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Ela Orleans

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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 between Paris, Glasgow, and Warsaw. Various independent labels around the world since 2008 have released her solo studio albums, as well as compilations, mixes and collaborations with artists such as Dirty Beaches, U.S. Girls and The Pastels. Orleans has scored music for TV, film, and opera. Discography Hassle Hound * Scaring the Grass in the Garden (2002, Pickled Egg) * Sun & Hassle Hound (2003, Textile; split with Sun) * “Appalachian Listening Post” (2004, Twisted Nerve; single) * Limelight Cordial (2006, Staubgold) * Born in a Night (2010, Staubgold) Ela Orleans solo * Low Sun, High Moon (2008, Setola di Maiale) * Ahata/Anahata (2009, La Station Radar; collaboration with Skitter) * Lost (2009, La Station Radar) * The Strongest Walls Open as I Pass (2010, La Station Radar; collaboration with Skitter) * Double Feature (2011, Night People, La Station Radar; split with Dirty Beaches) * Mars Is Heaven (2011, La Station Radar, Atelier Ciseaux) * NEO PI-R (2011, Clan Destine; compilation) * S

Elaine Barkin

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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 Amalgamated Houses, attended Bronx High School of Science, Third Street Music School Settlement, and Queens College (BA in 1954), where she studied composition and theory with Karol Rathaus, Sol Berkowitz, Leo Kraft, and Saul Novack. At Brandeis University (MFA in 1956, PhD in 1971), her mentors in composition and theory were Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, and Seymour Shifrin. In the summer of 1955 she worked with Boris Blacher at Tanglewood and then in 1956 and 1957 at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik on a Fulbright fellowship. In 1963, Barkin was asked by Benjamin Boretz, founding editor of the composers’ journal Perspectives of New Music, to join as editor, a post she held until 1985. Barkin published books and professional articles in journals including Perspectives of New Music. Personal life and death In 1957 she married writer, editor, and computer programmer George J. Barkin (1928–2020). They had three sons: Victor, Jesse, and Gabriel. Works Principal compositions *Four

Elaine Bearer

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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 June 1970. She received the Masters of Art from New York University, where her thesis was entitled Structural Innovation in the String Quartets of Haydn. Prior to studies at The Manhattan School, Bearer was a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, first at the Ecole Americaine des Beaux Arts of the Fontainebleau Schools and continuing in Boulanger’s home on Rue Ballu in Paris. After several years as a tenure-track professor in music at a small liberal arts college in San Francisco, Lone Mountain College, she studied Human Biology at Stanford, was Donald Kennedy’s teaching assistant, worked as a graduate research assistant in Neurobiology with John G. Nicholls and proceeded to be admitted to the combined MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program funded by NIH at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) ,where she graduated with the combined degree in a record 6 years. Career After a one-year post-doctoral fellowship with Lelio Orci in Geneva, at the Centre medical universitaire (CMU), Bearer ret

Elaine Fine

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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 the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She began taking violin lessons when she was 7 and switched to the flute at 14. After graduating high school, she moved from her hometown of Boston to New York to study at the Juilliard School. External links *List of arrangements at International Music Score Library Project *List of compositions at International Music Score Library Project

Elaine Hugh-Jones

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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 Berkeley. After completing her studies, she took a position as an accompanist with the BBC, where she worked for 37 years. She also taught music at Malvern Girls’ College. Works Selected works include: *A back view (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford) *Bicker’s Cottage (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford) *Echo (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare) *Ghosts (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare) *Night song (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford) *Silver (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare) *The hare (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare) *The madman and the child (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford) *The old woman at the flower show (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford) *The ride‑by‑nights (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare) *The road to Coursegoules (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford) *The watch (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornfo

Elainie Lillios

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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 Klein, and others. She has been a professor at Bowling Green State University since 2000. She was awarded First Prize in the 36th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art in Bourges in 2009. In 2012, she was awarded a commission from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. Her works have been included in several festivals such as Electronic Music Midwest Vox Novus’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame, and 60x60 Education Works Source: Compositions * Oceanus IV (1986) * Eclectronic (1988) * Pieces of Partch (1988) * Cactus, Rock, Beaters (1991) * Textural Visions (1991), 10:00 * CELLAR for fixed media (1994–95), 5:02 * of a Single Mind? for alto saxophone and electronics (1995), 12:07 * Au deuxième étage for fixed media (1996), 3:00 * Supplications (1996) * Sounds from the second floor (1996–97), 7:00 * Arturo for fixed media (1998), 13:35 * Threads for fixed media (1998), 4:50 * Stumbling Dance for fixed media (1998–99), 14:45 * Earth Ascending for female voice and el

Eldon Rathburn

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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. Known as “the dean of Canadian film composers”, Rathburn composed music for documentaries, short films, as well as such feature films as Drylanders (1963), Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964), Waiting for Caroline (1969), Cold Journey (1975), and Who Has Seen the Wind (1977). Rathburn was the subject of a 1995 NFB documentary by Louis Hone titled Eldon Rathburn: They Shoot… He Scores. Early life and education Rathburn was born in the community of Queenstown, in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. As a child he learned to play the piano. Rathburn attended Saint John High School, and received a Licentiate of Music from McGill University in 1937. The following year, he won the Canadian Performing Rights Society Scholarship Competition, and began performing on the piano for local dance bands and radio broadcasts, including with Don Messer. From 1938–39, he studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Healey Willan (composition), Reginald Godden (piano), Charles Peaker (organ), and Leo Smith

Eleanor Alberga

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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, a Trumpet Concerto and a Symphony. Career Eleanor Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist and began composing short pieces. While still at school, she played the guitar with the Jamaican Folk Singers. She studied music at Jamaica School of Music and in 1970 she won the biennial West Indian Associated Board Scholarship, which allowed her to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England, where one of her teachers was Richard Stoker. Alberga works as a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has been pianist and music director for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre and played with Nanquindo (four players on two pianos). She married the violinist Thomas Bowes in 1992. They live in Herefordshire and perform together as a duo called Double Exposure. Bowes was the premiere soloist for both of her Violin Concertos (2001 and 2019). Alberga was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2

Eleanor Daley (composer)

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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 her best-known works are The Rose Trilogy and Requiem. Early life and education Daley was born in Parry Sound, Ontario. She earned a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and attained diplomas in piano and organ, having studied in both Canada and England. Career As a composer, Daley has been commissioned by choral groups and arts organizations throughout North America and Europe. In Canada, she composed for the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Choir, the Bach Children’s Chorus, the Maryland State Boychoir, the Amabile Youth Singers, Toronto Children’s Chorus, the Cantabile Singers of Kingston, the Savridi Singers, the Vancouver Men’s Chorus and the Victoria Scholars. Daley worked under commission to a number of groups in the United States, including the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Texas Woman’s University, the Texas Choral Directors Association, and received the 2008 Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. Commis

Eleanor Everest Freer

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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 (Clark) Everest, and studied singing in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and composition with Benjamin Godard. She taught music in Philadelphia and New York City, and married Chicago doctor Archibald Freer in 1893. The couple had one daughter and moved to Chicago in 1899, where Eleanor Freer studied music theory with Bernard Ziehn. In 1934, she received a D.Mus. from the Boguslawski College of Music. Freer was an active advocate for American opera, and opera sung in English. To this end, she helped to found the Opera in Our Language Foundation (OOLF) in 1921, and the David Bispham Memorial Fund in 1922 to promote concerts of American composers’ works and award a Bispham Medal. The two organizations merged in 1924 to become the American Opera Society of Chicago. Freer’s one-act opera The Legend of the Piper was performed numerous times by the American Opera Company from 1928 through 1929. She died in Chicago in 1942. Works Freer composed eleven operas and more than 150 songs, many of which were pu

Eleanor Hovda

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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 Bachelor of Arts in music at American University in Washington, D.C., and her MFA in dance at Sarah Lawrence College. Her music has been performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad by ensembles including the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, KlangForum (Vienna), the Cassatt and Kronos Quartets, Zeitgeist, Bang on a Can All-Stars, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Boston Musica Viva, The California Ear Unit, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and the St. Louis Symphony. Performance venues have included Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood), Alice Tully, Carnegie Hall Weill, Miller, Walter Reade and Merkin Concert Halls; The Kitchen, Bang on a Can Festival and The Alternative Museum (NYC) the Purcell Room (London), The American Academy (Rome), the American Center (Paris), the WDR (Cologne), Cervantino Festival (Mexico), New Music Forum (Mexico City), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo and Asahikawa (Japan); colleges and universities including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Co

Eleanor Rudall

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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 recognition. She continued her career teaching piano, harmony and composition, and in 1927 became the second wife of composer Frederick Corder. She was a friend and collaborator of English composer and pianist Emma Lomax. Education and early career Rudall was born at 25 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington (now Kensington High Street), the daughter of composer and author Henry Alexander Rudall (1837–1896) and Jane Sinclair Bails. H.A. Rudall wrote a biography in the Great Composers series on Beethoven in 1890. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the R.A.M. Club prize for composition in 1906. Her Introduction and Allegro for string octet was played at a Royal Academy concert in 1906. Four Orchestral Illustrations (inspired by the paintings of G F Watts), were performed at a Queen’s Hall student concert on 25 June 1907. Rudall won the Charles Lucas Medal for composition in 1908 for her Suite of Three Movements for orchestra. Her orchestral Variations on an Irish Air was also pe

Elena Asachi

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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 composer Anton Teyber and niece of concertmaster Franz Teyber. She studied music under her father as a child in Dresden. Later she studied in Vienna under opera singer Domenico Donzelli. She became a professor at Iași Conservatory where she was known as a pianist and composer from 1827 to 1863. She married Gheorghe Asachi, with whom she collaborated on songs and theatrical works. Together with her husband she promoted the creation of the first music institute in the Principality of Moldavia, the Philharmonic-Drama Conservatory. Life Elena Asachi was born Elena Teyber, on 30 October 1789 in Vienna. She was the daughter of Austrian composer Anton Teyber and the niece of concertmaster Franz Teyber. Asachi was a pianist, singer, translator and composer. She studied music under her father as a child in Dresden, including theory, solfege, harmony and counterpoint. After completing her studies, she became a professor at Iași Conservatory where she was known as a pianist and composer from 1827

Elena Firsova

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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 Viktoria Lichko. * For Alissa Op. 102 (2002) in: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS: Rachmaninov, Smirnov, E. Firsova, A. Firsova: Alissa Firsova, piano: Vivat 109 DDD ** Homage to Canisy, Op.129 for Cello & Piano ** Lost Vision, Op. 137 for Piano Solo ** A Triple Portrait, Op.132, commissioned by Marsyas Trio (2011) ** Night Songs, Op.125 for Mezzo-Soprano, Flute & Cello ** Spring Sonata, Op.27 for Flute & Piano ** For Slava, Op.120 for Solo Cello ** Meditation in the Japanese Garden, Op.54 for Flute, Cello & Piano ** Three Poems of Osip Mandelstam, Op.23 for Soprano & Piano ** Tender is the Sorrow, Op.130 for Flute, String Trio and Piano in: A Triple Portrait. Chamber Music by Elena Firsova – Marsyas Trio, Meridian: CDE84635 Bibliography * Elena Firsova: On Music; in Sowjetische Musik im Licht der Perestroika, pp. 337–8, Laaber-Verlag, Germany, (German translation by Hannelore Gerlach and Jürgen Köchel) 1990 References Sources *Yuri Kholopov: Russians in England: Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova. Article,

Elena Gnesina

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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 Rabbi Fabian Osipovich Gnesin (d. 1891) and his wife Bella Isaevna (née Fletzinger), who was a singer and pianist who had studied with Stanisław Moniuszko. Gnesina received numerous state awards, including two Orders of Lenin, and recognition as an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1935). External links * Kadja Grönke, Art. “Gnessina, Jewgenia, Maria, Elena und Jelisaweta”, in: Lexikon “Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts”, hrsg. von Freia Hoffmann, 2016.

Elena Kats-Chernin

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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, Uzbek SSR (now the capital of independent Uzbekistan) and is Jewish. Her early life was spent in the Russian SSR after she moved to Yaroslavl at age 4, where she grew up and studied composition at the Sobinov Conservatory. At age 14, she was admitted to the Gnessin State Musical College, and subsequently moved to Moscow for her studies. She later migrated to Australia in 1975, continuing her studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under Richard Toop (composition) and Gordon Watson (piano). She graduated from the Conservatorium in 1980. She also participated in the Darlinghurst underground theatre scene, with groups such as Cabaret Conspiracy, Fifi Lamour, Boom Boom La Burn and others, often under the name Elena Kats. After graduating, Kats-Chernin moved to Germany to study under Helmut Lachenmann. She remained in Europe for thirteen years, and became active in theatre and ballet, composing for state theatres in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Bochum. Career Since returning to Australia i

Elena Langer

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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 Hall, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Wigmore Hall, Opera national du Rhin, Strasbourg, and Milton Court, Barbican Centre. She studied piano and composition at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow and composition at the Moscow Conservatoire; in 1999 she moved to London and studied composition at the Royal College of Music (1999–2000) with Julian Anderson and the Royal Academy of Music (2001–03) with Simon Bainbridge. Career In 2002 Langer became the first Jerwood Composer in Association at the Almeida Theatre in London, writing the short operas Ariadne (premiered at the Almeida Opera Festival in 2002) and The Girl of Sand (2003), both settings of librettos by poet Glyn Maxwell. Ariadne was further performed at the Tanglewood Festival and the Britten and Strauss Festival in Aldeburgh in 2009, as well as at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2009 her song cycle Songs at the Well, base

Elena Petrová

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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 Istvan at the Janáček Academy of Music. After completing her studies, she taught music theory at the Charles University in Prague. Works Petrová composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, stage and opera performance, choral and vocal works, and incidental music for ballets, television and radio. Selected works include: ;Stage * Slavík a růže (The Nightingale and the Rose), Ballet after Oscar Wilde (1969) * Podivuhodná raketa (The Remarkable Rocket), Ballet after Oscar Wilde (1970) * Slunečnice (Sunflower), Ballet after Ovid (1973) * Kdyby se slunce nevrátilo (Should the Sun Not Return), a six-act opera after Si le soleil ne revenait pas… by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1982–1983) ;Orchestral * Symphony No. 1 (1968) * Slavnostní předehra (Festive Ouverture) (1975) * Symphony No. 2 (1976) * Smutecní hudba (Mourning Music; Trauermusik) (1981) * Passacaglia (1982) * Slavnostní hudba (Festive Music) (1982) * Symphony No. 3 (1990) * Longing Odysseus ;Chamber music * Eklogy (Eclogues) for bass clar

Elena Ruehr

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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. She grew up in Houghton, Michigan and began piano lessons at age four. She studied composition at the University of Michigan with William Bolcom and at The Juilliard School with Vincent Persichetti and Bernard Rands. She also studied dance and has performed with Javanese and West African ensembles. In 1992, Ruehr took a teaching position at MIT. Her compositions have been performed internationally and many have been recorded and are available on media. Many of Ruehr’s compositions involve setting poetry to music. Ruehr is married to Seward Rutkove and they have one daughter, Sophie. Selected works Ruehr has composed works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo instruments and vocals. *Ladder to the Moon (2003) for orchestra *Toussaint Before the Spirits (2003), opera *Cloud Atlas (2011), cello concerto *Song of the Silkie (2000) for baritone, string quartet, text by Laura Harrington *Sky Above Clouds (1993) for orchestra *Bel Canto for string quartet *Averno for choir *It’s About Time (

Eleni Karaindrou

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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 when she was eight years old, and she studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odeion (Hellenic Conservatory). She also attended history and archaeology classes at the university. During the time of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 she lived in Paris, where she studied ethnomusicology and orchestration, and improvised with jazz musicians. Then she began to compose popular songs. In 1974 she returned to Athens where she established a laboratory for traditional instruments and broadcast a series on ethnomusicology on Radio 3 of the Greek national broadcasting company. In 1976 she started collaborating with ECM Records. This was a period of high productivity for her, during which she worked extensively on music for the theater and the cinema. Karaindrou has stated that her style emerged in working on soundtracks and that the relationship between images and movements created a new space for her to express emotions. Her first soundtrack album was released in 1979 for the movie Periplan

Eleni Lambiri

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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 conductor. On 15 January 1915 she registered the author’s rights of the opereta «Isolma», at the Milan regional registry (number of registry 64794). «Isolma» was an operetta in three acts fully composed and written by Eleni Lambiri. This opereta has been recorded in 1958, by Totis Karalivanos as conductor and Spiros Kapsaskis as choir director. In about 1925 she returned to Patras, Greece, where she worked as director of the Patras Conservatory until 1953. At the same time she wrote the music criticism for the local newspaper of Patras «Neologos Patron». She died at the Municipal Hospital of Athens. Works Selected works include: * To apokriatiko oneiro (A Dream in Carnival) 1913, opereta * Isolma 1915, opereta * Serenata for flute violin and viola * Symphony for large orchestra in B minor * Iratzi N, opera, in libretto L.Orsini References

Elesky

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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 5, she began playing the piano. She later learned the guitar, ukulele, melodica, and ocarina. Loredo mostly plays video game and anime soundtracks. She became known in 2017 on Twitter by playing the Digimon theme, and she also played Animal Crossing, Spyro, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pokémon Ruby and Ori and the Blind Forest themes, including other Nintendo soundtracks. Loredo decided to stream on Twitch to recreate a musical concert she could not do live. Viewers who watched it cheered her on to continue with more Twitch streaming, until NZXT asked to sponsor her. She sang Cocos film song. She has studied Dramatic Art and has worked as a choir singer at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo for one year. She has made concert appearances at Cometcon in Asturias, Gamepolis and Freakcon in Malaga, Retro Sevilla, and Fun & Serious Games Festival in Bilbao. Career In 2021, she signed for Giants, a group of streamers and content creators created in 2020 and formed by Cabramaravilla, LittleRa

Elfrida Andrée

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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 born on 19 February 1841 in Visby to the doctor Andreas Andrée and Lovisa Lyth, both of whom were actively involved in musical pursuits. Activism In Sweden at the time Andrée was ready to begin her career, unmarried women over the age of twenty-five were barred from holding permanent positions as church organists. Both Elfrida and her father repeatedly lobbied the Swedish parliament to change the law, and eventually succeeded in 1861. she was one of the first female organists to be officially appointed in Scandinavia. Career Andrée began work in Stockholm in 1861 and became the organist at Gothenburg Cathedral in 1867, where she remained the organist until her death. In 1897 she was named leader of the Gothenburg Workers Institute Concerts, establishing her reputation as the first Swedish woman to conduct a symphony orchestra. Reportedly, she fainted upon hearing the news of her appointment. During her career, she won the Litteris et Artibus award in 1895, as well as the Idun “Women’s

Elia Cmíral

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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 known for his work in the thriller and horror cinema, and has collaborated with filmmakers like Wes Craven, John Frankenheimer, John Travolta, and Ernest Dickerson. Early life and career Cmíral was born in Czechoslovakia, to an actress and a stage director, and was the grandson of one of Antonín Dvořák’s pupils. Cmiral attended the Prague Conservatory, where he studied composition and double bass. His first scoring opportunity came with his father’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac. He also composed music for the award-winning adventure game The Last Express and the third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line. As well as working in Hollywood, he has also composed numerous scores for films made in Sweden and the Czech Republic. Personal life Cmíral currently resides in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. Filmography Feature films *2019 - Safe Inside *2016 - Doubles *2015 - Any Day *2014 - Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? *2014 - Cam2Cam *2012 - Piranha 3DD *2012 - Rites of Passage *2011 - Atla

Elias Cairel

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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 Thessalonica at the court of Boniface of Montferrat (1204–1208/10) before moving back to western Europe, where he sojourned at the court of Alfonso IX of León (1210–11) and in Lombardy (1219–1222/24). He wrote fourteen surviving lyrics: ten cansos, one tenso, one descort, one sirventes, and one Crusade song. He was partial to refrain rhyming and coblas capfinidas. Elias’ vida survives in three manuscripts with a variant in a fourth designed to refute the other three. According to his biographer he was gold- and silversmith and an armourer who turned to minstrelsy. He supposedly returned from Romania to die in Sarlat. Elias may have been present at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. In his Toz m’era de chantar gequiz, the Bolognese troubadour Rambertino Buvalelli asks Elias to bring the poem to Beatrice d’Este when he travels to the court of Azzo VII at Este. NOTOC Works *Abril ni mai non aten de far vers *Era no vei puoi ni comba *Estat ai dos ans (addressed to Ysabella) *Freit ni ve

Elias Davidsson

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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 was born in Palestine to German Jewish parents who had emigrated from Germany in 1931 and 1935 respectively (he later replaced his original surname with the patronym Davidsson, in accordance with Icelandic naming conventions). Davidsson grew up in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Temporarily, he lived in France until he finally moved to Iceland in 1962 and became an Icelandic citizen. He studied piano and composition in Cologne, Freiburg and Basel. He worked as a programmer for 22 years. Davidsson lived in Germany since 2008. In 2022 he lived in Kirchen (Sieg). He died on 7 April 2022 in Germany. Music While living in Iceland, Davidsson began composing avant-garde computer-assisted music. In 1976, his Piano Trio (with percussion) was performed at the Nordic Music Days in Reykjavík. This was followed by Landslög, a Fantasy based on Icelandic folk tunes. With Cheetahs, Impotent he presented a work for musical theatre. Subsequently, Elias Davidsson devoted himself increasingly to studying pieces f

Elias Parish Alvars

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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 was a local organist. His baptismal record at St James’s Church, West Teignmouth, reads: “Eli, son of Joseph and Mary Ann Parish”. Parish gave his first concert in Totnes in 1818 and in 1820 was sent to London to study with Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. In 1822 he applied to the Royal Academy of Music, where Bochsa had been appointed harp professor, but was not accepted, because he could not afford the tuition fees without a scholarship. He was able to continue his lessons with Bochsa by undertaking teaching and playing at dances. He was also later able to study in Paris, and in 1828 studied music in Florence. His last performance was in Vienna, at a concert of his own compositions, in January 1848. On 13 March 1848 riots erupted in Vienna and in April amid the general confusion. Alvars found himself in serious financial straits. His health worsened suddenly and he died, probably of pneumonia, on 25 January 1849. He was buried in the St. Marx Cemetery. References Notes Sources * * * * * Further

Elias Zazi

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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, Sweden. History Elias began his journey as a discjockey in 1981 and two years later he won the title “Stockholm’s No 1 DJ 1983-1984” which was arranged by the in-spot place called Studion in St. Eriksplan in Stockholm. In 1985 his interest of Oriental music awakened. Elias Zazi who was raised in the sixties in Lebanon was already acquainted with the Arabic music and the Syriac Orthodox Church music. At the beginning of the eighties he began his studies of music and its essence. In 1994 he composed “Alfo Gabe D Howelan” (lyrics by Malfono Touma Nahroyo) which became a dance in the theatre group Ha Nison’s play called “Warm soup with politics”. In 1995-1996 he composed “The Dream Sonata”, the first Syriac musical operetta in two acts which played on the stage of Estrad, Södertälje in May 1996. After the Dream Sonata, Zazi began his studies of western music. He studied western music theories, harmonies, contra-point and more, and later he complemented his studies with sessions in composition

Elie Siegmeister

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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 and education Elie Siegmeister was born January 15, 1909, in New York City. Both parents were of Russian-Jewish ancestry. His father was a surgeon. His parents, William and Bessie Siegmeister, were both born in Russia. His older brother Walter Siegmeister was an esoteric writer and promoter of Hollow Earth theory and UFOs. he had studied music theory with Seth Bingham. He studied conducting with Albert Stoessel at the Juilliard School and counterpoint with Wallingford Riegger. He was among the numerous American composers, including Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, who were students of the influential teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Career His varied musical output showed his concern with the development of an authentic American musical vocabulary. Jazz, blues and folk melodies and rhythms are frequent themes in his many song cycles, his nine operas, his eight symphonies, and his many choral, chamber, and solo works. His 37 orchestral works have been performed by leading orchestras thro

Élie-Miriam Delaborde

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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 birth was registered under the name of his mother Lina Eraïm Miriam, aged 38, of Nantes, and an unnamed father. Delaborde was generally believed to be the illegitimate son of the composer and pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan and one of his high-class married pupils. Delaborde was the maiden name of Antoinette, mother of George Sand, the author and sometime lover of Alkan’s friend Frédéric Chopin. Some writers have seen some significance in this. Alkan’s withdrawal from public life had also coincided with the birth and upbringing of Delaborde. Alkan and Delaborde also shared several similarities such as their similar skill in playing the pedal piano and both of them being parrot enthusiasts. but this seems doubtful as Delaborde played Alkan’s music and edited his works. Career He was a pupil of Alkan, Franz Liszt, Ignaz Moscheles, and Adolf von Henselt. He made successful tours of England, Germany and Russia, and travelled with Henri Vieuxtemps and Henryk Wieniawski. Aline van Barentzen, and

Elinor Armer

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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 with her family where she would spend most of her childhood. Armer’s father worked as an engineer and worked for the Agricultural Engineering Department for the University in Davis, which prompted the family’s move. Her father was an acoustical engineer and used to set up speakers in the family’s living room, exposing Elinor to acoustics at a young age. Elinor first began sight-reading music and enjoying four-part harmony because of many hymnals found in the Armer home, due to her father’s Methodist Evangelist background. Armer comes from a family of California artists, her grandfather was a commercial artist and her grandmother was an author. Her mother was a writer as well and who sang and played the piano. Elinor shared her love of piano with her mother; they frequently sang and played together throughout her childhood. Armer was eight years old when she began playing the piano Though her mother played the piano also, Elinor was taught to play by a neighbor, Fritz Berens, who happened

Elio Martusciello

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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 Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self-taught musician/composer and teaches “electronic music” at Conservatory of Music, Naples, Italy. His compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition he composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installation, multi-media works, audiovisual art and computer music improvisation. He lives in Naples. Main collaborations He has worked with improvising musicians such as Ana-Maria Avram, Natasha Barrett, Eugene Chadbourne, Alvin Curran, Chris Cutler, Iancu Dumitrescu, Michel Godard, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Jerome Noetinger, Tony Oxley, Roberto Paci Dalo, Evan Parker, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Mario Schiano, Z’EV, and others. Bands Ossatura with Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci Ka’e with Giorgio Bosso, Stefano Giampietro, Paolo Montella and Andrea Laudante Schismophonia with Mike Cooper Taxonomy with Graziano Lella and Roberto Fega Bindou

Elisabet Wentz-Janacek

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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 to create the Swedish Choral Registrar. She was born in Stockholm and received a certificate, and later an honorary doctorate, from Lund University. Wentz-Janacek wrote a biography of musician John Enninger, articles for music journals, and contributed to a book on Swedish clergyman and Nobel Prize winner Nathan Soderblom, who was a personal acquaintance of her father. Her published writing includes: *Folk Variants and New Songs: a Small Study from Southern Sweden 1820–1900 in Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology - Volume 36 - p. 273 * John Enninger: Spelman, Kongl., Kammarmusikus, Klockare (available only in Swedish) *Northern European Countries in Workbook for the Evangelical Hymnbook, vol. 4, Songs from Other Countries and Languages, ed. Wolfgang Fischer pp. 27–39. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000 *Swedish Choral Registrar (a collection of 20,000 different melody variants for Swedish hymns) *Swedish Choral Registrar: Facts and Reflections in Hymnology: Nordisk Tidskrift XXXV pp.

Élisabeth de Haulteterre

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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 Hotteterre family including Jacques Martin Hotteterre, and is probably not related. She should also not be confused with Élisabeth de Haulteterre (1738–1820) a French musician of the same name. She was known as a concert violinist, playing Jean-Marie Leclair’s sonatas at the Concert Spirituel in 1737. Her married name was Levésque. Early 18th Century French Music - A Woman’s Role Women were generally trained in opera in Paris during the Early 18th Century. Ballet and opera were on the rise during this period of time in Paris. Additionally, the Baroque era attracted patrons because of its elaborate and lush arrangements as well as the presence of the organ. During the 17th and 18th centuries, there was an increase in public secular music making as well as opportunities for women not tied directly to the church. Women began to appear in public performances often subbing for males on organ and harpsichord if they possessed the lineage and privilege to do so. Women were often seen as pianis

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

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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 music, particularly in the development of cantata and keyboard traditions. She was one of the earliest women in France to achieve recognition as a composer and to have her works widely performed and published. She was among the first French composers to write cantatas , helping establish the genre in France. She was closely associated with the court of Louis XIV, where her career was shaped by royal patronage and the musical culture of Versailles. Her music blends French stylistic traditions with elements of Italian influence, particularly in her vocal and instrumental works. Life and works Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet was born on March 17, 1665, into a family of musicians and master instrument-makers in the parish of Saint-Louis-en-l’Île, Paris. Her grandfather, Jehan Jacquet, and her father, Claude Jacquet, were harpsichord makers. Claude taught his sons and daughters how to survive and thrive in the world. Élisabeth received her initial musical education from her father. When she was fi

Elisabeth Kuyper

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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 age of twelve, she began the formal study of music at the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst with Antoon Averkamp, Louis Coenen, and Daniel de Lange. She began composing at an early age, including a piano sonata and a prelude and fugue, which she performed for her diploma examination in 1895, and a one-act opera that was performed in Amsterdam in 1895. She moved to Berlin in 1896 to continue her composition studies with Heinrich Barth and Leopold Carl Wolff at the Hochschule für Musik, completing her studies there in 1900. Because of the challenges Kuyper faced during her career, she became strongly connected with the women’s liberation movement of the period. Other than possible soloist performances, professional opportunities for female musicians were extremely limited, as no major orchestras of the time employed female musicians. Kuyper took great effort to bring change this situation. In 1908 she formed a women’s choir at the . In 1910 she formed and conducted the Berlin Wome

Elisabeth Le Guin

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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 obtained an MA in 1992 and PhD in music in 1997; her doctoral dissertation “As My Works Show Me To Be”: Physicality as Compositional Technique in the Instrumental Music of Luigi Boccherini was supervised by Daniel Heartz. In 1997, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2005, she published Boccherini’s Body, which focuses on the work of Classical-era composer Luigi Boccherini. She won the 2015 Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book The Tonadilla in Performance (2013), In 2022, she retired from UCLA and became professor emeritus. providing funding for Si Yo Fuera Una Canción, a bilingual podcast about the musical interests of people in Santa Ana, California. She was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. Bibliography *Boccherini’s Body (2005) *The Tonadilla in Performance (2013) References

Elisabeth Lutyens

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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 Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), a member of the aristocratic Bulwer-Lytton family, and the prominent English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Elisabeth was the elder sister of the writer Mary Lutyens and aunt of the 4th Viscount Ridley and the politician Nicholas Ridley. Lutyens was involved in the Theosophical Movement. From 1911 the young Jiddu Krishnamurti was living in the Lutyens’ London house as a friend of Elisabeth and her sisters. At the age of nine she began to aspire to be a composer. In 1922, Lutyens pursued her musical education in Paris at the École Normale de Musique, which had been established a few years previously, living with the young theosophical composer Marcelle de Manziarly, who had been trained by Nadia Boulanger. During her months in Paris Lutyens showed first signs of depression that later led to several mental breakdowns. She accompanied her mother to India in 1923. On her return to Europe she studied with John Foulds and subsequently continued her musical e

Elisabetta Brusa

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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 age five, and during her childhood wrote 32 works, including a string quartet. She graduated from the Milan Conservatory in 1980, where she studied with Bruno Bettinelli and Azio Corghi. She took summer courses in Dartington, England with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies from 1978-1985 and studied privately with Hans Keller in London. Brusa married conductor Gilberto Serembe in 1997. Her music has been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, RSNO Royal Scottish National Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, State Hermitage Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, The Women’s Philharmonic http://www.wophil.org/wphilrep/ of San Francisco, to name just a few. Submissions must be tonal in nature, and applicants must be under the age of thirty. Awardees * 2024: Güray Kapucu, Bird in a Cage * 2025: Asadbek Turgunov, Maqom Simfoniya

Elisabetta de Gambarini

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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 music is considered late Baroque and Classical music. She achieved distinction as an all-around musician, performing on, and composing for a variety of instruments as well as voice. Her compositions were known to reflect that of vocal work instead of instrumental patterns. She was the first female composer in Britain to publish a collection of keyboard music. Some sources describe her voice type as a singer as a soprano, and others as a mezzo-soprano. Family Elisabetta de Gambarini was born 7 September 1731 in Holles Street, St Marylebone, Middlesex, England. She was born to Charles Gambarini (died 1754), Counsellor to the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel and Joanna (Giovanna Paula) Stradiotti (died 1774). Her father was a nobleman from Lucca, Italy. He published A Description of the Earl of Pembroke’s Pictures in 1731. Her mother was of similar status from Dalmatia. Her mother may have been a tutor to the nobility but it is not certain. Elisabetta was the third of four children. She was the onl

Elise Fellows White

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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 father played violin and was White’s first violin teacher. When she was 10 years old, White and her mother moved to Boston so she could study at the New England Conservatory of Music with Timothee Adamowski, Campanari, Emery, L.C. Elson, and later Franz Kneisel. with the McKenzie Tour Company trio consisting of soprano Rebecca McKenzie, pianist Bertha O’Reilly, and White. Family During this tour, White met her future husband, Bruce M. White, a mine owner and developer. Writing White’s articles include: *College Jazz and What it Symbolizes (Musical Observer) *Music Versus Materialism (Musical Quarterly 8; 1922) White’s poems include: *Concert (Sonnet) *Fifth Symphony (Sonnet) *In Memoriam White encountered several well-known people during her life, including Johannes Brahms while studying in Vienna during the 1890s. She wrote in her diary about seeing Charles Lindbergh in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on July 25, 1927, only two months after his historic solo flight across the Atlantic. Artis

Elise Rondonneau

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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. Rondonneau’s works were published by E. Gallet, Katto, Kistner, Lebeau, Henry Lemoine, J. Meissonnier, Mustel & Fils, and Schott. They include: Keyboard *Andante et Villanelle (harmonium, organ) *Nocturne (harmonium) Vocal *“A Paris Chez Heu Rue de la Chaussée d Antin” (text by Hippolyte Guerin) *“Adieu, Savoie” (text by Eugene Delcuse) *“Brune Fleur d’Italie” (text by Emile Barateau) *Coulez mes Jours” *“Mort du Patre” (text by Jules Rondonneau; music by Elise Rondonneau; guitar accompaniment by Jean Antoine Meissonnier, elder brother of Jean Racine Meissonier) *“Ne Laissez Pas Mourir Mon Père” (text by Eugene Delcuse) *“Yvonee” References

Elise Schlick

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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 published under the name Countess Elise Schlick or Gräfin Elise Schlick. Although Schlick is often described as German, some sources list her birthplace as Prague and her birth year as 1792. Little is known about Schlick’s early life or education. She was the sister-in-law of Count Franz zu Bassano und Weisskirchen, an Austrian general who helped suppress the Hungarian uprising in 1849. She was described as a patroness of Franz Liszt in Prague. Schlick produced compositions through at least opus 5. Her musical compositions were published by Franz Gloggl and C. A. Spina in Vienna; August Cranz in Hamburg; and Schott in Mainz. *“Gute Nacht” *“Lieb Liebchen, leg’s Händchen aufs Herze,” opus 5 (text by Heinrich Heine) *“Lieder der Nacht” Poetry *“Die Lüfte weh’n so lind” (music by Conradin Kreutzer *“Du frische Saat, heraus/Frühlingsfreude” (music by Amalie Scholl) *“Glaubet nicht es wären Tränen” (music by Jan Bedřich Kittl) References

Elisse Boyd

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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, Kentucky. Her father was Hal Corbett, who was a friend of fellow Kentuckians Alben W. Barkley (one of the vice presidents under President Truman) and humorist and columnist Irvin Cobb. Her father was claimed to have been one of the three men who were the inspiration for Irvin Cobb’s composite character of Judge Priest. Career Boyd began song writing with entering a Fort Worth, Texas contest for best theme song. She won in the competition sponsored by Casa Mañana Theater with the song “Dancing in the Moonlight”, which was used for a 1937 performance at the theater. With their collaboration, they had composed the song “Unbelievable” (1947). where the song was sung by June Carroll. Eartha Kitt, who was a cast member of New Face of 1952, would later sing Boyd’s song “Thursday Child” in 1957. With “Guess Who I Saw Today”, the song would go onto become a hit song with multiple artists singing the cover. There were musical performances of the cover by Eydie Gormé, Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan

Eliza Mazzucato Young

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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 produced in the United States. Early life Elisa Mazzucato was born in Milan, the daughter of opera composer Alberto Mazzucato and Teresa Bolza, a daughter of Count , Austrian police commissioner in Milan. Her father was the director of the conservatory at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She studied music with her father, and in London. Career Eliza Mazzucato taught at the National Training School of Music in London, before it closed in 1882, and then at the Royal College of Music. She resigned in 1883 when she married one of the students, an American baritone named Bicknell Young. The couple moved to Salt Lake City in 1885, to open a music school, Young composed the music for the comic opera Mr. Sampson of Omaha (1888), one of the first operas by a woman to be produced in the United States; the libretto was by Fred Nye. Sheet music for songs from the opera continued to be published for years after its debut. Other compositions by Young included a one-act opera, The Maiden and the Reaper,

Elizabeth Alexander (composer)

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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 performed internationally by thousands of choirs. Alexander is also known for her liturgical works, and themes centering on social justice. Biography Sarah Elizabeth Alexander was born in South Carolina in 1962. After several years in South and North Carolina, her family moved to the Ohio River city of Portsmouth, Ohio in 1972. Trained as a classical pianist, Alexander studied composition with Jack Gallagher and received her Bachelor of Music in Composition from The College of Wooster in 1984. She received her doctorate in Music Composition from Cornell University in 1987, where she studied with noted composers Steven Stucky, Karel Husa, and Yehudi Wyner. She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is one of the most performed composers in the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network. Music Choral music makes up the core of Alexander’s works and performances, noted for her “accessible style that is well tailored to the requirements of both semi-pro and amateur choruses.” Her style comb

Elizabeth Bell (composer)

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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 from Wellesley College in 1950, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Music in composition from Juilliard in 1953. Elizabeth Bell died on December 19, 2016, in Tarrytown, New York. Awards and commissions * 1986 First prize for Perne in a Gyre * 1996 Grand prize for Spectra, Utah composers competition * 1994 Delius prize for Duovarios, Jacksonville, Florida Bell has had numerous commissions including * The New York State Council on the Arts * The Bradshaw/Buono duo * The Inoue Chamber Ensemble * The North/South Consonance * The Putnam Valley Orchestra * The Vienna Modern Masters * Max Lifchitz Of an Eleanor Elkins recital Bell said: “My piece, Night music, was something of a revelation. Max Lifchitz (who commissioned it) has played it numerous times, and recorded it on the Vienna Modern Masters label. His interpretation is brilliant and satisfying. Eleanor’s was entirely different: also brilliant, but more sombre and angry, more suggestive of ’night music.’ I like them both, and am delighted

Elizabeth Brown (musician)

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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, freewheeling language. Her work is frequently commissioned for specific ensembles (e.g., Newband, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) and has been performed internationally in solo, chamber and orchestral contexts at venues including Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Hanoi National Conservatory of Music. She has written extensively for flute, unconventional instruments such as the Partch complement and theremin, and the traditional Asian shakuhachi and đàn bầu; she combines them in original ways that mix Western and Eastern, ancient and modern, and experimental and conventionally melodic sensibilities. Composer and critic Robert Carl calls Brown a “gentle maverick” whose avant-gardism bends and subverts traditional tropes with an unironic, unpretentious manner “that is fresh and imaginative, but never afraid of beauty, nor of humane warmth.” As a multi-instrumentalist, Brown is best known for flute, shakuhachi and theremin. She has performed at Lincoln C

Elizabeth Gyring

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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 Music, studying harmony with Joseph Marx and piano with Ludwig Gzaczkes, then in 1910 composition with Arnold Schoenburg. Career Gyring had several of her early works performed in concerts and broadcast on the radio by players from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras. Following her emigration to the United States, she had a successful compositional career, with her works performed and recorded by American soloists and ensembles. In 1944 Gyring became an American citizen. *Piano Sonata No.2 (1957) *Hymn of Gratitude (1948) *Arabesque for bassoon (1963-1964) *String Quartets *Violin Concerto Several of her works were recorded on Phonograph. References

Elizabeth Hayden Pizer

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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 Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Hayden married musician and composer Charles Pizer. She was awarded the First Prize in the 1982 Delius Composition Contest. Works Selected works include: * Elegy for Strings for string orchestra (or string quartet) (1977/79) * Fanfare Overture for symphonic band (1977/79) * Look Down, Fair Moon for voice & piano (1976) * Quilisoly for flute & piano, or violin & piano (1976) * String Quartet (1981) * Five Haiku for soprano & chamber ensemble (or soprano & piano reduction) (1978) * Five Haiku, II for mezzo-soprano & piano (1979) * Ten Haiku for saxophone & piano (1978/79; arr. 1983) * Nightsongs for medium voice & piano (texts by Milton Drake) (1986) * Shakespeare Set for unaccompanied voice (1978–87) * Sunken Flutes (electronic tape) (1979) * Arlington (electronic tape) (1989) * Embryonic Climactus (electronic tape) (1989) * The Infinite Sea for electronic tape, or electronic tape & narrator (1990) * Aquasphere (electronic tape) (1990) Her work ha

Elizabeth Maconchy

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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. Biography Elizabeth Violet Maconchy was born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, of Irish parents and grew up in England and Ireland. Her family moved to Ireland in 1917, where they lived in Howth, on the east coast. The adolescent Maconchy began her musical studies in Dublin, studying piano with Edith Boxhill, and harmony and counterpoint with John Francis Larchet. Those formative years in Ireland were important for Maconchy who considered herself Irish. Throughout her career she was identified as an Irish composer, or as an English composer with Irish influences, by reviewers and commentators. In 1923, at the age of sixteen, she moved to London to enrol at the Royal College of Music. At the RCM Maconchy studied under Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams. As a student, Maconchy was awarded the Blumenthal Scholarship in 1927, and the Octavia Scholarship of 1930, which allowed her to continue her studies in Prague. Her first public recognition came on 19 March 1930 with a performance of her

Elizabeth Ogonek

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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 studies in the Preparatory Division at the Manhattan School of Music. Ogonek received her BM from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in 2009. After this, she went on to receive her MM from USC Thornton School of Music in 2012. Some of her notable compositions include the chamber violin concerto In Silence and the orchestral dance suite All These Lighted Things. Ogonek was assistant professor of composition at Oberlin College and Conservatory (Oberlin Conservatory of Music) from 2015 until 2021, when she joined the composition faculty at Cornell University. Musical style Ogonek’s music often is led by and has a strong connection with the words and poetry used. This has led her to work with several young writers, including Sophia Veltfort, Ghazal Mosadeq, Ralph Nazareth, and Jonathan Dubow. *Lightenings: A work commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival for Julianne Lee (violin), Romie de Guise-Langlois (clarinet), Alexis Corbin (percussion) and Juho Pohjonen (piano). Ref

Elizabeth Parker (composer)

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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 Anglia with a degree in music, after which she completed a master’s degree in electronic music. When she first started working at the BBC she was training to become a studio manager. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop became redundant in the 1990s as electronic music equipment became cheaper, and the workshop was ultimately shut down in 1998. Parker worked at the workshop “right until the very end”. In the final years, the BBC could not justify the expense of upgrading the workshop’s equipment, leading Parker to describe the obsolete workshop in its final days as “horrendous” and “horrible”. * The David Attenborough documentary series The Living Planet. Parker continued to work on various television productions as a freelance composer. She wrote music for the BBC One documentary The Human Body and was commissioned to write new music for the soundtrack of a re-release of the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. References External links * *

Elizabeth Philp

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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 of Charlotte Cushman, and studied harmony with German composer Ferdinand Hiller at Cologne. She published a collection How to Sing an English Ballad including sixty songs. In London she was a neighbor and friend of Catherine Hogarth, and part of a community of musicians and writers there. Philp died in London in 1885, aged 58 years, from liver disease Works Philp composed songs and song cycles. Selected works include: *Alone (Text: James Russell Lowell) *Good night, beloved (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) *Inclusion (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) *Insufficiency (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) *O moonlight deep and tender (in Six Songs) (Text: James Russell Lowell) *Serenade (in Six Songs) (Text: James Russell Lowell) *Sweetest eyes (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) *Tell me, the summer stars (Text: Edwin Arnold) *The sea hath its pearls (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Heinrich Heine) *The violets of spring (Text: Elizabeth Philp after Heinrich Heine) *When all the worl

Elizabeth Poston

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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 of Hampson Park in Stevenage. In 1914 she moved with her mother, Clementine Poston, to nearby Rooks Nest House where E. M. Forster had lived as a child. Poston and Forster subsequently became good friends. After attending Queen Margaret’s School, York and studying piano with Harold Samuel and organ with Sir Stanley Marchant, She won a prize from the RAM for her one movement Violin Sonata, which was subsequently broadcast by the BBC on 9 July 1928, with Antonio Brosa as soloist and Victor Hely-Hutchinson piano. When she graduated from the RAM in 1925 seven of her songs were published, and in 1928 she published five more. Poston went abroad between 1930 and 1939, where she studied architecture and collected folksongs in Central Europe. She was also a respected performer, premiering Walter Leigh’s Concertino for harpsichord and strings in 1934. Poston’s discussion with Julius Harrison, composer of Bredon Hill which is “witness to the eternal spirit of England”, was aired by the BBC in 194

Elizabeth R. Austin

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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 Goucher College (Towson, MD), she awarded the composer a scholarship to study at the Conservatoire Americaine in Fontainebleau, France, after hearing Austin’s song cycle Drei Rilke Lieder. Her association with the Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford), where she earned a Master’s in Music while on the faculty, included the establishment of a faculty/student exchange with the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Heidelberg-Mannheim. While studying for her Ph.D. at The University of Connecticut, Elizabeth Austin won First Prize in the Lipscomb Electronic Music Competition (with her Klavier Double for piano and tape). Her awards have included a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant, selection by GEDOK (Society of Women Artists in Germany/Austria) to represent the Mannheim region in its 70th anniversary exhibition, and First Prize in IAWM’s 1998 Miriam Gideon Competition (for Homage for Hildegard von Bingen, and a Rockefeller Foundation residency at Bellagio, Italy (2001). Performed in

Elizabeth Raum

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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 performance with Robert Sprenkle at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1966. In 1985, she received a master’s degree in composition from the University of Regina after studies with Thomas Schudel. She played principal oboe for the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1968 to 1975, when she moved to Saskatchewan and began playing for the Regina Symphony Orchestra, eventually becoming their principal oboist. In 2010, she received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit for her work as a musician and composer. Selected works Elizabeth Raum’s works have been performed internationally and broadcast on national media. She has produced operas, chamber pieces, choral works, solo vocal works, and ballets. She has also written for film and video. Film *Saskatchewan River *Like Mother, Like Daughter *Sparkle *Evolution: A Theme with Variations *Prelude to Parting *The Green Man Ballet *Symphony of Youth Opera *Sortilegio *The Garden of Alice *Romance of the Gods Recordings *Prai

Elizabeth Stirling

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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 affluent family. She attended the Royal Academy of Music as a private student (women could not enroll.) There she studied piano and organ at with Edward Holmes and W. B. Wilson, and harmony with James Alexander Hamilton and Sir George Macfarren. At the start of the century, young women were encouraged to play the piano as a social grace. By 1820, with London’s rapid growth, most churches had organs, but skilled pianists were needed. The church became a place where women could earn a small income and still be respected working outside the home. Of the hundreds of female organists in England, Elizabeth Stirling’s name appeared frequently, but her activities were not unique. Ann Mounsey Bartholomew, Elizabeth Mounsey, Oliveria Prescott, Kate Loder, Kate Westrop, Elizabeth Chamberlayne, Eliza Wesley, Ann Stainer and many others were mentioned by name. They wrote organ voluntaries, interludes, choral anthems, and occasionally large works such as cantatas. “England’s nineteenth-century female orga

Elizabeth Swados

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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 Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography. Life Swados was born on February 5, 1951, in Buffalo, New York. Her father, Robert O. Swados, was a successful attorney who helped Seymour H. Knox III establish the National Hockey League Buffalo Sabres. He was a first cousin of Harvey Swados, a prominent social critic and writer. His autobiography, Counsel in the Crease: A Big League Player in the Hockey Wars, was published by Prometheus Books in 2005. Swados’ mother, an actress and poet, struggled with depression, and committed suicide in 1974; Swados’ elder brother and only sibling, Lincoln, had schizophrenia, and died in 1989. Swados also had depression, which she discussed in her book, My Depression: A Picture Book, which was published by Seven Stories Press in 2014. Swados died on January 5, 2016, from complications following surgery early the previous year for esophageal cancer. Swados’ musical compositions for Fragments of a Greek Trilogy (

Elizabeth Walton Vercoe

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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 piano and the violin while attending the National Cathedral School. From 1958 to 1962, she studied music theory at Wellesley College where she was awarded the Hubert Weldon Lamb Prize in Composition. Following college, Vercoe began graduate school at the University of Michigan where she pursued a Masters of Music degree in composition, studying under George Wilson, Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett. In 1974, Vercoe entered the doctoral program in music composition at Boston University where she was mentored by the composer, Gardner Read and was awarded First Prize in Music Theory and Composition and was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society. Her teaching posts have included a position in music theory on the faculty at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, a year at Framingham State College in Massachusetts, and her current job since 1997 as an adjunct professor at Regis College. Vercoe has won a number of national and international composition comp

Ella Adayevskaya

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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 purposely selected a Russian male pseudonym to hide her identity as a female Protestant composer of German descent in Imperial Russia. She explained that she derived the first letters of her artist name (A-D-A) from the opening motif of the overture to Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. Adaïewsky wrote vocal music (including choral works), chamber music, and two operas. She also edited a collection of Italian songs and published writings on folk music and the music of ancient Greece. Life Born in St. Petersburg on 22 February 1846 as Elizaveta/Elisabeth von Schultz, as the daughter of the prominent Estophile of Baltic German heritage Georg Julius von Schultz. Adaïewsky began learning the piano in childhood. Amongst her teachers were Adolf von Henselt, Anton Rubinstein, and Alexander Dreyschock. She studied composition with Alexander Famintsyn and Nikolai Zaremba. Adayevskaya was a pseudonym derived from the notes A, D, and A, played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka’s opera Rus

Ella Milch-Sheriff

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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 a composer at the age of 12. During her military service she composed, performed and interpreted her own songs after which she returned to classical music studying composition under the direction of Professor Tzvi Avni and graduating in composition from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Milch-Sheriff, who is based in Tel Aviv, has composed operas, chamber, orchestral and vocal music as well as popular music and solo works. Selected works * Clarinet Quartet, Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Cello, 2022, Intonations festival. Berlin, Germany. Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival. * Abschied (Farewell Eng.), Soprano and Orchestra, 2021, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Germany. * “The Eternal Stranger” (Der ewige Fremde), Actor and symphony orchestra, 2020, Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, Leipzig, Palermo, London. * “The Banality of Love” (Die Banalitaet der Liebe), Opera, 2018, Staatstheater Regensburg, Germany. * “Baruch’s Silence” (Baruchs Schweigen), A chamber opera, 2010, Staatstheat

Ella Spira

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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 Ballet ballerina Pietra De Mello-Pittman in 2009. Spira writes and composes music for ballet and film, and works as an arranger making dance remixes for popular UK artists, but her main focus remains Sisters Grimm productions. She was born in Gloucester, and was mentored by film composer David Arnold. As a painter, Spira captured landscapes in situ of countries like China, Indonesia, Lapland, France, Albania, UAE, Brazil, Russia, the UK, and Portugal. Her artworks promote respect and appreciation for nature and raise awareness of environmental issues. Achievements In 2008, Spira was nominated for the Channel 4 Talented Newcomers Award for production music, partly as a result of her achievements as a UK delegate for a European Arts Initiative sponsored by the British Council. A year later, she was commissioned to write a series of pieces for the BAFTA/Rocliffe New Writers’ Forum for the 2009 International Screenwriters’ Festival. In the same year, Spira co-founded dance production company

Ellen Arkbro

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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 composed for and performed on pipe organ, Arkbro’s work has also included pieces for other acoustic instruments and sound synthesis. She has released several studio albums, beginning with For Organ and Brass (2017), in additional to several collaborative works. Early life Arkbro was born in Stockholm and grew up singing in choir school, playing in bands, and eventually studying jazz as a singer. As a 20 year old, Arkbro went on to study at Elektronmusikstudion, and later received a degree in composition of electronic music from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. As part of earning that degree, Arkbro spent time in Berlin studying composition with Marc Sabat in Berlin, studies which focused on the theory and practice of tuning. In 2014, Arkbro studied privately with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in New York. Recordings For Organ and Brass For her 2017 debut album For Organ and Brass, Arkbro uses the Sherer-Orgel organ at St. Stephen’s Church in Tangermünde, Germany, an instrument dati

Ellen C. Covito

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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 theoretical structures and ideas surrounding environmental problems to music. Her works since 2009 deal with the dichotomy between composition and improvisation. She does this by introducing distance between the performer and what is performed, while removing the distance between the act of composition and performance. In May 2012, the first concert of Covito’s music outside Buenos Aires was organized in Brooklyn by Panoply Performance Laboratory and No Collective. In September 2012, another concert of Covito’s music was organized in Tokyo by No Collective and the Ensemble for Experimental Theatre and Music. References Further reading *Ellen C. Covito: Works After Weather. Already Not Yet (2014). External links * *The Music of Ellen C. Covito in Tokyo

Ellen Dickson

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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 Sir Alexander Dickson. She had been physically disabled since a young age, and her chosen Latin pseudonym, Dolores, which means sorrows and bodily pains, reflects that aspect of her personal life. Ellen inherited her father’s talents for mathematics and his analytical intellect. She lived most of her life and died in Lyndhurst, England. Musical career Dickson began making her reputation in the late 1850s, composing drawing-room ballads in a style similar to that of Maria Lindsay. She began by setting Longfellow poems in 1854. From then, Dickson published, partly under the name Dolores, a tremendous plethora of songs in renowned London music publishing companies. Approximately 65 songs have survived. These works include settings for poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Adelaide A. Procter, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Alfred Tennyson, and many others. Ellen Dickson achieved a high level of awareness with her song “The Bridge”, lyrics by Longfellow, which was first published by Charles Jefferys in

Ellen Fullman

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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 rosin-coated fingers. Biography and work Fullman studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute before moving to New York in the early 1980s. In Kansas City she created and performed in an amplified metal sound-producing skirt and wrote art songs which she recorded in New York for a small cassette label. In 1981, she began developing the Long String Instrument at her studio in Brooklyn, consisting of dozens of metallic strings played with rosin-coated fingers and producing a chorus of organ-like partials. This instrument has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, and Frances-Marie Uitti. In 1985, she was in residence at the Apollohuis in the Netherlands, where she recorded The Long String Instrument (LP) for Apollo Records. Recognition Fullman has been the recipient of numer

Ellen Reid (composer)

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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, opera, sound installations, film scores, avant-pop, ensemble and choral writing. She is known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, p r i s m, Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK and her work with various orchestras, including the album isomonstrosity. Early life Reid grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. writing incidental music for plays and scoring films. Her inspiration began with the sounds of her environment. After college, she lived in Thailand for two and a half years, working and learning alongside Thai musicians writing operatic works that draw from both Western and Thai traditions. Career Classical Reid’s work has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, RTÉ, American Composers Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and other institutions around the world. Reid is the first person to have been commissioned by and have world premieres by all four of Los Angeles’s major classical music institution

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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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 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University. Biography Ellen Taaffe was born in Miami, Florida. Some of her work during this period was written for her husband, violinist Joseph Zwilich, who played in the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera. while there, she created the “Making Music” concert series, which focuses on performances and lectures by living composers, a series that is still in existence. She has received a number of other honors, including the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award, the Ernst von Dohnányi Citation, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and four Grammy nominations. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1

Elliot Davis (composer)

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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 London in a musical capacity on Miss Saigon, Cats, Les Misérables, Blood Brothers and Jesus Christ Superstar. He was musical director for the European premieres of Lucky Stiff, Orpheus and The Demon Headmaster, which premiered at the Pleasance Theatre, London. Davis has also collaborated with Stephen Schwartz (composer of Wicked) on re-scoring and arranging his Broadway smash Pippin. Davis’s musical Best Friends and Butterflies formed part of the 2008 Official Olympic Handover Celebrations from Beijing to London when it was played by the BBC Big band in Concert. The original score Davis composed for the 2010 Druid production of The Sliver Tassie by Sean O’Casey performed at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, was described as providing “an elegiac lilt to O’Caswey’s rousing songs” by Irish Theatre Magazine. For Youth Music Theatre UK he has written three musicals with James Bourne (Busted/Son of Dork): Loserville: The Musical (2009) based on the album Welcome to Loserville; Out There (2011), an

Elliot Goldenthal

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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 mentored by Aaron Copland, developing a distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He is known for wide-ranging body of work spanning film, opera, ballet, theater and concert music, including Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida, directed by his longtime partner Julie Taymor. Early life and education Goldenthal was born on May 2, 1954, the youngest son of a Jewish housepainter father and a Catholic seamstress mother in Brooklyn, New York City, where he was influenced from an early age by music from all cultures and genres. Goldenthal’s maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Poland. Goldenthal lived in a multi-cultural part of town, and this is reflected in his works. He attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn where, at the age of 14, he had his very first ballet Variations on Early Glimpses performed; he continued to display his eclectic musical range

Elliott Carter

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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 elements of European modernism and American “ultra-modernism” into a distinctive style with a personal harmonic and rhythmic language, after an early neoclassical phase. His compositions are performed throughout the world, and include orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. Carter was the recipient of many awards – he was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his string quartets. He also wrote the large-scale orchestral triptych Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei. Carter was born in New York City. He developed an interest in modern music in the 1920s. He was later introduced to Charles Ives, and he soon came to appreciate the American ultra-modernists. After studying at Harvard University with Edward Burlingame Hill, Gustav Holst and Walter Piston, he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, then returned to the United States. Carter was productive in his later years, publishing more than 40 works between the ages of 90 and 100, and over 20 more after he turn

Ellis Gibbons

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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, Gibbons was the second surviving son of William Gibbons, a town wait. By 1598 he was known to be living in Cambridge’s High ward, and later the Market ward. He owned property in Cambridge and London and probably spent much time there, presumably as a musician of some kind (although this has never been verified). At the age of 28 he became one of only two composers to contribute two pieces to The Triumphs of Oriana, a collection of 25 madrigals published in 1601. These madrigals were Long live Oriana and Round about her ; modern commentators generally favor the latter. No other compositions by Gibbons survive, and some scholars have doubted his authorship of these works, ascribing them to his brothers. Two months after his mother’s death, his career was cut short by his early death in May 1603, leaving behind his brothers Edward, Ferdinando and Orlando, who would become the most famous musician of the family. Orlando’s son, Christopher, was also a noted composer. Life and career Ellis Gibbons

Ellsworth Snyder

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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 associated with composer John Cage and the Fluxus art movement. He preferred that his name be spelled ellsworth snyder, using all lower-case letters. As pianist and music scholar Snyder’s interest in the avant-garde art movement developed out his formal training in classical music. A native of Springfield, Ohio, Snyder attended The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (now the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati) where he studied with noted pianist Robert Goldsand and the Austro-Hungarian pianist and composer Jenő Takács while earning both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He also took several classes in Cincinnati with the American musicologist and composer Charles Hamm, who subsequently wrote several piano pieces for Snyder. In 1960 Snyder accepted a position as music instructor at Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans where he began an experimental new music series titled “You’ve never heard anything like it”. The programs ranged from the twelve-tone c

Elmer Diktonius

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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 Institute. He undertook several study trips abroad, including to France and England in 1921–22, Paris in 1925–27, and Prague in 1934 . In 1922, he established an avant-garde magazine, Ultra, which had Finnish and Swedish editions. He was also involved in the establishment of another avant-garde magazine Quosego. In addition to his editorial work, he was a literary and music critic for numerous publications, including Arbetarbladet, Elanto, Suomen Sosialidemokraatti, Nya Argus, and the Malmö-based Arbetet. He was a board member of the Society of Swedish Authors in Finland from 1927, and served as its vice-chairman between 1937 and 1944. Diktonius died in Kauniainen, and is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki. Private life Dikotnius was the son of August Viktor Diktonius and Adelaide Maria Rosalie Malmström. He was married twice; first to Meri Rigmor Marttinen from 1923 until their divorce in 1926, and second to Anna-Leena Jäykkä from 1929. Awards and honors Source: *Lybeck Prize (19

Elodie Lauten

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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 educated in Paris at the Lycée Claude Monet, the Conservatoire (piano) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques. Her father was Errol Parker (né Raphaël Schecroun), an Algerian-born jazz musician; her mother was a classical pianist. Lauten was classically trained as a pianist since age 7. She contributed to the early punk-rock scene in Paris in 1975 and 1976. After relocating to New York City, she received a Master’s in composition from New York University where she studied Western composition with Dinu Ghezzo, and Indian classical music with Ahkmal Parwez. She became an American citizen in 1984. She received awards from the NEA, ASCAP, MTC, and the American Music Center, as well as chamber and orchestral commissions. A writer of operas, theater pieces, orchestral, chamber and instrumental music, she was recognized in North America and Europe as a pioneer of postminimalism and a force on the new music scene with over 20 releases on a number of labels including Lovely Music, Point/Polygram, 4-Tay,

Eloísa D'Herbil

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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 state in England and Spain. As a child, the press dubbed her “Chopin in skirts” and from a young age, she began composing musical pieces. She immigrated to Argentina in 1868 and continued to write music, becoming one of the first women to write tangos. Early life Eloísa María Dolores Juana de la Santísima Trinidad D’Herbil was born on 27 December 1847 in Cádiz, Spain to the Raquel Angel de Cadia and Joseph D’Herbil. She began her training before her fifth birthday with the American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk and auditioned with the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. She would remain a devotée of both and often played their music in concert. Liszt praised her ability to play Chopin, causing Viennese critics to dub the child prodigy as “Chopin in skirts”. By the age of six, she had played for Isabella II of Spain. The following year, she played for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle and in June of the same year, gave another concert in England in the Queen’s Con

Eloy d'Amerval

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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 his enormous 1508 poem Le livre de la deablerie, it can be inferred that he knew most of the famous composers of the time, even though his own musical works never approached theirs in renown. Life Although a long period of activity is documented for this composer, nothing is known of either his birth or death, other than that he likely was from Amerval in the Pas-de-Calais. Since he was listed as a tenor at the chapel in Savoy beginning in 1455, he probably was born before 1440. The choirmaster at the Savoy chapel at the time of Eloy’s admission was Guillaume Dufay. Eloy spent most of his life serving in institutions connected with the French royal court. In 1464 and 1465 he is recorded as a singer for Charles, Duke of Orléans. In 1468 and 1471 he is mentioned as choirmaster of the boys at St. Aignan in Orléans. He had the same position at Ste. Croix Cathedral in Orléans in 1483 (old scholarship reporting him in Milan, at the Sforza chapel, during the 1470s has been recently debunked). In

Eloy Fritsch

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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 In 1983 Fritsch formed progressive rock band Apocalypse. They are considered pivotal in the development of progressive rock in Southern Brazil. In 1992, he moved to Porto Alegre and began his solo project composing electronic music. His first official solo album was Dreams, recorded in 1994 and 1995. During 1997, he released his second solo album, Behind the Walls of Imagination, which showcases his skills with various electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments. In the mid-1990s, Fritsch secured a recording contract with French label Musea. His third album for them, Space Music, was released in 1998. The composer reveals his sci-fi style with Cyberspace. In this album Fritsch offers 1970s-inspired keyboard symphonic/electronic progressive instrumental music. Fritsch performs electronic music that evolves between Vangelis’ ambient and impressionist electronic, and the synthesized progressive rock of masters such as Rick Wakeman. Nevertheless, Fritsch has found his own style within mel

Els Aarne

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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 Conservatory, her alma mater, from 1944 to 1974. Life and career Elze Janovna Paemurru was born as on 30 March 1917 in Makiivka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine); her pseudonym was Els Aarne. Her father was the scientist (1885–1978). She studied at the Tallinn Conservatory, Tallinn, graduating as a music teacher in 1939 after instruction from Gustav Ernesaks, in 1942 as pianist with Artur Lemba and in 1946 as composer under Heino Eller. Aarne lectured at the Tallinn Conservatory on music theory from 1944 to 1974. Aarne married the horn player (1908–1972); they had two sons, the cellist and politician (born 1948) and Mait Paemurru. She died on 14 June 1995 in Tallinn. Els was known, among other things, as a chamber music composer (preferring to compose for violoncello and double-bass); in addition, she wrote two symphonies. List of compositions References Citations Sources * * * * * Further reading * * External links * Work list with recordings from the Estonian Music Information Centre * * Lett

Elsa Barraine

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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 “one of the outstanding French composers of the mid-20th century,” Barraine’s music is seldom performed today. She won the Prix de Rome in 1929 for La vierge guerrière, a sacred trilogy named for Joan of Arc, Barraine’s Symphony No. 2 “Voïna”, composed in 1938, was a huge success when it received its world premiere performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Manuel Rosenthal at Covent Garden on July 7, 1946 during the opening concert of the 1946 ISCM Festival in London . The headline of Philip Whitacre’s review of the concert for London’s Evening Standard the next day—in which he described the work as “concise, original, and alive”—was “We shall hear more of Mlle. Barraine” and the symphony was hailed by Alan Frank in The Musical Times as “expert” and as “France’s best contribution” to the festival . Along with Barraine’s earlier Symphony No. 1 (1931), it has been commercially recorded twice recently (by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under the direction of Elena

Elsa Justel

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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 musical education in the conservatory of that city, where she had the degree of Professor of Music Education and Choral Conducting in 1969. During the 1970s and 1980s, she studied composition in Buenos Aires with Virtú Maragno and Electroacoustic music with José Maranzano. At this period she traveled to Spain and Germany, where she studied with Carmelo Bernaola and Jan Vriend. She moved to live and work in France long-term in 1988. She received a master’s degree in electroacoustic music from the University of Paris in 1991. She has also taught at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, electroacoustic music at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and provided lectures at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She moved to live and work in France long-term in 1988. and has been the organizer of the Destellos Electroacoustic Music Composition Contest since 2008. Over her career her music was performed in Hong Kong, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Justel uses both real sou

Elsa Laura Wolzogen

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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 which entertained well-known artists and scholars like Arthur Rubinstein. Elsa married Ernst von Wolzogen in 1902. Ernst had opened the 650-seat Buntes Theater in Berlin in 1901, one of the first cabarets in Germany. Elsa often sang and accompanied herself on lute at the theater, where Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg conducted the house orchestra. Elsa and Ernst toured the United States from 1910 to 1911. An unidentified critic noted in 1911 that “Elsa Laura sings songs in ten different languages and in many dialects. … she is equally at home in the folk songs of Provence and in the darky songs of America. The French Chanson and the Tyrolian Schnaderhiipfel have no terrors for her.” Elsa composed her own songs and arranged hundreds of French, German and Scandinavian folk songs for voice and lute, which were published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag in Leipzig. She also set poems by her husband Ernst to music. Her works include: *Death Rides *Father Weislein *Five Songs (words by

Elsa Respighi

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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 husband’s opera, but also composed a significant number of her own works after his death, including operas and choral works. She published a biography of her husband, and established the Fondo Respighi in Venice to promote music education in Italy. Biography Respighi was born Elsa Olivieri-Sangiacomo on 24 March 1894 in Rome. She studied solfege and piano privately, and then from 1905 at the Istituto Nazionale di Musica in Rome. As a mezzo-soprano singer and composer herself, Elsa Respighi created ballets out of her husband’s Ancient Airs and Dances suites, and completed his final opera Lucrezia in 1937. Throughout her long life she championed her husband’s work unfailingly. In 1955 she produced a memoir of her encounters with some of the most influential cultural figures of the early twentieth century. She also published a biography of Respighi in 1962. Since then, several of her own works, chiefly for solo voice with accompaniment, have been given their premiere. Respighi is considered

Else Marie Pade

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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 Music) in Copenhagen. She studied composition first with Vagn Holmboe, and later with Jan Maegaard, from whom she learned twelve-tone technique. In 1954, she became the first Danish composer of electronic and concrete music. She worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as Pierre Boulez. Pade was active in the resistance during the Second World War, and was interned at the Frøslev prison camp from 1944 until the end of the war. Early life Pade was born in Aarhus. In her childhood, she was often bedridden with pyelonephritis. She listened to the outside world and created “aural pictures” out of the sounds. These sounds, real sounds, became the basis of her actual musical works. As a protected child, she came with her mother outside of town and went to the theatre. The first music lessons took place in the home where the mother tried to teach her piano playing, but when she did not bother practising scales, she got her mother’s piano teacher, Miss Moller. Later she had mu

Else Schmitz-Gohr

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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 recordings of Max Reger’s works for piano. Schmitz-Gohr was born in Cologne. She studied at the Cologne Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Her teachers included Franz Bolsche, Wilhelm Klatte, Dr. Otto Klauwell, James Kwast, and Fritz Hans Rehbold. She socialized with sculptor Lili Graf. In 1918, she debuted as a pianist under conductor Hermann Abendroth, and in 1922 won the Gustav Hollaender medal. Bernhard Klee, Georg Kroll, Irene Vogel Osiander, Erika Rademacher, Eckart Sellheim, and Joachim Volkmann. Nareh Arghamanyan recorded works by Schmitz-Gohr on her album Femmes de Légende Hänssler HC25026 (2025). Compositions Schmitz-Gohr’s compositions were published by Schott Music. They included: Chamber * Allegro in G minor (violin and piano) * Allegro Moderato in E minor (piano trio) * Andante in G minor (piano trio) * Kleine Flöten-Duette (two flutes) Orchestra * Overture in G minor Piano * Elegy for the Left Hand * Fantasie in F major * Suite References Recordings * *

Else Streit

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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 Karlsruhe Conservatory and the Stern Conservatory. Her teachers included Heinrich Deeke, Gustav Hollaender, Stephan Krehl and Max Loewengar. Streit taught violin, piano, and music theory at the Bromberg Conservatory, the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, and the New Conservatory, Charlottenburg. She also taught privately in Berlin. Streit’s music, in opus numbers through at least 25, was published by Adolf Martin Schlesinger. Her compositions include: Chamber *Romance in B minor (violin and piano) *Sonata (violin and piano) Opera *St. Nikolaus und seine Gehilfen Orchestra *Festmarsch for Infantry *Symphonietta (string orchestra) *Theme and Variations Vocal *Drei Lieder, opus 25 *“Es war einmal”, opus 7 *“Psalm” (soprano, violin and organ) *Vier Lieder, opus 21 *Vier Lieder, opus 22 *“Weihnacht” References

Elvira de Freitas

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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 on 8 June 1927. She was the daughter of the composer and conductor, Frederico de Freitas. At the age of 17 she entered the National Conservatory of Lisbon, studying piano with Lourenço Varela Cid and composition with Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos and with António Eduardo de Costa Ferreira, who had also been her father’s teacher. She later studied for four years with Fernando Lopes-Graça. Granted a scholarship from the French government in 1958 and from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1959, she continued her studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen. Career From 1957, De Freitas taught at the Camões Secondary School, one of the most-prestigious schools in Lisbon. Between 1974 and 1978 she taught at the music school of the National Conservatory and from 1978 she taught at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon. As well as pieces of light music, De Freitas composed songs based on poems by renowned Portugues

Elwin Hendrijanto

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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 in Performance Classical Piano from Utrechts Conservatorium. Career The Piano Brothers During his studies at the Royal College of Music, Elwin teamed up with Dominic Ferris and created The Piano Brothers. Their international concert tours consists of live performances in which the duo plays their own arrangements. They have had collaborations with the London Symphony Orchestra and has made a performance on the Friday Night Is Music Night for BBC Radio 2 together with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Composition Known for his works in crossover and orchestral music, Elwin has made music for internationally known artists such as The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His notable commissions include the official soundtrack for the 2018 Asian Games ad campaign. In 2019, he won the Regional Award for Best Theme Song/Title Theme at the Asian Academy Creative Awards. In 2020, he joined the jury for the Citra Pariwara after winning a medal for Best Use of Sound the year prio

Elza Löthner-Rahmn

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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 published and performed as Elza Löthner or Elza Löthner-Rahmn. Biography Löthner-Rahmn was born in Koping, Sweden, to Alice L’Orange and Axel Löthner. She graduated from Stockholm’s Royal College of Music in 1889, and from the Virgil Piano School in New York in 1897. In 1900, she married Captain Magnus A. Rahmn in Boston In 1915, she accompanied the contralto Zella Kulp Lewis on a recital at Ellis Island arranged by the Commissioner of Immigration Frederic C. Howe. Löthner-Rahmn was a member of the International Society of Pianoforte Teachers and Players. She organized music clubs in Sweden and America, and founded the Löthner Music School in Worcester, Massachusetts, before returning to Stockholm, where she worked as an organist until her death. which were published by Elkan & Schildknecht and Miles & Thompson. They included: Piano *Fourth of July March *Pianospelets Utveckling Vocal *Adrift (text by Anne Ayres Watson) *Ellis Island Tots (text by John J. Camara) References

Elżbieta Sikora

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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 as film scores. Sikora studied under Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle, the Prix de la Partition Pédagogique and the Prix Stéphane Chapelier-Clergue-Gabriel-Marie, both from SACEM (both 1994) and the SACD Prix Nouveau Talent Musique (1996). Her operas are Ariadna (1977), Derrière son Double (1983), Waste Land (1983), La Clef De Verre (1986). References External links * * Elżbieta Sikora at PWMEdition *Taming the Machine: An Interview with Elżbieta Sikora