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Claims management company

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A claims management company is a business that offers claims management services to the public. Claims management services consist of advice or services in respect of claims for compensation, restitution, repayment or any other remedy for loss or damage, or in respect of some other obligation. Claims management services cover litigation, or claims under regulation schemes or voluntary arrangements. History The abolition of legal aid for personal injury claims, the introduction of conditional fee agreements and the appearance of and growth in claims management companies led to a rapid expansion of litigation from the mid-1990s. This led to public concern at the development of a “compensation culture”. The collapse of claims management company the Accident Group in 2003 increased disquiet with the system. Such companies used aggressive sales techniques and exaggerated claims, profiting from exorbitant commissions on after the event insurance policies. It was estimated that there were about 1,000 such companies in the UK in 2003. However, there was still evidence that many meritorious claims were discouraged by the difficulties and costs of litigation. These concerns, especially aroun

Clair Van Lynden

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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, Lynden St. Clair Buchanan, co-founder of the “Buck & Lowney Music Publishing Company” of St. Louis, Missouri. Early life Lynden St. Clair Buchanan was born on March 2, 1885 in Peoria, Illinois to William H.S. and Lydia A. Buchanan. Little is known about Buchanan’s upbringing, or early musical training. His Father, William, was an express messenger in the 19th century. Buchanan can be found living in the city of St. Louis by 1906, listed as a piano teacher. Buck & Lowney The founding of music publisher “Buck & Lowney” can be traced to the early 1910s, during which time Lynden Buchanan was residing at 1335 Aubert Avenue in St. Louis. Benjamin Lowney was general manager and co-founder with Lynden. By 1916, Buchanan had adopted the professional name, Lynden S. Buck. “Buck & Lowney” would become a Midwest competitor to music publishers from New York City and elsewhere by the mid-1910s. This firm would debut new songs by contracting with travelling theatrical singers and European vocalists, a

Claire Liddell

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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 of Music in London with William Lloyd Webber. In The Kinding Fire Liddell sets 12 songs by Robert Burns using the original airs to which he set his verses, with her accompaniments. An LP recording was issued in 1974 with Liddell on piano. She has also written educational music and text books, including The Book of Keyboard Harmony (1979) and So you Want to Play by Ear (1980). Works Liddell is known for arrangements of Scottish folk songs and poetry to music. Her selected works include: *The Kindling Fire, 12 Burns songs (1974) *Five Orkney Scenes (1975), song cycle, text George Mackay Brown *Orphead: A Spell for Rain (1978), text George Mackay Brown * Three Ballads (1989), settings of J.C. Mathieson from French poetry *Ca’ the yowes for soprano and piano * The Rhythm of Life (1985) song cycle for female voice and piano, text Alice Meynell *Melody and Country Style for Violin and Piano *Three Piano Pieces References External links * Catriona Hewitson sings ‘The Beachcomber’ from Five Orkn

Claire Polin

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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 Philadelphia Conservatory: a Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate in Music. List of works Note: This is not a complete list. In some cases, the dates listed may have been the original publication date as opposed to the year it was written. Many pieces were published several times in new editions. Compositions * Sonata No. 1 for Flute 1959 * Symphony in two movements 1960 * No-Rai: Songs from Korea, 1963? Soprano Voice, Flute, Double Bass * Sonata for Flute and Harp 1964/73 * No Man is an Island, SATB chorus, piano, 196_ * Serpentine: Lyrical instances for solo viola and imaginary dancer, 1965 * Structures for Solo Flute 1965 * Consecutivo: Study on a Requiem, 1966 * Summer Settings, harp, 1967 * Makimono, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano, 1969 * Second Sonata for flute and harp (From the Painter’s Brush), 197x * Music for the Prince of Wales: Hen ganiadau gwanwyn, medium high voice (male or female) with cello accompaniment * Cader Idris: Landscape for Brass Quintet, 1971 * Infinito: A Requ

Claire Renard

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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 Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in 1973. After completing her studies, she worked as a piano teacher and as a composer of classical and electroacoustic works for sound installations. She has been composer-in-residence at the Theatre of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (1994–1996), Ville d’Epinal (1998), the National Conservatory of Grenoble (1999), the Theatre Athénor/St. Nazaire (2000), Villa Italy Gamberaia (2001–2002), European meeting Objective1 = Art = Objective1 Austria (2001), Park and Grande Halle de la Villette, Grame/Centre National de Création Musicale/Lyon (2005) and the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs Montalvo Art Center, California, USA (2006). Honours and awards * Villa Medicis Hors les Murs prize, 1990 * Beaumarchais Foundation Prize for audiovisual works, 1990 * Beaumarchais Foundation Prize for operatic works, 2002 * Fellowship from DICREAM, 2002 References

Claire Ritter

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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 cultures. Early life and study Ritter grew up on a horse farm in rural Weddington, North Carolina, and began piano lessons in the public school system at the age of seven. As a teenager, she studied with jazz pianist-arranger Ziggy Hurwitz. In 1974, she received a B.S. in Education from Appalachian State University, where she was also an amateur athlete, competing in tennis, softball, soccer, field hockey, and basketball. to study with pianist Ran Blake and attend New England Conservatory. She lived in Boston for 16 years, during which time her compositions were performed and recorded with artists such as Steve Swallow, Ricky Ford, and Dave Holland, and Boston-area musicians such as Dominique Eade, Ran Blake, and Stan Strickland. In 1996, she served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Contemporary Improvisation Department and taught Contemporary Songwriting. Her composition, “In Between”, was recorded in 1986 by Ran Blake on The Short Life of Barbara Monk and by Franz Koglmann on

Clara Angela Macirone

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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 also a pianist (a pupil of Charles Neate) and her father was an amateur tenor. She began her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 1839 under Cipriani Potter, W H Holmes, Charles Lucas and others. She later took a position teaching at the Academy. Macirone was a pioneer in the musical education of women as both a teacher and writer. She held teaching positions at Aske’s School for Girls in Hatcham (1872-8) and at the Church of England High School for Girls, Baker Street. She contributed articles to The Girl’s Own Paper and The Argosy. Macirone died in London in 1914. Works Selected works include: *Suite for piano and violin in E minor * Rondino in G for piano *By the Waters of Babylon, anthem (sung at Canterbury, Ely and elsewhere) *Te Deum and Jubilate *Benedictus *Footsteps of Angels, choral *Come to Me, Oh Ye Children (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) *Fare thee well! and if for ever (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) *Hesperus (Text: Edwin Arnold after Sappho) *The Ba

Clara Anna Korn

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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 moved to New Jersey with her family at the age of 3. She graduated from Jersey City High School in 1881. She initially embarked on a career as a concert pianist, and had early studies with William G. Vogt. When Tchaikovsky was in New York in 1891 he had read some of her composition manuscripts (probably when he was visiting with Schirmer), and sent her a letter of encouragement. She then pivoted towards composition, entering the National Conservatory of Music in New York, where she studied under Bruno Oscar Klein and Horatio Parker and was listed as an “unofficial” composition student of Antonín Dvořák. After graduation from the National Conservatory, she taught there from 1893 to 1898. She also taught in New Jersey public schools, and was head of the piano department at the DeBauer School of Music and Languages in New York City. Korn contributed articles to several music journals and helped to found the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Manuscr

Clara Edmunds Hemingway

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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, Michigan, the daughter of Dennis Bowen Edmunds and Florence Davis Edmunds. Her father was a farmer when she was born, but later owned a veneer mill. She graduated from Benton Harbor High School. Career Edmunds Hemingway was a noted contralto singer, whistler, and dramatic reader. She gave recitals, mainly in the American midwest. During World War I, she gave free recitals to raise funds for the Red Cross. One of her programs, “Stories in Stone” or “Rock Pictures”, involved Lake Michigan rocks that she had painted to resemble Biblical figures, and her stories about them. Her original songs were popular with other touring singers in the early twentieth century United States. Edmunds Hemingway published a book of sonnets, Oak Roots (1931). Her poems were published in a variety of collections and periodicals, Some of her poems were written in Scots dialect, for example “She Slippit Awa’”, which begins, “She slippit awa’ sae peacefu’ lak”. She also collected old songs and tunes. the Illinoi

Clara Edwards

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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 Decoria Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota. She received her education from the Mankato State Normal School and the Cosmopolitan School of Music in Chicago. She married physician John Milton Edwards before finishing her degree, and the couple moved to Vienna, where she continued musical studies and had a daughter. In Europe she prepared for a career as a singer, and gave concerts in both the United States and Europe joining the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1925. She toured in Vaudeville at about the same time, and organized the Chautauqua Concert Company in 1934. She often collaborated with Jack Lawrence, but also wrote many of the lyrics to her own songs. Music Edwards composed over 100 works and published over 60 songs. Several of her songs are sacred, and she wrote choral arrangements for some of them. She also composed music for solo piano, for children’s marionette plays and animated films. Her songs have been recorded and issued on CD and used in

Clara H. Scott

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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 wave of late 19th century women gospel poets. She was the first woman to publish a volume of anthems, the Royal Anthem Book, in 1882. Scott was also well known for her hymn, Open My Eyes, That I May See, written in 1895. The hymn was inspired by Psalm 119, verse 18. She died in 1897 after being thrown from her carriage by a spooked horse. References External links *Free scores at the Mutopia Project *Scott, Clara at Hymnary.org

Clara Kathleen Rogers

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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 and education Rogers was born in Cheltenham, England, into a musical family. Her grandfather, Robert Lindley, was a cellist; her parents, composer John Barnett and Eliza, a singer, were her first music teachers. When Rogers was twelve, her family moved to Germany to further their children’s musical education. Clara was admitted to the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of twelve and studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy, and Hans von Bülow. Two of her older siblings also attended the conservatory. During this time, her father returned to England while her mother stayed with her children, a situation which continued throughout the early part of Rogers’s career. Besides piano, Rogers also studied harmony, part writing, violin, cello, and voice while in Leipzig. Composition classes were not open to women at the conservatory until 1859, after conservatory administrators heard the string quartet Rogers had composed at the age of 13. Her classmate, Arthur Sullivan, copied parts for her

Clara Lyle Boone

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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, and ran for a Congressional seat. Early life and education Boone was born in Stanton, Kentucky, the daughter of Jouett Shelby Boone and Deborah Davida Johnson Boone. Her father was a banker, and her mother was a singer. (Daniel Boone was the brother of one of her Boone ancestors; She studied composition with Walter Piston and Darius Milhaud. Beginning in 1957, she taught at the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C. In 1967, she began teaching fifth graders at Payne Elementary School, a public school in the city. She retired from school work in 1977, but continued to live in the neighborhood of Payne Elementary. She lobbied for arts funding and equal opportunities in the arts, Despite her Washington, D.C. address, she campaigned for the Democratic nomination for a Congressional seat in Kentucky in 1962, saying “I believe Civil Rights should be rooted in principle rather than in politics, and I believe a principle deserves not its name unless it is practiced every day a

Clara Mathilda Faisst

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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 she was one year old. She was the youngest of six children. Those close to her considered her to be quiet and dreamy as a child. Faisst suffered poor health throughout most of her childhood. Education Her musical education began when she entered school. She received musical training from the Grand Ducal conservatory in Karlsruhe until 1894. At age 7, she was the youngest student ever taught by concertmaster Carl Will. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin until 1896. At the academy, she had many prestigious teachers. Clara Schumann’s student Ernst Rudorff taught her piano. Woldemar Bargiel (Schumann’s stepbrother) also taught her the theory of counterpoint and composition. Berlin composer Robert Kahn taught her piano and music theory. Her most well-known teacher was Max Bruch (1838 – 1920) who taught composition. She remained in correspondence with Bruch for most of his life. She composed the score for “Five Songs for a Voice with Pianoforte”, for which Max

Clara Rees

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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 is known about her education or personal life. At the time of the 1910 census, she was living with her sister and brother-in-law in Peoria and teaching voice. She served as an organist and Jerome H. Remick & Co. She composed instrumental works and one opera *Kiss Your Baby Bye Bye (text by Clara H. Rees; music by Richard Armstrong Whiting) *Somewhere *Sunny Summertime (text by Clara H. Rees; music by Richard Armstrong Whiting) *Thine Eyes Will Tell *Yankee Doodle Dude References External links *Download sheet music for “Somewhere” by Clara H. Rees.

Clara Ross

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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 Clara Ross-Ricci. Ross was born in Brighton, England, to a well to do family. In 1877 she auditioned before Sir Arthur Sullivan and received a scholarship to study voice at the National Training School for Music in London, where she remained until 1882. She later studied at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1895, Ross moved to the United States to marry Richard Atkins Griffin, who had attended the Royal College of Music with her. He was a singer and voice teacher who used the stage name Riccardo Ricci. The couple settled in Wheeling, West Virginia, where Ross gave voice lessons and composed songs. Ricci died in 1905, and Ross remained in Wheeling for several decades, returning to Brighton sometime before World War II. Ross’ music was published by Davis Burkham & Tyler Company, F. A. Mills, F. W. Baumer Company, George White, Huntzinger & Dillworth, John Alvey Turner, Oliver Ditson, Phillips & Page, Reid Brothers, Theodore Presser Company, William Maxwell Music Company, and William

Clara Schumann

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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 Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital by lessening the importance of purely virtuosic works. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto, chamber music, choral pieces, and songs. She grew up in Leipzig, where both her father Friedrich Wieck and her mother Mariane were pianists and piano teachers. In addition, her mother was a singer. Clara was a child prodigy, and was trained by her father. She began touring at age eleven, and was successful in Paris and Vienna, among other cities. She married the composer Robert Schumann, on 12 September 1840, and the couple had eight children. Together, they encouraged Johannes Brahms and maintained a close relationship with him. She gave the public premieres of many works by her husband and by Brahms. After Robert Schumann’s early death, she continued her concert tours in Europe for decades, frequently with the violinist Joseph Joachim and other

Clare Kummer

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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. Edward Beecher and great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher. Her great-uncle was Henry Ward Beecher, and her great-aunt was Harriet Beecher Stowe, among other notable members of their family. Her parents were Eugene Francis Beecher and Susan Wood Beecher. Career Kummer wrote songs for musicals in New York beginning in 1903 such as in Sergeant Blue (1905) and A Knight For a Day (1908), before she started writing whole shows, usually musical comedies. Her plays included Noah’s Ark (1906), The Opera Ball (1912), The Choir Rehearsal (1914), Good Gracious, Annabelle (1916-1917), A Successful Calamity (1917), The Rescuing Angel (1917), Be Calm, Camilla (1918), Rollo’s Wild Oat (1920), The Choir Rehearsal (1921, one-act), Chinese Love (1921, one-act), The Robbery (1921, one-act), Bridges (1921, one-act), The Mountain Man (1921), Banco (1922), One Kiss (1923), Annie Dear (1924), Madame Pompadour (1924), Pomeroy’s Past (1926), So’s Your Old Antique (1930), Amourette (1933), Her Master’s Voice (1933),

Clare Loveday

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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 pianist, a composer for the South African advertising industry, and co-ordinator for the National Research Foundation’s Travelling Institute for Music Research. Loveday has also worked as a lecturer in music theory and composition at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was composer in residence at the 2014 Johannesburg International Mozart Festival. Biography After having graduated from University of the Witwatersrand with a bachelor’s degree in Music, Loveday landed a career for a few advertising companies, two of which are Standard Bank and South African Broadcasting Corporation. She returned to school in the late 1990s, and became a part-time lecturer. Once she achieved her master’s degree in Music Composition, she started to collaborate with other artists and compose her own music and is most known for her saxophone pieces. Clare Loveday then became a full-time lecturer at Wits University, while working towards her doctorate in Music Composition. She has been commissioned by several

Clare Shore

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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 Cunningham, graduating with a Master of Music degree in 1977 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She studied with David Diamond, Vincent Persichetti, Roger Sessions, and later with Gunther Schuller and was the second woman to earn a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the Juilliard School in 1984. She was awarded a prestigious fellowship to MacDowell, and was in residence there in 1985. In addition to her work as a composer, Shore has taught music at The Juilliard School, Fordham University, Manhattan School of Music, the University of Virginia, George Mason University and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Her compositions have been performed internationally. She resides in West Palm Beach, Florida. Honors and awards *Irving Berlin Fellowship in Memory of Jerome Kern *Alexandre Gretchaninov Memorial Award *Grant to Young Composers 1983 *ASCAP Standard Awards since 1982 *Composers Assistance Grants from the American Music Center *MacDowell Colony Fellowship *Atlantic Cent

Clarence Barlow

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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 science degree from Calcutta University, as well as a Licentiate Diploma in piano from Trinity College of Music in London. From 1966 to 1968 he taught music theory and worked as a conductor at the Calcutta School of Music. In 1968 Barlow relocated to Cologne, where he studied electronic music and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Herbert Eimert, Vinko Globokar, Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1968 to 1970) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1971 to 1973). From 1971 to 1972 he also studied at the Institute of Sonology of Utrecht University, where he began to use computers as an aid for compositions. Career Barlow was one of the founders of Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln in 1986. He taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from 1982 to 1994. In 1988 he was the director of music at the International Computer Music Conference in Cologne. From 1990 to 1994, Barlow was the artistic director of the Institute of Sonology, at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he also taught in the compos

Clarence Cameron White

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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 for the play Tambour and the opera Ouanga. During the first decades of the twentieth century, White was considered the foremost black violinist. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Early years Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, to James W. White, a doctor and school principal, and Jennie Scott White, a violinist who studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His father died when he was only two years old. White relocated with his mother and younger brother to Oberlin, Ohio, to live with her parents, where he was first exposed to the violin: My mother took me to hear The Messiah sung at the conservatory and I came away humming snatches of it. Mother thought I had a good musical ear and persuaded my grandfather, who was a religious man, to give me his violin…I was only six at the time, nevertheless, my grandfather pouted, “I’ll give him the violin. But if he ever plays at a dance I’ll take it back.” In 1890, Mrs. White remarried and White relocated with his family to Washington, D

Clarence L. Partee

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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, editor and publisher of The Cadenza magazine, and devoted his life to teaching and advancing the banjo, mandolin and guitar, arranging more than 150 works for these three instruments. Partee took up the banjo as a profession after his parents died before he was 14, and he moved to Chicago to pursue that goal. He also began studying the guitar and the mandolin. He also branched out adding sections to the magazine for voice, violin, harp and piano. Jacobs ceased publication in 1924. * American Conservatory banjo method (1895) written with his brother Charles H. Partee * Practical hints on modern guitar playing (1899) * American Conservatory Mandolin Method … containing also arrangements by Mrs. C. L. Partee (1898) * Book of harmony and composition : for the violin, mandolin, guitar and banjo (1907) Music * De Coontown Jubilee. Cake Walk. Banjo Solo by Clarence L Partee (1897) * Prairie rose waltz. By Clarence L. Partee and J.C. Groene & Co, (1890) See also * List of mandolinists (sorted) Ref

Clarence Lucas

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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 Pelletier I. He taught at the Toronto College of Music, taught in Utica, New York, and was the musical director at Wesleyan Ladies College in Hamilton, Ontario. In London, he tutored pupils in composition, proofread music for Chappel publishing, and was a correspondent and then editor for the magazine Musical Courier which he later held in New York and Paris. In Sèvres, just outside Paris, Lucas freelanced as a music transcriber, arranger, lyricist, and translator. He also contributed to Etude, a musical periodical. Lucas conducted works by George Frideric Handel, Michael Costa, Edvard Grieg, George M. Cohan, and others. He toured the British Isles as a conductor for the Irish musical Peggy Machree, and the United States for Grieg’s Peer Gynt. Lucas’ first wife was the English pianist Clara Asher (who had studied with Clara Schumann) and their son was the British composer and conductor Leighton Lucas (1903 - 1982). She died in 1942. His second wife was Gertrude Pidd, a musician. In the

Clarisse Leite

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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 piano called Ginástica Anatômica (Anatomic Gym) and was a member of the International Academy of Music. Early life and education Clarisse Leite was born in São Paulo on January 11, 1917 into a musical family, her maternal grandfather Laurentino Mendes de Moraes composed songs for a band in Paraibuna and her aunt Benedita Borges de Moraes was a pianist. Her elder sister Zilda, also a pianist, taught Leite piano at a young age. The two sisters had an agreement that whenever Zilda went out, Clarisse would play the piano in her place so their mother would not notice Zilda had left. At the age of six, Leite earned a place at the prestigious São Paulo Drama and Music Conservatory. Between 1963 and 1977, Leite was the state supervisor of music in Bauru. While teaching, she developed her own technique to teach piano to students called Ginástica Anatômica (Anatomic Gym). She also founded the Clarisse Leite piano contests. Influenced by her role as a piano teacher, she wrote and dedicated pieces for

Clark Ross

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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 competitions held by the Hamilton Philharmonic (1993, for Passage 1), the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (1993, for Passage 3), Symphony Nova Scotia (2002, for Three Lorca Sketches), and the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters (2002). He has received grants from a number of notable organizations, including the Canada Council, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Bank of Canada among others. His compositions have been performed throughout North America and in Europe. Born in Maracaibo in 1957, Ross entered The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 1980, earning an Associate diploma there in 1985. While there he studied music composition with Samuel Dolin. He continued with further studies in music composition at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Beckwith. There he earned a Master of Music in 1986 and a Doctor of Music in 1992. In 1988 he was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and held the same

Claude Abravanel

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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 also studied composition with Arthur Honegger and piano with Yvonne Lefébure at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. A lecturer and director of the library at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (Rubin Academy) until 1992, Abravanel became director of the Archives of Israeli Music at the Academy. Personal history Abravanel was born in Montreux, Switzerland, and settled in Israel in 1951. See also *Aria *Chamber Music *Music of Israel *Petrarca *Pierre de Ronsard *Yemenite References Additional reference material *©The National Library of Israel. All rights reserved retrieved 23/9/11 *book written by Abravanel retrieved 23/9/11 External links *israelcomposers *jnul

Claude Baker

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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 Carolina University in 1970. He subsequently studied composition at the Eastman School of Music with Samuel Adler and Warren Benson, and holds M.M. (1973) and D.M.A. (1975) degrees from that institution. He is currently Class of 1956 Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Composition in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he is also the recipient of the university-wide Tracy M. Sonneborn Award for accomplishments in the areas of teaching and research. Before his appointment at Indiana, he served on the faculties of the University of Georgia and the University of Louisville, and was a visiting professor at the Eastman School of Music. In the eight-year period from 1991 to 1999, he held the position of Composer-in-Residence of the St. Louis Symphony, one of the longest such residencies with any major orchestra in the country. During this time, he initiated numerous community-based projects, the most notable of which was the establishment of composition programs a

Claude Balbastre

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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 in Dijon in 1724. Although his exact birthdate has been disputed, the discovery of his baptismal record has now made that date, 8 December, certain. Balbastre’s father, Bénigne, a church organist in Dijon, had 18 children from two marriages; Claude was the 16th. Three of his brothers were also named Claude. He is often confused with younger brother Claude-Bénigne Balbastre (22 Jan. 1727-before 22 March 1737). He received his first music lessons from his father, then became a pupil of Claude Rameau, the younger brother of Jean-Philippe Rameau, the most famous French musician at the time and also a native of Dijon. Balbastre settled in Paris in 1750 and studied there with Pierre Février, whom he succeeded as organist of the Saint Roch church. Jean-Philippe Rameau helped and protected Balbastre when he settled in the city, so Balbastre was quickly and efficiently introduced to the Parisian musical circles and high society, and made a brilliant career: he played at the Concert Spirituel unti

Claude Ballif

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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 as a student. Alexandre Desplat, and Claude Abromont. He was described as a French modernist and as “the product of the exciting and turbulent post World War II years of the Western avant-garde” alongside composers Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Biography Ballif was born in Paris on 22 May 1924, the fifth of ten children. Ballif started music at an early age; though the piano was his first love, he was told piano was for girls and that his fingers would never be able to make the right positions, so he learned violin. While in Madagascar, “Captain Durand,” an artillery director on base, taught Ballif music theory; he took violin lessons from a beggar. Ballif spent the final years of his life living in Haute-Marne at the Château de Riaucourt, which had been passed down to him by his maternal grandfather. He died on 24 July 2004 in Saint-Dizier and is buried in Poissons. He struggled in his early years of music study with balancing his need for independent creation and the univer

Claude Coffin

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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 of the king. In 1625, an act reveals this office and his address in the rue de la Mortellerie. He must have acquired a certain notoriety since in 1636 Marin Mersenne included a fugue of him in his Harmonie universelle and praised the quality of his compositions: “The notes which follow show more clearly what I have just said, and contain a fugue composed by Sieur Coffin, one of the oldest and best disciples of Du Caurroy. This mention tells us also that he was one of the students of Eustache Du Caurroy, a very skilful countrapuntist working for the King’s Chapel. Works Psaulms set in music On an unknown date, Coffin published Psalmes de David, à 3, 4 et 5 voix by . These psalms were most probably written on the translation of Philippe Desportes; The two psalms published for voice and lute in 1617 (see below) were probably part of this corpus. Court and ballet arias A few of his were published in various collections: - Two tunes and two psalms for voice and lute in the “Seventh Book” of

Claude Debussy

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Debussy was born on 22 August 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, on the north-west fringes of Paris. He was the eldest of the five children of Manuel-Achille Debussy and his wife, Victorine, née Manoury. Debussy senior ran a china shop and his wife was a seamstress. The shop was unsuccessful and closed in 1864; the family moved to Paris, first living with Victorine’s mother, in Clichy, and, from 1868, in their own apartment in the Rue Saint-Honoré. Manuel worked in a printing factory. In 1870, to escape the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, Debussy’s pregnant mother took him and his sister Adèle to their paternal aunt’s home in Cannes, where they remained until the following year. During his stay in Cannes, the seven-year-old Debussy had his first piano lessons; his aunt paid for him to study with an Italian musician, Jean Cerutti. Sivry’s mother, Antoinette Mauté de Fleurville, gave piano lessons, and at his instigation the young Debussy became one of her pupils. Debussy’s talents soon became evident, and in 1872, aged ten, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he remained a student for the next eleven years. He first joined the piano class of Antoine François Marmontel, and studied solfège with Albert Lavignac and, later, composition with Ernest Guiraud, harmony with Émile Durand, and organ with César Franck. The course included music history and theory studies with Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, but it is not certain that Debussy, who was apt to skip classes, actually attended these. At the Conservatoire, Debussy initially made good progress. Marmontel said of him, “A charming child, a truly artistic temperament; much can be expected of him”. Another teacher was less impressed: Émile Durand wrote in a report, “Debussy would be an excellent pupil if he were less sketchy and less cavalier.” A year later he described Debussy as “desperately careless”. In July 1874 Debussy received the award of deuxième accessit for his performance as soloist in the first movement of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto at the Conservatoire’s annual competition. He was a fine pianist and an outstanding sight reader, who could have had a professional career had he wished, but he was only intermittently diligent in his studies. He advanced to premier accessit in 1875 and second prize in 1877, but failed at the competitions in 1878 and 1879. These failures made him ineligible to continue in the Conservatoire’s piano classes, but he remained a student for harmony, solfège and, later, composition. His first compositions date from this period, two settings of poems by Alfred de Musset: “Ballade à la lune” and “Madrid, princesse des Espagnes”. He travelled with her family for the summers of 1880 to 1882, staying at various places in France, Switzerland and Italy, as well as at her home in Moscow. He composed his Piano Trio in G major for von Meck’s ensemble, and made a transcription for piano duet of three dances from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

Claude Delvincourt

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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 Delvincourt and Marguerite Fourès. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, first under Léon Boëllmann, then under the centenarian Henri Büsser. Also, he was taught counterpoint and fugue by Georges Caussade and composition by Charles-Marie Widor. A Prix de Rome winner in 1911 and again in 1913 (on the latter occasion he shared the award with Lili Boulanger), he was appointed Director of Conservatoire at Versailles in 1932 and Director of the Paris Conservatoire in 1940, following the resignation of Henri Rabaud. During the German occupation of France, Delvincourt was forced to apply the racial laws of the Vichy government to the Paris Conservatoire, excluding Jewish professors and students. But he managed, with the help of his former teacher’s niece Marie-Louise Boëllmann, to prevent numerous students from being compelled to join the STO (law of 16 February 1943). He gathered the young musicians in the Orchestre des Cadets du Conservatoire and convinced the German authorities that they were

Claude Demetrius

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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 was born in Bath, Maine, United States. By his early twenties he was in New York City writing music for and/or with Louis Armstrong. Demetrius wrote the 1945 musical comedy short film Open the Door, Richard. During the 1940s, he was closely associated with Louis Jordan. He wrote songs with Jordan that included material for the 1946 Black musical film Beware in which Jordan had the starring role. Some of Demetrius’ best-known compositions from that era were co-written with Jordan’s wife, Fleecie Moore, including the song “Ain’t That Just Like a Woman (They’ll Do It Every Time).” For two decades, Claude Demetrius made a reasonably good living but in 1956 his income would change dramatically after he began writing for Gladys Music, Inc. Newly formed by Jean and Julian Aberbach, the company owned the exclusive publishing rights to the music of Elvis Presley. Working for Gladys Music, Demetrius co-wrote a song called “I Was The One” that was the B-side to Presley’s first RCA single, “Heartb

Claude Fraysse

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

Claude Gervaise

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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 instrumental music. Life Little research has been done on Gervaise’s life, and details are known only of the period in which he was active in Paris as an assistant to Attaingnant. He first appears around 1540, mentioned as an editor on the title pages for several of Attaingnant’s books of instrumental dances. After Attaingnant died in late 1551 or 1552, Gervaise continued to assist Attaingnant’s widow, Marie Lescallopier-Attaingnant, in carrying on their publishing business. Where Gervaise went after the last publication under the Attaingnant name in 1558 is not known. Music Gervaise’s extant output consists of chansons, mostly for three or four voices, and instrumental music, mostly dances. He appears to have written no sacred music at all, an unusual omission for a composer of the time. In addition to being a composer, he appears to have been an innovator in notation of instrumental music: in an instruction manual for the viol (1548, now lost), he is known to have produced the first viol tabla

Claude Goudimel

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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 born in Besançon, modern-day France, which at that time was a French-speaking imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Few details of his life are known until he is documented in Paris in 1549, where he was studying at the University of Paris; in that year he also published a book of chansons. In the early 1550s he worked with printer , and may have still been studying at the University of Paris until 1555; by 1555 he was also Du Chemin’s partner in the publishing business. Goudimel moved to Metz in 1557, converting to Protestantism, and is known to have been associated with the Huguenot cause there; however he left Metz due to the increasing hostility of the city authorities to Protestants during the Wars of Religion. First he settled in his native town of Besançon, and later moved to Lyon. It is thought that Goudimel was murdered in Lyon in August 1572, during the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, along with much of the Huguenot population of the city. However, his last letter to his clos

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

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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 life Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly on a market day. His parents lived in the neighbouring village of Montaigu. A plaque was placed at the precise spot of his birth and a statue erected in the town’s center in 1882. He was the eldest son of Claude Ignace Rouget (5 April 1735 – 6 August 1792) at Orgelet and Jeanne Madeleine Gaillande (2 July 1734 – 20 March 1811). In 1784, he was initiated into “Les Frères discrets”, a masonic lodge in Charleville, just after being promoted officer. Career He enlisted into the army as an engineer and attained the rank of captain. A royalist like his father, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new constitution. Rouget de Lisle was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793, narrowly escaping the guillotine. He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction and retired to Montaigu. was composed 11 years before by the Italian composer Giovan Battista Viotti at the court of Marie Antoinette. France had just declared war on Austria

Claude Le Jeune

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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, and a significant composer of the “Parisian” chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century. His fame was widespread in Europe, and he ranks as one of the most influential composers of the time. Life He was born in Valenciennes, where he probably received his early musical training. Sometime fairly early in life he became a Protestant. The first record of his musical activity is from 1552, when four chansons attributed to him were published at Leuven, in anthologies of works by several composers. In 1564, he moved to Paris, where he became acquainted with the Huguenots. By this time, he had already acquired some international fame, as evidenced by the appearance of his name in a list of “contemporary composers of excellence” in a manuscript copy of the Penitential Psalms of Orlande de Lassus, which were probably composed in the 1560s in Munich. Lassus may have met Le Jeune in the mid-1550s during a trip to France; however this has not been definit

Claude Ledoux (composer)

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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 processes. As a result, his works has been marked by interactions between contemporary sounds and popular musics, non-European idioms and technology. His recent works, accordingly, demonstrate this interest in the “cultural porosity” in which emotion arises from geographical and historical encounters, linking spirituality to the most sensual aspects of our material existence. Biography - early years Passionated by science and art, Ledoux began at 17 y.o. his studies in painting and graphic Art at the Fine Arts School, coupled with music at the Conservatoire de Liège. There, he met Jean-Louis Robert, Philippe Boesmans, Frederic Rzewski, Henri Pousseur and decided for a musical career. He also carried out research into electronic music at the CRFMW studio (today Centre Pousseur) where he met Tristan Murail at the occasion of seminars. Afterwards, Ledoux pursued his education abroad, notably in Hungary (at Béla Bartók seminar), in Italy (in Bolzano and Venice) where he participated in semin

Claude Lenners

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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, Institut de recherche musicale. Biography Born on 11 May 1956 in Luxembourg City, Lenners specialized in computer science before deciding to return to music when he was 23. He studied music and musicology with Alexander Mullenbach at the Luxembourg Conservatory and with François-Bernard Mâche in Strasbourg. He has composed for a number of ensembles including Alter Ego, Asko Ensemble, Cambridge New Music Players, Court-circuit, Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble 13 and Ensemble Intercontemporain. His compositions have also been played by the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Soloists who have performed his works include violinist Irvine Arditti, percussionist Guy Frisch, saxophonists Pierre-Stéphane Meugé and Olivier Sliepen, pianists Oscar Pizzo and Béatrice Rauchs and flautist Manuel Zurria. *Lions Prize (Luxembourg section, 1997) Selected works *Der Turm (2011) *In a Wilderness of Mirrors (2007) *Odyssey Reloaded (2007) *HoMo XeRoX (2006) *Wi

Claude Léveillée

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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 co-founded Les Bozos, an informal collective of Quebec chansonniers. He notably collaborated with Édith Piaf, writing several songs for her, including “Les Vieux Pianos,” “Ouragan,” and “Boulevard du Crime.” He also composed for a number of Quebec artists, including Julie Arel—“Merci à toi” (1976)—and Nicole Martin, with songs such as “Il est en nous l’amour” (1985), “Mon père et ma mère,” and “On s’aimera” (both 1987). Léveillée performed widely, with appearances in France, the Soviet Union, Belgium, Switzerland, and Japan. His acting credits include roles in the film Line of Demarcation (1966) and the television series Scoop (1991–1994). Biography Youth Joseph Gérard Adolphe Claude Léveillée was born on 16 October 1932 in Montreal. His parents were Pierre Léveillée (1901–1992) and Laurette Lalande (1901–1995). Léveillée’s mother was a pianist and his father was a tenor. In addition to the piano, Claude also played the accordion and harmonica. He began performing with the accordion on the stree

Claude Loyola Allgén

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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 lived briefly in Pixbo (1926-1929) and then Gothenburg before moving to Djursholm, where Allgén spent most of his childhood. At age 12-13 he began studying the violin but soon switched to viola and at sixteen was accepted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Here Allgén studied counterpoint with Melcher Melchers and viola with Charles Barkel. During the 1940s Allgén belonged to the ’Monday Group’ (Måndagsgruppen) along with other radical modernist composers such as Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sven-Erik Bäck and Hans Leygraf. However, Allgén overestimated the importance of his role in the group. In 1941 he graduated from the Academy of Music and sought further studies with Hilding Rosenberg, but found little encouragement from his tutelage. Religious conversion Due to his conversion to Roman Catholicism Allgén changed his formal first name in 1950, choosing to adopt the names Claude Johannes Maria after a number of saints. He added Loyola after his Catholic confirmation, during which the

Claude Méloni

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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 studied singing and opera. After obtaining awards and fulfilling his military obligations, Méloni, on the advice of Pierre Barbizet, took the entrance exam to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1964 and was admitted to the singing class of Janine Micheau. In 1965 he was unanimously awarded a First Prize in singing and the following year a first prize in opera and comic opera. Following his results, Méloni was engaged in the opera of Lyon in the sedentary troupe and for three seasons he performed the roles of his repertoire: Marcello (La bohème), Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Ourias (Mireille), The Vicar (Albert Herring), Albert (Werther), Valentine (Faust), Brissac (Les Mousquetaires au couvent), Silvio (Pagliacci), Scharpless (Madama Butterfly), Niklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann), etc. In October 1962, he participated in the world premiere of Jacques Emmanuel’s (lyrical drama), with Pierre Delanoë and Louis Amade, to music by Gilbert Bécaud at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. In 1969, on t

Claude Pascal

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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 farce du contre Bandier. Pascal’s extensive work as a composer includes practically every musical genre. The discography of his works consists of more than thirty CDs. The musical estate of Claude Pascal is archived at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Works *Quatuor à cordes, 1943 *Octuor for wind instruments, 1944 *Sonatine for alto saxophone and piano, 1947 *1ère Sonate for violin and piano, 1947 *Air varié for contrabass and piano, 1950 *Pop-corn for violin and piano, 1951 *Toccata for piano, 1952 *Pastorale héroïque for trombone and piano, 1952 *Pièce for oboe and piano, 1952 *Sonatine for violin and piano, 1952 *Impromptu for alto saxophone and piano, 1953 *Improvisation en forme de canon for trombone and piano, 1958 *Concerto for piano and chamber orchestra, 1958 *Concerto for cello and orchestra, 1959 *Musique pour harpe, 1960 *Quatuor de saxophones, 1961 *Ouverture pour un conte de fées for orchestra, 1961 *2ème Sonate for violin and piano, 1963 *Ut ou do, 5 pieces for chil

Claude Porter White

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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 Reverend David Knox Porter. After graduating from Southwestern University, she did graduate work in public school music at Northwestern University, and studied at the Aspen Music School and a composers’ symposium in Dallas, Texas. On June 3, 1934, she married Claude L. White. They settled in Corsicana, Texas, and had two daughters. White edited and published The Texas Opera News, which she began in 1973. She published a book of poetry and was listed in the International Who’s Who in Poetry in 1974. White organized the Tune ‘N Fork Club in Corsicana and was a life member of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs and the National Federation of Music Clubs. She chaired the Texas club’s manuscript society and its organization of adult composers. The Claude Porter White Fund for Young Composers was established following her death in 1975. White composed music for orchestra, harp, piano, voice, and at least one ballet. Her publications included: Books *Fruits of My Spirit (poetry) Operas *Genius *Gr

Claude Terrasse

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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 in 1896. In Paris, his brother-in-law, the painter Pierre Bonnard, introduced him to the artistic world and the avant-garde literature and art of the time. Bonnard also did several portraits of him. In 1890, Terrasse married Andrée Bonnard, sister of the artist Pierre Bonnard. By 1899, they had six children, several of whom appear in Bonnard paintings. Their son Charles Terrasse published a monograph on Bonnard in 1927. Terrasse died in Paris, and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery. Works * Vive la France! – Trilogie à grand spectacle (trilogy of a great spectacle) – libretto by Franc-Nohain – (Theater of the Pantins, Paris; 29 March 1898) * La petite femme de Loth – Opéra bouffe in 3 acts – libretto by Tristan Bernard (first presented at the Théâtre des Mathurins, Paris; 1 October 1900) * Les travaux d’Hercule – opera in 3 acts – libretto by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet – (Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris; 7 March 1901) * Le sire de Vergy – Opéra bouffe in 3 act

Claude Vivier

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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 Cologne, Vivier became an innovative member of the “German Feedback” movement, a subset of what is now known as spectral music. Between 1976 and 1977, Vivier travelled to Egypt, Japan, Iran, Thailand, Singapore, and Bali, where he came under the influence of aspects of their respective traditional musics. Despite working at a slow pace and leaving behind a small œuvre, Vivier’s musical language is vast and diverse. His place in the spectral movement of Europe entailed the manipulation of the harmonic series and led to music that incorporated microtones to replicate these frequencies, a compositional technique he would later refer to as the jeux de couleurs. He is also known for incorporating elements of serialism, dodecaphony, musique concrète, extended techniques, surrealism, traditional Québécois folk songs, and more. The themes of Vivier’s pieces are largely seen as autobiographical, often centring around loneliness and ostracization, the search for love and companionship, or voyaging

Claudia Brant

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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). Approximately 1,200 of her songs have been recorded by different artists in diverse genres and multiple languages (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Korean and French). She was appointed senior vice president of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame Influenced by her parents, she grew up listening to a diverse range of music, and learned to play the guitar and other instruments. She signed with Warner Music at the age of 22 and released her first two albums with them. The first of them, “Claudia Brant” released it in 1991. It was in 1991 when she won the Festival OTI in Mexico with the song “¿Dónde estás ahora?” (‘Where are you now? )". In 2008, Claudia and Luis Fonsi (with whom she has worked since 2005) composed the song; “No me doy por vencido”, which he also recorded. The song reached # 1 in the United States’ Latin charts, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and most of Central and South America. “No me doy por vencido” was named Billboard Magazine’s “Son

Claudia Molitor

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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 MA in Music at City University London, she completed her PhD in Composition at the University of Southampton in 2004 (her supervisor was Michael Finnissy). She currently lectures in music at City University London. Work Molitor can best be described as a conceptual composer. However, she has composed works for more traditional ensembles, such as Apartment House, and for orchestra (awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award). A fair number of her more recent ‘works’ are collaborations with composer-performers, such as Lemon Drizzle (a duo she formed with Sarah Nicholls) and site-specific works including Singing Bridge for a walk over Waterloo Bridge from Somerset House to the National Theatre in London, and Sonorama for the train journey between London’s St Pancras railway station and Margate. Molitor is inspired by a wide range of music and composers including Pauline Oliveros, to whom her piece Auricularis Superior (commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) is de

Claudia Montero

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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 relocation to Valencia, she studied at the University of Valencia. Montero won four Latin Grammy Awards over the years 2014, 2016, and 2018, and the award for best classical album in 2018. She was composer in residence with the Palau de Musica and the Valencia symphony Orchestra in Spain. The world première of Montero’s piano concerto, Concierto en Blanco y Negro, was held in 2017 at the Galway International Arts Festival, with Clare Hammond as soloist. Montero died of cancer on 16 January 2021, aged 58. References External links *

Claudin de Sermisy

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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 century; in addition he was a significant composer of sacred music. His music was both influential on, and influenced by, contemporary Italian styles. Biography Sermisy was most likely born either in Picardy, Burgundy, or Île-de-France, based on the similarity of his surname to place names there. His birthdate is inferred from the date he joined the royal chapel; 18 was about the right age for such an appointment. In 1515 he went to Italy with Francis I, and in 1520 he was part of the musical festivities arranged by Francis I and Henry VIII of England at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, directed by Jean Mouton, where he was almost certainly a singer. Typically Sermisy’s chansons are chordal and syllabic, shunning the more ostentatious polyphony of composers from the Netherlands, striving for lightness and grace instead. Sermisy was fond of quick repeated notes, which give the texture an overall lightness and dance-like quality. Another stylistic trait seen in many of Sermisy’s chansons is an i

Claudio Capponi

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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 from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, with high honours in piano, viola and composition. He then became First Solo Violist in the most important Italian orchestras, including the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Giuseppe Sinopoli. An accomplished classical musician, Capponi has also performed with chamber music ensembles such as I Musici, I Virtuosi di Roma, Complesso da camera di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra da camera di Santa Cecilia, and Quartetto Filarmonico di Roma, and has toured such music theatres as the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, with soloists such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Uto Ughi. In Italy he has also taught at the Conservatorio di Roma, Pescara and Terni. In the pop and rock world he has performed live with Angelo

Claudio Casciolini

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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 sang as a bass at the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso where he may have also been maestro di cappella. On 14 January 1724 he married Maria Teresa Mazza in the basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; he had numerous children and lived in poverty in a small house near the . He was a member of the Congregation of S. Cecilia, for which he wrote various compositions. Work Casciolini wrote only church music. Although he lived during what’s usually regarded as the late baroque, he wrote exclusively in the stile antico. This consisted of a cappella counterpoint in the style of Palestrina. Compositions His compositions include a three-part Missa pro defunctis, and a Missa brevissima. Other works for four voices Venite comedite; Adiuva nos; Responsoria per il Mercoledi, Giovedi, Venerdi Santo; Benedictus; Christus factus est, Vexilla; Christe cum sit; Istorum est; Miserere; O vos omnes; Laude sagra ad honorem et gloriam Domini nostri Jesu Christi; Pange lingua; Stabat Mater; Viam mandatorum. Other work

Claudio Constantini

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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 genres. He has garnered one of the widest followings on social media for a classical instrumentalist. Biography Claudio Constantini is a performer of two instruments, the piano and the bandoneón, as well as being a composer. Born and raised in Lima (Peru) into a musician’s family, Constantini’s unique style is defined by its solid classical roots paired with a passion for popular music genres, among which Latin American music and improvisation play a key role. He has performed worldwide in top venues, such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, The Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna’s Musikverein, The Los Angeles Opera house, among many others. He has released numerous albums as soloist or leader and has collaborated in dozens of productions for various artists. He was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2019 for his album AMERICA with piano music of George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla in the “Best Classical Album” category. He initiated his piano studies with his father (Gerardo Constantini) and later rec

Claudio Maldonado (musician)

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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 Patagonia . Career He is the author of Suite Patagonica, AH!, Colección ( based on Georg ’s paintings), Cantata Instrumental and Tierra del Viento ( based on Eliseo Miciú ’s homonymous book) among others. Since 2003, he has been the artistic director of Energia Sonora. Xunorus has been distinguished among the Top Ten World Composer Performers (Transatlantic Arts Consortium USA-Europe), National Fund for the Arts (FNArtes 2017), Young Creators Award (Department of Culture of the Argentine Nation), La Falda International Guitar Festival 2013, Cotija de la Paz Culture department (2005 Michoacán -Mexico), among others. He has appeared in both facets as a composer and performer in prestigious venues such as: REDCAT Walt Disney Concert Hall 2009 (LA-USA), Lake Theater (Frutillar-Chile 2012), Bariloche Musical Camping (Rio Negro), Colorado Springs Guitar Society (USA), International Guitar Academy Berlin 8th Festival (Germany), International Multimedia Festival (UNLa), 404 International Festival

Claudio Merulo

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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 composed in the Venetian polychoral style. He was born in Correggio and died in Parma. Born Claudio Merlotti, he Latinised his surname (meaning little blackbird) when he became famous in Venetian cultural clubs. Life Little is known about his early life except that he studied in Correggio with Tuttovale Menon, a famous madrigalist who also worked in the Ferrara court; he also studied with Girolamo Diruta, an organist. It is likely that he studied with Zarlino at St. Mark’s in Venice. While in Venice he became close friends with Costanzo Porta, a friendship which was to endure for his entire life. On 21 October 1556, he was appointed organist at Old Cathedral of Brescia (Duomo Vecchio), and his skill as an organist must have been impressive, because he became organist at St. Mark’s, one of the most prestigious positions for an organist in Italy, in 1557; he was selected over a list of candidates that included Andrea Gabrieli. This was the first important event of his career, and he was consid

Claudio Monteverdi

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Monteverdi was baptised in the church of SS Nazaro e Celso, Cremona, on 15 May 1567. The register records his name as “Claudio Zuan Antonio” the son of “Messer Baldasar Mondeverdo”. He was the first child of the apothecary Baldassare Monteverdi and his first wife Maddalena (née Zignani); they had married early the previous year. Claudio’s brother Giulio Cesare Monteverdi was also to become a musician; there were two other brothers and two sisters from Baldassare’s marriage to Maddalena and his subsequent marriage in 1576 or 1577. Cremona was close to the border of the Republic of Venice, and not far from the lands controlled by the Duchy of Mantua, in both of which states Monteverdi was later to establish his career. Monteverdi’s first publications also give evidence of his connections beyond Cremona, even in his early years. His second published work, Madrigali spirituali (Spiritual Madrigals, 1583), was printed at Brescia. His next works (his first published secular compositions) were sets of five-part madrigals, according to his biographer Paolo Fabbri: “the inevitable proving ground for any composer of the second half of the sixteenth century … the secular genre par excellence”. The first book of madrigals (1587) was dedicated to Count Marco Verità of Verona; the second book of madrigals (1590) was dedicated to the President of the Senate of Milan, Giacomo Ricardi, for whom he had played the viola da braccio in 1587.

Claudio Pari

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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 eras. He was a competent madrigalist, well regarded by his peers, as well as a late representative of the musical style/ethos known as musica reservata. Life Pari was born in Salines (Salins-les-Bains), Franche-Comté, Holy Roman Empire. While little is known about his early life, he probably came to the Italian peninsula or Sicily early in his life. He was at the monastery of S. Domingo in Palermo in 1598, where he fell afoul of the Inquisition; at an auto-da-fé there he was sentenced to row in the galleys for five years, on a charge of heresy. By 1611 at the latest he was back in Palermo, since he published a book of madrigals there. Whatever his history as a heretic may have been, he must have been forgiven, for he was appointed to be music director at a Jesuit institution at Salemi (in western Sicily) in 1615. His final publication—his fourth book of madrigals—was in 1619 and nothing further is known about his life. Music and influence Much of Pari’s music is in the manneristic style whi

Claudio S. Grafulla

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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. Biography Grafulla was born on October 31, 1812 on Menorca, an island off the coast of Spain that was occupied by the British after the Napoleonic Wars. At the age of 28, he emigrated to the United States, where he became a French horn player in Napier Lothian’s New York Brass Band in New York City. This band was attached to the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard, which was honored in 1922 by John Philip Sousa’s The Gallant Seventh march. In 1860, he added woodwinds to a reorganized band and continued to serve as its director until his death at New York on December 2, 1880. Grafulla was a quiet, unassuming man who never married; his whole life centered on his music. His remarkable technical and musical skills allowed him to become well known as a composer, often writing music to order, and as an arranger. As a director of the 7th Regiment Band, his fame spread widely. Grafulla was a member of William Magear “Boss” Tweed’s exclusive Americus Club. He performed regularly at Americus Clu

Cláudio Santoro

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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 Amazonas, Santoro started to study violin and piano as a child. His efforts made the Government of Amazonas send him to study at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro. Career At the age of 18, he was already teaching violin at the conservatory. He was a pupil of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a composer who influenced him. He also studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He co-founded and played in the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. His prolific output was mostly instrumental and includes fourteen symphonies, three piano concertos and seven string quartets. He was invited by the Government of the German Federal Republic for the Program “Resident Artist in West Berlin” (1966–67) and by the Brahms Foundation as Resident Artist of the Brahms House (Baden Baden). Claudio Santoro died in Brasília in March 1989 at the age of 69 while conducting the rehearsal of a concert scheduled to commemorate the 14 July bicentennial of the French Revolution. Awards He won a 1948 prize of The Lil

Claudio Saracini

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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 Saracini was born to a noble family, probably in Siena. Little is known for certain about his education, but it is presumed that he traveled widely while he was young, for not only did he establish numerous foreign connections—as evidenced by his dedications of music to foreign aristocrats—but he absorbed some of the musical styles of the lands he visited. He seems never to have held a professional musical position of which record has survived; indeed he seems to have been an extraordinarily talented amateur, one who was admired even by Claudio Monteverdi. The references to Saracini as “Il Palusi” seem to indicate that he was a member of an academy, although further details are lacking. All of his music was published in Venice between 1614 and 1624. Music and influence Of his music, 133 songs have survived, and all are monodies—secular compositions for solo voice, generally sung in a highly ornamented style, with instrumental accompaniment. All but one are in Italian, and encompass a wide

Claudio Spies

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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 education in Santiago in 1941, when he passed the Bachillerato. Erich Kleiber and Fritz Busch were mentors to Spies at an early age. Spies came to the United States in August 1942 to study music at New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger and, after her departure for California, with Harold Shapero. He entered Harvard College in February 1947. One of his most influential teachers at Harvard was Irving Fine, and another was Otto Gombosi. He wrote his dissertation on “The concept of form in the symphonies and concertos of Strawinsky.” He graduated in June 1950, and received the John K. Paine Traveling Fellowship, which took him to Paris, where he spent a year composing. He returned to Harvard as a graduate student and received his MA degree in composition in 1954. Career Spies has taught music at many institutions: * Harvard University (1953–1957) * Vassar College (1957–1958) * Swarthmore College (1958–1970) * Princeton University (Professor

Claudio Vena

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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 score for Boy Meets Girl. Two of his arrangements also were featured in the film Only You. He has scored numerous documentaries. He was presented with a Gemini award for Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series, for his score to T.O. in the series 24. Vena has also written scores for Johnny Lombardi, The Great Communicator, a documentary about the founder of CHIN radio, as well as an original score for the CBC Radio Drama, The Wanderers. From 2001 till 2005, his music was used as the Logo music of the CBC TV News programmes The National, Canada Now & The main network news. He has composed scores for theatre productions including original scores for Romeo & Juliet, directed by Vikki Anderson for Canadian Stage and Peter Pan, directed by Tim Carroll, in 2010 as well as Hamlet, directed by Adrian Noble, in 2008 for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival. For the 2013 season of The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Claudio wrote a Victorian score for Romeo & Juliet. In 2000 he w

Cláudio Venturini

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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 friend Lô Borges in 1978. One year later he was co-founder of the band 14 Bis, formerly besides his brother Flávio and where he persists nowadays. In 1987, when Flávio left the group, Cláudio became the main vocalist of the band. He composed some of the greatest hits of the band like: Mesmo de Brincadeira (with Vermelho and Mariozinho Rocha), Xadrês Chinês (with Vermelho and Chacal), Sonhando o Futuro (with Lô Borges), song that was recorded again by Beto Guedes and Canções de Guerra (with Sérgio Vasconcellos e Chico Amaral). See also * Clube da Esquina References External links *

Claus Bantzer

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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 Christoph Bantzer is an actor. Bantzer began studying piano, organ, and conducting at the music school of the university of Frankfurt am Main. He continued his studies in Hamburg (Hochschule für Musik und Theater), where he became a master student of the organ teacher Heinz Wunderlich. He was also Wunderlich’s assistant at the church St. Jacobi in Hamburg. Since 1975, Bantzer has been organist at the church of St. Johannis Harvestehude in Hamburg. Later, the honorary title of Kirchenmusikdirektor was conferred onto him. At this church, he leads two choirs, the main church choir of St. Johannis and the chamber choir Harvestehuder Kammerchor, which he founded. As a composer of music for more than 20 films, he has worked closely the film directors Peter Lilienthal, Doris Dörrie, Jan Schütte and Tevfik Başer. Apart from his compositions for film, he has also composed other works, usually combining religious lyrics with modern music, in particular jazz. Film music composed by Bantzer * (1980

Claus Kühnl

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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 Franconia and Wilhelm Kühnl who came from the Sudetenland. His musical training began in 1973, first as an external student during his last years of high school and later, as a student at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, studying with Bertold Hummel (composition), Julian von Károlyi (piano), Hanns Reinartz (conducting) and Zsolt Gárdonyi (theory). Important for him at this time were analysis courses in New Music with Klaus Hinrich Stahmer and, from 1978 to 1980, the Student Chamber Orchestra “Musici Allegri”, which he himself conducted. In 1980 he successfully finished his state exam in piano and then moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he continued his studies in composition with Hans Ulrich Engelmann at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. There he met the German composer Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, with whom he founded the Mutare Ensemble in 1981. This Frankfurt-based ensemble specialises in the performance of contemporary music and rarely performed classical music.

Claus Schall

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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, initially a cobbler’s apprentice, later established his own dance school. His mother was Christiane Pedersdatter, née Salling. He had two brothers, Andreas Schall and Peder Schall, who were also musicians. Early years His father, keen on involving him in dance, arranged violin lessons for him. Later, he briefly worked in an office but found it unsuitable. In 1772, he independently enrolled in the Theatre’s dance school, becoming a supernumerary in 1773. Engaging in ballets, he had the opportunity to hear various pieces of music, which he memorized on the violin due to his excellent musical memory. He supported himself by teaching dance in Roskilde and Holbæk during summers and giving music lessons in Copenhagen during winters. In 1776, during a rehearsal for the ballet “Kongen paa Jagt,” the rehearsal director fell ill, and the key to the music cabinet was misplaced. Schall played the entire music from memory and even conducted the ballet that evening when no violinist from the orchestra dar

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

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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, Klaus Huber and Emanuel Nunes and music theory at the music academy in Freiburg where he graduated in 1992. At the same time, he studied musicology, philosophy with Jürgen Habermas and sociology at university. Later he was influenced by Habermas’s antagonist Peter Sloterdijk and appropriated the idea of a philosophical explanation of the female orgasm (which lacks biological necessity in terms of procreative function) from an email novel Sloterdijk had published three years earlier. In 1993 Mahnkopf was awarded a doctorate in philosophy for his dissertation on Arnold Schoenberg. For his compositions Mahnkopf won numerous international prizes, among them the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1990, the composition prize of the city Stuttgart and the Composers Award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 1998. Mahnkopf went to Rome (Villa Massimo), Italy, Venice (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani), Italy, and Basel (Paul-Sacher-Stiftung), Switzerland, on scholarships. From 2001

Clay Christiansen (organist)

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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 when it was on tour. Christiansen also provided organ recitals in the Salt Lake Tabernacle and the Conference Center. Early life Christiansen had a fascination with music from an early age. He was born in 1949 in the small city of Emery, Utah. He would play the piano for hours on end. When neighbor children would come to play, he would rather stay in and practice the piano. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he played his first piano solo, “We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet”, in church at the age of six. He played by ear until the age of eight when he took his first piano lessons. He was the accompanist for his church Sunday School and priesthood services, and a substitute ward organist at the age of eleven. Christiansen received a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from Brigham Young University, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in music composition from the University of Utah. Career From 1972 to 1982, Christiansen was the organist for St. Ma

Clayton Counts

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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 retinas in both his eyes. A series of surgeries at a young age complicated this, leaving him blind in his right eye, and weakened in his left. Counts was initially located in Austin, Texas. In the 1990s, Counts became notorious with his prank phone calls to the Austin Community Access Center, in particular Alex Jones’s show. An incident occurred – though with varying claims from both sides – in which Counts was involved in the assault of Jones in a parking lot with three other individuals. As a follow-up, it was claimed that Jones used FBI connections to label Counts a terrorist and claimed he possessed child pornography. Federal agents raided the FringeWare Review bookstore, headquarters of an early cyberculture magazine that Counts wrote articles for. The case was later dropped. In 2000, Counts relocated to Chicago. While there, he met Neil Keener, who would later join Counts in the band Bull of Heaven. DJ work In the 2000s, Counts worked as a DJ to afford a living. He worked at vari

Clémence de Grandval

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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 era. She was a person and composer of stature during her life, although less remembered subsequently. Many of her works were published under pseudonyms. Biography Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset was the youngest of four children, born in 1828 into a well-to-do family in the Chateau de la Cour du Bois at Saint-Rémy-des-Monts. Her father was an Officier de la Légion d’honneur and a talented pianist, while her mother wrote and published stories. Her parents received many composers and artists, including Jean-Baptiste-Philémon de Cuvillon, Auguste-Joseph Franchomme, Louis-Nicolas Cary and Paul Scudo. At a very young age, she received composition lessons from composer and family friend Friedrich Flotow, and later studied with Frédéric Chopin. Because her family was wealthy, she was able to work as a composer without financial concerns. She married the Vicomte de Grandval and they had two daughters, Isabelle and Thérèse. Grandval was a vegetarian and a spiritualist, and for this was deemed ec

Clémence Quélennec

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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 approximately 10 years, and became solo in 2019 under the stage name Aja. Clémence Quélennec’s vocals have been described as “dreamy and urgent” as well as “coquettish”. La Femme For the band La Femme, Clémence Quélennec was discovered by the originators, via MySpace, at age 17. Quélennec became part of La Femme’s small group of studio and conceptual singing leads. Band manager Stéphane Le Sciellour, however, specified that Quélennec “…is La Femme’s singer. She’s performing all of the live songs; she goes on tour with them. She is the singer of the band.” During Clémence Quélennec’s time with La Femme, band manager Marlon Magnée noted that Quélennec resembled “…a Vogue cover.” Aja In 2019, Clémence Quélennec chose to leave La Femme to produce her own work in Morocco, and isolate herself in the wilderness. Adopting the stage name Aja, Quélennec has since self-produced an assortment of original compositions, animated shorts, and vocal songs. Clémence Quélennec’s focus is ambient sound. Quél

Clemens von und zu Franckenstein

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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 Karl, Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein (1831–1898) and Elma, née Countess von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1841–1884). His brother was Austrian Ambassador to England, Georg von und zu Franckenstein. Georg’s son, actor Clement von Franckenstein, was his nephew. Franckenstein studied in Vienna, Austria, and later in Munich, Germany, with Ludwig Thuille and at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt with Iwan Knorr. Career After a visit to the USA he conducted the Moody-Manners Opera Company, acted from 1902–1907 as opera conductor in London, then worked at the court theatres of Wiesbaden and Berlin, until the court theaters were abolished after the First World War. He was the last royal general director of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (1912–1918 and 1924–1934) and the only one who exercised this office twice. He produced the Munich Opera Festival through 1934 when he was forced out by Nazi prohibitions. Personal life Franckenstein, who married Maria Nezádal, died in Hechendorf am Pilsensee, Ob

Clément Broutin

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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 Conservatoire de Paris. There he was a pupil of Émile Durand for harmony, César Franck for organ and Victor Massé for musical composition. After an honorary mention in 1877 he won the First Grand Prix de Rome with the three-part scene La Fille de Jephté based on a text by Édouard Guinant. During his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the prize, Broutin composed Sinai, a work for soloists choir and orchestra, which was premiered in 1881 in the hall of the Paris Conservatory. The work was received coolly by the audience, but critics praised it for the excellent quality of the composition, its exquisite taste and great intelligence. In the following years he composed a number of songs and piano pieces, several orchestral pieces and an opera. Most of his works were published by Henry Lemoine. Broutin died in Roubaix aged 38. In his native town, a street was named after him. Selected works Stage * Rebecca à la fontaine, three-part scene (1877) * Jenny, one-act opéra comique, l

Clement Harris

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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 born on 8 July 1871 in Wimbledon, London, into a family of ship-owners. His siblings included Sir Austin Edward Harris, who became a noted banker, Frederick Leverton Harris, a British Member of Parliament, and Walter Burton Harris, a journalist, writer, traveller and socialite who achieved fame for his writings on Morocco. He was educated at Harrow School, and subsequently studied music in Frankfurt, where he was a piano pupil of Clara Schumann. Friendship with Siegfried Wagner Harris became intimate friends with Siegfried Wagner after meeting him in 1889 at a soirée at the house of Edward Speyer. Becoming restless after spending the summer of 1891 in Bayreuth with Siegfried, Harris proposed taking a free trip to the far East on one of his father’s ships. In 1892, Siegfried travelled to London where Harris introduced him to Oscar Wilde. Harris is described as a protegé of Wilde’s for whom Harris would perform Richard Wagner transcriptions. Wilde liked to talk with Harris about “the most

Clément Janequin

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Janequin was born in Châtellerault, near Poitiers, though no documents survive which establish any details of his early life or training. His career was highly unusual for his time, in that he never had a regular position with a cathedral or an aristocratic court. Instead he held a series of minor positions, often with important patronage. In 1505 he was employed as a clerk in Bordeaux, to Lancelot du Fau, who eventually became Bishop of Luçon; he retained this position until du Fau’s death in 1523, at which time he took a position with the Bishop of Bordeaux. Around this time he became a priest, though his appointments were rarely lucrative; indeed he always complained about money. After 1530 Janequin held a succession of posts in Anjou, beginning as a singing teacher to the choirboys at the cathedral at Auch, and progressing to maître de chapelle at the singing school at Angers Cathedral. Around this time he attracted the attention of Jean de Guise, the patron of Erasmus, Clément Marot, and Rabelais; it was a welcome career boost, and, in 1548, with the additional assistance of Charles de Ronsard (the brother of poet Pierre de Ronsard), he became curate at Unverre, not far from Chartres. During this time he lived in Paris. By 1555 he was listed as a “singer ordinary” of the king’s chapel, and shortly thereafter became “composer ordinary” to the king: only one composer (Sandrin, also known as Pierre Regnault) had previously had this title. In his will, dated January 1558, he left a small estate to charity, and he complained again of age and poverty in a dedication to a work published posthumously in 1559. He died in Paris.

Clément Lippacher

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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 prize in 1868, a first runner-up prize in plainsong in 1869, a second harmony prize in 1870. He became an organist at the Église Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile in Paris. Selected works * 1882: Les Papillons, 2-act ballet by Holtzer, music by Raoul Pugno and Clément Lippacher. * 1883: la Vente de M. X… * 1886: Viviane, ballet-féerie in five acts and six scenes, by Edmond Gondinet, music by Raoul Pugno and Clément Lippacher, premiered on 28 October 1886 at the Eden-Théâtre. * 1886: La Pension de Me Laicque, with Mengal * 1886: Joséphine vendue par ses sœurs, 3-act opéra bouffe by Paul Ferrier and Fabrice Carré, music by Victor Roger premiered in Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, 20 March. * 1892: Le Christ, sacred drama, libretto by Charles Grandmougin, stage music by Lippacher. * 1892: Noël d’Alsace, libretto by Charles Grandmougin, stage music by Clément Lippacher. Notes and references Notes References Sources *. External links

Clément Loret

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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 Belgium. His father Hippolyte, organist (at Notre-Dame de Termonde) and organ builder, introduced him to music and the organ at a very young age. He started playing in church when he was 7 years old, and the following year he occasionally replaced his father at the keyboard. In 1846, his father was appointed organist at Mons, and the young Clément continued his musical studies with Jules Denefve (1814–1877). Admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 1851, he was a student of Lemmens for the organ and Fétis for the counterpoint. He won a First Prize in 1853. In 1855, Loret came to Paris. Lemmens had written him a letter of introduction to Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who was so little impressed by the young man that he dared not present him to his acquaintances. However, he linked up with , an harmonium factor, who decided him to stay. He then held organist positions at Suresnes and Notre-Dame des Victoires. Then, he was named titular holder of the new Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Nation

Cliff Eidelman

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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 Columbus: The Discovery. Career Eidelman began his formal training in violin at the age of eight and continued with multi-instrument training ranging from piano and guitar in genres such as jazz to classic music in his youth. After studying music at Santa Monica College and the University of Southern California, he scored his first feature film Magdalene in 1989. His breakthrough composition was the 1991 score to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. In the years after, Eidelman continued to compose dramatic and epic scores such as Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. As Eidelman’s style of composing changed towards more sentimental and minimalistic scores, so did the films for which he scored. Eidelman currently resides in Santa Monica, California and continues to score movies. Notable scores (concert music) * Symphony No. 2 First recording performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conducted by Cliff Eidelman (2024) * Bridges: For solo Piano (2021) * The Five Tales for Solo

Cliff Hess

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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 passenger riverboats on the Mississippi River. He met Irving Berlin while working in the Chicago branch of the music publisher Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. By 1911 he was working as Berlin’s secretary, and appeared on Broadway that year with Berlin as his accompanist in performances of his songs. He served as Berlin’s secretary until 1918 and was largely responsible for not only notating Berlin’s songs into sheet music, but also editing his works into playable keys and simplifying works to make them accessible for commercial sale. After leaving Berlin, he became a successful songwriter in his own right with many tunes being recorded for Victor Records and Columbia Records. He also wrote songs for films during the 1930s and some of his tunes were interpolated into musicals. Life and career Clifford “Cliff” Hess was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 19, 1894. While a young teenager, he began his career as a pianist on passenger riverboats traversing the Mississippi River. He got a job

Clifford Ford

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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 member of the music faculties of McMaster University and Dalhousie University. He co-founded the Canadian Musical Heritage Society for which he is executive secretary and technical editor. Education Born in Toronto, Ford studied piano, organ, and voice privately in his native city with Eric Lewis from 1957 to 1962. In 1960 he entered The Royal Conservatory of Music where he studied music theory and music composition with John Beckwith through 1964. He later pursued further studies with Beckwith and John Weinzweig at the University of Toronto where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1970. That same year he won the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada’s Ernest MacMillan Award which provided him with funds to pursue studies with István Anhalt at McGill University in 1970–1971. He later returned to that school for graduate studies in composition, earning a Master of Music in 1981. He also spent a year studying at the Institute for Sonology at Utrecht University with Gottfried Mi

Clive Hunt

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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 Stony Hill Approved school, and joined the 1st Battalion, The Jamaica Regiment Band at the age of seventeen. On leaving the service he was recruited by Byron Lee for his band the Dragonaires, touring with the group in North America. He went through rehab in 1991 and has since re-established himself as a successful producer, working with the likes of Beres Hammond, Judy Mowatt, The Abyssinians and Garnett Silk, and recorded with Jimmy Cliff, Steely & Clevie and the Rolling Stones. In the 21st century he was signed by VP Records as a producer for the label and has produced for artists such as Etana, Jah Cure, Maxi Priest, Jah9, Richie Spice, and Queen Ifrica. He produced the Various Artists collection We Remember Dennis Brown for the label, released in 2016. VP Records released the instrumental album Blue Lizzard on November 13, 2020. Discography *Satta I (1977) Trojan (as Lizzard) *Orthodox Dub (197?) Wackie’s *Blue Lizzard (2020) VP Records References External links *Clive Hunt at Roots

Clorinda Rosato

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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 Paulo. Her teachers included Martin Braunwieser, Ines de Campo, Antonio Candido, Furio Frenceschini, Miguel Antonio Gallo, Francisco Mignone, Alice Ornellas, Artur Pereira and Frutuoso Viana. Her compositions include: Chamber music *Improviso (violin, cello and piano) *“Quatro Corais” *Tatu e Cabocio do Sui (chorus) *“Trovas” References External links *Listen to Seresta by Clorinda Rosato

Clotilde Arias

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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 and sung worldwide; and for her translation of “The Star-Spangled Banner”, the United States national anthem, into lyrical Spanish, commissioned by the U.S. Department of State in 1946. Arias was also an integral part of the Pan-American movement during the 1940s, as well as an advocate for Spanish-language education in the United States. Life Arias was born in 1901 in Iquitos, Peru, on the shores of the Amazon. She spent many of her early years in Barbados, where she attended elementary school. She began writing and composing songs during her teenage years. Arias’s artistic talents in music, painting, and composing including playing for silent movies emerged early in Iquitos. She achieved scholastic and artistic recognition, with numerous honors. Her perfect pitch and exceptional ability to sight read made her a highly sought accompanist. Throughout Peruvian history, the Charango was a common instrument of their culture. While Arias focused on composing, she also mastered this instrumen

Clotilde Rosa

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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, Portugal, to José Rosa (1895–1939), violinist and tenor, and Branca Belo de Carvalho Rosa (1906–1940), pianist and harpist. She was the younger sister of , who became an architect and sculptor; and the sister-in-law of Helena Almeida. Rosa began piano lessons at age ten with Ivone Santos, and harp lessons at the age of twelve under Cecilia Borba at Lisbon’s National Conservatoire. Between 1960 and 1963 she continued her harp studies with several scholarships in Amsterdam with Phia Berghout, in Paris with Jacqueline Borot, and in Cologne with Hans Zingel. From 1963 until 1966 Rosa also took part in the Darmstadt Summer Courses, directed by Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Germany. After completing her studies, she worked as a harp soloist with various orchestras and ensembles. In 1965 Rosa took part in the first Portuguese happening at Galeria Divulgação, along with António Aragão, E. M. Melo e Castro, Sallette Tavares (poet), Manuel Baptista, Jorge Peixinho (composer) and Mário Falcão (another ha

Clytus Gottwald

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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 contemporary choral music, Further reading * “Gottwald, Clytus” in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart vol. 7, Bärenreiter, Kassel/Metzler, Stuttgart, 2002, , pp. 1409–1410 * Constance DeFotis: From the Work and Writings of Clytus Gottwald, Founder and Director of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1988 External links * (archive) * * *