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Ed Bogas

Edgar Noel "Ed" Bogas (born February 2, 1942), sometimes credited as Edward Bogas, is an American musician and composer whose work has been featured in films, animations, and video games. Career

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Ed Di Lello

Ed Di Lello (born 1952) is an American composer, choreographer, theatre director, dancer, and actor who made work during the 1970s and 1980s. He is currently an attorney practicing in New York City.

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Eda Rapoport

Eda Rothstein Rapoport (25 December 1890 – 9 May 1968 in New York City She emigrated to the United States, where she married noted anesthetist Boris Rapoport (1888–1948) and lived much of her life in

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Eddie Eastman

Eddie Eastman (born July 15, 1949) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Twenty-five of Eastman's singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts, including five which reached the Top Ten.

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Eddie Kilfeather

Edward Vincent (Eddie) Kilfeather (April 5, 1900, Portland, Oregon - January 13, 1950, Los Angeles, California) was a musical composer and arranger who worked at the Screen Gems animation studio.

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Eddie Vartan

Edmond Vartan (born Edmond Vartanian; 10 August 1937 – 19 June 2001) was a French musician, bandleader, arranger, and record producer of Armenian descent. Life and career Vartan was born to Armenian

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Eddy Marnay

Edmond Bacri (18 December 1920 – 3 January 2003), known professionally as Eddy Marnay, was a French songwriter. In his career, he wrote more than 4000 songs, including works for Édith Piaf, Frida

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Ede Reményi

Ede Reményi or Eduard Reményi (January 17, 1828 Miskolc, Austrian Empire May 15, 1898 San Francisco) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. His birth date is disputed, and variously given from 1828

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Edgar Bainton

Edgar Leslie Bainton (14 February 18808 December 1956) was a British-born, latterly Australian-resident composer. He is remembered today mainly for his liturgical anthem And I saw a new heaven, a

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Edgar Hovhannisyan

Edgar Hovhannisyan, Hovhannisian or Oganesian (,; January 14, 1930 – December 28, 1998) was an Armenian composer, Professor of Composition at the Yerevan State Conservatory, People's Artist of the

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Edgar Tinel

Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (27 March 185428 October 1912) was a Belgian composer and pianist. He was born in Sinaai, today part of Sint-Niklaas in East Flanders, Belgium, and died in Brussels. After

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Edgar Warren Williams

Edgar Warren Williams (born June 12, 1949) is an American composer, conductor, and music theorist. Williams obtained a bachelor's degree in composition from Duke University in 1971, then obtained a

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Edgard Varèse

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (; also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French and American avant-garde composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United

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Edino Krieger

Edino Krieger (17 March 1928 – 6 December 2022) was a Brazilian avant-garde composer, conductor, record producer and musical critic. Life and career Born in Brusque, Santa Catarina, the son of the

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Edison Denisov

Edison Vasilievich Denisov (, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music. Biography Denisov was

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Edith Alonso

Edith Alonso Sánchez (born 1974 in Madrid) is a Spanish composer, improviser, pianist, sound artist and academic who has been involved in the creation of an experimental electronic style that

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Edith Borroff

Edith Borroff (August 2, 1925 – March 10, 2019) was an American musicologist and composer. Her compositions include over 60 commissioned works, including pieces for the stage; for her primary

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Édith Canat de Chizy

Edith Canat de Chizy (born 26 March 1950) is a French composer, born in Lyon and now based in Paris. She was the first female composer to be elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Life and

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Edith Crash

Edith Crash (born 5 October 1983 in Perpignan, France) is a French singer-songwriter, musician, producer and one woman band. Career Edith Crash spent her teenage years in Spain before moving to Los

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Edith Haines Kuester

Mary Edith Haines Kuester (May 8, 1870 – June 6, 1956) was an American composer, songwriter, pianist, singer, and music educator. Early life and education Haines was born in Indiana and raised in

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Édith Lejet

Édith Lejet (19 July 1941 – 15 July 2024) was a French composer and music educator. Biography Born in Paris, Lejet was the youngest of three children in a family with an engineer father. Lejet

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Edith Swepstone

Edith Mary Swepstone (4 January 1862 – 5 February 1942) was an English composer and music teacher. She studied music at the Guildhall School and later worked as a lecturer at the City of London

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Edmond Audran

Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas. After beginning his career in Marseille as an

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Edmond de Coussemaker

Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (19 April 1805 – 10 January 1876) was a French musicologist and ethnologist focusing mainly on the cultural heritage of French Flanders. His early publication of

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Edmond Dédé

Edmond Dédé (November 20, 1827 – January 5, 1901) was an American musician and composer. A free-born Creole, he moved to Europe in 1855. He worked in Bordeaux for more than forty years, first as

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Edmond Lemaigre

Edmond Lemaigre (1849 in Clermont-Ferrand – 22 May 1890 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris) was a 19th-century French organist, conductor and composer. Biography Lemaire began his musical studies in

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Edmund Chipp

Edmund Thomas Chipp (25 December 1823 – 17 December 1886) was an English organist and composer. His compositions were principally church organ music and oratorios. Life and career Chipp was born in

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Edmund Eysler

Edmund Samuel Eysler (12 March 1874 – 4 October 1949), was an Austrian composer. Biography Edmund Eysler was born in Vienna to a merchant family. He was supposed to enter the engineering profession,

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Edmund Finnis

Edmund Finnis (born 1984 ) is a British composer of classical and electronic music. His works have been commissioned and performed by orchestras and ensembles including the Britten Sinfonia,

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Edmund Jenkins

Edmund Thornton Jenkins (1894–1926) was an American composer who spent much of his life in Europe. Biography Charleston Jenkins was born in Charleston, South Carolina where his Baptist-minister

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Edmund Jolliffe

Edmund Jolliffe is a British composer of contemporary classical, choral and commercial music. He has written for television and the concert hall. His music is published by Associated Board of the

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Edmund Kretschmer

Carl Franz Edmund Kretschmer (31 August 1830 – 13 September 1908) was a German organist and composer who worked for the Dresden Court and composed several operas and masses. Career Born in Ostritz,

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Edmund Meisel

Edmund Meisel (14 August 1894 – 14 November 1930) was an Austrian-born composer. He wrote the score to Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), The Battleship Potemkin (1925), and

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Edmund Neupert

(Carl Fredrik) Edmund Neupert (1 April 184222 June 1888) was a Norwegian music teacher, pianist and composer. Among Neupert's compositions, the 24 Concert-Etüden and the 24 Octav-Etüden are

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Edmund Nick

Edmund Nick (, Reichenberg – , Geretsried) was a German composer, conductor, and music writer. Biography The son of a merchant, Nick studied law from 1910 to 1915 in Vienna and Graz. At the same

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Edmund Pascha

Edmund Pascha (17146 May 1772) was a preacher, organist and composer. He used the pen name Claudianus Ostern. Life Edmund Pascha was born in 1714 in Kroměříž, the Moravian musical centre of that

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Edmund Rubbra

Edmund Rubbra (; 23 May 190114 February 1986) was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly

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Edmund von Borck

Edmund Konstantin Wilhelm von Borck (22 February 1906 – 16 February 1944) was a German composer of (modern) classical music and a conductor. Life Edmund von Borck was born in Breslau, Germany to a

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Edo Van Breemen

Edo Van Breemen is a Canadian musician and composer from Vancouver, British Columbia. Career He is most noted for his work on the film Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew, for

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Édouard Commette

Édouard Commette (12 April 1883, in Lyon21 April 1967 ) was an organist from Lyon in France of international fame who served the Archdiocese of Lyon and was organist at Basilique Notre Dame de

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Édouard Deldevez

Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez (31 May 1817 – 6 November 1897) was a French violinist, conductor at important Parisian musical institutions, composer, and music teacher. Biography Deldevez was born

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Édouard Devernay

Édouard Henri Devernay Jnr. (8 November 1889 – 5 July 1952) was a French musician, composer and organist who held the position of organiste titulaire of the great organ of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in

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Édouard Du Puy

Jean Baptiste Édouard Louis Camille Du Puy (17703 April 1822) was a Principality of Neuchâtel-born singer, composer, director, and violinist. He lived and worked in Copenhagen and Stockholm from 1793

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Édouard Ignace Andlauer

Édouard Ignace Andlauer (15 December 1830 – 14 December 1909) was a French composer and organist. Life Andlauer was born in Andlau (Alsace) where his father was a schoolteacher. From a very early

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Edouard Kann

Edouard Kann (born 28 February 1857) was a French composer and musician. Biography Edouard Kann was born into a Jewish family in Paris, France, the son of a prominent banker. He received his musical

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Édouard Lalo

Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer, violist, violinist, and academic teacher. His most celebrated piece is the Symphonie Espagnole, a five-movement

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Édouard Woolley

Édouard Joseph Woolley (31 March 1916 – 22 December 1991) was a Canadian tenor, actor, composer, and music educator of Haitian birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1958. His

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Edric Cundell

Edric Cundell CBE, (29 January 1893 – 19 March 1961) was a British music teacher, composer and conductor. Early life and academic career Born in London, Edric Cundell came from a musical family: his

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Edson Zampronha

Edson Zampronha (born June 2, 1963) is a Brazilian composer dedicated to contemporary experimental music. His works include pieces for orchestra, symphonic band, electroacoustic music, chamber music,

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Edu da Gaita

Edu da Gaita (lit. Edu of the Harp), born Eduardo Nadruz (December 13, 1916 – August 23, 1982), was a Brazilian musician. At the end of the 1950s, Radamés Gnattali befriended Edu, composing a concert

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Eduard Bayer

Johann Gottfried Eduard Bayer (20 March 1822 – 23 March 1908), usually known as Eduard Bayer, was a German composer for the classical guitar and a virtuoso performer on the guitar, harp guitar,

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Eduard Caudella

Eduard Caudella (22 May (or 3 June) 1841 – 15 April 1924) was a Romanian opera composer, also a violin virtuoso, conductor, teacher and critic. He studied with Henri Vieuxtemps, and taught at the

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Eduard de Lannoy

Baron Henri Eduard Joseph de Lannoy (3 December 1787 – 28 March 1853), was a Flemish composer, teacher, conductor, and writer on music who spent most of his life in Austria. His compositions bridge

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Eduard Drach

Eduard Valeriiovych Drach (, born 1965), is a composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is an active member of the Kyiv Kobzar Guild. The author of numerous songs in a variety of

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Eduard Erdmann

Eduard Erdmann (5 March 1896 – 21 June 1958) was a Baltic German pianist and composer. Erdmann was born in Wenden (Cēsis) in the Governorate of Livonia. He was the great-nephew of the philosopher

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Eduard Flipse

Eduard Flipse (26 February 1896 in Wissenkerke – 12 September 1973 in Breda) was a Dutch conductor and composer, the son of Cornelis Flipse and Geertje Kruis. He was noted as a champion of the music

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Eduard Franck

Eduard Franck (5 October 1817 – 1 December 1893) was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue. Life Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the

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Eduard Hayrapetyan

Eduard Hayrapetyan (; born September 5, 1949) is an Armenian composer of contemporary classical music and educator. Biography He was born in Yerevan, Armenia, on September 5, 1949. He first studied

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Eduard Holst

Eduard Holst (1843 – 4 February 1899) was a Danish playwright, composer, actor, dancer, and dance master. His name is spelled sometimes Edward Holst or Edvard Holst. Holst was born in Copenhagen. His

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Eduard Künneke

Eduard Künneke (also seen as Edward and spelled Künnecke) (27 January 1885 – 27 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German composer notable for his operettas, operas, theatre music and some orchestral

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Eduard Lassen

Eduard Lassen (13 April 183015 January 1904) was a Belgian-Danish composer and conductor. Although of Danish birth, he spent most of his career working as the music director at the court in Weimar. A

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Eduard Lazarev

Eduard Leonidovich Lazarev (; 19 December 1935 – 10 January 2008) was a Moldovan composer of Russian descent. Lazarev arranged the State Anthem of the Moldavian SSR in 1980, with authorization of The

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Eduard Nápravník

Eduard Francevič Nápravník (; 24 August 1839 – 23 November 1916) was a Czech conductor and composer. Nápravník settled in Russian Empire and is best known for his leading role in Russian musical life

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Eduard Oja

Eduard Oja (17 January 1905 in Palupõhja – 16 April 1950 in Tartu) was an Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic. His father was a forest warden. Between 1919 and 1925 he studied at

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Eduard Pütz

Eduard Pütz (13 February 1911, in Illerich – 18 January 2000, in Bad Münstereifel) was a German composer and music teacher. Selected works :: Pütz's scores are published by Schott Music, Edition

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Eduard Sadoyan

Eduard Sadoyan (, 22 August 1932 — 21 February 2018) was an Armenian composer. Honored Art Worker of Armenia (2013). Biography Eduard Sadoyan was born on 22 August 1932 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR.

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Eduard Strauss

Eduard "Edi" Strauss (15 March 1835 – 28 December 1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with his brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the

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Eduard Tauwitz

Eduard Tauwitz (21 January 1812 – 26 July 1894) was a German composer and a native of Glatz, Prussian Silesia. While studying law at the University of Breslau, he devoted himself to music under the

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Eduard Toldrà

Eduard Toldrà Soler (; Vilanova i la Geltrú 7 April 1895 – Barcelona, 31 May 1962) was a Spanish Catalan composer and conductor. Toldrà played an important role in the Culture of Barcelona. In 1944

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Eduard Tubin

Eduard Tubin ( – 17 November 1982) was an Estonian composer, conductor, and choreographer. Life Tubin was born in Torila, Tartu County, Governorate of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire. Both

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Eduard Zuckmayer

Eduard Zuckmayer (3 August 1890 – 2 July 1972) was a German music educator, composer, conductor and pianist. He was the older brother of the famous German writer Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977). Family

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Eduardo Alonso-Crespo

Eduardo Alonso-Crespo (also spelled Eduardo Alonso Crespo, without the hyphen) is an Argentine composer of classical music. Biography Argentine composer and conductor Eduardo Alonso-Crespo was born

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Eduardo Diazmuñoz

Eduardo Diazmuñoz is a highly prolific Mexican-Spanish-American conductor, composer and arranger, performer and educator. He studied piano, cello, percussion, and conducting at the National

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Eduardo Gilardoni

Eduardo Gilardoni (9 November 1935 – 28 March 2022) was a Uruguayan composer, pianist, harpsichordist and vocal coach. Life and career Born in Conchillas, Uruguay, Gilardoni started his piano studies

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Eduardo Hernández Moncada

Eduardo Hernández Moncada (September 24, 1899 – December 31, 1995) was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of the Nationalist Movement of

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Eduardo Mezzacapo

Eduardo Mezzacapo (1832–1898) was an Italian mandolinist, recognized as a virtuoso. He was also a composer, and a performer, organizing and playing in a mandolin quartet in France. Although he died

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Eduardo Reck Miranda

Eduardo Reck Miranda (born 1963) is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly

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Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes

Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes (3 April 1874, in Havana – 7 September 1944) was a Cuban composer, and an author of books on the history of Cuban folk music. The outstanding habanera Tú, written when he

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Eduardo Soutullo

Eduardo Soutullo is a Spanish composer and filmmaker. He was the recipient of the Spanish Ministry of Culture's National Prize in Music (composition) in 2023. The jury awarded the prize to Soutullo

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Edvard Bræin

Edvard Bræin (3 April 1887 - 20 September 1957) was a Norwegian organist, composer, and orchestra conductor, the father of the composer Edvard Fliflet Bræin (1924–76). Biography Bræin was born in

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Edvard Fliflet Bræin

Edvard Fliflet Bræin (23 August 1924 – 30 April 1976) was a Norwegian composer and conductor. He is best remembered for the composition Ut mot havet and the opera Anne Pedersdotter. Personal life

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard

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Edvard Hagerup Bull (composer)

Edvard Hagerup Bull (10 June 1922 – 15 March 2012 ) was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Bergen. He grew up in Jar outside Oslo in a musical and politically active family, the son of Sverre

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Edvin Kallstenius

Edvin Kallstenius (29 August 1881 – 22 November 1967) was a Swedish composer and librarian. He arranged the traditional folk tune used as the de facto national anthem of Sweden, Du gamla, Du fria.

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Edvin Marton

Edvin Marton (born Lajos Edvin Csűry, 17 February 1974, Vylok, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born Hungarian composer and violinist. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni

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Edward Ballantine

Edward Ballantine (August 6, 1886 – July 2, 1971), was an American composer and professor of music. Early life Edward Ballantine was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on August 6, 1886, the son of William Gay

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Edward Boatner

Edward Hammond Boatner (13 November 1898–16 June 1981) was an American composer who wrote many popular concert arrangements of Black American spirituals. Biography Boatner was educated at Western

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Edward Cowie

Edward Cowie (born 17 August 1943) is an Australian composer, author, natural scientist, and painter. Life Edward Cowie was born in England in 1943, and spent most of his early life in the rural

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet ( ; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among

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Edward German

Sir Edward German (born German Edward Jones; 17 February 1862 – 11 November 1936) was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music

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Edward Gibbons

Edward Gibbons (bapt. 21 March 1568 – in or before July 1650) was an English choirmaster and composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Cambridge, Gibbons's youth is

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Edward Gold

Edward Gold (July 25, 1936 – March 2, 2022) was an American pianist and composer. Early life and education Gold was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and lived most of his adult life in

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Edward Harper (composer)

Edward (James) Harper (17 March 1941 – 12 April 2009) was an English composer who worked mostly in Scotland. Among his important compositions for orchestra were Bartok Games 1972, Symphony, Symphony

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Edward Harwood (of Darwen)

Edward Harwood (of Darwen) (1707–1787) was an English composer of hymns, anthems and songs. His setting of Alexander Pope's revolutionary The Dying Christian (Vital spark of heav'nly flame) was

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Edward Higginbottom

Edward Higginbottom (born 16 November 1946, Kendal) is a music scholar, organist, choirmaster and conductor. Most of his career has been as organist at New College, Oxford, where he led their choir

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Edward Jakobowski

Edward Jakobowski (17 April 1856 – 29 April 1929) At age six, he moved to Vienna, Austria, where he lived for some 15 years and was given a musical education. In the late 1870s he lived in Paris for

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Edward John Hopkins

Dr. Edward John Hopkins FRCO (30 June 1818 - 4 February 1901) was an English organist and composer. The organist and composer John Larkin Hopkins was his cousin. Life He was born on 30 June 1818 in

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Edward Joseph Collins

Edward Joseph Collins (November 10, 1886 – December 1, 1951) was an American pianist, conductor and composer of classical music in a neoromantic style. Life and career Collins was born in Joliet,

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Edward Knight (composer)

Edward Knight (born November 4, 1961) is an American composer. His work eschews easy classification, moving freely between jazz, theatrical and concert worlds. Background Knight was born in Ann

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Edward Lambert

Edward Lambert (born 1951) is an English composer who has written chamber music, vocal and choral works, and chamber operas. He is also a conductor and pianist. Study Edward Lambert was educated at

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Edward Laska

Edward Laska (January 3, 1894 – April 27, 1959) was an American songwriter who worked as both a composer and lyricist in Tin Pan Alley. He wrote the lyrics to the hit songs "How'd You Like to Spoon

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Edward Laufer

Edward Constantin Laufer (25 November 1938 – 7 May 2014 ) was a Canadian music theorist, composer and teacher. Laufer was born in Zürich. His family emigrated to Canada in 1939, settling in Halifax.

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Edward M. Zimmerman

Edward Moore Zimmerman, often given as E. M. Zimmerman, (January 9, 1859 – December 6, 1922) was an American bass, composer, choir conductor, organist, and music educator. A longtime resident of

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Edward MacDowell

Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites

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Edward Mack

Edward L. Mack (24 August 1826 – 7 January 1882), also credited as E. Mack, was a German born American composer, pianist, teacher, and piano professional best known for his prolific output of parlor

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Edward Manukyan

Edward Manukyan (born July 27, 1981) is a composer from Southern California, United States. His main works are orchestral and chamber compositions, which lean heavily upon elements of Armenian

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Edward McGuire (composer)

Edward ("Eddie") McGuire (born 1948) is a Scottish composer whose work ranges from compositions for solo instruments and voice to large-scale orchestral and operatic works. McGuire studied

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Edward Miller (musician)

Edward Miller (1731 or 1735 – 1807) was an English musician, composer and historian of Doncaster. He is most noted as the writer of the hymn tunes Rockingham and Galway. Life Miller was the son of a

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Edward Mollenhauer

Edward Mollenhauer (1827–1914) was an American violinist and composer. Biography Mollenhauer was born in Erfurt, Prussia. He studied under Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst and Louis Spohr, and had become

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Edward Naylor

Edward Woodall Naylor (9 February 1867 – 7 May 1934) was an English organist and composer. Naylor was born in Scarborough in 1867. His father, John Naylor, was organist of York Minster. He won a

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Edward Olearczyk

Edward Olearczyk (born 4 March 1915, d. 1994) was a Polish composer. He was born in Rawa Ruska into a Jewish family, and studied with Zbigniew Drzewiecki at the conservatory in Warsaw. From 1939 to

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Edward Potjes

Edward Potjes (born Eduard Adriaan Nicolaas; in French Edouard-Adrien-Nicolas) was a Dutch-born composer and piano virtuoso. Born in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) on 13 August 1860, Potjes began his

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Edward Purcell (musician)

Edward Purcell (1689–1740) was an English organist and composer. Purcell was born in Westminster, London, the only surviving son of English Baroque master Henry Purcell, who died in 1695 when Edward

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Edward Salim Michael

Edward Salim Michael (1921 – November 2006) was a composer of symphonic music and an author of books on spirituality and meditation. It was to Buddhism that he felt closest, but as his teaching was

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Edward Shearmur

Edward Shearmur (also known as Ed Shearmur; born 28 February 1966) is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age seven he sang in the boys' choir at Westminster Cathedral. Educated at

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Edward T. Cone

Edward Toner Cone (May 4, 1917 – October 23, 2004) was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist. Life and career Cone was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He studied

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Edward Top

Siemon Edward Top (born 1 January 1972 in Ommen) is a Dutch composer. Top studied violin and composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans at the Rotterdam Conservatoire. He won the Dutch prize for composition

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Edward Vesala

Edward Vesala (15 February 1945 – 4 December 1999), Career Born in Mäntyharju, he began playing jazz and rock in the 1960s, in such bands as Blues Section and Apollo. In the 1970s, he led his own

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Edward Ward (composer)

Edward Ward (April 2, 1896– September 26, 1971) was an American film composer and music director who was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Academy Award nominations *1939 Best Original Song for

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Edward White (composer)

Edward George White (21 August 1910 – 1994) was a British composer of light music, whose compositions including "The Runaway Rocking-Horse" (1946), "Paris Interlude" (1952), "Puffin' Billy" (1952)

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Edward-Rhys Harry

Edward-Rhys Harry (born 22 November 1973) is a Welsh choral conductor and composer. He is the Musical Development and Wellbeing Manager for the Military Wives Choirs and the Musical Director of the

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Edwin Bélanger

Edwin Bélanger (18 November 1910 – 14 January 2005) was a Canadian conductor, violinist, violist, arranger, and music educator. He had an association with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec for more

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Edwin Carr (composer)

Edwin James Nairn Carr (10 August 1926 – 27 March 2003) was a composer of classical music from New Zealand. Biography Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys' High School from

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Edwin Eugene Bagley

Edwin Eugene "E. E." Bagley (May 29, 1857 – January 29, 1922) was an American composer most famous for composing the march National Emblem. Bagley was born in Craftsbury, Vermont on May 29, 1857. He

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Edwin Franko Goldman

Edwin Franko Goldman (January 1, 1878 – February 21, 1956) was an American composer and conductor. One of the most significant American band composers of the early 20th century, Goldman composed over

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Edwin Lemare

Edwin Henry Lemare (9 September 1865 – 24 September 1934) was an English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States. He was one of the most highly regarded and

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Edwin Penhorwood

Edwin Penhorwood (born 1939) is an American composer who is an assistant professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Biography Penhorwood is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and studied

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Edwin Roxburgh

__NOTOC__ Edwin Roxburgh (born 6 November 1937) is an English composer, conductor and oboist. Roxburgh was born in Liverpool. After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double

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Edwin van der Heide

Edwin van der Heide (born 1970) is a Dutch sound artist and composer known for his immersive installations and performances, currently living in Rotterdam. Biography Van der Heide was born in

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Edwin Wendler

Edwin Wendler (born 11 April 1975) is an Austrian composer working in Los Angeles, California. Biography Born into a musical family (Wendler's father, Prof. Dr. Anton Wendler, worked as a tenor and

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Edwina Florence Wills

Edwina Florence Wheeler Wills (December 5, 1915 – December 1, 2002) was an American artist and composer who played cello and piano. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, she received a B.A. from Grinnell

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