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Daan Manneke

Daan Manneke (born 7 November 1939) is a Dutch composer and organist. Manneke was born in Kruiningen. He studied organ and composition from 1963 to 1967 at the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, under

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Dado Moroni

Edgardo "Dado" Moroni (born 20 October 1962) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer. Biography Dado was born in Genoa, Italy and started playing piano at age four. A self-taught musician, by his

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Dafina Zeqiri (composer)

Dafina Zeqiri Nushi (born 1 April 1984) is a Kosovar composer of orchestral music, chamber music and choral music that has been performed in Europe and elsewhere. Biography Zeqiri studied at the

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Dafna Naphtali

Dafna Naphtali is an American composer, guitarist, and singer. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she formed the duo Mechanique(s) and released the album What Is It Like To Be A Bat? (2003). Biography After

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Dafnis Prieto

Dafnis Prieto (born July 31, 1974) is a Cuban-American drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator. Career In his home town of Santa Clara, Cuba, Prieto studied percussion and guitar. During his

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Dafydd Llywelyn (composer)

Dafydd Llywelyn (10 January 1939, in South Wales – 25 March 2013, in Munich) was a Welsh composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. Biography Llywelyn, born in South Wales, received his first piano

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Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe

Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe (10 December 1926 – 1 February 2013) was a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973

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Dag Wirén

Dag Ivar Wirén (15 October 1905 – 19 April 1986) was a Swedish composer. Best known for his Serenade for Strings (1937), his career was mainly spent in Stockholm, aside from a stint in Paris during

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Dagfinn Koch

Dagfinn Koch (born 24 July 1964, in Kristiansund, Norway) is a musician. Education He studied at the State Academy of music (Norges musikkhøgskole) (Lasse Thoresen, composition; Olav Anton

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Dagmar Nordstrom

Dagmar Nordstrom (December 12, 1903 – April 9, 1976) was an American composer, pianist and singer. She performed together with her sister Siggie as a cabaret singing duo known as The Nordstrom

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Dai Fujikura

Dai Fujikura ( Fujikura Dai; born 27 April 1977) is a Japanese-born composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Dai Fujikura was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. He moved to London when he was

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Daiki Kasho

, stylized as daiki kasho, is a Japanese video game composer best known for his contributions to the Gran Turismo series of racing games by Polyphony Digital. He has also previously worked on the

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Daisuke Inoue (singer)

Daisuke Inoue (; 13 September 1941 - 30 May 2000), the stage name of Tadao Inoue () was a Japanese singer, composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Life and career Born in Tokyo, Inoue started

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Daisuke Ishiwatari

is a South African-born Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the 2D fighting game series Guilty Gear. He designed the

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Dajos Béla

Leon Golzmann or as he was more commonly known, Dajos Béla (19 December 1897 – 5 December 1978), was a Ukrainian jazz violinist and bandleader. Career Golzmann was born in Kyiv, now part of Ukraine,

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Dale Barlow

Dale Barlow (born Sydney, Australia, 25 December 1959) is a jazz saxophonist, flute player and composer. He has a Masters of Music degree begun at City College New York under Ron Carter and completed

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Dale Warland

Dale Warland (born April 14, 1932, Fort Dodge, Iowa ) is an American conductor, composer, founder of the Grammy-nominated Dale Warland Singers, scholar, teacher, choral consultant, and renowned

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Dallas Harms

Dallas Harms (July 18, 1935 – October 12, 2019) was a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Twenty of Harms' singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts, including the number one single "Honky

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Dalmazio Santini

Dalmazio Santini (September 11, 1923 – October 4, 2001) was an Italian-born American composer. Early life Santini was born in Capestrano in the Abruzzo province of Italy. He immigrated to the United

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Dalto (composer)

Dalto Roberto Medeiros, stage name Dalto (born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (state), 22 June 1949) is a Brazilian composer and singer. Biography In the beginning of the 1970s, Dalto has actuated as

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Damian Montagu

Damian Montagu is a British composer, music producer and songwriter. Based in West Sussex, his work is wide-ranging and he has twice topped the iTunes Classical Singles Chart. Career Following an

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Damian Stachowicz

Damian Stachowicz (June 23, 1658 in Sokołów Małopolski – November 27, 1699 in Łowicz) was a Polish composer. His baptismal name was Jan (Joannes). At the age of 17 he entered the monastic order of

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Damien Geter

Damien Geter (born 1980) is an American composer, bass-baritone, and conductor. He is the Music Director of Portland Opera and the Composer-in-Residence for the Richmond Symphony. Geter is known for

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Damien Ricketson

Damien Ricketson (born 9 May 1973) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. He is best known for his innovative compositional practice and in his capacity as the co-founder and

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Damon Elliott

Damon William Elliott (born March 21, 1973) is an American record producer, songwriter and composer. Throughout his career he has worked with various artists spanning across hip hop, R&B, pop, pop

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Damon Fox (writer)

Damon Fox (born May 17, 1966) is an American writer and producer. His works as a screenwriter include Traces of Death (1993) and Traces of Death II (1994). Career During the 1990s, Fox formed Foxx

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Dan Folke

Dan Folke (March 11, 1906 – September 16, 1954) was a Danish composer, lyricist, publisher, and theater director. Biography Folke was born in Frederiksberg. Together with Arvid and Børge Müller,

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Dan Forrest

Daniel Ernest Forrest Jr. (born January 7, 1978) is an American composer, pianist, educator, and music editor. Biography Dan Forrest was born in Breesport, New York, and began piano lessons with his

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Dan Lacksman

Dan Lacksman (born 19 May 1950) is a Belgian composer and sound engineer, artist and member of Telex, director of numerous acoustic albums, pop or jazz. He released the album Electric Dreams on 17

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Dan Locklair

Dan Locklair (born 1949) is an American composer. He holds the position of Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His

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Dan Mertzlufft

Daniel Mertzlufft is an American musical theatre composer and arranger best known as a creator of Ratatouille the Musical on TikTok. Early life and education Mertzlufft was born in Florida. Because

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Dan Sundquist

Thord Dan Rickard Sundqvist (born September 10, 1958) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and composer. He is best known for Reeperbahn's Venuspassagen, Jakob Hellman's, "och stora havet", Wilmer

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Dan-Alexandru Voiculescu

Dan Voiculescu (born 20 July 1940 in Saschiz, died 29 August 2009, in Bucharest) was a Romanian composer, doctor of musicology (1983), professor of counterpoint and composition at the Music Academy

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Dana Al Fardan

Dana Al Fardan (born 29 July 1985) is a Qatari composer and songwriter. She is known for being the first female Qatari contemporary composer, singer and songwriter, for being the first Qatari woman

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Dana Kletter

Dana Kletter (born October 21, 1959) is an American musician and writer. Early life and education Kletter and her twin sister Karen were born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in New York. Dana began

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Dana Reason

Dana Reason is a Canadian composer, recording artist, keyboardist, producer, arranger, and sound artist working at the intersections of contemporary musical genres and intermedia practices. She

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Dance Man

(born October 12, 1963) is a Japanese musician, better known by the stage name . Dance☆Man calls himself an alien from "Mirror Ball Planet". He is always seen wearing a huge afro wig and sideburns,

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Dane Rudhyar

Dane Rudhyar (March 23, 1895 – September 13, 1985), born Daniel Chennevière, was an American author, modernist composer, painter and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal

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Dang Ngoc Long

Dang Ngoc Long is a Vietnamese concert guitarist, composer and actor. He studied classical guitar in Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin. Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of

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Daniel Alomía Robles

Daniel Alomía Robles (3 January 1871 – 17 July 1942) was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song "El Cóndor Pasa" in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical

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Daniel Asia

Daniel Asia (born June 27, 1953) is an American composer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America. Biography He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M.

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Daniel Auber

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French Romantic composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur

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Daniel Ayala Pérez

Daniel Ayala Pérez (21 July 1906 – 20 June 1975) was a Mexican violinist, conductor, and composer. Biography Ayala was born in Abalá, Yucatán, and studied violin with Revueltas and composition with

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Daniel B. Towner

Daniel Brink Towner (March 5, 1850 – October 3, 1919) was an American church music director, college professor, and composer of over 2,000 hymns and gospel songs , many of which are still popular

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Daniel Bacheler

Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, (baptized 16 March 1572 – buried 29 January 1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Of all the English lutenist-composers,

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Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain (; known by his initials, DBR; born 1970 ) is a composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader, whose work combines classical music with jazz, hip-hop and rock. Composer In

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Daníel Bjarnason

Daníel Bjarnason (born 26 February 1979) is an Icelandic composer and conductor. He has garnered widespread acclaim for his debut album, Processions (2010), with TimeOut NY writing he "create(s) a

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Daniel Croner

Daniel Croner (1656–1740) was a Transylvanian composer and organist of Saxon descent. He is best known for his four manuscript collections of organ music, his 'Tabulaturae', that include some of the

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Daniel Danielis

Daniel Danielis (Visé near Liège 1635- Vannes 1696) was a Belgian composer. He studied at Maastricht and was organist at Saint Lambert's Church. Between 1661 and 1681 he served as Kapellmeister at

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Daniel Diaz (musician)

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Daniel Dorff

Daniel Dorff (born March 7, 1956) is an American classical musician and classical composer. Biography and career Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Flower Hill, New York,

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Daniel Doura

Daniel Doura (; born 9 August 1957) is an Argentine composer of classical music. Considered one of the Argentine composers who currently have international exposure, Doura is a graduate of the Boston

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Daniel Dutton

Daniel Dutton (born 1959 near Somerset, Kentucky) Daniel Dutton lives in Somerset, Kentucky. ;Other sources *Tagami, Ty, "MUSICAL AMBASSADOR - MAKER OF RARE JAPANESE LUTE WILL PLAY IN SOMERSET",

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Daniel E. Gawthrop

Daniel E. Gawthrop (born 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American composer, primarily of choral music. His output also includes a substantial body of works for the organ as well as orchestral and

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Daniel Fardon

Daniel Fardon (born 1991) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Fardon studied Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where his composition teachers included Howard

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Daniel Friderici

Daniel Friderici (1584 – 23 September 1638) was a German cantor, conductor, and composer. Life Friderici was born in Eichstaedt (today Querfurt) to a poor family and had been a choirboy in his

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Daniel Glaus

Daniel Glaus (born 16 July 1957 in Bern) is a Swiss organist and composer. He is currently professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, the University of the Arts Bern and organist of the Bern

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Daniel Goode

Daniel Goode (born January 24, 1936) is an American composer and clarinetist. Daniel Goode was born in New York City. After graduating in 1957 from Oberlin College, he studied composition at Columbia

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Daniel Gortler

Daniel Gortler (Hebrew: דניאל גורטלר; born April 12, 1965) is an Israeli pianist. Education and early life Born and raised in Israel, Gortler began studying classical music and piano with Naomi

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Daniel Gottlob Türk

Daniel Gottlob Türk (10 August 1750 – 26 August 1813) was a German composer, organist, and music professor of the Classical period. Biography Born in Claußnitz, Saxony, Türk studied organ under his

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Daniel Gregory Mason

Daniel Gregory Mason (November 20, 1873 – December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic. Biography Mason was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of notable

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Daniel Hart (musician)

Daniel Frederick Hart is an American musician, composer and classically trained violinist. He has released music as a soloist and with his bands the Physics of Meaning and Dark Rooms. He has also

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Daniel Hensel

Daniel Hensel (born 17 April 1978 in Büdingen) is a German composer, VJ, musicologist and music theorist. He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genres whose works can be

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Daniel Holdsworth (musician)

Daniel Holdsworth is an Australian musician and composer. He is a co-creator of the music-theatre production, Tubular Bells for Two, releases music as a solo artist, and has performed in bands such

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Daniel Ingram (composer)

Daniel Luke Ingram (born June 13, 1975) is a Canadian composer and lyricist, primarily for animated series soundtracks. He has written more than 200 songs for television, in genres ranging from pop

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Daniel Izere

Daniel Izere (born 1995) commonly known as Dany Beats, is a Rwandan record producer, sound engineer, songwriter, and entrepreneur in the music industry. He is best known for his work which includes

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Daniel James Wolf

Daniel James Wolf (born September 13, 1961) is an American composer. Studies He was born in Upland, California. Wolf studied composition with Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, and La Monte Young, as well

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Daniel Jones (composer)

Daniel Jenkyn Jones (7 December 1912 – 23 April 1993) was a Welsh composer of classical music, who worked in Britain. He used both serial and tonal techniques. He is best known for his quartets and

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Daniel Kellogg (composer)

Daniel Kellogg (born 1976 in Wilton, Connecticut) is an American composer. Kellogg is Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching music

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Daniel Kidane

Daniel Kidane (born 1986) is a British composer. His piece "Woke" opened the last night of the 2019 Proms. In 2016 his "Sirens" was one of a group of five short works commissioned by the BBC

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Daniel Lentz

Daniel Lentz (March 10, 1942 – July 25, 2025) was an American classical composer, musician and artist whose works focused on minimalist and electronic music. Life and career Lentz was born in

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Daniel Léo Simpson

Daniel Léo Simpson (born 28 December 1959) is an American composer. Background Simpson first studied music theory with Wes Humphrey at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona and composed its Alma

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Daniel Lesur

Daniel Jean-Yves Lesur (19 November 1908 – 2 July 2002) was a French organist and composer. He was the son of the composer Alice Lesur. Biography Born in Paris, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris

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Daniel Moe

Daniel Troen Moe (November 2, 1926 – May 24, 2012) was an American choral conductor, composer, and pedagogue. He was director of choral organizations for the University of Iowa, professor of choral

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Daniel Ott

Daniel Ott (born 6 September 1960) is a Swiss composer. Career Born in Grub AR, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and

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Daniel Pemberton

Daniel Pemberton (born 3 November 1977) is an English composer and songwriter. Primarily working in film, television, and video games, he is best known for composing the scores for the films Project

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Daniel Pinkham

Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. Early life and education Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, into a prominent family

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Daniel Purcell

Daniel Purcell (c. 1664 – buried 26 November 1717) was an English Baroque composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell. Biography Like Henry Purcell before him, Daniel Purcell joined the

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Daniel Read

Daniel Read (November 16, 1757 – December 4, 1836) was an American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music. Life and work Read,

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Daniel Rojas (Australian musician)

Daniel Rojas (born 23 June 1974) is a Chilean-born Australian pianist and composer. Rojas' work as a composer and improviser draws upon indigenous, folk, popular and classical Latin American

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Daniel Rojas (Costa Rican composer)

Daniel Rojas (born 1988) Rojas studied Jazz Arranging & Composition at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, on scholarship. After graduating in 2010, he moved full-time into session player

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Daniel Roseingrave

Daniel Roseingrave (c.1655 – May 1727) was an English-born organist and composer mainly active in Dublin, Ireland. Roseingrave probably hailed from the area of Gloucester, where he was organist at

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Daniel Roth (organist)

François Daniel Roth (born 31 October 1942) is a French organist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He was titular organist of the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, from 1985 to 2023, and is

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Daniel Ruyneman

Daniël Ruyneman (8 August 1886 – 25 July 1963) was a Dutch composer and pianist, and inventor of the Electrophone. Career Ruyneman was born in Amsterdam and travelled to India in his early years. He

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Daniel Schnyder

Daniel Schnyder (born March 12, 1961) is a Swiss jazz reedist and composer of both jazz and classical music. Schnyder learned to play cello before saxophone. He attended Berklee College of Music and

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Daniel Slatkin

Daniel Alexander Slatkin (born May 16, 1994) is an American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and music producer known for his concert works, film scores, and television scores. At the age

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Daniel Speer

Georg Daniel Speer (2 July 1636 – 5 October 1707) was a German composer and writer of the Baroque. Speer was born in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland) and died in Göppingen, Germany. Writing As a

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Daniel Steibelt

Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt (22 October 17652 October 1823) was a German pianist and composer. His main works were composed in Paris and in London, and he died in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He once

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Daniel Sternberg

Daniel Arie Sternberg (29 March 1913 – 26 August 2000) was a Polish conductor, pianist, composer, and educator. He lived and worked in Central and Eastern Europe until 1939, when he emigrated to the

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Daniel Sternefeld

Daniel Sternefeld (Antwerp, 27 November 1905 – Brussels, 2 June 1986) was a Belgian composer and conductor. Life and career Sternefeld took private lessons with Renaat Veremans and Paul Gilson at the

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Daniel Steven Crafts

Daniel Steven Crafts (born September 22, 1949) is an American composer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, but has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to New Mexico.

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Daniel Vetter

Daniel Vetter (1657/58 – 7 February 1721) was an organist and composer of the German Baroque era. Life Born in Breslau, Vetter became a pupil of Werner Fabricius in Leipzig. When Fabricius died in

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Daniel W. McCarthy

Daniel William McCarthy (born 1955, Onekama, Michigan) is an American composer, author, conductor, professor, and black belt martial artist. He has been professor and chair of music composition and

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Daniel Wohl

Daniel Wohl (born September 6, 1980) is a Paris, France born composer based in Los Angeles, California, known for his use of both electronic and acoustic instruments. Education Wohl holds degrees in

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Daniele Amfitheatrof

Daniele Alexandrovich Amfitheatrof (, 29 October 1901 – 4 June 1983) was a Russian, American, and Italian composer and conductor. Biography Amfitheatrof was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 29

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Daniele Gottardo

Daniele Gottardo is an Italian guitarist and composer. He received recognition in 2009 as a winner of Guitar Idol, an international guitar competition. Gottardo was mentioned by Steve Vai as one of

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Daniele Lombardi

Daniele Lombardi (Florence, August 12, 1946 - Florence, March 11, 2018) was a composer, pianist and visual artist. Biography He is an exponent and main promoter of the group of Florentine artists,

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Daniele Zanettovich

Daniele Zanettovich (born 1950 in Trieste) is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Zanettovich started out his career as a pianist, winning the Fourth National Festival of Student Pianists in

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Danilo Avilés

Danilo Avilés Suárez (born 1948) is a Cuban composer and clarinetist. Career Suárez worked as a clarinetist in the Orquesta de Teatro y Danza in Havana. He participated as a composer in numerous

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Danny Baranowsky

Danny Baranowsky (born April 5, 1984), also known as Danny B or by the company name dB Soundworks, is an American electronic music composer, composing music mainly for indie films and indie games. He

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Danny L Harle

Daniel Jack Eisner Harle, better known under the stage name Danny L Harle (born 25 September 1989), is a British music producer and composer. He was formerly signed to the London-based PC Music label

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Dapo Torimiro

Dapo Torimiro is a Nigerian songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Born in Lagos, he has worked in the music industry in the US for several years writing and producing music

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Darcy Hepner

Darcy Rolston Hepner (born December 22, 1954) is a Canadian saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, he is the son of professional musicians

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Daria Kawashima

, known before as Miki Kawashima, is a Japanese musical composer, singer-songwriter, lyricist under Being Inc. records. Biography In 1986, she debuted as Miki Kawashima with the single Silk no

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Daria Semegen

Daria Semegen (born June 27, 1946) is a contemporary American composer of classical music. While she has composed pieces for traditional instruments – her Jeux des quatres (1970), for example, is

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Dario Baldan Bembo

Dario Baldan Bembo (born 15 May 1948) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music arranger and musician, best known for the songs "Aria" and "Amico è". Background Born in Milan, Baldan Bembo

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Dario Buccino

Dario Buccino (20 November 1968) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music theorist, and artist. He created the HN System and founded the ensemble Laboratorio Aperto Fatti Sonori. Biography In

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Dario Castello

Dario Castello (bapt. 19 October 1602, Venice – 2 July 1631, Venice) was an Italian composer and violinist from the early Baroque period who worked and published in Venice. As a composer, he was a

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Dario Marianelli

Dario Marianelli is an Italian composer. Early life Marianelli was born in Pisa, Italy. He studied in Florence with David Kimball (himself a pupil of Rosario Scalero), and in 1990 he moved to London.

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Dario Martinelli

Dario Martinelli (born Andria, Italy, March 1, 1974) is an Italian semiotician, musicologist and composer. Since 2012 he has been working at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, as Full

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Dario Palermo

Dario Palermo (born 14 June 1970) is an Italian composer. Biography Born in Milan, Dario Palermo began his musical studies in classic guitar at the age of nine, subsequently following studies in

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (; ; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th

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Darko Hajsek

Darko Hajsek (born 22 September 1959) is a Croatian composer. He composed (and by itself orchestrated) a respectable opus of more than 650 musical works, concert and musical-stage forms, ranging from

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Daron Hagen

Daron Aric Hagen ( ; born November 4, 1961) is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker. Biography Early life Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in New Berlin, a suburb west

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Darrell Calker

Darrell Wallace Calker (February 18, 1905 – February 20, 1964) was an American composer and arranger who worked on films and animated cartoons. Early life and education Calker was born in Washington,

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Darren Fung

Darren Fung is a Canadian film and television composer based in Los Angeles. He is best known for scoring The Great Human Odyssey, Equus: Story of the Horse, Bang Bang Baby, and Canada AM. Life and

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Darryl Kubian

Darryl Kubian (born February 19, 1966) is an American composer, thereminist, violinist, and audio/video engineer. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by North American orchestras,

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Darwin Vargas

Darwin Vargas (March 8, 1925 – April 8, 1988) was a Chilean composer and choral conductor. His compositional style was influenced by Chilean folk music and he often used modal tonalities within his

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Dary John Mizelle

Dary John Mizelle (born June 14, 1940) is an American composer of avant-garde classical and jazz music. Life and career Mizelle studied trombone (B.A. California State University, Sacramento) as well

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Daryl McKenzie

Daryl McKenzie (born 1962) is an Australian musical director, composer and trombonist. McKenzie has directed the Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra since 1992 playing with artists such as Bill Watrous,

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Dave Black (composer)

Dave Black (born 1959) is an American composer and co-author of numerous books, including Alfred's Drum Method, Alfred's Beginning Drumset Method, Alfred's Kid's Drum Course, Contemporary Brush

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Dave Hewson (composer)

David Graham Hewson (born 25 November 1953 in Wandsworth, London, England) is a British composer of scores for television and films. His work includes a collaboration to develop scores for ITV News.

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Dave Kerman

David Kerman (born August 24, 1959) is an American experimental rock drummer and composer, best known as the founder and member of the Los Angeles avant-rock group 5uu's. He is also a member of the

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Dave Newhouse

David Newhouse (born 1953) is an American progressive rock and avant-garde jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was one on the founding members of the Maryland-based progressive

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Dave Pierce

Dave Pierce (born July 10, 1972) is a Canadian songwriter, composer, producer, and arranger. He was the music director for the opening, closing, and victory ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in

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Dave Porter (composer)

Dave Porter is an American composer, best known for his original score for the television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), its prequel spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–2022) and the epilogue film El

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Dave Sardy

David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy, is an American composer, musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy winning record producer. He came to prominence as the leader of

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Dave Smith (composer)

Dave Smith (born August 19, 1949) is an English composer, arranger and musical performer. Since 1971 he has been associated with the English school of experimental music. Life and career Smith was

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Dave Willey

Dave Willey (born

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David A. Jaffe

David Aaron Jaffe (born April 29, 1955) is an American electronic music composer. His compositions include over 90 pieces for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, and electronic ensembles. He

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David Amram

David Werner Amram III (born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. He plays piano, French horn,

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David Arnold

David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films (1997–2008), as well as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998),

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David Arnott

David Arnott (born 1963) is an American actor, screenwriter, living in Southern California. Among his credits, Arnott co-wrote Last Action Hero, and starred in The Last Man with Jeri Ryan. David is a

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David Avshalomov

David Avshalomov (born 6 May 1946 ) is a third generation classical composer, singer, and conductor. David is the son of Jacob Avshalomov and grandson of Aaron Avshalomov who were both distinguished

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David B. Doty

David B. Doty (born 1950) is an American composer and authority on just intonation. He is the author of The Just Intonation Primer (1993, 1994, 2002). Inspired in part by the work of Harry Partch,

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David Baker (composer)

David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana

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David Bedford

David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart

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David Behrman

David Behrman (born August 16, 1937) is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music. In 1966, Behrman co-founded Sonic Arts Union with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon

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David Bertok

David Bertok (born 1981) is a German composer and pianist known for his work in film and television. In 2025, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series

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David Blake (composer)

David Blake (born 2 September 1936) is an English composer and founder member of the Department of Music at the University of York. Early life and education Blake was born in London. Following

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David Borden

David Russell Borden (born December 25, 1938, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer and keyboard player of minimalist music. David Borden was educated at the Eastman School of Music and

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David Braham

David Braham (c.1834 – April 11, 1905) was a London-born musical theatre composer, most famous for his work with his son-in-law Edward Harrigan (1844-1911), and Tony Hart (1855-1891). He has been

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David Briggs (English musician)

David John Briggs (born 1 November 1962) is an English organist and composer. He started his career as a cathedral organist as Assistant Organist at Hereford Cathedral before becoming the organist of

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David Broekman

David Broekman (c. 1900 – April 1, 1958) was a Dutch-born American composer, violinist and film scorer. Biography Broekman was born c. 1900, in Leiden, Kingdom of the Netherlands. While living in the

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David Bruce (composer)

David Bruce (born 1970) is a British composer and YouTuber. Early life Bruce was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1970, but grew up in England. He began his undergraduate music studies in 1988 at the

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David C. Johnson

David C. Johnson (January 30, 1940, in Batavia, New York – October 28, 2021, in Basel) was an American composer, flautist, and performer of live electronic music. Life and career Johnson studied,

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David Campbell (composer)

David Richard Campbell (born 7 February 1948) is a Canadian-American arranger, composer, musician, and conductor. He has composed and arranged music for many films, including North Country (2005),

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David Chalmin

David Chalmin is a French composer, producer, sound engineer and musician. He's a member of the trio Triple Sun. His collaborations extend from classical music to experimental rock: Katia and

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David Chesky

David Chesky is an American pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and co-founder of the independent, audiophile label Chesky Records. He is also co-founder and CEO of HDtracks, an online music store

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David Chesworth

David Chesworth (born 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom) is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, composer and sound designer. Known for his conceptual, and at times, minimalist music, he has

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David Ciente

David Ciente (born 9 July 1989) is a Romanian composer and producer. In 2012 and 2013, he attempted to represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest with his band Electric Fence, finishing in

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David Conte

David Conte (born December 20, 1955) is an American composer who has written over 150 works published by E.C. Schirmer (a division of ECS Publishing), including six operas, a musical, works for

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David Cope

David Howell Cope (May 17, 1941 – May 4, 2025) was an American author, composer, scientist and Dickerson Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involved artificial

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David Cornwall

David Randolph Cornwall (May 18, 1937 – November 7, 2006) was an American composer and systems engineer. He wrote music for piano, horns, woodwinds and orchestra, composing more than 40 works in a

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David Cox (composer)

David Vassall Cox (Broadstairs, 4 February 1916 - Pratt's Bottom, 31 January 1997) was a British composer and writer on music who for most of his professional life was music coordinator for the BBC

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David Darling (musician)

David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) Music career Darling was born on March 4, 1941, in Elkhart, Indiana. He was interested in music from an early age, beginning piano when he was four,

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David DeBoor Canfield

David DeBoor Canfield (born September 23, 1950) is an American composer of classical music. Early life and education David DeBoor Canfield (birth name, David Ellis Canfield) was born in Fort

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David del Puerto

David del Puerto is a Spanish composer. Biography Born in 1964 in Madrid, musically trained in the guitar, disciple of Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo in his native city, David del Puerto

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David Del Tredici

David Walter Del Tredici (March 16, 1937 – November 18, 2023) was an American composer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music and was a Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow. Del Tredici is considered a

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David Diamond (composer)

David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. Many of his works are tonal

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David Downes (Irish composer)

David Downes is a composer, pianist, producer, and music director who is known for both contemporary composition as well as work in the commercial field, particularly with Riverdance and as founder

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David Dubery

__NOTOC__ David Dubery (Durban, 1948) is a South-African born British composer, pianist, vocal coach and academic. Dubery has been a music staff tutor at Long Millgate, Elizabeth Gaskell and Didsbury

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David Duffield Wood

David Duffle Wood (March 2, 1838 — March 25, 1910), sometimes written as David Duffield Wood or David Duffel Wood, was an American composer, educator, and musician. He was blind from early childhood.

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David Earl (composer)

David Earl (born 1951) is a South African composer and pianist. He was educated at Rondebosch Boys' High School. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen when he broadcast Bach, Chopin

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David Ellis (composer)

David Ellis (10 March 1933 – 20 April 2023) was an English composer, arranger and music producer at the BBC. Career Ellis was born in Liverpool, attending the Liverpool Institute (where he first met

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David Evan Jones (composer)

David Evan Jones (born 1946) is an American pianist and composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music. Jones was a student of composers Roger Reynolds and Pauline Oliveros at University of

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David Fanshawe

David Arthur Fanshawe (19 April 1942 – 5 July 2010) was an English composer and self-styled explorer with a fervent interest in world music. His best-known composition is the 1972 choral work African

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David Fenech

David Fenech (born 19 July 1969) is a French composer, guitarist and singer. His style has been described as 'a kind of punk musique concrète'. He uses the studio as an instrument, using a large

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David Firman

David Firman is a British orchestral conductor, musical director, composer and arranger. He is known for conducting premiere West End productions, and as arranger and musical director for several

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David First

David First (born David Hirsch, August 20, 1953) is an American composer and guitarist. His music most often deals with drones and interference beats, the latter aligning his music with that of Alvin

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David Fleming (composer)

David Fleming is an American composer for films, television, and interactive media. He is known for collaborating with various Remote Control Productions composers including Hans Zimmer, Atli

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David Flynn (composer)

David Flynn (also known as Dave Flynn, born 6 January 1977) is an Irish composer, musician, and the founder and artistic director of the Irish Memory Orchestra. Many of his works music merge the

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David Garner (composer)

David Ross Garner (born August 4, 1954) is an American composer of opera and vocal, instrumental, and chamber music. He is also an educator, on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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David Gillingham

David R. Gillingham (born October 20, 1947) is an American contemporary composer, who is known for his works for concert band and percussion ensemble. Biography He attended the University of

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David Gow (composer)

__NOTOC__ David Godfrey Gow (6 April 1924 – 23 February 1993) was an English composer (of Scottish descent) and teacher. Life Gow was born in London. His ancestors included the 18th Century Scottish

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David Granadino

David Granadino (June 13, 1876 – August 22, 1933) was a Salvadoran composer and musician, one of the most celebrated of the country. Granadino was born on June 13, 1876, in Barrio de Santa Barbara in

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David Gregor Corner

David Gregor Corner (1585 – 9 January 1648) was a German Benedictine abbot, hymn writer and theologian best known for his influential 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch ("Great Catholic Hymnal").

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David Griffiths (composer)

David Griffiths (born 1950, Auckland, New Zealand) is a composer, baritone and former Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Music at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Waikato. Griffiths has

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David Handler

David Handler (born July 24, 1980) is an American composer, violinist/violist and entrepreneur. His acoustic and electronic compositions have been described by The New York Times as “eerie” and

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David Hegarty

David Howard Hegarty (born March 1, 1945, in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an American organist and composer. He has served as organist at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco since 1978. Career

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David Hogan (composer)

H. David Hogan (July 1, 1949 – July 17, 1996 off East Moriches, New York) was an American composer and musical director of CIGAP (Le Choeur Int'l Gai de Paris), Hogan and CIGAP baritone Jean-Paul

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David Holcenberg

David Holcenberg is an American musical director, orchestrator, musical arranger, conductor, composer, and keyboardist. He is best known for his musical direction of Broadway works such as Seussical,

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David Holsinger

David Rex Holsinger is an American composer and conductor writing primarily for concert band. Holsinger is a graduate of Hardin-Central High School in Hardin, Missouri, Central Methodist University,

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David Horne (composer)

David Horne (born 12 December 1970) is a Scottish composer, pianist, and teacher. A resident composer with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for four years, he has been awarded several commissions.

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David Jennings (composer)

David Andrew Jennings is an English composer (born Sheffield, Yorkshire, 30 May 1972). He read music at the University of Durham, studying composition with John Casken (a pupil of Witold Lutosławski)

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David Jisse

David Jisse (12 April 1946 – 18 July 2020) was a French composer and radio producer. He also worked as an arranger, guitarist, singer, and pianist. Biography Jisse wrote the scores for numerous

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David Johnson (Scottish composer)

Dr David Charles Johnson (27 October 1942 in Edinburgh – 30 March 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish composer and a scholar of 18th century Scottish music. Johnson was "an internationally recognised

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David Kristian

David Kristian (born November 5, 1967) is a Canadian musician, film score composer, and sound designer. David Kristian has been involved in audio for media since the early 1980s, when he first

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David Laganella

David Laganella (born 1974) is an American composer based in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Formative years and family Raised in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Laganella

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David Lang (composer)

David Lang (born January 8, 1957) is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little

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David Liptak

David Liptak (born December 18, 1949) is an American composer and music educator who is a professor of composition and the current chair of the Composition Department at the Eastman School of Music

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David Loeb (composer)

David Loeb (born May 11, 1939) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Born in New York City, he has written extensively for early music instruments such as the viol, as well as

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David Lord (producer)

David Lord (born 1944 ) is an English composer and record producer, known for his work with Peter Gabriel, the Korgis and XTC. Career Lord was born in 1944 in Oxford, England under Richard Rodney

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David Lowe (video game composer)

David Lowe, also known as "Uncle Art", is a British composer known for his work on computer games from 1985 to 1998. Lowe gained attention by making music with professional synthesizers (CX5, DX7,

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David Lucas (composer)

David Lucas (born David Helfman April 21, 1937) is an American rock and roll composer, singer, and music producer. He has written thousands of commercial jingles, such as AT&T's "Reach Out and Touch

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David Lumsdaine

David Newton Lumsdaine (31 October 1931 – 12 January 2024) was an Australian composer. Biography David Newton Lumsdaine was born on 31 October 1931. He studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium

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David MacIntyre (composer)

David MacIntyre (born 1952) is a Canadian composer of opera, music theatre, choral, orchestral and chamber music, and site-specific works in dance and theatre, based in Vancouver. He is a professor

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David Maslanka

David Maslanka (August 30, 1943 – August 7, 2017) was an American composer of Polish descent who wrote for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music, and symphony

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David Matthews (composer)

David Matthews (born 9 March 1943) is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works. Life Matthews was born in London into a family that was musical, though not formally

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David Moule-Evans

David Moule-Evans (21 November 1905 – 18 May 1988) was an English composer, conductor and academic. Life Moule-Evans was born in Ashford, Kent, and was educated at the Judd School in Tonbridge before

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David Newman (composer)

David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has composed music for nearly

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David Nicholls (musicologist)

David Nicholls (born in 1955) is a British musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Small Heath, Birmingham, Nicholls was a pupil at St. Benedict's Primary School in Small Heath and subsequently

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David Noon

David Noon (born 23 July 1946) is a contemporary classical composer and educator. He has written over 200 works from opera to chamber music. Noon's composition teachers have included Karl Kohn,

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David P. Sartor

David Sartor (rhymes with "Carter") is an American composer, conductor, and educator, and is the founder and music director of the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra. Composing and Conducting Sartor is the

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David Padrós

David Padrós (1942–2016) was a Catalan composer. Biography He was born in Igualada, Spain in 1942. He studied with Jordi Albareda (piano) and Jordi Torra (harmony and composition). Afterwards he

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David Petersen (composer)

David Petersen (born Lübeck ca. 1650 or 1651 – died Amsterdam, before 5 May 1737) was a violinist and composer of north German origin active in the Dutch Republic. His last name is also spelled

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David Pohle

David Pohle (1624 – 20 December 1695) was a German composer of the Baroque era. His surname is also spelled Pohl, Pohlen, Pole, Pol or Bohle. Biography Pohle was born in Marienberg into a family of

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David Popper

David Popper (June 18, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Life Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was Jewish. He studied the

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David Porcelijn

David Porcelijn (born 7 January 1947 in Achtkarspelen) is a Dutch composer and conductor. David Porcelijn studied flute, composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague.

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David Reeves (composer)

David Reeves (born 1943) is an Australian composer, conductor and organist. He began his professional career as a concert organist in the early 1960s, turning to conducting and composition some ten

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David Riebe

David Riebe (born 1 May 1988, in Hällestad, Skåne, Sweden) is a Swedish composer who has won second prize in Uppsala Composition Competition (Swedish: Uppsala tonsättartävling) in Sweden and third

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David Robidoux

David Robidoux is an American score composer. He writes film scores for various sporting films and networks, and primarily composes for NFL Films. Career Robidoux is originally from Reading,

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David Roitman

David Roitman (November 1, 1884 – April 4, 1943) was a Russian-American hazzan and composer. Early in his career he worked as cantor in villages and cities in Russia such as Vilna and Odessa. In 1921

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David Rosenboom

David Rosenboom (born 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music. Rosenboom has explored

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David Rothenberg

David Rothenberg (born 1962) is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. He is also a composer and jazz

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David Sanford (composer)

David William Sanford (born 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American composer who is also a jazz bandleader. Biography Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963, into a musical

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David Sawer

David Sawer (born 14 September 1961) is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music. Biography Sawer was born in Stockport, England. After attending Ipswich School, he

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David Schweitzer (composer)

David Schweitzer is a British composer. Career Schweitzer studied at New College, Oxford. He studied screen music at the National Film and Television School. He is a member of the British Academy of

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David Snow (composer)

David Jason Snow (born 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American composer. Snow studied composition with Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, and Joseph Schwantner at the Eastman School of Music,

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David Squires (composer)

David Squires (born 1957) is a Canadian composer and the dean of the School of the Arts, Media and Culture at Trinity Western University. Early life and education Squires received a bachelor's degree

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David Stoll (composer)

David Michael Stoll (born December 1948) is an English composer and educator. Life and career David Stoll was born in London, and studied composition at Worcester College, Oxford University, and at

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David Strother

David Strother is an American musician and composer. Strother is based in Los Angeles and plays alternative violin. He has been featured in recordings, on stage and in film since the 1980s. Strother

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David Thomas Roberts

David Thomas Roberts (born January 16, 1955) is an American composer and musician, known primarily as a modern ragtime composer. Roberts is also a painter in a primitivist style. Born in Moss Point,

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David Thulin

David Morgan Thulin (born 17 June 1983) is a Swedish music producer and film composer. He is known for his Reconstruction album series, multiple chart-topping hits on US Christian and indie radio,

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David Torn

David M. Torn (born May 26, 1953) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is known for combining electronic and acoustic instruments and for his use of looping. Background Torn has

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David Tudor

David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. After playing the U.S. premiere of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by Pierre Boulez in 1950,

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David Tukhmanov

David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (, was born July 20, 1940) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2000), State Prize of Russian Federation (2003, 2019). Biography Tukhmanov is a

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David Van Vactor

David Van Vactor (May 8, 1906 – March 24, 1994) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Plymouth, Indiana, and received Bachelor of Music (1928) and Master of Music

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David Vaughan Thomas

David Vaughan Thomas or David Vaughan-Thomas (15 March 1873 – 15 September 1934), born David Thomas, and known also by his bardic name Pencerdd Vaughan, was a composer, organist, pianist and music

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David Vostell

David Vostell (born 10 October 1960) is a German-Spanish composer and film director. Biography David Vostell was born in Cologne, the first child of Wolf Vostell and his Spanish wife Mercedes

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David W. Music

David Wayne Music (born January 28, 1949) is an American composer, writer and former professor of church music. He served on the faculties of both his alma maters, California Baptist College and the

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David Wallis Reeves

David Wallis Reeves (February 14, 1838 – March 8, 1900), also known as D. W. Reeves or Wally Reeves, was an American composer, cornetist, and bandleader. He developed the American march style, later

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David Ward-Steinman

David Ward-Steinman (November 6, 1936 – April 14, 2015) was an American composer and professor. He was the author of Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts, and co-authored Comparative

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David Willcocks

Sir David Valentine Willcocks, (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association

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David Woodard

David James Woodard (; born 1964) is an American conductor and writer known for his controversial performances. Through the 1990s and 2000s, Woodard constructed and sold replica Dreamachines, or

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David Wynne (composer)

David Wynne (2 June 1900 – 23 March 1983) was a prolific Welsh composer, who taught for many years at Cardiff University and wrote much of his best-known music in retirement. The following year, the

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David Yazbek

David Norman Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2004),

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Davide Perez

Davide Perez (1711 – 30 October 1778) was an Italian opera composer born in Naples of Italian parents, and later resident court composer at Lisbon from 1752. He staged three operas on librettos of

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Davide Petrella

Davide Petrella (born 6 August 1985), also known as Tropico, is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist. Life and career Born in Naples, Petrella started his career as founder and

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Davide Remigio

Davide Remigio (born 1963) is an Australian-Italian contemporary composer known for founding the compositional technique known as Quaternary Music. He has worked as a composer, lecturer, and

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Davis Daniel

Robert Andrykowski (born March 1, 1961) is an American country music artist who records under the name Davis Daniel. Between 1991 and 1996, he recorded three studio albums on various divisions of

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Davorin Jenko

Davorin Jenko (born Martin Jenko; 9 November 1835 – 25 November 1914) was a Slovene and Serbian composer. He is sometimes considered the father of Slovenian national Romantic music. Among other

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Dawn Vincent

Dawn Vincent is an Indian music composer and sound designer. He is a graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He is also an accomplished pianist certified from Trinity College

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