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Iša Krejčí

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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 University and concurrently piano playing with Albín Šíma and composition at the Prague Conservatory with Karel Boleslav Jirák and Vítězslav Novák and conducting with Václav Talich. He worked for the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava in 1928–32, Czech Radio in 1934–45, Olomouc Opera in 1945–58, and Prague National Theatre since 1958. As a conductor, he concentrated especially on the contemporary French repertoire and Igor Stravinsky’s compositions. His reputation as a composer was established in 1925 with a Divertimento (or Cassation) for four wind instruments. With this work, based on Classical forms, he became known as a Czech representative of neoclassicism . He wrote the operas Antigone (“Antigona”, after Sophocles, 1934) and An Uproar in Efes (“Pozdvižení v Efesu”, after Shakespeare, 1943) as well as four symphonies. He died in Prague. Selected works Stage works * Small Ballet, to the theme of Pantomime by Vítězslav Nezval, also as a composition for chamber orchestra (1926) * Pozdvižení

Isa Melikov

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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 list of celebrities singing his songs include leading stars of Azerbaijan as well as vocalists from CIS and Europe such as Dima Bilan, Eldar Gasimov, Nikki Jamal, Glenys Vargas, Kevin Etienne, Elli, Aysel, Gunesh, Zulfiyya Khanbabayeva, Aygün Kazımova, Elnara, Röya, Elşad Xose, Sevda Alekperzade, Manana, Faig Aghayev, Tunzala Agayeva, Zamig Huseynov, Malik Kalantarli, etc. Biography He was born in 1980, October 21 in Baku. The parents of the future composer taught him love for music from a very early years of his life. Even as a child Isa knew by heart the lyrics of many international hits and by the age of 6 he already was trying to perform them on the piano. In 1987, he went to the secondary school #189 in Baku. In 1990 he became a student of the Baku musical school #1 named after Vagif Mustafazade. In 1995 he entered the Musical College named after Asaf Zeynalli. Afterwards, in 1997 he entered the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, and graduated with honors in the special

Isaac Albéniz

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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 exerted a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works that incorporate Spanish folk music idioms and elements. His compositions, particularly his suite Iberia (1905–1908), are considered masterpieces and have influenced both European classical music and Spanish nationalism. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of ‘98. Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Córdoba, Cataluña, Mallorca, and Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the guitar. Some of Albéniz’s personal papers are held in the Library of Catalonia. Biography In 1860, Albéniz was born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz (a customs official) and his wife, Maria de los Dolores Pascual. He was a child prodigy, first performing at the age of 4. His sister claimed that by the age of three Albéniz knew “his scales and arpeggios, and would play full of expressi

Isaac Gorni

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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 before the Jews were expelled by a royal edict of 1287, perhaps in 1275, 1281, or 1282, when heavy taxes were collected from the Jews. His surname derives from the Hebrew goren, “threshing floor”, the Occitan for which is aire, as in his birthplace. He wrote a song dedicated to the citizens of Aire, recalling both the “lords who stand in the breach in times of her distress” and the Jewish intellectuals, but not referring to any exile. It probably therefore predates 1287, but it already demonstrates Isaac’s penchant for pomposity: comparing Aire and Jerusalem, he suggests that the Messiah, if he knew that Isaac was born in Aire, would choose to be born there as well. He was not always successful, and his poems often record the ingratitude he encountered. Eighteen of his works have survived, all in one manuscript. They belong to the tradition of the troubadours and courtly love. Two of these have been translated into English: “Gorni Pleads His Cause” and “The Fate of the Adulterer”. The first

Isaac Heymann

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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, where he received his first musical training from his father, the cantor Pinḥas Heymann. He had a natural talent for singing, and as a young boy he performed successfully as a tenor in various synagogues in Russia, Galicia, and Prussia. After having made several tours through Hungary, Heymann served as cantor in Filehne, Graudenz, and Gnesen. In 1856 he was elected chief cantor for the Jewish congregation of Amsterdam, which position he held until his death fifty years later. He was naturalized as a Dutch citizen in 1881. In addition to his duties as cantor, Heymann obtained a diploma as a composer from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne. He composed numerous synagogal melodies, including Shire Todah la-El, a collection of hymns dedicated to Queen Wilhelmina on the day of her coronation. Heymann was highly respected in his profession. He was celebrated on several occasions for his contributions to music and the Jewish community, including on the occasion of his 25th, 40th, and 50th ann

Isabel Aretz

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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 National Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts, studying pedagogy, piano with Rafael González and harmony, counterpoint and composition with Althos Palma. She earned a doctorate in music from the Catholic University of Argentina in 1968. Career After completing her initial studies, Aretz became a senior lecturer at the National Conservatory and began work as an ethnomusic researcher and composer. In 1937 her orchestral work Punto premiered at the Teatro Cervantes. In the next decade, she collected and recorded traditional music, traveling in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. In 1947 she married Venezuelan musician and writer Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera. She was asked that same year to organize the music section of the Folklore Research Service established in Venezuela, and she continued her research on folk music there. The Escuela Nacional de Danzas de Argentina appointed her a professor of ethnomusicology in 1950. She was the first person at the school to hold t

Isabel Güell i López

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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 as a pianist and organist. She composed approximately 34 works. Early life and education Isabel María Francisca de Paula Luisa Clementina Güell y López was born in Barcelona on November 23, 1872. Her mother was Isabel López Bru, born in Cuba (daughter of the first Marquess of Comillas, Antonio López y López); her father was Eusebi Güell, first Count of Güell. Isabel had a cousin, Sister Eulalia Anzizu. She began her studies with Josep García Robles, composer of her father’s court. She studied with her aunt, Josefa Bacigalupi, and later studied piano and organ in Barcelona and Paris. Her main dedication was charity and benevolence, as befitted a woman of her social class in that era. Personal life Isabel’s father, a patron of Antoni Gaudí, commissioned works such as the Palau Güell and Park Güell. From 1939 onwards, she devoted herself to her grandchildren, giving them music and French lessons. She died in Barcelona on May 8, 1956, and was buried in the family pantheon of Dosrius (Mataró

Isabel McNeill Carley

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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 hold in the United States in the 1960s. As a co-founder of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA), Carley contributed greatly to the organization’s beginnings, serving as a board member and magazine editor. Carley devoted much of her life to musical instruction, publishing a series of books titled Recorder Improvisation and Technique. Carley died on 14 July 2011, at her home in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Early life and education Daughter of John T. and Netta H. McNeill, Isabel McNeill was born on 4 December 1918, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up there and in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For the next ten years, she and her family lived in New York, Oregon and Texas. In 1953, they moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. Carley completed a three-year education program in one year and earned a Specialist Diploma with honors to become the first American honors graduate at the institute. Philosophical views In her classes from pre-school to adult, Carley taught the importance of improvisation, speech

Isabel Mundry

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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, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt with Hans Zender and later researched at the IRCAM in Paris. In addition to her teaching activities in Berlin, she held teaching appointments in Zürich and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Mundry was the first resident composer of the Staatskapelle in Dresden. She previously held a similar position at the Tong Yong Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Mannheim National Theater. Mundry’s compositions are characterized by a highly individualized musical language, full of variants and nuances: “She hardly ever repeats herself; each time, sounds and sequences of sounds are articulated differently.” Isabel Mundry’s work is currently published by Breitkopf & Härtel. She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014. Awards * Boris Blache

Isabel Soveral

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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 Peixinho and Joly Braga Santos. In 1988, she attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel, having completed her master’s (1991) and PhD (1994) in Composition at that university. She was a Fellow of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation and Fulbright Program. She is part of an important group of Portuguese composers who appeared in the 1980s. Career Her music has been performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Macao, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and the United States. She has had several works released on CD by the publishers Portugalsom and Strauss, EMI Classics, Nova Música, Capella, Deux-Elles, Numérica, ISCM-WMD, Miso Records, Plancton, IPCB and Musicamera, as well as scores published by Musicoteca, Fermata, Cecilia Honegger, IPCB and MIC. She has been Professor of Composition, Theory and Musical

Isabella Leonarda

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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 remainder of her life. Leonarda is most renowned for the numerous compositions that she wrote during her time at the convent, making her one of the most productive female composers of her time. Biography Isabella Leonarda was born on 6 September 1620, the daughter of Giannantonio Leonardi and his wife, Apollonia. The Leonardi were an old and prominent Novarese family whose members included important church and civic officials and knights palatine. Isabella’s father, who held the title of count, was a doctor of laws. Leonarda was a highly regarded composer in her home city, but her music was apparently little known in other parts of Italy. Lazzaro Agostino Cotta called her “la Musa novarese” (the muse of Novara) when he published a sonnet by A. Saminiati Lucchese which praised her musical talent, comparing it to the military prowess of Emperor Leopold I. Her published compositions span a period of 60 years, beginning with the dialogues of 1640 and concluding with the Motetti a voce sola o

Isabelle Aboulker

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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 music prize of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques for her numerous lyric pieces. Life and work Isabelle Aboulker was born in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt. Her father was the Algerian-born film director and writer Marcel Aboulker and her maternal grandfather was the composer Henry Février. While following a course in composition and keyboard studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, she started composing for the theatre, the cinema and television. She then worked for the Conservatoire as their chief accompanist and voice teacher and authored several educational works. In 1980, she turned to composing operas and subsequently many other vocal works. Because of her work with children, Isabelle Aboulker made a particular speciality of composing pieces, which would appeal to them or in which they could participate, as they do in Les Fables enchantées (2004), based on the work of Jean de la Fontaine. Other subjects have included Beauty a

Isabelle Delorme

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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 as opposed to the avant-garde music that was in vogue in her day. She was an active recitalist but is best remembered for her impact as a teacher of music theory. Career Delorme was born in Montreal. She began her professional studies at the École supérieure de musique d’Outremont with Sister Madeleine-Marie. She later studied privately with pianist Arthur Letondal and violinists Albert Chamberland and Agostino Salvetti. In 1918 she earned a teaching certificate from the Académie de musique du Québec. Delorme developed an interest in music composition in the late 1920s, and pursued formal training in this area with Claude Champagne from 1929 to 1939. She later studied with Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau during the summers of 1955 and 1956. She wrote a modest body of symphonic works, piano works, and chamber music between 1940 and 1960, all of which remain unpublished. However, several of her pieces were played by the CBC Montreal Orchestra for broadcasts

Isadore Freed

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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 States when Freed was three years old and settled in Philadelphia, where his father owned a music store. Freed began playing piano at age seven, and began composing at age nine. Freed’s formal music education was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor’s degree at the age of 18. After graduation from Penn, Freed briefly held a teaching post at The Curtis Institute of Music. In 1924, he married Riva Hoffmann, a dancer in Isadora Duncan’s troupe. Following this Freed went to Berlin where he briefly studied piano with Josef Weiss, and then to Paris where he studied composition with Ernest Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Louis Vierne and Vincent d’Indy. He also studied piano with Józef Hofmann and George Bayle, and organ with Rollo Maitland. Freed returned to the United States in 1934, and shortly after he was employed by the composition department at Temple University from the mid-1930s until the mid-1940s, but sources disagree as to the dates of his appointment. In 1944, Freed

Isaiah Burnell

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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 Yorkshire. He become a member of the Royal College of Organists at the age of 18. By the turn of the century he was living and working in Bromsgrove, where he stayed for the following fifty years until his death. He was Director of Music and mathematics at Bromsgrove School from 1907 for 25 years and musical director and conductor of the Bromsgrove Musical Club. Burnell began corresponding with Edward Elgar from 1914 and on several occasions Elgar attended concerts organized by him. Burnell put on performances of Elgar’s Caractacus in 1914 and King Olaf in 1929 at the Bromsgrove Town Hall. Adrian Boult conducted a piece by Burnell with the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1928. His compositions include the Passiontide cantata For Us Men (1939) for soloists, chorus and organ, advertised by his publishers Novello as an alternative to John Stainer’s Crucifixion, and written in much the same simple, popular and direct style. His best known work was the anthem Surely the Lord is in this place, writ

Isaiah the Serb

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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 Stefan the Serb, Nikola the Serb he faithfully followed Byzantine musical tradition, writing in the late kalophonic style of the 14th and 15th centuries. Life and works Isaiah worked in the Matejče Monastery, near Kumanovo (in modern North Macedonia). He was a prolific author of acolouthias (in Old Church Slavonic послѣдованиѥ). Each acolouthia was an anthology of liturgical chants and psalm settings, both his own and others’. Isaiah was a very well-educated composer of both bilingual and purely Greek hymns. His masterpiece, Serbian Polyeleos, appears in two manuscripts, one version with a Serbian recension of the text, the other with a Greek. The existence of Greek and Slavonic settings in his works shows that Serbian services were commonly bilingual. He was also the author of the bilingual Trisagion. Many of his works are short syllabic hymns honouring the Serbian saints. Isaiah’s melodies, some syllabic and others more melismatic, demonstrate his inventiveness and ability to introdu

Isang Yun

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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), Korea in 1917, the son of poet Yun Ki-hyon. His family moved to Tongyeong (Tōei) when he was three years old. He began to study violin at the age of 13 whereupon he composed his first melody. Despite his father’s opposition to pursuing a career in music, Yun began formal music training two years later with a violinist in a military band in Keijō (present day Seoul). Eventually his father relented once Yun agreed to enroll in a business school while continuing his musical studies. In 1935 Yun moved to Osaka where he studied cello, music theory, and composition briefly at the Osaka College of Music. He soon returned to Tongyeong where he composed a “Shepherd’s Song” for voice and piano. In 1939 Yun traveled again to Japan, this time to Tokyo in order to study under Tomojiro Ikenouchi. When the Pacific War began in December 1941, he moved back to Korea where he participated in the Korean independence movement. He was arrested for these activities in 1943 and was imprisoned for two months. Yu

Isao Hayashi

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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 the military song . Biography Hayashi was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. In 1931, he debuted with song . He signed with the King Records label in 1936. Hayashi also composed Hachiro Kasuga’s “Nagasaki no Onna” and Michiya Mihashi’s “Ringo Mura Kara”. Hayashi served as the leader of the Japan Singers Association from 1989 to 1995. Discography * : 1937 * : 1939 * : 1950 * : 1954 * : 1955 References

Isao Tomita

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(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 arrangements. In addition to creating note-by-note realizations, Tomita made extensive use of the sound-design capabilities of his instrument, using synthesizers to create new sounds to accompany and enhance his electronic realizations of acoustic instruments. and trance-like rhythms. Many of his albums are electronic versions and adaptations of familiar classical music pieces. He received four Grammy Award nominations for his 1974 album based on music by Claude Debussy, Snowflakes Are Dancing. 1969-1979: Electronic music In the late 1960s, Tomita turned to electronic music with the impetus of Wendy Carlos and Robert Moog’s work with synthesizers. He acquired a Moog III synthesizer and began building his home studio. He eventually realized that synthesizers could be used to create entirely new sounds in addition to mimicking other instruments. In his early albums, Tomita also made effective use of analog music sequencers, which he used for pitch, filter or effects changes and processed Mellotron

Isidor Bajić

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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, he taught at the Novi Sad High School, where he founded a music school and initiated the publication of the Serbian Music Magazine and the Serbian Music Library (an occasional edition of Serbian compositions). He was also interested in the melograph. He died in Novi Sad. His most important work is a romantic national opera Knez Ivo od Semberije (Prince Ivo of Semberia), based on folklore, the subject matter being about Ivan Knežević and the First Serbian Uprising against the Turks at the beginning of the 19th century, in 1804. In addition, he wrote a large number of plays and songs, and light operas as well, a symphony Miloš Obilić (which was lost), an overture Mena, piano pieces (Serbian Rhapsody, An Album of Compositions), songs with piano (the cycle Songs of Love), choral music, and music for tamburica bands. Being romantically sentimental, melodically inventive, frequently almost identical with folk music, these works made him extremely popular within the region of his origin in his

Isidor Seiss

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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 appears as Isidore. His notable students included Engelbert Humperdinck, Elly Ney (for nine years before she moved on to Leschetizky and Sauer), Willem Mengelberg, Carl Lachmund, Frederick Corder, Volkmar Andreae, Henri Weil, Karl Krill and others. Dedications to Isidor Seiss included: * Edvard Grieg: Book III (Op. 43) of the Lyric Pieces * Josef Rheinberger: Toccata in C minor, Op. 115 * August Winding: Preludes in All the Keys, Op. 26. He wrote some educational pieces for piano and other minor works. He also arranged some of Beethoven’s Contredanses and German Dances for piano. He also revised Weber’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, and published editions of Mendelssohn’s Capriccio brillante in B minor, and other works. Isidor Seiss died by his own hand in Cologne in 1905, having suffered increasing blindness that had forced him to retire from his teaching position. Although aged only 64, he had outlived his entire family, and in his will he endowed the Conservatory with a pension and cash

Isidora Žebeljan

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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 Sciences and Arts. She won many national awards for her music, among them the Stevan Mokranjac National Music Award in 2004. Biography Isidora Žebeljan studied composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Vlastimir Trajković (a student of Olivier Messiaen). She was Professor of Composition at the same Faculty from 2002. Her work as a composer earned her several significant awards in her country, including the Mokranjac Award in 2004. She won the New York Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in 2005. In 2006 she was elected to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (becoming a full member in 2012) and in 2012 she was elected to the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). In 2014 she received a Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean Award for her achievement in art. She attracted international attention with her opera Zora D. which was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation in London. The opera, directed by David Pountney and Nicola Raab, was premiered in Amsterdam in 2

Isidora Zegers

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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 culture during the 19th century. She co-founded a weekly musical publication, and the Philharmonic Society of Santiago. She was honorary president of the National Academy of Music, and co-founded the Philharmonic Society of Santiago. Biography Isidora Zegers was born in Madrid, Spain on 1 January 1803, and was of Flemish origin. She studied voice under Federico Massimino, composition under Paer, and harp, guitar, piano in Paris, France. In 1852, Zegers was named honorary president of the National Academy of Music. In 1826, she co-founded the Philharmonic Society of Santiago with Carlos Drewetcke. In addition, she contributed to charities as a singer and organizer of musical events. Zegers died on 14 July 1869 in Santiago. The University of Chile has a performance space named in Zeger’s honour, the Sala Isidora Zegers. Works Isidora Zegers’s compositions are for voice and piano or piano solo, mostly dating from her years in Paris and some written in French. She completed five compositio

Isidore Bertheaume

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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 Jacques Lemière the eldest (who died in 1771). According to the Mercure de France of April 1761, at the age of nine and a half, he obtained great success at the Concert Spirituel with a sonata by Lemière and another by Felice Giardini. In 1767, he joined the Orchestra of the Paris Opera and became its first violin in 1774. Then in 1788, he was appointed concertmaster of the Opéra-Comique orchestra. Between 1788 and 1791, he conducted the orchestra of the Concert Spirituel. In 1791 Bertheaume left France and held several posts in northern Germany until 1801. Via Copenhagen and Stockholm he emigrated to Russia, where he became first violin in Tsar Alexander I’s court orchestra. He died a few months after arriving at St-Petersburg. Bertheaume was a rival of Giovanni Battista Viotti in Paris and was considered an outstanding virtuoso, although not quite of Viotti’s caliber. His compositions are ideally written for the violin and were highly regarded by his contemporaries. After the performance of

Isidore Legouix

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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 (1809–1867). His father’s business, which had opened early in the reign of Louis-Philippe I, was located at 4, rue Chauveau-Lagarde, in the 8th arrondissement. In 1847, Isidore Legouix entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied harmony with Napoléon Henri Reber and composition with Ambroise Thomas. He obtained a first prize in music theory in 1850, a first prize in harmony in 1855, and the following year a “2me accessit” in counterpoint and fugue. Competing for the Prix de Rome in 1860, he received an honorable mention for his cantata Le Czar Ivan IV to words by Theodore Anne. After graduating from the Conservatoire, Legouix worked in the family music shop and engaged in composition, particularly in incidental music. He composed several operettas, of which contemporary critics praised the talent and wit. But one could hardly win against the overwhelming competition of the works by Hervé, Offenbach, Lecocq, Audran, Planquette and Varney, the masters of Parisian operetta. Despite his

Isidore Lillian

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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 half of the twentieth century. He wrote hundreds of songs for the theatre which were performed by such actors as Boris Thomashefsky, David Kessler, and Jacob Adler, as well as by Lillian himself. His exact birthdate is unclear; on many government documents he said September 14, 1883 but the Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre and other documents give the date as September 7, 1882. In New York, he soon became interested in the Yiddish Theatre and joined it very young, becoming a member of the Dramatist Union at 16 and joining a Vaudeville troupe by age 17. In that troupe, he wrote and performed his own sketches and songs. Music and theatre career Lillian started to write full-length plays, and lyrics for other plays and operettas in the Yiddish theatre starting in 1905. His lyrical contributions to Isidore Solotarefsky’s Yesoymim fun der velt (Orphans of the World) in 1916 were regarded as some of the best work of his career, even decades later. In the early 1930s Lillian attempted to move from thea

Ismail Marzuki

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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 popular patriotic songs. Among his best-known works are “Halo, Halo Bandung”, “Gugur Bunga”, and “Rayuan Pulau Kelapa”. In 1968, he was honoured with the creation of the well-known Taman Ismail Marzuki (the Ismail Marzuki Park, often called TIM) which is a cultural centre in Menteng in central Jakarta. In 2004 he was declared one of the National Heroes of Indonesia. Biography Marzuki was born in Kwitang, Jakarta (formerly known as Batavia) to a wealthy Betawi family. His father Marzuki owned an automobile repair shop, and played the rebana; his mother died while giving birth to him. Marzuki studied at an elementary school for Native Indonesians, the HIS (Hollandsch Inlandsche School) in Menteng; he later attended the Dutch-language middle school MULO (Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs) on Mendjangan Street (now Kwini I Street) in Jakarta. However, he did not study music formally, instead learning by himself. In 1931, he wrote his first song, “O Sarinah”, which was about a suffering people.

Isobel Waller-Bridge

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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 contemporary classical music. Early life and education Born Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge on 23 April 1984, she is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke), an employee of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint. She has two younger siblings: Jasper and Phoebe. The family from which Waller-Bridge descends were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. On her father’s side, she is a descendant of the Revd Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, and a distant relative of politician and author Egerton Leigh; her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. Waller-Bridge earned an bachelor’s degree in music from Edinburgh University, and a master’s degree from King’s College London. She was also awarded a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, where she received another diploma. Career Waller-Bridge composed the soundtrack for the BBC comedy-drama

Isotaro Sugata

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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 Kanto Gakuin University. There he was influenced by listening to hymns and received lessons for piano, violin, music theory and singing. In 1927 he acquired tuberculosis and then concentrated solely on his composition studies. From 1928 he studied with Kosaku Yamada and Kiyoshi Nobutoki, who had studied in Berlin. Nobutoki taught him music theory in the German tradition. In 1931 he began studies with Meiro Sugahara, who believed that German music was not a good model for Japanese composers who wanted to compose in Western style with Japanese sensibility, on the principles of Gagaku, Buddhist music and Kabuki music. He considered French, Italian and Russian music more appropriate for the Japanese mentality, because it offers more flexible sounds by using Whole tone and Japanese scales. Sugahara gave the advice to Sugata that composers such as Shiro Fukai were better than the works of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Ottorino Respighi and Darius Milhaud to study. As a result, S

Israel Citkowitz

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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 Abraham Citkowitz. He was brought to the United States when he was three. Citkowitz had a sister, Rebecca. During the 1930s, Citkowitz published music criticism in Modern Music and Musical Mercury. Among his pieces was the first English-language introduction to Schenker’s ideas, The Role of Heinrich Schenker. Discography Source: * But Yesterday Is Not Today (1977). New World Records — NW 243 * Modern America Art Songs (Unknown). New Editions (2) — NE 2 Personal life On 15 September 1935, Citkowitz married Helen Margaret Simon in Manhattan, New York. They had two children. The couple divorced in 1948. On 15 August 1959, Citkowitz married the English writer and heir to the Guinness beer fortune, Lady Caroline Blackwood, 22 years his junior. They had three daughters: Natalya, Eugenia, and Ivana, born after they separated. On 22 June 1978, Natalya, Citkowitz’s eldest daughter with Blackwood, died at age 17 from postural asphyxia due to a drug overdose. Death Citkowitz died on 4 May 1974 at his

Israel Goldfarb

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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 founder of and instructor at the Cantor’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He published numerous collections of melodies for synagogue, school, and home use. Goldfarb has been celebrated as the “father of congregational singing” in synagogues, and many of his musical settings became so ubiquitous that they came to be regarded as traditional. He is perhaps best known for his popular setting of Shalom Aleichem. Early life and education Israel Goldfarb was born in Sieniawa, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary), the second of eleven children of Nathaniel David and Malye Goldfarb. He immigrated to the United States in 1892 or 1893. As a youth he sang in synagogue choirs and studied music privately. Goldfarb later pursued rabbinic studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, from which he was ordained in 1902. He also studied musical education at Columbia University and music at the Institute of Musical Art (today the Juilliard School). Career While still

Israel Kantor

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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 and worked in the United States. Born 1949 in a town called Alturas de Canasi with the name Wilfredo Israel Sardinas, he grew up in Havana, Cuba. He gained popularity in the 1970s as a sonero, a singer of the Son cubano style of music. Early influences included music by Beny More. He joined with Los Van Van in 1980 and toured globally with them, before leaving the group and moving to the United States in 1983. Settling in Miami, Florida, he garnered support from Cuban exiles who had moved to Miami, Florida. While in New York City in 1984 he changed his name to Kantor as a reference to cantor, Spanish for singer, at the recommendation of colleague Johnny Pacheco. He recorded albums in the 1980s alongside musicians including: Sal Cuevas, Barry Rogers, Mario Rivera, and Sonny Bravo. His song “Ya Estoy Aquí” reached the number two top spot amongst popular music on Miami radio in 2002. Kantor joined the group Tropicana All-Stars in 2003, a twenty-piece orchestra band which performed tribute

Israel Meyer Japhet

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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 Raphael Hirsch, and composed music for synagogue use, many pieces of which are still in use today. Biography and career Israel Meyer Japhet was born in Kassel, Germany. His parents were Meyer Japhet (1782–1866) and Deborah Weinberg (1783–1843). At age 17, he attained his first position as a choral director and religious teacher in Wolfhagen. Subsequently, he held a similar position in Gudenberg, where he came into contact with Rabbi Mordechai Wetzlar. Wetzlar had a strong influence on Japhet’s development and outlook. From 1852 to 1892, he was choir director and religious instructor for the Orthodox congregation in Frankfurt am Main. For his works on grammar he used new methods of teaching in his textbooks. In keeping within halakha, his choirs consisted solely of men and boys. Aside from halakhic issues, Japhet felt that instruments and elaborate compositions could not compare with the feelings inspired by simple melodies and music. He felt that tunes used by previous generations can be

Israel Sharon

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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 Alexander Volkov and composition with Abel Ehrlich. Later, he studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv, where he continued his composition studies with Leon Schidlowsky. Israel Sharon also studied at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Since 1992 he has been a leading member of the Israeli Kaprizma Ensemble as a composer, conductor and pianist. He has composed numerous works for the ensemble many of which were also recorded by the ensemble. He has done arrangements of other compositions including one of Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe for 16 instruments. His works have been performed by Kaprizma as well as by leading international artists such as Pierre Strauch, Alain Damiens, Julius Berger, Wolfgang Meyer, Cihat Askin, Sava Stoianov and members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to name but few. His composition were presented concerts and festivals in many countries including Germany, Austria, Russia, South Korea, USA, Cyprus, Hungary and Israel. Compositi

Issa El-Saieh

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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 Palestinian descent. Throughout his life and work he contributed to two facets of Haitian culture: music as well as art. From 1941 to the mid 1950s, as a musician, composer, arranger and bandleader of the Orchestre Saieh. In parallel to his music career, he began buying and collecting Haitian art. By the late 1950s, he founded the Galerie Issa, through which he promoted Haitian art and culture abroad. He died in Port-au-Prince from esophageal cancer on February 2, 2005, at the age of 85. Early life and education Issa El-Saieh was born in Petit-Goâve, Haiti, on February 22, 1919. Both his parents, Julia Moussa Talamas and Joseph Said El-Saieh, were Palestinian Christians who immigrated separately to Haiti from Bethlehem, Palestine. His mother, twice a widow, was a businesswoman who raised her three sons, Elias Noustas, Issa and André El-Saieh, between Petit-Goâve and Port-au-Prince. El-Saieh attended Saint-Louis de Gonzague in Port-au-Prince. In 1928, his younger brother André and him w

Issak Tavior

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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 field of Zionism in 2012, granted him by the Israeli Minister of Culture, Limor Livnat, for his 2004 composition “Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones” named for the prophecy of the same name. Biography Tavior was born in Haifa. He began learning music at the age of seven. Throughout his musical studies, he received support from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Tavior graduated from the Dunya-Weizmann Conservatory in Haifa, where he was tutored by Rachel Katz. At the age of 14 he participated in “Tochnit Bechora”, a classical music program at Israel radio network, Kol Israel. He would later regularly participate in classical music programs of the network. At 16, Tavior was accepted as a second year student to the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, receiving a full scholarship, where he studied under the pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Alisa Hertz-Sommer. At the age of 20 he graduated from the Music Academy of Tel Aviv with Prof. Ilona Vincze-Kraus as a Master. Tavior completed his st

Issam Rafea

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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 the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music and for his collaboration with jazz and world music bands. Since 2013, Rafea has lived in Chicago, touring in the US as well as internationally. Biography Born in Kuwait to Syrian parents in 1971, Rafea studied in Kuwait and Syria at the High Institute of Music in Damascus. He obtained his B.A. degree in oud and double bass in 1995. Following this, he was director of the department of Arabic Music at the same institute and was teaching both oud and Western harmony. At the same time, he was also active as composer and arranger for Syrian TV and theatre. Among other awards, he obtained the fourth prize at the Cairo Improvisation Competition 2000 and the second prize at the competition for traditional Arab ensembles in Cairo, Egypt, in 1997. Further to solo appearances on the oud with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Solhi Al Wadi, Rafea has performed internationally in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the United S

İstemihan Taviloğlu

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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 composition from a Turkish composer. He is also the co-founder of the Musicology department in Ankara State Conservatory. He is also known as the teacher of all the musicians that came from conservatories in Turkey. Born in Tekirdağ, Turkey on April 15, 1945, he was the third child of Ahmet and Nuriye Taviloglu. Istemihan entered the Istanbul Conservatory at the age of eleven began violin instruction for one year, and changed his concentration to clarinet under the direction of Tevfik Çelen. In 1963 he transferred to Ankara State Conservatory and continued his clarinet education with Hayrullah Duygu. After he graduated with a music performance degree as a clarinet player he began pursuing his Master’s and DMA degrees in music composition and theory under Adnan Saygun and Erçivan Saydam. In addition he also took composition from Ilhan Usmanbaş and studied Music Theory and Solfege with Muammer Sun. Taviloğlu taught at Ankara State Conservatory and at Dokuz Eylül Conservatory in İzmir. He is kn

István Anhalt

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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 Electronic Music Studio. He also served as head of music at Queen’s University, Kingston. His works earned him recognition as one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music in Canada. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Early life and education Childhood István Anhalt was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family on April 12, 1919. He was the son of Arnold Anhalt and Katalin Anhalt (née Herzfeld), When he was still an infant, Anhalt’s parents separated; he lived with his mother until age twelve, attending elementary school from 1925 to 1929. Although she had some interest in music and opera, his mother was not especially musical. However, there was a piano in the home and Anhalt began taking piano lessons at age six with a teacher who lived in his neighborhood and later from a family friend until he was twelve. He also learned to speak four languages: Hungarian, German, French, and English. His father’s financial troubles, his half-sister’s birth in 1935, and tension

István Láng

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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 academic teacher of chamber music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, lecturing internationally in the United States and Mexico. He was secretary general of the Association of Hungarian Musicians from 1978 to 1990, and a member of the board of the International Society for Contemporary Music and the International Music Council (UNESCO). In his compositions, Láng used serial techniques, influenced by composers such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others whose music he had met at the Warsaw Autumn and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, in a synthesis with traditional Hungarian elements from Béla Bartók’s music. He was instrumental in creating a studio for electronic music in Hungary. His compositions have been described as theatrical even in concert pieces. Life Born in Budapest on 1 March 1933, Láng first took private music lessons. He studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1950 to 1958, first with János Viski and later with Ferenc Szabó. He was a freelance co

István Sárközy

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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 musical theatre, choral works and songs, orchestral and chamber works, and works for piano. Notable examples include the stage works Liliomfi (1950) and Szelistyei asszonyok (The Women of Szelistye; 1951), the chamber cantata Júlia énekek (Julia Songs; 1956), the overture Az ifjúsághoz (To Youth; 1957), and the Sinfonia concertante for clarinet and strings (1963). He taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1959. Biography Sárközy was born in the Pesterzsébet suburb of Budapest in 1920. As a youth, he studied the piano with Lula Földessy-Hermann. He trained in composition with the composers Zoltán Kodály, Ferenc Farkas and János Viski at Budapest’s Higher Music School (1938–39) and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest (from 1939). Sárközy was a confidant of the composer Endre Szervánszky, a leading composer of the post-1956 era, In a 1969 review, the British music critic Stephen Walsh describes his music as differing from that of other Hungarian composers of the time due to “it