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Gábor Darvas

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Gábor Darvas (; until 1952 Gábor Steinberger; 18 January 1911 – 18 February 1985) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries. Biography He was born at Szatmárnémeti (Austria-Hungary) in 1911. His family moved to Budapest in 1918, where he finished his high school studies. He studied piano from the age of nine, from 1926 until 1932 he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest as an instrumentalists and later studied composition under Zoltán Kodály. His orchestral compositions of the thirties were performed in concerts and in the Hungarian Radio. In 1939 he left the country. During the World War II, he lived in Chile, He died in 1985 in Budapest. Compositions * Improvisations symphoniques (1963) for piano and orchestra * Sectio aurea (1964) for orchestra * Medália (Medal) on a poem by Attila József (1965) for soprano, keyboard instruments, percussion and loudspeaker * Rotation for 5 (1967) for vibraphone, marimba, guitarre, cimbalom and piano * A torony (The tower) (1967) for voices and instruments * Magánzárka (So

Gabor Lenđel

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Gabor Lenđel (; ; born 11 April 1951) is a Serbian and Yugoslav musician, composer and music producer and former athlete of Hungarian descent, known as the leader of the rock band Teška Industrija, as well as for his work as composer of popular and theatre music. Biography Early career (1964–1974) Gabor Lenđel was born in Subotica on 11 April 1951. He started his musical career as a teenager, forming the band Suze Mladih Krokodila (Young Crocodiles’ Tears) in 1964, in which he played guitar. The rest of the group continued to perform together, but did not see large commercial and critical success and disbanded at the end of 1978. In an interview following the album release, Lenđel stated that, although he formed the band, he never legally registered the name Teška Industrija, but that he considers only first three studio albums as the real Teška Industrija releases, and that Hadžiavdić and Propadalo continued to use the name Teška Industrija after the group’s 2005 reunion out of “nostalgic reasons”. Solo works (1978–present) After his army service ended, Lenđel moved to Novi Sad, where he got a job at Radio Novi Sad as a music producer and arranger. Lenđel wrote the rock opera Zöld

Gabriel Bataille

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Gabriel Bataille (between June 1574 and June 1575 – 17 December 1630) was a French musician, lutenist and composer of airs de cour. He should not be confused with his son Gabriel II Bataille. Biography The allusions to Brie in his verse pieces suggest that Gabriel Bataille was a native of this province. He had a brother Louis, a tailor, quoted in an act of 1621 and a sister Catherine, married to Didier Dutour, usher of the accounts and treasures in Paris, and died before 1600. At the time of his marriage with Catherine Carre, on 12 February 1600, he was already a Parisian, but his marriage contract specified that he was then clerk to the parliamentary counselor Germain Regnault; thus he was not yet a professional musician. When in 1608 Pierre I Ballard published the first volumes of his Airs de différents autheurs, he had probably become one: from 1614 he was listed as master of music. From 1617 to his death, he was master of music of the house of Anne of Austria (1601–1666), by semester, alternating with Antoine Boësset. He had signed a contract with the latter, which also aimed at this post, so that the one who would obtain it would share it with the other (what happened). He had

Gabriel Cusson

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Gabriel Cusson (2 April 1903, Roxton Pond, Quebec - 18 Apr 1972, Montreal) was a Canadian composer and music educator. As a composer, his music was heavily influenced by the style of early 20th-century French composers. Most of his work remains unpublished, although a few of his compositions have been recorded including his Sérénade for orchestra and one of his suites by the Orchestre Métropolitain. The Canadian publishing company La Bonne Chanson has printed a number of his folksong arrangements. His other unpublished works include several motets, the cantata À la gloire de Jeanne Mance (1942), and incidental music for Antigone and the biblical dramas Jonathas and Tobie. Training Cusson was trained at the Institut Nazareth, a music conservatory in Montreal that awarded degrees through the University of Montreal. While there he studied the cello with Gustave Labelle, singing with Alfred Lamoureux, piano and organ with Arthur Letondal, and music theory with both Achille Fortier and Romain Pelletier. He graduated from the school in 1924 with a Bachelor of Music and that same year won the Prix d’Europe for cello performance. That competition win enabled him to study at the École Norma

Gabriel Dupont

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Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont (1 March 1878 – 2 August 1914) was a French composer, known for his operas and chamber music. Biography Dupont was born in Caen. Following after his father who was a teacher at the Malherbe secondary school and the organist at the Church Saint-Étienne in his home town, Dupont began his studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 15. There he studied composition with Jules Massenet, harmony with Antoine Taudou, and descant with André Gedalge. In 1895, he was also given instruction on the organ by Alexandre Guilmant. Between 1897 and 1903, he studied composition with Charles-Marie Widor. In 1901, while performing his military service, Dupont competed for the Prix de Rome. He won second prize, behind André Caplet but ahead of Maurice Ravel. He was also named laureate of the Sonzogno competition for his opera La Cabrera, which was later presented with success at La Scala and then at the Théâtre national de l’Opéra-Comique in 1905. In 1903, Dupont composed a cycle of fourteen pieces for the piano, Les Heures dolentes, during his convalescence from his first bout of tuberculosis – the disease that would ultimately cause his death at the age of 36. While

Gabriel Expilly

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Pierre Gabriel Expilly (c. 1630 – c. 1690) was a 17th-century French viol player and composer. Biography Gabriel Expilly’s origin and education are unknown. The name is of Savoie origin (Savoie, Isère). Sub-Master of the Chapelle du roi His first known job was as a sub-master of the Chapelle Royale of Versailles. The death of Jean Veillot had been the occasion to renew the position of sub-master, which had been divided into quarters (trimesters). In two stages, it seems that the positions fell to Thomas Gobert, Pierre Robert, Henry Du Mont and Gabriel Expilly. For Expilly, his quarter seems to be the result of the duplication of the semiannual charge, first passed to Thomas Gobert and had been the subject of a competition in 1663, if one believes what Pierre Perrin writes in the preface to his Cantica pro capella regis (1665): ::S’il luy plaist à Louis XIV de se ressouvenir du succès qu’ont eu plusieurs de ces cantiques, lorsqu’ils ont été chantez dans sa Chapelle ; entr’autres celuy du Martyr que luy fit entendre le sieur Expilly, lors de sa concurrence à la maistrise, qui ravit toute vostre cour, & qui fit dire à Votre Majesté qu’il avait combattu avec des armes avantageuses; & e

Gabriel Fauré

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Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs “Après un rêve” and “Clair de lune”. Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style. Fauré was born into a cultured but not especially musical family. His talent became clear when he was a young boy. At the age of nine, he was sent to the École Niedermeyer music college in Paris, where he was trained to be a church organist and choirmaster. Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend. After graduating from the college in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him little time for composition. When he became successful in his middle age, holding the important posts of organist of the Église de la Madeleine and director of the Paris Co

Gabriel Gauthier

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Gabriel Gauthier (15 February 1808 – 27 June 1853) was an organist and composer, a teacher at the school for the blind in Paris, and a close friend of Louis Braille. Early life Gauthier was born in 1808 in Briant, Saône-et-Loire, to Claude Gauthier, farmer, and Claudine Pequet, the second of four children (his siblings were Claudine Louise, Antoinette, and François). Before his first birthday, Gabriel lost his sight as the result of smallpox. He also lost his sense of smell, most of his sense of taste, and became slightly deaf in one ear. Gauthier’s father died when he was eight years old. His late father’s brother, a priest, took care of young Gabriel, and secured his admission to the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (now the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles) in Paris in 1818. After several months at the school, Gauthier had to return home to recuperate from an illness, but re-entered the school in 1820. At the school, Gauthier became close friends with Louis Braille, and another student, Jean-Pierre Binet. Gauthier and Binet supported Braille’s work on his raised-point writing system. According to the school’s director, Alexandre-René Pignier, Gauthier worked on his ow

Gabriel Grovlez

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Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was a French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic. Early life and education Grovlez was born in Lille in 1879. His mother – the child of one of Chopin’s students – was his first piano teacher. Grovlez attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Louis Diémer, André Gedalge, Descombes, Kaiser and Lavignac. Career Grovlez toured Europe as an accompanist to Henri Marteau, violinist, From 1914 to 1933, he was the director of the Opéra de Paris (“Societé Nationale de l’Opéra”), He also wrote reviews for Paris music journals including Excelsior (1916–17) and L’Art musical (1937–39). Grovlez died in Paris in 1944, at the age of 65. He wrote around 50 songs, described by Graham Johnson and Richard Stokes as often having “an elegant and sometimes whimsical effect” in performance. Good examples of his vocal writing include Trois Mélodies sur des poèmes de Jacques Heugel; Paroles à l’absente, setting poems by G. Jean-Aubry (1918); and Guitares et mandolines (1913), setting a work by Camille Saint-Saëns. He also wrote music for children, including the popular L’Almanach aux images for piano. Selected

Gabriel Jenks

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Gabriel Jenks (born 1981) is an American composer of concert music who has taught at Yale School of Music, Mannes School of Music, and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Biography Gabriel Jenks was formerly known as Han/Hannah Lash. Some of his earlier music appears under those names. Gabriel Jenks was born in Alfred, New York, USA on November 22, 1981, under the name Hannah Lash. He began his studies in music during early childhood, and continued to pursue music throughout his education. Jenks obtained a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music in 2004, a performance degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2008, a PhD from Harvard University in 2010, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music in 2012. His primary teachers include Martin Bresnick, Bernard Rands, Julian Anderson, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, and Robert Morris. Jenks was appointed to the composition faculty of the Yale School of Music in 2013. During the 2013–14 season, Jenks served as Composer in Residence with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, as well as being the Sound Investment Composer with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 2016, Jenks composed new

Gabriel Mena

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Gabriel Mena (1470-1528) was a Spanish poet, composer, musician and singer. He was a servant of the Admiral of Castile, don Fadrique Enríquez and cantor of the chapel of Fernando el Católico until the king’s death in 1516. He is first referenced in royal household accounts in 1496 and continued his work there until at least 1502. It is thought that after the king’s death he entered into the service of Enríquez, Fernando’s cousin, until he returned to serve the royal family in 1523. Here, he was in the employ of Juana “the Mad”, where he remained until his death. A poem in the 1554 Cancionero general refers to him as a married man living close to Tordesillas in Torrelobatón. In fact, Mena was married twice with three children. Music Mena was a respected poet and composer, with 19 musical works surviving. All but one of his works are preserved in the Cancionero Musical de Palacio, with the other being preserved in the records of the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Most of his songs are concerned with the hardship of love and contain quotes of other popular refrains. The songs Aquel pastorcico, madre, La bella malmarida, Aquella mora garrida, and Sola me dexastes all contain full quotations

Gabriel Palatchi

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Gabriel Palatchi (born August 3, 1982) is an Argentinian pianist, music composer, and musical arranger who blends genres that include Latin Jazz, Tango, Funk, and Klezmer. Biography Background Palatchi was born on August 3, 1982, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before he was ten years old, he began playing the piano. He studied classical music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires and obtained a high school degree in Musical Production. In 2008, he obtained a degree in Music from the Escuela de Música Contemporánea (EMC), affiliated with the Berklee College of Music, in genres including Blues, Tango, Jazz, and Latin Jazz. He then went to Cuba and studied with pianist Chucho Valdez, which he called an “encuentro spiritual (spiritual encounter).” He traveled and performed for the next year, mostly in Mexico and Canada. Latin Jazz Net noted how the album “works the idioms and metaphors of various not-so-disparate cultures into a fine homogenous mixture that is both delightful and also quite full of surprise… a fresh look at the popular musical motifs of Argentina, Perú, Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba… The real stand-out work on this album is how Palatchi

Gabriel Pareyon

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Gabriel Pareyon (born October 23, 1974, Zapopan, Jalisco) is a polymathic Mexican composer and musicologist, who has published literature on topics of philosophy and semiotics. He has a PhD in musicology from the University of Helsinki, where he studied with Solomon Marcus and Eero Tarasti (2006–2011). He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (2000–2004), where he studied with Clarence Barlow. He previously studied at the Composers’ Workshop of the National Conservatoire of Music, Mexico City (1995–1998), led by Mario Lavista. Composer Pareyon’s output is specially known by Xochicuicatl cuecuechtli (2011), the first modern opera in the Americas that exclusively uses a Native American language (Nahuatl in this case) as well as music instruments native to Mexico. This work was awarded by the UNESCO and the International Theatre Institute, in 2015. More recently, his Eight Songs in Nahuatl (Chicueyicuicatl), for solo voice and percussion quartet, made themselves known simultaneously on an international live tour (awarded at the Classical:NEXT Festival Schauspiel Hannover, 2022) and a series of viewings in film version (best music

Gabriel Pierné

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Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (16 August 1863 – 17 July 1937) was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist. Biography Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz. His family moved to Paris, after Metz and part of Lorraine were annexed to Germany in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, gaining first prizes for solfège, piano, organ, counterpoint and fugue. He won the French Prix de Rome in 1882, with his cantata Edith. His teachers included Antoine François Marmontel, Albert Lavignac, Émile Durand, César Franck (for the organ) and Jules Massenet (for composition). He succeeded César Franck as organist at Sainte-Clotilde Basilica in Paris from 1890 to 1898. He himself was succeeded by another distinguished Franck pupil, Charles Tournemire. Associated for many years with Édouard Colonne’s concert series, the Concerts Colonne, from 1903, Pierné became chief conductor of this series in 1910. His most notable early performance was the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, at the Ballets Russes, Paris, on 25 June 1910. He remained in the post until 1933 (when Paul Paray took over his duties). He made a few electrical recordings fo

Gabriel Prokofiev

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Gabriel Prokofiev (born 6 January 1975) is a Russian-British composer, producer, DJ, and founder of the Nonclassical record label and nightclub. He has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and his works have been performed internationally by orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, MDR Leipzig, Buenos Aires Philharmonic and Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra. Early life Gabriel Prokofiev was born in London on 6 January 1975 to an English mother and a Russian father, the artist Oleg Prokofiev, and is the grandson of the composer Sergei Prokofiev. His childhood was creative. He studied piano, horn, trumpet, and sang choral music. Resisting the pressure to embark on a classical career, he instead started writing songs and joined a pop band at age ten. Inspired by the electronic dance music of the 90s but also wanting to compose classical music, Prokofiev decided to focus on the sub-genre of electroacoustic music during his student years. Enticed by the impressive BEAST (Birmingham Electro Acoustic Sound Theatre), founded by the renowned composer Jonty Harrison, Prokofiev studied at the University of Birmingham. He then fo

Gabriel von Wayditch

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Gabriel von Wayditch (28 December 1888, Budapest28 July 1969 New York City) was a Hungarian-American composer whose output consisted primarily of 14 grand operas. The son of Dr. Aloysious (Lajos) von Wayditch von Verbovac (Verbovác), a nobleman and inventor who had taught physics at the University of Pécs, and Helena von Dönhoff, a Prussian baroness, who was according to familytrees related to the ancient magyar Árpád dynasty. Gabriel (Wayditch Gábor) was born in Budapest. He studied piano, conducting, and composition at the National Hungarian Academy of Music (now the Franz Liszt Academy of Music) where his teachers included Franz Liszt’s pupil Emil von Sauer and Hans von Koessler, who was also the teacher of composers Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Ernő Dohnányi, and Kálmán Emmerich. Life and career In 1910, Gabriel von Wayditch began composing his first opera, , for which he also wrote his own Hungarian libretto. But after his parents separated, he emigrated to the United States with his father before completing it, arriving in New York harbor in 1911. In New York City, Wayditch worked as a theater conductor while completing Ópium Álmok, which lasts 4 hours and requires an orchestr

Gabriela Lena Frank

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Gabriela Lena Frank (born September 26, 1972) is an American pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gabriela Lena Frank was born in Berkeley, California, United States. Her father is of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and her mother is Peruvian, of Chinese descent. She grew up in Berkeley, California. Her parents met when her father was a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru in the 1960s. Frank received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rice University and a Doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan in 2001. She has studied composition with Paul Cooper, William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Samuel Jones. Style Frank’s work often draws on her multicultural background, especially her mother’s Peruvian heritage. In many of her compositions, she elicits the sounds of Latin American instruments such as Peruvian pan flute or charango guitar, although the works are typically scored for Western classical instruments and ensembles such as the symphony orchestra or string quartet. She has said, “I think the music can be seen as a by-product of my always trying to figure out how Latina I am and how gringa I am.” Profe

Gabriela Moyseowicz

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Gabriela Maria Moyseowicz (born 4 May 1944 in Lwów) is a Polish composer and pianist. Biography Gabriela Moyseowicz played piano skillfully at the age of three. She was recognized as a musical prodigy at music schools in Gdańsk, Bytom and Gliwice. At the age of 13, Gabriela composed a 25-minute concerto for two pianos. She performed it before a group of respected professors-musicians in Kraków and was instantly admitted to the prestigious Academy of Music in Kraków. The concerto was both classical & romantic in style. The work and a number of superb fugues she composed as school-exercises were the first indicators of the scope of the composer’s talent. A renowned musical critic in Kraków 1 highly praised the first atonal composition of Gabriela - “The Piano Sonata No. 1” (1960). Also, the atonal chamber work “Media Vita” (1961) was met with a warm reaction by both the public and musical critics. From 1962 Moyseowicz attended composition classes at the Academy of Music in Kraków and the State Conservatory in Katowice, and graduated from the latter in 1967. She was awarded the degree of Master of Arts after submitting her second piano concerto. A stormy discussion resulted, among the

Gabriela Ortiz

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Gabriela Ortiz Torres (born 20 December 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer. She was Carnegie Hall’s composer in residence for the 2024-2025 season, and her music is being performed by ensembles in Berlin, Vienna, London, Los Angeles and New York. Her 2024 album “Revolución diamantina” featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, and María Dueñas was nominated for four awards at the 2025 Grammys, receiving three, including best contemporary classical composition. For her works ‘Yanga’ and ‘Dzonot’ she won 3 awards at the 2026 Grammys. Biography Gabriela Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City. Her parents were founding members of the Mexican folk music ensemble . She learned folk music at home, and then studied in Paris at the École normale de musique. She returned to Mexico City due to the illness of her mother, and studied composition there with Mario Lavista at the National Conservatory of Music. She continued her studies at the Guildhall School with Robert Saxton, and with Simon Emmerson at the University of London where she received a PhD in 1996. After completing her studies, she took a position at the National School of Music at the National Autonomous Un

Gabriele Leone

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Gabriele Leone (born Naples c. 1735 – 1790) was an Italian musician and composer who lived in Paris during the middle and later part of the 18th century. A virtuoso on the violin and mandolin, he wrote an early mandolin method, Analytical method for mastering the violin or the mandolin in 1768 and composed for both instruments. He was an early teacher of the duo method, an advanced technique which would reappear in the 20th century, taught by Giuseppe Pettine in the United States. In the 1700s, the mandolin spread across Europe for the first time, through performances by masters of the instrument. One of his students was Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, the father of King Louis Philippe I (the last French king). Feathers were used as plectrums in that era, as they had been when playing the mandore. The method contained 26 dancing tunes, 6 minuets, 2 duos, a sonata and some airs. References External links *6 Violin or Mandolin Duets sheet music *Analytical method for mastering the violin or the mandolin in French *Discussion of English transcription of Leone’s method.

Gabriella Cecchi

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Gabriella Cecchi (born 3 November 1944) is an Italian pianist, music educator and composer. Cecchi taught music at the Italian State School and performed in a piano duo. She also worked as a music critic for the daily newspaper La Nazione and contributed to monthly magazines. Cicchi’s music has been performed internationally and has been broadcast on Radio RaiTre. Cecchi was awarded the Athena prize in 1988. Cecchi is a co-founder of the Italian Composers Foundation. Life Gabriella Cecchi was born on 3 November 1944 in Ricco del Golfo, La Spezia. She is an Italian pianist, music educator and composer. She began her study of music at the age of 16. She studied in Lucca, and learned composition with Franco Donatoni at the Chigiana Music Academy in Siena, where she also took courses in Renaissance music and music education. Selected works Cecchi composes solo pieces, chamber music and works for orchestra, often with experimental, multimedia and complex structures. Selected works include: * Intersezioni for piano (1982) * Assonanze for harpsichord (1984) * Imagenes de la Argentina theater music (2005) * Sères for string quartet (1984) * Favoletta, instrumental References

Gabriella Smith

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Gabriella Smith (born December 26, 1991) is an American composer from Berkeley, California. Life Gabriella Smith was born December 26, 1991, in Berkeley, California. As a teenager, she was very interested in biology, ecology, and conservation, and she spent five years volunteering on a songbird research project in Point Reyes, California. Smith began learning the violin at age seven and began composing soon thereafter. She received her Bachelors of Music in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2013 where she studied with David Ludwig. She attended Princeton University for graduate school Oslo, Norway; and Seattle, USA. In January 2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by John Adams, performed the piece as part of its centennial season. In 2023, the piece was performed by Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Nobel Prize Concert. Her string quartet Carrot Revolution was written in 2015 for the Aizuri Quartet, having been commissioned by the Barnes Foundation for their exhibition The Order of Things. In November 2019, it was performed by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a part of their Green Umbrella concert

Gaël Liardon

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Gaël Liardon (18 December 1973 – 21 October 2018) was a Swiss classical keyboard player, composer and academic. Born in Lausanne, he studied harpsichord, organ and continuo playing with and , piano with , and improvisation with Rudolf Lutz. He has been organist of the church of Villamont, Lausanne, from 1995. and also participated in the creation of the research group on improvisation of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. in Geneva. References External links * * Festival de musique improvisée, Lausanne on RTS * Gaël Liardon France-orgue * Gaël Liardon IMSLP * Gaël Liardon: Les psaumes de Didier Poncet (1611). Etude d’un style polyphonique hors norme. (thesis) * Enquête sur la disparition de l’improvisation au XVIIIe siècle by Gaël Liardon on Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance * Gaël Liardon - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland YouTube * Gaël Liardon: Sonne der Gerechtigkeit IMLSP

Gael Rakotondrabe

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Gael Rakotondrabe (born 20 July 1984) is a French pianist, composer, and jazz musician. He achieved recognition by winning the First Prize in the piano competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2008. Biography Gael Rakotondrabe was raised on the island of Réunion in a musically inclined family (he is René Lacaille’s great nephew). At the age of 11, he took up the piano. He acquired his diploma from the Regional Conservatory at the age of 17, simultaneously securing the 3rd Prize in the “Pian’Austral Jazz” competition—a regional piano competition featuring participants from Indian Ocean countries. Alain Jean-Marie presided as head of the jury for the competition. In 2001, Gael Rakotondrabe enrolled in the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris, where he studied with Bernard Maury, the academy’s founder. In 2004, he graduated from both the Bill Evans Piano Academy and the jazz department of the Nadia and Lily Boulanger Conservatory. Concurrently, he pursued studies in classical composition and harmony under Isabelle Duha at the Issy-les-Moulineaux Conservatory. Rakotondrabe’s musical pursuits encompassed various jazz formations, including a quintet dedicated to the tribute of Horace Si

Gaetano Braga

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Gaetano Braga (June 9, 1829 – November 21, 1907) was an Italian composer and cellist. He was born in Giulianova in Abruzzi and died in Milan. Braga’s works include compositions for the cello (two concertos, a quintet, a quartet, works for cello and piano) and the operas: *Alina or La spregiata (1853, Naples) *Estella di San Germano (1857, Vienna) *Il ritratto (1858, Naples) *Margherita la mendicante (1859, Paris) *Mormile (1862, Milan) *Ruy Blas (1868) *Reginella (1871, Lecco) *Caligola (1873, Lisbon) A “Serenata” (serenade) by Braga, sometimes called “Angel’s Serenade” or “Légende valaque” (Wallachian Legend), is a dialogue (comparable to that in “Erlkönig”) between a worried mother and a girl who hears an angel’s voice calling her; in the end the girl follows the voice (“O mamma buona notte, io seguo il suon, io seguo il suon!”). The main melody, as sung by a choir, is also the theme from the CBS television show, Amos ’n’ Andy. It is mentioned in Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Black Monk,” as well as in other Russian works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As composed, the narrator sings the voice of the mother and girl, while the angel’s voice is portrayed through the

Gaetano Brunetti

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Gaetano (or Cayetano ) Brunetti (1744 in Fano, Papal States – 16 December 1798, Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid, Spain) was an Italian-born composer who was active in Spain during the reigns of kings Charles III and Charles IV. As well as being musically influential at court, He also became violin teacher to the future Charles IV (then Prince of Asturias), who unlike his father was an avid music lover. In 1788, when Charles IV came to the throne, Brunetti took charge of a newly formed royal ensemble, for which he composed prolifically and also programmed works by European composers of the day, such as Joseph Haydn. little of Brunetti’s music was published during his lifetime, thereby largely precluding knowledge of his music for almost two centuries. This catalogue revealed that the U.S. Library of Congress houses almost half of the surviving manuscript scores. References Sources * Further reading * External links * * Manuscript scores at the Library of Congress * Manuscripts and scores at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (via Isidore)

Gaetano Coronaro

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Gaetano Coronaro (18 December 1852 – 5 April 1908) was an Italian conductor, pedagogue, and composer. He was born in Vicenza and had his initial musical training there followed by study from 1871 to 1873 at the Milan Conservatory under Franco Faccio. He composed orchestral works, sacred music, and chamber pieces as well as several works for the stage. La creola, which premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1878, was the only one to have any success. Operas * Il tramonto – (melodramatic essay), libretto by Arrigo Boito; and La morte dell’ Honwed – (Milan Conservatory, 8 August 1873) * II malacarne – dramma lirico in 3 acts, libretto by (Teatro Grande, Brescia, 20 January 1894) * La signora di Challant – libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa from his play of the same name (composition date unknown, unperformed) References External links * *

Gaetano Donizetti

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Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer of the early Romantic era, best known for his over 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed musical training. Mayr was instrumental in obtaining a place for Donizetti at the Bologna Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, which may never have been performed during his lifetime. An offer in 1822 from Domenico Barbaja, the impresario of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, which followed the composer’s ninth opera, led to his move to Naples and his residency there until production of Caterina Cornaro in January 1844. In all, 51 of Donizetti’s operas were presented in Naples. His first notable success came with an opera seria, Zoraida di Granata, which was presented in

Gaetano Giani Luporini

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Gaetano Giani Luporini (28 May 1936 – 27 February 2022) was an Italian composer and academic. Life and career Born in Lucca, the grandson of the composer Gaetano Luporini, after studying violin he enrolled at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, graduating in composition under Roberto Lupi. Luporini died from complications of COVID-19 in Barga, Province of Lucca, on 27 February 2022, at the age of 85. References Further reading * * External links * *

Gaetano Giuffrè

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Gaetano Giuffrè (born Corfu, 14 September 1918 – 8 January 2018) was an Italian-Greek-Swiss composer and maestro whose father was Giovanni Giuffrè, also a composer and maestro born in Corfu, Greece. Biography Born into a musical family, Giuffrè began playing violin and piano with his father at the age of 4 until he became an adult at the age of 18. In 1936, he moved to Athens to study composition with George Sklavos and Dimitri Mitropulos, focusing on fugues and counterpoints. In 1939, he moved to Rome and studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia where he was one of the students of renown composer, Alfredo Casella. There he acquired formation in choir studies with Elena Mangione and from choir director and influential composer, Goffredo Petrassi. From 1957 to 1972 he became an artistic director for Radio Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. During this period he received an award by the 8th International Competition G.B. Viotti in Vercelli, Italy for his work, Tema con Variazioni, for one piano. During this period he conducted and performed piano recitals throughout Europe. In 1957–1961, he was commissioned by the Italian State to direct his work, Aeroporto. The first showing of

Gaetano Luporini

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Giovanni Gaetano Luporini (1865–1948) was an Italian composer. A native of Lucca, he studied there with before transferring to the Milan Conservatory, where he studied with Anselmi and Alfredo Catalani. He served as director of Lucca’s Pacini Institute between 1902 and 1937. Luporini also composed orchestral and vocal music. He wrote a number of operas, including: References External links * *

Gaetano Pugnani

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Gaetano Pugnani (27 November 1731 – 15 July 1798, full name: Giulio Gaetano Gerolamo Pugnani) was an Italian composer and violinist. Biography Gaetano Pugnani was born in 1731 in Turin, the city where he spent most of his life, son of Giovanni Battista Pugnani, secretary in the office of the Director of the Settlement of Turin. The Pugnani originate from the comune of Cumiana, where they held a common farm and where the musician returned often. He trained on the violin under Giovanni Battista Somis, founder of the Piedmontese school of violin playing. In 1752, Pugnani became the first violinist of the Royal Chapel of Turin, and then went on a large tour that granted him great fame for his extraordinary skill on the violin. In 1754, he was very well received at the Concert Spirituel in Paris, but in 1768 he had an even more successful musical encounter in London, directing the King’s Theatre from 1767 to 1769. During these years Pugnani worked closely with Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel. In 1770, Pugnani returned home to Turin and became the director of the Royal Chapel. Mozart and his father Leopold met Pugnani a year later when they visited Turin. His fame as a comp

Gafacci

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Michael Dela Gafatchi, better known by the stage name Gafacci, is a Ghanaian music producer, disc jockey, and songwriter. Early life Gafacci attended Accra Academy for his senior high school education. He developed his interest for music in High School. In September 2009, Gafacci got introduced to beatmaking by a friend. He has production credits for Sarkodie, D-Black, Ice Prince and others. Production career He produced BET Cypher Ghana 2010 featuring artists like Tinny, Sarkodie, Edem, Kweku T, Reggie Rockstone, and Baby G. He has worked with so many artists in and outside Ghana. He produced/composed and co-wrote Dee-Moneey’s hit single “Kpokpo O Body”. Gafacci started JOWAA project with French-American Dj Bbrave. Since then he has graced stages as jowaa at ABC Festival (Burkina Faso), Chale Wote Street Art Festival (Ghana), Sabolai Festival (Ghana), Asabaako Festival (Ghana), Nyege Nyege Festival (Uganda), Oslo World Music Festival (Norway) and toured Europe in 2017. Production Discography References

Gail Kubik

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Gail Thompson Kubik (September 5, 1914 – July 20, 1984) was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher. He first gained widespread recognition for his scores for World War II documentary films, including Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944). He is best remembered for winning the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Symphony Concertante, and for his score for Gerald McBoing-Boing. Early life and education Kubik was born in South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, the second of three sons to Henry and Evalyn O. Kubik, a singer who had studied with Schumann-Heink. In the 1930s his mother and her sons formed the Kubik Ensemble (Gail on violin, Howard on piano, and Henry Jr. on cello) and toured the midwest. All three brothers studied at the Eastman School of Music, where Kubik studied composition with Howard Hanson and violin with Samuel Belov and Scott Willits. It is likely that Kubik played violin in Eastman’s orchestra, taking part in the American Composers’ Concerts and getting nationally broadcast on NBC. Kubik graduated with distinction in 1934 in a class that included Wayne Barlow and Kent Kennan. Kubik then received his master’s degree in music in 1935 at t

Galib Mammadov

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Galib Mammadov (born April 19, 1946) is an Azerbaijani-Norwegian composer. He is influenced by both Western and Eastern music traditions and composed a wide range of musical pieces for various instruments and orchestras. Biography Galib Mammadov was born in Ganja, Azerbaijan which, at that time, belonged to the Soviet Union. He completed his secondary education at the music grammar school in Baku, Azerbaijan, and took at the same time lessons from the Azerbaijanian composer Fikret Amirov. Mammadov then moved to Baku and went to the music college Asaf Zeynally, where he attended classes in music theory, composition and music literature, held by the composer Khayyam Mirzazade, the music historian R. Farhadova, and Z. Stelnic. In 1969, Mammadov enrolled at the Azerbaijanian Republic Music Conservatory (Uzeir Hajibeyov). There he attended the composition class of the composer Gara Garayev. While studying at the conservatory he composed preludes, variations, and sonata for piano, Sonatina for oboe and piano, scherzo for flute and piano and a string quartet. He graduated in 1975 with Bayaties, a vocal cycle for soprano, bass and symphony orchestra, based on the text of the Azerbaijanian

Galina Grigorjeva

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Galina Grigorjeva (, born 2 December 1962 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is an Estonian composer of Ukrainian origin. She studied at Odesa Conservatory, and in 1991 she graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatory. Grigorjeva has received a number of awards, including the Heino Eller Music Prize and the Lepo Sumera Composer Prize, and in 2015 her CD “In Paradisum” won the prize for best classical album at the Eesti Muusikaauhinnad (Estonian Music Prize). Musical Style Although a contemporary composer, Grigorjeva’s music uses the subtle and animated melodic styles reflecting influences from early European polyphony and Slavonic sacred music. Choral compositions are deeply rooted in the traditions of the Orthodox Church and ancient Russian and Slavonic folklore. Works * Poly-phonie for piano (1998) * Na ishod (1999) * Con misterio (2001) * Recitativo accompagnato (2003) * There Is a Time for Autumn for 6 percussionists (2004) * Hocetus (2004) * Valge prelüüd (White Prelude: Imitating Monsieur Couperin) for baroque viola (2006) * Aria (2007) * Ad infinitum (2008) * Schwarz-weiß Prelude for piano and cello (2009) * Nox vitae for mixed choir (2010) * In Paradisum References

Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova

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Galina Konstantinovna Smirnova (20 January 1910 - 1980) was a Russian composer, musicologist, and radio music editor who used folk songs in her compositions and composed at least one film score. Smirnova was born in Moscow. She studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Vissarion Shebalin from 1932 to 1940. Few details are available about her work as a musicologist and radio editor. Her music was published by Sovetskii Kompozitor and was recorded commercially by Albany Records U.S. Her compositions include: Chamber *Sonatina in b minor (flute and piano) Film *Italianskaia Suita, 10 Songs (text by Samuil Marshak and Gianni Rodari) Orchestra *A Dedication to Leningrad (oratorio for children’s chorus and orchestra) Vocal *Children’s Choral Pieces (vocal quartet) *“Dobroye Utro” *Northern Wind (vocal quartet) *“Pesni Zapadnikh Slavyan” (text by Alexander Pushkin) *“Pesnya Materei: Russian Folk Song” *Pomni sorok pervyǐ (songs for low voice and piano) *“Svadevnaya” (text by Aleksei Ivanovich Nedogonov) References

Galina Ustvolskaya

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Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya ( ) (17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Known by Dutch critic Elmer Schönberger as “the lady with the hammer”, her music has been described as demanding “everything from the performer”, uncompromising in her trademark textured homophonic blocks of sound. Ustvolskaya created her own unique style, characterized by unusual combinations of instruments that created highly specific tone clusters and textures and by her large dynamic ranges. She was reclusive and rarely accepted to be interviewed as she found it unpleasant to talk about her own music. In her lifetime, she only approved of 21 of her works for performance. Early years Galina Ustvolskaya was born in Petrograd (modern day St. Petersburg). Her mother was a school teacher; her father was a lawyer. Her early childhood took place during the Russian Civil War and the October Revolution. Despite her impoverished childhood and non-musical family, from a young age she developed an interest in music. She was deemed to be gifted when she began musical studies at the age of 7. Middle years Ustvolskaya studied at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1937 to 1939. Her teache

Gallus Dressler

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Gallus Dressler (16 October 1533 – 1580/9) was a German composer and music theorist who served as Kantor in the church school at Magdeburg. Though a few of his works have remained in the choral repertoire, he is best known for his theoretical writings, especially his Praecepta musicae poeticae (MS, 1563), which contains some of the earliest detailed description of the compositional process of the Renaissance motet. Life Dressler was born in Nebra in Thuringia, but probably received most of his musical education in the Netherlands. He seems particularly influenced by Clemens non papa, and a perusal of the musical examples he cites in his theoretical writings shows that he was strongly influenced by the Franco-Flemish generation immediately following Josquin des Prez. After a brief tenure at Jena in 1558, Dressler succeeded Martin Agricola as Kantor of the church school in Magdeburg, where most of his career was spent. His compositions were almost entirely in the genre of the Latin motet, largely ignoring the Lutheran chorale, though he is noted for some of the first German-language motets. Dressler studied at Wittenberg, receiving the master’s degree in 1570, and was closely associa

Galy Galiano

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Carmelo Galiano Cotes, better known as Galy Galiano (Chiriguaná, Cesar, Colombia, 10 February 1958), is a Colombian composer and singer of romantic and tropical music. He was the first Colombian artist to appear in Billboard with three songs in a single listing. Biography He formed his first musical group Los Diamantes del Cesar with friends in the neighborhood where he played bass and composed songs. He currently resides in Chia, Cundinamarca. Discography * 1981: Frío De Ausencia - Coldness Of Absence * 1981: Galy Galiano * 1983: Alma Solitaria - Lonely soul * 1985: A Manos Llenas - Hand over fist * 1986: Brindemos - We offer * 1988: Celoso - Jealous * 1990: Dos Corazones - Two Hearts * 1991: Tu Amor Es Fuego - Your Love Is Fire * 1992: Solo Salsa - Just Salsa * 1993: Tres Palabras - Three Words * 1993: Sin Fronteras - Without Borders * 1994: Mi Son Latino - My Son Latino * 1994: Amor De Primavera - Spring Love * 1996: Me Bebí Tu Recuerdo - I Drink Your Memory * 1997: Deseos - Wishes * 1997: Bebiendo Para Olvidar - Drinking To Forget * 1998: No Volveré A Casarme - : I Will Not Get Married Again * 2000: Galy Galiano * 2001: El Sentimental De La Salsa - The Sentimental Of The Salsa

Gamal Abdel-Rahim

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Gamal Abdel-Rahim ( ) (November 25, 1924 – November 23, 1988) was a distinguished Egyptian classical music composer and composition professor. Life and career Abdel-Rahim was born in Cairo to a musical father, and began playing the piano at an early age. His early musical studies were supported by the Music Society of the Faculty of Arts of Cairo University (then called Fuad I University), graduating with a degree in history. In 1950 he began university studies in musicology at the Musikhochschule of Heidelberg in West Germany, deciding on a career as a composer. From 1952 to 1957 he studied composition with Harald Genzmer (a pupil of Paul Hindemith) at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. In 1959, Abdel-Rahim was appointed to teach theory and harmony at the newly opened Cairo Conservatory of Music. He was later appointed head of the composition department there (the first of its kind in the Arab world), which he founded in 1971. Abdel-Rahim was quite influential among Egyptian composers of the next generation, as the majority of them studied with him during his time at the Cairo Conservatory. Abdel-Rahim’s style fuses traditional Egyptian musical elements with contemporary European

Gandalf (musician)

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Gandalf (born Heinz Strobl, born 1952) is an Austrian New Age composer. He plays a wide variety of instruments, including guitar, keyboard, synthesizers and sitars. He includes electronic sounds in his music. He released his first album Journey to an Imaginary Land on 17 March 1981, and his second, Visions, almost one year later on 16 March 1982. He has become one of Austria’s most accomplished international musicians. Discography Studio albums *1981 - Journey to an Imaginary Land *1982 - Visions *1983 - To Another Horizon *1983 - More Than Just a Seagull *1984 - Magic Theatre *1985 - Tale from a Long Forgotten Kingdom *1987 - The Universal Play *1987 - Fantasia *1987 - From Source to Sea *1989 - Invisible Power *1990 - Labyrinth (Soundtrack) *1990 - Symphonic Landscapes *1992 - Gallery of Dreams (feat. Steve Hackett) *1992 - The Stones of Wisdom *1994 - To Our Children’s Children *1994 - Colours of the Earth *1995 - Echoes from Ancient Dreams *1996 - The Shining (with Galadriel) *1996 - Gates to Secret Realities *1997 - Barakaya: Trees Water Life *1999 - Into the Light *1999 - Samsara *2000 - Visions 2001 (CD1: inspired by Tolkien, Lord of the Rings. CD2: a compilation “20 Years G

Gao Ping

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Gao Ping (; born Chengdu, 1970) is a Chinese composer and professor of composition at Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen School of Music. He taught composition at the Conservatory of Music at Capital Normal University in Beijing, the University of Canterbury, New Zealand School of Music (Wellington), and University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. Early life He was born in Sichuan province where he grew up as a young pianist at Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, Gao Ping was affected by China’s concurrent transformation from a collective to a market economy. Career Gao gained his D.Music in composition from the University of Cincinnati. He is professor in composition at the Conservatory of Music at Capital Normal University in Beijing. He holds a guest professorship at the China Conservatory. From 2005 he taught composition at the School of Music at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand. His 1988 China Record Company album Jazz in China was one of the first domestic jazz-classical albums released in China. Beijing-based musicologist and professor Li Xi’an referred to Gao Ping as a member of the “sixth generation” of Chinese composers. His last chamber music rel

Garbis Aprikian

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Garbis Aprikian (1926 – 15 October 2024) was a musician from the Armenian diaspora who was born in Egypt and moved to Paris in 1953, where he studied, inspired especially by Olivier Messiaen. He conducted the Armenian mixed chorus Sipan-Komitas for around 50 years, composing many works especially for the group and also arranging Armenian folk music and works of others. He combined melodies from Armenia with Western musical techniques such as harmonies and counterpoint. Aprikian is regarded as a pioneer of bringing Armenian music to France. Biography Aprikian was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1926. Recordings * 2003: Aprikian: Oeuvres Vocales et Instrumentales is a collection of vocal and instrumental pieces, including Aprikian’s “Lamento”, Petite suite nuptiale in both a trio and an orchestral version, “Moutn er” and Divertimento. External links * * * Accueil (in French) Chorale Sipan-Komitas (Choeur Mixte Arménien de Paris) * Mayrig (Lamento) highresaudio.com

Gardner Read

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Gardner Read (January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois – November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar. His first musical studies were in piano and organ, and he also took lessons in counterpoint and composition at the School of Music at Northwestern University. In 1932 he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Eastman School of Music (B.M. and M.M.), where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. In the late 1930s he also studied briefly with Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Aaron Copland. After heading the composition departments of the St. Louis Institute of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Read became Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Boston University. He remained in this post until his retirement in 1978. His Symphony No. 1, op. 30 (1937, premiered by Sir John Barbirolli) won first prize at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society’s American Composers’ Contest, while his second symphony (op. 45, 1943) won first prize in the Paderewski Fund Competition. Another first prize came in the 1986 National Association of Teachers of

Gareth Loy

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Gareth Loy is an American author, composer, musician and mathematician. He is the author of the two volume series about the intersection of music and mathematics titled Musimathics. The series received generally favourable ratings. He was an early practitioner of music synthesis at Stanford, and wrote the first software compiler for the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer (Samson Box). More recently, he has published the freeware music programming language Musimat, designed specifically for subjects covered in Musimathics, available as a free download. Although Musimathics was first published in 2006 and 2007, the series continues to evolve with updates by the author and publishers. The texts are being used in numerous mathematics and music classes at both the graduate and undergraduate level, with more current reviews noting that the originally targeted academic distribution is now reaching a much wider audience. Biographical background Loy was born in Los Angeles in 1945. He was an early employee at Apple Computer, and is the brother of the late Tom Loy, a molecular archaeologist, and member of the team that researched Oetzi the Iceman. In the 1960s and 1970s, CCRMA – the Center

Gareth Williams (composer)

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Gareth Patrick Williams (born 1977) is an Irish composer based at Edinburgh College of Art. He was the first composer in residence for Scottish Opera from 2012 to 2015. His work spans from opera and music theatre to chamber music. Career Originally from Armagh, Williams moved to Glasgow after studying music at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 2008 he was awarded his doctorate from the University of St Andrews. He taught composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland until 2012, and since then he has worked as a freelance composer. His work has been featured in the Edinburgh Festival, St Magnus Festival, Tête à Tête (opera company), Opera to Go, and the York Late Music Festival. His music has been broadcast on BBC Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Ulster, RTÉ Television, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and CBC Radio 2 in Canada. In 2009, he was on residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, where he wrote two large music theatre pieces -A Short Treatise on Love and Miracle for the Sound Festival in Aberdeen, and Gethsemane for the 2010 Plug Festival. In August 2009 and 2010, he took part in the LibLab at Tapestry New Opera Works in Toronto, to create short operas in coll

Gareth Wood (composer)

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Gareth Wood (19502023) was a Welsh double-bassist and composer. Early life and education Gareth Wood was born in Cilfynydd, Pontypridd, Wales on 7 June 1950. He attended Pontypridd Boys’ Grammar School and began playing the double bass. When aged just 12 he was performing in Rhondda clubs, playing the guitar with a pop band. He joined the Glamorgan Youth Orchestra as a double-bassist in 1967, and also played in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. He then went on to study double bass with John Walton and composition with Dr Frederick T Durrant and Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music. He won there the Lucas Medal for composition and the Eugene Cruft Prize for double bass. He first achieved recognition as a composer in 1975 when his overture Tombstone, Arizona was performed at the Royal Albert Hall during the National Brass Band Festival. He was commissioned to write numerous other pieces for brass band, including Culloden Moor, for the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland, Introduction and Allegro, (used in the Scandinavian Championship in 1978), Hinemoa (by the New Zealand Band Association for their Centenary Championship in 1980), and The Margam Stone (by West Glamorga

Garik Saribekyan

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Garik Saribekyan (born 26 April 1970 in Yerevan, Armenia) is a composer and musician, band lead and founder of Nuance Jazz Band. Garik is widely regarded as one of the most notable characters on the Armenian jazz stage, and has been named Honourable Culture Contributor of Yerevan in 2014. Early life Garik Saribekyan was born in a family of musicians and has become familiar to musical instruments since early age. His father, now Honoured Artist of Armenia, has noticed his outstanding feeling of rhythm when Garik used to tap rhythmic beat sequences on a chair, who, at that time was nearly as tall as the chair itself. Due to this, many predicted his musical career as a drummer. Luckily, his music teacher gave him freedom to express and develop in the direction that he felt most passionate about. Also, Garik used to listen to his father play on tar, which influenced his music in future to contain ethnic elements. Education 1977-1984 Garik attended Yerevan Musical Secondary School after Edward Mirzoyan - piano classroom and graduated with excellence. 1988-1993 attended Yerevan state conservatoire after Komitas piano composition department and earned Graduation diploma. Career Garik’s ta

Garnet Rogers

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Garnet Rogers (born May 1955) is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario with Maritime roots. Early life Rogers was born in Hamilton, Ontario to Nathan Allison Rogers and Valerie (née Bushell) Rogers, who had moved to Ontario from Nova Scotia to find work. Rogers, along with his elder brother Stan, was raised in Binbrook, Ontario, and spent summers in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Career Rogers began his professional career working with his brother Stan, arranging Stan’s music. After Stan died in a plane crash on June 2, 1983 (just a few weeks before Stan, Garnet and bass player Jim Morison were to tour the US), Garnet began to pursue his own career. At first, Rogers had difficulty getting a permit from the U.S. Immigration Service, which only granted one after a campaign on his behalf was launched by Odetta, The Boston Globe, and a PBS TV station in New York. While his brother’s style of writing was more traditional and often based on Canadian Maritime styles, Rogers’ style is more modern, utilizing influences from blues, rock, country/bluegrass, and classical. Rogers’ instruments include the guitar, mandolin, violin, and flut

Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington

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Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (19 July 1735 – 22 May 1781) was an Anglo-Irish politician and composer and the father of a distinguished military commander and several politicians of Great Britain and Ireland. Early life Wesley was born at the family estate of Dangan Castle, near Summerhill, a village near Trim in County Meath, Ireland. He was a son of Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington (son of Henry Colley, MP), and Elizabeth Sale (a daughter of John Sale, Registrar of the Diocese of Dublin). He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and was elected its first Professor of Music in 1764. From early childhood he showed extraordinary talent on the violin, and soon began composing his own works. It was the future Duke of Wellington who, alone of his children, inherited something of his musical talent. Political career Wesley represented Trim in the Irish House of Commons from 1757 until 1758, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Mornington. In 1759 he was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Meath and in 1760, in recognition of his musical and philanthropic achievements, he was created Viscount Wellesley, of Dangan Castle in the County of Meath, and Earl of Mornington. He was

Garrett Byrnes

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Garrett Byrnes (born December 30, 1971) is an American composer. Byrnes was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany while his father was stationed at the U.S. Army Base there, and relocated to New Jersey in the United States. He studied music composition, receiving his bachelor’s degree from the Boston Conservatory, his master’s degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and his doctorate from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Since embarking on his professional career, Byrnes has worked with numerous performers both in the United States and abroad. His music has been read and performed by ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Chesapeake Youth Repertory Orchestra, Peabody Symphony and Concert orchestras, Indiana University New Music Ensemble, Cleveland Chamber Collective, Tarab Cello Ensemble, and Tonus Percussion Group. Byrnes’ orchestral music in particular is currently gaining wider recognition. In 2004 the Indiana University New Music Ensemble premiered his Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra. Later that same year his work “Red Moon”

Garrett List

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Garrett List (September 10, 1943 – December 27, 2019) was an American trombonist, vocalist, and composer. List was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He studied at California State University, Long Beach, and the Juilliard School. He was a member of Italian band Musica Elettronica Viva from 1971. In 1980, he began teaching at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. List died in Liège, Belgium, aged 76. Discography As leader * Your Own Self (Opus One, 1972) * American Images (Horo, 1978) * Fire & Ice (Lovely Music, 1982) * The Real Live Orchestra (Igloo, 1986) * The Unbearably Light (Music for Treesasbl, 1995) * The Voyage (Carbon 7, 1998) * The New York Takes (Carbon 7, 1998) As sideman With Anthony Braxton * Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista, 1976) * Four Compositions (Solo, Duo & Trio) 1982/1988 (hatART, 1989) With Willem Breuker * Driebergen Zeist (BV Haast, 1983) * To Remain (BV Haast, 1989) * The Parrot (BV Haast, 1996) * Kurt Weill (BV Haast, 1998) With Johnny Copeland * Copeland Special (Demon, 1981) * Texas Party (Orbis, 1995) With Arthur Russell * First Thought Best Thought (Audika, 2006) * Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika, 2008) With others * Morton Feldman, Morton Feldman (Edition, 199

Garry Schyman

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Garry Schyman is an American film, television, and video game music composer. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in music composition in 1978, and began work in the television industry, writing music for television series such as Magnum, P.I. and The A-Team. By 1986, he was composing for movies such as Judgement and Hit List. At the request of a friend in 1993, he composed the music for the video game Voyeur, but after creating the music for two more games he left the industry, citing the low budgets and poor quality of video game music at the time. He continued to compose for film and television, only to return to video games for 2005’s Destroy All Humans!. Finding that in his absence the quality and perceived importance of video game music had risen substantially, he has since composed for several games, writing the scores to BioShock and Dante’s Inferno among others. He still composes for film however, his latest being Brush with Danger directed by young Indonesian director Livi Zheng. He has won numerous awards for his video game scores, including several “soundtrack of the year” awards. During his career, he has worked on over 25 television s

Gary Bertini

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Gary Bertini (; May 1, 1927 – March 17, 2005) was one of the most important Israeli musicians and conductors. In 1978 he was awarded the Israel Prize for Music. Biography Gary Bertini was born Shloyme Golergant in Bricheva, Bessarabia, then in Romania, now in Donduşeni District, Moldova. His father, K. A. Bertini (Aron Golergant), was a poet and translator of the Russian (Leonid Andereyev) and Yiddish (A.Sutzkever, H. Leivick) literature into Hebrew, and of the Hebrew works into Yiddish. His mother Berta Golergant was a physician and biologist. They immigrated to Palestine in 1946. Gary studied music at the Music Teachers’ College in Tel Aviv and then in Milan, Italy, and at the Paris Conservatoire. Upon returning to Israel, Bertini established Rinat (the Israel Chamber Choir) in 1955. He was musical advisor to the Batsheva Dance Company and composed original music for numerous productions of Habima, the Israel national theater, and the Cameri Theatre. He founded the Israel Chamber Orchestra in 1965 and was its conductor until 1975. In 1971 he conducted the world premiere of Josef Tal’s Ashmedai at the Hamburg State Opera. Bertini was conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra f

Gary Bias

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Gary Bias is an American saxophonist, flutist and composer. Bias is a longtime member of the Earth, Wind & Fire Horns. During 1987 Bias also won a Grammy Award within the category of Best Rhythm & Blues Song for co-composing Anita Baker’s “Sweet Love”. Within the same year he went on to join up with Earth, Wind & Fire. Bias then played and composed upon the band’s 1990 album Heritage. As well he featured as a saxophonist on Whitney Houston’s album of the same year being I’m Your Baby Tonight. Bias then played upon MC Hammer’s 1991 album Too Legit to Quit and Salif Keita’s 1991 LP Amen. In 1999 Bias released his sophomore LP entitled “2 B Free” upon Thunderbop Records. Discography *“East 101” (Nimbus, 1981) *“2 B Free” (Thunderbop, 1999) References

Gary Carpenter (composer)

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Gary Carpenter (born 1951) is a British composer, of concert music and film scores, and also operas and musicals. He is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. He was Associate Music Director for the film The Wicker Man, putting together the ensemble Magnet for the occasion. Until 2021, he was a Director of the Ivors Academy. During the 2018-19 season, he was Composer in Association with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Works Orchestra *Satie Variations (1993) *Dadaville (2015) Ensemble *Da Capo (1981) *Die Flimmerkiste (1983) *Ein Musikalisches Snookerspiel (1991) for wind octet *Pantomime (1995) for woodwind orchestra *Distanza (2004) *After Braque (2006) Instrumental * Clarinet Sonata (1991) *Van Assendelft’s Vermeer (2004) for clavichord Dance *Children’s Games (1978) for Jiří Kylián, electronic score, work includes also music from the Kindertotenlieder by Mahler *Interactions (1980) for Christopher Bruce Musical *The Streets of London (1980), libretto by Ian Barnett Opera *The Lost Domain (1984), three acts, libretto by Ian Barnett based on Le Grand Meaulnes *Doggone (1990), one act, libretto by Simon Nicholson *Nyanyu

Gary Daverne

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Gary Michiel Daverne (born 1939) is a New Zealand musical arranger, composer, conductor, director and producer. He was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1996. He held the position of Music Director/Conductor of the Auckland Symphony Orchestra from its formation in 1975 until 2010 when, on retiring, he was appointed Music Director Emeritus. Daverne has also composed music for symphony orchestras, brass and military bands, children’s songs and musicals with more than 500 television and radio advertising jingles, film soundtracks and pop songs. Daverne is New Zealand’s most prolific composer and arranger of music for the accordion. As a music producer Daverne has released over forty albums achieving one Platinum and two Gold records. Since his retirement from the Auckland Symphony directorship position, he has gone back to his pop and rock ’n’ roll roots as a record producer, digitally re-mastering, mainly for internet re-release on his Viscount label, archive recordings that he produced in his earlier years, along with producing new recording projects. He is still actively involved as a guest conductor with orchestras and as a musical arranger and composer. Du

Gary Geld

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Gary Geld (October 18, 1935 – June 17, 2015) was an American composer known for his work creating musicals and popular songs with his lyricist partner Peter Udell. Life and career Geld was born on October 18, 1935. Raised in Clifton, New Jersey, he graduated from Clifton High School, where he won a songwriting competition. Gary Geld is an American composer, songwriter, author, publisher, and producer. He studied composition at New York University and business at the Juilliard School. In 1959, he co-founded the Geld-Udell Music Corporation with longtime collaborator Peter Udell, followed by the formation of Geld-Udell Productions in 1962. He joined ASCAP in 1961. Throughout the 1960s, Geld wrote and produced music for popular artists including Connie Francis, Brian Hyland, Jackie Wilson, Gene Pitney, and Skeeter Davis. He is best known for co-writing the hit song “Sealed With a Kiss.” Other notable compositions include “Ginny Come Lately” and “Let Me Belong to You.” Geld and Udell co-created the Broadway musicals Purlie (1970, a nominee for the Tony Award for Best Musical), Shenandoah (1975), and Angel (1978). His music for Shenandoah was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Origin

Gary Koftinoff

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Gary Koftinoff is a Canadian film score composer of music for film and television. In 2018 he won an ASCAP Screen Award for Top Cable Television Series and a Socan Award for Domestic Television Series for his score on the medical drama Saving Hope (CTV/ION). Saving Hope (Ion) accumulated the most credits on Amazon, Hulu and Netflix during the 2017 survey year of ASCAP. In 2014 he received a CSA Nomination “Best Score for a Dramatic Series” for Saving Hope. In 2005 he received a Gemini Award for Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series for “Dark Oracle” (YTV), and in 2007 he won a Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Non-Animated Children’s TV Program for the 70 episode Disney Channel series “Life With Derek” (Disney/Family Channel). Additionally, Koftinoff has had three other Gemini nominations for his work on over 30 films and over 200 episodes of television, all composed for a client list that includes NBC, CTV, Lifetime/Sony, Chesler/Perlmutter Ent., Shaftesbury Films, Screendoor, Cloud Ten Productions and Peace Arch Entertainment. Recent work includes his scores for Salem Falls (Lifetime), The Devil’s Teardrop (Lifetime/Sony) and Valemont (MTV). For the film Spirit Bear:

Gary Kulesha

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Gary Alan Kulesha (born 22 August 1954) is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (1988–1992) and the Canadian Opera Company (1993–1995). He was awarded the National Arts Centre Orchestra Composer Award in 2002. He currently teaches on the music faculty at the University of Toronto, where his notable students have included Vincent Ho, Anna Höstman, Abigail Richardson-Schulte, Bekah Simms, and Andrew Staniland. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2023. Education Born in Toronto, Kulesha received his musical training at The Royal Conservatory of Music where he earned an associate diploma in piano (1973), a licentiate diploma in music theory (1976), and associate and fellowship diplomas in music composition in 1978. At the conservatory he was a pupil of William G. Andrews and Samuel Dolin. He also studied composition in England from 1978–1981 with John McCabe and in New York City in 1982 with John Corigliano. Selected works Opera * Red Emma (1986–1995); libretto by Carol Bolt * The Last Duel (1999–2000); l

Gary Kuo

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Gary Kuo is an American composer and violinist. He has worked as a composer on Another Night (2003), As the World Turns and All My Children. He played the violin for the film The Glass Shield in 1994, and instructed on the violin for Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance that same year. Biography Gary Kuo, originally from Connecticut, moved to New York City to accept a scholarship to Juilliard School, where he received his bachelor of arts degree in violin performance. After completion of his studies at Juilliard School, he received a scholarship to the media writing and production graduate program at the University of Miami. Following his graduation, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he composes for and performs on a variety of television programs and motion pictures. Awards and nominations Daytime Emmy awards: *Won, 1999, Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: All My Children (shared with Paul F. Antonelli, Pamela Magee, Dominic Messinger, Ron Goodman, Robbie Kondor, Mike Renzi, and Terry Walker) *Nominated, 2000, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: All My Children (shared with Terry Walker, Jerry Pilato, Domini

Gary Lee Nelson

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Gary Lee Nelson (born Albion, Michigan, 1940) is a composer and media artist who taught at Oberlin College in the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) department. He specializes in algorithmic composition, real-time interactive sound and video along with digital film making. Biography In 1964, Nelson attended Utrecht University’s Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. He earned his composition doctorate at Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied with Paul Pisk and Robert Wykes. He has taught at Purdue University and Bowling Green State University. He was a faculty member at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1974 until his retirement in 2007. Research Nelson has worked at Bell Laboratories, the Swedish Radio Electronic Music Studios in Stockholm and at the Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music (IRCAM) in Paris. He has been composer in residence and guest researcher at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung and Soochow Universities, Hong Kong Baptist University, the National University of Singapore, Moscow Conservatory of Music and Yunan State University in the People’s Republic of China. Teaching Ne

Gary Lloyd

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Gary Lloyd (born 1965) is a Canadian-born British composer and producer. He has composed music for productions in theatre, contemporary dance, television drama and documentary, film, art installation, son et lumiere, narrative/music works, and orchestral concert performances. He also works as a record producer, and lectures on aspects of music. He is a graduate of the University of Chester where he studied mathematics, fine art and history of art, and psychology. He lives in Chester with his partner the dancer and choreographer Bettina Carpi. Past works Past works include the theatrical scores for Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘Huis Clos’ (No Way Out) (2001) and Arthur Kopit’s Road To Nirvana (2006) both directed by actor and director Colin McFarlane, soundtracks for the Tshukudu series of wildlife documentaries by Marianne Wilding (1998–2005), music for the contemporary dance piece Nocturne choreographed by Marc Brew (2009 and onwards including a performance at Sadler’s Wells in 2014), music for installations with the artist Michelle Molyneux (2007), and music for the contemporary dance piece Track choreographed by Paula Hampson (1997–1998). Earlier works include the soundtrack for the stage

Gary M. Green

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Gary M. Green (born 20th century) is a musician, author, television host, gaming consultant and entrepreneur. He was vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization and appeared on the television reality game show The Apprentice. He was also on the 2004 television special New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly. In 2016 it was announced that he would host a television series called “Casino Rescue”. Career Music Green recorded three folk-music albums from 1977 to 1982 with Folkways Records, which worked with other folk artists including Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Folkways was later acquired by the Smithsonian Institution as part of the “Smithsonian Folkways” exhibition. He earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing. Other activities In the early 1990s, Green purchased part of a Russian circus. He established it as a Euro Circus attraction at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. After he sold the circus, he joined Smith-Gardner, a Florida catalog software company. At Smith-Gardner, Green aided in development of software to take orders online when the company changed their focus from telephone and mail orders. He patented a casino-management system based on customer relationshi

Gary Stockdale

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Gary William Stockdale is a US composer, arranger. music director, conductor, singer-songwriter, musician (keyboard, guitar), and vocalist with over 400 published composing credits. He was mentored in film-scoring by Henry Mancini and contributed music to films scored by Lalo Schifrin. Stockdale is particularly renowned for his work collaborating with comedy-magic duo Penn & Teller, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations and a BMI Award, and for composing songs and scores for many other TV shows including Penn & Teller’s Sin City Spectacular, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Sabrina the Teenage Witch,SpongeBob SquarePants, and To Tell the Truth, as well as for numerous films including Two Billion Hearts (with Schifrin), Dance of the Damned, and The Aristocrats. Stockdale is also known for his large volume of vocal work. Early life and education Stockdale’s mother Barbara Ann Stockdale (née Millaird), a Burbank, CA native, was a jazz singer who recorded with musicians from Nat King Cole’s band until she gave up professional singing to raise a family. Stockdale was born and raised in Glendale, CA, in the Los Angeles area, where he started piano lessons at the age of 4 and sang in

Gaspar Cassadó

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Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu (30 September or 5 October 1897 – 24 December 1966) was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. Biography Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu was born in Barcelona to a church musician father, Joaquim Cassadó, and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to teach him. The city of Barcelona awarded him a scholarship so that he could study with Casals in Paris. In 1914 World War I broke out and his brother Agustí died a victim of an epidemic. Gaspar returned to Barcelona and began to offer concerts with the main orchestras of Spain. From 1918 he also performed in France and Italy, thanks to his friendship with Alfredo Casella. In 1920 he toured Argentina. From 1922 he began to make known his own compositions, both pieces for cello and concerts, chamber music, oratorios and a sardana. He also made transcriptions for cello. In 1923 and thanks to the friendship with Francesco von Mendelssohn he met the singer and pianist Giulietta Gordigiani, with whom he lived for more than three decades, settling in Florence. Gaspar and Giulietta created a cello and p

Gaspar Fernandes

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Gaspar Fernandes (sometimes written Gaspar Fernández, the Spanish version of his name) (1566–1629) was a Portuguese-Mexican composer and organist active in the cathedrals of Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua Guatemala) and Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (present-day Mexico). Life Most scholars agree that the Gaspar Fernandes listed as a singer in the cathedral of Évora, Portugal, is the same person as the Gaspar Fernández who was hired on 16 July 1599 as organist and organ tuner of the cathedral of Santiago de Guatemala. In 1606, Fernandes was approached by the dignitaries of the cathedral of Puebla, inviting him to become the successor of his recently deceased friend Pedro Bermúdez as chapel master. He left Santiago de Guatemala on 12 July 1606, and began his tenure in Puebla on 15 September. He remained there until his death in 1629. Work One of his most important achievements for posterity was the compilation and binding in 1602 of various choir books containing Roman Catholic liturgical polyphony, several of which are extant in Guatemala. These manuscripts contain music by Spanish composers Francisco Guerrero, Cristóbal de Morales, and Pedro Bermúdez; the latter was

Gaspar Sagreras

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Gaspar Sagreras (21 October 1838 – 14 April 1901) was a Spanish-born guitarist, composer and teacher who became a naturalized Argentine citizen. He is remembered as one of the leading figures in the spread of the guitar in late‑19th‑century Argentina and as the father of the renowned guitarist and pedagogue Julio Salvador Sagreras. Biography Sagreras was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1838. Following his parents’ wishes, he initially began medical studies, while at the same time cultivating a strong interest in music and the guitar. After the family moved to Buenos Aires, he abandoned medicine and completed his musical training, devoting the rest of his life to performance and teaching. In Buenos Aires he established himself as a notable guitarist, taking part in concerts and musical gatherings within Porteño society. He studied harmony to broaden his skills and formed friendships with fellow guitarists such as Juan Alais Moncada, Carlos García Tolsa and Bernardo Troncoso. With them he performed in a trio formation during 1887 and 1888. * Various arrangements, including transcriptions related to the Himno Nacional Argentino. References External links * Gaspar Sagreras on IMSLP

Gaspar Sanz

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Francisco Bartolomé Sanz Celma (April 4, 1640 (baptized) – 1710), better known as Gaspar Sanz, was a Spanish composer, guitarist, and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the comarca of Bajo Aragón, Spain. He studied music, theology and philosophy at the University of Salamanca, where he was later appointed Professor of Music. He wrote three volumes of pedagogical works for the baroque guitar that form an important part of today’s classical guitar repertory and have informed modern scholars in the techniques of baroque guitar playing. Biography His birth date is unknown but he was baptized as Francisco Bartolomé Sanz Celma in the church of Calanda de Ebro, Aragon on 4 April 1640, later adopting the first name “Gaspar”. After gaining his Bachelor of Theology at the University of Salamanca, Gaspar Sanz traveled to Naples, Rome and perhaps Venice to further his music education. He is thought to have studied under Orazio Benevoli, choirmaster at the Vatican and Cristofaro Caresana, organist at the Royal Chapel of Naples. Sanz learned to play guitar while studying under Lelio Colista and was influenced by the music of the Italian guitarists Foscarini, Granata, and Corbetta. Whe

Gaspar van Weerbeke

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Gaspar van Weerbeke (c. 1445 – after 1516) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance. He was of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, but unique in his blending of the contemporary Italian style with the older Burgundian style of Du Fay. Life He was born somewhere in the diocese of Tournai, evidently out of wedlock, and was educated at Oudenaarde. While little is known of the first two decades of his life, he probably knew or studied with Johannes Regis, and he may have studied with Johannes Ockeghem; in addition it is likely he knew Dufay at the Burgundian court of Charles the Bold, since so much of his music follows the model of the older composer. In 1471 he went to Milan, where he joined the singers of the Sforza chapel, which included Johannes Martini, Alexander Agricola, and Loyset Compère. In 1472 and 1473 he went back north to Burgundy to find more singers for his Italian employer. Successful in his quest, he returned to Milan, and soon the Sforza chapel had one of the largest choirs in Europe. After the murder of Duke Sforza in 1476, however, the singers mostly disbanded. Weerbeke then joined the papal choir in Rome under Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII, where he rema

Gaspard Le Roux

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Gaspard Le Roux (c. 1670) was a French harpsichordist active in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. Little is known of his life, which is exacerbated by the commonality of his name among musicians and dance instructors in Paris. A Le Roux is mentioned as the contributor of an in Mercure galant (March 1690), but whether this refers to Gaspard in unclear. The name is also found in Nicolas de Blégny’s , although no address is included; in a tax document, ; two records of Gaspard Le Roux receiving annuities through the notaire publique Alexandre Lebèvre are dated 8 May 1702 and 5 August 1706 this is the last known reference to Le Roux ; and the record of his being granted a dated 9 April 1705. A previously discovered reference by French musicologist Pierre Hardouin that claimed the receipt of an inventory of Le Roux’s chattels on 7 June 1707 has been proved incorrect. Hardouin mistook the name Gaspard Roux as Gaspard Leroux: Roux has been traced as far back as 1 February 1694; subsequent entries describe him as (14 June 1696) and (7 September 1696), suggesting the subject Hardouin mistook as Gaspard Le Roux was someone other, possibly a who lived off annuities from the town of

Gaspare Spontini

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Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (14 November 177424 January 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and he composed over twenty works. Biography Born in Maiolati, Papal State (now Maiolati Spontini, Province of Ancona), he spent most of his career in Paris and Berlin, but returned to his place of birth at the end of his life. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck’s classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for grander spectacle (in Fernand Cortez for example), for enriched orchestral timbre, and for melodic invention allied to idiomatic expressiveness of words. As a youth, Spontini studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà de’ Turchini, one of four active music conservatories of Naples. Working his way from Italian city to city, he got his first break in Rome, with his successful comedy Li Puntigli delle Donne (Carnival 1793). In 1803, he went to Paris, where, on 11 February 180

Gast Waltzing

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Gaston “Gast” Waltzing (born 1956) is a Luxembourgish trumpeter and composer. He has created several jazz bands, including Largo and the Luxembourg National Jazz Orchestra, and has even composed music for films and television programs as well as operas combining classical music with jazz and rock. He goes by the nickname of piu. Biography Gast Waltzing was born in the city of Luxembourg on 13 August 1956. He began his music studies at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg when he was just 7 years old. He continued his classical training at the Brussels Royal Conservatoire, completing his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1982, he became professor of trumpet at the Luxembourg Conservatoire and in 1986 founded the school’s Jazz Department, which he heads. He has recorded numerous albums covering classical, jazz and dance, with groups such as “Atmosphere”, “Life’s Circle” “Largo”, all of which he created himself. As a composer, he has recorded music for the Luxembourg film A Wop Bop A Lop Bop (1989), as well as for television. The TV film The Way to Dusty Death provided an opportunity for him to compose his first orchestral movie score. Since then, he has continued to write for orch

Gaston Allaire

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Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire (18 June 1916 – 15 January 2011) was a Canadian musicologist, organist, pianist, composer, and music educator of American birth. His compositional output includes several preludes for organ, an organ work on French carols, some motets and other choral works, a communion service, a prelude and fugue for string orchestra, and a polyphonic mass. He also wrote Suite laurentienne for orchestra from which the Poème and the Menuet were premiered by the Quebec Symphony Orchestra in 1949, and composed the music for the 1953 film The Man on the Beach. His Marche (1964) and Petite Suite (1965) were both written for the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Band. Early life and education Born in Berlin, New Hampshire to parents Marie and Xavier, Allaire moved with his family to Danville, Quebec when he was just two years old. His mother was a homemaker and his father was the station master for the Danville train station. The eldest of 9 children, he began studying the organ and piano as a child. He began professional studies in the organ in Victoriaville in 1934, continuing with his education in Quebec City in 1936. He entered the Conservatoire national de musique i

Gaston Carraud

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Gaston Carraud (20 July 1864 – 15 June 1920) was a French composer and music critic. Life Born at Le Mée-sur-Seine, Carraud was the son of Ivan Carraud (1826–1881), general inspector of water and forests, general adviser of the Cher, and of Zoé de Ridder (1835–1903), of Belgian origin, and the grandson of Zulma Carraud, née Tourangin, writer and friend of Honoré de Balzac. Carraud began his musical training at the “École Monge”, receiving instruction from Albéric Magnard, Charles Koechlin, Jacques Pillois, André Caplet and Gabriel Bender. He then studied musical composition at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jules Massenet and obtained in 1890 the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Cléopâtre after a text by Fernand Beissier. He later composed the symphonic poems La Chevauchée de la chimère, Les Nuits after the poems by Alfred de Musset and the overture Buona Pasqua. From 1905, he worked as a music critic for the newspaper La Liberté. In 1921, his book La Vie, l’œuvre et la mort d’Albéric Magnard (1865-1914) was published in Paris. Carraud died in his home in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. He rests in the family plot at Nohant-en-Graçay cemetery (Cher), next to Zulma Carr

Gaston Dethier

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Gaston Marie Dethier (1875 – 1958) was an American organist, pianist, and composer of Belgian birth. Early life Born in Liège, he was the son of organist Emile Jean Joseph Dethier (1849-1933), the brother of violinist Edouard Dethier, and the uncle of physiologist Vincent Dethier. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in his native city with Alexandre Guilmant. He was awarded premiers prix in organ, piano, harmony, and fugue from the conservatory. In 1886, at just 11 years of age, Dethier was appointed organist at the Église Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur de Liège. He eventually left there to work in the same capacity at the Église Saint-Christophe de Liège. Relocation to United States He emigrated to the United States in 1894 where he eventually became a naturalized citizen. He was organist at The Church of St. Francis Xavier from 1894 until 1907. After he left in 1907 the position was filled by Italian organist Pietro Yon who would eventually become organist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Juilliard School He taught organ on the faculty of the Juilliard School from 1907 until 1945. Among his notable pupils were Ray Lev, Marcelle Martin, Carl McKinley, Georges-Émile Tanguay, and Powell Weaver

Gaston Litaize

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Gaston Gilbert Litaize (11 August 1909 – 5 August 1991) was a French organist and composer. Considered one of the 20th century masters of the French organ, he toured, recorded, worked at churches, and taught students in and around Paris. Blind from infancy, he studied and taught for most of his life at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for the Blind). Life Litaize was born in Ménil-sur-Belvitte, Vosges, in northeast France. An illness caused him to lose his sight just after birth. He entered the Institute for the Blind at a young age, studying with Charles Magin, who encouraged him to move to Paris Over the course of six years, he won first prizes in organ, improvisation, fugue, and composition, as well as the Prix Rossini for his cantata Fra Angelico. In 1938 he finished second to Henri Dutilleux in the Prix de Rome, said to be the first time that a blind person was accepted in the competition; subsequently he asked Dutilleux many times to compose for the organ, but nothing came of it. He began working as organist at Saint-Cloud in 1934, and after leaving the Paris Conservatoire in 1939 he returned to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles to teach h

Gaston Serpette

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Henri Charles Antoine Gaston Serpette (4 November 1846 – 3 November 1904) was a French composer, best known for his operettas. After winning the prestigious Prix de Rome as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, he was expected to pursue a career in serious music. Instead, he turned to operetta, writing more than twenty full-length pieces between 1874 and 1900. He accepted some conducting work and also served as a critic and journalist for a number of French newspapers and magazines. Early life and work Serpette, the son of a rich industrialist, was born in Nantes, in western France. He qualified as a lawyer before deciding to devote himself to music. In 1868 he entered the composition class of Ambroise Thomas at the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1871 won France’s top musical prize, the Prix de Rome, previously won by Berlioz, Thomas, Gounod, Bizet and Massenet, among others. Serpette’s winning entry was Jeanne d’Arc, a cantata to a libretto by M. J. Barbier, which was performed at the Paris Opéra in November of the same year. However, to the distress of the conservative element at the Conservatoire, Serpette also submitted an operetta. When it was played on the piano to Gounod, Thoma

Gavin Bryars

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Richard Gavin Bryars (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music. Early life and career Born on 16 January 1943 in Goole, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Bryars attended Goole Grammar School. He studied philosophy at Sheffield University but became a jazz bassist during his three years as a philosophy student. The first musical work for which he is remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Joseph Holbrooke, alongside guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley. The trio began by playing relatively traditional jazz, touring with saxophonist Lee Konitz in 1966, before moving into free improvisation. Bryars became dissatisfied with this when he saw a young bassist (later revealed to be Johnny Dyani) play in a manner that seemed to him to be artificial, and he abandoned improvisation, becoming interested in composition instead. In 1998, the trio reformed briefly, giving two live performances and making recordings. Bryars’s first compositions owe much to the New York School of John Cage (with whom he briefly studied), Morton Feldman, Earle Brow

Gavin Mikhail

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Gavin Mikhail (born March 26, 1975) is an American composer, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. The winner of the 2007 “Lay It Down and Mix It Up in the UK” fan-vote contest, Turning his attention to mainstream music, Mikhail spent the next four years at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, performing in bands as lead vocalist and keyboardist while pursuing a degree in finance. Graduating in 1995, he moved to Nashville to begin a career in the music industry. Giant Records and independent songwriting (1997–2001) In 1997, after a year of part-time work at various music companies, Mikhail began working at Giant Records, the label started by Irving Azoff. Originally hired into the finance department, Mikhail transferred to a position on the artists and repertoire (A&R) staff within four months. Throughout the next two years in his A&R role, Mikhail assisted in the signings and promotion of acts including Blake Shelton, Clay Walker, Daryle Singletary, The Wilkinsons and Georgia Middleman. Leaving Giant at the end of 1998 to pursue songwriting and production, he spent several years working with independent artists and began to focus more heavily on his own writing

Gavriil Popov (composer)

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Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (; 12 September 1904 – 17 February 1972) was a Soviet composer. Life and career Popov studied at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1922 until 1930 with Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, Vladimir Shcherbachov, and Maximilian Steinberg. He was considered to have the raw talent of his slightly younger contemporary Dmitri Shostakovich. His early works, in particular the Septet (or Chamber Symphony) (Op. 2, 1927) for flute, trumpet, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello and bass, and his Symphony No. 1 (Op. 7) are impressively powerful and forward-looking. The symphony had its premiere by the Leningrad Philharmonic in 1935 and was immediately banned by a local censor; Popov was accused of formalism, a terrible stigma at the time. His melodic and instrumental invention was sharp, deeply rooted in Russian folk music. Even pieces adapted from propagandist movies, such as his Symphony No. 2, recorded by Hermann Abendroth (Urania LP), can be profoundly stirring. His sense of the orchestra, brilliant and buoyant, his grasp of large formal patterns, as found in the huge Symphony No. 3 for large string orchestra, are equally outstanding. Symphony No. 6 “Festive” betrays a kind

Gayane Chebotaryan

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Gayane Chebotaryan (8 November 1918, Rostov-on-Don16 January 1998, Moscow) was an Armenian composer and musicologist. She was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory. She studied composition with As a composer, she was praised, along with other Armenian composers, by Dmitri Shostakovich for “working hard and successfully on new compositions.” Works Selected works include: *Piano Concerto *Piano Trio *Suite, for orchestra No. 2 *Six Preludes *Polifonicheskii al’bom dlia iunoshestva. 13 fortepiannykh p’es collection, 1975 Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including: *Armenian Piano Trios, Audio CD (September 20, 2004) Et’Cetera, ASIN: B0006Z2LEC References External links *Gayane Chebotaryan - Piano Trio at Youtube *Gayane Chebotaryan - Piano prelude no. 3 on Youtube

Gayle Young

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Gayle Young (born 22 Mar 1950) is a Canadian composer and author. Young is an adherent of microtonality who has invented a number of musical instruments and notational systems. Early life and education Young was born in St Catharines, Ontario. She graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977. Career Young began writing for Musicworks magazine in 1978, becoming its managing editor in 1987. In 1980 Young designed a 24-stringed musical instrument, the amaranth, which she played in many of her performances and later released an album of music performed on it. Young lectured about the musical creations of Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder Hugh Le Caine at the McGill Contemporary Music Festival in 1985, and in 1989 she published a book about him. In 2012 Young’s recorded soundscape, “Avalon Shorelines”, was part of a New York concert by cellist Madeleine Shapiro. She continued to act as editor of the magazine MusicWorks. In 2016 Young performed with her amaranth as part of a deep listening concert in Ottawa organized by composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros. References * Canadian Music Centre biography External links *Official website

Gaziza Zhubanova

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Gaziza Akhmetkyzy Zhubanova (, Ǵazıza Ahmetqyzy Jubanova; with middle name “Akhmetovna”; 2 December 1927 – 13 December 1993) was a Soviet and Kazakh composer and pedagogue. She was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1981. Life Gaziza Zhubanova was born 2 December 1927, in a village in the Jurun District, Aktyubinsk. Zhubanova attended school in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and graduated with honors. She was the daughter of Akhmet Zhubanov, a university educated musician and composer who was remembered as the first Kazakh composer to embrace Western music, and grew up in a musical environment. In 1945 Gaziza Zhubanova began studying at Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, where she learned composition with M. Gnesin and L. Shtreiher. Selected works Gaziza Zhubanova uses subjects and images from the Kazakh history and folklore. She has composed in different forms, including piano, violin, voice, chorus, string quartet and popular songs. A ‘significant part’ of her output is large-scale works including opera and ballet, orchestral and choral works. *Aksak Kulan (1953–1954), symphonic poem *Booming in the night (1916), opera *Violin Concerto (1957) *Melody (Мелодия) in C minor for viola