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Ema Elena Valdelamar

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Ema Elena Valdelamar Casarín (May 27, 1925 – December 23, 2012) was a Mexican composer who specialized in love songs and boleros. Early life and education Ema Elena was born in Mexico City to Victoria Casarín, a housewife, and Darío Valdelamar, who worked for the National Railway. She began to write short stories and compose melodies at the young age of seven years old, and wrote her first song at twelve. Her mother, however, did not support Valdelamar’s musical interests, and attempted to forbid her from engaging in artistic pursuits. Darío, on the other hand, was much more encouraging and even gave Ema Elena advice on how to copyright and register her songs, as well as instruction in accounting and business matters. Career Over time, Valdelamar began composing boleros and, in the 1950s, won radio contests for her songs. * Mucho Corazón (1997) * 15 Éxitos (1997) Selected songs and compositions * “Mucho Corazón” * “Mil Besos” * “Cheque en Blanco” * “Por Que no Fuiste Tu” References External links * “Mucho Corazón,” recorded by Luis Miguel (1991) on YouTube * “Cheque en Blanco,” recorded by Yuri and Paquita del Barrio on YouTube

Emanuel Abraham Aguilar

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Emanuel Abraham Aguilar (23 August 1824 – 18 February 1904), was an English concert pianist and composer of Portuguese parentage. Life Born in Clapham, London, Aguilar was the son of Sephardic Jewish refugees from Portugal who settled in London. His father was the city merchant Emanuel Aguilar (1787–1845) and his mother Sarah Diaz Fernandez (1787–1854). His sister was the novelist Grace Aguilar. He studied piano and composition in Frankfurt, and was the first to perform Chopin’s F minor Concerto there. In 1847 his sister, whose health was already failing her, visited him at his Frankfurt home and died there, aged 31. Returning to London in 1848 he established himself as a soloist and set himself up as a teacher - though he frequently returned to Germany for concerts (for instance at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig on 30 March 1848) and as a visiting composer, as for the premiere performance of his second symphony in 1851. From the 1850s Aguiar lived at 68 Upper Norton Street (now Bolsover Street) in Marylebone. Later addresses were 17 Gloucester Crescent in Paddington (from the 1870s), and at the lodging house 7 Weymouth Street in Marylebone (1901–1904). He married twice and was widowed

Emanuel Aloys Förster

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NOTOC Emanuel Aloys Förster (26 January 1748 – 12 November 1823) was a composer and music teacher, who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. Early life Emanuel Aloys Förster was born in Niedersteine bei Glatz, County of Glatz (Kingdom of Prussia). Almost nothing is known of his family or parents except that his father was an administrator in an economics office. From his early youth, Emanuel composed several concertos and many sonatas purely from his correct musical ear. He acquired only later a copy of a theoretical work by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (probably Versuch über die wahre Art das Klavier zu spielen, “Essay on the true art of keyboard playing”), which he copied out. When he had left school he went to work for some years in his father’s office, and then he was called up into the Prussian army and spent the last two years of the Seven Years’ War as an oboist in the “Fouquet’schen Regiment”. After that (around 1763) he went to Mittelwalde where he lived in the intimate circle of, and studied with, the (at that time) famous organist Johann Georg Pausewang. Probably through his agency, Förster went to Prague from 1776 to 1779, after which he settled in Vienna, where h

Emanuel Amiran-Pougatchov

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Emanuel Amiran-Pougatchov (Hebrew: עמנואל עמירן-פוגצ’וב; born Emanuel Pugaczow; 8 August 1909 – 18 December 1993) was a composer and teacher. Biographical information In Warsaw, Emanuel Pugaczow began his musical studies at the age of 10 years with Joseph Engel, Professor David Shore and Engel Weinberg. He later continued his musical studies for a period of three years within Berlin. From 1928 to 1930, he studied with Solomon Rosowsky within Jerusalem. His studies of music (combined with pedagogy ) continued from 1934 onward at the Trinity College of Music in Britain with Sir Granville Bantock and Alex Rowley. He returned to Israel again in 1936 again to be involved in teaching activities, at some time founding with Prof. Leo Kestenberg the Music Teachers’ Seminary in Tel Aviv, both continuing as primary authorities and charges of. In 1948 he was officer in charge of military music, establishing a joint initiative with artillery commander, Samuel Edmond. Together with Captain Jacob Pleasant he founded an Israeli Army Band. The military band they formed was one of the foundations for the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces Orchestra, together with an orchestra of Alexandria,

Emanuel Melik-Aslanian

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Emanuel Melik-Aslanian (, ; 1915 – 14 July 2003) was an Armenian-Iranian composer, classical music theorist and pianist. Biography Emanuel Melik-Aslanian was born in 1915 to an Armenian family in Rostov, Russia. Although he was born in Tabriz in most of the mentioned sources. In an interview, he says: “My birthplace is written in my birth certificate, Tabriz, but in fact I was born in 1915 in Rostov. My parents were from Tabriz, but they lived in Rostov at that time.” His father Stepan was interested in music and after returning from a trip, he brought a piano with him. When Emanuel was not more than 4 years old, he would sit at the piano with his feet off the ground, playing the piano with one hand. He started playing the piano at the age of 9 with Sophia Amadoni, who was educated in Switzerland, in Tabriz. When he was 12, he played the piano in the Leon Gregorian Orchestra. When his father saw Emanuel’s talent, he decided to study in Europe. For this reason, he traveled to Germany and made travel arrangements for his son and his wife. He then sent a message to them to join him. Emanuel and his mother left for Germany in 1928, when he was 13 years old. He went to Hamburg, Germany

Emánuel Moór

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Emánuel Moór (; 19 February 1863 – 20 October 1931) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and an inventor of musical instruments. Life Moór was born in Kecskemét, Hungary, and studied in Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Between 1885 and 1897 he toured Europe as a soloist and ventured as far afield as the United States. His output of compositions amounted to 151 works including five operas, eight symphonies, four concertos for piano, four for violin, two for cello, a viola concerto and a harp concerto. Included in his works were also a triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano; chamber music; a requiem; and many songs. His three Piano Trios (in D major, op. 74, in C major, op. 81 and in B♭ major, op. 89), have been recorded by the Storioni Trio. They show the influence of Brahms, who befriended Moór. His best-known invention was the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte, which consisted of two keyboards lying one above each other and allowed, by means of a tracking device, one hand to play a spread of two octaves. Two new instruments In 1921 Emánuel Moór sparked a lively controversy in the world of music by presenting two revolutionary inventions in quick succession. First, “a giant violin, one and a

Emanuel Schlechter

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Emanuel Schlechter (born 9 October 1904, Lwów – died November 11, 1943, also: Szlechter, Olgierd Lech) was a Polish-Jewish artist, lyricist, screenwriter, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director, and occasional actor. He was one of the most influential creators of interwar Polish popular music in the 1930s, whose songs became deeply embedded in Polish language and culture. He was also the author of the famed “Tango of Death”, according to Simon Weisenthal, the famed Janowska survivor, and who captured Adolf Eichmann Biography Emanuel Schlechter was born in Lwów, then part of Austria-Hungary and later interwar Poland, into a Polonized Jewish family. His father Jakub Szlechter worked as a house painter. His family lived in modest conditions in the Zamarstynów district of Lwów. His brother was Emil Henryk Schlechter, a famed lawyer in Paris and expert of Assyria He attended the prestigious State Gymnasium named after Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski in Lwów, graduating in 1923 with a “sufficient” result in his matura examinations. During his school years, he developed early literary and performance interests, and according to later recollections, he was already acti

Emanuele d'Astorga

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Emanuele Gioacchino Cesare Rincon, baron of Astorga (20 March 16801757, by one report) was an Italian composer known mainly for his Stabat Mater. Biography He was born on 20 March 1680 in Augusta, Sicily. No authentic account of Astorga’s life can be successfully constructed from the obscure and confusing evidence that has been until now handed down, although historians have not failed to indulge many pleasant conjectures. According to Volkmann his father, a baron of Sicily, took an active part in the attempt to throw off the Spanish yoke, but was betrayed by his own soldiers and publicly executed. His wife and son were compelled to be spectators of his fate; and such was the effect upon them that his mother died on the spot, and Emanuele fell into a state of gloomy despondency, which threatened to deprive him of reason. By the kindness of the Princess of Ursini, the unfortunate young man was placed in a convent at Astorga, in León, where he completed a musical education which is said to have been begun in Palermo under Francesco Scarlatti. Here he recovered his health, and his admirable musical talents were cultivated under the best masters. On the details of this account no relia

Emanuele Muzio

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Donnino Emanuele Muzio (or Mussio) (24 August 1821 in Zibello – 27 November 1890 in Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor and vocal teacher. He was a lifelong friend and the only student of Giuseppe Verdi. Biography In April 1844, Verdi took on Muzio, eight years his junior, as a pupil and amanuensis. He had known him since about 1828 as a protégé of his own supporter, . Muzio, who in fact was Verdi’s only pupil, became indispensable to the composer. He reported to Barezzi that Verdi “has a breadth of spirit, of generosity, a wisdom.” The relationship was to grow stronger, and Muzio remained a lifelong friend. In November 1846, Muzio wrote of Verdi: “If you could see us, I seem more like a friend, rather than his pupil. We are always together at dinner, in the cafes, when we play cards…; all in all, he doesn’t go anywhere without me at his side; in the house we have a big table and we both write there together, and so I always have his advice.” Muzio was to remain associated with Verdi throughout his life, assisting in the preparation of scores and transcriptions, and later conducting the premieres of many of his works in their premiere performances in the US and elsewhere. H

Emanuil Manolov

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Emanuil Manolov (; 7 January 1860 – 2 February 1902 ) was a Bulgarian composer. Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He went to the Moscow Conservatory from 1879 to 1885. He composed the first Bulgarian opera Siromahkinia, based on Ivan Vazov’s work with the same title, consisting of two parts. His works in the genres of the “kitka” and schools songs are very popular. One of his most famous works is the song “What a Girl I saw, Mama” (Kakva moma vidiah, mamo). He died at Kazanlak. Honours Manolov Glacier in Antarctica is named after Emanuil Manolov. References

Emerico Lobo de Mesquita

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José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (12 October 1746 – April 1805) was a Brazilian composer, music teacher, conductor and organist. Life Emerico was born at Vila do Príncipe (now Serro), in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. His parents José Lobo de Mesquita and Joaquina Emerenciana gave him a liberal education. He received his first music lessons (organ and music theory) from Father Manuel da Costa Dantas, who was organist and choirmaster at the church Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Serro. Soon after 1776 he went to Arraial do Tijuco (now Diamantina) to become organist and conductor at the cathedral Santo Antônio of Diamantina. On 17 January 1789, he entered the religious order Ordem Terceira de Nossa Senhora do Carmo. He founded a music school in this city and was appointed teacher of the art of music. In 1798, he worked in Vila Rica (now Ouro Preto) for the city mayor, and was also organist and choirmaster at the church Nossa Senhora do Pilar. He had a quarrel with the mayor and left for Rio de Janeiro, where he became organist of the Ordem Terceira do Carmo until his death, in April 1805. Lobo de Mesquita was an important representative of the so-called Escola de Compositores da Capi

Emil Ábrányi

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Emil Ábrányi (22 September 1882 11 February 1970) was a Hungarian composer, conductor, and opera director. Life He was conductor at the Royal Hungarian Opera House from 1911 to 1919, and director there from 1919 to 1920. In 1921, he became the director at the Budapest Municipal Theatre, where he remained until 1926. For many years he taught conducting at the Budapest Academy of Music. He composed twelve operas of which only six have been performed professionally. He was the grandson of the composer Kornél Ábrányi. Operas *A ködkirály (The King of Mist) (1 act, libretto by Á. Pásztor, 17 May 1903, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *Monna Vanna (3 acts, libretto by Emil Ábrányi, Sr. (father of the composer) after Maeterlinck’s drama of the same name, 2 March 1907, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest). *Paolo és Francesca (3 acts, libretto after Dante by Emil Ábrányi, Sr., 13 January 1912, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *Don Quijote (3 acts, libretto after Cervantes by Emil Ábrányi, Sr., 30 November 1917, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *Ave Maria: Májusi intermezzo (A May Intermezzo) (1 act, 25 February 1922, Budapest Municipal Theatre) *A vak katona (The Blind

Emil Bohnke

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Emil Bohnke (11 October 1888 – 11 May 1928) was a German violist, composer and conductor active in Berlin. Life Born in Zduńska Wola near Łódź, Poland, Emil Bohnke was the son of textile manufacturer Ferdinand Bohnke. From 1901 to 1908, he studied violin with Hans Sitt and composition with Stephan Krehl at the Leipzig Conservatory, continuing his studies in Berlin at the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1908 with Friedrich Gernsheim. Bohnke taught for two years at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. In 1919, he married violinist Lilli von Mendelssohn (born 1897) of the Mendelssohn family and fathered three children, the youngest of which was pianist Robert-Alexander Bohnke (1927–2004). He was the violist of the Bandler Quartet and the Busch Quartet (1919–1921) led by Adolf Busch. Bohnke played a 1699 viola by luthier Giovanni Grancino given to him by his father-in-law. As conductor, he headed the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra (1923–1926) and succeeded Oscar Fried as principal conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in 1926. Bohnke and his wife are buried at Friedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Music Bohnke composed a body of sixteen opuses, comprising mainly chamber music and piano pieces, but al

Emil Büchner

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Adolf Emil Büchner (7 December 1826 in Osterfeld – 9 June 1908 in Erfurt) was a German conductor and bandmaster. He wrote a number of compositions, including operas, chamber music, choral works, and symphonies. Life Büchner’s parents encouraged his musical interests from a young age. He attended the Leipzig Conservatory between April 1843 and Easter 1846, when he graduated. He was the ninth student to attend the newly formed conservatory, and was exempt from paying tuition. After his studies he worked as a piano teacher in Leipzig until 1856. After numerous engagements as a conductor, he was from 1865 the conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra in the city of Meiningen. Büchner and the court orchestra performed with Franz Liszt in 1867 in Meiningen, at the festival of the “General German Music Society”. In 1876, at the request of Richard Wagner, he introduced the main contingent of the festival orchestra at the first Bayreuth Festival, which many years later participated in the Festival. As Kapellmeister, Büchner brought the orchestra a significant increase in quality. In 1880 he gave his successor, Hans von Bülow, the chapel next to a known top European orchestra. In 1881, Büch

Emil Cadkin

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Emil Milton Cadkin (August 26, 1920 – December 16, 2020) was an American TV and film composer who worked mainly as a production music composer. He worked with William Loose (1910–1991) and Harry Bluestone (1907–1992). Some of his music was also featured on APM Music. Cadkin composed music for 1940s, 1950s and 1960s TV series, films and cartoons including Gumby and Hanna-Barbera’s Augie Doggie. Early life He was born in August 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of three children to Isadore and Sarah Cadkin, who had emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1905. His father was a cabinet maker in Los Angeles by 1936. Cadkin attended Yale University, where he majored in music, with special emphasis in Music Composition and Music Theory. He was in Los Angeles writing and teaching music by the time he enlisted in the Air Force in 1942. His song I Have Everything I Want But You was copyrighted in 1938. Career After being discharged from the Air Force, he scored films like “The Big Fix” for bottom-of-the-barrel studio PRC. Cadkin was an associate editor of ASCAP’s ‘The Score’ when it was created in 1948, and got a job in 1958 as musical director at Ritco Productions, a low-budget company th

Emil Dimitrov

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Emil Dimitrov Dimitrov (; 23 December 1940 – 30 March 2005) was a Bulgarian singer, musician and composer. He is considered to be a legend of Bulgarian pop music, and one of the greatest Bulgarian singers of all time. He was popular for his songs “Ако си дал” (‘If You Have Given’), “Моя страна, моя България” (‘My Country, My Bulgaria’), “Нашият сигнал” (‘Our Signal’), “Само един живот” (‘Only One Lifetime’), “Джулия” (‘Julia’), “Арлекино” (‘Arlequine’), “Писмо до мама” (‘Letter to My Mother’) and others. Dimitrov was an extremely prolific artist, with 400 songs in his repertoire, and 280 of them being of his own composition; he released 30 albums in his lifetime. He was born the son of the Bulgarian illusionist and his French assistant. and turned him into a star overnight. His song Monica (known in Bulgarian as “Моя страна, моя България” (‘My country, my Bulgaria’) sold out with a circulation of over 500,000 copies in Germany and 100,000 copies in Belgium, although, it was initially banned by Bulgarian communist censors for “bourgeois influence”. In the modern day, it is considered to be an unofficial national hymn in Bulgaria. He was married twice, and his son Emil was born from

Emil Hartmann

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Emil Hartmann (21 February 1836–18 July 1898) was a Danish composer of the romantic period, fourth generation of composers in the Danish Hartmann musical family. His music is distinctly Nordic and tuneful and won great popularity in his time. Early life and education Hartmann was born on 21 February 1836 in Copenhagen, the eldest son of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and of his composer wife Emma Hartmann. He grew up in the Zinn House in Copenhagen. Emil Hartmann got his first education from his father Johan Peter Emilius and brother-in-law Niels Gade. His piano teachers were Niels Ravnkilde (1823–1890) and Anton Rée (1820–1886). Letters from Hans Christian Andersen show that he was composing even before he could talk properly. Career Emil Hartmann was a composer of the Danish Golden Age. He wrote seven symphonies, concertos for respectively violin, cello and piano, several ouvertures, a symphonic poem (Hakon Jarl), orchestral suites, serenades, ballets, operas and singspiels, incidental music and cantatas. He was also the author of multiple works of chamber music (nonet, piano quintet, string quartets, clarinet quartets, piano trios, serenade for clarinet, cello and piano,

Emil Hlobil

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Emil Hlobil (11 October 1901 – 25 January 1987) was a Czech composer and music professor based in Prague. Biography Hlobil was born in Veselí nad Lužnicí, but lived most of his life in Prague. Between 1924 and 1930 he studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk and Jaroslav Křička, and taught music and composition at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. He also taught at the Prague Conservatory (1941–1958) before moving to the Academy. He married Czech painter Marie-Hlobilová Mrkvičková, and after World War II they bought a cottage in the Krkonoše mountains as a summer home. Hlobil died in Prague in 1987. Music Hlobil composed in the Romantic tradition of the Nineteenth Century, almost untouched by modern trends, which was possibly a reflection of the politics of the time and place. A review by Gramaphone in 1961 described him as follows: Emil Hlobil, 60-year-old professor of composition at the Prague Conservatoire, has the most original creative imagination of our twelve composers, I would say. In his Quartet for harpsichord and string trio (1944) , he uses a fairly simple diatonic idiom, but shows a Janáček-like boldness in his apparently inconsequential changing of the

Emil Kreuz

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Emil Anton Joseph Friedrich Kreuz, also known as Emil Frederick Thornfield (25 May 1867 – 3 December 1932) was a German violinist, violist, teacher, conductor and composer. Biography Emil Kreuz was born in Elberfeld near Wuppertal, began playing violin at an early age and studied under Georg Joseph Japha (1835–1892) in Cologne from the age of ten. At sixteen he won a scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied violin with Henry Holmes and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford until 1888. For two years he concentrated his studies on the viola, making his debut as soloist with Hector Berlioz’s Harold en Italie in December 1888 at one of the London Symphony Concerts established by George Henschel. He became well known in England. He was violin soloist at the Leeds Festival in 1889, violist of the Gompertz Quartet along with violinists Richard Gompertz, Haydn Inwards and cellist Charles Ould from 1888 to 1903, and a member of the Covent Garden Opera Orchestra from 1900 to 1903. In 1903, he became assistant musical director of the Covent Garden Opera and joined The Hallé to study conducting with its principal conductor Hans Richter. He then turned his atte

Emil Liebling

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Emil Liebling (April 12, 1851 – January 20, 1914) was a German-American pianist and composer. Biography Liebling was born into a Jewish family in the Duchy of Pless, Kingdom of Prussia. Liebling was from a famous family of musicians. His three brothers, George, Max, and Solly Liebling, were also successful pianists, and all four of them were trained on the piano by Franz Liszt in Weimar. In 1867 he came to the United States, where he settled as a music teacher at a seminary in Kentucky where he remained on the faculty until 1871. His compositions include piano pieces and songs in the popular style of his day. Liebling served as visiting director of piano at the Frances Shimer Academy in Mount Carroll, Illinois, from 1904 to 1913. The position involved visiting the school several times per year to perform a concert and inspect student progress. He also held a similar position at Milwaukee-Downer College in Wisconsin. References External links * *

Emil Mattiesen

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Emil Karl Gustav Alfred Mattiesen (23 January 1875 – 25 September 1939) was a Baltic-German musician, music pedagogue, composer and philosopher. He composed lieder, song cycles, ballads, chamber music and organ music, but is better known for standard works in German on parapsychology. He was a professor of church music at the University of Rostock from 1929. Life Mattiesen was born in Dorpat. * 1910 Ballade von der Liebe * 1926 Die Kunstkasse in Neukloster. Eine Geschichte und ein Aufruf in Mecklenburgische Monatshefte Parapsychology * 1925 Der jenseitige Mensch. Eine Einführung in die Metapsychologie der mystischen Erfahrung. reprinted unchanged in 1987 by Walter de Gruyter-Verlag Berlin and New York * 1936–39 Das persönliche Ueberleben des Todes. Eine Darstellung der Erfahrungsbeweise (3 vols.). Reprinted in 1961 with a preface by Gebhard Frei, reprinted in 1987 with a preface by Bauer, both Walter de Gruyter-Verlag BerlinNew York References Further reading * * Werner F. Bonin: Lexikon der Parapsychologie und ihrer Grenzgebiete. Bern, München 1976, p. 328. External links * * * * SUB Göttingen * Dr. Emil Mattiesen / 1875–1939 rodiehr.de * Emil Mattiesen classicalvocalreprints.com

Emil Młynarski

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Emil Szymon Młynarski (; 18 July 18705 April 1935) was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue. Life Młynarski was born in Kibarty (Kybartai), Russian Empire, now in Lithuania. He studied violin with Leopold Auer and composition with Anatoly Lyadov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He was the founding conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently served as principal conductor of the Scottish Orchestra in Glasgow from 1910 to 1916. He conducted the premiere of Karol Szymanowski’s opera King Roger. He composed, among other things, a symphony dedicated to his homeland (Symphony in F major, Op. 14, Polonia), and two violin concertos (1897, 1917). The latter concerto, in D major, Op. 16, has been recorded by Konstanty Kulka and Nigel Kennedy. Emil Młynarski died in Warsaw at age 64. His daughter Wanda married Wiktor Łabuński. His daughter Aniela (Nela, Nelly) married Mieczysław Munz and later Arthur Rubinstein. He is the grandfather of John Rubinstein and the great-grandfather of Michael Weston, both American actors. He is closely related to the famous Polish poet and singer Wojciech Młynarski (1941–2017) and his daughter Agata Młynarska (born 1965), a Polish

Emil Newman

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Emil Newman (January 20, 1911 – August 30, 1984) was an American music director and conductor who worked on more than 200 films and TV series. He was nominated for an Oscar for his musical direction on the classic Sun Valley Serenade (1941), contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 95 nominations in various music categories. Biography A native of Connecticut, Newman entered films in 1940 as the musical director on 13 films. He was credited on 25 films in 1941 and 28 in 1942, one of which, Whispering Ghosts, contained his first (uncredited) contribution as a composer. He had 15 titles in 1943, including “Musical Direction” (screen credit) for the all-black musical Stormy Weather and the 20th Century Fox wartime film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas, 19 in 1944, 17 in 1945 and 16 in 1946, including Hugo Friedhofer’s Academy Award score for The Best Years of Our Lives, which he also conducted. Between 1950 and 1965, Newman was the composer on 23 films, most of which were lower-budget B movies, although they also included prestigious pictures such as Hondo (1953). He also provided the music for numerous 1950s TV shows. Newma

Emil Platen

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Emil Platen (born 16 September 1925) is a German musicologist and conductor. Life Born in Düsseldorf, Platen received his first music lessons at the Jugendmusikschule Düsseldorf in the disciplines violin and music theory/composition (with Reger’s student Otto Leonhardt). After work and military service (1943–45) he enrolled in 1946 at the University of Cologne in the subject musicology, changed in 1947 to the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, where he studied composition with , viola with Hermann Hirschfelder and choral conducting with Kurt Thomas. After his examination as a choral conductor, he resumed his musicological studies at the University of Bonn in 1951, which he completed in 1957 with a dissertation on the “Chorische Choralbearungen von Joh. Bach” which won him his doctorate. During his studies he worked as a violist in various ensembles in Bonn and at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln. Further stages in his professional career were: 1959 research assistant at the Beethoven-Archiv Bonn, 1963 academic music director and 1971 honorary professor for musicology at the University of Bonn. In 1969 he founded the North Rhine-Westphalia Youth Symphony Orchestra together with Hans-Josef Men

Emil Reesen

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Emil Reesen (30 May 1887 – 27 March 1964) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist. Aside from composing for ballets and operas he was also a noted film score composer. He is remembered mainly for his operetta Farinelli (1942), which is still popular today. Life Emil Reesen studied with private tutors such as the composer Vilhelm Rosenberg and the pianist Siegfried Langgaard (a pupil of Franz Liszt). He made his debut as a concert pianist in 1911 and was employed as a conductor for the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1927. In 1931 he also began working as a ballet conductor at the Royal Danish Theatre. Later in his life he conducted the Vienna Symphony and recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic. Emil Reesen was the father of the composer Morten Reesen (1928–1961) and the great-uncle of the composer Frederik Magle (his sister’s grandson). Notable works * 1926 Rapsodien Himmerland * 1928 Variationer over et tema af Schubert * 1931 Gaucho, ballet * 1933 Gudindernes Strid, ballet * 1934 Zaporogerne, ballet * 1941 Trianon. Suite i gammel stil * 1941 Historien om en Moder, opera (Det kgl. Teater) * 1942 Farinelli, operetta (text: Mogens Dam) * 1948 Gadeprinsessen, operette * 1950 V

Emil von Reznicek

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Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek (4 May 1860, in Vienna – 2 August 1945, in Berlin) was an Austrian composer of Romanian-Czech ancestry. Life Reznicek’s grandfather, Josef Resnitschek (1787–1848), was a trumpet virtuoso and band leader in the Imperial regiments Nos. 32 (Esterhazy), based in Budapest, and 60 (Gustav Wasa), based in Vienna where he played music with Johann Strauss Sr. and Joseph Lanner. Reznicek’s father Josef Resnitschek/Reznicek (1812–1887) entered the army as a cadet and eventually became Feldmarschall-Lieutenant, the second-highest rank in the Austrian army, gaining an ordinary diploma of nobility in 1851 and the rank as a Baron (Freiherr) in 1859. His mother, Clarisse Fürstin Ghika Budești (1837–1864), belonged to the influential Ghika family of Romania. Emil Nikolaus was the half-brother of the artist Ferdinand von Řezníček (1868–1909). Reznicek passed his childhood in Vienna, until the family moved to Graz in 1874. He began piano lessons in 1871; his first compositions date from 1876–78, when he was a student in Graz and at the Staatsgymnasium in Marburg an der Drau (Maribor). He studied law and music in Graz from 1878–80. He never finished his law

Emil von Sauer

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Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer (8 October 186227 April 1942) was a German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher. He was a student of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation. Josef Hofmann called von Sauer “a truly great virtuoso.” Martin Krause, another Liszt pupil, called von Sauer “the legitimate heir of Liszt; he has more of his charm and geniality than any other Liszt pupil.” Life Sauer was born in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 8 October 1862 as Emil Georg Conrad Sauer. He studied with Nikolai Rubinstein at the Moscow Conservatory between 1879 and 1881. On an 1884 visit to Italy he met the Countess von Sayn-Wittgenstein, who recommended him to her former paramour, Franz Liszt. He went on to study with Liszt for two years, but did not for some time consider himself a Liszt pupil. In an 1895 interview, he even denied it: “It is not correct to regard me as a pupil of Liszt, though I stayed with him for a few months. He was then very old, and could not teach me much. My chief teacher has been, undoubtedly, Nicholas Rubinstein.” From 1882, Sauer made frequent and successful tours as a virtuoso pianist; his performing car

Émile Albert

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Émile Albert (Joseph François Émile Albert; 1 January 1822 – 17 August 1865) was a French composer and pianist. He was born in Montpellier and died in Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Biography Albert was born on 1 January 1822 in Montpellier. He studied in his hometown under the guidance of his father, Narcisse Albert, a piano teacher, before moving to Paris in the late 1840s. In Paris, Albert gained recognition in 1851 with the publication of numerous piano works, including polkas, mazurkas, impromptus, fantasies, romances without words, a quadrille entitled Les Tout Fous, and a collection of Douze Études, Op. 17. As a composer, in addition to various piano pieces -among them several études - Albert also wrote a set of six songs, Li Prouvençalo (1853), a collection of motets, Chants du salut pour le mois de Marie … avec accompagnement d’orgue (1855), a Cours gradué d’études élémentaires progressives de style et de perfectionnement pour piano (1857), and a Trio de salon with piano (1860). His catalogue comprises around sixty opus numbers. Albert also composed for the stage. He wrote the opéra bouffe Les Petits du premier, with a libretto by William Busnach, premiered at the Théâtre Saint-Ge

Émile Bienaimé

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Paul Émile Bienaimé (6 July 1802 – 17 January 1869) was a 19th-century French composer. Biography A pupil at the , he studied at the Conservatoire with Victor Dourlen and François-Joseph Fétis. In 1822 he won the prize in harmony and in 1825, was laureate of a competition of musical composition organised by the Conservatoire with a four-act fugue and finished in second place of the prix de Rome with his cantata Herminie in 1826. In 1827, he succeeded Pierre Desvignes as kapellmeister at Notre-Dame de Paris where he would play most of his sacred works, such as the Requiem in 1830 with large orchestra in honour of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. With François-Antoine Habeneck he founded the “Société des concerts du Conservatoire” in 1828. His position at Notre-Dame was abolished after the July Revolution. He then devoted himself to teaching at the Conservatory in the classes of harmony and accompaniment, which he left in 1864 to retire. Works He wrote sacred music, works for salon, an orchestral overture and books on music education (Cinquante études d’harmonie pratique, Paris, 1844). *1842: Les Écoliers de Paris, nocturne, lyrics by Jules Turgan *1842: Vole, ma noire gondole, melody

Émile Bourdon

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Joseph Antoine Émile Bourdon (; 14 February 1884 – 11 July 1974) was a 20th-century French organist and composer. Biography Bourdon was the son of Magdelaine Louise Villate de Peufeilhoux (of noble descent) and Victor-Louis-Gabriel Bourdon (a financier). Later, he became a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant in the Conservatoire de Paris, Bourdon was a condisciple and friend of Marcel Dupré. He was the organist of the great organ of the Saint Nicholas Cathedral of Monaco from 1922 to 1968, before canon Henri Carol succeeded him. In addition, he was professor of organ at the Académie de Musique Fondation Prince Rainier III until 1968. His wife Jeanne Barbezat died on 17 August 1974, and Bourdon himself died on 11 July of that year. Works Bourdon is the author of several pieces for pipe organ including: # Dix Pièces Op. 7 (Paris, Leduc, 1921) : ## Offertoire pour la Fête de l’Assomption ## Carillons (popularised by Marcel Dupré) ## Méditation sur un Psaume d’Introït ## Sortie sur l’Hymne Veni Creator Spiritus ## Bénédiction nuptiale ## In memoriam ## Sur l’Alleluia de la Fête de saint Louis ## Légende pour la Toussaint ## Triptyque sur la Prose de la Fête-Dieu ## Toccata sur deux noëls # Six

Émile Damais

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Émile Damais (4 March 1906 in Paris – 8 April 2003 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French composer and musicologist. A prisoner in the Stalag II B, Hammerstein / Schlochau (Poland) during the Second World War, he composed there Ô nuit… for singing and orchestra. He was also a professor of music history. Compositions * Sonata for violon * Appassionato for doublebasse and piano * O Nuit… for singing and orchestra (after the Mystère des saints innocents by Charles Péguy composed in the stalag in February 1942 * String quartet (1944). * Symphonic sketch for saxophone and orchestra * Concert Esquisse Symphonique for saxophone in Eb and piano * 5 divertissements pourophone for alto saxophone in Eb solo * Litanies florales, mélody for voice and piano * Petites Phrases for violin and piano on Amazon * Motets published by the Schola Cantorum publishing department in Paris * Passion according to Saint Matthew, premiered in Limoges in 1948 * Oratorio on a text by Paul Claudel, Le Chemin de la Croix for mixed choirs, large orchestra, solo soprano, tenor solo, bass and reciting, written during the war and given to the Concerts Pasdeloup in 1946 * Organ pieces like this Interlude for Christmas (Musiq

Émile Durand

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Émile Durand (; 16 February 18307 May 1903) was a French musical theorist, teacher and composer. He was better known for his theoretical writings than for his compositions. Biography Émile Durand was born in 1830, at Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d’Armor, in the Brittany region of France, and moved south with his family to Montpellier when he was 12 years old. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1845 at age 15, in the class of Napoléon Alkan (brother of Charles-Valentin Alkan). François Bazin and Fromental Halévy were among his other noteworthy teachers. In 1853, he won the second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Le Rocher d’Appenzell. He joined the conservatoire as a teacher of music theory and harmony, succeeding his own teacher Bazin in 1871. Camille Erlanger and Arthur Goring Thomas. Durand favored writing popular songs (chansons) and art songs (mélodies), although he also produced a few lighter works for stage early in his career, including the opéra comique L’Elixir de Cormelius in 1868, and the operetta L’Astronome de Pont-Neuf in 1869. He remained attached to the region of his birth throughout his life. As a member of cultural and social groups such as “The Bretons de Paris,” al

Émile Goué

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Émile Goué (13 June 1904 – 10 October 1946) was a French composer. Life Born in Châteauroux (Indre), with a father who was inspector of primary education, a mother who was head teacher of a teacher-training school for young girls in Guéret (Creuse) and four sisters, all of whom became teachers, the path of the young Goué was clear: he was naturally destined for the teaching profession. With a keen intelligence, he 1921, he obtained the two existing baccalaureats: that of elementary mathematics and that of philosophy. he graduated in science at the age of 20. He was appointed professor at Boulogne-sur-Mer three years later. Thereafter, he transferred to Agen in 1924 where he successfully completed the physics and chemistry degree. In 1927, he married Yvonne Burg and they had three children: Michel, Bernard and Françoise. He taught successively at the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux and Lycée Buffon in Paris. He taught in so-called “special mathematics” classes (preparation for the Grandes Écoles competitions) and ended his university career in one of the most renowned chairs in higher education, at lycée Louis-le-Grand. Like Borodin, his scientific and academic career was coupled with r

Émile Jonas

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Émile Jonas (5 March 1827 – 21 May 1905) was a 19th-century French composer. Works *1855: Le Duel de Benjamin, libretto by Eugène Mestépès *1856: La Parade, libretto by Jules Barbier and Jules Brésil) *1857: Le roi boit, libretto by Adolphe Jaime and Eugène Mestépès *1857: Les Petits Prodiges, libretto by Adolphe Jaime and Etienne Tréfeu *1863: Job et son chien, libretto by Eugène Mestépès) *1864: Le Manoir des Larenardière, libretto by Eugène Mestépès *1865: Avant la noce, libretto by Eugène Mestépès and Paul Boisselot *1865: Les Deux Arlequins, libretto by Eugène Mestépès *1867: Marlbrough s’en va-t-en guerre, composition with Georges Bizet, Isidore Legouix and Léo Delibes, libretto by William Busnach after Paul Siraudin *1869: Le Canard à trois becs, libretto by Jules Moinaux *1869: Désiré, sire de Champigny *1871: Javotte ou , libretto by Alfred Thompson, London *1873: Goldchignon (libretto : Eugène Grangé, Victor Bernard and Étienne Tréfeu, in German Julius Hopp), Vienna *1874: , libretto by Eugène Grangé and Victor Bernard, in German, F. Zell and Richard Genée), Vienna *1882: La Bonne Aventure, libretto by Hector Crémieux and Albert de Saint-Albin *1882: Estelle et Némourin,

Émile Mathieu (composer)

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Émile Louis Victor Mathieu (Lille, 18 October 1844 – Ghent, 20 August 1932) was a Belgian music teacher and composer of classical music. Mathieu was born into a musical family: his father was the director of a theatre in Antwerp and a singer, while is mother taught singing at the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Leuven. He studied at the Conservatory of Brussels and later became a teacher of piano and harmony at the conservatory of Leuven. In 1867 Mathieu won a second prize in the Prix de Rome contest with his cantata Torquato Tasso’s dood. He won first place in the same contest in 1871 and again in 1873. Between 1873 and 1875 he lived in Paris, where he conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre du Châtelet. Afterwards, he returned to Brussels, where he held a position as accompanist at the Theatre Royal of LA Monnaie. He headed the Leuven Conservatory (which today is called SLAC) from 1881, and succeeded Adolphe Samuel as director of the Ghent Conservatory from 1898 to 1924. Most of his operas used librettos of his own writing. His best known work today is “Freyhir”, an hour-long choral tone poem written in 1883 on the theme of deforestation around Ardennes where the composer grew up. Frey

Émile Paladilhe

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Émile Paladilhe (3 June 1844 – 6 January 1926) was a French composer of the late romantic period. He is best known for his opera Patrie!, which premiered successfully at the Paris Opera. Biography Émile Paladilhe was born in Montpellier. He was a musical child prodigy, and moved from his home in the south of France to Paris to begin his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris at age 10. He became an accomplished pianist, and was the youngest winner of the Prix de Rome, three years after Bizet, in 1860. For a time Galli-Marié was his lover, and she helped create some of his works. Paladilhe married the daughter of the librettist Ernest Legouvé. He formed a friendship with the elderly Charles Gounod. Works He wrote a number of compositions for the stage, a symphony, over a hundred mélodies, piano works, and a wide range of sacred music, including cantatas, motets, masses, chorales, and a noted oratorio, Les Saintes-Marie de la mer. His opera Patrie! of 1886 was his greatest success, and was one of the last grand operas to premiere at the Paris Opéra. It was a piece d’occasion, created for a gala in honour of the French colony in Monaco, but had a Flemish-nationalist theme. The libretti

Émile Parisien

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Émile Parisien (born 12 October 1982) is a French soprano and alto saxophonist, jazz musician, and composer. Career Émile Parisien entered the fifth class at the age of 11 in the first class of Marciac’s College de jazz, where he studied music with established musicians such as Pierre Boussaguet, Guy Lafitte and Christian “Tonton” Salut. From 1996, he studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse, where he also studied classical and contemporary music. During these years, he has had the opportunity to perform alongside major jazz figures such as Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, Johnny Griffin and Bobby Hutcherson, during the Jazz in Marciac festival. Influences Parisien moved to Paris in 2000 and in 2004 founded his own quartet with Julien Touery (piano), Ivan Gélugne (double bass), and Sylvain Darrifourcq (drums). With compositions inspired by Hector Berlioz, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Wagner, as well as John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, this quartet gives an expressionist character to his music, where improvisation takes precedence. Parisien performs in France and internationally with, among others, Michel Portal, Jacky Terrasson, Yaron Herman, Joachim Kühn, Stéphan

Émile Pessard

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Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (29 May 1843 – 10 February 1917) was a French composer. Pessard was born and died in Paris. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won 1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on 21 February 1867. From 1878 to 1880 he was inspector of singing at Paris Schools, in 1881 he became professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatory. His students included Maurice Ravel, Jacques Ibert, William Molard, Albert Seitz and Justin Élie. After 1895 he was a critic and director. He composed many comic operas and operettas, as well as masses. Works *Dalila (cantata, 1866) Prix de Rome. *La Cruche cassée (opéra comicque in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on 21 February 1870 at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris) *Don Quichotte (opera, premiered on 13 February 1874 at the Salle Érard in Paris) *Le Char (opera, premiered on 18 January 1878 at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris) *Le Capitaine Fracasse (opera, premiered on 2 July 1878 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris) *Tabarin (opera, premiered on 12 January 1885 at the Théâtre de l’Opéra in Par

Émile Pierre Ratez

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Émile Pierre Ratez (also René Emile Ratez; 5 November 1851 – 19 May 1934) was a French composer, administrator, and violist. Life Ratez was born in Besançon and became a pupil of Pierre De Mol at the music school there and later a pupil of Bazin and of Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris in the 1870s. Music His compositions include some chamber music: at least three piano trios, a piano quintet, a cello sonata, at least two violin sonatas, a string trio, for example), a suite for violin and piano, two operas Lydéric (premiered 1895, Lille) and Paula (premiered 1904, Besançon) and many songs and other choral and piano works (&c…) His six Pièces charactéristiques have been republished by Billaudot. Discography * 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0358 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 1 * 2016: Acte Préalable AP 0366 – Émile Pierre Ratez - Exhibition 2 References External links * *

Émile Sauret

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Émile Sauret (22 May 1852 – 12 February 1920) was a French violinist and composer. Sauret wrote over 100 violin pieces, including a famous cadenza for the first movement of Niccolò Paganini’s First Violin Concerto, and the “Gradus ad Parnassum” (1894). Biography Sauret was born in Dun-le-Roi in 1852. He began studying violin at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg at the age of six, and with a reputation as child prodigy he began performing two years later. He studied under Charles Auguste de Bériot and later became a student of Henri Vieuxtemps and Henryk Wieniawski. Aged 18, he started studying composition as a pupil of Salomon Jadassohn at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he struck up many friendships. Among these were Fritz Steinbach and Richard Sahla, a child prodigy like Sauret himself. Sauret played in the most famous concert halls of his time. He made his American debut in 1872. Franz Liszt performed sonatas with him. In 1873, Sauret married Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan pianist and composer, by whom he had a daughter, Emilita. The marriage did not last; in 1879 he remarried. He held posts at a variety of institutions, including the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin - where he

Émile Waldteufel

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Charles Émile Waldteufel (; ; ; 9 December 1837 – 12 February 1915) was a French composer, pianist, and conductor known for his numerous popular salon pieces. Among his best known works is “Les Patineurs” (1882), known as “The Skater’s Waltz”. Life Waldteufel was born Charles Émile Lévy at 84 Grand’Rue in the centre of Strasbourg. From a Jewish Alsatian family of musicians, his grandfather, father, and two uncles were all dance musicians who had used the name “Waldteufel” (German for forest devil) professionally. His father, Lazare Levy, led a respected orchestra, and his brother Léon was a successful performer. When Léon won a place to study violin at the Conservatoire de Paris, the family followed him there. Waldteufel’s mother Flora Neubauer, originally from Bavaria, had been a student of Hummel and had met Haydn; she was also a keen singer and dancer. Waldteufel received his first lessons from his father and from the local musician Joseph Heyberger. After his arrival in Paris he could take classes from Laurent at the Conservatoire de Paris, followed by advanced studies under Marmontel. His appointment by Napoléon III as the musical director of the balls led him to participation

Émile-Robert Blanchet

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Émile-Robert Blanchet (17 July 1877 in Lausanne, Switzerland – 27 March 1943 in Pully, Switzerland) was a French-speaking Swiss pianist, composer and mountaineer. Life He was taught by his father, Charles Blanchet, the organist of a cathedral in Lausann and a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, and Hauptmann. He later attended Cologne Conservatory and was a pupil of Busoni in Weimar and Berlin. He was professor of piano 1904-1917, then director 1905-1908 of the Lausanne Conservatory. He continued teaching there until 1917. In 1917 he resigned and spent time on climbing on which he would write 2 books. There is a CD at this address where a piece of his is recorded. * On Columbia Masterworks Ervin Nyiregyházi , available on YouTube as well. References External links * Émile Robert Blanchet * * List of compositions * A biography about him

Emilia Gubitosi

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Emilia Gubitosi (3 Feb 1887 – 17 Jan 1972) was an Italian pianist and composer. She was the first woman to graduate in composition from the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples. She worked as a concert pianist in Europe until her marriage to composer Franco Michele Napolitano, and then as an administrator. She later taught at the Conservatory and assisted with the symphony orchestra and the choral school. She helped found the Associazione Musicale Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples. She was a composer of large-scale works for orchestra, as well as operas and chamber works. Life Emilia Gubitosi was born in Naples and studied music with Beniamino Cesi, Costantino Palumbo, Fromesco Simonetti, Camillo De Nardis and Nicola D’Arienzo at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples, graduating in 1906 with a diploma in piano and in 1906 as the first woman graduate in composition. Works Gubitosi composed mostly large-scale works for orchestra, but also chamber works and songs, and two operas, Fatum, a four-act work, and Nada Delvig, a one-act opera published in 1909. Selected works include: *Concerto for piano and orchestra (1917 ; publ. 1943) *Allegro appassionato for violin and o

Emiliana de Zubeldia

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Emiliana de Zubeldía Inda (6 December 1888 – 26 May 1987) was a Spanish pianist and composer. She is known for her piano, choral, and solo voice compositions. Biography Emiliana de Zubeldia was born on 6 December 1888 in Salinas de Oro, Navarre, in northern Spain, and emigrated to Latin America prior to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. She began her musical studies at Pamplona and in 1904 continued at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where she studied composition with Vincent d’Indy and piano with Blanche Selva. She returned to Pamplona at the death of his father in 1909. She returned to Paris in 1922 to continue her studies in composition. In 1928 she toured the America’s including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and, in 1930, moved to New York City. Zubeldia met Andrés Segovia and Nicanor Zabaleta in New York in 1933. Both began their careers as soloists and shared Zubeldia’s broadcasts on Radio City Music Hall, giving talks about Spanish music until the summer of 1934. Zubeldia toured the Caribbean and Mexico, and in 1935 she settled in Mexico. After the Spanish Civil War, she took Mexican citizenship in 1942 and, in 1947, moved to Hermosillo, Sonora. She

Emilie Holmberg

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Emilie Augusta Kristina Hammarskjöld née Holmberg (May 6, 1821 – March 26, 1854) was a Swedish composer and musician. She was active as a concert singer, a pianist and a music instructor. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She was likely the first woman artist from Sweden to have toured in the United States, prior to Jenny Lind. In Sweden, she is generally known only as Emilie Holmberg, as she left the country shortly after her marriage. Life Emilie Holmberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden to merchant Carl Christian Holmberg and Aurora Emelie Hellgren. Her parents divorced in 1823, and she was supported by her mother, a successful businesswoman who founded and managed her own library. Education Early on, her mother noted her interest in music, and ensured she was given a musical education. She was entrusted by her mother to the care of the composer Eduard Brendler and his wife Ulrica (Bouck) Brendler (1803–1841). She took music lessons from the composer and musical instructor Erik Drake (1788–1870), and singing lessons from the composer and organist Johan Peter Cronhamn (1803–1875). Early career in Sweden In 1836, at age fifteen, she published her first compositi

Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch

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Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch () is a French pianist and composer based in London. She signed with FatCat Records’ post-classical imprint 130701 in 2014 and Manners McDade in 2019. Her original score for Sarah Gavron’s Rocks (2019) was nominated for a British Independent Film Award. Early life Levienaise-Farrouch was born in Paris and grew up in Bordeaux. She began training in classical piano as a child. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Music from the University of Westminster in 2009 and a Master of Music (MA) in Acoustic Composition from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2010. During her studies, she worked for the online electronic music store Bleep. She got her start creating scores when she met film school students who needed music for their student films. Discography Albums and EPs Commissions * Audial for 2014 Victoria & Albert Museum exhibit * “The Flaneur” for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park * Audial for Alice May Williams’ exhibit at Speke Hall * “The Minutes” for the 2017 BBC Proms * “Oparin” for violinist Galya Bisengalieva Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations Notes References External links *

Emilie Mayer

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Emilie Luise Frederica Mayer (14 May 1812 – 10 April 1883) was a German Romantic music composer who became one of the most prolific female composers of the 19th century. Often called the “Female Beethoven,” Mayer composed eight symphonies and numerous chamber works, piano sonatas, and orchestral overtures. Despite the limited opportunities for women in professional music during her time, she achieved wide recognition and public performance of her music across Germany. In the 21st century, her work has been rediscovered and celebrated for its craftsmanship, originality, and contribution to the Romantic repertoire. Life and career Early Life and Education Emilie Mayer was born in Friedland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the third of five children and eldest daughter of a wealthy pharmacist, Johann August Friedrich Mayer, and his wife Henrietta Carolina. Her mother died when Emilie was three years old. She started private music lessons at age five under the tutelage of Carl Heinrich Ernst Driver, an organist. It was also when she first started composing, submitting to Driver pieces of “free interpretation”. According to one of her surviving personal statements, “After a few lessons … I comp

Emilie Zumsteeg

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Emilie Zumsteeg (9 December 1796 – 1 August 1857) was a German choral conductor, singer, composer, and pianist. Biography Zumsteeg was born in Stuttgart (then in the Holy Roman Empire) where she lived for her whole life. She was one of seven children of the composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg and his wife Luise Andreä (1760–1837). Her father died when Emilie was just six years old. Her mother then ran a music store, which furthered her daughter’s musical interest. As a child, Zumsteeg took piano lessons with Gottlob Schick (1776–1812) and studied music theory with . She showed a facility at sight-reading. Gifted with a fine alto voice, she soon began singing and performing on the piano at the Stuttgart Museumskonzerte. As an adult she cultivated a circle of talented musicians and leading poets. The literary ties reflected her interest in the lied, which formed the basis of her composition. In 1830, Zumsteeg founded the first women’s choir in Württemberg. As a teacher of voice and piano, she made a living through music lessons and also as a leading member of the Verein für Klassische Kirchenmusik. She died in Stuttgart at age 60. One song in particular was later used by the Russian Bapt

Émilien Allard

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Émilien Allard (12 June 1915 – 18 November 1976) was a Canadian carillonneur and composer. He composed more than 50 works for carillon and made more than 700 transcriptions of carillon music; many of which are still performed in Europe and North America. In 1958, he won the International Carillonneurs’ Prize at the Brussels World’s Fair. For RCA Victor he released the LP album Carols at the Carillon of Saint Joseph’s Oratory for which he wrote the arrangements. His Marche du maréchal and his Marche H.I.C. were recorded by Howard Cable and his Notule No. 1 and Profil canadien no 2. were included on Gordon Slater’s LP Bells and Brass. Many of his original manuscripts and papers are a part of the collection at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Life and career Born in Montreal, Quebec, Allard’s initial musical training was with Antonio Thompson and Father Joseph-Gers Turcotte at the Trois-Rivières seminary where he studied piano and music theory. He was a clarinetist in the city concert band of Grand-Mère, Quebec during his youth and later served as that ensemble’s conductor. He also worked as an organist at a few churches in that town. He earned a lauréat diploma from

Emilio Arrieta

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Juan Pascual Antonio Arrieta Corera (20 October 1821 – 11 February 1894), also known as Emilio Arrieta, was a Spanish composer. Arrieta was born in Puente la Reina, Navarre. His Italian musical training led him, under the favour of Queen Isabel II, to concentrate on operatic writing; and though he later composed zarzuelas, he remained less committed to the renascent art form than his contemporaries such as Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, who continued to write in an essentially Italianate style throughout his life. His zarzuela Marina, one of the most popular lyric stage works in the Spanish repertoire, has been produced and recorded both on CD and DVD many times. Arrieta died in Madrid, aged 72. Works Operas *1846 Ildegonda *1850 La conquista di Granata, 3 acts with libretto by Temistocle Solera *1851 Pergolesi *1871 Marina, 3 acts (adapted from the 1855 zarzuela) with libretto by Francisco Camprodón and Miguel Ramos Carrión Zarzuelas *1853 El dominó Azul, 3 acts with libretto by Francisco Camprodón *1853 El grumete, 1 acte with libretto by Antonio García Gutiérrez *1853 La estrella de Madrid, 3 acts with libretto by Adelardo López de Ayala *1854 La cacería real, 3 acts with libretto b

Emilio de' Cavalieri

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Emilio de’ Cavalieri (c. 155011 March 1602), or Emilio dei Cavalieri (the spellings “del” and “Cavaliere” are contemporary typographical errors), was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work, along with that of other composers active in Rome, Florence and Venice, was critical in defining the beginning of the musical Baroque era. A member of the Roman School of composers, he was an influential early composer of monody, and wrote what is usually considered to be the first oratorio. Life Cavalieri was born in Rome of an aristocratic and musical family. He was the son of Tommaso dei Cavalieri (c. 1509–1587), a close friend of Michelangelo. He probably received his early training there, and was working as an organist and music director in the period from 1578 to 1584. He spent much of his time in Rome as an organiser of Lenten oratorios. While in Rome he became associated with Cardinal Ferdinando I de’ Medici. In 1587, Ferdinando de’ Medici succeeded his brother as Grand Duke of Tuscany, and in 1588 he brought Cavalieri to Florence as an overseer of artists, craftsmen and musicians. Cavalieri was master of ce

Emilio Kauderer

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Emilio Kauderer is an Argentine composer, orchestrator and songwriter residing in Los Angeles. He is best known for his scores for films including “Metegol (Underdogs)”, “Secret in Their Eyes”, and “A Place In the World”. Kauderer won a Latin Grammy for his work on Bajofondo’s 2002 album “Bajofondo Tango Club”. Early life and education Kauderer was born in Argentina. He studied composition with Jacobo Ficher, and conducting with Jaques Bodmer. He performed as a classical pianist and trained at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kyiv in piano playing, music composition and conducting with Sagaidachni and Kanershtein. Kauderer continued studies at Gnesina College of Music in Moscow and obtained a postgraduate degree at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory on a full merit scholarship with Naumov. Career Works in Argentina Upon his return to Argentina, his chamber compositions were performed by the Camerata Bariloche. Keuderer’s Wind Quintet “Danzón” won the Yamaha-Promusica Award in 1987. Orchestral work He received a fellowship to The Sundance Institute’s Composer’s Lab and was honored by being selected as the composer of the music for New York’s Jewish Heritage Museum main exhibit piece

Emilio Pujol

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Emilio Pujol Vilarrubí (or Emili; 7 April 1886 – 15 November 1980) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and a leading teacher of the classical guitar. Biography Emili Pujol was born in the little village of Granadella just outside Lleida, Spain. He began his studies with Francisco Tárrega in 1902, when he was sixteen years of age. At this time, Miguel Llobet was making his debut as a concert artist outside Barcelona. Pujol fondly remembered his first encounter with Tárrega and in his biography of his teacher, he described his mestre in very endearing, romantic terms. During the war years 1914–1918 he did not travel much and mainly remained in Catalonia. In 1918 he undertook his first tour of South America, starting in Buenos Aires. The only major interruptions in his concert travels were his marriage to Matilde Cuervas in Paris, an Andalusian flamenco guitarist, and the period of time he devoted to historical research in Paris into the instrumental predecessors of the guitar. During this period he partnered with the publisher Max Eschig in publishing his “Bibliothèque de musique ancienne et moderne pour guitare” (from 1927), resulting in numerous works for solo guitar by historical an

Emilio Usiglio

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Emilio Usiglio (18 January 1841 – 7 July 1910) was an Italian composer and conductor. Life and career Usiglio was born on 18 January 1841 in Parma. He studied music in Parma, first with Giuseppe Barbacini and then with Giovanni Rossi, before continuing his education in Pisa with Carlo Romani and in Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. At the age of 20 he began his operatic career with some success with La locandiera. He wrote exclusively opere buffe, his most famous being 1879’s Le donne curiose after the play by Carlo Goldoni. As a conductor, Usiglio led the premiere, in 1875, of the new version of Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele in Bologna, and in 1877 he conducted the Italian premiere of Georges Bizet’s Carmen in Naples and of Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas in Venice. In 1889 he led the first Modena performances of Fosca by Antonio Gomes. Due primarily to his increasing alcoholism, Usiglio was forced to retire as a conductor in 1897. He died in Milan on 7 July 1910. His wife was the soprano Clementina Brusa. Works Operas *La locandiera, libretto by Giuseppe Barilli (Turin, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, 5 September 1861) *Un’eredità in Corsica, libretto by Raffaello Berninzone (Milan, Teatro di Sa

Emilius Bangert

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Emilius Bangert (19 August 1883 – 19 August 1962) was a Danish composer, organist, and professor. He played the organ at Roskilde Cathedral and also composed orchestral and chamber music. Biography Emilius Ferdinand Caspar Bangert was born in Copenhagen, the son of Conrad Bangert and Ida Anderson. In 1902, he graduated from Borgerdydskolen (School of Civic Virtue), Copenhagen’s most prestigious private school. He acquired a cand. phil. degree in 1903. He was a private pupil in theory and composition with Carl Nielsen 1902–07. He contributed several times to compositions that Nielsen had received orders for either transcript, instrumentation, or directly as a composer. Emilius Bangert also had piano lessons with Henrik Knudsen and organ lessons with Edgar Henrichsen and Eugene Gigout in Paris. In 1913 he received the Ancker Award scholarship (Det anckerske Legat) and went on study tour to Germany and Italy. In 1908 he took the exam organist. From 1915, he was organist at various churches, the first being Skovshoved church (Skovshoved kirke) and the last being Roskilde Cathedral (Roskilde Domkirke) to 1955. In the years 1908–09, he conducted Bangert Academic Orchestra. From 1912, he

Emily Barker

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Emily Barker (born 2 December 1980) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and composer. Her music has featured as the theme to BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line. With multi-instrumental trio the Red Clay Halo, she recorded four albums: Photos.Fires.Fables. (2006), Despite the Snow (2008), Almanac (2011), Dear River (2013), before commencing a solo career with The Toerag Sessions (2015), Sweet Kind of Blue (2017), A Dark Murmuration of Words (2020), and Flight Path Rhymes (2021). Other projects include Vena Portae (with Dom Coyote and Ruben Engzell), Applewood Road (with Amy Speace and Amber Rubarth), and Room 822 (2022) with Lukas Drinkwater. Career 2002–2005: The Low Country Emily travelled to the UK in 2002, and was first based in Cambridge where she collaborated with guitarist Rob Jackson. They formed a band called The Low Country which released two albums, Welcome to the-low-country (2003) and The Dark Road (2004), tracks from which enjoyed plays on John Peel’s BBC radio show. In 2005 Emily won Country Song of the Year and Regional Song of the Year awards at the annual West Australian Music Songwriting Awards. 2006–2013: Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo In 2006, B

Emily Bruce Roelofson

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Emily Bruce Roelofson (1832–1921) was an American composer, pianist, poet and singer. She composed songs and collections through at least opus number 15. Roelofson grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father, Alec W. Bruce, was an organist and dry goods merchant. Roelofson and her three sisters performed as the Bruce vocal quartet. She married Frederic Eugene Roelofson and they had a son and a daughter. and S. Brainard Sons. Poetry *Forget Me Not (set to music by Alba Rosa Vietor) *Carpe Diem, opus 15 no. 6 (text from A Masque of Poets) *From the Close Shut Window, opus 15 no. 5 (text by James Russell Lowell) *Sands of O’Dee, opus 15 no. 1 *Sea Shell, opus 15 no. 2 (text by Richard Henry Stoddard) *Winter Song References

Emin Sabitoglu

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Emin Sabitoglu (, real name Emin Sabit oghlu Mahmudov (); 2 November 1937 – 18 November 2000) was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, author of a lot of well-known Azerbaijani songs and music for films. People’s Artist of Azerbaijan. Biography Emin Sabitoglu was born on 2 November 1937, in the family of Azerbaijani writer Sabit Rahman. After graduating from musical school in Baku, he entered Gara Garayev’s class at Baku Conservatoire, in 1954. Two years later he was transferred to the Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky (Yuri Shaporin’s class). In 1961, he began to work as a music editor in the film studio “Azerbaijanfilm". In consecutive years he worked as the art director of the State Philarmony, and also taught at State Conservatory named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov. He wrote poems for several pieces of music. However, several music genres have been the major part of his works. He composed more than 600 songs, 9 musical comedies, and pieces of music for nearly 40 films. He has numerous compositions written for plays. The composer himself does not know exactly. Along with theaters in Baku, he composed music for theaters in Sumgayit, Ganja, Lankaran, Mingachevir, and Nakchivan

Emirto de Lima

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José María Emirto de Lima y Sintiago (25 January 1890 – 14 August 1972) was a Dutch composer, conductor, music critic and music teacher. Biography José María Emirto de Lima y Sintiago was born on 25 January 1890 in Willemstad, Curaçao, to Paul Quirino de Lima (1861 – 1926) and Josefina Sintiago. While living in Curaçao, de Lima was taught how to play the violin and piano by his father. Later while located in Barcelona and Paris, he was further educated by Felip Pedrell and Vincent d’Indy, respectively. De Lima later moved to Baranquilla to take up a music job offer originally meant for his father. De Lima was a teacher in a music academy in the city and was at one point the Honorary Consul in Barranquilla for the countries of Honduras and Liberia. He later released his first music compositions in 1911 and became a conductor for radio the following decade. Most of his works were in the Antillean waltz and Mazurka styles. In Colombia, de Lima became the first person to publish local traditional music, listing down songs and oral traditions around the country and released it under the title of “Folklore Colombiano” in 1942. He had also founded the Philharmonic Orchestra of Barranquill

Emma Hartmann

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Amalia Emma Sophie Hartmann née Zinn (22 August 1807 – 6 March 1851) was a Danish composer who composed under the pseudonym Frederik H. Palmer. She was married to the composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805–1900). They lived on the second floor of the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 in Copenhagen. Early life Emma Zinn was born into a wealthy merchant family in Copenhagen. She was the daughter of Johann Friederich Zinn (1779–1838) and Eva Sophie Juliane Oldeland (1779–1812). Her father had inherited the family’s trading house after the death of his father Johann Ludvig Zinn in 1802, initially in a partnership with his brother Carl Ludvig Zinn who died in 1808. Emma grew up in the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 and studied singing and piano with composer Andreas Peter Berggreen (1801–1880). Compositions Her first published composition was music for a Student Association dance in February 1841. Five pamphlets with a total of 22 Romances and Songs were later published with lyrics by prominent names including Christian Winther, Frederik Paludan-Müller and Swedish Johan Ludvig Runeberg. The first pamphlet was published in 1848 by Horneman & Erslev but the last two were published posthumou

Emma Lomax

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Louise Emily (Emma) Lomax (22 June 1873 – 29 August 1963) was an English composer and pianist. She was born in Brighton, daughter of the curator of Brighton Free Library and Museum. She attended the Brighton School of Music and then the Royal Academy of Music in London studying clarinet, and composition with Frederick Corder. She was a Goring Thomas Scholar from 1907 to 1910 and won the Charles Lucas Medal in 1910, awarded for her Theme and Variations for orchestra. After completing her studies, Lomax became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music (1918-38), and taught at Brighton College. She was a friend and collaborator of English composer and pianist Eleanor Rudall. Much of her music was dramatically inspired, including a series of recitations and dramatic sketches, some with supernatural themes and with orchestral or piano accompaniment. For instance, The House of Shadows, performed at the Royal Academy in 1904, was described as “a poetic play in two Acts which involved several remarkable electric lighting effects devised by the composer “. The Toy Overture, a parody of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, was performed by The Brighton Municipal Orchestra in 1915. Lomax was a member

Emma Lou Diemer

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Emma Lou Diemer (November 24, 1927 – June 2, 2024) She wrote many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus, and electronic media. Diemer was a keyboard performer and gave concerts of her own organ works at Washington National Cathedral, The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Grace Cathedral and St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, and others. Works include many collections and single pieces for organ as well as many for solo piano, piano 4 hands, and two pianos. Her major chamber works include a piano quartet, string quartet, two piano trios, and sonatas and suites for flute, violin, cello, and piano as well as settings of the psalms for organ with other instruments. Diemer wrote many choral works as well. She wrote numerous hymns, several of which appear in church hymnals. Her songs number in the dozens, using texts by many contemporary and early poets including Walt Whitman, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Alice Meynell, Thomas Campion, Shakespeare, John Donne, her sister Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and many others. Diemer’s compositional style over the years varied from tonal to atonal, from traditional to experiment

Emma Marcy Raymond

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Emma Marcy Raymond (pseudonym, Salvator Sylvain; 1839 – November 7, 1913) was an American musician, composer, and author of operetta, songs and piano music. She was one of very few women in her day who had composed the entire music of an opera and lived to see it produced. Early life and education Emma P. Marcy was born in 1839 in Hartford, Connecticut, the oldest daughter of Dr. Erastus Egerton Marcy and Emeline Babcock (Kilbourn) Marcy, whose father was Henry Kilbourn of Hartford. Her father was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and later a homeopathic specialist, who apparently lived for many years on Fifth Avenue on the site opposite Tiffany’s. She showed a remarkable aptitude for music at a very early age, having composed her first song before six years of age. She inherited her musical talents from her parents, both of whom were gifted amateurs. She was reared in an atmosphere of music, and studied under the best teachers who visited the United States. She studied the piano with Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Raccoman, vocal music with Giorgio Ronconi, and counterpoint and harmony with the best German masters. Career Her musical sympathies were almost entirely with th

Emma Martínez de la Torre Shelton

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Emma Martínez de la Torre Shelton (sometimes y Shelton) (15 January 1889 – 1980) was a Cuban-born pianist and composer long active in the Canary Islands. Martínez was born in Havana, and moved with her family to Cádiz at the age of three. After lessons at that city’s Santa Cecilia Academy and with Rafael Toniasi Requena in Madrid, she traveled to Rome for further work at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She then settled in Tenerife, where she continued her studies with Santiago Sabina Corona. She worked as an accompanist to Néstor de la Torre between 1909 and 1917; she taught at the island’s conservatory, and was otherwise heavily active in the musical life of the community as performer and concert organizer. As a composer Martínez was self-taught; most of her output dates to late in her career, and includes orchestral works as well as chamber music and songs. References

Emma Mundella

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Emma Wright Mundella (30 April 1858 – 20 February 1896) was an English composer and arranger, recital pianist, church organist, choral conductor, teacher of music and hymnal editor. In her short life she published anthems, choruses and cantatas as well as songs, hymns, pieces for solo piano and for piano and other string instruments. As Director of Music Teaching at Wimbledon High School for Girls her particular interest was the encouragement of musical appreciation by young people, in pursuit of which she wrote many compositions for children and schools. Though her music is now seldom heard, her lasting achievement was her well-regarded editorship of The Day School Hymnbook, the expanded edition of which was published shortly after her early death and which brought her posthumously into national prominence. Early life and education Emma Mundella was born in Nottingham, England, the first of a family of eight children. Her father, John Mundella, was a hosiery manufacturer in the family firm of Hine & Mundella. He died when she was 15. Her uncle was Anthony John Mundella, a Liberal statesman and a member of William Ewart Gladstone’s Cabinet. Her grandfather, Antonio Mondelli, was an

Emma Nyra

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Emma Chukwugoziam Obi (born July 18, 1988), professionally known as Emma Nyra, is a Nigerian-American singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Her associate acts include Iyanya, Selebobo, Davido, Cynthia Morgan, Victoria Kimani, and Patoranking. Early life Emma Nyra was born and raised in Tyler, Texas, where she had her early education. She is of Igbo descent from Delta State, located in the south-southern region of Nigeria. In 2012, she left for Nigeria to pursue a career in music and modelling. Education She is an alumna of Texas Southern University, where she graduated with a degree in Health Care Administration. Career Music Emma Nyra released her debut singles titled “Do It” and “Everything I Do” in 2011 while in the U.S. Upon her return to Nigeria in 2012, she started working with D’Tunes and Iyanya who she had met in 2010 while in the U.S. In March 2012, she signed a recording contract with Made Men Music Group before she went on to make her first major debut in the Nigerian music industry. After that she made a vocal appearance in Iyanya’s “Ur Waist”. In 2013, Emma Nyra was voted the “Most Promising Act to Watch” at the 2013 edition of the Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Her d

Emma Roberto Steiner

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Emma Roberta Steiner (1856 – February 27, 1929) was an American composer and conductor. She was one of the first women in the United States to make a living from conducting, and did so at more than 6,000 performances during her lifetime. She was additionally the first woman to conduct a Theatre orchestra in New York. Her career spanned nearly five decades, from the 1870s, when she first began conducting for touring comic opera companies, until her death in 1929. In the early 1900s, she took a decade-long hiatus from her musical career to move to Alaska, where she was a prospector and traveler. Steiner wrote hundreds of musical pieces, including seven operas. Biography Steiner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1856. Her father, Colonel Frederick Steiner, was a Mexican War hero and her mother an accomplished pianist. Thus, she was exposed to music at a young age, composing songs by age 7 and a piano duet at 9. Others recognized her talents early, and even suggested to her father that he send her to Paris to study music, but her parents refused and did not encourage her to develop the talent. She nonetheless continued composing, starting on an opera at age 11, Aminaide, one scene of wh

Emmanuel Adriaenssen

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Emmanuel Adriaenssen (also Adriaensen, Adriansen, Hadrianus, Hadrianius; c. 1554 in Antwerp – buried 27 February 1604 in Antwerp) was a Flemish lutenist, composer and master of music. He authored the influential Pratum Musicum, which contains scores for lute solos, and more importantly settings of madrigals for multiple lutes and different ensembles involving lutes and voices. He also had an important influence on the next generation of lutenists through his activity as a teacher of music in his own music school. Life Emmanuel Adriaenssen was born in Antwerp between 1540 and 1555. The brothers had in 1587 a conflict with the musicians’ guild of Antwerp because they practised as musicians without becoming members of the guild. Emanuel later became a master of the guild. He married Sybilla Crelin in 1584 with whom he had six sons and one daughter. Their sons Alexander (1587–1661), Vincent (1595–1675) and Niclaes (1598–1658) became respectively a still life painter, a battle painter and a portrait painter. Prior to the Fall of Antwerp, Emmanuel was likely a Calvinist as he only had his first son baptised in a Catholic after the Fall of Antwerp. He was registered as a Catholic in the p

Emmanuel Bondeville

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Emmanuel Bondeville was a French composer and music administrator, born 29 October 1898 in Rouen, and died 26 November 1987 in Paris. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Biography As a young man he was organist at the church of Saint-Nicaise in Rouen and Notre-Dame in Caen. Bondeville lost both his parents when he was 16, and took on various jobs – organist, bank clerk, translator - to get by. He made his beginnings in music around 1923 writing works for piano, symphonic poems, opéras-comiques and opéras. During this time he also travelled around Europe and worked as an assistant in a music shop. He eventually had lessons in harmony and counterpoint from Jean Déré. From 1949 to 1951 Bondeville was director of the Opéra-Comique, followed by a similar position at the Opéra de Paris from 1952 to 1969. He was married three times, among which to the mezzo-soprano Viorica Cortez, to whom he dedicated his opera Antoine et Cléopâtre, and later to Dominique Plessis (with whom he broadcast programmes entitled ‘Une saison d’opéra’ on France-Inter). Works * Les Illustrations, symphonic triptych, comprising : ** Le Bal des pendus based on Les Illuminations by Rimbaud (first performe

Emmanuel Boyer de Fonscolombe

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Emmanuel Boyer de Fonscolombe (1810–1875) was a French aristocrat and composer. Biography Early life Emmanuel Boyer de Fonscolombe was born on 27 October 1810 in Aix-en-Provence. The Boyer de Fonscolombe family became an aristocratic family with his paternal great-great-grandfather Honoré Boyer de Fonscolombe (1683–1743), who served as Secretary to King Louis XV (1710–1774). His father was Charles Boyer de Fonscolombe (1778–1838) and his mother, Emilie de Cotto (1790-unknown). He wrote an opera, Un Prisonnier en Crimée. They also lived in a family hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence: the Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe, now listed as a monument historique, located at 21 rue Gaston de Saporta. He died on 21 March 1875 in Aix-en-Provence. References

Emmanuel Chabrier

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Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (; 18 January 184113 September 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked as a civil servant until the age of thirty-nine while immersing himself in the modernist artistic life of the French capital and composing in his spare time. From 1880 until his final illness he was a full-time composer. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, Chabrier left a corpus of operas (including L’étoile), songs, and piano music, but no symphonies, concertos, quartets, sonatas, or religious or liturgical music. His lack of academic training left him free to create his own musical language, unaffected by established rules, and he was regarded by many later composers as an important innovator and a catalyst who paved the way for French modernism. He was admired by, and influenced, composers as diverse as Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Satie, Poulenc, Stravinsky, and others of the group of composers known as Les Six. Writing at a time when French musicians were generally proponents or opponents of the music of Wagner,

Emmanuel Nunes

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Emmanuel Nunes (31 August 1941 – 2 September 2012) was a Portuguese composer who lived and worked in Paris from 1964. Biography Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes-Graça at the university (1962–64). He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1963–65), and in 1964 moved to Paris. A year later he moved to Cologne and enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and studied composition with Henri Pousseur, electronic music with Jaap Spek, and phonetics with Georg Heike, while also taking courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the third and fourth Cologne Courses for New Music in 1965–66 and 1966–67. In 1971 he was awarded the Premier Prix d´Esthetique Musicale in the class of Marcel Beaufils at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, in 1999 won the UNESCO Composition Prize, and in 2000 was the winner of the Pessoa Prize. From the 1980s he took on teaching roles, amongst other places at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Harvard University in the US, at the Paris Conservatoire, and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. From 1986

Emmanuel Séjourné

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Emmanuel Séjourné (born 16 July 1961) is a French composer and percussionist, and head of percussion at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. His music is influenced by Western classical music and by popular music (rock, jazz, extra-European music). Education Séjourné was born in Limoges. After studying classical piano, violin, music history, acoustics and musical analysis at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, Séjourné continued his education there, and in 1976 entered the percussion class of , founder director of Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Under his guidance, Séjourné became interested in contemporary and improvised music. He won first prize (médaille d’or) in percussion in 1980, and then specialized in mallet percussion. Career In 1984 he became professor of mallet percussion at the conservatory and won the European Audio-visual Grand Prix for his 1981 CD Saxophone et Percussion. As a player, he is considered one of the most prominent mallet percussionists and expanded vibraphone and marimba performance by introducing six-stick playing and the vibra-midi. He is also co-author of 10 ans avec la percussion (2002). Performer In 1981 Séjourné and saxophonist Philippe Geiss founded the g

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

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Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (born 1979 in London, England) is an Emmy and Peabody award nominated filmmaker, a composer, an author, and a Naqshbandi Sufi teacher. Emmanuel is the authorized successor of his father Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. Biography Vaughan-Lee was trained from the age of 15 by his father in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston to pursue musical studies in acoustic bass, improvisation and composition. After graduating from Berklee in 2001, Vaughan-Lee performed and recorded with numerous jazz artists and released two albums under his own name – Previous Misconceptions (2001 – Emanjazz) and Borrowed Time (2005 – Fresh Sound New Talent). As a filmmaker he has directed and produced numerous award winning films including: The Nightingale’s Song, Aloha Aina, The Last Ice Age, Taste of the Land, Earthrise, Elemental, Yukon Kings, Isle de Jean Charles, Marie’s Dictionary, Soleá, Sanctuaries of Silence, The Atomic Tree, Laugh Clown Laugh and What Would it Look Like. His films have played at festivals including: New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Fe

Emmerich Kálmán

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Emmerich Kálmán ( ; 24 October 1882 – 30 October 1953) was a Hungarian composer of operettas and a prominent figure in the development of Viennese operetta in the 20th century. Among his most popular works are Die Csárdásfürstin (1915) and Gräfin Mariza (1924). Influences on his compositional style include Hungarian folk music (such as the csárdás), the Viennese style of precursors such as Johann Strauss II and Franz Lehár, and, in his later works, American jazz. As a result of the Anschluss, Kálmán and his family fled to Paris and then to the United States. He eventually returned to Europe in 1949 and died in Paris in 1953. Biography Kálmán was born Imre Koppstein in Siófok, then in Austria-Hungary, on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, to a Jewish family. Kálmán initially intended to become a concert pianist, but because of early-onset arthritis, he focused on composition instead. He studied music theory and composition at the National Hungarian Royal Academy of Music (then the Budapest Academy of Music), where he was a fellow student of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály under Hans Kössler. His early symphonic poems Saturnalia and Endre és Johanna were well-received, although he fai

Emmy Brady Rogers

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Emma “Emmy” Cumine Brady Rogers (October 6, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American pianist, music educator, composer, and music critic at the Rocky Mountain News. Early life and education Emma Brady was born in Hoosick Falls, New York, Her brother Joshua Wilson Brady was a cartoonist and a Catholic priest. Her other brother William Veirs Brady was a civil engineer. Brady graduated from Northwestern University, and earned a Master of Music degree from the Chicago Musical College. She also had a degree in Music Education from the Colorado State College of Education. She also studied with Alexander Raab, Joseph Lhevinne, Artur Schnabel, and Arne Oldberg. She also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger. Career Brady was a “Chicago pianist” and piano teacher as a young woman. She taught piano at Chadron State Normal College in Nebraska beginning in 1931, and later at the Lamont School of Music in Denver. She performed with the Denver Civic Orchestra Rogers became a music critic and composer. She played her own composition, “Platte Valley”, with the Colorado State College of Education symphony in 1953, and with the Fort Collins Civic Symphony in 1956. Works by Rogers were included i

Emmy Wegener

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Emmy Heil Frensel-Wegener (14 June 1901 in Amsterdam – 11 January 1973 in Laren (North Holland) was a Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer. Life and career Wegener was the daughter of composer Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman and American insurance agent John Frensel-Wegener. She studied at the music school in Bussum and then in England, then continued her studies at the Conservatory in Amsterdam where she received a degree in violin with Felice Togni. She also studied composition with Sem Dresden, clarinet with Willem Brohm and Gregorian chant. In 1926 Wegener married Jan Heil, but the couple divorced in 1932. In 1934 she served on the jury for the evaluation of vocal quartet a cappella compositions for the Dutch Association for Contemporary Music, along with Hendrik Andriessen, Henk Badings, Anthon van der Horst and Daniel Ruyneman, but the jury awarded no first prize, finding no “composition of exemplary meaning” among the 47 submissions. In 1935 Wegener experienced a serious illness that progressed to paralysis by 1950. She wrote at least one poem which appeared in De Nieuwe Gids. The city of Gorinchem named a street after her. Works Wegener composed works for orchestra, c