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Codé di Dona

Codé di Dona, nickname of Gregório Vaz, (July 10, 1940 —January 5, 2010) was a Cape Verdean musician and composer. He was born in Chaminé near São Domingos and lived in the locality of São Francisco,

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Colde

Kim Hee-soo (; born May 10, 1994), better known as Colde (), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He debuted in 2016 as a member of the indie duo Off On Off. As a solo artist he has released the

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Cole M.G.N.

Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, (born March 7, 1985) known professionally as Cole M.G.N., is an American musician, record producer, songwriter, and mixer. He is a former member of Ariel Pink's Haunted

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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932, Manhattan, New York or possibly (unconfirmed) Winston-Salem, North Carolina – March 9, 2004, Chicago) was an American composer whose interests spanned the

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Colette Mourey

Colette Mourey (born 1954) is a French classical guitarist, music educator, musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Kenitra (Morocco), Mourey studied musicology at the Sorbonne under Edith Weber

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Colin Black

Colin Black is an Australian experimental music composer, sonic media arts practitioner, radio artist and researcher. Black has been awarded the 2015 New York Festivals International Gold Trophy

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Colin Brumby

Colin James Brumby (18 June 1933 – 3 January 2018) was an Australian composer and conductor. Biography Brumby was born in Melbourne and educated at the Glen Iris State School, Spring Road Central

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Colin Gibson (musician)

Patrick Colin Gibson (born 21 September 1949, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland) is an English bass player and composer. Career Gibson and guitarist John Turnbull were childhood friends and played

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Colin Matthews

Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other

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Colin Mawby

Colin Mawby (9 May 1936 – 24 November 2019) was an English organist, choral conductor and composer. From 1961 he was Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral. Later he served as choral director at

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Colin McAlpin

Colin McAlpin (9 April 1870 – 13 May 1942) was an English composer of songs, operas and ballet music, an organist and a writer of critical essays on music. Life Colin McAlpin was born in 1870, at 15

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Colin McPhee

Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of

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Colin O'Malley

Colin O'Malley (born December 9, 1973) is a composer, songwriter, and producer. He is a two-time Emmy nominee for Outstanding Music Composition from the National Academy of Television Arts and

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Colin Ross (composer)

Colin Archibald Campbell Ross (1911–1993) FRCO was an organist, pianist, conductor and composer. Biography Colin Ross was born in 1911 in Brecon, of Scottish ancestry, the younger son of Archibald

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Colin Self (composer)

Colin Self (born 1987) is an American artist, composer, and choreographer. Their work centers around ideas of gender, communication, and consciousness, and their practice includes social

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Colin Smith (religious and hymnodist)

Colin Declan Smith (10 June 1928 – 23 October 2005) Arguably Colin's signature work is the Mass Shalom, originally composed in 1977 and one of the only Australian Mass settings popular before the

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Colin Touchin

Colin Michael Touchin (3 April 1953 – 30 September 2022) Biography Colin Touchin was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford. Touchin taught for eight years at Chetham's

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Colin Towns

Colin William Towns (born 13 May 1948) is an English composer and keyboardist. He was noted for playing in bands formed by ex-Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, and later worked extensively in composing

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Colin Wark

Colin Wark (1896 – 1939) was a British composer of film scores, theatre music and light music, born in Ealing, West London and educated at Berkhamsted School. Many of the films he scored were "quota

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Colinet de Lannoy

Colinet de Lannoy (died before 6 February 1497) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the composers/singers working at the Milan chapel at the time of the assassination of Duke

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Colleen Lovett

Colleen Lovett (born November 3, 1946, in Texas) is an American singer, composer, and arranger who, since the age of six, has flourished as a recording artist and performer in North America, Asia

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Composer

A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the Oxford English

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Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Attersee)

The composing hut of Gustav Mahler, German: Gustav Mahler-Komponierhäuschen, is a little museum and memorial in Steinbach at lake Attersee in Upper Austria. It is dedicated to the classical composer

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Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Wörthersee)

The composing hut of Gustav Mahler (German: Gustav Mahler-Komponierhäuschen) is a small museum and memorial in Maiernigg, near Maria Wörth in Carinthia, Austria. It is dedicated to the classical

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Comtessa de Dia

The Comtessa de Dia (Countess of Die), possibly named Beatritz or Isoarda (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212), was a trobairitz (female troubadour). She is only known as the comtessa de Dia in contemporary

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Concha Valdés Miranda

Concha Valdés Miranda (July 16, 1928 – August 19, 2017) was a Cuban songwriter and performer of Cuban music. Miranda was born in Havana, Cuba. Her greatest success may have been "El que más te ha

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Conisch

is a Japanese composer, arranger, music producer, pianist and keyboardist. His real name is Hiroaki Konishi (小西宏明, Konishi Hiroaki). Biography Conisch was born on April 19, 1981. He graduated from

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Conlon Nancarrow

Samuel Conlon Nancarrow (; October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was a US-born Mexican composer. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use

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Conon of Béthune

Conon de Béthune (before 1160 in the former region of Artois, today Pas-de-Calais - 17 December 1219, possibly at Adrianople) was a French crusader and trouvère poet who became a senior official and

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Conor Mitchell

Conor Mitchell is a Northern Irish composer, librettist and theatre-maker. His play, The Dummy Tree, was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their 2009 New Connections series. Early life

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Conrad Ansorge

Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge (15 October 1862 – 13 February 1930) was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Ansorge was born in Buchwald, Silesia, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1880

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Conrad Baden

Conrad Baden (31 August 1908 – 11 June 1989 ) was a Norwegian organist, composer, music educator, and music critic. He had an extensive production of orchestral works, chamber music, vocal works and

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Conrad Beck

Conrad Arthur Beck (16 June 1901 – 31 October 1989) was a Swiss composer. Life and works Beck's stay in Paris between 1924 and 1933 proved crucial to his artistic development, where he studied with

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Conrad Bernier

Conrad Bernier (9 May 1904 – 7 November 1988) was a French-Canadian organist, composer, conductor and teacher. For many years he was a professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington,

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Conrad Clipper

Conrad Clipper is the pseudonym of an anonymous English musician and producer. His first album, Cycle of Liminal Rites, was released as a limited edition cassette on Love Lion in 2016. It was first

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Conrad Cummings

Conrad Cummings (born February 10, 1948) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His compositions include works for orchestra, as well as operatic and chamber works. Many of his

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Conrad Paumann

Conrad Paumann (c. 1410 – January 24, 1473) was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the early Renaissance. Born blind, he became one of the most talented musicians of the 15th century, and

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Conrad Pope

Conrad Pope is an American orchestrator and film composer. He has worked on numerous films and has collaborated with composers such as John Williams, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Danny

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Conrad Susa

Conrad Stephen Susa (April 26, 1935 – November 21, 2013) was an American composer. Born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Susa studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Juilliard School,

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Conradin Kreutzer

Conradin Kreutzer or Kreuzer (22 November 1780 – 14 December 1849) was a German composer and conductor. His works include the operas Das Nachtlager in Granada and incidental music to , both produced

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Conrado del Campo

Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta (28 October 1878 – 17 March 1953) was a Spanish composer, violinist and pedagogue. Career Del Campo was born in Madrid. He became professor at the Madrid Royal

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Conradus de Pistoria

Conradus de Pistoria (also Coradus, de Pistoia, de Pistoja) ( early 15th century) was an Italian composer of the late medieval era and early Renaissance, active in Florence and elsewhere in northern

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Constança Capdeville

Constança Capdeville (16 March 19374 February 1992) was a Portuguese pianist, percussionist, music educator and composer. Early years Constança Capdeville was born in Barcelona and lived in the

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Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie

Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (or Fauntleroy) (January 15, 1836 – May 17, 1911) was an American pianist, author and composer. Biography She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the granddaughter of

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Constance Walton

Constance Williams Walton (30 June 1919 – 22 July 2017) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Walton was born in California to Milo B. and Helen W. Williams. She graduated from the

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Constancio Hernáez

Constancio Hernáez Marco (born 1957) is a Spanish composer. Constancio Hernáez Marco was born in Madrid in 1957, and studied piano, harmony, counterpoint, composition and voice. In addition, he holds

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Constant Lambert

Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founding music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Dame Ninette de Valois

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Constantijn Huygens

Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem ( , , ; 4 September 159628 March 1687), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and

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Constantin Brăiloiu

Constantin Brăiloiu (13 August 1893 – 20 December 1958) was a Romanian composer and internationally known ethnomusicologist. He was born in Bucharest, the scion of an old boyar family from Oltenia.

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Constantin Christian Dedekind

Constantin Christian Dedekind (2 April 1628 – 1715) was a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. Biography Dedekind was born in Reinsdorf, Thuringia into a

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Constantine Koukias

Constantine Koukias (born 14 October 1965) is a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias. He is the

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Constanze Geiger

Constanze Therese Adelaide Geiger, Freifrau von Ruttenstein (16 October 1835 – 24 August 1890) was an Austrian pianist, theatrical actress, composer and singer. Biography Geiger was the daughter of

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Cor de Groot

Cor de Groot (July 7, 1914 – May 26, 1993) was a Dutch pianist and composer. He was born in Amsterdam. He studied piano with Egbert Veen and Ulferts Schults, and composition and conducting under Sem

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Cora Decker Sargent

Cora Emily Decker Sargent (21 May 1868 - 27 September 1944) was an American composer who is best remembered for her song “A Summer Girl,” which was performed at the Proms (today the BBC Proms)

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Corentin Henri Le Fur

Corentin Henri Le Fur is a French film score composer and record producer from Beauvais, France, now based in London, United Kingdom. In 2016, Corentin joined the joint venture between British

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Corey Dargel

Corey Dargel (born October 19, 1977, in McAllen, Texas) is a composer, lyricist, and singer who makes a mix of contemporary classical and electronic pop music. Career Formally trained in music

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Cornel Țăranu

Cornel Țăranu (; 20 June 1934 – 18 June 2023) was a Romanian classical composer, musicologist, conductor and cultural manager. A native of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, he was always attached to this

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Cornel Wilczek (composer)

Cornel Wilczek is an Australian film and television composer based in Melbourne. He is a three-time AACTA Award winner known for his work on horror films such as Talk to Me (2022), Bring Her Back and

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Cornelia Tăutu

Cornelia Tăutu (10 March 1938 – 24 March 2019) was a Romanian composer best known for film soundtracks. Biography Cornelia Tăutu was born in Odorhei, Romania in 1938. She studied both music

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Cornélie van Oosterzee

Cornélie van Oosterzee (16 August 1863 – 12 August 1943) was a Dutch pianist and composer. Biography Cornélie van Oosterzee was born on August 16, 1863, to Pieter Cornélis van Oosterzee and Johanna

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Cornelis Dopper

Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper (7 February 1870, Stadskanaal – 19 September 1939, Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher. Life Born in the northern Dutch town of Stadskanaal, he came to study

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Cornelis Verdonck

Cornelis Verdonck (1563 – 5 July 1625) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the last members of the Franco-Flemish school of polyphony, and was a notable composer of

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Cornelius Canis

Cornelius Canis (also de Hondt, d'Hondt) (between 1500 and 1510 – 15 February 1562) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director of the Renaissance, active for much of his life in the

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Cornelius Cardew

Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing

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Cornelius Gurlitt (composer)

Gustav Cornelius Gurlitt (10 February 1820 – 17 June 1901) was a German composer. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the Leipzig Conservatory. Gurlitt studied with

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Corona Schröter

Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (14 January 1751 – 23 August 1802) was a German actress and musician best known as a singer. She also composed songs, setting texts by Friedrich Schiller and

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Corrado Castellari

Corrado Castellari (23 September 1945 – 23 November 2013) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Bologna, in the 1960s Castellari moved to Milan to pursue his musical

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Cosimo Damiano Lanza

Cosimo Damiano Lanza (born 12 April 1962) is an Italian pianist, harpsichordist and composer. Biography Born in Leporano, Southern Italy, his artistic training was developed under the leadership of

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Costanzo Antegnati

Costanzo Antegnati (9 December 1549 - 14 November 1624) was an organist, organ builder and composer. Biography He was born in Brescia, to a family of prolific organ builders, a profession which also

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Costanzo Festa

Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490 – 10 April 1545) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. While he is best known for his madrigals, he also wrote sacred vocal music. He was the first native Italian

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Costanzo Porta

Costanzo Porta (1528 or 1529 – 19 May 1601) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was highly praised throughout his life

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Costin Miereanu

Costin Miereanu (27 February 1943 – 20 August 2025) was a French composer and musicologist of Romanian origin. Biography Miereanu was born in Bucharest in 1943. At the age of eleven, he enrolled in

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Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck

Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck (8 August 1640 – 4 January 1697), née Countess of , was a German noblewoman, poet and composer. Early life She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von

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Courtney Bryan (composer)

Courtney Bryan is an American composer and pianist whose work combines influences from jazz and gospel traditions. Early life and education Bryan was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She obtained her

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