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He Xuntian

He Xuntian (; born in 1952 in Suining, Sichuan) is a composer and professor of music composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Biography In 1982, he graduated from the Composition Department

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Heathcote Dicken Statham

Heathcote Dicken Statham CBE (7 December 1889 - 29 October 1973) was a conductor, composer and organist of international repute. Early life He was the eldest son of Henry Heathcote Statham

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Heather Christian

Heather Christian is an American singer, playwright, composer and MacArthur Fellow best known for 2017's Animal Wisdom at the Bushwick Starr and Oratorio for Living Things, which ran Off Broadway at

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Heavy Young Heathens

Heavy Young Heathens are American film, film trailer, and television composers, consisting of brothers Aron and Robert Mardo. They are known for their work composing and performing music for

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in

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Hector Berlioz as critic and author

The composer Hector Berlioz was a prolific writer who supported himself early in his career by writing musical criticism using a bold, vigorous style, at times imperious and sarcastic. Criticism was

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Héctor Campos Parsi

Héctor Campos Parsi (October 1, 1922 – January 30, 1998) was a Puerto Rican composer. He studied at the New England Conservatory with Francis Judd Cooke, he also studied with Paul Hindemith. In

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Hector Gratton

Joseph Thomas Hector Gratton (13 August 1900 – 16 July 1970) was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator. As a composer his music is written in an essentially folkloric

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Hector Monréal

Hector Monréal (17 July 1839 – 20 May 1910) was a French illustrator, chansonnier and playwright, mostly known for his song "Frou-frou". Career A draftsman at the French Ministry of War, he left this

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Hector Zazou

Pierre Job known professionnally as Hector Zazou (11 July 1948 – 8 September 2008) when he first came to international attention as part of ZNR, a duo with Joseph Racaille, where both played electric

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Hedwige Chrétien

Hedwige (Gennaro)-Chrétien (5 July 1859 – 4 April 1944) She was a prolific composer, yet not much else is known about her life. Her compositions, about 150 in all, consist of pieces for piano,

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Heidi Baader-Nobs

Heidi Baader-Nobs (born 5 December 1940) is a Swiss composer. She was born in Delémont, and studied violin and piano at school before training as a teacher at the Ecole Normale in Delémont. She later

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Heidi Sundblad-Halme

Heidi Gabriella Wilhelmina Sundblad-Halme (25 September 1903 – 30 April 1973) was a Finnish composer and conductor who founded the Helsinki Women's Orchestra and conducted it for 30 years. Career

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Heikki Suolahti

Heikki Theodor Suolahti (2 February 1920 – 27 December 1936) was a Finnish composer. Suolahti was born and died in Helsinki, where he studied under Arvo Laitinen in Helsinki from 1929 until his

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Heiner Goebbels

Heiner Goebbels (born 17 August 1952) is a German composer, conductor and professor at Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale

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Heiner Ruland

Heiner Ruland (6 April 1934 – 25 March 2017) was a German composer and music therapist. Life Born on 6 April 1934, in Aachen, Ruland studied chemistry after a humanistic secondary school education,

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Heino Eller

Heino Eller (7 March 188716 June 1970) was an Estonian composer and pedagogue, known as the founder of contemporary Estonian symphonic music. Life and career Eller was born in Tartu on 7 March 1887,

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Heino Kaski

Heino Wilhelm Daniel Kaski (21 June 1885 – 19 September 1957) was a Finnish composer, teacher and pianist. Life Kaski was born in Pielisjärvi into a cantor's family. His father taught him the violin,

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Heinrich Albert (composer)

Heinrich Albert (also Heinrich Alberti) (28 June 1604 – 6 October 1651) was a German composer and poet of the 17th century. He was a member of the Königsberg Poetic Society (Königsberger

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Heinrich Albert (guitarist)

Heinrich Albert (16 July 1870 – 12 March 1950) was a German guitarist, composer and teacher – the most prominent German classical guitarist of his time. Life Heinrich Albert was born in Würzburg and

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Heinrich Baermann

Heinrich Joseph Baermann (also spelled Bärmann; 14 February 1784 – 11 June 1847) was a German clarinet virtuoso of the Classical and Romantic eras who is generally considered as being not only an

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Heinrich Berté

Heinrich Berté (), born Heinrich Bettelheim (8 May 1857 – 23 August 1924) was an Austrian-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas. Life Heinrich Berté was born in Galgócz, Hungary (now Hlohovec,

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Heinrich Christoph Koch

Heinrich Christoph Koch (10 October 1749 – 19 March 1816) was a German music theorist, musical lexicographer and composer. In his lifetime, his music dictionary was widely distributed in Germany and

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Heinrich Dorn

Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn (14 November 1800 or 1804 – 10 January 1892) was a German conductor, composer, teacher, and journalist. He was born in Königsberg, where he studied piano, singing, and

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Heinrich Ehrlich

Alfred Heinrich Ehrlich (5 October 1822, in Vienna – 30 December 1899, in Berlin) was a Jewish pianist, composer and writer on music. As a composer, he came forward with a Piano Concerto and Piano

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Heinrich Enckhausen

Heinrich Friedrich Enckhausen (also spelled Enkhausen, Enghausen and Enghusen, August 28, 1799 – January 15, 1885) was a German pianist, organist, horn player, composer and singing teacher. Life and

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Heinrich Esser

Heinrich Joseph Esser (15 July 1818 – 3 June 1872) was a German violinist, influential conductor and composer. Biography Heinrich Esser was born in Mannheim. He got musical instruction by Franz

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Heinrich Finck

Heinrich Finck (1444 or 1445 – 9 June 1527) was a German composer. He served as Kapellmeister first for Prince Alexander of Lithuania, later King of Poland, before leaving Poland in 1510. He worked

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Heinrich Gattermeyer

Heinrich Gattermeyer (9 July 1923 – 5 July 2018 ) was an Austrian composer and music educator. Life Born in Sierning, Gattermeyer, son of the local poet Karl Gattermeyer, After the war, he studied

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Heinrich Grimm

Heinrich Grimm (1592/1593-1637) was a late-Renaissance/early-Baroque German composer, cantor, music theorist, and organist. Career Grimm was born in Holzminden in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.

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Heinrich Grünfeld

Heinrich Grünfeld (21 April 1855 – 26 August 1931) was a Czech-Austrian cellist, music educator and composer. He published his autobiography, 'In Dur und Moll' in 1923, an historically important

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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (correctly Biber von Bibern; bapt. 12 August 1644 – 3 May 1704) was a Czech-Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž

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Heinrich Isaac

Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450 – 26 March 1517) was a Netherlandish composer of south Netherlandish origin during the Renaissance era. He wrote masses, motets, songs (in French, German and Italian), and

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Heinrich Jalowetz

Heinrich Jalowetz (December 3, 1882 – February 2, 1946) was an Austrian musicologist and conductor, who settled in the United States. He was among the musicians associated with Arnold Schoenberg and

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Heinrich Konietzny

Heinrich Josef Konietzny (born 7 May 1910 in Gliwice; died 23 April 1983 in Saarbrücken-Dudweiler) was a German musician, professor and composer. Life Heinrich Konietzny was born as the son of a

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Heinrich Köselitz

Johann Heinrich Köselitz (10 January 1854 – 15 August 1918) was a German author and composer. He is known for his longtime friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche, who gave him the pseudonym Peter Gast.

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Heinrich Lemacher

Heinrich Lemacher (26 June 1891 – 16 March 1966) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Solingen, Lemacher studied from 1911 to 1916 at the Cologne Conservatory and at Bonn

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Heinrich Lindlar

Heinrich Lindlar (6 August 1912 – 23 March 2009) was a German musicologist and music educator. Life Lindlar was born in Bergisch Gladbach. After studying music and musicology in Cologne, Bonn and

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Heinrich Marschner

Heinrich August Marschner (16 August 1795 – 14 December 1861) was a German composer best known for his operas. He is considered to be the most important composer of German opera between Weber and

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Heinrich Reimann

Heinrich Reimann (March 12, 1850 – May 24, 1906), was a German musicologist, organist, and composer. Reimann was born in Rengersdorf, Silesia, and was a son of Ignaz Reimann, also a musician. Reimann

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Heinrich Reinhardt (composer)

Heinrich Reinhardt (1865–1922) was an Austrian composer. He died on 31 January 1922 in Vienna and is buried at the Döbling Cemetery. Biography Reinhardt was born on 13 April 1865 in Pressburg (now

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Heinrich Schalit

Heinrich Schalit (January 2, 1886 – February 3, 1976) was an Austrian-American, Jewish composer and musician; best known for his sacred music, art songs, and chamber music. Along with other Jewish

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Heinrich Scheidemann

Heinrich Scheidemann (ca. 1595 – 1663) was a German organist and composer. He was the best-known composer for the organ in north Germany in the early to mid-17th century, and was an important

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Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz (; 18 October 1585 6 November 1672 ) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of

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Heinrich Sutermeister

Heinrich Sutermeister (12 August 1910 – 16 March 1995) was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera Romeo und Julia. Life and career Sutermeister was born in Feuerthalen. Orff thereafter remained

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Heinrich von Herzogenberg

Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, (10 June 1843 – 9 October 1900) was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family. He was born in Graz and was educated at a Jesuit school

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Heinrich Weber (composer)

Heinrich Weber (9 October 1901 – 6 January 1970) was a German composer and organist. Life Born in Cologne, Weber studied first in Aachen and later at the Musikhochschule Köln. There, among others,

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Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8June 18128 – October 1865) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. He was seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Niccolò Paganini's greatest

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Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz

Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz, also Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss, Younger Line (German: Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß zu Köstritz, also Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß jüngere Linie, 8 December 1855 – 2

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Heinrich Zöllner

Heinrich Zöllner (4 July 1854 – 8 May 1941) was a German composer and conductor. Biography The son of composer Carl Friedrich Zöllner, Heinrich Zöllner was born in Leipzig. From 1875 to 1877 he

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Heinz Becker (musicologist)

Heinz Becker (26 June 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a German composer and musicologist. Career Born in Berlin, Becker began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1945,

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Heinz Holliger

Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, oboist, conductor and pianist. Known for his versatility and virtuosic technique, Grove Music Online credits him with raising the

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Heinz Kiessling

Heinz Kiessling (March 11, 1926 – December 27, 2003) was a German musician, conductor, composer, and music producer, known mainly from his work for popular films and television programs. Kiessling's

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Heinz Kratochwil

Heinz Kratochwil (23 February 1933 – 2 April 1995) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. Life Heinz Kratochwil was born in Mödling a short distance to the south of Vienna. He graduated with a

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Heinz Roemheld

Heinz Roemheld (May 1, 1901 – February 11, 1985) was an American composer. Early life and career Born Heinz Eric Roemheld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was one of four children of German immigrant

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Heinz Röttger

Heinz Martin Albert Röttger (6 November 1909 – 26 August 1977) was a German composer. From 1928 to 1931, Röttger attended the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, where he studied under Walter

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Heinz Schubert (composer)

Heinz Richard Schubert (8 April 1908 – 1945) was a German composer and conductor. He is not related to the more well known composer Franz Schubert. Life Schubert was born in Dessau where he studied

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Heinz Tiessen

Richard Gustav Heinz Tiessen (10 April 1887 – 29 November 1971) was a German composer. Biography Tiessen was born at Königsberg, where he studied with composer Erwin Kroll before moving to Berlin.

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Heinz Werner Zimmermann

Heinz Werner Zimmermann (11 August 1930 – 25 January 2022) was a German composer, focused on contemporary sacred music. He was professor of composition at the Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule and the

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Heinz Winbeck

Heinz Winbeck (11 February 1946 – 26 March 2019) was a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. He is known for five large-scale symphonies, which he programmatically subtitled, such as "Tu

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Heinz Wunderlich

Heinz Wunderlich (25 April 1919 – 10 March 2012) was a German organist, academic, and composer. He was known for playing the organ works of Max Reger. He studied in Leipzig with Karl Straube, a

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Heitor Pereira

Heitor Teixeira Pereira () (born 29 November 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer. In his career, Pereira has recorded with the band Simply Red and several famous musicians, such as Elton

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century

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Helen Bowater

Helen Bowater (b. 16 Nov 1952) is a New Zealand composer. She was born in Wellington into a musical family, and studied piano and violin with Gwyneth Brown. In 1982 she graduated with a Bachelor of

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Helen Buchholtz

Charlotte Helena Geiger-Buchholtz (24 November 1877 in Esch-sur-Alzette – 22 October 1953 in Luxembourg City) was a Luxembourgish composer. She left around 136 compositions in manuscript, including

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Helen Camille Stanley

Helen Camille Stanley Hartmeyer Gatlin (6 April 1930 – 16 December 2021) was an American composer, pianist, and violist who began working with electronic and microtonal music in the 1960s. She

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Helen Chadwick (musician)

Helen Chadwick is a British composer and singer who has written over 300 songs, mainly for unaccompanied voices. She has ten albums and creates song theatre performances, both solo and with her

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Helen Eugenia Hagan

Helen Eugenia Hagan (January 10, 1891 – March 6, 1964) was an American composer, pianist and music educator of African descent. Life Helen Eugenia Hagan was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the

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Helen Fisher (composer)

Helen Wynfreda Fisher (born 1942) is a New Zealand composer and music teacher. Life Helen Fisher grew up in Māpua, Nelson, and attended secondary school in Wellington. She graduated from the

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Helen Gifford

Helen Margaret Gifford OAM (born 5 September 1935) is an Australian composer. On Australia Day (26 January) 1996 she was appointed to the Medal of the Order of Australia, "in recognition of service

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Helen Glatz

Helen Sinclair Glatz (née Hunter) (13 March 1908–15 June 1996) was an English composer and pianist, a pupil of Ralph Vaughan Williams, best known for her teaching at Dartington Hall and the

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Helen Hopekirk

Helen Hopekirk (20 May 1856 – 19 November 1945) was a Scottish-born American pianist and composer, who after the age of 40, lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts. Life and career Helen Hopekirk

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Helen May Butler

Helen May Butler (1867–1957) was an American bandleader and composer who has been called "The female Sousa". Leading an all-women's band from 1898 to 1912, she had an extremely successful career at a

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Helen Parker-Jayne Isibor

Helen Epega (née Isibor), also The Venus Bushfires (born 1981), is a Nigerian/British opera singer, songwriter, composer, visual and performance artist, who has written and composed the world's first

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Helen Radnor

Helen Matilda Chaplin Pleydell-Bouverie Radnor, Countess of Radnor, Viscountess Folkestone (21 March 1846 - 11 September 1929) was a British composer, conductor, and singer who helped found the Royal

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Helen Roessing

Helen Elizabeth Roessing Aiton (22 August 1891 – 27 May 1957) was an American composer of piano music whose composition won first prize at the Conservatoire Americain de Fountainebleau in France. She

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Helen Searles Westbrook

Helen Searles Westbrook (October 15, 1889 – 1967) was an American composer and organist who appeared with Chicago Symphony. Life Westbrook was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts. She began organ

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Helen Taylor (composer)

Helen Taylor Johannesen (August 24, 1915—October 5, 1950) was an American composer. Biography Helen Taylor, who died in 1950, was a Juilliard-trained composer and the wife of pianist Grant

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Helena Meirelles

Helena Meirelles (August 13, 1924 – September 28, 2005) was a Brazilian guitar player, singer, and composer recognized around the world for her talent as a player of the viola caipira. She is one of

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Helena Stone Torgerson

Helena Stone Torgerson (1878 – September 9, 1941) was an American harpist and composer of harp music, based in Chicago. Early life Helena Stone was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of

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Helena Tulve

Helena Tulve (born 28 April 1972) is an Estonian composer. Born in Tartu, she studied composition at the Tallinn Secondary Music School under Alo Põldmäe and from 1989 to 1992 at the Estonian Academy

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Hélène Breschand

Hélène Breschand (born 18 March 1966) is a French harpist, composer and improviser. Breschand leads a career both as a solo artist as well as in ensemble work, playing both a contemporary repertoire

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Hélène de Montgeroult

Marquise Hélène de Montgeroult born Hélène Antoinette Marie de Nervo (2 March 1764 – 20 May 1836) was a French composer and pianist. Recognised as one of the best fortepiano performers and

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Hélène Fleury-Roy

Hélène-Gabrielle Fleury-Roy (21 June 1876 – 18 April 1957) was a French composer and the first woman to gain a prize at the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition. Background Fleury was born in

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Helene Karastoyanova

Helene Karastoyanova (; born 1 October 1933 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian composer. Life Helene (Elena) Karastoyanova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, the daughter of composer Assen Karastoyanov. She studied

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Hélène Robert-Mazel

Hélène Robert-Mazel (active 1832-1857) was a French composer, pianist, singer and teacher. She composed songs, a cantata, and educational pieces for children. Her works were listed through at least

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Hélène-Louise Demars

Hélène-Louise Demars (1736–1778) was a French composer and music teacher. Demars wrote several cantatas dedicated to nobles such as Mademoiselle de Soubise of the Rohan family and Madame La Marquise

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Helge Burggrabe

Helge Burggrabe (born 17 June 1973) in Magstadt is a German composer, recorder player, stage designer and seminar leader. Life As a child, Burggrabe lived for several years in Burma (Myanmar). Later

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Helge Hurum

Helge Hurum (born 1 August 1936) is a Norwegian jazz musician, composer, arranger and musical director. Hurum has led several of Norway's key big bands, including the Oslo University Big Band

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Helge Iberg

Helge Roald Iberg (born 1954) was educated at the University of Oslo in music in music, history of ideas, and religious studies. He holds a master's degree in composition from the Norwegian Academy

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Heliodoro de Paiva

Dom Heliodoro de Paiva (fl. Coimbra, 1552) was a Portuguese composer, philosopher, and theologian. Life Heliodoro de Paiva was born in Lisbon (date unknown). He studied at the Monastery of Santa Cruz

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Helmer Alexandersson

Karl Helmer Alexandersson (16 November 1886 – 24 December 1927), was a Swedish composer and violinist. He was the brother of the actress Karin Alexandersson. Biography Alexandersson was born in

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Helmut Bornefeld

Helmut Bornefeld (14 December 1906 – 11 February 1990) was a German Protestant church musician, composer, church organ expert and writer. Career Born in Untertürkheim, Bornefeld began his vocational

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Helmut Braunlich

Helmut Braunlich (born 19 May 1929 in Brünn, Moravia; d. 24 May 2013) was a German-American violinist, composer, and musicologist. Education He received his formal musical education at the Mozarteum

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Helmut Calabrese

Helmut Christoferus Calabrese (born 1957) is a German-born composer and poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1962. He trained at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts and at New York University

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Helmut Degen

Helmut Degen (born 14 January 1911 in Aglasterhausen – died 2 October 1995 in Trossingen) was a German composer. Degen studied composition with Wilhelm Maler and Philipp Jarnach; and score and

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Helmut Huchzermeyer

Helmut Huchzermeyer (28 December 1904 – 1 March 1984) was a German philologist, musicologist and composer. Youth and education Huchzermeyer was born in Klaswipper, today part of Wipperfürth in the

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Helmut Lachenmann

Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (; born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and academic teacher. He taught, among others, at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, the

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Helmut Oehring

Helmut Oehring (born 1961 He is self-taught as guitarist and composer. From 1990 to 1992, Oehring studied with Friedrich Goldmann and Georg Katzer at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Oering is honorary

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Helmut Schiff

Helmut Adalbert Josef Schiff (30 January 1918 – 20 December 1982) was an Austrian composer and music educator. Life and career Schiff was born in Bratislava. After studying philosophy and musicology

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Helmut Schlegel

Helmut Alfons Schlegel (born 15 May 1943) is a German Franciscan Catholic priest, meditation instructor, author, librettist and songwriter. He is known for writing new spiritual songs (Neues

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Helmuth Osthoff

Helmuth Osthoff (13 August 1896 – 9 February 1983) was a German musicologist and composer. Much of his career was spent at Frankfurt University, prior to which he held posts at Halle University and

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Heloise

Héloïse (; c. 1101 or Héloïse du Paraclet, She is famous in history and popular culture for her love affair and correspondence with the leading medieval logician and theologian Peter Abelard, who

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Helvi Leiviskä

Helvi Lemmikki Leiviskä (25 May 1902 – 12 August 1982) was a Finnish composer, writer, music educator, and librarian at the Sibelius Academy. Life Helvi Leiviskä was born in 1902 in Helsinki, Grand

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Hemanga Biswas

Hemanga Biswas (; 14 December 1912 – 22 November 1987) was an Indian singer, composer, author and political activist, known for his literature in Bengali and Assamese, advocacy of peoples music,

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Hendrik Andriessen

Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen (17 September 1892 – 12 April 1981) was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic

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Hendrik Hofmeyr

Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr (born 20 November 1957) is a South African composer. Born in Cape Town, he studied at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, obtaining a BMus in

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Hendrika van Tussenbroek

Hendrika Cornelia van Tussenbroek (2 December 1854 – 21 June 1935) was a Dutch composer and teacher who is best known for her music for children. Tussenbroek was born in Utrecht. She studied music

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Henk Badings

Henk Badings (hĕngk bä'dĭngz) (17 January 190726 June 1987) was an Indonesian-Dutch composer. Early life Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer

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Henning Christiansen

Henning Christiansen (28 May 1932 in Copenhagen – 10 December 2008) was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik,

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Henning Lohner

Henning Lohner (born 17 July 1961) is a German-American composer and filmmaker. He is best known for his film scores written as a long-standing member of Hans Zimmer’s music cooperative Remote

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Henning Sommerro

Henning Sommerro (born 3 May 1952 in Surnadal Municipality) is a Norwegian musician, composer and professor at NTNU. Biography Sommerro grew up on the Sommerro farm at Skei in Surnadal Municipality.

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Henri Berény

Henri Weiss, better known as Henri Berény and also given as Henrik Berény and Henry Bereny (1 January 1871 – 23 March 1932) was a Hungarian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, screenwriter and

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Henri Berger

Henry Berger (sometimes spelled Henri Berger; August 4, 1844 – October 14, 1929) was a Prussian-born Kapellmeister, composer, and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1872 to 1915.

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Henri Bertini

Henri Jérôme Bertini (28 October 1798 – 30 September 1876) was a French classical composer and pianist. He was born into a family of musicians and attracted the attention of François-Joseph Fétis

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Henri Bourtayre

Henri Bourtayre (21 October 1915, Biarritz – 10 June 2009, Yvelines) was a French composer. Works Operettas * Miss Cow-Boy (1947, Paris, Casino-Montparnasse) * Tout pour elles (1955, Geneva) *

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Henri Büsser

Paul Henri Büsser (16 January 1872 – 30 December 1973) was a French classical composer, organist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were César Franck, Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet. In

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Henri Carol

Canon Henri Carol (18 January 1910 – 23 September 1984) was a French organist, improviser, chef de chœur, composer, and pipe organ teacher. Career Born in Montpellier, Carol was a student at the

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Henri Christiné

Henri Marius Christiné (27 December 1867 – 25 November 1941) was a French composer of Swiss birth. The son of a French Savoyard watchmaker, Christiné was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He began by

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Henri Cliquet-Pleyel

Henri Cliquet-Pleyel was a French composer born on 12 March 1894 in Paris and died in that city on 9 May 1963. In 1913 he undertook musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris under teachers André

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Henri Cohen (composer)

Henri Cohen (21 April 1806 – 17 May 1880) was a French music theorist, composer, and numismatist of Dutch birth. Career Born in Amsterdam, Cohen moved with his family to Paris at a young age. He

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Henri Collet

Henri Collet (; 5 November 1885 – 23 November 1951) was a French composer and music critic who lived in Paris. Biography Born in Paris, Collet first studied at the Conservatory of Music at Bordeaux

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Henri Desmarets

Henri Desmarets (; February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular

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Henri Dumont

Henri Dumont (; also Henry Du Mont, originally Henry de Thier) (1610 – 8 May 1684) was a baroque composer of the French school, born in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. Life Dumont was born to Henry de

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Henri Duparc (composer)

Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc (21 January 1848 – 12 February 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period. He is best known for his mélodies ("art songs"). Biography Son of Charles

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Henri Dutilleux

Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer of late 20th-century classical music. Among the leading French composers of his time, his work was rooted in the

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Henri Gagnon

Henri Gagnon (; 6 March 1887 – 17 May 1961) was a Canadian composer, organist, and music educator. He spent 51 years playing the organ at the Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral of Quebec City where,

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Henri Ghys

Esprit Charles Henri Ghys (17 March 1839 – 24 April 1908) was a French pianist, organist, composer and arranger of Belgian parentage, who is primarily known today as the first piano teacher of

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Henri Gobbi

Henri Gobbi ( or Henrik Aloiz Adalbert Gobby – or Henri Gobbi-Ruggieri), was a 19th-century Hungarian classical composer and piano professor. He was also a student and close friend of Franz Liszt.

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Henri Herz

Henri Herz (6 January 1803 – 5 January 1888 ) was a virtuoso pianist, composer and piano manufacturer, Austrian by birth and French by nationality and domicile. He was a professor in the Paris

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Henri Ketten

Henri Ketten, also spelled Henry Ketten in English-language publications (25 March 1848 – 1 April 1883 ), was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Life and work Ketten was the son of a Jewish father,

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Henri Maréchal

Henri Maréchal (22 January 1842 – 12 May 1924) was a French composer. Life Born in Paris, Maréchal studied music theory with Émile Chevé and Édouard Batiste and piano with Louis Chollet. On the

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Henri Marteau

Henri Marteau (31 March 1874 – 3 October 1934) was a French violinist and composer. Life and career Marteau's debut was made when he was 10 at a concert given by the Vienna Philharmonic Society

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Henri Martelli

Henri Martelli (25 February 1895 – 15 July 1980) was a 20th-century French composer. Biography Born in Santa Fe, Argentina and raised in Bastia, Martelli was student of Charles-Marie Widor and

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Henri Miro

Henri Enrique Miro (13 November 1879 – 19 July 1950) was a Canadian composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and music critic of Catalan birth. He was a pioneering conductor for Canadian radio and his

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Henri Moreau (composer)

Henri Moreau (15 July 17283 November 1803) was a composer and teacher born in Liège in what is now modern-day Belgium. He studied with Bartolomeo Lustrini and Antonio Aurisicchio and he is known to

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Henri Mulet

Henri Gabriel Mulet (; 17 October 1878 – 20 September 1967) was a French composer, pipe and reed organist, and cellist. Biography Mulet was born on 17 October 1878 in Paris. His father Gabriel Léon

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Henri Nibelle

Henri Jules Joseph Nibelle (6 November 1883 – 18 November 1967) was a French organist, choral conductor and composer. Biography Born in Briare, son and grandson of organists, Henri Nibelle attended

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Henri O'Kelly

Joseph Pierre Henri O'Kelly (23 June 1859 – 15 March 1938) was a Franco-Irish composer, pianist, organist and choir director, based in Paris. A minor composer in the Impressionist school, as a

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Henri Pousseur

Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (; 23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian composer, teacher, and music theorist. Biography Pousseur was born on 23 June 1929 in Malmedy, Liège Province, Belgium,

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Henri Quittard

Henri Quittard (16 May 1864 – 21 July 1919) was a French composer, musicologist and music critic. Biography A musician, composer, musicologist and music critic, Quittard was both the cousin of

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Henri Sauguet

Henri-Pierre Sauguet-Poupard (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989) was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as part of his professional pseudonym. His output includes

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Henri Tomasi

Henri Frédien Tomasi (; 17 August 1901 – 13 January 1971) was a French classical composer and conductor. He was noted for compositions such as In Praise of Folly, Nuclear Era and The Silence of the

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Henri Vieuxtemps

Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps (; 17 February 18206 June 1881) was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the

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Henri-Guillaume Hamal

Henri-Guillaume Hamal (also Hamalle or Amael; 1685, Liège, nowadays in Belgium3 December 1752 (aged 67), Liège) was a Walloon (i.e. a French-speaking native of the Low Countries) musician, musical

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Henri-Jacques de Croes

Henricus Jacobus de Croes, Hendrik Jacob de Croes, known as Henri-Jacques de Croes (baptised 19 September 1705 in Antwerp, died 16 August 1786 in Brussels) was a Flemish composer and violinist. He

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Henri-Joseph de Croes

Henricus Josephus de Croes, Hendrik Jozef de Croes, known as Henri-Joseph de Croes (Brussels, 1748 – Regensburg, 1842) was a Flemish composer and violinist. He was Kapellmeister of the court

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Henri-Louis Blanchard

Henri-Louis Blanchard (7 February 1778 – 18 December 1858) was a French playwright, composer, violinist and music critic. Biography The son of a violinist, he studied with Franz Beck in Bordeaux,

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Henri-Montan Berton

Henri-Montan Berton (17 September 1767 – 22 April 1844) was a French composer, teacher, and writer, mostly known as a composer of operas for the Opéra-Comique. Career Henri-Montan Berton was born the

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Henriette Blanke-Belcher

Henriette Blanke-Belcher (February 16, 1882 – March 1958), also known as Henrietta Blanke-Belcher and later as Henriette B. Melson, was an American composer of popular music, especially waltzes and

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Henriette Renié

Henriette Renié (; 18 September 1875 – 1 March 1956) was a French harpist and composer who is known for her many original compositions and transcriptions, as well as codifying a method for harp that

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Henriette Wienecke

Sigrid Ingeborg Henriette Wienecke ( Stadfeldt; March 13, 1819 – April 18, 1907) was a Norwegian-Danish composer who produced over 140 psalms and musical pieces. Biography Wienecke was born in

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Henrik Åström

Henrik Åström (born 11 January 1980) is a Swedish composer and music producer. He is the son of the Swedish archaeologist Paul Åström and owner of the record label and publishing company A-Stream

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Henrik Carlsen

Henrik Carlsen (born 30 November 1959) is a Danish composer, record producer, singer, and keyboardist. Background Carlsen was born in Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and grew up in Brøndby. He was a

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Henrik Hellstenius

Henrik Hellstenius (born 28 April 1963) is a Norwegian composer and musicologist. Born in Bærum, Norway, Hellstenius studied musicology at the University of Oslo and composition with Lasse Thoresen,

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Henrik Rung

Henrik Rung (March 30, 1807 – December 12, 1871) was a Danish composer. Early life and education Henrik Rung was born in Copenhagen. Rung received training with the Royal Danish Orchestra in

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Henrique Luís Levy

Henrique Luís Levy (1829–1896), alternatively spelled Henrique Louis Levy, was a French clarinetist, composer and businessman. He immigrated to Brazil in 1848 and founded , a leading music store in

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Henrique Oswald

Henrique José Pedro Maria Carlos Luis Oswald (April 14, 1852 – June 9, 1931) was a Brazilian composer and pianist. Biography Oswald was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father was a Swiss-German immigrant

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Henry Barraud (composer)

Henry Barraud (; sometimes Henri; 23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French composer. He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed

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Henry Bishop (composer)

Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (18 November 178730 April 1856) was an English composer from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He is most famous for the songs "Home! Sweet Home!" and "Lo! Hear the

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Henry Brant

Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured

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Henry Bredemers

Henry (Henri, Hendrik) Bredemers (Bredeniers) (c. 1472 – May 20, 1522) was a South Netherlandish organist and music teacher. No compositions by him survive, and his historical importance lies chiefly

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Henry Carey (writer)

Henry Carey (c. 26 August 1687 – 5 October 1743) was an English poet, dramatist and composer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to

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Henry Charles Banister

Henry Charles Banister (13 June 1831 – 20 November 1897) was an English composer, music theorist and author. Banister was born in London, the son of Henry Joshua Banister (1803-1847), a cellist. He

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Henry Christian Timm

Henry Christian Timm (July 11, 1811 – September 5, 1895) was a German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer. Biography Timm was born in Hamburg. He worked in New York City as a concert

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Henry Clay Work

Henry Clay Work (October 1, 1832, Middletown – June 8, 1884, Hartford) was an American songwriter and composer. He is best remembered for his musical contributions to the Union in the Civil War—songs

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Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell (; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, and music teacher. Earning a reputation as an extremely controversial performer and

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Henry Eichheim

Henry Eichheim (January 3, 1870 – August 22, 1942) was an American composer, conductor, violinist, organologist, and ethnomusicologist. He is best known as one of the first American composers to

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Henry Erskine Allon

Henry Erskine Allon (16 October 1864 – 3 April 1897) was an English composer. Biography Henry Erskine Allon was born on 16 October 1864 to the prominent Nonconformist minister Henry Allon (1818–1892)

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Henry Farmer

Henry Farmer (13 May 1819 – 25 June 1891) was a British organist and composer based in Nottingham. Life He was born in Nottingham, the third son of Mr. John Farmer. He was self-taught as a musician,

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Henry Fillmore

Henry Fillmore (December 3, 1881 – December 7, 1956) was an American musician, composer, publisher, and bandleader, best known for his many marches and screamers, a few of which he wrote for the Band

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Henry Fourès

Henry Fourès (born 17 May 1948) is a French historian of music and musician. Life Born in Coursan, Fourès first followed lessons of art history at the Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3 and musical

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Henry Gordon Thunder, Sr.

Henry Gordon Thunder, Sr. (10 February 1832, Tipperary - 15 December 1881, Philadelphia) was an Irish-born American organist, pianist, conductor, composer, music arranger, and music educator. Raised

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Henry Gwiazda

Henry Gwiazda (born 1952, silent i, Polish for star) is a composer who specializes in virtual audio, the simulation of a three-dimensional sound space in either headphones or precisely positioned

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Henry Hiles

Henry Hiles (31 December 1826 – 20 October 1904) was an English composer, organist, writer and music educator. Early life and education Born in Shrewsbury, Hiles was the youngest of six sons and was

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Henry Holden Huss

Henry Holden Huss (June 21, 1862 in Newark, New Jersey – September 17, 1953 in New York City) was an American composer, pianist and music teacher. Huss grew up in New York City, the son of German

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Henry Holmes (composer)

Henry Holmes (7 November 1839 9 December 1905) was a British violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes a violin concerto, several works for solo violin, five

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Henry Hugh Pierson

Henry Hugh Pierson (12 April 1815 – 28 January 1873) was an English composer resident from 1845 in Germany. He was born Henry Hugh Pearson and his middle name is sometimes given as Hugo. His original

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Henry III, Margrave of Meissen

Henry III, called Henry the Illustrious (; c. 1215 – 15 February 1288) from the House of Wettin was Margrave of Meissen and last Margrave of Lusatia (as Henry IV) from 1221 until his death; from 1242

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Henry Jackman

Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1 June 1974) is a British film and television score composer, conductor and arranger. He composed music for films such as Monsters vs. Aliens, Kick-Ass and its sequel,

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Henry Jolles

Henry Jolles (born Heinz-Frederic Jolles; 28 November 1902 – 16 July 1965) was a German pianist and composer. Uprooted from his native Germany by the rise of Nazism, he spent his last quarter-century

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Henry Kawahara

Henry Kawahara (Japanese: ヘンリー川原; 1961–2012), real name Yoshifumi Kawahara (Japanese: 川原義文), was a Japanese composer of avant-garde music. His music was an eclectic blend of experimental electronic,

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Henry Kimball Hadley

Henry Kimball Hadley (20 December 1871 – 6 September 1937) was an American composer and conductor. Early life Hadley was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, to a musical family. His father, from whom

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Henry Lawes

Henry Lawes (baptised 5 January 1596 – 21 October 1662) was the leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century. He was elder brother of fellow composer William Lawes. Life Lawes was the elder son

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Henry Lemoine

Henry Lemoine (21 October 1786 – 18 May 1854) was a French music publisher, composer, and piano teacher. Life Henry Lemoine was born in Paris, to Antoine Marcel Lemoine and his wife. His father was a

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Henry Ley (organist)

Henry George Ley (30 December 188724 August 1962) was an English organist, composer, and music teacher. Early life and education Born in Chagford, Devon, Ley was the son of the Rev. Gerald Lewis

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Henry Litolff

Henry Charles Litolff (6 February 1818 – 5 August 1891) was a French and British virtuoso pianist, composer of Romantic music, and music publisher born in London. A prolific composer, he is today

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Henry Madin

Henry Madin (7 October 1698 – 3 February 1748) was a French composer at the Chapelle royale and music theorist. Biography Madin was born in Verdun, Three Bishoprics of a French mother and an Irish

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Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini ( ; born Enrico Nicola Mancini; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

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Henry Marcellus Higgs

Henry Marcellus Higgs (1855–1929) was a British composer and performer whose early life and entire career was spent in London. His published output includes not only original instrumental, organ and

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (, rare: ; c. 10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a

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Henry Ramsden Bramley

Henry Ramsden Bramley (4 June 1833 – February 1917) was an English clergyman and hymnologist perhaps best known for his collaborations with the composer Sir John Stainer. Along with earlier

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Henry Schoenefeld

Henry Schoenefeld, also spelled Henry Schoenfeld (October 4, 1857 in Milwaukee – August 4, 1936 in Los Angeles) was an American composer. Schoenfeld studied in the German Empire at the Weimar

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Henry Sullivan (composer)

Henry Anthony Sullivan (1895–1975) was a composer, songwriter, and pianist. Early life He attended the Worcester Academy and Dartmouth College. Career In 1929, he wrote his first complete show,

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Henry Thomas Pringuer

Dr. Henry Thomas Pringuer DMus(Oxon), BMus(Oxon), FCO (23 February 1852 – 26 October 1930) was an English composer, organist, and one of the first examiners for Trinity College, London. Pringuer

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Henry Twiselton Elliston

Henry Twiselton Elliston (c. 1801 – 1864), was an English musical composer and inventor. Life Elliston was born in or about 1801, the second son of Robert William Elliston and the nephew of Mary Ann

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Henry Westrop

Henry John Westrop (22 July 1812 – 23 September 1879) was an English organist, violinist and composer. Life Westrop was born in 1812 in Lavenham, Suffolk, and made his first appearance at 13, at the

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Henryk Gold

Henryk Gold (19029 January 1977 in New York City, United States) was a Polish-American composer, arranger, and orchestra director. Early Life and Family Henryk Gold was born in Warsaw into a highly

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Henryk Górecki

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki ( ; ; 6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much

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Henryk Wieniawski

Henryk Wieniawski (; 10 July 183531 March 1880) was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer, and pedagogue, who is regarded amongst the most distinguished violinists in history. His younger brother

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Heraclius Djabadary

Heraclius Alexandres dze Djabadary (, , pseud. Amiran d'Alasany; 17 October 1891 – 18 August 1937) was a Georgian composer and pianist who was active throughout Europe up until the 1930s. Djabadary

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Herbert Baumann

Herbert Baumann (31 July 1925 – 21 January 2020) was a German composer and conductor. His compositions were mainly for theatre and film, at theatres in Berlin and Munich, such as ballet music for

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Herbert Blendinger

Herbert Blendinger (3 January 1936 - 15 May 2020) was an Austrian composer and viola player of German origin. Career Born in Ansbach, Blendinger studied viola and composition with Willy Horwath and

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Herbert Brün

Herbert Brün (July 9, 1918 – November 6, 2000) was a composer and cybernetician. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired several

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Herbert Bunning

George Herbert Bunning (2 May 1863 – 26 November 1937) was an English composer and musical director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He had one opera produced at Covent Garden, but

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Herbert Collum

Herbert Collum (18 July 1914 − 29 April 1982) was a German organist, harpsichordist, composer and conductor. Life Herbert Collum was born in Leipzig, Germany on 18 July 1914. He received high school

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Herbert De Pinna

Herbert De Pinna (1883–1936) was a composer and medical doctor. He was a medicine graduate from Cambridge University who trained at Middlesex Hospital. He opened a hospital in Queensland, but claimed

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Herbert Dillea

Otho Herbert Dilley, better known by his stage and pen name Herbert Dillea, (December 19, 1870, in Guernsey County, Ohio – April 1, 1909, in Senecaville, Ohio) was an American composer, songwriter,

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Herbert Eimert

Herbert Eimert (8 April 1897 – 15 December 1972) was a German music theorist, musicologist, journalist, music critic, editor, radio producer, and composer. Education Herbert Eimert was born in Bad

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Herbert Elwell

Herbert Elwell (May 10, 1898 – April 17, 1974) was an American composer and music critic. A native of Minneapolis, he was (with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson) among the first Americans to study in

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Herbert Howells

Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early

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Herbert Hughes (composer)

Herbert Hughes (16 May 1882 – 1 May 1937) was an Irish composer, music critic and a collector and arranger of Irish folksongs. He was the father of Spike Hughes. Biography Hughes was born and brought

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Herbert J. Ellis

Herbert J. Ellis (4 July 1865 – 13 October 1903) was a banjo player, a mandolinist, guitar player and a composer. Music historian Philip J. Bone called him "without question the most fertile English

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Herbert Menges

Herbert Menges OBE (27 August 190220 February 1972) was an English conductor and composer, who wrote incidental music to all of Shakespeare's plays. Life and career Siegfried Frederick Herbert Menges

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Herbert Prikopa

Herbert "Happi" Prikopa (30 November 1935 – 8 December 2015) was an Austrian television presenter, conductor, operatic tenor, actor, composer, writer, pianist and cabaret artist. Life and career Born

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Herbert Rehbein

Herbert "Herb" Rehbein (15 April 1922 – 28 July 1979) was a German songwriter, composer and arranger of light orchestral music. Together with his friend and collaborator Bert Kaempfert, he was

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Herbert Sandberg (conductor)

Herbert Ludwig Sandberg (26 February 1902 – 7 January 1966) was a Swedish conductor, librettist, and composer of Polish Jewish descent. Life and career Born in Breslau (now Wrocław), Sandberg was the

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Herbert Sanders

Herbert Sanders (20 September 1878 – 18 May 1938) was a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer, music writer, and music educator of English birth. His compositions include numerous sacred

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Herbert Sumsion

Herbert Whitton Sumsion (14 January 1899 – 11 August 1995) was an English musician who was organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1928 to 1967. Through his leadership role with the Three Choirs

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Heriger of Lobbes

Herigerus (c. 925 – 31 October 1007) was a Benedictine monk, often known as Heriger of Lobbes for serving as abbot of the abbey of Lobbes between 990 and 1007. Remembered for his writings as

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Herman Berlinski

Herman Berlinski (18 August 1910 – 27 September 2001) was a German-born American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor. Life Family background; early upbringing Before he was

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Herman David Koppel

Herman David Koppel, known in Denmark as Herman D. Koppel, (1 October 1908 – 14 July 1998) was a Danish composer and pianist of Jewish origin. Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family to

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Herman Laroche

Herman Augustovich Laroche (; also German Avgustovič Laroš; 25 May 1845 in Saint Petersburg – 18 October 1904) was a Russian classical music critic and composer who was renowned throughout Moscow.

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Herman Rechberger

Herman Rechberger (14 February 1947 – 11 January 2022) was an Austrian-born Finnish composer, conductor and musician. Life and career Born in Linz, Allied-occupied Austria, Rechberger studied

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Herman Severin Løvenskiold

Baron Herman Severin Løvenskiold (30 July 1815 – 5 December 1870) was a Norwegian-born Danish composer, most noted for his score for August Bournonville's 1836 version of the ballet La Sylphide for

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Herman Vogt

Herman Vogt (born 9 March 1976 in Drammen) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Vogt studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music under the tutorship of Lasse Thoresen, Olav Anton

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Herman Wohl

Herman Wohl (; 1877–1936) was a Jewish–American composer closely associated with the American Yiddish Theatre. Galicia Wohl was born in Otyniia near Stanislavov (now called Ivano-Frankivsk) in

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Hermann Ambrosius

Hermann Ambrosius (25 July 1897 – 25 October 1983) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Hamburg, Ambrosius came via Magdeburg, Berlin and Chemnitz to Leipzig, where he received his

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Hermann Bischoff

Hermann Bischoff (7 January 1868 in Duisburg – 25 January 1936 in Berlin) was a German composer of classical music. After leaving Leipzig to continue his first studies of music, he met Richard

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Hermann Erdlen

Hermann Erdlen (16 July 1893 – 30 June 1972) was a German composer. Life Born in Hamburg, Erdlen received his musical education at the Bernuth Conservatory in his native town and through studies with

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Hermann Goetz

Hermann Gustav Goetz (7 December 1840 – 3 December 1876) was a German composer who spent much of his career in Switzerland. He is best known for his 1872 opera Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung, based on

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Hermann Grabner

Hermann Grabner (12 May 1886 – 3 July 1969) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. Career Grabner was born in Graz. He studied law at the University of Graz graduating in 1909. In parallel, he

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Hermann Haller (composer)

Hermann Haller (9 June 1914 – 13 August 2002) was a Swiss composer. Life Hermann Haller was born in Burgdorf, Switzerland. His uncle was the sculptor Hermann Haller. After his matura in 1933 he

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Hermann Heiss

Hermann Heiss (29 December 1897 – 6 December 1966) was a German composer, pianist, and educator. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Life Heiss

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Hermann Levi

Hermann Levi (7 November 1839 – 13 May 1900) was a German Jewish orchestral conductor. Levi was born in Giessen, Germany, the son of a rabbi. He was educated at Giessen and Mannheim, and came to

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Hermann Löhr

Hermann Löhr (26 October 1871 – 6 December 1943) was an English composer. He was born in Plymouth, the son of Frederic Nicholls Löhr (1844–1888), a composer of songs and piano works. F N Lohr's piano

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Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg

Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (14 November 1876 in Thamsbrück – 15 May 1956 in Wesel) was a German composer of military marches. Blankenburg was the only son of three children of Johann Heinrich and

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Hermann Necke

Hermann Necke (8 November 1850 – 15 February 1912) was a German composer, conductor, music director, pianist, and violinist of the Romantic period. He is best known for the galop Csikós Post, first

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Hermann of Reichenau

Blessed Hermann of Reichenau or Herman the Cripple (18 July 1013– 24 September 1054), also known by other names, was an 11th-century Benedictine monk and scholar. He composed works on history, music

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Hermann Raupach

Hermann Friedrich Raupach (December 21, 1728 – December 12, 1778) was an 18th-century German composer. Biography Hermann Raupach was born at Stralsund in Germany, the son and pupil of composer and

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Hermann Reutter

Hermann Reutter (; 17 June 19001 January 1985) was a German composer and pianist who worked as an academic teacher, university administrator, recitalist, and accompanist. He composed several operas,

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Hermann Ritter

Hermann Ritter (16 September 1849 in Wismar – 25 January 1926 in Würzburg) was a German viola player, composer and music historian. Biography Hermann Ritter studied violin at the Neue Akademie für

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Hermann Scholtz

Hermann Scholtz (9 June 1845 – 13 July 1918) was a German pianist and composer. Life Born in Breslau, Scholtz first studied with Moritz Brosig in Breslau (harmony) and in 1865 went to the Leipzig

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Hermann Schroeder

Hermann Schroeder (26 March 1904 – 7 October 1984) was a German composer and a Catholic church musician. Life Schroeder was born in Bernkastel and spent the greatest part of his life’s work in the

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Hermann Suter

Hermann Suter (28 April 1870 – 22 June 1926) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Biography Born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel, Stuttgart and Leipzig, under Hans

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Hermann T. Schrader

Hermann Theodor Schrader (1860 – 9 July 1934) was a South Australian pianist, violinist and cellist, who had a later academic career in Victoria. History Hermann was born in Adelaide, South Australia

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Hermann Unger

Gustav Hermann Unger (26 October 1886 – 31 December 1958 ) was a German composer. Life Born in Kamenz, Unger was the son of the travelling theatre director Fritz Unger (1858-1922) and his wife Maria

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Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen

Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen (Göttingen, 12 October 1882 – Munich, 14 June 1954) was a German composer, conductor, teacher and writer. Life and career He was the son of the

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Hermann Zilcher

Hermann Zilcher (18 August 1881 – 1 January 1948) was a German composer, pianist and conductor, and also a music teacher. His compositional oeuvre includes orchestral and choral works, two operas,

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Hernando Franco

Hernando Franco (1532 – November 28, 1585) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, who was mainly active in Guatemala and Mexico. Life Franco was born in Galizuela (now part of Esparragosa de

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Herschel Garfein

Herschel Garfein (born January 17, 1958) is an American composer, librettist, stage director, and faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University, where he teaches Script

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Hershy Kay

Hershy Kay (November 17, 1919 – December 2, 1981) was an American composer, arranger, and orchestrator. He is most noteworthy for the orchestrations of several Broadway shows, and for the ballets he

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Hervé (composer)

Louis-Auguste Florimond Ronger (30 June 1825 – 3 November 1892), who used the pseudonym Hervé (), was a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman, following

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Hervé Roullet

Hervé Roullet (born 7 September 1947) is a composer and French Catholic writer. Biography Roullet was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, on 7 September 1947. He is an engineer from the École

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