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Composers whose names start with IS.
Iša Krejčí
Iša František Krejčí (10 July 1904 – 6 March 1968) was a Czech neoclassicist composer, conductor and dramaturge. Life Krejčí was born in Prague. He studied history and musicology at Charles
Read → 21st CenturyIsa Melikov
Isa Melikov (, born 21 October 1980, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a famous Azerbaijani composer and producer. He is the author of numerous musical projects, hit songs and soundtracks to movies. The
Read → Late RomanticIsaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso composer, conductor, and pianist. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also
Read → EntryIsaac Gorni
Isaac Gorni (or Isaac ben Abraham haGorni) was a late thirteenth-century Hebrew lyric poet from Aire-sur-l'Adour in Gascony, then ruled by the English Prince Edward. Isaac probably left Gascony
Read → RomanticIsaac Heymann
Isaac H. Heymann (26 March 1829 – 9 August 1906), also known as the Gnesener Ḥazzan, was a Dutch cantor and composer. Biography Isaac Heymann was born in Auras, Silesia. He was raised in Bialystok,
Read → 20th CenturyIsabel Aretz
Isabel Aretz (14 April 1909 – 2 June 2005) was an Argentine–Venezuelan researcher, writer, ethnomusicologist and composer. Early years Isabel Aretz was born in Buenos Aires. She was educated at the
Read → Late RomanticIsabel Güell i López
Isabel María Francisca de Paula Luisa Clementina Güell y López (Barcelona, November 23, 1872 - Barcelona, May 8, 1956), Marquess of Castelldosrius, was a Spanish composer of religious works, as well
Read → 20th CenturyIsabel McNeill Carley
Isabel McNeill Carley (4 December 1918 – 14 July 2011) was a published writer, editor, composer and music teacher. She is considered one of the leaders of the Orff Schulwerk when it began to take
Read → 21st CenturyIsabel Mundry
Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer. Life and work Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern, Hesse in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music,
Read → 21st CenturyIsabel Soveral
Isabel Soveral (born 1961) is a Portuguese composer of contemporary music. Life Isabel Soveral was born in 1961 in Porto, Portugal. She graduated from the where she studied with the composers Jorge
Read → BaroqueIsabella Leonarda
Isabella Leonarda (6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the
Read → Post-WarIsabelle Aboulker
Isabelle Aboulker (born 23 October 1938) is a French composer, particularly known for her operas and other vocal works. In 1999, she gained a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and in 2000 the
Read → 20th CenturyIsabelle Delorme
Isabelle Delorme (4 November 1900 – 20 February 1991) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. As a composer, her works are lyrical in nature and follow more traditional ideas of harmony
Read → 20th CenturyIsadore Freed
Isadore Freed (March 26, 1900 – November 10, 1960) was a Jewish composer of Belarusian birth. Biography Born in Brest-Litovsk, in what is now Brest, Belarus, Freed's family emigrated to the United
Read → Late RomanticIsaiah Burnell
Isaiah Burnell (1871–1951) was a British music teacher and composer whose musical activities were mostly centred around his adopted home town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Burnell was born in
Read → EntryIsaiah the Serb
Isaiah the Serb (Serbian Cyrillic: Исаија Србин/Isaija Srbin) was a Serbian Orthodox hieromonk and composer of chants who flourished in the second half of the 15th century. Along with Kir Joakim, Kir
Read → 20th CenturyIsang Yun
Isang Yun, or Yun I-sang (; 17 September 1917 – 3 November 1995), was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany. Early life and education Yun was born in Sancheong (Sansei),
Read → 20th CenturyIsao Hayashi
was a Japanese popular music and military music singer and composer. He took part in the Japan's famous year-end show Kōhaku Uta Gassen eleven times. One of the well-known songs composed by him is
Read → Post-WarIsao Tomita
(often known simply as Tomita) was a Japanese composer regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music as well as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer
Read → Late RomanticIsidor Bajić
Isidor Bajić () (16 August 1878 – 15 September 1915) was a Serbian composer, teacher, and publisher. Biography He was born in Kula, Austro-Hungarian Empire. A pupil of Hans von Koessler in Budapest,
Read → RomanticIsidor Seiss
Isidor Wilhelm Seiss (23 December 184025 September 1905) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, piano pedagogue and philanthropist. His surname also appears as Seiß, and his first name also
Read → 21st CenturyIsidora Žebeljan
Isidora Žebeljan (27 September 1967 – 29 September 2020) was a Serbian composer and conductor. She was a professor of composition at the Belgrade Music Academy and a Fellow of the Serbian Academy of
Read → Early RomanticIsidora Zegers
Isidora Zegers Montenegro (also known as Isidora Zegers de Huneeus or Isidora Zegers; 1 January 1803 – 14 July 1869) was a Spanish musician and composer. She is known for her contributions to Chilean
Read → ClassicalIsidore Bertheaume
Isidore (or Julien) Bertheaume (ca. 1752 – 20 March 1802) was a French classical composer and violinist. Biography Born in Paris, Bertheaume was a child prodigy. He was the nephew of violinist
Read → RomanticIsidore Legouix
Isidore Edouard Legouix (1 April 1834 – 15 September 1916) was a 19th-century French composer. Biography Isidore Legouix was the eldest son of the music publisher and bookseller Onesimus Legouix
Read → Late RomanticIsidore Lillian
Isidore Lillian (Yiddish: איזידאָר ליליען Izidor Lilien) (c. 1882 - 1960) was an actor, songwriter, playwright, and composer who was a leading figure in the New York Yiddish Theatre for the first
Read → 20th CenturyIsmail Marzuki
Ismail Marzuki (also known as Bang Ma'ing; 11 May 1914 – 25 May 1958) was an Indonesian composer, songwriter and musician who wrote around 202 to 240 songs between 1931 and 1958, including numerous
Read → 21st CenturyIsobel Waller-Bridge
__NOTOC__ Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge (born 23 April 1984) is an English composer who is known for her scores for film, television, and theatre, along with her works for electronic music and
Read → 20th CenturyIsotaro Sugata
Isotaro Sugata (Japanese: 須賀田礒太郎 Sugata, Isotaro; Yokohama, 15 November 1907 – Tanuma, Tochigi, 5 July 1952) was a Japanese composer. Biography Sugata received his education with missionaries in
Read → 20th CenturyIsrael Citkowitz
Israel Citkowitz (6 February 1909 – 4 May 1974) Early life Israel Citkowitz was born on 6 February 1909 into a Jewish family in Skierniewice, Poland, the first of two children to Ida Frankon and
Read → Late RomanticIsrael Goldfarb
Israel Goldfarb (; c. 1879 – February 13, 1967) was a Galician-born American rabbi, cantor, and composer. He led Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn for more than fifty years, and was a
Read → Post-WarIsrael Kantor
Israel Kantor, also known as Israel Sardinas, Wilfredo Israel Sardinas, and Wilfredo Israel Sardiñas Domínguez, (16 October 1949 – 1 July 2006) was a Cuban-born musician and composer who later lived
Read → RomanticIsrael Meyer Japhet
Israel Meyer Japhet (7 March 1818—10 November 1892) was a teacher, choir director, and grammarian. He was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt am Main under Rabbi Samson
Read → 21st CenturyIsrael Sharon
Israel Sharon (; born in Tel Aviv, 25 May 1966) is an Israeli composer, pianist, arranger, conductor and a teacher in Israel Arts and Science Academy. As a young man Israel Sharon studied piano with
Read → 20th CenturyIssa El-Saieh
Issa Joseph El-Saieh (February 22, 1919 – February 2, 2005), also known as Maestro, was a Haitian saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, arranger, businessman, gallerist and art collector of
Read → Post-WarIssak Tavior
Isaak Tavior () was a pianist, composer and conductor. He was born in Haifa , Israel on 18 September 1943 to Rosa and Avraham Vichodetz. Tavior was the recipient of the Prize for Creativity in the
Read → 21st CenturyIssam Rafea
Issam Rafea, also written Essam Rafea (, born 1971 in Kuwait), is a Syrian musician, music director and composer, noted for his compositions and performances on the Arabic oud, as former director of
Read → Post-Warİstemihan Taviloğlu
İstemihan Taviloğlu (15 April 194517 March 2006) was a Turkish composer and a music educator. He's most known piece is the Clarinet Concerto which happens to be the first ever Clarinet Concerto
Read → 20th CenturyIstván Anhalt
István Anhalt (April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer and teacher. Anhalt served as a professor of music at McGill University and founded the McGill University
Read → Post-WarIstván Láng
István Láng (; 1 March 1933 – 23 October 2023) was a Hungarian composer, academic teacher and member of the board for international music organisations. Besides freelance composing, he worked as an
Read → Post-WarIstván Sárközy
István Sárközy (26 November 1920 – 6 July 2002) was a Hungarian classical composer, music critic, editor and academic teacher. His compositions date from the 1940s to 1979, and include works for
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