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Ela Orleans

Ela Orleans (born 1971 in Oświęcim, commonly known by its German name of Auschwitz) is a Polish composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Personal Life and Musical Career Orleans lives and works

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Elaine Barkin

Elaine "Ray" Barkin (née Radoff, December 15, 1932 – February 22, 2023) was an American composer, writer, and educator. Early life Elaine Radoff was born in The Bronx, New York City, lived in the

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Elaine Bearer

Elaine L. Bearer is an American brain scientist, neuropathologist, and composer of classical music. Education Bearer received her Bachelor's of Music from The Manhattan School of Music in Theory, in

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Elaine Fine

Elaine Fine (born 30 April 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American musician and composer. Education Fine's parents were both musicians; her mother played the flute and her father was a violist with

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Elaine Hugh-Jones

Elaine Hugh-Jones (14 June 1927 – 29 March 2021) was a Welsh pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in London and studied piano with Harold Craxton, Julian Isserlis and with Lennox

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Elainie Lillios

Elainie Lillios is a musician specializing in electronic and electroacoustic composition and performance. Lillios studied composition with Larry Austin, Jonty Harrison, Jon Christopher Nelson, Joseph

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Eldon Rathburn

Eldon Davis Rathburn (21 April 1916 – 31 August 2008) was a Canadian film composer who scored over 250 films during his thirty-year tenure as a staff composer at the National Film Board of Canada.

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Eleanor Alberga

Eleanor Deanne Therese Alberga (born 30 September 1949) is a Jamaican contemporary music composer who lives and works in the United Kingdom. Her most recent compositions include two Violin Concertos,

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Eleanor Daley (composer)

Eleanor Joanne Daley (born April 21, 1955) is a Canadian composer of choral and church music, a church choir director, choral clinician and accompanist. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Among

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Eleanor Everest Freer

Eleanor Everest Freer (14 May 1864 – 13 Dec 1942) was an American composer and philanthropist. Life Eleanor Everest was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cornelius Everest and Ellen Amelia

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Eleanor Hovda

Eleanor Hovda (March 27, 1940 – November 12, 2009) was a composer and dancer from the United States of America. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota and died in Springdale, Arkansas. She received her

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Eleanor Rudall

Eleanor Clementine Rudall (26 April 1881 – 6 May 1960) was a composer and pianist, who after a promising start while a student at the Royal Academy of Music struggled to find more widespread

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Elena Asachi

Elena Asachi, née Teyber; also known as Hélène and Eleonora (30 October 1789 – 9 May 1877) was a Romanian pianist, singer, translator and composer of Austrian birth. She was the daughter of Austrian

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Elena Firsova

Elena Olegovna Firsova (; also Yelena or Jelena Firssowa; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian composer living in the UK. Life Firsova was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Oleg Firsov and

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Elena Gnesina

Elena Fabianovna Gnesina (or Gnessina; ; 30 May 1874 – 4 June 1967) was a Soviet and Russian composer and music educator, a sister of the composer Mikhail Gnesin. Gnesina was born in Rostov-on-Don to

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Elena Kats-Chernin

Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian composer and pianist, best known for her ballet Wild Swans. Early life and education Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent,

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Elena Langer

Elena Langer (born 1974 in Moscow) is a Russian-born British composer of opera and other contemporary classical music. Her work has been performed at the Royal Opera House, Zurich Opera, Carnegie

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Elena Petrová

Elena Petrová, née Krupková (9 November 1929 – 10 April 2002) was a Czech composer. She was born in Modrý Kameň, and studied piano with Karel Hoffmeister and composition with Jan Kapr and Miloslav

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Elena Ruehr

Elena Ruehr (born 1963) is an American musician, music educator and composer. Life and career Elena Ruehr was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the daughter of a mathematician and an English professor.

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Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou (; born 25 November 1939) is a Greek composer. She is best known for scoring the films of the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos. Biography Karaindrou moved with her family to Athens

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Eleni Lambiri

Eleni Lambiri (, 9 February 1882 – 30 March 1960) was a Greek conductor and composer. She is often regarded as the first female Greek composer. After completing her studies, she worked in Milan as a

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Elesky

Elena Loredo (born 1995), known online as Elesky, is a Spanish pianist, composer, Twitch streamer and video gamer. Early life Elena Loredo was born in 1995 in Gijón, Asturias. In 2001, at the age of

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Elfrida Andrée

Elfrida Andrée (19 February 1841 – 11 January 1929) was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar. Life and career Early life and education Andrée was

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Elia Cmíral

Elia David Cmíral (; born October 1, 1950) is a Czech composer for film, television, ballet, and video games. He has worked on numerous projects across multiple genres, though he is arguably best

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Elias Cairel

Elias Cairel (or Cayrel; fl. 1204–1222) was a troubadour of international fame. Born in Sarlat in the Périgord, he first travelled with the Fourth Crusade and settled down in the Kingdom of

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Elias Davidsson

Elias Davidsson (Icelandic spelling Elías Davíðsson; born Elias Kahn, 23 January 1941 - 7 April 2022) was an Icelandic composer, 9/11 truther and conspiracy theorist author. Biography Elias Davidsson

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Elias Parish Alvars

Elias Parish Alvars (surname sometimes given as Parish-Alvars), (28 February 1808 – 25 January 1849) was an English harpist and composer. He was born as Eli Parish in Teignmouth, Devon; his father

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Elias Zazi

Elias Zazi (born 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Swedish-Assyrian composer and a theorist in music. Zazi also teaches music and works as a music critic and writer to a daily newspaper in Södertälje,

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Elie Siegmeister

Elie Siegmeister (also published under pseudonym L. E. Swift; January 15, 1909, in New York City – March 10, 1991, in Manhasset, New York) was an American composer, educator and author. Early life

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Élie-Miriam Delaborde

Élie-Miriam Delaborde (born Eraïm-Miriam Delaborde; 7 February 18399 December 1913) was a French virtuoso pianist and composer. He was also renowned as a player of the pedal piano. Early life His

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Elinor Armer

Elinor Armer (born October 6, 1939) is an American pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Elinor Armer was born in Oakland, California but at the age of 2 months moved to Davis, California

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Elio Martusciello

Elio Martusciello (born 23 November 1959) is an Italian experimental music composer and performer, principally on guitar and computer. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with

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Elisabet Wentz-Janacek

Elisabet Wentz-Janacek (20 August 1923 – 2014) was a Swedish author, composer, musicologist, organist, and teacher, who is best known for mapping 20,000 melody variants for Swedish hymns and helping

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Élisabeth de Haulteterre

Élisabeth de Haulteterre (Hotteterre) (c. 1720?–after 1768) (fl. 1737–1768) was a French composer and violinist. Despite the similarity of the name, she did not come from La Couture, the home of the

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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (, née Jacquet, 17 March 1665 – 27 June 1729) was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer. Jacquet de La Guerre was a significant figure in French Baroque

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Elisabeth Kuyper

Elisabeth Johanna Lamina Kuyper (13 September 1877 – 26 February 1953) was a Dutch Romantic composer and conductor. Life Elisabeth Kuyper was born in Amsterdam, the eldest of three children. At the

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Elisabeth Le Guin

Elisabeth Covel Le Guin She attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she obtained BMus in Cello in 1979. She later did graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, where she

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Elisabeth Lutyens

Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE (9 July 1906 – 14 April 1983) was an English composer. Early life and education Elisabeth Lutyens was born in London on 9 July 1906. She was one of the five children of

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Elisabetta Brusa

Elisabetta Olga Laura Brusa (born 3 April 1954) is an Italian/British composer. Biography Early life and education Elisabetta Brusa was born in Milan in 1954. She began composing pieces for piano at

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Elisabetta de Gambarini

Elisabetta de Gambarini (7 September 1731 – 9 February 1765) was an English composer, singer, organist, harpsichordist, pianist, orchestral conductor and painter of the 18th century. Elisabetta's

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Elise Fellows White

Mary Elise Fellows White (November 14, 1873 – March 22, 1953) was an American author, composer, and violinist who recorded for Schirmer records. the only child of Frank and Deborah Swan Fellows. Her

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Elise Rondonneau

Elise Foucher Rondonneau (active 1827-1860s) was a widely-published French composer of songs and works for harmonium, organ and piano. She married Jules Rondonneau. Little is known about her life.

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Elise Schlick

Maria Elisabeth, Countess of Schlick (, ; c. 1790 – 14 December 1855) was a Bohemia-born composer and poet. She composed music for lieder and also wrote poetry that other composers set to music. She

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Elisse Boyd

Elisse Boyd (born Agnes Elisse Corbett) (1910–1979) was a composer. She married William R. Boyd III and changed her name to Elisse Boyd. Early life Agnes Elisse Corbett was born in 1910 in Peducah,

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Eliza Mazzucato Young

Eliza Mazzucato Young (July 7, 1846 – March 27, 1937) was an Italian-born American composer, musician, and educator. She wrote Mr. Sampson of Omaha (1888), one of the first operas by a woman to be

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Elizabeth Alexander (composer)

Elizabeth Alexander (born August 6, 1962) is an American composer. Her works include orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal works. She is best known for her over 80 choral pieces, which have been

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Elizabeth Bell (composer)

Elizabeth Bell (December 1, 1928 – December 19, 2016) was an American composer. Life and education Elizabeth Bell was born in Cincinnati in 1928. She was awarded her Bachelor of Arts degree in music

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Elizabeth Brown (musician)

Elizabeth Brown (born 1953) is an American contemporary composer and performer, known for music described as otherworldly, which employs microtonal expression, unique instrumentation and a morphing,

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Elizabeth Gyring

Elizabeth Gyring (1886–1970) was an American composer born in Vienna, Austria. Early life and education Gyring's father was Leopold Rethy, a laryngologist. Gyring attended the Vienna Academy of

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Elizabeth Hayden Pizer

Elizabeth Faw Hayden Pizer (born September 1, 1954) is an American composer, music journalist, archivist and broadcast producer. She was born in Watertown, New York, and studied at the Boston

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Elizabeth Maconchy

Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu (; 19 March 1907 – 11 November 1994) was an English-Irish composer. She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.

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Elizabeth Ogonek

Elizabeth Ogonek (born May 26, 1989) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ogonek was born in Anoka, Minnesota and was raised in New York City. There she began her

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Elizabeth Parker (composer)

Elizabeth Parker is a British film and television composer who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from 1978 until the workshop's closure. Biography Parker graduated from the University of East

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Elizabeth Philp

Elizabeth Philp (1827 – 26 November 1885) was an English singer, music educator and composer. Philp was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, the eldest daughter of geographer James Philp. She was a protegee

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Elizabeth Poston

Elizabeth Poston (24 October 1905 – 18 March 1987) was an English composer, pianist, organist, and writer. Early life and career Poston was born in Highfield House in Pin Green, which is now the site

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Elizabeth R. Austin

Elizabeth R. Austin (born 1938) is an American composer. Life Born in Baltimore, Elizabeth R. Austin received her early musical training at The Peabody Conservatory. When Nadia Boulanger visited

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Elizabeth Raum

Elizabeth Raum (born 13 January 1945) is a Canadian oboist and composer. Biography Elizabeth Raum was born in Berlin, New Hampshire in 1945, but became a Canadian citizen in 1985. She studied oboe

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Elizabeth Stirling

Elizabeth Stirling - spousal name Elizabeth Bridge - (26 February 1819 – 25 March 1895) was an English organist and composer. Biography Elizabeth Stirling was born in Greenwich, London, into an

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Elizabeth Swados

Elizabeth Swados (February 5, 1951 – January 5, 2016) was an American writer, composer, musician, choreographer, and theatre director. Swados received Tony Award nominations for Best Musical, Best

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Elizabeth Walton Vercoe

Elizabeth Vercoe (born April 23, 1941) is an American musician, music educator and composer. Biography Born in Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Vercoe grew up in a musical family and studied the classical

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Ella Adayevskaya

Ella von Schultz-Adaïewsky; (Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya) ; 26 July 1926) was a Russian-German composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. Note: "Adayevskaya" is an incorrect appellation. Adaïewsky

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Ella Milch-Sheriff

Ella Milch-Sheriff (Hebrew: אלה מילך-שריף) is an Israeli composer, winner of ACUM award for lifetime achievement (2022). Born in Haifa, Israel on September 1, 1954, Milch-Sheriff began her career as

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Ella Spira

Ella Spira MBE is a Grammy-nominated composer, visual artist and an award-winning theatre producer based in London, England. Spira co-founded the production company Sisters Grimm alongside ex Royal

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Ellen Arkbro

Ellen Arkbro (born 1990) is a Swedish composer, sound artist and musician working with precision-tuned harmony in frameworks such as just intonation and meantone temperament. Having primarily

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Ellen C. Covito

Ellen C. Covito (born 1974) is an Argentinian composer. She is known most for her Composed Improvisation and Improvised Composition series. Covito's early works consisted in attempts to apply

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Ellen Dickson

Ellen (Elizabeth) Dickson (1819 – 4 July 1878), also known as Dolores, was an English ballad composer. She was born in Woolwich, England southeast of London. Ellen was the third daughter of General

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Ellen Fullman

Ellen Fullman (born 1957) is an American composer, instrument builder, and performer. She is known for her 70-foot (21-meter) Long String instrument, tuned in just intonation and played with

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Ellen Reid (composer)

Ellen Reid (born 1983) is an American composer originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee who lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles. Reid is a multi-genre composer whose work spans classical,

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ( ; born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late

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Elliot Davis (composer)

Elliot Davis is a British composer, musician and music documentary maker. Biography Davis started his career transcribing musical ideas for Lionel Bart. He then went on to work in the West End of

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Elliot Goldenthal

Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores. He studied formally with John Corigliano and was deeply influenced and

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Elliott Carter

Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century. He combined

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Ellis Gibbons

Ellis Gibbons (bapt. 30 November 1573 – 14? May 1603) was an English composer of the late Renaissance who was associated with the English Madrigal School. Born in Cambridge to a musical family,

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Ellsworth Snyder

Ellsworth Snyder (May 13, 1931 – August 11, 2005) was an American abstract painter, professional pianist, conductor and scholar. He was known as a champion of avant-garde art and music and is

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Elmer Diktonius

Elmer Rafael Diktonius (20 January 1896 – 23 September 1961) was a Finnish poet and composer, who wrote in both Swedish and in Finnish. He was born in Helsinki and studied at the Helsinki Music

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Elodie Lauten

Elodie Lauten (October 20, 1950 – June 3, 2014) was a French-born American composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist. Biography Born in Paris, France as Genevieve Schecroun, and

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Eloísa D'Herbil

Eloisa D'Herbil (also Eloisa D'Herbil de Silva, 27 December 1847 – 22 June 1943) was a Spanish pianist and composer. A child prodigy on the piano, by age seven, she had played before the heads of

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Eloy d'Amerval

Eloy d'Amerval (fl. 1455 – 1508) was a French composer, singer, choirmaster, and poet of the Renaissance. He spent most of his life in the Loire Valley of France. From his poetic works, especially

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Eloy Fritsch

Eloy Fernando Fritsch (born 1968) is an electronic musician, keyboard player and main composer of Brazilian progressive rock band Apocalypse. As a solo artist he creates cosmic new-age music. History

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Els Aarne

Elze Janovna Paemurru (30 March 1917 – 14 June 1995), pseudonymously known as Els Aarne, was an Estonian composer, pianist and pedagogue, primarily during the Soviet Union. She taught at Tallinn

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Elsa Barraine

Elsa Jacqueline Barraine (; 13 February 1910 – 20 March 1999) was a composer of French music in the time after the neoclassicist movement of Les Six, Ravel, and Stravinsky. Despite being considered

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Elsa Justel

Elsa Justel is an Argentine composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music, and video-artist. Biography Justel was born on February 19, 1944, in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Justel begins her

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Elsa Laura Wolzogen

Elsa Laura Seemann von Mangern von Wolzogen (5 August 1876 – 25 April 1945) was a German composer, lute player, and singer. She was born and grew up in Dresden, where her family owned a guesthouse

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Elsa Respighi

Elsa Respighi (; 24 March 1894 – 19 March 1996) was an Italian mezzo-soprano singer and composer. She was the wife and former pupil of Ottorino Respighi. Respighi created a ballet and completed her

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Else Marie Pade

Else Marie Pade (2 December 1924 – 18 January 2016) was a Danish composer of electronic music. She was educated as a pianist at the Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium (Royal Danish Academy of

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Else Schmitz-Gohr

Else Schmitz-Gohr (12 August 1901 – 13 December 1987) was a German composer, pianist, and teacher who is best remembered for her Elegy for the Left Hand for piano, her successful students, and her

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Else Streit

Else Streit (born 27 July 1869) was a German composer, pianist, teacher, and violinist. Streit was born in Lauenburg, Pomerania, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. She studied music at the

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Elvira de Freitas

Elvira de Freitas (1927 – 2015) was a composer, a pianist, and one of the first female orchestral conductors in Portugal. Early life and training Elvira Manuela Fernanda de Freitas was born in Lisbon

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Elwin Hendrijanto

Elwin Hendrijanto (born 3 February 1986) is an Indonesian composer, pianist, music producer, and music director. Education In 2008, Elwin graduated cum laude on a scholarship for Bachelors of Music

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Elza Löthner-Rahmn

Elza Johanna Löthner-Rahmn (21 June 1872 - 1933) was a Swedish composer, organist, pianist, and teacher who lived in America for several years and directed a music school in Massachusetts. She

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Elżbieta Sikora

Elżbieta Sikora (born 20 October 1943 ) is a Polish composer who has been resident in France since 1981. She has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works as well

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