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Ercole Bottrigari

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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 wealthy Bolognese aristocrat, and Cornelia (alias Caterina) de’ Chiari of Brescia, he was legitimized on 16 August 1538 and then raised in his father’s house at Sant’Alberto, near Bologna. On 7 March 1542 Bottrigari was selected by the Bolognese senate as one of a group of 12 young aristocrats deputed to welcome the new Cardinal Legate, Gasparo Contarini, to the city. Evidently Bottrigari distinguished himself in the recitation of poetry and orations on this occasion; he was duly rewarded by Contarini who invested him with the titles of Knight of the Holy See and Lateran during a Pontifical High Mass in Bologna Cathedral on 9 April 1542. As a young man he studied classical languages with Francesco Lucchino of Trento, perspective and architecture with Giacomo Ranuzzi and mathematical sciences with Nicolò Simo, professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna. Bottrigari also studied music with Bartolomeo Spontone with whom he remained in close contact for many years; their friendship

Ercole Pasquini

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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 by Agostino Superbi (1620) as a most clever and excellent musician and organist. “He had a very nimble hand; and sometimes played so splendidly that he enraptured the people and truly amazed them.” In the 1580s, Pasquini took over the musical instruction of the daughters of Giovan Battista Aleotti, court architect of Ferrara, from Milleville. On 1 May 1592, Pasquini became the organist of the ridotti of Mario Bevilacqua and of the Olivetian church, Santa Maria in Organo, in Verona. While he held these positions, he wrote and published a favola boscareccia entitled I fidi amanti (Verona, 1593) in anticipation of the wedding of Don Carlo Gesualdo and Eleonora d’Este which took place in Ferrara the following year (1594). Upon the death of Bevilacqua, Pasquini apparently returned to Ferrara, where he succeeded Luzzasco Luzzaschi as organist of the Accademia della Morte. He was succeeded in this position by Girolamo Frescobaldi. On 6 October 1597, Pasquini was elected organist to the Capella

Eres Holz

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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 Aviv. From 2003 to 2011 he studied composition with Hanspeter Kyburz and electronic music with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, where since 2008 he has taught Algorithmic Composition with OpenMusic and Common Music. His works have been performed in Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Spain and Australia, by Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Zafraan, Modern Art Sextet, Trio Nexus, Ensemble Risonanze Erranti, Israel Contemporary Players, Ensemble Meitar and others, as well as broadcast on the national German public broadcaster Deutschlandradio and on Hessischer Rundfunk. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Academy of German Composers (Akademie Deutscher Musikautoren) Grants & Awards The Hanns Eisler Prize in Composition, in the category “Competition for Composition and Performance of Contemporary Music”, 2005, 2008 and 2010. Nominated in 2012 for the German Music Authors’ Prize, in the category “Promotion of young composers”. In 2012 he received the half-year re

Erhard Mauersberger

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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 Bach. He was also an academic teacher and composer. Biography Mauersberger, the son of a cantor in Mauersberg, Saxony, was the younger brother of Rudolf Mauersberger, who was cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor. He was a Thomaner (a member of the Thomanerchor) from 1914 to 1920 under Gustav Schreck. He studied the organ with Karl Straube at the Leipziger Konservatorium. In 1925 he became director of the Aachener Bachverein, and in 1928 became a teacher at the Mainz Conservatory and a cantor at the Christuskirche in Mainz. From 1930 he was cantor at the Georgenkirche in Eisenach. In 1932 he started teaching at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt”, Weimar, and was appointed professor for choral conducting in 1946. In autumn 1933 he joined the German Christians. From 1939 on, he worked in their Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life and was the musical editor of their “de-Judaized” hymnal, Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich. Beginning in 1950, he direct

Eric Banks (composer)

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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 the vocal ensembles, The Esoterics and Ædonis. As a composer, Banks writes primarily for a cappella chorus. He is a polyglot and frequently sets texts in languages other than his native English, including dead languages such as Epic Greek and Avestan. Eric Banks earned his BA in composition (1990) at Yale University, and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Music Theory and Choral Studies at the University of Washington. In 1997, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Stockholm; there he performed with several groups, including the Swedish Radio Choir and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir. In 1992, while still in graduate school, Banks founded the professional-caliber chamber chorus, The Esoterics, which performs rarely heard compositions of contemporary music for unaccompanied voices. The Esoterics has performed over 300 concerts throughout the Pacific Northwest, has commissioned and premiered over 150 new works for a cappella voices in dozen

Eric Coates

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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, despite his wishes and obvious talent, his parents only reluctantly allowed him to pursue a musical career. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Frederick Corder (composition) and Lionel Tertis (viola), and played in string quartets and theatre pit bands, before joining symphony orchestras conducted by Thomas Beecham and Henry Wood. Coates’s experience as a player added to the rigorous training he had received at the academy and contributed to his skill as a composer. While still working as a violist, Coates composed songs and other light musical works. In 1919 he gave up the viola permanently and from then until his death he made his living as a composer and occasional conductor. His prolific output includes the London Suite (1932), of which the well-known “Knightsbridge March” is the concluding section; the waltz “By the Sleepy Lagoon” (1930); and “The Dam Busters March” (1954). His early compositions were influenced by the music of Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, but Coates’s

Eric Ewazen

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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, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School (where he received numerous composition awards, prizes, and fellowships). He has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School since 1980, and has been a lecturer for the New York Philharmonic’s Musical Encounters Series. He has also served on the faculties of the Hebrew Arts School and the Lincoln Center Institute. He served as Vice President of the League of Composers – International Society for Contemporary Music from 1982–1989, and was also composer-in-residence for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Music Ewazen’s compositions have been performed by numerous ensembles and orchestras around the world, such as the Cleveland Orchestra, and at festivals such as Woodstock, Tanglewood, Aspen, Caramoor, Tidewater, and the Music Academy of the West, among others. In recent years, he has increasingly written for brass instruments. Many of these works are performed regularly. His works have been commissioned and

Eric Fenby

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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 amanuensis from 1928 to 1934. He helped Delius realise a number of works that would not otherwise have been forthcoming as the composer was too ill to write them down, and between them they devised a way for Fenby to take dictation from Delius. After Delius died in 1934, Fenby worked with Sir Thomas Beecham on a production of the composer’s opera Koanga at Covent Garden and then became a music adviser to the London publishing house Boosey & Hawkes, where he introduced the young Benjamin Britten to the company. From 1964 to 1977 he was professor of harmony at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Fenby composed music of his own, including the film score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 Jamaica Inn, but he was intensely self-critical and destroyed most of his compositions. He retired to his native Scarborough, where he died aged ninety. Life and career Early years Fenby was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, on 22 April 1906, the only son and eldest of three children of Herbert Henry Fenby – an

Eric Fogg

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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 influence of Sydney Nicholson and Ernest Bullock. His contemporaries there included Leslie Heward and Eric Warr. Fogg went on to study with Granville Bantock in Birmingham On 16 June 1921, his “Chinese suite” The Golden Valley (1919) was premiered by Adrian Boult with the Queen’s Hall Orchestra at the Royal College of Music, in the same concert as the first and only performance of Ivor Gurney’s War Elegy. He joined the BBC in Manchester in 1924 as an accompanist, rising to assistant music director under T H Morrison. In the 1930s he was well known as “Uncle Eric” of the radio programme Children’s Favourites. He succeeded Archie Camden as the conductor of the Manchester Schoolchildren’s Orchestra. In 1934 he moved to London and became musical director of the BBC’s Empire Service (now the BBC World Service), where he founded the Empire Orchestra of 22 players in December 1934. After this time his composition work tailed off due to pressure of other work, which included conducting the Empire Orc

Eric Funk

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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 Montana State University. He is also the Artistic Director and Host for Montana PBS’s 11th & Grant with Eric Funk, an Emmy Award-winning show broadcast on Montana PBS featuring local musicians. Career From 1994 to 2002, Eric was conductor of the Helena Symphony Orchestra in Helena, Montana. From 1994 to 1999, he was also the conductor of the Gallatin Chamber Orchestra in Bozeman, Montana. Dr. Funk was featured on the Charles Osgood CBS Sunday Morning show in October 1998, which in turn followed on the heels of a front-page story in the New York Times “Arts & Leisure” section (April 14, 1998). More recently, Dr. Funk was featured on the nationally syndicated NPR radio show, “Theme & Variations” (August 23–30, 2002). Funk has taught music in Oregon, Texas and Montana, and spent 20 years as an adjunct professor in the School of Music at Montana State University. Numerous compositions of Dr. Funk have been recorded commercially. These include three releases on the MMC label, featuring three of

Eric Genuis

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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 year. Genuis was born in Toronto, Canada on March 13, 1967. He earned a degree in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada. He also studied to become a math and physics teacher. He is known for playing in prisons, hospitals, rehab centres, nursing homes and inner-city schools. He started playing in prisons when he was invited to a maximum security prison. He feels music brings humanity and beauty to places lacking in these virtues. He has performed across the world in countries including the United States, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Peru, Poland and Slovakia. In February 2019 Genuis began his second tour of Australia playing in Corrimal, New South Wales and Windang, New South Wales. Discography Albums * Last in Line (1993) * No Greater Love (1995) * Truth Never Changes (1996) * Eternity (1997) * Never Alone (1999) * Fantasias for Violin and Piano (2003) * Legacy (2006) * The Winds Have Changed (2006) * Timeless (2009) * Redemption (2020) Reference

Eric Gross

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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, he worked as a pianist in bands and orchestras. He studied at Trinity College of Music, with Wilfrid Dunwell (piano), and the University of Aberdeen, with (among others) Reginald Barrett-Ayres, and where he received an MA in 1957 (; ). Following professional engagements in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and New Caledonia, he settled in Sydney in 1958. Initially teaching at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, he joined the staff of the department of music at the University of Sydney in 1960 and remained there until retiring in 1991 as associate professor of music. In 1989 he was visiting professor at the University of Guyana. He was president of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, and from 1981 to 1984 he was also treasurer and executive board member of the Asian Composers’ League. Apart from teaching, Gross was active as composer, arranger and conductor. He received numerous commissions for film scores for Film Australia and TV scores for Screen Gems Columbia, as well as numerous commis

Éric Humbertclaude

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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. Biography Born in the Vosges département, Éric Humbertclaude spent his child youth in La Bresse in the same département. ;Tales * Federico Gualdi à Venise : Fragments retrouvés (1660-1678) : recherches sur un exploitant minier alchimiste, L’Harmattan, 2010, 368 p. read online; * Récréations de Hultazob, L’Harmattan, Écritures, 2010, 96 p. ; ;Poetry * Joue, je pense à toi, L’Harmattan, Accent tonique, Poésie, 2011, 60 p. ; * Bascule followed by Vulnus, L’Harmattan, Écritures, 2012, 90 p. ; ; Éditions L’Harmattan * Écrit la nuit. Rencontre avec les créateurs; * Échos en jachère; ;Musical transcriptions (sheet music) * Johannes Brahms, Trois Préludes posthumous opus 122 for Sextet (vents et cordes), transcription de chorals pour orgue, Aedam Musicae, 2010; * Jean-François Tapray, Cinq pièces inédites pour orgue, Delatour, 2015; * Jean-Claude Touche, Œuvres complètes ; Produit multimédia sur l’orgue * Le Grand-Orgue de la Basilique St-Pierre et St-Paul de Luxeuil-les-Bains, cointerpreter: Pierr

Eric Knechtges

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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 choir, and chamber ensembles (including some works using computer music technology). Biography Eric Knechtges has studied at the Indiana University (Bloomington) Jacobs School of Music (DM), Bowling Green State University (MM) and Michigan State University (BMusEd); he has also taught music (band, chorus, and music appreciation) at Addison Community Schools in Michigan. He has been an active conductor of bands and orchestras, including the Pride of Indy Band and Color Guard. His composition, Broken Silents, was recognized for Special Distinction in the second annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Competition. He has also been recognized in the National Bandmasters Association Young Composers Mentor Project, the National Association of Composers, USA Young Composers Competition, and the San Francisco Choral Artists New Voices Composition Competition, and the “Juan Bautista Comes” Choral Competition. His works have been performed by ensem

Éric Lebrun

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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 former student of Gaston Litaize and Michel Chapuis, Lebrun also benefited from the teaching of Anne-Marie Barat, a pupil of André Marchal, of organists Daniel Roth, Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry and pianist Bruno Rigutto. Lebrun completed his training in the classes of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, musical analysis and history of music at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition to the first prize for organ, he won three first prizes and the music history diploma. After his in 1990, he was appointed to the Église Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris. Since 1990, he was successively a lecturer at the Sorbonne, professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, director of the École nationale de musique et de danse of Cachan, then professor of organ at the and that of . In 2015, he inaugurated the organ class of the Pôle Sup 93. A renowned pedagogue (he founded the organ didactics course at the Conservatoire de Paris), he contributed to the training of many young generation interpreters

Eric Mandat

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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, Keith Wilson, D. Stanley Hasty, and Charles Neidich. He received his undergraduate education at the University of North Texas and graduate degrees from Yale School of Music and Eastman School of Music. He has performed in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW Series (including as principal clarinet for Pierre Boulez’s 80th Birthday Concert under Boulez’s baton and a performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ayre with Dawn Upshaw). He also performs with the Tone Road Ramblers, a band specializing in experimental and improvised music. His reviews of clarinet recordings have appeared in The Clarinet. Mandat’s recordings include The Extended Clarinet as well as recordings with the Tone Road Ramblers and the Transatlantic Trio. Mandat has taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Indiana University. His students from Carbondale include Sean Osborn of the Metropolitan Opera Michael Norsworthy, and Boja Kragulj. Mandat uses extended techniques such as multiphonics and microtones. In a N

Eric Moe (composer)

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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 Fellowship. Moe was born in Durham, NC. He studied musical composition at Princeton University (BA) and at the University of California at Berkeley (MA, PhD). Currently, he is the Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh where he co-directs the Music on the Edge new music concert series. At the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, he has held visiting professorships. Moe is also active as a concert pianist, having performed works by hundreds of composers, from John Cage and Anthony Davis to Stefan Wolpe. In 2003 Moe completed a 45-minute work for mezzo-soprano and ten players, setting a text of David Foster Wallace. Moe wrote about setting Wallace for Fiction Writers Review. Selected compositions * Spirit Mountain for five players (2010) * Strenuous Pleasures for six players (2010) * Frozen Hours Melt Melodiously Into The Past for six players (2009) * Jozaphine Freedom an entertainment on text of Denise Duhamel, for soprano, clarinet/bcl, piano/keyboard

Éric Morin

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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 l’autre and the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers which he won twice. His works have been performed by several notable musical ensembles, including the Esprit Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Quebec Contemporary Music Society, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra among others. He has been commissioned to write works by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Life and career Born in Montreal, Morin is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Gilles Tremblay, He pursued graduate studies at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 1998 where he earned a Master of Music in composition and was a student of Gérard Grisey. He then entered the doctoral music composition program at the University of Toronto in the Fall of 1998. After completing his degree, he studied at the IRCAM where he took courses in musicology and 20th-century music. In September 2000 he joined the faculty

Eric Ozario

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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. He also founded Kalaangann, a Konkani heritage centre. Ozario was instrumental in Konkani being approved as an optional language in school education in the state of Karnataka. He had also been the secretary general of the Jagotik Konknni Songhotton (JKS – Global Konkani Organisation) for many years. Early life Ozario was born in 1949 in Mangalore. He developed an early interest in Konkani music and cultural identity, which later influenced his life’s work. His legacy as a composer and cultural activist began with the foundation of Mandd Sobhann, through which he promoted Konkani music locally and internationally. Career In 2009, Ozario participated in a movement to protest a plan to cut trees in Mangalore. Ozario’s biography, The Indefatigable Crusader was released in 2014. Death Ozario died from kidney disease on 29 August 2025, at the age of 76, in Mangaluru. * Konkani Ratna * 1993 State Rajyotsava Prashasti References Further reading * External links * * Mandd Sobhann – The Birth

Éric Pénicaud

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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 non-institutional musical training, first with his father (a good amateur guitarist who had learned from his mother, who herself had learned from his father; it would be necessary to go back in time to the ancient family history, to Ricardo Viñes, Pablo Casals, as well as to Ravel, Fauré, and even to the old Brahms), then with friends of his music-loving family, teachers and concert performers (for example between the ages of eleven and thirteen, it was Narciso Yepes who gave him his precious advice). At the same time, he studied all the of flamenco. He also began to learn about jazz and improvisation from the age of thirteen. Pénicaud first gave many classical - and flamenco - performances in private circles, but now he will play in public, in other musical genres (for example in jazz alongside Laurent Petitgirard at the organ of the ). Guitarist At the age of nineteen, he left the capital for Provence (advanced training - instrument and writing - teaching). He perfected his skills with René Bar

Eric Robertson (composer)

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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 than 60 film scores and written music for a number of television series in Canada and the United States. He has also written a considerable amount of choral and organ music, sometimes with instrumental or symphonic accompaniment. His works display a strong influence of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Wood, and William O. Minay, the latter of whom he studied with for over 30 years. He has also produced and played on numerous commercial albums by a variety of artists and released several of his own albums of popular songs and film themes under the name Magic Melodies. Life and career Born in Edinburgh, Robertson began his musical training in organ, piano, and music theory in his native city where he was a pupil of E. Francis Thomas, Eric Reid, and William O. Minay. In 1963, at the age of 15, he entered The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in Toronto, Canada, where he was a student of Charles Peaker (organ) and Samuel Dolin (music composition). He graduated with an associate degree from t

Eric Salzman

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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 Theater,’ a concept he advanced through both his compositions and writings. He established it as an independent art form, distinct from grand opera and popular musicals, both aesthetically and economically. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera. Performers of his works include the New York Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic; conductors Pierre Boulez, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Dennis Russell Davies and Lukas Foss; ensembles Western Wind and Kronos Quartet; soloists Philip Langridge, Mary Thomas, Elise Ross, Stanley Silverman, Alan Titus, Rinde Eckert, Igor Kipnis, Paul Zukofsky, Theo Bleckmann, Thomas Young; actors Stacy Keach, John O’Hurley and Paul Hecht. Early life Salzman was born September 8, 1933, in New York City and attended Forest Hills High School (1946–1950). After studying composition privately (1949–51) with Morris Lawner

Eric Stern

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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 performs as a soloist, as well as with the Eric Stern Trio. Stern, with Vagabond Opera, has appeared on NPR and performed at the Kennedy Center, the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Joe’s Pub in New York City. Career Stern was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and trained as a vocalist at the Delaware Valley Opera Company. At the age of 21, Stern decided to pursue writing and moved to Paris, returning to the U.S., and to music, a year and a half later. In 2002, Stern founded the group Vagabond Opera, known for their blend of eclectic musical styles, including German cabaret, Klezmer, and jazz. With the band, Stern also wrote, composed and performed the 2010 opera Queen of Knives, in collaboration with Wanderlust Circus. Stern has recorded and performed with a variety of musical acts including The Decemberists, Balkan Beat Box, Unwoman, Pink Martini, and DeVotchka. In 2011, Stern composed the score for the Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre’s production of Pinocchio. In March 2015, Stern'

Eric Sweeney (composer)

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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 Ireland, England, Belgium and Italy, including at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia. Career Sweeney composed in a minimalist style influenced by Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, Andrzej Panufnik, John Adams and Steve Reich. Over his career, he composed two symphonies, five concertos, three operas and choral works, including the cantata Deirdre. He was influenced by traditional Irish music and airs. Personal life Sweeney married Sally Johnston in 1972; they had three children. They lived in Waterford from 1981 until his death in 2020. References External links * *

Eric Tingstad

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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, Tingstad has performed, recorded, and produced alternative country, blues, americana, rock, smooth jazz, ambient, and New-age music. Tingstad frequently collaborates with woodwinds player Nancy Rumbel as Tingstad and Rumbel. Background Eric Tingstad cites early rock and roll influences such as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and King Crimson. Other influences include The Kingston Trio, Flatt and Scruggs, pianist and composer Martin Denny, sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, Mason Williams’s “Classical Gas” and the Hawaiian slack-key guitar. In the mid 1970s, while playing lead guitar and bass with Seattle-based rock band Pegasus, Tingstad began studies under masters of techniques pioneered by Spanish classical guitarist and innovator Andrés Segovia. Those techniques, combined with innovations of his own, have shaped Tingstad’s stylings and the instrumental compositions for which he is known. His innovative work inspired Will Ackerman, founder of Windham Hill Records, to create the Windham Hill Guitar Samp

Eric Watson (musician)

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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 Massachusetts. He studied classical music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. Career After graduating from college in 1978, Watson moved to Paris, where he performed jazz and classical music and worked as an accompanist for a dance group. is signed to a long-term recording contract with ACT Music. and Steve Lacy. Discography * Bulls Blood (1980) * Conspiracy (1982) * Child in the Sky (1985) * Piano One (1985) * Your Tonight Is My Tomorrow (1987) * Charles Ives (1991) * Palimpseste (1991) * Listen to the Night (1994) * Punk Circus (1994) * Silent Hearts (1999) * Full Metal Quartet (2000) * Sketches of Solitude (2002) * Road Movies (2004) * Midnight Torsion (2009) * Memories of Paris (2010) With Steve Lacy *Spirit of Mingus (Free Lance, 1992) *Clangs (hat ART, 1993) References External links and sources * http://nfo.net/calendar/jul05.htm * http://www.actmusic.com/artist_detail.php?bio=1&manufacturers_id=28

Eric Whitacre

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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. He studied piano intermittently as a child and joined a junior high marching band under band leader Jim Burnett. Later Whitacre played a synthesizer in a techno-pop band, dreaming of being a rock star. Though he was unable to read music at the time, Whitacre began his full musical training while he was an undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He eventually earned a bachelor’s degree in Music Composition. At the age of 23 he completed his first piece for wind orchestra, “Ghost Train”, which has now been recorded more than 40 times. Tom Leslie contributed to his interest in writing for wind ensembles. won a Grammy Award in 2012, and became the No.1 classical album on the US and UK charts within a week of release. Whitacre’s second album, Water Night, was released on Decca in April2012 and featured performances from his professional choir the Eric Whitacre Singers, the London Symphony Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber and Hila Plitmann. Around January 25, 2011, Whitacre began

Eric Wild (conductor)

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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) who emigrated from Lancashire, England in 1901. Life and career Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Wild studied conducting and arranging at the University of Michigan where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1932. From 193336 he worked as an arranger for the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in Toronto where he frequently collaborated with conductor Geoffrey Waddington. He toured to London as a member of Billy Bissett’s Canadian Band in 193638. During that time, he also served as principal trumpeter and arranger for the BBC Symphony Orchestra 193639, and appeared with his own band on BBC Television. As a member of Billy Bissett’s band, Billy Bissett and His Canadians, Wild travelled to Monaco to perform at the International Sporting Club resort casino in Monte Carlo. The band was then booked at Savoy Hotel, London in 1936 and The May Fair Hotel, London in 1936 and 1937. In 1937 Wild was offered his own programme on the BBC, Eric Wild and the Tea-Timers, which was the first television

Erica Muhl

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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 father Edward Muhl was the head of Universal Pictures from 1953 to 1973, and her mother, Barbara, an author and opera singer. She trained as both a composer and a conductor, with much of her studies completed in Europe. At sixteen she was invited to take part in private composition studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. She returned to the United States from Europe, completing a Bachelor of Music in composition at California State University, Northridge, but upon completion, she once again traveled while undergoing graduate studies at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She studied conducting in Los Angeles with Fritz Zweig. This was followed by the completion of a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California in 1991. Its premiere was at the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, in November 2010. Another commission, Burn the Box, also premiered in 2010, at a private gala in celebration of the inauguration of USC

Erich Böhlke

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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 musically. So from 1909, he directed the Stettin male choral society Melodia. Böhlke first prepared himself for the profession of a teacher by attending the in Maszewo and then the teachers’ seminar in Pölitz. During the First World War he served on the Eastern Front. He passed the 2nd teacher’s exam, but then he devoted himself entirely to music. From 1919 he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1924 he became bandmaster at the . Further stations were from 1926 musical director at the Theater Koblenz and from 1929 chief conductor at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 1934, he became general music director and artistic director of the Stadttheater Magdeburg. There he was replaced as artistic director by a party member in 1939, but remained general music director until the war-related closure in 1944. After the Second World War he was General Music Director of the Staatstheater Oldenburg from 1947 to 1950. From 1950 he worked as a freelance musician. During this time he was, among

Erich Hartmann (musician)

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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 Hartmann was born on January 26, 1920, in Leipzig and lived in Berlin. The son of a piano maker, he grew up between the Conservatory of Music and St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Hartmann studied double bass at the conservatory, now the Leipzig University of Music. There, he studied with Theodor Albin Findeisen, being his last student, and Max Schulz. At the same time he devoted himself to studying composition with Hermann Grabner. As a young music student he studied the compositions of Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. His studies were interrupted due to labor service and military service in the Second World War. His military service ended due to an injury on September 4, 1942. In October 1942 he resumed studying music. After a successful audition with the Berliner Philharmoniker, he became a member of this orchestra on November 1, 1943. The heavy bombing raids on Berlin also destroyed the Berlin Philharmonic on Bernburger Strasse on January 30, 1944. Hartmann witnessed the e

Erich Katz

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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 United States in 1943, where he became a citizen. He was a driving force behind the early music and recorder movements in the United States. Bernard Krainis, a co-founder of New York Pro Musica studied with Katz. Biographical details Katz was born into a prosperous Jewish family in Posen, then part of Prussia, now Poznań, Poland. His father was Albert Katz, a jeweler and watchmaker, the son of a baker. Katz initially began studying engineering, but switched to music after one semester. Katz was married to Adelheid Soltau, who was not Jewish, in 1926. Katz also directed the New York Musician’s Workshop, a group of singers and instrumentalists which performed early and contemporary music. Most of those in the group were students of his from the college. He reorganized ARS in 1947 and remained its music director until 1959. His classes were influential for many students. His music history class was described as including not just discussion and listening, but students also performed the music,

Erich Walter Sternberg

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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 After graduating with a law degree from Kiel University in 1918, Sternberg began studying composition with Hugo Leichtentritt and piano with H. Praetorius in Berlin. From 1925 Sternberg visited Palestine annually and moved there in 1932, along with other Jewish musicians who fled Germany prior to World War II. His life was devoted to composition and teaching of composition. In 1936 he helped Bronisław Huberman found the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and promoted the Palestine chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Sternberg found it difficult to overcome the trauma of displacement from his German heritage and never felt entirely comfortable in Israel. He was never offered a permanent position at the Palestine Conservatory or the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, although he occasionally taught there as a guest lecturer. This advocacy for an individual style stood at odds with many of his colleagues’ quest for a distinctly national style. As a result, Sternberg’s works do

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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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 of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. During the 1920s he re-orchestrated, re-arranged and nearly re-composed several operettas by Johann Strauss II. By 1931 he was a professor of music at the Vienna State Academy. At the request of motion picture director Max Reinhardt, and due to the rise of the Nazi regime, Korngold moved to Hollywood in 1934 to write music for films. His first was Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935). He subsequently wrote scores for such films as Captain Blood (1935), which helped boost the career of its starring newcomer, Errol Flynn. His score for Anthony Adverse (1936) won an Oscar; two years later he won another Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Korngold scored 16 Hollywood films in all, and received two more nominations for Oscars. Along with Max Steiner and Alfred Newman, he is one of the founders of American film music. Although his late-Romantic style of classical composition was no longer as popular when

Erik Bergman

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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 prohibited from being performed) to modernism and primitivism, among other genres. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1994 for his opera Det sjungande trädet. Biography Bergman was born in Nykarleby. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and afterwards with Heinz Tiessen in Berlin and with Wladimir Vogel in Ascona. Since 1963 he taught composition at the Sibelius Academy, besides working until 1978 as a choir conductor. Bergman is considered a pioneer of modern music in Finland. Because of his training he was considered as a representative of the avant-garde; he developed for example the twelve-tone techniques of Arnold Schoenberg learned from Wladimir Vogel. He composed song cycles, cantatas, pieces for piano and for organ, a guitar suite, a chamber concert for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion and piano and further chamber works. His Requiem for a dead poet (1970) and Colori ed improvvisazioni for orchestra (1973) gave him international recog

Erik Chisholm

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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 “was the first composer to absorb Celtic idioms into his music in form as well as content, his achievement paralleling that of Bartók in its depth of understanding and its daring”, which led some to give him the nickname “MacBartók”. He left Queen’s Park School, Glasgow, at the early age of 13 due to ill health but showed a talent for music composition and some of his pieces were published during his childhood. By the time he was 12 he was giving organ recitals including an important one in Kingston upon Hull. The pianist Lev Pouishnoff then became his principal teacher and mentor. In 1927 he travelled to Nova Scotia, Canada, where he was appointed the organist and choirmaster at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, New Glasgow, and director of music at Pictou Academy. A year later he returned to Scotland and from 1928 to 1933 he was organist at St Matthew’s Church, Bath Street, Glasgow, later renamed Renfield St Stephen’s and now St Andrew’s West. In 1933 he was appointed organist at

Erik Dæhlin

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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 well as composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music under the tutorship of Olav Anton Thommessen, Asbjørn Schaathun and Henrik Hellstenius. Dæhlin graduated in 2006 and has been active as a composer since 1997. As a percussionist, Dæhlin has been a member of a number of ensembles including NING and Puls as well as the performance project SPLOING. Throughout his career as a composer, Dæhlin has maintained a focus on instrumental and musical theatre genres, where the player’s performativity is played out in and beyond the musical material, and in the context of the performance mold used. Key Dæhlin works in this context include Our Picture is Continuous Fractions, Bildebeskrivelse, On Return to Scale, Desiring Machines, Absence is the Only Real and Forvandlinger. Dæhlin’s list of works includes solo- and chamber music works in addition to electro-acoustic pieces for performers, ensembles and orchestral institutions including Karin Hellqvist, Håkon Stene, Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, the Norwegian

Erik Deutsch

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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 Charlie Hunter, Leftover Salmon, Dixie Chicks, Shooter Jennings, Citizen Cope and The Black Crowes. Early life Deutsch was born in Washington D.C. in 1976. Influenced at an early age by his grandfather (a professional musician), his father (a barroom pianist), and his opera-singing nanny. Deutsch began taking Suzuki piano lessons at Vanderbilt University. After his family relocated to Nashville he studied piano with Tom Koester. In 1985 Deutsch won a school song writing contest that led to his first gig at the Country Music Hall of Fame. While attending High School in Potomac, MD, Deutsch frequented the jazz clubs of Washington D.C. Upon arriving at the University of Colorado Boulder in the fall 1995 he began lessons with pianists Art Lande and joined Fat Mama, a modern jazz/rock/fusion ensemble. Career 2000s After completing his degree from CU in piano performance, Deutsch stayed in Boulder developing a busy career as a performer and teacher. County Road X, a cinematic Americana ensemble

Erik Freitag

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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, Eduard Melkus and composition with Karl-Birger Blomdahl at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. From 1964 to 1967, he was violinist in the Sveriges Radio Symfoniorchester and from 1967 to 1970 in the Stockholms Filharmoniska Orchester. He then directed the Vienna-Ottakring Music School until 2003. In 1987, together with and René Staar, he founded the “Ensemble Wiener Collage”, which is dedicated to the interpretation of contemporary works, especially by Austrian composers. Awards * 1975: Förderungspreis des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht und Kunst * 1979: Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien * 1988: Theodor Körner Prize * 1996: Composer in Residence der Northwestern University of Michigan Work * Hymnus – cantata for speaker, tenor, mixed choir, alto flute, harp, vibraphone and violin, 1970 * Kleine Suite für Streicher und Klavier, 1972 * Moving Studies – Szenen für Tänzer, 1973 * Drei Stücke für Streichquartett, 1976 * Drei Miniaturen für Klavier zu vier Händen, 1977 * Divertimento für Bläserqui

Erik Friedlander

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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 saxophonist John Zorn. Friedlander grew up in a home filled with art and music: his father is photographer Lee Friedlander, noted for the cover photographs he took for Atlantic Records. He is of Jewish descent from his father and of Finnish descent through his paternal grandmother. His father’s fondness for R&B and jazz helped shape Friedlander’s taste in music. He graduated from Columbia University in 1982. Friedlander started playing guitar at age six and added cello two years later. Apart from his work with Zorn, Friedlander has worked with Laurie Anderson, Courtney Love, the Mountain Goats, and Alanis Morissette, and is a member of the jazz/fusion quartet Topaz. He created the original music for the historical documentary Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites. Discography * Chimera (with Chimera) (Avant, 1995) * The Watchman (with Chimera) (Tzadik, 1996) * Topaz (with Topaz) (SIAM, 1999) * Skin (with Topaz) (SIAM, 2000) also released on DVD * Grains of Paradise (Tzadik, 2002)

Erik Furuhjelm

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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 were , Secretary of Protocol for the Senate, and Selma Gabriela Antell. He was the brother of the astronomer and politician Ragnar Furuhjelm. Erik Furuhjelm entered high school in 1901, studied at the Philharmonic Society’s orchestral school from 1893, at the Sibelius Academy from 1901 to 1906, at the University of Helsinki from 1901 to 1902, and in Vienna and Munich from 1906 to 1907 and in Paris from 1908 to 1909. Erik Furuhjelm served as acting director of the Sibelius Academy. He held the positions of Professor 1905–1906, professor 1907–1935, and assistant director 1920–1935. Erik Furuhjelm gave numerous concerts, conducted choirs, and played viola in concerts with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 1904–1905 and in opera performances conducted by Armas Järnefelt. He founded the Finnish Music Review (Fisk Musikrevy) in 1904 and worked as a music critic for the from 1912 to 1914 and for the from 1915 to 1920. Prizes and awards * Composer’s state pension d’État de compositeur (1921

Erik Gustaf Geijer

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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 National Romanticism. He was an influential advocate of conservatism, but switched to liberalism later in life. Biography Geijer was born at Geijersgården, his family’s estate in Ransäter, Värmland. He was educated at the gymnasium of Karlstad and then attended the University of Uppsala, where he earned his master’s degree in 1806. In 1803 he had competed successfully for an historical prize offered by the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. In 1809, he traveled in England. The year following, he became a lecturer in history at Uppsala, and in 1815 assistant to Eric Michael Fant. Succeeding Fant, Geijer was a professor of history from 1817 at Uppsala University where a statue now commemorates him. He was rector of Uppsala University during the years 1822, 1830, 1836 and 1843–1844. As a representative of the university, he was a member of the Church of Sweden clergy in the Riksdag of the Estates in 1828–1830 and 1840–1841. He was a member of the Swedish Academy (on seat 14) from 1824. He was

Erik Mongrain

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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 the work of guitarist Don Ross and he thought: “This was a new revelation to me. I finally found my niche.” After that, he was heavily influenced by the work of Michael Hedges, and also began to experiment with a technique known as lap tapping. Mongrain plays live shows in the United States, Japan, Germany, Canada, and England. Erik was featured in Le Journal de Montréal and many other acoustic guitar magazines. His first full-length album, Fates, was released in December 2006 on his website as a series of individually buyable/downloadable songs. The physical CD was released in June 2007 (May for Japan). In 2007, Mongrain went on a tour around the world, particularly in Europe, Asia and America. He performed also at the famous Montreal International Jazz Festival and at the “Studio-théâtre” of the Place des Arts of Montreal where the live performance was recorded. Mongrain was invited for the premiere of the « World Music Heritage », a drive by Gontiti on the national Japanese network (NH

Erik Nordgren

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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 countryside. In 1941 he graduated from College of Music in Stockholm. As a musician, he played viola . Between 1945 and 1973 he wrote music for more than 60 Swedish films, including 18 of the Ingmar Bergman’s most famous films, such as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Virgin Spring, and Jan Troell s Pause in the marshland , Here’s Your Life and The Emigrants ; the last film work in 1971. In addition, he collaborated with directors Alf Sjöberg, Hasse Ekman, Gustaf Molander, Alf Kjellin and Lars-Erik Stewart. He was music director at the Swedish Film Industry, 1953–1967, and then 1967–1977 he served as orchestra director at the SR. In addition he wrote three string quartets, chamber symphony (1944), Concerto for clarinet (1950), Concerto for Bassoon (1960) and Music for orchestra. From the 1960s, he composed electronic music, something that was not so well known to most people. For the music to Wild Strawberries he won a special award from the magazine Folk

Erik Satie

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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 Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain a diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached. Following a period of sparse compositional productivity, Satie entered Paris’s second music academy, the Schola Cantorum, as a mature student. His studies there were more successful than those at the Conservatoire. From about 1910 he became the focus of successive groups of young composers attracted by his unconventionality and originality. Among them were the group known as Les Six. A meeting with Jean Cocteau in 1915 led to the creation of the ballet Parade (1917) for Sergei Diaghilev, with music by Satie, sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso, and choreography by Léonide Massine. Satie’s example guided a new generation of French composers away from post-Wagnerian Impressionism towards a sparer

Erik Tulindberg

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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 in Turku and then worked as a civil servant in Oulu from 1784 to 1809 and thereafter in Turku. He played the violin and cello and was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1797. He died in Turku at the age of 53. Music From his compositions only a violin concerto in B-flat major, six string quartets, and a polonaise with five variations for solo violin remain. He wrote the violin concerto before 1784 during his youth in Turku. The work shows “simplicity and occasional clumsiness” and the influences of Mozart, Haydn and the Mannheim School of music. His string quartets are more mature works and are better known today than the violin concerto. The string quartets are in the tradition of Haydn. A copy of Haydn’s string quartets was found among Tulindberg’s possessions after his death. Perspective Tulindberg was a contemporary of Mozart and, like Mozart, he was part of the Classical era in music. His importance stems largely from his pioneering position in the music of

Erik van der Luijt

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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 jazz piano with Rob van Kreeveld and Rob van Bavel at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he participated in master classes with Michel Petrucciani and Barry Harris. Style Critics have praised Erik van der Luijt’s talent for melody and the classical influences on his work. His style is likened with the subtle cohesion of legendary Bill Evans with his trio of the late 1950s, also in its fresh chord voicings and harmonic phrasing. :Van Der Luijt reflects a bit of a Keith Jarrett influence, particularly when he reaches for some wide gospel chord voicings. Essentially, however, he’s his own man, with a muscular, surging swing and a powerful left hand. Van Der Luijt doesn’t quite sound like anyone else out there, which is certainly an asset. He’s also an engaging, witty composer. - Allaboutjazz.com Collaborations with other artists Erik has contributed as a pianist, arranger and producer to six albums by his wife, the jazz singer Ilse Huizinga. He regularly accompanies and supports singe

Erika Fox

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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 she went on to study composition at the Royal College of Music with Bernard Stevens, and later with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Harrison Birtwistle. Fox was active in modern music circles from the 1970s, working with the Fires of London, the Nash Ensemble, Dartington and the Society for the Promotion of New Music. For two decades she enjoyed considerable success, with works such the Kaleidoscope quartet (for flute, harp, vibraphone and cello, 1983) and her puppet music drama The Bet (1990), which was performed at the Purcell Room, the Almeida Theatre, the Huddersfield Festival and the Norwich Puppet Theatre. Her orchestral work Osen Shomaat was recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2020. David Spielt Vor Saul a new concerto for piano and large ensemble, was commissioned by the BBC and first performed by Julian Jacobson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Paterson, at City Halls, Glasgow, on 13 January 2022. Her musical style shows the influence of Eastern Europe

Erika Radermacher

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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 and the Beethoven Competition prize, and played throughout Europe. She taught at the Conservatory of Music in Bern, and at the Bern University of Arts, and sang with the Ensemble Neue Horizonte. Some of her works have been recorded by Swiss radio. Radermacher has also taught in Bulgaria. Biography Erika Radermacher was born in Eschweiler, near Aachen, in Germany on 16 April 1936. She studied music with Else Schmitz-Gohr in Cologne, Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna and voice with Sylvia Gähwiller in Zurich. After completing her studies, she won major prizes in Germany and Austria for her piano performance, and went on to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe. After 1970 she became more interested in composition. Some of her works have been recorded by Swiss radio. In 1983 Radermacher and Schneider won the Bernese music prize. Honors and awards *Two prizes, BAT competition for new chamber music, 1982 *Music Prize of the Canton of Bern, 1983 (with Schneider) *Prize of the German C

Ēriks Ešenvalds

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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 by the University Singers in Old Cabell Hall and conducted by Michael Slon, the concert also featured two of Ešenvalds’s other works, “Stars” and “Only in Sleep.” Recordings Ešenvalds’s compositions appear on recordings released by labels such as Signum Records, Hyperion Records, Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Delphian Records, Pentatone and Ondine. The album Northern Lights & Other Choral Works was shortlisted for the Gramophone Awards 2015, selected as Gramophone Critics’ Choice 2015 and listed as ICI Radio-Canada Best Albums Selection in 2015. The albums At the Foot of the Sky (2013) and O Salutaris (2011) were awarded Best Classical Album of the Year in Latvia. References Further reading * * * External links * * Podium Music (Management) * Musica Baltica (Publisher) * Edition Peters (Publisher) * Ēriks Ešenvalds on Hyperion Records * Ēriks Ešenvalds on the Latvian Music Information Centre See also * List of Latvians * Lists of composers

Erin Gee (composer)

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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, and among the awards she has won for her compositions are the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Rome Prize and the first prize of the International Rostrum of Composers. She was on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana as Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory and is currently Associate Professor of Composition at Brandeis University. Education In 1997 Gee received her B.M. with honors and highest distinction in Piano Performance from the University of Iowa; there she also earned an M.A. in composition in 2002. In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria where she studied musical composition with Beat Furrer. Career With her brother Colin Gee, she performed at the Whitney Museum of Art In 2015, she received the Charles Ives Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The puzzle video game app Blek contains excerpts of Erin Gee’s work. Gee is one of the Kronos Quartet 50 for the Future composers

Erke Duit

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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 and Performing Arts Vienna, specialising in choral conducting (with Hans Gillesberger, Erwin Ortner), composition (with Erich Romanovsky), media composition (with Paul Kont), conducting (with Karl Österreicher) and at Biola College, Los Angeles (scholarship; organ with Charles Shaffer). He is the father of a son and a daughter. Since 2005, he has been teaching Musical Interpretation and Role Designat the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Works * 1992 Cantata Hödlmoser, text: For the steirischer herbst * 1994 Setting of texts by H. C. Artmann for the NÖ. Donaufestival * 1995 The Library of Babel, together with Fritz Rainer and Wolfgang Huber * 1997 Celentano Arrangements, for La Cappella Vienna, performed at the * 1998 The Bremen Town Musicians, chamber orchestra work * 1999 Orchestral work KINDER, for Karl Friedrich Flic * 2000 Cantata adam.eva.aus with the * 2001 Waldviertler Suite for 34 wind instruments (performed with the GRENZBLÄSERN) * 2002 Hohes Haus Musik, setting

Erkki Melartin

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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 Finland’s most significant national Romantic composers, although his music—then and now—largely has been overshadowed by that of his contemporary, Jean Sibelius, the country’s most famous composer. The core of Melartin’s consists of a set of six (completed) symphonies, as well as is his opera, Aino, based on a story from the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic, but nevertheless in the style of Richard Wagner. Melartin’s other notable works include the popular wedding tune, Festive March (1904; from the incidental music to the play, Sleeping Beauty); the symphonic poem, Traumgesicht (1910); the Violin Concerto in D minor (1913); the Kalevalic symphonic poem for soprano and orchestra, Marjatta (1914); The Blue Pearl, Finland’s first large-scale ballet (1930); and a set of four string quartets, composed between 1896 and 1910. In addition, a number of Melartin’s songs for solo voice and piano have found a lasting place in the Finnish repertoire. Two additional projected symphonies, the Sevent

Erkki Salmenhaara

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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 two sons, but divorced in 1978. Salmenhaara died in Helsinki on March 19, 2002. Career Salmenhaara studied composition with Joonas Kokkonen at the Sibelius Academy until 1963, and then continued his studies with György Ligeti in Vienna. Salmenhaara then studied musicology, aesthetics and theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and earned his PhD in 1970 with a doctoral thesis about the works of the composer Ligeti. He served as lecturer (1966–1975) and associate professor (1975–2002) of musicology at the University of Helsinki and was also the leading writer on classical music in Finland. In addition, he served as chairman of the Society of Finnish Composers (1974–1976) and of the Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras (1974–1978). Works Prior to studying with Kokkonen, Salmenhaara had already written several tonal pieces, including the 17 Small Pieces for Piano (1957–1960). In the early 1960s, he was associated with the modernist Finnish Musical Youth. Beginning in th

Erkki-Sven Tüür

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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 School from 1976 to 1980 and composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera from 1980 to 1984. From 1979 to 1984 he headed the rock group In Spe, which quickly became one of the most popular in Estonia. The Helsinki Philharmonic, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra are among those who have commissioned works from him. His Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, entitled ‘“Illuminatio”’, was premiered by violist Lars Anders Tomter and South Jutland Symphony Orchestra in October 2008. Since 1985, Tüür is member of the Estonian Composers’ Union. Style Tüür’s early work is polystylistic. The first pure example is his opus Oxymoron. Tüür developed a vector based voice leading technique. The vectors are sequences of intervals, expressed as numbers. He compares this compositional method with a source code, a germ that grows, Starting point of the composition process is an abstract drawing, that vi

Erland von Koch

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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 career Born in Stockholm as the son of composer Sigurd von Koch (1879–1919), Erland von Koch studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1931 to 1935 and subsequently passed the advanced choirmaster and organist examinations. Between 1936 and 1938, he lived in Germany and France in order to pursue studies in composition with Paul Höffer, conducting with Clemens Krauss, and piano with Claudio Arrau. Later, he took private classes with Tor Mann in Sweden. Teaching at the Karl Wohlfarts Musikschule from 1939 to 1945, von Koch also spent the final two years of this period working as a sound expert and choirmaster for radio broadcasting. He composed much music for the Swedish film industry. From 1953 to 1975, he was lecturer in harmony at the Stockholm Conservatory, where he was appointed a professor in 1968. twelve Scandinavian Dances, one opera (Pelle Svanslös), and five ballets, as well as music for wind orchestra. Even in his nineties he composed/studied every day. His works can be descri

Erlend Øye

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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 with Eirik Glambek Bøe. Among other musical projects he is front-man for the band The Whitest Boy Alive, and has contributed to tracks by electronic music artists such as Dntel and Norwegian duo Röyksopp. He is also the co-founder of the independent label Bubbles Records. Since 2012 he has lived in Sicily and played extensively with trio La Comitiva. In addition to his native Norwegian, he also speaks English and some Italian. Biography Bergen Erlend Øye was born on 21 November 1975 in Bergen, his parents met in 1974 in a demonstration in support of the victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d’état against Salvador Allende that took place in Bergen, at which time his father read a poem, which allowed him to meet Øye’s mother. Having grown up listening to Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Suzanne Vega and The Smiths, during high school in the early-mid 1990s, he and some of his friends formed the band Skog (“forest” in Norwegian), taking inspiration from the famous song “A Forest” by The Cure. In 19

Erling Brene

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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 his orchestral composition Vigeur (Vigour). Erling Brene was an accomplished composer and music teacher from 1950–70 at The Ellebjerg School in Copenhagen. Selected works Opera * Mordet i værtshuset (Murder at the Inn), chamber opera/puppet comedy, Op.12 (1930) * Drengen med fløjten, school opera, Op.50 (1950) * Peter Pan, school opera, Op.54 (1953) * Under Piletræt, opera after Hans Christian Andersen, Op.55 (1954) * Besøgeren, opera, Op.66 (1964) Incidental music * Trommer i natten (1930) * Suite af Musik for marionetteater, Op.18b (1932) Orchestra * Symphony (1920) * Junkeren og Møllerpigen (1921) * Sommer, symphony (1924) * Sinfonietta (1925) * Tre Stykker (3 Pieces) for chamber orchestra (1926) * Suite for chamber orchestra, Op.5 (1928) * Soldatens Ballade (1930) * Suite from Mordet i værtshuset, Op.14b (1930) * Suite for string orchestra, Op.21 (1934) * Ouverture, Op.22 * 3 Epigrammer (3 Epigrams) for string orchestra (1936) * Capriccio, Op.27 (1936) * Rapsodi, Op.28 (1936) * Ove

Erling Wold

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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 experiments as a microtonalist. Life Wold was born into a religious family, the son of Erling Henry Wold Sr, a Lutheran minister and Margaret Barth Wold, an author of inspirational books and plays. He was given piano lessons at an early age but showed little interest in music until his teen years, when he became infatuated, teaching himself to play a variety of instruments and embracing the music of many of the modernist composers. It was also at this point that he started to write music. He first studied composition at Occidental College with Robert Gross where he was awarded the Elinor Remick Warren Composition Award in 1978. Later teachers included Gerard Grisey, Andrew Imbrie and John Chowning at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, where he primarily studied computer music, gaining a facility with the mathematics of signal processing. While at Berkeley, he married Lynn Murdock, for whom he wrote a number of his early works. In 1985, they had a son, Duncan

Erma Hoag Miranda

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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 voice students was opera singer Anna Moffo. Early life and education Erma Hoag was born in Plainfield, Illinois, the daughter of Harry Clarence Hoag and Margaret Lillian Tait Hoag (later Margaret Hoag French). In 1920 she graduated from Northwestern University’s School of Music, where she sang in the a cappella choir under director Peter Lutkin. She also studied piano and composition with Emil Liebling, and voice in Paris, with Marcelle Demougeot and Georges Mauguiere. Career Miranda was a lyric soprano who performed as a church soloist and recitalist. She and her husband taught in the music program at Beloit College, where she organized and directed a fifty-voice a cappella choir. They also taught at Lincoln College in Illinois. They were co-directors of music at Rocky Mountain College in Montana. Miranda wrote an opera, The Legend of the Trailing Arbutus. She also wrote songs, including “Birds” (1928), a setting of a poem by Richard Henry Stoddard, and songs for Delta Kappa Gamma and

Ermanno Picchi

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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. Life and career Picchi was born in Impruneta in the Province of Florence and studied composition under Ignazio Colson. His first opera, Marco Visconti premiered at the Teatro del Cocomero in Florence in 1838. His second opera Il tre novembre premiered in 1844 at the Teatro della Pergola. Over the course of his career he composed four operas, an oratorio, numerous pieces of sacred music, music for military bands, and two piano fantasias (both published by Ricordi) on themes from Donizetti’s La fille du régiment and Pacini’s Saffo. He also composed Concerto for alto sax and band, on the occasion of the presentation of the sax in Italy. He was appointed secretary of the Florence Conservatory (at the time an annex of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze) in 1850 and in 1852 succeeded Giovanni Pacini as its director. Picchi became the founding editor of the weekly journal Gazzetta musicale di Firenze in 1853, providing critical guidance in its first two years of publication. Each issue came i

Erna Tauro

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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. Biography Erna Pergament was born in 1916, in Viipuri. She was the daughter of Isak Pergament and Rifka (née Rosenthal), and niece of composers Moses Pergament and Simon Parmet. The family moved to Berlin in 1921 and later to Helsinki. Tauro studied piano and music theory in Berlin, and according to some sources, also studied music at the Sibelius Academy in Finland. During World War II, Tauro worked as a nurse and also an accompanist. She married Risto Ilmari Tauro in 1944, and they had one daughter born in 1945. They divorced in 1950. From 1955 to 1969 she was principal accompanist at the Little Theater in Helsinki and composed music for a number of plays and musicals. Alongside her employment at the Little Theater, Tauro also worked as a pianist at Stockmann’s lunch restaurant, among other places. Her composition “Höstvisa” (“Autumn Song”) with lyrics by Tove Jansson won third prize in the 1965 Finnish Broadcasting Song Contest. The same year, she won second place with the song “Den

Erna Woll

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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 Evangelisches Kirchenmusikalisches Institut Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner and studied composition from 1940 to 1944 with Joseph Haas and Gustav Geierhaas at the Munich Academy of Music. During this time she converted to Catholicism, and from 1946 to 1948 she studied Catholic church music at the Cologne Music Academy with Heinrich Lemacher, Theodor Bernhard Rehmann and Hermann Schroeder. From 1950 to 1962, Woll worked as an organist in Cologne Bayenthal and a music teacher and choral director at the Church Music Institute in Speyer. From 1962 to 1969 she was a lecturer, and from 1969 to 1972 she was Honorary Professor at the College of Education at Augsburg. In 1972 she retired from working due to a serious illness, but after recovering she continued to compose. Woll died 7 April 2005 in Augsburg. Erna Woll was a member of professional organizations including the Werkgemeinschaft Musik, the Ecumenical Lyricists and Composers working group, and the AG Musik in der Evangelischen Jugend. Honors *196

Ernani Aguiar

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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 composers and conductors in South America and later in Europe, including Sergiu Celibidache. As a musicologist, he has specialized in the revising, editing, and revival of works by composers of the 18th century Minas Gerais School. He has written a number of instrumental pieces, but his most famous works are his choral pieces, such as the fiery Salmo 150, composed in 1975 and published in 1993, which features rhythmic backgrounds with very rapid articulations. Salmo 150 has proved a very popular piece among choral conductors worldwide, particularly within the American Choral Directors Association. He is currently a professor of music at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a fellow of the Villa-Lobos Institute, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Música. Choral works * Cantilena, para coro “a capella” * Danças, para barítono e cordas, 1993 * Falai de Deus, para coro “a capella” * Missa Brevis * Missa Brevis II in honorem S. Francisci Assisiensis, para coro “a capella” * Mis

Ernani Braga

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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. Among his pupils can be listed Adolpho Tabacow and Camargo Guarnieri. and Erik Satie’s parody on Frédéric Chopin’s funeral march (No.2 of Embryons desséchés). This collection is based on material from a region with sizeable population of African people. Their influence produces intricate rhythmic patterns and leads to the use of African dialects. The speech rhythm becomes an important compositional device in these pieces. of which the last (Velha gaita) was harmonized only for one voice and piano, while each of the other ten songs have two versions: for 2 female voices and piano (however in most of the songs the second voice is ad libitum) or for female chorus a cappella (usually 3- or 4-part, though the Chimarrita is 5-part). The lack of choral arrangement for the last song was explained by Braga merely through the lack of time, but there is an old LP recording of such arrangement, what makes one suggest that the composer worked it out at some moment later. References Further reading * Gis

Ernest Austin

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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 Grove dictionary), Austin’s orchestral music enjoyed some success in its own time, including performances at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and on BBC Radio during the 1920s. He was a prolific composer of songs, covering a wide spectrum of mood, from serious Shakespearean settings to ballads of both sentimental and robust natures. He found some success writing piano pieces and unison songs for children. He also made piano transcriptions of the work of other composers, a particularly common practice of the time. Life and works He was born Ernest John Austin in Poplar, London (now in the borough of Tower Hamlets), the son of Elizabeth and William Austin, a shirt tailor. Ernest Austin was the younger brother of baritone and composer Frederic Austin (1872–1951). He first worked for the Board of Trade and then pursued a career in business. Largely self-taught, by 1902 he had composed a piano sextet (first performed in 1910) and by the age of about 30 he had turned to music as a career. He wor

Ernest Bloch

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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 had an academic career that culminated in his recognition as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. Biography Bloch was born in Geneva on July 24, 1880, to Jewish parents. He began playing the violin at age 9, and began composing soon after. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. He then traveled around Europe, moving to Germany (where he studied composition from 1900 to 1901 with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt), on to Paris in 1903 and back to Geneva before settling in the United States in 1916, taking US citizenship in 1924. He held several teaching appointments in the US, where his pupils included George Antheil, Frederick Jacobi, Quincy Porter, Bernard Rogers, and Roger Sessions. In 1917, Bloch became the first teacher of composition at the Mannes School of Music, a post he held for three years. In December 1920 he was appointed the first musical dire

Ernest Boulanger (composer)

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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, a voice teacher, and also judged at voice contests. was a cellist and professor of voice at the Paris Conservatory, winner of the First Prize in cello at the Conservatory in 1797 and a professor of cello, attached to the King’s Chapel. His mother, Marie-Julie Halligner, was a mezzo-soprano at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris. He was a pupil at the Paris Conservatory where he studied under Jean-François Le Sueur, and Fromental Halévy. He studied piano with the virtuoso pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan; and operatic composition with Daniel Auber and Ferdinand Hérold. At the age of 19, Boulanger was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1835 with his cantata “Achille”. In 1842, he began making a name as a composer of comic operas and as a conductor. Boulanger composed a dozen comic operas between 1842 and 1877. His chief work was the three-act opera Don Quixote, which premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in 1869; the most performed of his works was the one-act Les Sabots de la marquise (“The

Ernest Charles

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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 with the surname Grosskopf. He attended The University of Southern California as a college student and studied singing with Charles Modini Wood. He eventually went to New York City, changed his surname to Charles, and began his professional life as a singer, performing in vaudeville and Broadway reviews, including Earl Carroll’s Vanities in 1928 and the George White Scandals in 1929. His songs became widely known after 1932, when John Charles Thomas performed his song Clouds in a New York recital. Following that success, he continued to compose songs regularly until about 1950. At that time he lived with his wife, a mezzo-soprano, in New York City, and produced the radio program Great Moments in Music. He returned to California in 1953, settling in Beverly Hills, where he spent the remaining years of his life. He was selected as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha, an honorary member of the Apollo Club of Minne

Ernest Chausson

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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 contractor who made his fortune assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s. To please his father, Chausson studied law and was appointed a barrister for the Court of Appeals, but had little or no interest in the profession. He frequented the Paris salons, where he met celebrities such as Henri Fantin-Latour, Odilon Redon, and Vincent d’Indy. Before deciding on a musical career, he dabbled in writing and drawing. In 1879, at the age of 24, he began attending the composition classes of Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire; Massenet came to regard him as “an exceptional person and a true artist”. He had already composed some piano pieces and songs. Nevertheless, the earliest manuscripts that have been preserved are those corrected by Massenet. At the Conservatoire, Chausson also studied with César Franck, with whom he formed a close friendship that lasted until Franck’s death in 1890. Chausson interrupted his studies in 1881 after a failed attempt to win the Pri

Ernest de Munck

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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 as Adrien-François Servais. He later became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music in London. Life Ernest de Munck was born on December 21, 1840, in Brussels. His father François de Munck was a virtuoso cellist and teacher, once a member of the orchestra at Her Majesty’s Theatre and a professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He was taught the cello by his father He toured Great Britain in 1855. They performed together throughout the United States, such as in St. Louis, and he was part of her company on her concert tours in the country. They also lived in the US for a period. Patti died in Paris in 1889. Following her death, de Munck moved to London where he became a professor at the Guildhall School of Music in 1891, and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1893. De Munck died in Maida Vale, London, on January 19, 1915. His death was announced on February 5. * Polonaise for cello and piano, dedicated to Princess Louise, Marchioness of

Ernest Edwin Mitchell

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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 his father, Thomas James Mitchell, was 43 and his mother, Thurza Lucy Cole, was 36. He married Amy Bertha Edmeades on 27 July 1885. He died on 10 December 1951, in Payneham South, South Australia, at the age of 86, and was buried in Payneham Cemetery, Payneham, South Australia, Australia. They had three children Lillian Bertha Mitchell 1886–1974, Kathleen Lois Mitchell 1895–1972 and Alan Rodney Clemhilt Mitchell 1904–1983. Mitchell graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Music and was granted honours in second year. He played keyboards and organ. Mitchell was a devout member of the Uniting Church with passionate feelings about music particularly the standard of teaching. So keen on quality services, he allowed his musical works to be distributed by newspaper. Mitchell was secretary of the South Australia Music Teachers’ Society. He was active in music teaching for at least sixteen years. Australian composer Ruby Claudia Davy was a pupil. Notable works Mitchell’s not

Ernest Fanelli

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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 Thèbes premiered in Paris; this was a work incorporating elements associated with music ahead of its time, such as unique harmonies, extended chords, and polytonality. Fanelli was born in Paris to Italian parents and started studying music at the age of 10. He earned a living playing timpani and piano, eventually composing seriously when he was 22, although he abandoned the activity in 1894. Upon applying to work as a copyist for Gabriel Pierné in 1912, his music—a manuscript of Thèbes, composed in 1883—astonished the latter, and a performance led to wide publicity and critical assessment of Fanelli’s music and of the roots of the Impressionist style, especially that of Claude Debussy. Fanelli lived in poverty and struggled to support his family. He died in 1917 in Paris. His oeuvre includes orchestral works, 32 orchestrally-accompanied songs, a few chamber works and a three-act opera buffa. Most of his works are of long duration, which may have discouraged their performance, as may their m

Ernest Farrar

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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, where his father was a clergyman. The rest of his life was very much centred in the north of England. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, where he began organ studies. His studies at Durham University did not progress beyond his matriculation. In May 1905 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music. There he studied with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Sir Walter Parratt and began friendships with Frank Bridge and Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer. He also took up several posts as organist in All Saints’ Dresden, St Hilda’s, South Shields and Christ Church, High Harrogate. At Harrogate, he worked closely with local conductor Julian Clifford and took on the 14-year-old Gerald Finzi as a composition pupil. His name is one of the 38 on the War Memorial at the Royal College of Music. Works and legacy Despite his short life, Farrar wrote a large body of music for orchestra, voices and organ. His works include The Blessed Damozel, a Celtic Suite and the song cycle Vagabond Songs. Two orc

Ernest Gagnon

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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 as Chansons populaires du Canada in 1865–1867. He was greatly admired for his virtuoso performances on the organ and was also considered an expert at plainsong accompaniment. Biography Born in Louiseville, Gagnon was from a prominent family of musicians in Québec City. He is the brother of composer Gustave Gagnon and the uncle of composer Henri Gagnon. His sister Élisabeth was married to pianist Paul Letondal. He studied the organ with Charles Wugk Sabatier. From 1853 to 1864 he was the organist of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, and held a similar position at the Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral from 1864 to 1876. In 1857 he travelled to Paris after obtaining a study leave and became a pupil of Henri Herz and Alexandre Goria. Many of his arts songs, choral pieces, and works for solo piano have been published by the Canadian Musical Heritage Society and by Adélard Joseph Boucher. His piano work Stadaconé (1858) was notably the first notated composition to be based on the music of the aborigin

Ernest Gillet

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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 Auguste-Joseph Franchomme at the Conservatoire de Paris, Gillet won the First Prize of the Conservatoire in 1874 and became a cellist of the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris (1875–1882). Solo cellist of the Concerts Colonne, the Concerts Lamoureux and the Concerts de Monte-Carlo, Gillet obtained a great success with his operetta La Fille de la mère Michel, with a libretto by Daniel Riche in 1893 as well as with his piece Loin du bal (1888) that can be heard in the feature film The Dancing Masters with Laurel and Hardy in 1943. Works Gillet wrote more than four hundred pieces, including: ;Operetta * La Fille de la mère Michel (1893) ;Compositions Bibliography * Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten, History of the Violoncello, the Viol Da Gamba, 1915, p. 537 * Florian Bruyas, Histoire de l’opérette en France, 1855-1965, 1974, (p. 336) * Oscar Thompson, Bruce Bohle, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1985, p. 822 * Benoît Duteurtre, L’opérette en France, 1997, p. 99, * Mauri

Ernest Gold

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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 Awards for his work on the film Exodus (1960), and a Golden Globe for On the Beach (1959). He received an additional three Oscar nominations throughout his career, and was the first composer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life Gold was born in 1921 in Vienna, the son of Elisabeth (Stransky) and Gustav Goldner. Gold’s father’s mother (Jaiteles) ancestry from Szeged, Hungary and mother’s mother (Therese Sprung) from Temesvár (at the time part of Hungary and now in Romania) and Budapest (Spitzer). Ernest Gold came from a musical family. His father played the violin and his mother sang. His father also studied under Richard Heuberger. Ernest Gold said he learned to read music before he learned to read words. Gold went to movie theaters as a teenager, not only to watch the films but to listen to the musical score. Among prominent film composers of the time, he admired Max Steiner. In New York City, he earned money by working as an accompanist and writing popular songs.

Ernest Grosjean

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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 and director of the Journal des organistes. In addition to his uncle, he had successively Henri Hess, Camille-Marie Stamaty and Alexis Chauvet as masters of piano, organ, harmony, music composition and fugue. He made his debut as organist in the cathedral of Uzès (Gard) in 1864, before competing for the position of organist, and later of maître de chapelle of the Verdun Cathedral, that he held from 1868 until 1935, even though the Jacquot-Jeanpierre organ of Rambervillers (Vosges), built in 1898, was dismantled during the First World War to preserve it. The instrument was rebuilt and inaugurated on 25 March 1935 jointly by the titular master Marcel Dupré and abbot Pierre Camonin who succeeded him in June of the same year. Grosjean was the maternal grandfather of Élisabeth Brasseur, a choral conductor who founded and directed in Versailles the from 1920 to her death in 1972. Grosjean died in Versailles at the age of 92 on 28 December 1936. Publications Grosjean wrote teaching works inclu

Ernest Guiraud

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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 for Offenbach’s opera Les contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann). Biography Guiraud was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his schooling in Louisiana under the tutelage of his father, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Guiraud, who had won the Prix de Rome in 1827. At age 15, he set to music a full-length libretto about King David, which he and his father had found on a trip to Paris. The result was David, an opera in three-acts, which had a resounding success at the Théâtre d’Orléans in New Orleans in 1853, sealing his future. In December of the same year, Guiraud sailed back to France to continue his musical education. He studied piano under Marmontel and composition under Halévy at the Paris Conservatoire. Remarkably gifted as a student, he was awarded first prize for piano in 1858. He won the Prix de Rome the next year, notably, the only instance of both father and son obtaining this prize. He became close friends with Camille Saint-Saëns, Emile Paladilhe, Théodore Dubois, and especially

Ernest Hutcheson

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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. He later travelled to Leipzig and entered the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Stavenhagen (a pupil of Franz Liszt) and Bruno Zwintscher. He was part of the London music circuit in 1896 and 1897. Prior to the outbreak of World War I he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, but in 1914 he settled in New York City, where he made his US debut. He is believed to have been the first pianist to play three concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in a single concert: his performances of Beethoven’s third, fourth and fifth with the New York Symphony Orchestra in the Aeolian Hall in 1919. He became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, and successively Dean (1926–1937) and President (1937–1945) of the school. At Juilliard, he championed the use of radio musical broadcasts in education. He taught many first-rate students. One of these many students was Mary Ann Craft, who later taught the prodigy Edgar Coleman during his formative years. T

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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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 Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. His father became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as Ernest I) in 1826 through an exchange of territories. In 1842, Ernest married Princess Alexandrine of Baden in what was to be a childless marriage. Two years later, he became Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha when his father died. Ernest supported the German Confederation in the Schleswig-Holstein Wars against Denmark, sending thousands of troops and becoming the commander of a German corps; he was instrumental in the 1849 victory at the battle of Eckernförde against Danish forces. After King Otto of Greece was deposed in 1862, the British government put Ernest’s name forward as a possible successor. Negotiations concerning this failed for various reasons—not least of which was that he would not give up his beloved duchies in favor of the Greek throne. A supporter of a unified Germany, Ernest watched the various political movements with great interest. While he initially was a great and outspoken proponent of G

Ernest John Moeran

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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. His oeuvre includes orchestral pieces, concertos, chamber and keyboard works, and a number of choral and song cycles as well as individual songs. The son of a clergyman, Moeran studied at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford before service in the army during the First World War, in which he was wounded. After the war he was a pupil of John Ireland, and quickly established a reputation as a composer of promise with a number of well-received works. From 1925 to 1928 he shared a cottage with the composer Peter Warlock; the bohemian lifestyle and heavy drinking during this period interrupted his creativity for a while, and sowed the seeds of the alcoholism that would blight his later life. He resumed composing in the 1930s, and re-established his reputation with a series of major works, including a symphony and a violin concerto. From 1934 onwards he spent much of his time in Ireland, mainly in the coastal town of Kenmare. In 1945 Moeran married the cellist Peers Coetm

Ernest Kanitz

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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 changed his name to Ernest in order to differentiate himself from a Viennese concert manager of the same name. He studied law at the University of Vienna concurrently pursuing piano lessons and studying theory and music composition. He graduated in 1918. Schreker conducted the first performance of his Lustige Ouvertüre (Cheerful Overture) in the autumn of 1918. Following the performance, the overture was described as “a witty, pretty composition” and referred to as his best-known work in Musikblätter des Anbruch (1921). In 1921, he received initial exposure through the première under Alexander von Zemlinsky of his oratorio Das Hohelied (The Song of Songs). This enabled him to take a professorship which commenced in 1922 at the Neues Konservatorium where he taught analysis, theory and composition for 16 years. On 4 February 1926, Austrian conductor Clemens Krauss gave the successful première of Kanitz’s Four Orchestral Songs. He founded the Vienna Women’s Chorus in 1930 which he conducted

Ernest MacMillan

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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 pre-eminent musician from the 1920s through the 1950s. His contributions to the development of music in Canada were sustained and varied, as conductor, performer, composer, administrator, lecturer, adjudicator, writer, humourist, and statesman. Biography Early life and education (1893–1914) Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan was born in Mimico (Etobicoke), Ontario, the first-born of Reverend Alexander MacMillan (1864-1961), and Wilhelmina “Minnie” Ross (1870-1932). His parents had moved to Mimico the previous December, when Rev. MacMillan, educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, was called to be the first resident minister of Mimico Presbyterian Church, that had been formed in 1889. His mother, was a third generation of ministers daughters from Scotland, and in her case from Pictou, Nova Scotia. His first musical influences were his parents. From a very young age, he became fascinated while watching his mother play piano and decided to learn music. His father, who became minister at Toronto’s

Ernest Manheim

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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 Hungary, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Life Manheim attended a secondary school in Budapest from 1909 and graduated in 1917. Then he enrolled in the Military Academy for the Royal Hungarian Home Defense in Budapest and at the same time started chemistry studies at the der Royal Technical Joseph-Academy in Budapest. In 1918 he became a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army ranking as a corporal. After World War I he resumed his studies in chemistry and mathematics at the Budapest University, and additionally attended lectures in philosophy, music and literature. From March to July 1919 Manheim was a volunteer in the Hungarian Soviet Republic or Republic of Councils founded by Béla Kun and was taken prisoner. He fled from the Romanian prison camp but could not stay in Budapest for long, since he had to face arrest as a supporter of the Soviet Republic. So he escaped to Austria in 1920, where he resumed his studies at the University of Vienna, first chemistry and physics a

Ernest Pingoud

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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 mother. His father Guido Pingoud was the pastor of the German Lutheran parish of Saint Catherine in Saint Petersburg, and his mother belonged to the Finland-Swedish Sesemann family, related to the Melartin family. He also studied non-musical subjects, including geology, philosophy and literature, at Jena, Munich, Bonn and Berlin, with German literature as his main subject. He wrote a doctoral thesis on the young Goethe and Romanticism, but it was not approved because new sources that emerged at the same time undermined the material in the thesis. The programme included La dernière aventure de Pierrot, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Danse macabre, works influenced by Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabin and Claude Debussy that were the most daring music yet performed in Finland. Style Pingoud’s preferred mode of musical expression was orchestral, especially in symphonic poems following the example of Scriabin Recordings A CD containing some of Pingoud’s symphonic poems has been recorded for Ondi

Ernest Schelling

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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 1937. His first wife was Lucie Howe Draper, whom he married on May 3, 1905, in Manhattan, New York City. She died on February 4, 1938, at their summer home in Lausanne, Switzerland. He married his second wife, Helen Huntington “Peggy” Marshall, on August 11, 1939, when she was 21 and he was 63. She was the stepdaughter of the philanthropist Brooke Astor, and a niece of Vincent Astor. He died of a cerebral embolism at his home in Manhattan, New York City, on December 8, 1939. His bride of four months was at his deathbed side. Composer Schelling wrote numerous works for piano, orchestra and chamber groups which were often performed during his lifetime, but have since fallen from the repertoire. His most popular work was A Victory Ball, a symphonic poem for orchestra based on an anti-war poem by Alfred Noyes. Willem Mengelberg and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra made an early electrical recording of the music for the Victor Talking Machine Company. Honours He was elected an honorary mem

Ernest Seitz

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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 he did not wish to be associated with popular music. His most famous work is The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, which he co-wrote with Gene Lockhart. Some of his other notable songs include Laddie Boy (1932), When Moonbeams Softly Fall (1935), and The Sky’s the Limit (1943). He retired from performance in 1945 and from teaching in 1946. For the rest of his life he served as president of his family’s business, an automobile dealership in Toronto. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London in 1954, and on 18 July 1984, Toronto acquired a piece of parkland which was dedicated by Ms. Seitz, naming it Sunrise after Ernest’s most famous work. Life Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Seitz received his first musical training from A. S. Vogt in Toronto from 1903 to 1910. He went to Germany in 1910 where he was a pupil of Josef Lhévinne in Berlin for four years. He had initially intended to pursue a career as a concert pianist in Europe, but the outbreak of World War I made this imposs

Ernest Shand

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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 William Watson was born into a musical family in Hull, Yorkshire, his mother having been a piano teacher, his father a music dealer, and his brother an actor. He began his musical education on the violin. He came to the guitar when he discovered a composition for guitar by the Spanish composer Dionisio Aguado. Viewing it as a challenge, he bought a guitar and practised until he could play it. He then became a pupil of Madame Sidney Pratten (1821–1895) who provided him with scores and became the first publisher of his compositions. These apparently impressed her so much that by 1888 she apparently had nothing more to teach him, and that his pieces were superior to hers. Before the age of 30, Shand had already written more than 150 pieces for solo guitar, a guitar concerto (the first from the British Isles) and a tutor (1896). In the United Kingdom, his playing remained unsurpassed until the emergence of Julian Bream in the late 1940s. Despite his success as a composer and performer, the guita

Ernest Tomlinson

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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 100 pieces of library music, thirteen orchestral suites, symphonic works (including symphonic jazz) and music for brass band. At the age of nine he became a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, where he was eventually appointed as Head Boy in 1939. He later attended Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and at sixteen won a scholarship to Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music. He spent the next two years studying composition until in 1943 he left to join the Royal Air Force, where, although colour-blind, he became a wireless mechanic and saw service in France during 1944 and 1945. He returned to England in 1945 to resume his studies (with Humphrey Procter-Gregg) and graduated in 1947, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Music for composition as well as being made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and an Associate of the Royal Manchester College of Music. Tomlinson left northern England for London, where he worked as a staff arranger for Arcadia and Mills M

Ernest Trow Carter

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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 Sarah Swift Trow. At age seven, in 1873 he started what would become eight years of study of piano with Mary Bradshaw as his teacher. At age thirteen, in 1879, he organized an amateur orchestra, studied the cornet, was assistant conductor of the school orchestra; and at sixteen he was playing cornet in a professional orchestra. Operas *The White Bird *The Blonde Donna References External links *

Ernest Truman

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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, Somerset, England. Son of Edwin Philip Truman, a fishmonger, and Elizabeth Robinson Crawfurd Smith. His family emigrated to Melbourne and then New Zealand, before settling in Hunters Hill, a suburb of Sydney, in 1885. Musical career Truman was taught music by his father, then studied under Arthur J. Barth of Dunedin, New Zealand and Julius Buddee of Sydney. From 1888 until 1893, Truman attended Leipzig Conservatory along with Australian Alfred Hill. While at Leipzig he composed 26 fugues, as a result of which he was known at the Conservatorium as “The English Bach”. Upon his return to Sydney, he became organist at Christ Church St Laurence from 1893 until 1896. He also presided at the console of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney and St Patrick’s, Church Hill in Sydney. He was the most competitive organist in New South Wales when appointed Sydney city organist in which role he held at least 3,000 recitals. He accompanied many famous singers, including Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Florence

Ernest van der Eyken

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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 five at the Music Academy in Sint-Truiden. At the age of seven he joined the music theory class of Karel Candael at the Royal Music Conservatory in Antwerp. In 1930 he obtained his first degree under Jan Broeckx, and in 1931, a further degree in viola studying with Napoleon Distelmans. Further studies at the Antwerp Conservatory were chamber music with Albert van de Vijver, conducting with Lodewijk De Vocht, harmony with Emile-Constant Verres and Edward Verheyden. Van der Eyken also studied counterpoint and fugue with August de Boeck, instrumentation with Paul Gilson, and during World War II went to Salzburg, Austria to study conducting with Clemens Krauss and Joseph Marx at the International Conducting School. In 1930 Van der Eyken made his debut as a violist with the Groot Symfonie-Orkest van de Wereldtentoonstelling 1930 (Grand Symphony Orchestra of the 1930 World Exposition) in Antwerp. Thereafter, he played in orchestras and chamber music ensembles of Antwerp: Orkest van de Koninkli

Ernest Walker (composer)

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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 1870, where his father was a partner in a merchant firm (his father had also had ambitions to be a writer, and even published two novels under the pseudonym “Powys Oswyn”, but these plans were abandoned). and played for artists such as Pablo Casals, on one occasion in 1898 performing together for Queen Victoria at Osborne House. As late as 1947, Casals wrote to Walker expressing his admiration for the musicianship he had displayed almost 50 years earlier. He also accompanied Joseph Joachim in concert; Joachim later wrote to Walker to express his gratitude for the quality of his playing. and John Stainer’s The Crucifixion, and he dismissed all medieval music as “pre-artistic”. Among Walker’s students were Herbert Murrill, Reginald Jacques, Victor Hely-Hutchinson, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Graham Peel, Sir William McKie, and Gervase Hughes. He resigned as Director of Music at Balliol College to devote himself to composition. In 1942 the Cobbett Gold Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicia

Ernestina Lecuona

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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 brother was pianist and composer Ernesto Lecuona. Leo Brouwer, a classical guitarist, is her grandson, and gymnast-political scientist Rafael A. Lecuona, an anti-communist, was her nephew. She studied music at the Centro Asturiano de La Habana and with French teacher Lucía Calderón. At the age of 15, Lecuona completed her first work Habanera Luisa, which was published widely in Cuba and Spain by Anselmo López in 1897. She gave early music lessons to her younger brother Ernesto. In 1936 she was invited to New York City by the Pan American Union, where she accompanied the Mexican tenor Tito Guizar. She made contact with singer Jessica Dragonette, who added some of Lecuona’s works to her repertoire. In 1937 she founded a women’s orchestra in Cuba, which debuted at the Teatro Alkazar, and in 1938 performed in concerts at the National Theatre. In 1939 she toured Mexico, Chile and Argentina, and traveled in South America again from 1940 to 1942. She traveled with her brother on tour, and sometimes

Ernesto Cavallini

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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 in 1830 with his brother, violinist Eugenio Cavallini. He became the principal clarinetist of La Scala under Giacomo Panizza. Cavallini was described as the “Paganini of the clarinet”. His playing inspired Verdi to compose a clarinet solo and cadenza in his 1862 La forza del destino, and led Panizza to include a set of variations for clarinet in his The Challenge of Barletta. Cavallini also composed several works for E♭ clarinet, including the Carnival of Venice variations, I figli di Eduardo 4th in partnership with Panizza, and Fantasia on a Theme from Ultimo Giorno di Pompeii. He cited Rossini as an influence in his compositions, and composed Una Lagrima sulla Tomba dell’Immortale Rossini in his honour. A new CPO c.d.(CPO 777 938-2,63 minutes) of Cavallini’s 1st & 2nd clarinet concertos & a Fantasy & Variations is now available. References External links *Free scores at the Mutopia Project

Ernesto Halffter

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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 Generation of ‘27. Early years Ernesto Halffter was the third son of Prussian jeweller Ernest Halffter Hein and his wife Rosario Escriche Erradón. He was the younger brother of composer Rodolfo Halffter and the uncle of composer Cristóbal Halffter. Halffter was born in Madrid and studied at the Colegio Alemán de Madrid. He wrote his earliest composition at the age of six, and in 1922 his piano teacher Fernando Ember performed three pieces from Crepúsculos at the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. After meeting Manuel de Falla in 1923, Halffter sent Falla the score of his “Homenajes” trio for violin, cello and piano, which began a long relationship that included composition lessons from Falla. Career Halffter’s Sinfonietta is one of his earliest and best works; it shows the influence of Domenico Scarlatti. Later, he became more nationalistic with Rapsodia portuguesa for piano and orchestra, composed in 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. He wrote music for a dozen films. Perhaps the most noteworthy

Ernesto Köhler

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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 a young student, Köhler exhibited a natural proclivity for his chosen instrument and made rapid progress in his studies. During these early years he embarked upon numerous concert tours in Italy with his brother Ferdinando, who was a noted pianist. At the urging of the Italian flautist Cesare Ciardi, Köhler subsequently left Vienna for an appointment as a flautist in the orchestra of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersberg in 1871. Following the death of Ciardi in 1877, Köhler subsequently assumed a position as a soloist in the orchestra of the Imperial Opera in Saint Petersburg and rose to become the orchestra’s first flautist in 1900. In this capacity, he served for several years as the premier flautist in the Empire of the Czar. His publisher was Julius Heinrich Zimmermann. Death Ernesto Köhler died in Saint Petersburg on 17 March 1907. Compositions for flute A partial listing of Köhler’s compositions for flute includes the following works: Flute and orchestra * Shephard Idylle, (Hirte

Ernesto Massimo Verardi

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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 the decades that followed in studio and tour, with numerous, renowned performers and arrangers/conductors. He is credited in productions that have seen him play with Mina, as well as in many recordings, in several live concerts as lead guitarist; with Mia Martini, with whom in addition to 4 album, he played, at the singer’s express request, in the TV show “Recital de Mia Martini”, broadcast in France. Verardi also composed, with lyrics by Luigi Albertelli, the song Un altro giorno con me which gave the title to the homonym album. Studio collaborations continued with Ornella Vanoni, Shirley Bassey (after the recording in Italy of This Is My Life he participated, once again as lead guitarist, in a mini-tour, culminating with the New Year’s Eve ‘68 concert at La Bussola Versilia by Sergio Bernardini; also, still on electric, acoustic or 12-string guitar, albums with Fabrizio De André, Milva, Mango, Gianni Bella, Pino Donaggio, Massimo Bubola, Iva Zanicchi, Pierangelo Bertoli, Nino D’Angelo,

Ernesto Rubin de Cervin

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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 Francesco Malipiero at the Venice Conservatory, who suggested that he should start composition classes. He studied solfege with Bruno Maderna. After high school, he studied composition at the Florence Conservatory under Roberto Lupi and on a private basis with Luigi Dallapiccola. From 1965 to 1985 he taught, first solfege at the Liceo musicale in Udine, then didactic, analysis and composition at the Venice Conservatory. His teachings there established the New Venice School. Whilst at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, he taught harmony and counterpoint to Giuseppe Sinopoli. References External links *Article by Rubin de Cervin prefaced by Joachim Noller

Ernie Stires

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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 was born in Alexandria, Virginia, to a family of musicians. His maternal grandparents were the mezzo-soprano Louise Homer and the American art song composer Sidney Homer, while his cousin was the composer Samuel Barber. His paternal grandparents were Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires and Sarah Stires. He was educated first at the Episcopal High School in Alexandria and then at Harvard and Dartmouth, finally graduating from Trinity College in Connecticut. After service as a U.S. Navy pilot in World War II, Stires worked as a television advertising executive, first for NBC in California and then later for CBS in Boston. Although he had begun improvising jazz on the piano while still a small child, he did not devote himself to music as a career until 1962 when he studied composition with Nicolas Slonimsky and Francis Judd Cooke. Ernie has three children: Sarah Stires, Ernie Stires, and Elizabeth Stires. He moved to Vermont in 1967 where he was an administrator for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra

Ernoul le Vielle de Gastinois

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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 “the old” or “the vielle-player”. Two lais have been attributed to Ernoul. Both are found only in the Noailles Chansonnier (BnF fr.12615). The Lai de notre-dame (incipit: En entente curieuse) is ascribed to him in the manuscript, but the Lai de l’ancien et du nouveau testament (incipit: S’onques hom en lui s’asist) is presented anonymously and was only assigned to Ernoul by Alfred Jeanroy. David Fallows describes his two lais as “among the most unusual in the entire monophonic repertory, astonishingly long with complex repetition schemes and elaborate motivic structure.” Five pastourelles have also been attributed to Ernoul, and all are preserved only in the Chansonnier du Roi (BnF fr.844). The attribution of only one, En avril, au tens novel, is highly disputed. Though anonymous in the manuscript, modern scholars have disagreed whether it belongs to Ernoul’s corpus, with one assigning it instead to Thibaut de Blaison. It has two lines that are identical to two found in Pensis, chief e

Ernst Anschütz

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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, and composer. He is also known for his account of the death of Johann Christian Woyzeck in 1824 (see: Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck). Anschütz worked as a teacher in Leipzig for 50 years. Works *""; 1837; Text: *"" (text, c. 1824); music: Carl Reinecke (1824–1910) as “”, Op. 91, in . Based on "" (c. 1770) *"" (text, 1824) *"" (text, 1824) References External links * * *

Ernst Bacon

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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 Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony. Personal life Bacon was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 26, 1898 to Marie von Rosthorn Bacon (sister of Alfons von Rosthorn and Arthur von Rosthorn) and Dr. Charles S. Bacon. At the age of 19, he enrolled at Northwestern University where he pursued a degree in mathematics. After three years of study, he moved to the University of Chicago. Bacon finished his education at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a master’s degree for the composition of The Song of the Preacher in 1935. Bacon was married four times. He married his first wife, Mary Prentice Lillie, granddaughter of Richard Teller Crane, in 1927. They had two children, Margaret and Joseph. His second wife was cellist Analee Camp. They had two sons, Paul and Arthur. Paul died at the age of 18, which had a deep and lasting effect on Bacon. In 1952, he married his third wife, Peggy Camp (no relation to Anna Lee). He met his fourth wife E

Ernst Christian Hesse

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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 Eisenach. He studied law at Giesen, then viola da gamba in Darmstadt. In 1692, aged 16, he performed for the Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, who engaged him for his court. The landgrave then sent him for further study in Paris, under the two leading composer-performers of the day, Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray. But Marais and Forqueray were bitter rivals, and Hesse could not study under both – at least, not under the same name. So, he called himself by his real name Hesse for one of the teachers, and “Sachs” for the other. The plan foundered when the two rival teachers chose to show off their star pupils in a public competition, not realising they were the same pupil. Hesse was able to please both masters by playing in their styles in turn, and this led to a rapprochement between them. He returned to Darmstadt, where he died in 1762, aged 86. Most of his compositions (operas, sonatas, church music) are lost, but an opera and some gamba pieces are extant, and there are so

Ernst Christoph Dressler

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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 eventually received vocal training from the renowned Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti. He became a musician at several courts before he moved to the Court Opera in Vienna and finally to Kassel. He is known for a march on which Beethoven based his first published composition. Life Born in Greußen, near Sondershausen in Thuringia, to Christian Ludwig Dressler and Catherine Elizabeth Renner, Dressler studied theology, jurisprudence and German poetry at the universities of Halle, Jena and Leipzig. In Leipzig, he educated himself in playing the violin and in singing. He moved to Bayreuth, where he took lessons from the singer Maria Giustina Turcotti, training his tenor voice, and subsequently worked as a chamber musician, court singer and secretary for Margrave Friedrich Christian. He was a talented violinist, composer and writer, in addition to his ability as a tenor. He disapproved of the then in vogue at Gotha, and in November 1766 he resigned In 1771, the prince returned to Bohemia;

Ernst Eichner

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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 (1694–1768), a court musician to the court of Waldeck. His father provided him with his primary musical education. He became widely known as a virtuoso bassoonist throughout Europe as a result. In 1762 he entered into the service of Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken as a violinist. In 1768, he became the concertmaster of the Zweibrücken court orchestra, where he remained until 1772. He was highly respected by his contemporaries and achieved international recognition as an accomplished composer, bassoonist, and concertmaster during his lifetime. Eichner, however, died young and was quickly forgotten. To musicologists, he is known as a representative of the Mannheim School. His 31 symphonies and 20 concertos comprise the main body of his works, but he also composed chamber music including Six Flute Quartets op. 4. In 1772 his compositions were published almost simultaneously in Paris, London, and Amsterdam. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart praised Eichner’s works in 1784 for their gracious char

Ernst Gottlieb Baron

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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 maker of gold lace who expected his son to follow in his footsteps. Baron showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made it his profession. He studied lute from about 1710 with a Bohemian named Kohott. He attended the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau, and from 1715 the University of Leipzig, where he studied philosophy and law. He spent the period from 1719 to 1728 in travels from one small court to another. He visited Halle, Köthen, Schleiz, Saalfeld and Rudolstadt, arriving in Jena in 1720 and remaining for two years. Later he travelled to Kassel, Fulda, Würzburg, Nuremberg and Regensburg, returning in 1727 to Nuremberg where he published his “Historisch-theoretische und practische Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten”, the work for which he is principally remembered. In 1728 he replaced the lutenist Meusel, who had recently died in a horseback riding accident, at the court of Gotha. He held that post for four years. After the death of the Duke of Gotha he moved on to E

Ernst Hermann Meyer

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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 Berlin. He received his first piano lessons at the age of six and started composing at eleven. After finishing school, he worked as an apprentice at a bank, and in 1926 he started the advanced study of music at Heidelberg University, where in 1930 he completed his Ph.D. on the 17th-century chamber music of North German composers. He became a pupil of Hanns Eisler and under his influence, joined the Communist Party. Being a Jew and the composer of militant protest songs, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1933 to avoid detention by the Nazi Party. There he eventually became a close friend of leftist composer Alan Bush, who was also in contact with exiled composers Eisler and Kurt Weill. In the UK, Meyer researched English chamber music of the 17th century, lectured for the Workers Educational Association and conducted the Labour Choral Union. In 1939 he began lecturing at Bedford College, London; in 1945 he was given a guest professorship at King’s College, Cambridge. But unlike some of

Ernst Hess (composer)

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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 the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, with Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger among others. From 1935 he worked in Switzerland as conductor of several choirs and orchestras. In 1938, he was appointed lecturer of music theory at the conservatory of Winterthur. From 1956, he taught musicology at the University of Zurich. As a composer, he wrote mostly sacred and secular choral music, namely the oratorio Jeremia. He was awarded the composition prize of the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Stiftung in 1947. In 1966 he received the Hans-Georg-Nägeli-Medaille of Zurich. Hess died in Egg and is buried at the Fluntern Cemetery in Zürich. Selected works * Suite for Guitar Solo (1935); Hug G.H. 11468 * Suite for Viola Solo, Op. 14 (1936) * Concerto for Viola, Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 20 * Sinfonia academia (Kleine Sinfonia), Op. 22 * Concerto for Horn and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 24 * Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 27 * Kleine Musik, for basset horn, violin, viola and cello, Op. 29b (Amadeus Verla

Ernst Klusen

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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 Dorf. Studien zum Volksliedschatz der Gemeinde Hinsbeck mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Melodien. Voggenreiter Verlag, Potsdam 1941. * Der Stammescharakter in den Weisen neuerer deutscher Volkslieder. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1953. * Die Windmühle. Niederrheinische Volkslieder. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1955. * Sankt Martin. Lieder und Lampen. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1955. * Das Bonner Gesangbuch von 1550. Edited by Ernst Klusen. Staufen-Verlag, Kamp-Lintfort 1965. * Volkslied. Fund und Erfindung. Gerig, Cologne 1969. * Das Volkslied im niederrheinischen Dorf. Studien zum Lebensbereich des Volksliedes der Gemeinde Hinsbeck im Wandel einer Generation. Voggenreiter, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1970. * Bevorzugte Liedtypen Zehn- bis Vierzehnjähriger. Gerig, Cologne 1971. * Gefahr und Elend einer neuen Musikdidaktik. Gerig, Cologne 1973. * Zur Situation des Singens in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Part 1: Der Umgang mit dem Lied (Mitarbeit: V. Karbusický). Gerig, Cologne 1974. * Zur S

Ernst Krenek

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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 and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music (1974). Krenek wrote two pieces using the pseudonym Thornton Winsloe. Life Born Ernst Heinrich Křenek in Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary), he was the son of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied there and in Berlin with Franz Schreker before working in a number of German opera houses as conductor. During World War I, Krenek was drafted into the Austrian army, but he was stationed in Vienna, allowing him to go on with his musical studies. In 1922 he met Alma Mahler, widow of Gustav Mahler, and her daughter, Anna, to whom he dedicated his Symphony No. 2, and whom he married in January 1924. That marriage ended in divorce before its first anniversary. At the time of his marriage to Anna Mahler, Krenek was completing his Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 29. The Australian violinist Alma Moodie assisted Krenek, not with the scoring of the violin part, but with obtaining financial ass

Ernst Laaff

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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 Wiesbaden. Then he went to Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin, where he continued his studies. In Berlin he was taught by Arnold Schering among others. After completing his studies he wrote a dissertation on Franz Schubert’s symphonies. With musical notes. . Shortly afterwards, the Collegium musicum of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz was founded, where he began to teach. In 1938 he became head of the department of the Schott Music publishing house in Mainz. Shortly afterwards he also became representative of the publishing house. In the post-war period, he founded the journal Das Musikleben at the Schott-Verlag. In 1949 he finally became a professor. * Music mit Fleiss gedrucket. Grundzüge der Entwicklung des Musiknotendrucks. Vortrag, etc..Music mit Fleiss gedrucket. Grundzüge der Entwicklung des Musiknotendrucks. Vortrag, etc. on WorldCat * Carl Schuricht, 1880-1967 : Ansprache während des Gedächtniskonzertes der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden am 28. Februar 1967 im Grossen Kurhaussaal. Literat

Ernst Levy

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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. David Dubal describes him as an “unusual and powerful pianist” who made “grandly conceived” recordings of the late Beethoven sonatas and captured “the very essence of the Faustian Liszt”. His students included the composers Anna Renfer Hazel Ghazarian Skaggs. In 1966, he retired from academia and returned to his native Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his life. He died in Morges. Levy’s book A Theory of Harmony was published in 1985 and, among other modern compositional concepts, describes the composer’s concept of harmonic “undertones”. Levy’s son was composer and cellist Frank Ezra Levy (1930–2017). Selected compositions ;Orchestral * Symphony No. 2 in D major (1922) * Symphony No. 3 (1922) * Symphony No. 7 (1937) * Symphony No. 8 (1937) * Symphony No. 10 “France” (1944) * Symphony No. 11 (1949) * Symphony No. 12 (1951) * Symphony No. 13 (1955) * Third Suite for orchestra (1957) * Fourth Suite for orchestra (1959) * Symphony No. 14 (1962) * Symphony No. 15 (1968) ;Concertante

Ernst Ludwig Gerber

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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, Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber (1702–1775), a pupil of J. S. Bach, was an organist and composer of some distinction, and under his direction Ernst Ludwig at an early age had made great progress in his musical studies. In 1765 he went to Leipzig to study law, but the claims of music, which had gained additional strength from his acquaintanceship with Johann Adam Hiller (of whom Gerber became the cellist of his orchestra Großes Concert Concert), soon came to occupy almost his sole attention. On his return to Sondershausen he was appointed music teacher to the children of the prince, and in 1775 he succeeded his father as court organist. References External links *

Ernst Ludwig Leitner

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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 University Salzburg and finally musicology at the University of Innsbruck from 1963 until 1968. Work His artistic output is documented in the music collection of the Austrian National Library and covers several genres, including four symphonies, eight instrumental concertos, a requiem and three operas. Leitner’s works have received numerous awards and have been performed by renowned orchestras and ensembles at renowned venues and festivals. The artist has an extensive discography. Operas * So weiß wie Schnee, so rot wie Blut (1999) * Fadinger (2014) Awards * 1981 Kulturmedaille der Stadt Wels * 1983 1. Preis beim Internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb München * 2012 Heinrich Gleißner Prize * 2013 References Further reading * Christoph Wigelbeyer: Ernst Ludwig Leitner. Ein Portrait. Diplomarbeit aus Musikgeschichte, Universität für Musik Wien, 1998. * Christoph Wigelbeyer: Ernst Ludwig Leitner: „So weiß wie Schnee, so rot wie Blut.“ In Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. 54, fascicules 7

Ernst Mielck

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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 its infancy when he died of consumption in Locarno, Switzerland, at age 21. As a result, Mielck’s is small; his most acclaimed compositions are the Symphony in F minor (Op. 4; 1897) and the Dramatic Overture (Op. 6; 1898). Life Mielck was born in Viipuri (Vyborg). He started piano lessons at the age of ten; in 1891 he was sent to Berlin, where he studied under Max Bruch, one of the leading composers of the period. Bruch said of Mielck that he had “an easy, felicitous, and remarkable flair for invention.” Mielck returned to Finland in 1896. Three years later he died of tuberculosis in Switzerland, at age 21. Music Mielck composed all his works in the short span of four years. His catalogue includes a number of works in the field of chamber music, including a string quintet and a string quartet. He also composed the Symphony in F minor (1897), two overtures, a concert piece for piano and orchestra, as well as one for violin and orchestra, the Finnish Suite, and two major vocal works in the

Ernst Naumann

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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. Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was a friend of Schumann and Brahms, and conducted the first performance of the latter’s Alto Rhapsody in 1870. Biography Carl (or Karl) Ernst Naumann was born in Freiberg in Saxony in 1832, the son of mineralogist Carl Friedrich Naumann. He was a cousin of Emil Naumann (1827–1888) and grandson of Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801), both composers. Ernst Naumann studied the organ with (1789–1864) and composition with Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Richter. Naumann was friendly with Brahms and Schumann. The similarity of Brahms’s music to that of late Beethoven was first noted in a letter from Albert Dietrich to Ernst Naumann on 5 November 1853. Naumann was one of the people Dietrich wrote to in March 1854, following Schumann’s suicide attempt in late February. On 3 March 1870, with the Akademischer Gesangverein of Jena, Naumann conducted the first public performance of Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, with Pauline Viardot as soloist. He died in 1910 in Jena, aged 78

Ernst Pepping

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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 century. Pepping taught at the and the . His music includes works for instruments (three symphonies), the church (the motet , the ), and collections including the (Spandau choir book) and the three volume (Great Organ Book), which provides pieces for the entire liturgical year. Career Born Ernst Heinrich Franz Pepping in Duisburg, Pepping first studied to be a teacher. From 1922 to 1926 he studied composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik with , a pupil of Franz Schreker. Pepping composed mostly instrumental music until 1928. In 1926 his works (Little serenade for military band) and (Suite for trumpet, saxophone and trombone) were premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. He received the composition award of the Mendelssohn Foundation. In 1929 his (Chorale suite) was first performed in Duisburg and well received. In 1934, Pepping accepted a position as teacher of harmony, sight-reading and counterpoint at the of the Protestant in Spandau, where he lived until his death. Among his man

Ernst Perabo

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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 1852, he immigrated with his family to New York City. He began his musical training with his father, then with William Schultze from the Mendelssohn Quintette Club and eventually came back to Europe to study at the Leipzig Conservatory with Carl Reinecke, Ignaz Moscheles, and Ernst Richter. From 1885 onwards, Perabo lived in Boston, where he led a career as a pianist, composer, and music teacher. He gave private lessons: his most famous student, who studied with him from 1876 through 1882, was the pianist and composer Amy Beach. He also taught at the New England Conservatory. Besides original compositions for the piano (including one Scherzo; three Studies; Pensées; and Prelude, Romance und Toccatina), he wrote numerous transcriptions of and fantasies on operas and orchestral works. He married Louisa Elizabeth Schmidt on June 1, 1889. Perabo collected a number of manuscripts and first editions of works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, which are now preserved in the British Library.

Ernst Richter

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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, where he attained so high a reputation that in 1843 he was appointed professor of harmony and counterpoint at the conservatorium of music, then newly founded by Felix Mendelssohn. On the death of Moritz Hauptmann on 3 January 1868, he was elected cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig, conducting the Thomanerchor, an office he retained until his death. He is best known by three theoretical works: Lehrbuch der Harmonie, Lehrbuch des einfachen und doppelten Contrapunkts and Lehrbuch der Fuge, valuable textbooks known to English students through the translation by J.C.D Parker and Franklin Taylor. “Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (1808-1879) …His compositions include psalms for chorus and orchestra, motets, two masses, a Stabat Mater (voices only), part songs, string quartets and sonatas, and also pieces for organ and for piano. But it is his treatise on the theory of music that will keep Professor Richter’s name from oblivion. As already mentioned, two English editions have appeared: one in Lond

Ernst Rudorff

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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, Rudorff studied piano under Woldemar Bargiel from 1852 to 1857 before enrolling at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1859, where he studied under Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy, and Julius Rietz. He was also a private pupil of Moritz Hauptmann and Carl Reinecke. In 1865 he became a piano teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, and he founded the Bach-Verein Köln in 1867. He moved to Berlin in 1869, and for four decades, to his retirement in 1910, was the head piano teacher at the Berlin Hochschule. He also conducted the Stern Gesangverein from 1880 to 1890, succeeding Max Bruch. His collection of music manuscripts, scores, and correspondence is one of the largest and most important such collections still held in private hands. It includes autographs by Bach, Beethoven, Bruch, Clementi, Dussek, Gluck, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Salieri. His students included Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl, Wilhelm Berger, Leo Blech, Gerard von Brucken Fock, Leopold Godowsky, Elsie Hall, Siegfried Ochs, Alexandre

Ernst Toch

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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 throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music. Biography Toch was born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family of a humble Jewish leather dealer when the city was at its 19th-century cultural zenith. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, medicine at Heidelberg and music at the Hoch Conservatory (1909–1913) in Frankfurt under Iwan Knorr. His main instrument was the piano, and he was a pianist of considerable stature, performing to acclaim throughout much of western Europe. Much of his writing was intended for the piano. Toch continued to grow as an artist and composer throughout his adult life, and in America came to influence whole new generations of composers. His first compositions date from c. 1900 and were pastiches in the style of Mozart (quartets, 1905 album verses for piano). His first quartet was performed in Leipzig in 1908, and his sixth (Opus 12, 1905) in the year 1909. In 1909, his Chamber Symphony in F major (written 1906) won the Frankfurt/Main Mozart pr

Ernst von Dohnányi

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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. Biography Dohnányi was born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Bratislava, Slovakia). Born into the old noble Dohnányi family, he was the son of (1843–1909) and his wife, Ottilia Szlabey. He first studied music with his father, a professor of mathematics and amateur cellist, and when he was eight years old, with Carl Forstner, organist at the local cathedral. In 1894 he moved to Budapest and enrolled in the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music, studying piano with István Thomán and composition with Hans von Koessler, a cousin of Max Reger. Thomán had been a favorite student of Franz Liszt, while von Koessler was a devotee of Johannes Brahms’s music. These two influences played an important part in Dohnányi’s life: Liszt for his piano playing and Brahms for his music. Dohnányi’s first published work, his Piano Quintet in C minor, earned the approval of Brahms, who promoted it in Vienna. Dohnányi did not study long at the Academy of Music: in June 1897 he sought to take the

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf

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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. His elder brother Ernst Friedrich was a composer and organist who studied under Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. Ernst Wilhelm’s musical talent manifested itself early, and already by age nine he was a skilled harpsichordist, particularly apt at figured bass realization. Wolf attended gymnasiums at Eisenach and at Gotha, where he became a choir prefect. It was in Gotha that Wolf first heard the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Carl Heinrich Graun; he was particularly fascinated with Bach’s work. The admiration was mutual: a performance of some of Wolf’s compositions in 1752 drew praise from Bach. Wolf and Bach’s friendship lasted throughout their lives; Wolf helped collect subscriptions for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s für Kenner und Liebhaber (for Connoisseurs and Amateurs) works (piano sonatas and rondos). Following his brother’s advice, in 1755 Wolf entered the University of Jena. There he became the director of the collegium musicum, for which he composed a number of works. After t

Ernst-Lothar von Knorr

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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 pharmacist Dr. chem. Karl Ferdinand von Knorr and Eugenie Sophie Merten. From 1902 he had his first violin lessons. In 1907 he was admitted to the Cologne Conservatory. After graduating from high school, conservatory examination and military service, he became a violin teacher at the Heidelberg Music Academy in 1919, and in 1920 he founded the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra Association with P. Gies. On 6 October 1923 he married in Gummersbach Elise Siebel, a granddaughter of , the co-founder of the paper mill . In the same year he became Concert master with the orchestra of the Diaghilev Ballet in Munich, in 1924 followed the establishment and direction of the Volks- und Jugendmusikschule-Süd in Berlin. In 1925 and 1928 his son Friedrich-Carl and his daughter Ellen were born. A third child (Angelika, *1944) died shortly after birth. Professional career during the Third Reich In 1937 von Knorr became a teacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he received a professorship

Ernstalbrecht Stiebler

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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 concerns: sonority, rhythm, and duration” leading “to a large and varied body of work”. Biography Stiebler was born in Berlin on 29 March 1934. He studied composition with Ernst Klussmann and piano at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, but had more important lessons at Darmstadt between 1958 and 1961, where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1959 and where he first encountered the music of LaMonte Young. From Young he took on sustained sounds and gradually unfolding forms, developing a style based on minimalist structures and repetitions. His other primary influences are indicated by the music of other composers he promoted while a music producer at broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, where he stayed for 25 years: Morton Feldman, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Giacinto Scelsi, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff. Steibler’s form of minimalism comes more from visual art than from mainstream minimalist music. He famously said: “Music is too important to burden it with emotions.” His music ranges from solo in

Eroica (2003 film)

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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 Simon Cellan Jones and was written by Nick Dear. Ian Hart starred as the composer, with Tim Pigott-Smith, Anton Lesser, and Frank Finlay along with Jack Davenport and Claire Skinner leading the cast. The music was played by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. It won the Prix Italia for Performing Arts in 2004. Plot The film is set in Vienna on 9 June 1804, the date of the private, first performance of Beethoven’s third symphony, later to be known as the ‘Eroica’. The performance, and most of the action in the film, takes place at the palace of one of Beethoven’s patrons, Prince Franz Lobkowitz. Midway during the performance, Beethoven tries to persuade his lover, a widow named Josephine von Deym, to marry him, but she refuses because of the unfair laws regarding child custody — she is a member of the nobility, and cannot marry a commoner without losing custody of her children. Later, composer Joseph Haydn, now old and feeble, arrives just in tim

Errico Petrella

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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, he was the most successful Italian composer, second only to Verdi, during the 1850s and 1860s. He also earned the latter’s scorn for his compositional and dramatic crudities, which nonetheless played well on the stage. Petrella was a popular composer in his day, both of opera buffa and more serious work. His best opera, Jone, has considerable melodramatic force and vitality, and Petrella’s melodic style, though old-fashioned in comparison with Verdi’s operas of the 1850s, is still appealing. None of his early works, premiered between December 1829 and 1839, were particularly successful. It was not until Il carnevale di Venezia (Naples, Nuovo, 20 May 1851) that he really became noticed. Elena di Tolosa (Naples, Fondo, 12 August 1852) followed. Finally, in 1854, he took the Italian operatic world by storm with Marco Visconti (Naples, San Carlo, 1854) based on the novel of the same title by Tommaso Grossi. L’assedio di Leida (La Scala, 1856) was his fourth straight triumph, while Jone (La

Errollyn Wallen

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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 by King Charles III, in his first appointment to the post. She is the first Black person to serve in the position, having in 1998 been the first Black woman to have a work featured in the Proms. Life Errollyn Wallen moved to London, England, from Belize with her family when she was two years old. While her parents moved to New York in the United States, she and her three siblings (one of whom is the trumpeter Byron Wallen) were brought up by an aunt and uncle and she was educated at a boarding school. She credits her interest in poetry and music to her uncle, whom she described in an interview as “Victorian” and responsible for her taking lessons in piano. Before studying music, she trained as a dancer at the Maureen Lyons School of Dance and the Urdang Academy, both in London. She moved to New York City to train further at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (1976–78) but later abandoned her training, turned to music composition and returned to the United Kingdom. Wallen has stated that she had

Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat

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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 career as a judge until his retirement in 1979. All through his life, Fırat was involved in the arts: music, writing, painting. He began to compose music and write his first poems and stories in the early 1940s, and took up painting in 1960. Selected works Several Fırat scores are published by Seesaw Music. ;Stage * Cambot Ardışı, Ballet Suite for chamber ensemble, Op. 7 (1956) * Anadolu’da Çırakman Ateşleri, Ballet Suite No. 1 for orchestra, Op. 41 (1970–1975) * Anadolu’da Çırakman Ateşleri, Ballet Suite No. 2 for mixed chorus and orchestra, Op. 47 (1979) * Gerçek Simge Oyun (Reality, Symbol, Genre), Multimedia Ballet for narrator, chorus, instrumental ensemble (flute, 2 cellos, 2 pianos), and dancers, Op. 53 (1977–1978) ;Orchestra * Orkestra Konçertosu No. 1 (Concerto for Orchestra No. 1), Op. 16 (1962–1963) * Anısal Kaynaklar No. 1 (Memorial Sources No. 1), Concerto Grosso, Op. 19 (1964) * Üç Dans (3 Dances), Op. 20 (1947–1965, revised 1986) * Karpuz Yiyen Eşek, Op. 21 (1965, revise

Erwann Kermorvant

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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 “36 quai des Orfèvres,” directed by Olivier Marchal in 2004, and “Les Lyonnais”, released in 2011. Kermorvant also composed for the television series “Astrid et Raphaëlle”. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la Musique pour l’Image in 2021, and Best Music award at the La Rochelle TV Fiction Festival in 2015 for Borderline, a French TV series. Filmography * 2000 : Les vacances de Sam directed by Gilles Daubeuf * 2002 : Duelles (TV) directed by Samantha Mazeras * 2002 : Les frangines (TV) directed by Laurence Katrian * 2003 : Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ? directed by Éric Lartigau * 2004 : Bien agités ! (TV) directed by Patrick Chesnais * 2004 : A trois c’est mieux (TV) directed by Laurence Katrian * 2004 : La Danse du vent directed by Taïeb Louhichi * 2004 : 36 Quai des Orfèvres directed by Olivier Marchal * 2005 : Un ticket pour l’espace directed by Éric Lartigau * 2006 : Greco (TV) directed by Philippe Setbon * 2006 : R.I.S Police scientifique (TV) directed by Stéphane Kaminka * 2006 : Pr

Erwin Dressel

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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, Dressel wrote many operas for the Deutsche Staatsoper. He also arranged music for the radio, concertized as a pianist and wrote orchestral music, including four symphonies; as well as concertos for various instruments (including one for two saxophones). Selected works ;Opera * Armer Columbus, opera, Op.23 (1927); libretto by Arthur Zweiniger * Der Bär, burlesque opera in 1 act; libretto by Robert Wolfgang Schnell * Der Kuchentanz, tragic opera in 3 acts (1927–1928); libretto by Arthur Zweiniger * Die Laune des Verliebten, lyric opera in 1 act; libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * Der Rosenbusch der Maria, Legend in 4 scenes (1929); libretto by Arthur Zweiniger * Das Urteil von Zalamea, opera in 3 acts, 6 scenes, Op.50; after Lope de Vega and Arthur Zweiniger * Die Zwillingsesel, opera in 3 acts; libretto by Arthur Zweiniger ;Orchestral * Abendmusik for chamber orchestra, Op.33 * Balladesker Marsch * Capriccio ritmico * Caprice fantastique * Cassation * Deutsche Märchen-Suite for chamber o

Erwin Gutawa

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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 1991. As a composer, he won the 1992 Midnight Sun Song Festival in Finland, together with Ruth Sahanaya. In 2001, he won the Anugerah Musik Indonesia award for best music arranger for his concert Rockestra. Biography Erwin Gutawa was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 16 May 1962. In the early 1980s Gutawa worked as sound arranger for the TVRI series Telerama. On 16 May 2002, Gutawa celebrated his 40th birthday by holding his first solo concert, Konser EG. It took place at the Plenary Hall of the Jakarta Convention Center and also featured Chrisye, Ruth Sahanaya, Krisdayanti, Sheila on 7, and Slank. and a farewell concert for his daughter Gita Gutawa entitled A Masterpiece of Erwin Gutawa (2011). In 2005, Gutawa went to London, England to work as a conductor at the London Symphony Orchestra in Royal Albert Hall. Personal life Gutawa is married to Lufti Adriani, also known as Lulu. Together, they have two children, Aluna Sagita and Aura Aria Gutawa. He enjoys cycling and home cooking, especiall

Erwin Lendvai

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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 National Music Academy of Budapest, studying with Hans von Koessler. He also studied with Giacomo Puccini in Milan. From 1906 on, he lived in Germany, where he began his teaching career. From 1913 to 1914, he taught at the J.-Dalcroze Institute in Hellerau, near Dresden, where he married the photographer Erna Dircksen. From 1914 to 1920, he taught composition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and in 1923 choral singing at the Volksmusikschule in Hamburg. He was also director of a musical society in Koblenz and director of the popular choir of Munich. In 1929, he premiered Arnold Schoenberg’s choral work Glück Op. 35, No. 4. In 1933, he emigrated from Germany due to the Nazi regime and after that worked as a music teacher in Kenninghall, England. After the war, he headed the Györ Conservatory of Music. He became interested in Béla Bartók’s music there. He died in Epsom, Surrey, UK. Lendvai wrote one opera, Elga (1916, to a libretto by Gerhart Hauptmann), the festival music Völ

Erwin Schulhoff

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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 terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany and whose works have been rarely noted or performed beyond Czechoslovakia until the 1980s. Life Schulhoff was born in Prague into a German family of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. His father Gustav Schulhoff was a wool merchant from Prague and his mother Louise Wolff from Frankfurt. The pianist and composer Julius Schulhoff was his great-uncle. Antonín Dvořák encouraged Schulhoff’s earliest musical studies, which began at the Prague Conservatory when he was ten years old. , and Cologne; where his teachers included Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Fritz Steinbach, and Willi Thern. He won the Mendelssohn Prize twice, for piano in 1913 and for composition in 1918. He served on the Russian front in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. He was wounded and was in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp when the war ended. He lived in Germany after the war before returning in 1923 to Prague, where he joined the faculty of the conservatory in 1929. Schulh

Erzsébet Szőnyi

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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 oratorios. She also wrote numerous stage works including eight operas. Biography Born in Budapest on 25 April 1924, Erzsébet Szőnyi studied composition and piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with János Viski. She received a secondary school music teaching diploma. In Paris, she attended courses by Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris, obtained a prize for composition, and worked in private with Nadia Boulanger in 1947 and 1948. She was also a pupil of Zoltán Kodály, with whom she worked in close collaboration. Later, she taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, providing classes in musical education and directing choirs. From 1964 onwards, Szőnyi was a member directing the International Society for Music Education (ISME). She was vice-president of ISME from 1970 to 1974. She died on 28 December 2019 in Budapest. Prizes * 1947: Liszt-Preis * 1959: Erkel Ferenc-díj * 1995 and 2004: Bartók-Pásztory prize (Bartók Béla-Pásztory Ditta-díj) * 200