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Hi Kyung Kim

Hi Kyung Kim (; born 1954) is a South Korean composer. Life Hi Kyung Kim was born in South Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University with a BA and the University of California, Berkeley,

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Hiba Kawas

Hiba Al Kawas (; born 17 July 1972) is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic. BIography Hiba Al Kawas was born on 17 July 1972 in Sidon, Lebanon, to a Sunni Muslim family. Career

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Hidemaro Konoye

Viscount was a Japanese conductor and composer of classical music. He was the younger brother of pre-war Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. Biography Konoye was born in Kōjimachi, Tokyo. He was

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Hideyuki Fukasawa

is a Japanese composer, best known for his work on the video game Street Fighter IV. Career Born in Tokyo, Fukasawa began learning piano when he was in elementary school. At the age of 10, he

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Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl

Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl (May 11, 1694 – March 27, 1739) was a German composer and organist. Life and career Quehl was born in Zella, Holy Roman Empire, the son of a parish clerk. He was a gifted

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Hieronymus Payer

Hieronymus Prayer (13 February 1787 in Vienna-Meidling – 17 August 1845 in Vienna-Meidling) was an Austrian composer and st. Life and career Hieronymus (Jérome) Payer was the son of a teacher. As a

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Hieronymus Praetorius

Hieronymus Praetorius the Elder (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are

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Hifumi Shimoyama

Hifumi Shimoyama ( Shimoyama Hifumi; born 21 June 1930 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese composer of contemporary concert music. Since the 1960s, Shimoyama's music has been regularly

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Hijiri Kuwano

is a Japanese violinist, composer and arranger. Hijiri began taking violin lessons at age 6 and studied under Yonosuke Ishii, Shizuko Ishii and Chikashi Tanaka. While attending Tokyo University of

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Hikari Ōe

is a Japanese composer. He is the son of Japanese author and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe and Yukari Ikeuchi, and the nephew of director Juzo Itami. Biography Hikari Ōe was born autistic and

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Hikaru Hayashi

was a Japanese composer, pianist and conductor. Hayashi is considered to be one of the most renowned and accomplished Japanese composers of the postwar period. In particular, Hayashi was noted for

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Hilda Dederich

Hilda Dederich (1901–1969) was an English pianist, composer and piano teacher. She was a child prodigy and was the youngest of the pupils of Tobias Matthay. She was taught by Hedwig McEwen at the

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Hilda Dianda

Hilda Fanny Dianda (born 13 April 1925) is an Argentinian composer, musicologist, music educator and conductor. Early life Hilda Dianda was born in Córdoba, Argentina on 13 April 1925. She began her

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Hilda Emery Davis

Hilda Emery Davis (; November 1, 1895 – September 20, 1995) was an American composer and pianist, mainly active in Philadelphia. She was also married to famous orchestra leader Meyer Davis and was

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Hilda Pires dos Reis

Hilda Pires dos Reis (10 October 1919 - 2001 ) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, educator and pianist. Pires dos Reis was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Narciza Aires dos Reis Pires and

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Hilda Sehested

Hilda Sehested (27 April 1858 – 15 April 1936) was a Danish composer. Biography Hilda Sehested was born in Funen, Denmark, of parents Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested (1813–82), an archaeologist, and

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Hilda Tablet

Hilda Tablet is a fictitious "twelve-tone composeress" created by Henry Reed in a series of radio comedy plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Third Programme. Hilda is the inventor of

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Hilda Wilson

Hilda Wilson (7 April 1860 – 10 December 1918) was a British contralto and composer who also used the name Matilda Ellen Wilson and composed under the name Douglas Hope. Life Wilson was born into a

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Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (, ; ; c. 109817 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer,

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Hildegard Quiel

Hildegard Quiel (23 April 1888 - 14 July 1971) was a German composer and pianist who wrote music for instruments, voice, and the theatre. She composed 25 lieder based on texts by Hermann Hesse. Life

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Hildegard Westerkamp

Hildegard Westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist. She is known for her contributions to and development of acoustic

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Hilding Hallnäs

Hilding Hallnäs (24 May 1903 – 11 September 1984) was a Swedish composer. Hallnäs was married to the actress Gun Holmquist. Life and career Hallnäs was born in Halmstad, Sweden, in 1903. His father

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Hilding Rosenberg

Hilding Constantin Rosenberg (June 21, 1892 – May 18, 1985) was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly regarded as the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential

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Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir

Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (born 1993) is an Icelandic artist, musician and composer whose practice spans performance, installation, and sound, and explores storytelling and immersive spatial

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Hildur Guðnadóttir

Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing

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Hinako Takagi

Hinako Takagi (born 1989) is a Japanese composer and pianist. She is a lecturer in composition at the Osaka College of Music. In 2019, she became the second Japanese to win first prize in the

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Hiro Fujikake

Hiroyuki Fujikake (born 1949), also known by his pen name Hiro Fujikake, is a Japanese composer, conductor and synthesizer player. Life Hiro Fujikake was born in 1949 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In

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Hiroaki Tsutsumi

is a Japanese musician and composer best known for his work on various anime television series. He started his musical career at the age of 14 when he first started playing the guitar. After winning

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Hiroaki Zakōji

was a Japanese composer and pianist. Biography He was born in Tokyo on January 20, 1958. He was brought up in Asahikawa, Hokkaido from the age of 4 and lived there until he was 20 years old. He

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Hiroki Kikuta

is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music

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Hiromori Hayashi

was a Japanese composer credited with composing the Japanese national anthem "Kimigayo". Life and career He held several positions in the royal court starting in his youth. He moved to Tokyo after

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Hiroshi Asai

(born 26 April 1978) is a Japanese arranger, musician and composer for the Giza Studio label. He is a former member of band The★tambourines. Since 2012 he is a member of the instrumental band

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Hiroshi Itsuki

is a Japanese singer and composer. As of 1987, he had sold 20 million singles and 4 million LP albums. Itsuki is usually regarded as an enka singer, but he has also released a cover version of

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Hiroshi Kawaguchi (composer)

is a Japanese video game music composer and keyboardist who works for Sega. He is among the oldest of the Sega sound team members, and one of the few from the 1980s still active today. He joined Sega

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Hiroyuki Yamamoto (composer)

is a contemporary Japanese composer. Biography Hiroyuki Yamamoto was born in Yamagata Prefecture and grew up in Zushi, Kanagawa. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and graduated in 1990.

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Hisatada Otaka

Hisatada Otaka (Japanese: 尾高尚忠; 26 September 1911 – 16 February 1951) was a Japanese composer and conductor. He was the conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra from 1942 to 1951. Otaka was born in

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Hisato Ohzawa

(August 1, 1907—October 28, 1953) was a Japanese composer and conductor. Renewed interest in his work reflects the view that he was one of the preeminent Japanese composers of his day. Biography One

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Hisham Kharma

Hisham Kharma () is an Egyptian music producer and creative director. He is known for his live concerts in the Cairo Opera House, his 2012 album AlyaQeen, the soundtrack for The End, and his

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Hitomi Kaneko

Hitomi Kaneko (金子 仁美) is a female Japanese classical music composer. Background Born in Japan in 1965, Ms. Kaneko graduated from the composition class at Toho Gakuen School of Music in 1988, and

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