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Federico Chueca

Pío Estanislao Federico Chueca y Robres (5 May 1846 – 20 June 1908) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and author of La gran vía along with Joaquín Valverde Durán in 1886. He was one of the most

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Federico De Robertis

Federico De Robertis (born 5 June 1962) is an Italian musician, composer and record producer. De Robertis was born in Lucca, Tuscany. He composed the soundtrack for many movies by the Italian

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Federico Favali

Federico Favali (born 17 June 1981) is an Italian composer of classical music. Biography Born in Pietrasanta, and raised in Lucca, he began composing as a self-taught student. In 2004, he graduated

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Federico Mompou

Frederic Mompou Dencausse (; 16 April 1893 – 30 June 1987), or Federico Mompou, was a Catalan composer and pianist. Life Early years Mompou was born in Barcelona to the lawyer Frederic Mompou and his

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Federico Moreno Torroba

Federico Moreno Torroba (3 March 189112 September 1982) was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his contributions to the classical guitar

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Federico Ricci

Federico Ricci (22 October 1809 – 10 December 1877), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. Born in Naples, he was the younger brother of Luigi Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several

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Federico Ruiz (composer)

Federico Ruiz Hurtado (born February 8, 1948) is a Venezuelan composer, arranger, and arts administrator. He has composed in diverse genres including symphonic, chamber, and electroacoustic music.

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Federico Smith

Federico Smith, born as Frederick Anthony Smith (1929–1977) was a Cuban composer born in the United States. Biography Composer and professor Federico Smith was born in Manhattan, New York City, on

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Federico Vindver

Luis Federico Vindver (born 18 August 1982) is an Argentine record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. Vindver has produced along with Timbaland and

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Federigo Fiorillo

Federigo Fiorillo (baptized 1 June 1755 Brunswick, Germany, died after 1823) was a mandolinist and composer, who wrote thirty-six caprices for violin, also called études. Life and career Fiorillo's

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Fela Sowande

Chief Olufela Obafunmilayo "Fela" Sowande MBE (29 May 1905 – 13 March 1987) was a Nigerian musician and composer. Considered the father of modern Nigerian art music, Sowande is perhaps the most

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Felice Anerio

Felice Anerio (c. 156026 or 27 September 1614) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of

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Felice Giardini

Felice de Giardini (12 April 1716 – 8 June 1796) was an Italian composer and violinist. Early life Felice Giardini was born in Turin. When it became clear that he was a child prodigy, his father sent

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Felicia Donceanu

Felicia Donceanu (28 January 1931 – 21 January 2022) was a Romanian painter, sculptor, pianist and composer. She composed works that were performed internationally, and was particularly noted for her

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Felicia Tuczek

Felicia Johanna Tuczek (September 1849 – 7 January 1905) was a composer and pianist who is best remembered today for her String Quartet in f minor. Her birthplace is variously given as Bohemia,

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Feliciano Strepponi

Feliciano Cristoforo Bartolomeo Strepponi (26 October 1793 – 13 January 1832) was an Italian composer and conductor. He was born in Lodi and died in Trieste at the age of 38. Amongst his compositions

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Félicien David

Félicien-César David (13 April 1810 – 29 August 1876) was a French composer. Biography Félicien David was born in Cadenet, and began to study music at the age of five under his father, whose death

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Felicita Casella

Felicita Casella née Lacombe, also Félicie (c. 1820 – after 1865) was a French-born Italian singer and composer. She married Italian cellist and composer Cesare Casella and moved with him to Porto.

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Felicitas Kukuck

Felicitas Kukuck (2 November 19144 June 2001) was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works. Biography Felicitas Kukuck was born in Hamburg in 1914. Her parents encouraged their

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Felicity Fox

Felicity Wilcox is an Australian composer, academic, and musician (working as a film composer under the alias Felicity Fox) . Accolades Australian Film Institute Awards :Nominated. 1992 AACTA Award

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Feliks Janiewicz

Feliks Janiewicz, in English often Felix Yaniewicz (1762 – 21 May 1848) was a Polish composer and violinist in exile. Life Janiewicz was born in Vilnius, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now in

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Felip Pedrell

Felip Pedrell Sabaté (Spanish: Felipe) (19 February 1841 – 19 August 1922) was a Catalan composer, guitarist and musicologist. Life Pedrell was born in Tortosa (Catalonia), and sang as a boy soprano

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Felipe Pinglo Alva

Felipe Pinglo Alva (July 18, 1899 - May 13, 1936), known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla and nicknamed the "Immortal Bard" or ("Bardo Inmortal" in Spanish), was an influential and prolific

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Felix Arndt

Felix Arndt (May 20, 1889 – October 16, 1918) was an American pianist and composer of popular music. His mother was the Countess Fevrier, who was related to Napoleon III. His father, Hugo Arndt, was

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Felix Bartsch

Felix Bartsch was a German composer. He wrote accompanying music for more than fifty films during the silent era. Selected filmography * Claire (1924) * Taras Bulba (1924) * Upstairs and Downstairs

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Félix Battanchon

Félix Battanchon (9 April 1814 – 1893) was a French cellist, composer, and one of the venerated teachers at the Paris Conservatory. Life He studied at the Conservatory with Olive Charlier Vaslin

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Felix Blumenfeld

Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (; 19 April 1863 – 21 January 1931) was a Russian and Soviet composer and conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher. Early life He was born on

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Felix Draeseke

Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (7 October 1835 – 26 February 1913) was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including

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Felix Dreyschock

Felix Dreyschock (27 December 1860 – 1 August 1906) was a German pianist, son of Raimund Dreyschock, and nephew of Alexander Dreyschock. Biography Felix Dreyschock was born in Leipzig on 27 December

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Felix Hagan

Felix Hagan (born March 1987) is an English musician, composer, artistic director and performer. He co-created the musical Operation Mincemeat with the comedy troupe SpitLip, which is currently

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Felix Harold White

Felix Harold White (27 April 1884 31 January 1945) was an English composer, music teacher and pianist. Early career and war White was born in Fetcham, Surrey into a Jewish family originally called

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Félix Ibarrondo

Félix Ibarrondo (born 12 June 1943) is a French composer of Basque origin. Life Ibarrondo was born in Oñati in the Gipuzkoa province of the Basque country in Spain. Coming from a musical family, he

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Félix Le Couppey

Félix Le Couppey (14 April 1811 – 4 July 1887) was a French music teacher, pianist and composer, among others, of a series of elementary études for piano students. One of his most famous pieces was

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), simply known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic era.

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Felix Mills

Gordon "Felix" Mills (born July 28, 1901) was a composer, arranger and conductor during the Golden Age of Radio in the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado , he was the musical director

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Felix Mottl

Felix Josef von Mottl (between 29 July/29 August 1856 – 2 July 1911) was an Austrian conductor and composer. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day. He composed three

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Felix Otto Dessoff

Felix Otto Dessoff (14 January 1835 – 28 October 1892) was a German conductor and composer. Biography Dessoff was born to a Jewish family in Leipzig; his father was a cloth merchant. His musical

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Felix Weingartner

Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (2 June 1863 – 7 May 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist. Life and career Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (now

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Felix Werder

Felix Werder AM (24 February 19223 May 2012 ) was a German-born Australian composer of classical and electronic music, and also a noted critic and educator. The son of a distinguished liturgical

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Felix Woyrsch

Felix Woyrsch (8 October 1860 – 20 March 1944) was a German composer and choir director. Life Woyrsch was born in Troppau, just over the Prussian border in Austrian Silesia (now Opava in the Czech

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Feofil Tolstoy

Feofil Matveyevich Tolstoy (, 6 June 1809, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, — 20 February 1881, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia), was a Russian composer, music critic and writer who used the

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Ferde Grofé

Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé (March 27, 1892 April 3, 1972), known as Ferde Grofé () was an American composer, arranger, pianist, and instrumentalist. He is best known for his 1931 five-movement

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Ferdinand David (musician)

Ferdinand Ernst Victor Carl David (; 19 June 181018 July 1873) was a German virtuoso violinist, composer and conductor. Biography Born in the same house in Hamburg where Felix Mendelssohn had been

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Ferdinand Fränzl

Ferdinand Fränzl (24 May 1767 in Schwetzingen – 27 October 1833 in Mannheim) was a German violinist, composer, conductor, opera director, and a representative of the third generation of the so-called

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Ferdinand Haberl

Ferdinand Haberl (15 March 1906 – 3 July 1985) was a German Catholic theologian, composer, musicologist, organist and choir director. He was director of the , honorary professor of Catholic church

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Ferdinand Hérold

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833), better known as Ferdinand Hérold (), was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed

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Ferdinand Hiller

Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, writer and music director. Biography Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in

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Ferdinand Hummel

Ferdinand Hummel (September 6, 1855 in Berlin – April 24, 1928 in Berlin) was a German composer, harp player, pianist and conductor. Hummel started as a child prodigy, and his father, who was a flute

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Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1625, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death.

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Ferdinand Kauer

Ferdinand August Kauer (18 January 1751 – 13 April 1831) was an Austrian composer and pianist. Biography Kauer was born in Klein-Thaya (today Dyjákovičky) near Znojmo in South Moravia). He studied in

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Ferdinand Laub

Ferdinand Laub (19 January 1832 – 17 March 1875) was a Czech violinist and composer. Life and career Laub was born in Prague from a German Bohemian family which had assimilated into the ethnic Czech

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Ferdinand Leitner

Ferdinand Leitner (4 March 1912 in Berlin – 3 June 1996 in Zürich) was a German conductor. Leitner studied under Franz Schreker, Julius Prüwer, Artur Schnabel and Karl Muck. He also was a composition

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Ferdinand Manns

Ferdinand Manns (August 27 1844, in Witzenhausen – 26 July 1922, in Oldenburg) was a German composer and conductor as well as a court music director in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Life Manns was

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Ferdinand Möhring

Ferdinand Möhring (18 January 1816 – 1 May 1887) was a German composer, poet, conductor and organist. Personal life Möhring was born in Alt Ruppin as the son of the master carpenter Johann Friedrich

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Ferdinand Pfohl

Ferdinand Pfohl (; 12 October 1862 in Elbogen, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, now Loket n.O., Czech Republic – 16 December 1949 in Hamburg-Bergedorf) was a German music critic, music writer and composer.

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Ferdinand Praeger

Ferdinand Praeger (22 January 1815 – 2 September 1891) (aka Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger) was a composer, music teacher, pianist and writer. He is now best known for his controversial

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Ferdinand Richard

Hervé Richard (born 25 June 1950 Once based in la Friche de la Belle-de-Mai in Marseille, A.M.I. became a Centre for the Development of Popular Music, and, as an urban development platform, launched

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Ferdinand Ries

Ferdinand Ries (baptised 28 November 1784 – 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto,

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Ferdinand Samuel Laur

Ferdinand Samuel Laur (22 February 1791 – 2 July 1854) was a Swiss composer, conductor, choirmaster, and music teacher. He founded the Basel Choral Society in 1824. A hymnal he composed that was

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Ferdinand Schubert

Ferdinand Schubert (born 18 October 1794 in Vienna; died 26 February 1859) was an Austrian composer and brother of Franz Schubert. He also designed the grave stone for the grave of Ludwig van

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Ferdinand Thieriot

Ferdinand Thieriot (April 7, 1838 – July 31, 1919) was a German composer of Romantic music and a cellist. Life and career Thieriot was born in Hamburg. He was a pupil of Eduard Marxsen in Altona and

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Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger

Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger (171921 April 1780) was a Swedish composer and a founding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was organist at Storkyrkan, the main church of Stockholm, and

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Ferdinando Arnò

Ferdinando Arnò (born in Manduria, November 29, 1959) is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and the founder of Quiet, please!, a recording studio and production company active in the recording

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Ferdinando Bertoni

Ferdinando Gasparo Bertoni (15 August 1725 – 1 December 1813) was an Italian composer and organist. Early years He was born in Salò, Republic of Venice, and began his music studies in Brescia, not

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Ferdinando Carulli

Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario Carulli (9 February 1770 – 17 February 1841) was an Italian composer for classical guitar and the author of the influential Méthode complète pour

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Ferdinando de Cristofaro

Ferdinando de Cristofaro (1846 – 18 April 1890) was one of the most celebrated mandolin virtuosi of the late 19th Century. He was also a classical pianist, teacher, author and composer, who performed

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Ferdinando Giorgetti

Ferdinando Giorgetti (23 June 1796 in Florence, Italy – 23 March 1867 in Florence, Italy ) was a composer, violinist, educator and Italian publicist. Life Child prodigy and royal teacher Giorgetti, a

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Ferdinando Orlandi

Ferdinando Orlandi (7 October 1774 – 5 January 1848), also referred to as Orland and Orlando. Little is known of his early life and his year of birth is also cited as 1777. He was an Italian musician

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Ferdinando Paer

Ferdinando Paer (1 June 1771 – 3 May 1839) was an Italian composer known for his operas. He was of Austrian descent and used the German spelling Pär in application for printing in Venice, and later

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Ferenc Erkel

Ferenc Erkel ( , ; November 7, 1810 – June 15, 1893) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes, which are still

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Ferenc Farkas

Ferenc Farkas (; 15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungarian composer. Biography Born into a musical family (his father, Aladár Farkas, was an Olympian and soldier who played the cimbalom and

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Fergus Johnston

Fergus Johnston (born 21 May 1959) is an Irish composer and member of Aosdána. Life and career Johnston was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of the physicist and political activist Roy H. W.

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Fermín María Álvarez

Fermín María Álvarez (Zaragoza, 1833 – Barcelona, 1898) was a Spanish lawyer, composer, and amateur pianist from the region of Aragon. He is famous for his compositions of música de cámara, or

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Fernand de La Tombelle

Baron Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fernand Fouant de La Tombelle (3 August 1854 – 13 August 1928) was a French organist and composer. Life Born in Paris, Fernand de La Tombelle had piano lessons in

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Fernand Halphen

Fernand Gustave Halphen (18 February 1872 – 16 May 1917) was a French Jewish composer. Life and career Fernand Halphen was the son of Georges Halphen, a diamond merchant, and of Henriette Antonia

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Fernanda Aoki Navarro

Fernanda Aoki Navarro is a composer, multimedia artist and educator. Her music has been performed by major ensembles and soloist, her instrumental music, electronic works, and installations had been

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Fernande Decruck

Fernande Decruck (née Breilh) (25 December 18966 August 1954) was a French composer who composed over 40 works for the saxophone. Most well-known is her Sonata in C sharp minor for alto saxophone or

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Fernando Brant

Fernando Rocha Brant (October 9, 1946 – June 12, 2015) was a Brazilian poet, lyricist and journalist, born in Caldas, Minas Gerais. Brant's interest in music and literature began to increase while he

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Fernando de las Infantas

Fernando de las Infantas (1534ca. 1610) was a Spanish nobleman, composer and theologian. Life Infantas was born in Córdoba in 1534, a descendant of Juan Fernández de Córdoba who had conveyed the two

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Fernando De Luca

Fernando De Luca (born 1961 in Rome) is an Italian harpsichordist, organist, teacher and composer. Biography Fernando De Luca began his musical studies at a very young age, devoting himself first to

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Fernando García (composer)

Fernando García (born July 4, 1930) is a Chilean composer. Active since 1956 he has done orchestral music, chamber music, etc. He studied with Juan Orrego-Salas and Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, among

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Fernando González Casellas

Fernando González Casellas (October 15, 1925 – October 12, 1998) was an Argentine composer of classical music. A student of Jaume Pahissa, his early music was predominantly atonal, although his later

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Fernando Lopes-Graça

Fernando Lopes-Graça (17 December 1906 – 27 November 1994) was a Portuguese composer, conductor and musicologist. Lopes-Graça was born in Tomar, and was influenced by Portuguese popular music, which

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Fernando Mencherini

Fernando Mencherini (1949 in Fermignano – 1997 in Cagli) was an Italian composer of chamber works who reached musical prominence before his early death. Biography He attended the Conservatory “G.

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Fernando Obradors

Fernando (Ferran) Jaumandreu Obradors (1896–1945) was a Spanish composer. Obradors was taught piano by his mother, but taught himself composition, harmony and counterpoint. He became conductor of the

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Fernando Paillet

Fernando Paillet (27 October 1880 – 3 November 1967), was an Argentine photographer. He portrayed the colonisation and life of the settlers in Esperanza, an agricultural colony founded in 1856 in

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Fernando Remacha

Fernando Remacha Villar (15 December 1898 – 21 February 1984) was a Spanish composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27. Early years Remacha was born in

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Fernando Sor

Fernando Sor (baptised 14 February 1778 – 10 July 1839) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the late Classical era and early Romantic era. Best known for writing solo classical guitar

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him

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