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F. Andrieu

F. Andrieu (; possibly François or Franciscus Andrieu) was a French composer in the style of late medieval music. Nothing is known for certain about him except that he wrote Armes, amours/O flour des

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Fabian Müller (composer)

Fabian Müller (*12 February 1964 in Zurich) is a Swiss composer. Biography Fabian Müller is one of the leading Swiss composers of his generation. He originally comes from Lengau in the canton of

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Fabián Panisello

Fabián Panisello (born Fabián Andrés Panisello Cuevas; in Spain, in Argentina; 11 October 1963) is an Argentinian-Spanish composer, conductor, and educator. He is the founding director of the

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Fabien Lévy

Fabien Lévy (born 11 December 1968) is a French composer. Biography Lévy was born in Paris, France. After having been a jazz pianist, he studied composition with Gérard Grisey, orchestration with

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Fabio Campana

Fabio Campana (14 January 1819 – 2 February 1882) was an Italian composer, opera director, conductor, and singing teacher who composed eight operas which premiered between 1838 and 1869. He was born

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Fábio Caramuru

Fábio Caramuru (São Paulo Brazil, September 14, 1956) is a Brazilian pianist, composer and musical producer. Biography Fábio Caramuru develops two main projects: EcoMúsica Project and Tom Jobim for

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Fabio Costa (composer, conductor)

Fabio Costa (Fábio Ciglioni Martins Costa, 4 December 1971) is a Brazilian-born composer, conductor and pianist. He is also active as a composer of microtonal music. Early life and musical education

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Fabio Frizzi

Fabio Frizzi (born 2 July 1951) is an Italian musician and composer. Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, he is best known for his scores for horror films. Career Prior to his work in film, he was

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Fabio Ilacqua

Fabio Ilacqua (born 8 October 1975) is an Italian lyricist, composer, arranger, record producer and singer-songwriter. Life and career Born in Varese to a Sicilian father and a Calabrian mother,

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Fabio Mengozzi

Fabio Mengozzi (born May 12, 1980) is an Italian composer and pianist. Biography Fabio Mengozzi was born on May 12, 1980, in Asti. studied piano with Aldo Ciccolini, orchestral conducting and

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Fabio Vacchi

Fabio Vacchi (; born 19 February 1949) is an Italian composer. Biography Training and debut Fabio Vacchi studied at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and

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Fabrizio De Rossi Re

Fabrizio De Rossi Re (born 1 August 1960) is an Italian composer and librettist. He composes operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music, and performs as a pianist. Biography De Rossi Re was born in

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Fahir Atakoğlu

Mustafa Fahir Atakoğlu (, born 28 January 1963) is a Turkish American pianist and composer who has worked with a wide range of artists across many genres of music, ranging in style from symphonic

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Falz

Folarin Falana (; born 27 October 1990), better known by his stage name Falz, is a Nigerian rapper, songwriter, and actor. He began his career in secondary school after forming a group called "The

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Fang Man (composer)

Fang Man () is a Chinese-born American composer. Compositions Orchestral *That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers III (In memory of Steven Stucky) for Sheng, Cello and Chamber Orchestra

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Fannie Charles Dillon

Fannie Charles Dillon (March 16, 1881 – February 21, 1947) was an American pianist, music educator and composer. Life Fannie Charles Dillon was born in Denver, Colorado in 1881. She moved with her

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Fannie Morris Spencer

Fannie Morris Spencer (August 15, 1865 – April 9, 1943) was an American composer and organist who wrote a collection of 32 hymns and was a founding member of the American Guild of Organists. Spencer

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Fanny Arthur Robinson

Fanny Arthur Robinson (September 1831 – 31 October 1879) was an English pianist, music educator and composer who spent most of her career in Dublin, Ireland. Biography Fanny Robinson was born in

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Fanny Hensel

Fanny Cäcilie Hensel née Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Her compositions number

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Fanny Howie

Fanny Rose Howie ( or Poata; 11 January 1868 – 20 May 1916), also known by her stage name Te Rangi Pai, was a New Zealand singer and composer. Of Māori descent, she identified with the iwi of Ngāti

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Fanny Hünerwadel

Fanny Hünerwadel (26 January 1826 – 27 April 1854) was a Swiss pianist, singer and composer. She sang and performed in Zurich, Paris and London, but died of typhus at the age of 28. She wrote seven

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Fanny Puzzi

Fanny Puzzi (18341913) was an Italian composer, impresario, and singer who composed songs. She was best known for her song “L’Indovina,” which was frequently performed, and for her family's work

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Faraj Garayev

Faraj Gara oglu Garayev (); December 19, 1943 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani composer, music instructor, professor, son of the prominent Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev and one of the leading composers

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Farangis Nurulla-Khoja

Farangis Nurulla-Khoja (born 1972) is a Tajik-Canadian composer, who explores timbre within her contemporary compositions of symphonic, chamber, vocal, and electro-acoustic music. Among her many

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Farid al-Atrash

Farid al-Atrash (; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, composer, and actor. Although born in Syria, he immigrated to Egypt at

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Farid Allawerdi

Farid Allawerdi (1923–2007, , ), also transliterated as Farid Allahwerdi or Farid Allah Werdi, was an Iraqi composer, violist, musicologist, and teacher, and is considered one of Iraq's most

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Fartein Valen

Olav Fartein Valen (25 August 1887 – 14 December 1952) was a Norwegian composer, notable for his work in atonal polyphonic music. He developed a polyphony similar to Bach's counterpoint, but based on

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Faustina Hasse Hodges

Faustina Hasse Hodges (7 August 1822 – 4 February 1895) was an English-American organist and composer. Life and work She was born in Malmesbury, England, in 1822, as one of four children born to the

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Fausto Romitelli

Fausto Romitelli (1 February 1963 – 27 June 2004) was an Italian composer. Life and career Romitelli was born on 1 February 1963 in Gorizia, Italy. He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory

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Fay Foster

Fay Foster (November 8, 1886 – April 17, 1960) was an American pianist, composer, and teacher. Biography Foster was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on November 8, 1886. She was a child prodigy,

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Faye-Ellen Silverman

Faye-Ellen Silverman (born October 2, 1947) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She is also an author and an educator. Life and education Born in New York, New York, Silverman

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Fazıl Say

Fazıl Say (; born 14 January 1970) is a Turkish classical concert pianist and composer. He is known to often play his own compositions in his concerts, on top of a repertoire that includes Beethoven,

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