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F. R. C. Clarke

Frederick Robert Charles Clarke, known largely by his initials F. R. C. Clarke (August 7, 1931 – November 18, 2009) was a Canadian musician and composer who spent most of his musical career in

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Frances Allitsen

Mary Frances Allitsen (30 December 1848 – 1 October 1912), born Mary Frances Bumpus was an English composer. One of her most popular songs is a setting of Psalm 27, "The Lord is My Light". Early life

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Frances C. Robinson

Frances Coster Small Robinson (8 August 1858 - 11 November 1905) was an author, composer, and music educator who was born in Canada and lived most of her life in the United States. She published

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Frances Marion Ralston

Frances Marion Ralston (“Fanny”) (7 January 1875 - 5 February 1952) was an American author, composer, pianist and teacher. Widely published during her lifetime, she is best known for her works for

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Frances McCollin

Frances McCollin (October 24, 1892 – February 25, 1960) was an American composer and musician, who was blind from early childhood. She was the first woman to win the Clemson Prize from the American

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Frances White (composer)

Frances White (born August 30, 1960) is an American composer. A 2004 Guggenheim Fellow, she composes for the Japanese flute instrument shakuhachi and her work includes the album She Lost Her Voice,

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Frances Ziffer

Frances Ziffer (June 5, 1917 – November 7, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, and pianist. She attended the Peabody Institute and studied with Carl Friedberg and David Saperton. She was a

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Francesca Caccini

Francesca Caccini (; 18 September 1587 – most likely between 1641 and 1645) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the

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Francesca Lebrun

Francesca Lebrun (; 24 March 1756 – 14 May 1791) was a celebrated German soprano associated with the court at Mannheim, as well as an accomplished composer of sonatas. As a singer, she was renowned

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Francesco Antonio Bonporti

Francesco Antonio Bonporti (11 June 1672 – 19 December 1749) was an Italian priest and amateur composer. Born in Trento, he was admitted in 1691 to the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where he studied

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Francesco Antonio Urio

Francesco Antonio Urio (1631/32 – c. 1719) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. Life Urio was born in Milan in 1631 or 1632, and died there in (or after) 1719. Urio held maestro di cappella

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Francesco Antonio Vallotti

Francesco Antonio Vallotti (11 June 1697 – 10 January 1780) was an Italian composer, music theorist, and organist. Life He was born in Vercelli. He studied with G. A. Bissone at the church of St.

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Francesco Araja

Francesco Domenico Araja (or Araia; ; June 25, 1709 in Naples, Kingdom of Sicily – between 1762 and 1770 in Bologna, States of the Church) was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and

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Francesco Azopardi

Francesco Azopardi (or Azzopardi) (May 5, 1748 – February 1809) was a Maltese composer and music theorist. Life and career Azopardi was born in Notabile. He received his musical training in Malta and

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Francesco Balilla Pratella

Francesco Balilla Pratella (Lugo, Italy February 1, 1880 – Ravenna, Italy May 17, 1955) was an Italian composer, musicologist and essayist. Although he was one of the leading advocates of Futurism in

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Francesco Barsanti

Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in 1690 in the Tuscan city of Lucca, but spent most of his life in London and Edinburgh. Biography Very little

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Francesco Bartolomeo Conti

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (20 January 168219 July 1732) was an Italian composer and player of the mandolin and theorbo. Little is known about the biography of Conti. He was born in Florence, Italy.

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Francesco Beretta

Francesco Beretta (born 1640 in Rome; died 6 July 1694 in Rome) was an Italian organist, composer and Kapellmeister and a predecessor of Paolo Lorenzani - a pupil of Orazio Benevoli - at the Cappella

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Francesco Berger

Francesco Berger (10 June 1834 – 26 April 1933) was a pianist and composer. He was a piano teacher and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. He is mostly remembered as the honorary secretary of

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Francesco Bianchi (composer)

Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi (1752 – 27 November 1810) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Cremona, Lombardy, he studied with Pasquale Cafaro and Niccolò Jommelli, and worked mainly in London, Paris

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Francesco Canova da Milano

Francesco Canova da Milano (Francesco da Milano, also known as Il divino, Francesco da Parigi, etc.) (18 August 1497 – 2 January 1543) was an Italian lutenist and composer. He was born in Monza, near

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Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio

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Francesco Cellavenia

Francesco Cellavenia (fl. c. 1538 – 1563) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, active in Casale Monferrato. Little is known about his life, and the few details once thought secure are

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Francesco Cilea

Francesco Cilea (; 23 July 1866 – 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur. Biography Born in Palmi near Reggio di

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Francesco Cilluffo

Francesco Cilluffo (born in Turin, Italy, January 1979) is an Italian conductor and composer. Education He graduated in Composition and Conducting with Gilberto Bosco from the Conservatorio G. Verdi

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Francesco Corbetta

Francesco Corbetta (ca. 1615 – 1681, in French also Francisque Corbette) was an Italian guitar virtuoso, teacher and composer. Along with his compatriots Giovanni Paolo Foscarini and Angelo Michele

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Francesco Corselli

Francesco Corselli, sometimes given in the French spelling François Courcelle, (Piacenza, 19 April 1705 - 3 April 1778 in Madrid) was an Italian composer of the pre-classical period born to French

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Francesco Corteccia

Francesco Corteccia (July 27, 1502 – June 7, 1571) was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the Renaissance. Not only was he one of the best known of the early composers of madrigals, and an

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Francesco d'Avalos

Francesco d'Avalos (11 April 1930 in Naples – 26 May 2014 in Naples) was an Italian conductor and composer. Holder of the aristocratic titles of Prince d'Avalos and Marquis of Vasto and Pescara,

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Francesco de Layolle

Francesco de Layolle (also spelled dell'Aiolle, dell'Aiuola, dell'Ajolle, dell'Aiolli), (March 4, 1492 – c. 1540) was an Italian composer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the first

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Francesco De Masi

Francesco De Masi (11 January 1930 – 6 November 2005) was an Italian conductor and film score composer. Biography He studied composition at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory in Naples under the

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Francesco Durante

Francesco Durante (31 March 1684 – 30 September 1755) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Best known for his church music, he was also an important teacher, instructing Niccolò

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Francesco Fanciulli

Francesco Fanciulli (May 29, 1853 – July 17, 1915) was a Grand Duchy of Tuscany-born naturalized American band director and composer. Between 1892 and 1897 he led the United States Marine Band.

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Francesco Feo

Francesco Feo (1691 – 28 January 1761) was an Italian composer, known chiefly for his operas. He was born and died in Naples, where most of his operas were premièred. Life Feo studied music at the

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Francesco Filidei

Francesco Filidei (born 1973) is also a composer. Life Filidei graduated from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, where he won unanimously the first prizes in organ playing and music

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Francesco Florimo

Francesco Florimo (12 October 1800 – 18 December 1888) was an Italian librarian, musicologist, historian of music, and composer. Early life and friendship with Bellini Florimo was born in San Giorgio

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Francesco Foggia

Francesco Foggia (baptized 17 November 1603 – 8 January 1688) was an Italian Baroque composer. Biography Foggia was a boy soprano at the Collegium Germanicum of the Jesuits in Rome, and was a student

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Francesco Gasparini

Francesco Gasparini (19 March 1661 – 22 March 1727) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher whose works were performed throughout Italy, and also on occasion in the Holy Roman Empire and England.

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Francesco Geminiani

Francesco Xaverio Geminiani (baptised 5 December 1687 – 17 September 1762) was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. BBC Radio 3 once described him as "now largely forgotten, but in his

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Francesco Landini

Francesco Landini (c. 1325 or 1335 – 2 September 1397; also known by many names) was a Florentine composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker, and a central figure of the music of the

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Francesco Libetta

Francesco Libetta (born 16 October 1968) is an Italian pianist, composer, writer and conductor. Biography Born in Galatone, Southern Italy, Francesco Libetta studied music in Italy (piano with

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Francesco Mancini (composer)

Francesco Mancini (16 January 1672 – 22 September 1737) was a Neapolitan composer of considerable notoriety during his time as a prolific member of the Neapolitan School, and aided in the

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Francesco Mander

Francesco Mander (26 October 1915, Rome – 2 September 2004, Latisana) was an Italian conductor and composer. Biography Francesco Mander was the only son of Pietro Mander, a film producer and owner of

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Francesco Manelli

Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) ( 1595 – 1667) was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto

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Francesco Manfredini

Francesco Onofrio Manfredini (22 June 1684 – 6 October 1762) was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician. He was born in Pistoia to a trombonist. In Bologna, then a part of the

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Francesco Maria Veracini

Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas. As a composer, according to Manfred Bukofzer,

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Francesco Molino

Francesco Molino (also known as François Molino; 4 June 1768 – 1847) was an Italian guitarist, violinist, and composer. Biography Molino was born in Ivrea near Turin. He often travelled to Spain to

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Francesco Morlacchi

Francesco Giuseppe Baldassare Morlacchi (14 June 1784 – 28 October 1841) was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in

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Francesco Paolo Frontini

Francesco Paolo Frontini (Catania, August 6, 1860 – Catania, July 26, 1939) was an Italian composer. He studied music with his father, composer Martino Frontini; he also studied the violin with Santi

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Francesco Paolo Supriani

Francesco Paolo Tomaso Supriani (Conversano, 11 July 1678 – Naples, 28 August 1753) was an Italian cellist and composer of the Neapolitan school. Biography He was a student of Conservatorio della

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Francesco Passarini

Francesco Passarini (November 10, 1636 - September 23, 1694) was an Italian composer and organist. His last name is given variously as Pasarini, Passarino, and Passerini. A native of Bologna,

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Francesco Piu

Francesco Piu (born 12 June 1981) is an Italian composer, guitarist and singer. Biography Born and raised in Osilo, in Italy's Sardinia region, Piu began learning the guitar when he was nine years

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Francesco Pollini

Francesco Giuseppe Pollini (25 March 1762 – 17 September 1846) was an Italian pianist, composer and academic. Life Pollini was born in Ljubljana (now in Slovenia) in 1762, son of a medical doctor. He

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Francesco Portinaro

Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 – ?1578) was an Italian composer and humanist of the Renaissance, active both in northern Italy and in Rome. He was closely associated with the Ferrarese Este family,

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Francesco Provenzale

Francesco Provenzale (25 September 1632 – 6 September 1704) was an Italian Baroque composer and teacher. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Notably Provenzale was the

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Francesco Rasi

Francesco Rasi (14 May 1574 – 30 November 1621) was a Tuscan composer, singer (tenor), chitarrone player and poet. Rasi was born in Arezzo. He studied at the University of Pisa and in 1594 he was

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Francesco Rovigo

Francesco Rovigo (1540/1541 – 7 October 1597) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance, active in Mantua and Graz. Life Nothing is known of his life prior to 1570, when he went to

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Francesco Scarlatti

Francesco Scarlatti (5 December 1666 – c.1741) was an Italian Baroque composer and musician and the younger brother of the better known Alessandro Scarlatti. Francesco was ever to live under the

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Francesco Soriano

Francesco Soriano (1548 or 1549, in Soriano nel Cimino – 19 July 1621, in Rome) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most skilled members of the Roman School in the first

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Francesco Taskayali

Francesco Taskayali (Rome, July 4, 1991) is an Italian pianist and composer. Biography Born in Rome to an Italian mother and a Turkish father, he spent his childhood in Istanbul's Cihangir district

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Franchinus Gaffurius

Franchinus Gaffurius (Franchino Gaffurio; 14 January 1451 – 25 June 1522) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. Life He was born in Lodi to an aristocratic family. Early in

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Francine Aubin

Francine Aubin (6 February 1938 – 14 August 2016) was a French composer, educator, conductor, and painter. She is most remembered for her variety of music for wind instruments. Life Francine Aubin

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Francine Benoît

Francine Benoît (18941990) was a musician, teacher, composer, conductor, and music critic. She played an active role in Portuguese feminist organizations and was an opponent of the Estado Novo

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Francis Bayer

Francis Bayer (c. 11 July 1938 – 2 January 2004) was a French composer and musicologist. Life Born in Villerville (Calvados), it was only after having undertaken postgraduate studies in philosophy at

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Francis Boott (composer)

Francis Boott (June 24, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts – March 1, 1904 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) and at Round Hill School, followed by Harvard College from which he graduated in 1831. and continued

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Francis Bousquet

Francis Bousquet (9 September 1890 – 21 December 1942) was a French composer. Educated at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1923. His compositions included three operas, a

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Francis Burgess (musician and priest)

Francis Henry Burgess (1879-1948) was a leading British proponent of the use of plainsong in Anglican church music. He was born in Marylebone, London. From sometime before 1916 until at least 1921

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Francis Burt (composer)

Francis Burt (28 April 1926 – 3 October 2012) was a British composer and academic teacher who spent most of his life in Austria. He was professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Wien, and

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Francis Chagrin

Francis Chagrin (born Alexander Paucker, 15 November 1905 – 10 November 1972), was a composer of film scores and popular orchestral music, as well as a conductor. He was also the "organizer and chief

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Francis Chassaigne

Francis Chassaigne (also known as Francisque Chassaigne) (30 October 1847 – 21 December 1922) was a Belgian-born French composer of operettas, songs, and numerous pieces of dance music for piano. The

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Francis Cutting

Francis Cutting (c.1550–1595/6) was an English lutenist and composer of the Renaissance period. He is best known for "Packington's Pound" and a variation of "Greensleeves" called "Divisions on

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Francis Dhomont

Francis Dhomont (2 November 1926 – 28 December 2023) was a French composer, a pioneer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music who worked and taught both in France and in Québec. Biography Born in

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Francis Edward Bache

Francis Edward Bache (; 14 September 183324 August 1858) was an English organist and composer. Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he

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Francis Forcer the Elder

Francis Forcer the elder (c.1650–c.1705) was an English composer. Life Forcer is mentioned by Hawkins as the writer of many songs, five of which may be found in Playford's Choyce Ayres and Dialogues,

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Francis Grier

Francis John Roy Grier (born 29 July 1955 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia) is an English classical composer and psychoanalyst. Music Francis Grier's musical journey began at St George's Chapel, Windsor

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Francis Johnson (composer)

Francis Johnson (June 16, 1792 – April 6, 1844 ) was an American musician and prolific composer during the Antebellum period. African American composers were rare in the U.S. during this period, but

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Francis Judd Cooke

Francis Judd Cooke (December 28, 1910 – May 18, 1995) was an American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, choir director, and professor. Life Cooke was born December 28, 1910, in

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Francis Korbay

Francis Alexander Korbay (May 8, 1846 – March 9, 1913) was a Hungarian musician. Life He was born in Pest His father was a landowner and his mother was a descendant of the poet István Gyöngyösi. His

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Francis Lai

Francis Albert Lai (; 26 April 19327 November 2018) was a French composer, noted for his film scores. He won the 1970 Oscar for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original

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Francis MacMillen

Francis Rea MacMillen (October 14, 1885 – July 14, 1973) was an American violinist. Biography Francis MacMillen was born in Marietta, Ohio on October 14, 1885. At the age of seven, he began studying

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Francis Pigott (composer)

Francis Pigott ( 1665 – 15 May 1704) was an English Baroque composer and organist. Career He was a choirboy at the Chapel Royal in London from at least August 1678 to Michaelmas 1683. A record at St

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and

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Francis Routh

Francis John Routh (5 January 1927 – 27 November 2021) was an English composer and author. Education Born in Kidderminster, Routh attended Malvern College and Harrow School before serving in the

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Francis Saltus Van Boskerck

Francis Saltus Van Boskerck (October 1868 – November 26, 1927) was a United States Coast Guard captain known for writing and composing "Semper Paratus", the Coast Guard's official march. He held

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Francis Thorne

Francis Thorne (June 23, 1922 – March 7, 2017) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and grandson of the writer Gustav Kobbé. Life Francis Burritt Thorne, Jr. was born in Bay

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Francis Tregian the Younger

Francis Tregian the Younger (c. 1574–1618) was a Cornish recusant. Once thought to have been the copyist of a handful of important music manuscripts, his musical activities are the subject of

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Francisco Alonso

Francisco Alonso López (9 May 1887 – 18 May 1948) was a Spanish composer of popular theatre music and zarzuelas. Alonso's music is funny, cheerful, easy melody and with a popular accent. He excelled

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Francisco António de Almeida

Francisco António de Almeida (c. 1702–1754) was a Portuguese composer and organist, standing as one of the greatest names in portuguese Baroque music. From 1722 to 1726 he was a royal scholar in

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Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (August 3, 1823 - February 19, 1894) was a Spanish clarinetist, composer, and musicologist. Barbieri was a well-known composer of zarzuelas. He has been referred to as the

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Francisco Braga

Antônio Francisco Braga (15 April 1868 – 14 March 1945) was a Brazilian music composer. Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886, he

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Francisco Coll García

Francisco Coll (born in 1985 in Valencia) is a Spanish composer. Biography Francisco Coll studied trombone at the Joaquín Rodrigo Conservatoire of Music in Valencia and the Madrid Royal Conservatory,

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Francisco Correa de Arauxo

Francisco Correa de Araujo (or Arauxo, or Acebedo) (1584–1654) was a Spanish organist, composer, and theorist of the late Renaissance. Life Correa de Araujo was born in Seville. Like most Spanish

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Francisco Cristancho Camargo

Francisco Cristancho Camargo (1905–1977) was a Colombian musician, composer, and conductor. He studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory and conducted several orchestras on his return to Colombia.

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Francisco Cristancho Hernández

Francisco Cristancho Hernández (1941–2023) was a Colombian musician and composer. He directed several orchestras including the Orquesta Colombiana, and taught music at various conservatories and

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Francisco de la Torre

Francisco de la Torre (c. 1460 – c. 1504) was a Spanish composer mainly active in the Kingdom of Naples. His hometown may have been Seville. His music can be found in La música en la corte de los

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Francisco de Peñalosa

Francisco de Peñalosa (c. 1470 – April 1, 1528) was a Spanish composer of the middle Renaissance. Life He was born in Talavera de la Reina in the province of Toledo. He spent most of his career in

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Francisco de Salinas

Francisco de Salinas (1513, Burgos – 1590, Salamanca) was a Spanish music theorist and organist, noted as among the first to describe meantone temperament in mathematically precise terms, and one of

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Francisco Escudero (composer)

Francisco Escudero García de Goizueta (13 August 1912 – 17 June 2002) was a Basque violinist, composer and conductor. Life and career He was born in Zarautz (Gipuzkoa), on 13 August 1912. He began

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Francisco Gabriel Gálvez

Francisco Gabriel Gálvez (c. 1510 – 1578) was a Spanish Renaissance composer of sacred music and was the maestro di cappella of Cuenca Cathedral from 1560 until his death. His only extant score is a

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Francisco Guerrero (composer)

Francisco Guerrero (October 4 (?), 1528 – November 8, 1599) was a Spanish Catholic priest and composer of the Renaissance. He was born and died in Seville. Life and career Guerrero's early musical

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Francisco Guerrero Marín

Francisco Guerrero Marín (July 7, 1951 – October 19, 1997) was a Spanish composer. He was born in Linares and died in Madrid. During his lifetime, he completed several compositions, among which there

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Francisco Javier García Fajer

Francisco Javier García Fajer El Españoleto (Nalda, Logroño 2 December 1730 – Zaragoza 1809) was a Spanish composer of the Italianate galante school. He studied at the choir school at Zaragoza

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Francisco José Olivares

Francisco José Olivares (17 November 1778 – 2 September 1854) was a Spanish composer and organist who lived in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Throughout his musical career,

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Francisco Kröpfl

Francisco Kröpfl (26 February 1931 – 15 December 2021) was an Argentine composer and music theorist. Biography Kröpfl was born in Timișoara, Romania into a family of Danube Swabians. He studied with

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Francisco Lara

Francisco Lara Tejero (born 1968) is a Spanish composer and conductor of classical music. Early life and education Born in Valladolid, in 1968, Lara studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory where he

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Francisco Llácer Pla

Francisco Llácer Pla (1918 in Valencia – 2002 in Valencia) was a Spanish composer and choral conductor. He was one of the first Valencian composers who assimilated the postwar avantgarde approaches,

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Francisco López Capillas

Francisco López Capillas (1608–1674), known also as "López of the Chapels," was a Mexican composer and theologian born in Mexico City. He is considered one of the most prolific composers of sacred

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Francisco Manuel da Silva

Francisco Manuel da Silva (21 February 1795 – 18 December 1865) was a Brazilian songwriter and music professor, notable for composing the Brazilian National Anthem. Biography Silva was born on 21

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Francisco Mignone

Francisco Paulo Mignone (September 3, 1897, São Paulo – February 19, 1986, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. He was one of the most significant figures in Brazilian

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Francisco Palaviccini

Francisco Palaviccini Sandoval (February 28, 1912 – February 24, 1996), also known as "Paquito" Palaviccini, was a Salvadoran composer and singer. Among his best known compositions are "Adentro

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Francisco Salas

Francisco Lleroa y Salas (12 March 1812 in Albaicín, Province of Granada – 21 June 1875 in Madrid) was a Spanish classical opera singer (bass-baritone), one of the crucial figures in the revival of

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Francisco Salvador-Daniel

Francisco Salvador-Daniel (Bourges 17 February 1831 - Paris 24 May 1871) was a French composer and ethnomusicologist of Spanish origin. Biography His father was a Spanish musician of Jewish origin

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Francisco Tárrega

Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (21 November 185215 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe,

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Francisco Valls

Francisco Valls or Francesc Valls (Barcelona 1665/1671 – 2 February 1747) was a Spanish composer, theorist and mestre de capella. Among his most known works are the mass Missa Scala Aretina and tract

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Franciszek Zachara

Franciszek Zachara (b Tarnów, Austrian Poland (now Poland), 10 December 1898; d Tallahassee, Florida, United States, 2 February 1966) was a Polish pianist and composer who concertized extensively

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Franco Alfano

Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Risurrezione (1904), Sakùntala (1921), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), and for

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Franco Casavola

Franco Casavola (13 July 1891, in Modugno, near Bari – 7 July 1955, in Bari) was a Futurist composer and theorist. He is noted as one of the authors of the Le Sintesi Visive della Musica, a manifesto

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Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later,

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Franco Evangelisti (composer)

Franco Evangelisti (January 21, 1926 – January 28, 1980) was an Italian composer specifically interested in the scientific theories behind sound. Biography Born in Rome, Evangelisti abandoned

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Franco Faccio

Francesco (Franco) Antonio Faccio (8 March 1840 – 21 July 1891) was an Italian composer and conductor. Born in Verona, he studied music at the Milan Conservatory from 1855 where he was a pupil of

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Franco Godi

Franco Godi (born 10 June 1940) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and record producer. Born in Milan, Godi grew up in Prato, where he started his musical activity as a member of a band.

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Franco Leoni

Franco Leoni (24 October 1864 – 8 February 1949) was an Italian opera composer. After training in Milan, he made most of his career in England, composing for Covent Garden and West End theatres. He

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Franco Mannino

Franco Mannino (25 April 1924 – 1 February 2005) was an Italian film composer, pianist, opera director, playwright and novelist. Biography Mannino was born in Palermo. He was married with Uberta

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Franco Margola

Franco Margola (Orzinuovi, Brescia, 30 October 1908 – Nave, Brescia, 9 March 1992), was a 20th-century Italian composer. Compositions Operas *Il mito di Caino *Il Titone (lost) Symphonic works

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Franco Micalizzi

Franco Micalizzi (born 21 December 1939 in Rome) is an Italian composer and conductor, best known for his scores in Poliziotteschi films. His first success was for the musical score of the Spaghetti

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Franco of Cologne

Franco of Cologne (; also Franco of Paris) was a German music theorist, possibly a composer, one of the most influential theorists of the Late Middle Ages, and was the first to propose an idea which

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Franco Simone

Francesco Luigi "Franco" Simone (born 21 July 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and television host, known as il poeta con la chitarra ("the poet with the guitar") for the poetical

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François Anatole Laurent de Rillé

François Anatole Laurent de Rillé (24 November 1828 – 26 August 1915), was a French composer, writer and musical theorist. De Rillé composed a number of operettas and sacred music works, but his name

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François Bayle

François Bayle (born 27 April 1932 in Toamasina, Madagascar) is a composer of Electronic Music, Musique concrète. He coined the term Acousmatic Music. Career In the 1950s he studied with Olivier

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François Bazin (composer)

François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin () (4 September 18162 July 1878) was a well-known French opera composer active during the nineteenth century. Biography Born in Marseille, Bazin was a student of Daniel

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François Benoist

François Benoist (; 10 September 1794 – 6 May 1878) was a French organist, pedagogue, and composer. Life and career Benoist was born in Nantes on 10 September 1794. He took his first music lessons

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François Bourgoing (singer)

François Bourgoing (15..–16..) was a member of the Oratory of Jesus, author of two books on the plain song in use in his order, and active in the first half of the 17th century. He must not be

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François Cappus

François Cappus (16?? – Dijon, November 1716) was a French composer. Early life François Cappus was the son of legal counselor, Maitre Blaise Cappus, Bailiff for Parlement at Aix en Provence. He

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François Couperin

François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from

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François Cupis de Renoussard

François Cupis de Renoussard Seigneur de Renoussard, called le cadet (10 November 1732 – 13 October 1808) was an 18th-century classical French composer, cellist and music educator. Biography François

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François d'Agincourt

François d'Agincourt (also d'Agincour, Dagincourt, Dagincour) (1684 – 30 April 1758) was a French harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He spent most of his life in Rouen, his native city, where he

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François de Fossa

François de Fossa (full name: François de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa) (31 August 1775 – 3 June 1849) was a French classical guitarist and composer. Biography His father, also named François de

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François Devienne

François Devienne (; 31 January 1759 – 5 September 1803) was a French composer of the Classical period and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory. Career Devienne was born in Joinville, as the

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François Dompierre

François Dompierre C.M. (born July 1, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and composer, best known as a composer of film scores. Early life and education Dompierre was born in Ottawa, Ontario,

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François Dufault

François Dufault (or Dufaut) (before 1604 (?)ca. 1672?) was a French lutenist and composer. Dufault was born in Bourges, France. As a student of Denis Gaultier, he enjoyed an excellent reputation as

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François Francoeur

François Francœur (21 September 1698 – 5 August 1787) was a French composer and violinist from the late Baroque era and the Classical era. Biography François Francœur was born in Paris, the son of

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François Giroust

François Giroust (10 April 1737 – 28 April 1799) was a French composer. He was born in Paris, where he was the last maître of the Chapelle royale before the French Revolution. He died, aged 62, at

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François Habeneck

François Antoine Habeneck (22 January 1781 – 8 February 1849) was a French classical violinist and conductor. Early life Habeneck was born at Mézières, the son of a musician in a French regimental

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François Morel (composer)

François Morel (14 March 1926 – 14 January 2018 ) was a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was made a Knight of the National

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François Pantillon

François Pantillon (15 January 1928 – 14 February 2025) was a Swiss conductor, composer and violinist. He is particularly known as choral conductor and has directed the city choirs of Neuchâtel,

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François Paris

François Paris (born 28 October 1961 in Valenciennes) is a French composer and professor. He is known for his inclusion of microtonal elements in his music. Life He studied in the conservatoire of

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François Polgár

François Polgár (born 19 October 1946) is a contemporary French choral conductor, organist, composer and musicologist. Biography Family Polgár was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of André

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François Roberday

François Roberday (21 March 1624 – 13 October 1680) was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and

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François Roussel

François Roussel (c.1510 – after 1577), also known as Francesco Rosselli (the Italian version of his name), was a French Renaissance composer of both sacred and secular music. His works included

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François Sarhan

François Sarhan (born 30 September 1972) is a French composer, installation artist, visual artist and writer. Biography Born in Rouen, Sarhan studied composition with Guy Reibel, Philippe Manoury,

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François-Adrien Boieldieu

François-Adrien Boieldieu (, also ) (16 December 1775 – 8 October 1834) was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart". Although his reputation is largely based upon his

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François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master. He contributed to the

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François-Auguste Gevaert

François-Auguste Gevaert (31 July 1828 – 24 December 1908) was a Belgian musicologist and composer. Life Gevaert was born in Huise, near Oudenaarde, to an upper class family. His father was a bakery

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François-Bernard Mâche

François-Bernard Mâche (born 4 April 1935, Clermont-Ferrand) is a French composer of contemporary music. Biography Born into a family of musicians, he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier

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François-Joseph Fétis

François-Joseph Fétis (; 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, critic, teacher and composer. He was among the most influential music intellectuals in continental Europe. His

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François-Joseph Gossec

François-Joseph Gossec (; 17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works. Life and work The son of a small farmer, Gossec was born

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François-Joseph Naderman

François-Joseph Naderman (; 5 August 1781, in Paris – 2 April 1835, in Paris) was a classical harpist, teacher and composer, the eldest son of the well-known eighteenth century harp maker Jean Henri

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François-René Gebauer

François-René Gebauer (15 March 1773 in Versailles, France – 28 July 1845 in Paris) was a French composer, professor, and bassoonist and the son of a German military musician. He had four brothers,

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Françoise Barrière

Françoise Barrière (12 June 1944 Barrière worked at the Service de la Recherche, ORTF, and in 1970 became co-founder and director of the International Institute of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges

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Françoise Élisabeth Desfossez

Françoise Élisabeth Desfossez (born Françoise Élisabeth Carraque, 4 February 1743 Paris - 27 September 1825 Paris) was a French composer and pianist. She composed sonatas for the piano. Life In 1790,

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Françoys Bernier

Françoys Joseph Arthur Maurice Bernier (12 July 19273 February 1993) was a Canadian pianist, conductor, radio producer, arts administrator, and music educator. He served as the music director of the

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Franghiz Ali-Zadeh

Franghiz Ali Aga Kïzï Ali-Zadeh (born 28 May 1947) is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist of contemporary classical music, and chairperson of the Composers Union of Azerbaijan. Music She is best

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Frank Bridge

Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor. Life Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845–1928), a violin teacher

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Frank Comstock

Frank G. Comstock (September 20, 1922 – May 21, 2013) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and trombonist. For television, Comstock wrote and arranged music for major situation comedies and

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Frank Corcoran

Frank Corcoran ( ; born 1 May 1944) is an Irish composer. His output includes chamber, symphonic, choral and electro-acoustic music, through which he often explores Irish mythology and history. Life

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Frank Davies (music producer)

Francis William Harding Davies (born November 22, 1946) is a British-born Canadian record producer, music publisher, and founder of the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (Panthéon des Auteurs et

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Frank Denyer

Frank Denyer (born April 12, 1943, in London) is a composer. His music uses a combination of conventional instruments and new, unusual, and structurally modified instruments. Partly due to his

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Frank Felice

Frank Felice (born October 13, 1961, in Great Falls, Montana) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and associate professor of composition, theory, and electronic music in the

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Frank Ferko

Frank Ferko (born June 18, 1950) is an American composer. Born in Barberton, Ohio, Ferko played piano from childhood, and worked as an organist and conductor in his teens. His first compositions were

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Frank H. Losey

Frank Hoyt Losey (March 18, 1870 – 3 May 1931) was an American musician, composer, and arranger of band and orchestra music. He is credited with over 400 compositions and 2,500 arrangements including

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Frank Hutchens

Francis Hutchens OBE (15 January 1892 – 18 October 1965) was a pianist, music teacher and composer originally from New Zealand. He became a popular concert pianist in Australia and was a founding

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Frank La Forge

Frank La Forge (October 22, 1879 – May 5, 1953) was an American pianist, vocal coach, teacher, composer and arranger of art songs. Biography He was born on October 22, 1879, in Rockford, Illinois. La

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Frank Lazarus (composer)

Frank Lazarus (4 May 1939 – 14 September 2025) was a British and South African actor, composer and lyricist. He was best known as the composer of the musical A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the

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Frank Lewin

Frank Lewin (March 27, 1925 – January 18, 2008) was an American composer and teacher. Biography Frank Lewin was born March 27, 1925, in Breslau, Germany. He and his family escaped from Germany in

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Frank Marsales

Frank Alfred Marsales (August 31, 1886 – August 14, 1975) was a Canadian composer best known for his work scoring cartoons by Harman-Ising Productions in the 1930s. He also worked with Walter Lantz

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Frank Martin (composer)

Frank Théodore Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss composer who spent much of his life in the Netherlands. Childhood and youth Born into a Huguenot family in the Eaux-Vives

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Frank McNamara (musician)

Francis Anthony McNamara is an Irish arranger, conductor, composer, and pianist. Early life McNamara's career began at the age of 11, when he first appeared on Irish national television. Peter Katin

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Frank Petzold

Frank Petzold (born 1951) is a German composer, conductor and jazz pianist. A composer of operas and other stage works, he has worked at theatres, from 1994 as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater

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Frank Tapp

Frank Harold Tapp (1883 – 15 June 1953, often Frank H. Tapp, sometimes Frank W. Tapp) was a British composer, pianist and conductor associated with the City of Bath, where he was the director of the

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Frank Ticheli

Frank Ticheli ( ; born January 21, 1958) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert band works. Ticheli is a Professor Emeritus of Composition at the University of Southern

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Frank Welsman

Frank Squire Welsman (20 December 1873 – 2 July 1952) was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer and music educator. He began his career as a concert pianist, but ultimately earned his place in

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Frank William Erickson

Frank William Erickson (September 1, 1923 – October 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, writer, and trumpet player. Growing up The son of Frank O.. Myrtle Erickson, Frank

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30

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Frankie Mann (composer)

Frankie Mann (born 1955) is an American electronic music composer and performance artist. Mann was a part of the New York City avant-garde music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Mann was born in

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Franklin Cox

Franklin Cox (born Charleston, Illinois, 1961) is an American composer, scholar, and cellist. Life Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough at the University of California, San Diego, and at the

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Frans Bak

Frans Bak (born 7 February 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has worked as a jazz

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Frans Geysen

Frans Geysen (born 29 July 1936) is a Belgian composer and a writer on music topics. Biography Frans Geysen was born in Oostham, and studied music at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, and at the

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Frans Krafft

Frans (or François, Francesco, Franciscus) Krafft (17 February 1729 in Brussels – 13 January 1795 in Ghent) was a composer, organist and director in the Austrian Netherlands (the current Belgium). He

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František Brixi

František Xaver Brixi (; 2 January 1732 – 14 October 1771) was a Czech classical composer. He was the son of composer Šimon Brixi. Life Brixi was born on 2 January 1732 in Prague, the son of composer

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František Brož

František Brož (10 April 1896 – 21 July 1962) was a Czech violist, composer, conductor and music educator. Biography Brož was born on 10 April 1896 in Prague. He studied violin at the Prague

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František Domažlický

František Domažlický (13 May 1913 – 29 October 1997) was a Czech composer. He was born František Tausig in Prague. He was sent to Theresienstadt but survived. Selected works ;Orchestral * Serenade in

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František Drdla

František Alois Drdla (Germanised as Franz Drdla; 28 November 1868 – 3 September 1944) was a Czech concert violinist and composer of light music. Biography Drdla was born in 1868 in Žďár nad Sázavou

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František Gregor Emmert

František Gregor Emmert (19 May 1940 – 17 April 2015) was a Czech composer of classical and incidental music. Biography Emmert's ancestors came from the north of Bavaria, in the area around Weiden,

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František Hertl

František Hertl (18 April 1906, Zbůch – 23 February 1973, Prague) was a Czech double bassist, composer and conductor. Life Hertl was the oldest of five children born in to a Kapellmeister. As a child

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František Jiránek

František Jiránek (24 July 1698 – 1778) was a Czech Baroque composer and violinist. He was very likely a student of Antonio Vivaldi. Life Jiránek was born on 24 July 1698 in Lomnice nad Popelkou

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František Kmoch

František Kmoch (1 August 1848 – 30 April 1912) was a Czech composer and conductor. Life and career František Kmoch was born in Zásmuky near Kolín, Bohemia. His father was a tailor and a clarinetist

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Frantisek Kotzwara

František Kočvara, known later in England as Frantisek Kotzwara (1730 – September 2, 1791), was a Czech violist, virtuoso double bassist and composer. His death was one of the first recorded

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František Ondříček

František Ondříček (29 April 1857 – 12 April 1922) was a Czech violinist and composer. He gave the first performance of the Violin Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, and his achievements were recognised by

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František Škroup

František Jan Škroup (; 3 June 1801 – 7 February 1862) was a Czech composer and conductor. His brother Jan Nepomuk Škroup was also a successful composer and his father, Dominik Škroup, and other

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František Tůma

František Ignác Antonín Tůma (2 October 1704 – 3 February 1774) was a Czech composer of the Baroque era. He lived the greater part of his life in Vienna, first as director of music for Franz Joseph,

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František Xaver Dušek

František Xaver Dušek ( or Dussek); 8 December 1731 – 12 February 1799) was a Czech composer and musician. He was one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time. Biography Dušek

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František Xaver Pokorný

František Xaver Pokorný (20 December 1729, Stříbro – 2 July 1794, Regensburg) was a Czech composer and violinist of the classical period. Life and career František Xaver Pokorný was born on 20

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Frantz Jehin-Prume

Frantz Jehin-Prume (18 April 1839 – 29 May 1899) was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth. He began his career as a highly successful concert violinist in Europe. From

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Franz Abt

Franz Wilhelm Abt (22 December 1819 – 31 March 1885) was a German composer and choral conductor. He composed roughly 3,000 individual works mostly in the area of vocal music. Several of his songs

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Franz Adam Veichtner

Franz Adam Veichtner, also known as "Feichtner" (baptised 10 February 1741 – 3 March 1822) was a German violinist and composer of the classical era. Life Veichtner was born in Regensburg, where his

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Franz Anton Hoffmeister

Franz Anton Hoffmeister (12 May 1754 – 9 February 1812) was a German and Austrian composer and music publisher. Early years Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Further Austria,

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Franz Anton Maichelbeck

Franz Anton Maichelbeck (6 July 1702 – 14 June 1750) was a German organist and composer. Life Born in Reichenau Island, Maichelbeck grew up there with twelve siblings and attended the . He studied

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Franz Benda

Franz Benda (; c. 22 November 1709 – 7 March 1786) was a Czech violinist and composer. He was active in the Kingdom of Prussia and worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great.

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Franz Bendel

Franz Bendel (23 March 18333 July 1874) was a German Bohemian pianist, composer, and teacher. Bendel was born in Schönlinde, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He was a student of Franz Liszt for five years

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Franz Berwald

Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer and violinist. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and

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Franz Biebl

Franz Xaver Biebl (1 September 1906 – 2 October 2001) was a German composer of classical music and an academic teacher. Most of his compositions were for choral ensembles. He became known

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Franz Cibulka

Franz Peter Cibulka (23 December 1946 – 27 June 2016) was an Austrian composer. Career Cibulka was born in Fohnsdorf, Austria. Having completed his musical studies in Clarinet, composition and

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Franz Clement

Franz Joseph Clement (November 17, 1780 – November 3, 1842), was an Austrian violinist, pianist, composer, conductor of Vienna's Theater an der Wien, and a friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. Life and

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Franz Curti

__NOTOC__ Jean Baptist Joseph Franz Henry Curti (1854–1898) was a Swiss-German opera composer. Curti was born 16 November 1854 at Kassel, son to the lawyer and court opera singer Anton Curti

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Franz Danksagmüller

Franz Danksagmüller (born 1969) is an Austrian composer and organist. Life Born in Sankt Martin im Innkreis, Danksagmüller received his first musical instructions in piano, organ and theory from his

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Franz Danzi

Franz Ignaz Danzi (15 June 1763 – 13 April 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franziska

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Franz Doppler

Albert Franz Doppler (16 October 182127 July 1883) was a flute virtuoso and a composer best known for his flute music. He also wrote one German and several Hungarian operas for Budapest, all produced

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Franz Fleckenstein

Franz Fleckenstein (8 June 1922 – 5 January 1996) was a German church musician, priest and composer. Life Born in Würzburg, Fleckenstein studied church music in Regensburg and after the war

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Franz Grothe

Franz Grothe (17 September 1908 – 12 September 1982) was a German composer, arranger, songwriter, conductor, and pianist active from the mid 1920s until his death in 1982 at the age of 73. He was a

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Franz Hauser

Franz Xaver Hauser (12 January 1794 – 14 August 1870) was a singer, voice teacher and music manuscript collector. Life Franz Hauser was born in Krasovice (today part of Kondrac in the Czech

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Franz Hitz

Franz Hitz (17 July 1828 – 20 November 1891) was a Swiss pianist and composer who lived and worked in France. He was primarily known for his many piano compositions which were much in vogue as salon

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Franz Hünten

Franz Hünten, also known as François Hünten (26 December 1792 22 February 1878), was a German pianist and composer of salon music. He was born in Koblenz, the son of the organist Daniel Hünten, who

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Franz Ignaz Beck

Franz Ignaz Beck (20 February 1734 – 31 December 1809) was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher. He spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the

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Franz Ignaz von Beecke

Franz Ignaz von Beecke (28 October 1733 – 2 January 1803) was a classical music composer born in Wimpfen am Neckar, Holy Roman Empire. Life Von Beecke served in the Bavarian Dragoon Regiment of

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Franz Johann Habermann

Franz Johann (or Wenzel) Habermann (20 September 17067 April 1783), also known by his Czech name František Václav Habermann, was a Czech composer and musician. Biography Habermann was born in

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Franz Joseph Aumann

Franz Joseph Aumann (also Auman, Aumon; 24 February 1728, Traismauer – 30 March 1797, Sankt Florian) was an Austrian composer. Before his voice broke, he sang in the same Viennese choir as Michael

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Franz Joseph Glæser

Franz Joseph Glæser (19 April 1798 - 29 August 1861), also spelt as Glaeser and Gläser, was an Austrian-Danish composer. Born in Obergeorgenthal, Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, Glaeser’s

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Franz Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn ( ; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms like the string quartet and piano trio. His

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Franz Krommer

Franz Krommer (; 27 November 1759 – 8 January 1831) was a Czech composer of classical music and violinist. He was one of the most popular composers in 19th-century Vienna alongside Beethoven, whom he

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Franz Lachner

Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 180320 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor. Biography Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family (his brothers Ignaz, and Vinzenz also became

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Franz Lambert

Franz Lambert (born 11 March 1948) is a German composer and organist. He is an avid Hammond organ player; however, he is more noted in later years for playing the Wersi range of electronic organs.

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Franz Lauska

Franz Seraphin Lauska was a Moravian pianist, composer, and teacher of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn . Around 1816 he gave piano lessons to Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. He died in Berlin,

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Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár ( ; ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he

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Franz Mittler

Franz Mittler (April 14, 1893 in Vienna – December 28, 1970 in Munich) was an Austrian (and later on an American) composer, musician, and humorist. Life and work Mittler was born in Vienna. His

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Franz Pecháček

Franz Xaver Pecháček (4 July 1793 – 15 September 1840) was an Austrian-German violin virtuoso and composer of Czech origin. Besides polonaises, variations, Rondos and potpourris for violin and

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Franz Philipp

Franz Joseph Philipp (August 24, 1890 – June 2, 1972) was a German church musician and composer. He studied and later taught various instruments including organ, worked as a composer, directed a

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Franz R. Friedl

Franz René Friedl (30 May 18925 December 1977), was an Austrian violist and composer. He was born in Oberkappel, then part of Austria-Hungary. From 1933 he was music composer for theatre and films,

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Franz Reizenstein

Franz Theodor Reizenstein (7 June 191115 October 1968) was a German-born British composer and concert pianist. He left Germany for sanctuary in Britain in 1934 and went on to have his teaching and

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Franz Ries

Franz Ries (7 April 1846 in Berlin – 20 June 1932 in Naumburg) was a Romantic German violinist and composer, son of Hubert Ries, the younger brother of Ferdinand Ries. He studied at the Paris

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Franz Schmidt (composer)

Franz Schmidt, also Ferenc Schmidt (, 22 December 1874 – 11 February 1939) was an Austro-Hungarian composer, cellist and pianist. Life Schmidt was born in Pozsony/Pressburg, in the Hungarian part of

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Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a short life, leaving

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Franz Schubert (violinist)

(Xaver) Franz Schubert (22 July 1808, Dresden – 12 April 1878, Dresden) was a violinist and composer. After training with concertmaster Antonio Rolla in Dresden, Schubert studied violin with Charles

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Franz Servatius Bruinier

Franz Servatius Bruinier (13 May 1905 – 31 July 1928) was a pianist and composer. He was the first professional composer to collaborate with Bertolt Brecht. On account of his early death from

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Franz Strauss

Franz Josef Strauss (26 February 1822 – 31 May 1905) was a German musician and composer. He was principal horn player of the Bavarian Court Opera for more than 40 years, a teacher at the Royal School

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Franz Syberg

Franz Adolf Syberg (5 July 1904 - 11 December 1955) was a Danish composer. Life Syberg was born in Kerteminde, Funen, to the painters Anna and Fritz Syberg. He moved to Leipzig in 1922 where he

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Franz Treichler

Francisco José Conceição Leitão Treichler Music career The Young Gods Relocating to Geneva following the demise of Jof & the Ram, Treichler formed The Young Gods with Cesare Pizzi and Frank Bagnoud

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Franz Tunder

Franz Tunder (1614 – November 5, 1667) was a German composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was an important link between the early German Baroque style which was based on

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Franz von Gernerth

Franz von Gernerth (born 14 December 1821 in Purkersdorf; died 11 November 1900 in Vienna) was an Austrian lawyer, composer and music writer. Life Franz Elder von Gernerth was born in Purkersdorf,

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Franz von Holstein

Franz von Holstein (16 February 1826 – 22 May 1878) was a German composer. Life Born in Braunschweig, Holstein was the son of the Duchy of Brunswick colonel and Council of wars Werner von Holstein

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Franz von Suppé

Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere Suppé Demelli (18 April 181921 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of

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Franz von Vecsey

Franz von Vecsey (born Ferenc Vecsey; 23 March 18935 April 1935) was a Hungarian violinist and composer, who became a well-known virtuoso in Europe through the early 20th century. He made his public

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Franz Wilhelm Ferling

Franz Wilhelm Ferling (20 September 1796 – 8 December 1874) was a German oboist, composer, and clarinettist. An accomplished musician, he is chiefly remembered today for his 48 études for oboe, op.

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Franz Wüllner

Franz Wüllner (28 January 1832 – 7 September 1902) was a German composer and conductor. He led the premieres of Wagner's Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, but was much criticized by Wagner himself, who

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Franz Xaver Gerl

Franz Xaver Gerl ( – ) was a bass singer and composer of the classical era. He sang the role of Sarastro in the premiere of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Life Gerl was born on in Andorf (then

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Franz Xaver Gruber

Franz Xaver Gruber (25 November 1787 – 7 June 1863) was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer in the village of Arnsdorf, who is best known for composing the music to

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Franz Xaver Murschhauser

Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser (1 July 1663 – 6 January 1738) was a German composer and theorist. He was born in Saverne (then under the Holy Roman Empire) but he is first mentioned as a singer and

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Franz Xaver Neruda

Franz Xaver Neruda (or František) (3 December 1843 – 19 March 1915) was a Czech-Danish cellist and composer of Moravian origin. Life Franz Xaver Neruda was born in Brno into a musical family. He was

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Franz Xaver Richter

Franz (Czech: František) Xaver Richter, known as François Xavier Richter in France (December 1, 1709 – September 12, 1789) was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music

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Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Franz Xaver Süssmayr or Süßmayr (; 1766 – September 17, 1803), also anglicized as Suessmayr, was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who

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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (26 July 1791 – 29 July 1844), also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jr., was the youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and

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Fred Bongusto

Alfredo Antonio Carlo "Fred" Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019) was an Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer who was very popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Career history Bongusto

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Fred Elizalde

Federico "Fred" Díaz Elizalde (December 12, 1907 – January 16, 1979) was a Filipino classical and jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and bandleader, influential in the British dance band era. Early

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Best known for his guitar playing, Frith first came to attention as a founding

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Fred Hartley

Fred Hartley (1905 – 8 April 1980) was a Scottish rhythm pianist, conductor, composer and arranger of light music best known for his waltz Rouge et Noir. He sometimes composed music under the

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Fred J. Eustis

Frederick J. Eustis, sometime referred to as F. J. Eustis, (c. 1858, in Boston, Massachusetts – March 28, 1912, in Toronto, Canada) was an American composer, conductor, and theatre director. He is

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Fred Lerdahl

Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (born March 10, 1943) is an American music theorist and composer. Best known for his work on musical grammar, cognition, rhythmic theory, and pitch space, he and the

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Fred Lohse

Fred Lohse (9 April 1908 – 19 January 1987 ) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Leipzig, Lohse studied from 1928 until 1931 musical composition and counterpoint bei Hermann

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Fred Myrow

Fredric Myrow (July 16, 1939 – January 14, 1999) was an American composer. He composed the soundtracks for Soylent Green, Scarecrow, and Phantasm. He was composer in residence of the Los Angeles

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Fred S. Stone

Frederick St. Clair Stone (fr) (January 22, 1873 – January 14, 1912) was an African-Canadian ragtime music composer, born in Chatham, Kent County, Ontario. Works (sources: ) * 1891 - The Detroit

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Fred Werner

Fred Werner born Gottfried W Werner was an Australian composer, music teacher. He was possibly born near Berlin where he attended the prestigious Stern Conservatory and studied under Polish composer

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Fred Werner (American composer)

Frederick Henry Werner Jr. (June 11, 1934 – June 11, 2024) was an American musician and composer who wrote and arranged music for television, cinema, and Broadway musicals. He started his career in

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Freda Swain

Freda Swain (31 October 190229 January 1985) was a British composer, pianist and music educator. Biography Freda Swain was born in Portsmouth, England, the daughter of Thomas and Gertrude (née Allen)

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Frédéric Acquaviva

Frédéric Acquaviva (born 20 January 1967) is a French autodidact experimental composer and avant-garde sound artist living between Paris, Berlin and London who works with voices, instruments,

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Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger

Baron Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger (29 May 1868 – 23 April 1943 ) was an Anglo-French composer, banker, and patron of the arts. His father, Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger, was a German His mother,

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Frederic Archer

Frederic Archer (16 June 1838 – 22 October 1901) was a British composer, conductor and organist, born in Oxford. He moved to the US in 1880, where he established the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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Frédéric Barbier (composer)

Frédéric Barbier (15 November 1829 – 12 February 1889) was a 19th-century French composer. Biography Frédéric Barbier was born in Metz, Lorraine, and was the son of Félix Henri Barbier and Adélaide

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Frederic Bayco

Frederic Bayco, sometimes spelt Fredric Bayco (1913 – 1970) was an English organist and composer of light music, best known for his Tudor pastiche Elizabethan Masque. Born in London (as Frederick

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Frédéric Bérat

Frédéric Bérat (11 March 1801, Rouen – 2 December 1855, Paris) was a French composer, chansonnier and goguettier. His best known song is Ma Normandie, the official anthem of the Bailiwick of Jersey.

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Frédéric Blasius

Frédéric Blasius (24 April 1758, in Lauterbourg – 1829, in Versailles) was a French violinist, clarinetist, conductor, and composer. Born Matthäus (French: Matthieu, Mathieu) Blasius, he used

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He

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Frederic Cliffe

Frederic Cliffe (2 May 1857 – 19 November 1931) was an English composer, organist and teacher. Life Cliffe was born in Lowmoor, near Bradford, Yorkshire. As a youth, he showed a promising musical

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Frederic Curzon

Frederic Curzon (4 September 18996 December 1973) was an English composer, conductor and organist, associated with the theatre, early cinema and light music. He sometimes wrote under the pen names

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Frédéric Devreese

Frédéric Devreese (2 June 1929 – 28 September 2020) was a Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he was also active as a

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Frederic Hymen Cowen

Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (29 January 1852 – 6 October 1935), was an English composer, conductor and pianist. Early years and musical education Cowen was born Hymen Frederick Cohen at 90 Duke Street,

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Frederic Lamond (pianist)

Frederic Archibald Lamond (28 January 186821 February 1948) was a Scottish classical pianist and composer, and the second-last surviving pupil of Franz Liszt. Early life Lamond was born in Glasgow,

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Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy

Frédéric-Nicolas Duvernoy (16 October 1765, in Montbéliard – 19 July 1838, in Paris) was a French composer and hornist. Biography In 1788, Duvernoy went to Paris and became a hornist at Orchestre de

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Frédéric Pelletier

Frédéric Pelletier (1 May 1870 – 30 May 1944) was a Canadian choir conductor, music educator, composer, music critic, journalist, civil servant, military officer, and physician. He was one of the

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Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Anthony Rzewski ( ; April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. which has been

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Frédéric Talgorn

Frédéric Talgorn (born 2 July 1961 in Toulouse, France) is a French composer for film and television. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris where his teachers included Sabine Lacoraet and

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Frédéric Toulmouche

Frédéric-Michel Toulmouche (4 August 1850 – 23 February 1909) was a French composer, who specialised in light theatrical music for small theatres. Biography Source: Toulmouche was born in Nantes, in

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Frédéric Viret

Frédéric Viret (18 February 1822 – 3 May 1898) was a French choirmaster, composer of sacred music and leader of a society of amateur male and female choristers of high vocal range. Biography A pupil

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Frederick A. Fillmore

Frederick Augustus Fillmore (May 15, 1856 – November 16, 1925) was an American composer and music publisher, and the co-founder of the Fillmore Music House. Composer and publisher Fillmore was the

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Frederick A. Fox

Frederick A. Fox (January 17, 1931 – August 24, 2011) was an American composer and former music educator specializing in contemporary classical music. Early years Frederick Alfred Fox Jr. was born

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Frederick Augustus Packer

Frederick Augustus Gow Packer (1839 – 1 August 1902), generally referred to as F. A. Packer but also Frederick Gow Packer, was an Australian composer of Anglican spiritual and romantic music. History

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Frederick Converse

Frederick Shepherd Converse (January 5, 1871 – June 8, 1940), was an American composer of classical music, whose works include four operas and five symphonies. Life and career Converse was born in

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Frederick Corder

Frederick Corder (26 January 1852 – 21 August 1932) was an English composer and music teacher. Life Corder was born in Hackney, the son of Micah Corder and his wife Charlotte Hill. He was educated at

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Frederick Delius

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius; ; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile

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Frederick Ellard

Frederick Ellard (1824–1874) was an Australian classical music composer. Visiting Hungarian composer Miska Hauser was sufficiently impressed to dedicate an Australian publication in Ellard's honour.

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Frederick Herbert Torrington

Frederick Herbert Torrington (20 October 1836 – 20 November 1917) was an English-born Canadian conductor, organist, violinist, music educator, and administrator. From 1873-1894 he was the principal

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Frederick J. Bacon

Frederick J. Bacon (1871-1948) was a late 19th to mid 20th century performer and recording artist on the five string banjo. He was also an inventor and entrepreneur, educator, composer, At the height

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Frederick Jacobi

Frederick Jacobi (May 4, 1891 – October 24, 1952) was a Jewish-American composer and teacher. His works include symphonies, concerti, chamber music, works for solo piano and for solo organ, lieder,

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Frederick Keel

James Frederick Keel (8 May 18719 August 1954) was an English composer of art songs, baritone singer and academic. Keel was a successful recitalist and a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of

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Frederick Laurence

Frederick Laurence (until 1919 Frederick Kessler, 25 May 1884 - 3 May 1942) was a British composer, early film music pioneer and latterly an orchestral manager and administrator. He changed his name

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Frederick May (composer)

Frederick May (9 June 1911 – 8 September 1985) was an Irish composer and arranger. His musical career was seriously hindered by a lifelong hearing problem and he produced relatively few compositions.

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Frederick Nicholls Crouch

Frederick William Nicholls Crouch (30 July 1808 – 18 August 1896) was an English composer and cellist. Early life and Civil War Crouch was born in Marylebone in the city of Westminster, in London. He

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Frederick Ouseley

Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, 2nd Baronet (12 August 18256 April 1889), was an English composer, organist, musicologist and priest. Biography Frederick Ouseley was born in London, the son of Sir

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Frederick Septimus Kelly

Frederick Septimus Kelly (29 May 1881 – 13 November 1916) was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rower who competed for Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He joined the Royal

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Frederick Stock

Frederick Stock (born Friedrich August Stock; November 11, 1872 – October 20, 1942) was a German and American conductor and composer, most famous for his 37-year tenure as music director of the

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Frederick T. Durrant

Frederick Thomas Durrant (1895 – January 1979), typically known as F.T. Durrant, was an organist, musical academic and composer, long resident in Harrow. Career Durrant was born at Beer in Devon and

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of

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Frederick W. Hager

Frederick W. Hager (December 31, 1874 - March 3, 1958) was an American musician, recording artist, composer, and music director active between 1895 and 1923. Biography Early life and recording and

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Frederick William Wadely

Frederick William Wadely OBE FRCO (30 July 1882 - 28 May 1970) was an English organist and composer. Background He was born in Kidderminster in 1882, the son of organist William Edward Wadely and Zoe

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Frederick Zech Jr.

Frederick Zech Jr. (May 10, 1858 – October 15, 1926) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. Zech was born in Philadelphia on May 10, 1858 and lived in San Francisco from 1860,

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Frederik Magle

Frederik Reesen Magle (; born 17 April 1977) is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He writes contemporary classical music as well as fusion of classical music and other genres. His

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Frederik Thorkildsen Wexschall

Frederick Thorkildsen Wexschall (born 9 April 1798 in Copenhagen, died 25 October 1845) was a Danish classical composer, violinist, and concertmaster of the Copenhagen Royal Orchestra. A pupil of

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Fredric Kroll

Fredric Joseph Kroll (7 February 1945 – 12 February 2026) was an American-German composer and writer. Life and career Kroll was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 7 February 1945, as the only child of

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Fredrick Kaufman

Fredrick Kaufman (born March 24, 1936) is an American composer. Before Fame Kaufman was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied trumpet, composition and jazz at the Manhattan School of Music (BMus

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Fredrik Högberg

Fredrik Karl Kristian Högberg, born 5 February 1971 in Vellinge, Sweden, is a Swedish composer and producer. He resides in the old courthouse in Nyland, Ångermanland (mid-Sweden). Fredrik Högberg

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Fredrik Pacius

Fredrik Pacius (, ); in German and in Estonian Friedrich Pacius; 19 March 1809 – 8 January 1891) was a German composer, violinist and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He is regarded

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Fredrik Sixten

Sven Fredrik Johannes Sixten (born 21 October 1962) is a Swedish composer, cathedral organist and conductor. Sixten was born in Skövde, Sweden. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1986) at the Royal

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Fredrik Thomander

Fredrik Thomander is a Swedish songwriter, bassist and producer. For many years he performed in Swedish pop bands. He has written and produced songs, mainly of pop music, for various singers and

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Fredrikke Egeberg

Annichen Fredrikke Sophie Egeberg (23 November 1815 – 16 May 1861) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. Early life and family Annichen Fredrikke Sophie Egeberg was born in Christiania on 23 November

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Freya Waley-Cohen

Freya Waley-Cohen (born 20 February 1989) is a British-American composer based in London. Biography Waley-Cohen grew up in an arts-oriented family. Her mother is the American sculptor Josie Spencer

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Fried Walter

Fried Walter (9 December 1907 in Ottendorf-Okrilla as Walter Emil Schmidt, 8 April 1996 in Berlin) was a German composer. He composed over 500 pieces and arranged more than 250 songs, including many

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Frieda Schmitt-Lermann

Frieda Schmitt-Lermann (born 24 May 1885) was a German composer and pianist who wrote music for orchestra, television, theatre and voice. Life Schmitt-Lermann was born in Würzburg. She studied piano

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Friedbert Streller

Friedbert Streller (21 December 1931 – 24 December 2017) was a German musicologist and composer. Life Born in Hohburg near Wurzen, Streller studied music education, musicology and composition with

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Friederike Schwarz

Friederike Schwarz (15 January 1910 – 5 May 1945) was a Czech composer, educator, pianist and writer. She, together with her sister, committed suicide during the Prague uprising. She sometimes

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Friedhelm Döhl

Friedhelm Döhl (7 July 1936 – 25 September 2018) was a German composer and professor of music. Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and piano with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik

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Friedrich August Kanne

Friedrich August Kanne (1778–1833) was a composer and music critic in Vienna. Biography Kanne was born on 8 March 1778 in Delitzsch, Saxony. He studied theology and medicine in Leipzig and

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Friedrich August Kummer

Friedrich August Kummer (5 August 1797 – 22 August 1879), born in Meiningen, the Holy Roman Empire, was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer. Childhood and education As a child, his family moved to

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Friedrich Baumfelder

Friedrich August Wilhelm Baumfelder (28 May 1836 – 8 September 1916 in Dresden) was a German composer of classical music, conductor, and pianist. He started in the Leipzig Conservatory, and went on

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Friedrich Burgmüller

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, generally known as Friedrich Burgmuller (4 December 1806 – 13 February 1874) was a German pianist and composer during the Romantic period. He is perhaps best known

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Friedrich Christian Sauerzweig

Friedrich Christian Sauerzweig (1 April 1881 – 7 April 1953) was a German military bandmaster, conductor, and composer who was, from 1940, the director of the Army School of Music in the Irish Free

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Friedrich Curschmann

Karl Friedrich Curschmann (June 21, 1805 – August 24, 1841) was a German song composer and singer. Life Curschmann was born in 1805, in Berlin. His talent for singing was discovered when he was at

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Friedrich Dotzauer

Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (20 January 1783 – 6 March 1860) was a German cellist and composer. Life Early life and career Dotzauer was born in 1783 in , near Hildburghausen. His father, a

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Friedrich Erhard Niedt

Friedrich Erhard Niedt (31 May 1674 – 1717) was a German jurist, music theorist, and composer. Niedt was born in Jena, and enrolled at the University of Jena in 1694, where he is thought to have

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Friedrich Ernst Fesca

Friedrich Ernst Fesca (15 February 1789 – 24 May 1826) was a German violinist and composer of instrumental music of the late Classical and early Romantic periods. Life and career He was born at

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Friedrich Filitz

Friedrich Filitz (16 March 1804 – 8 December 1876) was a German composer and musicologist who collected church music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Biography Filitz was born in Arnstadt, County of

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Friedrich Gernsheim

Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 – 11 September 1916) was a German composer, conductor and pianist. Early life Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his

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Friedrich Goldmann

Friedrich Goldmann (27 April 1941 – 24 July 2009) was a German composer and conductor. Early life and education Born on 27 April 1941 in Siegmar-Schönau (today a part of Chemnitz), Goldmann's music

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Friedrich Grützmacher

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Grützmacher (1 March 1832 – 23 February 1903) was a German cellist and composer in the second half of the 19th century. He composed mostly for cello (including several

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Friedrich Heinrich Himmel

Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (November 20, 1765 – June 8, 1814) was a German composer. Biography Himmel was born at Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg, Prussia, and originally studied theology at Halle

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Friedrich Heinrich Kern

Friedrich Heinrich Kern (born March 19, 1980) is a German composer, pianist, and glass harmonica player. Kern began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he

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Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn

Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn (14 November 1811 – 30 April 1886) was a German conductor, composer and writer on music who worked mainly in Berlin, Danzig, Elbing and Riga. He was the son of court

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Friedrich Hollaender

Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 189618 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. Life and career He was born in London to a Jewish family, where his

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Friedrich Höricke

Friedrich Höricke (born 1963) is a German pianist and composer. Life Born in Cologne, West Germany, Höricke played his first piano recital in Cologne at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen he

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Friedrich Kalkbrenner

Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (7 November 1785 – 10 June 1849), also known as Frédéric Kalkbrenner, was a pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer. German by birth, Kalkbrenner

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Friedrich Kiel

Friedrich Kiel (8 October 182113 September 1885) was a German composer and music educator. Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was

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Friedrich Klose

Friedrich Klose (born 29 November 1862 in Karlsruhe, Margraviate of Baden-Durlach; died 24 December 1942 in Ruvigliana, Switzerland) was a German composer. He studied with Vinzenz Lachner in

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Friedrich Koch

Friedrich Ernst Koch (3 July 1862 – 30 January 1927) was a German composer, cellist and teacher. Biography Koch was born in Berlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition with Woldemar

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Friedrich Kuhlau

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau, sometimes written as Frederick Kulav, (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He

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Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen

Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen (24 September 1761 – 28 January 1817) was a German composer and conductor who lived and worked for much of his life in Denmark. Life He was born in Lübeck, where his

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Friedrich Lux

Friedrich Lux (24 November 1820 – 9 July 1895) was a German conductor, composer and organist. He was born in the town of Ruhla, son of composer Georg Heinrich Lux. His father gave him his first music

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Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns

Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns or Brauns (11 February 1637 in Lollfuß – 13 March 1718 in Hamburg) was a German composer and music director in Hamburg. Bruhns was born in Lollfuß, Schleswig. In 1682 he

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Friedrich Schneider

Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider (3 January 1786 in Alt-Waltersdorf – 23 November 1853 in Dessau) was a German pianist, composer, organist, and conductor. Schneider studied piano first with his

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Friedrich Seitz

Friedrich Seitz (12 June 1848, Günthersleben-Wechmar, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 22 May 1918) was a German Romantic Era composer. He was a violinist who served as a concertmaster, who wrote chamber

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Friedrich Silcher

Philipp Friedrich Silcher (27 June 1789 in Schnait (today part of Weinstadt) – 26 August 1860 in Tübingen), was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder (songs), and an important Volkslied

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Friedrich von Flotow

Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow (; 27 April 1812 – 24 January 1883) was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular in the 19th century and the

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Friedrich Wildgans

Friedrich Wildgans (5 June 1913 in Vienna – 7 November 1965 in Mödling) was an Austrian composer and clarinettist. Life Wildgans was born into the family of the well-known poet and Burgtheater

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Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken

Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (16 November 1810 – 3 April 1882) was a German composer and conductor. He was a very prolific composer, mainly known for light and melodious songs, although he has also

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Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt

Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt (5 January 1710 – 5 January 1783) was a German flautist, composer and music theorist of the Baroque period. Life Riedt was born in Berlin to English-born parents. His birth

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Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau (14 November 1663 – 7 August 1712) was a German musician and composer of vocal and keyboard music. Life Zachow was born in Leipzig. He probably received his

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Friedrich Witt

Friedrich Jeremias Witt (8 November 1770 – 3 January 1836) was a German composer and cellist. He is perhaps best known as the likely author of a Symphony in C major known as the Jena Symphony, once

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Friedrich Zehm

Friedrich Zehm (22 January 1923 – 4 December 2007) was a German classical composer. Life Zehm was born in Neusalz in Lower Silesia. External links * * Friedrich Zehm website * Friedrich Zehm Schott

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Frigyes Hidas

Frigyes Hidas (; 25 May 1928 – 7 March 2007) was a Hungarian composer. Hidas was born and died in Budapest, where he studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with János Visky. After

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Fritz Arlberg

Fritz Georg Efraim Arlberg (21 March 1830 – 21 February 1896) was a Swedish baritone, teacher, composer, opera singer, translator of opera libretti and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

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Fritz Brase

Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Brase, known as Fritz Brase (; 4 May 1875 – 1 December 1940), was a German military bandmaster, conductor, and composer who was mainly active in Dublin, Ireland, as leader of

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Fritz Brun

Fritz Brun (18 August 1878 – 29 November 1959) was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Life Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at

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Fritz Büchtger

Fritz Büchtger (14 February 1903 – 26 December 1978) was a German composer. Life Born in Munich, Büchtger studied at the Music Academie of Munich with , Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen and Anton

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Fritz Cohen

Frederic Alexander "Fritz" Cohen (born 23 June 1904, Bonn, German Empire, died 9 March 1967, New York, United States) was a German composer best known for writing the music for Kurt Jooss's ballets.

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Fritz Dietrich

Fritz Dietrich (13 February 1905 – January 1945) was a German musicologist and composer. Biography Dietrich was born in Pforzheim. After his secondary education there, he attended the Karlsruhe

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Fritz Geißler

Fritz Geißler (or Geissler, 16 September 1921 – 11 January 1984) was a composer in the German Democratic Republic who wrote around 140 works, including four operas and eleven symphonies. Life and

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Fritz Heinrich Klein

Fritz Heinrich Klein (2 February 1892 – 12 July 1977) was an Austrian composer. Life and music Klein was born in Budapest. He was a student of Alban Berg and the inventor of the all-interval

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Fritz Ihlau

Fritz Ihlau (28 August 1909 – 1995) was a German composer. He also composed under the pseudonym Fred Langen, especially rhythmically more modern works. Life Born in Hanover, Ilhau studied music,

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Fritz Kauffmann

Fritz Kauffmann (Berlin, 17 June 1855 – Magdeburg, 29 September 1934) was a German composer and conductor. Biography Kauffmann was born in Berlin as the son of the pharmaceutical industrialist Julius

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Fritz Kreisler

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian and American violinist and composer. Of Jewish descent, he was however baptised at the age of 12. At age seven,

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Fritz Lubrich

Fritz Lubrich (26 January 1888 – 15 April 1971) was a German organist and composer. Lubrich was born in Neustädtel. His father (1862-1952) was a cantor and hymnologist. Lubrich jr. attended the

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Fritz Müller-Rehrmann

Fritz Müller-Rehrmann (3 December 1889, Nuremberg — 2 April 1949, Munich) was a German composer and conductor. Early life and education Müller-Rehrman was born in Nuremberg in 1889, the son of a head

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Fritz Reuter (composer)

Fritz Reuter (9 September 1896 – 4 July 1963) was a German musicologist, music educator, composer and Kapellmeister. Reuter was one of the most important German music educators of the 20th century.

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Fritz Spielmann (composer)

Fritz Spielmann (20 November 190621 March 1997) was an Austrian composer, pianist, singer and cabaret artist. As an émigré in America from 1939 he composed under the name Fred Spielman. Early life

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Fritz Steinbach

Fritz Steinbach (17 June 1855 – 13 August 1916) was a German conductor and composer who was particularly associated with the works of Johannes Brahms. Born in Grünsfeld, he was the brother of

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Frode Alnæs

Frode Alnæs (born 3 March 1959) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, known from cooperation with international artists like Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen, Arild Andersen, Jon Balke, Ole

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Fromental Halévy

Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (; 27 May 179917 March 1862), was a French opera composer, widely regarded in his lifetime as one of the central figures of

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