, who committed suicide by walking into the sea. Her uncle Harry is deranged by his experiences in World War I. Christina falls in love with a playful young man whose brief lovemaking leaves her

Christine Asdurian

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Christine Asdurian (born Armenia; February 17, 1893 – April 29, 1963) was an American pianist who composed the music to the University of Miami Alma Mater in 1926, (lyrics by William Seth Lampe). She was enrolled as a music student at the University of Miami in 1926 and 1927 as one of its 646 first enrolled students. She studied piano with Earl Chester Smith. Bertha Foster, UM’s first music dean, also mentored Christine. Bowman F. Ashe, The University of Miami’s first president, was known to recruit her to perform in civic functions and donor appreciation events. At age 3, Asdurian traveled with her father, a clergyman, to the United States; he died soon after. She was adopted by two sisters, Sarah A. Thompson and Esther H. Thompson, of Litchfield, Connecticut, and her name was changed to Christine Oviatt Thompson. Asdurian attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and earned an M.A. in comparative literature from Columbia University, New York in 1917. In 1924 and 1925, Asdurian was a staff pianist for Gimbels, a department store chain, performing throughout the New York tri-state area for a recurring broadcast radio show on WEAF, W

Christine Berl

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Christine Berl (born 1943) is an American composer, pianist, and Egyptian-style Oriental dancer. Biography Christine Berl is the daughter of Paul Berl, longtime accompanist of Victoria de los Ángeles. She was born in New York City, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in piano from Mannes College of Music in 1964. She continued her education at Queen’s College, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in composition in 1970. She also studied Schenkerian studies with Ernst Oster and Carl Schachter. As a dancer, she studied ballet for many years in New York with Russian teachers Vera Nemtchinova and Vladimir Dokoudovsky. Then she studied Egyptian-style Oriental dance for many years with the famous Egyptian choreographer Yousry Sharif, as well as with choreographer Mahmoud Reda in Cairo. Career Berl’s music has innovated what she calls a Chakra form, arrived at using serial techniques and interval cycle theory connected to the Passacaglia form. “Elegy” (1974) is completely in this form, “The Lord of the Dance” (1989) ends with a chakra and there are several chakras in “Masmoudi” for violin and piano (2012). She has served as artistic consultant for Tirreno Records. Peter Serkin

Christine Ott

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Christine Ott (born 10 August 1963) is a French pianist, vocalist, ondist, and composer. She was a member of Yann Tiersen’s band for eight years and played in classical orchestras for ten. She has collaborated with Tindersticks, Syd Matters, and Jean-Philippe Goude. Ott has released four solo albums: Solitude Nomade in 2009, Only Silence Remains in 2016, Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot) in 2020 and Time to Die in 2021. She also composed the soundtrack for F. W. Murnau’s Tabu in 2016. She has created several live soundtracks shows, including for Lotte Reiniger’s movies and Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North. Ott formed the duo Snowdrops with Mathieu Gabry in 2015. Together, they composed the original score for Manta Ray, by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, and in 2020, they released the album Volutes, on Injazero Records. The Guardian selected the release among its ten best contemporary discs of 2020, writing, “what’s remarkable is how radically different Christine Ott manages to make the ondes sound on each track: from a primeval, guttural sound on the 13-minute Odysseus to a chirruping boy soprano on Ultraviolet.” Discography Solo * Solitude Nomade (2009) * Only Silence Remains (2016)

Christine Southworth

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Christine Southworth (b. Boston, Massachusetts, January 2, 1978) is an American composer of postminimal music and works with combinations of Western ensembles, electronics, and world music ensembles including Balinese gamelan and bagpipes. She performs Balinese gamelan and gender wayang with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Gamelan Galak Tika, as well as Galician Gaita and Great Highland Bagpipes. She co-founded Ensemble Robot, a cooperative of engineers, artists and musicians working together to invent robotic musical instruments. She was also the general manager of Gamelan Galak Tika from 2004 through 2013. Her own music incorporates her work with Balinese gamelan and with technology and electronics, as well as reaching beyond these influences with an expanded palette of contemporary classical, jazz and rock, and world music from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Southworth has released four albums on Airplane Ears Music: Zap! Music for Van de Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments and Voices (2008), Gamelan Galak Tika: Bronze Age Space Age (2009), Christine Southworth: String Quartets (2013). and In My Mind and In My Car (2013). Southworth’s compositions have been performed thr

Christoph Bernhard

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Christoph Bernhard (; 1 January 1628 – 14 November 1692) was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He was a German Baroque composer and musician. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and in Warsaw. By the age of 20, he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz and composed some of the music for the Master’s funeral. He then spent a year in Copenhagen to study singing with Agostino Fontana. After his appointment as assistant kapellmeister in Dresden in 1655, Bernhard made two sojourns to Italy to further his musical education. When he was 35, he moved to Hamburg to work as the director of music for the Johanneum and for civic musical events. The next ten years were a golden age in the musical tradition of Hamburg: Bernhard and his good friend Matthias Weckmann performed together and directed the latest compositions from Italy and Vienna, as well as composing an important collection of music in finely-wrought counterpoint. The Elector of Saxony recalled Bernhard to Dresden in 1674, where he returned as assistant kapellmeister. Six years later, the large - and primarily Italian - musical establishment in the ci

Christoph Brüx

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Christoph Brüx (born 13 December 1965) is a German sculptor, painter, composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger and music producer. He composed for artists such as No Angels, Matthias Reim, The Underdog Project (Summer Jam), Brooklyn Bounce etc., and he also composed film scores. Biography Brüx was born in Sonsbeck (North Rhine-Westphalia). Until 1985 he went to school (Städtisches Stiftsgymnasium Xanten). Following his talent in music, he early began taking piano lessons and later he graduated at a music conservatoire. Brüx was composing for several interpreters such as: *Bro’Sis: whose first album Never Forget (Where You Come From), which Brüx took part in, has been released to the public in January 2002, scored in Germany platinum. *No Angels: the album Pure where he took part in, rose to No. 1 in the German album charts and No. 3 and No. 9 in Austria and Switzerland. He wrote music for several films (also industry and corporate videos): *TKKG – Der Club der Detektive was nominated in 2007 for the attendance at the German children media festival Goldener Spatz. Already in the youth his sensitivity showed up in relation to its environment. His large respect for nature particularly

Christoph Demantius

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Johann Christoph Demantius (15 December 1567 – 20 April 1643) was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic Renaissance style to the early Baroque. Life He was born in Reichenberg (now Liberec, in the Czech Republic, north of Prague near the border with Germany), and probably received his early training there, though little information is available about his early life. By the early 1590s he was in Bautzen, where he wrote a school textbook, and in 1593 he received a degree from the University of Wittenberg. In 1594 he moved to Leipzig, and in 1597 he acquired the post of Kantor at Zittau, where he probably taught the young Melchior Franck. His next post, one he held for the rest of his life, was as Kantor to Freiberg Cathedral. While he was able to keep his position, the Thirty Years’ War was disruptive to his life, and most of his children, of four different marriages, died due to the hardships imposed by the war. In the realm of sacred music Demantius wrote motets, masses, Magnificat settings, psalm settings, hymns, and a splendid setting of the

Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse

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Christoph(er) Ernst Friedrich Weyse (5 March 1774 – 8 October 1842) was a Danish composer during the Danish Golden Age. Biography Weyse was born at Altona in Holstein, which was in a personal union with Denmark. He gained much interest in music in his hometown and Hamburg, where C. P. E. Bach was the municipal director of music. Works He was best known for his vocal works, which included numerous singspiele, Christmas carols, a setting of the Te Deum and of the Miserere, over 30 cantatas, Cantatas Unlike Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas, Weyse’s cantatas were designed to be played after the service, rather than used as liturgical music during the service. His Easter Cantata No. 1, , was written in 1836 and its words are based on works by poet Thomas Thaarup. The work premiered on 22 April in Trinitatis Church. Singspiel * (1809) * (1812) * (1816) * (1825) * (1827) * (1836) Songs * Julen har bragt velsignet bud (1841) References External links *“Opera Composers: W – Weyse, Christoph Ernst Friedrich”, OperaGlass, Stanford University *

Christoph Förster

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Christoph Förster (30 November 1693 – 6 December 1745) was a German composer of the baroque period. Life Christoph Förster (spelled Johann Christoph Friedrich in his death register) was born in Bibra, Thuringia as the son of council treasurer Christian Förster who gave him his first musical instruction in singing and playing on various instruments. External links *

Christoph Gottlieb Schröter

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Christoph Gottlieb Schröter (10 August 169920 May 1782 ), was a German composer and organist, who is best known for his contributions to the tangent piano, which in 1717 he invented a keyboard instrument whose strings were not plucked, but struck by hammers. Biography Born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Schröter showed his musical ability as a choirboy in the Staatskapelle Dresden, becoming a student of Johann Christoph Schmidt. In 1717, at the age of 18, he went to the Kreuzschule in Dresden and studied theology. While studying, his mother died, to which he went back to the Staatskapelle to study music and was recommended as a amanuensis to composer Antonio Lotti, which to him was a great honour. Schröter was later employed as a secretary and musical associate to an unknown man, who he would travel with throughout Germany, Netherlands and England. Schröter would later in 1724 settle in Jena where he would teach open lectures about music theory at the University of Jena. In 1726, he became an Organist at the St. Martini Church in Minden, he was called “one of the bravest organists of our time” by Ernst Ludwig Gerber. He would reside in Minden until 1732 when he traveled to Nordhausen, wh

Christoph Graupner

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Christoph Graupner (23 January 168310 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel. Life Born in Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg in Saxony, Graupner received his first musical instruction from his uncle, an organist named Nicolaus Kuester. Graupner went to the University of Leipzig where he studied law (as did many composers of the time) and then completed his musical studies with Johann Kuhnau, the cantor of the Thomasschule (St. Thomas School). In 1705, Graupner left Leipzig to play the harpsichord in the orchestra of the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg under the direction of Reinhard Keiser, alongside George Frideric Handel, then a young violinist. In addition to playing the harpsichord, Graupner composed six operas in Hamburg, some of them in collaboration with Keiser, a popular composer of operas in Germany. In 1709, Graupner accepted a post at the court of Hesse-Darmstadt and in 1711 became the court orchestra’s Hofkapellmeister (court chapel master). Graupner spent the rest of his career at the court in Hesse-Darmstadt, where his primary responsibilities

Christoph Lehmann (musician)

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Christoph Lehmann (7 May 1947 – 31 August 2024 ) was a German organist, harpsichordist, church musician and composer, especially in the field of Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL). He had worked as a continuo harpsichordist and organist in performances and recordings of early music with several ensembles. Life and career Lehmann was born in Beijing. From 1972 to 1984, he was a church musician at the Protestant Thomaskirche in Düsseldorf, as well as a theatre musician in Düsseldorf, Bochum, Bonn and Aachen. Two songs with music by Lehmann were included in the second edition of the common German Catholic hymnal, Gotteslob, in 2013, “Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt” with text by ) in the common section as GL 383, and “Wo Menschen sich vergessen”, with text by Thomas Laubach in regional section, such as GL 832 in the Diocese of Cologne. Since 1985, Lehmann has been an organist and harpsichordist in the field of early music for various ensembles, including Il Dolcimelo, Das Kleine Konzert in Dormagen, Movimento, and La Stravaganza in Cologne. Work Popular songs with music by Lehmann include: * “Wir werden leben, überleben” (text: Alois Albrecht * “Komm, lass diese Nacht nich

Christoph Nichelmann

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Christoph Nichelmann (13 August 1717 – 20 July 1762) was a German composer and harpsichordist. He was second keyboard player in the Royal Ensemble of Frederick the Great. Biography Born in Treuenbrietzen, from 1730 on the advice of a relative Nichelmann attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where he was accepted by Johann Sebastian Bach. He studied composition and was taught to play keyboard instruments by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Bibliography * Douglas A. Lee: “Nichelmann, Christoph”, in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (Oxford University Press, 2001), * Thomas-M. Langner: “Nichelmann, Christoph”, in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st ed. by Friedrich Blume (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1949–1986) * Krebs, Michael Harald: Thematisch-Systematisches Verzeichnis der Werke Christoph Nichelmann. Nichelmann-Werke-Verzeichnis (NWV) (PhD thesis, Potsdam, 2002) References External links * * * Christoph Nichelmann, ein Meister aus der preußischen Provinz. * Christoph Nichelmann bachschueler.de * Friedrich der Grosse - Music for the Berlin Court CD review, magazin.klassik.com

Christoph Praetorius

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Christoph Praetorius (died 1590) was an author, choirmaster and composer. He entered the University of Wittenberg in 1551. appears to be from around 1560, He was obliged to resign as Kantor because he had become deaf, yet he continued his compositional activity as evidenced by a wedding motet written for Euricius Dedekind’s wedding. Published works Prose * Erotemata renovatae, Wittenberg, 1574 * Erotemata renovatae musicae, Ülzen, 1581 Music * De obitu, Wittenberg, 1560 * Melodia epithalamia composite in nuptiis, Wittenberg, 1561 * Fröliche und liebliche Ehrnlieder, Wittenberg, 1581 * Der ander Teil: frölicher und lieblicher Ehrnlieder, Wittenberg, 1581 * Carmen nuptial in honorem, Ülzen, 1581 References

Christoph Schaffrath

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Christoph Schaffrath (1709 in Hohnstein, Electorate of Saxony 7 February 1763 in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia) was a German musician and composer of the late Baroque to Classical transition era. Career Schaffrath was born in Hohnstein. He applied to be organist at the Sophienkirche in Dresden, but did not receive this position (Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was favoured for it). In June 1733, he sought the position of organist at St. Sophia’s Church in Dresden; however, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach won the audition (on June 22, 1733). For a time, he served as Kapellmeister to the Lithuanian Prince (1680–1750) in Zasław, then in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (today in Ukraine). He did serve in the court of the Crown Prince Frederick (Frederick the Great) as a harpsichordist in the orchestra. While still only Crown Prince, Frederick began assembling a private orchestra at his Neuruppin residence in 1732: Johann Gottlieb Graun was the first musician to enter his service that year , followed by Franz Benda in 1733, Johann Georg Benda in 1734, Carl Heinrich Graun in 1735, and then Christoph Schaffrath and Johann Gottlieb Janitsch in 1736. From 1741, however, Schaffrath was strictly the musician

Christoph Silber

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Christoph Silber (born 26 April 1975, in Berlin) often credited as Chris Silber, is a German-American author, filmmaker and performer. Silber works and lives in the United States. Early life Silber spent most of his childhood and youth in Germany. Raised bilingual, he studied in London and Berlin. His mother Christa Schuenke is a philosopher and literary translator; his foster father Maik Hamburger was a Shakespeare scholar and dramaturge. Career In 1995 the Vienna Burgtheater asked him to adapt Puccini’s Tosca for a stage production. Silber’s screenwriting career began in European television in the mid-1990s. Silber worked as a writer of sitcoms as well as crime series. Silber has collaborated on numerous films, including the award-winning Good Bye, Lenin!, North Face, Arranged and My Last Day Without You, for which he also co-wrote several songs performed by Nicole Beharie. He also wrote scripts for the Enid Blyton-based Hanni & Nanni franchise. Several of his contributions to German television like Tatort “Schwanensee” have broken ratings records. Based in Los Angeles since 2012, Silber has been honoured by the Vilcek Foundation as “an immigrant filmmaker…whose creative spirit

Christoph Sonnleithner

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Christoph Sonnleithner (28 May 1734 in Szeged, Hungary – 25 December 1786 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian jurist and composer. He was the father of Ignaz von Sonnleithner and Joseph Sonnleithner. His daughter Anna was the mother of Franz Grillparzer. Life Sonnleithner studied legal science at the University of Vienna where he graduated with a doctorate. Later he was given work as a solicitor in the service of the princely House of Esterházy being his employer Prince Paul II Anton Esterházy de Galantha. Sonnleithner was appointed as Dean of the Juridical Faculty at the University of Vienna, and had thus the office of the court judge of the Scottish Abbey, the College of the Scots. As a composer, Sonnleithner was in contact with Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He composed 36 string quartets, all dedicated to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, several symphonies and various church music. Additional information Sources * Notes References ;Attribution *This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article on the German Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the History section. External links *

Christoph Staude

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Christoph Staude (born 30 September 1965) is a German composer. Life Born in Munich, Staude studied 1984–86 at the University of the Arts with Witold Szalonek and in 1986–91 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Rolf Riehm and Bernhard Kontarsky. Since 1995, he lives as a freelance composer at the near Neuss. There, he initiated the series Hombroich: New Music in 1997. He received commissions and radio productions from SWR Baden-Baden for the Donaueschinger Musiktage, WDR Cologne for the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, HR Frankfurt, SDR Stuttgart, BR Munich and the AUDI-AG-Kulturfond, Ingolstadt. Honours *1992 Stipendienaufenthalt im Deutschen Studienzentrum Venedig *1986/87 Preisträger beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart für junge Komponisten *1987 1. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb des International Center of New Music Sources (ICONS), Turin *1988 Preisträger beim Kompositionswettbewerb des Trio Basso Köln; 2. Preis beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart *1999 2. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb der musik-theater-werkstatt am Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden *2003 Preisträger im internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb der Elisabe

Christoph von Blumröder

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Christoph von Blumröder (born 18 July 1951) is a German musicologist. Career Born in Northeim, Blumröder studied musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, philosophy and history of the . After his doctorate in 1979, Blumröder was a research assistant at the (1972–2006). From 1980 Blumröder also taught at the university there, where he received his habilitation in 1990. After assistant professorships at the University of Bonn in the winter semester of 1991/92 and at the Saarland University in the summer semester of 1995, he accepted an appointment as professor for contemporary music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne in the winter semester of 1996/97. There he founded the cycles of events Composition and Musicology in Dialogue (1997) and Space Music (1998) as well as the publication series Signale aus Köln. Beiträge zur Musik der Zeit and was elected chairman of the association Signale aus Köln in 1999. Furthermore, Blumröder is a member of the Centre for Modern Research at the University of Cologne and was involved in the Cultural Studies Research College Media and Cultural Communication from 2002 to 20

Christoph Wigelbeyer

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Christoph Wigelbeyer (born 1973) is an Austrian choir director, conductor, singer and music educator. Life Born in Wels, Wigelbeyer completed singing school, piano and violin in his hometown and at the Linz Bruckner Conservatory within the framework of the Upper Austrian promotion of young talent. This was followed by teacher training in music education and instrumental music education with a focus on singing and choral conducting, as well as three years of solo singing training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, in addition to which he completed master classes and private lessons. In 1998, in his diploma thesis, he portrayed Ernst Ludwig Leitner, also born in Wels. A year later, he also wrote an essay about Leitner in the Österreichische Musikzeitschrift. He sang, among others, in the Wiener Kammerchor and the Wiener Singverein (directed by ) and in the Vocal Ensemble Company of Music (conducted by ). On piano, he can be heard on Nancy Van de Vate’s 1998 album Vol. IV together with Elke Eckerstorfer and Sybille Bouda, among others, with the piece Contrasts for two Pianos, six Hands (1984). With Eckerstorfer, he also played the Little Suite for twenty fingers op

Christoph Willibald von Gluck

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Gluck’s earliest known ancestor is his great-grandfather, Simon Gluckh von Rockenzahn, whose name is recorded in the marriage contract (1672) of his son, the forester Johann (Hans) Adam Gluck (c. 1649–1722) and grandfather of Christoph. ‘Rockenzahn’ is believed to be Rokycany, located in the central part of western Bohemia (about 70 km southwest of Prague and 16 km east of Pilsen). The family name Gluck (also spelled Gluckh, Klugh, Kluch, etc.) likely comes from the Czech word for boy (kluk). one of four sons of Hans Adam Gluck who became foresters or gamekeepers. Alexander served in a contingent of about 50 soldiers under Philipp Hyazinth von Lobkowitz, the son of Ferdinand August von Lobkowitz, during the War of Spanish Succession, and, according to Gluck family tradition, rose to the level of gunbearer to the great general of the imperial forces, Eugene of Savoy. In 1711 Alexander settled outside Berching as a forester and hunter in the service of the monastery Seligenporten, Plankstetten Abbey, and the mayors of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. He took the vacant position of hunter in Erasbach in 1711 or 1712 (his predecessor had been found shot in the forest). About Gluck’s mother, Maria Walburga, almost nothing is known, including her surname, but she probably grew up in the same area as she was named after Saint Walburga, the sister of Saint Willibald, the first bishop of nearby Eichstätt.

Christophe Bertrand

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Christophe Louis-Pascal Bertrand (24 April 1981 – 17 September 2010) was a French composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Bertrand, a French pianist and composer of mainly chamber works, was born in Wissembourg in 1981. After earning gold medals for piano and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, he performed and recorded with the Ensemble “Accroche-Note” and the Ensemble “In Extremis” of which he was a co-founder. He collaborated with composers such as Ivan Fedele and Pascal Dusapin. He studied composition since 1996, under the supervision of Ivan Fedele at the Strasbourg Conservatoire, obtaining with distinction his diploma in 2000. His compositions, conducted among others by Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Nott, Hannu Lintu, Marc Albrecht have been performed by several ensembles and soloists such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Arditti Quartet and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. His compositions have been played internationally, amongst others in: * France: Festival Musica, IRCAM, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival Agora, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salle Olivier Messiaen de la Maison de Radio France, etc. * Germany: Beethovenfest Bonn, Ultraschall-

Christophe Julien

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Christophe Julien is a French composer of film and television music, largely classical, twice-nominated for César Award for best original film music. Background Christophe Julien was born on November 14, 1972, in Dijon Côte-d’Or, France. At the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris he studied under guitarist Alexandre Lagoya in harmony, counterpoint, 20th-century music, and chamber music. At the Sorbonne University 1, he studied Indian music and musicology. Career Julien’s first musical creations were for cinema: short films, documentaries, and commercials. The first commercial success came in 2008 with the comedic Vilaine (film), which began his collaboration with Albert Dupontel on Le Vilain, followed by 9 mois ferme (2013) and Au revoir là-haut (2017, with score nominated for the 43rd César Awards in 2018). He also composed music for Irena Salina’s documentary Flow: For Love of Water, which showed at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2009, he began collaborating with film director Éric Bernard on the adventure film 600 kilos d’or pur. In 2011, he worked with director Emmanuelle Millet on the period piece La Brindille. In 2021, he was nominated twice, first for C

Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux

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Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux is a Canadian musician and composer from Sherbrooke, Quebec. He began his career as an indie rock and experimental music musician, performing with bands such as Sexyboy, Organ Mood, Chocolat and Rock Forest. and produced Warren Spicer’s debut album with his side project Unessential Oils. Filmography *You’re Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) - 2014 *Mutants - 2016 *Gulîstan, Land of Roses (Gulîstan, terre de roses) - 2016 *The Tesla World Light - 2017 *The Twentieth Century - 2019 *Wanted: Strong Woman - 2019 *Saint-Narcisse - 2020 *Chauffer le dehors - 2020 *Archipelago (Archipel) - 2021 *Like the Ones I Used to Know (Les grandes claques) - 2021 *Like a House on Fire - 2021 *Viking - 2022 *Universal Language - 2024 *Tout sur Margo - 2024 *Peak Everything (Amour Apocalypse) - 2025 *I Lost Sight of the Landscape (J’ai perdu de vue le paysage) - 2025 *A Fire There (Un feu au loin) - 2026 Awards References External links *

Christophe Looten

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Christophe Looten (born 5 April 1958) is a French composer. Born in Bergues, he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in January 2000. Biography Looten has been composing since the age of seven, when he began to study music with the local organist. A student of the École du Louvre, he graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris. Having won numerous prizes, he began a career as teacher, and was appointed professor of musical analysis and history at the Regional Conservatoire of Limoges, as well as conducting a course in aesthetics at the city’s University. Made Pensionnaire de l’État in 1987, he spent two years in residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. After his stay in Spain, he was awarded the Bourse Lavoisier, a grant that enabled him to go to the United States, where he obtained several fellowships. As composer in residence at Wellesley University in 1991, he won both the Prix Alea and the Prize for Composition of Besançon for his Third String Quartet. Returning to France, he decided to devote himself entirely to composing, and went on to receive various prizes (SACEM, Jolivet, etc.). He was several times invited as composer in residence at the Round Top Festival Insti

Christophe Moyreau

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Christophe Moyreau (4 April 1700 – 11 May 1774) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. Biography Moyreau was born and spent most of his life in Orléans into an old family of the city. He became organist at Orléans Collégiale Saint-Aignan in February 1719 and at Orléans Cathedral in January 1738 and occupied this position until around 1772. His music displayed a variety of stylistic innovations and was considerably different from his contemporaries’ works. A provincial composer, Moyreau did not achieve much fame during his lifetime and is almost completely forgotten today. His most known and most frequently performed piece is Les Cloches d’Orléans, an organ composition that imitates the bells of Orléans Cathedral. Works Moyreau’s surviving oeuvre consists of 6 livres of keyboard music. None of the pieces are dated, but it is known that Moyreau got a publication privilege on 30 January 1753 and that all six collections were published the same year, engraved by Marie-Charlotte Vendôme, one of the finest engravers of the era; who was also responsible for the first publication of Mozart’s music in 1764 (KV6 and KV7). Moyreau dedicated the pieces to Louis Philippe I,

Christophe Rezai

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Christophe Rezai (; born 1966 in Toulouse) is a French-Iranian composer living in Tehran since 1994. Career He was born from an Iranian Father and a French mother in 1966 in the city of Toulouse in France. He has studied music (piano, vocal and theory) along with engineering and marketing. Since 1987 he has recorded around 300 tracks for Iranian television advertisement. He has composed soundtracks for long film, short films as well as documentaries and has worked with director like Dariush Mehrjui, Mani Haghighi, Shahram Mokri, Safi Yazdanian, Rassoul Sadr Ameli and many others. He initiated a baroque music ensemble (Aria Music) in 1996, giving concerts in Iran & India. The group’s first album, ALBA was recorded in Firouzabad Palace. The group performance in Vahdat Hall (2007) has been considered as one of the best Iranian-Western fusion music works ever. References External links * Nour ensemble’s Official Website

Christopher Adler (musician)

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Christopher Adler (born 1972) is a musician, composer and music professor at University of San Diego. A virtuoso player of the khaen, a reed instrument native to Laos and Thailand, he has been composing works for the khaen both as a solo instrument and in combination with western instruments since 1996. His works for solo piano include the three-part Bear Woman Dances, commissioned to accompany a dance depicting a Korean creation myth and largely based the Korean musical system nongak. Four of his compositions have been broadcast internationally on WGBH’s Art of the States series. His composition for sheng, viola and percussion, Music for a Royal Palace, was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. An homage to Thailand’s Bang Pa-In Palace, the work incorporates traditional Thai melody and embellishments. It was performed at Zankel Hall in 2006 and recorded at the Tanglewood Music Center that same year. His Serpent of Five Tongues for sheng and guanzi (traditional Chinese instruments) premiered at the 2011 MATA Festival. Biography Adler was born in Mountain View, California and grew up in Falls Church, Virginia. He developed a connection with music at a young

Christopher Bochmann

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Christopher Consitt Bochmann (born November 8, 1950) is a British-born composer, conductor, music teacher, arranger and orchestrator who has lived and worked in Portugal since 1980. Known for composition, teaching and conducting, he is Professor Emeritus of the University of Évora in Portugal, from which he retired in 2020. Early years and studies Bochmann was born in 1950 in Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. As a child, he sang in the choir of St.George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. At age 16, he studied with French musician and teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris before attending the University of Oxford, New College, where he studied with conductor and choirmaster David Lumsden, composer and pianist Kenneth Leighton, and composer, pianist and music scholar Robert Sherlaw Johnson. His works cross multiple genres, with a detailed overview provided on his website. Compositions include: * 4 String Quartets * 4 Wind Quintets * 21 essays for solo instruments * 7 Canzonas for various ensembles * 11 Letters to composer friends for piano * Lament (2001) * Symphony (2005) * Cicero Dixit (2006) * Opera: Corpo e Alma (2008) * Um leve tremor (2019) * Concerto for orchestra (2019)

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent

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Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (born 13 January 1945) is an English organist and composer. Biography Christopher Bowers-Broadbent was born in Hertfordshire UK on 13 January 1945. He was a boy chorister in the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge under Boris Ord and then briefly under David Willcocks. While at King’s, he played violin and piano. During his teenage years he was a pupil at Berkhamsted School where he first began to learn the organ under Dr Kenneth Abbott. After Berkhamsted School Bowers-Broadbent went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music where his principal studies were organ with Arnold Richardson (organist of the West London Synagogue and Wolverhampton Town Hall), and composition with Richard Rodney Bennett. Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is the father of musician Harry Broadbent. Compositions Choral *1968 Four Lovescapes, canticles (E. E. Cummings) *1972 Worthy is the Lamb, cantata *1974 The Hollow Man (T. S. Eliot) *1975 Rhymes without Reason, four songs (Mervyn Peake) *1976 The Story of Cars, a short cantata *1978 Deo Gratias, a motet *1981 The Quarry, a short cantata (W. H. Auden) *1989 Jubilate-Cantate *1999 Holy Communion service for Gray’s Inn Canticles Evenin

Christopher Brown (British composer)

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Christopher Roland Brown (born 17 June 1943) is a British composer. Career He was born in Tunbridge Wells. and from the age of 9 he was a chorister at Westminster Abbey. He studied under director of music David Lepine at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and then at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley, and with Boris Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He was also a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge between 1962 and 1965. His pupils there and at Cambridge included Kit Armstrong, Charlotte Baskerville, Dominy Clements, Jonathan Pitkin and John Webb. He is a composition supervisor at the University of Cambridge and has been active as conductor (of the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic, Cambridge Players, New Cambridge Singers and Dorset Bach Cantata Club), choral trainer and examiner. Music Much of his work has been choral or vocal, including Three Shakespeare Songs (1965), Elegy (1967, for speaker, soloists, chorus and brass quintet), the Herrick Songs (1971), Hodie Salvator Apparuit (1971, described by Rob Barnett as “one of the finest extended choral items in the British repertoire” and performed by Stephen Wilkinson with the BBC Northern Singers), and Mas

Christopher Cerrone

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Christopher Cerrone (born March 5, 1984) is an American composer based in New York City. He was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a 2014 Fromm Foundation commission recipient, a 2015 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition, two Grammy Awards nominations, and has received numerous awards from ASCAP. Biography Cerrone was born in Huntington, New York, United States. He studied music composition at the Manhattan School of Music with Nils Vigeland and Reiko Fueting, and then earned his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Yale studying with Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Ingram Marshall, and Ezra Laderman. In 2014 Cerrone’s opera Invisible Cities based on Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities was produced by the Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry, the LA Dance Project, and Sennheiser. The production received glowing reviews and had a sold-out run of performances. Cerrone has received commissions from ensembles including eighth blackbird, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Present Music, and he has been the Composer-in-Residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and with Exploring the Metropolis/ConEdison. Cerrone was a founding member and co-Artistic Dire

Christopher Edmunds

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Christopher Montague Edmunds (26 November 1899 – 2 January 1990) was an English composer, academic and organist who lived and worked in Birmingham. Edmunds was born in Small Heath, Birmingham. After serving as a young soldier in the war, he studied music with Granville Bantock at the Birmingham School of Music and went on to teach there from 1929 under Bantock. In 1945 he became Principal of the School (following Dr A.K. Blackall who had succeeded Bantock in 1934), a position he held until 1956. He was organist and choirmaster at Aston Parish Church from the 1930s until 1957. His most popular composition remains the Sonatina for recorder and piano which has always stayed in print. A song, The Bellman was performed twice at The Proms, in 1929 and 1931. But he also composed widely for the choral festival movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and produced two significant works foreshadowing the war: the B minor Piano Sonata and the Symphony No 2. The Sonata was premiered by Tom Bromley in Birmingham in May 1938. It was recorded for the first time in 2021 by Duncan Honeybourne. Lewis Foreman has called the Second Symphony “a notable example of music responding to the challenges of the war i

Christopher Fox (composer)

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Christopher Fox (born 10 March 1955) is an English composer and writer on music. Biography He studied at the universities of Liverpool, Southampton and York, where his teachers included Hugh Wood and Jonathan Harvey. He received a PhD in composition from the University of York in 1984. From 1984 to 1994 he was a member of the composition staff at the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. He is currently Professor in Music at Brunel University, a post he took up in 2006. His music is widely performed, broadcast and recorded. He is also a prolific writer on music. In addition to concert works, Fox has collaborated with artists on gallery works, and with the poet Ian Duhig on a “musical box”. An important aspect of Fox’s music is its stylistic breadth—whilst his principal considerations may seem to be with systems music and adopting a systematic approach, his music also serves a political function, is deeply rooted in the post-war Darmstadt traditions of applying psychological and intellectual models to the structure and content of music and at the same time exists in a world of diverse musical attitudes, including references to the popular arts, to historical music and to cross-cultural

Christopher Gibbons

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Christopher Gibbons (bapt. 22 August 1615 – 20 October 1676) was an English composer and organist of the Baroque period. He was the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons. Life and career Background Christopher Gibbons was born into an already very musical family, established by his grandfather, William, who was head of the town waits in Oxford and Cambridge. Christopher Gibbons’ uncles Edward, Ellis and Ferdinand furthered their family’s reputation as successful musicians themselves, with Ellis and Edward becoming composers and the latter receiving a Bachelor of Music from Cambridge and serving as the master of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. The family’s legacy was cemented by Christopher’s father, Orlando, who became by far the most famous and successful composer and musician of the family. Early life Christopher Gibbons was born to Orlando and Elizabeth () in Westminster where he was baptized on 22 August 1615 at St Margaret’s. While his exact day of birth is unknown, although it was likely only a few days before his baptism as early baptisms were common practice. He was probably named after Orlando’s friend and patron Sir Christopher Hatt

Christopher Gordon (composer)

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Christopher John Gordon (born 1956) is an English-born Australian composer and politician best known for his film scores, but has also received major classical commissions. His film scores include, Ladies in Black (2018), Mao’s Last Dancer (2009), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and On the Beach (2000). Political career In 2016, Gordon ran for the Arts Party in the City of Ryde based seat of Bennelong, achieving 1.08% of the vote. In 2017, he was elected as councillor on the East Ward of the City of Ryde for the Greens and was chosen as deputy mayor, serving a single term in 2017–2018. Gordon sought re-election for a second term on Council on 4 December 2021, but was unsuccessful. Awards and nominations Gordon has won national awards for composition, both in Australia and overseas. - 1998 Moby Dick (Christopher Gordon) APRA Awards: Best Television Theme - rowspan=“3” 2000 rowspan=“3” On the Beach (Gordon) Australian Screen Music Awards: Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie - Australian Screen Music Awards: Best Original Title Theme for a Series, Serial or Mini-Series - Australian Screen Music Awards: Best Soundtrack Album - 2001 When Good Ghouls Go Bad (

Christopher Gunning

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Christopher Gunning (5 August 1944 – 25 March 2023) was an English composer of concert works and music for films and television. Early life Gunning was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 5 August 1944, the younger of two sons. He grew up in Hendon, northwest London. His father was a pianist and educator from South Africa, and his mother had been one of his father’s pupils. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where his tutors included Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett. Career Film and television Gunning’s film and television compositions received many awards, including the 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for La Vie en Rose, as well as three additional awards for Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue. He also won three Ivor Novello Awards, for the TV miniseries Rebecca, and the film scores for Under Suspicion (1991), and Firelight (1997). His other film scores included Goodbye Gemini (1970), Hands of the Ripper (1971), Ooh… You Are Awful (1972), the film version of Man About the House (1974), In Celebration (1975), Rogue Male (1976), Charlie Muffin (1979), Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), Knights of God (1987), When the Whal

Christopher Hobbs

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Christopher Hobbs (born 9 September 1950) is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British systems music. Life and career Hobbs was born in Hillingdon, near London. He was a junior exhibitioner at Trinity College London, then was Cornelius Cardew’s first student at the Royal Academy of Music from 1967. Hobbs worked with Cardew and Christian Wolff: he joined AMM, appearing on two albums: The Crypt and Laminal. In 1969, Hobbs was a member from the first meeting of the Scratch Orchestra, and, as its youngest member, designed the Scratch Orchestra’s first concert, at Hampstead Town Hall on 1 November 1969. His early composition Voicepiece, part of his Verbal Pieces group, was used often enough to be called a Popular Classic in the Scratch Orchestra nomenclature. As experimental music was hard to come by, Hobbs gathered sheet music from friends and founded the Experimental Music Catalogue in 1968 as a distribution centre. Various pieces were eventually grouped into a series of Anthologies according to themes: the Verbal Anthology (of text-notation music), Keyboard, and Educational Anthologies are typical. These anthologies published works mainly by British experim

Christopher Jessup (composer)

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Christopher Le Fleming

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Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (26 February 1908 – 19 June 1985) was an English composer of choral music, pianist, teacher and administrator. Nevertheless he sung in the Minster Choir (where Edmund Fellowes was a canon), began learning piano and studied at the Brighton School of Music. His eyesight prevented him from attending the Royal College of Music. But he performed the Schumann A minor Concerto under Dan Godfrey in Bournemouth and studied informally with Vaughan Williams, who remained a lifelong friend. He then continued his education at the Royal School of Church Music in London while studying piano with George Reeves (c1900-1960). He married Phyllis Mary Tanner in 1932 and there were three sons. They moved first to Southbourne and then to Fisherton de la Mere. During the war Le Fleming served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and in the mid-1940s medical intervention improved his eyesight. From 1943 he became a primary school music teacher and two years later was appointed Assistant Director of the Rural Music Schools Association. From 1946 until 1976 he edited the Association’s journal, Making Music and continued as a teacher in various positions. After the death of his wife P

Christopher Marshall (composer)

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Christopher Marshall (born 1956 in Paris, France) is a New Zealand classical music composer who resides in Orlando, Florida, United States. His works include choral works, works for chamber ensemble, orchestral music and works for concert band, specifically wind ensembles, for which he is most notable. His most notable composition to date is L’homme armé: Variations for Wind Ensemble. Works ;For orchestra *The Song of Gaia, chamber orchestra (1987) *Eastman Overture, orchestra (1996) *Chaconne, orchestra (1998) *Hikurangi Sunrise, orchestra (2000) *Te Rerenga, orchestra (1998–2003) *Symphonic Reflections, orchestra (2010) ;Band ensemble / Wind ensemble *Aue!, wind ensemble (2001) *L’homme armé: Variations, wind ensemble (2003) *U Trau, 2 wind ensembles and chorus (2004) *Okaoka, wind ensemble (2004) *Resonance, wind ensemble (2005) *Rondorlando, wind ensemble (2007) *You’ll Never Walk Alone, soprano and wind ensemble (2007) arrangement of Rodgers song *Dare To Hope, wind ensemble (2009) *An Emily Dickinson Suite (9 miniatures), wind ensemble (2009) *Light, 13 wind instruments/wind ensemble (2010) *Heat Shimmer, wind ensemble/brass (2011) ;For Chamber *Schumannesque, cello choir (19

Christopher Mayo

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Christopher Mayo (born 1980) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Toronto, Mayo studied at the University of Toronto where he was awarded the Glenn Gould Composition Prize and the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship and earned an Honours Bachelor of Music Degree. Mayo relocated to London in 2003, where he studied with Julian Anderson and in 2004 obtained a Master of Music in Composition from the Royal College of Music. In 2011 Mayo obtained a PhD in composition from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Philip Cashian. Mayo has received numerous awards including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2005 Mayo’s work has been commissioned and performed by numerous ensembles and organizations such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tête à Tête Opera), Ensemble contemporain de Montreal, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and L’arsenale, Motion Ensemble, Handel House Museum, Michael Collins and the Dante Quartet, , and the MATA Festival. which won the 2009 Gramophone Contemporary Award. Mayo’s music has been performed at festivals such as B

Christopher Meineke

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Christopher Meineke (né Christoph Meineke; 1 May 1782, Oldenburg – 6 November 1850, Baltimore) was an American organist and composer. Life Born in Oldenburg, he later moved to England around 1810 and eventually settled in Baltimore in 1820. Meineke’s secular works were published by the Baltimore-based music printer, John Cole. As a composer, his alternative first names were Charles and Karl. Meineke was known for his interests in medieval and early Christian-themed composition, such as recreating Gloria Patri (Glory Be to the Father) or composing with the help of medieval era-evoking works by Felicia Hemans in a much more contemporary setting. Compositions *The Bird at Sea *A New Instruction for the Piano Forte *Works for the Fourth of July Further reading * * Notes References External links *

Christopher North (composer)

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Christopher North Renquist (born February 6, 1969), known professionally as Christopher North, is an American composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, conductor, producer, and educator. Working most notably as a film composer, he has also composed and written for orchestra, theater, and dance, His songs are heard around the globe on children’s television, in films, on radio, and on streaming platforms. North has conducted at Carnegie Hall, sang at Lincoln Center and played in Broadway theater as a bassist and guitarist. Biography Sources: Born Christopher North Renquist in Austin, Texas, on February 6, 1969, Christopher North is a multi-instrumental composer and singer-songwriter based in New York City. As a composer his works have been performed at venues in Europe (London, Berlin and Edinburgh) and the US (Texas, California, Illinois, Ohio, Hawaii and New York) including collaborations with filmmakers (Tribeca, Big Apple and SXSW Film Festivals), theater companies (including Workshop Theater, NY and Edinburgh Fringe), choreographers (Wave Hill, Joyce SOHO) and concerts including the 92nd Street Y. His children’s songs can be heard on the Disney Channel and Noggin, wh

Christopher Rouse (composer)

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Christopher Chapman Rouse III (February 15, 1949 – September 21, 2019) was an American composer. Though he wrote for various ensembles, Rouse is primarily known for his orchestral compositions, including a Requiem, a dozen concertos, and six symphonies. His work received numerous accolades, including the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, and the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He also served as the composer-in-residence for the New York Philharmonic from 2012 to 2015. Biography Rouse was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Christopher Rouse Jr., a salesman at Pitney Bowes, and Margorie or Margery Rouse, a radiology secretary. and his Trombone Concerto was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 2002, Rouse was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Also in that year, he won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his Concert de Gaudí composed for guitarist Sharon Isbin. In 2009, Rouse was named Musical Americas Composer of the Year and the New York Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence in 2012. Rouse also served as Composer-in-Residence with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1985–88)

Christopher Shaw (composer)

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NOTOC Christopher Shaw (30 July 1924 – 27 September 1995) was a British composer. Shaw was born and lived in London, and studied at New College, Oxford, from 1942 through 1944 with R. O. Morris and Herbert Kennedy Andrews. He died while on holiday at Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, Scotland, aged 71. Recordings of A Lesson from Ecclesiastes, Music, when soft voices die, To the Bandusian Spring and Peter and the Lame Man were issued on Argo Records in 1975. Selected works * Piano Sonata (1945) * Ode to Evening, cantata, high voice (1948) * Concerto for Orchestra (1948-9) * Clarinet Sonata (1949) (fp. Colin Davis) *Croagh Patrick, cantata for speaker, contralto, baritone, strings and timpani (1950) * Four Poems by James Joyce for high voice, flute, harp and string quartet (fp. November 1956) * Concerto for Strings * Inventions for Piano (1955) * The Shepherd’s Wonder for chorus (1956) * Seven Folk Songs from the Island of Chios (1958) * No Room at the Inn, carol, published Novello (1961) * A Lesson from Ecclesiastes (1963) * Three Poems by D.G. Rosetti (1963) * Peter and the Lame Man for soli, chorus and orchestra (1964-7, rev. 1970) * Music, when soft voices die for chorus (1972)

Christopher Simpson (musician)

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Christopher Simpson (1602/1606–1669) was an English musician and composer, particularly associated with music for the viola da gamba. Life Simpson was born between 1602 and 1606, probably at Egton, North Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of Christopher Sympson, a Yorkshireman, who is usually described as a cordwainer but who was also the manager of a theatre company patronised by wealthy Yorkshire Catholics. It is thought that Sympson senior may have preferred to portray himself at times as a simple craftsman, rather than a high-profile Catholic sympathiser, at a time when Catholics were harshly persecuted in England. There is a theory (put forward by Urquhart) that Christopher Simpson (junior), the musician, could have been the same Simpson (or Sampson) who was educated as a Jesuit in continental Europe and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1629. However, Simpson’s death in 1669 is at odds with the evidence that the Jesuit Simpson lived until 1674. Simpson fought in the English Civil War, on the Royalist side and, in 1642, was a quarter-master in the army of the Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle. Following the siege of York, Simpson took refuge at the manor of Sir Robert Bolles (16

Christopher Slaski

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Christopher Slaski (born 3 September 1974) is a composer who has created music for films, television, theatre and live performance. He is a past recipient of the award for Best Young European Film Composer presented by the World Soundtrack Academy in Ghent and in 2017 his score for A Good American was nominated for best music by the Austrian Film Academy. He is a member of the European Film Academy. Early life and education Slaski holds a music degree from Cambridge University and a postgraduate in composition from London’s The Royal Academy of Music. He also attended master classes by Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy and studied conducting with Lawrence Leonard. Career Slaski has written scores for feature films, including Kevin Spacey’s Beyond The Sea, The Pianotuner Of Earthquakes, the Spanish romantic-comedy Semen, una historia de amor, The Asylum, and the thriller Proyecto Dos. In 2009 he scored the Goya-nominated The Shame, by Spanish writer-director David Planell and in 2011 Rue Huvelin. Slaski’s score for the Spanish-French film Cuadrilatero, performed by the Brodsky Quartet, won awards at four international film festivals. In 2011 he won the

Christopher Tambling

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Christopher Tambling (13 May 1964 – 3 October 2015) was a British composer, organist and choirmaster. From 1997 to 2015 he was Director of Music at Downside School and organist and Choirmaster of the Schola Cantorum at Downside Abbey, leading the choir to international success. Life He received his musical education from Malcolm McKelvey at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham, Sussex and at St Peter’s College, Oxford. He later became the city organist and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Glenalmond College in Perth, Scotland. His organ pupils have gone on to continuing success, including scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge. Tambling died in Somerset in 2015 and was survived by his wife and two sons, both of whom are professional musicians. Works Tambling established himself as a composer and arranger of choral and organ works especially, well beyond the borders of his country. His compositions are often characterized by a romantic, expressive and an easy to get style. His main publisher in the UK was Kevin Mayhew and in German-speaking countries Dr. J. Butz. Tambling published books for students of various instruments, including a hugely successful 4 four-volume

Christopher Theofanidis

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Christopher Theofanidis (born December 18, 1967, in Dallas, Texas ) is an American composer whose works have been performed by leading orchestras from around the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the National, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, and many others. He participated in the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program with Barry Jekowsky and the California Symphony from 1994 to 1996 and, more recently, served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony during their 2006–2007 Season, for which he wrote a violin concerto for Sarah Chang. the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, six ASCAP Gould Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Tanglewood Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Fellowship. Theofanidis composed the ballet Artemis, which was premiered on May 20, 2003, by the American Ballet Theatre with choreography by Lar Lubovitch. He also wrote the orchestral work Muse for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (as part of their “New Brandenburg” series), which they premiered on December 1, 2007 at Carnegie Hall. His opera Heart of a Soldier, concerning 9/11, was prem

Christopher Tin

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Christopher Chiyan Tin (born May 21, 1976) is an American composer and conductor. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He is a two-time Grammy Award winner, and has won various awards for his work in video game soundtracks and studio albums. Tin is best known for his work on title themes for the Civilization video game series, specifically the main theme “Baba Yetu” from the video game Civilization IV, which, at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011, became the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy Award. This Grammy win has been considered a significant milestone for the critical acceptance of music from video games, and following this win the Recording Academy retitled their visual media categories to become more inclusive of video game soundtracks, before eventually creating a dedicated Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media in 2022. Early life and education Tin was born May 21, 1976 in Palo Alto, California, to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. He attended Stanford University, and had a brief period as an exchange student at the University of Oxford. He double majored in music comp

Christopher Trapani

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Christopher Trapani (born 1980) is an American/Italian composer of contemporary classical music. In 2007 he won the Gaudeamus Award of the Dutch Gaudeamus Foundation. A CD of his music, Waterlines, was released in 2018. A second release of Waterlines by the Ictus Ensemble was named one of the top 5 classical releases of 2020 by De Standaard. In 2021–2022 he was a visiting assistant professor at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Reception In 2007 Trapani won the Gaudeamus Award for young contemporary composers for his composition Sparrow Episodes, for ensemble with solo electric guitar, which was performed in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam by the Asko Ensemble under Étienne Siebens, with Trapani on guitar. In September 2008, his commissioned piece Üsküdar was performed in the same hall by the Nieuw Ensemble. His composition Rust and Stardust was performed during the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow in 2015; the Guardian reviewer found it “accomplished and dreary”, while The Scotsman spoke of “kaleidoscopic explosions that … gave structure and shape to its insistently concise material”. Also in 2015, Trapani was among the recipients of a C

Christopher Tye

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Christopher Tye (c. 1505before 1573) was an English Renaissance composer and organist. Probably born in Cambridgeshire, he trained at the University of Cambridge and became the master of the choir at Ely Cathedral. He is noted as the music teacher of Edward VI and was held in high esteem for his choral music, as well as chamber works such as his 24 polyphonic In nomines. It is likely that only a small percentage of his compositional output survives, often only as fragments; his Acts of the Apostles was the only work to be published in his lifetime. He ceased composing when he was ordained, returning to Ely Cathedral and later becoming rector of Doddington, Cambridgeshire. Today, he is perhaps best known for the hymn “Winchester Old”, based on a theme from Acts of the Apostles, which forms the basis of the most commonly performed version in the United Kingdom of “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”. Beginnings Little is known about Tye’s origins. Cambridge University records for the academic year 1536–37 indicate that he received the degree of Bachelor of Music after “a study of ten years in the musical art”; from this it is supposed that Tye was born around 1505 (making him a dir

Christopher Whelen

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Christopher Whelen (17 April 1927 – 18 September 1993) was an English composer, conductor and playwright, best known for his radio and television operas. Because much of his work was written for specific theatre productions in the 1950s, or directly for broadcast in the 1960s to the 1980s, little of it survives today, though a number of his scores and related papers have been deposited in the British Library. Life Whelen was born in London into a musical family. He became a chorister at New College, Oxford, attended Worksop College (studying piano and ‘cello) and then at the Birmingham and Midland School of Music (now the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) between 1944 and 1946 (studying clarinet and composition). After two years National Service in the RAF he secured conducting lessons with the Austrian émigré Rudolf Schwarz, newly appointed to the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, subsequently becoming his Assistant Conductor. Already interested in Celtic culture (particularly Yeats), the music of Arnold Bax became a central influence for Whelen after hearing a performance of Tintagel. A correspondence began in 1947, which led to a close friendship until Bax’s death in 1953. It was a

Christopher Wilke

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Christopher Wilke (born 1973) is an American composer, lutenist, guitarist, recording artist, and teacher. Biography Born in Cincinnati, Wilke studied guitar and composition at the College of Mount St. Joseph, and took his master’s degree in guitar from the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory. He completed his doctorate in Early Music Performance with an Emphasis on Historical Plucked Strings (lute, theorbo and guitar) at the Eastman School of Music, under the tutelage of Paul O’Dette. Composer Several of his compositions, including “Emperor Romulus Augustus, His Serious Funk” and “Diatribe,” have been published by Les Productions d’Oz in Montreal, Canada. Performer Wilke has given solo recitals in Italy and Germany as well as the United States. He has taught at the Guitar Foundation of America’s Convention and the American Musicological Society’s Annual Meeting. His recordings have been featured on Concertzender radio in the Netherlands, on Canadian Television, and such NPR programs as Classical Guitar Alive! and Sunday Morning Baroque. Discography * “De Temporum Fine Postludia II” (Roman Turovsky: Works for Baroque lute) Polyhymnion 002, 2019 * “De Temporum Fine Postl

Christopher Willcock

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Christopher Willcock (born 1947) is an Australian Jesuit priest and composer of liturgical music. Life Willcock studied music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (graduated 1974) and theology in Melbourne with the Jesuit Theological College, a member college of the United Faculty of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1977. He then pursued doctoral studies in sacramental and liturgical theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris. In 1998, he won the University of Melbourne’s Albert H. Maggs Composition Award. Collaborating with cartoonist and artist Michael Leunig, Willcock won the 2006 Classical Music Award for Choral or Vocal Work of the Year with excerpts from his work titled Southern Star (his cycle of nine Christmas carols composed in collaboration with Leunig). The carols are composed for 4-part adult voices, or 3-part children’s voices and are accompanied by harp - reminiscent of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Other major works have been performed by the Tallis Scholars (May 2000) and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (December 1998). In 2006 he was the St Thomas More Chair of Jesuit Studies at the University of Western Australia. He also gave the annu

Christopher Wright (composer)

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Christopher Wright (30 April 1954 – 4 December 2024) was a British music teacher and composer. He described the style of his own music as “largely tonal with atonal flavourings”. Others have noted an English pastoral sensibility and the influence of William Walton. Life and career Wright was born in Ipswich, Suffolk He went on to study composition at the Colchester Institute with Richard Arnell and Alan Bullard. While in Colchester he also first made friends with fellow student and East Anglian composer Nicholas Barton. He took further composition lessons with Stanley Glasser at Goldsmiths College and with Nicholas Sackman at the University of Nottingham. But in 1993 illness forced him to retire from teaching and he became a full-time composer. Ruth Wright died of cancer in 2009. Christopher Wright died of pneumonia on 4 December 2024, following a long decline resulting from dementia. His music has been recorded on the Cameo, Dutton Epoch, Divine Art/Metier, Lyrita, Merlin Classics and Toccata labels. Music Wright’s 2010 Violin Concerto was written in memory of his wife and recorded by Fenella Humphreys. He also composed an Oboe Concerto for Jonathan Small, a Horn Concerto for Rich

Christos Hatzis

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Christos Hatzis (; born 1953) is a Juno Award-winning Greek-Canadian composer. Many of his compositions are performed internationally, and he is a professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Early life and education Hatzis was born in Volos, Greece, and received his early music instruction at the Volos branch of the Hellenic Conservatory. He continued his musical studies in the United States, first at the Eastman School of Music (B.M 1976 and M.M 1977) and later at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo (PhD 1982). His composition teachers include Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Samuel Adler, Russell Peck, Joseph Schwantner and Warren Benson. Career Hatzis immigrated to Canada in 1982 and became a Canadian citizen in 1985. He composed music related to Christian spirituality, particularly his Byzantine heritage, and the Canadian Inuit culture. In addition to composing and teaching, Hatzis has written extensively about composition and contemporary music. He won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 1996. In 1998, Hatzis received the Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award. He won two Juno Awards in 2006, including Best Classical

Chronological list of American classical composers

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The following is a chronological list (by year of birth) of American composers of classical music. Baroque *John Tufts (1689–1750) *Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690–1750) *Thomas Walter (1696–1725) Classical era Romantic era Modern/contemporary References Reference bibliography * *

Chronological list of Austrian classical composers

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The following is a chronological list of Austrian classical composers: that is, those who live in, work in, or are citizens of Austria. Medieval *Walther von der Vogelweide (c.1170–c.1230) Renaissance Baroque Classical era Romantic Modern/Contemporary References

Chronological list of English classical composers

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This is a chronological list of classical music composers living or working in England or originating from there. Entries are alphabetical within each year. Medieval Renaissance Baroque Classical era Romantic Modern Contemporary See also *Classical music of the United Kingdom References

Chronological list of French classical composers

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The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, or were citizens of France. Medieval *Leonin (c. 1150 – 1201) *Perotin (1160 – 1230) *Adam de la Halle (1240 – 1287) *Philippe de Vitry (1291 – 1361) *Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377) Renaissance *Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397 – 1474) *Gilles Binchois (c. 1400 – 1460) *Loÿset Compère (c. 1445 – 1518) *Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 – 1521), born near Franco-Flemish border *Pierre de La Rue (c. 1452 – 1518) *Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – 1522) *Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512/1513) *Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) *Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 – 1562) *Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560) *Ninot le Petit (fl. c. 1500 – 1520) *Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – 1564) *Godard () *Claude Gervaise (fl. 1540 – 1560) *Jean Titelouze (c. 1562/63 – 1633) Baroque *Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 – c. 1620) *Ennemond Gaultier (c. 1575–1651) *Antoine Boësset (1586–1643) *Étienne Moulinié (c. 1599 – after 1669) *Jacques Gaultier (c. 1600-1652) *Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (c. 1601 – 1672) *Denis Gaultier (1603–1672) *François Dufault (before 1604 – c. 1672) *Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610 – after 1650) *Michel Lambert (1610–16

Chronological list of Italian classical composers

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This is a chronological list of classical music composers from Italy, whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles. Medieval Renaissance Baroque Classical era Romantic Modern/Contemporary References

Chronological list of Scottish classical composers

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The following is a chronological list of classical music composers living and working in Scotland, or originating from Scotland. Renaissance Baroque Classical era Romantic Modern/Contemporary See also * Classical music of the United Kingdom References

Chu Ishikawa

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was a Japanese composer and musician, best known for creating the soundtracks of many films by Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike. He also founded industrial music groups Der Eisenrost and Zeitlich Vergelter. Soundtracks *Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) *Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) *Tokyo Fist (1995) *Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) *Bullet Ballet (1998) *Gemini (1999) *Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) *A Snake of June (2002) *Vital (2004) *Haze (2005) *Nightmare Detective (2006) *Nightmare Detective 2 (2008) *Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2010) *Kotoko (2011) * Fires on the Plain (2014) * Killing (2018) (posthumous) * Shadow Of Fire (2023) (posthumous) References External links * * * * *