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Ida Gotkovsky

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Ida Rose Esther Gotkovsky (26 August 1933 – 15 October 2025) was a French composer and pianist. She was a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in France. Early life Gotkovsky was born in Calais on 26 August 1933. Her father was the violinist Jacques Gotkovsky of the Loewenguth Quartet and her mother also played the violin. Both her brother Ivar (a pianist) and her sister Nell (a violinist) became accomplished musicians. Gotkovsky began composing at the age of eight. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where her teachers included Olivier Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger. She won six prestigious first prize music awards for her compositions, including the Prix Blumenthal (1958), Prix Pasdeloup (1959), Prix de Composition Concours International de Divonne les Bains (1961), Médaille de la Ville de Paris (1963), Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris (1966) and the Prix Lili Boulanger (1967). Compositions Gotkovsky’s output includes chamber music, symphonies, instrumental music, vocal music, ballets, and operas. Notably, she has contributed many solo and chamber pieces for the saxophone. Her Concerto for Trombone (1978) has been compared to Messiaen, and

Ida Moberg

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Ida Georgina Moberg (13 February 1859 – 2 August 1947) was a Finnish composer and conductor who particularly focused on choirs and orchestras. She was also heavily influenced by anthroposophy and theosophy, and was active in those circles in Finland. Early life and education Ida Georgina Moberg was born on 13 February 1859 in Helsinki. Her father was an instrument maker. She attended the Svenska fruntimmersskolan i Helsingfors, an alternative Swedish-language girls’ school from 1870 to 1877. Composer and teacher Anna Blomqvist worked at the school, and became a lifelong mentor of Moberg. She also studied with pianist Alie Lindberg and singer Marie Collan. Moberg then studied composition from 1901 to 1905 under Felix Draeseke at Dresden Conservatory, before finishing her musical education at the Dalcroze Institute in Berlin, which she attended from 1911 to 1912. !! Instrumentation - Symphony 1905 Orchestra (lost) - Kalevala fantasy n/a Orchestra (lost) - Awaken / Vaknen! 1900? Male choir and orchestra - Before the struggle / Före striden n/a Choir and strings - Life’s struggle / Lifskamp n/a Male choir and orchestra - Amor mortis n/a Voice and organ - Asiens ljus 1910–1945 Opera (un

Ida Vivado

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Ida Vivado Orsini (1913–1989) was a Chilean pianist and composer. Biography Ida Vivado was born in Tacna, Peru. She graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Chile with a degree in Interpretation in 1941 and took a position on the faculty at the National Conservatory. She continued her studies in composition with Domingo Santa Cruz and Free Focke. She received a scholarship to study in Italy in 1958 and studied instrumentation with Salvador Candianni. After completing her studies, Vivado worked as a composer, and served as president of the National Association of Composers of Chile (ANC) from 1971-73. Vivado married Don Marco Bontá, who died in 1974. She published the article “Alberto Spikin” in Reviste Musical Chilena (April–June 1972). Works Selected works include: *Estudios for piano (1966) *Ocho Trozos, piano for four hands (1974) *Tres Poemsa y una Canzion for voice and piano (1949) *Tres Preludios y Tema con Variaciones for piano (1952) *Suite for piano (1955) *Seis Danzas Antiguas for piano (1955) *Picaresca for voice and orchestra (1977) *Series Alternadas for piano (1986) Her music has been recorded and issued on CD: *Chilean music of the twentieth century, vol.

Idabelle Smith Firestone

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Idabelle Smith Firestone (November 10, 1874 July 7, 1954) was an American composer and songwriter. Biography She was born in Minnesota City, Minnesota, to Eliza B. Allen (18431923) and George T. Smith (18411921), the youngest of five children. Her father was the inventor of a flour milling process that turns out “Patent” and “Half Patent” flour. She learned to play piano and organ as a girl and studied music at Alma College, Ontario. On 20 November 1895, she married Harvey S. Firestone, who had begun the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company five years earlier. She was the mother of Harvey S. Firestone Jr., and Leonard Firestone, the grandmother of Brooks Firestone, and the great-grandmother of William Clay Ford Jr., Andrew Firestone, and Nick Firestone. She was not the only composer in the Firestone family. Her granddaughter Elizabeth Firestone (b. 1922) composed music for the film Once More, My Darling (1949), which starred Robert Montgomery and Ann Blyth. She died in her sleep at her home, Harbel Manor, after a long illness on July 7, 1954, at age 79 in Akron, Ohio. Musical career She became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1948. Her

Idan Raichel

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Idan Raichel (, ; b. 12 September 1977) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician known for his “Idan Raichel Project” (Hebrew: ), distinctive for its fusion of electronics, traditional Hebrew texts, and diverse musical influences. Prior to the project, Raichel was a keyboardist, collaborating with artists such as Ivri Lider. Biography Idan Raichel was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. He began to play the accordion at the age of nine. He was attracted to gypsy music and tango, and studied jazz piano in high school. As the musical director of the band, he learned to do arrangements and produce live shows. Following his military service, Raichel worked as a counselor at Hadassim, a boarding school for immigrants. There he met young Ethiopian Jews who took him to Ethiopian bars and clubs in Tel Aviv and introduced him to Ethiopian folk and pop music, including that of Mahmoud Ahmed, Aster Aweke, and Gigi. Music career After working as a backup musician and recording with some of Israel’s most popular singers, Raichel struck out on his own. He began working on a demo recording in Kfar Saba and invited other singers and musicians to collaborate with him to cr

Idin Samimi Mofakham

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Idin Samimi Mofakham (b. 1982; Persian: آیدین صمیمی مفخم) is an Iranian composer, born in 1982 to Hengameh Mofid and Kambiz Samimi Mofakham. He is married to Polish composer, Martyna Kosecka. Biography He studied contemporary composition at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan with Ashot Zohrabian as his professor. In 2009, his piece “Pastorale” for flute trio won the first prize at the Areon Flutes International Composition Competition. Samimi Mofakham’s compositions have been commissioned or selected and performed in different festivals by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, S.E.M Ensemble, Hermes Ensemble, Omnibus Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Momenta Quartet, IAMA Trio, National Symphonic Orchestra of Uzbekistan, Ostravská Banda, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Nivak Ensemble and Nilper Orchestra, and has been a participant of many interviews and lectures in his home country, covered by one of the most important Iranian music journals, Musice Ma, Music Report Monthly and Musice Iranian. Published by Tehran Records in 2017 album “Concertos” has been nominated in 2017 for the Musicema Awards in the category of the best album of the year. His chamber opera At the Waters of Leth