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Renaissance

Ercole Bottrigari

Ercole Bottrigari (24 August 153130 September 1612 ) was an Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer. Life The illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Bottrigari, a

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Ercole Pasquini

Ercole Pasquini (ca. 1560 – between 1608 and 1619) was an Italian composer and organist. Biography Pasquini was born at Ferrara, and studied with Alessandro Milleville (1521?-1589). He was described

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Eres Holz

Eres Holz (born September 26, 1977 in Rehovot), is a German composer of Israeli origin. He has been living in Germany since 2003. Life Biography Holz studied composition with Ruben Seroussi in Tel

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Erhard Mauersberger

Erhard Mauersberger (29 December 1903 in Mauersberg, Saxony – 11 December 1982 in Leipzig) was a German choral conductor who conducted the Thomanerchor as the 14th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian

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Eric Banks (composer)

Eric Banks (born January 25, 1969) is a Seattle-based composer, choral conductor, and ethnomusicologist. Life Banks was born in Roscoe, New York, United States in 1969. He is the founding director of

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Eric Coates

Eric Francis Harrison Coates (27 August 1886 – 21 December 1957) was an English composer of light music and, early in his career, a leading violist. Coates was born into a musical family, but,

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Eric Ewazen

Eric Ewazen (; born March 1, 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and teacher. Biography Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner,

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Eric Fenby

Eric William Fenby OBE (22 April 190618 February 1997) was an English composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher, born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. He is best known for being Frederick Delius's

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Eric Fogg

Charles William Eric Fogg (21 February 190319 December 1939) was an English composer, conductor and BBC broadcaster. His early works were influenced by Igor Stravinsky, where he came under the

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Eric Funk

Eric Funk (born 1949) is an American contemporary classical composer and conductor. Originally from Deer Lodge, Montana, he currently resides in Bozeman, Montana, where he taught music courses at

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Eric Genuis

Eric Genuis is a Canadian composer and musician who now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. He is noted for his Concerts for Hope. He performs his original compositions more than a hundred times a

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Eric Gross

Eric Gross AM (16 September 192617 April 2011) was an Austrian–Australian pianist, composer and teacher. Biography Gross was born in Vienna and emigrated to England in 1938. From the age of fourteen,

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Éric Humbertclaude

Éric Humbertclaude (born 5 May 1961) is a French musician, organist, contemporary composer, writer and essayist, musicologist, researcher specializing in contemporary music and pipe organ music.

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Eric Knechtges

Eric Thomas Knechtges, DM (born April 16, 1978 in Lansing, MI) is an American composer. He has written works for a wide variety of performing mediums including: concert band, orchestra, a cappella

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Éric Lebrun

Éric Maurice Lebrun (born 19 November 1967) is a French composer, organist, musicologist, and author. His wife, Marie-Ange Leurent, is also an organist. Biography Born in Talence (Gironde), he was a

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Eric Mandat

Eric Paul Mandat (born 1957) is an American clarinetist and composer. Mandat began his clarinet studies under the tutelage of Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony. He later studied with Lee Gibson,

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Eric Moe (composer)

Eric Moe (born October 24, 1954) is an American composer and pianist. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and a Guggenheim

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Éric Morin

Éric Morin (born 20 December 1969) is a Canadian composer. He has been awarded several prizes for his compositions, including the 2003 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his D'un Château

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Eric Ozario

Eric Alexander Ozario (18 May 1949 – 29 August 2025) was an Indian Konkani music composer, cultural activist, trade unionist and the founder of Mandd Sobhann, a leading Konkani cultural organization.

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Éric Pénicaud

Éric Pénicaud (born 14 June 1952) is a French classical composer, classical guitarist and improviser. Training Born in Casablanca, from the age of seven, Pénicaud received "customized" and

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Eric Robertson (composer)

Eric Nathan Robertson (born 6 April 1948) is a Scottish composer, organist, pianist, and record producer who has been primarily active in Canada. A two time Gemini Award winner, he has composed more

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Eric Salzman

Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933 – November 12, 2017) was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is best known for his contributions to 'New Music

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Eric Stern

Eric Stern is an American vocalist, accordionist, composer, arranger, and pianist based in Portland, Oregon, best known as the founder and artistic director of the band Vagabond Opera. He also

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Eric Sweeney (composer)

Eric Sweeney (15 July 1948 – 21 July 2020) was an Irish composer. He was a member of Aosdána, an elite association of Irish artists. Early life Eric Sweeney was born in Dublin in 1948. He studied in

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Eric Tingstad

Eric Tingstad (born December 16, 1954) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter and composer. He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Best known as a fingerstyle guitarist,

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Eric Watson (musician)

Eric Watson (born July 5, 1955) is an American jazz pianist. Early life and education Watson was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He began playing piano as a child and performed in rock bands in

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Eric Whitacre

Eric Edward Whitacre (born January2, 1970) is an American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral music. Early life Whitacre was born in Reno, Nevada, to Ross and Roxanne Whitacre.

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Eric Wild (conductor)

Eric Lees Wild (11 February 191029 April 1989) was a Canadian conductor, trumpeter, arranger, and composer. He was the youngest child of Isaac Ashton Wild (18711963) and Sarah Ann Wild () (18741971)

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Erica Muhl

Erica Muhl (born October 26, 1961) is an American composer and conductor who was the president of Berklee College of Music until July 24, 2023. Early life Erica Muhl grew up in Los Angeles, where her

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Erich Böhlke

Erich Böhlke (9 September 1895 – 19 April 1979) was a German conductor and composer. Life Böhlke was born as the son of an art dealer in Szczecin. Already as a child and teenager he made his mark

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Erich Hartmann (musician)

Erich Hartmann (January 26, 1920, in Leipzig – July 6, 2020) was a German double bass player and composer. He was part of the contrabass section of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Life Erich

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Erich Katz

Erich Katz (July 31, 1900 – July 30, 1973) was a German-born musicologist, composer, music critic, musician and professor. He fled the Nazis in 1939, arriving first in England, emigrating to the

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Erich Walter Sternberg

Erich Walter Sternberg (; May 31, 1891, in Berlin – December 15, 1974, in Tel Aviv) was a German-born Israeli composer. He was one of the founders of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Biography

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (; May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one

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Erik Bergman

Erik Valdemar Bergman (24 November 1911 – 24 April 2006) was a composer of classical music from Finland. Bergman's style ranged widely, from Romanticism in his early works (many of which he later

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Erik Chisholm

Erik William Chisholm (4 January 1904 – 8 June 1965) was a Scottish composer, pianist, organist and conductor sometimes known as "Scotland's forgotten composer". According to his biographer, Chisholm

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Erik Dæhlin

Erik Schwensen Dæhlin (born 14 July 1976 in Oslo) is a Norwegian composer and performance artist. Dæhlin studied percussion at the University of Tromsø, at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts as

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Erik Deutsch

Erik Deutsch is an American pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator. He leads his own band and was a founding member of Fat Mama. Deutsch is also known for his work with

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Erik Freitag

Erik Freitag (born 1 February 1940) is an Austrian composer and violinist. Life Born in Vienna, Freitag studied violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, with, among others,

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Erik Friedlander

Erik Friedlander (born July 1, 1960) A veteran of New York City's experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with

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Erik Furuhjelm

Erik Gustaf Furuhjelm (1883–1964) was a Finnish composer, violinist, and writer. Biography Erik Furuhjelm was born on 6 July 1883, in Helsinki and died in the same city on 13 June 1964. His parents

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Erik Gustaf Geijer

Erik Gustaf Geijer (12 January 1783 – 23 April 1847) was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, romantic critic of political economy, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish

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Erik Mongrain

Erik Mongrain (born April 12, 1980) is a Canadian composer and guitarist. Biography Mongrain was inspired early on by the work of Metallica, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. When he was 18, he heard

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Erik Nordgren

Herman "Erik" Nordgren (13 February 1913 – 6 March 1992) was a Swedish composer, arranger and bandleader. Biography Erik Nordgren was born in Sireköpinge, Malmöhus County, and grew up in the Skåne

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Erik Satie

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris

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Erik Tulindberg

Erik Eriksson Tulindberg (February 22, 1761 – September 1, 1814) was one of the first known Finnish composers of classical music. Life Tulindberg was born in Vähäkyrö in Western Finland. He studied

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Erik van der Luijt

Erik van der Luijt (born 22 August 1970 in The Hague) is a Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard player and composer. History Erik van der Luijt started playing the piano at the age of four. He studied

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Erika Fox

Erika Fox (born 3 October 1936) is a British composer and teacher. Born in Vienna, she grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home. In 1939 at the age of three, Fox emigrated to England as a refugee. There

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Erika Radermacher

Erika Radermacher (born 16 April 1936) is a Swiss pianist, soprano and composer. She won prizes in Germany and Austria for her piano performances, including the Mozart Prize, the Austrian State Prize

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Ēriks Ešenvalds

Ēriks Ešenvalds (born 26 January 1977) is a Latvian composer, mainly of choral music. The concert took place on April 13, 2024, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Performed

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Erin Gee (composer)

Erin Elizabeth Gee (born 1974) (born San Luis Obispo, California) is an American composer and vocalist. Among the fellowships she has held are the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute Fellowships,

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Erke Duit

Erke Duit (born 30 December 1957 in Bremen) is a German conductor, composer and director of several choirs and ensembles. Life After his Abitur, Duit studied church music at the University of Music

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Erkki Melartin

Erkki Gustaf Melartin (7 February 1875 – 14 February 1937) was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of

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Erkki Salmenhaara

Erkki Olavi Salmenhaara (March 12, 1941 – March 19, 2002) was a Finnish composer and musicologist. Personal life Salmenhaara was born in Helsinki, Finland, and married Anja Kosonen in 1961. They had

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Erkki-Sven Tüür

Erkki-Sven Tüür (; born 16 October 1959) is an Estonian composer. Life and career Tüür was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music

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Erland von Koch

Sigurd Christian Jag Erland Vogt von Koch (26 April 1910 – 31 January 2009) was a Swedish composer. He wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera, and other compositions, including music for film. Life and

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Erlend Øye

Erlend Otre Øye (born 21 November 1975) is a Norwegian composer, musician, producer, singer and songwriter from Bergen, best known for being one half of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience, along

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Erling Brene

Niels Erling Emmanuel Brene (14 November 1896 – 17 May 1980) was a Danish composer. He was born and died in Copenhagen. In 1948, he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for

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Erling Wold

Erling Wold (born January 30, 1958, in Burbank, California) is a San Francisco-based composer of opera and contemporary classical music. He is best known for his later chamber operas, and his early

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Erma Hoag Miranda

Erma Mae Hoag Miranda (August 31, 1883 – December 2, 1964) was an American singer, music educator, and composer. She taught at Beloit College, Lincoln College, and Rocky Mountain College. One of her

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Ermanno Picchi

Ermanno Picchi (7 June 1811 – 18 April 1856) was an Italian composer, pedagogue and music critic who played an active role in the musical life of Florence from 1836 until his early death in 1856.

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Erna Tauro

Erna Tauro ( Pergament; 16 August 1916 4 June 1993), was a Finland-Swedish pianist and composer, as well as a theatre musician and teacher. She is remembered for her collaboration with Tove Jansson.

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Erna Woll

Erna Woll (23 March 1917 – 7 April 2005) was a German composer, church musician and author. Life Erna Woll was born in St. Ingbert in the Saar. She studied music from 1936 to 1938 at the

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Ernani Aguiar

Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar (born 30 August 1950) is a Brazilian composer, conductor, and musicologist. Life and career A scholarship winner to the Argentine Mozarteum, Aguiar studied under various

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Ernani Braga

Ernani Braga (born Hernani da Costa Braga; January 10, 1888 – September 17, 1948) He composed works for voice, choir, orchestra and piano. He also taught in Campinas, Araraquara and Jaboticabal.

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Ernest Austin

Ernest John Austin (31 December 1874 – 24 July 1947) was an English composer, music arranger and editor. Although little-remembered today (he does not even have an entry in the comprehensive New

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Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch (; ; July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Several of his most notable compositions reflect his Jewish heritage. As well as producing musical scores, Bloch

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Ernest Boulanger (composer)

Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer and conductor. He was known for being a composer of choral music and comic operas, a choral group director,

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Ernest Charles

Ernest Charles (Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 21, 1895 – Beverly Hills, California, April 16, 1984) was an American composer of art songs. Life and musical career Charles was born in Minnesota

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Ernest Chausson

Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer. Life Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a building

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Ernest de Munck

Ernest de Munck (December 21, 1840 – January 19, 1915) was a Belgian cellist and composer. Born in Brussels, de Munck learned the cello from his professional cellist father François de Munck as well

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Ernest Edwin Mitchell

Ernest Edwin Mitchell (16 January 1865 – 10 December 1951) was an Australian composer, conductor, music lecturer and organist. Career Mitchell was born on 16 January 1865, in , South Australia, when

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Ernest Fanelli

Ernest Fanelli (29 June 1860 – 24 November 1917) was a French composer who is known for his works which have been considered as precursing Impressionism. He gained renown when his symphonic poem

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Ernest Farrar

Ernest Bristow Farrar (7 July 1885 – 18 September 1918) was an English composer, pianist and organist. Life Ernest Farrar was born in Lewisham, London, but moved in 1887 to Micklefield in Yorkshire,

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Ernest Gagnon

Ernest Gagnon (; 7 November 1834 – 15 September 1915) was a Canadian folklorist, composer, and organist. He is best known for compiling a large amount of French Canadian folk music which he published

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Ernest Gillet

Ernest Gillet (13 September 1856 – 6 May 1940) was a French composer and cellist, the brother of oboist and composer Georges Gillet. Biography A student at the École Niedermeyer de Paris then of

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Ernest Gold

Ernst Sigmund Goldner (July 13, 1921 – March 17, 1999), known professionally as Ernest Gold, was an Austrian-American composer of film and television scores. He won an Academy Award and two Grammy

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Ernest Grosjean

Ernest Grosjean (18 December 1844 – 28 December 1936) was a French organist and composer. Biography Born in Vagney (Vosges), Ernest Grosjean was the nephew and pupil of Jean-Romary Grosjean, founder

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Ernest Guiraud

Ernest Guiraud (; 23 June 18376 May 1892) was an American-born French composer and music teacher. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and

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Ernest Hutcheson

Ernest Hutcheson (20 July 1871 – 9 February 1951) was an Australian pianist, composer and teacher. Biography Hutcheson was born in Melbourne, and toured there as a child prodigy at the age of five.

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Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Ernest II (; 21 June 181822 August 1893) was Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 29 January 1844 to his death in 1893. He was born in Coburg to Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Princess

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Ernest John Moeran

Ernest John Smeed Moeran (; 31 December 1894 – 1 December 1950) was an Anglo-Irish composer whose work was strongly influenced by English and Irish folk music of which he was an assiduous collector.

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Ernest Kanitz

Ernest Kanitz (born Ernst Kanitz; 9 April 1894 – 7 April 1978) was an Austrian-American composer and pedagogue. Biography Kanitz was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 9 April 1894. Born Ernst, he

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Ernest MacMillan

Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan (18 August 1893 – 6 May 1973) was a Canadian conductor, composer and organist. He was Canada's only "Musical Knight", and is widely regarded as being Canada's

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Ernest Manheim

Ernest Manheim (27 January 1900 – 28 July 2002), known as Ernő until 1920, Ernst until 1934, and then Ernest in the United States, was an American sociologist, anthropologist, and composer born in

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Ernest Pingoud

Ernest Pingoud (; 14 October 1887 – 1 June 1942) was a Finnish composer and music critic born in Saint Petersburg. Life Pingoud was born to a father of French Huguenot ancestry and a German-Finnish

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Ernest Schelling

Ernest Henry Schelling (July 26, 1876 – December 8, 1939) was an American pianist, composer, and conductor, and music director. He was the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1935 to

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Ernest Seitz

Ernest Joseph Seitz (29 February 189210 September 1978) was a Canadian composer, songwriter, pianist, and music educator. He published some of his work under the pseudonym "Raymond Roberts" because

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Ernest Shand

Ernest Shand (born Ernest William Watson; 31 January 1868 – 29 November 1924) was an English performer and composer for the classical guitar, and a music hall singer and actor. Biography Ernest

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Ernest Tomlinson

Ernest Tomlinson MBE (19 September 1924 – 12 June 2015) was an English composer, particularly noted for his light music compositions. He was sometimes credited as 'Alan Perry'. Tomlinson wrote over

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Ernest Trow Carter

Ernest Trow Carter (September 3, 1866 – June 22, 1953) was an organist and composer who won the Bispham Award. Biography He was born on September 3, 1866, in Orange, New Jersey to Aaron Carter and

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Ernest Truman

Ernest Edwin Philip Truman (29 December 1869 - 6 October 1948) was an Australian organist and a composer of light romantic era classical music. Early life Truman was born was in Weston-super-Mare,

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Ernest van der Eyken

Ernest Jozef Leo van der Eyken (23 July 1913 in Antwerp – 6 February 2010 in Brussels) was a Belgian composer, conductor and violist. Van der Eyken received his first musical training at the age of

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Ernest Walker (composer)

Ernest Walker (15 July 187021 February 1949) was an Indian-born English composer and writer on music, as well as a pianist, organist and teacher. Biography Ernest Walker was born in Bombay, India, in

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Ernestina Lecuona

Ernestina Lecuona y Casado (16 January 1882 – 3 September 1951) was a Cuban pianist, music educator and composer. Life Ernestina Lecuona y Casado was born in Matanzas into a musical family. Her

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Ernesto Cavallini

Ernesto Cavallini (30 August 1807 – 1874) was an Italian clarinetist and composer. Born in Milan, Cavallini studied at the Milan Conservatory under Carulli. He performed at the Conservatoire Concerts

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Ernesto Halffter

Ernesto Halffter Escriche (16 January 19055 July 1989) was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter and part of the Grupo de los Ocho (), which formed a sub-set of the

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Ernesto Köhler

Ernesto Köhler (4 December 1849 – 17 March 1907) was an Italian flautist and composer. He was considered one of the best flautists of his era as well as a prolific composer and a gifted educator. As

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Ernesto Massimo Verardi

Ernesto Massimo Verardi (born 1 March 1936), is an Italian guitarist and composer. Biography Also known as Massimo Verardi or Ernesto Verardi, he began his career in the late 50s, collaborating in

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Ernesto Rubin de Cervin

Ernesto Rubin de Cervin Albrizzi (5 July 1936 – 29 March 2013) was an Italian composer, musicologist and teacher. Biography He was born in Venice in 1936. As a child he studied violin with Gian

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Ernie Stires

Ernest Stires (December 17, 1925 – May 4, 2008) was an American composer, musician, and mentor. His jazz-based classical music has been performed both throughout the United States and abroad. Stires

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Ernoul le Vielle de Gastinois

Ernoul le Vielle (also corrected as le Viel and le Vieux) de Gastinois was a trouvère of the late thirteenth century. His name may indicate that he was from the Gâtinais, but vielle could mean either

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Ernst Anschütz

Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz (28 October 1780 in Goldlauter near Suhl, Electorate of Saxony – 18 December 1861 (other sources: 11 December 1861 ) in Leipzig) was a German teacher, organist, poet,

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Ernst Bacon

Ernst Lecher Bacon (May 26, 1898 – March 16, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific composer, Bacon wrote over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim

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Ernst Christian Hesse

Ernst Christian Hesse (14 April 167616 May 1762) was a German gambist and composer. Biography Born at Großengottern, which was then in the Electorate of Saxony, he attended school in Langensalza and

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Ernst Christoph Dressler

Ernst Christoph Dressler (23 September 1734 – 6 April 1779) was a German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theorist. He began his career as a self taught singer and violinist, but

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Ernst Eichner

Ernst Dietrich Adolph Eichner Ernesto Eichner (15 February 1740 in Arolsen – early 1777 in Potsdam) was a German bassoonist and composer. Biography Eichner was born to Johann Andreas Eichner

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Ernst Gottlieb Baron

Ernst Gottlieb Baron or Ernst Theofil Baron (17 February 1696 – 12 April 1760), was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music. Baron was born in Breslau into the family of Michael Baron, a

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Ernst Hermann Meyer

Ernst Hermann Ludimar Meyer (8 December 1905 – 8 October 1988) was a German composer and musicologist, noted for his expertise on seventeenth-century English chamber music. Life Meyer was born in

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Ernst Hess (composer)

Ernst Hess (13 May 1912 – 2 November 1968) was a Swiss conductor, composer and musicologist. Career Born in Schaffhausen, Hess studied at the conservatory of Zurich from 1932 and 1934, and then at

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Ernst Klusen

Ernst Klusen (20 February 1909 in Düsseldorf – 31 July 1988 in Bad Segeberg) was a German musicologist, educator and Volkslied composer. Work Books and songbooks * Das Volkslied im niederrheinischen

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Ernst Krenek

Ernst Heinrich Krenek (23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here

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Ernst Laaff

Ernst Laaff (4 November 1903 – 12 September 1987) was a German musician, professor and rector. Life Laaff was born on 4 November 1903 in Wiesbaden. After his school days he first studied in

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Ernst Levy

Ernst Levy (18 November 1895 – 19 April 1981) was a Swiss musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor. Life Born in Basel, Switzerland, Levy studied with Hans Huber, Egon Petri and Raoul Pugno.

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Ernst Ludwig Gerber

Ernst Ludwig Gerber (29 September 1746 in Sondershausen, Germany – 30 June 1819 in Sondershausen) was a German composer, organist, cellist, and author of a famous dictionary of musicians. His father,

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Ernst Ludwig Leitner

Ernst Ludwig Leitner (born 14 October 1943) is an Austrian composer, organist and academic teacher. Education Born in Wels, Leitner studied music education, organ and composition at the Mozarteum

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Ernst Mielck

Ernst Leopold Christian Mielck (24 October 187722 October 1899) was a Finnish composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. A precocious but sickly youth, his promising career was cut short in

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Ernst Naumann

Carl Ernst Naumann (15 August 183215 December 1910) was a German organist, composer, conductor, editor, arranger and musicologist. He is best known now as an arranger and editor of the music of J.S.

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Ernst Pepping

Ernst Pepping (12 September 1901 – 1 February 1981) was a German composer of classical music and academic teacher. He is regarded as an important composer of Protestant sacred music in the 20th

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Ernst Perabo

Johann Ernst Perabo (November 14, 1845 – October 29, 1920) was a German-born American composer and pianist. Biography Ernst Perabo was born in Wiesbaden, Duchy of Nassau on November 14, 1845. In

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Ernst Richter

Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (24 October 18089 April 1879), was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig,

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Ernst Rudorff

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff (January 18, 1840 – December 31, 1916) was a German composer and music teacher, also a founder of the nature protection movement "Heimatschutz". Biography Born in Berlin,

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Ernst Toch

Ernst Toch (; 7 December 1887 – 1 October 1964) was an Austrian composer of European classical music and film scores, who from 1933 worked as an émigré in Paris, London and New York. He sought

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Ernst von Dohnányi

Ernst von Dohnányi (Hungarian: Dohnányi Ernő, ; 27 July 1877 – 9 February 1960) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used the German form of his name on most published compositions.

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Ernst Wilhelm Wolf

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (baptised 25 February 1735 – 29 or 30 November 1792) was a German composer. Life Wolf was born in Grossen Behringen in Thuringia, today part of the Hörselberg-Hainich municipality.

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Ernst-Lothar von Knorr

Ernst-Lothar von Knorr (2 January 1896 – 30 October 1973) was a German composer, music educator and civil servant. The years until 1933 Born in Eitorf, Knorr grew up in Bonn. His parents were the

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Ernstalbrecht Stiebler

Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (29 March 1934 – 7 June 2024) was a German composer of mostly chamber, choral, piano, and organ works in minimalist or reductionist style. His work has "three principal

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Eroica (2003 film)

Eroica is a BBC television film that dramatised the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica. It carried the tagline 'The day that changed music forever'. The film was directed by

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Errico Petrella

Errico Petrella (10 December 18137 April 1877) was an Italian opera composer. Life and career Petrella was born at Palermo, capital of the Kingdom of Sicily. A conservative of the Neapolitan school,

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Errollyn Wallen

Errollyn Wallen (born 10 April 1958) is a Belize-born British composer and musician, who moved as a child with her family to London, England. Wallen was appointed Master of the King's Music in 2024

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Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat

Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat (1 February 1923 in Malatya – 16 October 2014 in Ankara) was a Turkish composer, painter and poet. Fırat graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in law in 1948 and held a

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Erwann Kermorvant

Erwann Kermorvant (born July 28, 1972, in Lorient) is a French film composer known for his musical score contributions to cinema. Biography Kermorvant gained popularity for his work on films such as

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Erwin Dressel

Erwin Dressel (10 June 1909, in Berlin – 17 December 1972, in Berlin) was a German composer and pianist. Following the success of his incidental music for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing,

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Erwin Gutawa

Erwin Gutawa Sumapraja (born 16 May 1962) is an Indonesian composer. In 1985, he started his professional music career by joining the jazz band Karimata, later becoming an independent composer in

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Erwin Lendvai

Erwin Lendvai (4 June 1882 – 21 March 1949) was a Hungarian composer and choral conductor. He was an uncle of the composer Kamilló Lendvay. Lendvai was born in Budapest. He graduated from the

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Erwin Schulhoff

Erwin Schulhoff (; 8 June 189418 August 1942) was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely

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Erzsébet Szőnyi

Erzsébet Szőnyi (25 April 1924 – 28 December 2019), also Erzsébet Szilágyi, was a Hungarian composer and music teacher. Her works encompass symphonic compositions, chamber music works, art songs, and

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