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Composers whose names start with CL.

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20th Century

Clair Van Lynden

Clair Van Lynden (1885–1947) was an American 20th century composer of novelty and popular songs during the latter half of the Ragtime era. 'Clair Van Lynden' was the nom-de-plume of music publisher,

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Entry

Claire Liddell

Elizabeth Claire Liddell (born 24 May 1937) is a Scottish pianist and composer. She was born in Glasgow and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and the Royal College

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Post-War

Claire Polin

Claire Polin (January 1, 1926 – December 6, 1995) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, musicologist, and flutist. Education She obtained three degrees in music from the

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Post-War

Claire Renard

Claire Renard (born 10 December 1944) is a French composer and multimedia artist. Biography Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Claire Renard studied piano and law in Paris and graduated from the

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Post-War

Claire Ritter

Claire Ritter (born May 31, 1952, Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American composer and pianist working in a style that fuses jazz with classical, new music, and occasionally other world music

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Romantic

Clara Angela Macirone

Clara Angela Macirone (20 January 1821 – 1914) was an English pianist and composer who published her music as C. A. Macirone. Born in London, she was the daughter of Italian musicians; her mother was

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Late Romantic

Clara Anna Korn

Clara Anna Korn (née Gerlach, January 30, 1866–July 14, 1940) was an American pianist, composer, and music writer. She sometimes wrote under a pseudonym, C. Gerhard. She was born in Germany, and

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Late Romantic

Clara Edmunds Hemingway

Clara Edmunds Hemingway (October 4, 1878 – December 31, 1958) was an American poet, editor, composer, and contralto singer, based in the Chicago area. Early life Clara A. Edmunds was born in Tuscola,

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Late Romantic

Clara Edwards

Clara Edwards (April 17, 1880 – January 17, 1974) was an American singer, pianist, and composer of art songs. She also used the pseudonym Bernard Haigh. Biography She was born Clara Gerlich in

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Romantic

Clara H. Scott

Clara H. Scott (December 3, 1841 – June 21, 1897 ), née Fiske, was an American composer, hymnwriter and publisher. Along with Anna Bartlett Warner, Phoebe Palmer, and Fanny Crosby, Scott was among a

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Romantic

Clara Kathleen Rogers

Clara Kathleen Barnett Rogers (January 14, 1844 – March 8, 1931), was an English-born American composer, singer, writer, and music educator. She wrote books about singing and her career. Early life

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Post-War

Clara Lyle Boone

Clara Lyle Boone (September 6, 1927 – June 21, 2015) was an American composer and founder of Arsis Press, which specialized in publishing works by contemporary women composers. She also taught music,

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Late Romantic

Clara Mathilda Faisst

Clara Mathilda Faisst (22 June 1872 – 22 November 1948) was a German pianist, composer and writer. Early life Clara Faisst was born in Karlsruhe, Baden to August and Emma Faisst. Her father died when

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Entry

Clara Rees

Clara H. Rees (born 1859) was an American composer and organist who composed instrumental works and at least one opera, but is best remembered for her songs. Rees was born in Peoria, Illinois. Little

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Late Romantic

Clara Ross

Clara Louisa Ross Ricci (1 July 1858 - 1954) was a British composer, mandolinist, and singer. She is best known for her compositions for mandolin and her songs, which she published as Clara Ross or

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Romantic

Clara Schumann

Clara Josephine Schumann (; ; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the

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Late Romantic

Clare Kummer

Clare Kummer (January 9, 1873 – April 21, 1958) was an American composer, lyricist, and playwright. Early life Kummer was born Clare Rodman Beecher in Brooklyn, New York, the granddaughter of Rev.

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21st Century

Clare Loveday

Clare Loveday (born 22 March 1967) is a South African contemporary classical music composer. She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and has worked as a professional

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Post-War

Clare Shore

Clare Shore (born 1954) is an American composer, music educator mezzo-soprano, and conductor. She continued her studies in composition with Charles Eakin and Cecil Effinger, and voice with Louis

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Post-War

Clarence Barlow

Clarence Albertson Barlow Of English, Portuguese, and French colonial descent, he wrote his first compositions in 1957. He studied piano, music theory and natural sciences. In 1965 he received a

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Late Romantic

Clarence Cameron White

Clarence Cameron White (August 10, 1880 – June 30, 1960) was an American neoromantic composer and concert violinist. Dramatic works by the composer were his best-known, such as the incidental music

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Late Romantic

Clarence L. Partee

Clarence Lockhart Partee (born Concord, North Carolina January 20, 1864, died Manhattan, New York April 17, 1915) was an American composer and arranger and music publisher. He was also founder,

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Late Romantic

Clarence Lucas

Clarence Lucas (October 19, 1866 – July 2, 1947), was a Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor, and music professor. Lucas was born at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario and was a student of Romain-Octave

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20th Century

Clarisse Leite

Clarisse Leite Dias Baptista (January 11, 1917 – May 11, 2003) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and music educator and primarily composed for the piano. Leite developed her own style of teaching

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21st Century

Clark Ross

Clark Winslow Ross is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and music educator of Venezuelan birth. A composer of mainly works for orchestra and chamber music, he has won first prize in composition

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Post-War

Claude Abravanel

Claude Abravanel (; 16 July 1924 – 14 December 2012) was a Swiss-Israeli pianist and composer of classical music. Activities He studied piano with Dinu Lipatti at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. He

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Post-War

Claude Baker

W. Claude Baker Jr. (born April 12, 1948 Lenoir, North Carolina) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Claude Baker attained a B.M. degree, magna cum laude, from East

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Classical

Claude Balbastre

Claude Balbastre (8 December 1724 – 9 May 1799) was a French composer, organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist. He was one of the most famous musicians of his time. Life Claude Balbastre was born

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Post-War

Claude Ballif

Claude Ballif (22 May 1924 – 24 July 2004) was a French composer, writer, and pedagogue. He worked at a number of institutions throughout more than 40 years of teaching, one of which he had attended

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Entry

Claude Coffin

Claude Coffin was a French cantor and composer, active in Paris during the first third of the 17th century. Biography Not much is known of his life except his office of cantor of the Chapel of music

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Late Romantic

Claude Debussy

Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously

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20th Century

Claude Delvincourt

Claude Étienne Edmond Marie Pierre Delvincourt (12 January 1888 – 5 April 1954) was a French pianist and composer of classical music. Biography Delvincourt was born in Paris, the son of Pierre

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20th Century

Claude Demetrius

Claude Demetrius (August 3, 1916 – May 1, 1988) was an American songwriter. He was known for his rockabilly songs, some of which were made famous by singers such as Elvis Presley. Biography Demetrius

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Post-War

Claude Fraysse

Claude Fraysse (1941–2012) was a French composer. History Fraysse was born in Versailles on 31 July 1941. References External links *

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Renaissance

Claude Gervaise

Claude Gervaise (1525–1583) was a French composer, editor and arranger of the Renaissance, who is remembered mainly for his association with renowned printer Pierre Attaingnant, and for his

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Renaissance

Claude Goudimel

Claude Goudimel (c. 1514 to 1520 – between 28 August and 31 August 1572) was a French composer, music editor and publisher, and music theorist of the High Renaissance. Biography Claude Goudimel was

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Classical

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (; 10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing and it became the French national anthem. Early

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Renaissance

Claude Le Jeune

Claude Le Jeune (; 1528 to 1530 – buried 26 September 1600) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée,

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21st Century

Claude Ledoux (composer)

Claude Ledoux is a Belgian composer, born in 1960. For many years now, the composer has explored the idea of "musical crossing borders" as he attempts to reflect our fragmented world in his musical

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21st Century

Claude Lenners

Claude Lenners (born 1956) is a Luxembourgish composer of mainly chamber and vocal works. In 1999, he founded Pyramide, an association for electronic music. Since 2004, he has headed its successor,

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Post-War

Claude Léveillée

Claude Léveillée (16 October 1932 – 9 June 2011) was a Canadian actor, pianist, and singer-songwriter who composed more than 400 songs, instrumental pieces, and musicals. In 1959, Léveillée

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Post-War

Claude Loyola Allgén

Claude Loyola Allgén (16 April 1920 – 18 September 1990), officially Claude Johannes Maria Klas Thure Allgén, was a Swedish composer. Background and early life Allgén was born in Calcutta. His family

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Post-War

Claude Méloni

Claude Méloni (born 6 August 1940 in Marseille) is a French baritone of the Paris Opera. Life Méloni began very early, at the , to study music: piano, solfège, history of music and harmony. Later, he

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Post-War

Claude Pascal

Claude Pascal (Paris, February 19, 1921 – Paris, February 28, 2017) was a French composer. After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, he obtained the 1945 Premier Prix de Rome for the cantata, La

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20th Century

Claude Porter White

Claude Porter White (April 30, 1907 – March 16, 1975) was an American author and the composer of three operas, as well as other music. She was born in Cleburne, Texas, to Claude Scott Porter and

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Late Romantic

Claude Terrasse

Claude Terrasse (27 January 1867 – 30 June 1923) was a French composer of operettas. Terrasse was born in L'Arbresle, Rhône. He became known by writing the music for the play Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

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Post-War

Claude Vivier

Claude Vivier ( ; baptised as Claude Roger; 14 April 19487 March 1983) was a Canadian composer, pianist, poet and ethnomusicologist of Québécois origin. After studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen in

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21st Century

Claudia Brant

Claudia Alejandra Menkarski (born July 21, 1966), known as Claudia Brant, is an Argentine composer, producer and singer in diverse genres and multiple languages (Spanish, Portuguese and English).

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21st Century

Claudia Molitor

Claudia Molitor (born 1974) is an English-German composer based in Brighton, East Sussex, England. Biography Born in Germany, Claudia Molitor studied Music and Media at University of Sussex. After an

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21st Century

Claudia Montero

Claudia Montero (25 June 1962 – 16 January 2021) was an Argentine composer resident in Spain. Biography Montero studied music at the Alberto Ginastera Conservatory in Buenos Aires. Following her

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Renaissance

Claudin de Sermisy

Claudin de Sermisy (c. 149013 October 1562) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Along with Clément Janequin he was one of the most renowned composers of French chansons in the early 16th

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21st Century

Claudio Capponi

Claudio Capponi (born 20 May 1959, Rome) is an Italian film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, music producer and violist. Biography Capponi began his musical career at a young age and graduated

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Baroque

Claudio Casciolini

Claudio Casciolini (9 November 1697 – 18 January 1760) was an Italian composer. Life The son of Agostino and Veronica Finocchiola, he was born in Rome on November. From April 1726 until his death he

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21st Century

Claudio Constantini

Claudio Constantini is a multiinstrumentalist (pianist, bandoneonist) and composer born in Peru and currently living in Spain. Known for his eclectic nature, he feels at home in a variety of musical

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21st Century

Claudio Maldonado (musician)

Claudio Maldonado, also known as Xunorus (born in 1980), is an Argentine composer, guitarist and arranger, referent musician from the new generation of classical music contemporary composers from

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Renaissance

Claudio Merulo

Claudio Merulo (; 8 April 1533 – 4 May 1604) was an Italian composer, publisher and organist of the late Renaissance period, most famous for his innovative keyboard music and his ensemble music

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Renaissance

Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the

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Renaissance

Claudio Pari

Claudio Pari (1574 – after 1619) was an Italian composer, born in the County of Burgundy, which was then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He is classified in the late Renaissance and early Baroque

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Romantic

Claudio S. Grafulla

Claudio S. Grafulla (1812–1880) was a composer in the United States during the 19th Century, most noted for martial music for regimental bands during the early days of the American Civil War.

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20th Century

Cláudio Santoro

Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro (23 November 1919 – 27 March 1989) was an internationally renowned Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist. Biography Early life A native of Manaus, the capital of

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Renaissance

Claudio Saracini

Claudio Saracini (1 July 1586 – 20 September 1630) was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the most famous and distinguished composers of monody. Life

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Post-War

Claudio Spies

Carlos Claudio Spies (March 26, 1925 – April 2, 2020) was a Chilean American composer. Biography Early life Born in Santiago, Chile, of German Jewish parents, Spies completed primary and secondary

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Entry

Claudio Vena

Claudio Vena is an Italian-born composer for film and television, now living and working in Canada. Compositions Vena has written the score for the feature film, Silver Man and co-written another

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21st Century

Cláudio Venturini

Luís Cláudio Venturini (born 14 August 1958) is a Brazilian guitarist, vocalist and composer. With his elder brother Flávio Venturini, he began his career taking part in the album A Via Láctea of the

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Post-War

Claus Bantzer

Claus Bantzer (born 10 October 1942 in Marburg) is a German church musician, composer and director. Life and work Claus Bantzer was born in Marburg in 1942 into an artist's family. His older brother

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21st Century

Claus Kühnl

Claus Kühnl (born in Arnstein, Lower Franconia, 17 November 1957) is a German composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher. Life Kühnl is the eldest child of Gudrun Kühnl (née Schmitt) from Lower

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Classical

Claus Schall

Claus Nielsen Schall (28 April 1757 – 10 August 1835) was a Danish violinist and composer living much of his life as a subject of Denmark–Norway. Life and career Niels Pedersen Schall's father,

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21st Century

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (born 22 October 1962) is a German composer, editor and author. Career Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough,

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Post-War

Clay Christiansen (organist)

Clay Christiansen ( ) is an American organist who previously played for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Choir), often on the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ. He accompanied the Choir in Salt Lake City and

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21st Century

Clayton Counts

Clayton Counts (August 19, 1973 – November 22, 2016) was an American musician and composer, a former DJ, and one half of the experimental band Bull of Heaven. Early life Counts was born with detached

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Romantic

Clémence de Grandval

Clémence de Grandval (21 January 1828 – 15 January 1907), born as Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset and also known as Vicomtesse de Grandval and Marie Grandval, was a French composer of the Romantic

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21st Century

Clémence Quélennec

Clémence Quélennec (born 6 March 1991, Quimper, France) is a French singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. Quélennec was primary lead singer for the French "psychedelic-rock" band La Femme

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Late Romantic

Clemens von und zu Franckenstein

Clemens Erwein Heinrich Karl Bonaventura Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (14 July 1875 – 19 August 1942) was a German opera composer. Early life Franckenstein was born in Wiesentheid, Germany to

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Late Romantic

Clément Broutin

Clément Jules Broutin (4 May 1851 – 27 May 1889) was a French composer. Life Born in Orchies, Broutin studied with Victor Delannoy at the Conservatoire of Lyon from 1871 before joining the

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Late Romantic

Clement Harris

Clement Hugh Gilbert Harris (8 July 1871 – 23 April 1897) was an English pianist and composer who studied in Germany and died fighting in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Biography Clement Harris was

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Renaissance

Clément Janequin

Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers of popular chansons of the entire Renaissance, and along with Claudin de Sermisy,

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Late Romantic

Clément Lippacher

Clément Lippacher (1850–1934) was a French composer and organist. Life Born in Haguenau, a student of Édouard Ignace Andlauer in Alsace, then at the École Niedermeyer of Paris, he won a second organ

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Romantic

Clément Loret

Clément Loret (10 October 1833 – 14 February 1909) was an organist, music educator, and composer of Belgian origin, French naturalized. Biography Clément Loret was born in Dendermonde (Termonde) in

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21st Century

Cliff Eidelman

Clifford Glen Eidelman (born December 5, 1964) is an American composer and conductor who has scored films including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Christopher

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20th Century

Cliff Hess

Clifford Hess, better known as Cliff Hess, (June 19, 1894 – June 8, 1959) was an American songwriter, composer, lyricist, and pianist. He began his career as pianist while a young teenager working on

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Post-War

Clifford Ford

Clifford Robert Ford (born 30 May 1947) is a Canadian composer, editor, music educator, and author. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he is a founding member of ARRAYMUSIC and a former

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Post-War

Clive Hunt

Clive Hunt (born 31 May 1952) is a Jamaican reggae multi-instrumentist, arranger, composer and producer. Biography Hunt was born in Linstead, St. Catherine, Jamaica. He learned the trumpet while at

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Post-War

Clorinda Rosato

Clorinda Rosato (11 December 191322 May 1985) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and teacher. Rosato was born in Sao Simao, Brazil. She studied music at the Conservatorio Dramatico Musical of Sao

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20th Century

Clotilde Arias

Clotilde Arias Chávarri Anduaga de Ferrero (20 June 1901 – 6 May 1959) was a Peruvian-American composer and lyricist. She is best known for her composition of the song "Huiracocha", popular in Peru

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Post-War

Clotilde Rosa

Maria Clotilde Belo de Carvalho Rosa Franco (11 May 1930 – 24 November 2017), known as Clotilde Rosa, was a Portuguese harpist, pedagogue and composer. Biography Clotilde Rosa was born in Queluz,

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Post-War

Clytus Gottwald

Clytus Gottwald (20 November 1925 – 18 January 2023) was a German composer, conductor, and musicologist who focused on choral music. He was considered by music critics to be a key figure in

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