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Renaissance

Giaches de Wert

Giaches de Wert (also Jacques/Jaches de Wert, Giaches de Vuert; 1535 – 6 May 1596) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Italy. Intimately connected with the progressive

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Giacinto Scelsi

Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi, count d'Ayala Valva (; 8 January 1905 – 9 August 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for having composed music

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Giacobbe Cervetto

Giacobbe Basevi, known as Giacobbe Cervetto (1682 – 14 January 1783) was an Anglo-Italian Jewish musician, who was a leading cellist and composer for cello in 18th century England. Life According to

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Giacomo Antonio Perti

Giacomo Antonio Perti (6 June 1661 – 10 April 1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was Maestro di Cappella for sixty years. He was the teacher

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Giacomo Benvenuti (composer)

Giacomo Benvenuti (16 March 1885, Toscolano – 20 January 1943, Barbarano-Salò) was an Italian composer and musicologist. Life and career He was the son of organist Cristoforo Benvenuti and studied at

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Giacomo Carissimi

(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (; baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the

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Giacomo Cordella

Giacomo Cordella (Naples, 25 July 1786 – Naples, 8 May 1847) was an Italian composer. Biography Cordella studied in Naples with Fedele Fenaroli and Giovanni Paisiello. first performed in 1813, an

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Giacomo Facco

Giacomo Facco (4 February 1676 – 16 February 1753) was an Italian Baroque violinist, conductor and composer. One of the most famous Italian composers of his day, he was completely forgotten until

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Giacomo Fogliano

Giacomo Fogliano (da Modena; also Jacopo, Fogliani; 1468 – 10 April 1548) was an Italian composer, organist, harpsichordist, and music teacher of the Renaissance, active mainly in Modena in northern

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Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari

Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (baptised 2 April 1763 – 2 December 1842) was born in Rovereto in the Italian Alps, and was an Italian composer and singing teacher who spent most of his career in France

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Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Widely regarded as the greatest and most successful

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Giacomo Rust

Giacomo Rust or Rusti (1741 in Rome, Italy – 1786 in Barcelona, Spain) was an Italian opera composer, probably of German ancestry. Not a great deal is known about Rust. Between 1763 and 1777, Rust

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Giacomo Tritto

Giacomo Domenico Mario Antonio Pasquale Giuseppe Di Tritto (2 April 1733 – 16 September 1824) was an Italian composer, known primarily for his fifty-four operas. He was born in Altamura, and studied

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Gialdino Gialdini

Gialdino Gialdini (10 November 1842 – 6 March 1919) was an Italian composer and orchestra conductor. Gialdini was born in Pescia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and studied at Florence with Teodulo

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Giammateo Asola

Giammateo Asola (also spelled Gian Matteo, Giovanni Matteo; Asula, Asulae; 1532 or earlier – 1 October 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of sacred

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Giampaolo Coral

Giampaolo Coral (22 January 1944 – 17 February 2011) was an Italian composer. Life Coral was born on 22 January 1944 in Trieste. He began his musical career at age 14 as an organist in his native

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti (; ; July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Although he often referred

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Gian Domenico Partenio

Gian Domenico Partenio () In 1672, he composed the music for Cristoforo Ivanovich's La costanza trionfante, which premiered at Venice's San Moisè church. Partenio collaborated frequently with the

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Gian Francesco de Majo

Gian Francesco de Majo (24 March 1732 – 17 November 1770) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his more than 20 operas. He also composed a considerable amount of sacred works, including

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Gian Francesco Malipiero

Gian Francesco Malipiero (; 18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor. Life Early years Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson

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Gian Paolo Chiti

Gian Paolo Chiti (21 January 1939 – 27 March 2026 ) was an Italian composer and pianist. His teachers included Carlo Zecchi, Arturo Bonucci, and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. In 1960, Chiti won

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Gian Pieretti

Dante Luca Pieretti (born 12 May 1940), better known as Gian Pieretti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer, mainly successful in the second half of the 1960s. Life and career Born in Ponte

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Gian Piero Reverberi

Gian Piero Reverberi (; born 29 July 1939) is an Italian pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and entrepreneur. Biography After obtaining Diplomas in piano and composition from the Paganini

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Gianandrea Gavazzeni

Gianandrea Gavazzeni (25 July 19095 February 1996) was an Italian pianist, conductor (especially of opera), composer and musicologist. Gavazzeni was born in Bergamo. For almost 50 years, starting

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Giancarlo Bigazzi

Giancarlo Bigazzi (5 September 1940 – 19 January 2012) was an Italian music producer and composer. He was a former member of comedy music group Squallor. Life and career Born in Florence, he was one

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Giandomenico Martoretta

Giandomenico Martoretta (also Giandominico, La Martoretta, Il Martoretta; Mileto 1515–1560s?) was an Italian Renaissance composer. Little is known of his life, but the style of the dedication of the

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Gianluca Cascioli

Gianluca Cascioli (born 17 July 1979 in Turin) is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994,

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Gianluigi Gelmetti

Gianluigi Gelmetti OMRI, (11 September 1945 – 11 August 2021) was an Italian-Monégasque conductor and composer. Early life Gianluigi Gelmetti was born on 11 September 1945 in Rome, Italy. When 16

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Gianluigi Trovesi

Gianluigi Trovesi (born 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He has won various Italian jazz awards. He also teaches in Italy. Early life Trovesi was born in Nembro near

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Gianni Bedori

Gianni Bedori (25 November 1930 – 21 January 2005), also known as Johnny Sax, was an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist and composer. Career Born in Mantua, Bedori graduated in clarinet

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Gianni Bella

Giovanni "Gianni" Bella (born 14 March 1947) is an Italian composer and singer-songwriter, the brother of singer Marcella Bella. Background Born in Catania, Bella started his career as composer for

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Gianni Ferrio

Gianni Ferrio (16 November 1924 – 21 October 2013) was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger. Life and career Born in Vicenza, Ferrio studied at the conservatories of Vicenza and Venice.

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Gianni Marchetti

Gianni Marchetti (Rome, 7 September 1933 – Rome, 10 April 2012) was an Italian composer and songwriter. He collaborated with Piero Ciampi, lyricist Mogol, singer Bobby Solo and others. Early life

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Gianni Meccia

Giovanni "Gianni" Meccia (2 June 1931 – 9 April 2024) was an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. He was often associated with Jimmy Fontana. Life and career Born in

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Gică Petrescu

Gică Petrescu (; 2 April 1915 – 18 June 2006) was a prolific Romanian folk music composer and performer. Born in Bucharest, he made his debut at age 18 by joining a student band, having just

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Gideon Klein

Gideon Klein (6 December 1919 – c. January 1945) was a Czech pianist, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Klein was murdered in the

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Gil Grand

Gil Grand (born Gilles Lagrandeur, January 8, 1968) is a Canadian country music singer. Since 1998, he has released three studio albums: Famous First Words (1998), Burnin (2002) and Somebody's

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Gil Shohat

Gil Shohat (; born 7 September 1973) is an Israeli classical music composer, conductor, pianist and lecturer. Biography Gil Shohat was born in Tel Aviv. His mother is Ha'aretz theatre critic Tzipora

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Gil Trythall

Harry Gilbert Trythall (October 28, 1930 – February 17, 2023) was an American composer, electronic music pioneer, keyboardist, pianist of jazz and contemporary classical music, a lifelong educator,

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Gilad Hochman

Gilad Hochman (Hebrew: גילעד הוכמן; born 26 July 1982 in Herzliya) is an Israeli composer of contemporary classical music based in Berlin, Germany. * S&R Washington Award, Washington D.C., USA (2017)

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Gilardo Gilardi

Gilardo Gilardi (May 25, 1889 – January 16, 1963) was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires. He was

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Gilbert Amy

Gilbert Claude Adolphe Amy (born 29 August 1936) is a French composer and conductor. Career Born in Paris, Amy entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1954, where he was taught and influenced by

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Gilbert Biberian

Gilbert Emanuel Biberian (19 February 1944 – 27 January 2023) was a British guitarist and composer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey of Greek-Armenian heritage. Biberian's ethnic roots was integral to his

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Gilbert Vinter

Gilbert Vinter (4 May 1909 – 10 October 1969) was an English conductor and composer, most celebrated for his compositions for brass bands. Life Vinter was born in Lincoln. As a youth, he was a

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Gilberto Mendes

Gilberto Mendes (13 October 1922 – 1 January 2016) was a 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde composer, and one of the pioneering fathers of the company New Consonant Music. Biography Gilberto Mendes

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Gilda Lyons

Gilda Lyons (born January 11, 1975, Rhinebeck, New York) is an American composer, vocalist, and visual artist who writes music that "combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, agitprop

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Gilda Ruta

Gilda Ruta (13 October 1853 – 26 October 1932) was an Italian pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Countess Gilda Ruta Cagnazzi was born in Naples, the daughter of composer Michele Ruta

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Giles Farnaby

Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 – November 1640) was an English composer and virginalist whose music spans the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period. Life Giles Farnaby was born about 1563,

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Giles Swayne

Giles Oliver Cairnes Swayne (born 30 June 1946 in Hertfordshire) is a British composer. Biography Swayne spent much of his childhood in Liverpool, and began composing at a young age. He was educated

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Gilet Velut

Gilet Velut () was a French composer of the early Renaissance. Life and career Velut was a petit vicaire ('little vicar') at Cambrai Cathedral from 1409 through 1411. He went with Charlotte of

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Gilles Bellemare (composer)

Gilles Bellemare (born 29 March 1952, Shawinigan) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator. He has been commissioned to write music for more than 30 professional ensembles

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Gilles Binchois

Gilles de Bins dit Binchois (also Binchoys; c. 1400 – 20 September 1460) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. A central figure of the Burgundian School, Binchois is a

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Gilles Gobeil

Gilles Gobeil (born September 27, 1954) is an electroacoustic music composer from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada, and currently living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gobeil received his musical education

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Gilles Joye

Gilles Joye (1424 or 1425 – 31 December 1483) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the Burgundian school, he was known mainly for his secular songs which were in a lyrical

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Gilles Jullien

Gilles Jullien (c. 1651/165314 September 1703) was a French Baroque composer and organist. He is credited with bringing the style of French organ music then current in Paris to Chartres. Almost

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Gilles Reingot

Gilles Reingot (French: Gillequin de Bailleul; fl. 1501–1530) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, associated with the Habsburg court of Philip I of Castile. He was a close associate of

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Gilles Tremblay (composer)

Gilles Tremblay, (September 6, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was a Canadian composer and teacher. Early life and education Born in Arvida, Quebec, Tremblay studied at the conservatories of Québec in Montréal

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Gillian Bibby

Gillian Margaret Bibby (31 August 1945 – 7 August 2023) was a New Zealand composer, pianist, writer and teacher. Bibby was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand on 31 August 1945, the daughter of the

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Gillian Whitehead

Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead (born 23 April 1941) is a New Zealand composer. She is of Māori Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her Māori heritage has been an important influence on her composing. Early life

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Ginette Keller

Ginette Keller (16 May 1925 - 27 June 2010) was a French composer. Biography Keller was born in Asnières-sur-Seine. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Tony Aubin and

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Gino Marinuzzi

Gino Marinuzzi (24 March 188217 August 1945) was an Italian conductor and composer, particularly associated with the operas of Wagner and the Italian repertory. Biography Marinuzzi was born and

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Gioacchino Cocchi

Gioacchino Cocchi (circa 1712 – 11 September 1796) was a Neapolitan composer, principally of opera. Cocchi was probably born in Naples in about 1712, although his place of birth has also been given

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer and conductor of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. While he gained most of his fame for his 39

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Giorgio Antoniotto

Giorgio Antoniotto (Giorgio Antoniotto d’Adurni; 1680–1766), was an Italian musician, who is noted as the author of a musical treatise, L’arte armonica, and as an early composer of music for

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Giorgio Battistelli

Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Giorgio Battistelli was born in Albano Laziale, Italy. He studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila,

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Giorgio Federico Ghedini

Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 189225 March 1965) was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Life

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Giorgio Mainerio

Giorgio Mainerio (c. 1530s – 3 or 4 May 1582) was an Italian musician, composer, and occultist. He started his career as a presbyter and would only later start his musical career in the 1560s. Most

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Giorgio Miceli

Giorgio Miceli (21 October 1836 in Reggio Calabria – 1895, Italy) was an Italian opera composer who played mandolin and wrote music for the instrument. He was the composer for the operetta Zoe and

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Giorgio Nottoli

Giorgio Nottoli (born 1945) is an Italian composer, musician and academic. Born in Cesena in 1945 he completed his musical studies at the Conservatory "G. Rossini" in Pesaro. He studied composition

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Giorgio Pacchioni

Giorgio Pacchioni (born 16 July 1947) is an Italian performer, professor, and composer. Life He has held the chair of recorder at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna (Italy) from

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Giorgos Hatzinasios

Giorgos Hatzinasios (also spelled Hadjinasios; , ; born 19 January 1942) is a Greek songwriter and composer. Early life Hatzinasios was born in Thessaloniki. His father was Agapios Hatzinasios, a

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Gioseffo Guami

Gioseffo Guami (27 January 1542 – 1611) (Gioseffo Giuseppe Guami or Gioseffo da Lucca) was an Italian composer, organist, violinist and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was a

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Gioseffo Zarlino

Gioseffo Zarlino (31 January or 22 March 1517 – 4 February 1590) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as

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Gioseppe Caimo

Gioseppe Caimo (also Giuseppe) (c. 1545 – between September 6, 1584 and October 31, 1584) was an Italian composer and organist of the Renaissance, mainly active in Milan. He was a prolific composer

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Giovan Gualberto Brunetti

Giovan Gualberto Brunetti (Pistoia, 24 April 1706 – Pisa, 20 May 1787) was an Italian composer. Biographical Information Giovan Gualberto Brunetti studied violin with Atto Gherardeschi in Pistoia,

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Giovanna Bruna Baldacci

Giovanna Bruna Baldacci (19 November 1886 – ? after 1910) was an Italian composer, pianist and poet. She studied piano and composition at the Istituto Musicale in Florence with Francesco Cilea and

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Giovanni Alberto Ristori

Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692 – 7 February 1753) was an Italian opera composer and conductor. Born in Bologna (the son of another musician, Tommaso Ristori), he joined an opera troupe, led by his

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Giovanni Allevi

Giovanni Allevi (; born 9 April 1969) is an Italian pianist and composer. His song "O Generosa" is the current theme tune of the top flight of Italian football, Serie A. Biography Education Allevi

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Giovanni Animuccia

Giovanni Animuccia (c. lk=no – c. lk=no March 1571) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance who was involved in the heart of Rome's liturgical musical life. He was one of Giovanni Pierluigi da

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Giovanni Antiga

Giovanni Antiga (July 29, 1878 – July 11, 1960), also known as Jean Antiga, was an Italian organist and composer. He was born in Miane and he died in Nice. Career Born into a family with many

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Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi (musician)

Domenico Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624 – c. 1687) was an Italian composer and violinist. Life and works Pandolfi was born in Montepulciano in 1624, where he was baptised on 27 November, the

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Giovanni Artusi

Giovanni Maria Artusi (c. 154018 August 1613) was an Italian music theorist, composer, and writer. Artusi fiercely condemned the new musical innovations that defined the early Baroque style

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Giovanni Bassano

Giovanni Bassano (c. 1561 – 3 September 1617) was an Italian composer associated with the Venetian School of composers and a cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a key

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Giovanni Battista Agneletti

Giovanni Battista Agneletti (fl. 1656–1673) was an Italian composer. Biography Little is known about the life of Giovanni Battista Agneletti, though it is certain that he was born before 1656. Based

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Giovanni Battista Bassani

Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1650 – 1 October 1716) was an Italian composer, violinist, and organist. Biography Bassani was born in Padua. It is thought that he studied in Venice under Daniele

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Giovanni Battista Fasolo

Giovanni Battista Fasolo, O.F.M.Conv (Asti, ca. 1598 Palermo after 1664), was a Franciscan friar, organist and composer. In his middle years Fasolo was primarily known for his 1645 organ annual,

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Giovanni Battista Ferrandini

Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (c. 1710 – 25 October 1791), an Italian composer of the Baroque and Classical eras, was born in Venice, Italy and died in Munich, at the age of about 81. He was a child

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Giovanni Battista Gervasio

Giovanni Battista Gervasio (c. 1725 - c. 1785) was an Italian musician and composer. Born in Naples he was one of the first generation of virtuoso-mandolinists who left Italy and played the mandolin

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Giovanni Battista Granata

Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/16211687) was an Italian Baroque guitar player and composer. He is generally known as the most prolific guitarist of the 17th century, publishing seven books during

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Giovanni Battista Maccioni

Giovanni Battista Maccioni (floruit 1651 – 1674) was an Italian composer, librettist, and musician. His L'arpa festante (The Festive Harp), first performed in 1653, inaugurated what was to become the

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Giovanni Battista Martini

Giovanni Battista or Giambattista Martini, (24 April 1706 – 3 August 1784), also known as Padre Martini, was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar, who was a leading musician, composer, and music

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of

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Giovanni Battista Pescetti

Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 170420 March 1766) was an organist, harpsichordist, and composer known primarily for his operas and keyboard sonatas. Musicologist and University of California, Santa

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Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi

Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi (c. 1544 – 15 June 1587 in Prague) was an Italian music composer and Kapellmeister of the Italian Renaissance. Life and career Giovanni Battista Pinello was born

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Giovanni Battista Riccio

Giovanni Battista Riccio (Giambattista Riccio) (late 16th centuryafter 1621) was a musician and composer of the early Baroque era, resident in Venice, most notable for his development of instrumental

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Giovanni Battista Sammartini

Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger

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Giovanni Battista Somis

Giovanni Battista Somis (December 25, 1686 – August 14, 1763) was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque music era. He studied under Arcangelo Corelli between 1703 and 1706 or 1707. He

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Giovanni Battista Vitali

Giovanni Battista Vitali (18 February 1632 – 12 October 1692) was an Italian composer and violone player. Life and career Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region,

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Giovanni Battista Volpe

Giovanni Battista Volpe (–1691) was a Venetian composer for operas during the Baroque period. He was also known as Rovetta and Rovettino. His uncle was Giovanni Rovetta, a composer and former maestro

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Giovanni Benedetto Platti

Giovanni Benedetto Platti was born possibly 9 July 1697 (according to other sources 1690, 1692, 1700) in Padua, then belonging to Venice. He was an Italian Baroque composer and oboist. He died 11

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Giovanni Bernardino Nanino

Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (ca. 1560 – 1623) was an Italian composer, teacher and singing master of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a leading member of the Roman School of composers.

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Giovanni Bolzoni (composer)

Giovanni Bolzoni (15 May 1841 – 21 February 1919) was an Italian composer and violinist, who is known for his Minuet for String Orchestra. Life and career Born in Parma, Bolzoni studied at the Parma

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Giovanni Bononcini

Giovanni Bononcini (or Buononcini) In 1685, at the age of 15, he published three collections of instrumental works (in two of which he gave his age as 13). Final years After leaving London in 1733,

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Giovanni Bottesini

Giovanni Bottesini (22 December 1821 – 7 July 1889) was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso. Biography Born in Crema, Lombardy, he was taught the rudiments of music by

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Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani

Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (15 July 1638 Florence –about 1693 Pistoia) was an Italian composer and violinist. He worked in the court at Innsbruck as a violinist at least between 1656 and 1660.

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Giovanni Cesare Netti

Giovanni Cesare Netti (4 September 1649, in Putignano – Naples, before 31 July 1686) was an Italian composer and maestro di cappella. Works They have been cataloged by Giovanni Tribuzio (siglum TN):

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Giovanni Croce

Giovanni Croce (; also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis, Zuanne Chiozotto; 1557 – 15 May 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. He was particularly prominent as a

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Giovanni D'Anzi

Giovanni D'Anzi (1 January 1906 – 15 April 1974) was an Italian songwriter. Biography D'Anzi was born in Milan. In 1935 he wrote music and lyrics of "Oh mia bella Madonnina" ("My beautiful little

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Giovanni da Cascia

Giovanni da Cascia, also Jovannes de Cascia, Johannes de Florentia, Maestro Giovanni da Firenze, was an Italian composer of the medieval era, active in the middle of the fourteenth century. Life and

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Giovanni de Macque

Giovanni de Macque (Giovanni de Maque, Jean de Macque) (1548/1550 – September 1614) was a Netherlandish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy.

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Giovanni de' Bardi

Giovanni de' Bardi (5 February 1534 – September 1612), Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier. Biography Giovanni de' Bardi was born in Florence. While he

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Giovanni Domenico da Nola

Giovanni Domenico da Nola (also Nolla) (c. 1510–1520 – May 1592) was an Italian composer and poet of the Renaissance. He was born in the town of Nola, Italy. He was a founding member of the Accademia

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Giovanni Dragoni

Giovanni Andrea Dragoni (or Draconi, c. 1540 – December 1598) was an Italian composer of the Roman School of the late Renaissance, a student of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and a prominent

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Giovanni Felice Sances

Giovanni Felice Sances (also Sancies, Sanci, Sanes, Sanchez, c. 160024 November 1679) was an Italian singer and a Baroque composer. He was renowned in Europe during his time. Sances studied at the

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Giovanni Ferretti

Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540 – after 1609) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, best known for his secular music. He was important in the development of the lighter kind of madrigal current in

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Giovanni Fouchetti

Giovanni Fouchetti (, fl.1757-1789) published one of the earliest method books for the mandolin, c. 1771. According to Philip J. Bone, Fouchetti was also known as Fouquet, and he lived in Paris

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Giovanni Francesco Anerio

Giovanni Francesco Anerio (7 July 1569 - 11 June 1630) was an Italian composer of the Roman School, of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was the younger brother of Felice Anerio.

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Giovanni Fusco

Giovanni Fusco (10 October 1906, Sant'Agata dei Goti, Benevento – 31 May 1968, Rome) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor, who has written numerous film scores since 1936, including those

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Giovanni Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, and represents the culmination of the style of the

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Giovanni Galzerani

Giovanni Galzerani (c. 1789 - after 1853) was an Italian choreographer, ballet dancer, and composer who was active in major theatres throughout Italy from 1808 to 1853. He was born in Porto Azzurro

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Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554 – 4 January 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He is known for his 1591 publication of balletti for five voices.

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Giovanni Giorgi (composer)

Giovanni Giorgi (late 17th or early 18th century – June 1762 ) (Latin: Joannis de Georgiis) was a priest and an Italian composer. His style of polychoral church compositions are influenced by earlier

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Giovanni Gioviale

Giovanni Gioviale (November 1885 – June 11, 1949) was an Italian composer and musician. He is considered one of the greatest mandolin virtuosos of all time. He also played guitar and banjo, and at

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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger

Johannes Hieronymus von Kapsberger, commonly known by his Italian name: Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, (also: Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger, Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger; possibly Venice, c. 1580 –

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Giovanni Henrico Albicastro

Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (c. 1660 – 26 January 1730), known as Giovanni Henrico Albicastro, was an amateur musician and composer of the Baroque era. Biography Albicastro came from

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Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent

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Giovanni Lindo Ferretti

Giovanni Lindo Ferretti (born 9 September 1953) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and author. He is considered to be one of the founders of Italian punk rock music. Biography Lindo Ferretti

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Giovanni Luca Conforti

Giovanni Luca Conforti (1560 – May 11, 1608) was an Italian composer and prominent falsetto singer who wrote an exercise book about Baroque embellishments, Breve et facile maniera d'essercitarsi ad

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Giovanni Marco Rutini

Giovanni Marco Rutini (25 April 1723 – 22 December 1797) was an Italian composer. He is most known for his sonatas which influenced Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn. Biography He was born in

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Giovanni Maria Nanino

Giovanni Maria Nanino (also Nanini; 1543 or 1544 – 11 March 1607) was an Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composers, and was the most

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Giovanni Maria Ruggieri

Giovanni Maria Ruggieri or Ruggeri was a Baroque composer from Italy. His dates of birth and death are uncertain, but he may have been born about 1665 in Verona and died around 1725. He is known to

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Giovanni Maria Trabaci

Giovanni Maria Trabaci (ca. 1575 – 31 December 1647) was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 publications; he was

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Giovanni Morandi (composer)

Giovanni Morandi (12 May 1777 – 23 November 1856) was an Italian organist and composer of the late Classical era and the early Romantic era. Life Morandi was born in Pergola (1777), and died in

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Giovanni Moretti (composer)

Giovanni Moretti (1807 – 1884) was an Italian composer and conductor active in Naples. He was primarily known for his operas, although he also composed numerous pieces of chamber music, sacred music,

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Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini (11 February 17966 December 1867) was an Italian composer from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He is best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son

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Giovanni Paisiello

Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced

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Giovanni Paolo Caprioli

Giovanni Paolo Caprioli (c. 1580c. 1627) was an Italian priest, abbate in Candiana, and composer. Life and career Caprioli was born in Brescia in 1571 ca. and died January 1630 in the convent of St.

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Giovanni Paolo Colonna

Giovanni Paolo Colonna (16 June 1637 – 28 November 1695) was an Italian composer, teacher, organist and organ builder. In addition to being chapel-master and organist of San Petronio Basilica in

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Giovanni Paolo Foscarini

Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (fl. 1600 – 1647) was an Italian guitarist, lutenist, theorist and composer. A note at the end of the list of contents in his earliest surviving guitar book Intavolatura di

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Giovanni Picchi

Giovanni Picchi (1571 or 1572 – 17 May 1643) was an Italian composer, organist, lutenist, and harpsichordist of the early Baroque era. He was a late follower of the Venetian School, and was

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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School,

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Giovanni Priuli

Giovanni Priuli (or Prioli, ca. 1575–1626) was a Venetian composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A late member of the Venetian School, and a contemporary of Claudio

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Giovanni Punto

Jan Václav Stich, better known as Giovanni Punto (28 September 1746 in Žehušice – 16 February 1803 in Prague) was a horn player from Bohemia and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows

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Giovanni Ricordi

Giovanni Ricordi (3 March 1785 – 15 March 1853) was an Italian violinist and the founder of the classical music publishing company Casa Ricordi. The musicologist Philip Gossett described him as "a

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Giovanni Schmidt

Giovanni Schmidt (c. 1775 in Livorno – c. after 1839 in Naples) was an Italian librettist. Life He moved to Naples while he was still young and stayed there for the rest of his life. Between 1800 and

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Giovanni Sgambati

Giovanni Sgambati (28 May 1841 – 14 December 1914) was an Italian pianist and composer. Biography Born in Rome, to an Italian father and an English mother, Sgambati, who lost his father early,

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Giovanni Sollima

Giovanni Sollima (born 24 October 1962 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy) is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition

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Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli

Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli (c. 9 March 1690/1691, Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany – 1772, London), after 1734 Anglicised to John Stephen Carbonell, was an Italian-born British composer and

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Giovanni Tadolini

Giovanni Tadolini (18 October 1789 – 29 November 1872) was an Italian composer, conductor and singing instructor, who enjoyed a career that alternated between Bologna and Paris. Tadolini is probably

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Giovanni Valentini

Giovanni Valentini (ca. 1582 – 29/30 April 1649) was an Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso. Overshadowed by his contemporaries, Claudio Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz, Valentini is

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Giraut de Bornelh

Giraut de Bornelh (; c. 1138 – 1215), whose first name is also spelled Guiraut and whose toponym is de Borneil or de Borneyll, was a troubadour connected to the castle of the viscount of Limoges. He

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Girolamo Abos

Girolamo Abos, last name also given Avos or d'Avossa and baptized Geronimo Abos (16 November 1715 – May 1760), was a Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music. Born in Valletta, Malta,

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Girolamo Bacchini

Giovanni Maria Bacchini (also known as Teodoro del Carmine and "Bacchino") was an Italian castrato, composer, writer on music, and Roman Catholic priest who flourished during the late 16th century

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Girolamo Belli

Girolamo Belli (1552 – c. 1620) was an Italian composer and music teacher of the late Renaissance. He was closely associated with the Ferrara School in the 1580s, having previously studied with

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Girolamo Cavazzoni

Girolamo (Hieronimo) Cavazzoni (c. 1525 – after 1577) was an Italian organist and composer, son of Marco Antonio Cavazzoni. Little is known about his life except that he worked at Venice and Mantua,

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Girolamo Conversi

Girolamo Conversi (fl. 1572–1575) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. His music, which was popular from the 1570s through the 1590s, was noted for its combination of the light canzone

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Girolamo Dalla Casa

Girolamo Dalla Casa, also known as Girolamo da Udine and Hieronymo de Udene, was an Italian composer, instrumentalist, and writer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Venetian School, and

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Girolamo Diruta

Girolamo Diruta (c. 1546 – 1624 or 1625) was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher, for his treatise Il Transilvano (Venice, 1st part 1593; 2nd part 1609-10 )

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Girolamo Frescobaldi

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (; also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September 15831 March 1643) was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he

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Girolamo Montesardo

Girolamo Montesardo (fl. 1606 – c. 1620) was an Italian singer and composer. Life Although his surname was actually Melcarne, he was referred to by his home town Montesardo, a small town in the

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Girolamo Scotto

Girolamo Scotto (Hieronymus Scotus; also Gerolamo) (c.1505 – 3 September 1572 ) was an Italian printer, composer, businessman and bookseller of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. He was the

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Gisbert Steenwick

Gisbert Steenwick (also Gijsbert) (baptized 6 January 1642 – buried 20 August 1679) was a Dutch composer, organist, and carillonneur. He was born in Arnhem, where already at 21 he was a member of the

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Gisela Hernández

Gisela Hernández Gonzalo (1912−1971) was a Cuban composer. Aware of political necessity, she established ties with the Castro government in return for recognition of her activities as a music teacher

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Giselher Klebe

Giselher Wolfgang Klebe (28 June 19255 October 2009) was a German composer, and an academic teacher. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, all based on literary works, eight

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Gisella Selden-Goth

Gisella Selden-Goth (6 June 1884 – 5 September 1975) was a Hungarian author, composer and musicologist who became an American citizen in 1939. She composed at least four string quartets and donated

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Gisle Kverndokk

Gisle Kverndokk (born 3 February 1967 in Trondheim, raised in Skien) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Education In his teens, Kverndokk studied composition with Ragnar Søderlind. After having

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Gitta Steiner

Gitta Hana Steiner (April 17, 1932 – January 1, 1990) was a Czech-American composer and pianist who is best known for her works for percussion instruments. Steiner was born in Prague to Erna Bondy

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Gity Razaz

Gity Razaz is an American composer of Iranian origin. She has written music for symphony orchestra, opera, ballet, chamber ensemble, and solo instrumentalist, as well as pieces with multimedia and

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Giulia Recli

Giulia Recli (1890 – 19 December 1970) was an Italian composer and essayist. She won first and second prizes at musical competitions in New York, and her works Chimes at Sunrise and Nicolette

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Giuliano Taviani

Giuliano Taviani (born 1969) is an Italian composer. Life and career Born in Rome, Taviani is the son of the director and screenwriter Vittorio. He started studying jazz, singing, and guitar at the

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Giulio Aldinucci

Giulio Aldinucci (born 1981 in Siena) is an Italian composer working primarily in the field of experimental electroacoustic music. His practice encompasses composition, soundscape composition, and

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Giulio Belli

Giulio Belli (c. 1560 – 1621 or later) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a prolific composer during the transitional time between the two musical eras,

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Giulio Briccialdi

Giulio Briccialdi (1/2 March 1818 – 17 December 1881) was an Italian virtuoso flautist and composer, a technical innovator on his instrument and a professor of music. Briccialdi was born in Terni. He

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Giulio Caccini

Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque

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Giulio Castagnoli

Giulio Castagnoli (born 22 November 1958) is an Italian composer. Life and career Giulio Castagnoli was born 22 November 1958 in Rome. Castagnoli, great-grandson of the Florentine composer and

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Giulio Cesare Martinengo

Giulio Cesare Martinengo (; – 10 July 1613) was an Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance and early Baroque Venetian School. He was the predecessor to Claudio Monteverdi at San Marco.

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Giulio Confalonieri

Giulio Confalonieri (23 May 1896 - 29 June 1972) was an Italian musician, musicologist, composer and musical critic. Born in Milan, Confalonieri graduated in letters at the and in piano at the

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Giulio Fiesco

Giulio Fiesco (possibly born ?1519, fl. 1550–1570) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, active in Ferrara, known for his madrigals. He was the first composer to set the poetry of Giovanni

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Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (also Bressonelli; ca. 1690, Bologna, Papal States – 4 October 1758, Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Brescianello's name

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Giuseppe Baini

Abbate Giuseppe Baini (21 October 1775 – 21 May 1844) was an Italian priest, music critic, conductor, and composer of church music. He was born in Rome. He was instructed in composition by his uncle,

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Giuseppe Balducci (composer)

Giuseppe Balducci (2 May 1796 – 1845) was an Italian composer, primarily of operas. Born in Iesi, he spent most of his career in Naples and was one of the originators of the "salon opera" genre, the

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Giuseppe Becce

Giuseppe Becce (3 February 1877 – 5 October 1973) was an Italian-born film score composer who enriched the German cinema. Biography Becce was born in Lonigo, province of Vicenza, Italy. He showed his

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Giuseppe Bellenghi

Giuseppe Bellenghi (1847 in Bologna – 17 October 1902 in Florence) was a virtuoso violoncellist and mandolinist, and composer. He was remembered in 1914 as "a devoted champion of the mandolin."

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Giuseppe Bertini (composer)

Giuseppe Bertini (January 20, 1759 – March 15, 1852) was an Italian composer, choral conductor, lexicographer, scholar, and Roman Catholic priest.

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Giuseppe Bonno

Giuseppe Bonno (29 January 1711 – 15 April 1788) was an Austrian composer of Italian origin. (His name is sometimes given as Josef or Josephus Johannes Baptizta Bon.) The son of a footman from

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Giuseppe Branzoli

Giuseppe Branzoli (1835 in Cento – 21 January 1909, in Rome) was a violinist, mandolinist, composer, author, educator at the Liceo Musicale di St. Cecilia in Rome, and the founder of the periodical

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Giuseppe Buonamici

Giuseppe Buonamici (19 February 1846 – 18 March 1914) was an Italian composer, pianist and musicologist. Life Grandson of the opera singer Ferdinando Ceccherini, Buonamici was born in Florence. He

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Giuseppe Cambini

Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini (Montelupo Fiorentino, 8 april 1746Netherlands? 1810s? or Paris? 1825?) was an Italian composer and violinist. Life Unconfirmed information Information about his

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Giuseppe Ceccherini

Giuseppe Ceccherini (24 November 1829 – 2 November 1899) was an Italian composer and singing teacher. He was born in Florence, the son of Ferdinando Ceccherini (1792–1858), a noted tenor, composer,

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Giuseppe Concone

Giuseppe Concone (September 12, 1801 - June 1, 1861 Turin) was an Italian voice teacher and composer. Life and career Giuseppe Concone was born in Turin, Italy on September 12, 1801. He had a brief

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Giuseppe Corsi

Giuseppe Corsi Evangelisti (Vangelisti) (1631/1632 in County of Celano – after 10 March 1691 in Ancona or Modena) better known as Gioseppe Corso Celani or Giuseppe Corsi da Celano, was an Italian

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Giuseppe Creatore

Giuseppe Creatore (), called the Great Creatore, was an Italian bandmaster in Italy and the United States. He was born in Naples, Italy, on June 21, 1871, and died in New York City on August 15,

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Giuseppe Di Bianco

Giuseppe Di Bianco (born 17 October 1969) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, mainly of choral music. Biography Education Giuseppe Di Bianco holds degrees in Piano, Composition, Choral

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Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio

Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio (c. 1700, Milan – c. 1758, Milan) was an Italian composer, conductor, violinist, and singing teacher who is chiefly known for his operas. His work displays a natural

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Giuseppe Ferrata

Giuseppe Ferrata (1865–1928) was an Italian-American pianist, composer, and university professor. He was a student of Giovanni Sgambati and Franz Liszt at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

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Giuseppe Gazzaniga

Giuseppe Gazzaniga (5 October 1743 – 1 February 1818) was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers. He composed fifty-one operas, particularly opera buffa. Biography Born in Verona,

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Giuseppe Gherardeschi

Giuseppe Gherardeschi (3 November 1759 - 6 August 1815) was an Italian organist and composer. He was born and died in Pistoia. He began to study music with his father Domenico, who was the maestro di

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Giuseppe Lillo

Giuseppe Lillo (26 February 1814 - 4 February 1863) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas which followed in the same vein of Gioachino Rossini. He also produced works for solo

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Giuseppe Maria Orlandini

Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (4 April 167624 October 1760) was an Italian baroque composer particularly known for his more than 40 operas and intermezzos. Highly regarded by music historians of his day

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Giuseppe Martucci

Giuseppe Martucci (; 6 January 1856, in Capua – 1 June 1909, in Naples) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. Sometimes called "the Italian Brahms", Martucci was notable among

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Giuseppe Mulè

Giuseppe Mulè (28 June 1885, Termini Imerese - 10 September 1951, Rome) was an Italian composer and conductor. His output includes numerous symphonic works and chamber works, incidental music for the

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Giuseppe Nicolini (composer)

Giuseppe Nicolini (or Niccolini; 29 January 1762 – 18 December 1842) was an Italian composer who wrote at least 45 operas. From 1819 onwards, he devoted himself primarily to religious music. He was

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Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (Rieti, 18 March 1657 – Rome, Papal States, 1 February 1743) was an Italian organist and composer. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era,

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Giuseppe Paolucci

Giuseppe Paoloucci (May 25, 1726 – April 24, 1776) was an Italian composer, conductor and organist of Baroque music. Life and work Giuseppe Paolucci was the only son of Domenico di Giuseppe and Anna

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Giuseppe Persiani

Giuseppe Persiani (11 September 1799 – 13 August 1869) was an Italian opera composer. Persiani was born in Recanati. He wrote his first opera - one of 11 - in 1826 but, after his marriage to the

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Giuseppe Pietri

Giuseppe Pietri (Sant'Ilario, frazione of Marina di Campo, comune of Campo nell'Elba, 6 May 1886 – Milan, 11 August 1946) was an Italian composer, known primarily for his work in operetta. Excerpts

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Giuseppe Puzone

Giuseppe Puzone (12 February 1820 – 17 October 1914) was an Italian opera composer and conductor active in Naples, the city of his birth. He was for many years the principal conductor of the Teatro

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Giuseppe Sammartini

Giuseppe Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre Baldassare Sammartini (also Gioseffo, S Martini, St Martini, San Martini, San Martino, Martini, Martino; 6 January 1695 – between 17 and 23 November 1750) was an

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Giuseppe Santarelli

Giuseppe Santarelli (1710–1790) was an Italian castrato, composer, choir conductor, voice teacher, and Roman Catholic priest. He was named a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Life and

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Giuseppe Scarlatti

Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718 or 18 June 1723, Naples – 17 August 1777, Vienna) was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe. He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa,

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Giuseppe Tartini

Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia). Tartini was a prolific

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Giuseppe Torelli

Giuseppe Torelli (22 April 1658 Verona – 8 February 1709) was an Italian violinist, teacher and composer of the middle Baroque era. Brother of the painter Felice Torelli, he is most remembered for

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Giuseppe Truda

Giuseppe Antonio Truda (5 July 1869 – January 1904) was an Italian-born Australian composer. He trained as a musician since childhood, and he started his professional career in London at the age of

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Giuseppe Valentini

Giuseppe Valentini (14 December 1681 – November 1753), nicknamed Straccioncino (Little Ragamuffin), was an Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer, though he is known chiefly as a composer of

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( ; ; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the modern province of

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Giusto Fernando Tenducci

Giusto Fernando Tenducci, sometimes called "il Senesino" (c.1735 Castration was illegal in both church and civil law, but the Roman Church employed castrati in many churches and in the Vatican until

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Giya Kancheli

Gia Kancheli (; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and resided in Belgium in later life. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991,

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