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Gu Jianfen

Gu Jianfen (; born 21 March 1935) is a Chinese composer. She is best known for writing "The Kiss from Mother", "Young Friends Come Together," and "The Affection of Green Leaves to the Roots". Early

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Gui Mallon

Guilherme A.B. Mallon (Gui Mallon) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and writer. Mallon was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied music theory and harmony at the CBM-Brazilian Conservatory of Music in

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Guido Alberto Fano

Guido Alberto Fano (18 May 1875 in Padua – 14 August 1961 at Tauriano di Spilimbergo) was an Italian pianist and composer. From 1894 he was the favoured pupil of Giuseppe Martucci. In 1905 he was

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Guido Chigi Saracini

Count Guido Chigi Saracini (Siena, 8 March 1880 – Siena, 18 November 1965), full name Guido Chigi degli Useppi Saracini Lucherini, was an Italian patrician, a musical patron and composer, and a

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Guido Guerrini (composer)

Guido Guerrini (September 12, 1890 – June 14, 1965) was an Italian composer, violinist, violist, conductor, music educator, academic administrator, and music critic. He began his career as a

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Guido Mancusi

Guido Mancusi (born 14 June 1966) is an Austrian-Italian conductor and composer. Life Born in Portici near Naples, Mancusi was the son of the Neapolitan conductor Enrico Mancusi and the Viennese

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Guido Morini

Guido Morini (born in Milan in 1959) is an Italian pianist, organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer. In the ensemble Accordone he performs early baroque works with singer Marco Beasley.

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Guido Pannain

Guido Pannain (17 November 1891 – 6 September 1977) was an Italian musicologist, critic and classical composer. Life and career Born in Naples, Pannain was the son of the composer and pianist Eduardo

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Guido Papini

Guido Papini (1 August 1847 – 3 October 1912) was an Italian violinist, composer and teacher. During his career he lived in London and Dublin. Life Papini was born in Camaiore in 1847. He studied

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Guido Santórsola

Guido Antonio Santórsola di Bari Bruno (18 November 1904 in Canosa di Puglia, Italy – 24 September 1994 in Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Brazilian-Uruguayan composer, violinist, violist, viola d'amore

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Guilhem Ademar

Guilhem Ademar (; also spelled Guillem, Adamar, or Azemar; fl. 1190/1195–1217) was a troubadour from the Gévaudan in France. He travelled between the courts of Albi, Toulouse, Narbonne, and Spain. He

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Guillaume Balay

Guillaume Balay, (born April 30, 1871, in Crozon and died December 13, 1943, in Ploujean (now Morlaix), was a French military bandmaster and composer. Bio Guillaume Balay was born on April 30, 1871,

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Guillaume Connesson

Guillaume Connesson ( ) is a French composer born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Biography Connesson studied the piano, music theory, music history and choir conducting at the Conservatoire

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Guillaume Costeley

Guillaume Costeley pronounced Cotelay (1530, possibly 1531 – 28 January 1606) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was the court organist to Charles IX of France and famous for his numerous

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Guillaume Couture (musician)

Guillaume Couture (23 October 1851 – 15 January 1915) was a Canadian choir conductor, composer, music critic, and music educator. Although he never pursued a performance career, he is particularly

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Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut (, ; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is

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Guillaume Dufay

Guillaume Du Fay ( , ; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish.

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Guillaume Franc

Guillaume Franc (c. 1505–1571) was a French musician and composer active in Geneva and Lausanne in the mid-16th century. He is regarded as instrumental in the development of both the Genevan Psalter

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Guillaume Lasceux

Guillaume Lasceux (3 February 1740 - 1831) was a French organist, improviser and composer. Biography Born in Poissy, Lasceux began his career as an organist in the parish of St-Martin of Chevreuse in

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Guillaume Le Heurteur

Guillaume le Heurteur, also known as Guillaume Heurteur and Guillaume Hurteur, () was a French composer of the Renaissance about whom very little is known. Life and works Very little information is

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Guillaume Legrant

Guillaume Legrant (Guillaume Lemacherier, Le Grant) (fl. 1405–1449) was a French composer of the early Renaissance, active in Flanders, Italy, and France. He was one of the first composers in writing

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Guillaume Lekeu

Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu (; 20 January 1870 – 21 January 1894) was a Belgian composer. Life Lekeu was born in Heusy, a village near Verviers, Belgium. He originally studied piano and music

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Guillaume Minoret

Guillaume Minoret (ca. April 1650 – 1717 or December 1720) was a French baroque composer. He was of the generation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, but unlike him only a small part of his œuvre survives.

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Guillaume Poitevin

Guillaume Poitevin (2 October 1646 – 26 January 1706) was a French Roman Catholic priest, church vocalist, serpent player, conductor, music educator, and composer. He was trained as a singer in his

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Guillaume-Antoine Calvière

Guillaume-Antoine Calvière (1695 - 18 April 1755) was a virtuoso French musician and composer who was for many years organist of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Early years Guillaume-Antoine

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Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers

Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (c. 1632, Paris – 13 November 1714) was a French organist, composer and theorist. His first livre d'orgue is the earliest surviving published collection with traditional

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Guillermo Morphy

Guillermo Morphy y Ferríz de Guzmán, best known as Conde de Morphy or Count Morphy (February 29, 1836, in Madrid – August 28, 1899, in Baden, Switzerland) was a Spanish aristocrat, music critic,

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Guillermo Uribe Holguín

Guillermo Uribe Holguín (sometimes spelled Uribe-Holguín) (17 March 1880 – 26 June 1971) was a Colombian composer and violinist and one of the most important Colombian cultural figures of his

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Guillermo Venegas Lloveras

Guillermo Segundo Venegas Lloveras (Quebradillas, Puerto Rico October 12, 1915 – Santurce, Puerto Rico July 23, 1993) was a Puerto Rican songwriter. After success in his youth with popular boleros,

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Guirne Creith

Guirne Creith (born Gladys Mary Cohen; 21 February 1907, in London – 1996) was an English composer and pianist most active in the 1920s and 1930s. She received the Charles Lucas Prize in 1925, having

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Gunnar Berg (composer)

Gunnar Berg (11 January 1909 – 25 August 1989) was a Swiss-born Danish composer. A leading exponent of serialism in Denmark, he is considered to have written the first Danish serial piece, his

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Gunnar de Frumerie

Per Gunnar Fredrik de Frumerie (20 July 1908 – 9 September 1987) was a Swedish composer and pianist. He was the son of architect Gustaf de Frumerie and Maria Helleday. De Frumerie was born in Nacka,

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Gunnar Sønstevold

Gunnar Sønstevold (26 November 1912 – 18 October 1991) was a Norwegian composer. He was born in Elverum Municipality, and married composer Maj Sønstevold in 1941. He composed orchestral works, vocal

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Gunnar Wennerberg

Gunnar Wennerberg (2 October 1817 – 24 August 1901) was a Swedish poet, composer and politician. Biography Wennerberg was the son of the vicar of the town of Lidköping in Västergötland, went to

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Günter Bialas

Günter Bialas (19 July 1907 – 8 July 1995) was a German composer. Life Bialas was born in Bielschowitz (today Bielszowice, a subdivision of Ruda Śląska) in Prussian Silesia. His father was the

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Günter Bust

Günter Bust (12 July 1930 – 27 May 2005) was a German music educator and composer. Life Born in , today Magdeburg, Bust first attended the 23rd Magdeburg Community School, then the from 1941 to 1945.

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Günter Kochan

Günter Kochan (2 October 1930 – 22 February 2009) was a German composer. He studied with Boris Blacher and was a master student for composition with Hanns Eisler. From 1967 until his retirement in

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Günter Raphael

Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in

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Gunter Waldek

Gunter Waldek (born 26 July 1953) is an Austrian composer, conductor and music educator. Life and career Waldek was born in Linz. Already in his youth he received piano, organ and music theory

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925 – June 21, 2015) He studied at the Saint Thomas Choir School and became an accomplished French horn player and flute player. At age 15, he was already

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Guo Wenjing

Guo Wenjing (born 1 February 1956, in Chongqing) is a Chinese composer and educator. Guo Wenjing is a contemporary Chinese composer. Unlike many Chinese composers who have studied and lived in other

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Gustaf Düben

Gustaf Düben (; 1624/1628 – December 19, 1690) was a Swedish organist and composer. Düben is best known for his contributions to the Düben collection, a collection of baroque music manuscripts. Early

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Gustaf Hägg

Gustaf Wilhelm Petersson Hägg (November 28, 1867 – February 2, 1925) was a Swedish organist and composer. Life Hägg was born in Visby, Gotland. He studied at the Royal Swedish College of Music

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Gustaf Nordqvist

Gustaf Nordqvist (12 February 1886 – 28 January 1949) was a Swedish composer, organist, and music educator. Life and career Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist was born on 12 February 1886 in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Gustav Brecher

Gustav Brecher (5 February 1879 – May 1940) was a German conductor, composer, and music critic. As director of the Leipzig Opera, he conducted world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill,

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Gustav Bumcke

Gustav Bumcke (18 July 1876 – 4 July 1963) was a German composer and founder of the first German saxophone orchestra. Biography Born on 18 July 1876, in Berlin, after attending the Oberrealschule and

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Gustav Ciamaga

Gustav Ciamaga (April 10, 1930 – June 11, 2011) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he was

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Gustav Ernesaks

Gustav Ernesaks (12 December 1908 – 24 January 1993) was an Estonian composer and a choir conductor. Biography Gustav Ernesaks was born on 12 December 1908 in Perila, Estonia. He was educated at the

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Gustav Graben-Hoffmann

Gustav Graben-Hoffmann (March 7, 1820, Bnin, Kórnik – May 20, 1900, Potsdam) was a German composer, singer, and music educator. He is best known for authoring two influential works on vocal pedagogy:

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Gustav Gunsenheimer

Gustav Gunsenheimer (; 10 March 1934 – 3 March 2026) was a German director of church music and a composer of mostly sacred music and chamber music, including the Evangelienmotette . First an

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Gustav Helsted

Gustav Carl Helsted (30 January 1857 - 1 March 1924) was a Danish organist and composer. Helsted was the son of composer Carl Helsted, brother of painter Viggo Helsted, and nephew of composer Edvard

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Gustav Heuser

Gustav Heuser (15 October 1817 – 8 October 1846 ) was a German composer and music journalist. Life Born in (today part of Sprockhövel), Heuser was the son of a teacher and attended the . There, he

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Gustav Hinrichs

Gustav Ludwig Wilhelm Hinrichs (10 December 1850 - 26 March 1942) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 19, where he became known

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other

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Gustav Hölzel

Gustav Hölzel (2 September 1813 – 3 December 1883) was an Austro-Hungarian bass-baritone and composer who sang in the opera-houses of Austria, Germany and elsewhere for nearly fifty years. He is

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Gustav Jenner

Gustav Jenner (3 December 1865 – 29 August 1920), born Cornelius Uwe Gustav Jenner was a German composer, conductor and musical scholar. He was the only formal composition pupil of Johannes Brahms.

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Gustav Lange

Gustav Lange (13 August 1830 – 20 July 1889) was a German composer known mainly for his melodious salon music for the piano. Life Lange was born in Schwerstedt, near Erfurt, Prussian Saxony, in 1830.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century

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Gustav Mahler's orchestration of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Gustav Mahler's orchestration of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was a decades-long project to modernize the symphony through the incorporation of modern instruments and techniques. Mahler's orchestration

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Gustav Merkel

Gustav Adolf Merkel (November 12, 1827, Oberoderwitz, Kingdom of Saxony – October 30, 1885, Dresden) was a German organist and composer. Having been given some lessons by Schumann in his youth,

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Gustav Nottebohm

Martin Gustav Nottebohm (12 November 1817 – 29 October 1882) was a German musicologist, teacher and composer who spent most of his career in Vienna. He is particularly celebrated for his studies of

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Gustav Peter

Gustav Peter (c. 1833 – 1919) was a composer of popular music. There is little known about the life of Gustav Peter. He is supposed to be Austrian or Hungarian but this is still unsure. Sometimes his

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Gustav Reichardt

Gustav Reichardt, also Heinrich Wilhelm Ludwig Gustav Reichardt (13 November 1797 – 18 October 1884), was a 19th-century German music teacher and composer. Life and work Gustav Reichardt was born in

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Gustav Schreck

Gustav Ernst Schreck (born 8 September 1849 in Zeulenroda; died 22 January 1918 in Leipzig) was a German music teacher, composer and choirmaster of St. Thomas School, Thomasschule zu Leipzig, in

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Gustav Stolpe

Gustav Erik Stolpe (26 September 1833 – 3 October 1901) was a Swedish-American composer, conductor, and performer. Career Stolpe was born in Torsåker Parish, Gästrikland, Sweden. He held the degree

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Gustav Strube

Gustav Strube (3 March 1867 – 2 February 1953) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was the founding conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1916, and taught at the Peabody

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Gustav Wohlgemuth

Gustav Wohlgemuth (2 December 1863 – 2 March 1937) was a German choral conductor and composer. Career Wohlgemuth was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. From 1878, he attended the teacher training

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Gustave Charpentier

Gustave Charpentier (; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. Life and career Charpentier was born in Dieuze, Moselle, the son of a baker, and with

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Gustave Doret

Gustave Charles Vincent Mathey-Doret (20 September 1866 – 19 April 1943) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Career Doret was born in 1866 in Aigle, Switzerland. He studied at the Berlin Academy of

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Gustave Dugazon

Gustave Dugazon (real name Alexandre Louis Gustave Gourgaud, 1 February 1781 – 12 September 1829) was a French classical composer. A contemporary of Boieldieu, Méhul, Kreutzer, Dugazon was the son of

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Gustave Gagnon

Gustave Adolphe Mathurin Gagnon (; 6 November 1842 – 19 November 1930) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. Family background and education Born in Louiseville, Gagnon was from a

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Gustave Goublier

Gustave Goublier, born Gustave Conin, (15 January 1856, Paris – 27 October 1926, Paris) was a French composer, conductor, and pianist. His younger son was the operetta composer Henri Goublier. He

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Gustave J. Stoeckel

Gustave Jakob Stoeckel (November 9, 1819 – May 14, 1907) was a longtime music instructor and college organist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Biography Born in Maikammer, Bavarian

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Gustave Lefèvre

Victor Gustave Lefèvre (2 June 1831 in Provins – 17 March 1910 in his home in Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French composer and music educator. Publications * Traité de contrepoint et du rythme

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Gustave Vogt

Gustave Vogt (18 March 1781 – 20 May 1870) was a French oboist and composer. Biography Born in Strasbourg, Vogt followed his parents to Paris at a very young age, where he entered the Conservatoire

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Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt

Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (August 26, 1925 – January 3, 2010) was a Chilean composer. Biography and career Becerra-Schmidt was born in Temuco, Chile. He studied at The Chilean National Conservatory,

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez

Gustavo Díaz-Jerez (born 27 February 1970) is a Spanish pianist and composer. Biography Gustavo Díaz-Jerez was born on 27 February 1970 in Tenerife. Díaz-Jerez studied piano with J. A. Rodriguez at

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Gustavo Santander

Gustavo Adolfo Santander Lora is a Colombian composer who has had great success at international level. He has composed over 200 songs for major artists like David Bisbal, Alejandro Fernández,

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Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (; born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine composer, record producer and musician. He is the recipient of numerous accolades for his works, including two Academy Awards for

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Gusztáv Szerémi

Gusztáv Szerémi (; also Gustave Szerémi, Gustav Szerémi; 9 May 1877 in Budapest – 16 August 1952 in Budapest) was a Hungarian violinist, violist and composer. Szerémi was professor of violin and

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Guto Puw

Guto Pryderi Puw (born 1971) is a Welsh composer, university lecturer and conductor. He is considered to be one of the most prominent Welsh composers of his generation and a key figure in current

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Guy d'Hardelot

Guy d'Hardelot (August 1858 – 7 January 1936) was the pen name of Helen Rhodes (née Helen Guy), a French composer, pianist and teacher. Biography D'Hardelot was born Helen Guy, to an English father

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Guy de Lioncourt

Guy de Lioncourt (1 December 1885 in Caen – 24 or 25 December 1961 in Paris) was a French composer. Life He studied music at the Schola Cantorum de Paris under Léon de Saint-Réquier (harmony), Amédée

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Guy Gross

Guy Gross is an Australian film and television composer. He is known most for writing the award-winning music for the Australian science fiction series Farscape and the international hit film The

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Guy Lacour

(Guillaume) Guy Lacour (8 June 1932 in Soissons, Aisne – 15 May 2013) was a French composer of classical music, and a tenor saxophonist. Education Lacour started musical studies at 10 years old in

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Guy Michelmore

Guy Alford Michelmore (born August 1957) is an English film and television composer and former television news presenter. Early life Guy Alford Michelmore was born in August 1957. Michelmore is the

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Guy Morançon

Guy Morançon (5 December 1927 – 25 November 2025) was a French composer and organist. He was titular organist of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris, founder and conductor of the Chœurs Jean-Baptiste

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Guy Ropartz

Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets,

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Guy Warrack

Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack (6 February 1900 – 12 February 1986) was a Scottish composer, music educator and conductor. He was the son of John Warrack of the Leith steamship company, John Warrack &

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Guy Woolfenden

Guy Anthony Woolfenden (12 July 1937 – 15 April 2016) was an English composer and conductor. He was head of music at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for 37 years, making music an

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Guy-Roger Duvert

Guy-Roger Duvert is a French film composer, film director and author. Early life and education Born and raised in Paris, France, after studies of political sciences in Strasbourg, and at the ESSEC

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