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Fidelio F. Finke

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Fidelio Friedrich “Fritz” Finke (22 October 1891 – 12 June 1968) was a Bohemian-German composer. Life Finke was born the son of a teacher in 1891 in the north-Bohemian village of Josefstal (modern-day Josefův Důl, Czech Republic). From 1906 to 1908, he attended a teacher’s seminar in Reichenberg (now Liberec). He received organ, piano and violin lessons, and from 1908 to 1911, studied at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition. From 1911 onward, he worked as a private music teacher and from 1915 as a teacher of musical theory at the Prague Conservatory. In 1920, he moved to the German Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Prague, where he worked as a teacher of musical theory and composition. He became a professor in 1926, and worked as the rector from 1927 to 1945. His students included Friederike Schwarz. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he composed works expressing sympathy for the Nazis, most notably the hymn O Herzland Böhmen (1942). His opportunistic application for membership within the Nazi party expired in 1942 because of his political unreliability. After imprisonment and expropriation as a result of the Beneš decrees as well as a

Fidelis Zitterbart

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Fidelis Zitterbart Jr. (April 8, 1845 – August 30, 1915) was an American composer. Life and works Zitterbart was born in Pittsburgh in 1845. His father, Fidelis Zitterbart Sr. had emigrated from Austria, and was a career violinist and conductor, who taught his son music from an early age. At the age of 16 the young Zitterbart went abroad to Dresden, where he studied with Francois Schubert and Julius Rühlmann, to complete his musical studies there. Upon his return to the US, he worked as a violinist and violist in NY until 1873 when he returned to Pittsburgh and took a teaching position at the Andrew Williams American Conservatory of Music until the closure of the Conservatory compelled him to start his own music school, the Zitterbart Conservatory. In 1868 he married Catherine Riedl of Worcester, MA (1850–1913) and together they had 4 children. His father, who had composed as well, tore up his compositions upon seeing that the compositions of his son outshone his own. Zitterbart composed more than a thousand compositions, nearly all of them remained unpublished during his lifetime. In 1930, his son Ralph Zitterbart donated the manuscripts to the University of Pittsburgh following s

Fifi Cooper

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Refilwe Boingotlo Moeketsi (born 24 October 1991), known professionally as Fifi Cooper is a South African recording artist. Fifi Cooper started her music career as an R&B singer before her musical versatility saw her release her breakthrough rap single “Chechela Morago” in 2010. In 2015, she released her award-winning debut studio album 20FIFI. Early life and education Fifi Cooper is the last of three children. She had her early education in Montshiwa, Mahikeng, South Africa, where she also harnessed her ability in singing and dancing. She completed her secondary school education at Batswana High School, Mahikeng and her higher education at Boston Media House where she studied Media. Career 2008–2014: Early beginnings Fifi Cooper began singing at the age of 8 while in primary school; participating in various social extra-curricula activities. She professionally started her music career in 2008 when she made a guest appearance on Mo’Molemi’s Motzamai: Rebel With a Pause album. Her breakthrough however came in 2010 following the release of her single titled “Chechela Morago”, a rap song that received massive airplay and did well to gain her new grounds in the South African music indu

Fifty Vinc

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Fifty Vinc (born June 9, 1994 in Datteln, real name Vincent Jewell) is a German record producer and composer. Biography Vinc grew up bilingual in Lüdinghausen, as his father is a native American from New Jersey. His father was a DJ in various clubs across the United States, playing genres like Hip-Hop, Funk, and RnB music. Vinc initially attended primary school but was transferred to a special school for children with behavioral issues after the second grade. He later moved to a secondary school and subsequently attended a vocational college. In 2015, he successfully completed his specialized higher education entrance qualification. From 2017 to 2020, Vinc completed an apprenticeship as a management assistant for forwarding and logistics services before starting his career as an independent music composer and producer. Music career Vinc’s early hobby was Breaking, which led him to initially produce music for this scene. Later, he focused on producing in genres like Hip-Hop and Rap. Inspired by his idol Hans Zimmer and his passion for epic, cinematic, orchestral and trailer music, Vinc started blending modern Hip-Hop sounds with elements of film music. This unique style is a definin

Filaret Kolessa

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Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, from 1929, and the founder of Ukrainian ethnographic musicology. Biography Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa was born on 17 July 1871 in the Galician village of Tatarske, now the village of Pishchany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. He studied at the University of Vienna under the composer Anton Bruckner from 1891 to 1892, and completed his studies at the Lviv University in 1896. Filaret taught in high schools in Lviv, Stryi, and Sambir. He worked with the composer Mykola Lysenko, and the writers Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka. In 1918, he defended his dissertation at the University of Vienna and received the title Doctor of Philology. He studied the rhythms of Ukrainian folk songs of Galicia, Volhynia and Lemkivshchyna. From 1939 he was a professor at Lviv University, from 1940 the director of the State museum of Ethnography in Lviv, director of the Lviv section, of the Institute for Art studies, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (from 1940), and a part

Filip Kutev

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Filip Kutev (), often anglicized Philip Koutev (13 June 1903 – 27 November 1982), was a Bulgarian composer, arranger and founder, with his wife Maria Kuteva, in 1951, of Bulgaria’s first professional, state supported ensemble, the State Ensemble for Folk Song and Dance, also known as the Filip Kutev Ensemble. With his ensemble he pioneered a style of arranging folk songs by fusing folk elements with western classical forms and harmonies, and established a new Bulgarian choral tradition. His choir was one of four who appeared on the album Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume Two, which won a Grammy Award in 1989. He was born in Aytos, Burgas Province. Honours Kutev Peak in Antarctica is named after Filip Kutev. References External links * (in Bulgarian)

Filip Lazăr (musician)

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Filip Lazăr (6 May 1894 – 3 November 1936) was an avant-garde Romanian composer and pianist. Life and career Lazăr was born in Craiova, Romania and died in Paris, France. At the Bucharest Conservatory (1907–1912) he studied piano with Emilia Saegiu, theory with Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac and with Alfonso Castaldi he studied harmony, counterpoint and composition. He studied for two years with Castaldi at the Leipzig Conservatory before touring as a pianist, playing much new music. From 1928 he was in France and Switzerland. He ventured from a Romanian nationalistic style into serialism and neo-classicism. From 1925, important publishers in Paris (Durand, Salabert, Max Eschig and Heugel) and Vienna (Universal Edition) began printing the works of Lazăr and other Romanian composers such as Mihail Jora, Marcel Mihalovici and George Enescu. In 1920 Lazăr was a founder-member of the Society of Romanian Composers. In 1932, along with Mihalovici, he was among the founders of the Triton society of contemporary music in Paris (1932–1939), and a member of its active committee. Theatre music *1918 – La bouteille de Panurge, ballet, libretto by André Cœuroy *1928 – Les Images de Béatrice, op. 18,

Filipe da Madre de Deus

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Frei Filipe da Madre de Deus (Lisbon, c. 1630 – Seville, c. 1688 or 1690) was a Portuguese Baroque composer. Life Filipe da Madre de Deus was born in Lisbon, about 1630. Although he lacked a deep knowledge of music theory, he was a skilled composer and vihuelist at the court of Philip IV of Spain (Philip III of Portugal until 1640). In 1654, John IV of Portugal heard about the notoriety of Madre de Deus and hired him for the Portuguese court. Two years later, John IV died and was succeeded by Afonso VI. Sometime between April 1660 and August 1661, Afonso VI nominated Madre de Deus as mestre da câmara de música real (“master of the royal chamber music”). In 1668, Peter II was appointed regent for Afonso VI, his insane brother, and all his former employees were taken off the royal payroll. Thus, Filipe da Madre de Deus had to return to Spain in 1668. He was succeeded by the renowned António Marques Lésbio as master of the royal chamber music of Portugal. Madre de Deus retired to the monastery of the barefooted Mercedarians of San Laureano in Seville. He continued as chapel master of this monastery until at least 1688, the year of his last known work. He probably died there about 1688

Filippo Acciaiuoli

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Filippo Acciaiuoli (1637 – 8 February 1700) was an Italian composer, librettist, theater manager, machine designer, and poet. Acciaiuoli spent much of his youth and early adulthood traveling throughout Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. After returning to Rome in his early twenties, he initially studied mathematics at a seminary in Rome but ultimately became interested in theater. He is best known for his work as a librettist for operas such as Jacopo Melani’s Girello, which premiered in Rome in 1668, and as the inventor of numerous sophisticated machines that were used in theatrical productions of the day. He also composed one opera, Chi è cagion del suo mal pianga se stesso, which premiered in Rome in 1682. Acciaiuoli was the first business manager of the Teatro Tordinona in Rome and later the manager of the Teatro Capranica. He was also a member of l’Academia degli Immobili when Ferdinando Tacca developed its Teatro della Pergola. He had a close association with the court of Médicis. In 1689, Ferdinando II hired him to create theatrical machinery for the opera Greco in Troia. Contracts for other theatrical productions followed. Acciaiuoli would also occasionally perfor

Filippo Capocci

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Filippo Capocci (11 May 1840 – 25 July 1911) was an Italian organist and composer. Biography Born in Rome, Capocci was trained in organ and harmony by his father Gaetano (1811-1898) and in 1861 received a piano diploma from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1875, he was appointed organist of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. In 1898, he took over from his father as choirmaster at the Basilica. He also served in the Roman churches of St. Ignatius and St. Mary of Montserrat. Unlike his father, Filippo Capocci adhered to nineteenth-century musical aesthetics, avoiding the theatrical style, and dedicated himself to a style of performance and composition similar to that of the French organist Alexandre Guilmant. His opportunity for wider recognition came in 1881 with the inaugural concert for the new Merklin organ at the Church of St. Louis of France. By this time, thanks to his friendship with Guilmant, the world’s largest churches opened their doors to Capocci. Capocci was also one of the three foreign organists who performed in a series of organ concerts using the Cavaille-Coll organ at Trocadero during the 1889 Paris World Fair. In 1890, his performance with Guilmant an

Filippo Gragnani

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Filippo Gragnani (3 September 1768 – 28 July 1820) was an Italian guitarist and composer. Gragnani was born in Livorno, the son of Antonio Gragnani. From a family of notable luthiers and musicians, Gragnani studied music in his home town with Giulio Maria Lucchesi. He began with the violin but later devoted himself to the guitar, becoming known as a virtuoso performer. Gragnani first published works for guitar and chamber music in Milan around the beginning of the 19th century with the publishers Ricordi and Monzino. During these times he travelled to Germany and settled in Paris by 1810, a center of performance and music publishing. There he befriended and became a pupil of Ferdinando Carulli, another Italian virtuoso. Gragnani dedicated three of his guitar duets to him, and in turn Carulli dedicated some duets to Gragnani. Little is known about Gragnani after 1812. The “Registro dei Morti” (Register of Deaths) of the Church of St. Martino di Salviano in Livorno indicates he died on 28 July 1820. Works Some twenty compositions are known by Gragnani, of which fifteen have opus numbers. *Tre Sonate *Tre Duetti *Sinfonia *Sonata Sentimentale *Tre Divertimenti *Tre Duetti *Trois Duos,

Fini Henriques

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Valdemar Fini Henriques (baptized Finni) (20 October 1867 at Frederiksberg - 27 October 1940 in Copenhagen) was a Danish composer and violinist. His parents were hospital inspector and justice counsel Vilhelm Moritz Henriques (1828-1889), who was of Jewish origin, and Marie Christine Rasmussen (1826-1913). He was brother-in-law to the doctor and philosopher Severin Christensen. Fini Henriques’ son, musician Johan Henriques, was the concert master of the 2nd violin group in the Royal Chapel, where his father had worked for almost four years as a violinist. Career Henriques became a private student of the violinist Valdemar Tofte, who was the concert master of the chapel and professor at the Conservatory of Music, and of the chief director of the Royal Chapel, Johan Svendsen, after Niels W. Gade had advised him to go through the Conservatory of Music. From 1888 - 1891 he was in Berlin, where he studied at violinist Joseph Joachim and composer Woldemar Bargiel, who was half brother to Clara Schumann and himself student of Niels W. Gade. After his time in Copenhagen, he returned for one year to Germany and Austria. At the time of his return, he was employed in the Royal Chapel in 1892,

Finn Høffding

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Niels Finn Høffding (10 March 1899 – 29 March 1997) was a Danish composer. Høffding was born and died in Copenhagen. He studied composition under Knud Jeppesen and Thomas Laub, and then under Joseph Marx in Vienna from 1921-22. His works first became well known in Denmark in the 1920s, particularly the piece Karlsvognen (chorus and orchestra, 1924). He began to study folk music about 1930, and founded the Copenhagen School of Folk Music in 1931. From 1931 he also taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he served as director after 1954. In 1956 and 1958 he was awarded the Nielsen Prize. His pupils include Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Vagn Holmboe, Bent Lorentzen, and Leif Thybo. In addition to composing, Høffding also wrote several theoretical treatises. Works Note:This list is incomplete Opera *Kejserens nye klæder (1928) *Kilderejsen op. 15 (1942) Choral * 4 DIAPSALMATA (Søren Kierkegaard words, four diapsalmata (aphorism) from Either/Or vol. I. 1977 *Karlsvognen (chorus and orchestra, 1924) *Christofer Columbus (1937) *Kantate til Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatoriums årsfest (1948) *Giordano Bruno (1968) Orchestral *Romance for Violin and String orchestra (1918) *C

Finn Mortensen

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Finn Einar Mortensen (January 6, 1922 – May 23, 1983) was a Norwegian composer, critic and educator. Mortensen was born in Oslo. His parents were publisher Ernst Gustav Mortensen (1887–1966) and Anna Marie Damnæs (1886–1960). Mortensen grew up in a publishing environment and it was at first expected that he would go into his father’s publishing firm, Ernst G. Mortensens Forlag A/S. He studied harmony with Thorleif Eken (1900–1955), composition with Klaus Egge and with Niels Viggo Bentzon at The Royal Danish Academy, as well as the piano and double bass at the Oslo Conservatory of Music. He also participated in the Darmstadt summer school and in the classes conducted by Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Studio für Elektronische Musik in Cologne. The first public presentation of one of Mortensen’s compositions was the Trio for Strings, Op. 3, which was played at the Young Nordic Music Festival in Oslo in 1950. In April 1954 he had his debut as a composer, along with Øistein Sommerfeldt. He was the leader of the group Ny Musikk, a Norwegian advocacy group for contemporary music, between 1961 and 1964, and between 1966 and 1967. From 1963-73, he was a music critic in Dagbladet, and he was a

Finn Robertson

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Finn Buster Robertson (born 13 September 1981) is an Australian front-end web developer who was previously a composer and music producer. Before founding his independent front end development studio based in Melbourne, he grew up in country Victoria learning to play piano, guitar, and trumpet before discovering the sounds that were possible to make with a computer. From 2000 to 2002 he made early experiments in electronic and acoustic composition at RMIT University’s Media Arts under Philip Brophy and Philip Samartzis. His works integrate electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Career Robertson worked in-house as Audio Director and Lead Composer for three years at Torus Games in Melbourne over which time he created the soundtracks and oversaw the Sound Design of over 10 commercially released games including * Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment * Scooby-Doo! First Frights for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment * Zoo Hospital Wii for Majesco * Monster Jam: Urban Assault for Activision * Monster Jam for Activision * Shrek Smash n’ Crash Racing for Activision * Spider-Man: Battle for New York for Activision. Referen

Fiorenzo Carpi

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Fiorenzo Carpi De Resmini (19 October 1918 – 21 May 1997) was an Italian composer and pianist, probably best known for the “Pinocchio” theme. Biography Born in Milan, in 1945 Carpi graduated at the Milan Conservatory, pupil of Arrigo Pedrollo and Giorgio Federico Ghedini; He also collaborated with the Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo on all his plays between 1953 and 1967, then more sporadically until Carpi’s death in 1997. Fo’s 1997 play Il diavolo con le zinne (The Devil with Boobs) featured an homage to Carpi following his death. Carpi was a prolific film score composer, well known for his long collaboration with the director Luigi Comencini. In 1981 he won the David di Donatello for Best Score for Comencini’s Eugenio. He also composed numerous pop songs, television scores, commercial jingles, symphonic and chamber opera works. Selected filmography * Fugitive in Trieste (1951) * Zazie dans le Métro (1960) * Leoni al sole (1961) * A Very Private Affair (1962) * Paris, My Love (1962) * I cuori infranti (1963) * I 4 tassisti (1963) * Misunderstood (1966) * Death on the Run (1967) * Italian Secret Service (1968) * Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969) * The Howl (1970

Fiorenzo Fiorentini

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Fiorenzo Fiorentini (10 April 1920 – 27 March 2003) was an Italian actor, author, composer, screenwriter and radio personality. Life and career Born in Rome, Fiorentini began his career as an author and radio actor, creating many successful macchiette (i.e. comic monologues caricaturing stock characters). He made his stage debut in 1954, in the revue Tutto fa Broadway. Partial filmography * Maracatumba… ma non è una rumba! (1949) - sor du fodere’, l’intrattenitore * Anthony of Padua (1949, writer) * Viva il cinema! (1952) - Tonino * A Mother Returns (1952, writer) * Giovinezza (1952, writer) * Good Folk’s Sunday (1953) - Vincenzo * Ci troviamo in galleria (1953) - Pippo * Café chantant (1953) - Se stesso / Himself * Cento serenate (1954) - Don Alfonso detto Fofò * Le vacanze del sor Clemente (1955) - Mr. Cheri * I pinguini ci guardano (1956) * The Traffic Policeman (1960) - Padre di Otello (voice, uncredited) * Paris, My Love (1962) - Claudio Nesti * Carmen di Trastevere (1962) - Carmen’s Guitar Player * Canzoni a tempo di twist (1962) * The Monk of Monza (1963) - Smilzo, un bravo * Gli onorevoli (1963) - Professore * I ragazzi dell’hully-gully (1964) * Lo scippo (1965) * How We

Firminus Caron

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Firminus Caron (fl. 1460–1475) was a French composer, and likely a singer, of the Renaissance. He was highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and numerous compositions of his survive. Most of what is known about his life and career is inferred. Life Most musical manuscripts give his name only as “Caron.” But his contemporary, the music theorist Johannes Tinctoris names him in three different treatises as “Firminus Caron” and the Vatican choirbook San Pietro B80 has “F. Caron” written above its copy of his Missa L’homme armé. Attempts in the past to identify him with people named Philippe Caron and Jean Caron are therefore to be discarded. Furthermore, a reference to “Firminus Caron” as primus musicus at Amiens cathedral in 1422 has now been shown to be misdated: his activity in Amiens is attested by numerous documents dating from 1459 to 1475 (when his father died). A document of 1473 names him “maistre Fremin le Caron,” implying that he had a university master’s degree, and that of 1475 names him “sire Fremin le Caron,” meaning that he had been ordained a priest. Some writers of the time, including Tinctoris, praise

Fisher Tull

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Fisher Aubrey Tull, Jr. (September 23, 1934 – August 23, 1994), known professionally as Fisher A. Tull, Mickey Tull, was an American composer, arranger, educator, administrator, and trumpeter. Life and career Tull was born in Waco, Texas, where he attended public schools. He eventually earned three degrees from the University of North Texas: a B.M. in music education (1956), a M.M. in music theory (1957), and a Ph.D. in music composition (1965). He studied trumpet with John Haynie and composition with Samuel Adler. While an undergraduate, he played trumpet in and arranged for various jazz and dance bands, including the University of North Texas Lab Bands. In 1957 Tull became a faculty member at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, serving as Chairman of the Department of Music since 1965. Tull entered into serious composition beginning in the early 1960s. His works are generally tonal but harmonically adventurous and rhythmically vigorous, and show a strong influence of Medieval and Renaissance music. His catalog of compositions include over 80 published works for orchestra, band, chorus, and chamber ensemble, although he is known particularly for his works for concer