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Ira B. Arnstein

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Ira B. Arnstein (born Itzig Arenstein April 12, 1879 – September 13, 1956) was a musical composer, songwriter, and “chronic litigator”. Arnstein was born in Litzingen, Russia (now Letychiv Ukraine), the son of Bernard Solomon Arnstein and Sophia (Sophie) Kozovoc. He emigrated to the United States when he was eleven. Litigation It was noted that Arnstein experienced “copyright infringement persecution mania”, always certain that others were stealing his work. He picketed ASCAP after being rejected by them for membership. In 1937, he launched a major lawsuit against twenty-three composers and publishers simultaneously and lost them all. The jurors were directed that in order to find infringement, a “two-pronged test” must be used. # a plaintiff had to show that the defendant had copied him (using charts or other diagrams) # the plaintiff had to show that the copying was so extensive that it counted as infringement; a layperson must be able to hear the copied songs as essentially similar Arnstein lost that lawsuit and had to pay Porter’s legal fees. He never won any of the many cases he filed. References External links * Unfair to Genius - book about Arnstein’s career by Gary Rosen

Ira D. Sankey

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Ira David Sankey (August 28, 1840 – August 13, 1908) was an American gospel singer and composer, known for his long association with Dwight L. Moody in a series of religious revival campaigns in America and Britain during the closing decades of the 19th century. Sankey was a pioneer in the introduction of a musical style that influenced church services and evangelical campaigns for generations, and the hymns that he wrote or popularized continued to be sung well into the 21st century. Sankey, born in Pennsylvania, was an amateur singer and church worker when he was recruited by Moody in 1870 after the latter heard him sing at a convention. Until Moody died in 1899 the two campaigned together, Moody preaching while Sankey sang both old and new hymns, inspired by writers such as Fanny Crosby and Philip Bliss. Sankey also became a prolific composer of hymn tunes, and a compiler and editor of popular hymn collections, in particular Sacred Songs and Solos and Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs. The proceeds from these publishing ventures were used for a range of charitable purposes. After Moody’s death, Sankey attempted to carry on the work alone but was defeated by ill-health and the eventu

Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

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The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies serves as a museum, research center, and host of lectures and performances devoted solely to the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven. It is the only institution of its kind in North America and holds the largest collection of Beethoven works and memorabilia outside Europe. The center is operated by San Jose State University and the American Beethoven Society. It is located on the fifth floor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, which is located on the San Jose State campus in downtown San Jose, California. History The center was established in 1983 when Ira F. Brilliant, an Arizona real estate developer, donated his collection of Beethoven memorabilia to San Jose State University with the understanding that the material would be used to start a center devoted to Beethoven’s life and works. The center opened to the public in 1985. Collection The center has expanded its holdings over the years through donations and acquisitions, notably the 1987 purchase of the collection of Beethoven scholar William S. Newman, musicologist and emeritus professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reference materials The cent

Iraida Yusupova

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Iraida Yusupova (born February 20, 1962) is a Turkmenistani composer of half Russian half Tatar ethnicity who lives in Moscow, Russia. Iraida Yusupova was born in Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR, and graduated from Moscow Conservatory with a degree in composition in 1987. She has written and composed 3 operas, 2 symphonies, 6 cantatas, 3 instrumental concerts, and a great deal of chamber music, electro-acoustic music, and music for cinema and theater spanning over the late eighties to the present day. Her various styles include minimalism, serialism, and several progressive new age styles. Her music has been performed in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, United States, Switzerland, Turkey and Hungary. Festival participation Mrs. Yusupova has been a continual participant in numerous musical festivals such as Alternative, Moscow Autumn, Moscow forum, and has participated in the music festivals Bach - 2000, White Night’s Stars, Gent-Moscow-Gent, Klang och Rubel, Delphi’s Games, Austrian Cultural Forum, David Oistrakh’s Festival, and the Wean Hean festival. Works *Sonata for oboe and piano (1987) *Concerto for harp with orchestra “Arpa-amplificata” (1987) *Octet in memory of Igor

Irena Kosíková

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Irena Kosíková is a Czech organist and composer. Irena Kosíková was born in Prague the daughter of the banned philosopher Karel Kosík and the literary historian Růžena Grebeníčková. She began her organ studies with Prof. Jan Hora, together with piano lessons given by Prof. Eliška Kleinová and Prof. Arnoštka Grünfeldová. Irena Kosíková studied organ performance (Prof. Jaroslava Potměšilová) and conducting (with Prof. Karel Fiala) at Ježek’s Conservatory. She was refused further studies for political reasons. She took private composition lessons with Prof. Miroslav Raichl. Finally after the Velvet Revolution she was accepted at the Janáček Academy of Music (JAMU) in Brno into the organ class of Prof. Alena Veselá and Prof. Kamila Klugarová. She graduated at the Academy of Music (HAMU) in Prague, under the guidance of Prof. Josef Popelka. Irena Kosíková now gives organ concerts and is also intensively composing. Her works have been performed in the Czech Republic, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Sweden and the United Kingdom. As an organist she specialises in the interpretation of organ works written by Johann Sebast

Irene Britton Smith

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Irene Britton Smith (December 22, 1907 – February 15, 1999) was an American classical composer and educator. Biography Childhood and youth Irene Britton Smith was born on December 22, 1907, in Chicago, Illinois as the youngest of four siblings. She was of African-American, Crow, and Cherokee descent. Adult life Smith wanted to study music at Northwestern University but her family could not afford to send her there. Smith was an advocate of the phono-visual method of teaching reading and Chicago University Press published her monograph on the topic, Methods and Materials for Teaching Word Perception in Kindergarten Through Grade Three, in 1960. Musical activity As a child Smith studied piano with V. Emanuel Johnson and took violin lessons. From 1946 to 1947 Smith took a sabbatical from teaching to complete graduate work at the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied composition with Vittorio Giannini. Works This is a list of works by Smith. Violin * Reminiscence for violin, piano, 1941 * Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1947 (published by Vivace Press in 1996) Piano * Invention in Two Voices, 1940 * Passacaglia and Fugue in C-sharp Minor, 1940 (published by Vivace Press in 2001) *

Irene Cozad

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Irene Cozad (July 4, 1888 – August 2, 1970), later known as Irene Cozad-Sherer, was an American pianist, piano teacher, and composer of ragtime music. Early life Irene Bazelle Cozad was born in Lineville, Iowa, one of the nine children of Joseph Addison Cozad and Olive Jane Vanderbeck Cozad. Her father was a school teacher and worked at a newspaper. Career Cozad played and taught piano in Kansas City, Missouri. “The Minute Circle Whirl” (1916), “Because”, and “Kansas City Town” (1920). The last, “Kansas City Town”, was written for a contest marking the year that the city’s population reached one million. Her compositions are considered an example of the Kansas City Folk Rag genre. Personal life Irene Cozad married Joseph Whitman Sherer, a medical doctor, in 1912. They had a daughter, Jeanne, and a son, Joseph Jr. Her husband died in a car accident in 1940; she died in Kansas City in 1970, aged 82 years. Her compositions are sometimes featured in recordings and performances of ragtime works by women, including the collections Pickles and Peppers (1987) and Fluffy Ruffle Girls: Women in Ragtime (1999), both by Virginia Eskin. References External links * *

Irène Fuerison

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Irène Fuerison, née Van Santen, (8 January 1875 - 26 June 1931) was a Belgian composer. Biography Irène Van Santen was born in Ghent to a tradesman, August Van Santen, and a contralto singer, Florine Lepla, who was a graduate of the conservatoire of Ghent (class of Louis Cabel, 1867) and who performed in public at least until 1878. Irène learned to play piano and maybe to sing as well. In 1893, she married the lawyer Joseph Fuerison and assumed his name. They had one daughter in 1899, named Madeleine. The Fuerisons lived in a mansion in Ghent and, while being fluent in Flemish, belonged to the French-speaking middleclass. They spent the First World War in Ghent. Fuerison was widowed in 1921 after her husband suffered a stroke. She had been visually impaired for several years by then. Fuerison died at her home in Ghent in 1931. She bequeathed a fund for a prize to encourage promising young Belgian composers; the Irène Fuerison-prize is being awarded every two years since 1934. Work Fuerison’s music compositions include over 70 songs for voice and piano, but also a couple of pieces for piano solo and for chamber music, some orchestra works and one music theatre work. Her vocal work i

Irene M. Giblin

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Irene Marie Giblin (August 12, 1888 – May 12, 1974), also known as Irene Giblin O’Brien, was an American pianist and composer of ragtime. She published a total of ten pieces between 1905 and 1911. Her song “Chicken Chowder” of 1905 was her biggest success. Early life Irene M. Giblin was born to Richard T. Giblin, a printer, and Nora Reardon Giblin in 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the eldest of six children. Music Giblin was a popular young woman in the Irish-American community in St. Louis. She worked at music stores Grand Leader and Stix, Baer and Fuller, playing the piano for several hours a day to convince the customers to buy the latest scores. Giblin published a total of ten ragtime songs over a period of six years, from 1905 to 1911. Among them, “Sleepy Lou” and “The Aviator Rag” were popular sellers. However, it was her first rag, “Chicken Chowder” (1905) that was her most successful. She published her last rag in 1911, “The Dixie Rag”. Personal life Giblin married Edward Patrick O’Brien, an accountant for the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, in 1908. They had two sons: Richard in 1911 and Edward Jr. in 1915. Her husband died in 1958; Irene Giblin O’Brien died in 19

Irénée Berge

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Irénée Bergé (February 1, 1867 – July 30, 1926) was a French composer, conductor and instructor who lived in the United States. In spite of confusions between his given name and “Irène”, Bergé was male. Early life and career According to one source he was born in Toulouse although other sources say Paris. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois. Although not mentioned in his obituaries, Berge apparently also was a tenor. In an 1897 performance of Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, a reviewer noted “Irénée Bergé, a young tenor of excellent schooling, whose voice—though not too powerful—had a very agreeable timbre, and a very distinguished performance . He and that of the orchestra….had a grand success.” Before immigrating to the United States he was an assistant conductor at Covent Garden. to teach at the National Conservatory of Music of America. Corsica was written to a libretto by Frederick F. Schrader. It had its premiere in the week prior to November 13, 1910 on a bill with Joseph Carl Breil’s opera Love Laughs at Locksmiths (also with a libretto by Schrader) in Kingston, New York, as part of Breil’s touring opera company. A

Irina Dubkova

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Irina Dubkova () is a Russian composer, music teacher and an associate professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Life Irina Dubkova was born in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). She began composing at the age of five. After finishing music college as a pianist in 1982, she completed the undergraduate course as a composer. She continued the same way her post-graduate studies with professor Roman Ledenyov and in musicology with Yuri Kholopov until 1987. Dubkova has participated in many competitions and festivals. In 1980 she was the winner at the Moscow International Young Composer’s Competition, with Four Romances to the verses of Sergei Yesenin for baritone and piano; in 1982 she won again with her Symphony No. 1 and in 1985 with a vocal cycle for children. In 1987 her «Allegro» for Symphony Orchestra was awarded. From 1982 to 1985 Dubkova worked as a music editor at the USSR State Radio and TV Company. In 1984 she became a member of the Russian Composers’ Union, the International Music Society «Amadeus» and the Russian Association for Piano Duets (Russian Music Society). Teaching From 1996, Dubkova has been teaching at the Composition Department of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 20

Irina Elcheva

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Irina Mikhaylovna Elcheva (; 28 November 1926 – 8 May 2013) was a Russian composer. Biography Her mother, Nadezhda Bogolyubova, was also a composer, music theorist, and pianist, and her father, M.D. Yel’cheva, was a singer. Elcheva was a member of the USSR Union of Composers, the Znanie Society, and the Union of Theatre Workers. Selected works Publications * “On the Development of Musical Memory,” 1953 Orchestral * Simfoniya pamyati pogibshikh v blokadu Leningrada (Symphony in Memory of Those who Perished in the Siege of Leningrad), 1965 * Pechorskiye starinï (Times of Yore in Pechora), suite, 1963 * Piano Concerto, 1968 * Zavadskaya uvertyura (A Factory Overture), 1975 * Ivanovskaya uvertyura (Ivanovo Overture), 1977 Stage * Spartak (Spartacus), opera, V. Chulisov, S. Tsenina, after Giovagnoli, 1961 * Skazka o lenivom bobryonke Tale of the Lazy Beaver (operetta, Yu. Shestalov), 1980 * Riki-Tiki-Tavi (Yel′cheva, after R. Kipling), 1985 * Alen′kiy tsvetochek (The Little Scarlet Flower) (Yel′cheva, after I. Bazhov), 1996 Choral * Russkaya svad′ba (A Russian Wedding), 1966 * Khorovodnïye pesni (Round Songs), 1967 * K novoy zhizni (Towards a New Life) (oratorio, Yu. Shestakov), 1973 *

Irina Hasnaș

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Irina Olga Hasnaș (born 15 July 1954) is a Romanian composer. Life and career She was born in Bucharest, Romania, and studied at the Ciprian Porumbescu Academy of Music with Ștefan Niculescu, Aurel Stroe, , and . She continued her studies with composer , and in 2000 received a doctorate in music from the Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca. After completing her studies, Hasnaș worked as a composer and an editor for Romanian National Radio. Her works have been performed internationally. Works Selected works include: *Concerto for Orchestra (1978) *Evocation, lyric poem for chamber orchestra (1980) *Symphony I, for orchestra (1990) *Metamorphose, for chamber and vocal ensemble (1978) *Melismas, for piano (1979) *Voices of Mioritza, for wind quintet (1980) *Polychomie, for chamber ensemble and tape (1982) *Evolutio I, for clarinet and string quartet (1983) *Evolutio II, for trio – oboe, cello, and piano (1985) *Evolutio III, for string quartet (1988) *Monodie, for solo bassoon (1989) *Games, for solo cello (1993) *Inner Voices, for wind quintet (1994) *Endless Column, for solo flute (1996) *The Musical Box, for trio – clarinet, piano, and violin (2000) *The Rooster, Th

Irina Odagescu

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Irina Odăgescu-Țuțuianu (23 May 1937) is a Romanian music educator and composer. She was a professor at the Bucharest Conservatory, and won the Romanian Composers’ Union Prize and in 2001 the Romanian Academy’s George Enescu Prize. She was also awarded the Italian prize the Viotti-Valesia Prize, and the ‘Ciudad Ibague’ Silver Medal from Columbia, and the IGNM prize at the World Days of Music in Graz. Biography Irina Odăgescu was born on 23 May 1937 in Bucharest, and studied at the Bucharest Music Conservatoire, graduating in 1963. She studied with Alfred Mendelsohn (composition), Tudor Ciortea (musical form), Paul Constantinescu (harmony), Ioan Chirescu (theory) and Alexandru Pascanu (harmony). She also took summer courses with Miriam Marbe on counterpoint, Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. After completing her studies, she spent a year as editor of Editions Musicales de Bucharest, and from 1965 to 1967 was a teacher at Art School N0. 5 in Bucharest. From 1967 she was a professor at the Bucharest Conservatoire. Odăgescu’s works have been performed internationally in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and she has lectured at international conferences held a

Iris Sanguesa

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Iris Sanguesa de Ichasso (née Sanguesa Hinostroza) (born March 3, 1933), known as Iris Sangüesa, is a Chilean composer, pianist and percussionist defined as the first composer in electronic music in her country. Biography Sanguesa was born in Osorno, Chile. She graduated from the Chilean National Conservatory in Santiago in 1959 and received a fellowship to study at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute’s CLAEM (Centro Latinamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales) in Buenos Aires from 1967 to 1968, becoming one of the first women to study at the prestigious institution. At CLAEM, she composed several multimedia pieces and her teachers included Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, German Berner, Jorge Canelo, Augustin Cullel, Alberto Ginastera, Flora Guerra, and Herminia Raccagni. In 2024, the Department of Music at the University of Chile paid tribute to her as “the first Chilean composer in electronic music.” *Sonata (double bass and piano) *El Pianista Chileno (for children) *Mariposas *Pieces for Children *Variations Vocal *“Hymn for Liceo Gabriela Mistral" *“Hymn for Liceo Manuel de Salas” *“Hymn for the Swiss College” References External links *Listen to works by Iris Sanguesa

Iris Szeghy

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Iris Szeghy (born 1956) is a Slovak composer living in Switzerland. Biography Iris Szeghy was born in Prešov, Slovakia. She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Košice and composition at the Music Academy in Bratislava, she ended it with a doctoral degree at the same school. Szeghy went through numerous composer residencies - at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, at the University of California at San Diego, at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam, at the State Opera in Hamburg, at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, she was a scholar of the Landis & Gyr Foundation in London and Budapest etc. Iris Szeghy has won many international composition awards, her work has been performed and broadcast in Europe, America and Australia. Works Szeghy composes for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice. Selected works include: *Hommage à Rodin - Touches with three Statues of the Master 1982 *Musica Dolorosa (String Quartet) 1985 *Minifanfare 1986 *Canto Triste Nocturne for Trombone (Violoncello) and Piano 1986 *Afforismi 1990 *Afforismi II 1992 *Midsummer Night’s Mystery 1992 *Midsummer Night’s Mystery II 1993 *Musica Folclorica - Hommage à Bartók 1996 *A Day in Manhatta

Iris ter Schiphorst

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Iris ter Schiphorst (born 22 May 1956) is a German composer and musician. Early life Iris ter Schiphorst was born in Hamburg into a middle-class family, her father a Dutch technician and her mother a German pianist. She describes music as her “second mother tongue” (“zweite Muttersprache”). She began taking piano lessons, initially from her mother, after her early hopes of becoming a dancer were thwarted by injury. She continued her piano studies at the Bremen Musikhochschule from 1973 to 1978, and embarked on a busy schedule of concert performances. She then spent two years (1978–1980) travelling in Europe and Africa, an experience that transformed her social and musical outlook. On returning to Germany she began playing in rock bands, including Bremen’s all-female Seven Kick the Can. She remained active in rock music from 1980 to 1986, as keyboardist, bassist, drummer, and sound engineer. ter Schiphorst moved to Berlin in 1984 and from 1986 studied humanities (theatre studies, cultural studies, and philosophy) at the Freie Universität Berlin, later transferring to Humboldt-Universität. She also attended seminars with composers Dieter Schnebel and Luigi Nono and musicologist Helga

Irma (singer)

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Irma Pany (born 15 July 1988), better known as Irma (), is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter living in France. Early life and education She was born in Douala in a family with a scientific background. Her father is a biologist and her mother is a pharmacist. As a child Irma was performing at masses too. At age 15, she went to a high school in Paris, France, to improve her school education. In 2008, Irma entered ESCP Europe (Top French Business School) and graduated in the Master in Management in 2012. Career By 2007, she had posted her first videos on YouTube. Those included her own compositions, including “Letter to the Lord” and a piano piece “Somehow”, as well as cover versions of songs including “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5, “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat, and “New Soul” by Yael Naim. She released several home-made videos with acoustic covers on YouTube in collaboration with French and international musicians, including Tété (“Hey Ya!”), Matthieu Chédid (“Rolling in the Deep”), Gad Elmaleh (“Isn’t She Lovely?”), Tom Dice (“Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution”) from Belgium and Patrice (“The Times They Are a-Changin’”) from Germany. Together with will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, she p

Irma Ravinale

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Irma Ravinale (1 October 19377 April 2013) was an Italian composer and music educator. She taught at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Ravinale has received many awards for her compositions, and was awarded the Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the silver medal for merit from the School of Art and Culture in Rome, and a Gold Medal for culture and the arts. Biography Irma Ravinale was born in Naples, Italy in 1937. She studied composition at the Rome Conservatory of Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, also studying piano, conducting and choral music. Ravinale became director of San Pietro a Maijella Conservatory in Naples where she served until 1989 and then Director of the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia where she served until 1999. She is member of the International Honour Committee of the Fondazione Donne in Musica. Her compositions have been performed by leading musicians in Italy and overseas. She was the only woman to win the composition prize at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, which she was awarded in 1966. Ravinale died in Rome, Italy, at the age o

Irma Urteaga

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Irma Urteaga (March 7, 1929 – February 14, 2022) was a composer and pianist from Argentina. Biography Irma Urteaga was born in San Nicholas, Buenos Aires. She began her studies in Paraná (Entre Ríos) and continued in Buenos Aires with Lucrecia María Madariaga Gilardi, Josefa Hernandorena and Jorge Fanelli for piano and Beatriz Gilardo Henandorena y Gilardi for harmony. She graduated in piano in 1959, and continued studying at the same school, graduating in composition in 1971. Her teachers for composition were Roberto Caamaño and Valdo Sciammarella, for instrumentation was Roberto García Morillo, and for history and aesthetics, Carlos Sufern and Alicia Terzian. After ending her studies, Urteaga performed as a concert musician and taught harmony at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and operatic repertoire, vocal negotiation analysis and opera at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. She was Columbus Theatre International Master (1974–1977) and director of an Opera Workshop in 1984. She was hired by the Opera Foundation of Ecuador to organize the lyrics for performances in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca from 1986-1988. Urteaga has been the recipient o

Irmgard Farden Aluli

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“Auntie” Irmgard Keali’iwahinealohanohokahaopuamana Farden Aluli (October 7, 1911 – October 4, 2001) was a Hawaiian composer who wrote over 200 songs. In Hawaii, she was considered a haku mele, or maker of songs. Aluli is considered the most prolific woman composer of Hawaii since Queen Lili’uokalani. She is the fourth person to be honored twice for a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA). She has also been inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame. Biography Aluli was born in Pu‘unoa, Lahaina, on the island of Maui, in the then territory of Hawai‘i, on October 7, 1911. She was born into the large Farden family of Lahaina; one of Hawaiʻi’s foremost musical families. Aluli was one of 13 children (Margaret, Annie, Carl, Bernard, Emma, Maude, Aurora, Diana, Irmgard, Rudolph, Lurina, Edna & Llewellyn “Buddy”). Aluli first started performing publicly with the Annie Kerr Trio in 1925. which was a song she wrote about her childhood home in Lahaina. In the 1960s, she started a group called Puamana. The film features the group and also includes interviews with Aluli. Aluli performed publicly often until she hurt her hand in 1998. In 1998, she was hon

Irmin Schmidt

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Irmin Schmidt (born 29 May 1937) is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the Krautrock band Can and composer of numerous film scores. Following the death of Can’s second lead vocalist Damo Suzuki in February 2024, Schmidt is one of three surviving former members of the band, alongside original vocalist Malcolm Mooney and bassist Rosko Gee. Before joining Can, Schmidt studied composition with composers as György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Henri Pousseur, Earle Brown, and István Kertész. He started work mainly as a conductor performing concerts with the Bochum Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, and the Dortmund Ensemble for New Music. During this time, Schmidt conducted the West German premiere of John Cage’s “Atlas Eclipticalis” with Bochum Symphony Orchestra and performed Cage’s piano piece “Winter Music”. By 1966 Schmidt got a position as Kapellmeister at the Theater Aachen, hired as docent for musical theatre and chanson, and worked at the Schauspielschule Bochum (drama school) teaching vocal technique. Since early 1980s, Schmidt produced soundtrack compositions for such TV and films as Knife in the Head (1978) and Palermo Shooting

Irving Actman

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Irving Actman (June 2, 1907 – September 24, 1967) was an American conductor, musical director and composer. He is known for his work in film and on Broadway musicals, most notably as the music director of the original 1950 production of Guys and Dolls. Career Actman was a conductor, musical director, and composer for various shows. Starting out as the accompanist for the vaudeville actress Lita Grey, he began a long collaboration with Frank Loesser. While performing at a club, The Back Drop, Actman was offered the job of composing the music for the 1936 Broadway revue The Illustrator’s Show. The revue was a failure but, writing in the New York Evening Post, John Mason Brown singled out the Actman song “Bang-the Bell Rang” for praise. Several of Actman’s songs were recorded. Personal life Actman was married to Catherine Hanley, a chorus girl in the Ziegfeld Follies. Their daughter, Jane Actman was an actress. Actman has been described as a heavy, good natured pianist. He accompanied one of Maurice Chevalier’s performances. Theater *The Illustrator’s Show (48th Street Theatre, 1936). Composer. *Earl Carroll’s Sketchbook (Earl Carroll Theatre, 1929). Song composer. *Guys and Dolls (46

Irving Berlin

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Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-born American songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Gerald R. Ford in 1977. The broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite stated he “helped write the story of this country, capturing the best of who we are and the dreams that shape our lives”. Born in Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. His family left Russia to escape pogroms against the Jewish village of Tolochin. He published his first song, “Marie from Sunny Italy”, in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights, and became known as the composer of numerous international hits, starting with 1911’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. For much of his career, Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano player that he could only play in the key of F-sharp; he used his custom piano equipped with a transposing lever when he needed to play in keys other

Irving Fine

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Irving Gifford Fine (December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962) was an American composer. Fine’s work assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. Composer Virgil Thomson described Fine’s “unusual melodic grace” while Aaron Copland noted the “elegance, style, finish and…convincing continuity” of Fine’s music. Fine was a member of a close-knit group of Boston composers in the mid-20th century who were sometimes called the “Boston School.” Other members of the Boston School included Arthur Berger, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Harold Shapero. Life Fine was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied piano, and received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University, where he was a pupil of Walter Piston. Fine was a conducting pupil of Serge Koussevitzky, served as pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and studied composition with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris and at Radcliffe College. From 1939 until 1950, he taught music theory at Harvard and conducted its Glee Club, becoming a close associate of Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland. From 1950, he taught at Brandeis University, where he

Irwin Bazelon

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Irwin Bazelon (June 4, 1922 in Evanston, Illinois – August 2, 1995) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Contemporary American composer Irwin Bazelon’s music is known for its interesting rhythms and its emphasis on the brass and percussion sections. In total, Bazelon composed nine symphonies and over sixty orchestral, chamber, and instrumental works. Some of his most famous works are Short Symphony, Churchill Downs, and Propulsions, which is written for 113 percussion instruments to be played by seven performers. His music is recorded on Composers Recordings, Inc. and on Albany Records. Artists who recorded his music include conductors Harold Farberman and Gianmaria Griglio, soprano Nancy Allen Lundy, pianist Scott Dunn, and percussionists William Moersch, Eliseo Rael, and William Klymus. Bazelon’s music lacks any regular pulse, instead it is characterized by unpredictable syncopation, irregular groupings, unexpected triplets, and off-beat accents. His theme music for NBC News opened the show from 1962 to 1977.Early life Irwin Bazelon was the elder of two sons born to Roy and Jeanette Bazelon. His grandparents emigrated from Russia to the US in the 1890s. Early

Irwin Dash

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Irwin Louis Dash (December 1, 1892 – March 18, 1984) was an American songwriter, music publisher and pianist, who sometimes used the pseudonym Lewis Ilda. Biography He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and published his first composition, “Blue Ribbon Rag”, a ragtime piano piece, in Philadelphia in 1911. By the early 1920s, he formed a songwriting partnership in New York City with Al Dubin and Jimmy McHugh. They wrote “It’s A Man, Ev’ry Time, It’s A Man” (1923, recorded by Marcia Freer); and were joined by Irving Mills to write “Hard Boiled Rose” (1924) and “Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo?” (1925). Dash worked as a songwriter for Leo Feist, and as an accompanist, and regularly worked in London as well as in New York. In the 1930s and 1940s, he published songs and dance music as the proprietor of Irwin Dash Music Co., Ltd., in Denmark Street, London. It was while visiting Dash’s office that singer Vera Lynn came across the song “We’ll Meet Again”, written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, which she then recorded; it became her signature song and epitomised the songs of the Second World War. Dash also wrote songs under the name Lewis Ilda. One of his best remembered songs is “I’ve Got a Love

Irwin Heilner

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Irwin Heilner (May 14, 1908 – January 18, 1991) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. His works are published by American Composers Alliance. Early life and education Heilner was born in New York City, the son of Julius Heilner and Genevieve Stern Heilner. His father was a confectioner, and his mother was a soprano singer. Career In 1932, Heilner was a member of the Young Composers’ Group, which was founded by the composer Elie Siegmeister and at the home of the composer Aaron Copland. Heilner studied briefly with Nadia Boulanger beginning in the late spring of 1932, on the recommendation of Aaron Copland. In 1936, violinist Lea Luboshutz included a composition by Heilner in her Carnegie Hall recital, and his “Suite for Orchestra” was performed by the New York Women’s Symphony Orchestra, also at Carnegie Hall. In 1945, compositions by Heilner were performed at a free concert at the Teachers Union Lounge on Astor Place. His music was conducted and recorded by William Strickland. Heilner also worked as a librarian at the Julius Forstman Library in Passaic, New Jersey. Personal life Heilner was married to Florence Heilner and had two children. He died in 1991, at t

Irwin Leroy Fischer

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Irwin Leroy Fischer (July 5, 1903 ) was an American composer and organist. He was a long-standing Dean of Faculty of the American Conservatory of Music and organist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years. Fischer was also a recording artist, radio performer and author. After being appointed to teach at the American Conservatory of Music in 1928, Fischer also studied with Boulanger in Paris in 1931 and with Kodály in Budapest in 1936. His works were favorable reviewed by notable critics such as the Chicago Tribune’s “fearsome” Claudia Cassidy. Selected publications * Roberts, Stella and Fischer, Irwin (1967), “Handbook of Modal Counterpoint”. Free Press; 1st edition, 160 pages. . * Fischer, Irwin Leroy (1950). “Harmony.” * Hundreds of published musical scores. * Coffee House Music References Further reading * External links * Short Biography * Longer Biography * Chicago Tribune Obituary * Irwin Leroy Fischer’s Music on Spotify *Irwin Fischer Papers at the Newberry Library

Irwin Swack

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Irwin Swack (November 8, 1916 – January 2, 2006) was an American composer of contemporary classical music from West Salem, Ohio. He held degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (where he studied violin, graduating with a B.M. in 1939), the Juilliard School, Northwestern University (master’s degree), He studied with Henry Cowell (at Columbia University), Gunther Schuller (at Tanglewood), Vittorio Giannini (at Juilliard), Paul Creston (at Columbia University), and Normand Lockwood. His music was recorded on the Centaur, CRS, Opus One, and Living Artist Recordings labels. His music is published by Carl Fischer, Shawnee Press, Theodore Presser, and Galaxy Music. His last residence was in Bellmore, New York. Awards and grants * ASCAP Standard Awards * Ford Foundation grant * Meet-the-Composer grant * New York State Council on the Arts grant Works *Duets for Violin and Viola *Fantasie Concertante, string orchestra *Profiles, clarinet, violin and cello *Sonata for Flute and Piano *String Quartet no. 1 *String Quartet no. 2 *String Quartet no. 3 *String Quartet no. 4 *String Quartet no. 5 *Symphony no. 1 *Symphony no. 2 *The Visions of Isaiah, mixed choir and orchestra References Ext

Iryna Kyrylina

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Iryna Yakovlevna Kyrylina (; 25 March 1953 – 4 September 2017) was a Ukrainian composer. She was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied with R.I. Vereschagin at the Kyiv Musical College, and with M.V. Dremlyuga at the Kyiv Conservatory, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she taught at a Kyiv Music School and directed children’s choirs. Since 1982, she has worked as a full-time composer. Honors and awards *Laureate of the Ukrainian Republican Komsomol M.Ostrovsky Prize (1988) *Honored in Arts of Ukraine (1999) *Winner of the Ukrainian President’s Prize (1999) *First Prize International Puppet-Show Competition (1988) *International Children’s Festival Prize (1993–1997) *All-Ukrainian Radio Festival Song of the Year (1998–2001) References

Iryna Vilinska

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Iryna Mykolaivna Vilinska (; 7 September 1920 – 21 or 31 August 1986) was a Soviet and Ukrainian soprano, composer, and music teacher. She was the daughter of Mykola Vilinsky. Biography Iryna Vilinska was born on 7 September 1920 in Odessa. She showed musical talent at a young age. Vilinska was a student of the Odessa Music and Theater Institute’s Department of Labor in 1933–34 and the Odessa Construction Department in 1936, graduating in 1938. In 1939 she transferred to the Odessa Music School and later, in 1941, the Odessa Conservatory. Her family took refuge in Tashkent due to the Second World War, where she maintained close ties with Kseniya Derzhynska. Vilinska moved to Kiev in 1944, where she continued her studies in the Kiev Conservatory under Dometii Yevtushenko. She graduated in 1946. The singer taught at the Glière Music College until 1948. From 1949 she taught at the Kiev Conservatory. Her students included Volodymyr Bohomaz, Anatolii Ponomarenko, Viktor Titkin, and Anatolii Manyachenko. Vilinska was also a capable pianist. She died on 21 August 1986 in Kiev. Other sources give her death date as 31 August 1986. Vilinska was buried at the Baikove Cemetery. Music Vilinska