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Codé di Dona

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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, in the same municipality he was born has another Cape Verdean music expert Ano Novo. He is considered one of the chief figures of funaná, a music genre once known only in his native island of Santiago and achieved universal renaissance today. He was professionally dependent on agriculture as a farmer, he was also a flower keeper. Codé di Dona composed classic songs at the Cape Verdean National Repertory including “Febri Funaná”, “Fomi 47” (Portuguese: Fome de ‘47, English: ‘47 Famine), “Praia Maria”, “Yota Barela”, “Rufon Baré”, “Pomba” and others. Codé di Dona felt Cape Verdeans with the singularity of its songs and poets of his letters. His composition “Fomi 47”, for example, was about one of the most historic problems that struck Cape Verde, the 1947 drought, the famine and emigration to São Tomé e Príncipe. Image of a part of the ship “Ana Mafalda” was part of an imaginary collection of Cape Verdeans, it was sung as a hymn by other singers. He later married and had children, one of

Colde

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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 extended plays Wave (2018), Love Part 1 (2019), Idealism (2021), and Love Part 2 (2023). Colde was part of the lineup for the Grand Mint Festival 2020 which took place from October 24-25, 2020 at Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea. Discography Extended plays Single albums Singles Soundtrack appearances Other charted songs Awards and nominations Notes References External links *

Cole M.G.N.

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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 Graffiti. Cole has worked with Beck, Julia Holter, Christine and the Queens, DāM-FunK, Ariel Pink, Real Estate, The Vaccines, Thurston Moore, Snoop Dogg, NxWorries, Kossisko, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Blood Orange, and Nite Jewel. In 2016, Cole M.G.N. released his self-titled debut extended play. As of 2021, he has won six Grammy Awards for his work with Beck. Career He was a member of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti before becoming Beck’s engineer and his current work with Stones Throw. In recent years he has been involved in producing and mixing on records for the likes of Julia Holter, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Snoop Dogg, and Dam-Funk’s collaborative project, 7 Days Of Funk. He won three Grammy Awards for his work on Beck’s 2014 album Morning Phase, two Grammy Awards for his work on Beck’s 2017 album Colors and one Grammy Award for his work on Beck’s 2019 album Hyperspace. Cole is published by Kobalt Music Group for the world. Personal life In January 2006, he married Ramona Gonzalez

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

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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 worlds of jazz, dance, pop, film, television, and classical music. Professionally he was often known as “Coleridge Perkinson”. Life and career Perkinson was African-American and was named after the Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912). Perkinson’s mother was active in music and the arts as a piano teacher, church organist, and director of a theater company. Perkinson attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City and New York University. He later transferred to the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and Charles Mills. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. He also studied with Earl Kim at Princeton University. He was on the faculty of Brooklyn College (1959–1962) and studied conducting in the summers of 1960, 1962, and 1963 in the Netherlands with Franco Ferrara and Dean Dixon and also learned conducting in 1960 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Perkinson co-founded the Symp

Colette Mourey

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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 and passed the agrégation. First a classical guitarist and student of Uruguayan guitarist Oscar Cacères, she is also a pianist. As a teacher, she teaches writing, aesthetics and music didactics at the Université de Franche-Comté and the . She is also involved with the “Passeurs d’Art” association for the creation of free children’s orchestras. For her research, she starts from works on the atonal music of her teacher Julien Falk to develop a new musical system called “hypertonality”. This is based on spiral scales (in amplitudes higher than the octave), radically transforming atonal counterpoint techniques. This allows the reintroduction of “natural consonances” within a contemporary language, which contributes to bringing contemporary music closer to the “general public”. She is the author of numerous books on musicology and teaching. As a composer, she is the author of more than 1000 works (published at the éditions Bergmann, Reift Marcophon, Soldano, Delatour, and Profs editions. In

Colin Black

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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 Winner for Sound Art and the 2003 Prix Italia Award for Best Music Radio – Composed Work. Black has also achieved preselection status in the 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Prix Phonurgia Nova, the 2013 and 2019 Prix Marulić (Croatia), 2018 Grand Prix Nova (Romania), and 2018 UK International Radio Drama Competition. Black’s commissions to create major works include the following organisations: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Český rozhlas, Deutschlandradio, Parramatta Heritage Centre, Lismore City Council and Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA). His works have been selected for events including En Red O 2000 music festival in Barcelona, Spain, the Festival Synthese in Bourges, France, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles, Lunel France, 60x60 Pacific Basin Regional Concert Los Angeles USA, Zèppelin 2004-Festival de Arte Sonoro in Barcelona, Spain, Hipersonica 2004 in São Paulo, Brazil, The Literature Sound Barrier 2002 in Wien, Austria, Sydney University’s Live Wires concerts ‘97, ‘98, an

Colin Brumby

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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 School, and Melbourne Boys’ High School. He studied at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, from which he graduated in 1957 with a diploma in education. In 1953 he was a finalist in the Australian Youth Aria competition, eventually winning the Lieder Award. He was organist at St. Oswald’s Glen Iris from 1950 to 1953. Before travelling to Europe in 1962 he taught in Queensland schools and was for a time the head of music at Kelvin Grove Teacher’s College. and joined more recently by composers such as Gerard Brophy, Stephen Cronin, Robert Davidson, Kent Farbach, Stephen Leek, Peter Rankine and Nigel Sabin who have attained similar renown. In 1971, he received his Doctorate of Music from the University of Melbourne. In 1981 Brumby was awarded an Advance Australia Award for services to music. He has also won the Don Banks Fellowship (1990) Brumby died in Brisbane on 3 January 2018. * The Bunyip, operetta * The Haunted House of Highgate Hill, operetta * The Spirit of Eureka, ope

Colin Gibson (musician)

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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 together in a band called The Primitive Sect, with Bob Sergeant on organ. In summer 1966, Gibson and Turnbull joined unsigned Newcastle band The Chosen Few, who had released two singles the previous year written by their then vocalist and guitarist Alan Hull, later of Lindisfarne. With Graham Bell joining on vocals, the band changed its name to Skip Bifferty and secured gigs in London. The band then secured a deal with RCA Records in summer 1967 under manager Don Arden and went on to release three singles: “On Love” which made a minor chart appearance, “Happy Land” and “Man in Black” produced by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane. Despite being championed by John Peel, with a handful of “Top Gear” appearances, RCA seemed oblivious to their popularity. An album, Skip Bifferty, was recorded at Decca Studios West Hampstead, but withheld by RCA for almost a year before its release in 1968 and later as a double set The Story of Skip Bifferty (Castle Music, 2003), by Sanctuary Records, along with

Colin Matthews

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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 composer’s music, including works by Berlioz, Britten, Dowland, Mahler, Purcell and Schubert. Other arrangements include orchestrations of all Debussy’s 24 Préludes, both books of Debussy’s Images, and two movements—Oiseaux tristes and La vallée des cloches—from Ravel’s Miroirs. Having received a doctorate from University of Sussex on the works of Mahler, from 1964–1975 Matthews worked with his brother David Matthews and musicologist Deryck Cooke on completing a performance version of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony. Early life and education Matthews was born in London in 1946; his older brother is the composer David Matthews. He read classics at the University of Nottingham, and then studied composition there with Arnold Whittall, and at the same time with Nicholas Maw. In the 1970s he taught at the University of Sussex, where he obtained a doctorate for his work on Mahler, an offshoot of his long collaboration with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony. During this p

Colin Mawby

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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 Radio Telefís Éireann and as artistic director of Chamber Choir Ireland, then known as the National Chamber Choir. He composed extensively for the liturgy, with an output including over fifty masses and five song cycles. His mother died when he was three, and he was among the first choristers when Westminster Cathedral choir school reopened in January 1946. Under George Malcolm, the boys sang fourteen or fifteen services a week and undertook ten hours of rehearsals, learning plainchant and polyphony. The choir performed in Rome in 1963 and again in 1970 for the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, when it became the first ensemble other than the Sistine Choir to sing a papal mass in St Peter’s Basilica. Mawby retired to East Anglia in 2001 but later divided his time between London and Dublin. He served as composer in association with St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. His Ave verum corpus for choir became widely performed, and his setting of Psalm 23 gained wider recognit

Colin McAlpin

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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 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, England. He was the fourth child of a clothier John William McAlpin, and his German wife Marie Louise (née Gerdes). His elder siblings were Kenneth, Donal and Janet, and his younger brothers Alan and John. McAlpin published his first composition when he was only 15 and at Wellingborough School: a song called The Cuckoo published in the Midland Musical Journal. At the age of 16 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music to study harmony with Francis William Davenport and organ playing with Charles Steggall, and after three years he acquired silver medals in both areas of study. In 1892 Robin Hood, his first dramatic work, was performed at Wellingborough School and that year he was appointed organist and choirmaster at Kensington Presbyterian Church. In 1897, King Arthur, an opera in three acts, commissioned by impresario Herbert Marshall, was performed by the Leicester Philharmonic Society under H. S. Ellis. In that year three of McAlpin’s Ten Songs were pe

Colin McPhee

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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 Bali, and to develop American gamelan along with fellow composer Lou Harrison. He wrote original music influenced by that of Bali and Java, decades before compositions based on world music became widespread. Early life and career Childhood McPhee was born on March 15, 1900, in Montréal, Québec, Canada, to a family of mostly Scottish and German ancestry. His father, Alexander McPhee, was an advertising executive for Bell Telephone Company. His mother, Lavinia McPhee (née Carhart) was originally from New Jersey and settled in Montréal after marrying Alexander. First musical education In 1918 he enrolled in the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University, studying composition with Gustav Strube and piano with Harold Randolph; subsequently he studied with the avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse before marrying Jane Belo, a disciple of Margaret Mead, in 1931. Career McPhee joined the circle of experimental composers known as the “ultra-modernists” and was among those—along with the grou

Colin O'Malley

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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 Sciences (The Last Reunion/PBS, Woman In Motion/Paramount+). Colin has worked as an orchestrator and arranger for the recording artist Yanni, most notably on Inspirato, which featured performances by Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Russell Watson, Katherine Jenkins, and other world-renowned vocalists. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical chart. Colin has also collaborated with renowned tenor Nathan Pacheco, whom he first met while working on Yanni Voices. Colin’s soaring ballad “Prendi I Miei Sogni” was performed by Pacheco with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Pacheco subsequently performed the song in Carnegie Hall. Beyond his composition work, Colin is a longtime innovator in orchestral sampling and music technology. He has worked extensively with 8Dio.com, producing flagship virtual instruments including the Century Orchestra Project, Adagio/Agitato Strings, Claire Woodwinds, AGE, Studio Sopranos, CAGE, 8W, and more. These tools are used by composers worldwide and have been feat

Colin Ross (composer)

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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 Campbell Carne Ross, of Penzance and Brecon, a stockbroker; his elder brother was the linguist Alan S. C. Ross. His organ teacher was J.H.Carden, organist of Brecon Cathedral, whose articled pupil he became at the age of sixteen. In 1930 he moved to Hereford to be articled pupil to Sir Percy Hull at Hereford Cathedral, and in 1935 he was made assistant organist there. He was the first person to hold such a role. It was while at Hereford that Ross met and married his wife Leila Hodges in 1939, according to amateur research by ‘The Artful Dodger’. The couple later had one daughter, Alison. In 1940 he was called up and became a private in the British army. After discharge he went to the Royal Academy of Music in London to study conducting and composition. After a number of appointments, including at St Barnabas’, Tunbridge Wells, he was appointed organist and choir master of St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, which he held from 1947 to 1951. This appointment was on the recommendati

Colin Self (composer)

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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 relationships and digital technologies. They gained attention as a member of the avant-drag collective Chez Deep 2012–2014 performing in New York City, Miami, and Glasgow with members Alexis Penney, Bailey Stiles, Hari Nef, and Sam Banks. They are a member of the electronic music trio Holly Herndon, which supported Radiohead on their 2016 European tour. Biography Self was born in Aloha, Oregon. They studied puppetry and experimental writing at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington from 2006 to 2008. They transferred to the School of Art Institute of Chicago and completed their BFA in 2010. Soon after, Self relocated to New York where they began performing regularly as a solo artist and in groups like Chez Deep, 2 Pretty, and the #HDBoyz. Self started a monthly alternative queer party Clump, which raised money for a biannual microgrant the Radical Diva Grant and which featured DJs, performances, and readings, with artists like Umfang, Mykki Blanco, and Andrea Crespo. Since 2014, Self has pe

Colin Smith (religious and hymnodist)

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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 revision of the English translation of the Mass to be reworked for the 2010 translation. As Colin had died some five years earlier, the revisions were the work of Paul Mason. He was also the director of the John Paul Singers, a Catholic sacred choir formed for the Papal Visit of Pope John Paul II, until May 2005, shortly before his death, when he handed the baton to Donrita Reefman, who in turn passed on the baton to Julie Spencer in September 2014. Death and legacy Brother Colin Smith died in Sydney, Australia on Sunday 23 October 2005 at the age of 77; after his death, Christian Brothers medium Edmund Rice Online described Colin as having given a “huge contribution to liturgical music in Australia”. and Melbourne to mark the tenth anniversary of his death. References

Colin Touchin

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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 School of Music, and for two years was Head of Composition. For over a decade he was Director of Music at the University of Warwick. While in the UK he played in a piano duo with his friend Peter Donohoe. In 2005 he founded and conducted the Spires Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in Coventry, made up of professional and skilled amateur musicians from the Coventry and Warwickshire area. Spires recorded a CD of his compositions in 2012. He also conducted West Midland Wind Orchestra In Frankfurt he was Chief Conductor of the Lufthansa Orchestra, an ensemble made up of pilots, flight attendants, technicians and office workers who make music in their spare time. In Hong Kong he was musical director of the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir, the a capella female choir Grace Notes, and guest conductor of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong and Tak-Ming Philharmonic Winds. His home was in Warsaw, where he died of pancreatic cancer. Selected works * A Beade of Amber (for the National Youth W

Colin Towns

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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 soundtracks for film, television and commercials. Learning piano as a child, by the age of 13 he was earning money playing at weddings and birthdays in his neighbourhood of the East End of London. He went on to play in numerous dance bands, jazz ensembles and also became a session musician. His main musical passion is jazz and he has made several well-received albums together with his big band, the Mask Orchestra. He has also founded an independent record label, Provocateur. Career In 1976 he was recruited as keyboardist to replace Mickey Lee Soule in the Ian Gillan Band. Over the time he developed an increasing interest in composing, and Gillan credits the Towns-penned ‘Fighting Man’ as pointing the direction in which Gillan should go. Gillan dissolved the band, with its jazz-rock leanings, and retained only Towns, putting together the rockier Gillan. Encouraged by Gillan, Towns co-wrote many of the songs for the new band. Whilst with the band he used his free time to seek opportunitie

Colin Wark

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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 quickies”, mostly low-cost, low-quality, quickly-accomplished films commissioned by American distributors active in the UK or by British cinema owners purely to satisfy the quota requirements. Wark was also the composer of the score for Tulip Time, a comedy with music based on the play The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown by Robert Buchanan (1841-1901) and Charles Marlowe. Tulip Time opened at the Alhambra Theatre in London on August 14, 1935 and ran for 425 performances. In 1932 he was responsible for launching and managing Pasquale Troise and his Mandoliers, an orchestra of about 16 mandolin, accordion, guitar and tuned percussion players that made a series of BBC broadcasts between 1932 and 1933, and which went on to be the most frequently used band on the long-running BBC series Music While You Work (1940-1967). Wark’s light music compositions include the novelty intermezzo Animal Antics, Bouncing Ball (xylophone or piccolo solo), and Chrysanthemums for orchestra and piano. The Wedd

Colinet de Lannoy

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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 Galeazzo Maria Sforza in 1476, and he possibly also worked in France. Life Very little is known for certain about his life, and some details have been confused with other musicians named “Lannoy” or “Lanoy”. Two other singers named Lannoy, Jehan and David, were known to be active at the French court in the middle of the 15th century, and may have been related; in addition, a “Karolus de Launoy”, active at Bourges and later in France, was previously confused with him. In 1477, Lannoy, along with Jean Japart, Johannes Martini, and Loyset Compère, was given a pass to leave Milan following the murder of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza. The singing group at the chapel had been one of the most distinguished in Europe, and the compositional style which developed there in the 1470s was widely influential: for example the motet-chanson was probably a Milanese invention. It is not known to what degree Lannoy was involved in the development of this style, nor is it known where Lannoy went after his dismiss

Colleen Lovett

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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 Pacific, and Europe in nightclubs, musical theater, and television. Before marrying bandleader Teddy Phillips, she was known as one of the Lovett Sisters, a singing duo with her sister, Charlotte Lovett, who had been married to bandleader Ray Herrera. Formal education Entering as a freshman in the fall of 1963, Lovett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas and studied at the Berklee School of Music. She also studied at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California, California State University in Northridge, and UCLA in Los Angeles. She studied film scoring with composer Earle Hagen. She also studied film scoring and twelve-tone orchestration for several years with George Tremblay, who was well known for creating the definitive cycle, a serial technique of composition. Selected compositions * “Until I Love You” * “Freckle-Face Soldier” * “Asleep in His Arms” * “To Tommy With Love” * “Wait for Me Sue” * “Love’s Melody” * “Birds With Broken Wings” * “Come and Taste

Composer

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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 Dictionary is from Thomas Morley’s 1597 A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music, where he says “Some wil be good descanters … and yet wil be but bad composers”. “Composer” is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who work in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms ‘songwriter’ or ‘singer-songwriter’ are more often used, particularly in popular music genres. In other contexts, the term ‘composer’ can refer to a literary writer, or more rarely and generally, someone who combines pieces into a whole. Across cultures and traditions composers may write and transmit music in a variety of ways. In much popular music, the composer writes a composition, and it is then transmitted via oral tradition. Conversely, in some Western classical traditions music may be

Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Attersee)

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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 Gustav Mahler (1860–1911). In this hut he retreated from 1893 to 1896 in order to compose music. Since 1985 a permanent exhibition can be seen here. Other composing huts of Mahler still exist as well. One can be found at lake Wörthersee, also in Austria, and there is one next to the Gustav Mahler Stube in South Tyrol, Italy. Collection Since 1985 Mahler’s former composing hut shows a permanent exhibition. In 2016 the presentation was renewed by the International Gustav Mahler Society. The society chose for a scientifically justified presentation, and introduced multimedia techniques that year. The presentation consists of six wall displays, with 1) a chronology of the life of Gustav Mahler, 2) Attersee and Mahler’s years there (1893-1896), 3) nature, people and Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 4) the construction of the hut, and 5–6) Mahler’s second and third symphony. History In 1893, Mahler was kapellmeister in the city theatre of Hamburg. In that year he came to Steinbach for his first time, t

Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Wörthersee)

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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 composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911). He retreated into this hut from 1900 to 1907 to compose music. Since 7 July 1986, a permanent exhibition has been established here. There is also a composing hut at the Attersee, Upper Austria, and one next to the Gustav Mahler Stube in South Tyrol, Italy. Collection In a display cabinet, visitors can view articles that remind of the composer, including photographs, original sheet music, postcards, letters and his death certificate. A bronze bust is placed in the room. Since the renewal of 2016, art expressions have also been allowed near the hut. History Mahler came to Maiernigg in 1900 and had this composing hut built by Friedrich Theuer from 1900 to 1901. He retreated to this hut in order to compose music. At the time, he was director and conductor of the court opera of Vienna (later the Vienna State Opera). The hut was of practical use for Mahler, because there was no time left for him to compose when he was in Vienna. He called the hut Study auf dem

Comtessa de Dia

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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 documents, but was most likely the daughter of Count Isoard II of Diá (a town northeast of Montelimar now known as Die in southern France). According to her vida, she was married to William of Poitiers, but was in love with and sang about Raimbaut of Orange (1146-1173). Bruckner, Shepard, and White cite Angela Rieger’s analysis of the songs, which associates them, through intertextual evidence, with the circle of poets composed of Raimbaut d’Aurenga, Bernart de Ventadorn, and Azalais de Porcairagues. If her songs are addressed to Raimbaut d’Aurenga’s nephew Raimbaut IV, the Comtessa de Dia may have been urging the latter to support Raymond V of Toulouse. Five of the Comtessa’s works survive, including 4 cansos and 1 tenson. Scholars have debated whether or not the Comtessa authored , a tenso typically attributed to Raimbaut d’Aurenga. One reason for this is the similarities between this composition and her own . A second reason references the words in her vida, (“And she fell in love with S

Concha Valdés Miranda

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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 querido”. It was nominated for the Grammy and the first place in the United States. In addition, she is the author of numerous songs that were popular in the voices of performers such as Toña la Negra, Celia Cruz, Lucía Méndez, Olga Guillot, Tito Rodríguez, Felipe Pirela, Joel Gabino, Los Panchos, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Santos Colón, Floria Márquez, Ismael Miranda, Tito Nieves, Tito Puente, Sergio Vargas, Johnny Ventura, Cheo Feliciano and Dyango, among others. Many of her compositions have been used as themes in Spanish and Mexican movies. She is among the first artists to become part of the composers of Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. She died in Miami, aged 89. Songs * El que más te ha querido * El viaje * La mitad * Tápame contigo * Orgasmo Discography * Concha Valdes Miranda interpreta sus canciones, (LD) KUBANEY MT 323 * Concha Valdes Miranda: Erotismo y osadía, (LD) RODVEN 2012. Movies * Tápame contigo (1970) Tápame contigo * Sauna (1990) Sauna * Jamón Jamón (1992) Jamón, Jamón Reference

Conisch

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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 Waseda Jitsugyo High School, and attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music where he partially completed a program in composition. Discography Anime works Notes References External links * * *

Conlon Nancarrow

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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 auto-playing musical instruments, realizing their potential to play far beyond human performance ability. He lived most of his life in relative isolation and did not become widely known until the 1980s. Biography Early years Nancarrow was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, United States. He played trumpet in a jazz band in his youth before studying music, first in Cincinnati and later in Boston, with Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Nicolas Slonimsky. He attended the National Music Camp and later met Arnold Schoenberg during that composer’s brief stay in Boston in 1933. At the age of 15, Nancarrow enrolled at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering at the insistence of his father. In Boston, Nancarrow joined the Communist Party USA. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he traveled to Spain to join the XV International Brigade, which fought on the Republican side. He was interned at the Gurs internment camp in France in 1939. Upon his return to the United States in 1939, he learned that h

Conon of Béthune

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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 finally regent of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Alternative spellings of his name include Cono, Coesnes, Quenes, Conain, and Quenon. Life Probably born before 1160, he was the fifth son of Robert V de Béthune, hereditary Lord of Béthune and Advocate of the Abbey of Saint-Vaast at Arras in today’s Pas-de-Calais, who died on the Third Crusade at the siege of Acre in 1191, and his wife Alice, daughter of Hugues III, Count of Saint-Pol. After having taken part in the Third Crusade to Palestine, Conon de Béthune went with his brother Guillaume on the Fourth Crusade in 1203, accompanying the knights of Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Hainaut. At the outset he was chosen as one of six knights to command all transport and supplies and when the army arrived at Constantinople he was appointed its spokesman in negotiations with the Byzantines. His rhetorical ability, wisdom and chivalry were praised by fellow Crusader Geoffroi de Villehardouin, who said of Conon: Bon chevalier et sage estoit

Conor Mitchell

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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 and education Conor Mitchell grew up in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, where he attended school. His family line includes a long history of Irish folk musicians from County Armagh. He was later educated at Methodist College, Belfast and the University of York, where he studied music with the composers David Blake and Nicola LeFanu Personal life Mitchell identifies as a member of the queer community and has written several works that highlight the rights of gay people. He has publicly shared his struggle with alcoholism, which nearly claimed his life. He entered recovery in 2014 and has since become an advocate for others battling addiction . Career Mitchell’s major influences are Benjamin Britten, Stephen Sondheim, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Complete Works Music theatre * Have a Nice Life * Goblin Market based on Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market * Matilde based on Guy de Maupassant’s story, “La Parure” (The Necklace). * Merry Christmas Betty Ford * The Dummy

Conrad Ansorge

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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 and 1882, and under Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1885 and 1886. He toured Europe and the United States. He was known for his interpretations of Beethoven. On 15 April 1890, his “Orpheus” symphony was performed in Steinway Hall, New York, under the baton of Theodore Thomas. He became professor of pianoforte at Weimar in 1893. From 1898 to 1903 he taught at Berlin, in the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory. In 1920 he became head of the piano master class at the German Academy (Deutschen Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Prague. Conrad Ansorge’s students included: Selim Palmgren, Eduard Erdmann, James Simon, Alice Herz-Sommer, and Wilhelm Furtwängler. He made some Welte-Mignon recordings in 1905, of music by Liszt, Schumann and others. He also wrote a Requiem, two symphonies, a piano concerto, three piano sonatas, two string quartets, and other works. None of these are in the current repertoire. He married the pianist Margarete Wegelin. Their son Joachim (1893–1947) was also a pi

Conrad Baden

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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 church music. He is considered one of the most important Norwegian composers of the 20th century. Biography Studies He received his first music lessons from his organist father who died when Conrad was 17 years old and about to complete business school. He devoted himself to music and studied piano and organ with the local organist Daniel Hanssen. The young talent soon played to services and oratories. 19 years old, Baden was given organist position in Strømsgodset church. He studied counterpoint with Palestrina expert Per Steenberg and instrumentation and composition with the composer Bjarne Brustad. A breakthrough as an orchestral composer came in 1955 with the performance of Symphony No. 1. A unique neoclassical work is the Fairytale Suite for Orchestra (1960), inspired by Norwegian traditional stories. Composer Baden composed works in a number of forms, bar opera and electronic music. As a composer, he was highly active. In addition to his vocation as a professional organist through

Conrad Beck

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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 Jacques Ibert and also made contact with Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Albert Roussel. Returning to Basel in 1933, he headed the music department of Radio Basel for the next thirty years. He helped mediate cultural exchange through his many contacts with Swiss and international musicians. At the suggestion of Swiss conductor Paul Sacher (1906–1999), who promoted his career more than any other composer, Beck settled in Basel in 1934. During a period of over 50 years, Sacher commissioned his works and conducted their premieres with the chamber orchestra Basler Kammerorchester and the Collegium Musicum Zürich. From 1939 to 1966 Beck worked as music director of Swiss Radio in Basel, a position that enabled him to do a great deal to promote contemporary music. On the occasion of Paul Sacher’s 70th birthday, Beck was asked, together with 11 composer friends (Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Wolfgang Fortner, Alberto Ginastera, Cristóbal Halffter, Hans We

Conrad Bernier

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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, D.C. Early life and education Born into a family of musicians in Quebec City, Bernier was the brother of pianist Gabrielle Bernier and cellist/journalist Maurice Bernier, and the uncle of musicians Françoys Bernier, Madeleine Bernier, and Pierre Bernier. His first teacher was his father Joseph-Arthur Bernier, who introduced him to solfège, organ, and piano. He continued his keyboard studies with Berthe Roy, and became proficient enough to inaugurate the organ of the church at Bienville when he was 13 years of age. The following year he performed on the organ of St-Sacrement Church in Quebec City. In this church he served from 1920 to 1923 as principal organist, while he was also assistant organist at St-Jean-Baptiste. In 1923 Bernier won the Prix d’Europe to study organ in Paris. There he studied 1923–1926, taking piano with Sylvia Hérard and Simone Plé-Caussade, Music Theory with Georges Caussade (theory), and organ with the well-known organist from Bordeaux, Joseph Bonnet, for whom he

Conrad Clipper

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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 played on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction by Max Reinhardt, who described it as “a rare and tender sonic wonder”. His second album, Heron’s Book of Dreams, was recorded at Arcosanti, Arizona during FORM Festival, and in Berlin. It was mixed and mastered by Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich, and released on vinyl by Luau Records in 2021. Norman Records described it as: “the most delicate and beautiful album that instantly transports you to a place of calm”, while Narc Magazine stated: “It is both soothing and scintillating, oozing atmosphere. Creeping, seeping melodiously, one track bleeding seamlessly into the next, resulting in a mystical and magical collection.” In a 2021 interview with 15 Questions, Clipper revealed that his recording process involves arranging and programming in Logic alongside traditional instrumentation: “I use Logic and especially a tool called Scripter to run Java-based programming to create arpeggiators for piano. This is how I made my first record, Cycle of Liminal R

Conrad Cummings

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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 works are composed in a minimalist style reminiscent of that of Philip Glass. Cummings was born in San Francisco, California, United States. He studied at Yale University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Columbia University, from which he received a doctorate. His teachers include Bülent Arel, Mario Davidovsky, and Jacob Druckman. He later conducted post-doctoral research at IRCAM in Paris under Pierre Boulez. He is a former professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Cummings lives in New York City, where he serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School, teaching composition in the Evening Division. Four recordings of his music have been released on CRI’s Emergency Music label. The Golden Gate, an opera in two acts with music by Conrad Cummings and libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram Seth, adapted by the composer, is currently (2010) in development by LivelyWorks and American Opera Projects and receives a staged workshop production at the Rose Studio at Lincoln

Conrad Paumann

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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 his performances created a sensation wherever he went. He is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists. Life He was born in Nuremberg to a family of craftsmen. His musical ability must have become apparent early, for he received an excellent training with the support of aristocratic patrons. In 1447 he became the official town organist of Nuremberg, and the councilors even issued orders for him not to leave without their permission. As rebellious as he was talented, Paumann left what was probably a stifling environment, traveling secretly to Munich in 1450 where he was immediately employed by Duke Albrecht III as court organist, who also gave him a house. Munich was officially his home for the remainder of his life, although he began to travel extensively. While exact records of his travels do not remain, they were clearly extensive, and everywhere he went he was greeted with astonishment; his renown as a performer and composer grew. Milan and Naples both made him attractive job off

Conrad Pope

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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 Elfman, Mark Isham, James Horner, John Powell, Alexandre Desplat, and Howard Shore. In 2025, he received an honorary doctorate in music from the New England Conservatory of Music. Filmography * Patriot Games (1992) original music * Jurassic Park (1993) orchestration * Once Upon a Forest (1993) orchestration * The Santa Clause (1994) orchestration, song arrangement (The Bells of Christmas) * The Set Up (1995) composer * Project Metalbeast (1995) composer * The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) original music * My Fellow Americans (1996) original music * Eraser (1996) original music * The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) orchestration * A Smile Like Yours (1997) original music * Volcano (1997) original music * Mouse Hunt (1997) original music * Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) original music * Home Alone 3 (1997) original music * Butch Camp (1997) music * Amistad (1997) orchestration * The Matrix (1999) original music * Stuart Little (1999) orchestration * Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) orches

Conrad Susa

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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, where his teachers included William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti and, by his own claim, P. D. Q. Bach, the fictitious spoof character created by American composer Peter Schickele. From 1959 to 1994, Susa was composer-in-residence for the Old Globe Theater (San Diego, California), where he wrote incidental music for over 200 productions there. In 1988, he joined the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and remained there as a professor of composition until his death. Susa became particularly known for his 5 operas. His 1973 chamber opera, Transformations, set to texts from the poems of Anne Sexton, is one of the most frequently performed operas by an American composer. His other compositions include choral works and incidental music for various plays. His music is published by the E.C. Schirmer Music Company. Selected works Operas *Transformations (1973) *Black River (1975, revised 1981) *The Love of Don Perlimplin (1984) *The Wise Women (1994) *The Dangerous Liaisons (1994,

Conradin Kreutzer

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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 in 1834 in Vienna. Biography Born in Meßkirch, Baden, Kreutzer abandoned his studies in the law (University of Freiburg) and went to Vienna about 1804, where he met Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and may have studied with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, while he tried his hand unsuccessfully at singspiele. He spent 1811–12 in Stuttgart, where at least three of his operas were staged and he was awarded the post of Hofkapellmeister, succeeding Franz Danzi. He was from 1812 to 1816 Kapellmeister to the king of Württemberg. Once he was successful, he became a prolific composer, and wrote a number of operas for the Theater am Kärntnertor, Theater in der Josefstadt and Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which have disappeared from the stage. In 1840, he became conductor of the opera at Cologne. His daughters, Cecilia and Marie Kreutzer, were sopranos of some renown. Kreutzer owes his fame almost exclusively to Das Nachtlager in Granada (1834), which kept the stage for half a century in spite of

Conrado del Campo

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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 Conservatory in 1915, where he was an influential teacher. Among his pupils were Salvador Bacarisse, Julián Bautista, and Fernando Remacha. His compositions were played in the Theatre Real of Madrid for José María Alvira. His opera Lola la Piconera made its debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 12 December 1952. He was also the principal conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. Del Campo was a major figure in the conservative musical climate during the period of rule by Francisco Franco, writing in a late Romantic style. He died in Madrid aged 74. Selected works Symphonic works Del Campo’s characteristic symphonic music takes the form of evocative tone poems. * Ante las ruinas (Before the Ruins, 1898) * La dama de Amboto (The Lady of Amboto, 1901) * Two Parts from the Divina Commedia ** Prologue (1908) ** Inferno (1910) * Bocetos castellanos (Castilian Sketches, 1911) * Granada, a symphonic poem (1913) * Fantasía sobre temas del Maestro Chapí (Fantasy on themes of Master Chapi, 1913)

Conradus de Pistoria

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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 Italy. He is listed in the standard histories of music for the period, including the New Oxford History of Music: Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300–1540, and the New Grove. Conradus was an Italian representative of the manneristic school of composers known as the ars subtilior, closely associated with the courts of the schismatic popes during the period of the Avignon Papacy. Life and career Next to nothing is known about his life, but for a few inferences, and one archival reference. Probably he was associated with Antipope Alexander V and Antipope John XXIII. Conradus’s two known works appear in a manuscript assembled in Bologna, where Alexander V died in May 1410. Prior to coming to Bologna but after his election to the schismatic papacy in 1409, Alexander had been in Pistoia, Conradus’s likely birthplace. Conradus was probably a singer at San Reparata in Florence, where employment records show he joined the choir in December 1410. The new antipope, newly arrived in Florence in late

Constança Capdeville

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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 village of Caxias as a child. She came from an artistic family and in her youth was exposed to creative geniuses including Salvador Dalí. She wrote piano compositions at an early age, and studied piano and composition at the Lisbon Conservatorio Nacional, where she received a diploma in Higher Education in Music. Capdeville was a prolific composer. By 1969 she had begun to have her works commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for its orchestra. She produced approximately 100 pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles and a variety of soloists using different instruments. She also composed music for films and plays, ballet/dance and ‘dramatized’ staged performances. From early on, her music revealed close ties to the dramatic arts and to the imagery of the human condition evoked though sound and Mise en scène. Capdeville’s compositions were laden with multiple artistic perception. During her life, she was a close artistic and personal friend of music genius Jorge Peixinho who had him

Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie

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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 Welsh industrial reformer Robert Owen. After her father’s death, she studied composition and piano in Germany from 1852 to 1861 and then returned to Indiana. Faunt Le Roy married minister James Runcie and had four children. The couple lived in St. Joseph, Missouri, where Constance Runcie founded a woman’s club to further cultural development of the area. Her daughter Ellinor Dale Runcie was also a writer. Her papers are housed at Missouri Western State University. Works Constance Runcie is the author of works including short stories, plays and music compositions. Selected works include: Literary: *The Burning Question non-fiction *Divinely Led non-fiction *Woman, an essay *The Bab, a novel She composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble and a number of songs. Selected works include: *Hear Us, Oh, Hear Us *Round the Throne *Silence of the Sea *Merry Life *Tone Poems *Take My Soul, Oh Lord *I Never Told Him *Dover of Peace *I Hold My Heart So Still *My Spirit Rests References External links *

Constance Walton

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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 Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and married Donald Rech Walton on June 14, 1941. They had one son, Robert, before divorcing in November 1965. Awards *National Opera Association Award (1972) *National Federation of Music Clubs Adult Composer Award (1977) *Greenwich Pen Women OWL Award (1992) Compositions Walton’s compositions included: Chamber *Bare Branches (flute, viola and cello) *Perspective (cello and piano) *Shadows (viola and cello) *Songs References

Constancio Hernáez

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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 a degree in economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is an active participant in the development and promotion of contemporary music in Madrid, and is a member and co-founder of Ars Voluptas and the Tres Cantos International Contemporary Music Festival. He is also involved with the Madrid Contemporary Music Festival (COMA). Constancio Hernáez’s oeuvre ranges from solo works to chamber music, and his music for voice and strings has been premiered by prestigious musicians at the Juan March Foundation, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Ateneo de Madrid, the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Gran Teatro in Havana, Cuba (2004), the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (2004), Il Novecento e la Voce Villorba, Italy (2007), the Cervantes Institute, Utrecht, Holland (2008), the 13th Classics Ribagorza Festival in Huesca, the 27th Religious Polyphonic Choir Festival, Segorbe, Valencia, the Palacio del Teatro Lírico Nacional in Cuba (2011), the Tres Cantos Auditorium and the Madr

Constant Lambert

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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 and Sir Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in the establishment of the English ballet as a significant artistic movement. His ballet commitments, including extensive conducting work throughout his life, restricted his compositional activities. However one work, The Rio Grande, for chorus, orchestra and piano soloist, achieved widespread popularity in the 1920s, and is still regularly performed today. His other work includes a jazz influenced Piano Concerto (1931), major ballet scores such as Horoscope (1937) and a full-scale choral masque Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1936) that some consider his masterpiece. Lambert had wide-ranging interests beyond music, as can be seen from his critical study Music Ho! (1934), which places music in the context of the other arts. His friends included John Maynard Keynes, Anthony Powell and the Sitwells. To Keynes, Lambert was perhaps the most brilliant man he had ever met; to de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor his countr

Constantijn Huygens

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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 William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Biography Constantijn Huygens was born in The Hague, the second son of Christiaan Huygens (senior), secretary of the Council of State, and Susanna Hoefnagel, niece of the Antwerp painter Joris Hoefnagel. Education Constantijn was a gifted child. His brother Maurits and he were educated partly by their father and partly by carefully instructed governors. When he was five years old, Constantijn and his brother received their first musical education. Music education They started with singing lessons, and they learned their notes using gold-coloured buttons on their jackets. It is striking that Christiaan senior imparted the “modern” system of 7 note names to the boys, instead of the traditional, but much more complicated hexachord system. Two years later the first lessons on the viol started, followed by the lute and the harpsichord. Constantijn showed a particular acumen for the lute. At the age of eleven he was already asked to pl

Constantin Brăiloiu

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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. His father, Nicolae Brăiloiu, and his grandfather, Constantin N. Brăiloiu, were both lawyers and politicians. Constantin Brăiloiu studied in Bucharest (1901–1907), Vienna (1907–1909), Vevey and Lausanne (1909–1912), as well as Paris (1912–1914). In 1920, he founded the Societatea Compozitorilor Români (SCR, Society of Romanian Composers) along with other composers, and he served as general secretary of the organization between 1926 and 1943. In 1928, he initiated the composer’s collective Arhiva de folklore (folklore archive), which soon became one of the largest folk music archives of its time. From 1928 he and sociology professor Dimitrie Gusti visited the various regions of Romania in order to make sound recordings. In 1931, he published the article “Schița unei metode de folclor muzical” (Sketch of a method for music folklore), which became one of the foundational texts for ethnomusicology. In 1943, he became cultural consultant for the Romanian embassy in Bern. Due to the political

Constantin Christian Dedekind

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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 musical family, the son of musician Stefan Dedekind (1595–1636) and the grandson of composer Henning Dedekind (1562–1626). He was educated at Quedlinburg Abbey. From about 1647 he lived in Dresden. Early recognition of his poetic talent came in 1652 when Johann Rist, in his role of Imperial Count Palatine, awarded him the Dichterkrone (equivalent to making him Poet Laureate). A few years later Dedekind became a member of the (Order of Elbe Swans), Rist’s poetical society. He also pursued a musical career. From 1654 he was a bass singer in the Kapelle of Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony in Dresden. From 1666 to 1675 he held the position of Konzertmeister there; however, he directed only the German singers within the Kapelle, a grouping referred to as the kleine deutsche Musik, as distinct from the Italian ones. He himself had requested this split in a letter of 1666 to Johann Georg II. His resignation of the position in 1675 seems to have been an eventual outcome of this rivalry. Howeve

Constantine Koukias

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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 co-founder and artistic director of IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, which was established in 1990 in Tasmania’s capital city, Hobart. Koukias’s works range from large-scale music theatre and opera to mobile installation art events. His atmospheric compositions are characterised by mesmerising temporal, spatial and production designs, while his recent works exhibit eastern influences. His avant-garde approach to the presentation of opera has resulted in hybrid productions such as Days and Nights with Christ, To Traverse Water, Mikrovion, The Divine Kiss, Tesla – Lightning in His Hand and The Barbarians. His music theatre works include ICON, Kimisis – Falling Asleep, Borders, Orfeo, Rapture – Sonic Taxi Performance, Schwa – The Neutral Vowel, Antigone and The Da Ponte Project. Koukias was commissioned in 1993 by the Sydney Opera House Trust to compose the large-scale music theatre piece ICON to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. His Incantation II for soprano and digital de

Constanze Geiger

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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 the composer and the court hat-maker/modist Theresia Geiger (née Ržiha, 1804–1865). Her parents nurtured her musical talents, and her father was her first piano teacher. She continued piano lessons with Johann Wenzel Tomaschek as well as Simon Sechter. Sechter gave her lessons in composition and counterpoint as well. Geiger made her public debut as a concert pianist at age six. She played her own compositions in public first at age eight. She made her theatrical stage debut in 1852 at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtische Theater, Geiger is the first female composer ever to be featured in the Vienna Philharmonic’s Neujahrskonzert. Selected compositions Source: * 4 Valses, op. 3 (1845) * Preghiera * Ave Maria (1846) * Duettino (for tenor and bass) * Frühlings-Träume Walzer, op. 8 (1847) * Abschieds-Walzer, op. 9 (1848) * Ferdinandus-Walzer (1848) * Das Fuchslied als Trauermarsch (1849) * Radetzky Marsch, op. 14, no. 1 * Sehnsucht (Romanze), op. 15 (1850) * Carlsklänge (Walzer) * Franz Joseph-M

Cor de Groot

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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 Dresden. In 1932 he graduated with highest honours, playing a piano concerto written by himself. After becoming a soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he won the fifth prize at the 1936 international contest for pianists in Vienna. He played all over the world and recordings that exist demonstrate a strong sense of structure, a clean rhythmic attack and very precise dynamic shadings. He was a member of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition’s jury in 1956. In 1959 a nervous disorder developed in his right hand but he continued playing repertoire for the left hand. He arranged more than 80 pieces for the left hand; his Apparitions, voor piano (linkerhand alleen) (1961) were described by one reviewer as “intense and expressive piano music that should make it a joy for a pianist to develop his left hand.” Slowly he regained power over his right hand. He became musical director of the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation and promoted Dutch contemporary music. He made many recordings but also cont

Cora Decker Sargent

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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) concert series in England on 28 September 1900. Decker was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Katharine Ellsworth Worden and Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker. Her father was a judge. Little is known about Decker’s education. She married George W. Sargent in 1888 and they had one son. The couple was listed in the 1919 Social Register of Minneapolis. Decker died in Chicago in 1944. Decker’s music was published by G. Schirmer, Inc. Her works for voice and piano included: * “A Summer Girl” (text by Samuel Minturn Peck) * “Spanish Song” (text by Samuel Minturn Peck) References

Corentin Henri Le Fur

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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 publishing company BMG Rights Management and DJ Fresh production team “The Fallen Angels”, then later founded his own company. Career In 2016, Le Fur took part in the writing and production of Digital Farm Animals’s breakout single Digital Love as part of DJ Fresh‘s production team “The Fallen Angels”. The success of this single gave him the opportunity to later collaborate with international Artists from Diplo, Fatman Scoop and Kylie Minogue to Bad Company UK and TV Noise. In 2017, Le Fur contributed to the production of Bad Company UK’s Ice Station Zero Album, co-writing and co-producing “Ruckus”, a tribute to Pendulum’s record : Tarantula. Later this year, Le Fur started collaborating with the British DJ AFISHAL, helping with the development of the musical part of his Visual DJ project, allowing the DJ to control audio and video assets using a MIDI controller called Tremor. In 2019, Le Fur’s works were featured in Michael Bay’s Motion Picture 6 Underground, as well as Netflix’s Next In Fas

Corey Dargel

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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 composition, Dargel studied with Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, and Brenda Hutchinson, and received a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin. Dargel writes and composes all of his songs. In his earlier compositions, he accompanied his own voice with prepared electronics. His debut album, Less Famous Than You, released in May 2006 with Use Your Teeth records, is in the singer-songwriter style and incorporates totalist rhythmic relationships. His next album, Other People’s Love Songs, released in 2008 with the contemporary classical label New Amsterdam Records, combines indie pop and postminimalist contemporary classical music. In May 2010, New Amsterdam released a two-CD set entitled Someone Will Take Care of Me, which combines two song cycles performed by Dargel and other musicians live. The instrumentation for these two cycles is in the classical song cycle tradition. Discography Studio albums * Less Famous Than You (Use Your Teeth, 2006) * Other People’s Love Songs (New Amsterdam Records, 200

Cornel Țăranu

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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 region, and contributed to cultural cooperation between Romanian and ethnic Hungarian musicians. He studied locally, at the Cluj Academy, assimilating the local avatar of neoclassicism, alongside influences from Romanian folk music—though his debut years also evidenced conformity with Socialist Realism, he was reportedly censured by the communist regime for keeping company with sidelined figures, such as the poet Lucian Blaga. A teacher at his alma mater, he furthered his studies abroad, at the Conservatoire de Paris, becoming an authority on, and posthumous disciple of, George Enescu. Braving controversy, he worked on completing unfinished scores by Enescu, including his Fifth Symphony and a musical poem, Strigoii. In parallel, he founded Cluj’s Ars Nova, a chamber orchestra dedicated to contemporary classical music and performance art. Țăranu’s main compositions focus on orchestral work; he wrote two operas, vocal music for soloists and choirs, and critically acclaimed film scores. Hi

Cornel Wilczek (composer)

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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 Together (both in 2025). Early life and education Wilczek hails from Adelaide and relocated to Melbourne in 2000 to study at RMIT University under composers Philip Brophy and Philip Samartzis. There, he developed an experimental approach blending acoustic and electronic elements. Career Wilczek owns and operates Electric Dreams Studio in South Melbourne, recognized as one of Australia’s most awarded music studios. As a record producer, he has worked on over 30 albums for local and international artists, including award-winning releases for The Wagons and My Disco. His compositional style emphasizes color, contrast, and hybrid techniques, merging traditional orchestration with experimental processing tools like Guitar Rig. He has scored 16 feature films and 17 television series. Personal life Wilczek resides in Melbourne. He is of Polish descent. References External links * * * Electric Dreams Studio

Cornelia Tăutu

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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 composition and pedagogy at the National University of Music in Bucharest, and was a student of Aurel Stroe, Anatol Vieru, and Mihail Jora. She then worked at both the Dialectological Research Institute and the Institute of Ethnological as a researcher for a time before traveling to New York City in 1971 to study composition at Long Island University with Raoul Pleskov. *1983 Caruta cu mere *1983 Impossible Love *1980 Dumbrava minunata *1978 Actiunea Autobuzul *1978 Buzduganul cu trei peceti *1978 Together Again *1975 Patima External links * References

Cornélie van Oosterzee

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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 Theophanie Bernardina in Jakarta (then Batavia). She had six siblings: three brothers and three sisters. At the age of 5, Cornelie moved with her family to The Hague from Jakarta. There, she began piano lessons with Carel Wirtz at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and at age 16 started music theory lessons under composer and organist Willem Nicolaï. Her studies ended in 1883, when her family moved to the Dutch East Indies. Describing the end of her musical career as a “great cover-up” in letters to Clara Schumann, Cornelie asked for advice about the future, and was encouraged to pursue a career as a concert pianist. Returning to the Netherlands upon the death of her mother in 1888, Cornélie resumed her classes with Nicolaï but left soon after for Berlin upon the advice of her friends Julius Rontgen and Johannes Masschaert. After 2 years in Berlin, she moved to Stuttgart to study with composers Samuel de Lange and Robert Radecke. Soon she returned to Berlin upon her acceptance into Heinri

Cornelis Dopper

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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 at the Leipzig conservatory with, among others, Carl Reinecke. After his studies he settled in Groningen, not far from his place of birth. His first opera, De blinde van Castel Cuillé (The Blind Girl of Castel Cuillé), was premiered in Amsterdam in 1894 by the Nederlandsche Opera under the baton of Cornelis van der Linden, and in that same year he entered the service of that company; there he worked as a violinist, chorus master and conductor. During the years 1904–1905 he worked as a music critic for the Amsterdam newspapers De Echo (The Echo) and Het Leven (The Life). A year later, Dopper joined the Savage Opera Company and began to tour the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In that capacity, he was responsible for the American premiere of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (1906 B.C ). He subsequently toured the country with that opera for two seasons (‘06-‘07 and ‘07-‘08). Having grown tired of touring life, he returned to Amsterdam in 1908 to become second conductor of the Amsterdam Conc

Cornelis Verdonck

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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 madrigals in a style that blended both Italian and native Netherlandish idioms. Life Verdonck was born in Turnhout. From his earliest years, he was in the household of Cornelis Pruenen, senator and treasurer of Antwerp; in addition he was a choirboy at Antwerp Cathedral until about the age of 9. In 1572 he went to Spain to be part of the choir of Philip II in Madrid, where he stayed until his voice broke in early 1580, at which time he returned to the Netherlands to study in Antwerp with Séverin Cornet, and possibly with Hubert Waelrant as well. His earliest works, published along with those of Cornet, date from this period. In 1584 Verdonck returned to Spain, once again singing in the choir of Philip II, staying there until 1598 or 1599, after which he again returned to Antwerp. Also in 1599 he participated in the elaborate entry procession of the newly married Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella into Antwerp, writing a motet (Prome, novas) for the occasion: it was performed by a six-memb

Cornelius Canis

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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 Grande Chapelle, the imperial Habsburg music establishment during the reign of Emperor Charles V. He brought the compositional style of the mid-16th century Franco-Flemish school, with its elaborate imitative polyphony, together with the lightness and clarity of the Parisian chanson, and he was one of the few composers of the time to write chansons in both the French and Franco-Flemish idioms. Life No specific records have survived documenting his early life. He was most likely from Ghent, since a surviving letter indicates that his parents lived there, and the earliest records of his career show that he was the singing-master and teacher of the choirboys at the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-op-de-rade confraternity, part of the Church of St. John in Ghent. He may have been part of a large musical family, since other musicians named d’Hondt, de Hondt, and Canis were active in Ghent, Kortrijk, and other places with connections to the imperial chapel during the 16th century. In 1542, he was given the re

Cornelius Cardew

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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 ensemble. He later rejected experimental music, explaining why he had “discontinued composing in an avant-garde idiom” in his own programme notes to his Piano Album 1973. which had evacuated to the Carlyon Bay Hotel for the war. His musical career thus began as a chorister. From 1953 to 1957, Cardew studied piano, cello, and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Career Having won a scholarship to study at the recently established Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne, Cardew served as an assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1958 to 1960. He was given the task of independently working out the composition plans for the German composer’s score Carré, and Stockhausen noted: As a musician he was outstanding because he was not only a good pianist but also a good improviser and I hired him to become my assistant in the late 50s and he worked with me for over three years. I gave him work to do which I have never given to any other musician, which means to work with me on the s

Cornelius Gurlitt (composer)

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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 Reinecke’s father for six years. His first public appearance at the age of seventeen was well received, and he decided to go to Copenhagen to continue his studies. There he studied organ, piano, and composition under Curlander and Weyse. While in Copenhagen he became acquainted with the Danish composer Niels Gade, and they remained friends until Gade’s death. In 1842, Gurlitt moved to Hørsholm, where he resided as an organist and a music teacher for four years. He then moved to Leipzig, Germany, where Gade was the musical director for the Gewandhaus concerts. Gurlitt next traveled to Rome, where his brother, Louis Gurlitt, a well-known painter, was studying. Cornelius Gurlitt’s abilities as a musician were quickly recognized in Rome, and the papal Accademia di Santa Cecilia nominated him an honorary member, and later graduated him as a Professor of Music in 1855. While in Rome he also studied painting with excellent results. On his return to Altona, the Duke of Augustenburg engaged him as teach

Corona Schröter

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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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to music. Early life Schröter was born in Guben, Holy Roman Empire. In her early years she studied many instruments, which included the keyboard and guitar. Corona and Goethe worked closely on compositions which were performed in the Weimar theater as well as published for their personal libraries between 1776 and 1782. When the amateur court theatre was replaced by professional actors in 1783, she continued to sing and act in informal settings. She also began to teach singing and took up writing and art. She formally withdrew from all court performing in 1788. She became friends with Friedrich Schiller during those years, whose poems she later set to music. Unfortunately, these lieder are lost, as are her two dramas, hundreds of arias and duets, and an autobiography given to Goethe in 1778. However, two collections of lieder were published by her, the first in 1786, followed by another in 1794, thus surviving into the present time. The first collection, which con

Corrado Castellari

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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 career. Castellari is mainly known for his professional association with Iva Zanicchi, for whom he composed some major hits including “Coraggio e paura”. Beyond the songs composed for other artists, Castellari also released several works as singer-songwriter, and took part as a singer in the Un disco per l’estate festival. References External links * * *

Cosimo Damiano Lanza

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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 distinguished teachers, for the piano Michele Marvulli and Jorg Demus, for the harpsichord Christopher Steinbridge and Pierre Hantai. He has been invited to give concerts and master classes in the world’s major institutions. Some of his performances were recorded by RAI Italian Television. In addition to the interest in early music, he has followed with great perseverance the modern and contemporary repertoire (Luigi Dallapiccola, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage). He also works with young musicians. He served as chairman or member of the jury at international piano competitions Dinu Lipatti, Luciano Gante, Arcangelo Speranza, Premio Italia, the International Piano Competition of Barletta. Since 1996 he is the director of the Accademia Musicale Mediterranea di Taranto and art-director of the International Music Competition for Youth Dinu Lipatti at the Romanian Academy in Rome and Premio Italia Olimpo Pianistico in Taranto. Lanza has also recorded works by Frédéric Chopin,

Costanzo Antegnati

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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 included his father Graziadio. His was musically educated by Giovanni Contino and Girolamo Cavazzoni. Organ builder At age 21, he was sent by his father, who reassured the Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga of his son’s abilities, to fix the organ of the basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua. Additionally, Costanzo worked with his father in the construction of the Antegnati organ, at one time the largest and most famous in the world, which was built in 1581 for the friars of St. Joseph’s Church in Brescia. In 1595 he was commissioned by Catherine Gonzaga, daughter of the Marquis Alfonso Gonzaga, for the construction of the organ at the Church of St. Erasmus Prepositurale in Castel Goffredo. Although few of his instruments survive, the remarkable Organ Antegnati of the church of St. Nicholas (1588) in Bergamo was restored in 1996. He is most famous for the work L’arte organica (1608) which provides technical details of 144 organs built by his family, rules about the tuning of organs and harpsichords,

Costanzo Festa

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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 polyphonist of international renown, and with Philippe Verdelot, one of the first to write madrigals, in the infancy of that most popular of all sixteenth-century Italian musical forms. Life Not much is known about his early life. He was probably born in the Piedmont near Turin, but the evidence is not certain, being based mainly on later documents referring to him as a clericis secularibus, i.e. not a monk, from that region. His birth date has been given as early as 1480 and as late as 1495, but recent scholarship has tended to narrow the range to the late 1480s. In addition he may have been related to his slightly younger contemporary Sebastiano Festa, another early madrigal composer, also from the same region. Sebastiano’s father, Jacobinus, was a resident in Turin around 1520. In early 1514, Festa wrote a motet, Quis dabit oculis, on the occasion of the death of the Queen of France (Anne of Brittany) (9 January 1514). Anne’s funeral was an extensive affair, lasting 40 days; Johannes

Costanzo Porta

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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 both as a composer and a teacher, and had a reputation especially as an expert contrapuntist. Biography Porta was born in Cremona. Details of his early life are slim, but he probably was educated at the Convent Porta San Luca in Cremona. Around 1550 he is thought to have studied with Adrian Willaert, who was maestro di cappella at St. Mark’s in Venice; while he was there he met Claudio Merulo, who was also a student; they remained close friends throughout their lives. In 1552 Porta became maestro di cappella at Osimo Cathedral; in 1565 he took a position in Padua briefly, but took a more important position in Ravenna the next year, where he was hired to build an entirely new music practice at the cathedral. By 1580 his services were much in demand, and there was competition for him; he declined an offer from Milan, moving instead between positions in several cities. In addition he had become a renowned teacher by this time, and numerous composers of the next generation learned their cont

Costin Miereanu

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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 the Bucharest School of Music, where he completed six years of study in piano and chamber music. Following this, he balanced his time between a music academy and a standard secondary education. His dual studies culminated in a science baccalaureate and a degree in piano concert and teaching, after which he continued his musical journey at the Bucharest Conservatory for another six years (1960-1966), studying with Alfred Mendelsohn, Tiberiu Olah, Ștefan Niculescu, Dan Constantinescu, Myriam Marbé, Aurel Stroe, Anton Vieru, and Octavian Lazăr Cosma. He became accointed with composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Horațiu Rădulescu, and started to get immersed into avant-garde music and simultaneously begins his musicological career, writing articles for journals and magazines. Between 1967 and 1969, he was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, and Erhard Karkoschka at the Ferienkurse für neue Musik in Darmstadt. In September 1968, Miereanu travelled to Paris to sign a contract with Édi

Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck

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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 Waldeck-Eisenberg and his wife, Countess Marie Magdalene of Nassau-Siegen (1622–1647, daughter of William, Count of Nassau-Siegen). In 1664, she married George Louis I, Count of Erbach-Erbach, the son of George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg. Poet and composer She published a number of Pietist poems and songs in Hildburghausen in 1692. They were meant for private household devotion. There were 67 poems, some of which had simple melodies and a figured bass. Issue She and her husband had sixteen children: * Henriette (27 September 1665 – 28 September 1665). * Henriette Juliane (15 October 1666 – 27 February 1684). * Philipp Louis, Count of Erbach-Erbach (10 June 1669 – 17 June 1720). * Charles Albert Louis (16 June 1670 – k.a. Dapfing a.d.Donau, 18 August 1704). * George Albert (born and died 1 July 1671). * Amalia Katharina (13 May 1672 – 18 June 1676). * Frederick Charles (19 April 1673 – 25 April 1673). * A son (born and died 16 September 1674). * Wilhelmine Sophie (16 February 1675

Courtney Bryan (composer)

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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 Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College (2004), her Master of Music from Rutgers University (2007), and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University (2014), where her advisor was composer and trombonist George Lewis. Career Bryan is an assistant professor in the Newcomb College department of music at Tulane University, where she serves as Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music. Awards * 2018: Alpert Awards in the Arts. * 2018: Hermitage Fellow * 2020: United States Artists Fellowship Recordings * Quest for Freedom (2007) * This Little Light of Mine (2010) * DREAMING (Freedom Sounds) (2023) References