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Grace Adele Freebey

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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 Charles Peter Freebey and Joanna Estelle Walsh Freebey. Her mother was born in Canada. In childhood, she moved to Los Angeles with her parents and siblings. She studied piano with A. J. Stamm, Marie von Unschuld, Louis Bachner, and Ernest Hutcheson, and composition with conductor Henry Schoenefeld. Career Freebey performed as a concert pianist, and was accompanist for singers Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Ellen Beach Yaw, and cellists May Mukle and Alfred Wallenstein. In 1914, she toured in vaudeville with Wallenstein, a child prodigy. She was a member of the Schliewen Trio, with Wallenstein and violinist Richard Schliewen. She was business manager and accompanist of the all-woman Sunny Southland Trio. Freebey taught piano classes at her own studio in Los Angeles, and at the Wilson-Greene School of Music, and as head of the piano department at Martha Washington Seminary in Washington, D.C. “O Golden Sun” (1912), “North Wind”, “Wind of the West”, “May Day”, “Calling You”, “Somebody’s Comi

Grace Leboy

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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 Jupiter musical. Life and career Leboy was born in Brooklyn, New York to Samuel LeBoy (originally Lebovitch) and Celia Leboy (née Liborski), both Jewish immigrants. She grew up in Illinois and was the sixth of seven children. Leboy was a precocious musician, gaining employment as a pianist by age 15, and fame by age 18 with her song “I Wish I Had A Girl”. By age 21 she had songs on the Broadway stage in Jumping Jupiter. Notable performers of her day recorded her songs and compositions. Lyrics for many of her songs were written by Gus Kahn whom she married in 1916. They were the parents of Donald Gustave Kahn (July 17, 1918 – April 11, 2008) and Irene Kahn (1922–1985). Grace was played by Doris Day in I’ll See You in My Dreams, a film that portrays the lives and times of Leboy and Kahn. Selected compositions *Are You Lonesome 1909 *Bring Along Your Dancing Shoes 1915 *Dublin Bay 1912 *Early In The Morning (Down On The Farm) 1916 *Everybody Rag With Me 1914 *The Good Ship Mary Ann 1914 *Henry,

Grace Walls Linn

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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 published under the name Grace Walls Linn. Life and career Linn was born in Greencastle, Indiana, to Sarah Frances Alspaugh and Charles Edward Walls. She was a direct descendant of the family of Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII of England. She married Edward Martin Linn in 1899. After he died in 1918, she married James Albert Sandy. Linn had one daughter, Gretchen. Little is known about her education. Selected works Piano * Automobile Spin * Dancing Shadows Gavotte * “You Has Still Got Me” (text traditional) References External links * Hear Automobile Spin by Grace Walls Linn * Download free public domain sheet music by Grace Walls Linn

Grace Williams

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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 life Williams was born in Barry, Glamorgan, the daughter of William Matthews Williams and Rose Emily Richards Williams. Both of her parents were teachers; her father was also a noted musician. She learned piano and violin as a girl, playing piano trios with her father and her brother Glyn, and accompanying her father’s choir. At the County School she began to develop her interest in composition under the guidance of the music teacher Miss Rhyda Jones, and in 1923 she won the Morfydd Owen scholarship to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University), where she studied under Professor David Evans. In 1926 she began studying at the Royal College of Music, London, where she was taught by Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Other notable female composers studying with Vaughan Williams at the RCM were Elizabeth Maconchy, Dorothy Gow and Imogen Holst, the daughter of Gustav Holst. In 1930 she was awarded a travelling scholarship, and chose to study with E

Grace-Evangeline Mason

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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, Manchester, under Professor Emily Howard and Professor Gary Carpenter, where she held a scholarship and was awarded the Rosamond Prize (2016). She began her studies at the college as a member of their Junior Department, during which time she was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. She won the 2013 BBC Young Composer Competition, formerly known as the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composer Competition, for her piece Convergence, and subsequently became an ambassador for the competition and its workshops in the following years. Following her studies at the RNCM, where she was made an associate in 2021, she studied at Somerville College, Oxford under Professor Robert Saxton and completed her doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Career In 2017, whilst still an undergraduate at the RNCM, she was co-commissioned by BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme and The Proms to compose her work entitled River, which was written to celebrate the 300th anniversary of George Frideric Hande

Gracia Baptista

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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 Luis Venegas de Henestrosa, is the earliest keyboard work by an Iberian woman composer, the first published composition by a woman composer, and possibly the only surviving published keyboard work by an Iberian woman dating to before the eighteenth century. The piece is scored for voice and either organ or harpsichord. References

Graciane Finzi

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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 Friboulet, where her parents were teachers. She entered the Paris Conservatory at age ten, where she studied piano with Joseph Benvenuti and developed an interest in composition. After completing her studies, she worked as a composer. She served as music director of the Festival de la Défense from 1975 to 1979, and began teaching at the Paris Conservatory in 1979. She served as vice-president of the International Society for Contemporary Music (SIMC) and of Société Nationale and as official representative to the Association Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA). She was composer-in-residence with the Lille National Orchestra from 2001 to 2003. Honours and awards * SACEM Grand Prix de la Promotion Symphonique * Georges Enesco Prize * SACEM Grand Prix * SACD Prize for her opera “Pauvre Assassin”, (premiered in Strasbourg, at Opéra du Rhin) Works Finzi’s compositions often mix difference genres and folk styles. She composes for music theater, voice, solo instruments, chamber ensemble and orch

Graciela Agudelo

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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 at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música with Héctor Quintanar and Mario Lavista. She received a scholarship from the Internationales Musikinstitu Darmstadt in Germany. Agudelo is the founder of the chamber ensemble group Onix Ensamble and was a founding member of the Mexican Society of New Music. Agudelo has published a number of articles and essays and headed the official journal of the National School of Music of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is the author of the Musical Initiation GAM Method for Children (ENM / UNAM, 1998) and Man and Music (Patria, 1998). In 2002 she received the Xochipilli award for outstanding creativity in the field of music in Mexico. Though some of her music is didactic in nature (she wrote instructional books and music for students), she is best known for her “solo, chamber and orchestral works in an avant-garde style enlivened by an individualistic approach to national identity that avoids folkloristic clichés”. Works and discography Agudel

Graciela Castillo

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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 Musica Juan Sebastian Bach and the National University of Córdoba. Her teachers included composers César Franchisena and Francisco Kröpfl; violinist and conductor Zlatko Topolsky; and composer and pianist Nicolás Alfredo Alessio. She alo studied with Alfredo Luis Nihoul, and Ornella Ballestreri de Devoto. In the mid-1960s, she was among a group of composers that created the Experimental Music Center (Centro de Música Experimental) at the National University of Córdoba. She composed music at the center, and later took a position as Professor of Composition and Music Analysis at the National University. Works Selected works include: *Concreción 65, concrete music on tape, 1965 *Y así era, for tape, 1982 *Diálogos for two voices, typewriters, radios, and percussion *Homenaje a Eliot, open work for voices, concrète sounds and music theatre actions, both in 1965 *Colores y masas, concrète music for paintings by José De Monte, in 1966 *Estudio sobre mi voz for tape, 1967 *Estudio sobre mi voz

Graciela Olmos

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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 Marina Aedo, she is better known by the name Graciela Olmos, or the nickname “La Bandida”. Early life Graciela Olmos was born on December 10, 1895 in the Hacienda de San Diego in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. In her youth, she was tasked with various duties such as cleaning the hacienda and caring for the animals. The hacienda was attacked during the Mexican Revolution, leaving 12-year-old Olmos and her younger brother Benjamín orphaned. Involvement in the Mexican Revolution During the Revolution, Pancho Villa’s troops arrived in Irapuato, where Marina met José Hernández, known as “El Bandido”, and the two were married. Olmos the joined Pancho Villa’s army as a soldadera and served alongside Hernández until the Battle of Celaya, where he was killed, leaving her a widow at 20 years old. It was around this time that she was given the nickname “La Bandida”, the feminine equivalent to her late husband’s title, “El Bandido.” During her time with the troops she learned guitar and began composing songs

Graciela Paraskevaidis

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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. She studied composition at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires with Roberto García Morillo and at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella with Gerardo Gandini and Iannis Xenakis from 1965 to 1966 with a scholarship from the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM). She continued her studies at the Musikhochschule Freiburg/Breisgau with Wolfgang Fortner from 1968 to 1971 with a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. She studied at Darmstadt in 1972. After completing her studies, Parakevaidis took a position at the Universidad Nacional in Montevideo where she taught from 1985 to 1992 and also worked as a composer. Her works have been performed internationally in Europe, Asia and the Americas. She has written two books La obra sinfónica de Eduardo Fabini published in 1992 and Luis Campodónico, compositor published in 1999, and a number of articles on 20th-century Latin-American music published in the journals Pauta, Mexico, and MusikTexte, Germany. She publi

Graeme Koehne

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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 embrace of tertian harmony. His orchestral trilogy Unchained Melody, Powerhouse, and Elevator Music makes allusions to Hollywood film score traditions, cartoon music, popular Latin music and other dance forms. Life and career Koehne was born in Adelaide. He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in that city, studying composition with Richard Meale – a pupil of Winifred Burston, who had been a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni. In 1982 he won the Young Composers Prize at that year’s Adelaide Festival, gaining him national attention for his orchestral work Rainforest. In 1984, Koehne was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to work at the School of Music, Yale University. Here he studied with Louis Andriessen and Jacob Druckman. For two years of the fellowship he also took private lessons with Virgil Thomson. Until recently he also chaired the Music Board of the Australia Council and was a board member of the council. Graeme is married to former mode

Graeme Revell

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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 film score composer. Some of Revell’s best known film scores include Dead Calm (1989), The Crow (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), The Craft (1996), The Saint (1997), The Negotiator (1998), Bride of Chucky (1998), Titan A.E. (2000), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Daredevil (2003), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), and Sin City (2005). He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director David Twohy, having scored Below (2002) and the Riddick franchise. He is an eight-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award, including the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award, and an AACTA Award winner. Biography Early life Revell attended Auckland Grammar School, where he finished his final year in 7A. As an orderly in an insane asylum in Australia in the late 70’s, he and another psych nurse, Brett Guerin, formed one of industrial music’s first bands, SPK, as an outgrowth of interest in music therapy. He spent the next decade m

Graham Fitkin

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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 “one of the most important of our younger composers”, he is particularly known for his works for solo and multiple pianos, as well as for music accompanying dance. Biography Fitkin was born at Crows-an-Wra in west Cornwall on 19 April 1963. His mother, a piano teacher, encouraged his early studies on that instrument. He participated in numerous local ensembles during his childhood, and recalls starting to compose at the piano aged around 8. He later went to the Netherlands to study with the minimalist composer and pianist Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. His partner is harpist Ruth Wall, with whom he collaborates in Fitkin Wall. Music Fitkin’s work is broadly classified as minimalist and postminimalist. His works are tonal and frequently complex. Much of his writing is for the piano, including solo and multiple player works. Several of his early works, including Log, Line and Loud, were composed for the six-piano ensemble, Piano Circus. A more recent work for elec

Graham George

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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 Centre, his compositional output consists largely of choral works, many written for Anglican liturgical use. He also wrote three ballets, four operas, and some symphonic music. In 1938 he won the Jean Lallemand Prize for his Variations on an Original Theme. At first he employed traditional tertial harmony, but the influence of Hindemith led him to introduce quartal-quintal harmony as integral to his style. Successful completion of RCCO/RCO diplomas and external degrees had demanded he attain very considerable expertise in counterpoint, and so his neoclassic deployment of contrapuntal devices such as imitation, canon and fugue is hardly accidental. His archives are part of the collection at the Library and Archives Canada. Early life and education Born in Norwich, he moved to Canada in 1928 at the age of 16. He studied the organ and music composition with Alfred Whitehead. He earned the Associateship (1934) and Fellowship (1936) of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, the Associateship (1

Graham Peel

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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, England. During his life, Peel was one of the first persons ’to take parties inside prisons to entertain the inmates’, and of unobtrusive character, was later remembered for his generosity. Clothes and jobs for prisoners were provided through Peel with his involvement in the Dorset and Bournemouth Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society. He was a resident of ‘Marden Ash’, Bournemouth on his death, after a year’s illness. A philanthropist, he died leaving £191,499. Many settings were for folk songs and pianoforte solos, His tunes included: ::Almond, wild almond ::Go down to Kew in lilac time ::Her loveliness ::In summer time on Bredon (well regarded, and written c. 1908) References

Graham Reilly

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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 productions in the US, UK and Europe, for all the major networks including: BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, SKY UK, Paramount+, Apple TV+. Reilly was mentored by the late Peter Waygood ex-head of Production, Air Edel Associates Ltd (London/USA). Senior Lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music (London), and Chairman of PCAM (Producers & Composers of Applied Music). Reilly has composed music for the TV series Seconds From Disaster which has been shown in over 140 territories worldwide on the National Geographic network of channels. Reel History of Britain presented by broadcaster Lord Melvyn Bragg - performed by the BBC Philharmonic and recorded at BBC Studios Manchester. The Story of Britain - BBC animation series nominated for a BAFTA. Heaven Made - BBC One - wins Royal Television Society (RTS) award for Best Daytime Programme. Dragons’ Den - BAFTA nominated TV series - BBC One/TWO. Columbia’s Last Flight - Seconds From Disaster – National Geog

Graham Tardif

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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), resulted in an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award for “Far Away Home” as Best Original Song Composed for a Feature Film, Telemovie, TV Series or Mini-Series (shared with de Heer) in 2002. The Tracker also provided wins at Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards (Best Music Score) and IF Awards (Best Music) for the pair. History Graham Tardif was born in 1957. He attended Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney. There he met Dutch-born writer, director and producer Rolf de Heer, for whom he composed screen music on ten feature films. They first worked on de Heer’s short film, The Audition (1979), for his AFTRS diploma. Fellow composer and musicologist Cat Hope analysed Tardif and de Heer’s works including The Tracker (2002) and Alexandra’s Project (2003). * The Sparks Obituary (short, 1978) * Tasmania’s South West: a Wilderness in Question (documentary, 1979) * The Audition (short, 1979) * Tail of a Tiger (1984) * Thank You Jack (TV film, 1986) * Incident at Raven’s Gate

Graham Waterhouse

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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 Solo for his own instrument, and string quartets and compositions that juxtapose a quartet with a solo instrument, including Piccolo Quintet, Bassoon Quintet and the piano quintet Rhapsodie Macabre. He has set poetry for speaking voice and cello, such as Der Handschuh, and has written song cycles. His compositions reflect the individual capacity and character of players and instruments, from the piccolo to the contrabassoon. Since 1998, Waterhouse has organised a concert series at the Gasteig in Munich, often playing with members of the Munich Philharmonic. His works have been performed internationally and several have been recorded. He has been awarded prizes for several of his compositions, and has been composer in residence at institutions in European countries. He achieved a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2018. From 2020, his compositions have been published by Schott. Career Graham Waterhouse was born in London, the son of the noted bassoonist and musicologist William Water

Gráinne Mulvey

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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, Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under the supervision of Nicola LeFanu. She currently holds the position of Professor of Composition at Technological University Dublin (formerly Dublin Institute of Technology) Conservatory of Music and Drama. In April 2010, she was elected to membership of Aosdána, the State-recognised affiliation of creative artists in Ireland. A CD Akanos & Other Works, dedicated to her recent work, was released in February 2014 on the Navona label. Style Gráinne Mulvey’s music is timbrally and rhythmically complex—a legacy of her work in the electroacoustic field. Her microtonally-inflected language derives ultimately from the natural harmonic series, placing her somewhat in the spectral tradition. As she herself has written: My music is increasingly concerned with a sense of place – with the natural world and mankind’s relationship with tha

Grant Foster

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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 musical is lyrical and well crafted, and he is well-known in Russia, despite being relatively unknown in his own country. Grant Foster was born in Sydney in 1945 and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Alexander Sverjensky, then in Paris under Marcel Ciampi, to whom he was recommended by Yehudi Menuhin after hearing him play, and under Denise Rivière. The musical Peter Pan, directed by Sir Robert Helpmann, with music by Foster, ran in London for seven consecutive Christmas seasons. He was its artistic director until 2013, when he was succeeded by Gerard Willems. He is better known in Russia than in Australia. His works have been recorded by the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, by the Serbian-born pianist Mira Yevtich, among others. - Notes

Grant Kirkhope

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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, among many others. He has won an Ivor Novello Award for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and a World Soundtrack Award for The King’s Daughter, as well as being nominated for BAFTA, ASCAP, and IFMCA awards. He has also provided the voice for the character Donkey Kong in many of his game appearances. Early life and education Kirkhope was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his mother, Margaret Kirkhope, worked as a music hall dancer. Kirkhope’s father, Alexander Kirkhope, was works manager of Redpath Brown steel works and was an avid music fan and exposed him to early influences such as Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller. Kirkhope taught himself to play guitar at age 11 and is classically trained in the trumpet. Kirkhope was brought up in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire from the age of five, and attended King James’s School. Kirkhope played in various bands after leaving the Royal Northern College of Music, including Zoot and the Roots along with the saxophonist Snake Davis. Kirkhope also spent ma

Granville Bantock

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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 eminent Scottish surgeon. His younger brother was the dramatist and film director Leedham Bantock. Granville Bantock was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but he suffered poor health and initially turned to chemical engineering. At the age of 20, when he began studying composers’ manuscripts, at South Kensington Museum Library, he was drawn into the musical world. In 1888, he entered the Royal Academy of Music where he studied harmony and composition with Frederick Corder winning the Macfarren Prize in the first year it was awarded. Early conducting engagements took him around the world with a musical comedy troupe. With his brother Leedham Bantock he wrote a couple of music hall songs which met with some success. He founded a music magazine, The New Quarterly Music Review, In 1934, he was elected Chairman of the Corporation of Trinity College of Music in London. He was knighted in 1930. Among his other better-known works are the overture The Pierrot of the Minute (1908)

Grayston Ives

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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 at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he held a choral scholarship. He began his career as a music teacher, before joining the King’s Singers from 1978 to 1985. His voice can be heard on a number of recordings from that period, including Paul McCartney’s Frog Chorus. From 1991 to 2009 he was the organist and choir director at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was also a Fellow and tutor in music. As well as being responsible for the daily musical life of the college chapel, he directed the choir in recordings on the Harmonia Mundi label. The album With a Merrie Noyse, made with the viol consort Fretwork and featuring the works of the English composer Orlando Gibbons, was nominated for a Grammy in 2004. Paul McCartney’s Ecce Cor Meum was written especially for the college choir, and the subsequent EMI recording won the Classical BRIT Award for album of the year in 2007. Other recordings with Magdalen College Choir include Listen Sweet Dove, a selection of Ives’s liturgical works, and Duru

Graziella Concas

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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 Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo Bellini’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida. She later studied with Sergio Perticaroli, Agatella Catania, Aldo Ciccolini, Vera Gornostayeva and Boris Petrushansky. She is noted especially for her recordings of 20th century works and world premiere by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Olivier Messiaen, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Aldo Clementi, Giovanni Sollima, Francesco Pennisi, Alfredo Sangiorgi, Alexis Koustoulidis, Thomas Lawrence Toscano, Marco Betta, Roberto Carnevale, Alessandro Solbiati, Giovanni Ferrauto, Marina Leonardi, Sergio Pallante. She won several awards: first prize at the ‘Avagliano’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Ennio Porrino’ Piano Competition in Cagliari; first prize at the ‘A.M.A. Calabria’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Castello Normanno’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Città di Barletta’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Città di Valentino’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Ci

Grażyna Auguścik

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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 European magazine Jazz Forum. Auguścik has toured all over the world. Some of her albums have been highly acclaimed and popular with jazz audiences and have consistently been placed in Top 10 Charts (e.g. by the College Music Journal). Grażyna has recorded 15 albums, including two with Urszula Dudziak, her fellow top-ranking Polish female jazz vocalist. Discography * Sunrise Sunset (Polskie Nagrania Muza, 1988) * Don’t Let Me Go (GMA, 1996) * Koledy with Urszula Dudziak (Voice Magic, 1996) * Pastels with Bogdan Hołownia (GMA, 1997) * Fragile (GMA, 2000) * To I Hola (Selles, 2000) * River (GMA, 2001) * Past Forward (GMA, 2003) * Lulajze: The Lullaby for Jesus (GMA, 2005) * The Light (GMA, 2005) * Live Sounds Live (GMA, 2007) * Andanca with Paulinho Garcia (GMA, 2008) * The Beatles Nova with Paulinho Garcia (Agencja Artystyczna MTJ, 2011) * Man Behind the Sun (EMI, 2012) * Szeptem (Agencja Artystyczna MTJ, 2016) See also * List of jazz arrangers References External links *

Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil

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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 Music in Wrocław with Stefan Bolesław Poradowski and Tadeusz Natanson, and in France under Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen. She took courses at the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique in Paris and studied Iannis Xenakis’s music in Aix-en-Provence. After completing her studies, Pstrokońska-Nawratil took a position in 1971 at the State School of Music in Wrocław, becoming a professor in 1993 and later Chair of Composition and Music Theory. Beginning in 1998, she also taught at the Poznan Academy of Music. Her works have been performed internationally. Honors and awards *The Tadeusz Baird Young Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union in 1968 and 1973 *Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition in 1972 *International Competition for Women Composers in Mannheim in 1975 *3rd place at the UNESCO International Composers’ Tribune in Paris in 1987 *Wrocław City Award *Chairman of the Council of Ministers Award for work for children and teenagers in 1997 *Brother Albert Award in

Gréco Casadesus

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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 writers), he has composed over a hundred musical creations for television, cinema, performances, and theatre. In his early years, he started out as an artistic director for EMI Classics, then set out to create music for the stage (1983–1997). From 1984 on, he started writing music for TV and cinema with a style combining orchestral music and electronics (synthesizers and computer music). Casadesus composed soundtracks for a diverse range of productions, such as Divertimento, with Kellan Lutz, Torrey DeVitto, Ola Rapace, Götz Otto by Keyvan Sheikhalishahi, The Climb, a fiction movie by the American director Bob Swaim, the animated film Babar: King of the Elephants, adapted from the classic French comic by Jean de Brunhof, or the TV series Jesus by Serge Moati. He also wrote seven hours of music for the restored version of the 1921 film Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Henri Diamant-Berger. Fascinated by the genius of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), inventor of the first moving images, he wrote

Greg Kuehn

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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 piano studies at California State University, Long Beach to join horror punk icons T.S.O.L. Together they made the album Beneath the Shadows, still a highly regarded and influential work. Following his tenure in T.S.O.L., he spent several years as a recording and touring musician working with artists including Bob Dylan, The Church, Duane Peters, Megan Mullally, Berlin and Ian Astbury of The Cult. Most recently, Kuehn has been performing with LA punk legends X, filling in for the late Ray Manzarek of The Doors. Composing film scores Kuehn got his start in film working on the score for cult classic Repo Man, on which he arranged music and played keyboards. Since then, Kuehn has scored numerous films, including Confessions of a Superhero and Meet the Hitlers, both directed by Matt Ogens and produced by film maker Morgan Spurlock, A Small Section of the World, directed by Lesley Chilcott, and The Achievers, The Story of The Lebowski Fans. One of his songs was featured in the documentary Th

Greg Morrison

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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 was their first collaboration. In 1999 Lambert asked Morrison to work on a musical to perform at the wedding stag party of their friends, Bob Martin and Janet Van De Graaff. Also a part of this original writing team was filmmaker, Don McKellar. That was the first incarnation of The Drowsy Chaperone. This was followed by an expanded production of the show at the Toronto Fringe festival, where Martin joined as a co-writer and performer. Greg is a graduate of the Humber College Jazz program in Toronto. He began his theatre career as musical director for the touring company of The Second City in Toronto. As well as working for The Second City, Greg composed and performed scores and musical direction for a variety of Toronto artists, most notably, playwright Karen Hines, powerhouse horror clown duo, Mump and Smoot and Canadian theatre icon Linda Griffiths. He continues to write for theatre as well as writing songs for television and film. Theater credits Composer and lyricist *The Drowsy Chape

Greg Schiemer

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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 technology, music created for non-expert performance and intercultural-interfaith dialogue. Background and training Greg Schiemer was born on 16 January 1949 in Dunedoo, New South Wales. He attended Holy Cross College, Ryde (1961 to 1963), and finished high school in the Passionist minor seminary (from 1964) at St Ives and at the Sydney Technical College, Ultimo in 1968. He completed a B.Mus at Sydney University in 1972 where he studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe who introduced him to the music of Asia and the instruments of Harry Partch. Through David Ahern, he discovered experimental music and the work of Cornelius Cardew and John Cage. and Arthur Spring. Between 1972 and 1975, together they built some of the earliest electronic music systems that respond to dance movement. Between 1976 and 1981, Schiemer worked for Digital Equipment Australia, a division of Digital Equipment Corporation, initially in computer field service and later as senior design technician. In 1999 he compl

Gregers Brinch

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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 Peter Shaffer in 1984, at the age of 20. After an initial period of aided self-study in England with the singer and composer Cecil Cope, he studied piano with Louis Demetrius Alvanis in London before moving to Hamburg, Germany to study composition with Elmar Lampson and piano with Alan Newcome and later Ulrike Bauer. Brinch’s use of a number of styles with an authentic quality stems from his wide musical background. He feels equally at home with the blues, as with the music of Beethoven or Gregorian Chants. His consistent use and exploration of tonality is supported by his finding nuances in harmony and melody which is accessible to the listener without being easy listening. Nature and drama also feature as inspirations for Brinch’s work, but it is his study of intervals that has served to lend him his own unique voice as a composer. Central themes permeating a number of his works include Human Rights and the Holocaust. His work Lieder aus Leid was 18 years in preparation before receiving

Gregor Aichinger

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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 the devout and ingenuous mastery of his style. Life His epitaph states he died in 1628 aged 63, making his birth year 1564 or 1565. In 1577 he moved to Munich to study under Orlando di Lasso, moving the following year to the University of Ingolstadt, where he studied alongside Jakob Fugger, later Prince Bishop of Constance. This put him in contact with the wider Fugger family of Augsburg, to whom he later dedicated many of his works. Jakob’s main patron was Jakob III. Fugger (1542–1598), who appointed him his organist in 1584, using an instrument he had paid for in 1580 at the Augsburg basilica of St.s Ulrich and Afra. He also made Aichinger his court composer and director of his chamber-music. Fugger also funded a number of Italian trips for Aichinger – in Venice he became one of Giovanni Gabrieli’s first pupils and probably also converted from Protestantism to Catholicism. Fugger granted him more study leave in 1588 during which he studied theology and philosophy back at the Universit

Gregor Mayrhofer

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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, and he was the second of their three sons. External links * * * YouTube channel of Gregor A. Mayrhofer *

Gregor Werner

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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 family. Few of Werner’s works survive to the present day, and he is mostly remembered for his troubled relationship with Haydn. Career Werner was born in Ybbs an der Donau. at the court; previously, there had been seven years of relative inactivity following the death of Prince Joseph in 1721; his widow Maria Octavia, serving as co-regent for her young son Paul Anton, had instituted economies in the musical establishment. Robbins Landon and Jones suggest that Werner was hired at the then 17-year-old prince’s instigation. Jones discerns a bifurcated style, with most of the work taking the form of severe, “weighty” contrapuntal pieces, but a minority (written for lighter occasions such as Advent and the Nativity) that “employ a distinctly homespun idiom, invoking elements of Austrian and indeed Eastern European folk music”. which appeared in Augsburg in 1748. and the Esterházy organist Johann Novotný (1718–1765), father of Franz Nikolaus Novotny (1743–1773). Autograph scores and parts by Gr

Gregoria Karides Suchy

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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 of Greek immigrants and was born on November 14, 1923 in Milwaukee. In 1945, she graduated from the Milwaukee State Teachers College, later University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, (UWM) and began teaching soon after. Karides Suchy died on October 3, 2018. UWM offers a scholarship in her name for Music students. Work Karides Suchy began to create electroacoustic music in the 1960s. She also incorporated non-traditional items, like beer bottles and spliced tape, in her compositions. She called her experimental compositions “soundscaping.” Karides Suchy’s work has been performed both in the United States and internationally. References External links * Greek Rhapsody (video)

Gregorio Allegri

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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 Rome. He is chiefly known for his Miserere for two choirs. Life He studied music as a puer (boy chorister) at San Luigi dei Francesi, under the maestro di cappella Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, brother of Giovanni Maria Nanino. Being intended for the Church, he obtained a benefice in the cathedral of Fermo. Here he composed a large number of motets and other sacred music, which, being brought to the notice of Pope Urban VIII, obtained for him an appointment in the choir of the Sistine Chapel at Rome as a contralto. He held this from 6 December 1629 until his death. Allegri is said to have been a virtuous man, as well as good-natured and generous to the poor and to prisoners. Among Allegri’s musical compositions were two volumes of concerti for five voices published in 1618 and 1619; two volumes of motets for six voices published in 1621; an edition of a four-part sinfonia; five masses; two settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah; and numerous motets which were not published in his lifetime

Gregory Alchevsky

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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 industrialist and banker Aleksey Alchevsky, and his wife Khrystyna Alchevska, a teacher who was a prominent activist for national education in Imperial Russia. Their six children were all musically gifted. Alchevsky graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kharkiv University in 1887 and went on to study at the Moscow Imperial Conservatory. He was the friend of several Russian composers, including Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin and Alexander Goldenweiser. Alchevsky was a late Romantic movement composer. His most popular works were romances and settings of folk songs, which perpetuated the use of Ukrainian folk music into the 20th century. He worked as a music teacher and a singer, activities which acted to limit his output as a composer. He wrote a symphonic poem, , while his work Breathing Tables for Singers and their Application to the Development of the Basic Qualities of the Voice, first published in 1908, remains in print. Biography Family Gregory Oleksiiovych Alchev

Gregory Rose (musician)

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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 education and training Gregory Rose studied violin, piano and singing as a young child and was a pupil of Hanns Jelinek (Vienna Academy) and Egon Wellesz (Oxford University), both former students of Arnold Schoenberg, and of his father, Bernard Rose. Conductor Choral Rose’s conducting repertoire ranges from Pérotin (of the Notre Dame school) to premieres which have included his own works. He began conducting choirs whilst a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an ‘Academical Clerk’ (Choral scholar) under the direction of his father, the conductor, composer, scholar and teacher, Bernard Rose. Since then, his choral conducting has included concerts and recordings with Europe’s finest choirs, including the Groupe Vocal de France, the BBC Singers, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Netherlands Kamerkoor, the Westdeutscher Rundfunkchor (West German Radio Chorus) and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. He has conducted many a cappella programmes, including all-Russian works fo

Gregory Short

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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 attended the Juilliard School and University of Washington. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Oregon. Biography In 1961, Short began teaching piano students in performance and music theory. He created new music that blended classical European–American styles with American–Indian melodies that earned recognition beyond the Northwest. He combined Native–American influences with European–American music for a sound that was compelling rather than being a cliche. He used ethnic themes in many of the 300 compositions he created over 35 years. Short was named the 1989 Washington State Centennial Artist. He taught at the college and university level for decades. As a member of the Washington State Teachers Association, Short served as an adjudicator. In 1989, WTA selected him as Composer of the Year and commissioned him to write a piece. The prominent American folklorist Stacy I. Morgan points out that he crosses musical categories, “the boundaries between f

Gregory Spears

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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 and Paul’s Case, as well as his Requiem. Early life and education Spears grew up in Virginia. He attended Eastman School of Music, received a master’s degree at Yale University, and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He studied with Hans Abrahamsen and Per Nørgård while a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Career His opera Fellow Travelers, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon with a libretto by Greg Pierce, premiered at Cincinnati Opera on June 17, 2016 and has since then been produced across the United States and has garnered many positive reviews. Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times wrote: “Originality in the arts is a vague and overhyped virtue. Few works are completely original. All creative artists borrow from others, both masters they revere and contemporaries they may be in competition with. Still, originality just comes through sometimes, as the composer Gregory Spears demonstrates in his personal, boldly quirky score for the wr

Gregory Vajda

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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) and operatic soprano Veronika Kincses. Vajda studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under Professor Ervin Lukács. He was also a conducting and composition pupil of well-known composer and conductor, Péter Eötvös. Career Conducting Following performances with the Montreal Symphony in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, Gregory Vajda gained international recognition. In 2011, he was appointed the sixth music director of the Huntsville Symphony. After completing his three-year tenure as Principal Conductor, he was named Principal Guest Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony (MR Symphony) in 2014. Vajda also serves as the Artistic Director of the International Armel Opera Festival. In addition to his duties with these organizations, upcoming guest-conducting engagements during 2015-16 season include the Danubia Symphony, the Hungarian State Opera, the Pannon Philharmonic, the Szeged Symphony, the Launaudiere Festival and the Portland Festival Symphony

Gregory Wanamaker

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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 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Achievement, and Florida State University from 1991 to 1996. His composition instructors included Anthony Branker, William Averitt, Thomas Albert, and Ladislav Kubík. Life and career Wanamaker was born in Livonia, Michigan, and spent most of his youth in Skaneateles, New York. He is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam, where he has served since 1997. Wanamaker’s commissions include works for the Society for New Music, Timothy McAllister, Akropolis Reed Quintet, PRISM Quartet, Capitol Quartet, and independent consortiums of musicians. Works Wanamaker is best known for his works that feature the saxophone as a solo instrument or as part of a chamber ensemble. His Sonata deus sax machina was premiered at the 12th World Saxophone Congress by Timothy McAllister and David Heinick in July 2000, and has served as one of the required works for the semi-final

Grete Hinterhofer

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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 and composer. At the age of nine, Hinterhofer received her first private piano lessons from Cäcilie (von) Frank (1851-1936?), who ran an illustrious musical salon in the 1st district of Vienna and was piano accompanist to the Hellmesberger Quartet and Arnold Rosé. She received extensive artistic training from her and made several public appearances that were reviewed in local newspapers. Cäcilie (von) Frank’s apartment was also an important meeting place for the Viennese musical world. One of Hinterhofer’s schoolmates was Arnold Schönberg’s student Vilma von Webenau. She also took piano lessons in 1909/10 at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with Hugo Reinhold and 1914 with Emil von Sauer. Residenz, Salzburg 2001, . . * Susanne Wosnitzka: “Gemeinsame Not verstärkt den Willen” – Netzwerke von Musikerinnen in Wien, in Annkatrin Babbe und Volker Timmermann (ed.): Musikerinnen und ihre Netzwerke im 19. Jahrhundert. Oldenburg 2016 (Schriftenreihe des Sophie Drinker Institut

Grete von Zieritz

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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. She became a composer, and music teacher. In 1939 she was the only woman at the International Music Festival in Frankfurt am Main among composers from 18 nations. In 2009 in Vienna’s Donaustadt the street Zieritzgasse was named after her. Life Grete von Zieritz was born in Vienna, Austria on 10 March 1899, into a noble family, and grew up in Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz. She received her first piano lessons at the age of six, and later studied at the Styrian Conservatory in Graz, studying piano with Hugo Kroemer and composition with Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvar. Moving to Berlin in 1917, she continued her studies with Martin Krause, a student of Franz Liszt, and Rudolf Maria Breithaupt. After the successful performance of her “Japanese Songs” in 1921, she decided to become a composer. She toured in Germany and abroad, often performing her own works, and won the Mendelssohn state prize for composition in 1928. In 1958 the Austrian Federal President appointed her as Professor, the firs

Grietje Terburg Rowley

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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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), among which is “Be Thou Humble”. Life Rowley was born Elizabeth Grietje Terburg in Homestead, Florida to a family of Dutch background. where she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Afterward, she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and spent most of her remaining life there. She married Grant Rowley in 1953. Rowley composed many hymns and is most well known for “Be Thou Humble”, included in her church’s 1985 hymnal. The text, based on two verses of scripture, Doctrine and Covenants 112:10 and Ether 12:27, teaches that as one humbles oneself, their prayers are answered and they will ultimately return to the presence of their Heavenly Father. Other hymns of hers are included in the Primary’s Children’s Songbook, including “I Want To Be a Missionary Now” and “Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus. She served on the LDS General Music Committee. Songs composed Below is a concise list of the songs composed by Rowley. *A Smile

Grigor Palikarov

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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 Academy of Music (Bulgarian State Conservatoire) where he received four master’s degrees in orchestral conducting, choral conducting, piano and composition. He studied Orchestral Conducting with Vassil Kazandjiev and Ivan Voulpe, Composition with Dimitar Tapkoff, Piano with Krassimir Taskov and Choral Conducting with Stoyan Kralev. Later on he continued his composition study during two Summer Academies in Austria with Erich Urbanner. He succedfully defended his Doctor of Music Degree in June 2017. Career In the 1998–99 season, Grigor Palikarov made his first appearance on the stage of the National Opera and Ballet - Sofia, conducting a Gala-concert with the special participation of the Bulgarian opera singer Ghena Dimitrova upon her personal invitation. Later on he has made many concerts and performances with other world famous opera singers like Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Elena Obraztsova, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Kurt Rydl, Alexandrina Milcheva, Nadia Krasteva, Alexandrina P

Grigor Yeghiazaryan

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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 genocide, Yeghiazaryan joined the Red Army in 1921, playing in regimental bands until 1929. He enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory in 1930, where his teachers included Reinhold Glière and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Upon graduation, he taught and lectured in the Armenian SSR; first in Leninakan, then Yerevan. As composer, teacher, and functionary, he established himself as a crucial figure in Armenian musical culture of the mid-20th century. Biography Early life Yeghiazaryan was born to an Armenian peasant family in the village of Blur, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire (today Enginalan, Iğdır Province, Turkey), on December 21, 1908. His family fled to Yerevan in 1918 as a result of the Armenian Genocide, in the course of which two of his brothers and three of his sisters died from starvation. While on an expedition foraging for food, he heard the sound of a nearby military band in a regiment of the 11th Red Army. When the bandmaster saw the sight of the young Yeghiazaryan, he took pity and offe

Grigori Gamburg

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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 Russian (Soviet) violinist, violist, composer and conductor. Gamburg graduated from the Tiflis Conservatory (now the Tbilisi State Conservatoire) in 1922 studying composition with Nikolai Tcherepnin and violin with V.R. Vilshau (В.Р. Вильшау), and graduated in 1927 from the Moscow Conservatory studying composition with Nikolai Myaskovsky, violin with Boris Sibor (Борис Осипович Сибор), and conducting with Nikolai Malko. Gamburg did postgraduate studies in chamber music, and taught chamber music classes at the Moscow Conservatory from 1928 to 1941, becoming Professor of Chamber Music in 1939. From 1924 to 1930 he was violist with the Stradivari Quartet (of Moscow). From the early 1930s, Gamburg was conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, and of the Orchestra of the Ministry of Cinematography of the USSR where he was musical director for many Russian-language films. From 1945 to 1954 Gamburg was professor of conducting at the Institute of Military Conductors (Институт Военных Дирижеров),

Grigoriy Korchmar

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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 Russia, Korchmar was a prominent figure in the musical life of Saint Petersburg. He began to study piano and composition in 1958 at the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). In 1996, he was made an “Honoured Art Worker of Russia”. Notable works by Korchmar include the operas Newlyweds (1970), A Story about Boris and Gleb (1981) and Fedra (1984), Dialogues for cello and piano (1976), Tango macabre for violin and piano (1985), White Nights Serenades (1991) for solo guitar and four symphonies, the latest of which was completed in 2003. Korchmar’s brother, Leonid Korchmar is a conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre and a notable conducting pedagogue. Korchmar died on 17 November 2025, at the age of 77. Works * 4 symphonies * Sonata dolorosa for cello and piano * Concerto for trumpet and string orchestra * Dear Sergei Sergeich! Concerto-message to S. S. Prokofiev. For violin with orchestra * “… Whom my soul loves…”. Poem for piano * Goodbye, dear friend. Fantasy o

Grigory Frid

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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 life and education Born in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, Frid studied in the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Litinsky and Vissarion Shebalin. He was a soldier in the Second World War. Career Frid was a prolific composer. His most notable works are his two chamber operas, both to his own libretti. The Diary of Anne Frank is a monodrama in 21 scenes for soprano and chamber orchestra, lasting about one hour. It was composed in 1968 and given a first performance with piano accompaniment at the All-Union House of Composers in Moscow on either 17 or 18 May 1972. The Letters of Van Gogh is a mono-opera in two parts for baritone and chamber ensemble, based on the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo. The opera was composed in 1975 and given its premiere in concert form at the same venue, on 29 November 1976. He wrote three symphonies (1939, 1955, 1964), a series of instrumental concertos including a Concerto for viola, piano and string orchestra (1981), music for theatre and cinem

Grigory Kompaneyets

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Grigory Isaakovich Kompaneyets (Ukrainian: Григорій Ісакович Компані́єць, Russian: Григорий Исаакович Компанеец) (1881–1959) was an internationally recognized composer, choir conductor, and educator. Biography Grigory Kompaneyets was born in Poltava, Ukraine. During his childhood, his family moved to Rostov, where he received his early musical training in the synagogue choir. In 1904–05, he took voice lessons in Milan, with the Italian tenor Augusto Brogi. He was active in the Society for Jewish Folk Music, and in 1912, he conducted the first performance of the opera Samson and Delilah in a modern Hebrew translation, at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1916, he conducted an orchestra of 83 musicians for a concert organized by Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg, the first performance by a large orchestra in this context. In the same year, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In the mid-1920s, Kompaneyets moved to Mandatory Palestine, where he served as musical director of Habima. From 1932 to 1934, he taught conducting and score-reading at the Kharkiv National University of Arts, and at the same time headed the music department of the Jewish Theater. In

Grikor Suni

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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 his musical talents and organized his first concert. This would get him in trouble with Russian authorities forcing his chorus out of Shushi where they went on to spread Armenian cultural music around the world. Suni was an instrumental figure in establishing the national identity of Armenian music and considered one of the many founders of modern Armenian music. Biography Grikor Suni came from a family of Armenian meliks (princes) from Syunik. He was the son of the singer and miniaturist Hovhannes Varandetsi and the grandson of the once famous ashug (folk singer) Melik Hovhannes Mirzabekyan. Suni spent much of his childhood in Shushi where he first started to study music. There in the regionally famous Armenian Khandamiryan theater, he gave his first concert with his chorus composed of folk songs he collected from the region. With the money he made from the concert, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he studied music from 1895 to 1904 with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov and A

Grimace (composer)

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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 information based on the circumstances and content of his five surviving compositions of formes fixes; three ballades, a virelai and rondeau. His best known and most often performed work in modern-times is the virelai and proto-battaglia: A l’arme A l’arme. He is thought to have been a younger contemporary of Guillaume de Machaut and based in southern France. Three of his works were included in the Chantilly Codex, which is an important source of music. However, along with P. des Molins, Jehan Vaillant and F. Andrieu, Grimace was one of the post-Machaut generation whose music shows few distinctly features, leading scholars to recognize Grimace’s work as closer to the style of Machaut. Identity and career Almost nothing is known about Grimace’s life other than the authorship of five works: three ballades, a virelai and rondeau, all of which are formes fixes. Grimace’s identity remains unknown and his mononymous name is likely a sobriquet, similar to other composers of his time such as Zacar, T

Grupo de los cuatro

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(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 Chávez, who had replaced Antonio Castro Leal as director of the Mexican Conservatorio Nacional de Música in 1928, set about revising the curriculum to increase the emphasis on writing music in all styles. In 1931, he received approval from the Secretariat of Public Education to inaugurate a course in free composition, at first titled Class of Musical Creation, later renamed Composition Workshop. The first students enrolled in this class included some older members, such as Vincente Mendoza, Candelario Huízar, and Silvestre Revueltas, but also three young students under the age of twenty, Daniel Ayala, Salvador Contreras, and José Pablo Moncayo. They were joined the next year by another pupil of their age group, Blas Galindo. Early in 1933 Chávez abandoned the directorship of the Conservatory to assume the job of Chief of the Department of Fine Arts, a position he held for barely a year, after which he regained directorship of the Conservatory in May 1934. However, he only remained until Decem

Grupo renovación

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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 compositions of its members; to perform and to publish their best works; to arrange performances of native music abroad; and to discuss publicly the general subject of music, with the intention of contribution to the progress of musical culture”. The founding members were the older two Castro brothers (José María and Juan José), Gilardo Gilardi, Juan Carlos Paz, and Jacobo Ficher, a naturalized Russian. The third Castro brother, Washington, joined at some later date. In 1932, Juan José Castro and Gilardi left the group and Honorio Siccardi and Luis Gianneo joined. Gianneo remained until 1944. In 1936 Paz left the group to found his own series of concerts, Conciertos de la Nueva Música. Siccardi then replaced him as secretary of the group.. Alfredo Pinto was briefly a member of the group in 1935. The organization eventually joined the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and became the Argentine section of the society. According to the group’s founding manifesto (21 September 1

Grzegorz Ciechowski

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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 Republika, which was one of Poland’s most popular rock groups. In the mid-1980s, Ciechowski took a break from the group and formed a new band called Obywatel GC (Citizen GC), again with considerable commercial success. At least a seven-song eponymous vinyl record, Obywatel G.C. exists, released by Tonpress KAW, copyright 1986. In 1991, Republika was revived, and Ciechowski was involved with a number of other ensembles. In 1996, as Grzegorz z Ciechowa, he recorded the album ojDADAna. His ashes were buried at Powązki Military Cemetery on 4 January 2002. References External links * Grzegorz Ciechowski at culture.pl

Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki

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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 “Polish Handel”. Life Born in near Bytom in Silesia, then Habsburg-ruled Kingdom of Bohemia around 1665, little is known of his early life. Similarly little is known about his musical education; however, it is known that he attended the University of Prague, where he graduated from the department of Liberal Arts and Philosophy, and then attended the University of Vienna, where he gained a bachelor’s degree in theology. He arrived in Kraków in 1689 or 1690, where he then attended the Catholic Seminary. He was ordained on 22 March 1692. Following his ordination, he was appointed to the academy for missionary priests in Chełmno in Pomerania, where he lectured in rhetoric and poetry, as well as conducting the local orchestra. After two years, he returned to Kraków, where he was appointed curate of the cathedral, and performed in the cathedral orchestra. He was appointed conductor on 10 January 1698, and remained in this position until his death on 30 April 1734. The earliest recorded informat

Grzegorz Turnau

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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 Jeremi Przybora and Jerzy Wasowski, and most have enjoyed considerable chart success. His characteristic style consists of strong, clear lyrics and music composed in special keys and harmonies, using instruments such as the piano (played by himself), saxophone, violin and various horns. Influenced by such artists as Marek Grechuta and Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, his music style falls within the broad genre of sung poetry. Biography He was born on 31 July 1967 in Kraków, Poland. At age seventeen he won First Prize (Grand Prix) at The Student Song Festival in Kraków in 1984. He went on to join the Piwnica pod Baranami Cabaret, composing such hits as “Znów wędrujemy”, and released his first album, Naprawdę nie dzieje się nic (“Really, nothing is happening”) in 1991. He did participate in the Aleksander Glondys’s “Ellington po krakowsku” (“Ellington, Kraków-Style”), a concert based upon idea of notable composers of Piwnica pod Baranami playing their interpretations of Duke’s music. Other partici