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Composers whose names start with GO.

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Go Ichinose

Go Ichinose (一之瀬 剛, Ichinose Gō) is a Japanese composer who works for the video game development company Game Freak. He is best known for composing for the Pokémon series. Early life and education

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21st Century

Go Sakabe

is a Japanese composer and arranger. He has provided the music for several anime series, such as Date A Live and Digimon Adventure tri., as well as television dramas and movies—especially tokusatsu—,

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20th Century

Godfrey Ridout

Godfrey Ridout (6 May 1918 in Toronto – 24 November 1984 in Toronto) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and writer. Life and career Ridout was a descendant of Thomas Ridout, the

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20th Century

Godfrey Sampson

Godfrey Sampson (1 June 1902 – 21 June 1949) was an English composer and organist, best remembered for his church and choral music. Sampson was born in Gloucester, the son of a clergyman, In 1932 he

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Medieval

Godric of Finchale

Godric of Finchale (or St Goderic) (c. 1065-1070 – 21 May 1170) was an English hermit, merchant and popular medieval saint, although he was never formally canonised. He was born in Walpole in Norfolk

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Post-War

Goff Richards

Goff Richards (18 August 1944 – 25 June 2011), sometimes credited as Godfrey Richards, was a prominent Cornish brass band arranger and composer. He was born in Cornwall, He was also a prolific

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20th Century

Goffredo Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi (16 July 1904 – 3 March 2003) was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the

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Gon Halevi

Gon Halevi () is an Israeli musician, pianist, composer, opera singer, and conductor. His work often merges classical and modern musical styles, and is known for his orchestral interpretations of

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Gontier de Soignies

Gontier de Soignies was a medieval trouvère and composer who was active from around 1180 to 1220. Biography Gontier was from the region of Soignies in the County of Hainaut, a region that was then a

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20th Century

Gonzalo Brenes

Gonzalo Brenes Candanedo (May 18, 1907 – January 5, 2003) was a Panamanian composer, musicologist, civil servant, politician and educator. He was known for his work collecting and publishing

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Post-War

Gonzalo de Olavide

Gonzalo de Olavide y Casenave (28 March 1934 – 4 November 2005) was a Spanish composer born in Madrid. Olavide studied composition initially with Victorino Echevarría at the Conservatorio Superior de

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21st Century

Goran Vejvoda

Goran Vejvoda (; born in 1956 ) is an English-born Serbian composer, sound and visual artist, performance artist, photographer, writer and actor based in France. Early life Son of the Yugoslav

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20th Century

Gordon Delamont

Gordon Arthur Delamont (27 October 1918 – 16 January 1981) was a Canadian music educator, author, composer, and trumpeter. He is best remembered for his work as an educator, having helped shape the

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21st Century

Gordon Fitzell

Gordon Fitzell (born 1968) is a composer, concert organizer, and professor of music. His catalog consists of solo, chamber, and electroacoustic music, including open and improvisatory works.

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20th Century

Gordon Jacob

Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and

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21st Century

Gordon Kampe

Gordon Kampe (born 10 September 1976) In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Kampe is notably interested in the

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21st Century

Gordon Kerry

Gordon Kerry (born 1961) is an Australian composer, music administrator, music writer and music critic. Career Kerry studied composition at the University of Melbourne under Barry Conyngham. He then

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Post-War

Gordon Langford

Gordon Langford (11 May 1930 – 18 April 2017) was an English composer, arranger and performer. He is well known for his brass band compositions and arrangements. He was also a composer of choral and

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21st Century

Gordon McPherson

Gordon McPherson (born 1965) is a Scottish composer. McPherson was born in Dundee. He studied at the University of York, England, returning there for his doctorate, continuing with post-doctoral

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21st Century

Gordon Monahan

Gordon Monahan (born 1956 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian pianist and composer of experimental music. He has been active since at least 1978. Along with his own work, he has performed works by

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Post-War

Gordon Mumma

Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer. He is known most for his work with electronics, many devices of which he builds himself, and for his

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Romantic

Gordon Saunders

Joseph Gordon Saunders MusD (183717 January 1912) was a composer of songs, church music and organ music. He was also a teacher of composition, piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Trinity College

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Post-War

Gordon Sherwood

Gordon Sherwood (August 25, 1929 – May 2, 2013) was an American classical composer. Known in Germany as the "Beggar-Composer", his works exhibit various early 20th-century European and American

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Gormonda de Monpeslier

Na Gormonda de Monpeslier or Montpelher (fl. 1226–1229) was a trobairitz from Montpellier in Languedoc. Her lone surviving work, a sirventes, has been called "the first French political poem by a

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Post-War

Gösta Neuwirth

Gösta Neuwirth (; born 6 January 1937) is an Austrian musicologist, composer and academic teacher. He studied in Vienna and Berlin, where he wrote a dissertation on harmony in Franz Schreker's Der

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20th Century

Gösta Nystroem

Gösta Nystroem (13 October 1890 – 9 August 1966) was a Swedish composer. Life and career Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent

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Classical

Gottfried August Homilius

Gottfried August Homilius (2 February 1714 – 2 June 1785) was a German composer, cantor and organist. He is considered one of the most important church composers of the generation following Bach's,

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Baroque

Gottfried Finger

Gottfried Finger (c. 1655-56 – 31 August 1730), also Godfrey Finger, was a Moravian-German Baroque Kapellmeister and composer. He was also a virtuoso on the viol, and many of his compositions were

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Post-War

Gottfried Glöckner

Gottfried Glöckner (born 24 June 1937) is a German composer, choral conductor and music educator. Life Born in Chemnitz, Glöckner attended the Zwickau Conservatory. Afterwards he worked as a music

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Baroque

Gottfried Grünewald

Gottfried Grünewald (also Grunewald; baptised 15 October 1673 – 19 December 1739) was a German operatic bass, harpsichordist, pantaleon virtuoso and composer. Life Grünewald was baptised in

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Baroque

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (13 January 1690 – 27 November 1749) was a German composer of the Baroque era. Biography Early life Stölzel was born in Grünstädtel in the Electorate of Saxony on 13

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20th Century

Gottfried Huppertz

Gottfried Huppertz (11 March 1887 – 7 February 1937) was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films such as the science fiction epic Metropolis

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Late Romantic

Gottfried Mann

Johann Gottfried (Godfried) Henrik Mann (The Hague, 15 July 1858 – Rosmalen, 10 February 1904) was a Dutch composer, conductor, and musician, who, despite being prodigious and producing over 100

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Post-War

Gottfried Michael Koenig

Gottfried Michael Koenig (5 October 1926 – 30 December 2021) was a German-Dutch composer. Biography Born in Magdeburg, Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig at the , followed by musical

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20th Century

Gottfried Müller (composer)

Joachim Gottfried Müller (born 8 June 1914 in Dresden; died 3 May 1993 in Nuremberg) was a German composer, cantor, and organist. Life He was the son of theologian Adolf Müller (de:Adolf Müller) . He

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Baroque

Gottfried Pestel

Gottfried Ernst Pestel originally Bestel (Berka 1654-1732) was a German composer and organist at Weida, Thuringia and Altenburg south of Leipzig. He was princely organist in the castle church from

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Baroque

Gottfried Reiche

Gottfried Reiche (; 5 February 1667 6 October 1734) was a German trumpet player and composer of the Baroque era. Reiche is best known for having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at

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Classical

Gottfried Rieger

Gottfried Rieger (1 May 1764 – 13 October 1855) was a Czech-German composer, conductor and teacher. He lived for many years at Brno in what is today the Czech Republic. Life Rieger was born on 1 May

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20th Century

Gottfried von Einem

Gottfried von Einem (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also

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Early Romantic

Gottfried Weber

Jacob Gottfried Weber (1 March 1779 – 21 September 1839) was a German writer on music (especially on music theory), composer, and jurist. Biography Weber was born at Freinsheim. From 1824 to 1839, he

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Early Romantic

Gottfried Wilhelm Fink

Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (8 March 1783 – 27 August 1846) was a German composer, music theorist, poet, and a Protestant clergyman. Life From 1804 until 1808 Fink studied theology at the University of

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20th Century

Gottfried Wolters

Gottfried Wolters (8 April 1910 – 25 June 1989) was a German choral conductor and composer. Life Wolters was born in Emmerich am Rhein. He began studying music at the University of Cologne, but did

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Classical

Gottlieb Graupner

__NOTOC__ Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner (6 October 1767 – 16 April 1836) was a musician, composer, conductor, educator and publisher. Born in Hanover, Germany, he played oboe in Joseph Haydn's

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Baroque

Gottlieb Muffat

Gottlieb Muffat (25 April 1690 – 9 December 1770), son of Georg Muffat, served as Hofscholar under Johann Fux in Vienna from 1711 and was appointed to the position of third court organist at the

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Early Romantic

Gottlob Benedict Bierey

Gottlob Benedict Bierey (25 July 1772 – 5 May 1840) was a German composer, Kapellmeister and Theatre tenant. Life Born in Dresden, Bierey was a pupil of Christian Ehregott Weinlig. As soon as 1788,

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Baroque

Gottlob Harrer

Johann Gottlob Harrer, more commonly known as Gottlob Harrer, (8 May 1703 – 9 July 1755) was a German composer and choir leader. From 1731-1750 he worked as private musician to Count Heinrich von

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Goyescas (opera)

Goyescas is an opera in one act and three tableaux, written in 1915 by the Spanish composer Enrique Granados. Granados composed the opera to a Spanish libretto by Fernando Periquet y Zuaznabar with

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