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J. A. Raynes

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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 actress Marta Golden in 1910 in San Jose, California. They divorced in 1915. Raynes first came to prominence as a composer writing the score to the musical burlesque Little Casino which premiered at the roof performance space of Broadway’s Casino Theatre on 2 August 1897. He then was hired by Bob Cole to work as the musical director and arranger for his musical At Jolly Coon-ey Island; beginning an international tour of that work in March 1898. He continued to tour nationally as conductor and composer with Kolb and Dill through 1912; also writing the score to the musical The Politicians (1912) for the pair. His song output included “The Suburban: Characteristic March and Two-Step” (1902, music by Raynes); “Helen of Helena” (1906, music by Raynes, lyrics by Howard Herrick), “The Feegee Man” (1907, words and music by Raynes), “Easy Money” (1908, words and music by Raynes), “I Only Thought I’d Ask You” (music by Raynes, lyrics by Edward Boltwood), “Flirting” (music by Raynes and lyrics by Leo Cu

Jaakko Kuusisto

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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 Indiana University under Miriam Fried. Career As a violinist, Kuusisto has appeared in 30 recordings, of which at least 17 credited as a primary artist, performing works from composers such as Sibelius, Prokofiev, Kalevi Aho and Armas Järnefelt; as a conductor, he has recorded a dozen times. After an early career as violinist, Kuusisto increasingly turned his attention to composing and conducting. He composed approximately 40 works in total, including several operas, film scores and stage music, 15 pieces of chamber music, and numerous other compositions, as well as various orchestrations and arrangements. Before these, he served as the concertmaster of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra for many years, where he was personally invited by the orchestra’s chief conductor Osmo Vänskä. Personal life Jaakko Kuusisto came from a musical family: his father was opera composer Ilkka Kuusisto, his brother musician Pekka Kuusisto, and his grandfather composer and choirmaster Taneli Kuusisto. Outside music

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

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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 linguistics at the University of Helsinki, graduating with the equivalent of an MA degree in 1991. In 1987, he was accredited as an Authorized Translator from Finnish to English and English to Finnish. He also studied theory of music and choir conducting at the Sibelius Academy. Professional life Mäntyjärvi is a professional freelance translator and composer, and also an amateur and semi-professional choral singer and conductor. He is one of Finland’s internationally best known composers of choral music, with a catalog of some 150 works published to date. He has given talks on his works at various choral events in Europe, the USA and Australia, and has occasionally given a course on the history of choral music at the Sibelius Academy. Compositions As a composer, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi describes himself as an eclectic traditionalist: adopting influences from a number of styles and periods, and basing his musical idiom largely on traditionally oriented materials. Because he is himself active in mak

Jaan Patterson

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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 spoken-word projects, including Undress Béton, André Pissoir, Crawl Max, Dusk Euphoria, and Reve Steich. Additionally, together with Goran Ivkovic, he works as Surrism on improvised music projects. Patterson’s music has been played on numerous community radio stations and Internet radio stations, including Resonance FM, WFMU, Zoviet France, NTNS Radio by Mark Stolk and L’étranger, Radio Panik and In Memory of John Peel Radio. Since 2010, Patterson, has a role as curator for WFMU’s Free Music Archive. Later the same year, Patterson, started to curate, together with Anthony Donovan (Murmurists), the Classwar Karaoke netlabel, which releases quarterly compilations of experimental music and short-films by artists from around the world. Some of his musical collaborations include Anthony Donovan & Classwar Karaoke, AG Davis,< Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer, Hopek Quirin, Alessandra Celletti, William Davison (Recordism), Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) & Vania Rovisco, Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas)

Jaap Blonk

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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 physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies. One of his early influences was Kurt Schwitters, whose Ursonate he first heard in 1979; he memorized the entire work, and it became one of the cornerstones of his repertory; he has recited portions of the piece hundreds of times in various public places. Discography *Baba-Oemf (1989) *BRAAXTAAL (1991) *Splinks (1992) *Flux - De Bouche (1992) *Improvisors (1996) *Improvisors Vol. 2 (1996) *Speechlos (1997) *Vocalor (1998) *Consensus (1998) *First Meetings (1999) *Averschuw (2001) *Dworr Buun (2001) *Electric Solo Improvisations (2001) *Improvisors, Vol. 3 (2003) *Five Men Singing (2004) *Pre-Zoic Cellways (2005) *Sprachspuren/Traces of Speech (2012) *Das Kapital (2017) with Kommissar Hjuler & J. O. Olbrich *Geräusche (2020) with Mama Baer *Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With the Judgment of God (2020) References

Jack Beaver

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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 then at the Royal Academy of Music under Frederick Corder. After graduating he worked for the BBC. In the early 1930s he played with the Michael Doré Trio and wrote some concert pieces, including the three movement Sonatina for piano. He also contributed music and arrangements for various BBC radio drama and music features, including most of the radio adaptions of films produced by Douglas Moodie, throughout the 1930s and 1940s. As (like Charles Williams) a member of the Gaumont–British Pictures composing team from the 1930s he was a prolific composer of film scores - around 40 scores between 1932 and 1947 - though many of his contributions were not credited. These included scores for the Secrets of Life series of documentaries produced between 1934 and 1947. He wrote music for Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935), and composed the pseudo piano concerto Portrait of Isla from the score for the 1940 Edgar Wallace film The Case of the Frightened Lady. This is perhaps the first example of a

Jack Beeson

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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 and Bye. Early life Born in Muncie, Indiana, Beeson began with music when he started piano lessons with Luella Weimer in 1928, but it was not until 1933 that he began to compose. He decided to become an “opera-composer” after being influenced by Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. From 1936 until 1939, he switched piano teachers and was with Percival Owen during this period of time. In 1938 he received certificates with first class honors in piano and theory from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto, a very well earned accomplishment at the age of 21. From 1944 to 1945 he had private studies with Béla Bartók in New York City. At this time he was also associating with the Columbia University Opera Workshop and the opera productions of Columbia Theatre Associates. This led to the first performance of his music in New York City. Throughout 1946 and 1947 Beeson was adapting Paul Goodman’s play and composing the music for Jonah as well as writing and performing the Fifth S

Jack Behrens

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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 Centre, he studied at the Juilliard School (BSc 1958, MSc 1959) and at Harvard University (PhD 1973), where his teachers included William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti, Peter Mennin, Leon Kirchner, and Roger Sessions. He also studied with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Music Festival and with John Cage and Stefan Wolpe at the Emma Lake Composers-Artists Workshop in Saskatchewan. Life and career Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Behrens was trained at the Juilliard School where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1958 and a Master of Music in 1959. Among his teachers at Juilliard were William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin. In the summer of 1962 he studied at the Aspen Music Festival and School with Darius Milhaud and in the summers of 1964–1965 he studied with Stefan Wolpe and John Cage at the Emma Lake Composers-Artists Workshop in Saskatchewan. He later entered the graduate composition program at Harvard University where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in music composition in 1

Jack Cooper (American musician)

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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 internationally known pop, jazz, and classical artists. Intro Cooper has performed with, written music for or recorded by internationally known pop, jazz, and classical artists including Sean Ardoin, Aaron Neville, Marc Secara, Jiggs Whigham, the Berlin Jazz Orchestra, Markus Burger, Lenny Pickett, Joyce Cobb, the BBB featuring Bernie Dresel, Duffy Jackson, Donald Brown, Young Voices Brandenburg, Jimi Tunnell, Christian McBride, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, the U.S.A.F. Airmen of Note, the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, the Dallas Winds, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Early life, musical education and influences Jack Cooper was born in Whittier, California on May 14, 1963; his given birth name passed down from his great-grandfather and father, John Thomas Cooper. He was raised in the nearby, northeastern section of La Habra (remote, Southeastern base of the Puente Hills). He is the younger brother of artist and stylist Cathy Cooper, grandson of H.V. Cooper and also the grandson (x4) o

Jack Delano

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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 United States, he worked for the Works Progress Administration, United Fund, and most notably, the Farm Security Administration (FSA). He wore many hats as he also was a composer known for his use of Puerto Rican folk material, started a television production company, and was a cartoonist, poet, professor, and architectural designer. Early life Delano was born Yakov Ovcharov to a Jewish family in , Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Delano, along with his parents and younger brother, emigrated to the United States in 1923. The family arrived in New York on July 5, 1923, on the SS Homeric, and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after. Career Farm Security Administration After graduating from the PAFA, Delano found it difficult to secure a career in painting, illustrating, or music, so he decided to look into a photography program he had heard about through the Federal Art Project (FAP). He had moved to New York and had been freelancing as a photographer at the time,

Jack Fascinato

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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 often with producer Ken Snyder. In that capacity, Fascinato scored or arranged several animated or film inserts for the television series Sesame Street. Early years Fascinato was a Missouri native who graduated from Culver-Stockton College and attended the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. While he was a student at Culver-Stockton he led a band composed of students from the college. The group played for events on- and off-campus, including radio broadcasts for a station in Jefferson City, Missouri. Career Fascinato was a frequent performer and arranger on Chicago radio, often working with The Dinning Sisters trio on various series. He was the musical director for Starring Curt Massey (1943), and then spent a stint in the US Navy. In 1948, after musicians’ union head James Petrillo lifted a ban keeping musicians from performing live on television, Fascinato became musical director on Burr Tillstrom’s Kukla, Fran and Ollie, playing piano accompaniment, arranging music for the occas

Jack Kane (composer)

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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 1958 recording Kane is Able was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra. He was highly active as an arranger and music director for Canadian television during the 1950s. His career was cut short by his death from cancer at the age of 36. The Canadian Encyclopedia states, “At the time of his death, Kane was considered one of Canada’s leading arrangers. He later was honoured by a Canadian Talent Library Trust LP of his big band arrangements, under the direction of Bert Niosi.” Life Born John Kane in London, he was the son of British music-hall entertainer Barry Kane. In 1933 he moved with his family to Canada where he began appearing as a singer with his father in vaudeville performances in Toronto at the age of 9. A year later he won a performance contest at the Roxy Theatre. In 1939 Kane entered the Toronto Conservatory of Music where he studied the clarinet with Herbert Pye through 1942. He began performing with the High Timers

Jack Lathrop

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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 Drug Store Cowboys. Early life Lathrop was born in Sherburne, New York. His parents, Margaret Lathrop (née Margaret Lowell; 1893–1958) and John Marcos Lathrop (1891–1974) were married May 28, 1912, in Manhattan. According to the 1920 US Census, his mother was divorced; and in 1920, he, his sister Kathryn (1914–1962), and his mother lived with his widowed maternal grandmother, Kittie Isabel Lowell (née Kittie Isabel Purdy; 1863–1938), who owned and ran a private boarding house in White Plains, New York. Career Guitarist and vocalist in combos and big bands Tune Twisters In the mid 1930s, Lathrop was one of founding members of the Tune Twisters, a swing jazz vocal trio originally composed of Andy Love (1911–1982), Robert Wacker (1909–1985), and himself. The Tune Twisters were featured on radio broadcasts and also recorded and performed with jazz artists that included Ray Noble in 1935 (with Noble, the Tune Twisters were initially known as “The Freshmen”), Bob Crosby in 1935, Glenn Miller in

Jack Ledru

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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 accompanying great singing stars: Georges Guétary, Lucienne Delyle, Suzy Delair, Charles Trenet. He wrote instrumental and vocal parts and a ballet, le Baiser, created in Lille in 1967. He conducted the orchestras of radio, television and many theaters (Mogador, Chatelet Theatre in Paris and province). He began writing operettas in 1954. For Roger Nicolas he composed Mon P’tit Pote which was played more than three years on a row. For the famous entertainer, he would write Bidule (1959) and A toi de jouer (1961). In 1962, he addressed the traditional operetta by offering Farandole d’amour. But his two most successful hits were dedicated to the couple Marcel Merkès and , Michael Strogoff (1964) and Vienne chante et danse (1967). Most of his career continued essentially in the province: C’est pas l’Pérou (1976), Quadrille Viennois where he mingled tunes by Franz von Suppé and his own compositions, and La peur des coups after Courteline, played in Tours in 1977. In collaboration with Guy Lafar

Jack Marshall (composer)

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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 four children: three sons, producer/director Frank Marshall, composer/arranger Phil Marshall, bassist Matt Marshall, and a daughter, Sally Marshall. Jack is also the cousin of classical guitarist Christopher Parkening. Biography Born in El Dorado, Kansas, Marshall was one of Capitol Records’ top producers in the late 1950s and 1960s. He had a varied career as a jazz, rock and classical guitarist and also as a composer, arranger and record producer. He released two solo albums with drummer Shelly Manne that featured his fingerstyle jazz guitar playing. He was a friend of Howard Roberts and Jack Sheldon and produced several of their albums for Capitol. He wrote his own arrangements, many with a big-band sound to them. He was credited with the arrangement for Peggy Lee’s “Fever”, with Joe Mondragon on bass, Shelly Manne on drums, and Howard Roberts adding the iconic finger snaps. Marshall composed the theme and incidental music for the 1960s TV series The Munsters and the 1966 tie-in film Mu

Jack Mills (music publisher)

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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 York City. His first job in the field of music was as a Tin Pan Alley “song plugger”; selling sheet music by playing songs on the piano for customers for a variety of music publishing firms in Manhattan. He ultimately became manager of the McCarthy & Fisher music publishing house prior to establishing his own company. In 1919 Jack Mills founded Jack Mills Music. He was originally motivated to start the company out of a desire to publish his own songs. He was soon after joined in this enterprise by his brother, Irving Mills. The company was later renamed Mills Music, Inc. in 1928. The company was noted for its many ragtime and jazz publications during the 1920s and 1930s, and for its relationship with the African-American music community during that period. The firm published works by many black composers. It was the most prolific music publishing company in the United States during the 1920s, but afterwards was surpassed by other publishing houses. After World War II, the organization sh

Jack Rochon

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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 contributions to 2024 Beyoncé album Cowboy Carter. He is now based in Los Angeles. Early life Rochon grew up in Toronto alongside fellow producers Aaron Paris and Akeel Henry. Career In 2022, Rochon executive-produced singer-songwriter Nija Charles’ drill-influenced debut album Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You on Capitol Records. In 2023, Rochon produced single “Regardless” for new OVO Sound signee Naomi Sharon. Rochon has also frequently worked with singer-songwriter Charlotte Day Wilson, who credited Rochon (in a bid to escape what she describes as “perfectionist tendencies”) with “pushing her to be the best she could be while avoiding getting bogged down in the details that she felt had marred recording in the past” in a recent interview with The Fader celebrating the release of 2024 album Cyan Blue. In 2024, Rochon was recently nominated in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards for his production contributions to Cyan Blue. On March 30, 2025, Rochon

Jack Shaindlin

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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. Early life and career Shaindlin was born in Karasubazar, Crimea, Russian Empire on April 14, 1909 to a Jewish family. His parents were Rachel ( Golden) and Chaim Shaindlin. His father owned and operated a coal business and was possibly shot and killed during a robbery of his business. Shaindlin came to North America, via Istanbul, on December 8, 1922 and entered the U.S. under the name Jacob Scheindlin. Shaindlin began his musical career as a pianist in silent movie halls, having relocated to the United States as a young boy (Chicago) along with his mother and brother Leo by winning a music scholarship/piano competition in Russia. He became a naturalized US citizen July 28, 1934. In the late 1940s he was musical director of the Carnegie Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He was cited by President Truman for his war contributions for his work on the documentary Tanks. He was the founder and President of Triumph Publications, Inc. of New York City, an extensive and progressive commercial s

Jack Wall (composer)

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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 earned a degree in civil engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and, after a brief stint working in civil engineering, transitioned into music production. He worked with musicians such as John Cale, David Byrne, and Patti Smith, and, after performing increasingly complex production and sound engineering tasks, moved into music composition in 1995. Wall’s first video game composition was the soundtrack to Vigilance. Primarily composing in an orchestral style, by 2001 he composed the soundtrack to Myst III: Exile, which was the title he says put him on the map as a video game composer. In 2002, Wall became one of around 20 co-founders of the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) as well as senior director. In 2005, Wall, along with G.A.N.G. founder and fellow composer Tommy Tallarico, produced the Video Games Live concert series, having served as the conductor for the international concert tour. His soundtracks for Myst III: Exile, Myst IV: Revelation, Rise of the

Jack Westrup

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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 of George Westrup, insurance clerk, of Dulwich, and his wife, Harriet Sophia née Allan. He was educated at Dulwich College, London 1917–22, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He first read classics in which he gained first class honours in moderations (1924) and second class honours in literae humaniores (1926). He gained his B.Mus. degree in 1926, and a Master of Arts in 1929. In 1925, with William Henry Harris, he staged the first complete performance in modern times of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo (but only over certain obstacles presented by Sir Hugh Allen ), and in 1927 he produced the first British performance of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. (In February 1975 he was present at a new production of Orfeo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University Opera Club.) He was a music critic for The Daily Telegraph 1934–39, and also editor of the Monthly Musical Record 1933–45. From 1959 to 1976 he was editor of Music and Letters (Oxford University Press). He gave class

Jack White (music producer)

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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 for six years during the 1960s. In music, he initially tried his hand as a singer with little success, but became one of the most successful producers of schlager music by the 1970s. As a singer, he had already used the stage name Jack White and kept it as a producer, as the name was easier for the international English-speaking stars and their managers he worked with. In his music career, White created 25 of his own records, and is credited on 2512 other records, including 870 production credits. Some of the most notable international artists he worked with were Laura Branigan (“Gloria”, “Self Control”), David Hasselhoff (“Looking for Freedom”), Paul Anka, Engelbert Humperdinck, Barry Manilow, and Jermaine Jackson (“When the Rain Begins to Fall”). On the German-language market, White worked with leading Schlager musicians such as Roland Kaiser, Roberto Blanco, Tony Marshall, Jürgen Marcus, Heino, Andrea Berg, Andrea Jürgens, and Hansi Hinterseer. It is estimated that productions by or w

Jack Woodbridge

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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 and award-winning guitarist/producer Dean Bailin as well as for his theatrical scores and two albums, Picture This and Jack of Hearts. Early life Woodbridge was born and raised in the West Side neighborhood of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was the son of John and Joan Kenney Woodbridge and was a 1974 graduate of West Scranton High School. He discovered his love for music at an early age and began playing the piano at age eight. He wrote his first song, “Debbie Dear,” at age 12 and began singing professionally following his graduation from high school. Woodbridge graduated with a B.A. in advertising from Pennsylvania State University in 1978. He self-designed his curriculum to include an emphasis on Music, Graphic Arts, Film and Photography. He had been a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) since 1996. Career Woodbridge worked for many years as a keyboardist and vocalist for several bands in Northeastern Pennsylvania; including OFAY (1974), The Stones Show

Jack Yarber

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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 bands The Compulsive Gamblers, and The Oblivians and currently fronts Jack O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers. Yarber has also been a member, or contributed to: The End, Johnny Vomit & The Dry Heaves, Andre Williams, The Knaughty Knights, South Filthy, The Cool Jerks, The Limes, ‘68 Comeback, King Louie & His Loose Diamonds, Greg Oblivian & the Tip Tops, Jack Oblivian & The Cigarillos, The Natural Kicks and Tav Falco’s Panther Burns. Today, Yarber continues to write, record and tour as a solo artist. In January 2016, he released his seventh solo album, The Lone Ranger of Love. The record was released on his own label, Mony Records. Johnny Vomit and the Dry Heaves Jack Yarber began his professional music career in high school, appearing alongside high-school friend and future Squirrel Nut Zippers founder Jimbo Mathus in the Corinth, Mississippi, based Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves. Yarber played drums in the outfit, which credited him as Johnny Goopa. Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves would go on to

JackEL

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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 titled EDM Lounge and his performance at EDC Las Vegas in 2019. He also briefly lived in New Orleans as a child, where he would frequently watch street performers at Bourbon Street. He was inspired to play EDM by listening to Deadmau5’s music. He began DJing in local venues such as the Starlite Room and the Chvrch of Joh in his hometown of Edmonton at the age of 14. At the age of 16, he moved to Las Vegas to pursue his music career. JackEL was the featured artist in Sparx Entertainment’s January 2015 “UNCENSORED” article series. In 2015, he also formed a duo with musician Nikki Phoenix, collaborating on tracks such as “Your Smile” and “Ballroom Zombie.” JackEL founded the record label FVYDID in 2016. JackEL and ZaZa Maree performed the song at the 350th Hunnypot Live event at The Mint music club in Los Angeles. In 2017, JackEL collaborated with RV3RS and General Jah Mikey on the track “Rootz “. RV3RS also teamed with JackEL and Zaddy Babby on the track “Do It Again,” which was released in

Jackson Berkey

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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 education Berkey was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He began playing the piano at age 5. His mother learned to play the piano by ear, but insisted that Jackson receive the training she had not. As a result, he was quite an accomplished pianist by the time he entered high school. He received a scholarship from the Huntingdon Music Club to attend the Chautauqua Music Festival in western New York state where he displayed his very serious demeanor as a musician. While his fellow students were enjoying the great outdoors that the area provided, Berkey was daily attending orchestra rehearsals of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. After graduating from high school in 1960, Berkey briefly attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Unfortunately, because scholarships did not adequately cover all expenses, he dropped out of school and got a job as a programming director and announcer at the classical music station, WBBF-FM in Rochester. He kept up with his piano skills by keeping a k

Jackson Greenberg

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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 the theme song to the Netflix series Explained. Life and career Jackson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied music at Princeton University, the Royal College of Music in London, and the University of Southern California Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program. He was selected as a Sundance Lab Composer Fellow in 2017. Filmography * TBA - One Second After * 2022 – Boys In Blue (4 Episodes) * 2022 – Over/Under * 2022 – You and Me This Summer * 2021 – Let Me Be Me * 2021 – DMX: Don’t Try to Understand * 2021 – Daddy Isn’t Here Right Now * 2021 – Audible * 2019-2021 – Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole (19 episodes) * 2020 – Whose Vote Counts, Explained (3 episodes) * 2019-2020 – Dating Around (12 episodes) * 2020 – AKA Jane Roe * 2019 – Maybe This Year * 2019 – Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses * 2018 – Afflicted (6 episodes) * 2017 – Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On (6 episodes) * 2017 – City of Ghosts * 2016 – Kate & Lily * 2015 – Cartel Land * 2014 – Blackout * 201

Jackson Wang

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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 JYP Entertainment in 2014. He founded the Chinese record label Team Wang in 2017, serving as the creative director and lead designer for its subsidiary fashion brand Team Wang Design. Wang released his first solo album Mirrors in 2019, which peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard 200, followed by his second album Magic Man in 2022, which peaked at number 15. His third album Magic Man 2 (2025) reached number 13. Wang was ranked 40th on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 in 2019, 41st in 2020, and 10th in 2021. As of July 2025, Jackson Wang has 33.3 million followers on Instagram, ranking first among Chinese celebrities. He also has a large fan base on platforms such as YouTube and Spotify, and is the fastest Chinese artist to reach 10 million views on Vevo. Life and career 1994–2011: Early life and fencing career Wang was born in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, on 28 March 1994. He was raised into a family of athletes: his father Wang Ruiji was an Olympian fencer, his mother Zhou Ping was a gymnast

Jacob Avshalomov

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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 Avshalomov, the Siberian-born composer known for “oriental musical materials cast in western forms and media”; his mother was from San Francisco. Aaron Avshalomov had become friends with Gershkovitch in the Orient (Jacob was three years old when the two met). However, because they did not hold permanent visas the family returned to China. During this time he studied with Gershkovitch and participated in the Portland Junior Symphony. Portland Youth Philharmonic Following Gershkovitch’s death in 1953, guest conductors lead the Portland Junior Symphony (now known as the Portland Youth Philharmonic) for its thirtieth season—one was Avshalomov. The year 1984 marked the orchestra’s sixtieth anniversary as well as Avshalomov’s thirtieth year as conductor. Avshalomov retired in 1995 after an estimated 640 concerts and 10,000 auditions. In 2011 Avshalomov was one of three honorees to be recognized by the Portland Center for the Performing Arts Foundation for outstanding contributions to Portland’s art

Jacob Cooper (composer)

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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 graduate studies in composition at the Yale School of Music, and later formed the composers’ collective Sleeping Giant with several of his classmates. His works have been performed by the Calder Quartet, JACK Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ACJW, NOW Ensemble, Dither Quartet, Living Earth Show, Carmina Slovenica, Mellissa Hughes, Timo Andres, Theo Bleckmann, Jodie Landau, Ashley Bathgate, and Vicky Chow. Cooper’s national awards include a Music Alive Residency Award from New Music USA, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP. He was also the winner of the 2011 Carsblad Music Festival Composers’ Competition and has been hailed by the New York Times as “richly talented” and by The New Yorker as a “maverick song composer.” Cooper is an associate professor at West Chester University and previously served on the faculty at Amherst College. Works Cooper’s lar

Jacob de Haan (composer)

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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 invited as a guest conductor for performances of his own work. He also gives master classes and acts as a jury member at international competitions. De Haan also published works under the pseudonyms Dizzy Stratford, Tony Jabovski, Larry Foster, and Ron Sebregts. He also conducts master classes and serves as a jury member at international music competitions. In Germany, De Haan collaborated with the Bayerische Musikakademie (Bavarian Music Academy) and the Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung (Federal Academy for Musical Youth Education) in Trossingen. Compositions De Haan draws inspiration from both contemporary and classical composers. His compositional process often begins with improvisation on his old Steinway piano, developing themes and melodies into completed works. . Earlier, in 2003, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Frisian regional broadcasting company Omrop Fryslân. Works for Choir and Concert Band * 2003 Missa Brevis – mixed choir with organ or wind

Jacob Druckman

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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 until 1985. Druckman taught at Juilliard, The Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, Brooklyn College, Bard College, and Yale University, among other appointments. He was Connecticut’s State Composer Laureate. Druckman died of lung cancer at age 67 in New Haven, Connecticut. His music is published by Boosey & Hawkes. He is the father of percussionist Daniel Druckman. The Aspen Music Festival gives out the Jacob Druckman award in his honor each festival season. The reward is given to an up-and-coming composer, who is then commissioned to write a piece to be performed in the next festival season. Notable musicians who recorded his works include David Zinman, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Dawn Upshaw, Jan DeGaetani, the Dorian Wind Quintet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the American Brass Quintet. Notable students Major works * String Quartet No. 1 (1948) *The Seven Deadly Sins (1955), for piano *Dark Upon the Harp (1961–1962), for mezzo-soprano, brass, and percussion. S

Jacob French

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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’ innovative approach to psalmody … His music tends to be more complex in its structure, rhythm, and counterpoint than most of his contemporaries.” “Along with William Billings, he is regarded as one of the finest composer of anthems in the New England tradition.” French’s Farewell Anthem appears in Southern Harmony, 1835, as well as The Sacred Harp from 1844 to the present. He was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts. His brother, Edward, also composed a few tunes. Some of French’s choral music was adapted by American composer John Cage for his Apartment House 1776 and subsequently arranged for string quartet as part of 44 Harmonies by violinist Irvine Arditti. These were recorded and issued by Mode Records along with adaptations by Cage of other Colonial-period hymnists. Publications *The New American Melody (1789) *The Psalmodist’s Companion (1793) *Harmony of Harmony (1802) List of works *Heavenly Vision *Beauty *Dormant *Happiness *Farewell Anthem (Scores available at the Choral Public Dom

Jacob Gade

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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 as Jalousie “Tango Tzigane” and Tango Jalousie). Early life Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was born in Vejle, Denmark on 29 November 1879 and died on 20 February 1963. He belonged to a family of musicians. His grandfather and his father used to go around the nearby villages to play at all kinds of parties. And it was natural that, from an early age, he also began to play and was another member of the musical group. He was nine when he made his debut as trumpeter. He might have been an attraction because only a year later he was invited to Copenhagen to become a soloist in the orchestra of the Tivoli Garden, a famous amusement park. It was only at age 12 when he began to study violin, firstly with his father and later with teachers of greater knowledge. Soon he evidenced his ambition, he wanted to be recognized and for that he decided to move to the capital. Note that there’s no family connection with the composer Niels W. Gade. Music composer He began to compose country music, polkas and simila

Jacob Gilboa

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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 received training in playing the piano. In 1938 he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he initially studied in Haifa at the Institute for Technology. Starting in 1944 he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music with Josef Tal and Paul Ben-Haim. Music career His participation in the Courses for New Music in Cologne in 1963 and 1964 under Karlheinz Stockhausen and Henri Pousseur made a strong impact on his style, which changed to include clusters, quarter tones, electronics, and unconventional instrumental combinations. His best-known work is Twelve Glass Windows of Chagall in Jerusalem, for voice and instruments (1966). In addition, he composed Thistles, for horn, percussion, piano, and cello (1967), Pastels for two pianos, the piano suite Seven Little Insects (1956), and The Grey Colours of Käthe Kollwitz for mezzo-soprano, chamber orchestra, and tape. He died in Tel Aviv, Israel. See also *Music of Israel References

Jacob Hochbrucker

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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 Europe between 1729 and 1750 by his descendants, and particularly by the Dauphine, Marie Antoinette, who performed on it after her arrival in Paris in 1770. Life and work Hochbrucker was probably born in Mindelheim. From 1699 he lived and worked in Donauwörth, where he also built lutes and violas. Around 1720 Hochbrucker invented the pedal mechanism to play the harp, adding to the instrument five (later increased to seven) pedals and connecting them to the hooks for the C, D, F, G, and B strings, thus allowing the player to alter the strings sound of a semitone and greatly extend the range of the instrument for the extraction of sounds. This ingenious chromatic system later became the subject matter of studies and extended considerations. In the second half of the 18th century, the Hochbrucker mechanism was largely popularized by the efforts of his nephews, Christian and Celestine Hochbrucker, and mainly by his son Simon, who toured around Europe playing in Vienna in 1729, Leipzig, Brussel

Jacob Mühlrad

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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 music. Mühlrad’s modern classical works have been performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, Victoria Hall in Singapore, the Orpheum in Vancouver, the Norwegian Opera, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. His piece Anim Zemirot (composed in 2013 and released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2021) is today a staple in the repertoire of European choirs. In 2015, Mühlrad as a 24-year-old became the youngest composer to have a piece performed at the Royal Swedish Opera. He has since been labeled a “rising star” by The Economist and garnered a top rating by BBC Music Magazine for his debut album Time. Mühlrad has partnered with musicians such as Pablo Heras-Casado, Olga Neuwirth, and Vancouver Chamber Choir, on the classical side. As a pop composer, he has done various collaborations with the Swedish House Mafia, including the One Symphony, a symphonic version of the electronic music super group’s hit song. Mühlrad is from a Jewish family and three of his grandparents were survivors of

Jacob Narverud

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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 composers in the United States. Background Narverud is the editor of Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc. and a Signature Artist at Musicnotes, Inc. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Tallgrass Chamber Choir, and was named Composer-in-Residence of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus in 2024. He currently is a visiting Professor at Kansas State University, where he teaches graduate courses in choral conducting. His music is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc., Carl Fischer Music, Alfred Music, G. Schirmer, Hal Leonard, Shawnee Press, J. W. Pepper & Son, Alliance Music Publications, Inc., and Musicnotes, Inc. Narverud holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Emporia State University, a Master of Music Degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in conducting from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. List of compositions Choral, accompanied *Common Ground *Dona Nobis Pacem *Joy Joy *Lovely Chance *Songs for the People *A Patch of Light *Ad A

Jacob Niclas Ahlström

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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 due to lack of money and joined a touring theatrical troupe. From 1832 to 1842, he served as a cathedral organist and music teacher in Västerås and then became a Court Kapellmeister and organist in Stockholm until his death. In 1845, he held a concert in Berlin, during which he played Swedish folk songs and dances. During the years 1842 to 1854 Ahlström worked at the Nya theater in Stockholm where he wrote music in various genres for more than one hundred theatrical works. Ahlström composed two operas based on libretti by Frans Hedberg, incidental music (for plays such as Agne, Positivhalaren, Ringaren i Notre Dame, and Hinko och Urdur), a vocal symphony, chamber music, and lieder. Together with Per Conrad Boman, he published Svenska folksånger, folkdanser och folklekar, the best-known collection of Swedish folk songs which appeared during the 19th century. In 1852, he also published the Musikalisk fickordbok (Musical Pocket Book), which enjoyed several reissues. References Further readin

Jacob Obrecht

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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 motet Mille quingentis. He was the only son of Ghent city trumpeter Willem Obrecht and Lijsbette Gheeraerts. His mother died in 1460 at the age of 20, and his father in 1488 in Ghent. Details of his early education are sparse, but he probably learned to play the trumpet, like his father, and in so doing learned counterpoint and how to improvise over a cantus firmus. He is likely to have known Antoine Busnois at the Burgundian court, and certainly knew his music, since Obrecht’s earliest mass shows close stylistic parallels with the elder composer. Scholar, composer and clergyman, Obrecht seems to have had a succession of short appointments, two of which ended in less than ideal circumstances. There is a record of his compensating for a shortfall in his accounts by donating choirbooks he had copied. Throughout the period he was held in the highest esteem both by his patrons and by his fellow composers. Tinctoris, writing in Naples, singles him out in a shortlist of contemporary master compo

Jacob Regnart

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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. Biography Regnart was born at Douai, one of five brothers. His first documented appearance is in 1560 as a tenor at the Hofkapelle in Prague under Habsburg ruler Archduke Maximilian; Regnart claimed to have worked there since 1557. In 1564 his first works were published; he moved to Vienna and then Italy, where he studied from 1568 to 1570. The first fruits of these studies, Il primo libro delle canzone italiane, would be published in 1574, with many subsequent volumes to follow. In November 1570 he became an instructor for Maximilian’s chapel choir, and upon Maximilian’s death, Emperor Rudolf II hired him as a member of his Hofkapelle. It was in the 1570s that his volumes of three-voice Teutsche Lieder (German songs) appeared, printed by the Gerlachs of Nuremberg; they sold very well, were reprinted several times, and were arranged in tablature by several composers. In October 1579, he became vice-Kapellmeister, succeeding Alard du Gaucquier; the next year, Orlandus Lassus gave his nam

Jacob Schaefer (composer)

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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 decades of his life, he founded and operated a number of workers’ orchestras and choirs in Chicago and New York, including most famously the Freiheit Gezang Farein. He composed a number of cantatas, oratorios and song arrangements which were performed by the ensembles he directed, as well as by their affiliated performing groups around the United States. Biography Early life Schaefer was born in Kremenets, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now located in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) on October 13, 1888. Jacob was born into a Jewish family of carpenters; his father, Moishe-Dovid, was a follower of Hasidic Judaism who knew many traditional songs and nigunim, and his mother was named Hania-Chava. (His father spelled the family name Soifer (), which Jacob occasionally did as well even after emigrating. It was through his new higher-paying music jobs that in 1911 he was able to purchase his own piano for the first time in his life. During the summer of 1914 there were extensive discussions a

Jacob Schmitt

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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 in Hamburg. Life Jacob Schmitt was the youngest of the seven children of Franz Bartholomäus Schmitt and Anna Maria Scheller; his oldest brother was the composer Aloys Schmitt. His father was already an aspiring musician, who supported his salary as a teacher by being an organist in the town’s parish church St. Peter and Paul. He supported his sons musically, giving them their first musical lessons and making sure, that they were taken up in the house of the music publisher Johann Anton André in Offenbach. There, Schmitt was taught by André as well as his brother Aloys and had his first performances as a piano accompanist in 1814. At this time in the view of the public, he was the little brother of the already well-known Aloys whom he had a close relationship with. Schmitt’s way into the world of the free music business began around 1823. This becomes clear from an exchange of letters with his former patron André. In these letters, Schmitt initially asked for the financing of a new grand pi

Jacob Senleches

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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 commonly known as the ars subtilior. Life and career It has been suggested that Jacob Senleches was born in Senleches (or Sanlesches) in Cambrai, today France. In 1382, Senleches seems to have been present at the court of Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile (d. September 1382), possibly in her service. In Fuions de ci, he laments Eleanor’s death and resolves to seek his fortune either “en Aragon, en France ou en Bretaingne”. Afterwards, he is found in the service of Pedro de Luna, Cardinal of Aragon (later Antipope Benedict XIII, 1394–1423), as a harpist. There is a treasury document assigning payments to one “Jaquemin de Sanleches, juglar de harpe” from the royal household in Navarra dated August 21, 1383. The payment was made so that Jacquemin could return to “his master”, Pedro de Luna. In a document related to the coronation of Pedro de Luna as Antipope Benedict XIII, “Jacobus de Senleches” was granted on 30 October 1394 a canonicate with expectation of a prebend at the Basilica of Saint

Jacob TV

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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 inspiration from Steve Reich, mixing classical music with elements of popular culture in a postmodernist manner. Life and career Jacob ter Veldhuis was born on 14 November 1951 in Westerlee, Netherlands. In his youth, he had a variety of classical, rock, blues and jazz influences. Music Jacob TV’s music includes elements of American popular culture and mass media, in a postmodernist manner. Commentators frequently compare this approach to the visual arts; the music critic Anne Midgette likened it to Pop art, particularly the collages of Tom Wesselmann, while the musicologist Kevin Lewis described it as Warholian. Jacob TV describes himself as an “avant-pop composer”; in light of his largely tonal style he remarks: “I pepper my music with sugar”. References External links *

Jacob van Eyck

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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 technician, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was an expert in bell casting and tuning, and taught Pieter and François Hemony how to tune a carillon. Van Eyck is credited with developing the modern carillon together with the brothers in 1644, when they cast the first tuned carillon in Zutphen. He is also known for his collection of 143 compositions for recorder, , the largest work for a solo wind instrument in European history. Biography Early life Jacob van Eyck was born in 1589 or 1590 into a noble family probably in The Hague and raised in the nearby town Bergen op Zoom. Born blind, he lived with his mother and father well into adulthood. Van Eyck moved to the town of Heusden and became involved as a player and technician of the town’s carillon by 1618. He met with several craftsmen and the city organist to discuss changes and improvements to the carillon, which he carried out in 1620 and 1621. Carillon career Van Eyck quickly established himself as a renowned carillon player and techn

Jacob Weinberg

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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 Jewish National Conservatory in Jerusalem before immigrating to the U.S. where he became “an influential voice in the promotion of American Jewish music” from the 1940s until his death. Life and career Weinberg was born in Odessa in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) to Dora and Wolf (Zev) Weinberg. His family was middle class and his father was a merchant who died when Jacob was only 12. Jacob wrote an essay about how he had been sent to a synagogue to say the Kaddish prayer in mourning for his father. He wrote that he had not been raised in an Orthodox home and he was not familiar with the sounds of the Hebrew language in the prayer but he fell in love with the music of the language and the rhythm of the prayer. This sparked his interest in Jewish religion and Jewish music. One of his uncles was Peter (or Pyotr) Isaevich Weinberg (or “Veinberg”). (Peter was a very prominent translator of Shakespeare, Goethe, Heine and other luminaries into Russian. Peter was a friend of Anton Che

Jacobine Gjertz

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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 Gjertz, a town clerk in Christiania and Magdalene Elisabeth Hoff. She was the sister of lawyer and civil servant Hjalmar Balduin Hoff (1823–1902). Life and career Gjerz demonstrated an early talent for playing piano. She received her music education in Copenhagen, where she also studied music theory and composition with the composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann. In a certificate dated 13 April 1839, Hartmann emphasised Gjertz’s strong interest in music theory, which he thought was unusual for a young lady. In spring 1840, Gjertz performed concerts in Stockholm and Copenhagen, which were successfully received. Her program included Carl Maria von Weber’s Konzertstück and Sigismond Thalberg’s Huguenot Fantasia. In an advance review of her concert, Henrik Wergeland stated that she had already surpassed her teachers. Gjertz continued her studies with Danish pianist Bernhard Courländer. In 1851, the couple returned to Gjertz’s hometown of Christiania. Whilst th

Jacobo Calderón

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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 been performed by Raphael, David Bisbal, Abraham Mateo, Sergio Dalma, Álex Ubago, Tamara, Pastora Soler, Manuel Mijares and other singers. As a producer he has worked with Luis Fonsi, Alejandro Sanz, Paul Anka, Charles Aznavour, Vicente Fernández, Joan Manuel Serrat, Joaquín Sabina, María Dolores Pradera, Francisco Céspedes, Laura Pausini, Ricardo Montaner, Miley Cyrus and Alejandro Fernández. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award and a Latin Grammy. His father Juan Carlos Calderón was composer and music producer. Career At the age of eight he began studying music theory and piano at the Katarina Gurska music academy in Madrid. He continued his studies with the Argentinian maestro Carlos Cítera and completed them by specialising in arranging and modern composition at the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid. At the age of 20 he moved to Miami where he studied music industry related studies at the University of Miami. His firs recording took place at the age of 18, when he composed the

Jacobo Ficher

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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 Alexander Ficher, a trombonist in the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, and his wife Iente Mirl (Elena) Gotz. He began to study the violin at the age of five, but his lessons were interrupted when his mother died. In 1903 he was able to resume his violin studies with Pyotr Stolyarsky, and later with M. T. Hait. From 1912 to 1917 he was enrolled at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he continued his violin studies with Sergei Korguyev and Leopold Auer. His other teachers included Vasily Kalafati, Maximilian Steinberg, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Nikolay Sokolov. On 3 June (Gregorian 16 June) 1920 he married Ana Aronberg, then a piano student at the Odessa Conservatory. The Revolution of 1917 was followed by deteriorating conditions in Odessa and so, in order to escape famine and persecution, the family—including his father with his second wife, his youngest brother Rachmiel (who was a cellist) and a sister-in-law—fled the city, traveling at first to Poland. In 1923 they moved to Argentina, arriv

Jacobo Palm

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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 Curaçao classical music”. At the age of seven Jacobo Palm started to take lessons in music from his grandfather. Jacobo played several musical instruments such as piano, organ, violin, clarinet and flute. As an organist, Palm played for more than 50 years (1914-1968) in the pro-cathedral Santa Ana in Curaçao. As a concert master, Jacobo Palm played for many years in the Curaçao Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also a member of the Curaçao string quartet in which he played the viola. As a concert pianist Jacobo Palm accompanied well known musicians such as Dalman from Argentina, Del Orbe from Santo Domingo, Luis Palma and the cellist Bogumil Sykora. Numerous students followed lessons in music from Jacobo Palm. They originate from countries such as The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Venezuela, Colombia and The Netherlands. His most talented students were his own daughters Irma Rojer-Palm (violin), Elsa Debrot-Palm (piano), Nelly Jongepier (piano), and composers Wim Statius Muller (piano) and h

Jacobus Barbireau

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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 contemporaries and by modern scholars; however, his surviving output is small, and he died young. Life Until the 1960s, he was confused with another somewhat older composer named Barbingant. Barbireau was probably born in Antwerp, and both of his parents were citizens there. By 1482, he had attained the title of Master of Arts, so he likely went to university in the 1470s. He wanted to study with the humanist and musician Rodolphus Agricola, who was active at Ferrara in the 1470s and later Heidelberg, and several letters written by Agricola to Barbireau have survived; one of them gives useful clues about Barbireau’s life. According to it, Barbireau was already active as a composer by 1484, and implies that his fame had not yet spread outside of his native Antwerp. Barbireau may have been attached to the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp since childhood. Since 1482, the church was the center of his life. It is also probably the reason why it was impossible for him to study with Agricola. In 1

Jacobus Clemens non Papa

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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 was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and was especially famous for his polyphonic settings of the psalms in Dutch known as the Souterliedekens. Life Nothing is known of Clemens’s early life, and even the details of the years of his artistic maturity are sketchy. He may have been born in Middelburg, Zeeland, though the evidence is contradictory; certainly he was from somewhere in modern Belgium or the Netherlands. The first unambiguous reference to him is from the late 1530s, when Pierre Attaingnant published a collection of his chansons in Paris. Between March 1544 and June 1545 he worked as succentor at the cathedral of Bruges, and shortly thereafter he began a business relationship with Tielman Susato, the publisher in Antwerp, which was to last for the rest of his life. From 1545 until 1549 he was probably choirmaster to Philippe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot, one of Charles V’s greatest generals, where he preceded Nicolas Gombert. In 1550 he was employed as sanger ende

Jacobus de Kerle

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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 positions as a singer in Cambrai and choirmaster in Orvieto, where he also became organist and carillonneur. After entering the priesthood, he began having his music printed, including a 1561 collection of psalms and Magnificat settings in Venice. He was commissioned to write Preces Speciales set to texts by the Dominican Pedro de Soto for the Council of Trent, which he completed by 1562, and visited the city during the time of the Council in his travels with Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, cardinal of Augsburg. Although he did not take part in their discussions, the performance of the Preces Speciales reportedly influenced the deliberations of the Council Fathers on sacred music. In 1565, he was appointed director of music at Ypres Cathedral, though he would lose this position after being excommunicated on March 30, 1567, due to a dispute with another priest and thus lost his office. After performing the imposed penances in Rome, he was received again in the church. From there he moved to Ro

Jacobus Gallus

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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 time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life. Life Gallus’s name has been Slovenianized as Jakob Petelin (petelin means ‘rooster’; Handl and gallus mean the same in German and Latin, respectively). However, Gallus never used the name Petelin. He was probably born in Reifnitz (now Ribnica, southern Slovenia), although Slovene folk tradition also claims his birthplace to be at Šentviška Gora in the Slovenian Littoral. He used the Latin form of his name, to which he often added the adjective Carniolus, thus giving credit to his homeland Carniola. Gallus most likely was educated at the Cistercian Stična Abbey in Carniola. He left Carniola sometime between 1564 and 1566, traveling first to Austria, and later to Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. For some time he lived at the Benedictine Melk Abbey in Lower Austria. He was a member of the Viennese court chapel in 1574, and was choirmaster (Kapellmeister) t

Jacobus Kloppers

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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 returned to South Africa to teach, compose and perform. He immigrated to Canada with his family in the mid-1970s in protest to the Apartheid policy. Kloppers settled in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and worked as a private instructor and church musician. In 1978, he was interviewed for a part-time position at a small Christian college, The King’s University (Edmonton), that was to open the next year. The college hired him full-time to develop a music program. He taught organ, music history, and musicology and was chair of the music program until his retirement in 2008. Kloppers is also an adjunct professor of organ at the University of Alberta, an honorary fellow of the RCCO, the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers. Kloppers was important in Edmonton’s Winspear Centre acquiring the Davis Concert Organ, a world-renowned instrument. In 2009, Kloppers was inducted into Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame. In 2011, the University of the Free State began a project to

Jacobus of Liège

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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 Music), probably in the 1320s and 1330s. Life and work The Speculum musicae of Jacobus was previously attributed to Jean de Muris, due to a misreading of the attribution of another treatise in its chief source, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 7207, fol. 299v. Yet Jacobus incorporated his own name by means of an acrostic: the initial letters of each of the seven books of the opus spell out the name IACOBUS. In Book VI Jacobus demonstrates expert knowledge of chant practices in the diocese of Liège, and states that he had been resident in one of the churches of Liège. He also reveals that he had studied at the University of Paris, presumably in the final decades of the 13th century. A contemporary treatise, written not long after 1376, mentions a certain Jacobus de Montibus as an expert on the genera of ancient Greek music theory. The most extensive contemporary treatment of that arcane topic is found in Book V of Speculum musicae. A canon named Jacobus de Montibus was resident in the ch

Jacobus Vaet

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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 imitation, and he was a friend both of Clemens non Papa and Lassus. Life He was born in either Kortrijk or Harelbeke, but about when and where he was born is for now not yet fully determined. From his “Modulationes” (1562) he calls himself “Flemish” but later he says that he is “Belgian”, so at least we can say he is from the low countries. His first appearance in the historical record is from Kortrijk, where he was admitted in 1543, at age 13, as a singer to the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady). In 1547 he was enrolled at the University of Leuven, and by 1550 he was in the court of Charles V, where he was listed as tenor in the chapel choir. He may have been recruited for the choir by Pieter Maessens who had been magister cantus at Notre Dame in Courtrai when Vaet was a boy. He became Kapellmeister to Maximilian II in 1554, and held that post for the rest of his life. Evidently Maximilian was fond of his Kapellmeister, and mourned him both in his diary, and by having elegies wr

Jacobus Vide

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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 School, during the reigns of John the Fearless and Philip the Good. The earliest mention of him is from the archives of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, in 1405, where he was probably a choirboy (some uncertainty exists with regard to the name). In 1410 he held a position at the church of St Donatian in Bruges, and around the same time he may have been a singer in the chapel of Antipope John XXIII. His service to the Burgundian court began sometime between then and 1423, when he was listed as a valet de chambre for Philip the Good, and in 1426 he was given charge of instructing and caring for two choirboys. In 1428 he was promoted to the position of secretary to Philip the Good. No records of his activity after 1433 have yet been discovered. All eight of his surviving works are rondeaux, secular French songs which were a favorite of the Burgundians. They are somewhat unusual, in comparison to other music of the period, in their free use of dissonance, and in addition are marked by

Jacopo Corsi

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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 best-known work is Dafne (1597/98), whose score he wrote in collaboration with Jacopo Peri. Six fragments of the score have survived, two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini, has survived intact. Despite priority quibbles at the time, Dafne is generally accepted as the first opera. TOC Life Born into a Florentine noble family on 17 July 1561, he was the son of Giovanni Corsi (1519–1571) and Alessandra Della Gherardesca (d. 1615). His father was an important merchant who expanded the family activities in Palermo and was also in charge of Cardinal Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. In 1569, Giovanni provided important services to the Cardinal but died early in 1571, leaving Jacopo, who was only 10 years old, to be raised by his uncle Antonio with a great inheritance of 90,000 ducats. Jacopo and his brothers Bardo and Giulio had good investments in mercantile education, which allowed them to continue managing the legacy left by their father. The private

Jacopo da Bologna

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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 Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni da Firenze. He concentrated mainly on madrigals, including both canonic (caccia-madrigal) and non-canonic types, but also composed a single example each of a caccia, lauda-ballata, and motet. Life and career His setting of Non al suo amante, written about 1350, is the only known contemporaneous setting of Petrarch’s poetry. Jacopo’s ideal was “suave dolce melodia” (sweet, gentle melody). His style is marked by fully texted voice parts that never cross. The untexted passages which connect the textual lines in many of his madrigals are also noteworthy. He is well represented in the Squarcialupi Codex, the large collection of 14th-century music long owned by the Medici family; twenty-nine compositions of his are found in that source, the principal source for music of the Italian ars nova, alongside music by Francesco Landini and others. A portrait of Jacopo is found in this manuscript, and another possible portrait is found in a north-Italian manuscript, Fulda,

Jacopo Ettorre

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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 classical music. In 2015, he wrote his first hit, “Lunedì”, for the duo . In 2019, he made his debut at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Senza farlo apposta”, performed by Shade and Federica Carta. In 2025, he released his second album, Sammy, Cabiria, etc. etc. Ettore’s songwriting collaborations include Mahmood, Laura Pausini, Elodie, Annalisa, Fedez, Giusy Ferreri, Emma Marrone, Alessandra Amoroso, Max Pezzali, Paola & Chiara, Baby K, Ghali, Boomdabash, Rkomi, Coma_Cose, Emis Killa, Madame, Gaia, Clara, Fred De Palma, Sarah Toscano. He has named the singer-songwriters Lucio Battisti, Vasco Rossi, and Rino Gaetano as his principal inspirations. Discography Album * Siamo sicuri di essere giovani? (2021) * Sammy, Cabiria, etc. etc. (2025) Songwriting credits References External links * * *

Jacopo Peri

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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 mostly lost Dafne (c. 1597), and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600). He is sometimes known by the byname ll Zazzerino (). Life and career Jacopo di Antoni di Franceso Peri was born in either Rome or Florence to a middle-class family. Peri himself claimed to be from Rome, but considering the pro-Roman sentiments of the reigning Fernando de’Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, it was considered a disadvantage to be known as a Florentine. This may have motivated Peri to lie about his true birthplace. Nonetheless, he was employed to sing at the Servite monastery of Santissima Annunziata in the city of Florence. He likely received an education from the monastery school as well. Due to its size and favour with the Medici court, which attended mass there each week, Santissima Annunziata was seen as pipeline for musical students to develop their careers and acquire patronage. Because of his talent and education, Peri was able to study in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to w

Jacopo Puccini

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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 composers, the most famous of whom was his great-great-grandson, the opera composer Giacomo Puccini. Career Puccini studied in Bologna under Giuseppe Carretti, who was maestro di cappella at Bologna’s San Petronio Basilica. In Bologna Puccini became friends with Padre Martini. Puccini was known as an excellent organist. He was the teacher of opera composer Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi. Compositions * Messa a 3 (1760). Consists of Kyrie, Gloria, and Credo. Scored for 2 violins in unison, cello, bass, continuo, and three-part chorus (SSA or SAA). Original title: 1760/ Messa Piena a 3 voci, cioè Canto, e due Alti/ Con violini a beneplacito Unis: soni / Per il Concerto di S. Giovannetto/ di Giacomo Puccini. * Jacopo Puccini (“Giacomo Puccini senior”): 26 January 1712 – 16 May 1781. * Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini: 30 July 1747 – 10 February 1832. * Domenico Vincenzo Maria Puccini: 5 April 1772 – 25 May 1815. * Michele Puccini: 27 November 1813 – 23 Jan 1864. * Giacomo Puccini: 22 December 18

Jacqueline Fontyn

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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 Belgium in recognition of her many artistic contributions. Early years Jacqueline Fontyn was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and began piano studies at the age of five years with Ignace Bolotin. At nine years old, she began to compose small pieces, and at the age of 14, she decided to be a composer. She continued her piano studies with Marcel Maas and studied music theory and composition with Marcel Quinet in Brussels and with Max Deutsch in Paris. She also studied orchestra conducting in Vienna with Hans Swarovsky and graduated in 1959 from the Belgian Chapelle Musicale Elisabeth. Career Working in Antwerp, Fontyn founded a mixed choir Le Tympan and directed it for seven years. She conducted the Symphonic Orchestra of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium for two years. From 1963 to 1970 she taught counterpoint at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Antwerp. From 1970 to 1990 she was a professor at the Conservatory of Brussels where she taught first counterpoint and later compositio

Jacqueline Nova

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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 born on 6 January 1935, in Ghent, Belgium. Her father was visiting Belgium from Bucaramanga, Colombia, to study to be an engineer, where he met Jacqueline’s mother. Upon his finishing his studies, Nova’s family moved back to Bucaramanga where she spent her childhood. In 1955 she moved to Bogotá. Nova’s mid-high social class in 20th-century Colombia traditionally prescribed that women learn to play either piano, guitar, or sing in order to be considered respectable ladies. Nova began learning piano when she was seven. She then traveled to Buenos Aires on a scholarship from the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella for further studies in composition at Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios. There she studied with Luigi Nono, Alberto Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, Francisco Kröpfl, Francisco Zumaque Nova died on 13 June 1975 in Bogotá from bone cancer. Work After studying at CLAEM, Nova became interested in interdisciplinary experimentation with unaccompanied tape. Collaborations with other fields s

Jacques Arcadelt

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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 Verdelot and Costanzo Festa – he was equally prolific and adept at composing chansons, particularly late in his career when he lived in Paris. Arcadelt was the most influential member of the early phase of madrigal composition, the “classic” phase; it was through Arcadelt’s publications, more than those of any other composer, that the madrigal became known outside of Italy. Later composers considered Arcadelt’s style to represent an ideal; later reprints of his first madrigal book were often used for teaching, with reprints appearing more than a century after its original publication. Life Arcadelt was born in Namur in the Habsburg Netherlands on 10 August 1507. He moved to Italy as a young man, and was present in Florence by the late 1520s, thereby gaining an opportunity to meet or work with Philippe Verdelot, who wrote the earliest named madrigals. Still in Rome, in January 1539, he was probably made a member of the Julian Chapel (the records give his name as “Jacobus flandrus”, sugge

Jacques Aubert

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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 was a member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy; from 1728 to 1752, he was the first violinist with the Paris Opera orchestra; and from 1729 to 1740, he frequently and successfully appeared as a soloist with the Concert Spirituel, performing, among other works, concertos for violin and orchestra of his own composition. Biography Aubert was born in Paris and was probably the son of Jean Aubert, a member of the 24 Violins du Roi until his death in 1710. In 1727, Aubert replaced Noel Converset, a well-respected violinist in the Violons du Roi, and remained a member until 1746. Within a year he joined orchestra of the Paris Opera, at the time known as the Académie Royale de Musique, becoming first violinist and remaining there for the next 24 years. He made his debut with the Concert Spirituel in 1729. His son, Louis Aubert (painter) (1720-c.1800), was also a violinist and composer. Another son, Jean-Louis Aubert (1731–1814) was a dramatist, poet and journalist, also known as the Abbé Aubert.

Jacques Berthier

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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; both of his parents were musicians. His father Paul was the kapellmeister and organist at the Auxerre Cathedral and his mother Geneviève Parquin was a composer. Learning first from his parents, Berthier was trained in music at the École César Franck in Paris. While there, he was taught by, among others, Edouard Souberbielle and Guy de Lioncourt (whose daughter he married). It was accepted by Brother Jean-Marie (Taizé). His son is Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt. Music In more than twenty years, Berthier left an important corpus (232 songs in 20 different languages) in wide use today by other communities and around the world. He is also the author of Masses for organ, a cantata in the form of the cross and a cantata for Saint Cecilia. In total, he wrote over 1,500 pieces of work. Taizé songs The 2024-2025 edition of the song booklet used by the Taizé Community contains songs written by Jacques Berthier, as well as Joseph Gelineau and the brothers of Taizé. Berthier’s Taizé songs include; Refe

Jacques Bittner

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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 1682 and 1683. Little is known about his life, although his music continues to be played and recorded in modern times. The German lutenist and conductor Konrad Junghänel recorded many of his works in 1984. The 18th century lutenist Ernst Gottlieb Baron described Bittner briefly (although with some inaccuracies) in his 1727 Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten. According to Baron, Bittner’s music was composed “according to the latest and most galant method of playing the lute at that time.” A second collection of Bittner’s music was published in Nuremberg in 1683 under the German title, Galantheste Methode die Laute zu traktieren. References Sources *Annala, Hannu and Mätlik, Heiki (2007). Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers. Mel Bay Publications. *Farstad, Per Kjetil (2000). German galant lute music in the 18th century. University of Gothenburg, Dept. of Musicology. *Poulton, Diana (1976). “Lute Facsimiles”, Early Music, Vol. 4, No. 3 (July 1976), pp. 329 and 331 Further reading *B

Jacques Blumenthal

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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 Wilhelm Grund, Carl Maria von Bocklet, and Simon Sechter. In 1846 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied the piano under the tutelage of Henri Herz and Fromental Halévy. In 1848 Blumenthal settled in London, where he became the pianist to Queen Victoria. The position contributed to his demand as a teacher in London society, and he prospered greatly. His students included composer Jane Roeckel. Blumenthal also composed a number of works; his short piano pieces and songs achieved considerable popularity, though his efforts at larger pieces did not meet with similar success. He died at his home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea in May 1908; his widow, Léonie Souvoroff Blumenthal, née Gore, assigned the copyrights of his music to the Royal Society of Musicians. Selected compositions Piano music * La Source. Caprice, Op. 1 (Paris: Brandus & Cie., 1849) * Trois Mazurkas, Op. 20 (Paris: Brandus & Cie., 1851) * Fleurs emblématiques, Op. 21 * Le Gondolier du Lido. Barcarolle, Op. 40 (London: Cr

Jacques Bondon

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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 nineteen to study music. He began studying the violin, learned harmony and counterpoint with Georges Dandelot and Charles Koechlin and composition with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1962, he founded the Orchestre de Chambre de Musique Contemporaine (O.C.M.C.), which became the Ensemble Moderne de Paris (E.M.P.) six years later. In 1974, he was appointed member of the National Commission for Popular Music at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Since 1981, he has been Director of the Conservatoire municipal de musique of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He died in Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne). on 2 April 2008 at age 80. Works Instrumental and orchestral music * Essai pour un paysage lunaire, for chamber orchestra (1951) * Sonatine d’été, for violin and piano (1953) * La Coupole, Tableaux fantastiques d’un monde étrange, for orchestra (1954) * Le Taillis ensorcelé, for double string orchestra, brass and percussion (1954) * Concerto pour Martenot (1955) * Les I

Jacques Bosch

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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. Biography Bosch was born in Barcelona and educated at the school of the Convent de la Mercè in Barcelona, where he began his studies in piano and Guitar. Before he emigrated, Bosch gave successful concerts in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia between 1849 and 1852. From 1853 he settled in Paris and from 1857 toured frequently in France, the Netherlands and Germany. Bosch was a very good friend of the painter Édouard Manet and posed for him many times, one portrait being used as illustration for one of Bosch’s publications, Plainte Moresque, Op. 85, which is also dedicated to Manet. Besides many original compositions he wrote a Méthode de guitare (1891, see below) and an opera (Roger de Flor, 1868), which was not performed. In Paris, Bosch was much praised at the aristocratic salons and had a large number of pupils, including the brothers Alfred and Jules Cottin. His best-known piece was to be his song collection Dix Mélodies, which was praised by Felipe Pedrell as a “true model of what a c

Jacques Brunel

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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 December 1524, when a certain Jacques Brunel left the post. From 1532 until 1564 a Brunel, probably the same person, worked as organist at the Este chapel in Ferrara, France, where in 1547–1558 he served under the famous composer Cipriano de Rore. Between 1543 and 1559, Brunel received money for the keep of a horse, which he needed to travel to oversee the Este chapels at Modena and Reggio nell’Emilia. At the request of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Brunel also stayed in Pesaro and Urbino in the summer of 1534, and later in 1561–63. The last references to him in the archives are from early 1564: he was last paid in March, and had died by May that year. He was succeeded by his son Virginio Brunel, who later became organist at the Basilica of San Vitale and served there from August 1572 until some time after 1580. Works Brunel enjoyed an exceptionally high reputation during his lifetime. Numerous writers, including Cosimo Bartoli, Cinciarino, Jacopo Corfini and Luigi Dentice,

Jacques Burtin

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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 brother Dominique Fournier at the Abbey of Bec Hellouin (Normandy, France) and by brother Dominique Catta, composer and choirmaster of the Keur Moussa Monastery (Senegal). He began to compose for the kora, solo pieces as well as duets with Western instruments. His works are inspired by poets like Grace Schulman and Christian Bobin, spiritual authors like St. John of the Cross or Etty Hillesum, writers like Georges Simenon or Hermann Hesse, painters like Henri Matisse or Jean-Michel Basquiat, or photographers like Nan Goldin or Diane Arbus. He collaborates with artists, dancers and poets and conceives interdisciplinary performances. Jacques Burtin is also involved in improvised music and has given concerts based on improvisation with harpist Susan Allen, French panflute player Jean-Claude Mara, Japanese koto player Damien Harada, and French saxophonist Tullia Morand. In 1997, Jacques Burtin meets Susan Allen, harpist, professor of harp and improvisation at CalArts (California Institute of the

Jacques Buus

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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 earliest composers of the ricercar, the predecessor to the fugue, and he was also a skilled composer of chansons. Life Buus was probably born in Ghent around 1500, though details of his early life, as is the case with most Renaissance composers, are scanty. Possibly he either studied or had his early career in France, and he maintained some connections there throughout his life. In 1538, he published his first chansons, in Lyon by the printer Jacques Moderne. Three years later, he went to Venice and auditioned for the post of second organist at St. Mark’s, winning the job and working alongside the existing organist, Giovanni Armonio. This was during the tenure of Adrian Willaert, who built the musical forces at St. Mark’s into one of the most impressive in Europe, second only in quality to the papal chapel in Rome. Buus stayed at St. Mark’s until 1550, when he departed for France, ostensibly because he was unable to pay his debts; however it has been suggested that he left because he ha

Jacques Calonne

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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 conservatories of Mons and Brussels, with amongst others the composer André Souris, who introduced him to the surrealist movement. He then pursued a course of art studies at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1947 to 1949, when he attended La fin et les moyens (The End and the Means), the first Belgian exhibition of the COBRA group at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, where he met Christian Dotremont. He immediately attached himself to this movement, becoming its youngest member and taking part in its meetings in the rue de la Paille, as well as in its review and at the exposition “L’Objet à travers les âges” (The Object through the Ages). Dividing himself between music and visual arts, he continued to pursue a double career after the dissolution of COBRA. In 1954 he made his first visit to the Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik at Darmstadt, where he met Karlheinz Stockhausen and Bruno Maderna. In 1957, he co-signed the “Manifesto against Style” with, amongst oth

Jacques Castérède

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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 entered the Paris Conservatory in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Ferté, composition under Tony Aubin, and analysis under Olivier Messiaen. While at the Conservatory, between 1948 and 1953 he received five first prizes (in piano, chamber music, analysis, composition, and harmony). He also won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1953 with his cantata La Boîte de Pandore (Pandora’s Box). The following year, he went to Rome, where he stayed at the Villa Medici until 1958. In 1960, he was appointed professor of solfège in the Paris Conservatory, then counsellor of piano studies (Conseilleur aux Études) in 1966, and analysis in 1971. In addition, he taught composition at the École Normale from 1983 to 1988, and analysis from 1988 to 1998. On an invitation from the Chinese government, he became a professor of composition at the Central Academy in Beijing. He received numerous awards as a composer, among them the Paris Civil Award in 1991, the Charles Cros Award, and the Record Academy Award i

Jacques Chailley

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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 Marcel Chailley (1881–1936). He also took classes of conducting with Pierre Monteux, Willem Mengelberg and Bruno Walter in Amsterdam, while resident in the Descartes House (1935–1936). In this university, he completed his two theses on music, within the framework of the curriculum of Medieval French literature: L’École musicale de Saint-Martial de Limoges jusqu’à la fin du XIe as well as Chansons de Gautier du Coinci. It was from this period that his intense musicological production began with works devoted to Medieval music and musical theory and to the evolution of musical languages, to musical notation, as well as to several composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner. At the same time, he did not neglect the teaching and popularization works (music history, method of piano reading, guide for young pianists, etc.). From 1946 to 1961, he directed the choir “L’Alauda”. In 1969, he was also appointed the second president of the Consociatio internat

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

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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, Chambonnières made an illustrious career as court harpsichordist in Paris and was considered by many of his contemporaries to be one of the greatest musicians in Europe. However, late in life Chambonnières gradually fell out of favor at the court and lost his position. He died in poverty, but at an advanced age, and not before publishing a number of his works. Today Chambonnières is considered one of the greatest representatives of the early French harpsichord school. Life 1601–1631: Early years Chambonnières was born in Paris, most probably in 1601 or 1602. Very little information survives concerning his childhood and early youth. The Champion family included many musicians, most notably Thomas Champion (also known as Mithou; not to be confused with his English namesake), Chambonnières’s grandfather, whom Marin Mersenne described as “the greatest contrapuntist of his time.” Chambonnières’s father, also named Jacques, was also a keyboard player and a composer. Although he was not as highly regard

Jacques Charpentier

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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 (Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Gustave Charpentier). Biography Born in Paris, he taught himself to play the piano as a child. From 1950 to 1953 he worked with Jeanine Rueff, then left for India, acquainting himself with traditional Hindu music in Bombay and Calcutta. Charpentier stayed there for 18 months, a period that would prove decisive for his musical evolution. Upon returning to France in 1954, he studied composition with Tony Aubin and the philosophy of music with Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris. He joined the Jeunesses musicales de France in 1959, then was named principal inspector of music in 1966 and general inspector of music in 1975 at the Secrétariat d’État à la Culture. In 1974 the organ of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris was named after him. The same year as his appointment as general inspector, he founded a center for Gregorian studies and traditional music, and also began teaching courses in orchestration at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1979 he succeeded Jean

Jacques Datin

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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 wrote “On en dira” (written with Marc Lanjean) for Juliette Gréco. From 1957, the association had many musical successes such as, for example, “Zon zon zon” interpreted by Colette Renard and Michèle Arnaud (1957), “Julie” by Marcel Amont (1957), and “Les boutons dorés” by Jean-Jacques Debout, also covered by Barbara in 1959. Their greatest success arrived in 1961 when they won the Eurovision Song Contest along with Jean-Claude Pascal, who competed for Luxembourg with the song “Nous les amoureux”. The following year, they got 3rd place with “Petit bonhomme”, sung by Camillo Felgen. He wrote the music for Claude Nougaro’s Une petite fille (1962). The many performers of his songs include France Gall (“Christiansen”, “Mes premières vraies vacances”), Juliette Greco (“Jusqu’à où, jusqu’à quand” and “Les Mariés”), Françoise Hardy (“Va pas prendre un tambour”, “Le Temps des souvenirs”) Serge Lama (“Les P’tites Femmes de Pigalle”), Claude Nougaro (“Une petite fille”, “Le Jazz et la Java”, “Je su

Jacques de Cambrai

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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. The Berne manuscript preserves all his works, nine of them uniquely. In addition, a chanson and the pastourelle are preserved in the manuscript Oxford Douce 308 and one of the devotional songs is also copied in two other sources. The Berne manuscript notes that his Haute dame, com rose et lis was modelled on (i.e. a contrafactum of) Ausi com l’unicorne sui by Theobald I of Navarre and Mere, douce creature on Quant voi la glaie meure by Raoul de Soissons. Otherwise none of his music survives, though staves for its transcription were prepared. Of all Jacques’s works, only his rotrouenge, the Retrowange novelle, has no model mentioned in the manuscripts; its rubric reads only “Jaikes de Cambrai—De Notre Dame” (Jaque of Cambrai—On Our Lady). Jacques’s devotional songs emphasise Jesus’ humanity and his Passion. These may be directed at the Cathars, who denied Christ’s humanity. Jacques was one of the last medieval French poets to express his devotion to Mary primarily through chansons, that

Jacques de Menasce

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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 German-speaking part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a Jewish family with roots in Egypt where they had amassed considerable wealth as merchants and bankers and played prominent roles in the Jewish community that centred in Alexandria. This was also the family from which sprang the Catholic writer Jean de Menasce, who was a first cousin of the composer’s father, Henri de Menasce. As a boy Jacques de Menasce’s portrait was painted by Oskar Kokoschka. He studied at the Vienna Music Academy as a young man under teachers who included Joseph Marx, Paul Pisk, and Emil von Sauer, and he was also much encouraged by Alban Berg, at whose instigation he composed his first piano concerto. His compositions include two piano concertos, the Sonata for Viola and Piano (championed by Lillian Fuchs), Hebrew Melodies for Violin and Piano, and the song cycles Quatre Chansons, Outrenuit, and Pour une Princesse. There exist a few recordings of his works. The first, on Vanguard Classics, contains performances o

Jacques de Saint-Luc

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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 to become a musician at the court in Brussels, and two years later he had his portrait painted by Gerard Seghers. He moved to Paris in the mid- or late 1640s, but returned to Brussels in October 1647. He evidently spent the next few decades in Brussels, marrying in 1658. An important correspondent of Saint-Luc’s from these years was Constantijn Huygens. In August 1684 Saint-Luc was still living in Brussels, but nothing is known of his whereabouts during the next 16 years: the next mention of him is from 1700, when he visited Berlin on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Frederick of Hesse-Cassel and Princess Louise Dorothea of Prussia. He apparently traveled to Berlin from Vienna, where, according to contemporary sources, he was employed by Prince Eugene of Savoy. Saint-Luc was still alive in 1707 and 1708, when he published some of his compositions in Amsterdam; his date of death is unknown. The long lifetime of at least 94 years aroused suspicions. And indeed, the booklet to a CD

Jacques Dudon

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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 modulated light (a light source shines through painted glass discs; the resulting patterns of light are picked up by photo cells and converted into a voltage which can then be treated as a sound signal). The production of synthetic sound in this manner has been used in “optosonic” instruments since the early 20th century (for example the Optophonic Piano). However Dudon’s method is notable for the generation of tone which is produced by the overlapping of two or three discs, and the opportunities this design provides for timbral shifts by slowing one or more discs manually, thereby altering the waveform. In the 1970s, he created 150 water instruments called “aquaphones” (described in his pioneering book ), including a “flutabullum”, a system of transforming flute sounds by recording them underwater). Aquavina The aquavina was an experimental musical instrument created by Jacques Dudon. It was essentially a variant of the Appalachian dulcimer, but with a metal resonator body partially filled wit

Jacques Duphly

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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 of Jacques-Agathe Duphly and Marie-Louise Boivin. As a boy, he studied the harpsichord and organ, and was employed as organist at the cathedral in Évreux. He obtained his first position at the cathedral of St. Eloi at the age of nineteen. In 1740 he added a second position at the church of Notre Dame de la Ronde, which he maintained with the help of his sister Marie-Anne-Agathe, who substituted for him. According to Louis-Claude Daquin: For some time he was organist at Rouen, but doubtless finding that he had a greater gift for the harpsichord, he abandoned his first instrument. One may suppose that he did well, for he passes in Paris for a very good harpsichordist. He has much lightness of touch and a certain softness, which, sustained by ornaments, marvelously render the character of his pieces. According to Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg he devoted himself to the harpsichord in order not to spoil his hand with the organ. He published four volumes of harpsichord music in 1744, 1748, 1756 a

Jacques Durand (publisher)

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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, published works by many of Durand’s contemporaries, including Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Gabriel Fauré, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns. Life Born in Paris, Durand was a fellow student of Paul Dukas and Claude Debussy at the Conservatoire de Paris, where his only reward was an honourable mention (2 e accessit) in harmony in 1884. Jacques Durand was first associated with his father Auguste Durand in 1886 as director of the music publishing house Durand-Schönewerk & Cie at 4, Place de la Madeleine in Paris. On 19 November 1891, the company changed its name to Éditions A. Durand & Fils. In 1909, after his father’s death, he took over the management of the publishing house. On 23 November of that year, the company changed its name again to Éditions Durand & Cie. From then on, Durand was associated with his cousin Gaston Choisnel (1857–1921) and then, from April 1921, with another cousin, . Among the main composers published under the direction of Jacques

Jacques Faubert

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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 in harmony, counterpoint, and fugue from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM) where he studied with Jean-Louis Martinet, Gaston Arel, and Pierre Mollet from 1970 to 1976. He then went to France to study at the Paris Conservatory with Marcel Bitsch and Jacques Castérède from 1976 to 1979, earning premier prizes in fugue and music analysis. Career Faubert served as a professor of music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Trois-Rivières. In 1985 his choral work “Messe de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste”, commissioned by the Archdiocese of Montreal, was premiered by a 150 voice choir at St-Jean-Baptiste Church. That year joined the music faculty of the CMQM, where he taught harmony until 2005. He also composed two psalms for the vocal group Arioso. IN 1986 Faubert conducted the newly formed choir of the Orchestre Métropolitain. In 1987 Faubert founded the Mont-Royal Symphony Orchestra and its choir. He directed both until 1997, after which he shared some of these responsib

Jacques Féréol Mazas

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: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 Pierre Baillot at the Paris Conservatoire, from which he received the first prize in 1805. In 1808, he played a violin concerto dedicated to him by Auber. He then performed widely across Europe. In 1831, he accepted the post of first violin at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. A short time later, he was appointed Directeur des concerts in Orléans, where he directed that city’s Opéra Comique theatre. From 1837 to 1841, he was director of the Conservatoire in Cambrai. He died in Bordeaux. Music One of his operas, Le Kiosk had eight performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. His compositions for violin are, for the most part, studies and duets for young string players of all abilities that constitute methods for both violin and viola. Selected works * 3 Trios for 2 violins and cello (or viola), Op. 18 * La Consolation, Élégie No. 2 in G major for viola and orchestra (or piano), Op. 29 (1831) * 75 Études mélodiques et progressives (in 3 parts), Op. 36 # Études spéciales # Études brillantes # Études

Jacques Gaultier

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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 to the composers and lutenists Denis Gaultier and Ennemond Gaultier. Not much is known about his early life. In 1617, he had to leave France due to a duel and he escaped to England. He enjoyed the patronage of George Villiers, the favourite of James I of England. In 1622, Gaultier met Dutch poet and composer Constantijn Huygens, with whom he engaged in an exchange of letters. He joined the household of Prince Charles and went to Spain in 1623 with Charles and Buckingham during the “Spanish Match”. From 1625, he was a musician at the English royal court under Charles I of England. He remained there at least until 1640 as he appears as an employee in the court records for that year. In 1627, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London for a while. There were rumours that he was involved in a plot to assassinate the Duke of Buckingham or had seduced a young lady. In 1630, he travelled to the Netherlands. From there he went to Madrid to play at the Spanish court. In the early 163

Jacques Hétu

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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 Canada and internationally. Education Jacques Hétu was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec; he began his professional training at the University of Ottawa where he was a pupil of Father Jules Martel from 1955 to 1956. In 1956 he entered the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal and studied there for five years with Melvin Berman (oboe), Isabelle Delorme (harmony), Jean Papineau-Couture (fugue), Clermont Pépin (composition and counterpoint), and Georges Savaria (piano); he also studied at the Tanglewood Music Center during the summer of 1959 with Lukas Foss. In 1961 he won several important awards, including the first prize at the Quebec Music Festivals composition competition, a grant from the Canada Council, and the Prix d’Europe. The latter two awards enabled him to pursue studies in France at the École Normale de Musique de Paris from 1961 to 1963 with Henri Dutilleux and at the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen in 1962–1963. Teaching Hétu joined the music faculty at Laval

Jacques Ibert

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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 its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I. Ibert pursued a successful composing career, writing (sometimes in collaboration with other composers) seven operas, five ballets, incidental music for plays and films, works for piano solo, choral works, and chamber music. He is probably best remembered for his orchestral works including Divertissement (1930) and Escales (1922). As a composer, Ibert did not attach himself to any of the prevalent genres of music of his time, and has been described as an eclectic. This is seen even in his best-known pieces: Divertissement for small orchestra is lighthearted, even frivolous, and Escales (1922) is a ripely romantic work for large orchestra. In tandem with his creative work, Ibert was the director of the Académie de France at the Villa Medici in Rome. During World War II he was proscribed by the pro-Nazi government in Paris, and for a time he went into exile in Switzerland. Rest

Jacques Leguerney

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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 latest – perhaps the last – great exponent of the mélodie”. He was largely self-taught, but studied with Nadia Boulanger for a short period. He was also influenced by Albert Roussel and Francis Poulenc, who was a close friend throughout his life. His art songs were championed by such singers as Gérard Souzay, his sister the soprano Geneviève Touraine and Pierre Bernac, and more recently by American baritone Kurt Ollmann and pianist Mary Dibbern. In addition to his art songs, he also wrote chamber music and orchestral music, including the ballet Endymion, followed by the ballet La Vénus Noire, which was a commission from the Paris Opéra. After the Paris Opéra did not produce this ballet, which he considered his masterpiece, Leguerney stopped composing. Chronological works list * 1928 “D’une fontaine” Philippe Desportes, in “Poèmes de la Pléiade, 8ème Recueil,” Editions Max Eschig, 1988. * 1928 “Le Tombeau de Ronsard” Pierre de Ronsard, in “Poèmes de la Pléiade, 8ème Recueil,” Editions Max

Jacques Mauduit

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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 instruments in new ways, and importing some of the grand polychoral style of the Venetian School from Italy; he also composed a famous Requiem for the funeral of Pierre de Ronsard. Life Much of the biographical information about Mauduit comes from the writings of Marin Mersenne. Mauduit was born in Paris, and being an aristocrat, received an excellent education in humanities, languages and philosophy, but was evidently self-taught in music. Mauduit was a member of the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, the secretive group founded by Jean Antoine de Baïf to promote musique mesurée à l’antique, an attempt to recreate the rhetorical and ethical effect of ancient Greek music using modern French poetry and music. After the death of Joachim Thibault de Courville in 1581, Mauduit became the principal musician of the Académie. Evidently Mauduit was a man of some personal courage, for during the siege of Paris in 1589–1590, in the closing phase of the bloody French Wars of Religion, he assisted Cl

Jacques Offenbach

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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 uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. The Tales of Hoffmann remains part of the standard opera repertory. Born in Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a synagogue cantor, Offenbach showed early musical talent. At the age of 14, he was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatoire; he found academic study unfulfilling and left after a year, but remained in Paris. From 1835 to 1855 he earned his living as a cellist, achieving international fame, and as a conductor. His ambition, however, was to compose comic pieces for the musical theatre. Finding the management of Paris’s company uninterested in staging his works, in 1855 he leased a small theatre in the . There, during the next three years, he presented a series of more t

Jacques Thomelin

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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 father, named Jacques, was in Paris, a but of probably briard ancestry like the Couperin family. Until 1650 he lived in the Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois parish, rue de la vieille Harengerie, then moved to the rue des Postes in the Saint-Étienne-du-Mont parish. Married to Marie Balestel, he had four children; the second one was named Jacques-Denis and became an organist. His older brother was Guillaume; the other two were Martin and Marie. Jacques-Denis married 10 November 1653 with Hélène Dumelin, daughter of a Parisian goldsmith, who brought him 2400 lt dowry. In 1655 he settled down with his wife in the rue du Fouarre, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés parish. After 1669, he moved to rue de la Verrerie. On 8 November 1684, Thomelin, as the executor of Pierre Méliton’s will, organist of St. Jean Church, signed the inventory after the death of his deceased colleague (and probably friend). Jacques-Denis Thomelin died on 28 October 1693, four days after writing his will and was buried in Saint-Jac

Jacques-Louis Monod

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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 Ives, Edgard Varèse, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and uptown music; and was active primarily in New York City and London during the second half of the twentieth century. Biography Paris 1940s: early years Monod was born in Asnières (now Asnières-sur-Seine), a northwestern suburb of Paris, to an affluent family of privilege and of French Protestant affiliation with ancestral roots in French-speaking Switzerland His musical prowess was detected early when he enrolled in 1933 at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique as a child prodigy at the age of six, below the official minimum age of nine. Monod attended the Paris Conservatoire intermittently but remained registered for nearly 20 years, obtaining his Doctorat in 1952. Monod’s teachers at the Conservatoire were Yves Nat and Olivier Messiaen; including master classes under the visiting conductor, Herbert von Karajan; he also studied with his godfather, Paul-Silva Hérard, the organist at Paris’s St. Ambroise Church. A d

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

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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 celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Biography Hotteterre was born in Paris, France, the son of Martin Hotteterre (d. 1712) and Marie Crespy. In about 1704, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre succeeded his cousin Jacques in the post of basse de hautbois et taille de violon at the royal court. Hotteterre lived and studied in Rome early in his career, and his nickname le Romain (the Roman) came from this period. He spent two years (1698–1700) employed by Prince Francesco Ruspoli in Rome, before adopting the nickname of “Le Romain” at some point between 1705 and 1707. By 1708, he became a musician to the King of France, in the king’s Grande Écurie, and in 1717, he inherited René Pignon Descoteaux’s post as Jouëur de Fluste de la musique de chambre. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was the most prominent member of the Hotteterre family, a dynasty of woodwind players and instrument makers. His father, Martin Hotteterre, trained him in performance and instrument making, and his el

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens

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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, Lemmens took lessons from François-Joseph Fétis, who wanted to make him into a musician capable of renewing the organ-player’s art in Belgium. Fétis sent him to Adolf Friedrich Hesse in Germany to learn Johann Sebastian Bach’s tradition. In 1847, Lemmens won the Paris Conservatoire’s prestigious Prix de Rome with his Le roi Lear (“King Lear”). One year later he published his first work for organ: Dix improvisations dans le style sévère et chantant (“Ten improvisations in a strict and singing style”). In March 1849 he was appointed organ teacher at the Royal Brussels Conservatoire, aged only 26; and he trained numerous young musicians, including two eminent Frenchmen, Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor. During 1852 he gave organ recitals in Saint Vincent de Paul, La Madeleine and Saint Eustache churches in Paris, where he stunned audiences with his technique. Particularly notable was his brilliant pedal-playing, which owed a good deal to his studies of Bach’s music (at the time B

Jacquet de Berchem

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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 mid-16th-century Italy for his madrigals, approximately 200 of which were printed in Venice, some in multiple printings due to their considerable popularity. As evidence of his widespread fame, he is listed by Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel as one of the most famous musicians of the time, and the printed music for one of his madrigals appears in a painting by Caravaggio (The Lute Player). Life Berchem was born around 1505 in Berchem (now part of Antwerp), in the southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). No archival records have yet been found covering his early life; the first mention of him dates from 1539, by which time he had come to Venice, as did many of his musical compatriots from the Low Countries. By 1538 his madrigals were being published in Venice, largely by Antonio Gardano. Between then and 1546, he lived in Venice, steadily increasing in reputation, and in 1546 he published his first book of madrigals. Previously, his works had been in collections consisting mostly of music

Jacquet of Mantua

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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 of the composers between Josquin and Palestrina, and represents well the developments in polyphonic style between those two composers. Life Jacquet was born in Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine) and probably went to Italy at an early age. He was in Modena in 1519, working for the Rangoni family, and in 1525 was in Ferrara at the Este court, where he formed a close friendship with Adrian Willaert, the founder of the Venetian School. The next year he moved to Mantua, where he spent the rest of his life. He became maestro di cappella at the cathedral of Saint Peter, where his employer was Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, the Bishop of Mantua. Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga was fond of Jacquet, and the relationship was mutually beneficial; when Gonzaga became the president of the Council of Trent, and the most enthusiastic supporter of the Counter-Reformation, he was a forceful advocate for the music of his favorite composer. In addition to being recognized by his employer, the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII al

Jadwiga Sarnecka

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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) commemorating Chopin’s centenary. She also composed works for voice and piano. Biography Sarnecka was born in Slavuta, Volhynia (today in Ukraine). She studied piano with Felicjan Szopski and Władysław Żeleński in Krakow, Poland; Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski and Aleksander Michalowski in Warsaw; and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna. She presented piano recitals throughout Austria, Germany and Poland. Sarnecka’s compositions were not always favorably reviewed. She self-published her initial works. Arts patron Feliks Jasienski (pseudonym “Manggha”) (1861-1929) funded the publication of subsequent works. Eventually, Sarnecka’s compositions received favorable reviews from Polish music critics Adolf Chybinski, Zdzislaw Jachimecki, and Jozef Wladyslaw Reiss, and A. Piwarski & Company began publishing them. After winning second prize at the Lwów (Lviv) competition in 1910, Sarnecka was the only woman asked to present a paper at the first Congress of Polish Musicians later that year. She wrote about Creativity v

Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska

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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 piano with Marii Sołtysowej at the Conservatory of Music in Lwów, graduating in 1931. She continued her studies in composition with Tadeusz Szeligowski, Piotr Perkowski and Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski at the National Academy of Music in Wrocław, graduating in 1956. After completing her studies, she worked as a music educator, teaching accompaniment, chamber ensemble, music theory and composition. She died in Wrocław. Honors and awards *Opolska Wiosna Competition, second prize for the cantata Regiment (1960) *Opolska Wiosna Competition, second prize for the song cycle I envy the nut for soprano and chamber orchestra (1962) *Competition for composers in Mannheim, award for children’s ballet Ein Spaziergang in der Stadt (1971) *National Composition Competition, second prize for We Play in the Green (1970) *Prize of the city of Wrocław (1964) *Prime Minister’s Award (1974 and 1983) Works Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska composed mostly works for youth, including ballets and stage works. She also com

Jaehyun

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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 DoJaeJung. He made his solo debut on August 26, 2024, with the studio album J. First introduced in December 2013 as a trainee under the pre-debut team SM Rookies, he debuted in April 2016 as a member of the rotational unit NCT U and as a member of Seoul-based fixed unit NCT 127 in July 2016. He later joined the fixed unit NCT DoJaeJung in April 2023. As of 2024, Jaehyun has released five solo singles: “Forever Only” and “Horizon”, both as part of the NCT Lab project, while “Roses”, “Dandelion”, and “Smoke” as part of his debut album J. Apart from music, he has also hosted the radio show NCT Night Night from March 2017 to January 2019 and the television program Inkigayo from October 2019 to February 2021. He later debuted as an actor with a leading role in the college romance television series Dear. M (2022), and he made his feature film debut in the mystery thriller film You Will Die In 6 Hours (2024). As of 2024, Jaehyun is a global ambassador for the Italian luxury brand Prada; he is

Jaemin

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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 through the sub-units NCT Dream and NCT JNJM, which has gone on to become one of the best-selling groups in South Korea. Jaemin debuted in the acting scene, starring in the web series Method to Hate You (2019). Early life Na Jae-min was born in Busan, South Korea on August 13, 2000. He grew up in Seoul and studied at Incheon Cheong-il Elementary School; he also attended at Incheon Haewon Middle School and went to School of Performing Arts Seoul (SOPA). During his childhood, Jaemin competed nationally in short-track speed skating. Jaemin became a trainee under SM Entertainment in 2013, at the age of 13, after being street-cast by staff while handing out posters and collecting trash as a volunteer with his mother at an event. Career 2014–2016: Pre-debut activities In 2014, Jaemin began featuring in several events with SM Entertainment’s pre-debut training team, SM Rookies. In August 2014, he participated in the SM Town Live World Tour IV with SM Rookies and appeared in several SM Rookies vi

Jagger–Richards

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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 Rolling Stones. They are one of the most successful songwriting partnerships in history. In addition to Jagger and Richards’ songwriting partnership, they have also produced or co-produced numerous Rolling Stones albums under the pseudonym the Glimmer Twins. Similar to the contemporary English songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both Jagger and Richards write lyrics and music. History Jagger and Richards have different recollections about their first songwriting endeavours but both credit manager Andrew Loog Oldham as the catalyst for their collaboration. Richards agrees that it was Oldham who pressed the pair to write songs after the duo had first emphasized other people’s material; Oldham noted that there weren’t that many obscure great songs out there for the band to cover. Richards recalled: Jagger remembered it differently: According to John Lennon, he and Paul McCartney might have been instrumental in inspiring Jagger and Richards to start writing their own m

Jagoda Szmytka

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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 and visual arts, and also for her opera, Dla głosów i rąk (For Voices and Hands). She is a well-known composer in Europe and has been recognized abroad, winning numerous juried scholarships, including the Staubach Honoraria for Composition. Biography Jagoda Szmytka studied history of art and philosophy at the University of Wrocław, Poland (2000-2005) as well as composition and music theory with Krystian Kiełb and Cezary Duchnowski at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. This was followed by postgraduate studies in composition with Pierluigi Billone and Beat Furrer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (2007-2008), with Beat Furrer at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (2008-2010), and with Wolfgang Rihm at the Karlsruhe University of Music (2010-2012). Szmytka has received numerous scholarships and grants from various foundations including Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (ÖAD) (2008), an artist grant funde

Jahangir Jahangirov

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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 in 1964. Biography Jahangir Jahangirov was born on 20 July 1921 in Balakhany township of Baku, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. He graduated from musical school named after Asaf Zeynally and then from Baku Academy of Music. From 1944 to 1960, he led the choir of Broadcasting Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR. Majority of songs, composed by him for the first time were played by the chorus, which he led. After that he was the artistic director of the Song and Dance Ensemble at Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall. In 1950, Jahangir Jahangirov was awarded the USSR State Prize, and in 1963, he received the status of People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR. Compositions In 1946, Mir Mehdi Etimad wrote the words of the hymn of the Azerbaijan People’s Government, Jahangir Jahangirov composed a song to it. Jahangir Jahangirov is the author of a lot of famous musical compositions. On the other side of Araz (1949) vocal-symphonic poem, A Song about Friendship (1956), Fuzuli (1959), Nasimi (1973) suites,

Jahdiel

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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 in 2006, releasing her debut album Heritage in 2008. She is one of several gospel artists under Loveworld Records of Christ Embassy. Jahdiel is signed to Hammer House Records, a record label owned by her husband Eben. Early life and education Jahdiel was born in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria, where she had her primary and secondary school education at Aunty Ayo International School, Ikoyi before proceeding to further her education by obtaining a BSc degree in Chemistry. Career Jahdiel started singing at the age of five upon joining the choir of her local church before she began to play musical equipments like the piano and keyboard at the age of thirteen. After being part of various singing groups, she released her debut album Heritage in 2008 to massive reception, thereby gaining her new grounds in the industry and further earning her a nomination spot in the “Most Promising Artist or Group” category at the 2008 edition of Kora Awards. Her follow-up album Under Oath was released in 2010.

Jaime Cuadra

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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 film Quantum of Solace. He also released the Latin jazz album Latino in 2009, which won two gold and one platinum record. Cuadra have 12 albums. Filmmaking: Cuadra directed many video projects with his video production company and composed music for movies, short films and radio and TV advertising. Cultural ambassador: Cuadra is a Peruvian Cultural Ambassador (Marca Perú). CEO: Cuadra is the CEO of Quadra Audiovisuals in Florida. Awards: Cuadra received several awards for recognition of his music career like Independent Music Awards of NY, FIAP Awards,Grand APAP, APDAYC Awards, Gold Tumi Awards, U.S.A. Congressional recognition, etc. Background: Cuadra has a background as a rock musician, Electrónica and Jazz. In his early albums combined Latin-Pop with Afro-Peruvian music. Biography He went to school at Colegio San Agustín in Lima. He began his career very young in the music industry with his father’s recording studio in 1985 as an audio engineer. In 1986, he studied music with Victor

Jaime Teixidor

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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 composition and conducting in Barcelona he joined the army in 1906 as a musician, performing on the saxophone. He became the director of the 68th “Africa” Regiment band (Banda Música del regimiento 68) in the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla on the Moroccan coast. He retired from military service in 1920 after thirteen years with this band. In 1924, he directed the Banda de Música Primitiva in Carlet and also taught piano and violin. He resided in Carlet for only a couple of years and then moved to Manises, Valencia, to lead the Banda del Círculo Instructivo Musical. In 1928 he won a competition to direct the municipal band of Barakaldo, which he did until the end of his life. One source indicates he gave up the direction of the band for political reasons during the Spanish Civil War. In Barakaldo he also set up a music publishing firm, which published his compositions and others. His daughter, María Teresa Tico Texidor (1907–1993), was also a composer, including Paz Eterna and Rosa Evangélica

Jake Heggie

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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 internationally renowned performers and writers. Biography Childhood John (“Jake”) Stephen Heggie was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Shortly thereafter, Heggie began writing music. A few years after his father’s death, the family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Heggie completed high school and continued his studies in piano. Education and musical training As a teenager, Heggie studied composition privately with Ernst Bacon from 1977 to 1979. After graduating from high school, he spent two years studying at the American University in Paris. He later continued his studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where his teachers included Roger Bourland, Paul Des Marais, David Raksin, and Paul Reale. He graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts in 1984 and returned for graduate school from 1986 to 1988, where he won the Henry Mancini Award in 1987. Heggie’s most significant teacher during his studies at UCLA was Johana Harris, widow of composer Roy Harris. “She was a magn

Jake Mathews

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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) garnered six nationally charted hits: “I’ll Do You One Better,” “Try Again Tomorrow,” “That’s How Long,” “Rush,” “I’m Gone” and “There Ain’t No Such Thing.” His second CD, Time After Time, released in 2004, was voted Best Album by Country Music News. Singles released from the album include the title track, “Signs of You Everywhere,” “Kings for a Day” and “Arizona on My Mind.” Although he is the younger brother of Gil Grand, he has established a music career in his own right. In 2006, Mathews and Grand joined forces for “Raise the Roof,” a tour that took them across Canada, raising awareness of Ronald McDonald House Charities. Discography Albums Singles Music videos Awards and achievements Western Country Music Awards *2005 – Nominated – Outstanding Country Recording for Time After Time *2003 – Nominated – Outstanding Country Recording for Jake Mathews Country Music News 2004 *Time After Time voted Best Album Canadian Country Music Awards *2005 – Nominated – Independent Male Artist of t

Jake Monaco

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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 provided scores for Disney+ originals, specifically Cars on the Road, and Toy Story specials Lamp Life and Forky Asks a Question. Career Monaco began playing guitar in high school, later touring with a group while attending the University of Richmond in Virginia. A few years after graduating, his bandmates opted to take up non-musical professional careers. At the suggestion of a friend, Monaco enrolled in a film scoring course at University of Southern California. He has stated that although he had never had interest in scoring as a child, it was these classes that piqued his interest, explaining that he was “sucked in” Monaco credits the time he spent assisting Beck as key to his success as a scorer, and has described assistant positions as “some of the best education and experience a young composer can receive”. After assisting Christophe Beck for eight years, Monaco made the decision to begin scoring on his own. Discography Feature films Short films References External links * * Interview

Jake Runestad

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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, but has achieved greatest acclaim for his work in the genres of opera, orchestral music, choral music, and wind ensemble. One of his principal collaborators for musical texts has been Todd Boss. Biography Runestad was born in Rockford, Illinois. His post-secondary education in music began at Eastern Illinois University, which he attended in the years 2004 and 2005. He received his first degree in music (a B.S. in Music Education) from Winona State University, which he attended from 2005 until 2009, then pursued graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University between 2009 and 2011 to earn a M.Mus. degree in music composition. In 2020, he was a recipient of an Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from these institutions. His teachers at the Peabody Conservatory included Kevin Puts. He studied with the composer Libby Larsen and worked with Bernard Rands, David Lang, Tania León, John Musto, Christopher Rouse, Jake Heggie, and John Duffy. He received a Distinguished

Jakob Adlung

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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 Erfurt, to David Adlung, an organist and his first teacher, and the former Dorothea Elisabetha Meuerin, from Tondorf. He attended the St. Andreas lower school in Erfurt from 1711, moving on to the Erfurt Gymnasium in 1713, during which time he lived in the household of Christian Reichardt, who also taught him organ. He studied philosophy, philology, and theology at the University of Jena from 1723 to 1726, where he studied the organ further with Johann Nikolaus Bach. At this time, he became friends with Johann Gottfried Walther in Weimar, and borrowed his works on music theory; he later wrote some books on the subject, most of which were destroyed, along with his house, in a fire in 1736. He returned to Erfurt in 1737 where he succeeded Johann Heinrich Buttstedt as organist of the Prediger church after the former’s death, a post he retained for the rest of his life. He was also professor of languages at the Erfurt Gymnasium and taught, by his own estimate, 218 organ students and 284 lang

Jakob Dont

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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 Josef Böhm (1795–1876) and of Georg Hellmesberger (1800–1873). At the age of sixteen, he became a member of the Hofburgtheater orchestra and in 1834 entered service at the Vienna Hofkapelle. During this time Dont appeared frequently as a soloist. Despite his success, he decided against a career as a soloist. In 1853 he became a professor at the Pädagogisches Institut in Vienna. From 1871, Dont was employed at the Wiener Konservatorium. He would eventually leave this post as the use of his own instructional compositions was forbidden. Dont’s compositions are mainly limited to innovative teaching material. His 24 Etudes and Caprices Gradus ad parnassum Op. 35 and the 24 Exercises Preparatory to the Studies of R. Kreutzer and P. Rode Op. 37 are considered some of the most important technical studies for the violin. Among his students was Leopold Auer. Selected works ;Concertante * 3 Caprices de concert for violin and orchestra, Op. 40 (1858) * Morceau de concert in D minor for violin and or

Jakob Greber

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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 for the next three years composing incidental music for plays and arias for L’Epine, including that for the 1702 premiere of Nicholas Rowe’s play The Fair Penitent, including four arias sung by L’Epine during the interlude. It was during this time that Rowe dubbed L’Epine “Greber’s Peg”, a name by which she was known for several years. Although L’Epine left Greber in 1703 to live with Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, she returned to him in 1704, and they took up residence on Suffolk Street in London. He continued composing arias for her and accompanying her in concerts and theatrical interludes at Lincoln’s Inn Fields and other venues. The London newspaper The Post Man noted their appearance together at the spa town of Tunbridge Wells in August 1703: They write from Tunbridge Wells that there is arrived there that famous Italian Lady, Signiora Francesca Margaretta de L’Epine that gives every week entertainments of musick, all compos’d by that great Master Signior Jacomo Greber, pe

Jakob Hassler

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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 Kasper Hassler. The Hasslers were an important Franco-Flemish musical family in Middle Europe during the late Renaissance. Baptized in Nuremberg, Jakob was initially instructed in music, like his brothers, by his father Isaak. Hassler is first identified on the rolls of musicians in Augsburg in 1585, and he was ennobled, along with his two brothers, by Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in 1595. In between, Hassler is believed to have traveled to Italy to study at the behest of the aristocratic Fugger family, possibly with Andrea Gabrieli. Hassler’s term in the Fugger household was interrupted when he was thrown in jail for impregnating an Augsburg girl named Leonora Ostermair; Hassler was released on bail to marry her on 17 February 1597. In May, Hassler accepted a post in the prestigious court of Count Eitel Friedrich IV of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. In 1600, Hassler published his book of madrigals, which spread his popularity; certain madrigals from this publication appeared in collections print

Jakob Jež

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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 Music in Ljubljana, Department of Music History. His dissertation, defended in 1959, focused on the early works of Slovenian composer Marij Kogoj. Kogoj remained a consistent influence for Jež throughout his career. Although he did not obtain a degree in composition, Jež studied composition with Marijan Lipovský and Karol Pahor. The Lexicon of Yugoslav Music describes his musical style as follows: “By adopting some modern compositional procedures, Jež creates a distinctive musical language, full of intimate expressiveness, with a developed sense of colour, lyricism and loose structures - a modern and contemporary language which is never incomprehensibly aggressive.” Jež taught throughout his career, first at a music school and a high school, and then at the Music and Ballet School in Ljubljana (1955–1970). From 1992 until his retirement, he was a full-time professor of music education at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Ljubljana. From 1960 to 1965, he was a member of the composers’ group Pro

Jakob Rosenhain

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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 season, he was a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (on 17 April), which in 1854 (also in April) programmed one of his symphonies. He was a friend of Felix Mendelssohn at least from 1839. Rosenhain died in Baden-Baden. * Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 43 (performed, possibly premiered, 1846 by Mendelssohn in Leipzig) * Symphony No. 3 “Im Frühling”, Op. 61 ;Chamber works * Piano Quartet in E, Op. 1 * Sonata in E for piano with violoncello or violin, Op. 38 * Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 44?; à M. Fétis * Sonate Symphonique in F minor (Piano Sonata No.2?), Op. 70 (pub. Breitkopf, 1887) * Piano Sonata (No.3?) in D, Op. 74 (published by Breitkopf, 1886) * 3 String Quartets, Opp. 55, 57, 65 (pub. 1864) * Sonata in D minor for cello (or violin, or viola) and piano, Op. 98. (manuscript for viola, noted in RISM Online and dates from 1893) * Four Piano Trios ;Songs * at least two dozen References Bibliography * * Brown, James Duff (1886). . A. Gardner. page 522. * Hubbard, W. L. (William

Jakob Suppan

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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 Empire, now part of the municipality of Hengsberg in Styria, in southeast Austria. He was the second of ten children born to the smallholder Hans Suppan and Benigna (née Höller) Suppan, and he was baptized Jacob Suppan. His surname indicates Slovene ancestry on his father’s side; Slovenes once relocated to the Hengsberg area in large numbers from the Haloze region and the Slovene Hills. He probably received his music education from the local organist Andreas Dämb (1702–1753), and he then entered the Jesuit University of Graz in 1749 as the recipient of a scholarship founded by the Hengsberg parish priest Rupert Brenner. His enrollment at the university is recorded as Suppan Jacob, plebejus Hinspergensis ‘Jacob Suppan, a common man from Hengsberg’. Career Suppan relocated to Kamnik (now in Slovenia) before 1757, where he was initially an assistant to the teacher and organist Valentin Götzl. and in 1760 he became Götzl’s successor as the teacher and choirmaster at the women’s church in .

Jakob van Domselaer

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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 painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), eventually becoming a part of Mondrian’s artistic circle known as “De Stijl.” Domselaer’s piano suite Proeven van Stijlkunst (Experiments in Artistic Style, 1913–17) represented the first attempt to apply principles of Neo-Plasticism to music, and Mondrian asserted that pieces were created under the influence of the plus-minus painting he created around the year 1915 . This austere, mathematically based music represents an important but as yet unacknowledged precedent to minimalism and has been little performed or recorded. He died at Bergen, Netherlands. Domselaer’s students have included the Dutch composers Nico Schuyt and Simeon ten Holt . At the Berlage Concourse in 1988, the Dutch pianist Kees Wieringa was one of the prize winners, playing piano music by Domselaer. He released a recording featuring the music of Domselaer in 1994 (DO Records CD, DR 001). Domselaer married Maaike Middelkoop, with whom he had three children. His son, Jaap van Domselaer (

Jakob Zeugheer

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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 violin first from Heinrich Joseph Wassermann in his native town, and in 1818 was placed at Munich under Ferdinand Fränzl, for the violin, and Joseph Graetz for composition and musical science. A visit to Vienna in 1823 confirmed his enthusiasm for chamber-music and Beethoven, who remained through life the object of his highest veneration. Career as a quartet player The example of Schuppanzigh, and of the four brothers Moralt, suggested to Zeugheer the idea of attempting the same with his friends in Munich, as “das Quartett Gebrüder Herrmann”. Zeugheer was leader; Joseph Wex of Immenstadt, second violin; Carl Baader, viola; and Joseph Lidel (grandson of Andreas Lidel, the eminent performer on the baryton), violoncello. They started Aug. 34, 1824, for the south, and gave performances at the towns of south Germany and Switzerland, and along the Rhine to the Netherlands and Belgium. In the spring of 1826 they played in Paris, before Cherubini and Pierre Baillot, and gave a public performan

Jakov Gotovac

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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 first performed in Zagreb in 1935. Biography Gotovac was born in Split (then part of Austria-Hungary) and initially had little if any formal education in music. He was fortunate to be encouraged and supported by Josip Hatze, Cyril Metoděj Hrazdira and Antun Dobronić who instilled him with a nationalistic orientation in music. He started as a law student in Zagreb, but switched to writing music in 1920. In Vienna, he studied in the class of Joseph Marx. Back home, in 1922 he worked with Masaryk’s Philharmonia Society Kolo founded in Šibenik by Vice Iljadica in 1899. In 1923 he moved to Zagreb, where he kept working both as conductor and composer until his death. Between 1923 and 1958, he was the opera conductor at the Croatian National Theatre (Hrvatsko narodno kazalište), and leader of an academic musical society Mladost, and of the choir Vladimir Nazor. His best-known work is Ero s onoga svijeta (a libretto written by Milan Begović) which has been performed on all continents except Austr

Jakub Gołąbek

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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 Marcjanna Celińska from November 4, 1766, preserved in the parish archives of Wawel Cathedral in Kraków. In 1773, he became a singing teacher at the Jesuit music dormitory in Kraków, headed by Józef Zygmuntowski. As a musician, he was active first in the chapel of the St. Mary’s Church, and from around 1774 until the end of his life in the chapel of the Wawel Cathedral, in which he sang and for which he composed. In the years 1781 to 1787 he was a singing teacher at Wacław Sierakowski’s music school; he participated in concerts organized by him, including in 1773 at the court of Bishop Kajetan Sołtyk, when Gołąbek’s Cantata in Honor of St. Stanislaus was performed. Works Gołąbek’s music played a significant role in shaping the Polish classical style. It is typical of early classicism, drawing on the style of both Baroque music and the Viennese classics in terms of sonata form, theme structure, treatment of the bass part (basso continuo), and the use of elements of galant style in slow m

Jakub Jan Ryba

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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 Christmas Mass (“Hey, Master!”; Česká mše vánoční, “Hej mistře!”). Life Ryba was born on 26 October 1765 in Přeštice near Plzeň. His father was a schoolteacher, which was a very poorly paid occupation at the time. In 1780 Ryba went to Prague, where he studied at the Piarist gymnasium. His teacher Cassianus Hanel taught him music. Ryba was a very good student and he soon started to compose. He dreamt of being a famous composer. In 1784 his father ordered him to work as a teacher in Nepomuk. Ryba reluctantly obeyed, but he was soon fired. After wandering for a few months, he received a message that his mother had died. After a long illness, he moved to Mníšek pod Brdy. Being popular among local inhabitants for performing music, he was quite happy there, but after some hesitation he accepted a schoolteacher position in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem. The school prospered under his supervision, but he had constant conflicts with the local pastor and council. His frequent requests for funds for repairs

Jakub Kagan

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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, cabarets, and hotels. Since 1922 Kagan was a feature artist at the Kabaret Mirage and at the Teatr Nowości. In 1926 he signed a contract with the luxury Hotel Bristol in Warsaw. His band performed world-renowned standards as well as his own compositions widely popular across the country. He died in Warsaw during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany he was deported to the Warsaw Ghetto where he played piano at the Splendid Café and the Melody Palace Theatre to survive. He was killed in 1942 possibly during the murderous Grossaktion Warsaw. His other brother, Feliks, who had changed his name to Kochański, also perished during the war. Only the youngest of the Kagan brothers, Alexander (born in 1906), survived the Holocaust as a soldier of the Polish Army in France (1939–40), interned in Switzerland. Popular songs References * Jakub Kagan, Biblioteka Piosenki, Nota biograficzna Bibliography * Stanisław Łoza (ed.), “Czy wiesz kto to jest?”, Wydawni

James A. Beckel Jr.

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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 Orchestra, where he was principal trombonist from 1969 to 2018. His compositions have been performed and recorded by the Baltimore, Atlanta, Indianapolis Symphonies, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, United States Air Force Band, the DC Air Force Orchestra, and many other nationally recognized orchestras throughout the United States. Beckel is married, has two children, and is a member of the Carmel Brass Choir. Beckel maintains a trombone and euphonium studio at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Works list Toccata for Orchestra In the Mind’s Eye Glass Bead Game Fantasy after Schubert Liberty for All American Dream Gardens of Stone A Christmas Fanfare Symphony for Band I Am the American Flag Waltz of the Animals Night Visions Musica Mobilis A Gospel Christmas Inaugural Fanfare Overture for a New Age Make a Joyful Noise Celebrations Portraits Musical Masque (for the Seasons) Music for Winds, Piano, and Percussion Imagination Sonata for Trumpet and Organ American Journey String Quartet No. 1

James Baker (composer)

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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 Juilliard, where he studied percussion and conducting. He began a long time collaboration with choreographer Tere O’Connor and has composed numerous works for Tere O’Connor Dance, including Bessie Award winner Heaven Up North. He was also the composer for Like Two Kevins for the Lyon Opera Ballet. His works have been performed internationally. Baker works as Principal Percussionist for the New York City Ballet Orchestra and serves as director of the Percussion Ensemble at the New School, Mannes College of Music. He also serves as music director of the Composers’ Conference at Wellesley College. Baker often leads the New York New Music Ensemble and Speculum Musicae, and is resident conductor at the University at Buffalo’s Center for 21st Century Music. He also appears as guest conductor with the Cygnus and Talea Ensembles. Baker appears as director on recordings including the CD, David Felder: Boxman (2002). He appears as percussionist on recordings including Millennial Masters Vol. 1. Works S

James Barnes (composer)

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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 Bachelor of Music in 1974, and Master of Music in 1975. He studied conducting privately with Zuohuang Chen. In 1977 he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas as professor of music theory and composition. He retired in August 2015, but retains his emeritus status at KU. Barnes is also a tubist and has performed with numerous professional organizations in the United States. Works Works for concert band * A Solemn Prelude for Symphonic Band, Op. 114 * A Light in the Wilderness * A Very American Overture, Op. 93 * All Pleasant Things - commissioned by the Northshore Concert Band * Alvamar Overture, Op. 45 * Appalachian Overture, Op. 51 * Arioso For Symphonic Band *Autumn Soliloquy for Oboe and Concert Band * Beautiful Oregon * Breckenridge * Brookshire Suite * Caribbean Hideaway * Carnaval in São Paulo * Centennial Celebration Overture * Century Tower Overture * Chorale and Jubiloso * Chorale Prelude on a German Folk Tune, Op. 61 *Citadel (2015) *Credo (2016) * Concerto for Tuba and Wi

James Brody

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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 in the development of electronic music in the Midwest.” He studied with Franz Kamin at the Indiana University School of Music, under the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, where he received a master’s degree. Brody wrote the liner notes for the original Nonesuch LP of Iannis Xenakis – Electroacoustic Music. He taught composition, theory and electronic music at East Texas State University and was a lecturer at York College of Pennsylvania from 2005 to 2007. He also served on the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra’s Board of Directors. Brody was a guest composer at the Electronic and Computer Music Studio of the Peabody Institute and a member and past president of the Baltimore Composers Forum. He hosted a radio program on KUNM-FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico called Other Voices, Other Sounds. He was co-founder of music organizations in Bloomington, Indiana and San Antonio, Texas, dedicated to presenting and performing works by local composers. James Brody died in a car crash in Roseville, Minnesota

James Chater

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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 Marenzio and the Italian Madrigal, 1577–1593, was published as a book (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press) in 1981. He is the author of many articles on secular music in Italy in the late 16th century; these have appeared in Early Music, the Journal of American Musicology, Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, The Musical Times, Notes, the Rivista italiana di musicologia, Il saggiatore musicale, Studi musicali and other periodicals and Festschrifts. In his writings several previously anonymous madrigal texts are identified, and the intimate ties between poets, musicians and patrons are explored. Chater was a Fellow of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti, Florence) from 1981–82. From 1982 to 1986 James Chater taught history of music at the University of Wales (Aberystwyth), Washington University in St. Louis (USA), the University of Victoria (BC, Canada) and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). From 1986 to 1997 he was English-language Editor of

James Clarke (composer)

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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 Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, “After studying at Southampton University and City University, London, Clarke was awarded a Finnish Government Scholarship to study composition with Usko Meriläinen in Helsinki.” In 1979, with his colleague Richard Emsley, Clarke co-founded the new music ensemble, Suoraan, “a small band of outstanding specialist performers” based in London “which dedicatedly promoted the music of, centrally, Iannis Xenakis but also younger British and European composers such as Michael Finnissy and James Dillon.” Yet, as Christopher Fox points out, “for much of his career Clarke’s work has attracted most attention beyond the British Isles, including significant performances at the International Gaudeamus Music Week and the ISCM World Music Days.” In addition, he “has led composition courses at the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland, where he was featured composer in 2000, and at the Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth.” ;Collaboration with Harold Pinter comm

James Cohn

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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 Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950. He wrote solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works, among them 3 string quartets, 5 piano sonatas and 8 symphonies. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). The Detroit Free Press observed in the Symphony No. 3 “an economy of means . . . but no yielding of inventiveness or imaginative composition. Indeed, the work throughout is marked strongly by individuality, and comes as a refreshing experience in modern music.” Among his earlier works (1946, preceding the 1948 second symphony) is a concertino for piano and orchestra. Cohn often quoted popular tunes in many of his works, such as “Homage” (1959), based on The Star-Spangled Banner, and “A Song of the Waters,” Op. 53 (1976), a tone poem featuring variations on Shenandoah. In 1966 he composed a thre

James Cutler Dunn Parker

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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 Hale Parker. He graduated from Harvard in 1848. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Parker went to the Leipzig Conservatory in 1851, where he studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles and Louis Plaidy, composition with Julius Rietz and Ernst Richter, and music theory and harmony with Moritz Hauptmann. He married Maria Derby of Andover in 1859. They had one child. Notes References * (scroll down to entry for “Parker, James Cutler Dunn”) * External links *

James Dashow

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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 Chicago. His musical studies began in high school with Horace Reisberg; his principal teachers at the university level were J. K. Randall, Arthur Berger and Seymour Shifrin. In 1969, Dashow went to Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship to complete his studies with Goffredo Petrassi. For many years, he studied the music of Luigi Dallapiccola independently. One of the first to compose music for digital audio synthesis (“computer music”), Dashow was invited by Graziano (Giuliano) Tisato to work at the computer center of the University of Padua, where he created the first computer music compositions in Italy. He was the first vice president of the International Computer Music Association, has taught at MIT and Princeton University, and continues to actively hold master classes, lectures and concerts in Europe and North America. In 2003 he was composer-in-residence at the 12th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival in Gainesville, Florida. For several years he and coproduced a weekly contemporary

James Di Pasquale

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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 Chicago to Hugo and Lucille (née Ciccone) Di Pasquale, James Di Pasquale is a graduate of St. Mel’s High School in Chicago. He graduated from Northwestern University and the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers included David Diamond and Ludmila Uhlela. Before turning full-time to composition, he had a varied career as a woodwinds performer with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the Royal Ballet. He performed as a jazz musician with Gerry Mulligan, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, and Barbra Streisand as well as many others. He was one of the original members of the Paul Winter Consort. In 1984, he served as the Organizing Chairman and first President of the Society of Composers and Lyricists. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and on the Writer’s Advisory Committee at the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Music for television He wrote the musical scores to made-for-TV movies s

James Dillon (composer)

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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 rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition. Dillon was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Honours include first prize in the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 1978, the Kranichsteiner music prize at Darmstadt in 1982, and an unprecedented five Royal Philharmonic Society composition awards, most recently for his chamber piece Tanz/Haus: triptych 2017. The recording of his chamber opera, Philomela, won the Grand Prix de l’Académie du Disque Lyrique 2010. Dillon taught at Darmstadt from 1982 to 1992, and has been a guest lecturer and composer at various institutions around the world. He taught at the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 2007 to 2014. Selected works His major works include choral and vocal music, including the cycle L’évolution du vol (1993) and the opera Philomela (2004), the orchestral works helle Nacht (1987), ignis noster (1992), Via Sacra (2000), and La navette (2001), as well as a violin concerto for Thomas

James Douglas (composer)

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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 he moved to live in North West Scotland in 2006. Douglas has composed a wide variety of music: instrumental, choral, organ, flute, orchestral, wind, brass, and violin. Life and career Douglas was born on 4 July 1932. He was educated in Edinburgh, Paris, Munich, Salzburg and London (LRAM and ARCM), and made his debut at Wienersaal (Mozarteum), Salzburg, in 1951. Douglas worked as a solo piano and organ recitalist and as an accompanist for vocal masterclasses throughout Europe, and he was deputy organist at St. Thomas’ Church in Edinburgh from 1948 to 1950. From 1953 to 1963, he was Director of Music at Nicolson Square Church in Edinburgh, then in Mayfield Church in Edinburgh, from 1963 to 1969, at Reid Memorial Church in Edinburgh from 1969 to 1973, and at Christ Church in Edinburgh from 1986 to 1991. He was part of the music staff of the Edinburgh Academy from 1967 to 1979. Douglas was director of the Ensemble ‘The Glorious Company’ from 2004. Records were made exclusively for Caritas R

James Fei

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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, alto, and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet. Recordings of his music have been released by Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, and Organized Sound labels. He has worked with the composers Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier. Fei received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2014). Fei joined the faculty of Mills College in California in 2006. He graduated from Princeton University in 1996 and received his M.A. from Wesleyan University in 1999. He has collaborated with Harald Bode (posthumously). Discography ;With Anthony Braxton * Duet (Other Minds) 2021, (Other Minds Records OM 1033-2 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 1 (Leo, 1997 2002 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 2 (Leo, 1997 2003 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 3 (Leo, 1997 2005 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 4 (Leo, 1997 2007 ) With Roscoe Mitchell *Bells for the South Side (ECM, 2017) References External links *James Fei official website

James Frederick Swift

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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 Liverpool for 10 years, but he also composed around 200 non-religious songs and ballads under the pseudonym, Godfrey Marks. One of his most famous songs is Sailing, Sailing. It is a possibility that Swift composed this work on seamanship based on his inspiration from Nancy Lee by Michael Maybrick, despite that his daughter, Ruby Gertrude Swift, expressed that his father had never been close to seafaring activities. One of his famous religious songs includes Ernstein. Notes References External links *

James G. Ellis (composer)

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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 the only male of eight children born to Jay Bartlett Ellis (born 1852), and Antonette Roberts (née Hall; 1856–1896), who were married in Elkhart, Indiana, May 28, 1875. Between 9 and 16 years of age, James G. Ellis lost six of his siblings—Pauline (died 1892), Jennie (1876–1889), Maud (1878–1896), Clara (1885–1888), Mary Winnifred (1887–1888), Mabel (1889–1991)—and also lost his mother, all to complications from diphtheria. His father became a homeopathic physician in 1891. His only surviving sister, Helen became a nurse. He lived during his childhood at 1212 Wayne Street, Dayton, Ohio. Ellis served in U.S. Army in the Spanish–American War (1898). Personal life James G. Ellis was married three times. He first married Edna Lenore Roberts (1884–1987) in Merced County, California, November 27, 1902. They had two daughters. Edna and James lived in Los Banos, California in 1903. Sometime between January 7, 1920, and 1930, James G. Ellis married Anna G. Long (born 1876). When Ellis died in 1

James Gayfer

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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 several orchestral works, including two symphonies, numerous works for band and solo piano, a modest amount of chamber music, and several songs, hymns, and choral works. In 1944 his string quartet won the CPRS award and in 1947 his Six Translations from the Chinese for tenor and small orchestra won the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada competition. In 1953, he was appointed to the post of Director of Music of the Band of the Canadian Guards, serving until 1961. From then on, he served as a musical training officers of the Canadian Forces School of Music. In 1960 he wrote The Canadian Infantryman, the official march past of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. Although Gayfer’s works remain unpublished, some of them have been recorded by a number of artists, including Howard Cable, David Mills, and the Edmonton Wind Ensemble. The Band of the Royal 22 e Régiment continues to perform his works with some frequency. In 1983 he was awarded the Service Medal of the Order of

James Harley

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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 music. Studies Harley studied at Western Washington University (B.Mus., magna cum laude, 1977–1982), Royal Academy of Music (1983–1985), Université de Paris (1986–1987), Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw (1987–1988), and McGill University (D.Mus., 1988–1994). Teaching He has taught at the Faculty of Music at McGill University (1989–1995), Wilfrid Laurier University (1995–1996), California Institute of the Arts (1997), University of Southern California (1997), and Minnesota State University Moorhead (1999–2004). In 2004, he took up a tenure-track position in music at University of Guelph, where he is associate professor. Harley is also the author of the book Xenakis: His Life in Music. His areas of expertise and specialization include digital music, composition, contemporary music analysis, and history of electronic/computer music. Music and research by James Harley is represented by Art Music Promotion. List of works Orchestra *Along the Riverrun (1983) 10 min. :Version I: 1111/

James Holland (percussionist)

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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, Holland first took up percussion as an Army cadet at the age of 13. He went on to study with Peter Allen (timpanist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra), Max Abrams (drum kit) and Charles Donaldson at Trinity College of Music. After three years of National Service in the RAF Central Band he joined the London Philharmonic in 1956, and then the London Symphony Orchestra in 1959. In 1962 he succeeded his teacher Charles Donaldson as principal percussionist at the LSO. He stayed with the orchestra until 1972, when he became principal percussionist at the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the recently appointed chief conductor Pierre Boulez. Holland was heavily involved in contemporary music. In the 1960s, with David Johnson, he was co-founder of the London Percussion Ensemble. He also played regularly with the London Sinfonietta from its foundation in 1969. He worked closely on percussion matters with many contemporary composers, including Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Benjamin Britten, Olive

James Horner

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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, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner worked on more than 160 films and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron’s Avatar (2009). Horner’s other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner’s other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2

James K. Wright

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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 Schoenberg, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, They Shot, He Scored: the Life and Music of Eldon Rathburn, Monstrosity, Identity and Music: Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames, and Music and Antifascism: Cultures of Resistance in Europe and North America. Education Wright completed a Bachelor of Music degree at Wilfrid Laurier University in 1981, followed by a Master of Arts in Music Theory at McGill University in 1987. In 2002, he earned a Ph.D. in Music Theory from McGill University, where he received a Governor General’s gold medal for his research and scholarly record. Career Wright is a professor in the School for Studies in Art & Culture and the College of the Humanities at Carleton University. In June of 2025, James Wright was awarded the King Charles III Coronation medal for his contribution to music in Canada. Compositions and books Wright’s music has been published by Warner-Chappell Music in Miami, Leslie Music in Oakville, Cypress Music in Vancouver

James Kwast

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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 born in Nijkerk, Netherlands, in 1852. After studies with his father and Ferdinand Böhme in his home country, he became a student of Carl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory, and had later studies in Berlin under Theodor Kullak, and Brussels under Louis Brassin and François-Auguste Gevaert. He settled in Germany in 1883, initially as a teacher at the Cologne Conservatory, and later at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and the Klindworth-Scharwenka (1903–06) and Stern conservatories in Berlin. His students included Else Schmitz-Gohr and Walter Braunfels. He participated in the first performance in England of Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor, with Carl Fuchs and Carl Deichmann. Clara Schumann played her last public concert in Frankfurt on 12 March 1891. The last work she played was Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn, in the piano-duet version, with Kwast as her partner. He died in Berlin in 1927, aged 74. Teacher His reputation as a teacher reached far and wide. The list of his stude

James L. Venable

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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, Samurai Jack, and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. The latter was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2005, the same score won a 2005 Annie Award—Venable’s third—for achievement in music for an animated series. Among Venable’s feature film scores are Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Scary Movie 3, 4, and 5 and EuroTrip. On August 3, 2004, Venable released an electronica album titled Holding Space with Screaming Fan Records. Filmography Film Television Video games References External links * * *

James Ledger

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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 is chair of orchestral composition. Biography Ledger first rose to prominence with his first orchestral composition Indian Pacific in 1996, which is still regularly performed in Australia. Ledger is also known for his compositions Devils in the Underground for solo trumpet, the violin concerto Golden Years, Chronicles for orchestra, War Music for choir and orchestra, and the song cycle Conversations with Ghosts in collaboration with the musician Paul Kelly, for which he won an ARIA award. From 2007 to 2009 he was the composer-in-residence for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. In 2011 he was named composer-in-residence for the Australian National Academy of Music. In 2020, he earned a Doctorate of Music from the University of Western Australia. His Viola Concerto, premiered by Brett Dean and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, won the APRA AMCOS Art Music award in the “Work of the Year – Large Ensemble” category. Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is

James Lentini

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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 performance and composition, he pursued a master‘s degree in composition at Michigan State University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California, where he studied composition with Robert Linn and Morten Lauridsen. In addition to composing, Lentini is a guitarist who has studied with William Kanengiser, Joe Fava, and Charles Postlewate. Compositions His music has been performed by solo artists such as guitarist William Kanengiser and by international ensembles including the Krakow Philharmonic (Poland) and the Bohuslav Martinů Orchestra (Czech Republic). In addition to many commissions, his honors include first prize in the 2004 Choral Composition Contest at Bluffton University for his composition “Peace I Leave With You,” the 2002 Andrés Segovia International Composition Prize for his solo guitar piece “Westward Voyage,” the Atwater-Kent Composition Award (first Prize), the McHugh Composition Prize, a grant from “Meet the Composer,” and several awards from ASCAP. In 2003

James Lynam Molloy

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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 songs will, long after the ‘superior’ and so-called ‘art-songs’ of to-day are forgotten.” After leaving the College, he went to the Catholic University in Dublin, graduating in 1858. Further studies brought him to London, Paris, and Bonn, before he settled in London from about 1863 with a lawyer’s degree. Private secretary and war correspondent However, he never practiced law. Instead, he worked as a private secretary to the then attorney general. He was a war correspondent for the London Standard on the Franco-Prussian War and traveled widely, particularly in France. From 1880 he lived in Henley-on-Thames near London. Songs and songwriting Molloy’s first songs date from 1865 when he was 28 years old, but his career really took off with the regular London ballad concerts from the late 1860s and particularly during the 1870s. His most often quoted successes in his own lifetime were songs like Clochette (1867), Thady O’Flynn (1869), Eily’s Reason (1871), Dresden China (1875), Darby and Joan

James Lyon (composer)

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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 his father was Zopher Lyon, but that he was orphaned at an early age. In 1750, Isaac Lyon and John Crane became James’ guardians, until the age of twenty-one. Lyon then attended college at Nassau Hall, and afterwards obtained a master’s degree from College of Philadelphia. Lyon became a Presbyterian minister, and left from Philadelphia for Nova Scotia, but he was unable to support his family, and subsequently accepted a job at the new settlement of Machias, Maine. After his first year there, the parish invited him to remain at a raised salary and he remained there with a few interruptions, until his death on October 12, 1794. Music The first evidence of Lyon composing was during his college days at the commencement of 1759 at Nassau Hall, when President Samuel Davies delivered an oration, and where the ceremony concluded with an ODE, set to music by Lyon. In 1761, when a candidate for a master’s degree at the College of Philadelphia, one of his works was performed on the same program a

James M. Stephenson

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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 ensembles, with a significant number of works written for large ensembles (orchestra, opera, ballet, brass band, wind ensemble, and chorus) as well as chamber music and solo works. In addition to his career as a composer, Stephenson is also active as an arranger and conductor. Biography James M. Stephenson was born in Joliet, Illinois, and began playing trumpet at the age of 9. He stayed in the Midwest and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy until college, where he attended the New England Conservatory of Music for a degree in trumpet performance. At NEC, his teachers were Charles Schlueter, Gilbert Johnson, and John Lindenau. Following graduation in 1990, Stephenson joined the trumpet section of the Naples Philharmonic, a position he held for 17 seasons. As a member of the Naples Philharmonic Brass Quintet, he volunteered his time to begin arranging works for the groups. The Naples Philharmonic pops conductor, Erich Kunzel, took notice of this and asked Stephenson to arrange a work for orche

James MacMillan

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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 Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. His father is James MacMillan, a carpenter, and his mother is Ellen MacMillan (née Loy). He studied musical composition at the University of Edinburgh with Rita McAllister and Kenneth Leighton, obtaining a BMus degree in 1981, and later at Durham University with John Casken, where he completed a PhD in Composition in 1987. At Durham he was a member of the College of St Hild and St Bede as an undergraduate student and the Graduate Society while studying for his doctorate. He was a lecturer in music at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1986 to 1988. After his studies, MacMillan returned to Scotland, composing prolifically, and becoming Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, often working on education projects. As a young man he was briefly a member of the Young Communist League. The work’s international acclaim spurred more high-profile commissions, including a percussion concerto for fellow Scot Evelyn Glennie: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel.

James Matheson (composer)

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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 Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Borromeo String Quartet, Carnegie Hall and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. In December 2011, he received the Charles Ives Living from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award providing him with $100,000 for two years (2012-2014). Previously, he received the Academy’s Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in 2008 and Hinrichsen Award in 2002. He has also received awards from the Civitella Ranieri, Bogliasco and Sage Foundations, ASCAP, and the Robbins Prize. He was executive director of the MATA Festival of New Music in New York from 2005-2007 and has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. Since September 2009, he has been the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer Fellowship Program. Works by James Matheson Unchained (2017) for orchestra without strings Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director. The premiere performances took place February 24, 25, and 26th with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, James Gaff

James Montgomery (composer)

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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 founding member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble with whom he performs and records. As a composer he is known for incorporating electronic technology into his works. Early life and education Born in Ravenna, Ontario, Montgomery earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1966 from Baldwin–Wallace Conservatory of Music. He pursued further studies at Northwestern University with John Weinzweig and at the University of Toronto (UT) with Gustav Ciamaga. From the UT he earned a Master of Music degree in 1972. Career In 1990 Montgomery taught in the Faculty of Education at the UT as a professor of electronic media. In 1971 Montgomery co-founded the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) with David Jaeger, David Grimes, and Larry Lake. He has performed and recorded with the CEE since then, and served as the group’s managing director from 1976 to 1983. The CEE is currently the oldest continuously active live-electronic performing group in the world. In 1984 they performed at the International Society for Co

James Nares (composer)

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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 soon after his family moved to Oxfordshire. His brother was a justice, Sir George Nares. He began his career as Deputy Organist of St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, and was later appointed Organist of York Minster in 1735. He married soon after that. before returning to the Chapel Royal in 1756 to become organist and composer to George III, succeeding Maurice Greene. *Six Fugues for Organ, 1772 *Three Easy Harpsichord Lessons, 1778 *A Treatise on Singing, 1778 *The Royal Pastoral, 1778 *Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees, 1778 *Six Organ Fugues, 1778 *Second Treatise on Singing, with a set of English duets, 1778 *Twenty Anthems, 1778 *A Morning and Evening Service and Six Anthems, 1788 Sources * James Nares. Il Principio or a Regular Introduction to playing on the Harpsichord or Organ, a Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1760 with Introduction Notes by Robin Langley, London, Oxford University Press, 1981. Notes References Sources * External links * James Nares at the Nares g

James Oliverio

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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. Oliverio later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the composer-in-residence at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His music for the film Time and Dreams was included in Atlanta’s successful bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympics. His piece The Explorer (later retitled To Boldly Go…) was commissioned and premiered as the opening for that summer’s four-year Cultural Olympiad. During the 1990s, Oliverio was described as “Atlanta’s hottest composer”. Since January 2001, Oliverio has served as Executive Director of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. A lifelong friend of the timpanist brothers Paul and Mark Yancich, Oliverio has composed a number of works for the performers, including his first and second timpani concertos and the 2011 double timpani concerto Dynasty. List of compositions * The Fall of Babylon (1974) for mezzo-soprano and wind quintet * Dantreume Leu Pliska (1975) for timpani and amplified double bass * Etude for Four Harps (1975) * Piano Sonata No

James Oswald (composer)

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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 published many Scottish folk tunes. Life Oswald was born in Crail, Scotland in 1710, being baptised on 21 March, and died in Knebworth, Hertfordshire on 2 January 1769. In London Oswald eventually set up his own publishing house and published the Caledonian Pocket Companion, a collection of Scottish folk tunes, some with his own variations. This ran to 12 volumes and many editions. Like many others whose works feature in the Wighton Collection in Dundee, he was a member of “The Temple of Apollo”, a secret musical society of composers in London along with Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, John Reid, Charles Burney and others. Oswald’s first wife, Mary Ann, died in 1756. He married Leonora Robinson Lytton after she was widowed in 1762. Leonora was the aunt of Richard Warburton Lytton. Compositions He wrote variations of popular Scottish folk tunes, arranged these for the fiddle and composed other original tunes in the same genre. He published his chamber works under the nom de plume “Dott

James P. Clarke (composer)

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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 of the Maple Leaf (1853) and for leading several of Toronto’s earliest musical organizations. Early life Clarke was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a young man he worked as music dealer’s assistant in Edinburgh and led the singing of psalms in St George’s Church in Glasgow. Career Clarke emigrated to Canada in 1835, taking a job as the organist for St. James Cathedral in York (Toronto). In 1844 he became the organist for Christ Church in Hamilton. Clarke was the first conductor of the Toronto Choral Society, which was founded in 1845. He was a composer of choral music; a collection of his songs about the Canadian landscape, Lays of the Maple Leaf, was published in 1853 by A. & S. Nordheimer. Clarke constructed a new kind of organ for which the pipes were made of glass. In 1872 Clarke became the conductor of the Toronto Philharmonic Society. Clarke taught organ and piano; one of his pupils was his son Hugh, who became a professor of music at the University of Pennsylvania. Works * Lays

James Rolfe (composer)

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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 Toronto and Jo Kondo in Japan. Career Rolfe was the President of the Canadian League of Composers (2007–11) and has won awards for his music, most recently the 2006 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music and the 2009 SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award. Rolfe lives in Toronto with his wife Juliet Palmer, who is also a composer. Operas Although Rolfe’s chamber, vocal, orchestral, and piano works are widely performed, he has become most noted for his operas. Beatrice Chancy, an opera set in Nova Scotia during the 19th century (libretto by George Elliott Clarke), was produced in 1998 by Toronto’s Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company and was subsequently filmed for television by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2000. Rolfe has since composed the children’s opera Elijah’s Kite (libretto by Camyar Chai), which explores bullying among children, and was co-produced by Tapestry New Opera Works and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City in 2006; Rosa (libretto by C

James Romig

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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 BM and MA degrees in from the University of Iowa in percussion performance, and a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, where he studied with Charles Wuorinen. He studied additionally with Milton Babbitt, and both Babbitt and Wuorinen served on his dissertation committee. In 2001, after one-year visiting positions at Pittsburg State University and Bucknell University, Romig joined the faculty at Western Illinois University, where he heads the composition/theory area. He lives in Macomb, Illinois, with his wife Ashlee Mack (coordinator of piano instruction at Knox College). Career *2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music, finalist (Still, for solo piano) *2019 Copland House Award and Residency *2019 Petrified Forest National Park, Artist in Residence *2018 Guest Co-Editor of Perspectives of New Music issue celebrating Charles Wuorinen’s 80th year *2017 Everglades National Park, Artist in Residence *2012 Grand Canyon National Park, Artist in Residence *2011 Copland House Award and Residency *2

James Saunders (composer)

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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 Kingston upon Thames, England, Saunders studied at the University of Huddersfield (1991–94) and then with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music (1994–96). In 1998, he was a participant at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse where he was awarded a scholarship prize. He participated again in 2000 and 2002. Career In 2001, he was a selected composer at the Ostrava New Music Days. He held composition residencies at the Experimental Studio fur Akustische Künst in Freiburg in 2003 and 2007. His music has been played at international festivals, including Bludenz Tage fur zeitgemäßer Musik, Brighton Festival, BMIC Cutting Edge, Borealis, Darmstadt, Donaueschingen Festival, Gothenburg Arts Sounds, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Inventionen Berlin, The Kitchen, Music We’d Like to Hear, Ostrava New Music Days, Rainy Days, Rational Rec, Roaring Hooves, Spitalfields_Music, SPOR, Ultima, and Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Saunders’ music has been performed internationally by en

James Scott (composer)

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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 Joplin and Joseph Lamb. Early life and education Scott was born in Neosho, Missouri, to James Scott Sr. and Molly Thomas Scott, both former slaves. In 1901, his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he attended Lincoln High School. He was given a piano after taking music lessons. In 1902, he began working at the music store of Charles L. Dumars, first washing windows, then demonstrating music at the piano as a song plugger, including his own pieces. Demand for his music convinced Dumars to print the first of Scott’s published compositions, “A Summer Breeze - March and Two Step”, in 1903. Career Ragtime Historians Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis recount that Scott went to St. Louis, Missouri, in search of his idol Scott Joplin in 1905. He located Joplin and asked if he would listen to one of his ragtime compositions. Upon hearing the rag, Joplin introduced him to his own publisher, John Stillwell Stark, and recommended he publish the work. Stark published the rag a year later as “Frog Legs

James Simon (composer)

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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 * Birth of his son, Jörn Martin Simon on 14 September 1910 in Berlin * Birth of his son, Ulrich Ernst Simon on 21 September 1913 in Berlin * Emigration: 1 April 1933, via Zürich to Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Death of his son, Jörn in 1937 in Russia during the purge of the Moscow Trials * Deported from Westerbork 5 April 1944 to Theresienstadt, ghetto * Transferred 12 October 1944, to Auschwitz, extermination camp * Death: 14 October 1944, Auschwitz, extermination camp – officially declared dead, age 64 Biography James Simon was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 following his internment at Theresienstadt. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Berlin piano (Conrad Ansorge) and composition (Max Bruch). In 1934 he was forced to leave Germany to Zurich, later Amsterdam where he was arrested and deported to Theresienstadt. From there, on 12 October 1944, James Simon boarded the transport to Auschwitz and was murdered in a gas chamber shortly after his arrival

James Stevens (composer)

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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. Career Stevens was born in London, where he studied initially with Benjamin Frankel in his exclusive class at the Guildhall School of Music. There he won several prestigious awards including the Royal Philharmonic Prize for his First Symphony; the Wainwright Scholarship for “composer of the year”; and a French Government Bursary which took him across the Channel to study with Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire. There he met Nadia Boulanger, who made him one of her star pupils who received Saturday evening tuition free of charge. He also enjoyed an open invitation to Arthur Honegger’s classes. Stevens commenced his extensive film career while still a student and was acclaimed at the Ealing Studios, where he constantly devised new film music techniques which are now standard practice. Unusually, Stevens never confined himself to one particular musical genre, and took many opportunities to take part in pop music, jazz, films, television scores, and musicals. His musical Mamízelle Nitou

James Tenney

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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 composition, process music, spectral music, and microtonal tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretical writings variously concern musical form, texture, timbre, consonance and dissonance, and harmonic perception. Biography James Tenney was born on August 10, 1934, in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School, Bennington College (B.A., 1958), and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (M.A., 1961). He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Chou Wen-chung, Lionel Nowak, Paul Boepple, Henry Brant, Carl Ruggles, Kenneth Gaburo, John Cage, Harry Partch, and Edgard Varèse. He also studied acoustics, information theory and tape music composition under Lejaren Hiller. In 1961, Tenney completed an influential master’s thesis entitled Meta (+) Hodos that made one of the earliest applications of gestalt theory and cognitive science to music. His later writings include “Tem

James W. Tate

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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 United States for five years, he returned to London in 1897 where he became Musical Director at the Carl Rosa Opera Company and then at Wyndham’s Theatre. In 1898 he toured as the conductor for Lottie Collins, whom he married in 1902. After Collins’s death in 1910, Tate married Clarice Mayne in 1912; he had been her accompanist since 1906. He composed numerous music hall songs during these years, and had songs interpolated in shows. Julian Wylie formed a partnership with Tate, creating and producing pantomimes and revues just before the First World War, as well as musicals such as High Jinks (1916). He continued to write the music for popular songs, including several in The Maid of the Mountains and sometimes full scores for shows such as The Beauty Spot (1917). Wylie and Tate continued to produce revues and pantomimes, while Tate continued to write songs. The Wylie-Tate company continued through the 1920s and into the 1930s despite Tate’s death, and Wylie continued to use Tate’s music

James Wilson (composer)

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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. His father, a chemist, died when James was only four days old, leaving his widowed mother to bring up three sons alone. Without any family background in music (the only real interest was his mother’s slight interest in playing the piano), Wilson began piano lessons in 1931 (at the age of nine), continuing them until 1938. While in his early teens, Wilson attended many operas which fostered his interest in music. After school, and without any formal higher education, Wilson entered the Civil Service after having passed their entrance exam. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, from 1942 till 1946. Having finished his military service, Wilson began attending weekly musical composition classes at the Trinity College of Music in London. It was around this time that he left the Civil Service to pursue a full-time career in music. In 1948 he moved to Ireland, where he had been stationed in the latter part of his naval service. Musical work Wilson was a largely self-taught com

James Wood (musician)

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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 Paris from 1971 to 1972 before going on to study music at Cambridge University, where he was organ scholar of Sidney Sussex College from 1972 until 1975. After graduating from Cambridge he went on to study percussion and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1975 until 1976. After a further year studying percussion privately with Nicholas Cole, Wood embarked on a triple career as percussionist, composer and conductor. Career In 1977 he was appointed conductor of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford, a post which he held until 1981, and immediately following this he founded the New London Chamber Choir, of which he was principal conductor for twenty-six years until moving to Germany in 2007. New London Chamber Choir (NLCC) During his time with NLCC he pioneered a large amount of little-known choral music from a wide range of composers, including Iannis Xenakis, Tona Scherchen, Toru Takemitsu, Eric Bergman, Harrison Birtwistle, Lili Boulanger, Ruth Crawford, Luigi Dallapiccola, Fra

James Yannatos

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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 educated in New York City. In 1943, he was invited to attend Camp Rising Sun, a tuition-free, international summer camp in upstate New York. He attended the High School of Music and Art and the Manhattan School of Music. Subsequent studies with Nadia Boulanger, Luigi Dallapiccola, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith, and Philip Bezanson in composition, William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein in conducting, and Hugo Kortschak and Ivan Galamian on violin took Yannatos to Yale University (B.M., M.M.), the University of Iowa (Ph.D.), Aspen, Tanglewood, and Paris. As a young violinist, he performed at the Casals Festival and elsewhere in various professional ensembles, including a piano trio, a string quartet, and early music groups with Hindemith and Boulanger. In 1964, he was appointed music director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and led that group on tours to Europe, Russia, South America, and Asia. He organized and co-directed the New England Composers Orchestra and the Tanglewood Youn

Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

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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 won an Oscar and a National Board of Review Award. Other notable scores were for Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, Unfaithful, Evening, The Visitor, and Washington Square. Early life and education Jan A.P. Kaczmarek was born in 1953 in Konin, Poland. Studying music from an early age, he graduated with a law degree, specializing in legal theory and philosophy of law, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1977). Career In the late 1970s, Kaczmarek started working with Jerzy Grotowski and his innovative Theater Laboratory. He created the Orchestra of the Eighth Day in 1977. He recorded his first album, Music for the End (1982), for the United States (US) company Flying Fish Records. In addition to his work in films, Kaczmarek was commissioned to write two symphonic and choral pieces for two important national occasions in Poland: Cantata for Freedom (2005) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement, and Oratorio 1956 (2006) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a bloody uprising

Jan Allan

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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 the trumpet as his main instrument. At this time he played in Carl-Henrik Norin’s orchestra. From 1954 to 1955, he worked with Lars Gullin and Rolf Billberg and from 1955 to 1959 with Carl-Henrik Norin. At the same time, he earned a PhD in physics. Despite his small number of records, Allan is among the most important modern jazz musicians in Sweden. From 1960 to 1963, he led a quintet with Billberg. Over the course of the 1960s, he worked with Arne Domnérus, Georg Riedel, and Bengt Hallberg, among others. From 1968 to 1975, he was a member of the Swedish Radio Jazz Group. His album Jan Allan -70, which featured Rolf Ericson, Nils Lindberg, Bobo Stenson, Jon Christensen, and Rune Gustafsson, won a Grammis Award for Jazz of the Year in 1970. Allan played with the same group and Georg Riedel on the trio-album Sweet And Loverly. His 1998 album Software stands in strong affinity with the West Coast Jazz of Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz. Over the course of his career, Allan recorded albums wi

Jan Antonín Losy

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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 and composer from Prague. His lute works combine the French style brisé with a more Italian cantabile style. He was probably the most significant lutenist-composer in Bohemia at the height of the lute’s popularity there. Life Count Losy’s family were of Swiss origin (Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden). His father, Johann Anton Losy senior (c. 1600–1682), was perhaps born in Purz in the Swiss canton of Grisons. By 1627 he had moved to Bohemia and purchased a house in Prague. Losy senior had a number of business interests and was appointed a Councillor of the Exchequer and Deputy of the Salt, Beer and Wine Council by the Bohemian Court Chamber. As a result of helping to defend Prague against the assault of Swedish troops in 1648, Losy senior was ennobled, becoming a baronet in 1648 and Count von Losinthal in 1655. He also acquired the estate and castle at Steken (Strakonitz District, southern Bohemia) in 1638. Johann Anton Losy was born at Steken around 1650. He had a younger twin brot

Jan Bach

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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 (music theory and composition) from 1966 to 2002. His primary performing instrument was the horn, and he was renowned among hornists for his horn pieces. He also played the piano. Bach died on October 30, 2020, at age 82. Early life and education Jan Bach was born on December 11, 1937, in Forrest, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1959 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition there in 1971. He studied with Aaron Copland and Roberto Gerhard at Tanglewood in 1961 and with Thea Musgrave in Aldeburgh and London in 1974. Awards In 1957 he won the BMI Student Composers first prize. He later won the Koussevitsky competition at Tanglewood, the Harvey Gaul Composition Contest, the Mannes College opera competition, the Sigma Alpha Iota choral composition award, first prize at the First International Brass Congress in Montreux, Switzerland, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, the Br

Jan Belle

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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 Holy Cross Church in Liège. He was referred to as “de Lovanium”, which indicates that he was originally from Leuven. He may also have been a Kapellmeister (succentor) at the Church of Our Lady in Sint-Truiden. No copies of the book have been preserved. References

Jan Blahoslav

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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 bishop, and translated the New Testament into Czech in 1564. This was incorporated into the Bible of Kralice. Life Blahoslav was born in Přerov, Moravia. He studied theory under Listenius and Hermann Finck at University of Wittenberg from 1544. At Wittenberg he became acquainted with Martin Luther, and he was also acquainted with Philipp Melanchthon. After a short period at Mladá Boleslav (1548–9) he continued his education at Königsberg and Basle. He was a linguist who strove to preserve the purity of his native tongue and succeeded in bridging the gulf between Christianity and humanism. He was ordained at Mladá Boleslav in 1553, and became a bishop of the Fraternity of Czech (or Moravian) Brethren in 1557 during the imprisonment of Jan Augusta. In the following year he established himself at Ivančice, where before long he installed a printing press. Towards the end of his life he moved to Moravský Krumlov, where he died, aged 48. Blahoslav was the editor of the 1561 Czech-language hy

Jan Blockx

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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 with Frans Aerts, the organ with Joseph Callaerts and composition with Peter Benoît at the Antwerp Conservatory. When he was still a student he wrote some songs, in Flemish, which became popular. However, his musical education studies were quite irregular, and he was essentially self-taught. Later he studied with Carl Reinecke at Leipzig. Despite the fact that he was Benoit’s favorite pupil, Blockx wanted to make his own way in life, independent of his teacher and the Flemish Movement. Unlike Benoit, Blockx never intended his works to have the educational, uplifting effect that was typical for the Flemish Movement. This caused tensions between student and master: despite the fact that Blockx’s work helped to spread Flemish music across the Belgian borders and even saved the Vlaamse Opera from bankruptcy, Blockx received a lot of complaints from his fellow Flemish composers for publishing his works in French and through the Parisian music publisher Heugel. In 1886 Blockx became a teache

Jan Brandts Buys

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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 music. His father was an organ player in the town of Zutphen in the Netherlands, where Jan was born. He studied at the Raff Conservatory in Frankfurt and in 1892 settled in Vienna, where he got to know Johannes Brahms, who, along with Edvard Grieg, praised his early works. His piano concerto won an important international prize and such famous artists as Lilli Lehmann often included his songs on the same program with those of Franz Schubert. Work Brandts Buys’ oeuvre comprises piano pieces, organ pieces, chamber music, orchestral music, songs, pieces for choir and cantatas, operas and many arrangements - such as piano arrangements of all the symphonies of Schubert and Beethoven). However, his reputation today mainly rests on his comic operas and operettas, such as The Tailors of Schönau 1916 and The Man in the Moon 1922 , which gained considerable international acclaim. These two operas, along with Glockenspiel 1913 and Der Eroberer 1918 were first performed at the Dresden Hofoper, with c

Ján Cikker

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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) and the IMC-UNESCO International Music Prize (1979). Life Cikker was born in former Austria-Hungary, today Slovakia, in Banská Bystrica. His first music teachers were his mother, Mária Psotková, and Viliam Figuš-Bystrý. After he graduated from high school, he studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1930 to 1935, where he attended courses of composition of Jaroslav Křička, of conducting and organ. He then studied at the Master’s School of the Prague Conservatory from 1935 to 1936, where he was a student of Vítězslav Novák. Later on, he moved to Vienna, where he studied with Felix Weingartner from 1936-1937. From 1939 to 1949, he taught at the Bratislava Conservatory. At the same time he was a repertory advisor of the opera of the Slovak National Theatre from 1945 to 1948. He was forced to leave this post after the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948. Finally, he worked as professor for composition at the Bratislava Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (VŠMÚ), where he was the teac

Jan Dismas Zelenka

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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. Zelenka was raised in Central Bohemia, educated in Prague and Vienna, and spent his professional life in Dresden. The greatest success during his career was the performance of the extensive composition Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis in the presence of the Emperor Charles VI, shortly after his coronation as king of Bohemia in 1723. Life Early life Zelenka, baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka, was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem in Bohemia, a market town southeast of Prague. He was the eldest of eight children born to Marie Magdalena (née Hájek) and Jiří Zelenka. The middle name Dismas is probably his confirmation name. Zelenka’s father Jiří was a schoolmaster and organist in Louňovice, and was likely his first music teacher. Nothing more is known with certainty about Zelenka’s early years, except that he received his musical training at the Jesuit college Clementinum in Prague and that his instrument was the violone (bass viol). His earliest known work is the school drama Via laureta (ZWV 245), compo

Jan Ekier

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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 in Kraków, Poland. As a youth, he studied piano with Olga Stolfowa, and later composition with Bernardino Rizzi at the Władysław Żeleński School of Music. He continued formal music studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, where his teachers included Zbigniew Drzewiecki (piano) and Kazimierz Sikorski (composition). He was awarded the III International Chopin Piano Competition’s 8th prize in 1937. He was later an organ student with Bronisław Rutkowski. In 1959, he started the project of a new critical edition of Chopin’s works that later became the Chopin National Edition. From 1967 to 2010, the entirety of Chopin’s known works were published in 37 volumes, accompanied by source and performance commentaries. In 2004, he received a special award from the Minister of Culture of Poland, “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the preservation and popularization of the legacy of Fryderyk Chopin, in particular for the monumental edition of the National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk C

Jan Erik Mikalsen

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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 Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and is a member of the Norwegian Society of Composers. He has composed a number of works performed and commissioned by orchestras like Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Kringkastingsorkesteret, Oslo Sinfonietta, Bodø Sinfonietta, Thomas Bloch, Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra, Quartet Artis Wien, Stavanger Samtidsensemble, Orchestre de Flutes Francais, Manger Musikklag, Ingrid Torvund, Tori Wrånes and Bård Ask. He has participated in festivals such as Présences Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Casa Da Musica, Performa 13, Young Nordic Music and Nordic Music Days. Mikalsen also won the award from the Kavlifondet, and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra’s Nordic / Baltic Composers Workshop 2004–2005 with the work Ghouls & Moons premiered by the same orchestra under the main series, on October 20, 2005. His

Jan Faulkner

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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 compositions for beginners in percussion, double bass, and songs for children to sing on visiting historical places. She was an examiner for musical boards and taught international percussionists. Her music continues to be taught, in the UK and internationally. Also freelance percussionist Alun McNeil-Watson, who was the first percussionist to be awarded a gala concert whilst at Wells, and went on to win awards as an international concert performer, and is also director of Box9Drumline. She commissioned works through the National Association of Percussion Teachers, including pieces by Peter R. Barclay, who has performed in major arenas such as O2 Arena with Andrea Bocelli. He worked with fellow ex-pupil Kim Foster on a piece dedicated to Faulkner. Faulkner composed beginners pieces for percussion, which also had simple accompaniment, for teachers who were not pianists. and prepared the timpani, snare drum and tune percussion syllabus, working with Michael Skinner and colleague, Jayne Obrado

Jan Freidlin

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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 well as music for film and television. Biography Jan Freidlin was born on 12 August 1944 in Chita. Already in 1946, at the age of two, he moved with his family to Odesa (Ukraine) — a city that would become Freidlin’s home for the next 44 years of his life. Here he began studying piano at the Glazunov Music School No.2, in the class of Maria Isaakovna Horvits. After graduating, he enrolled in the Odesa Music College (1959–1963), where he studied piano performance, composition, and music theory. Later, under the guidance of A. Kogan, he continued his studies in composition and music theory at the Odesa State Conservatory (1965-1971). From 1974 to 1990, Freidlin was the head of the Music theory department at the School of Stolyarsky, a Special Music School in Odesa established by Pyotr Stolyarsky. He also served as the Artistic director and Principal conductor of the Odesa Philharmonic Theatre Jazz Orchestra. for flute, violin, violoncello and piano. 1982 Chamber music - Theatre of Beranger

Jan George Bertelman

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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 of Henry Joost Bertelman and Johanna Shock. When Bertelman was nine years old, his father died. He studied with Daniel Bracht Huyser (1769), a blind organist who worked at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. In addition to his musical studies, Bertelman provided for his mother and himself through working other jobs. In Amsterdam, Bertelman was a composer, organist and music teacher. His pupils included John Bree, Richard Hol and Hermina Maria Dijk. Bertelman was an honorary member of four organizations: the Royal Academy of Arts, the Society for Utilities General, the Society for the Promotion of Musical Arts, and the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1842, he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. Bertelman married Dorothea Christina Kathman in Amsterdam on April 28, 1820. He died in January 1854 at the age of 72 in Amsterdam. His son, Johannes Jacobus Bertelman, was a painter and later became the co-founder of the Museum Gouda. Bertelman was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amst

Jan Gerard Palm

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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 music director of the Citizen’s Guard Orchestra in Curaçao. Palm played multiple musical instruments, including the piano, organ, lute, clarinet, flute, and mandolin. As an organist, Palm played for many years in the Jewish synagogues, Emanu-El and Mikvé Israel, the Protestant Fort Amsterdam Church, and the Lodge Igualdad in Curaçao. He regularly contributed to Notas y Letras (Notes and Letters), a periodical published in Curaçao between 1886 and 1888 with subscribers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Palm died on December 13, 1906, at 75 years old. His descendants include the musicians and composers Rudolph Palm (1880–1950), John Palm (1885–1925), Toni Palm (1885–1963), Jacobo Palm (1887–1982), Albert Palm (1903–1958), Edgar Palm (1905–1998), and Robert Rojer (1939). Media * * References Sources * * * *

Jan Gilbert

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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 Conservatory and was granted her bachelor of arts in music in 1969 from Douglass College. In 1972 she received a Master of Arts in composition from Villa Schifolianoia in Florence, Italy. Studying under Salvatore Martirano and Ben Johnston, she received her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois in 1979, where she specialized in electronic music. Other teachers include Piergtro Grossi, Charles Dodge and John Melby. She has taught at Middlebury College, St. Olaf College, University of Maine, and Macalester College. Music Gilbert’s works include electronic music, verbal improvisation, sacred vocal music, experimental hip-hop, chamber music and multimedia pieces with tape, theatre and dance collaboration. She has been commissioned by varying groups such as Chanticleer, the St Paul Civic Orchestra and the Dale Warland Singers. She draws material from many different cultures, including traditional stories of the Hmong People, legends from the Pacific Northwest Tlingit tribe, an

Jan Hanuš (composer)

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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, expressing anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist and anti-Communist sentiments. Biography Hanuš studied composition independently with Otakar Jeremiáš while attending school at the Prague Conservatory, where he graduated in 1940. He subsequently studied at a business school, and then worked both as editor and editor-in-chief of several major publishing houses, including F. A. Urbánek & Sons, and Panton (Müller 2001). As an editor he played an important role in overseeing the editions of the collected works of Antonín Dvořák and Zdeněk Fibich, both of whom he later emulated in his works , as well as the complete works of Leoš Janáček (Müller 2001). Hanuš’s early works were principally aimed at the passionate, the philosophic, and the patriotic, as exhibited in his opera The Flames. The first post-war decade witnessed lyricism near to national tradition, but since the late fifties a new tendency of dramaticism in his works arose and a musically expressive innovation, reaching as far as the combination of

Jan Ingenhoven

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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 European music into the Netherlands before World War 1, and also took contemporary Dutch music into Germany. Career Jan Ingenhoven was born into a family of gifted amateur musicians: his father (a baker) played oboe and violin and an uncle played the saxophone. He learned the clarinet at an early age, sang in a choir and was soon conducting local choirs in Breda and Dordrecht. From 1902 he studied harmony and composition with Ludwig Felix Brandts Buys (1847–1917). After his marriage to Johanna Hermine Frantzmann in 1905 he settled in Munich and continued his studies with the Austrian conductor Felix Mottl. Ingenhoven promoted Dutch music abroad, organizing a Dutch Music Festival in Munich in 1906 that included his own music and pieces by his contemporaries Alphons Diepenbrock, Johan Wagenaar and Carl Smulders (1863–1934). The following year he put on a similar festival in Berlin, introducing music by Anna Cramer, Kor Kuiler (1877–1951) and Cornélie van Oosterzee. The vocal quartet ‘Nous

Jan Josef Ignác Brentner

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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 family of the mayor of the town of Dobřany in the Kingdom of Bohemia. He seems to have preferred his middle name Josef/Joseph. Known information about his life comes mostly from time he spent in Prague, from 1717 to about 1720, where he published four collections of music. Brentner’s opuses 1 and 3 are collections of sacred arias for voice, strings, and continuo, Harmonica duodecatomeria ecclesiastica (1716) and Hymnodia divina (1718 or 1719). In addition, Brentner published a collection of six offertories for chorus, strings, and continuo entitled Offertoria solenniora (1717) as his opus 2 and a collection of six chamber concertos, Horae pomeridianae seu Concertus cammerales (1720) as his opus 4. Brentner’s patron was Raymond Wilfert, abbot of the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) monastery in Teplá, to whom the Op. 2 was dedicated. Brentner’s funeral motets were written specifically for the Brotherhood of St. Nicholas Church in Prague. Brentner died in his birth town Dobřany under unclear

Jan Kalivoda

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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 Prague in 1801 and as early as 1811 started studying violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory. He made his debut as a violinist at the age of 14. Upon completion of his studies he became a member of the Prague Opera Orchestra. His diploma from the Conservatory read “Excellent player solo or in an orchestra…shows great talent in composition.” More prosperous tours as a violinist, for instance to Linz and Munich, followed. Kalivoda lived what appears to have been a stable, hardworking musical life. For more than 40 years, from 1822 to 1865, he held the post of conductor at the court of Prince Karl Egon II of Fürstenberg and his successor in Donaueschingen (where the Danube begins in the Black Forest). His duties there included not only the writing of and care for the music of the court and church, but also the management and conducting of a choir, and annual musical journeys for education. These manifold responsibilities may have foreshortened his life. In any case, he went into re

Jan Klusák

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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 farm in Prosek, Prague. After he graduated from the gymnasium, he pursued his studies at the Prague Music Academy as a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký and Pavel Bořkovec (in 1953-57 ). Later he concentrated solely on composing. He has never worked directly with music groups or schools, Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he began to participate in public life again, and worked as a member and director of various cultural institutions in the Czech Republic. He was awarded a “Classic 1995” Award for his compositions and for his String Quartet No. 5 in particular. Since the 1960s he occasionally acted in films, such as A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966) or Valerie and Her Week of Wonder (1970). Selected works Compositions *Partita for viola solo (1954) *Concertino for flute, violin, viola and cello (1955) *Contrappunto fiorito for flute, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and piano (1955–1956) *Eight Inventions for Various Instrumental Arrangement (1961–73) - his ke

Jan Koetsier

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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 wrote chamber music,orchestral and choral works, as well as the opera . From 1966 to 1976, he taught conducting at the . A well-known example of his composition is Brass Symphony from 1979, which is divided into three movements and arranged for a brass dectet. In 1992, the Jan Koetsier Foundation was established by an endowment from the composer. One of the main responsibilities of the Foundation, which has been based at the since 2001, is the organization of the biennial International Jan Koetsier Competition. Selected works *Variation uber ein Kinderliend for orchestra (1932, revised 1967) *Concertino for viola and orchestra, Op. 21 (1940, revised 1955) *Symphony No. 2 for choir and orchestra (1947) *Partita for cor anglais and organ (1956) *Partita for trombone and organ, Op. 41, No. 3 (1976) *Cinq Impromptus for trombone quartet, Op. 55 (1970) *Sonatina trombone and piano, Op. 58, No. 1 (1970) *Allegro maestoso for bass trombone and piano, Op. 58, No. 2 (1972) * for brass ensemble,

Jan Krenz

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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 Sikorski. From 1945 to 1947, he studied at the Academy of Music in Łódź, conducting with Kazimierz Wiłkomirski and composing with Sikorski. In 1949, Krenz began serving under Grzegorz Fitelberg as deputy conductor at the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. After Fitelberg’s death, Krenz became director of the orchestra from 1953 to 1968. In 1968, he became artistic director of the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, and was General Director of Music in Bonn from 1979 to 1982. At the same time, he directed the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen. He was a guest conductor at the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Hilversum. He also often performed with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Other orchestras he led include the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. On 26 March 1958, Krenz was the first person to conduct Musique funèbre by Witold Lutosławski. In a

Jan Křtitel Kuchař

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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 1751 in Choteč, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire. Soon after his birth, Kuchař’s parents moved to Mlázovice, where he lived out his childhood. He achieved basic music knowledge in Vrchlabí with the organist Alex Thám. Later he studied at the Jesuits seminary in Hradec Králové and Jičín. He was a student of the organist Josef Seger in Prague. He wrote piano excerpts from both operas, as well as from the opera Così fan tutte. In addition, he composed recitatives for an Italian version of The Magic Flute. In 1790, Kuchař left the church after being nominated as organist of the Strahov Monastery, in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, on 1 September. He accepted the offer and played organ at the Strahov Monastery. He continued to teach mandolin, organ and the theory of music. He also began to perform stand-alone concerts and his reputation soon spread, for in 1791 he was appointed conductor of the opera, Prague, and he officiated there for many years, during which time several of his o

Jan Ladislav Dussek

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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 important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Some of his more forward-looking piano works have traits often associated with Romanticism. Dussek was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe. He performed at courts and concert venues from London to Saint Petersburg to Milan, and was celebrated for his technical prowess. During a nearly ten-year stay in London, he was instrumental (sic) in extending the size of the pianoforte, and was the recipient of one of John Broadwood’s first 6-octave pianos, CC-c4. Harold Schonberg wrote that he was the first pianist to sit at the piano with his profile to the audience, earning him the appellation “le beau visage.” All subsequent pianists have sat on stage in this manner. He was one of the best-regarded pianists in Europe before Beethoven’s rise to prominence. His music is marked by lyricism interrupted by sudden dynamic contrasts. As well as h

Ján Levoslav Bella

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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 the 19th century. Life Bella was born in Liptovský Mikuláš (Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus), Austrian Empire (now Slovakia), and raised in a Roman Catholic family. He studied at the college in Levoča and a seminary in Banská Bystrica before taking a degree at Vienna University. Bella was ordained a priest in 1866. From 1869 to 1881 he was town director of music at Kremnica. He left the priesthood in 1881 and converted to Protestantism, becoming director of music in Hermannstadt/Nagyszeben, now Sibiu in modern Romania, (at that time Kingdom of Hungary) where he remained until 1921. From 1921 to 1928 he lived in retirement in Vienna, moving to Bratislava in 1928, where he died in 1936. Music Bella began to compose whilst studying in Levoča. At this time his output was largely small-scale, such as church music, folk-song arrangements and some chamber music. In 1873 however, visiting Vienna and Prague, he heard for the first time the music of, amongst others, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner and Bedřic

Jan Ludevít Procházka

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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 on 14 August 1837 in Klatovy. He was baptized as Ludovicus Joannes (Ludvík Jan). He received his first musical education from his father Josef Procházka, who was an organist. After studying at the grammar school in Klatovy, he began studying law at Charles University in Prague. In Prague, as a gifted pianist, he became a student of Zdeněk Fibich, and Bedřich Smetana, with whom he soon became friends. As a composer, he wrote a collection of songs called Záboj, to which Smetana himself contributed. He is also one of the founders of the Prague choir Hlahol. In his apartment and later in the Konvikt Hall, he often organized concerts where he presented new works by Czech composers. The compositions of Antonín Dvořák, Zdeněk Fibich and other Czech composers were heard there for the first time. Jan L. Procházka was also a reviewer of Národní listy, Dalibor and Hudební listy. When his wife Marta, née Reisingerová, a concert singer, obtained an engagement in Hamburg in 1878, he moved to Germany

Jan Martin Smørdal

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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 Academy of Music and has studied with Henrik Hellstenius and Lasse Thoresen. As a guitarist, Smørdal has contributed to a number of releases, both in band as well as solo settings, and has been a member of the live bands of Hanne Hukkelberg, Navyelectre and Rockettothesky (Jenny Hval). As a producer, Smørdal has worked with such performers and composers as Torgeir Vassvik, Rockettothesky, Nils Henrik Asheim and Siri Nilsen. Smørdal has contributed to a number of releases that have been bestowed with a Spellemannprisen Award. As a co-founder of Ensemble neoN, Smørdal has collaborated with performers and composers such as Oren Ambarchi, Marina Rosenfeld and Susanna Wallumrød. Smørdal has composed music for a variety of settings, ranging from solo to orchestra, installations and choir. His works have seen performances at the MATA Festival, the ISCM Festival in Vienna, the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and Nordic Music Days. Production Selected works *Q.S. 1 (2003) *Ichi - clarine

Jan Meyerowitz

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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. From 1927, he studied in Berlin with and Alexander von Zemlinsky. In 1933, he was forced to leave Germany because he was Jewish and continue his education in Rome with Ottorino Respighi, Alfredo Casella and the conductor Bernardino Molinari. In 1938, he moved to Belgium and in 1939 to the South of France, where he made contact with the French Resistance. His future wife, the singer Marguerite Fricker, helped him in Marseille to survive the Nazi occupation of France. In 1946 Meyerowitz emigrated to the U.S. and became an assistant to Boris Goldovsky, director of the opera program at Tanglewood. In 1951 he became an American citizen. Meyerowitz taught at Brooklyn College (1956–1962) and at the City College of New York. In 1956 Meyerowitz was awarded the first of two Guggenheim Fellowships. After his retirement, he returned to France where he died in Colmar. Selected works Compositions Stage works * Simoon (1949). Opera in one act. Libretto: Peter John Stephens (after August Strindberg). Pre

Jan Müller-Wieland

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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 Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen in the Tanglewood Music Center. Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1992/93. He was awarded the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2002. From 2003 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München since 2007. Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde. He is married to the Austrian author . Opera As of 2011, Müller-Wieland had composed 14 operas. His first opera Das Gastspiel, subtitled “Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists”, a chamber opera after Frank Wedekind’s Posse (farce) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992. The lib

Jan Nasco

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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 writings, particularly a group of letters he wrote to the academy in the 1550s, are important sources of information on performance practice regarding the use of instruments in madrigals as well as motets. Life No documentation has yet turned up covering Nasco’s early life, but he is presumed to have come from the Netherlands or adjacent areas, the home of most of the Franco-Flemish composers. Only the portion of his life he spent in Italy has been documented. He was in the service of Paolo Naldi, a nobleman in Vicenza, in the 1540s, and in 1547 he became the music director of the newly formed Accademia Filarmonica in Verona. While this may have been a prestigious and intellectually engaging post, it paid little, and in 1551 he took a job as maestro di cappella at the cathedral of San Pietro in Treviso, with some reluctance. He retained ties with the Accademia, as well as his post at Treviso, until his death. Music and influence Nasco was a progressive composer in most of the current genr

Jan Nepomuk Maýr

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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 remembered today for serving as the first director/principal conductor of the Provisional Theatre in Prague. Biography Born in Mělník, Maýr began his career working as an opera singer at the opera house in Klagenfurt in 1839. From 1842–1844 he worked at various theatres in Prague, after which he was committed to the opera house in Darmstadt from 1844–1846. At the behest of František Ladislav Rieger, he returned to Prague in 1846 to become a principal singer at the Estates Theatre. His singing was praised by Czech audiences but his acting was found to be wanting. He was eventually appointed the house’s chorus master at the beginning of the 1848–1849 season. By 1851 Maýr was no longer appearing in opera roles, but was now working as a conductor of a number of different musical ensembles in Prague; including choirs in various cathedrals in the city (such as the Our Lady of the Snows Basilica). He left his position as chorus master at the Estates Theatre in 1853 to focus on his career as a conductor

Jan Novák (composer)

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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 Kachyňa. Novák also composed music for the films of animators Jiří Trnka and Karel Zeman, the leading figures of the Czech animated film, as well as for Wir (1982, TV film) (based on We, the 1921 Russian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin). Jan Novák was also a Contemporary Latin poet, under the pen name Ianus Novak. In 1970 he was awarded the magna laus at the Amsterdam Latin poetry competition, the . Selected works * Concerto for oboe and orchestra (1952) * Baletti a 9 for nonett (1955) * Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (1955) * Concertino for wind quintett (1957) * Capriccio for cello and orchestra (1958) * Dulces cantilenae for soprana and cello (1961) * Passer Catulli for bass and nonett (1962) * Ioci vernales for bass, octet and tape (1964) * Dido, cantata for mezzosopran, speaker, men’s choir and orchestra (1967) * Exercitia mythologica for four- to eight-part mixed choir (1968) * Ignis pro Ioanne Palach for choir and orchestra (1969) * Apicius modulatus for voice and guitar (1971) * Od

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

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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 was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ tradition. Life Sweelinck was born in Deventer, Netherlands, in April or May 1562. He was the eldest son of organist Peter (or Pieter ) Swybbertszoon and Elske Jansdochter Sweeling, daughter of a surgeon. Soon after Sweelinck’s birth, the family moved to Amsterdam, where from about 1564, Pieter Swybbertszoon served as organist of the Oude Kerk (Sweelinck’s paternal grandfather and uncle also were organists). Jan Pieterszoon must have received first lessons in music from his father. Unfortunately, his father died in 1573. He subsequently received general education under Jacob Buyck, Catholic pastor of the Oude Kerk (these lessons stopped in 1578 after the Reformation of Amsterdam and the subsequent conversion to Calvinism; in the event that he married, which happened in 1590 when he married Claesgen Dircxdochter Puyner from Medemblik. (for reasons that are not certain

Jan Pogány

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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 line. Biography Pogány was 23 June 1960 in Kołobrzeg. He is a graduate of cello and conducting studies in Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, Germany). He studied at the Music Academy in Wrocław, Poland. He works with numerous orchestras such as the ones Germany, Japan, South Korea, Greece, Poland as well as opera companies. He founded the Polish Chamber Orchestra Camerata-Wrocław. He was Director General of the International Brahms Festival Wrocław. Recognition *2008 – the II prize at the International Composers Competitions in Torrevie (Spain), *2009 – the III prize at the International Composers Competitions in Luxembourg. Works * 2002 – Film music for the German TV crime series Mit Herz und Handschellen * 2005 – Cantata of Kołobrzeg for two sopranos, tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra, the composition was written on the jubilee 750th anniversary of Kolobrzeg * 2006 – Fantasia in D minor for cello and orchestra * 2007 – Cantata “La Voce del Destino” for tenor, violin and orches

Jan Radzynski

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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 and guided his early piano studies, and one of his great-grandfathers had served as an army bandmaster in the Austro-Hungarian military before World War I. He was also awarded a Creative Work and Research Grant from the Rothschild Foundation in 1995, as well as various faculty grants and residencies in Israel and Switzerland. Radzynski has continued to influence contemporary music through both his compositions and his teaching at Ohio State University. Awards * Two ASCAP Standard Awards (1989, 1997) * Mellon Fellowship (1985) * Morse Fellowship * Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University (1996) * Frederick W. Hilles Publication Grant * Yale University Griswold Research Grants * Summer Residency at the Foundation Artist’s House, Boswil, Switzerland (1983) * Residency at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Israel (1995) * Creative Work and Research Grant from the Rothschild Foundation (1995) * Individual Artist Grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and Ohio Arts Council Referenc

Jan Rychlík

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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 born and died in Prague. His parents wanted him to study economics, but he was attracted by the music and foreign languages from an early age. In 1939, during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia he began to study at the Prague Conservatory. In addition to his drumming abilities, he was an excellent pianist and also played some other instruments. Shortly afterwards he focused also on orchestral compositions. Following World War II he devoted himself mainly to film music. He composed the score for the well-known musical comedy Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera. Some of the songs from the film became evergreens (“Arizona” and “So far”). He is also known as the author of the music for the French film La Création du Monde by Jean Effel. Jan Rychlík died at the age of 48. Following his death, Czech composer Otmar Mácha composed a memorial work, Variations on a Theme and on the Death of Jan Rychlík, for symphonic orchestra. Style Rychlík’s music output has two different poles, much like the

Jan Sandström (composer)

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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 Ros entsprungen. Career Born in Vilhelmina, Västerbotten County, Sandström grew up in Stockholm. He studied at the Luleå University of Technology’s Piteå School of Music (1974–1976) and completed his music training at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, studying music theory (1978–1982) and composition with Gunnar Bucht, Brian Ferneyhough and Pär Lindgren (1980–1984). placing the familiar Praetorius setting in slow motion in an eight-part a cappella setting. In 1991 he completed Från Mörker till Ljus (From Darkness to Light) for reader, baritone and chamber orchestra, based on poems by Folke Isaksson, were inspired by an altarpiece from Antwerp in Gammelstad, with a focus on the Passion. The poems are partly spoken, partly sung, some accompanied by the orchestra; the tenth of 14 movements, Klarheten (Clarity), is purely orchestral. The work was recorded in 2002 with the singer of the premiere, Peter Mattei, speaker Sven Wollter and the Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Petter

Jan Skubiszewski

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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 work as a record producer and composer for film and television has resulted in numerous gold and number one records, won critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations at ARIA, APRA, AIR, Film Critics Circle of Australia, Logie Awards, Screen Music Awards, National Indigenous Music Awards. Early life Skubiszewski was born in Melbourne. After spending his early childhood in the Otway Ranges rain forest, he moved to the Melbourne suburb of East St Kilda. His musical education began early under the guidance of his father, acclaimed Polish-Australian film and TV composer Cezary Skubiszewski. Career Education and early work: first APRA award After studying fine art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Skubiszewski worked as a sound engineer and producer at Sing Sing Studio, whilst also writing and producing in his own right. In 1999 at the age of 18, Skubiszewski collaborated with his father Cezary to compose the score for Two Hands starring Heath Ledger, which won the APRA award for Bes

Jan Stefani

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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, Count Kinsky as a military bandmaster. Also, he would become a violinist at the court of Joseph II. In Vienna, Prince Andrzej Poniatowski offered him a position in the Polish Royal Court. Stefani accepted, and in 1779 went to Warsaw with a group of musicians. He joined King Stanisław II August’s nine-person band, which developed into a court orchestra. In 1795, the Third Partition of Poland caused this orchestra to disband. For the next four years, Stefani wrote music for St. John’s Archcathedral. After Wojciech Bogusławski became director of the National Theatre in 1799, Stefani played with the first violins. He kept this position until 1818. Stefani died on 23rd February 1829. He is buried in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. Works Stefani is renowned for one work, the singspiel Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i Górale (The Supposed Miracle, or Cracovians and Highlanders), composed in 1794 with a libretto by Bogusławski. The opera is set in Kraków, where the two lovers Stach and Basia,

Jan Swafford

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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. His teachers included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood. He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as the Vintage Guide to Classical Music and the introduction to music “Language of the Spirit.” His books are widely translated, including editions in Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese. He appeared in the award-winning 2018 German documentary The Unanswered Ives. Works Swafford has written columns on music and other subjects in Slate, and is heard as a commentator on NPR and the BBC. He is a regular program annotator for orchestras and venues including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, and Carnegie Hall. He provided liner notes for two DGG collections of the complete Beethoven symphonies. His writing honors include a 2012 Deems Taylor Award for internet writing, a Mellon Fel

Jan Tausinger

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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 Conservatory as a pupil of Dimitrie Cuclin and Mihail Jora. Later, he continued his studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Pavel Bořkovec and Alois Hába. From 1948 to 1952, he studied also conducting with Metod Doležil and Karel Ančerl. Notes References * External links *Biography and list of works at the Czech Music Information Centre * *Short biographical sketch

Jan Trojan Turnovský

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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 polyphony. Biography In the oldest sources, his name was Latinized to Traianus Turnovinus or Traianus Gregorides Turnovinus. Later he began to use the name Jan. The sources from Benešov call him “kněz Jan Traian” (priest Jan Traian). Very little is known about his early life. He was born in Turnov, and his father was a baker. The oldest known mention of his life dates from 1564 when he was matriculated at the Charles University in Prague. He was matriculated together with several other composers, Jiří Rychnovský and Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický among others. However, it is not entirely clear whether they really studied there. As an Utraquist priest he served in Davle (1579), and the same year he was possibly active also in Mladá Boleslav. Later he moved to Netvořice (1581), Benešov (1587), and Sepekov (1595, probably before 1590). Turnovský was married two times. He married his first wife Kateřina on 11 November 1579 in Mladá Boleslav. In 1604, he — together with his second wife Zuzana

Jan Václav Voříšek

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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, choirmaster and organist. As a child prodigy, he started to perform publicly in Bohemian towns at the age of nine. His father taught him music, encouraged his playing the piano and helped him get a scholarship to attend the University of Prague, where he studied philosophy. He also had lessons in piano and composition from Václav Tomášek. He found it impossible to obtain sufficient work as a musician in Prague and in 1813, at the age of 22, moved to Vienna to study law, hoping to meet Beethoven. In Vienna Voříšek was able to greatly improve his piano technique under Johann Nepomuk Hummel, but once more failed to gain full-time employment as a musician. Although Voříšek was enthralled by the classical style of Mozart, he was more intrigued by the incipient romanticism of Beethoven. In 1814, as he was starting to compose, he did indeed meet Beethoven in Vienna. He also met other leading musicians there, including the composers Louis Spohr, Ignaz Moscheles, Hummel, and especially Franz Schuber

Jan Van der Roost

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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 Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp. Since 1984 Van der Roost is a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Lemmensinstituut. He is also a guest professor at the Shobi Institute of Music, the Nagoya University of Arts, and Senzoku Gakuen. Works * 1834 (Concert band) * A Highland Rhapsody (Concert band) * A Highland Rhapsody (Fanfare) * A Year Has Four Lives (Children’s choir) * Adagio for Brass (Brass band) * Adagio for Winds (Concert band) * Adagio for Winds (Fanfare) * Albion (Brass band) * Algona Overture (Concert band) * Amazonia (Concert band) * Apollo * Arghulesques (for Clarinet Quartet) * Arpád (part 2 from ‘Sinfonia Hungarica’) * Arsenal * Attila! (part 1 from ‘Sinfonia Hungarica’) * Autumn * Avalon * Balkanya * Ballad for Bass Trombone * Bassonnerie * Beata viscera * Brasiliana * By the River * Cantabile e Ritmico * Canterbury Chorale * Canzona gothica (for Trombone) * Castellum * Céad Míle Fáilte * Centennial Prelude * Ceremonial March * Chemical Suite (for Trombone quartet)

Jan van Gilse

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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 family of theologians, Jan van Gilse showed an early aptitude for piano playing and composing. From 1897 onwards, he studied at the Cologne Conservatory. After his teacher, Franz Wüllner, died in 1902, he continued his studies with Engelbert Humperdinck in Berlin. From 1909 to 1911, he studied in Italy. In 1901, van Gilse received the Beethoven-Haus Prize in Bonn for his (First) Symphony in F major; in 1906, the Michael Beer Prize was awarded to him for his Third Symphony, ‘Erhebung’ (‘Elevation’; for solo soprano and orchestra). In addition to composing, van Gilse soon developed an interest in conducting. He started out with the Bremen Opera, a post which was followed by appointments in Munich and Amsterdam. After the outbreak of the First World War made travel difficult, he moved back to the Netherlands. From 1917 until 1922, he was the conductor of the Utrecht Municipal Orchestra (). In 1921, van Gilse resigned from the position after a conflict with the orchestra’s board of directors.

Jan Vriend

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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 career Vriend studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1960 to 1967, with Else Krijgsman (piano), Anthon van der Horst and Jan Felderhof (music theory), and Ton de Leeuw (composition). During this period, he also studied electronic music with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the University of Utrecht. External links *Official Website of Jan Vriend *Extensive biography at Donemus, Amsterdam

Jan W. Morthenson

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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 non-figurative music, music that aimed to avoid any relationship to past compositional techniques, and meta-music, which alluded to historical music genres in order to criticize them. Morthenson’s success as a composer and intellect in Sweden is reflected by the influential positions he has held throughout his career. He was on the board for the Electronic Music Studio from 1973 to 1975, he acted as chairman of the Swedish section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ICSM) from 1974 to 1975, he was vice-chairman of the ISCM council from 1975 to 1978, and he was also the chairman for Fylkingen, a Swedish chamber music society that focuses primarily on new music, from 1975 to 1976. Training Morthenson was born in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1940 and began studying music in Stockholm in 1956 with Runar Mangs, a prominent Swedish music critic. Mangs left a lasting impression on young Morthenson, who would later refer to him in an obituary as one of the most important contemporary mus

Jan Williams

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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 States. He is recognized as an important proponent of percussion performance and its literature. Biography Williams was born in Utica, New York, where he first studied drums in elementary school under George Claesgens. After experience playing snare drum in marching and concert bands, he began to study timpani while in high school. At Clarkson University (Potsdam, New York), then called Clarkson College, he elected an Electrical Engineering major because his teachers discouraged music as a career. Within a year, he was out of school, and the following fall he entered the Eastman School of Music to study with William Street, who advised Williams to study the keyboard percussion instruments seriously. Sometime during that year at Eastman, Williams read a magazine article that praised the work of Paul Price, a percussion teacher at the Manhattan School of Music who was performing new music for percussion ensemble. In the Fall of 1959, Williams moved to New York City to study with Price at the

Jan Zach

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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 versatile composer capable of writing both in Baroque and Classical idioms, his eccentric personality led to numerous conflicts and lack of steady employment from about 1756 onwards. Life Zach was born in Dehtáry near Brandýs nad Labem, Bohemia into a wheelwright’s family. In 1724 he moved to Prague and started working as violinist at St Gallus and at St Martín. According to Dlabacž, he studied organ under Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, who lived in Prague from 1720 to 1727. Zach’s career as organist started at St Martín, and by 1737 he was also playing the organ at the monastic church of the Merciful Brethren and the Minorite chapel of St Ann. In 1737 he competed for the position of organist at St. Vitus Cathedral, but was not successful. Details of what happened next are unknown: he was reported to have left Bohemia, but apparently remained in Prague at least until 1740. By early 1745 he was living in Augsburg and then on 24 April 1745 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Electoral orchestra

Jan Zdeněk Bartoš

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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 Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from business school, Bartoš left for France. He played as a concertmaster of the Messageries Maritimes naval company in Marseille. From 1929 to 1931 he travelled with that company to Africa, Asia and Madagascar. Bartoš died on 1 June 1981 in Prague, shortly before his 73rd birthday. Selected works ;Stage * Král manéže (Master of the Ring), Burlesque Ballet-Pantomime in 14 scenes * Prokletý zámek (The Cursed Mansion), Opera in 1 act (1951); libretto by Zdeněk Lorenc ;Orchestra * Symphony No.1 for large orchestra, Op.65 (1952) * Symphony No.2 for (chamber) orchestra, Op.78 (1956–1957) * Symphony No.3 for string orchestra (1964–1965) * Symphony No.5 * Symphony No.6 for brass quartet and string orchestra (1974) * Symphony No.7 (1977) ;Concert band * Z podkrkonošského špalíčku (1973) ;Concertante * Introdukce a rondo (Introduction and Rondo) for violin and orchestra, Op.13 (1937) * Concertino for bassoon and orchestra, Op.34 (1943) * Staří přátele (Ol

Ján Zimmer

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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 between 1941 and 1948 with (piano), Józef Weber (organ) and Eugen Suchoň (composition). Afterwards he studied composition with Ferenc Farkas at the Budapest Music Academy, and in Salzburg in 1949. From 1948 to 1952 he taught music theory and piano at the Bratislava Conservatory. He also worked for the Czechoslovak Radio. From 1952 he devoted his time exclusively to composition and performance as a concert pianist (he performed in particular the piano part of his own piano concertos). His works, in the post-romantic style, are overall expressionistic and occasionally incorporate Slovakian folk music. Some of his works, such as the cantata The Uprising (1954), the powerful symphonic poem Strečno (1958), and the vocal symphonic poem Liberation (1975) are written in a nationalist spirit. Ján Zimmer composed more than 120 works, including especially two operas (1963 and 1977), twelve symphonies (from 1955 to 1985), seven piano concertos (from 1949 to 1985), many other concertos for various instr

Jana Obrovská

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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 with B. Kabeláčová-Rixová and theory with Jaroslav Řídký. At the Prague Conservatory she studied with M. Krejčí and Emil Hlobil from 1949-55. She won a prize in the 1972 Concours International de Guitarre in Paris for Passocaglia und Toccata. Her Hommage a Béla Bartók became compulsory in the same Paris competition in 1975. Obrovská also composed music for orchestra and chamber ensembles. Obrovská married guitar virtuoso Milan Zelenka and the couple had a son, guitarist Vilém Zelenka (b. 1987) who often plays in a duo with his father. Works Obrovská’s compositions have been recorded and issued on CD, including: Selective discography *Passacaglia and Toccata for guitar, A. Artzt, Helios CD CDH88026 (1989) *Due Musici and Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, M. Zelenka and L. Brabec with Radio Symphony Orchestra Pilsen, Supraphon VT2789-2 (2018) *Homage to Béla Bartók for guitar, R. Aussel HARMONIA MUNDI CD in MAN4802 (1992) *Four images of Japan for guitar, Tribute to Hiroshige - Homage

Jane Bianchi

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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 published again, possibly in 1812. On 12 March 1806, the Austrian composer Joseph Woelfl published “Six English Songs” which he dedicated to Bianchi. She and Francesco had a daughter who died aged five, shortly after her husband took his own life. He and their daughter were buried in the old Kensington Church, now St Mary Abbots, Kensington. Bianchi married again to another singer named William Lacy. Her English husband had trained in Italy and was a bass singer. In 1813 she again sang at the Concerts of Antient Music where she was paid £126 (see illustration). She had sung at that concert in 1800 when she was “Miss Jackson”. They left England and sailed for Calcutta in 1818 where they stayed for seven years performing at the court of Oudh. At the time the King of Oudh was Saadat Ali Khan II. Whilst she was away she published an unseen work by her first husband in 1820/1821. Bianchi died in Ealing in 1858. Her second husband survived her. References External links *

Jane Bos

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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 composer and lyricist known by several pen names she used: Jane Bos (her preferred pseudonym) Jeanne Bos, Jane Boss and Paul Chantelauze. Apart from her work in film, Jane Bos also authored many pieces for piano, as well as songs, including some for Charles Trénet, during decades from the 1920s to the 1940s. Selected works include the following. *The Wonderful Day (1932) * Theodore and Company (1933) *Toto (1933) *600,000 Francs a Month (1933) * Mam’zelle Spahi (1934) *The Dying Land (1936) *The Mysterious Lady (1936) *Jacques and Jacotte (1936) * Temptation (1936) *The Men Without Names (1937) *The Club of Aristocrats (1937) * Madelon’s Daughter (1937) *The West (1938) *Troubled Heart (1938) * The Spirit of Sidi-Brahim (1939) *Miquette (1940) Selected songs * Hélène, music by Bos, lyrics by Charles Trenet, sung by Charles Trenet (1932) * Pourquoi? sung by Charles Trenet, 1935 * La terre qui meurt Music of the film “La terre qui meurt” (1936) by Jean Vallée * L’escale sung by André Duma

Jane Corner Young

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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 University in 1936. She completed a master of music degree in piano and composition in 1953 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Young studied piano with Beryl Rubinstein and Arthur Loesser; composition with Marcel Dick; and Dalcroze eurythmics with Elsa Findlay and Ann Lombardo. Young taught privately and in public schools for over 27 years, and was a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She chaired the Cleveland Composers’ Guild when it was formed in 1957, and also served as the director of music therapy at Hawthornden State Hospital (today known as Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare) in Northfield, Ohio. *Mu Phi Epsilon (winner, composition contest; 1971) Young’s compositions include: Chamber *Essences (for two violins; won 1961 Cleveland Institute Alumni Award) *Blues Art Song: Who There to Know *Captive (with L. Kenney) *Fantasy (with L. Kenney) *How I Like a Wild Tame Bird (with piano) *(The) Story of Fay (with bassoon, flute, oboe, piano, trumpet, violin and zither) *Such

Jane Joseph

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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 organisation and management of various of the music festivals which Holst sponsored. Many of her works were composed for performance at these festivals and similar occasions. Her early death at age 34, which prevented the full realisation of her talents, was considered by her contemporaries as a considerable loss to English music. Holst first observed Joseph’s potential when he was teaching her composition at St Paul’s Girls’ School. She began to act as his amanuensis in 1914, when he was composing The Planets, her special responsibility being the preparation of the score for the “Neptune” movement. She continued to assist Holst with transcriptions, arrangements and translations, and was his librettist for the choral ballet The Golden Goose. During her short professional life she became an active member of the Society of Women Musicians, was the prime mover behind the first Kensington Musical Competition Festival, and helped to found the Kensington Choral Society. She also taught music at

Jane Mary Guest

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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 the galante style, and which were also published in Paris in 1784 and Berlin in 1785. On 29 August 1789 she married Abram or Abraham Allen Miles, an accountant, in London. During the 1790s she taught and gave performances in Bath, including at concerts directed there by Venanzio Rauzzini, who was another of her teachers. One of the concerts was a private concert for Joseph Haydn in which she improvised on a theme of Haydn’s. She also wrote some unpublished concertos which do not seem to have survived. In 1804 she became the piano tutor of Princess Amelia, the youngest daughter of George III, and in 1806 to the Prince Regent’s daughter Princess Charlotte of Wales. However Amelia died in 1810 after years of illness, while all of Charlotte’s staff were fired in 1814 by her father. Guest remained Charlotte’s tutor at least until that time. Her husband Abram died in 1832 and she died on 20 March 1846 in Blackheath, London, where she had been living with her daughter Louisa. She was buried with

Jane O'Leary

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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. She graduated summa com laude from Vassar College and studied with Milton Babbitt at Princeton University, where she received a Ph.D. in composition. She lectured at Swarthmore College for a year and moved to Ireland in 1972. O’Leary’s music has been performed internationally at concert venues including, in the U.S., the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, Chicago Cultural Center and Carnegie Hall. She is the founder (in 1976), artistic director and pianist of the ensemble Concorde, which regularly performs contemporary music. In 1981, she was one of the founders of the organisation ‘Music for Galway’ and served as its chairperson from 1984 to 1992. Other honorary positions included membership of the board of directors of the National Concert Hall, Dublin (1986–1996), member of the Irish Arts Council (1998–2003), chairperson of the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin, and others. Since 1981 she has been a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s academy for creative artists. Since 2006, O’Leary teache

Jane Roeckel

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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 transcriptions of symphonies by composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn. She sometimes published under the pseudonym Jules de Sivrai. Biography Roeckel was born in Clifton, England, into a family of artists and musicians. Her father was the Old Water Colour Society and Bristol School painter Samuel Jackson; her brother Samuel Phillips Jackson was also a painter; her sister Ada Villiers was a musician; and her uncle was the Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Roeckel studied piano and harmony first with her father, then with Jacques Blumenthal, Charles Halle, Bernhard Molique, Ernst Pauer, and Clara Schumann. In 1864, she married Joseph Leopold Roeckel, who was also a composer. Roeckel invented the “Pamphonia,” a device used to learn the different clefs and staves. It was a model of an eleven line stave with movable bars. the Melvin Clark Piano Company, and the Wilcox & White Piano and Organ Company. Roeckel’s compositions were frequently performed by the pianist Arabella Goddard. Selec

Jane Savage

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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. It is likely that Jane Savage accompanied her father from his estate near Tenterden in Kent to London in 1780 or 1781 and lived in Red Lion Square, Holborn. Most of her music was published in this period. In 2020, Hymn for Christmas Day, an anthem setting the text “While shepherds watched their flocks by night”, composed in around 1785 and performed by the Asylum for Female Orphans in London, was rediscovered and published by the Church Music Society. It is the earliest known example of an anthem for the Church of England to have been written by a female composer. After her father and mother died, Savage married merchant R. Rolleston in about 1790. It is unclear whether she continued her career in music. She did not publish any compositions in her married name. Works Selected works include: *Six Sonatas for Harpsichord or Piano (1783) *Six Rondos for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte, Opus 3 (1786) * Strephan and Flavia, A Favourite Cantata (voice and keyboard instrument) (1786) * A Favouri

Jane Sinclair Wells

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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 education at universities in Durham, Sussex, and Southampton. She studied composition with David Lumsdaine and Jonathan Harvey. Later, she took courses in adult education, working with the frail elderly, and making music with learning-disabled adults. Wells worked in London from 1978 to 1987, where in addition to composing, she taught adults and led music-making sessions for children for the Battersea Arts Centre and the Gemini music ensemble. Wells moved to the north Norfolk coast in 1987 for a three-year residency as a composer/musician at a small local arts center. The residency developed into Norfolk Music Works, a community organization which Wells worked with until 1994. She then became a Lincolnshire county music worker until 1998 and established a music agency for the county called “Soundlincs.” During this time, she was also a PRS Composer-in-Education. In 2003, Wells joined the Hoofbeat Streetband with Chris Balch, Dawn Loombe, Richard Hall, and Derek Paice, playing music for acco

Jane Sloman

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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 writing the songs “Roll on, Silver Moon”, “Forget Thee”, and the “Maiden’s Farewell.” Her music was also published under the name Jane Sloman Torry. Early life Sloman was a child prodigy, distinguishing herself on piano from an early age under the tutelage of Louise Dulcken, Queen Victoria’s piano teacher. She made multiple appearances at the British royal court and played informally with the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini and the gifted pianist Sigismond Thalberg. In 1839, she moved to the United States as one of the only female piano virtuosos in the country. Sloman gave piano lessons to a few students before she made her American concert debut. She was among the first generation of professional women composers that emerged in the 1850s, including Augusta Browne, Marion Dix Sullivan, Faustina Hodges, and Susan Parkhurst. Her last known concert took place on February 18, 1850. Songs and Compositions Sloman wrote both popular songs and compositions. Her work ranged from simple pop tun

Jane Stirling

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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 to her. She took him on a tour of England and Scotland in 1848, and took charge of the disposal of his effects and manuscripts after his death in 1849. Life Jane Stirling was born Jean Wilhelmina Stirling as the youngest of 13 children of John Stirling of Kippendavie, at Kippenross House, near Dunblane in Perthshire, and was descended from a noble Scottish family. Her father died when Jane was 12, and her mother died when she was 16. perhaps in 1842 She became his pupil immediately. Chopin does not mention her until 1844. However, whether Chopin intended this collection to serve as a basis for a revised collected edition of his music is an open question. She also became his secretary, agent and business manager. She arranged his concert at the Salle Pleyel on 16 February 1848, and also attended to the heating, the ventilation, and the flowers. The concluding item of the concert was the Barcarolle in F-sharp major, but Chopin was too exhausted to complete the final section. After managing

Jane Vieu

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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 Vieu was born as Jeanne Fabre at Béziers. Vieu was the daughter of pianist Marie-Élodie Fabre, who taught music. She started composing at the age of 11. Vieu studied composition with Jules Massenet, singing with Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, and counterpoint and fugue with André Gedalge. She gained recognition thanks to her operetta Madame Tallien (1902), and because of her fairy tale La belle au bois dormant (1902), the first performance of which took place at the Théâtre des Mathurins. Other successful titles of her hand are Au bal de Flore, Les Petites entravées (1911), and Aladin, ombres chinoises (1904). Vieu published about 100 works, some under her pseudonym Pierre Valette, including orchestral, chamber, piano, and operas. She operated a publishing company with her presumed husband They opened a publishing house in Paris called Maurice Vieu and Jane Vieu. She died in Paris in 1955. Works Selected works include: *Puisque c’est l’été (text: Robert de la Villehervé) *Madame Talli

Jane Vignery

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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 today for her Sonata for Horn and Piano, opus 7. Life and career Vignery was born in Ghent. Her father was an engineer. Her mother () and grandfather composed music and gave Vignery her first music lessons. Vignery went on to study at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, and with Nadia Boulanger, Jacques de la Presle, and Paul Dukas. Vignery was nominated for the Prix de Rome in 1941. In 1942, the Royal Belgian Academy awarded her the Prix Emile Mathieu for her Sonata for Horn and Piano. Her compositions included: Chamber *Sonata for Horn and Piano, opus 7 *Sonata for Violin, opus 8 Orchestra *La Fille de Jephte (solo voice and orchestra) *Vision de Guerre References

Jane Wang (composer and musician)

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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 project and is a member of CDZ. She was selected for the 60x60 project multiple times. Jane Wang composed and performed music for Hanne Tierney’s How Wang-Fo Was Saved and Ms. Tierney’s Man, the Flower of All Flesh The design team, including Jane Wang, were nominated for the 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award. Jane Wang composed and performed solo bass pieces for Hanne Tierney including in 2019, 18 Stanzas Sung to a Tatar Whistle at FiveMyles Performances have been presented at the Wanas Exhibition in Sweden, the International Festival of Puppet Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, the Sculpture Center and FiveMyles Gallery in New York City, the Beograd International Theatre Festival in Yugoslavia, and Ms. Tierney’s Obie-award-winning Salome (with Sabir Mateen) at five myles and the International Festival of Puppet Theatre. She composed the music for Danny Swain’s 3000 Miles to Blue and Renita Martin’s Five Bottles In A Six Pack at The Theater Offensive (Boston), Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC) and Jump-S

Janet Beat

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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 at the Birmingham Conservatoire (formerly the Birmingham School of Music) before reading music at Birmingham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1960. In 1968 she gained a Master of Arts from Birmingham University. After completing her studies, she took a position teaching music with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Her music has been performed internationally. She is one of the women pioneers in electronic music composition in Great Britain for her earliest musique concrete pieces belong to the late 1950s. Daphne Oram was helpful and encouraging here. The influences on her music are diverse and include non-European music as well as the sounds of nature and industry. The use of music technology allowed her to make sonic explorations and the use of microtonality. These influences also enriched her writing for acoustic instruments as in “Study of the Object no 3” (1970) for unaccompanied voices, a graphic score she calls sound sculpture, She is an Honora

Janet Graham

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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 Music from 1966 to 1970 with James Iliff. After her time at the Royal Academy of Music, she began teaching piano at the Mid Hertfordshire Music Centre while continuing to compose and study with Elisabeth Lutyens. In 1978,two of her pieces were selected for the BBC Young Composers’ Forum. Works Selected works include: * Pieces for organ: No.1, Prelude * Pieces for organ: No.2, Lament * Pieces for organ: No.3, Toccata * North East Hauntings. 1. Snow Sky * North East Hauntings. 2. Sea Mist * North East Hauntings. 3. Lullaby for Lost Skylines * North East Hauntings. 4. Red Dust * Quartet for flute, violin, viola and cello * Evening Flights * Soliloquium * This Great and Wide Sea * Persephone * Crux * Epitaphs * Diversitas * Atque in perpetuum * Cras amet * When I Was Young * The Light * Ca’ Hawkie through the water * Cradle Song * Eighty Notes for James * Quest * Earth Cry * Tractor and Plough * From Dusk to Dawn * Two Winter Songs * Two Christmas Motets * Until the Sunset Hour * Iris * Heca

Janet Maguire

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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 Turandot, in which she exclusively used the sketches Puccini left for it at his death. Maguire is also known for her dramatic contemporary opera in three acts, Hérésie, and has worked in a wide variety of musical expressions throughout some fifty orchestral, chamber, solo, vocal, choral and stage works. Born in Chicago and raised in New Rochelle, New York, Janet Maguire began musical studies at the age of six: on piano, French horn, and cornet. She completed a BA degree in Piano at Colorado College, then went to Paris to study composition with René Leibowitz for five years. They co-authored the book Thinking for Orchestra: Practical Exercises in Orchestration (published by G. Schirmer), and a book about the orchestration of some of Jacques Offenbach’s works, Nuits Parisiennes (RCA, Bote & Bock), as well as Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Die Drei Pintos. Several summers spent at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse influenced Maguire’s style, as did the music of György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, and Karlhe

Janet Owen Thomas

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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 on Merseyside to parents of Welsh and German heritage. and the composer Robert Saxton. She received a scholarship to travel to Hamburg, where she briefly studied with composer György Ligeti, whose organ music she later wrote an article about. The period in Hamburg led to Owen Thomas being commissioned by to write the solo organ piece Rosaces (1984), which was subsequently widely performed and published by Novello. It was during this time that she wrote a music theatre piece, The Condom Tester’s Lament, for speaker and electronics. She went on to take advanced composition studies with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1991, the BBC Proms presented the UK premiere of Rosaces. Owen Thomas was the youngest composer whose music was featured in that year’s festival, and the work went on to be played in over a dozen countries. Style In her obituary for Owen Thomas, fellow composer Nicola LeFanu described the former’s musical style as follows: The hallmark of her style i

Janez Matičič

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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 Ljubljana, and was the brother of writer Nada Matičič. He graduated in composition from the Ljubljana Academy of Music in 1950 and conducting in 1951. From 1959 to 1961 he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Then, from 1959 to 1975, he collaborated with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, who were experimenting with electroacoustic music under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. Among Matičič’s works are two concertos for piano and orchestra, a concerto for cello and orchestra, and a number of pieces created in a modernist and experimental mode. In 2007 he received the Prešeren Award for his lifetime achievement in music. He died on April 17, 2022, at the age of 95. Works (Selection) Choir and Orchestra *Vision for choir and orchestra, op. 19 (1950) *Artemis for choir and orchestra, op. 69 (2012) Orchestra *Symphony No. 1, op. 21 (1950–1953) *Suite for string orchestra, op. 24 (1951–1955) *Trans…, op. 56 (1997) *Symphony No. 2, op. 58 (1997) Solo Instrument and Orchestra *Piano Concerto No. 1,

Jani Christou

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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 authorities as 8 January; while others state 9 January. Most sources agree that he was born in Heliopolis, Egypt, though one states he was born in Alexandria, and it has recently been reported that a birth certificate has been found stating that the composer was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, though this certificate is suspected of being a forgery. His parents were Eleutherios Christou, a Greek industrialist and chocolate manufacturer, and Lilika Tavernari, of Cypriot origin. He was educated at the English School in Alexandria and he took his first piano lessons from various teachers and from the important Greek pianist Gina Bachauer. In 1948 he gained an MA in philosophy after having studied with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell in King’s College, Cambridge. During that time he also studied music with Hans Redlich (then living at Letchworth) and in 1949 travelled to Rome to study orchestration with Angelo Francesco Lavagnino. He briefly attended lectures by Carl Jung in Zurich. In 1951 he r

Jani Golob

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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, orchestral works, chamber and vocal music, and music for television and for advertising purposes. His most important works are probably three operas: Krpan’s mare (1992), Medeja (1999) and Love Capital (2010); and others as Four Slovene Folk Songs (1979 and 2005), Concerto for violin and orchestra (1998) and ballet The Baptism at the Savica (1989). He is most recognized by his contribution in Slovenian popular music. His internationally best-known piece of work is the unofficially named “Planica Slow Motion Theme” (1997), an instrumental piece of music played in slow motion replays annually on worldwide broadcasting of FIS Ski Jumping/Flying World Cup events from Planica, Slovenia. Especially because of this melody Golob became famous worldwide. Each year since 1997 this piece of music is played in Planica slow motion replays live to millions of people worldwide. Other hit songs are “Prisluhni školjki/A Song In a Seashell” (1985), “Moja dežela/My Country” (1986) and “Pustite nam ta svet/L

Janice Giteck

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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 College, completing her Master’s in 1969 and studying under Darius Milhaud. She later studied under Olivier Messiaen, and following this she studied Indonesian gamelan music with Daniel Schmidt and percussion with Obo Addy. Her works came into wide circulation in the 1970s and 1980s, with a style heavily influenced by world music and the music of American Indians. Awards for her music include the National Endowment for the Arts Composer’s award for Breathing Songs from a Turning Sky, and the Norman Fromm Composers Award for Thunder, Like a White Bear Dancing. Giteck returned to school and received a Master’s in psychology in 1986, and worked in the mental health field from 1986 to 1991. In a 1999 joint interview with composer Ann Sandifur, Giteck and Sandifur described themselves as “life-oriented, not career oriented,” noting that they sought to be “versatile rather than specialized.” Discography * New Performance Group in Music (Mode Records, 1988) * Home (Revisited) (New Albion, 1992) P

Janika Vandervelde

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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 orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles and the stage, she also teaches composition. Biography Janika Vandervelde was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, and grew up in nearby Green Lake, playing horn and piano starting at age five. She began composing in her teens. After undergraduate studies in music education at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Compositions Vandervelde is known especially for her choral music, which has been commissioned and performed by groups such as Chanticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, and the Oregon Repertory Singers, and by conductors including Sir David Willcocks. She has composed more than 100 works for orchestra, choir, chamber ensembles, and soloists, as well as two operas, Hildegard (1989) and Seven Sevens (1993), and has written extensively for young audiences. Among the fruits of her three-year tenure as composer-in-residence for the Minnesota Chorale and two other Twin Cities organizations was Adventures of the Black Dot, a “choral storybook” for children, with sto

Janina Skowronska

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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 works of Frederic Chopin. Skowronska was born to a Polish family in Germakowka (then in the USSR, now in Ukraine). She studied music at the State Music College in Wroclaw, Poland, and with Tadeusz Szeligowski. She received a diploma in 1961. Skowronska’s compositions included: Chamber *Theme and Variations (string quartet) *Drugi Brzeg (soprano, oboe, two clarinets and horn) *Moda Pani Czepca Nie Ma (mixed chorus) *Ziemio Moja (mixed chorus) References

Janine Charbonnier

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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 Paris Conservatoire and taught piano for several years. As an algorithmic composer, Charbonnier used mathematical principles and logic to organize the form and musical materials of her works. With Barbaud and Roger Blanchard, she co-founded the Groupe de Musique Algorithmique de Paris (GMAP). With the assistance of Bull Centre National Computing Electronics, they produced their first concert of algorithmic music, as part of an art festival at the Rodin Museum in Paris in June 1959. Works Selected works include: *La Varsovienne, electronic, 1965 (with Roger Blanchard) *Circus, a theatrical musical based on a novel by Maurice Roche, 1973 *Réseaux aériens, for actors, piano, and harpsichord, 1962 *Exercice Op. 3, for woodwind quartet *Prélude, Canon, Choral, for saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and tuba *01 Hommage à Leibniz, for chamber ensemble, 1966 *01 10 Hommage à Leibniz, for chamber ensemble, 1970 *Filtres, for chamber orchestra, 1972 *Générateur I et II (Hommage à Blaise Pascal), for

Jānis Cimze

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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 Latvian music. He is buried at the Lugaži Cemetery. Early life Cimze was born at the Rauna Manor Cimze dairy farm (hoflage) to the family of a manor’s dairy farm overseer, Andreas (Ansis) Cimze, and his wife, Anne, as the first of 8 children. His initial education came from Rauna Parish School, where he also learned to play the organ. From the age of sixteen, he worked as a private tutor; later, he taught at Valmiera Parish School and served as an organist. Education In 1836, Cimze went to Germany to study at Weissenfels Teachers’ Seminary, which he finished in 1838. This was where he learned to play the violin and piano and improved his skills as an organist. In 1838—39, he was an external student at Berlin University, where he attended lectures on mathematics, didactics, and the theory of music. His music professor was Ludwig Christian Erk, a collector, harmoniser, publisher, and researcher of German folk songs. Vidzeme Teachers’ Seminary Upon returning from Germany, Cimze headed the

Jānis Ivanovs

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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 conservatory’s faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist. His love of melody is evident in each of his compositions, and forms the essence of his works. He often drew inspiration from the native songs of the Latgale district in eastern Latvia. His grasp of orchestral color and musical texture were highly regarded by his colleagues. The Latvian composer and music critic Marģeris Zariņš described Ivanovs’ symphonies as “like ancient Greek tragedies, filled with ecstasy and purification.” He is mostly remembered for his twenty-one symphonies. Nevertheless, he composed in many other fields, including five symphonic poems, concertos for piano, violin and cello, three string quartets, and numerous vocal, piano and various chamber works. He became the People’s Artist of the USSR in 1965, was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1950 and Latvian SSR State Prize in 1959 and 1970. Compositions Symphonies * No. 1 in B-flat minor Poema Sinfonia

Jānis Kalniņš (composer)

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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 student first of Jāzeps Vītols at the Latvian Academy of Music, then with Erich Kleiber, Hermann Abendroth and Leo Blech. His two major operas were Hamlets (1936) and Ugunī (1937). He was chief conductor of the Latvian National Opera 1933–1944. Canada Kalniņš emigrated to Canada in 1948, taking a position as an organist in Fredericton, where he worked until retirement in 1991. He was awarded the Order of Vasa by the King of Sweden and the Order of the Three Stars by the State of Latvia, and received a New Brunswick Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1984, among others. Kalnins died in Fredericton in 2000. Works * Lolita’s Wonder Bird folktale opera (1935) * Hamlets (Hamlet) Opera (1936) * New Brunswick Rhapsody (1967) * New Brunswick Song Cycle (1984) * Requiem (1991) Selected recordings * New Brunswick Rhapsody Symphony Orchestra of the National Latvian Opera. Ave Sol BAF 9611, 1996. * “Potter’s Field” - choral symphony on Biblical texts in Latvian. Jānis Sproģis (Tenor) with the Latvian Na

Janis Mattox

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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 Paul, Minnesota. She performed a hymn on Naut Humon’s album Swarm of Doves, which Paul Verna of Billboard called one of the album’s highlights. In 2002, she created the hour-long electronic piece Solombra, inspired by poet Cecília Meireles. She is also a Silicon Valley Fellow. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner said that some of Mattox’s pieces “reflect her interest in combining live performers with computer-generated and processed sounds in an all-encompassing aural and visual experience”. She has also performed as a pianist, particularly for the Good Sound Band. She is based in Woodside, California. References

János Bródy

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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 his solo career, writing lyrics for singers like Zsuzsa Koncz or for rock operas like István, a király, he was a major figure of the Hungarian music scene in the 60s–90s. Early years János Bródy was born on 5 April 1946 in Budapest as the child of András Bródy, Széchenyi Award-winning economist, and Márta Vajna, a teacher. After his graduation from the Puskás Tivadar Telecommunication Technical School, in 1964 he joined the beat band Illés after a recommendation from Zsuzsa Koncz. The band, which previously gained its Budapest-wide fame from small club concerts playing Italian and English hits (like ones from The Hurricanes, The Shadows and The Beatles) recorded its first albums Long Tall Sally and Little Richard/Chapel. The band was more and more often accompanied by the young Levente Szörényi, with whom Bródy began their acclaimed musical partnership. After many of the members finished university, the band went through multiple changes, but was becoming more and more famous. In 1969 Bró

Janusz Frychel

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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 Olsena. Since 1988, he has been performing on major stages and festivals in Poland and abroad. Musical biography In 1986, he formed his first band, Lean Back, together with Ireneusz Kucharczyk, Zbigniew Szczerbiński, and Tomasz Kupka. The group performed, among others, at Spodek in Katowice as the winner of the Rawa Blues Festival eliminations and at the Silesian Jazz Festival. In 1988, Janusz Frychel co-founded the band Gang Olsena, He has performed at festivals such as National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, FAMA in Świnoujście, Rawa Blues at Spodek in Katowice, Country Picnic in Mrągowo, the Jarocin Festival, and the Woodstock Festival Poland organized by Jurek Owsiak. Janusz Frychel has recorded six albums with Gang Olsena. The song Białe Myszy, Dzikie Koty from the album GO! was featured in the Anthology of Polish Blues released in 2008 under the patronage of Polish Radio Three and in the second edition of the Polish Top All-Time Hits Anthology published by Polish Radio in 2011.

Janusz Muniak

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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 tended towards the mainstream style. He debuted in Lublin in 1960. From the 60s to the 90s, he worked with, among others, Ronnie Burrage, George Cables, James Cammack, Don Cherry, Ted Curson, Art Farmer, Eddie Gladden, Dexter Gordon, Eddie Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Jones, Rusty Jones, Nigel Kennedy, Branislav Lala Kovačev, Joe Lovano, Wynton Marsalis, Lyle Mays, Pat Metheny, Hank Mobley, Takeo Moriyama, Joe Newman, Sal Nistico, Jasper van ’t Hof, Aladár Pege, Rufus Reid, Akira Sakata, Archie Shepp, Charlie Ventura, Yōsuke Yamashita and Polish musicians such as Vladyslav Sendecki, Tomasz Stańko, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Zbigniew Seifert, Adam Makowicz, Wojciech Karolak, Krzysztof Komeda, Andrzej Kurylewicz, Andrzej Trzaskowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Jarek Śmietana, Jan Jarczyk, Włodek Pawlik, Leszek Możdżer and Michał Urbaniak. He was one of the first jazz musiciansd who performed who cooperated with rock musicians like Dżamble and Czesław Niemen. After 1976, he was the leader of

Jaques Morelenbaum

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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 Morelenbaum and piano teacher Sarah Morelenbaum. His siblings are Lucia Morelenbaum, clarinetist in the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, and Eduardo Morelenbaum, conductor, arranger and instrumentalist. He is married to singer Paula Morelenbaum. He started his musical career as part of the group A Barca do Sol, and participated in the Nova Banda that performed live with Antonio Carlos Jobim and in recordings that led to a Grammy win for the CD Antonio Brasileiro. As a cellist, he studied music in Brazil and later attended the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1995, with Paula Morelenbaum, Paulo Jobim and Daniel Jobim he created the Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum. The group has toured Europe several times, including an appearance at the Expo'98 held in Lisbon. They have also toured the United States and Brazil, and have recorded a CD (Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum). Nordeste Já (Northeast Now) Morelenbaum sang in the choir of the Brazilian equivalent of We Are the World, the hit American song that r

Jards Macalé

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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 1960s. Life and career Macalé was born in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Tijuca, near Morro da Formiga, surrounded by music: on the hills, the drums; in the neighborhood, Vicente Celestino and Gilda de Abreu. At home, foxes, waltzes and folk songs played on the piano by his mother, Dona Ligia (who also sang), and the accordion by his father. The family choir had his younger brother, Roberto, and Jards. On the radio, Orlando Silva, , Emilinha Borba. In 1969, Macalé participated in the 4th International Song Festival presenting the song “Gotham City”. Macalé participated as an actor and composer of the soundtrack of the films The Amulet of Ogum and Tent of Miracles, by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. In 1976, Macalé became partner of Moreira da Silva on some sambas. In 2013 he participated in Exile Songs event, which claimed to be an anarchist, and Tenda dos Milagres. In 2019, his album Besta Fera was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best MPB Album and considered one of the 25 best

Jared Emerson-Johnson

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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 composer at Bay Area Sound, an audio production company specializing in sound design, music and voiceover for video games. His work has been predominantly featured in games developed by Telltale. Career Jared began his career as an assistant to composer Clint Bajakian on the score for LucasArts’ Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb. Emerson-Johnson has also worked as a sound designer for projects, including James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Psychonauts, and Firewatch. Emerson-Johnson is perhaps best known as the composer behind multiple video games produced by Telltale Games, such as Bone, Sam & Max, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Poker Night at the Inventory, Back to the Future: The Game, Jurassic Park: The Game, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Batman: The Telltale Series, and Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series. In all three seasons of Sam & Max, he voices

Jared Miller (composer)

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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 many of the major orchestras in Canada and the United States, and has garnered him a Juno-nomination. Biography Jared Miller was born in Los Angeles, California, but soon moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he displayed an early interest in piano and composition. He attended the University of British Columbia (BM) and the Juilliard School (MM; DMA), studying composition with John Corigliano, Samuel Adler, Stephen Chatman, and Dorothy Chang, and piano with Sara Davis Buechner and Corey Hamm. Other mentors have included Aaron Jay Kernis and Steven Mackey. Miller was commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony to write 2010 Traffic Jam for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, subsequently becoming composer-in-residence with the Victoria Symphony at the age of 25. At this time, he was commuting between the United States and Canada while teaching at Dalhousie University, the Special Music School, Kaufman Music Center, and the Juilliard School’s prep division. Miller made his Carnegie Hall debut

Jaromír Vejvoda

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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 1936 to 1960, he lived in Vrané nad Vltavou, after he married the local native Božena Zamrazilová. He learned to play the fiddle and flugelhorn in a band led by his father. Later he played these instruments in a military band. He started to compose in the 1920s while he worked as a bartender in a pub owned by his father-in-law. In 1929 he wrote the Modřanská polka named after Modřany, a suburb of Prague where it was played the first time. This catchy tune became a hit and allowed Vejvoda to pursue music as a full-time professional. It was published in 1934 with lyrics Škoda lásky, kterou jsem tobě dala… Publishing house Shapiro Bernstein acquired the rights shortly before World War II and the polka, now the “Beer Barrel Polka” with the English lyrics “Roll out the barrel…”, became the most popular song of the Allies in the West, although the original Czech lyrics have a very different meaning and do not speak about beer. After the war this polka became popular around the world, in Ger

Jaromír Weinberger

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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, Austria-Hungary, into a family of Jewish origin. He heard Czech folksongs from time spent at his grandparents’ farm as a youth. He started playing the piano aged 5, and composing and conducting aged 10. He began musical studies with Jaroslav Křička, and later teachers included Václav Talich and Rudolf Karel. Between 1922 and 1926 he was professor of composition at the Ithaca Conservatory (now the music school of Ithaca College), New York. When he returned to Czechoslovakia he was appointed director of the National Theater in Bratislava, and later received appointments in Eger, Hungary, and Prague. In 1926 Weinberger completed Schwanda the Bagpiper (Švanda Dudák), which became highly successful, with thousands of performances in hundreds of theatres including the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In later life, he developed cancer of the brain. This, together with money worries and the neglect of his music, prompted him to take a lethal sedative overdose in August 1967. His wife, Jane

Jaroslav Ježek (composer)

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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 of Žižkov to the family of a tailor. He was almost blind from a young age. He studied composition at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Karel Boleslav Jirák (1924–1927), at the master school of composition with Josef Suk (1927–1930), and shortly also with Alois Hába (1927–1928). Ježek met the playwrights/comedians Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec, leaders of the Osvobozené divadlo (Prague Liberated Theatre) in Prague, and took up the post of main composer and conductor for the theatre. During the next decade (from 1928 to 1939), he composed incidental music, songs, dances, and ballets for the comic and satirical plays of Voskovec and Werich. In 1934 he became a member of Czech Group of Surrealists. Forced to leave Czechoslovakia following the Nazi occupation, Ježek, Voskovec and Werich went into exile in New York City. He worked as a piano teacher and choirmaster there, and continued to work with Voskovec and Werich. In 1942, the long-ill Ježek died of chronic kidney disease in New York.

Jaroslav Kocian

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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 school”. He was celebrated as an interpreter of violin compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach. As a composer he is especially noted for his compositions for the violin, which have been recorded most often by his student Josef Suk. Life Kocian was born in Ústí nad Orlicí on 22 February 1883. His father, Julius Kocian, was a violinist, teacher and a former classmate of famous virtuoso Otakar Ševčík. Kocian’s three sisters were also gifted, but he surpassed them with his exceptional talent. He received his first violin at the age of four. He made his first public appearance in 1887 at the annual music festival in Ústí nad Orlicí. His first teacher after his father was Josef Zábrodský, who also prepared him for the conservatory exams. In 1893 Kocian went to Prague to take the exams for the Prague Conservatory, which he passed, but was not accepted to study due to his poor health and small stature. Only in 1897 he was accepted into Otakar Ševčík’s class. He also studied piano and composition w

Jaroslav Krček

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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, today a part of České Budějovice in South Bohemian Region. He studied at the B. Jeremiáš School of Music in České Budějovice before studying composition with Miloslav Kabeláč and conducting with Bohumír Liška, both at Prague Conservatory. Krček was the musical director for Plzeň Radio and the music editor for the recording company Supraphon. He is the artistic leader and performer in the folklore group Chorea Bohemica (founded 1967), for which he has composed and adapted a number of songs and dances. a chamber ensemble specialising in Czech (Bohemian) Christmas songs, was created in 1975 by Krček as an offspring of Chorea Bohemica. Some of Krček’s music is inspired by early Czech music, medieval and Renaissance songs, 16th century hymn books and baroque music. Also interested in folk music of the 18th and 19th centuries, Krček has arranged several hundred folksongs and folk dances. Raab: an electronic opera Raab (aka Raab The Harlot) or Nevěstka Raab (The Prostitute Raab) is one of Krček

Jaroslav Křička

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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, Austria-Hungary. He was born into the family of the Kelč village cantor and headmaster František Křička (1848–1891) as the oldest of three siblings. His mother was Františka Křičková (1861-1936). His brother Petr Křička (1884–1949) later became a well-known poet, and his sister Pavla Křičková (1886–1972) became a writer. Their father enthusiastically supported the musical education of his children; Jaroslav received violin, piano, and voice lessons as a child. He attended high school in Havlíčkův Brod and graduated in 1900. As a high school student, he founded his own vocal quartet, string quartet, and student orchestra and began to compose. After graduating from high school, he moved to Prague and studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1902 to 1905. Under the tutelage of Josef Klička, he studied organ, orchestration, and harmony. He studied conducting with and composition with Karel Stecker cs . His musical role models were the famous Czech composers Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, a

Jaroslav Kvapil (composer)

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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 Olomouc from 1902 to 1906. He then studied at the Brno School of Organists under Leoš Janáček, earning a diploma in 1909. He studied with Max Reger at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1911 through 1913. Kvapil was an excellent accompanist, noted for his skill in sight reading. As the choirmaster and conductor of the Brno Beseda (1919–47) he gave the world première of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, and the Czech premières of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion (1923), Arthur Honegger’s Judith (1933) and Karol Szymanowski’s Stabat mater (1937). He received the Award of Merit in 1955. He taught at the School of Organists and at the Brno Conservatory, and he was appointed professor of composition at the academy in 1947. His students included Hana Janků, Miloslav Ištvan, Ctirad Kohoutek, Čestmír Gregor and Jiří Matys. Death He died in Brno at the age of 65. Selected works ;Orchestra * Dnes a zítra (Today and Tomorrow), Symphonic Overture * Notturno (1911) * Symphony No.2 * Symphony No.4 * Svít

Jaroslav Řídký

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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 Prague Conservatory with Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Karel Boleslav Jirák, and Jaroslav Křička. Besides teaching at the Conservatory from 1924 to 1949, he also played the harp for the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra between 1924 and 1938, and conducted the Philharmonic choir from 1925 to 1930. In 1928 Řídký attended as a conductor the premiere of Leoš Janáček´s chamber composition Capriccio. He died at Poděbrady. Style He composed seven symphonies and one sinfonietta, one string serenade, concertos for violin (1), piano (1), and cello (2), chamber music, pieces for piano, cantatas, and also prepared his own arrangements of folk songs. His work is composed rather in traditional style, first compositions are influenced by romanticism, later he composed in traditional, neo-classical style. His oeuvre contains 47 numbered opuses, both in chamber and orchestral instrumentation. Řídký composed also violin, piano and two violoncello concertos. In 1954 he was awarded National Prize for his Piano Concerto

Jarosław Kukulski

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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 born on May 25, 1944, in Września to Maria and Kazimierz Kukulski. In 1967, Kukulski graduated from Poznań Secondary Music School and the Instrumental Department of the State Higher School of Music in Poznań, where he learned to play the oboe. At the same time he completed an internship in Poznań Opera and the philharmonic in Zielona Góra. He collaborated with a cabaret ”Nurt” in Poznań. Career For a time, he played jazz in dixieland bands. In 1968, at the II Military Song Festival in Kołobrzeg, he received an award from the Ministry of National Defense for the song Zaślubinowy pierścień (‘The Wedding Ring’). In 1968, he started a big-beat band named Waganci. In 1969, his future wife Anna Jantar joined the band as a soloist. As a result of frequent personnel changes, Kukulski disbanded the group in 1972 in order to focus on his wife’s solo career. In the 1970s, he was responsible for most of Anna Jantar’s greatest successes and wrote for her notable hits such as, Najtrudniejszy pierwszy

Jasdeep Singh Degun

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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 2022, he became artist-in-residence at Opera North, and in 2024, was made the first Innovate Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music. Degun is the first sitar player to be awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Best Instrumentalist Award. Early life Jasdeep Singh Degun was introduced to Indian classical music at primary school and began training in vocal music with Shrimati Gunwant Kaur. He was in the school choir and learnt piano. At 15, Degun started learning to play the sitar under Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE, a pupil of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Growing up, Degun was a member of Tarang and the South Asian Music Youth Orchestra, established by Dharambir Singh, which brought together classical musical traditions from across India. In 2011, Degun featured in the three-part BBC Two series Goldie’s Band: By Royal Appointment which culminated in a performance in Buckingham Palace before Prince Harry. As a participant of the programme, Degun was supported by mentors Guy Chambers, Soweto Kinch, Ms

Jasna Veličković

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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 Faculty of Music in Belgrade under Srdjan Hofman. She has been living and working as a composer in the Netherlands since 2001 where she completed a Masters in music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk and Clarence Barlow with distinction. Velickovic has written and been performed by various ensembles including Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Dutch Radio Kamerorkest conducted by Péter Eötvös, Robot orchestra by Godfried Willem Raes, David Kweksilber’s Big Band, Maarten Altena Ensemble, LOOS, ‘de Ereprijs’, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble Aleph, Piano Possibile, pianoduo Post & Mulder, Claron McFadden, Nada Kolundzija, Stephanie Pan, Gośka Isphording, Debora Richards as well by ensembles with specific instrumentation formed for the particular piece. Her works have been performed at festivals such as Holland Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Music Biennale Zagreb, Archipel Festival (Swiss), Time of Music (

Jason Brandt

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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, Harvey Guillén). Brandt won Best Original Score at the Burbank International Film Festival for his work on F.R.E.D.I. Other films include the Lifetime thrillers Mommy Be Mine and The Other Mother (Annie Wersching), A Christmas Reunion (Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon), Night of the Living Dead 3D (Sid Haig) and the documentary That Guy Dick Miller premiered at SXSW 2014. Jason also co-executive produced and wrote music for Max Winslow and the House of Secrets, (starring Chad Michael Murray and Tanner Buchanan) which won Best Feature Film at the Burbank International Film Festival and Crystal Palace International Film Festival. Jason also creates original music for a wide range of national television programming, including Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go!, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Extra and TMZ. Other TV shows including American Idol, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and many more. List of movies and series * The Passing (2005) * Inside (2006) * Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006) * TMZ (TV Show

Jason Eckardt

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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 discovering the music of Anton Webern. Compositions Atonal and microtonal harmony, intricate rhythms, highly polyphonic textures and large-scale transformational processes are prevalent in Eckardt’s compositions. Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote that Eckardt’s music “celebrates harmonic prickliness, rhythmic complexity and a density of ideas”. Though Eckardt has been associated with the New Complexity movement, he is also influenced by American composers Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter. Major works include Passage (2018) for string quartet, After Serra (2000) for chamber ensemble, Tongues (2001) for soprano and chamber ensemble, Reul na Coille (2002) for percussion and orchestra, Trespass (2005) for piano and chamber orchestra and the Undersong cycle (2002–2008), a series of four chamber works (A way tracing , 16, Aperture, The Distance (This)) that, when played together without pause, form a concert-length supercomposition. Some of Eckardt’s compositions are inspired by extramusical

Jason Evigan

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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 disbanding in 2012. His songwriting or production credits include the singles “Girls Like You” and “What Lovers Do” by Maroon 5, “Physical” by Dua Lipa, “Ghosttown” by Madonna, “Heart Attack” by Demi Lovato, “Talk Dirty” by Jason Derulo, “Lovers on the Sun” by David Guetta, and “Shed a Light” by Robin Schulz. Early and personal life Evigan was born in Los Angeles, California, the only son of Pamela C. Serpe, a dancer, model, and actress, and actor Greg Evigan. He has Polish and Italian heritage. He is the middle of three siblings, with elder sister Vanessa and younger sister Briana, both of whom are actresses. In August 2011, he married Victoria Janzen, with whom he has two children. The couple began a music project called Elephant Heart, and released singles such as “Hiya” and “Warfare” in 2018. Career He has worked with numerous recording artists including Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Avicii, Madonna, Nick Jonas, Kiiara, Zedd, Rufus Du Sol, Bebe Rexha, Skylar Grey, Jon Bellio

Jason Frederick

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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 Sudbury, Ontario. He was educated in Canada and the United States. He studied under composers Christopher Young, David Raksin, and Elmer Bernstein at the USC Thornton School of Music, as well as receiving private study with Leonard Rosenman and Joe Harnell. Career Frederick performed with the alternative rock band The Walk from 1987 to 1996, and continues to record under the name Lomax!. His film work includes Dawg, starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley, and 2BPerfectlyHonest, starring John Turturro and Robert Vaughn, as well as contributions to Richard Gibbs’ scores for the films Big Momma’s House, 28 Days, and Like Mike. He composed the music for the television show Darcy’s Wild Life, starring Sara Paxton. Other television credits include Disney’s The Replacements, and the ABC Family network’s Slacker Cats. Frederick also provided additional score for Disney’s 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure, which won the 2003 DVDX award for best musical score. He provided music for the

Jason Gleed

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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 attend York Mills Collegiate Institute before later enrolling at the University of Toronto’s science program where he was accepted into Trinity College. He left the program in 1999 to work at the newly formed Grayson Matthews Audio. He has written music and performed vocals for national ad campaigns for Alltel, McDonald’s, Coke, Pepsi, ATT, Allel, KFC, Lexus, Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Sears, Daisy Sour Cream, and Hellmann’s. He has songs featured in many major motion pictures such as Jumper, Speed Racer, American Pie Beta House, What Happens in Vegas, Hotel For Dogs, Hamlet 2, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Hannah Montana, Sex Drive, Spring Breakdown, Cats and Dogs 2, Star Struck, Big Mommas House 3, Hop, Footloose, The Muppets, and The Adjustment Bureau. Gleed spent several years touring with multi-Juno award-winning Canadian House DJ/producer Hatiras as vocalist/performer, Jaxon. Together Hatiras and Jaxon were known as the Electro House duo, Hatjak. They released one full-length album. Gleed is

Jason Nett

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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 arrangement of composer Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite “Pictures at an Exhibition” created for VISO’s “The Pictures Project”, premiered at The Port Theatre in Nanaimo BC. He also works as a music producer and performs internationally. Jason Nett’s commissioned works are frequently performed in Vancouver’s “classical” community by orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs etc.(listed below). Nett fuses the classical styles of composers like Bach and Beethoven with influences from Rock and Jazz. Nett’s music integrates an emphasis on vibrant rhythm in many of his works. About his Vancouver Island commissioned work, Sonic Blue, Jason Nett says, “The piece is very up-tempo, very rhythmic, something you would find in blues-rock guitar today…” One of his largest works is the opera “Legends,” which was written for the Vancouver Island Symphony’s Youth and Education concert series. The show “tell s the story of the last 150 years on central Vancouver Island, including the contributions of First

Jason Staczek

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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 at the University of Michigan. He played the Hammond organ in Seattle bands and sessions beginning in the 1990s. From 2002 to 2008 Staczek co-owned Chroma Sound, a music and film post-production studio and record label in Seattle. Clients of Chroma Sound included Presidents of the United States of America and Robyn Hitchcock. In 2003 Staczek was hired as staff composer for The Film Company, a Seattle film production studio, through which he met and developed a working relationship with Canadian director Guy Maddin. Staczek has composed music for the soundtracks to the films Brand Upon the Brain! (2006), My Winnipeg (2008), Keyhole (2011), Jobriath A.D. (2012), The Roper (2013) and Song of the New Earth (2014). Brand Upon the Brain! premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, where the silent film was accompanied by a live orchestra conducted by Staczek, narrated by Louis Negin, with sound provided by three live Foley artists and a castrato-style singer. Staczek went on t

Jaufre Rudel

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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. He is noted for developing the theme of “love from afar” (amor de lonh or amour de loin) in his songs. Very little is known about his life, but a reference to him in a contemporary song by Marcabru describes him as being oltra mar—across the sea, probably on the Second Crusade in 1147. Probably he was the son of Girard, also castellan of Blaye, and who was titled “prince” in an 1106 charter. Girard’s father was the first to carry the title, being called princeps Blaviensis as early as 1090. During his father’s lifetime the suzerainty of Blaye was disputed between the counts of Poitou and the counts of Angoulême. Shortly after the succession of William VIII of Poitou, who had inherited it from his father, Blaye was taken by Wulgrin II of Angoulême, who probably vested Jaufre with it. According to one hypothesis, based on flimsy evidence, Wulgrin was Jaufre’s father. According to his legendary vida, or fictionalised biography, he was inspired to go on crusade upon hearing from returning pi

Javier Álvarez (composer)

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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 instruments and new music technologies. Many of his works combine music technology with diverse instruments and influences from around the world. He moved to the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where he achieved a master’s degree in music theory and composition in 1981. He composed the music for Guillermo del Toro’s 1993 horror film Cronos. Compositions The first electroacoustic music by Álvarez dates from his time as a student in London, such as Temazcal (1984). In this contemporary classic, Álvarez unexpectedly pitted a pair of maracas against a complex electroacoustic backdrop. Mannam (1992) takes its inspiration from an ancient Korean zither called a kayagum. Winner of a Prix Ars Electronica distinction, the piece blends and juxtaposes elements of Korean music with materials and performance techniques drawn from the Mexican folk harp. The work Offrande (2001) offers a mix of Caribbean steel pans and electronically processed rhythmic patterns. Alejandra Frausto, the federal Sec

Javier Navarrete

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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 Guillermo del Toro, the first being The Devil’s Backbone). He also produced in 2015 the soundtrack for the Hong Kong–based film Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal. Works 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Awards and nominations Won *Emmy Award 2012 Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Original Dramatic Score) – Hemingway & Gellhorn *BMI Film & TV Awards 2012 Film Music – Wrath of the Titans *Ariel Award 2007 Best Film Music – Pan’s Labyrinth Nominations *Academy Award 2007 Best Original Score – Pan’s Labyrinth *Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2014 Best Score – Byzantium *Grammy Award 2008 Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Pan’s Labyrinth *Goya Award 2007 Best Original Score – Pan’s Labyrinth *Online Film Critics Society Awards 2007 Best Original Score – Pan’s Labyrinth References External links *

Javier Ruiz Rueda

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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 Lara. His major musical works include Cosas del Amor and Dulce Aventura, for which he composed the music and José Antonio Zorrilla wrote the lyrics. Javier Ruiz Rueda also wrote jingles for radio; probably the most popular jingle is “Estaban los tomatitos …” for which he composed the music and Ramiro Gamboa wrote the lyrics. In the 1940s Soledad Orozco, wife of President Manuel Ávila Camacho, became active in the “League of Decency” (), a censorious conservative group that campaigned against indecency. The popular bolero was one of its targets, because of lyrics the League considered scandalous. Javier Ruiz Rueda was one of their targets and they succeeded in having one of his songs banned. He co-wrote, with José Antonio Zorrilla, the song “¿Qué pasa mi cuate?” recorded by Pedro Infante in 1946. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1950 film El amor no es negocio. Literary achievements Javier Ruiz Rueda worked with many composers and was friend to many of them. His passion for hist

Javier Torres Maldonado

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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 Javier Torres Maldonado studied violin and composition at the Mexico City Conservatory and later, invited by Franco Donatoni, composition at the “G. Verdi” Milan Conservatory, under the supervision of Sandro Gorli and Alessandro Solbiati; he completed his postgraduate studies under Franco Donatoni, Azio Corghi (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Accademia Musicale Chigiana) and Ivan Fedele (Conservatoire de Strasbourg). In 2003, he earned a diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory for his work in electronic music, and in 2004 he was one of ten composers asked to participate in the Stage de Composition et Informatique Musicale at the Parisian center IRCAM. In most of his works, Torres Maldonado explores innovative ways of organizing time, timbre and space. For example, in his piece for ensemble and electro-acoustic support, De Ignoto Cantu (2004), the composer presents several melody lines which, despite their complexity, actually derive from a single simple source consisting in a few n

Jay Alan Yim

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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, Missouri on April 24, 1958. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies and graduated with a B.A. in 1980. He also received a M.Mus. in 1981 from the University of London and the Royal College of Music, with a Ph.D. from Harvard University earned in 1989. He currently serves as a professor of music at Northwestern University. Former students include composers Marcos Balter, Kirsten Broberg, Rodrigo Cadiz, Aaron Cassidy, and Mark Engebretson. Awards and honors Yim is a 1994 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition in the creative arts category. He also placed third for the 1994 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, tied with John Anthony Lennon. Personal life Yim is married to artist Marlena Novak. References External links * * Northwestern University biography

Jay Blackton

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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 was also nominated for Guys and Dolls. He was the music director, orchestrator or arranger for more than 25 Broadway productions and national tours. Born Jay Schwartzdorf in New York City, he studied piano and conducting at the Juilliard School. He began his career in opera, as an assistant conductor at New York Opera Comique and then as the conductor at St. Louis Municipal Opera from 1937 to 1942. In 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein hired him to orchestrate and conduct Oklahoma! on Broadway, and he followed this engagement as music director and often orchestrator or arranger of such musicals as Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, Guys and Dolls, Hello, Dolly! and George M!. In addition, he toured with Bob Hope and others. Blackton died in January 1994 of heart failure at the Granada Hills Community Hospital in Granada Hills, California, at the age of 84. Selected filmography * The Merry Widow (1952) * Oklahoma! (1955; co-won with Robert Russell Bennett and Adolph Deutsch) * Guys and Dolls (19

Jay Chattaway

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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 Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. In 2001, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Music for a Series for the final episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Early life Chattaway was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania and studied music at West Virginia University (WVU). College career At WVU, Chattaway was also a member of many student organizations, including the Mountaineer Marching Band, Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band service fraternity, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia men’s music social fraternity. He was initiated into the Omicron chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at WVU on December 6, 1965, and is currently an alumni brother of the fraternity. His initiation into the Epsilon Sigma chapter of Phi Mu Alpha took place on March 1, 1965. He became a regular member of a rhythm and blues band called the “Abductors” in which he played trumpet, wrote the musical scores, and was musical director. Music career Chattaway was drafted into the mi

Jay Cloidt

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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 and his MFA in Electronic Music and the Recording Media from Mills College Center for Contemporary Music in 1981, studying with Robert Ashley and David Behrman. As a sound designer, he has worked with many groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Kronos Quartet and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Cloidt’s work on the Paul Dresher Ensemble’s production of Slow Fire won a Bay Area Critics Circle Award, and he received an Isadora Duncan Award in 1989 with Rinde Eckert for the sound design of Eckert’s Dry Land Divine. As a composer, Cloidt has been commissioned by such organizations as the Gary Palmer Dance Company, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, and the Kronos Quartet, for whom he has written three pieces. His music typically uses electronics, is technically sophisticated, and often contains humor. The San Francisco Chronicle has called Cloidt “The Spike Jones of the Bay Area new music scene.” His music has been performed at the Venice Biennale

Jay Graydon

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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 winner of two Grammy Awards (in the R&B category) with twelve Grammy nominations, among them the title “Producer of the Year” and “Best Engineered Recording”. He has mastered many different music styles and genres, and his recordings have been featured on record, film, television and the stage. History Graydon made his singing debut on his second birthday on the “Joe Graydon Show,” the first music/talk television show in Los Angeles, hosted by his father, Joe Graydon. During and for a brief time after his college days, Graydon played in the Don Ellis Band, whose style can be described as experimental post-bop jazz. He can be heard on the live double album Don Ellis at Fillmore and the studio albums The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground, Connection and Soaring. L. A. session musician From the late 1960s to late 1970s Graydon was a session musician in Los Angeles, working with such artists as Gino Vannelli, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, The Jackson Five, Alice Cooper, Cheap Tri

Jay Greenberg (composer)

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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 in New Haven, Connecticut. He caught the attention of the American media through the sponsorship of Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman during a CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast on November 28, 2004, when Greenberg was 12, and again in November 2006. Zyman told 60 Minutes, “We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition. I am talking about the likes of Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns.” Greenberg’s primary composition instructor was Samuel Adler. He composes primarily on his computer using a music notation program. He is mostly known for his work Overture to 9-11 about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which was featured on PRI’s From the Top. On 9/11, he was living in Republic of Macedonia but has since returned to the United States. Neither his father, Robert Greenberg, a professor of Slavic languages at Yale University, nor his Israeli-born mother have musical backgrounds, but Greenberg found himself attracted

Jay Gruska

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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 scores for dozens of TV dramas, with over 500 hours of shows played internationally. Gruska has received three Emmy Award nominations, one Genie Award nomination, and eleven ASCAP awards. Some of his best-known scores are for the TV shows Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Charmed, and Supernatural. Career Gruska started his career as a singer/songwriter. He was briefly a member of Three Dog Night in 1976, replacing Danny Hutton, until the group disbanded. He had recording contracts with ABC Records for his first solo album, and Warner Bros. Records with the band Maxus, for which he was the lead singer and songwriter. Warner Bros. Records later released his second solo album Which One of Us Is Me, which Gruska also produced. Gruska is also known for co-writing the hit duet “Tell Me I’m Not Dreamin’ (Too Good to Be True)”, for Jermaine and Michael Jackson, which was #1 on the Billboard dance charts; the Gloria Loring/Carl Anderson duet “Friends and Lovers”, which was #2 on the

Jay Livingston

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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 composing film scores and original soundtrack songs. Livingston composed the music while Evans wrote the lyrics. Biography Early life and family Jay Livingston was born Jacob Harold Levison in McDonald, Pennsylvania, United States, to Jewish parents. He had an older sister, Vera, and a younger brother, Alan W. Livingston, who became an executive with Capitol Records and later with NBC television. Career Livingston studied piano with Harry Archer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he organized a dance band and met Evans, a fellow student in the band. Though they began writing together in 1937, Livingston and Evans did not hit the top until 1946, when they set the music publishing business on fire with “To Each His Own,” which reached number one on the Billboard charts for three different artists, and occupied the top five positions on the “Most Played On the Air” chart for four different weeks (August 24, 1946, and again on September 7, September

Jay Q

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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. He is the founder and current CEO of Q-Lex Entertainment and Jay-Qlex Recording Studio. He has produced albums for and overseen the careers of many musicians, including Buk Bak, VIP, Castro, Mzbel, Obrafour, Daddy Lumba, Nana Acheampong, Ofori Amponsah, Akosua Agyapong, Obuoba J. A. Adofo, Wulomei, and others. As a producer, Jay Q is credited as a key figure in the popularization of Hiplife, Highlife and Gospel. He introduced Jama (kpanlogo) into Hiplife, which became laudable and was accepted in Ghana, Africa and the rest of the world. In 2003, Jay Q won an award for Best Sound Engineer in Ghana. Early life Jay Q was born and raised in Accra, Ghana, by Jeff Tennyson Quaye (snr) and Miss Comfort Adjin-Tettey. His church, Emmanuel Assemblies Of God, sponsored his keyboard studies at the Oriental School Of Music (Adabraka, Accra). He later joined Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries and met Fred Kyei Mensah (Fredyma Studio), who taught him music programming and introduced him to

Jay Reise

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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 Paris. He is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Biography Reise spent his childhood surrounded by classical music and jazz, but began his composition studies with Jimmy Giuffre and Hugh Hartwell in 1970. After graduating at Hamilton College in 1972, he pursued composition study at McGill University (with Bengt Hambraeus and Bruce Mather), the University of Pennsylvania (AM, 1975; George Crumb and Richard Wernick), Tanglewood, and Carnatic rhythm with Adrian L’Armand. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Reise is married to visual artist Cecilia Paredes Works written before the adoption of the rhythmic method include Symphony of Voices (1978) which was premiered at the Monadnock Festival with soprano Neva Pilgrim, and his Second Symphony (1980) premiered by the Syracuse Symphony, conducted by Christopher Keene, and performed subsequently by the Philadelphia Orchestra. His Third Symphony was premiered by Keene and the Lo

Jay Schwartz

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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 swimming pool maintenance, while his mother was a kindergarten teacher. Schwartz began playing the piano at a young age and was largely self-taught in composition. He studied music at Arizona State University, graduating in 1989 followed by graduate studies in musicology in Tübingen, Germany. Awards In 2000, Schwartz received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize for composition in Cologne, Germany. He is also a three-time recipient of the Strobel Fellowship for electronic music from the Südwestrundfunk. In 2014, Schwartz was awarded a residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and he also received the Rome Prize for a residency at the Villa Massimo in Rome in both 2017 and 2018. In 2019, he was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. In 2020 he was awarded wit the Mario Merz Prize. Music Jay Schwartz’s compositional approach is grounded in the physical properties of sound, incorporating elements such as the overtone series, microtonality, and glissandi. He explores t

Jay Semko

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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 Canadian television series Due South. Semko has been nominated for a Juno Award eight times as a member of the Northern Pikes, and also been nominated twice for a Gemini Award, and once for a Canadian Screen Award, and received two awards from the Canadian Music Publishers Association for his songwriting. His hometown is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Discography Albums Singles References External links *Jay Semko – Official Website *Innerviews interview with Jay Semko *Busted Flat Records – Record Label

Jay Sydeman

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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 Music, having studied with Felix Salzer, Roy Travis, and Roger Sessions. He received his master’s in music from the Hartt School in 1958, studying under Arnold Franchetti and Goffredo Petrassi. In 1951 he married Hope Millholland, a pianist and fellow student at Mannes. Winning early acclaim for his avant-garde music (principally published by C. F. Peters), he felt trapped by the prevailing orthodoxies and moved to California in 1970, beginning a period of wandering during which he also studied Buddhism and Anthroposophy. He joined ASCAP in 1975. From 1980 to 1982 he taught at Rudolph Steiner College in Fair Oaks. In 1981 he settled in Sacramento and resumed composition at his former prolific rate, having newly embraced a neotonal musical language. He later moved to Mendocino. In 1966, his catalog (nearly 75 works by this date) was edited by Nancy B. Reich and published as an early exercise in machine-readable catalogs. A 2nd edition, published by NYU Department of Music Education, was

Jay Wadley

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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 Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was nominated twice at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards under the best original score category in 2020 and 2021. Early life and education Wadley was born and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma. During his senior year at Edmond Memorial High School, he composed his first choir piece for 60 classmates to perform at a school talent show. After graduating in 2001, he studied music composition at Oklahoma City University under composer Edward Knight. After completing his undergraduate degree, Wadley pursued a Master’s degree in Music Composition at the Yale School of Music studying under Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick and Ezra Laderman. During his time at Yale, he also worked as an assistant manager at the Yale Center for Studies in Music Technology, taught undergraduate composition and contributed to various projects, including orchestral works with the Yale Philharmonia. Career Film and television Wadley is best known for composing the sco

Jayme Amatnecks

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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 Council of Culture. Amatnecks studied under Gabriel de Paula Machado, Lucia Passos, Hans-Gerhard Rottmann, and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He performed with the State University of Ponta Grossa Choir, the Unisinos Choir, and the Theatro Guaíra Choir. In 1999, he organised the Vox Pop Choir and the Ministry of Culture’s Camerata Ars Música, promoting Brazilian musical repertoire. From 2005 to 2011, he taught at Potiguar University, directing multiple choirs including the CEIC (Centro Educacional Imaculada Conceição) Choir, St. Cecilia Women’s Choir, and the Federal Court of Rio Grande do Norte Choir. He served two terms on Ponta Grossa’s Municipal Council of Culture and initiated a public school choral program that formed 83 choirs throughout the city. He led an Osvaldo Lacerda workshop during the 2014 Chorus Inside Festival in Chieti, Italy. In 2015, he conducted Duerme Negrito with Camerata Ars Música and Emiglio Solé; this performance was later included in the short film Paseo de los Mel

Jāzeps Vītols

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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 the son of a schoolteacher, began his studies in composition in 1880 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduating in 1886, he remained at the Conservatory to teach composition and reached the rank of Professor in 1901. Celebration and remembrance Jāzeps Vītols music days in Gaujiena started soon after 1922, when he spent summers in Gaujiena “Anniņas” with his wife. Celebrating his birthday, different choirs from all over the country started coming to Gaujiena for July 26 to celebrate Vītols’ birthday with music. In 2003, a summer camp for children from music schools was started around this celebration, creating an orchestra and a choir to celebrate music and have fun as well as practice their instruments. Notes References * *Braun, Joachim and Klotiņš, Arnold. “Vītols, Jāzeps”. Grove Music Online (subscription required). ed. L. Macy. Retrieved on March 8, 2007. External links *Homepage of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music *Homepage of Music