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Late Romantic

J. A. Raynes

John Arthur Raynes, more commonly referred to as J. A. Raynes, (born 1870 – died sometime after 1916) There he married his first wife Martha Irene Beazeall on 7 July 1892. He later married the

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Jaakko Kuusisto

Jaakko Ilkka Kuusisto (17 January 1974 – 23 February 2022) was a Finnish violinist, composer, and conductor. Kuusisto studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, majoring in violin, as well as at

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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi () is a Finnish composer of classical music, and a professional translator. Early life Mäntyjärvi was born in Turku. He studied musicology, English language and literature and

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Jaan Patterson

Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel he founded in 2007. He is known for his various Dada- and Surrealist-inspired experimental-music and

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Jaap Blonk

Jaap Blonk (born 1953, Woerden) is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist. Career Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. He studied

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Jack Beaver

Jack Beaver (27 March 1900 – 10 September 1963) was a British film score composer and pianist. Beaver was born in Clapham, London. He studied at the Metropolitan Academy of Music, Forest Gate and

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Jack Beeson

Jack Hamilton Beeson (July 15, 1921 – June 6, 2010) was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There!, and The Sweet Bye

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Jack Behrens

Jack Behrens (25 March 1935 – 9 December 2024) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and educator of American birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music

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Jack Cooper (American musician)

Jack Cooper (born John Thomas Cooper Jr., May 14, 1963) is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator. He has performed with, written music for and recorded by

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Jack Delano

Jack Delano (born Yakov Ovcharov, ; August 1, 1914 – August 14, 1997) was a Russian Empire-born Ukrainian photographer, filmmaker, and composer, who spent much of his life in Puerto Rico. In the

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Jack Fascinato

Jack Fascinato (1915–1994) was an American composer, small orchestra leader, arranger, and pianist best known for his work in early television. By the 1960s, he worked primarily in commercials and

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Jack Kane (composer)

Jack Kane (29 November 1924 – 27 March 1961) was a Canadian arranger, conductor, clarinetist, and composer of English birth. He lived in Toronto, Ontario with his wife Clare and their children. His

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Jack Lathrop

John Marcus Lathrop (May 11, 1913 – January 9, 1987) was an American vocalist and guitarist with the Tune Twisters, Glenn Miller, and Hal McIntyre. Beginning around 1947, Lathrop was leader of the

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Jack Ledru

Jack Ledru (1922 – March 2013 ) was a French song and operetta composer. Biography Jack Ledru studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won a prize for piano. He began his artistic career by

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Jack Marshall (composer)

Jack Wilton Marshall (November 23, 1921 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and record producer. He was married to Eva Katherine Pellegrini, and the father to

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Jack Mills (music publisher)

Jack Mills, born Jacob Minsky, (5 December 1891 – 23 March 1979) was a Russian-born American music publisher and songwriter. He immigrated to the United States at the age of five and grew up in New

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Jack Rochon

Jack Sheppard Rochon is a Canadian producer, songwriter and classically trained multi-instrumentalist, best known for work with Sean Leon, Daniel Caesar, Charlotte Day Wilson, and his various

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Jack Shaindlin

Jack Shaindlin (April 14, 1909 – September 22, 1978) was a Russian-American musician, composer, arranger, conductor, and music director. He was musical director for The March of Time newsreel series.

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Jack Wall (composer)

Jack Wall is an American video game music composer. He has worked on video game music for over 20 games including the Myst franchise, Splinter Cell, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty. Wall

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Jack Westrup

Sir Jack Allan Westrup (26 July 1904 – 21 April 1975) was an English musicologist, writer, teacher and occasional conductor and composer. Biography Jack Allan Westrup was the second of the three sons

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Jack White (music producer)

Horst Nußbaum (2 September 1940 – 16 October 2025), known professionally as Jack White, was a German composer, producer and footballer. Born in Cologne, Nußbaum first played football professionally

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Jack Woodbridge

Jack Woodbridge (1956 - 2023) was an American-born pianist, singer and composer from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Woodbridge was known for his collaborations with independent film director Flavio Alves

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Jack Yarber

Jack Yarber (born March 15, 1967), also known by his stage name Jack Oblivian, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist based in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a founding member of the garage

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JackEL

Jack Edward Lozeron (born September 9, 1996), known professionally as JackEL, is a Canadian DJ, record producer and songwriter. He is most notable for a collaboration with Skip Martin on an album

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Jackson Berkey

Jackson Berkey (born May 24, 1942) is an American composer, pianist and singer, best known for his work with Mannheim Steamroller, which he co-founded with Chip Davis in 1974. Early life and

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Jackson Greenberg

Jackson Greenberg is an American film and television composer based in Los Angeles. He is best known for scoring Audible, DMX: Don't Try to Understand, Maybe This Year, Cartel Land and for writing

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Jackson Wang

Jackson Wang (; born Wang Ka-yee; 28 March 1994) is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter. After a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under

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Jacob Avshalomov

Jacob Avshalomov (March 28, 1919 – April 25, 2013) was a composer and conductor. Early life and education Jacob Avshalomov was born on March 28, 1919, in Tsingtao, China. His father was Aaron

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Jacob Cooper (composer)

Jacob Mauney Cooper is an American composer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biography After attending Amherst College for his bachelor's degree in both geology and music, Cooper completed his

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Jacob de Haan (composer)

Jacob de Haan is a Dutch contemporary composer known for wind music. De Haan has also published various vocal works, including several masses for choir, wind band, and soloists. De Haan is regularly

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Jacob Druckman

Jacob Raphael Druckman (June 26, 1928 – May 24, 1996) was an American composer. Life A graduate of the Juilliard School in 1956, He was composer-in-residence of the New York Philharmonic from 1982

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Jacob French

Jacob French (July 15, 1754 – May 1817) was a singing master and one of the first American composers, sometimes called Yankee tunesmiths. "A student of William Billings, French adopted Billings'

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Jacob Gade

Jacob Thune Hansen Gade (29 November 1879 – 20 February 1963) was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music. He is remembered today for a single tune, Jalousie (also known

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Jacob Gilboa

Jacob Gilboa (; May 2, 1920 – May 9, 2007) was an Israeli composer. Biography Erwin Goldberg (later Jacob Gilboa) was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia. Some years later he lived in Vienna, where he

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Jacob Hochbrucker

Jacob Hochbrucker (also spelled Jakob Hochprugger; 1673 – 28 May 1763) was an eighteenth-century harp maker and musician credited with the invention of the single-action pedal harp popularized in

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Jacob Mühlrad

Jacob Benjamin Mühlrad (born 9 April 1991) is a Swedish composer who has worked with prominent choirs and orchestras across the world. He has also collaborated with pop music acts and produced film

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Jacob Narverud

Jacob Narverud (born 1986, in Meriden, Kansas) is an American composer and conductor best known for his choral music. He is often ranked among the top-selling and most widely-performed choral

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Jacob Niclas Ahlström

Jacob Niclas Ahlström (5 June 1805 in Visby, Gotland – 14 May 1857 in Stockholm) was a Swedish Kapellmeister and composer. Beginning his studies at Uppsala University in 1824, Ahlström dropped out

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Jacob Obrecht

Jacob Obrecht (also Hobrecht; 1457/8 – late July 1505) was a Flemish composer of masses, motets and songs. Life What little is known of Obrecht's origins and early childhood comes mostly from his

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Jacob Regnart

Jacob Regnart (French: Jacques Regnart; 1540s – 16 October 1599) was a Flemish Renaissance composer. He spent most of his career in Austria and Bohemia, where he wrote both sacred and secular music.

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Jacob Schaefer (composer)

Jacob Schaefer (, 1888–1936) was a Russian-born Jewish American composer, political activist and choir director whose career ran from the 1910s to the 1930s. A committed Communist for the last two

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Jacob Schmitt

Jacob Schmitt, also called Jakob, Jaques or Jacques, (2 November 1803 – June 1853) was a German composer and piano teacher who worked in Hamburg. He was born in Obernburg near Aschaffenburg and died

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Jacob Senleches

Jacob Senleches (fl. 1382/1383 – 1395) (also Jacob de Senlechos i.e. Senleches and Jacopinus Senlesses) was a Franco-Flemish composer and harpist of the late Middle Ages. He composed in a style

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Jacob TV

Jacob ter Veldhuis (born 14 November 1951), known by the pseudonym Jacob TV, is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music. Self-described as an "avant-pop composer", Jacob TV's music takes

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Jacob van Eyck

Jacob van Eyck ( , ; c. 159026 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman, composer and blind musician. He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and

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Jacob Weinberg

Jacob Weinberg (1 July 1879 – 2 November 1956) was a Russian-born American Jewish composer and pianist who composed over 135 works for piano and other instruments. He was one of the founders of the

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Jacobine Gjertz

Jacobine Sofie Gjertz (13 July 1819 – 1862) was a Norwegian pianist, composer and writer and one of the earliest women's activists in Norway. Early life Jacobine Gjertz was the daughter of Peter

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Jacobo Calderón

Jacobo Calderón Fernández (born 18 May 1974 in Madrid) is a Spanish composer, producer and arranger. He has produced and composed 60 albums that have sold 9 million copies worldwide. His songs have

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Jacobo Ficher

Jacobo Ficher (; 15 January 1896 – 9 September 1978) was a Russian-born Argentine composer, violinist, conductor, and music educator. Life Ficher was born in Odessa, in the Russian Empire, to

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Jacobo Palm

Jacobo Palm (28 November 1887 – 1 July 1982) was a Curaçao-born composer. Biography Jacobo José Maria Palm was the grandson of Jan Gerard Palm (1831-1906) who is often referred to as the "father of

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Jacobus Barbireau

Jacobus Barbireau (also Jacques or Jacob; also Barbirianus) (1455 – 7 August 1491) was a Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer from Antwerp. He was considered to be a superlative composer both by his

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Jacobus Clemens non Papa

Jacobus Clemens non Papa (also Jacques Clément or Jacob Clemens non Papa) (c. 1510 to 1515 – 1555 or 1556) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance based for most of his life in Flanders. He

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Jacobus de Kerle

Jacobus de Kerle (Ypres 1531/1532 - Prague 7 January 1591) was a Flemish composer and organist of the late Renaissance. Life De Kerle was trained at the monastery of St. Martin in Ypres, and held

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Jacobus Gallus

Jacobus Gallus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl; between 15 April and 31 July 155018 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the

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Jacobus Kloppers

Jacobus (Kobie) Kloppers (born 1937) is a Canadian composer, musicologist and organist. Biography Born in South Africa, Kloppers completed his Doctorate in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1966, Kloppers

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Jacobus of Liège

Jacobus of Liège (died after 1330) was a music theorist active in the Southern Netherlands in the late middle ages. He compiled the largest surviving medieval treatise on music, (the Mirror of

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Jacobus Vaet

Jacobus Vaet (c. 1529 – 8 January 1567) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation between Josquin and Palestrina, writing smooth polyphony with pervasive

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Jacobus Vide

Jacobus Vide (French: Jacques Vide; fl. 1405–1433) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the transitional period between the medieval period and early Renaissance. He was an early member of the Burgundian

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Jacopo Corsi

Jacopo Corsi (17 July 1561 – 29 December 1602) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts, after only the Medicis. His

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Jacopo da Bologna

Jacopo da Bologna () was an Italian composer of the Trecento, the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova. He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of

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Jacopo Ettorre

Jacopo Ettorre (born in 1990), also known as Jacopo Èt, is an Italian lyricist, composer and singer-songwriter. Life and career Born in Forlì into a family of musicians, at young age Ettore studied

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Jacopo Peri

Jacopo Peri (; 20 August 156112 August 1633) was an Italian composer, singer, and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the

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Jacopo Puccini

Jacopo (or Giacomo) Puccini (; 26 January 1712 16 May 1781) was an 18th-century Italian composer who lived and worked primarily in Lucca, Republic of Lucca. He was the first of five generations of

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Jacqueline Fontyn

Jacqueline, Baroness Fontyn (born 27 December 1930) is a contemporary Belgian composer, pianist and music educator. She was born in Antwerp, and has received the title of baroness from the King of

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Jacqueline Nova

Jacqueline Nova Sondag (1935–1975) was a Colombian musician, author and composer. She is often cited as having initiated Colombia's electroacoustic musical practices. Life Jacqueline Nova Sondag was

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Jacques Arcadelt

Jacques Arcadelt (also Jacob Arcadelt; 10 August 150714 October 1568 In addition to his work as a madrigalist, and distinguishing him from the other prominent early composers of madrigals – Philippe

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Jacques Aubert

Jacques Aubert (30 September 1689 – 19 May 1753), also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux (Jacques Aubert the Elder), was a French composer and violinist of the Baroque period. From 1727 to 1746, he

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Jacques Berthier

Jacques Berthier (27 June 1923 – 27 June 1994) was a French composer of liturgical music, best known for writing much of the music used at Taizé. Biography Berthier was born in Auxerre, Burgundy;

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Jacques Bittner

Jacob Büttner, widely known by the French version of his name Jacques Bittner, (floruit 1680s) was a lutenist and composer of Austro-Bohemian origin. He published 170 pieces for lute in Nuremberg in

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Jacques Blumenthal

Jacques Blumenthal (4 October 1829 – 17 May 1908) was a German pianist and composer. Born "Jakob" in Hamburg, he began his musical studies at an early age, receiving instruction from Friedrich

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Jacques Bondon

Jacques Bondon (full name Jacques Laurent Jules Désiré Bondon; 6 December 1927 – 2 April 2008) was a French composer. Life Bondon was born in Boulbon (Bouches-du-Rhône). He arrived in Paris aged

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Jacques Bosch

Jaime Felipe José Bosch (in Catalan: Jaume Bosch i Renard, in France known as Jacques Bosch) (26 May 1825 – 31 March 1895) was a Catalan guitarist and song composer who established himself in Paris.

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Jacques Brunel

Jacques Brunel (Brumel, Brumello, Brunello, Giaches Brumel, etc.) (died 1564) was a French organist and composer, active mostly in Italy. Life He may have been organist at the Rouen Cathedral until

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Jacques Burtin

Jacques Burtin (born 10 November 1955) is a French composer, writer, producer and filmmaker. Biography After studying Literature and Art at La Sorbonne (Paris), he was introduced to the kora by

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Jacques Buus

Jacques Buus (also Jakob Buus, Jachet de Buus) (c. 1500late August, 1565) was a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance, and an early member of the Venetian School. He was one of the

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Jacques Calonne

Jacques Calonne (10 August 1930 – 7 February 2022) was a Belgian artist, composer, singer, actor, logogramist, and writer. Life Born in Mons, Calonne studied music from 1944 until 1946 at the

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Jacques Castérède

Jacques Castérède (10 April 1926 – 6 April 2014) was a French composer and pianist. Life Born in Paris, Castérède studied at Lycée Buffon. He earned his baccalauréat in elementary mathematics, then

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Jacques Chailley

Jacques Chailley (24 March 1910 – 21 January 1999) was a French musicologist and composer. Biography Chailley's mother was the pianist Céliny Chailley-Richez (1884–1973), his father the cellist

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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (Jacques Champion, commonly referred to as Chambonnières) (c. 1601/2 – 1672) was a French harpsichordist, dancer and composer. Born into a musical family,

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Jacques Charpentier

Jacques Georges Paul Charpentier (18 October 1933 – 15 June 2017) was a French composer and organist. He is unrelated to either of two other eminent French musicians with the same surname

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Jacques Datin

Jacques Datin (14 June 1920 – 24 August 1973) was a French composer. After his musical training he met songwriter Maurice Vidalin, and they wrote many songs for several performers. Since 1954, they

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Jacques de Cambrai

Jacques de Cambrai (fl. c. 1260–80), sometimes Jaque or Jaikes, was a trouvère from Cambrai. He composed four chansons courtoises, one pastourelle, six devotional chansons, and one Marian rotrouenge.

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Jacques de Menasce

Jacques de Menasce (August 19, 1905 – January 28, 1960) was a composer, pianist, and critic of Austrian, and later American, nationality. Jacques de Menasce was born in Bad Ischl, then in the

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Jacques de Saint-Luc

Jacques (Lucas)de Saint-Luc (baptized 19 September 1616ca. 1710) was a Walloon lutenist and composer. Saint-Luc was born in Ath in 1616; nothing is known about his early years. In 1639 he was invited

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Jacques Dudon

Jacques Dudon () is a French just intonation composer and instrument builder. He is best known for developing a series of photosonic disk () instruments in the 1980s that produced sound from

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Jacques Duphly

Jacques Duphly (also Dufly, Du Phly; 12 January 1715 – 15 July 1789) was a French harpsichordist and composer. Early career as an organist He was born in Rouen, Province of Normandy, France, the son

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Jacques Durand (publisher)

Marie-Jacques Massacrié-Durand (22 February 1865 – 22 August 1928) was a French music publisher and composer, sometimes under the pseudonym J. Samm. The family's publishing house, Éditions Durand,

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Jacques Faubert

Jacques Faubert (born 30 May 1952) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator, known for founding the Mont-Royal Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Faubert earned premiers prix

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Jacques Féréol Mazas

:For Mazas Prison, see here. Jacques Féréol Mazas (23 September 1782 – 26 August 1849) was a French composer, conductor, violinist, and pedagogue. Biography Born in Lavaur, Mazas was a pupil of

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Jacques Gaultier

Jacques Gaultier (or Gauterius, Gouterus, Goutier, Gautier, Gautier d'Angleterre, also James Gwaltier ) (born ca. 1600, fl. 1617 – 1652) was a French Baroque lutenist and composer. He was not related

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Jacques Hétu

Jacques Joseph Robert Hétu (August 8, 1938 – February 9, 2010) was a prominent Canadian composer and music educator. Hétu is the most frequently performed of Canadian classical composers, both within

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Jacques Ibert

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won

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Jacques Leguerney

Jacques Leguerney (19 November 1906 – 10 September 1997) was a French composer especially noted for his art songs. Biography Jacques Leguerney was born in Le Havre. He has been referred to as "the

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Jacques Mauduit

Jacques Mauduit (16 September 1557 – 21 August 1627) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most innovative French composers of the late 16th century, combining voices and

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Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his

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Jacques Thomelin

Jacques Thomelin (; c. 1635 – 28 October 1693), also named Jacques-Denis or Alexandre-Jacques-Denis, was a 17th-century French composer and organist. Family Jacques Thomelin was born in Paris. His

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Jacques-Louis Monod

Jacques-Louis Monod (25 February 1927 – 21 September 2020) was a French composer, pianist and conductor of 20th century and contemporary music, particularly in the advancement of the music of Charles

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Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (29 September 167416 July 1763), also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist, instrument maker and teacher, who was the most

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Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens

Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (3 January 1823 – 30 January 1881), was an organist, music teacher, and composer for his instrument. Biography Born at Zoerle-Parwijs, near Westerlo, Belgium,

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Jacquet de Berchem

Jacquet de Berchem (also known as Giachet(to) Berchem or Jakob van Berchem; c. 1505 – before 2 March 1567) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy. He was famous in

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Jacquet of Mantua

Jacquet of Mantua (Jacques Colebault, dit Jachet de Mantoue) (1483 – October 2, 1559) was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was an influential member

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Jadwiga Sarnecka

Jadwiga Sarnecka (1877 or 1883 – 29 December 1913) was a Polish composer and pianist whose composition Ballade for piano won second place in a 1910 competition in Lviv (today in Ukraine)

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Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska

Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (22 February 1912 – 14 March 1994) was a Polish pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska was born in Brody, Austria-Hungary and studied

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Jaehyun

Jeong Yun-o (; born Jeong Jae-hyun (), February 14, 1997), known professionally as Jaehyun, is a South Korean singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band NCT and its sub-units NCT 127 and NCT

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Jaemin

Na Jae-min (; born August 13, 2000), known mononymously as Jaemin, is a South Korean rapper. After training for three years, Jaemin debuted in August 2016 as a member of South Korean boy group NCT

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Jagger–Richards

Jagger–Richards (spelled Jagger–Richard from 1963 to 1978) is the songwriting partnership between English musicians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (both born 1943), founder members of rock band the

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Jagoda Szmytka

Jagoda Marta Szmytka (born 15 January 1982, Legnica) is a Polish composer. She has attracted attention for her style of music, which uses elements not only of sound, but also of the sense of space

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Jahangir Jahangirov

Jahangir Shirgasht oglu Jahangirov (Azerbaijani: ; 20 July 1921 – 25 March 1992) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, conductor and choirmaster; he was named People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR

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Jahdiel

Grace Jahdiel Benjamin (maiden name 'Okoduwa') popularly known by her stage name Jahdiel, is a contemporary Nigerian gospel singer, songwriter and vocalist. She professionally began her music career

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Jaime Cuadra

Jaime Cuadra is a Peruvian singer, composer, music producer, and filmmaker who is known for a number of achievements, including: Music production: Cuadra produced three songs for the 2008 James Bond

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Jaime Teixidor

Jaume Teixidor Dalmau (; ) was born in Barcelona on April 16, 1884, and died in Barakaldo on February 23, 1957. He was a Spanish musician, conductor, publisher, and composer. After studying

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Jake Heggie

Jake Heggie (born March 31, 1961) is an American composer of opera, vocal, orchestral, and chamber music. He is best known for his operas and art songs as well as for his collaborations with

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Jake Mathews

Jake Mathews (born Jacques Lagrandeur born March 14, 1971, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian country music singer, songwriter and performer. Career Jake's self-titled debut CD (Jake Mathews)

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Jake Monaco

Jake Monaco is an American film and TV composer. He currently scores Amazon Prime Video's The Stinky & Dirty Show, Netflix's Dinotrux, and Warner Bros. Animation's Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. He also

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Jake Runestad

Jake Runestad (born May 20, 1986) is an American composer and conductor of classical music based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has composed music for a wide variety of musical genres and ensembles,

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Jakob Adlung

Jakob Adlung, or Adelung, (14 January 1699 – 5 July 1762) was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, composer and music theorist. Biography He was born in Bindersleben, near

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Jakob Dont

Jakob Dont (March 2, 1815 – November 17, 1888) was an Austrian violinist, composer, and teacher. He was born and died in Vienna. His father Valentin Dont was a noted cellist. Jakob was a student of

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Jakob Greber

Johann Jakob Greber ( He is presumed to have studied in Italy and arrived in London from there in 1702, accompanied by his mistress, the opera singer Margherita de L'Epine. He was to remain in London

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Jakob Hassler

Jakob Hassler (18 December 1569 – 1 January 1622) was a German Renaissance composer. Life He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, the youngest son of Isaak Hassler, and brother of Hans Leo Hassler and

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Jakob Jež

Jakob Jež (23 November 1928 – 8 March 2022) was a Slovenian composer. Life Jakob Jež was born on 23 November 1928 in Boštanj, a village in eastern Slovenia. In 1954, he graduated from the Academy of

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Jakob Rosenhain

Jakob Rosenhain (Jacob, Jacques) (2 December 1813 – 21 March 1894) was a German Jewish pianist and composer. Rosenhain was born in Mannheim; he made his debut at the age of 11. During their 1837

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Jakob Suppan

Jakob Suppan (, July 27, 1734 – April 11, 1810) was a composer and musician from the Holy Roman Empire. Early life and education Suppan was born in Schrötten in the Duchy of Styria in the Holy Roman

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Jakob van Domselaer

Jakob van Domselaer (15 April 1890 in Nijkerk, Gelderland – 5 January 1960) was a Dutch composer. Domselaer was born at Nijkerk, Netherlands. In 1912, he traveled to Paris where he met the Dutch

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Jakob Zeugheer

Jakob Zeugheer (known also as J. Z. Herrmann; 20 July 1803 in Zürich – 15 June 1865 in Liverpool) was a Swiss violinist, conductor and composer. Childhood Born at Zürich in 1803, Zeugheer learned the

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Jakov Gotovac

Jakov Gotovac (; October 11, 1895 – October 16, 1982) was a Croatian composer and conductor of classical music. His comedic opera, Ero s onoga svijeta (Ero the Joker), Croatia's best-known opera, was

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Jakub Gołąbek

Jakub Gołąbek (born 1739 in Silesia, died 30 March 1789 in Kraków) was a Polish composer and singer (tenor). Biography The first confirmation of Gołąbek's stay in Kraków is a marriage certificate to

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Jakub Jan Ryba

Jakub Šimon Jan Ryba (surname also Poisson, Peace, Ryballandini, Rybaville; 26 October 1765 – 8 April 1815) was a Czech teacher and composer of classical music. His most famous work is the Czech

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Jakub Kagan

Jakub Kagan (7 February 1896 – 1942) was a popular Polish-Jewish composer, pianist, jazz musician and arranger. In the early 1920s, he formed the Kagan's Jazz Band in Warsaw, performing in operettas,

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James A. Beckel Jr.

James Arthur Beckel Jr. (born July 16, 1948) is a contemporary American composer and musician best known for his contemporary compositions as well as his association with the Indianapolis Symphony

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James Baker (composer)

James Baker is an American electro-acoustic composer, percussionist and conductor. Life and career James Baker graduated with degrees in music from State University of New York at Purchase and

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James Barnes (composer)

James Charles Barnes (born September 9, 1949 in Hobart, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American composer. Life and career Barnes studied composition and music theory at the University of Kansas, earning a

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James Brody

James Brody (July 13, 1941 – April 11, 2010) was an American composer, born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Frank J. Oteri of the American Music Center's New Music Box called Brody "an important figure

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James Chater

James Chater is a British composer and musicologist born in Henley-on-Thames in 1951. He studied music at the University of Oxford, taking the BA in 1973 and the D.Phil. in 1980. His thesis, Luca

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James Clarke (composer)

James Clarke (born in October 1957) is an English composer sometimes associated with the New Complexity school. According to fellow English composer and music scholar Christopher Fox, in The New

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James Cohn

James Cohn (February 12, 1928 – June 12, 2021) was a Newark, New Jersey-born American composer. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne

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James Cutler Dunn Parker

James Cutler Dunn Parker (June 2, 1828 – November 27, 1916) was an American organist, educator and composer. Biography James Cutler Dunn Parker was born in Boston on June 2, 1828, the son of Samuel

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James Dashow

James Dashow (born November 7, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer of electro-acoustic music, instrumental music and opera. Life and career Dashow was born in 1944, outside of

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James Di Pasquale

James Di Pasquale (born April 7, 1941) is an American musician and composer of contemporary classical music and music for television and films. Biography Pasquale was born on April 7, 1941, in

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James Dillon (composer)

James Dillon (born 29 October 1950) is a Scottish composer who is often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian

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James Douglas (composer)

James Douglas (4 July 1932 – 1 February 2022) was a Scottish composer, accompanist, conductor, recording artist, and organist. Douglas was born in Dumbarton, Scotland. He was based in Edinburgh, but

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James Fei

James Fei or Fei Cheng-ting (; born Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a contemporary classical music and electronic music composer and performer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He plays the soprano,

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James Frederick Swift

James Frederick Swift (28 December 1847, Manchester – 9 January 1931, Wallasey ) was an English organist and composer. He mostly worked for religious establishments such as St Andrew's Church in

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James G. Ellis (composer)

James Garfield Ellis (February 12, 1880 Dayton, Ohio – April 1, 1966 Los Angeles) was an American violinist, silent film theater pioneer, composer, lyricist, and music publisher. Early life Ellis was

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James Gayfer

James McDonald Gayfer (26 March 1916 – 7 April 1997) was a Canadian bandmaster, clarinetist, composer, conductor, organist, military officer, and music educator. His compositional output encompasses

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James Harley

James Harley (born 1959) is a Canadian composer, author, and professor of music born in Vernon, British Columbia. His creative output consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, electroacoustic, and vocal

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James Holland (percussionist)

James Holland (12 February 1933 – January 2022) was an English orchestral and solo percussionist, principal percussionist at the BBC Symphony Orchestra from the 1970s until the 1990s. Born in Ilford,

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James Horner

James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He is known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations,

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James K. Wright

James Kenneth Wright (born 1959) is a Canadian composer, pianist, and musicologist. His notable compositions include works such as Letters to the Immortal Beloved, and his award-winning books include

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James Kwast

James Kwast (23 November 185231 October 1927) was a Dutch-German pianist and renowned teacher of many other notable pianists. He was also a minor composer and editor. Biography Jacob James Kwast was

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James L. Venable

James Lewis Venable (born May 19, 1967) is an American composer, working primarily in American film and television. He is known for his scores to the animated television series The Powerpuff Girls,

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James Ledger

James Ledger (born 1966) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music, and senior lecturer in composition at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Western Australia, where he

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James Lentini

James Lentini (born February 7, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American composer, guitarist, and academic administrator. After completing undergraduate studies at Wayne State University in guitar

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James Lynam Molloy

James Lynam Molloy (19 August 1837 – 4 February 1909) was an Irish composer, poet, and author. His songs were praised by his contemporaries; one said that he "will be remembered, or certainly his

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James Lyon (composer)

James Lyon (July 1, 1735 – October 12, 1794) was an American composer of the colonial and Federal eras in New England. Life James Lyon was born in Newark, New Jersey on July 1, 1735. It is known that

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James M. Stephenson

James M. Stephenson (born February 4, 1969), also known as Jim Stephenson, is an American composer known for his versatility in writing contemporary classical music. His catalog spans across

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James MacMillan

Sir James Loy MacMillan (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor. Early life and education MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East

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James Matheson (composer)

James Matheson (born 1970 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American composer. His works have been commissioned and performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles

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James Montgomery (composer)

James Louis Montgomery (born 6 February 1943) is a Canadian music composer, performer, and arts administrator. For about 20 years he was the artistic director of The Music Gallery. He is also a

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James Nares (composer)

James Nares (19 April 1715 – 10 February 1783) was an English composer of mostly sacred vocal works, though he also composed for the harpsichord and organ. Life Nares was born in Stanwell, although

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James Oliverio

James Oliverio is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music. Biography Oliverio was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

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James Oswald (composer)

James Oswald (baptised 21 March 1710 – 2 January 1769) was a Scottish composer, arranger, cellist, and music publisher, who was appointed as Chamber Composer for King George III and also wrote and

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James P. Clarke (composer)

James Paton Clarke (1807/08–1877) was a Canadian organist, conductor and composer. He was the first person to receive a bachelor's degree in music in North America. He is best known for his work Lays

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James Rolfe (composer)

James Simon Rolfe (born 1961) is a Canadian composer of contemporary music. Early life and education Rolfe was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He studied composition with John Beckwith at the University of

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James Romig

James Romig (born August 5, 1971) is an American composer. He was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Biography James Romig was born August 5, 1971, in Long Beach, California. He earned

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James Saunders (composer)

James Saunders (born 1972) is a British composer and performer of experimental music. He is Professor of Music and Head of the Centre for Musical Research at Bath Spa University. Early life Born in

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James Scott (composer)

James Sylvester Scott (February 12, 1885 – August 30, 1938) was an American ragtime composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime along with Scott

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James Simon (composer)

James Simon (29 September 1880 – 12/14 October 1944) was a German composer, pianist and musicologist. Timeline * Born on 29 September 1880 in Berlin * Married on 1 May 1907 to Anna Levy in Berlin *

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James Stevens (composer)

James Stevens (5 May 1923 – 26 June 2012) was an English composer of symphonic, operatic and avant-garde orchestral music, including film and television scores, as well as pop music of the 1960s.

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James Tenney

James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer, music theorist, and pianist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic

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James W. Tate

James William Tate (30 July 1875 – 5 February 1922) was an English songwriter, accompanist, composer and producer of revues and pantomimes in the early years of the 20th century. After working in the

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James Wilson (composer)

James Wilson (27 September 1922 – 6 August 2005) was an Irish composer. Though born in England, Wilson was a resident of Ireland for over 50 years. Early life Wilson was born in Islington, London.

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James Wood (musician)

James Wood (born 27 May 1953 in Barton-on-Sea, England) is a British conductor, composer of contemporary classical music and former percussionist. Wood studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in

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James Yannatos

James Yannatos (March 13, 1929 – October 19, 2011) was a composer, conductor, violinist and teacher. He was a senior lecturer at Harvard University until his retirement in 2009. Yannatos was born and

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Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek (; 29 April 1953 – 21 May 2024) was a Polish composer. He wrote scores for more than 70 feature films and documentaries, including Finding Neverland (2004), for which he

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Jan Allan

Jan Bertil Allan (born 7 November 1934) He is the winner of a Grammis Award, the Swedish equivalent of the Grammys. He began his career in 1951 as a pianist; after moving to Stockholm, he changed to

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Jan Antonín Losy

Jan Antonín Losy, Count of Losinthal (German: Johann Anton Losy von Losinthal); also known as Comte d'Logy (Losi or Lozi), (c. 1650 – 22 August 1721 ) was a Bohemian aristocrat, Baroque lute player

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Jan Bach

Jan Bach (December 11, 1937 – October 30, 2020) was an American composer. He taught at the University of Tampa (Florida) from 1965 to 1966 and at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois

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Jan Belle

Jan Belle (fl. 1545 – 1566) was a Flemish composer from the Franco-Flemish School and a music theorist. Live Between 1546 and 1547, Belle was a magister duodenorum (master of the choirboys) at the

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Jan Blahoslav

Jan Blahoslav (20 February 1523 – 24 November 1571) was a Czech humanistic writer, poet, translator, etymologist, hymnographer, grammarian, music theorist and composer. He was a Unity of the Brethren

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Jan Blockx

Jan Blockx (25 January 1851 – 26 May 1912) was a Belgian composer, pianist and teacher. He was a leader of the Flemish nationalist school in music. Biography Born in Antwerp, Blockx studied the piano

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Jan Brandts Buys

Jan Willem Frans Brandts Buys (Zutphen, 12 September 1868 – Salzburg, 7 December 1933) was a Dutch-Austrian composer who came from a long line of Dutch organists and composers of protestant church

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Ján Cikker

Ján Cikker (29 July 1911 – 21 December 1989) was a Slovak composer, a leading exponent of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in Slovakia, the Herder Prize (1966)

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Jan Dismas Zelenka

Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745) was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint.

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Jan Ekier

Jan Stanisław Ekier (29 August 1913 – 15 August 2014) was a Polish pianist and composer known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Chopin National Edition. Biography Ekier was born

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Jan Erik Mikalsen

Jan Erik Mikalsen (born 6 May 1979 in Kristiansund, Norway) is a Norwegian composer of contemporary music, living in Oslo. Biography Mikalsen studied at the Grieg Academy in Bergen and the Royal

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Jan Faulkner

Jan Faulkner (1953 – 14 December 2013) was a British percussionist, composer and music teacher. She played in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, taught music at Wells Cathedral School and wrote

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Jan Freidlin

Jan Freidlin (Hebrew: יאן פריידלין; Ukrainian: Ян Михайлович Фрейдлін) is a Soviet (Ukrainian SSR) and Israeli composer. He is the author of works for solo instruments, ensembles and orchestras, as

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Jan George Bertelman

Jan George Bertelman (Amsterdam, January 21, 1782 - January 25, 1854), was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life and work Bertelman was born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic, in 1782. He was the son

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Jan Gerard Palm

Jan Gerard Palm (June 2, 1831 – December 13, 1906) was a composer from Curaçao. Biography Palm was born in Curaçao and directed several music ensembles at a young age. In 1859, he was appointed as

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Jan Gilbert

Jan Gilbert (born August 6, 1946) is an American composer, cellist, and professor of music. Life and career Janet Monteith Gilbert was born in New York City, NY. She studied cello at the Naples

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Jan Hanuš (composer)

Jan Hanuš (May 2, 1915 – July 30, 2004) was a prolific Czech composer of the 20th century. Almost every category of composition is represented among his works, many of which are overtly political,

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Jan Ingenhoven

Johannes Theodorus (Jan) Ingenhoven (Breda, 19 May 1876 – Hoenderloo, 20 May 1951), was a Dutch composer and conductor. He was one of the first to introduce new influences shaping twentieth century

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Jan Josef Ignác Brentner

Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (, surname also spelled Brenntner, Brendtner; 3 November 1689 – 28 June 1742) was a Czech composer of the Baroque era. Biography Jan Josef Ignác Brentner was born into the

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Jan Kalivoda

Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda (Johann Baptist Wenzel Kalliwoda in German; February 21, 1801 – December 3, 1866) was a composer, conductor and violinist of Bohemian birth. Life Kalivoda was born in

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Jan Klusák

Jan Klusák (born 18 April 1934 in Prague as Jan Porges) is a contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music. Life Klusák was born to a Czech Jewish family, who owned a

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Jan Koetsier

Jan Koetsier (14 August 1911 in Amsterdam – 28 April 2006 in Munich) was a Dutch composer and conductor. In 1950, Koetsier became the first of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, he

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Jan Krenz

Jan Krenz (14 July 1926 – 15 September 2020) was a Polish composer and orchestra conductor. Biography During World War II, Krenz studied piano with Zbigniew Drzewiecki and composition with Kazimierz

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Jan Křtitel Kuchař

Jan Křtitel Kuchař (; 5 March 1751 – 18 February 1829) was a Czech organist, mandolinist, harpsichordist, music composer, operatic conductor and teacher. Life and career Kuchař was born on 5 March

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Jan Ladislav Dussek

Jan Ladislav Dussek (baptised Jan Václav Dusík, with surname also written as Duschek or Düssek; 12 February 1760 – 20 March 1812) was a Czech classical period composer and virtuoso pianist. He was an

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Ján Levoslav Bella

Ján Levoslav Bella (German Johann Leopold Bella; 4 September 1843 – 25 May 1936) was a Slovak composer, conductor and music teacher, who wrote in the spirit of the Nationalist Romantic movement of

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Jan Ludevít Procházka

Jan Ludevít Procházka also known as Ludwig Prochazka (14 August 1837 – 19 July 1888) was a Czech pianist, composer, music teacher and author of books on music. Life and activities Procházka was born

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Jan Martin Smørdal

Jan Martin Smørdal (born 14 October 1978 in Horten) is a Norwegian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. Smørdal holds a master's degree in Jazz Performance, and composition from the Norwegian

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Jan Meyerowitz

Jan Meyerowitz (23 April 1913 – 15 December 1998) was a German–American composer and writer. Life Meyerowitz was born Hans-Hermann Meyerowitz in Breslau (today Wrocław), the son of a manufacturer.

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Jan Müller-Wieland

Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in Hamburg) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas. Career Müller-Wieland studied at the

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Jan Nasco

Jan Nasco (also Giovanni, Jhan) (c. 1510 – 1561) was a Franco-Flemish composer and writer on music, mainly active in Italy. He was the first director of the Veronese Accademia Filarmonica, and his

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Jan Nepomuk Maýr

Jan Nepomuk Maýr (sometimes spelled Mayr, Mayer, or Maier; 17 February 1818 – 25 October 1888) was a Czech operatic tenor, opera director, conductor, composer and music educator. He is best

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Jan Novák (composer)

Jan Novák (8 April 1921, Nová Říše – 17 November 1984, Neu Ulm) was a Czech composer of classical music. Novák was primarily active in the 1960s and composed the music for several films of Karel

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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( ; April or May 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He

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Jan Pogány

Jan Pogány born 23 June 1960) is a Polish classical composer, conductor and cellist. His music adopts the romantic style and is a symbiosis of the modern form of romantic harmony and lyrical melodic

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Jan Radzynski

Jan Radzynski (; born June 18, 1950) is a Polish-born Israeli-American composer. Early life and education Jan Radzynski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1950 to a musical family. His mother supported

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Jan Rychlík

Jan Rychlík (27 April 1916 – 20 January 1964) was a Czech composer and music theorist. He was one of the most important exponents of the Czech New Music in the 1950s and 1960s. Biography Rychlik was

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Jan Sandström (composer)

Jan Sandström (born 25 January 1954) is a Swedish classical music composer. His compositions include the so-called Motorbike Concerto for trombone and orchestra and his choral setting of Es ist ein

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Jan Skubiszewski

Jan Skubiszewski (pronounced ; born 1981) is an Australian composer, record producer, songwriter and sound engineer from Melbourne, Australia. He is also a professional multi-instrumentalist. His

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Jan Stefani

Jan Stefani (c. 1746-1829) was a Polish composer and violinist. Life Stefani was born in Prague, and probably studied music there before moving to Italy. Around 1765, he was employed by Franz Joseph,

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Jan Swafford

Jan Swafford (born September 10, 1946) is an American author and composer. He earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music.

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Jan Tausinger

Jan Tausinger (1 November 1921 in Piatra Neamţ – 29 July 1980 in Prague) was a Romania-born ethnic Czech violist, conductor and composer. Biography Tausinger studied composition at the Bucharest

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Jan Trojan Turnovský

Jan Trojan Turnovský (before 1550 – 1606) was a Czech Renaissance composer. He became known in the second half of the 1570s. His compositions are included in the most important sources of Utraquist

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Jan Václav Voříšek

Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (; ; 11 May 1791 – 19 November 1825) was a Czech composer, pianist and organist. Life Voříšek was born in the town of Vamberk, Bohemia, where his father was schoolmaster,

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Jan Van der Roost

Jan Van der Roost (born Duffel, 1956) is a Belgian composer. Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the

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Jan van Gilse

Jan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse (11 May 1881 – 8 September 1944) was a Dutch conductor and composer. Among his works are five symphonies and the Dutch-language opera Thijl (1940). Life Coming from a

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Jan Vriend

Jan Vriend (born November 1938 in Benningbroek) is a Dutch classical music composer, conductor, organist and pianist. He lives in Gloucestershire, England, and has lived there since 1984. Studies and

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Jan W. Morthenson

Jan Wilhelm Morthenson (7 April 1940 – 22 October 2024) was a prominent Swedish composer, critic, and writer primarily known for his criticism of music in Sweden and his compositional styles of

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Jan Williams

Jan Williams (born Jan Gardner Williams, July 17, 1939) is a percussionist, arts administrator, teacher, conductor, and composer who has championed avant-garde and progressive music in the United

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Jan Zach

Jan Zach, also known in German as Johann Zach (b. Čelákovice, Bohemia, bap. 13 November 1699 – Ellwangen, 24 May 1773) was a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and

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Jan Zdeněk Bartoš

Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (4 June 1908 – 1 June 1981) was a Czech composer. Biography Bartoš was born on 4 June 1908 in Dvůr Králové nad Labem. He started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in

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Ján Zimmer

Ján Zimmer (16 May 1926 – 21 January 1993) was a Slovak post-romantic composer and pianist. Biography Ján Zimmer was born in Ružomberok, North Slovakia. He studied at the Bratislava Conservatory

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Jana Obrovská

Jana Obrovská (13 September 1930 – 4 April 1987) was a Czech composer. Biography Jana Obrovská was born in Prague, the daughter of painter and sculptor Jakub Obrovský. Her early studies were piano

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Jane Bianchi

Jane Jackson became Jane Bianchi and later Jane Bianchi Lacy (1776 – 19 March 1858) was a British soprano singer in London and Oudh, India. She was also a good pianist, painter and linguist. and

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Jane Bos

Jane Bos (born Jane Malka-Meunier) was a French composer of film scores between 1927 and 1946, an era when it was very rare for women to do so. Born on 26 October 1897 in Marseille, she was a French

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Jane Corner Young

Jane Corner Young (March 25, 1915 – March 9, 2001) was an American composer, music therapist, and pianist. She was born in Athens, Ohio, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Ohio

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Jane Joseph

Jane Marian Joseph (31 May 1894 – 9 March 1929) was an English composer, arranger, and music teacher. She was a pupil and later associate of the composer Gustav Holst, and was instrumental in the

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Jane Mary Guest

Jane Mary Guest, also known as Jenny Guest and later as Jane Mary Miles, (c. 1762 – 20 March 1846) was an English composer and pianist. A pupil of Johann Christian Bach, and initially composing in

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Jane O'Leary

Jane O'Leary (born 13 October 1946) is an American-born Irish musician and composer who has been living in Ireland since 1972. Biography Jane O'Leary (née Strong) was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Jane Roeckel

Jane Jackson Roeckel (19 October 1833 – 26 August 1907) was a British composer, inventor, pianist, and philanthropist. She composed songs and works for piano and piano rolls, including piano

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Jane Savage

Jane Savage (born 1752/1753, died 1824) was an English harpsichordist and composer. She was the daughter of English musician and composer William Savage (c. 1720–1789) and his wife Mary Bolt Savage.

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Jane Sinclair Wells

Jane Kathleen Sinclair Wells (born 1952) is a British composer and saxophonist. She began her studies at the junior department of the Royal College of Music, then spent five years studying music

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Jane Sloman

Jane Sloman (b. Ipswich, 15 December 1824, d. after 1850) was an English composer, pianist, and vocalist who had an active concert career in the United States during the 1840s. She is best known for

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Jane Stirling

Jean ("Jane") Wilhelmina Stirling (15 July 1804 – 6 February 1859) was a Scottish amateur pianist who is best known as a student and later friend of Frédéric Chopin, who dedicated Nocturnes, Op. 55

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Jane Vieu

Jeanne Élisabeth Marie Vieu, also known as Jane Vieu, (15 July 1871, in Béziers – 8 April 1955, in Paris), was a French composer who also published works under the pseudonym Pierre Valette. Biography

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Jane Vignery

Jeanne Emilie Virginie Vignery (11 April 1913 – 15 August 1974) was a Belgian composer, teacher, and violinist who published her compositions under the name "Jane Vignery." She is best remembered

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Jane Wang (composer and musician)

Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the double bass, toy piano, piano, cello, and various other musical instruments. Wang participated in the ~chromatik d zabu.tmp vs. Vox Novus

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Janet Beat

Janet Eveline Beat (born 17 December 1937) is a Scottish composer, music educator and music writer. Life Janet Beat was born in Streetly, Staffordshire, England and studied piano privately and horn

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Janet Graham

Janet Christine Graham (born 4 June 1948) is an English composer, music educator and music therapist. Life Graham was born in Consett, County Durham, and studied composition at the Royal Academy of

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Janet Maguire

Janet Maguire (1927–2019) was an American composer who was born in Chicago and resided in Venice, Italy. Biography Maguire is known particularly for her arrangement of the finale of Giacomo Puccini's

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Janet Owen Thomas

For the Australian mathematician and educator, see Janet Thomas. Janet Owen Thomas (29 January 1961 – 5 June 2002) was a British composer and organist. Early life and education Owen Thomas was born

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Janez Matičič

Janez Matičič (3 June 1926 – 18 April 2022) was a Slovenian composer and pianist. He was a regular member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts starting in 2007. Matičič was born in

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Jani Christou

Jani Christou (, Giánnīs Chrī́stou; 8 or 9 January 1926 – 8 January 1970) was a Greek composer. Biography There is some disagreement about Christou's birth, the date of which is given by some

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Jani Golob

Jani Golob (born 18 January 1948) is a Slovenian composer, violinist, arranger and professor. His music opus is often on the thin line of classic, pop and jazz. Golob has composed operas, ballets,

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Janice Giteck

Janice Giteck (born June 27, 1946 in New York), is an American composer. Biography Giteck grew up in Hicksville, Long Island and moved to Arizona when she was twelve years old. She attended Mills

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Janika Vandervelde

Janika Vandervelde (born 1955) is an American composer, pianist, and music educator. Her work, notable for its feminist and ecological themes, has won numerous awards. Known for her music for

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Janina Skowronska

Janina Skowronska (8 February 1920 – 1992) was a Polish composer who is best remembered for her arrangements of folk songs, and for creating Little Chopin, a children’s musical based on the life and

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Janine Charbonnier

Janine Charbonnier (8 June 1926 - 28 May 2022) was a French composer, pianist, and piano teacher. She was born in Paris and married writer Georges Charbonnier. She studied with Pierre Barbaud at the

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Jānis Cimze

Jānis Cimze (3 July/21 June 1814 — 22 October/10 October 1881) was a Latvian pedagogue, collector and harmoniser of folk songs, organist, founder of Latvian choral music and initiator of professional

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Jānis Ivanovs

Jānis Ivanovs (27 March 1983) was a Latvian composer whose later career took place in the Soviet Union. In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the

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Jānis Kalniņš (composer)

Jānis Kalniņš (3 November 1904 in Pärnu – 30 November 2000 in Fredericton) was a Latvian Canadian composer and conductor. Latvia Jānis Kalniņš was the son of composer Alfrēds Kalniņš. He was a

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Janis Mattox

Janis Mattox (born March 18, 1949) is an American composer and pianist. An early creator of computer music, she is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. Biography Janis Mattox was born on March 18, 1949 in Saint

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János Bródy

János Kristóf Bródy (Hungarian: Bródy János, born 5 April 1946) is a Hungarian pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and scriptwriter. Successful both with the bands Illés and Fonográf and in

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Janusz Frychel

Janusz Frychel (born January 7, 1967) is a Polish musician, bassist, composer, and lyricist. His music combines styles such as blues, rock, pop, and folk. He is one of the founders of the band Gang

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Janusz Muniak

Janusz Józef Muniak (3 June 1941 – 31 January 2016) was a Polish jazz musician, saxophonist, flutist, arranger, and composer. He was one of the pioneers of free jazz in Europe, although later in life

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Jaques Morelenbaum

Jaques Morelenbaum (() born 18 May 1954) is a Brazilian instrumentalist, arranger, conductor, composer and music producer. Morelenbaum was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of conductor Henrique

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Jards Macalé

Jards Anet da Silva (March 3, 1943 – November 17, 2025), known as Jards Macalé, was a Brazilian composer, singer and actor, known for his influential role in Brazil's tropicália movement in the

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Jared Emerson-Johnson

Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson (born October 13, 1981) is an American video game music composer, sound designer, voice director and voice actor. Emerson-Johnson is the Music Supervisor and lead

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Jared Miller (composer)

Jared Miller (born October 31, 1988) is a Canadian-American composer of contemporary classical music. Named one of CBC's "30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicans Under 30," his work has been performed by

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Jaromír Vejvoda

Jaromír Vejvoda (28 March 1902 – 13 November 1988) was a Czech composer. He is best known as the author of the "Beer Barrel Polka". Life and work Vejvoda was born and died in Prague-Zbraslav. From

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Jaromír Weinberger

Jaromír Weinberger (8 January 1896 – August 8, 1967) was a Bohemian-born Jewish subject of the Austrian Empire, who became a naturalized American composer. Biography Weinberger was born in Prague,

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Jaroslav Ježek (composer)

Jaroslav Ježek () (September 25, 1906 – January 1, 1942) was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental and film music. Life Ježek was born in the Prague quarter

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Jaroslav Kocian

Jaroslav Kocian (22 February 1883 – 8 March 1950) was a Czech violinist, classical composer and teacher. Together with Jan Kubelík he is considered as the most important representative of "Ševčík's

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Jaroslav Krček

Jaroslav Krček (born 22 April 1939) is a Czech radio producer, conductor, inventor of musical instruments and composer of classical and folk music. Biography Jaroslav Krček was born in Čtyři Dvory,

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Jaroslav Křička

Jaroslav Křička (; 27 August 1882 – 23 January 1969) was a Czech composer, conductor and music teacher. He was the brother of poet . Life Jaroslav Křička was born on 27 August 1882 in Kelč, Moravia,

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Jaroslav Kvapil (composer)

Jaroslav Kvapil (21 April 1892 – 18 February 1958) was a Czech composer, teacher, conductor and pianist. Life and career Born in Fryšták, he studied with Josef Nešvera and worked as a chorister in

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Jaroslav Řídký

Jaroslav Řídký (25 August 1897 – 14 August 1956) was a Czech composer, conductor, harpist, and music teacher. Life Řídký was born at Reichenberg, now Liberec. From 1919 to 1923 he studied at the

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Jarosław Kukulski

Jarosław Kazimierz Kukulski (25 May 1944 – 13 September 2010) was a Polish composer. He was the husband of late singer Anna Jantar and the father of singer Natalia Kukulska. Early life Kukulski was

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Jasdeep Singh Degun

Jasdeep Singh Degun (born 9 September 1991) is a British sitar player and composer from Leeds. He is signed to the Real World Records label, on which he released his debut album, Anomaly. In May

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Jasna Veličković

Jasna Veličković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасна Величковић) (born 1974) is a Serbian composer. Biography Jasna Veličković was born in Belgrade, 1974. She completed her Bachelors in composition at the

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Jason Brandt

Jason Brandt (born 1973) is an American composer. Jason composed music for the films Camp Hideout (Christopher Lloyd, Corbin Bleu), Christmas Wonderland (Emily Osment) and F.R.E.D.I. (Kelly Hu,

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Jason Eckardt

Jason Eckardt (born 17 May 1971 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American composer. He began his musical life playing guitar in heavy metal and jazz bands and abruptly moved to composing after

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Jason Evigan

Jason Gregory Evigan (born June 10, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the vocalist for the rock band After Midnight Project, which was formed in 2004 before

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Jason Frederick

Jason Frederick (born November 29, 1970) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer of music for films and television, based in Colchester, UK. Early life and education Frederick was born in

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Jason Gleed

Jason Gleed is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and producer. Originally from Toronto, Gleed graduated as an Ontario Scholar from Crescent School, studied briefly at McMaster University, but left to

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Jason Nett

Jason Nett is a Canadian composer, producer, and guitarist born in New Westminster, British Columbia. He was the resident composer for the Vancouver Island Symphony. In 2022, Jason Nett's orchestral

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Jason Staczek

Jason Staczek (born December 4, 1965) is an American composer, record producer and keyboardist. Life and career Staczek was born in Washington, D.C., attended high school in Miami and studied physics

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Jaufre Rudel

Jaufre Rudel (Jaufré in modern Occitan) was the prince of Blaye (Princes de Blaia) and a troubadour of the early- to mid-12th century, who probably died during the Second Crusade, in or after 1147.

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Javier Álvarez (composer)

Javier Álvarez Fuentes (8 May 1956 – 23 May 2023) was a Mexican composer known for compositions that combined a variety of international musical styles and traditions, and that often utilized unusual

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Javier Navarrete

Javier Navarrete (born May 9, 1956) is a Spanish film score composer. His best-known score, for which he received an Oscar nomination, was for Pan's Labyrinth (2006; his second collaboration with

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Javier Ruiz Rueda

Javier Ruiz Rueda (March 18, 1909 – September 8, 1993) was a Mexican composer and writer. He was born in Mexico City. Achievements Javier Ruiz Rueda was part of the great composers alongside Agustín

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Javier Torres Maldonado

Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968) is a Mexican composer internationally recognized for, mostly, his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works. Biography Born in Chetumal (Mexico), José

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Jay Alan Yim

Jay Alan Yim (born April 24, 1958) is an American composer of Chinese descent and recipient of a 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship. Early life and education Yim was born into a Chinese family in St. Louis,

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Jay Blackton

Jay Blackton (March 25, 1909 – January 8, 1994) was an American composer and conductor. In 1956 he won an Academy Award in the category Best Scoring of a Musical Picture for the film Oklahoma! and

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Jay Chattaway

Jay Chattaway (born July 8, 1946) is an American composer of film and television scores. He is mainly known for his work as composer for several Star Trek television series: Star Trek: The Next

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Jay Cloidt

Jay Cloidt (born October 5, 1949) is an American composer, performer, sound designer, and audio engineer. History Cloidt received his BA in piano performance from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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Jay Graydon

Jay Joseph Graydon (born October 8, 1949, Burbank, California) is an American songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, singer, keyboardist, producer, arranger, and recording engineer. He is the

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Jay Greenberg (composer)

Jay "Bluejay" Greenberg (born December 13, 1991) is an American composer and former child prodigy who studied at the Juilliard School pre-college in 2002 at age 10. Life and work Greenberg was born

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Jay Gruska

Jay Gruska (; born April 23, 1952) is an American songwriter and composer best known for his film and television scoring, and for writing hit songs for a variety of artists. He has composed musical

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Jay Livingston

Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in

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Jay Q

Jeff Tennyson Quaye (born on December 24 in Osu), professionally known by his stage name Jay Q, is a Ghanaian musician, record producer, record executive, sound engineer, songwriter and keyboardist.

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Jay Reise

Jay Reise (born February 9, 1950) is an American composer and teacher. He is known for the opera Rasputin, premiered by the New York City Opera and later performed in the United States, Moscow, and

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Jay Schwartz

Jay Schwartz (born June 26, 1965) is an American composer based in Germany. Biography Schwartz was born in San Diego, California, in 1965. His father was a professional boxer who later worked in

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Jay Semko

John Peter "Jay" Semko is a singer/songwriter and bassist with Canadian band, The Northern Pikes. He is also a music composer for numerous film and television productions, most notably the successful

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Jay Sydeman

William Jay Sydeman (May 8, 1928 – May 27, 2021) was a prolific American composer. He was born in New York. He studied at Duke University, and received a B.S. degree in 1955 from the Mannes School of

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Jay Wadley

Jay Wadley is an American composer and music producer based in New York City, known for his work in film, television, and contemporary classical music. He is a two-time winner of the Charles Ives

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Jayme Amatnecks

Jayme Amatnecks (born 22 December 1966, in Ponta Grossa) is a Brazilian composer and conductor. He taught at Potiguar University from 2005 to 2011 and was twice elected to Ponta Grossa's Municipal

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Jāzeps Vītols

Jāzeps Vītols (; 26 July 1863 – 24 April 1948) was a Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic. He is considered one of the fathers of Latvian classical music. Biography Vītols, born in Valmiera

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