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Grace Adele Freebey

Grace Adele Freebey (January 25, 1885 – March 30, 1943) was an American pianist, music teacher and composer. Early life and education Freebey was born on January 25 1885, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, to

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Grace Leboy

Grace Leboy Kahn (September 22, 1890 – May 24, 1983) was an American composer. A prolific songwriter, among her best known works are "I Wish I Had A Girl" (1908) and selections from the Jumping

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Grace Walls Linn

Grace Walls Linn Sandy (3 August 1874 – 31 August 1940) was a ragtime composer and organist. The National Spiritualist Association of Churches made one of her compositions its official song. She

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Grace Williams

Grace Mary Williams (19 February 1906 – 10 February 1977) was a Welsh composer, generally regarded as Wales's most notable female composer, and the first British woman to score a feature film. Early

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Grace-Evangeline Mason

Grace-Evangeline Mason (born October 1994) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Mason studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music,

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Gracia Baptista

Gracia Baptista (fl. 1557?) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and composer who lived in Ávila. Her setting of Conditor alme, published in 1557 in the Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, Arpa y Vihuela of

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Graciane Finzi

Graciane Finzi (born 10 July 1945) is a Morocco-born French composer. Life Graciane Finzi was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and studied music at the Casablanca Conservatory, then managed by Georges

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Graciela Agudelo

Graciela Agudelo (December 7, 1945 – April 19, 2018) was a Mexican pianist and composer. Life and career Graciela Agudelo studied piano at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and composition

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Graciela Castillo

Graciela Castillo (born 1940) is an Argentine electroacoustic composer. Life and career Graciela Castillo was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She was educated in her native city at the Conservsatorio de

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Graciela Olmos

Marina Aedo (December 10, 1895 - May 31, 1962) was a singer-songwriter, soldier, alcohol trafficker, prostitute, pimp, and businesswomen, born in Casas Grandes, Mexico. While her birth name was

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Graciela Paraskevaidis

Graciela Paraskevaidis (1 April 1940 – 21 February 2017) was an Argentine writer and composer of Greek ancestry who lived and worked in Uruguay. Life Graciela Paraskevaidis was born in Buenos Aires.

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Graeme Koehne

Graeme John Koehne (born 3 August 1956), is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and

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Graeme Revell

Graeme Revell is a New Zealand musician and composer. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the leader of the industrial rock/electronic rock group SPK. Since the 1990s he has worked primarily as a

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Graham Fitkin

Graham Fitkin (born 19 April 1963) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. His compositions fall broadly into the minimalist and postminimalist genres. Described by The Independent in 1998 as

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Graham George

Graham Elias George (11 April 1912 – 9 December 1993) was a Canadian composer, music theorist, organist, choir conductor, and music educator of English birth. An associate of the Canadian Music

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Graham Peel

Gerald Graham Peel (1877 – November 1937) was an English composer. Life Graham Peel's father was Gerald Peel, a millionaire Lancashire cotton spinner and magistrate of Pendlebury, near Manchester,

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Graham Reilly

Graham Reilly is a British composer, known for composing television music in the UK, Europe and US. Based in his HQ Studio, Reilly has scored the music to over 1000 hours of prime time TV and Film

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Graham Tardif

Graham Tardif (born 1957) is an Australian screen music composer. He is the composer on ten feature films directed and written by Rolf de Heer. Their most acclaimed collaboration, The Tracker (2002),

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Graham Waterhouse

Graham Waterhouse (born 2 November 1962) is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music. He has composed a cello concerto, Three Pieces for Solo Cello and Variations for Cello

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Gráinne Mulvey

Gráinne Mulvey (born 10 March 1966) is an Irish composer. Biography Mulvey was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, and studied with Eric Sweeney at Waterford Regional Technical College,

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Grant Foster

Grant Foster (born 1945) is an Australian composer, pianist, teacher and novelist. He was the co-founder and inaugural artistic director of the Southern Highlands International Piano Competition. His

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Grant Kirkhope

Grant Kirkhope (born 10 July 1962) is a Scottish composer and voice actor for video games and film. Some of his notable works include GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, and Perfect Dark,

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Granville Bantock

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music. Biography Granville Ransome Bantock was born on 7 August 1868 in London. His father was an

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Grayston Ives

Charles John Grayston Ives (born 1948), also known as Bill Ives, is a British composer, singer and choral director. Education and career Ives was a chorister at Ely Cathedral and later studied music

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Graziella Concas

Graziella Concas (born 7 January 1970) is an Italian pianist and composer. Biography and career She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca

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Grażyna Auguścik

Grażyna Auguścik (born 17 August 1955) is a Polish jazz vocalist, composer, and arranger. She frequently uses Polish folk music, In 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006 she was named Best Jazz Vocalist by the

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Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil

Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (born 16 July 1947) is a Polish composer and music educator. Life Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil was born in Wrocław, Poland. She studied composition at the State School of

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Gréco Casadesus

Gréco Casadesus (born 13 August 1951) is a French composer who composes film scores. Born in Paris to a large family of artists (musicians, conductors, performers, actors, composers, painters, and

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Greg Kuehn

Gregory Russell Kuehn is an American composer, songwriter, musician and producer. Career As a performing musician Kuehn's career began in Orange County's early punk scene, when he left his classical

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Greg Morrison

Greg Morrison is a Canadian composer and writer best known for his work on the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone, written with songwriting partner, Lisa Lambert. The Drowsy Chaperone

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Greg Schiemer

Gregory Marcellus Schiemer (born 16 January 1949 in Dunedoo) is an Australian electronic music composer, instrument builder and teacher. His artistic preoccupations include creative engagement with

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Gregers Brinch

Gregers Brinch (born 2 June 1964) is a Danish composer. Biography Gregers Brinch was born in Esbjerg, Denmark. He was drawn to become a composer upon watching the film Amadeus by Miloš Forman and

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Gregor Aichinger

Gregor Aichinger (1564 or 1565 – night of 20/21 January 1628) was a German composer. Karl Proske, in the preface to vol. 2 of his Musica Divina, calls him a priest of Regensburg, and praises him for

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Gregor Mayrhofer

Gregor Amadeus Mayrhofer (born 1987) is a German conductor, pianist and composer. Life and career Mayrhofer was born in Munich in 1987 and grew up in Wolfratshausen; his parents were both musicians,

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Gregor Werner

Gregor Joseph Werner (28 January 1693 – 3 March 1766 ) was an Austrian composer of the Baroque period, best known as the predecessor of Joseph Haydn as the Kapellmeister of the Hungarian Esterházy

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Gregoria Karides Suchy

Gregoria Karides Suchy (November 14, 1923 – October 3, 2018) was an American composer and educator. Her music uses electroacoustic and Greek musical elements. Biography Karides Suchy was the daughter

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Gregorio Allegri

Gregorio Allegri (c. 14 January 158217 February 1652) was an Italian Catholic priest and composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born and died in

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Gregory Alchevsky

Gregory Alchevsky (Ukrainian: Алчевський Григорій Олексійович; 1866–1920) was a Ukrainian composer. Alchevsky was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, the son of the wealthy

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Gregory Rose (musician)

Peter Gregory Rose (born 18 April 1948) is a conductor, composer, arranger, and music director. He has conducted orchestral, choral and ensemble premieres throughout Europe and the Far East. Musical

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Gregory Short

Gregory Norman Short (August 14, 1938 – April 1, 1999) was a composer, educator, and performer. He was born in Toppenish, Washington, the largest city in the Yakima Indian Reservation. Later, he

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Gregory Spears

Gregory Spears is an American composer of instrumental and operatic works that blend aspects of romanticism, minimalism, and early music. Among his best known works are the operas Fellow Travelers

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Gregory Vajda

Gregory Vajda (born Gergely Vajda; August 13, 1973) is a Hungarian clarinetist, composer and conductor. Early life and education He was born in Budapest in 1973 to bassoonist József Vajda (1947-2016)

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Gregory Wanamaker

Gregory Wanamaker (born 1968) is an American composer, musician, and professor of music composition and theory. Education He studied at Shenandoah University from 1987 to 1991, where he received a

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Grete Hinterhofer

Grete Hinterhofer (18 July 1899 – 27 June 1985) was an Austrian pianist, music teacher and composer. Life Hinterhofer was born in Wels. Her father was a teacher, and her mother was a piano teacher

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Grete von Zieritz

Grete von Zieritz (10 March 1899 – 26 November 2001) was an Austrian-German composer and pianist. She studied with Martin Krause, a student of Franz Liszt, Franz Schreker and Rudolf Maria Breithaupt.

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Grietje Terburg Rowley

Elizabeth Grietje Terburg Rowley (1927–2015) was a Latter-day Saint hymnwriter. Born in Florida, she later moved to Hawaii, to teach, and then to Salt Lake City, Utah. She wrote several hymns for the

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Grigor Palikarov

Grigor Palikarov (born 1971) is a Bulgarian conductor, composer, pianist and music educator. Early life Grigor Palikarov was born in 1971 in Plovdiv. He graduated at the Pancho Vladigerov National

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Grigor Yeghiazaryan

Grigor Yeghiazaryan (), also known as Grigory Ilyich (Yegiayevich) Yegiazaryan (; December 21, 1908 − November 4, 1988), was a Soviet Armenian composer. After a childhood spent amidst the Armenian

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Grigori Gamburg

Grigori (German) Semyonovich Gamburg (; also Grigorij Gamburg, Grigory Semenovich Hamburg; 22 October 1900 in Warsaw, Vistula Land, Russian Empire – 28 October 1967 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a

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Grigoriy Korchmar

Grigoriy Korchmar (, Grigorij Ovšievič Korčmar; alternately translated Grigori or Grigory) (1947 – 17 November 2025) was a Russian composer and pianist. Although little-known outside his native

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Grigory Frid

Grigory Samuilovich Frid, also known as Grigori Fried (, 22 September N.S. 1915 – 22 September 2012), was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera. Early

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Grigory Kompaneyets

Grigory Isaakovich Kompaneyets (Ukrainian: Григорій Ісакович Компані́єць, Russian: Григорий Исаакович Компанеец) (1881–1959) was an internationally recognized composer, choir conductor, and educator.

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Grikor Suni

Grikor Mirzaian Suni (; originally Grikor Mirzaian, also Grigor; September 10, 1876 – December 18, 1939) was an Armenian composer and choirmaster. In his hometown of Shushi, Suni became famous for

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Grimace (composer)

Grimace (; ; also Grymace, Grimache or Magister Grimache) was a French composer-poet in the style of late medieval music. Virtually nothing is known about Grimace's life other than speculative

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Grupo de los cuatro

(Group of the Four) is the name adopted by a group of four young Mexican composers in 1935, who organized together with the aim of propagating new music, particularly their own. History Carlos

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Grupo renovación

The Grupo Renovación was an Argentine composers' association founded in 1929 to promote modern music. The Grupo Renovación was founded on 22 October 1929. The aims of the group were "to discuss

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Grzegorz Ciechowski

Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski (29 August 1957 – 22 December 2001) was a Polish rock musician and film music composer. Ciechowski was born in Tczew. He was the founder and frontman of the band

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Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki

Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (ca. 1665 to 1667 – 30 April 1734) was a Polish Baroque composer. Considered one of the greatest composers of Polish Baroque music, during his lifetime he was called the

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Grzegorz Turnau

Grzegorz Jerzy Turnau (born 31 July 1967) is a Polish composer, pianist, poet and singer. He has released eleven albums to date, including one (Cafe Sułtan) made up of his own versions of songs by

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