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Eugen Brixel

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Eugen Brixel (27 March 1939 – 16 October 2000) was an Austrian composer, musician and musicologist. The focus of his work was international wind music research. Life Brixel was born in 1939 in Šumperk. After the World War II, driven out by the Czechs, his family finally arrived in Vienna, where he completed his compulsory schooling with the school brothers. At first, Eugen Brixel learned the profession of druggist, in accordance with his parents’ wishes. On 12 June 1956 he passed the druggist’s examination, but his passion belonged to playing the clarinet. From the age of sixteen he studied the clarinet with Leopold Wlach and Karl Österreicher at the Vienna Music Academy (today the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) and graduated with distinction in 1962. After passing the Externistenmatura on 11 October 1960, he also studied theatre studies, musicology and psychology at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a doctorate in Dr. phil. on 16 July 1967. In 1964, Brixel married his wife Eva Leeb, in 1965 his daughter Constanze Viola was born and in 1973 his daughter Regine Cosima. He served in the military from 1967 to 1969 with the Gardemusik Vienna and the Militärmu

Eugen d'Albert

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Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d’Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany and later to Switzerland. Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Annie Rowell, and a German-born father of French and Italian descent, Charles Louis Napoléon d’Albert (1809–1886), whose ancestors included the composers Giuseppe Matteo Alberti and Domenico Alberti. D’Albert’s father was a pianist, arranger and a prolific composer of salon music who had been ballet-master at the King’s Theatre and at Covent Garden. D’Albert was born when his father was 55 years old. The Musical Times wrote in 1904 that “This, and other circumstances, accounted for a certain loneliness in the boy’s home-life and the years of his childhood. He was misunderstood, and ‘cribbed, cabined, and confined’ to such an extent as to largely prejudice him against the country which gave him birth”. D’Albert was brought up in Glasgow and taught music by his father until he won a scholarship to the new National Training School for Music (forerunner of the Royal College of Music) in London, which he entered in 1876 at the age of 12. Also in 1880, d’Albert arranged the p

Eugen Haile

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Eugen Haile (February 21, 1873 – August 14, 1933) was a German-American composer, singer, and accompanist, primarily known for his songs. In his lifetime, it was claimed that he was one of the “truly inspired melodists, a lineal descendent of the great lyricists, Schubert, Schumann, Franz and Brahms.” Biography Early life Haile was born in Ulm, “on the fringe of the Black Forest”. During his childhood Haile liked the zither, and also played the flute, which he learned from “an old town musician … The boy preferred to play by ear and in the open; or to improvise an obbligato to the deep bass of an old shoemaker friend whose singing of chorals he enjoyed.” He loved “emotional spontenaity” and folksong, and had a “preference for simple sentiments simply and sincerely expressed”. and got married. His wife was a contralto, Around 1905, Haile began work on a second opera, called Viola d’Amore. They became active in the musical life of the city. In November, 1907, the singer Theodore Van Yorx gave a recital of Haile’s songs at Mendelssohn Hall in New York City, accompanied by the composer at the piano. The program consisted of readings by Van Yorx from Haile’s autobiography, intersperse

Eugen Papst

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Eugen Papst (24 December 1886 – 2 January 1956) was a German composer and music teacher. Life Papst was born in Oberammergau, the son of an educator and head teacher of the same name, Eugen Papst (1855-1923), after whom the Eugen-Papst-Förderschule in Germering was later named. He then attended the teacher training seminar in Freising and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1907. In 1910 he worked at the theater in Olsztyn and from 1911 in Bern as musical director of the city theater. In 1922 he was called to Hamburg, where he conducted the Hamburg Philharmonic together with Karl Muck until it was disbanded by the Nazis in 1934. Papst first went to Münster as General Music Director in the fall of 1934, but by 1935 he had already become director of the Cologne Men’s Choral Society and shortly afterwards, with the support of his friend Richard Strauss, also became municipal General Music Director of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne as successor to Hermann Abendroth. He also taught conducting at the Cologne Academy of Music. After the end of the war, there were disputes over his position as General Music Director because the City of Cologne appointed Günt

Eugen Suchoň

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Eugen Suchoň (September 25, 1908 – August 5, 1993) was one of the most important Slovak composers of the 20th century. Early life Eugen Suchoň was born on September 25, 1908, in the house opposite the Roman Catholic parish office on Farská Street (today’s space near the old Pezinok Cultural Center air conditioning) in Pezinok, (Slovakia). His father, Ladislav Suchoň, was an organist and teacher. His mother, Serafína Suchoňová, was a piano teacher, and it was from her that he received his first piano tuition. The house was always filled with music and, as a small child, he would listen from under the piano when his father rehearsed at home with other musicians. In 1920, at the age of twelve, he started taking piano lessons at the Bratislava School of Music with the distinguished musician Frico Kafenda. Later, from 1927 to 1931, he continued his studies with the same teacher at the newly established Academy of Music in Bratislava. His early works include several piano compositions and a choral work Veľky Pôst (The Great Fast). He graduated from his composition classes with the Sonata in A-flat for Violin and Piano and a String Quartet (op. 2, 1931, revised 1939). His two-year studies

Eugène Bigot

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Eugène Bigot (28 February 1888 – 17 July 1965) was a French composer and conductor. Life Bigot was born in Rennes, Brittany. Initially trained as a violinist and later as a violist, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1905 to continue his musical studies, which he had begun at the conservatory in his hometown. He studied harmony with Xavier Leroux, counterpoint with André Gedalge, and fugue and composition with Paul Vidal. At the same time, he was actively working as a substitute instrumentalist in various Parisian theatres, including Opéra and the Opéra-Comique, even during his military service. His notable pupils included Émilien Allard, Louis de Froment, Henri-Claude Fantapié, António Fortunato de Figueiredo, Karel Husa, Paul Kuentz, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Pierre Rolland, and Mikis Theodorakis. He died in Paris. References External links *Biography (in French) Jean-Philippe Mousnier: “Albert Wolff - Eugène Bigot”, Editions l’Harmattan, 2001.

Eugene Bonner

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Eugene Bonner, sometimes given as Eugene MacDonald Bonner (June 24, 1889 – December 8, 1983) was an American composer and music critic. As a composer he was particularly known for his operas. In 1931 his opera The Venetian Glass Nephew was staged at the Vanderbilt Theatre on Broadway. He wrote as a music critic for a variety of publications in Europe and the United States, including The Outlook, the Daily Mirror, the Brooklyn Eagle, Cue, and the New York Herald Tribune. He also served as managing editor of the journal The Musical Record. In 1907 Bonner began music studies at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore; earning an organ scholarship at that institution the following year. Composing career While studying in England, Bonner published his first music composition with the London publishing house, Weeks & Co. Career as a music critic Later life In 1955 Bonner moved to Taormina, Sicily. He lived there until his death in Taormina on December 8, 1983. Partial list of works Operas *Barbara Frietchie (1921) *Celui qui Épousa une Femme Muette (1923) *The Venetian Glass Nephew (1927) *The Gods of the Mountain (1936) *Frankie and Johnnie (1945) Other stage works *The Young Ale

Eugène Bozza

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Eugène Joseph Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991) was a French composer and violinist. He was one of the most prolific composers of chamber music for wind instruments. Bozza’s large ensemble works include five symphonies, operas, ballets, large choral work, wind band music, concertos, and many works for large brass or woodwind ensembles. Biography Childhood and early years (1905–1915) Bozza was born in Nice to an Italian musician and a French woman. His father, Umberto Bozza, was a violinist who made his living playing in French casinos along the Mediterranean coast. His mother’s name was Honoré Molina. With a professional musician for a father, Bozza was exposed to music early on. He began studying the violin with his father when he was only five years old. Under such expert tutelage, Bozza became an outstanding young violinist and would occasionally go with his father to performances and play with the orchestra. In 1915, at the age of ten, Bozza and his father moved to Italy to avoid the turmoil of World War I. Formative years (1915–1934) In Italy, Bozza studied violin, piano, and solfège in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He graduated in 1919 with a diplom

Eugène Gigout

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Eugène Gigout (; 23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer, mostly of music for his own instrument. Biography Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organist of the French capital’s Saint-Augustin Church for 62 years. He became widely known as a teacher and his output as a composer was considerable. Renowned as an expert improviser, he also founded his own music school. His nephew by marriage was Léon Boëllmann, another distinguished French composer and organist. The 10 pièces pour orgue (composed 1890) include the Toccata in B minor, Gigout’s best-known creation, which turns up as a frequent encore at organ recitals. Also fairly often played, and to be found in the same collection, is a Scherzo in E major. Other notable pieces by Gigout are Grand chœur dialogué (1881), and Marche religieuse. Gigout’s works are now available on several commercial recordings. His pupils included his nephew Boëllmann, Victoria Cartier, André Fleury, Henri Gagnon, André Marchal, André Messager, and Albert Roussel. Selected compositions Organ * Six Pièces (1872, 1876, 1885) * Trois Morceaux (1888) * Cent Pièces brèves (1

Eugène Ketterer

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Eugène Ketterer (7 July 1831 – 18 December 1870) was a prolific French composer and pianist who was known for his numerous salon arrangements of contemporary opera arias. Career Born in Rouen, France, of an originally Alsatian family, Ketterer became a student at the Paris Conservatoire in his early youth, where he studied with Antoine François Marmontel. He won second prize for solfège in 1847 and a premier accessit in 1852. After his graduation until his death in Paris in 1870, he appeared constantly as a pianist winning wide repute for his fantasies and drawing-room pieces, of which he wrote a large number, but only a few of which are still in the repertoire. The list of Ketterer’s works gives an excellent overview on the world of opera in France at the time, as many of these works are transcriptions of popular opera arias, many still famous today. Many of Ketterer’s transcriptions were subsequently arranged for piano 4-hands by other arrangers like Joseph Rummel (1818–1880) or Édouard Mangin. “Les Étoiles” is a collection of 18 (later 19) such arrangements (1875). Evaluation Hervé Lacombe classifies Ketterer among the authors of what he calls derivative products, referring to a

Eugene Kurtz

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Eugene Allen Kurtz (December 27, 1923 – July 7, 2006) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He received an M.A. in music from the Eastman School of Music in 1949. His instructors included Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Max Deutsch. He served as a guest professor of composition at the University of Michigan, the Eastman School of Music, and several other universities. His notable students include John Burke, Roger Briggs, John S. Hilliard, and Robert Morris. His best-known composition is The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas (1974), for double bass and female narrator, which was composed for Bertram Turetzky and his wife Nancy Turetzky, who have performed it frequently. He was also commissioned by Radio France. Kurtz was born in Atlanta and served in the U.S. Army during World War II; he first arrived in France in 1944. He settled in Paris in 1952, living there until his death there of a lung infection at the age of 82. References External links *Eugene Kurtz entry from International Who’s Who in Music *Eugene Kurtz biography *Obituary (French) *Eugene Kurtz remembrance *Audio sample of The Last Contrabass in Las Vegas

Eugène Lapierre

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Eugène Lapierre (8 June 1899 – 21 October 1970) was a Canadian organist, composer, journalist, writer on music, arts administrator, and music educator. He was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935 and the King George VI Coronation Medal in 1937. In 1963 he was named Chevalier of the Order of Malta and in 1966 he received the Bene merenti de patria from the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. He is the great-uncle of composer Yves Lapierre. Life and career Born in Montreal, Lapierre received his earliest musical education at Saint Brigid’s Church in his native city where he was a pupil of choirmaster Lucien Perreault. He then studied the organ with Étienne Guillet and worked as an accompanist at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. He entered the École des Hautes Études Commerciales where he earned a degree in 1922. From 1924–1928 Lapierre studied in Paris through a grant from the Canadian government, first at the Institut Grégorien where he earned a diploma in 1926 and then at the Schola cantorum where he earned a diploma in 1928. Among his teachers in Paris were Georges Caussade (composition), Vincent d’Indy (composition), Marcel Dupré (organ and improvisation), Simone

Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt

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Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt (15 December 1815 – 29 January 1901) was a French bassoonist, composer, and pedagogue. A virtuoso bassoonist and teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, Jancourt is mostly known for his method books and the system innovations he made to the “Buffet” style bassoon. He, along with his contemporary and fellow bassoonist Julius Weissenborn, is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important bassoonists of the 19th century. Biography and playing career Jancourt was born in Château-Thierry, France on December 15, 1815. He grew up surrounded by music and began formally studying flute at age eight. Throughout his childhood he also learned violin and clarinet before switching to the bassoon because he was “impressed by the timbre and character” of the instrument. He proved to be very capable at the instrument and was soon accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nineteen. His teacher, François René Gebauer, gave Jancourt one of his own bassoons after he saw the terrible condition that Jancourt’s bassoon was in. Afterwards, he went on to win the Conservatoire competition in only his second year. Once he graduated in 1837, Jancourt free-lanced in

Eugene O'Brien (composer)

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Eugene O’Brien (born April 24, 1945) is an American composer who has been a member of the faculty at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 1987. He was chair of the Composition Department from 1994 to 1999, and is currently executive associate dean. He has been a member of the composition faculties at Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, and Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Early life and education O’Brien was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the University of Nebraska, where he received his undergraduate and graduate degree and undertook post-graduate studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Köln, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Cleveland Institute of Music / Case Western Reserve University. He studied composition with Robert Beadell, John Eaton, Donald Erb, Iannis Xenakis, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Career O’Brien’s music has been heard in concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Italian Radio (RAI) Orchestras of Rome and Turin, the Omaha Symphony, as part of the Saint Louis Symphony Discovery series, the Louisville Orchestra New Dimensions series, and in numerous other co

Eugène Prévost (musician)

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Eugène-Prosper Prévost (23 April 1809 – 19 August 1872) was a French composer and conductor. Life Born in Paris, Prévost was introduced to music by his older sister, the singer Geneviève-Aimé-Zoë Prévost. From 1827 he studied counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris with Daniel Jelensperger and Louis Seuriot and musical composition with Jean-François Lesueur. In 1831, he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the two-part scene La Fuite de Bianca Capello on a text by Amédée de Pastoret. In the same year he married the singer Augustine Dejean-Leroy (born 1807), who became known as Éléonore Colon, and went with her to Le Havre. After his stay in Rome in 1833 he made his debut as a composer with the world premiere of the Opéra bouffe Cosimo ou le peintre badigeonneur 1835 at the Opéra-Comique, where several more of his operas were performed until 1839. In 1838, he was engaged as a conductor at the Théâtre Français in New Orleans, where he introduced himself with a performance of The Barber of Seville. In addition to works by contemporary Italian and French composers such as Gaetano Donizetti and Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, he performed several operas of his own. 1841 he conducted

Eugène Reuchsel

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Stéphane Marie-Eugène Reuchsel (21 July 1900 – 22 September 1988) was a French pianist, a specialist of Chopin and Liszt, organist and composer. Biography Born in Lyon, a descendant of an illustrious family of musicians of German origin, he was Amédée Reuchsel ’s (1875–1931) son. He studied piano, organ and music composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won the First prize. He won the First Prize in piano at the age of 16. After completing his studies, he was engaged as a soloist in renowned orchestras of Paris: the Concerts Colonne, Orchestre Lamoureux, Pasdeloup Orchestra. Since then, he gave numerous recitals in Europe, America and North Africa, where marshal Lyautey gave him the best reception. The house, close to the sea, opens widely on this last one. One of the peculiarities of the villa is that it has an organ in the living room, with a wind tunnel in the basement. There are also two concert pianos, one of which was given at the Town Hall of Rayol-Canadel. Reuchsel also trained students, such as composer Jean-Patrick André born in 1954. Reuchsel died in 1988. He is buried in the Rayol-Canadel cemetery. On his tomb, a medallion recalls the motto of his life: “Musi

Eugène Ysaÿe

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Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as “The King of the Violin”, or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the “tsar”. Early years Born in Liège, Ysaÿe began violin lessons at age five with his father. He would later recognise his father’s teaching as the foundation of everything he knew on his instrument, even though he went on to study with highly reputed masters. In 1867, Ysaÿe entered the Royal Conservatory of Liège to study with Désiré Heynberg, and in the process won a shared second prize with the Viotti 22nd Violin Concerto. He then went on to study with Henryk Wieniawski for two years in Brussels and Henri Vieuxtemps in Paris. Ernest Bloch, Jascha Brodsky, Mathieu Crickboom, George Enescu, Charles Houdret, Julia Klumpke, Louis Persinger, Oscar Shumsky, and Jacques Thibaud. () During his tenure as professor at the Conservatoire, Ysaÿe continued to tour ever more widely, visiting all of Europe, Russia, and the United States. Despite health concerns, particularly regarding the condition of his hands, Ysaÿe was at his best when performing, and many prominent composers dedicated major

Eugene Zador

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Eugene Zador (born Jenő Zádor; 5 November 1894, Bátaszék, Hungary – 4 April 1977, Hollywood, California) was a Hungarian and American composer. Life Born into a Jewish family, his parents were Paula Biermann and József Zádor (originally Zucker) . He studied at the Vienna Music Academy and in Leipzig with Max Reger. He taught from 1921 at the new New Vienna Conservatory and later at the Budapest Academy of Music. Fearful for his safety due to his Jewish identity, he left Austria on the day of the Anschluss to return to Hungary. He actively sought employment in the United States out of fear of the rise of Nazi Germany, and was able to successfully earn a post on the faculty of the New York College of Music. The college was able to obtain an American visa for him, and he sailed to America in 1939. On that voyage he composed the music to his opera Christopher Columbus. Music Zádor wrote a number of operas in which the characterization and orchestration are worthy of note. He claimed to occupy a position “exactly between La Traviata and Lulu”. His orchestral pieces are written in a late romantic style that owed something to Max Reger and Richard Strauss. They include the popular Hungari

Eugenia Calosso

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Eugenia Calosso (21 April 1878 – after 1914) was an Italian conductor and composer. She studied at the conservatory in Leipzig, and studied composition with Giovanni Cravero. She began her career as a conductor at the Casino Municipale in San Remo and continued concert tours of Europe until 1914. Calosso wrote madrigals, orchestral suites, and instrumental works for violin and piano, and more than fifty lieder. She wrote one opera, Vespero, with a libretto by Ernesto Ragazzoni. Life Eugenia Calosso was born on 21 April 1878 in Turin, Piedmont. She studied at the conservatory in Leipzig, and studied composition with Giovanni Cravero. Calosso wrote madrigals, lieder, orchestral suites, and instrumental works for violin and piano. She wrote about fifty lieder. She died after 1914. References

Eugenia Manolidou

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Eugenia Karagiannidou (; born in Athens, Greece), better known as Eugenia Manolidou (Μανωλίδου) or Manolides, is a Greek classical composer, conductor and is married to politician and Minister for Health of Greece Adonis Georgiadis. Biography Eugenia Karagiannidou was born in Athens, Greece. Eugenia married painter Theodore Manolides, in 1995. They separated in 2002 but Theodore denied filing the divorce for quite a while. Afterward she lived with the editor, New Democracy party Vice President and former Minister Adonis Georgiades. She has given birth to 4 children, 2 of which with Theodore (Alexandros, 1996 and Olympia Theodora, 1998) and 2 with Adonis, called Perseus (2005) and Alcaeus (2014). Eventually Eugenia and Adonis got married on June 22, 2009. Education and career as conductor Eugenia Manolidou started piano lessons at the age of 5 and she kept practising all along, though her goal has always been composing. During her childhood, her father died. At some point, she paused her piano studies in Conservatory J.S. Bach, with Russian teacher Alla Halapsis. After graduation from high school, she began to study management but soon enough she pursued her dream overseas. In New Y

Eugénie Rocherolle

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Eugénie Ricau Rocherolle (August 24, 1936 – March 4, 2025) was an American composer, pianist, lyricist, and teacher who began her composing career with choral and band music. Biography Rocherolle was born and raised in New Orleans. She graduated from St. Martin’s Episcopal School and graduated with a BA in music from the Newcomb College of Tulane University. Tidings of Joy (1996), Romancing the Piano (1998), and Touch of Blue (2008). For many years she maintained a private music studio where she taught piano and composition. She and her husband, Didier Rocherolle, whom she met while returning home from her Junior Year in Paris, were long-time residents of Connecticut. They had four children. Rocherolle died on March 4, 2025, at the age of 88. Works The following works are published at Neil A. Kjos Music Company and are succeeded by their edition number: Piano solo *A Creative Christmas (GP359) *American Sampler (GP322) *Bayou Reflections (GP338) *Blockbuster (GP346) *Boogie Bonanaza (GP373) *Christmas Anew (GP367) *Christmas Around the Piano (GP337) *Christmas Joy (GP404) *Classical Theme and Variations (GP370) *Cuatro Rumores Hispanicos (GP418) *Discoveries (GP361) *Extravaganza (

Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville

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Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (5 January 1870 – 28 October 1946) was a Belgian composer, pianist, violinist, music educator, conductor and organist. Life Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville was born in Liège, Belgium, and began the study of music with her father who was a lawyer and amateur musician. She lived for several years in London, Works Folville composed for theater, solo instruments, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble. Selected works include: Orchestral works * Scènes champêtres. 1 re Suite d’orchestre, op. 9 (1885) : Aux Champs, Dans la montagne, Rêverie, Fête de village * Scènes de la mer. 2 e Suite d’orchestre, op. 14 (1886) : Chanson du pêcheur, Nuit étoilée, Mer phosphorescente, Flots agités, Adieux à l’océan * Scènes d’hiver. 3 e Suite d’orchestre, op. 17 (1887) : Ballade, La neige, Noël, Carnaval * Violin concerto in G Minor, op. 20 (1888) * Piano concerto in D Minor (1902–1903) * Concerstück for cello and orchestra (1905) * Impressions d’Ardenne, orchestral suite (1910) * Triptyque for violin and orchestra, or piano (ca. 1935) Chamber and piano works * Souvenir de Mozart. 1 re Sonatine (op. 7, 1881) and 2 e Sonatine (op. 11, 1882) * Berceuse for violin and pia

Eugenio Cavallini

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Eugenio Cavallini (16 June 1806 — 11 April 1881) was an Italian conductor, composer, violinist, and violist. In 1833 he became first violinist of the orchestra at La Scala, a post he held through 1855. He also served as a conductor at La Scala, notably leading the world premieres of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (1833), Donizetti’s Gemma di Vergy (1834), Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda (1835), Saverio Mercadante’s Il giuramento (1837), Mercadante’s Il bravo (1839), Giuseppe Verdi’s Oberto (1839), Verdi’s Un giorno di regno (1840), Donizetti’s Maria Padilla (1841), Verdi’s Nabucco (1842), Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843), Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco (1845), Federico Ricci’s Estella di Murcia (1846), and Domenico Ronzani’s Salvator Rosa (1854). At La Scala Cavallini also conducted performances of Vincenzo Bellini’s La sonnambula (1834), Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (1834), Bellini’s I puritani (1835), Daniel Auber’s La muette de Portici (1838), Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1839), Donizetti’s La fille du régiment (1840), Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (1843), Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix (1844), Verdi’s Ernani (1844), Verdi’s Attila (1846), Verdi’s Jérusalem (1850), Verdi’s R

Eugeniusz Knapik

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Eugeniusz Knapik (born July 9, 1951, in Ruda Śląska) is a Polish pianist and composer of classical music best known for his 1980 chamber piece String Quartet No. 1. Knapik studied composition and piano with Henryk Górecki (1933–2010) and Czesław Stańczyk at the University of Music in Katowice. As a pianist, he has recorded widely, mainly in 20th-century music. He has won numerous prizes for his compositions, including at the Festival of Polish Piano Interpretation in Słupsk, and the International Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. Along with Andrzej Krzanowski and Aleksander Lasoń, Knapik is generally seen as a leading member of the composers who emerged in Poland during the mid-1970s. This group was collectively named Stalowa Wola after the city at which they stated their manifesto at a 1975 festival of music sub-titled “From young composers to a young City”. Their statement read, “The work of the composers who entered their artistic lives at the festivals in Stalowa Wola was a kind of opposition to the 1950s and 60s avant-garde: opposition towards novelty for novelty’s sake, and towards total destruction. This opposition was a spontaneous, intuitive, deep-rooted reaction, which

Eumir Deodato

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Eumir Deodato de Almeida (; born 22 June 1942) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova. Deodato has arranged and produced more than 500 records for acts such as Frank Sinatra, Roberta Flack, Björk and Christophe. He also produced Kool & the Gang’s hits “Celebration”, “Ladies’ Night” and “Too Hot”. Deodato was nominated for three Grammy Awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1974 for “Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001).” The song peaked at number 2 on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 in March 1973. It reached number 3 in Canada and number 7 on the British charts. Career Recording career Deodato often plays the Fender Rhodes electric piano. He became successful as a keyboard player in the 1970s. Since then, he has produced and arranged music on more than 500 albums for artists such as Kool & the Gang, Con Funk Shun, Björk, Christophe, Ithamara Koorax and k.d. lang. Guitarist John Tropea and flautist Hubert Laws appeared on his early albums. Prelude, his first album in the U.S., was re

Eun Young Lee

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Eun Young Lee is a South Korean composer based in the United States. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and an associate professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Biography Eun Young Lee studied at Ewha Womans University where she obtained a BM and MM in music theory, and the Manhattan School of Music, where she obtained her MM in composition. She won the first-place prize at the 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition. In 2010, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, for work on her commissions for the Sejong Cultural Society and University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music, as well as a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. David Schulenberg praised Antico Moderno’s 2016 performance of her piece Gil as “imaginative use of the ensemble’s distinctive sonorities”. One of her pieces, “Mool”, was performed in Liza Stepanova’s 2017 piano album E Pluribus Unum. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition in 2023 and another MacDowell Fellowship in 2024; References

Eunice Katunda

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Eunice Katunda (also spelled Catunda) (née do Monte Lima) was a Brazilian pianist, composer, music educator, lecturer, and poet. Katunda was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 1915, and died at 76 years old on August 3, 1990 in São José dos Campos. Education and Career Showing signs of being a child prodigy, Katunda began playing the piano at just two years old. She learned piano with Mima Oswald from age of 5 to 8, then with Branca Bilhar from age 9 to 12, and then with Oscar Guanabarino from age 13 to 21. In around 1934, she moved to São Paulo where she studied piano with Marieta Lion. In 1946 she returned to Rio de Janeiro and began her studies with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. In her compositional studies, she was especially interested in avant-garde and modern composers and she expanded her knowledge of counterpoint, musical aesthetics, orchestration, and arrangement. Katunda continued to compose until 1983, with her most prolific period being the 1950s and 1960s. She could speak and write in three languages, English, French, and Italian. Personal life Katunda’s parents were Rubens do Monte Lima from Rio Grande do Sul and Maria Grauben Bomilcar, a native painter from Ceará. Her

Eunice Lea Kettering

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Eunice Lea Kettering (April 4, 1906 – March 9, 2000) was an American composer and professor. Kettering wrote many compositions and almost 20,000 copies of her work were published. She was the first woman in the United States to become a Fellow in the American Guild of Organists. Early life and death Kettering was born in Savannah, Ohio on April 4, 1906. She became an orphan at the age of three and was adopted by Adam and Cora Kettering in Ashland, Ohio. Adam Kettering was a car dealer and was the brother of inventor Charles F. Kettering. She started composing music at age six. Kettering died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 9, 2000, at the age of 93. Career Kettering was a professor at Madison University in Virginia for three years and then taught music for 23 years at Ashland University in Ohio. During her time at Ashland University, she composed and performed many of her works. After retiring early from teaching, she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1959 and then later moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1962. While in Albuquerque, she composed the majority of her work and two of her compositions were recorded. Her compositions were performed in colleges, churches, universitie

Eunike Tanzil

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Eunike Tanzil (born August 17, 1998) is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. She has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Laufey, TwoSet Violin, Anna Lapwood, Sophie Kauer, Ray Chen, Jeff Danna, Jhett Tolentino and Feby Putri. Tanzil has participated in scoring music for Asian Persuasion (2023), Be Somebody (2021), The Addams Family 2 (2021), I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022), and Abominable and the Invisible City. Tanzil’s music has been performed by several orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Early life and education Tanzil was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra. She began learning piano and Electone at the age of 5. At 17, Tanzil relocated to the US after winning a full scholarship from Berklee College of Music She later earned a Master of Music degree in composition from the Juilliard School. While at Juilliard, she

Eusebius Mandyczewski

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Eusebius Mandyczewski (, ; 18 August 1857, in Molodiia – 13 August 1929, in Vienna) was a Romanian musicologist, composer, conductor, and teacher. He was an author of numerous musical works and is highly regarded within Austrian, Romanian and Ukrainian music circles. Personal life Eusebius Mandyczewski was born in the village of Bahrynivka (Ukrainian: Багринівка; Romanian: Bahrinești) (then Austria-Hungary; now Ukraine, Hlyboka Raion) on 18 August 1857. His father was a priest and his mother, Veronica, born Popovici, was the sister of Eusebiu Popovici, erudite professor of history at the University of Cernauti and the father of the Bucovinian poet Gheorghe Popovici (known under the pen name of T. Robeanu). His origin according to the father has Slavic affiliations; according to his mother the origin is Romanian. Eusebius had two brothers (Georgiy and Prof. Kostiantyn) and one sister (Kateryna). Kostiantyn was a secondary school teacher, member of the regional School Council and later Head of the Chernivtsi Library. Kateryna Mandychevs’ka was a school teacher. Georgiy was also a composer of choral music. He finished his secondary studies at the upper school of Chernivtsi and simulta

Eustache Du Caurroy

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François-Eustache du Caurroy (baptised February 4, 1549 – August 7, 1609) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including musique mesurée, and he was also influential on the foundation of the French school of organ music as exemplified in the work of Jean Titelouze. Life According to Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, writing in 1780, Du Caurroy was born in Gerberoy and was baptised in Beauvais. He probably entered royal service around 1569, and in 1575 is first mentioned in documents from the royal court, when he won a song competition: he was to win two more, in 1576 and 1583, for a motet and a chanson respectively. He became sous-maître de la chapelle royale, a post which he held until 1595, at which time he was appointed to be official composer of the royal chamber; in 1599 he also acquired the post of composer at the royal chapel. Du Caurroy accumulated wealth and honours in the first decade of the 17th century, including benefices and a large estate in Picardy. In his late years he also held the post of canon at several churches, including Sainte-Croix in Orléans, Sainte-Chapelle in D