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J. E. P. Aldous

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John Edmund Paul Aldous (8 December 1853 – 23 January 1934) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output includes many short pieces for piano, organ, choir, and voice. He also composed four operettas: Ptarmigan or A Canadian Carnival (published 1895), A Golden Catch, Nancy or All for Love, and The Poster Girl (published 1902). Some of his better-known works are Prelude and Fugue for organ, the choral works Grant, We Beseech Thee, Merciful Lord and Blessed Are the Dead That Die in the Lord, and the hymn Egypt, all of which have been reprinted several times. Life and career Born in Sheffield, Aldous began his career as the organist at the chapel of the British Embassy in Paris. In 1876, he earned his BA in Trinity College. He emigrated to Canada in 1877 at the age of 23 to assume the post of organist-choirmaster at Central Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. He left there a few years later to assume a succession of similar church posts, first in St. Thomas, Ontario and then in Hamilton at St Mark’s and St Thomas’ churches. In 1884 he returned to Central Presbyterian where he remained for several years. Aldous founde

J. Emory Shaw

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J. Emory D. Shaw (1863 – June 10, 1943) was an American musician, educator, and academic administrator. He served as the musical director of Wilson College, president of Kee Mar College, and director of fine arts at Southwestern University. Early life and education J. Emory Shaw was born in Baltimore in 1863, the son of Greenbury Washington Shaw, a sailmaker, and Ann Eliza Travers. He began to study the piano at the age of 15, and at 19 he took up vocal instruction for which he had the strongest predilection. At his parents’ request, he continued studying piano and theory. Shaw received private instruction at home and abroad. In 1906, Shaw became president of Kee Mar College. By November 1906, he reported issues with nervous prostration. Shaw resigned in April 1907 due to his health issues. Shaw was the head master and teacher of voice and organ in the Paris Texas School of Singing and Organ Instruction. In 1912, Shaw became director of fine arts at Southwestern University. He was also the director of the choir of the First Methodist church in Georgetown, Texas. Shaw was a vocalist specialized in voice culture, conductor, and organist. He was experienced in orchestra and the art of

Jeajoon Ryu

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Jeajoon Ryu (born 1970) is a South Korean composer. His works have been by performed some of the world’s leading orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), l’Orchestre régional de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (ORCPACA), the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri), and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was the artistic director of Seoul International Music Festival from 2009 to 2010 and a composer of Poland Gozow Philharmonic Orchestra from 2011 to 2012. Artists such as Arto Noras, Michel Lethiec, Ralf Gothoni, Li-Wei Qin, Shanghai Quartet, Juyung Baek, So-Ock Kim, Johannes Moser and Ilya Gringolts have performed his works. Education He studied composition under Krzysztof Penderecki at Kraków Music Academy as well as under Kang, Suk-hi at Seoul National University. Career His music has been given numerous critically acclaimed around the world and at the Cadogan Hall, Verdi Hall in Milan, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, and Helsinki Music Centre. He was invited to the Naantali Music Festival (Finland) and Mecklenburg Music Festival (Germany) as guest composer and jury member of international Violin Competition of Astana. His violin

Jean Absil

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Jean Absil (23 October 1893 – 2 February 1974) was a Belgian composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatoire. Biography Absil was born in Bonsecours, Hainaut, Belgium. His teacher there was Alphonse Oeyen, organist at the basilica of Bonsecours. From 1913 he studied organ and harmony at the Brussels Conservatoire, but upon graduating, decided to concentrate on composition instead. In 1922 Absil won the Belgian Prix de Rome and in 1934 the Prix Rubens, which allowed him to travel to Paris. Here, he met fellow contemporary composers Ibert, Milhaud, and Honegger. Absil gained international prominence with the premiere of his first piano concerto (op. 30), composed for the 1938 Queen Elizabeth Competition for Piano (Ysaye), for which it was the compulsory piece for all finalists. Only one of those, Moura Lympany, who won second prize (after Emil Gilels), performed the piece entirely from memory mistake free. From 1930 onwards, Absil taught harmony at the Brussels Conservatoire, becoming a professor of counterpoint there six years later. Amongst his Conservatoire pupils was Paul Danblon. He also taught at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth and the Etterbeek Music School.

Jean Ahn

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Jean Ahn (; born 1976) is a composer based in San Francisco, originally from Korea. Her music is inspired by Korean and Asian traditional music and instruments. She composes for a variety of different instruments and ensembles: orchestral works, choral works, solo works, duets, chamber music, and electronic music and computer music. Her accolades include First Prize at the Renée Fisher Competition and the Sejong Korean Music Competition, awards from the Korean National Music Composers Association, the De Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition, and the Isadora Duncan Award for her piece Saltdoll. and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Music director of CHIM Studios. Compositions Ahn’s works can be categorized in three groups: # Pieces only using Korean musical elements # Pieces written for Korean instruments, but playing non-Korean traditional styles/music Nil-lili was also chosen to be a required piece for the 2018 piano competition of the New England Piano Teacher’s Association. Ahn combined Nil-lili, Mongeumpo and Ongheya in a collection titled Folksong Revisited for solo piano in 2008. The piece includes five folksongs arranged for voice and piano.

Jean Antoine Zinnen

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Jean Antoine Zinnen (25 April 1827 – 16 May 1898) was a Luxembourgish composer, best known for the Luxembourgish national anthem, Ons Heemecht. Career Zinnen was born in Neuerburg, in the Prussian Rhineland, close to the border with Luxembourg. When he was six, his family moved to Luxembourg. After serving as a musician in the army, he naturalised as a Luxembourgish citizen in 1849. In 1851, he became the first director of the Diekirch choral society Sangerbond. In 1852, he was appointed Luxembourg City’s director of music, and, soon after, director of the city conservatoire. Ons Hémecht The following year, at the first celebration of the ALM in Ettlebrück, Ons Hémecht was sung by a choir. Michel Lentz, the national poet who was a member of the ALM’s central committee, had written the words, wishing to convey a powerful feeling of patriotism. Zinnen set the poem to music, later transforming it into a solemn hymn. On 25 June 1865, on the occasion of a music festival in Vianden, Ons Hémecht was performed for the first time with an instrumental accompaniment. Ons Heemecht was adopted as Luxembourg’s national anthem in 1895. Jean-Antoine Zinnen died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at the

Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent

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Jean Baptiste Loeillet (6 July 1688 – c. 1720), who later styled himself Loeillet de Gant, was a Flemish composer, born in Ghent. He spent the largest part of his life in France in service to the archbishop of Lyon, Paul-François de Neufville de Villeroy. He wrote many works for recorder, including trio sonatas, unaccompanied sonatas for 2 recorders, and solo sonatas. He died in Lyon around 1720. Jean Baptiste Loeillet was a member of the large and musical Loeillet family, and the son of Pieter Loeillet and his first wife Marte (née Nortier). Loeillet added “de Ghent” to his surname to avoid confusion with his cousin, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (1680–1730), who was a well-known musician and composer in London. The similar names have often caused confusion and mis-attribution of works, such as Alexandre Beón’s arrangement of the C minor Piano trio for recorder, oboe, and basso continuo for modern instruments (the Piano Trio in B minor, now reprinted by International) incorrectly attributed to Loeillet de Ghent. Forty-eight sonatas for recorder and continuo were printed in Amsterdam in 1710 and 1717 and, “clearly popular” per musician, composer and historian John W. Duarte, *Lo

Jean Barraqué

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Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué (17 January 1928 – 17 August 1973) was a French composer and music writer. His relatively small is known for its serialism. Life Barraqué was born in Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1931, he moved with his family to Paris. He studied in Paris with Jean Langlais and Olivier Messiaen and, through Messiaen, became interested in serialism. After completing his Piano Sonata in 1952, he suppressed or destroyed his earlier works. A book published by the French music critic André Hodeir, titled Since Debussy, created controversy around Barraqué by claiming this work as perhaps the finest piano sonata since Beethoven. As the work had still not been publicly performed, and only two other works by him had at this time, the extravagant claims made for Barraqué in this book were received with some scepticism. With hindsight, however, it is clear that Hodeir had accurately perceived the exceptional features of Barraqué’s music—notably its searing Romantic intensity, which distinguishes it from the contemporaneous works of Boulez or Stockhausen. As Paul Griffiths’ biography clarified, Boulez had in fact attempted to get the Barraqué Piano Sonata performed for some years a

Jean Berger

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Jean Berger (; September 27, 1909 – May 28, 2002) was a German-born American pianist, composer, and music educator. He composed extensively for choral ensemble and solo voice. Early years Berger was born Arthur Schloßberg into a Jewish family in Hamm, Westphalia. He studied musicology at the universities of Vienna and Heidelberg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1931 with Heinrich Besseler as his advisor. He also studied composition with Louis Aubert in Paris. While working as the assistant conductor at an opera house in Mannheim, he was forcibly removed from a rehearsal by Nazi Brown Shirts. After the Nazi Party seized power in Germany in 1933, he moved to Paris, where he took the French name Jean Berger and toured widely as a pianist and accompanist. From 1939 to 1941, he was an assistant conductor at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro and on the faculty of the Brazilian Conservatory. He also toured widely throughout South America. In 1941, he moved to the United States and served in the U.S. Army starting in 1942. In 1943, he became a US citizen. He worked in the Office of War Information producing foreign-language broadcasts and USO shows until 1946. From 1946 to 1948, he wo

Jean Bonfils (composer)

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Jean-Baptiste Marcel Éloi Bonfils (21 April 1921 – 26 November 2007) was a 20th-century French organist, music educator, musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Saint-Étienne (Loire), Bonfils commenced his musical studies at the . After the war, he resumed his studies at the conservatoire de Paris where he obtained a First Prize in organ (1949) in the class of Marcel Dupré, a 2nd Prize in composition (1948) in the class of Jean Rivier and a 1st medal in musical analysis (1950) with Olivier Messiaen. In the same year, he became Olivier Messiaen’s assistant on the organ of the église de la Trinité à Paris, and this until 1992, then the assistant of Naji Hakim until 1999. Jean Bonfils was also the organist at the Grand Synagogue of Paris from 1953 to 1997. Bonfils taught the organ at the Schola Cantorum de Paris from 1961 to 1973. With Gaston Litaize, he directed the important series L’Organiste liturgique (1953-1967) at Éditions musicales of the Schola Cantorum and la Procure générale de Musique. Bonfils died in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine department) on 26 November 2007 at the age of 86. Publications *1969–1970: The first two Livres d’orgue by Jacques Boyvin at Éditions Ouvrières *

Jean Boyer (composer)

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Jean Boyer (born before 1600 – died 1648) was a French viol player and composer, active in Paris during the first half of the 17th century. He must not be confused with Noël Boyer, who was master of the music of the Duchess of Savoy and who in 1631 attempted to succeed as superintendent of the music of the king’s chamber. Biography The first mention of Jean Boyer is when he intervened regarding his cousin Jehan Bernard (c. 1631 – after 1711), who resigned his duties as cantor of the King’s Chamber and Chapel in Jean’s favor. The act specifies that Jean Boyer was son of the late Philibert Boyer, prosecutor in the court of Parliament, and that he was “experienced in the art of music, even on the lute and on the viols”. It was not until February 1617 that he appeared in ballet de cour, composing that year an aria for an unidentified ballet and another for the Ballet des Forgerons. He contributed to other ballets: in 1618 an air for the “Ballet de la Folie” and another for the “Ballet de M. de Nemours”, in 1621 an air for an unidentified ballet and another for the “Ballet des Indiens”, finally in 1626 for the Ballet du Grand bal de la Douairière de Billebahaut. The dedication of his bo

Jean Braconnier

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Jean Braconnier (“Braconnier dit Lourdault”) (died just before January 22, 1512) was a French singer and composer of the Renaissance. Little of his music has survived, but he had a considerable reputation as a singer, and Guillaume Crétin wrote an elegy on his death. Life The first record mentioning him is from the court of Duke René II of Lorraine in 1478, and he was still in the area in 1485, since payment records survive showing that he was employed as a singer in Nancy at the chapel of St. Georges between that year and 1506. However he occasionally left for travels. In 1496 he joined the chapel of Philip the Fair of Burgundy, and traveled to Spain in both 1501 and 1506 with Philip. In January 1506 he became a priest. While in Spain, he was involved in a street brawl, which resulted in the death of one of his attackers. Along with another of the entourage of Philip, he was assaulted by twenty or more armed Spaniards, who had previously harassed him during dinner. According to the account published in the 19th century by Louis Prosper Gachard from anonymous chronicles written during Philip’s voyages, the attacking Spaniards were armed with shields, rapiers, and spears, but Bracon

Jean Cappus

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Jean (Baptiste) Cappus (Dijon, 6 October 1689 – 10 March 1751) was a French composer. The second name ‘Baptiste’ is attested only on his 1730 book of viol music. Biography Youngest son of François Cappus, organist, singer and composer in Dijon, Province of Burgundy, and Anne Hervelin, Jean Cappus married Marie-Michelle Dotée on 17 October 1729. The couple had two sons, Louis and Nicolas. Career In 1734 Jean Cappus become director of the theatre in Dijon. He was ‘Pensionnaire de la Ville de Dijon’ (resident (artist) for the city of Dijon), ‘Maître Ordinaire de la Ville de Dijon’ (Ordinary Master for the city of Dijon), and musician for Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, prince of Condé (dit Louis IV, ou M. le Duc), governor of Burgundy (1710-1740). He also worked regularly as a composer for the Jesuit College in Dijon for whom he composed music for plays; only the text has survived, not the music. Jean Cappus rented the Hôtel de Barres in Dijon in 1734, which nowadays is the square Carrelet de Loizy. Here he directed many productions up to his death. An account of his conducting was given by Lantin Damerey in 1838 : ‘Rameau played the harpsichord, and Cappus directed the orchestra with s

Jean Cathala

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Jean Cathala was a French singer, composer and cornettist, active in the years (1645 – 1680). Biography His career began and ended in Paris, but also took place in Amiens and Auxerre. Paris A mention on 17 February 1646, followed by a reference on 28 May 1650, indicates that he was a clerk and a singer (middle register voice) in the Sainte Chapelle of the Palace and that he also played the cornett. As he appears also in the registers of Notre-Dame at such a time (employed at 16 sous per day according to an act of 2 July 1649, and in 1652). Amiens He then appeared as maître de chapelle of the Amiens Cathedral and, on 2 October 1656, the chapter of the cathedral conferred on him the vicarial chapel of Saint-Quentin, which before him had been given to Jean Patte, then Valentin de Bournonville. He resigned from his post of Amiens on 13 November 1658, probably because of a disagreement with the Chapter, and the Chapter instructed him a few days later to vacate the position before the next Saint-André (30 November). His successor was François Cosset, like him, a composer of masses. Auxerre In Auxerre, Cathala succeeded Annibal Gantez as maître de chapelle of the Cathedral. He was there i

Jean Chatillon

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Jean Chatillon (13 September 1937 – 16 January 2019 ) was a Canadian composer and music educator. Early life Jean Chatillon was born into a family of musicians on 13 September 1937 in Nicolet, Quebec. In 1951, he began to play piano and to compose. Initially self-taught, he undertook serious musical studies with the master in Montreal. Career In 1969, he founded the Music Section of the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières and taught there until 1981. In 1970, he was a founding member of the “Institut de sciences musicales Conrad Letendre”, along with Michel Perrault. After his retirement from teaching in 1981, he dedicated himself fully to his art. Chatillon wrote more than 300 musical and literary works. He was an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. In 2003, he was appointed Professor Emeritus by the University of Quebec. In January 2004, he became a founding member of the Delian Society, which is dedicated to the renaissance of tonal music. Chatillon died on 16 January 2019 in Trois-Rivières. References

Jean Constantin (songwriter)

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Jean Constantin (9 February 1923 – 30 January 1997) was a French singer, songwriter and composer. A prominent songwriter in France, he wrote several songs that became hits like Mon manège à moi sung by Édith Piaf and Mon truc en plumes sung by Zizi Jeanmaire. Despite being a notable performer of the piano and singing his own work, he was far more prominent for his songwriting for other French artists and musicians. He also wrote several movie scores, most notably the soundtrack of the film classic The 400 Blows (1959). References External links *

Jean Coulthard

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Jean Coulthard, (February 10, 1908 – March 9, 2000) was a Canadian composer and teacher. She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Archer. All three died within weeks of each other in 2000. Her works might be loosely termed “prematurely neo-Romantic,” as the orthodox serialists who dominated academic musical life in North America during the 1950s and 1960s had little use for her. Life and career Early life and education Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Coulthard was the daughter of Jean Blake Robinson Coulthard, a prominent and influential music teacher in Vancouver. Through her mother, she received her earliest musical training and was introduced at an early age to the work of French composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, both of whom were lifelong influences. In 1944-1945, Coulthard worked for an entire academic year with Bernard Wagenaar of the Juilliard School, New York. In 1948, she met the British composer Elizabeth Poston (who was visiting Canada) and they began a long friendship and an extensive correspondence over the next 30 years. Professional career Beginn

Jean Cras

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Jean Émile Paul Cras (; 22 May 1879 – 14 September 1932) was a 20th-century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages. As a naval commander he served with distinction in the Adriatic Campaign during World War I. Biography Life and naval career Cras was born and died in Brest. His father was a naval medical officer. He was accepted into the navy at the age of seventeen. As a midshipman cadet on the French cruiser Iphigénie, he travelled in the Americas, the West Indies and Senegal. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1908. His mathematical skills led to his proposing a number of innovations in technical practices which were adopted by the navy, including his invention of an electrical selector and a navigational plotter protractor known as (aka Cras ruler, Cras protractor, Cras plotter). (However, it was difficult to operate by some, which inspired the later development of the Breton plotter by Yvonnick Gueret.) With the outbreak of war in 1914 Cras was appointed as adjutant to Admiral Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère. He later worked in the Submarine Defense Service. In

Jean de Bournonville

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Jean de Bournonville was a French composer active in the first third of the 17th century, born in Noyon around 1585 and died in Paris on 27 May 1632. He should not be confused with his son Valentin de Bournonville, who published masses in the middle of the 17th century. Biography Noyon The 1612 Octo Cantica state that he was born in Noyon, but his year of birth is unknown. Saint-Quentin The same collection indicates him at that time as master of the children of the collegiate church of Saint-Quentin. In 1613 Bournonville offered to the chapter of the Cambrai Cathedral a bound collection of his masses (probably the Parisian editions of Pierre I Ballard). He remained in Saint-Quentin until about 1618. In the 1610s, he won first prizes at the puys de musique of Rouen, Évreux and Abbeville. Amiens Bournonville was in Amiens before 1619: he was appointed maître de chapelle (symphoniarca) of the Amiens Cathedral with respect to his 1619 Missae tredecim. We know an expertise of reception of the organ of the cathedral signed by his hand on 23 June 1623, also signed by Henri Frémart and Jehan Titelouze, which suggests that he was an organist. Paris He ended his career at the Sainte-Chapelle

Jean de Cambefort

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Jean de Cambefort (c. 1605 – 4 May 1661) was a French Baroque singer and composer of ballets and liturgical music. He died in Paris, France. He is now mostly remembered for composing six airs (recits) for the Ballet de la Nuit, performed in 1653. Works * Ballet de la Nuit, 1653; * Récit du temps et des quatre saisons, v Ballet du Temps (LWV 1), 1654; * Airs de cour, Parigi, 1651; * II. livre d’airs, Parigi, 1655; * 17 arias, from 1651 and 1655. Notes Bibliography * Burden, Michael; Thorp, Jennifer (2009; revised 2010). Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. . Product page for the revised edition at Pendragon. * McGowan, Margaret M. (2001). “Cambefort, Jean de” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. (hardcover). (eBook). * Prunières, Henry (1912). “Jean de Cambefort, surintendant de la musique du roi, d’après des documents inédits”, L’Année musicale, pp. 205–226. External links *

Jean de Latre

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Petit Jean De Latre (c. 1505 or 1510 – 31 August 1569) or Joannes de Latre (his surname is also recorded as Delattre, Delatre, De Lattre and Laetrius) was a Flemish Renaissance composer and choirmaster who worked in Liège and Utrecht. He is no longer believed to be the same person as Claude Petit Jehan who died in 1589. Life The earliest record of his employment is for 1538 to 1539 when he was maître de chant at church of St John the Evangelist in Liège. Subsequently, De Latre was employed at St Martin, Liège. From about 1550 he was also chapel master to George of Austria, Prince-Bishop of Liège (1544–1557), to whom De Latre dedicated his first volume of secular songs or chansons of 1552. During his time in Liège notable pupils included Gerard de Villers and Johannes Mangon. After George of Austria’s death in 1557 De Latre continued to work at St Martin, but in 1563 took up a post for a short period in Amersfoort (within the province of Utrecht). Around this time the former rector of the Latin school in Amersfoort, Johannes Oridryus, together with Albertus Buysius, undertook the publication of a collection De Latre’s chansons, Cantionum musicarum, in Düsseldorf. De Latre returned t

Jean Déré

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Jean Déré (23 June 1886 – 6 December 1970) was a French music educator and composer. Life Born in Niort, Déré was introduced to classical music by his father, who was organist and choir director in Niort, and performed in public at the age of six. From 1897 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a student of Louis Diémer, Albert Lavignac, Georges Caussade, Charles Lenepveu, Jules Massenet and Charles Marie Widor. Already in the time of the First World War he developed his first compositions, among them a symphonic poem and an opera. During this time he also taught in Niort and temporarily represented Widor as organist at The Great Organ of Église Saint-Sulpice de Paris, where he also met Albert Schweitzer several times. As the competition and the Prix de Rome were suspended during the war, Déré had already clearly exceeded the maximum age of thirty years laid down in the rules when he participated in 1919. He won the “Second Grand Prix” with the cantata Le Poéte et la Fée. He then taught counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming professor of solfège and harmony from 1937 to 1956. In 1933 he became one of the pioneers in the broadcasting of great cla

Jean Derome

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Jean Derome (born June 29, 1955) is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist, and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle (new music) scene, Derome has been a member of experimental, jazz, and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums. He has written scores for over 30 films and co-founded Ambiances Magnétiques, a Canadian musical collective and independent record label. In 1992, Derome won the second annual Canadian Freddie Stone Award. Biography Jean Derome was born in Montreal, Quebec on 29 June 1955. He studied music theory in Montreal at Cégep de Saint-Laurent between 1972 and 1975, and flute at Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec between 1975 and 1979. He also taught music theory and flute in Montreal colleges between 1974 and 1983. During his studies, he formed his first band Nébu in 1973, one of Quebec’s first avant-garde jazz groups. A trio with Derome on flute, pianist Pierre St-Jacques and bassist Claude Simard, Nébu played “classically-informed contemporary jazz”. They toured extensively in Quebec, performed at the Festival de Musique Ouverte de Châteauvallon in France in 1977 and at the inaugural Montre

Jean Deslauriers

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Jean Deslauriers (24 June 1909 – 30 May 1978) was a Canadian conductor, violinist, and composer. As a conductor he had a long and fruitful partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; conducting orchestras for feature films and television and radio programs for more than 40 years. He also worked as a guest conductor with orchestras and opera companies throughout Canada and served on the conducting staff of the Opéra du Québec. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes him as “a conductor with a sober but efficient technique, who was always faithful to the written score and equally at ease conducting concerts, opera, and lighter repertoire.” His best-known compositions are his Prélude for strings and the song, La Musique des yeux. He is the father of soprano Yolande Deslauriers-Husaruk. Life and career Born in Montreal, Deslauriers was a child prodigy and began his career as a concert violinist as a young teenager. He studied the violin with Émile Taranto and Camille Couture. He notably gave annual concert tours with singers Paul Dufault and Joseph Saucier in Canada and the United States between 1924 and 1929. He also studied with Claude Champagne (orchestration) Auguste Descar

Jean Doyen

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Jean Doyen (8 March 1907 – 21 April 1982) was a French classical pianist, pedagogue and composer. Biography Jean Doyen was born in Paris on 8 March 1907. He graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris as pianist in 1922. He began learning the instrument with Sophie Chéné (teacher of Blanche Selva), then studied with Louis Diémer (1919) and finally with Marguerite Long. In 1924, he made his solo debut with the Concerts Colonne. He also participated in Jacques Ibert’s ballet Les Rencontres, at the Opera Garnier. In 1926 he worked at the Radiodiffusion Française, but at the same time he returned to the Conservatoire in counterpoint class with Georges Caussade and music composition with Paul Vidal and Henri Büsser. From 1941 to 1977, he was professor of piano at the Conservatoire de Paris, succeeding Marguerite Long. Among his pupils were İdil Biret, Roger Boutry, Philippe Entremont, Marie-Thérèse Fourneau, Claude Kahn, André Krust, Arthur Moreira Lima, Bernard Job, Dominique Merlet and Chantal Riou. Doyen is best known for his interpretations of 19th and 20th century French music, notably in the works of Gabriel Pierné, Reynaldo Hahn and Vincent d’Indy and is considered one of the great

Jean E. Williams

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Jean Elizabeth Williams (20 January 1876 – July 1965) was a composer. She was born in Wednesbury, England, then moved to Toronto, Canada. After graduating from the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto, she returned to England and studied to be a concert pianist. Williams changed her career plans from performance to teaching after breaking her wrist. She returned to the University of Toronto to teach voice and piano. She later taught in Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Louis, Missouri, before moving to Portland, Oregon, in 1932. Williams served as president of the National Music Teachers Association and as president of Mu Phi Epsilon, a professional music fraternity. She collaborated on two music education books with Nellie Tholen, who later donated Williams’ papers to the University of Oregon, where they are archived. Williams’ compositions include: Chamber *Gavotte (violin and piano) *Valse (violin and piano) Orchestra *Concertina for Piano and String Orchestra *Junior Piano Concerto No. 6 *Piano Concerto in a minor *Piano Concerto in C *Piano Concerto in F Major *(Second) Piano Concerto in C Piano *Bolero (for two pianos) *Dresden China Figures (Minuet V) *Fairy Piper

Jean Eichelberger Ivey

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Jean Eichelberger Ivey (July 3, 1923 – May 2, 2010) was an American composer who produced an extensive and diverse catalog of solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral works as an innovator and “respected electronic composer.” Early life and education Born in 1923 to Joseph S. Eichelberger and Mary Elizabeth Pfeiffer, Jean B. Eichelberger Ivey attended high school at the Academy of Notre Dame in Washington, D.C. Though her childhood was impacted by the Great Depression and her father’s loss of his job as editor of the anti-feminist serial The Woman Patriot, Jean Eichelberger won a full-tuition scholarship at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. where she graduated magna cum laude with her bachelor’s degree in 1944. Subsequently, she earned master’s degrees in piano performance from Peabody Conservatory and composition from the Eastman School of Music where she studied under Wayne Barlow, Kent Kennan, and Bernard Rogers. In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s she taught at Trinity College (1945-1955), the Peabody Conservatory (1946), and the Catholic University of America (1952-1955), and College Misericordia (1955-1957). From 1960 to 1962 she taught at Xavier University in New Orlean

Jean Françaix

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Jean René Désiré Françaix (; 23 May 1912 – 25 September 1997) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator known for his prolific output and vibrant style. Françaix composed for various genres, and is particularly known for his chamber works for piano as well as wind instruments. Life Françaix was born in Le Mans. His natural gifts were encouraged from an early age by his family. His father, Alfred Françaix, was Director of the Conservatoire of Le Mans as well as a musicologist, composer, and pianist; His mother, Jeanne Françaix, was a teacher of singing. Jean Françaix studied at the Conservatoire of Le Mans and then at the Paris Conservatory, and was only six when he took up composing, with a style heavily influenced by Ravel. Françaix’s first publication, in 1922, caught the attention of a composer working for the publishing house, who steered the gifted boy towards a gifted teacher, Nadia Boulanger (who, after her sister’s death in 1918, had given up composing and devoted her life to teaching, conducting, and playing the organ). Boulanger encouraged Françaix’s career, considering the young composer to be one of the best, if not the best, of her students. Noted p

Jean Gabriel-Marie

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Jean Gabriel Prosper Marie (8 January 1852 – 29 August 1928), known professionally as Gabriel-Marie, * Adagio for violin and piano * Cassandre, Bouffonnerie * Chanson Capriceuse for various instrumentations: cello or violin and piano; cello and orchestra * Chant Pastoral for oboe and piano or orchestra * En rêve, Esquisse symphonique for orchestra, or piano solo * Frais minois (“Fresh Face”) * Furtivement, Impression musicale * Impressions - Six Morceaux pour Violion et and Piano (1894, Schott Frères, Bruxelles) # Simplicité # Insouciance # Quiétude # Souvenir # Mélancolie # Allègresse * Impromptu-valse for piano * Intermezzo for various instrumentations: cello or violin and piano; cello and orchestra; piano solo * La Soixantaine, Chers souvenirs * 4 Morceaux for Cello and Piano # Dans le calme du soir, Mélodie # Fleur novelle, Romance # Radotages # Douce Rencontre * Pasquinade for various instrumentations: cello (or violin, or viola, or mandolin, or flute, or oboe, or clarinet, or alto saxophone) and piano; cello and orchestra; piano solo; piano 4-hands * 2 Pieces for cello and piano # Lamento (1887) for various instrumentations: cello (or violin, or viola, or flute, or clarinet)

Jean Gilbert

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Jean Gilbert (11 February 1879 – 20 December 1942), born Max Winterfeld, was a German operetta composer and conductor. Life and career Gilbert was born in Hamburg into a family of musicians; his ancestors were cantors of the Jewish community, his cousin Paul Dessau became a famous composer and conductor. He attended composition lessons held by Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin and studied at the conservatories in Sondershausen and Weimar. After first public appearances as a pianist, the 18-year-old obtained an appointment as Kapellmeister in Bremerhaven. Soon after he moved to the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg and, at the age of 20, succeeded Leo Fall as musical director of the theatre on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. He adopted the name of Jean Gilbert for the production of his first operetta Das Jungfernstift in 1901. He continued to work as a Kapellmeister at the Berlin on Friedrichstraße, where he conducted operettas by Paul Lincke. In 1908, Gilbert moved to Düsseldorf and again turned to composing. Back in Berlin by 1910, he composed more than 50 operettas before and after World War I. His most successful work was Die keusche Susanne (1910), which was also popular in an English adaptati

Jean Gilles (composer)

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Jean Gilles (8 January 1668 – 5 February 1705) was a French composer, born at Tarascon. Biography After receiving his musical training as a choirboy at the Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur at Aix-en-Provence, he succeeded his teacher Guillaume Poitevin as music master there. After moving on several times, he became music master at the Cathedral of St Etienne at Toulouse in 1697, as the successor of André Campra. His musical style was influenced by Campra, as were most musicians of his day. He composed motets and a famous requiem, which was performed for the first time at his own funeral (because the original commissioner thought it too expensive to perform) but was later sung at the funeral services for Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1764, Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland in 1766, and Louis XV in 1774. His motets were played frequently from 1728 to 1771 at the Concert Spirituel. His choral works often alternate passages sung by the soloists with those sung by the chorus. In 1752, in Lettres sur les hommes célèbres du règne de Louis XIV, Pierre-Louis d’Aquin said that Gilles would doubtless have replaced Lalande if he had lived long enough. Gilles died suddenly at the age of 37 in Toulouse.

Jean Goldenbaum

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Jean Goldenbaum ( in São Paulo, Brazil) is a German composer and musicologist. He is a researcher at the European Centre for Jewish Music of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Life Jean Mordechai Arendt Goldenbaum was born in a Jewish family in São Paulo and grew up there. In 2005 he immigrated to Germany and in 2013 got his PhD in musicology at the University of Augsburg. Goldenbaum was the composer in residence of the Wasa Sinfonieta Music Festival in Finland in 2011 and 2013, in which his two double concerti Ode to Friendship (for flute, guitar and orchestra) and The Universes shall conspire to Love (for flute, percussion and orchestra) were premiered. In 2011 some of his chamber music pieces were performed at the event “Neue Musik International” in Salzburg. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil his music was presented at the 2012 event Neue Klänge aus Brasilien – im Portrait: Jean Goldenbaum, also in Salzburg. After its premiere in Brazil, it took place in this occasion the European premiere of his concerto May all Dictators fall (for guitar and guitar quartet), years later recorded in Hanover. In 2016 it took place in Berlin the concert New tones for t

Jean Guillou

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Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Principal Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music focused on the organ, as an improviser, and as an adviser to organ builders. For several decades he held regular master classes in Zurich and in Paris. Career Guillou was born in Angers. Following his first studies in piano and organ, he became the organist at the church St. Serge in Angers at the age of 12. In 1952, while still studying, Guillou played the premiere of his organ transcription of The Musical Offering by Johann Sebastian Bach at Erskine and American United Church in Montreal, Canada. In 1955, he accepted a position as professor of organ and composition at the Institute of Sacred Music in Lisbon. Due to health reasons, Guillou underwent long term medical treatment in Berlin and relocated to this city in 1958. During the following five years, he composed numerous works and made his first recordings at Lutherkirche and St. Matthias church. In 1963 he returned to Paris, having been appointed Principle Organist at Saint-Eustac

Jean Hubeau

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Jean Hubeau (22 June 191719 August 1992) was a French pianist, composer and pedagogue known especially for his recordings of Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann and Paul Dukas, which are recognized as benchmark versions. Biography Admitted at the age of 9 years to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, he studied composition with Paul Dukas, piano with Lazare Lévy, harmony with Jean Gallon, and counterpoint with Noël Gallon. He received first prizes in piano and in harmony in 1930 at 13 years. Aged 14 he won the first prize for accompanists, and in 1934, he received the second Prix de Rome was appointed to the vacancy left by Delvincourt at the head of the Music Academy in Versailles. Discography *Trumpet and piano with Maurice André *Gabriel Fauré - Complete works for solo piano *Gabriel Fauré - Elegie Op.24, Cello Sonatas No.1 Op.109 & No.2 Op.117 (Paul Tortelier, cello) *Claude Debussy - Cello Sonata (Paul Tortelier, cello) *Camille Saint-Saëns - Works for violin and piano (Olivier Charlier, violin) *Georges Onslow - Grand Sextet, Op. 77b and Grand Septet, Op. 79 *Paul Dukas - Works for piano *Jean Hubeau - Quatre Rondels de François Villon Mario Hacqua

Jean Huré

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Jean-Louis Charles Huré (17 September 1877 – 27 January 1930) was a French composer and organist. Though educated in music at a monastery in Angers, he was mostly self-taught. Life Born in Gien, Loiret, France, on 17 September 1877, Huré studied anthropology, composition, improvisation and medieval music at the École Saint-Maurille in Angers and served as organist at the cathedral in the city. In 1895, he moved to Paris, where he was advised by Charles-Marie Widor and Charles Koechlin to study at the Conservatory. Huré preferred to live an independent life. From 1910, he taught at the École Normale Supérieure, where Yves Nat and Manuel Rosenthal were among his students. In 1911, Huré helped found the Paris Mozart Society; he was also a member of the short-lived Association des Compositeurs Bretons during 1912–14. He worked as organist at the churches of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, Saint-Martin-des-Champs and Saint-Séverin between 1911 and 1914. From 1924, he was appointed successor to Lucien Grandjany at Sacré-Cœur and from 1926, as the successor to Eugene Gigout at Saint-Augustin. Between 1924 and 1926, Huré edited and published a monthly journal called L’Orgue et les Organist

Jean Japart

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Jean Japart (fl. c. 1474 – 1481) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy. He was a popular composer of chansons, and may have been a friend of Josquin des Prez. Life and work Nothing is known about his life except for a brief period during the late 1470s, although it is probable he was born in Picardy. He was one of the members of the famous Sforza chapel choir in Milan between 1474 and 1476, which included Alexander Agricola, Loyset Compère and Johannes Martini, the time when this institution had one of the most famous groups of singers and composers in Europe. After the assassination of Galeazzo Sforza in 1476, he left Milan, as did most of the musicians; Japart went to Ferrara where he was quickly employed by Ercole I d’Este; not only did he become one of the most highly paid singers at the Ferrarese court, but the Duke gave him a house in Ferrara. By 1481 he was gone, and there is no further record of him. Japart was the composer of 23 chansons which are extant. A lost composition by Josquin, Revenu d’oultrements, Japart is often cited as evidence of a friendship between the two composers; if so, they probably met in Milan after 1481, since Josquin did

Jean Joseph Bott

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Jean Joseph Bott (9 March 1826 – 28 April 1895) was a German violinist and composer who emigrated to the United States late in his life. Early life and education He was born in Cassel, Grand Duchy of Hesse, where he received his first musical instruction from his father, a court musician. At the age of 9, he was proficient enough to make a performance tour of the Netherlands with his father. After winning the Frankfurt Mozart scholarship in 1841, he began studies of theory and composition under Moritz Hauptmann and violin under Louis Spohr, and after two years of study entered the Cassel court orchestra, where he became concertmaster at the age of 17. Career In 1846, he left Cassel to travel through the German-speaking lands. He played before William I, the King of Prussia, and was accompanied by Liszt and Meyerbeer. In 1852, he was made second Hofkapellmeister at Cassel, but was dismissed in 1856. In 1857, he became court kapellmeister at Meiningen, and then in 1865 accepted a similar position in the Kingdom of Hanover. On 20 May 1877, Bott was drunk and fell off the podium while conducting a performance of Liszt’s oratorio Die Legende von der Heilige Elisabeth. He was pensioned o

Jean Kurt Forest

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Jean Kurt Forest (2 April 19093 March 1975) was a German violinist and violist, Kapellmeister and composer. He began his career as concertmaster in film orchestras conducted by Paul Dessau, then played principal viola in Frankfurt and Hamburg. Drafted to the Wehrmacht in 1942, he defected to the Red Army in 1945 and remained a prisoner of war until 1948. Back in East Berlin, he shaped musical life in the GDR in several positions, before he focused on composition from 1954, composing political songs and operas raising social awareness. Life Born Jean Kurt Forst Further reading * “Forest, Jean Kurt”. In Minister of Intra-German Relations (ed.): SBZ-Biographie. Ein biographisches Nachschlagebuch über die sowjetische Besatzungszone, collated by . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1964, . * Hans-Joachim Kynaß: Jean Kurt Forest / Kurzbiographie und ausgewählte Werke, in association with the Music Council of the GDR. Association of German Composers and Musicologists, Musikinformationszentrum, Berlin 1967. External links * * Georg Plathe: Interview (interview, in German) in: Siegfried Trzoß: Schlagergeschichte(n) des Ostens, vol. 1. 1945–1965, Berlin 2007 * Jean-Kurt-Forest-Archiv Archives of

Jean l'Héritier

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Jean L’Héritier (Lhéritier, Lirithier, Heritier and other spellings also exist) (c. 1480 – after 1551) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was mainly famous as a composer of motets, and is representative of the generation of composers active in the early to middle 16th century who anticipated the style of Palestrina. Life Jean l’Héritier was a native of the diocese of Thérouanne, in the Pas-de-Calais, but little is known about his early years. According to a note by an Italian contemporary, L’Héritier was a pupil of Josquin des Prez, a relationship which most likely occurred while Josquin was at the French royal court in the years after 1500 (exact years for Josquin’s stay there have not been established). In 1506 he went to Ferrara, his first trip to Italy. This was shortly after the death of the renowned Obrecht, who died in Ferrara’s plague of 1505. Antoine Brumel, another older and more established French composer, went to Ferrara in late 1505 to take Obrecht’s place as choirmaster to Alfonso I d’Este, and it is possible that the young L’Héritier was known to Brumel and was recommended to the Este family by him. All the remaining records of L’Héritier’s life come from

Jean Langlais

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Jean François-Hyacinthe Langlais III (15 February 1907 – 8 May 1991) was a French composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser. He described himself as "" (“Breton, of Catholic faith”). Biography Langlais was born in La Fontenelle (Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany), a small village near Mont Saint-Michel, France to Jean-Marie-Joseph Langlais II, a blacksmith and Flavie Canto, a seamstress. Langlais became blind due to glaucoma when he was only two years old and was sent to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children) in Paris, where he began to study the organ, with André Marchal. From there he progressed to the Paris Conservatoire, obtaining prizes in organ and studying composition with Marcel Dupré and Paul Dukas. He also studied improvisation with Charles Tournemire. among them was the American Kathleen Thomerson, who later published a bio-bibliography about him. Another was Margreeth Chr. de Jong, a Dutch organist, composer and music educator. His first wife Jeannette asked his former student, personal recital liaison and friend Ann Labounsky in 1972 to write Langlais’ biography Jean Langlais the Man and His Music, though it was not

Jean Leccia

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Jean Hubert Leccia (19 February 1938 – 10 January 2023), known in the United States as Jean Lexia, was a French composer, conductor, singer, and pianist. Leccia was active in various musical genres, such as pop, jazz, ballet, electronic, and classical. He collaborated with many artists, including Charles Aznavour, Édith Piaf, Charles Trenet, and Line Renaud. He was also the composer of several film scores and television series, such as the soap opera . Biography Born in Lyon on 19 February 1938, Leccia was a child prodigy and began studying music at the age of five. When he was nine years-old, he enrolled in the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon, where he studied music theory, piano, accompaniment, harmony, and counterpoint. He began playing in balls and galas to finance his studies. In 1952, Latin American conductor Benny Bennet gave a concert in Lyon, in which Leccia became the replacement pianist after the original had fallen ill. Although Leccia was only 14, Bennet was highly impressed and invited him to come to Paris after his studies. He came to Paris two years later and became a pianist at the Moulin Rouge. In Paris, he gained notoriety and met

Jean Maillard

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Jean Maillard (c. 1515 – after 1570) was a French composer of the Renaissance. While little is known with certainty about his life, he may have been associated with the French royal court, since he wrote at least one motet for them. Most likely he lived and worked in Paris, based on evidence of his print editions, which were prepared there. Since later in his career he set verse by Huguenot poet Guillaume Guéroult, as well as Clément Marot, he may have either become a Protestant or had Protestant sympathies; this could explain his disappearance from Paris around 1570. If he did leave the city then, his destination is unknown. No record of him after that year has been found. Maillard is mentioned by Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel, and also by Ronsard in his Livre des Mélanges (1560 and 1572). He was evidently famous during his time, and many of his motets were used as source material for parody masses by composers as distinguished as Palestrina; in addition Lassus reworked some of his music. Claude Goudimel also used a secular chanson of Maillard’s as source material for a mass. Six of Maillard’s masses have survived, and two others are known to have been lost. Considerable ot

Jean Molinet

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Jean Molinet (1435 – 23 August 1507) was a French poet, chronicler, and composer. He is best remembered for his prose translation of Roman de la rose. Born in Desvres, which is now part of France, he studied in Paris. He entered the service of Charles, Duke of Burgundy from 1463, becoming secretary to Georges Chastellain; in 1464 he wrote La Complainte de Grèce, a political work presenting the Burgundian side in current affairs. He replaced Chastellain as historiographer in 1475, and he was also the librarian of Margaret of Austria. His chronicle covered the years 1474 to 1504, and was only published in 1828 after being edited by J. A. Buchon. It is considered inferior to Chastellain’s chronicle, possessing less historical value. He is considered to belong to the network of poets called the Grands Rhétoriqueurs, characterised by their excessive use of puns and technical virtuosity. His nephew Jean Lemaire de Belges spent some time with him at Valenciennes, and Lemaire considered himself a disciple of the elder writer. In 1501, he became canon of the church of Notre-Dame in Valenciennes, and he died there on 23 August 1507. Molinet was also a composer, although only one work, the ro

Jean Mouton

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459 – 30 October 1522) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous both for his motets, which are among the most refined of the time, and for being the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian School. Life He was born Jean de Hollingue either in 1459 or earlier, but records of his early life, as is so often the case with Renaissance composers, are scant. Most likely he was from the village of Haut-Wignes (now Wirwignes), near Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Samer. He probably began his first job, singer and teacher at the collegiate church in Saint Omer, then moved to Nesle (southeast of Amiens) in 1477, where he served as a chorister for the next six years. In 1483, he was made maître de chapelle there. Sometime around this time he became a priest, and he is believed to have studied with Josquin des Prez. In 1500 he was in charge of choirboys at the cathedral in Amiens. In 1501 he was in Grenoble, again teaching choirboys, but he left the next year, most likely entering the service of Queen Anne of Brittany, and in 1509 he was granted a position again in Grenoble which he could hold in absentia. Mouton was now the principal composer for the

Jean Perrin (composer)

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Jean Perrin (September 17, 1920 – September 24, 1989) was a Swiss composer and pianist. He composed in a neo-classical style, sometimes approaching polytonality, and his music shows the influence of Stravinsky and Poulenc. He began studying piano in Lausanne, where he was born, and later studied with Franz-Joseph Hirt in Bern and Edwin Fischer in Lucerne. Eventually he went to Paris to study piano with Yves Nat. In Paris he also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger and Darius Milhaud. After returning to Lausanne he taught piano and also edited program notes for the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra for over 20 years. He died in his sleep in Lausanne the night before the worldwide broadcast on French-speaking radio of the world premiere of his string quartet. List of selected works Perrin wrote over 50 compositions, some of which are listed here: *Concerto grosso for piano and orchestra, op. 6b (1952) *Sonatas(1953-6): ** for horn and piano, op. 7 ** for violin and piano, op. 8 ** for piano, op. 10b ** for cello and piano, op. 11 ** for flute and piano, op. 12b *Symphony No. 2, op. 15 (1959) *Mass for four soloists, chorus, and orchestra, op. 19 (unfinished) *Piano Quartet, op. 23 (196

Jean Pietrapertosa

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Jean Pietrapertosa (1855–1940) was a composer and virtuoso of the mandolin who performed in Paris in the 1880s. He taught the mandolin and wrote a two-volume mandolin method book, Méthode de mandolin, published in Paris in 1892. He also organized a mandolin orchestra. Name confusion There is confusion about the identity of some works by Pietrapertosa. There are works by “J. Pietrapertosa” that may not have been Jean’s but Janvier’s. It has not been cleared up as to whether these are two different men or if “Janvier Pietrapertosa Fils” is a different person, possibly his son. Works Books *Methode complete de mandoline ou banjoline *Methode de mandoline Compositions *Ada-berceuse / transcription par Giuseppe Bellenghi; J. Pietrapertosa (Firenze : A. Forlivesi e C., dep.1889) *Au bord du Gange de Felix Mendelssohn: transcription pour mandoline (ou violon) et piano : Op. 87 (Paris : G. Ricordi & C 1893) *Deux transcription pour mandoline et piano (London: Schott) *Frais minois, Op.217 *Gavotte Stephanie Op. 120, transcription del Alphons Czibulka; transcription pour Mandoline et Piano (Brussels: Schott Frères, 1889) Dedicated to Eduardo Mezzacapo. *Jolis yeux noirs: valse pour Mandolin

Jean Rivier

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Alexis Fernand Félix Jean Rivier (21 July 1896 – 6 November 1987) was a French composer of classical music in the neoclassical style. The son of , a co-inventor of Armenian paper, he composed over two hundred works, including music for orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, piano, and solo instruments. Rivier served as professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory from 1948 until his retirement in 1966. During the period 1948–1962, he shared this position with composer Darius Milhaud. Three of his notable students at the Paris Conservatory were Gareth Walters, Pedro Ipuche Riva, and Gerd Boder. Quote Compositions *3 Points Seches for piano *4 Fantasmes for piano *4 Sequences Dialogues (need instrumentation) *Alternances for piano *Andante espressivo ed allegro burlesco (three movements) for clarinet and piano *Aria for trumpet (or oboe) and organ *Brillances for 2 trumpets, 2 French horns, 2 trombones and 1 tuba *Capriccio (need instrumentation) *Comme une tendre berceuse for flute and piano *Concerto (arranged by Rene Decouais) (need instrumentation) *Concerto for alto saxophone, trumpet and string orchestra (1955) *Concerto for alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, 2 bassoons, tru

Jean Roger-Ducasse

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Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Biography Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré. He succeeded Fauré as professor of composition, and in 1935 he succeeded Paul Dukas as professor of orchestration. His personal style was firmly rooted in the French school of orchestration, in an unbroken tradition from Hector Berlioz through Camille Saint-Saëns. Among his notable pupils were Jehan Alain, Claude Arrieu, Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk, Jean-Louis Martinet, and Francis George Scott. Compositions Roger-Ducasse wrote music in nearly all classical forms, and was particularly known for his operatic stage works and orchestral compositions. These include: *Au Jardin de Marguerite, 1901–05 Based on an episode in Goethe’s Faust *Sarabande, 1907 Symphonic poem with chorus. *Suite française, Concerts Calonne, Paris, 1907 *Pastorale pour orgue, 1909 *Marche française, 1914 *Nocturne de printemps, 1920 *Nocturne d’hiver, 1921 *Epithalame for orchestra, 1923 *Orphée mimodrame lyrique, Opéra Garnier, 19

Jean Rogister

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Jean François Toussaint Rogister (25 October 1879 in Liège – 20 March 1964 in Liège) was a Belgian virtuoso violist, teacher and composer. Life and career Jean Rogister came from a family of musicians; his father was a flautist and his brothers Fernand Rogister (1872–1954), a horn player and composer, Chrétien Rogister (pseudonym Caludi) (1884–1941), a violinist and composer, and Hubert Rogister, a cellist. A musically gifted child, Rogister studied violin, viola, horn and composition at the Liège Conservatory. Rogister studied composition with Jean-Théodore Radoux, and viola with Désiré Heynberg (1831–1898) and Oscar Englebert. He emerged a virtuoso viola player, and at the age of twenty-one, he was appointed Professor of Viola (1900–1945) at the Liège Conservatory. Rogister performed in chamber ensembles and made his debut in 1902 as violist of the Charlier Quartet led by Léopold Charlier. It was also at this time that Rogister completed his String Quartet No. 1. He continued to study composition and play in chamber music ensembles including Cercle Ad Artem, the Chaumont Quartet, and Piano et Archets. Rogister, like his composition teacher Radoux, composed largely in the neo-roma

Jean Roussel

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Jean Alain Roussel (born 1951) is a Mauritian-born musician, composer, record producer, arranger, educator and Sono-Therapist. Career He is best known for his keyboard work from the 1970s through today, playing regularly live and in studio with Cat Stevens (e.g. “Peace Train”, “Bitterblue”, “Oh Very Young”, “Tuesday’s Dead”, “Wild World”, “Where Do the Children Play?”, “Sitting”, “Catch Bull at Four”, “Teaser and the Firecat”, and “Buddha and the Chocolate Box”), and playing on and arranging “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by The Police in 1980. He was also the Composer of Rick Ross’s Grammy-nominated (2013) “Ashamed” and Wilson Pickett’s “Shameless” (1979). Roussel has worked in various capacities with many artists, including Paul Kossoff (Producer/Composer “Back Street Crawler”), Sandy Denny, Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, Gary Moore, Peter Frampton, Roy Buchanan, Bob Marley and the Wailers (“Natty Dread”, “No Woman, No Cry”, “Rastaman Vibration”, “Lively Up Yourself”, etc.), Ron Wood, John Paul Jones, Frida, Celine Dion, Elkie Brooks, John Martyn, Alan White, Roger Glover, Luther Vandross, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Mitch Mitchell, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Cheryl Lynn,

Jean Schwartz

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Jean Schwartz (November 4, 1878 – November 30, 1956) was a Hungarian-born Jewish American composer and pianist. He is best known for his work writing the scores for more than 30 Broadway musicals, and for his creation of more than 1,000 popular songs with the lyricist William Jerome. At the age of 13, he immigrated with his family to the United States and settled with them in New York City. and he studied the piano under his older sister, Rosa, who had trained as a pianist under Franz Liszt. After working for a time as an office boy at a cigar factory and as an attendant at a Turkish bath house, Schwartz obtained employment in the sheet music department of the Siegel-Cooper Company, where his job was to play songs on the piano for customers in order to sell the sheet music. Other music jobs he held in his early years included working as a pianist with an orchestra at Coney Island and as a song-plugger for the Shapiro-Bernstein Publishing House of Tin Pan Alley. In 1914, he was one of the twelve founding members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Work with William Jerome Schwartz remained at the Siegel-Cooper Company until 1901 when he took a job as the on

Jean Sibelius

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Early years#

Sibelius was born on 8 December 1865 in Hämeenlinna () in the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous state within the Russian Empire. He was the son of the Swedish-speaking medical doctor Christian Gustaf Sibelius and Maria Charlotta Sibelius (née Borg). The family name stems from the Sibbe estate in Eastern Uusimaa, which his paternal great-grandfather owned. Sibelius’s father died of typhoid in July 1868, leaving substantial debts. As a result, his mother—who was again pregnant—had to sell their property and move the family into the home of Katarina Borg, her widowed mother, who also lived in Hämeenlinna. Sibelius was therefore brought up in a decidedly female environment, the only male influence coming from his uncle, Pehr Ferdinand Sibelius, who was interested in music, especially the violin. Pehr Ferdinand gave the boy a violin when he was ten years old and later encouraged him to maintain his interest in composition. For Sibelius, Uncle Pehr not only took the place of a father but acted as a musical adviser. From an early age, Sibelius showed a strong interest in nature, frequently walking around the countryside when the family moved to Loviisa on the coast for the summer months. In his own words: “For me, Loviisa represented sun and happiness. Hämeenlinna was where I went to school; Loviisa was freedom.” In Hämeenlinna, when he was seven, Sibelius’s aunt Julia was brought in to give him piano lessons on the family’s upright instrument, rapping him on the knuckles whenever he played a wrong note. He progressed by improvising on his own, but still learned to read music. He later turned to the violin, which he preferred. He participated in trios with his elder sister Linda on piano, and his younger brother Christian on the cello. (Christian Sibelius was to become a psychiatrist, still remembered for his contributions to modern psychiatry in Finland.) Sibelius soon began playing in quartets with neighbouring families, furthering his experience performing chamber music. Fragments survive of his early compositions of the period, a trio, a piano quartet and a Suite in D Minor for violin and piano. Around 1881, he transcribed a short pizzicato piece Vattendroppar (Water Drops) for violin, possibly as an etude or musical exercise. The first reference he made to himself composing is in a letter from August 1883 in which he writes that he composed a trio and was working on another: “They are rather poor, but it is nice to have something to do on rainy days.” Despite having to repeat a year, he passed the school’s final examination in 1885, which allowed him to enter a university. As a boy he was known as Janne, a colloquial form of Johan. However, during his student years, he adopted the French form Jean, inspired by the business card of his deceased seafaring uncle. Thereafter he became known as Jean Sibelius.

Jean Titelouze

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Jean (Jehan) Titelouze (c. 1562/63 – 24 October 1633) was a French Catholic priest, composer, poet and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He was a canon and organist at Rouen Cathedral. His style was firmly rooted in the Renaissance vocal tradition and as such, was far removed from the distinctly French style of organ music that developed during the mid-17th century. However, his hymns and Magnificat settings are the earliest known published French organ collections, and he is regarded as the first composer of the French organ school. Life In a 1930 study, Amédée Gastoué suggested that the surname Titelouze may be of English or Irish origin (more specifically, derived from “Title-House”), but recently this supposition has been disproven, and “Titelouze” is now linked to “de Toulouse”. Titelouze was born in Saint-Omer in 1562/3 (his exact date of birth is unknown) and educated there; by 1585, he entered the priesthood and served as organist of the Saint-Omer Cathedral. He moved to Rouen later that year and in 1588, succeeded François Josseline as organist of the Rouen Cathedral. His work was not limited to Rouen: he also acted as organ consultant and helped

Jean Vallerand

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Jean Vallerand, CQ (December 24, 1915 – June 24, 1994) was a composer, music critic, violinist, conductor, arts administrator, writer, and music educator from Quebec. As a composer he was active from 1935 to 1969. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was appointed a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1991. Life Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vallerand began studying the violin at age 5 with Lucien Sicotte, with whom he continued to study until he was 20. He entered the Université de Montréal in 1934 where he studied classical literature, earning a diploma there in 1938. While there he pursued private studies in music theory and music composition with Claude Champagne from 1935 to 1942. Vallerand began his career as a music critic in 1941 when he succeeded Léo-Pol Morin as critic for the Montreal newspaper Le Canada. He remained there through 1946, going on to hold posts as music critic at Montréal-Matin (1948–1949), Le Devoir (1952–1961), Le Nouveau Journal (a daily newspaper founded in Montreal by Angélina Berthiaume-Du Tremblay 1961–1962), and La Presse (1962–1966). He also reviewed cultural events for CBC Radio and CBC Television during the 1940s through the 1960s. He

Jean Ven Robert Hal

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Jean Ven Robert Hal (born 11 May 1970), known as his stage name Roberto D’Agostino Vendola, is an Italian musician and composer of krautrock, progressive rock, ambient, jazz, synthpop, electronic, space and orchestral music. Biography As a graduate of geometry, Hal also studied architecture and design. His first exposure to music was when he was given his first keyboard at the age of six. He then later started to compose music. Hal specializes on both the analog sound and digital electronic devices and the use of “vintage” synths with prestigious brands such as Moog, ARP Instruments Inc., EMS (Electronic Music Studios), Elka, Oberheim, Synclavier, Fairlight CMI, Mellotron, a precursor of today’s samplers, the legendary Theremin and many others, all musical instruments that have marked the history of modern music. Jean Ven Robert Hal is one of the few representatives in Italy and belongs to the current musical wave of the Kosmische Musik genre with many “cultural” pieces. Kosmische Musik (or krautrock) originated in Germany from various musical influences that are substantially known as the “minimalism”. The psychedelic music and cultured electronic music is a consequence of post-we

Jean Wiener

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Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer. He was of some significance in the promotion of new music, both by his friends in the Les Six (Milhaud, Poulenc, etc.), and by composers such as Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. His compositions involve the use of jazz informed by French wit and elegance. He is best known for composing the music to more than 300 films of both feature and short film length. Life and career Early life, education, and classical pianist Jean Wiener was born in Paris on 19 March 1896. He was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of André Gedalge (composition) and Yves Nat (piano). At the conservatoire he befriended his fellow classmate Darius Milhaud Trained as a classical pianist at the conservatory, he was highly gifted in this regard and notably performed the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s Trois mouvements de Petrouchka in December 1922 at a special Christmas concert organized by the composer. He subsequently worked as the pianist at Le Boeuf sur le Toit; beginning when it opened in January 1922 when Bar Gaya’s owner decided to open larger premises due to the l

Jean Wiertz

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Jean Wiertz (; born 1958 or 1959) is a Dutch composer, music teacher, and school administrator. He has served as chairperson of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) since March 2024. Life Wiertz was born in Schaesberg, Limburg, and studied at Maastricht Academy of Music. He attended Utrecht and Leiden Universities before becoming a music teacher at the Rotterdam Sint-Laurenscollege high school in 1982. In addition to teaching, Wiertz worked as a composer and arranger for public broadcasters VARA, KRO, and NOS and contributed to the Rotterdam musicals Kaat Mossel (1992) and Mooi Katenderchet (1994). Wiertz declared he wanted to restore the party’s stability, honesty, and reliability following a loss of seats in the November 2023 general election. Personal life Wiertz has two children, and he resided in Dordrecht as of 2017. References

Jean-Adam Guilain

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Jean-Adam Guilain Freinsberg (born Johann Adam Wilhelm Freinsberg; c. 1680 – after 1739) was a German-French organist and harpsichordist who was mostly active in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century. Biography Little is known about his life. He was born in Germany, possibly around 1680 (the exact dates of birth and death are unknown). For an unknown reason he moved to France some time before 1702, and almost certainly became one of Louis Marchand’s pupils - Guilain’s organ collection is dedicated to Marchand, by then a prominent organ teacher. He was a Catholic, though it is unknown whether he was baptised Catholic or converted later. Guilain died some time after 1739, the year when he published a collection of harpsichord pieces. Compositions Although of German origin, Guilain’s musical style appears to be in the pure French tradition. Harpsichord The sole surviving copy of Guilain’s only known collection of harpsichord works may be found in the collection of the British Library. The volume is entitled “PIÈCES DE CLAVECIN / D’UN GOUT NOUVEAU / PAR Mr. GUILAIN./ Gravées par De Gland Graveur du Roy./ Prix 3l./ A PARIS.” and has twenty-six pieces: * Fanfare * Je veux

Jean-Baptiste Accolay

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Jean-Baptiste Accolay (; 17 April 1833 – 19 August 1900) was a Belgian violin teacher, violinist, conductor, and composer of the romantic period. His best-known composition is his one-movement student concerto in A minor. It was written in 1868, originally for violin and orchestra. Biography Born in Brussels, Accolay studied the violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and played the solo flugelhorn at the second cuirassier-regiment of Bruges. He also played the first violin at the orchestra of the theaters of Namur and Bruges. In 1860, he became a teacher of solfège at the conservatory of Bruges. Later on he also taught the violin (1861-1864), the viola (1864), string quartets (1865), and harmony (1874). The liner notes for Perlman’s recording of “Concertos from My Childhood” indicate that there are at least “seven works by the long forgotten Belgian violinist and teacher Jean-Baptiste Accolay, whose concertos (including the one in question) were edited for publication by the Walloon virtuoso Mathieu Crickboom, a protégé of Eugène Ysaÿe, and professor at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels.” Accolay’s Concerto in A minor (1868) is “one of the most enduring of all tutorial violi

Jean-Baptiste Barrière

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Jean-Baptiste Barrière (2 May 1707 – 6 June 1747) was a French cellist and composer. He was born in Bordeaux, Gascony and died in Paris, at 40 years of age. Musical career Barrière first studied the viol, and published a set of viol sonatas. In due course however he became a skilled cellist during a period when the cello was gaining popularity over the viol in France, and later came to completely replace it, as indeed had already happened in Italy some 40 years prior. He became one of the best known virtuoso cellists of his time. In 1731 he went to Paris, and entered the Académie Royale de Musique (also known as the Opera), with an annual salary of 445 livres. He was accorded special privileges by King Louis XV at Fontainebleau, on 22 October 1733 for six years, to compose and publish several sonatas and other instrumental works. One of his most famous pupils was the Count of Guergorlay, Seigneur of Trousily. After his first book Livre I - Sonates pour violoncelle et basse continue was a success, in November 1733, he published a second edition of it in 1740. His second book, Livre II, was published around 1735. He went to Italy in 1736 to study with the well-known Italian cellist F

Jean-Baptiste Bréval

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Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Bréval (6 November 1753 – 18 March 1823) was a French cellist and composer. He wrote mostly for his own instrument, including pedagogical works as well as virtuoso display pieces. Life Bréval was born in Paris, and went on to study with François Cupis (1735-1810) and Martin Berteau. By 1774, he was an active cello teacher. In 1775, he published his opus 1, six concertante quartets. In 1776, he became a member of the «Société Académique des Enfants d’Apollon». Kicking off his career by performing one of his sonatas at a Concert Spirituel in 1778, he became a member of their orchestra from 1781 to 1791, and from 1791 to 1800 he played in the orchestra of the Théâtre Feydeau. Later he became involved in the administration of the «Concerts de la rue de Cléry» and a member of the Paris Opera orchestra. He retired from the orchestra in 1816. The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung states that Bréval taught at the Conservatoire although this can not be verified by Conservatoire documents. However, Bréval’s compositions were definitely used for instruction at the Conservatoire. Bréval died in Colligis, Aisne. Compositions Bréval compositions written between 1775 and 180

Jean-Baptiste Chollet

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Jean-Baptiste Marie Chollet (20 May 1798 – 10 January 1892) was a French musician and operatic singer (baritone, later tenor). He also composed a few romances and nocturnes. He married the opera singer Geneviève-Aimé-Zoë Prévost and their daughter Caroline Chollet also became an opera singer under the stage name Mademoiselle Monrose. Life Born in Paris, Chollet studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where from the age of eight he studied solfège and violin. He graduated with a prize in solfège in 1814 and began singing as a high baritone in the church choir at Saint-Eustache, Paris, where his father was choirmaster. In 1815 he also became a chorus member at the Opéra de Paris, then at the Théâtre-Italien, and finally at the Théâtre Feydeau, where he remained for two years. In 1818 he took the stage name Dôme-Chollet and appeared with a troupe of comic actors. In 1823 he was at the Théâtre du Havre, playing the roles of Martin, Lays and Soulié, which he continued to play during a one-year engagement at the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels in 1825. He had a noted success in La Fête au village voisin. In 1826 he rejoined the Théâtre Feydeau and the following year became a partner in

Jean-Baptiste Davaux

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Jean-Baptiste Davaux (19 July 1742 – 2 February 1822) was a French classical violinist and composer. Biography Born in La Côte-Saint-André, Davaux came from a bourgeois family. His father was King’s Counselor and receiver in the salt attic. He received his first musical education from his parents. He began the violin, in addition to the mandolin. In 1767, Davaux went to Paris, where he quickly acquired a reputation as a violinist and composer. He received a number of public extra-musical appointments and, after the French Revolution, held an official position in the Ministry of War. He then received a pension and the Legion of Honour (28 September 1814) for his thirty years of service. He retired in 1816. He then lived in his home in Yvelines and half of his time in Paris where he gave private concerts. Davaux’s first publications date from 1768, two ariettes, Les charmes de la liberté and Le portrait de Climène (both lost), followed by two opéras comiques presented in 1785 and 1786: Théodore, ou Le bonheur inattendu, libretto by B.-J. Marsollier des Vivetières, after a comedy by Hugh Kelly (False Delicacy), now lost, and Cécilia, ou Les trois tuteurs based on a novel by Fanny Burn

Jean-Baptiste Faure

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Jean-Baptiste Faure (; 15 January 1830 – 9 November 1914) was a French operatic baritone and art collector who also composed several classical songs. Singing career Faure was born in Moulins. A choirboy in his youth, he entered the Paris Conservatory in 1851 and made his operatic debut the following year at the Opéra-Comique, as Pygmalion in Victor Massé’s Galathée. He remained at the Opéra-Comique for over seven years, singing baritone roles such as Max in Adolphe Adam’s Le chalet and Michel in Thomas’s Le caïd. During this time he also created the Marquis d’Erigny in Auber’s Manon Lescaut (1856) and Hoël in Meyerbeer’s Le pardon de Ploërmel (1859; later known as Dinorah), among seven premieres at that house. He made his debut at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1860 as Hoël, and at the Paris Opera in 1861. He would sing at the Opera every season until 1869 and then again in 1872-76 and 1878. In addition, he continued to perform off and on in London until 1877 at venues such as Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Among the many operas in which he appeared in Paris were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni as well as L’étoile du nord, Les Huguenots and La fa

Jean-Baptiste Favory

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Jean-Baptiste Favory (born 1967) is a French sound artist and composer of musique concrète, electronic and instrumental music. Biography Jean-Baptiste Favory was born in Paris in 1967. His mother, Catherine Fournet (1945), is the daughter of conductor Jean Fournet. His father is actor Michel Favory (1940). After briefly studying piano in his early youth, he returned to music as a keyboardist for several rock bands in the 1980s. At the same time, he became interested in experimental music and, in 1990, he composed his first concrete pieces as an autodidact. He began composing in 1989 and his first works were broadcast on the national French radio France Culture in 1994. In 1995, he composed the first sound design for an Internet provider, Infogrames. The same year, he started working for theatre, composing sounds & musics for Victor Haïm. From 1996 to 1999, he worked in Luc Ferrari’s studios , and was assistant to Composers such as Gavin Bryars, Luc Ferrari and Brunhild Ferrari. In 1997, he obtained a two-month residency in Monterrey, Mexico, to compose Leyendas Urbanas, a composition with a 180° video projection by Pierre Jacob premiered the planetarium of the city. Two years later

Jean-Baptiste Forqueray

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NOTOC Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (3 April 1699 – 28 June 1782), the son of Antoine Forqueray, was a player of the viol and a composer. Forqueray was born in Paris. He is most famous today for his 1747 publication of twenty-nine pieces for viol and continuo which he attributed to his father (except for three, for which he himself took credit). In the avertissement he states that he was responsible for the bass line (thus the figures as well) and the viol fingerings. Stylistically, they are very much influenced by Italian music and belong to the generation of Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764) and Jean-Pierre Guignon (1702–1774). Modern violists regard these Pieces de viole as the most virtuosic music for the instrument. Paolo Pandolfo and Lorenz Duftschmid have both recorded the complete publication. Forqueray published the same pieces for harpsichord, possibly in arrangements made by his wife Marie-Rose, in 1749 (ed. Colin Tilney, Paris, 1970) but remarkably did not transpose any of the music, so the melodies lie relatively low in the range of the harpsichord. Forqueray’s pupils included Louis XV’s daughter Princesse Henriette-Anne and the future King Frederick William II of Prussia.

Jean-Baptiste Janson

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Jean-Baptiste Janson (9 March 1742 – 2 September 1803) was a French cellist and composer of the classical period. Life Jean-Baptiste Janson was a pupil of Martin Berteau. At age thirteen he played at the Concert Spirituel of Paris and was musician of Louis François, Prince of Conti. He traveled abroad and returned to Paris only after Jean-Pierre Duport left for Berlin in 1773. “Surintendant de la musique de Monsieur” circa 1786, he became a bass teacher at the founding of the Conservatoire de Paris on 3 August 1795. He retired in 1802. Selected works * Six Sonates à violoncelle et basse Op. 1 (Paris, 1765) * Six Sonates à violoncelle et basse Op. 2 (Paris, La Chevadière, 1768) * Trois Concertos à violoncelle et basse (Op. 3) * Six Sonates pour le violoncelle et la basse Op. 4 (1774) * Six Trios pour 2 violons et violoncelle obligé Op. 5 (1777) * Six Concertos pour le violoncelle à grand orchestre Op. 6 (1780) * Six Quatuors concertans pour 2 violons, alto et violoncelle Op.7 * Trois Quatuors concertans pour 2 violons, alto et violoncelle Op.8 (1784) * Trois Symphonies à grand orchestre (Paris, Leduc, 1785) * Messe Solemnelle d’action de grâce (1789) * Te Deum (1789) * Six Nouveaux

Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz

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Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (; Czech: Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz) (8 May 1742 – 19 February 1790) was a Czech composer and harpist who lived in the Holy Roman Empire. Biography Krumpholz was born in, near Zlonice. He was the brother of Wenzel Krumpholz, violinist and mandolin player. He learned music from his father while growing up in Paris; in 1773 he played a successful harp concerto in the Burgtheater in Vienna. After serving three years in Count Esterházy’s court orchestra (1773–1776), during which he is said to have taken counterpoint lessons with Joseph Haydn, he embarked on a successful concert tour of Europe. In Paris and Metz, he worked along with manufacturers Jean Henri Naderman, his son François Joseph Naderman, and Sébastien Érard towards improving the construction of the harp. He composed concertos and sonatas for harp and chamber music. Krumpholz drowned himself in the Seine after his wife—former pupil Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1755–1824), also a virtuoso harpist—eloped to London. He was 47. The story that this was with pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek is apocryphal. Style Krumpholz composed 52 sonatas, 6 concertos and many preludes and variations for the harp. He wrote also harp d

Jean-Baptiste Labelle

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Jean-Baptiste Labelle (September 1825 – 9 September 1898) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and conductor. He is best known for composing the music to the song Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours (words 1834, music before 1868) with words by George-Étienne Cartier. He also used words by Cartier for the song Avant tout je suis Canadien (1860). Some of his other notable works include the cantatas Cantate: La Confédération (1868) and La Croisade canadienne (1886); the operetta La Conversion d’un pêcheur de la Nouvelle-Écosse (published by the A.J. Boucher Co. in 1868); the piano pieces Marche canadienne (1846) and Quadrille national canadien; and the song Chant des Zouaves canadiens (1881). Life and career Born to Canadian parents in Burlington, Vermont, Labelle was baptized in Montreal on 13 November 1825. He received his earliest musical training in that city from string instrumentalist and instrument maker Joseph Lyonnais. He later studied under Austrian pianist Leopold von Meyer from 1845 to 1847. From 1843 to 1846 he worked as a church organist in Boucherville. He then worked in the same capacity at a church in Chambly, Quebec from 1846 to 1849. He had previously suffered fr

Jean-Baptiste Lemire

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Jean-Baptiste Lemire (8 June 1867 – 2 March 1945) was a French composer. He joined the French army in 1888 as a musician as Quarter-Major Musician Second-Class and later served as a drummer in a navy regiment. In all, he would served in the military for 25 years. He enrolled in the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon in 1893. After retiring from the army, he served as the conductor of a number of concert bands across France. Lemire retired from conducting in the 1930s. In 1935, he was awarded the Colonial Medal of Madagascar and elevated to the rank of Knight of the Medal of Anjouan of the Comores. Biography Lemire was born in Colmar, in the Haut-Rhin department of France. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste (1844–1909), a mason, and Anne-Marie Sarter (1848–1924), a dressmaker. In 1871, France was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War, and his family was forced to flee their home and take refuge in Montbéliard, on the other side of the new border. Although the family regarded it as a temporary stay, Lemire resided in Montbéliard for 11 years. In April 1883, he began work as a locksmith in Belfort, where he remained until 1888. Military career On 7 March 1888, Lemire entered

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer)

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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, or Lemoyne, (; 3 April 1751 – 30 December 1796) was a French composer, chiefly of operas. Born in Eymet, Dordogne, he first worked as a musician in Berlin and Warsaw, where in 1775 he produced his first opera, Le bouquet de Colette, starring his pupil Antoinette de Saint-Huberty (née Clavel). He returned to France and wrote the tragic opera Électre, which received its premiere in 1782. Lemoyne claimed his music was following the example of Christoph Willibald Gluck, then the greatest influence on French opera, but when Électre failed, Gluck rejected any association with the younger composer. Lemoyne turned to Gluck’s rivals, Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, as musical models for his next two tragedies, Phèdre (1786) and the Egyptian-set Nephté (1789), which had more success. His later operas are less important. He died in Paris. Operas * Le bouquet de Colette, premiered 1775 in Warsaw * Électre, tragédie lyrique in three acts, libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard, premiered 2 July 1782 at the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris opera) * Phèdre, a tragédie mise en musique in three acts, libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman, premiered 26 October 1786 at Fo

Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London

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Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (18 November 1680 – 19 July 1730), was a Flemish composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is called the London Loeillet to distinguish him from another famous composer, his cousin Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent. Life and career Jean-Baptiste Loeillet was born in Ghent, then in the Spanish Netherlands. He had a younger brother, Jacques Loeillet, who was also a composer. He had a cousin, also named Jean-Baptiste Loeillet. The distinction between the London Loeillet and the Ghent Loeillet was made to differentiate the cousins. In 1705, after his studies in Ghent and Paris, he moved to London and became known as John. His works were published by John Walsh in London under the name of John Loeillet. He published trio and solo sonatas, as well as two collections of harpsichord lessons. Loeillet was able to play the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord. He was successful as a teacher of the harpsichord. He played woodwind in the Queen’s Theatre in the Haymarket and held musical gatherings every week at his home. His performances were well received in London, and he was responsible for introducing Arcangelo Corelli’s 12 Concerti Grossi to Londoner

Jean-Baptiste Lully

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Biography#

Lully was born on November 28 or 29, 1632, in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to Lorenzo Lulli and Caterina Del Sera, a Tuscan family of millers. His general education and his musical training during his youth in Florence remain uncertain, but his adult handwriting suggests that he manipulated a quill pen with ease. He used to say that a Franciscan friar gave him his first music lessons and taught him guitar. He also learned to play the violin. In 1646, dressed as Harlequin during Mardi Gras and amusing bystanders with his clowning and his violin, the boy attracted the attention of Roger de Lorraine, chevalier de Guise, son of Charles, Duke of Guise, who was returning to France and was looking for someone to converse in Italian with his niece, Mademoiselle de Montpensier (la Grande Mademoiselle). Guise took the boy to Paris, where the fourteen-year-old entered Mademoiselle’s service; from 1647 to 1652 he served as her “chamber boy” (garçon de chambre). He probably honed his musical skills by working with Mademoiselle’s household musicians and with composers Nicolas Métru, François Roberday and Nicolas Gigault. The teenager’s talents as a guitarist, violinist, and dancer quickly won him the nicknames “Baptiste”, and “le grand baladin” (great street-artist). When Mademoiselle was exiled to the provinces in 1652 after the rebellion known as the Fronde, Lully “begged his leave … because he did not want to live in the country.” The princess granted his request. By February 1653, Lully had attracted the attention of young Louis XIV, dancing with him in the Ballet royal de la nuit. By March 16, 1653, Lully had been made royal composer for instrumental music. His vocal and instrumental music for court ballets gradually made him indispensable. In 1660 and 1662 he collaborated on court performances of Francesco Cavalli’s Xerse and Ercole amante. When Louis XIV took over the reins of government in 1661, he named Lully superintendent of the royal music and music master of the royal family. In December 1661, the Florentine was granted letters of naturalization. Thus, when he married Madeleine Lambert (1643–1720), the daughter of the renowned singer and composer Michel Lambert in 1662, Giovanni Battista Lulli declared himself to be “Jean-Baptiste Lully, escuyer squire , son of Laurent de Lully, gentilhomme Florentin Florentine gentleman “. The latter assertion of high birth was an untruth. The couple had six children who survived past childhood: Catherine-Madeleine, Louis, Jean-Baptiste, Gabrielle-Hilarie, Jean-Louis and Louis-Marie. From 1661 on, the trios and dances he wrote for the court were promptly published. As early as 1653, Louis XIV made him director of his personal violin orchestra, known as the Petits Violons (“Little Violins”), which was proving to be open to Lully’s innovations, as contrasted with the Twenty-Four Violins or Grands Violons (“Great Violins”), who only slowly were abandoning the polyphony and divisions of past decades. When he became surintendant de la musique de la chambre du roi in 1661, the Great Violins also came under Lully’s control. He relied mainly on the Little Violins for court ballets. Lully’s collaboration with the playwright Molière began with in 1661, when Lully provided a single sung courante, added after the work’s premiere at Nicolas Fouquet’s sumptuous chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte. Their collaboration began in earnest in 1664 with Le Mariage forcé. More collaborations followed, some of them conceived for fetes at the royal court, and others taking the form of incidental music (intermèdes) for plays performed at command performances at court and also in Molière’s Parisian theater. In 1672, Lully broke with Molière, who turned to Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Having acquired Pierre Perrin’s opera privilege, Lully became the director of the Académie Royale de Musique, that is, the royal opera, which performed in the Palais-Royal. Between 1673 and 1687, he produced a new opera almost yearly and fiercely protected his monopoly over that new genre. After Queen Marie-Thérèse’s death in 1683 and the king’s secret marriage to Mme de Maintenon, devotion came to the fore at court. The king’s enthusiasm for opera dissipated; he was annoyed by Lully’s dissolute life and homosexual encounters. Lully had avoided getting too close to the secret homosexual grouping that had gathered in the court around the Duc de Vendôme, the Comte de Tallard and the Duc de Gramont. But in 1685 he was accused of improper relations with a page boy living in his household called Brunet. Brunet was removed after a police raid, and Lully escaped punishment. However, to show his general displeasure, Louis XIV made a point of not inviting Lully to perform Armide at Versailles the following year. Lully died from gangrene, having struck his foot with his long conducting staff during a performance of his Te Deum to celebrate Louis XIV’s recovery from surgery. He refused to have his toe amputated. This resulted in gangrene propagating through his body and ultimately infecting the greater part of his brain, causing his death. He died in Paris and was buried in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, where his tomb with its marble bust can still be seen. All three of his sons (Louis Lully, Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, and Jean-Louis Lully) had musical careers as successive surintendants of the King’s Music. Lully himself was posthumously given a conspicuous place on Titon du Tillet’s Parnasse François (“the French Mount Parnassus”). In the engraving, he stands to the left, on the lowest level, his right arm extended and holding a scroll of paper with which to beat time. (The bronze ensemble has survived and is part of the collections of the Museum of Versailles.) Titon honored Lully as:

Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer)

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Jean-Baptiste Morin (2 February 1677 – 27 April 1745) was a French composer and the Ordinaire de la Musique to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. From 1719 to 1731 Morin was Maître de musique of Louise Adélaïde d’Orléans, daughter of the Duke, at the royal abbey of Chelles, near Paris. Career Morin was born in Orléans, Orléanais. He penned numerous works, including most famously a set of cantatas (published between 1706 and 1712). These provided a fusion of a French with the Italian style then popular at the Regent’s court. Morin noted in the preface to the 1706 edition his efforts “to retain the sweetness of the French style of melody, but with greater variety in the accompaniments, and employing those tempos and modulations characteristic of the Italian cantata.” Morin dedicated the volume to his royal sponsor. He also published two famous books of (petits) Motets (1704, 2nd edition 1748; 1709) and a Processional for Chelles (1726). His divertissement La Chasse du cerf (October 1707; libretto of his friend and protector, Jean de Serré de Rieux (at the time: François-Joseph de Seré, seigneur de Rieux, near Beauvais), Parisian parliamentary, poet and "

Jean-Baptiste Nôtre

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Jean-Baptiste Nôtre (4 September 1732 – 20 February 1807) was a French composer and organist. Biography Born in Toul, Jean-Baptiste Nôtre’s father, Jacob Notter, from Mels near Sargans in Switzerland, married in Toul in 1721 and settled there, after serving as a soldier in the Esly regiment; he became the Swiss of the cathedral, under the French name Jacques Nôtre. Jean-Baptiste Nôtre, who was initially a choirboy in the cathedral, probably received his first organ lessons from the organists Noirel et Martelet. In 1754, the canons awarded him a scholarship to train for six months in Paris by Guillaume-Antoine Calvière (1695–1755), one of the organists of the Chapelle Royale and titular at Notre-Dame de Paris. When he returned, they named him organist of the Toul Cathedral, which had a magnificent instrument built by between 1751 and 1755. He was asked to appraise the organs of the Cistercian abbey Notre-Dame de Beaupré. (1775), the (1778), the (1779), as well as those of the Nancy Cathedral (1787, 1789). In 1793, he was commissioned to estimate the organs of all the churches in Toul, which became national property. Even though the French Revolution suspended his activities for a wh

Jean-Baptiste Rey

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Jean-Baptiste Rey (18 December 1734 – 15 July 1810) was a French conductor and composer. Rey was born at Lauzerte. He remains the longest-serving conductor of the Paris Opera; his tenure spans from the last years of the monarchy to Napoleon’s Empire (1776–1810). As such, he conducted most performances of masterpieces by Gluck, Piccini, Sacchini, Salieri, Gretry, Méhul, Haydn, Mozart, Spontini, etc., many of whom he cooperated with closely. He was the author of an opera, Apollon et Coronis (1781) and several other pieces and arrangements. Rey also wrote the third act of Sacchini’s Arvire et Évélina (1788). Before his nomination at the Academie royale, Rey gained fame as a conductor in the theatres of Toulouse, Montpellier, Marseille, Bordeaux and Nantes. He was called to Paris in 1776 to assist the then first conductor, Louis-Joseph Francœur, whom he replaced in 1781. In 1779, he was named Maître de musique of Louis XVI’s royal chamber. In 1781, Apollon et Coronis, the opera he composed with his brother, the cellist Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, was performed. He kept his position at the Opera throughout the Revolution and participated in a number of revolutionary ceremonies. In 1799, h

Jean-Baptiste Roucourt

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Jean-Baptiste Roucourt (Brussels, 28 October 1780 - Brussels, 1 May 1849) was a music pedagogue, singer and composer. He founded the music school which was the cradle of the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. Early life (1780-1812) Jean-Baptiste Roucourt was born in Brussels in the Austrian Netherlands. His father François Roucourt was from Diest and his mother Catherine Barbe Bormans from Gingelom in the Bishopric of Liège, but they lived in Brussels, near the Treurenberg, by the time of Jean-Baptiste’s birth. The household counted at least two older children, Catherine Henriette and Louis. Jean-Baptiste was baptized at the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudula on the day of his birth. In his early childhood, he had music education from Adrien-Joseph Van Helmont, who had succeeded his father Charles-Joseph as music master at the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudula in 1777. However, Van Helmont junior being also employed as a singer at the royal chapel since the same year, and Van Helmont senior having declared in his resignation letter that he would keep the pay and the duties as a music master as long as his health allowed him to (this was a normal way to ensure one’s retirement al

Jean-Baptiste Senaillé

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Jean Baptiste Senaillé (23 November 1687 – 15 October 1730) was a French Baroque composer and violin virtuoso. Biography His father Jean Senaillé was a member of Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi from September 1, 1687 to 1713. According to Fetis., Senaillé first studied under two members of the Les Vingt-Quatre Violons, a Queversin (or Querversin) and a Bonnefons (probably François Marillet de Bonnefons) and then Jean-Baptiste Anet and (known in France as Jean-Antoine Desplanes), who stayed in Paris from 1704, where he was in the service of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon. Senaillé soon started composing, and published his first book of sonatas in 1710, dedicated to Paul Étienne Brunet (1653-1717), treasurer general of the King’s household. In 1716 or 1717, Jean-Baptiste Senaillé went to Italy to perfect his art. He made a name for himself in Modena, and was invited, perhaps by Tomaso Antonio Vitali, to play in his orchestra for a season. He was probably also noticed by Charlotte Aglaé d’Orléans, Duchess of Modena, and on his return to Paris in 1719 he was attached to the private service of the Duke of Orléans, regent of the kingdom and father of Charlotte Aglaé d’Orléans. He was heard a

Jean-Baptiste Stuck

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Jean-Baptiste Stuck (also known by the single moniker “Baptistin,” “Batistin” or “Battistin”) (6 May 16808 December 1755) was an Italian-French composer and cellist of the Baroque era. Little is known of Stuck’s early years. He was born at Livorno on the coast of Tuscany, came from a merchant family, and was the son of Giovanni-Giacomo Stuck and Barbera Hellerbeck. From 1702 he was in the service of Countess Lemos in Naples. Stuck wrote arias for the performance of the opera L’innocente inganno of Tomaso Albinoni, which was performed under the new title Rodrigo in Algieri on 10 December 1702 in Naples at the Teatro San Bartolimeo. Shortly thereafter Stuck moved to Paris. In 1705, he published the collection Für das Jahr 1701 through the Ballard publishing house. In Paris, he was a member of the Chapelle royale and a cellist in the service of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. In 1722, he led the cello in the opera orchestra, displacing the bass viol. In 1733 he was naturalized French. He died in Paris. Works Operas He composed numerous operas, including: * Méléagre (Paris, 1709) (Libretto by François-Antoine Jolly) * Manto la fée (Paris, 1710) (Libretto by Mennesson) * Il Gran Cid (Livo

Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin

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Théodore Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin or Wekerlin (9 November 1821 – 20 May 1910) was a French composer and music publisher from Alsace. Biography Weckerlin was born at Guebwiller. In 1844, he began studying singing with Antoine Ponchard and composition with Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory. In 1847, he published his heroic symphony Roland. In 1853, Weckerlin produced a one-act comic opera, L’Organiste dans l’embarras. In 1869, he was appointed assistant librarian to the Conservatory. In 1863, he produced his comic opera Die dreifach Hochzeit im Bäsethal, and in 1879 Der verhäxt Herbst. These were both in Alsatian dialect. In 1877, he brought out the one-act opera Après Fontenoy. In 1876, he became Félicien David’s successor as librarian at the Conservatory and published in 1885 a biographical catalogue. Later he became librarian of the Société des Compositeurs. He gained great renown as a composer of choral works. He married Marie Damoreau, the daughter of Madame Laure Cinti-Damoreau, the prima donna of Rossini’s French operas. Weckerlin is best remembered for his piano arrangements of traditional French songs, notably the bergerette, a particular kind of pastoral air, origin

Jean-Benjamin de La Borde

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Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (5 September 1734 – 22 July 1794) was a French composer, writer on music and fermier général (farm tax collector). Born into an aristocratic family, he studied violin under Antoine Dauvergne and composition under Jean-Philippe Rameau. From 1762 to 1774, he served at the court of Louis XV as premier valet de la chambre, losing his post on the death of the king. He wrote many operas, mostly comic, and a four-volume collection of songs for solo voice, Choix de chansons mises en musique illustrated by Jean-Michel Moreau. Many of the songs from the collection were later published individually through the efforts of the English folksong collector Lucy Etheldred Broadwood. His Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne was published in 1780. La Borde was guillotined during the French Revolution in 1794. Operas In popular culture La Borde’s role at court is embellished in a fictional book series about police commissioner “Nicolas Le Floch” by Jean-François Parot. The stories have also been adapted for a television series in which La Borde appears regularly. He is portrayed by Benjamin Lavernhe in 2023 film Jeanne du Barry. References

Jean-Chrisostome Hess

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Jean-Chrisostome Hess (26 January 1816 – 8 March 1900) was one of the most prolific French composers of salon music for the piano as well as transcriptions of popular songs and arias from operas. He was also active as an organist, pianist, and teacher. Since he always abbreviated his name as “J. Ch. Hess”, his first names have often been misinterpreted as “Jean-Charles”. His birth certificate, however, is clear about his real names. Life Hess was born in Soufflenheim, Bas-Rhin, in the Alsace region of France. Nothing is known about his musical education, but as no traces of studies at any of the major conservatories have to come to light yet, it must be presumed that he had private teachers on piano and organ in his home town or perhaps in Strasbourg. Like many composers of his time, he appears to have earned his living as a church organist. His first assignment began in 1838 in Lorient (Morbihan) where he worked at least until the mid-1840s (his son Charles Léon was born there in 1844). For 1853–54, he is mentioned as organist in Laval (Mayenne). He then moved to Paris where, from April 1855, he worked for many years as organist at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, succeeding fello

Jean-Christian Michel

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Jean-Christian Michel (born 1938) is a composer and clarinetist. His compositions are influenced by jazz and by baroque music, particularly that of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before starting his musical career, Jean-Christian Michel was a doctor, as a surgeon. His first record Requiem was released in 1966. He founded the ensemble Quatuor avec Orgue. Michel has received 3 diamond discs, 7 platinum discs and 10 golden discs. With more than five million discs sold, (3 discs classified 1, 2 & 3 in the charts of CIDD-France soir in the seventies); and thousands of concerts to his credit, he today pursues a global career. Michel is a “Full Member” of the SACEM (an association of composers and music publishers to protect copyright and royalties). He received the prize for “Sciences and Culture” at Sorbonne, Paris, France, which was awarded by a jury of six Nobel Prize winners. Jean-Christian Michel is currently the godfather of the campaign Neurodon, within the Federation for Brain Research FRC Drummer Kenny Clarke played and recorded with Michel for 10 years. Michel is also a very experienced mountain climber. He was a member of the group that made the first-ever ascent of Tawesche, in the H

Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis II

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Jean- or John-Chrysostome Brauneis II, (26 January 1814 – 11 August 1871) was a Canadian composer, organist, and music educator. A multifaceted musician, Brauneis instructed students in many musical subjects, including composition, conducting, guitar, harp, organ, piano, violin, voice, and theory. Considered Canada’s first native musician to be trained in Europe, he was a highly influential teacher and figure in the classical music scene in 19th century Montreal. His most well known composition, The Royal Welcome Waltzes (1869), is still performed in concert and was recorded on disc by Symphony Nova Scotia in 1987. Life and career Born in Quebec City, Brauneis was the son of composer and bandmaster Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis I. He began his studies with his father, but went on to become the first native born Canadian to study music in Europe, where he resided from 1830 until 1833. After returning to Canada, he served as organist at Notre-Dame Church from 1833 until 1844, and then in the same position at Saint-Jacques Cathedral until 1857 when he was succeeded by Romain-Octave Pelletier I. In 1837 he founded the short lived ‘Société de Musique’, Montreal’s first music society. Refere

Jean-Claude Éloy

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Jean-Claude Éloy (15 June 1938 – 19 November 2025) was a French composer of instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and collaborated with studios of electronic music in Cologne and in Tokyo. Inspired beyond Western classical music traditions by Hindu and Japanese philosophy and music, he composed long ritual pieces. Life and career Éloy was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan near Rouen on 15 June 1938. He studied with Darius Milhaud and Maurice Martenot at the Conservatoire de Paris from the age of twelve. He was awarded four premier prix: in piano (1957), in chamber music (1958), in counterpoint (1959), and in ondes Martenot (1960). During this same period he attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1957, 1960, and 1961, where he studied with Hermann Scherchen, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He was especially impressed by Henri Pousseur. Between 1961 and 1963, he also studied with Boulez at the City of Basel Music Academy. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until 1968. Afterwards, he moved away from serial music and turned to references to philosoph

Jean-Claude Risset

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Jean-Claude Raoul Olivier Risset (; 13 March 1938 – 21 November 2016) was a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. He was a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs. Biography Risset was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France. Arriving at Bell Labs, New Jersey in 1964, he used Max Mathews’ MUSIC IV software to digitally recreate the sounds of brass instruments. He made digital recordings of trumpets and studied their timbral composition using “pitch-synchronous” spectrum analysis tools, revealing that the amplitude and frequency of the harmonics (more correctly, partials) of these instruments would differ depending on frequency, duration and amplitude. He is also credited with performing the first experiments on a range of synthesis techniques including FM synthesis and waveshaping. Risset was the head of the Computer Department at IRCAM (1975–1979). At MIT Media Labs, he composed the first Duet for one pianist (1989). For his work in computer music and his 70 compositions, he received the first Golden Nica (Ars Electronica Prize, 1987), the Giga-Hertz Grand Prize 2009, and the highest French awards in both m

Jean-Claude Touche

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Jean-Claude Touche (7 August 1926 – 29 August 1944) was a French musician, organist and composer. Biography Jean-Claude Touche was born in Paris. His father, Firmin Touche (Avignon, 25 juillet 1875-1957), was concertmaster of the Concerts Colonne and academic at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1941, Jean-Claude entered the Conservatoire de Paris where Henri Rabaud had just given way to Claude Delvincourt. He attended the classes of Maurice Duruflé and Marcel Dupré. He won a first prize in organ in 1944, three months before his death. During his very short existence, he composed some quality works: Thème et variations sur Veni creator and a Pastorale pour orgue. “He had the virtuoso’s gifts, clarity, flames. His executions were at the same time thoughtful and alive. He loved improvisation and shared with his listeners his aspirations and religious ecstasy.” Thus spoke Marcel Dupré about his student. In Le Figaro dated 12 August 1999, Hélène de Felice wrote: “All those who knew Jean-Claude Touche have an extraordinary memory of him. He possessed the charisma that beauty brings to the intelligence, the beauty of the mind and the beauty of the heart. He radiated a real faith, that which

Jean-Étienne Marie

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Jean-Étienne Marie (; 22 November 1917 – 25 December 1989) was a French composer of contemporary music. He is an important figure in the history and exploration of Microtonal music and electroacoustic. Biography Born in Pont-l’Évêque, Calvados, Marie studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Simone Plé-Caussade. After World War II, he dedicated his life to music. He worked at the Radiodiffusion Française, where he was a specialist in broadcasting contemporary music festival. His students included author and composer Jeannine Richer. Marie was the disciple of Olivier Messiaen and of Darius Milhaud, but it is his meeting with microtonality pioneer Julián Carrillo that was crucial in his musical work. He created le CIRM in 1968 in Paris and set it to Nice in 1978. In 1979 he created the MANCA Festival (Musiques actuelles Nice Côte-d’Azur). Music He dedicated most of his work to microtonal and to mixed music. His works and his theorisation in microtonal music were significant in the modern knowledge of European microtonal music. Like Julian Carrillo, he explored the potential of microtonal scales, either widespread (1/4 tone, 1/3rd tone, 1/6tone) or less known (1/7th tone, 1/5th tone)

Jean-Féry Rebel

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Jean-Féry Rebel (18 April 1666 – 2 January 1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist. Biography Rebel, a child violin prodigy, was the most famous offspring of Jean Rebel, a tenor in Louis XIV’s private chapel. He later became a student of the great violinist, singer, conductor, and composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. By 1699, at age 33, Rebel became first violinist of the Académie royale de musique (also known as the Opéra). He travelled to Spain in 1700. Upon his return to France in 1705, he was given a place in the prestigious ensemble known as the Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi. He was chosen Maître de Musique in 1716. His most important position at court was Chamber Composer, receiving the title in 1726. Rebel served as court composer to Louis XIV and maître de musique at the Académie, and directed the Concert Spirituel (during the 1734–1735 season). Rebel was one of the first French musicians to compose sonatas in the Italian style. Many of his compositions are marked by striking originality that include complex counter-rhythms and audacious harmonies that were not fully appreciated by listeners of his time. His opus Les caractères de la danse combined music wi

Jean-François Dandrieu

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Jean-François Dandrieu, also spelled D’Andrieu (c. 168217 January 1738) was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist. Biography Dandrieu was born in Paris into a family of artists and musicians. A gifted and precocious child, he gave his first public performances when he was 5 years old, playing the harpsichord for King Louis XIV, and his court. These concerts marked the beginning of Dandrieu’s very successful career as harpsichordist and organist. He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Moreau. In 1700, aged 18, he started playing the organ at the Saint-Merri church in Paris (a post previously occupied by Nicolas Lebègue) and became its titular organist in 1705. At some point in 1706 he was a member of the panel of judges who examined Jean-Philippe Rameau’s skills to appoint him organist of the Sainte-Madeleine en la Cité church (incidentally, a post Rameau declined). In 1721 he was appointed one of the four organists of the Chapelle royale of France. In 1733, he succeeded his uncle, the organist and priest Pierre Dandrieu (1664–1733) to become the organist of the (now destroyed) church of St Barthélémy in the Île de la Cité, a post he combined with duties at Saint-Merri (

Jean-François Lalouette

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Jean-François Lalouette (1651-1728) was a French composer of the Baroque period (ca. 1600–1750). Early life Lalouette (also spelled “Lallouette”) had his first musical education in the school choir of St. Eustache in Paris. He studied violin with Guy Leclerc and composition with Jean-Baptiste de Lully. Lalouette was appointed as Lully’s assistant. It is known that Lalouette was asked by Lully to complete the internal parts of some of the latter’s works. But, after having been heard claiming credit for writing the better part of Lully’s opera, Isis (1677), not surprisingly he was fired by Lully from his job as assistant. Between Italy and France In April 1678, he appeared at the Court of Savoy in Turin, where he was appointed as “French composer of music” and placed to guide the group of violinists in the orchestra. But, by July 1679 he was fired again. He returned to Paris. During that time, he apparently wrote an opera, since there is a letter from a royal official in 1681 forbidding any further performance of his work on the grounds that it violated the privilege conferred by King Louis XIV of France on Lully. News of activities for the period 1683 to 1693 is rather sparse. In Ap

Jean-François Le Sueur

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Jean-François Le Sueur (more commonly Lesueur; ; 15 February 17606 October 1837) was a French composer, best known for his oratorios and operas. Life He was born at Plessiel, a hamlet of Drucat near Abbeville, to a long-established family of Picardy, the great-nephew of the painter Eustache Le Sueur. Beginning as a chorister at the collegial church of Abbeville, then at the cathedral of Amiens, where he pursued his music studies, Le Sueur was named chorus master at the cathedral of Sées. He went to Paris to study harmony with the Abbé Nicolas Roze, chorus master at the Saints-Innocents. Le Sueur was named to positions at Dijon (1779), Le Mans (1782), then at Tours (1783) before he succeeded Roze at the Saints-Innocents at Paris. Finally, in 1786, after a competition, he was made music director at Notre-Dame de Paris. For the Feast of the Assumption, he innovated by introducing an orchestra, with great success, and his sacred concerts at the main feasts of the Church filled the cathedral to overflowing but incurred resistance in ecclesiastical circles. He replied by publishing a pamphlet Exposé d’une musique imitative et particulière à chaque solennité (1787). The cathedral chapter

Jean-François Zygel

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Jean-François Zygel (born 23 November 1960) is a French pianist, improviser, composer and improvisation teacher for piano at the Conservatoire de Paris. Born in Paris, he is also known for his work in introducing classical music on television and radio. Zygel’s music is nourished by synagogue cantillation. Two of his great-grandfathers were hazzanim in Poland. Awards * Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (2015). * Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. * Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite (2006). On France Inter At the beginning of 2015, France Inter entrusted him with a weekly programme entitled La Preuve par Z. The composer evokes and explains the great composers, with long excerpts from concerts in support. On France Télévisions On 31 August 2017, Zygel presented “Zygel Académie” on France 2, a show where celebrities discover classical music. It has 601,000 viewers, or 7.3% of the audience. Publications * Quand du stérile hiver a resplendi l’ennui … Conditions d’existence du langage musical, in Le Débat, issue 82, November–December 1994, . Bibliography * Interview by B. Dermoncourt, in Classica-Repertoire, February 2008, . * “Z comme Jean-François Zygel : la musiqu

Jean-Frédéric Edelmann

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Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (born Johann Friedrich Edelmann; 5 May 1749 – 17 July 1794) was a French classical composer. He was born in Strasbourg to a Protestant family of Alsatian descent. After studying law and music, he moved to Paris in 1774 where he played and taught the piano. It is possible that Edelmann worked for some time in London. During the French Revolution he was appointed administrator of the Bas-Rhin. In late May 1794 he was arrested after a false accusation of treason (he was in fact an opposer of the terroristic policy and paid the hatred of Saint-Just). Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal on 17 July 1794 (29th Messidor), he was executed the same day by guillotine in Place de la Barrière du Trône together with his brother Louis, other two Strasbourg citizens, and the sixteen Carmelite nuns of Compiègne (only eleven days before the fall of Robespierre). His work was praised by Haydn and Mozart. Edelmann composed two operas, an oratorio and various pieces of chamber music. Works list Published works * Op. 1 No. 1 \ Keyboard Sonata in E flat major * Op. 1 No. 2 \ Keyboard Sonata in E major * Op. 1 No. 3 \ Keyboard Sonata in D major * Op. 1 No. 4 \ Keyboard

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

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Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (born 29 December 1986) is a French pianist, organist, and composer. His repertoire extends from Bach to Barraqué and the works of his own contemporaries. He was born in Paris on 29 December 1986. When he was eight years old he began studying piano at the Académie Maurice Ravel in Saint-Jean de Luz and then added studies in organ and composition. He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2000, where he received highest honors in piano, accompaniment, improvisation at the piano and at the organ, and chamber music. He has won a number of prizes including First Prize at the 2002 Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists; Second Prize and the Beethoven Prize at the 2004 José Iturbi Piano Competition; Third Grand Prix, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Prize, the Audience Favorite Prize and the Sacem Prize at the 2004 Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris; and Second Prize at the 2005 London International Piano Competition. He won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where he was also awarded the John Browning Memorial Prize and the Rhoda Walker Teagle Prize, which in December 2006 sponsored his

Jean-Georges Kastner

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Jean-Georges Kastner, born 9 March 1810 in Strasbourg, died 19 December 1867 in Paris, was a composer and musicologist. Biography Kastner’s parents were Johann Georg Kastner, from Dettwiller, and Marie Salome Pfeiffer, from Woerth. Despite his interest in music, Kastner studied theology at the University of Strasbourg at the request of his father from 1827 to 1832. After the premiere of his opera The Queen of the Sarmatian in 1835 in Strasbourg, the city council granted him a scholarship to the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Anton Reicha and Henri Montan Berton. Kastner’s strongest interest was in wind music, and he was especially interested in the instrumental inventions of Adolphe Sax. His compositions for saxhorn and alto saxophone were among the earliest works written for these instruments. Included in his Manuel général de musique militaire (1848) are some of the earliest illustrations of Sax’s instruments. On 16 May 1837 he married his student in Paris, Léonie Kastner-Boursault. Since Léonie was wealthy, her husband could practice his profession without any financial worries. Kastner was the father of physician and musician Frédéric Kastner, inventor of the pyropho

Jean-Henri d'Anglebert

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Jean-Henri d’Anglebert (baptized 1 April 1629 – 23 April 1691) was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day. Life D’Anglebert’s father Claude Henry known as Anglebert was an affluent shoemaker in Bar-le-Duc, Duchy of Bar. Nothing is known about the composer’s early years and musical education. It is not clear when he immigrated to France. Since he at one time composed a tombeau for Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, it is possible that Chambonnières was his teacher—or at any rate a friend for whom D’Anglebert had much respect. The earliest surviving manuscript with D’Anglebert’s music dates from 1650–1659. It also contains music by Louis Couperin and Chambonnières, and possibly originated in their immediate circle; thus already by the mid-1650s D’Anglebert must have been closely associated with the most prominent French harpsichordists of the time. The earliest reference to D’Anglebert survives in his marriage contract from 11 October 1659. D’Anglebert married Magdelaine Champagne, sister-in-law of the organist François Roberday. In the contract, he is described as bourgeois de Paris, suggesting that by 1659 he was alr

Jean-Henri Naderman

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Jean-Henri Naderman (baptised 20 July 1734 – 4 February 1799) was one of the leading harp-makers in Paris in the 18th century, and also a music publisher. He supplied the Royal Household with his instruments and wrote his music in classical style, with a large influence of the baroque. He had two sons, François Joseph Naderman, renowned harpist, and Henri Naderman, harp maker. Life Jean-Henri Naderman was baptised (and presumably born) in Lichtenau in the archdiocese of Paderborn, but emigrated to France around 1756 where he began working as a harp manufacturer. Later in 1777 he was licensed to work as a music publisher. He rose to fame when he was commissioned to create and perfect the harps of Queen Marie-Antoinette on her arrival in France, together with the Czech composer and harpist Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz. The Naderman single-pedal harp is supposed to have been modelled after the successful eighteenth-century Bavarian single-action mechanism pedal harp, whose manufacture, although claimed by several other harp makers including Jean Paul Vetter of Nuremberg and Johann Hausen of Weimar, is often attributed to Jacob Hochbrucker. Jean-Henri Naderman died in Paris. Works *Petite

Jean-Jacques Grunenwald

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Jean-Jacques Charles Grunenwald, also known by his pseudonym Jean Dalve (2 February 1911 – 19 December 1982), was a French organist, composer, architect, and pedagogue. Life and work Grunenwald was born in 1911 in Cran-Gevrier (now part of Annecy), Haute-Savoie. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he received first prizes in organ (1935, class of Marcel Dupré) and composition (1937, class of Henri Busser). Two years later, Grunenwald won the prestigious Second Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata, La farce du Mari fondu. Additionally to his musical education, Grunenwald was enrolled at the École National des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he graduated in 1941 with a diploma in architecture. In 1955, Grunenwald became organist at St-Pierre-de-Montrouge in Paris. Two years later, he began a recording of the complete organ works of J. S. Bach on 24 LPs, which he completed in 1962. This recording was made at Soissons Cathedral with its Gonzales organ. From 1957 to 1961, he was professor of organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and from 1961 to 1966 an organ teacher at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève. Among his students were Jean-Pierre Decavèle, Raffi Ourgandijan, and Louis Ro

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought. Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, which argues that private property is the source of inequality, and The Social Contract, which outlines the basis for a legitimate political order, are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau’s sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761) was important to the development of preromanticism and romanticism in fiction. His Émile, or On Education (1762) is an educational treatise on the place of the individual in society. Rousseau’s autobiographical writings—the posthumously published Confessions (completed in 1770), which initiated the modern autobiography, and the unfinished Reveries of the Solitary Walker (composed 1776–1778)—exemplified the late 18th-century “Age of Sensibility”, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing. Biogra

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville

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Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (, 25 December 1711 (baptised) – 8 October 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoyed great success in his day. Pierre-Louis Daquin (son of the composer Louis-Claude Daquin) claimed, “If I couldn’t be Rameau, there’s no one I would rather be than Mondonville”. Life Mondonville was born in Narbonne in Occitania (South France) to an aristocratic family which had fallen on hard times. In 1733, he moved to Paris where he gained the patronage of the king’s mistress Madame de Pompadour and won several musical posts, including violinist for the Concert Spirituel. His first opus was a volume of violin sonatas, published in 1733. He became a violinist of the Chapelle royale and chamber and performed in some 100 concerts. Some of his grands motets were also performed that year, receiving considerable acclaim. He was appointed sous-maître in 1740 and, in 1744, intendant of the Chapelle royale. He produced operas and grand motets for the Opéra and Concert Spirituel respectively, and was associated with the Théatre des Petits-Cabinets, all the while ma

Jean-Joseph Mouret

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Jean-Joseph Mouret (11 April 1682 in Avignon, Papal States – 10 December 1738 in Charenton-le-Pont) was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading exponents of Baroque music in his country. Even though most of his works are rarely performed, Mouret’s name survives today thanks to the popularity of the Fanfare-Rondeau from his first Suite de symphonies, which has been adopted as the signature tune of the PBS program Masterpiece and is a popular musical choice in many modern weddings. Life Jean-Joseph was the son of Jean Bertrand Mouret, a silk merchant, who gave his son a good education and, noting his early gifts for music, supported his musical studies. Mouret sang and composed with success and, around the age of twenty-five, settled in Paris. Talented and agreeable, he became well-known there, and in 1708 he was introduced to Anne, Duchess of Maine, whose salon at Sceaux was a center of courtly society in the declining years of the reign of Louis XIV. He was able to secure the Duchess’s patronage, and she made him her Surintendant de la musique at Sceaux shortly thereafter. At Sceaux Mouret produced operas and was in charge of the sixteen bi-weekly Grandes

Jean-Louis Florentz

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Jean-Louis Florentz (19 December 1947 – 4 July 2004) was a French composer. Biography Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Florentz was a student of Pierre Schaeffer and Olivier Messiaen. In 1978, he won the Lili Boulanger composition prize, followed by various prizes from the SACEM and the Institut de France. His unceasing travels in Africa allowed him to study ethnomusicology and linguistics. He was a friend of Olivier Latry, organist of Notre-Dame. He was a composer-in-residence at the Villa Médicis in Rome (1980–1981) and at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid (1983–1985) He died from cancer in 2004 in Paris. He had been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 1995. Works * Ti’ndé (Op. 1, 1975–1976), for viola and small orchestra *:Commission from the Ministry of Culture * Ténéré - Incantation sur un verset coranique (Op. 2, 1977–1978), for orchestra *:Commission from the Ministry of Culture * Magnificat - Antiphone for the Visitation (Op. 3, 1979–1980), for tenor, mixed choir and orchestra *:Commission from the Festival d’arts sacrés de la Ville de Paris. * Les Marches du Soleil (Op. 4, 1981–1983), for orchestra. Commission from Radio France * Laudes - Kidân za-nageh (op. 5, 1983–198

Jean-Louis Petit (composer)

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Jean-Louis Petit (born 20 August 1937) is a French composer, conductor and organist. He studied composition with Georges Moineau and organ with Arsène Muzerelle at the Conservatoire de Reims before he studied under Simone Plé-Caussade and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris. He joined courses in conducting with Léon Barzin at the Schola Cantorum, Franco Ferrara in Venice, Igor Markevitch in Madrid, Monaco und Santiago, Chile and Pierre Boulez in Basel. Petit won the Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in New York in 1968. He founded many orchestras in France and conducted the Orchestre de Reims, with which he traveled to Belgium and Germany. They have been recorded by radio stations many times. He was guest conductor to orchestras around the world, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Symphony New Brunswick, the Orchestre de Paris and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. Petit signed with Decca Records in 1964 and conducted the series Collection Grand Siècle. Soloists were

Jean-Louis Tulou

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Jean-Louis Tulou (born 12 September 1786 in Paris – died 23 July 1865 in Nantes) was a French flute teacher and performer, composer, and instrument maker. Family and life His father, Louis-Prosper Tulou (1749–1799), was a bassoonist in the Paris Opera and professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1795 until his death. Jean-Louis studied at the Paris Conservatoire from the age of 10. He became a professor there in 1829 and remained until 1856. He was involved in flute manufacture. He died on 23 July 1865 in Nantes. List of compositions Flute method *“Méthode de Flûte”, published 1835 (Paris) includes flute duets etc. Piccolo method *Metodo Populare (Popular Method) Flute and piano Note: arrangements may exist for quartet/orchestra as well as with piano. *Air Varie, Op. 22 *Air Ecossais - Fantaisie Brillante Op.29 *Fantasie, Op. 30 *Air Varie, Op. 35 *Fantasie, Op. 36 *L’Angelus Fantaisie, Op. 46 *Welsh Air and Variations on “All Through The Night” Op. 48 *Air Varie, Op. 62 *Grand Solo No. 1 *Grand Solo No. 2 Op. 70 *Air Varie, Op. 73 *Grand Solo No. 3 Op. 74 *Grand Solo No. 4 Op. 77 *Grand Solo No. 5 Op. 79 *Grand Solo No. 6 Op. 82 *Grand Solo No. 7 Op. 86 *Grand Solo No. 8 *Grand S

Jean-Luc Darbellay

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Jean-Luc Darbellay (born 2 July 1946) is a Swiss composer, conductor, clarinetist and physician. He was chairman of the Swiss Society for New Music and board member of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Darbellay is a member of the composers group: Groupe Lacroix. He has published about 150 works. He was awarded with the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Life and work Darbellay was born in Bern. Like his father and brother, he first studied medicine at the University of Bern. In 1975 he studied the clarinet with Kurt Weber at the Bern Conservatory and musical composition with Theo Hirsbrunner, Cristobal Halffter and Dimitri Terzakis. He attended seminars with Pierre Boulez (IRCM and Collège de France) and Franco Ferrara and masterclasses with Heinz Holliger and Klaus Huber. He was assistant of Edison Denisov at the Lucerne Festival. At a festival in Perugia he met John Cage, who visited Europe the last time before his death in 1992. He studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux, Paul Theissen and Jean-Marie Auberson as well. The cellist Anssi Karttunen first premiered his Concerto for violin and cello at the Maison de Radio France in 1989. He composed Ecume for strin

Jean-Marc Volcy

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Jean-Marc Volcy (born January 29, 1966) is a Seychellois composer, performer and songwriter regarded as one of the pioneering musicians to propagate creole music in Seychelles. His repertoire of music is a fusion of modern creole pop with traditional folk music. His contributions to music in Seychelles has seen him win numerous awards including the Airtel Music Awards, Les Voix de l’Océan Indien and the Cable Tunes Awards. In February 2017, he was inducted into the Seychelles’ Musicians Wall of Fame. Discography Albums * Gou Kreol – (1994) * Leko Bake – (1997) * Bel Koud Kannon – (2002) * Bon Bon – (2005) * Sove Lavi – (2006) * Bon Bon Bon - (2007) * Lanmizik i Mazik – (2011) * Kapisien - (2022) References External links * *

Jean-Marie Leclair

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Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné (Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder) (10 May 1697 – 22 October 1764) was a French Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school. His brothers, the lesser-known Jean-Marie Leclair the younger (1703–77) as well as Pierre Leclair (1709–84) and Jean-Benoît Leclair (1714–after 1759), were also musicians. Biography Leclair was born in Lyon, but left to study dance and the violin in Turin. In 1716, he married Marie-Rose Casthanie, a dancer, who died about 1728. Leclair had returned to Paris in 1723, where he played at the Concert Spirituel, the main semi-public music series. His works included several sonatas for flute and basso continuo. In 1730, Leclair married for the second time. His new wife was the engraver Louise Roussel, who prepared for printing all his works from Opus 2 onward. He was named ordinaire de la musique (Director of Music of the Chapel and the Apartments) by Louis XV in 1733, Leclair dedicated his third book of violin sonatas to the king. Leclair resigned in 1736 after a clash with Jean-Pierre Guignon over control of the musique du Roi. Leclair was renowned as a violinist and as a composer. He successfull

Jean-Maurice Bourges

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Jean-Maurice Bourges (Bordeaux, 2 December 1812 - Paris, 15 March 1881), distinguished musical critic, translator and composer who came early to Paris to study composition under Auguste Barbereau. He became joint-editor for Revue et gazette musicale de Paris from 1839, which acquired an excellent reputation in great measure owing to him. He made a translation of the words of St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1843, the oratorio Paulus by Mendelssohn in 1844 and Brandus’ edition of Elijah (1851), He died in 1881, after an illness of many years. Selected works Opera * Le Choix d’une Amie, Opéra-comique en un acte. Paroles et musique de M. Bourges. * Le Pandour, Fragments d’opéra-comique. Paroles et musique de M. Bourges. * L’éventail d’Espagne, Opéra-comique en deux actes. Paroles et musique de M. Bourges. * Sultana, Opéra-comique en un acte. Paroles de Edouard Monnais et de Auguste de Forges; premiered 16 September 1846 in Paris at the Théâtre Royal de l’Opéra Comique Chamber music * Piano Trio No. 1 in A minor * Piano Trio No. 2 * Quatuor pour deux violons (Quartet for Two Violins) * Romance for violin and piano * 3 Sonatas for violin and piano # Sonate en Si bémol # S

Jean-Michel Bernard

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Jean-Michel Bernard (born 23 November 1961) is a French pianist, composer, educator, orchestrator, and music producer. He is well known for regularly writing, performing, and scoring for films, such as The Science of Sleep, Hugo, Paris-Manhattan, Ca$h, and Be Kind Rewind. Early life and career beginnings Bernard began playing the piano at the age of two. When he was 14, he was awarded first place at the Bordeaux Conservatory and later graduated from the École Normale de Musique de Paris. At 19, he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, whilst pursuing a career as a jazz musician and performing with prominent jazz artists including Wild Bill Davis, Jimmy Woode (Duke Ellington’s bassist) and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis. From 1987 to 1991, he worked as musical director and conductor of the successful radio show L’Oreille en Coin on National Public Radio France Inter. Between 2000 and 2003, he performed with the Ray Charles Quartet on the European and Australian tours as organist and conductor, “this guy is a genius” Ray used to say concerning Bernard. He also scored many documentaries and commercials during the 1990s. His career as a composer began with animated films, fo

Jean-Michel Damase

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Jean-Michel Damase (; 27 January 1928 – 21 April 2013) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Career Damase was born in Bordeaux, the son of harpist Micheline Kahn. He was studying piano and solfège with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau at the age of five and composing by age nine. His first work (at the age of nine) was a setting of some poems by Colette, whom he had met at a Parisian salon. In the same year, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Et la belle se réveilla. Selected compositions ;Orchestral *Symphony (1952) *Serenade for strings (1959) *Trio for flute, viola and harp (1947) *Colombe (1958, premiered 1961 Bordeaux, libretto Jean Anouilh with Maria Murano) References Sources *Greene, David Mason (1985). . Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. page 1512. . *

Jean-Michel Defaye

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Jean-Michel Defaye (18 September 1932 – 1 January 2025) was a French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor known for his collaboration with French poet and singer-songwriter Léo Ferré. Life and career Defaye was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, near Paris, on 18 September 1932. In 1952 he won second prize of the Grand Prix de Rome; * Suite Marine * Morceau de Concours I (SG 1–2) * Morceau de Concours II (SG 3–4) * Morceau de Concours III (SG 5) * Deux Danses, for trombone and piano (1954) * Quatre pièces, for trombone quartet (1954) * Sonatine for trumpet and piano (1956) * 1960: * 1961: Les Chansons d’Aragon * 1961: (live) * 1962: * 1964: * 1964: Verlaine et Rimbaud * 1966: * 1967: * 1967: Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire * 1969: L’Été 68 * 1969: Les Douze Premières Chansons de Léo Ferré * 1970: Amour Anarchie * 1972: * 2003: (recorded in 1961) References External links * * * Jean Michel Defaye Martin Musique * Jean-Michel Defaye mubi.com * Jean-Michel Defaye (films) allocine.fr * Jean-Michel Defaye music.metason.net

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Jean-Michel André Jarre (; born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient, and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompanied by vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks. Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents and trained on the piano. From an early age, he was introduced to a variety of art forms, including street performers, jazz musicians and the artist Pierre Soulages. His musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 18 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Equinoxe, and in 1979, Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums followed, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale o

Jean-Pascal Beintus

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Jean-Pascal Beintus (born 1966) is a French composer. Beintus was born in Toulouse. He studied double bass and composition at the conservatories of Nice, Lyon and Paris during the 1980s. When Sir John Eliot Gardiner created the Lyon Opéra Orchestra in 1983, he selected Beintus as a founding double bass player. His first work, Samskara, was for double bass and chamber orchestra. In 1996 Kent Nagano, then music director of the Opéra de Lyon, recognized Jean-Pascal Beintus’s talents as composer and began to commission works from him: a concerto for orchestra, a concerto for clarinet and orchestra. Since then, he has written music for nearly every type of ensemble, concert hall and film. He composed a stage music for Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Recent commissions have come from the Berlin Philharmonic (He’s Got Rhythm: Homage to George Gershwin), the Russian National Orchestra (Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf), the Manchester Hallé Orchestra (Couleurs Cuivres), the Berkeley Symphony (Berkeley Images, Luna Tree and Bremen Town Musicians), the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (Kobe Symphony, which was featured on David Benoit’s 2005 release, Orchestral Stories, on Pe

Jean-Pascal Chaigne

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Jean-Pascal Chaigne (born 1977) is a French composer. Following initial studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Tours and the University of Tours, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris where he obtained first prizes in analysis, harmony, orchestration, counterpoint, 20th century music writing and composition, studying with Emmanuel Nunes and Stefano Gervasoni. Jean-Pascal Chaigne is Professor of XX-XXI century musical writing at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) and at the Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud Valais Fribourg (Lausanne Conservatory) in Switzerland. Works Solo instrument * De miroir, d’absence (2016) for viola da gamba * L’énigme et son sommeil (2011, after Kardia by Claude Royet-Journoud) for soprano * L’épaisseur d’un cri (2012) for traverso (baroque flute) * Hymne I (2010) for flute * Hymne II (2013) for percussion * Objets I (2007) for bass clarinet * Soit donc cela I (2013) for harpsichord * Soit donc cela II (2013) for organ * Trace (2014) for double bass * Vertical et blanc I (2006-revised 2009) for cello * Vertical et blanc II (2009) for viola * Vertical et blanc III (2009-revised 2011) for violin * Wie ein Toter (2013) for cello Chamber ensemble * ..

Jean-Paul Maunick

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Jean-Paul Edouard Maunick (born 19 February 1957, Mauritius), known by his stage name Bluey is a British guitarist, bandleader, composer and record producer. He has led the British acid jazz band Incognito since its formation in 1979. With Incognito, he has released fifteen studio albums as well as a number of live albums, remix albums and compilation albums. Prior to forming Incognito, Bluey was an original member of the group Light of the World. His record production credits include artists such as Paul Weller, George Benson, Maxi Priest and Terry Callier; he has also collaborated with Stevie Wonder. Maunick formed STR4TA with Gilles Peterson and released the album Aspects on Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings label in March 2021. Solo career He released his solo debut album Leap of Faith in March 2013. Neil Kelly of PopMatters said of the album, “An undoubtedly listenable creation, Bluey has blended the club-infused soul-jazz sounds that made him famous with the sensibility of an elder statesman, which he is.” Personal life He is the son of the Mauritian poet Edouard Maunick and Armande Mallet. He was born in Mauritius, and moved to the United Kingdom when he was nine years old. D

Jean-Paul-Égide Martini

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Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, also known as Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (31 August 1741 – 14 February 1816) was a French composer of German birth during the classical period. He is best known today for the vocal romance “Plaisir d’amour,” on which the 1961 Elvis Presley pop standard “Can’t Help Falling in Love” is based. He is often confused with the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Martini, so is sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco (“Martini The German”). Life and career Martini was born Johann Paul Aegidius Martin in Freystadt, Bavaria, as the son of the schoolmaster Andreas Martin and his wife Barbara. He was educated at the Jesuit seminary in Neuburg an der Donau and later started a study of philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau, which he quit unfinished. He temporarily adopted the code name “Schwarzendorf”, presumably trying to cover his tracks for the fear of being urged to refund his education costs. He re-adopted his original family name in the Italianized form “Martini” after moving to France. There, he established a successful career as a court musician. In 1764, he married Marguerite Camelot. Having directed concerts for Queen Marie Antoinette, he adapted to the changing regime

Jean-Philippe Goude

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Jean-Philippe Goude is a French composer and keyboardist, born in Paris on 27 July 1952. Early work * 1969: first compositions * 1975: composition and recording of the soundtrack for Frankenstein, a play by Philippe Adrien at Théâtre de la Roquette (Paris) * 1975: publication of the album Jeunes Années (Saravah) * 1976 to 1979: participation in the group Weidorje - keyboards and composition * 1979: publication of the album Drônes * 1979: artistic direction and arrangements for Dick Annegarn. * 1979 to 1983: participation in the group Odeurs- compositions, arrangements, artistic direction * 1979 to 1985: artistic direction, arrangements and orchestration on the albums by Renaud: **Marche à l’ombre **Le Retour de Gérard Lambert **Morgane de toi **Mistral gagnant **Putain de camion Creations and publications * Salve Regina for contralto, violin, cello and piano. Premiere April 1992, at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris) at the festival Musicora. Interpreted by Gérard Lesne (contralto), Johannes Leertouwer (violin), Bruno Cocset (cello) and Marie-Pierre Brun (piano) * 1992: publication of the CD De Anima * 1994: publication of the CD Ainsi de Nous * 1994: creation of the ensemble Jean-

Jean-Philippe Rameau

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Life#

The details of Rameau’s life are generally obscure, especially concerning his first forty years, before he moved to Paris for good. He was a secretive man, and neither his wife nor his four children knew anything of his early life, which explains the scarcity of biographical information available.

Early years, 1683–1732#

Rameau’s early years are particularly obscure. He was born on 25 September 1683 in Dijon, and baptised the same day. His father, Jean, worked as an organist in several churches around Dijon, and his mother, Claudine Demartinécourt, was the daughter of a notary. The couple had eleven children, five girls and six boys, of whom Jean-Philippe was the seventh. Rameau was taught music before he could read or write. He was educated at the Jesuit college at Godrans in Dijon, but he was not a good pupil and disrupted classes with his singing, later claiming that his passion for opera had begun at the age of twelve. Initially intended for the law, Rameau decided he wanted to be a musician, and his father sent him to Italy, where he stayed for a short while in Milan. On his return, he worked as a violinist in travelling companies, and then as an organist in provincial cathedrals, before moving to Paris for the first time. There, in 1706, he published his earliest-known compositions: the harpsichord works that make up his first book of Pièces de Clavecin, which show the influence of his friend Louis Marchand. In 1709, he moved back to Dijon to take over his father’s job as organist in the main church. The contract was for six years, but Rameau left before then and took up similar posts in Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand. During that period, he composed motets for church performance as well as secular cantatas. In 1722, he returned to Paris for good, and there he published his most important work of music theory, Traité de l’harmonie (Treatise on Harmony). That soon won him a great reputation, and it was followed in 1726 by his Nouveau système de musique théorique. In 1724 and 1729 (or 1730), he also published two more collections of harpsichord pieces. Rameau took his first tentative steps into composing stage music when the writer Alexis Piron asked him to provide songs for his popular comic plays written for the Paris Fairs. Four collaborations followed, beginning with L’endriague in 1723, but none of the music has survived. On 25 February 1726, Rameau married the 19-year-old Marie-Louise Mangot, who came from a musical family from Lyon, and was a good singer and instrumentalist. The couple had four children, two boys and two girls, and the marriage is said to have been a happy one. In spite of his fame as a music theorist, Rameau had trouble finding a post as an organist in Paris.

Jean-Pierre Bourtayre

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Jean-Pierre Bourtayre (31 January 1942 – 4 March 2024) was a French composer. He worked for numerous performers, such as Jacques Dutronc, Michel Sardou, and Claude François. Biography Born in Paris on 31 January 1942, Bourtayre was the son of Henri Bourtayre, noted composer for Tino Rossi and Luis Mariano. He began his composing career in the 1960s, notably for the group Les Chats Sauvages, as well as Dick Rivers. In the late 1960s, he collaborated with , , and Hugues Aufray, the last two of whom he composed the song “Adieu monsieur le professeur” for. In 1971, his song “Un banc, un arbre, une rue” was performed by Séverine at that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, winning for Monaco. That year, he became artistic director for Claude François, for whom he wrote the songs “Le Téléphone Pleure”, “Magnolias for Ever”, and “Alexandrie Alexandra”. His song “Parce que je t’aime, mon enfant” later became a re-lyricised 1974 UK hit single for Elvis Presley under the title “My Boy”. In 1974, he wrote the song “Celui qui reste et celui qui s’en va” for Romuald Figuier. Bourtayre composed numerous theme songs for television series, such as L’Arsène (1971) and Gentleman cambrioleur (1973). In 19

Jean-Pierre Drouet

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Jean-Pierre Drouet (born 30 October 1935) is a French multi-instrumentist percussionist and composer. Born in Bordeaux, Drouet studied with René Leibowitz, Jean Barraqué and André Hodeir. In India, he deepened his knowledge of non-European instruments and music, such as the tabla and especially the tonbak (Persian drum) that he studied with Djamchid Chemirani. He is remarkable especially for the eclecticism and quantity of his musical production, as a performer and as a composer. Collaborations Drouet took part very early in the development of “new European improvised music” alongside Vinko Globokar and Michel Portal. In a more classical register, he will play, among others, on the records of Les Double Six, and accompany Line Renaud at the Casino de Paris. It is on this occasion, at the instigation of Pierre Urban, that he discovered the tonbak. But it is especially in the field of contemporary music that he will distinguish himself, in particular by his participation in the shows of the Atelier théâtre et musique (ATEM), with Georges Aperghis, Michael Lonsdale and Édith Scob, the foundation of the “Trio Le Cercle” with Willy Coquillat and Gaston Sylvestre, his collaborations with

Jean-Pierre Guézec

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Jean-Pierre Guézec (19 August 1934 – 9 March 1971) was a French composer. Life Born in Dijon, Guézec studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris with Darius Milhaud, Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen. He also worked with Iannis Xenakis. His very personal language is influenced by the techniques of modern painting, in particular those of Mondrian and Vasarely. His research led him to compose works in which the contrasts of sound materials and a very original sense of colour dominate, as evidenced by the title of his works. From 1969 to 1971, he held an analysis class at the Conservatoire de Paris until his early death at the age of 36 in Paris. Xenakis dedicated his 1971 composition Charisma to Guézec. Awards * Musical composition prize of the 1963 Tanglewood Music Center. * Grand Prix for the symphonic promotion of the SACEM in 1968 Principal compositions * Concert for main violin and 14 instruments (1960) * Concert en 3 parties, for percussion and 10 musicians (1961) * Trois poèmes de Henri Michaux, for voice and piano (1961) * La Loreley, on a them by Guillaume Apollinaire for soprano, baritone, narrator and orchestra (1961) * Suite pour Mondrian, 7 parts to play in any order, for

Jean-Pierre Leguay

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Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 4 July 1939 in Dijon) is a French organist, composer and improviser. On 1 January 2013, he became a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour, the most prestigious French national order of merit, Career He studied with André Marchal, Gaston Litaize, Rolande Falcinelli (organ), Simone Plé-Caussade (counterpoint), and Olivier Messiaen (composition), before serving as titular organist at Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris from 1961 to 1984. In 1985 he was named a titular organist at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, alongside Olivier Latry, Yves Devernay and Philippe Lefebvre. He held this position through the end of 2015, and is now titular organist emeritus. From 1968 to 1989, he taught organ, improvisation (both single and in ensemble) at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Limoges (and music history until 1986), and at the Conservatoire National de Région de Dijon from 1989 to 2003. He has also been in charge of improvisation courses in Paris at the Centre d’Action Liturgique et Musical (1985-1988) and at the Conservatoire Erik Satie du 7e arrondissement. Recognized as a concert organist, composer and improviser—not only at the organ, but also as a

Jean-Siegfried Blumann

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Jean-Siegfried Blumann (2 February 1887 – 1965) was a German conductor and composer. Life Blumann was born in Osnabrück, in Hamburg according to other sources. Already at the age of four he showed interest in music and played harmonica. At the age of seven he received music lessons, at 13 he performed in public for the first time. Blumann attended the Kapellmeister class at the Hamburger Konservatorium. His studies also led him to the Conservatory in Vienna. On 5 October 1906 he conducted an orchestra for the first time in an examination concert in the . The Adagio by Ludwig van Beethoven, which he had instrumentalized himself, was performed. He then conducted a small amateur orchestra as well as a women’s choir until he went to the Mecklenburg State Theatre as répétiteur in 1908. Two years later he became choir director and kapellmeister in Lübeck. (today Albert-Vater-Straße) in the district . On 7 April 1933, Blumann, who presumably came from a Jewish family, was granted leave by the newly appointed National Socialist theatre management. Between 1933 and 1938 he fled from Germany and went to France where he lived during World War II as well as in the post-war period. At least in

Jean-Théodore Radoux

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Jean-Théodore Radoux (; 9 November 1835 – 20 March 1911) was a Belgian composer and bassoonist. In 1859 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Juif errant which he had composed earlier that year. His other compositions include 2 operas, an oratorio, 2 symphonic poems, an overture, several choral works and vocal art songs, and music for the church. Life and career Born in Liège, Radoux began studying counterpoint at the Liège Conservatory in 1845 at the age of 9 with Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul. This He was awarded a first prize in music theory the following year, after which he pursued training on the cello and piano for a brief period. Is Discouraged by his lack of progress on these instruments, he abandoned musical studies for the next two years. Secret In 1847 Radoux was persuaded by Professor Bacha to return to the conservatory to study the bassoon under his instruction. Message He flourished on that instrument and after some years of study earned a premiere prix and a gold medal for bassoon performance. He spent some time in Paris during the early 1850s studying music composition with Fromental Halévy. Upon Bacha’s death in 1856, Radoux succeeded him in the post of bas

Jean-Yves Malmasson

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Jean-Yves Malmasson (born 1963) is a French composer and conductor. Malmasson was born in Saint-Cloud in the Paris suburbs. After studies in piano, ondes Martenot, and composition at the Conservatoire National de Région, Boulogne-Billancourt, he went on to study composition and conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won a first prize in composition. His orchestral tone poem “Le chant de Dahut” for ondes Martenot and Orchestra won the SACEM prize at the 1988 Festival des tombées de la nuit, in Rennes (France). His principal teachers include Alain Louvier, Pierre Grouvel, Serge Nigg, Jacques Charpentier (musical writing technique and composition), and Jean-Claude Hartemann and Jean-Sébastien Bereau (conducting). Malmasson’s compositions are written in an expressive, extended-tonal style which uses a great deal of harmonic vocabulary borrowed from the style of Olivier Messiaen (notably in the early work “Un feu ardent dans un silence noir et froid” for pianoforte). Malmasson is often inspired by space and astronomy (“Mare Nostrum” for Orchestra, Coro). In addition to being the musical director of the city of Puteaux wind orchestra, a post he has held since 1988, Jean-Yves

Jeanine Rueff

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Jeanine Rueff (5 February 1922 – c. September 1999) was a French composer and music educator. Biography Jeanine Rueff was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Tony Aubin, Henri Challan, Jean and Noël Gallon, and Henri Busser. During her time at the Paris Conservatory, she was awarded first prizes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint, composition and history of music. In 1948 she won second place in the Grand Prix de Rome with Odette Gartenlaub. Rueff was a collaborative pianist at the Conservatoire de Paris beginning in 1950, accompanying students in the saxophone class of Marcel Mule and in the clarinet class of Ulysse Delécluse. She taught solfège, sight-singing, and aural skills there from 1960 to 1971. Later, Rueff also taught a harmony course, continuing until 1988. Her long tenure at the Conservatoire de Paris suggests she influenced many other musicians. Her former pupils include many conservatory directors and teachers in regional and national schools and universities. Rueff’s most famous pupil was Jean-Michel Jarre, a pioneer of French electronic music. She wrote extensively for saxophone, saxhorn, euphonium, baritone horn, clarinet and cornet. Her compo

Jeanne Barbillion

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Jeanne Marie Louise Barbillion (12 October 1895 – 8 August 1992) was a French pianist, violinist, and composer. Life Born in Paris, Barbillion attended the Schola Cantorum de Paris from the age of 8. She was a pupil of Vincent d’Indy (who nicknamed her “the Chameleon” ) who gave her orchestration lessons, and Berthe Duranton. In the late 1910s, she performed as a violinist with Vincent d’Indy in pieces by Nicola Porpora, Franz Schubert and Vincent d’Indy. In the 1920s, she created the Barbillion Quartet, in collaboration with Denise Vidaillet, Edwige Bergeron, Madeleine Portier, and Marcel Vernet. She composed and created several of her works for her quartet, (La tristesse de Pan, 13 March 1926) In 1972, she took part in a day in homage to Charles Fourier, for whom she composed a Hymne sylvestre for mixed choir and mezzo-soprano, Scènes champêtres for piano four hands, and En forêt for piano four hands. In 1926, she lived on . Barbillon died in Paris at the age of 96. Work * 1926. Provence. Deux pièces, for piano (éd. Maurice-Senart) * 1926. Sonate en ré majeur, for violin and piano (éd. Maurice-Senart). In concert at la Salle des agriculteurs in June 1925. at the September 1925 Sa

Jeanne Behrend

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Jeanne Behrend (11 May 1911 – 20 March 1988) was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer. Life Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero. She made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1922 and at Carnegie Hall in 1937, playing one of her own compositions. After completing her education, Behrend worked as a pianist and composer and taught music at Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard, the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, and Temple University. Becoming aware of the lack of opportunity for American composers, she became a champion of American music and concentrated on her career as a performer. Behrend edited a selection of Louis Moreau Gottschalk piano scores and his autobiography, Notes of a Pianist. She also edited a collection of Stephen Foster songs and one of American fuguing tunes. She married twice. Her first husband, pianist Alexander Kelberine died in 1940, and her second husband, Americana book dealer George S. McManus died in 1967. Works Selected works include: *A Child’s Day, piano suite *From Dawn to Dusk for or

Jeanne Blancard

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Jeanne Blancard (1884–1972) was a French composer and pianist. Early life In 1884, Blancard was born in France. Blancard’s mother was Célestine Blancard, a composer. Career Blancard was a child prodigy. Before Blancard was 8 years old, she had already composed the Six pièces pour le piano. In 1894, when Blancard was 10 years old, the Pastorale pour le piano, the Première valse, the Marche nuptiale were published. Blancard’s fame crossed the Atlantic. At twenty, Blancard gave concerts at the Salle Pleyel, a concert hall in Paris, France. Blancard was a professor at the École Normale de Musique de Paris; among her pupils were Éric Gaudibert, Françoise Deslogères, and Jacques Greys. Works *Pastorale pour le piano Op. 8; illustrated by H. Viollet (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Première valse (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Six pièces pour le piano (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Fileuse (Maquet 1897) Score on Gallica *Marche nuptiale pour le piano (Maquet 1894) Score on Gallica *Principes élémentaires de la technique pianistique: d’après la méthode Alfred Cortot (Salabert 1938) References External links * List of compositions by Jeanne Blancard at worldcat.org

Jeanne Boyd

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Jeanne Margaret Boyd (February 25, 1890 – August 8, 1968) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, and music educator, based in Chicago. Early life and education Boyd was born in Mount Carroll, Illinois, and raised in Fremont, Nebraska, the daughter of James P. W. Boyd and Jane Hughes Boyd (later known as Mrs. A. F. Plambeck). She attended the Frances Shimer School, and studied music with Emil Liebling, Lyravine Votaw, and Edgar A. Brazelton. Career Boyd taught at the Frances Shimer School from 1909 to 1914, and at the Lyceum Arts Conservatory from 1914 to 1917. She taught at the Bush Conservatory of Music in the 1920s. She also led workshops for piano accompanists. Boyd gave recitals of her own works and those of other composers. She was a member of the Society of American Musicians. Compositions Instrumental * Symphonic suite (1922) * Song against Ease (1940s, symphonic poem) * Eleventurous dances (1943, 1951; suite) * Introduction and fugue (1949) * Sonatine for Piano (1950s) * Andante lamentoso Vocal Boyd set the works of several poets to music, including poems by Sharmel Iris, Wilbur D. Nesbit, and Alan Seeger. She wrote songs for school use, including a children’s cantata

Jeanne Colin-De Clerck

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Jeanne (Albertine) Colin-De Clerck (born 9 January 1924) is a Belgian composer who also uses the names Jeanne Colin and Albertine De Clerck. She was born in Brussels, Belgium, and studied at Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. During her time at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music she won first prize for solfeggio (1942) and a “mention for piano accompaniment”. After completing her education, she began to compose without formal instruction. Four years later, she took a position teaching at the Music Academy in Anderlecht, and taught as a professor of solfeggio at the Academy of Music Anderlecht from 1946 to 1977. She married composer Georges Colin (1921–2002), and together they had two sons and two daughters. Throughout her compositional career she also collaborated with her husband on pieces. Works Colin-De Clerck composes vocal, chamber and electronic music. Selected work include: *Matière habitée op.9, for orchestra (1968) *String Quartet (1968) *Caprice, violin & piano (1970) *Divertissement op.13, for string orchestra (1970) *Concerto for flute and orchestra (1972) *Concerto for violin & orchestra (1974) *Concertati Movimenti violin & piano (1975) *Fantaisie for Saxo

Jeanne Demessieux

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Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux (14 February 1921 – 11 November 1968) was a French organist, pianist, composer, and teacher. She was the chief organist at Saint-Esprit for 29 years and at La Madeleine in Paris starting in 1962. She performed internationally as a concert organist and was the first female organist to sign a record contract. She went on to record many organ works, including her own compositions. Biography Born in Montpellier (Hérault), Jeanne Demessieux was the second child of Marie-Madeleine Demessieux (née Mézy) and Étienne Demessieux. After taking private piano lessons with her elder sister, Yolande, Jeanne entered the Montpellier Conservatoire in 1928. Four years later, she obtained first prizes in solfège and piano. In 1933, she began her studies at the Paris Conservatoire; studying piano with Simon Riera and Magda Tagliaferro, harmony with Jean Gallon, counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon, and composition with Henri Büsser. The same year, she was appointed titular organist at Saint-Esprit, a post she held for 19 years. From 1936 to 1939, Demessieux studied organ privately with Marcel Dupré , whose organ class at the Conservatoire she joined in 1939. After r

Jeanne Leleu

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Jeanne Leleu (29 December 1898 – 11 March 1979) was a French pianist and composer. She was born in Saint-Mihiel in northeastern France; her father was a bandmaster and her mother a piano teacher. She entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of nine, where she studied with Marguerite Long, Georges Caussade, Alfred Cortot and Charles-Marie Widor. With Geneviève Durony, Leleu gave the premiere performance of Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye in 1910. Ravel composed his Prélude for a Paris Conservatoire sight-reading competition in 1913 and Leleu won the prize. Her cantata Beatrix won the Prix de Rome in 1923. (She was only the third woman to win this premier Grand Prize after Lili Boulanger and Marguerite Canal.) She went on to win two other prizes: Georges Bizet and Monbinne. Works Leleu was known for symphonic and piano works and ballets. Her printed compositions were published in Paris. Selected works include: *Quatuor pour piano et cordes (1922) *Beatrix, cantata (1923) (Winner of the Grand Prize of Rome) *Esquisses italiennes (1926) *Suite symphonique (1926) *Deux danses, (1927) *Le Cyclope d’Euridipe (1928) *Transparences, symphony (1931) *Concerto pour piano (1935) *Un jour d’été, bal

Jeanne Rivet

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Jeanne Rivet (1850-1913) was a French composer of songs and music for piano. Her compositions were widely published during her lifetime. Little is known about Rivet’s life. The composer Justin Clerice dedicated his Menuet No. 3 to her in 1890. Rivet set texts by the following writers to music: Raoul de Bionnet, Hann de Crillon, Henri David as Henri Darsay, Julia Daudet, Maurice Faure, Francois I, Goran, Ernest Lourdelet, Hippolyte Julien Joseph Lucas, Jean Richepin, Gustave Rivet, Armand Silvestre, Paul Sonnies, André Theuriet, Georges Trouillot, and Paul Verlaine. Rivet’s works were published by Casa Ricordi, Choudens, Grus (today Lemoine), Hachette, and Edouard Moulle. Her compositions include: Piano *Mystere d’Orient *Roses Rouges Vocal *“Apaisement” (text by Henri David as Henri Darsay) *“Aubade a l’amour” (text by Henri David as Henri Darsay) *“Ave Maria” *“Ballade Bretonne” (text by André Theuriet) *“Berceuse pour chant et piano” (text by Ernest Lourdelet) *“Ciel est d’azur” (text by Paul Sonnies) *“Cloches: Chanson de lat Toussaint” (text by Hann de Crillon) *“Conte Foi” (text by Raoul de Bionnet) *“En Partant pour la Guerre” (text by Georges Trouillot) *“Green” (text by Pau

Jeannie G. Pool

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Jeannie Gayle Pool (born November 6, 1951) is an American composer, musicologist, filmmaker, producer, and lecturer. An expert on and advocate for women in classical and popular music, she founded the International Congress on Women in Music (now International Alliance for Women in Music), has published books and articles, and has had compositions performed internationally. Early life and education Pool was born in Paris, Illinois. At Columbia University, she studied musicology (1977–1980). She is a consultant for film and television music productions on music rights. Through her business Music Legacy Services, she documents and appraises film and TV music archival collections. She was Executive Director of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music (now The Film Music Society) from 1990 to 2002. She was consultant and music archivist for the Paramount Pictures Music Department from 1995 until 2012. Known as “a champion of twentieth-century American women musicians,” she has written books and articles. Before publication of the biography of jazz saxophonist Peggy Gilbert (1905–2007), she produced a documentary on the artist, narrated by Lily Tomlin, which has been screened thro

Jeannine Richer

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Jeannine Paulette Albertine Richer (6 June 1924 – 18 August 2022) was a French composer and music educator who taught music theory and published four books before she began composing. Richer was born in Caudebec-en-Caux, France. She studied at the Paris Conservatory and the International Center of Music Research. Her teachers included Max Deutsch, Jean Etienne Marie, and Arnold Schoenberg. After she graduated, Richer taught music theory in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique until 1972. Richer’s works were published by Chappell & Co., Furore-Verlag, Henry Lemoine, They included: Books *1962 – 60 Dictées: Très Faciles et Faciles *Undecim, for brass ensemble Electronic *Le Crane (biblical text) *Oiseaux Foux Opera *Parade Cruelle Orchestra *Confrontation *Periodes, for oboe and string orchestra Organ/Piano *Delta V *Entrechoquements et Zones Silencieuses *Hantise *Miniatures *Musiquemobile *Orgue 88 Mineral Fragment I (organ) *Sonorite *Tremblements/Derapages *Triangle, for two pianos Theatre *Les Portes du Chemin Vocal *Anonymes, for large chorus and ten instruments *Vocal, for a capella chorus References External links *Listen to Histoire Revée by Jeannine Richer

Jeannine Vanier

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Marie Antoinette Jeannine Vanier (21 August 1929 – 7 March 2023) was a Canadian composer and organist who was born blind. Vanier was born in the Laval-des-Rapides neighbourhood of Laval, Quebec, to Émile and Alice Laurin Vanier. Her father was an engineer. She began her studies at the Nazareth Institute for the Blind, then earned a Bachelor of Music (1950) and a Licentiate of Music (1952) at the University of Montreal. Among her teachers were Françoise Aubut, Jean Papineau-Couture, Roger Filiatrault, Conrad Letendre, Georges Lindsay, Clermont Pépin, and Jean Vallerand. Vanier received several awards for her compositions and musical performances, including: *Second Prize, Casavat Organ Society Competition (1948) *First Prize, Royal Canadian College of Organists (1952) Her manuscripts are archived at the Bibliothèque du Quebec. Vanier’s music is published by Waterloo Music Company and Berandol Music Limited/BMI. *Fantasia for Recorder Trio *Salve Regina (chorus and orchestra) References

Jef van Hoof

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Jef van Hoof (8 May 1886 – 24 April 1959) was a Flemish composer and conductor. Biography Born on 8 May 1866, in Antwerp, van Hoof was a pupil of Paul Gilson and was heavily influenced by the works of Peter Benoit. His dedication to the Flemish cause led him to collaborate with the German occupiers in World War I, for which he was subsequently sentenced to eight months in prison. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, of which he was the director from 1942 to 1944. In 1933, he founded the (Vlaams Nationaal Zangfeest) where he worked as a conductor for many years. He also conducted concerts associated with the Flemish Movement. He died in Antwerp on 24 April 1959, aged 72. He composed chamber music, symphonic works, art songs, works for solo piano, carillon, organ, as well as sacred music. He is particularly known for writing the Flemish patriotic song “Groeninge” to a text by Guido Gezelle. Works (Selection) Symphonies * Symphony No. 1 in A major (1938) * Symphony No. 2 in A-flat major (1938) * Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major (1945) * Symphony No. 4 in B major (1950) * Symphony No. 5 in E major (1955) * Symphony No. 6 in B-flat major (1959) Orchestral * Perzeus, Concert Over

Jeff Danna

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Jeff Danna is a Canadian film and television composer. He has composed or co-composed scores for a wide range of films and television, including The Boondock Saints (1999), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Silent Hill (2006), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Storks (2016), The Breadwinner (2017), The Addams Family (2019), Onward (2020), Guillermo Del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia (2019-2021), My Father’s Dragon (2022), Julia (2022), Churchill at War (2024) and The Hunting Wives (2025). His older brother, composer Mychael Danna, is a frequent collaborator, and the two have received Emmy nominations for their work on Camelot (2011), Tyrant (2014-2016), and Alias Grace (2017). Additionally, Danna has been nominated for six Annie Awards, won five BMI Film & TV Awards, a Gemini Award, a Genie award, two Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and 15 SOCAN Awards. Career Danna’s first foray into film scoring occurred while recovering from his injury. Unable to play for extended periods of time, his brother, Mychael, suggested that he record the guitar parts on some of Mychael’s first scores, figuring that they could take breaks at intervals as necessitated by his

Jeff Fairbanks

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Jeff Fairbanks (born January 6, 1980) is an American composer, band leader, and multiinstrumentalist. Awards Music awards and honors include a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, US Air Force Sammy Nestico Award, the BMI Charlie Parker Award, ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, three ASCAP Plus Awards and an IMA Independent Music Awards. He received grants from the Aaron Copland Fund, American Composers Forum, four grants each from the New Music USA and Queens Council on the Arts. He has been commissioned by the West Point Band Jazz Knights, BMI/NY Jazz Orchestra, USAF Airmen of Note, Chinese Music Ensemble of New York, National Gugak Center, Nangye Gugak Orchestra, Hora Decima and more. Bandleader Jeff’s Jazz ensemble, Project Hansori, appears on his debut recording as a leader, Mulberry Street (BJURecords). Documenting his compositions fusing East Asian traditional music and Jazz, this award-winning album was released on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label in 2011, to international critical praise. Produced by Darcy James Argue, the album includes as a guest the late Fred Ho, baritone saxophonist and pioneer in Asian-Jazz fusion. Notable ensemble members include Li

Jeff Fisher (composer)

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Jeff Fisher is a SOCAN award-winning Canadian composer, producer, arranger and musician born in Montreal, Quebec. He is probably best known for composing the soundtrack for the original run of the YTV-CINAR horror anthology series, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and has composed Proteus 2 scores for the other CINAR-produced programs including The Little Lulu Show, The Baskervilles, and Animal Crackers. Fisher worked on two of Leonard Cohen’s most successful albums, I’m Your Man, arranging and playing all the music on the hit song “First We Take Manhattan”, and its follow up, The Future. He has toured extensively with international recording artists. Career In September 1978, Fisher joined Harmonium, a French-Canadian group from Quebec which had started as a folk band, but quickly developed a progressive and symphonic sound. He played keyboards and synthesizer for a year, during which they enjoyed huge popularity. In 1984, he joined UZEB, a jazz band also based in Quebec, and toured internationally with them for two years. Fisher has collaborated with Leonard Cohen, and in 1988 worked on I’m Your Man, arranging and playing all the music on two tracks, “Jazz Police” and “First We Take

Jeff Hamburg

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Jeff Hamburg (born 1956) is an American composer. Born in Philadelphia, he studied acoustics and composition at the University of Illinois and moved to the Netherlands in 1978 to continue his studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Louis Andriessen. In 1986, he received the Conservatory Prize. He further studied French Horn at the Royal Conservatory and later conducted classes with David Porcelijn at the Conservatory of Utrecht. In 2002, Hamburg received the Visser-Neerlandia Music Prize for the outstanding quality of his oeuvre. From 2008 to 2015, Hamburg was chairman of the board of Geneco, the Dutch composer’s guild. His translation of The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky by Elmer Schönberger and Louis Andriessen is published by Oxford University Press. Together with flutist Eleonore Pameijer, Hamburg started the Dutch cd label FutureClassics. Selected works Orchestral * 2009 Podolian Dances – string orchestra * 2007 Hear O Heavens – Give Ear, O Earth – symphony orchestra * 2007 The Wild Waters that Roar – symphony orchestra * 2004 Ruach – Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra * 2003 Kumi, Ori – tenor and orchestra * 2001 Aychah – choir and orchestra * 2001 Zachor – sym

Jeff Miyahara

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Jeff Miyahara (born February 4, 1977) is a Japanese record producer and songwriter based in Tokyo, Japan. He is the chief creative officer for the Japanese branch of HYBE. Beginning his career in the music industry in 1999, he has worked with many Japanese artists such as JUJU, Kana Nishino, Namie Amuro, TVXQ, Weather Girls, as well as international artists like Boyz II Men, Girls’ Generation, and Timbaland. He has accrued many Oricon rated No. 1 Digital Download hits, including “Kimi No Subete Ni” by Spontania ft. JUJU and JASMINE’s “sad to say”. He was awarded several Gold Disc Awards by the Recording Industry Association of Japan in 2005, 2008, 2009, and was titled Nikkei Entertainment’s “Hitmaker of the Year” in 2010. He has sold over 40 million units to date. In 2009, Miyahara signed a deal with UM360, the management division of Universal Music Japan, after the success of his 2008 breakout hit “Kiminosubeteni”, a hip-pop track he produced for Spontania featuring JUJU, which sold over 5 million digital downloads. That same year he was involved in the release of over fifty CDs. He has also collaborated with performers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia. Miyahara has cited his

Jeff Myers (composer)

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Jeff Myers (born August 11, 1977) is an American composer. Early life Born and raised in Fremont, California, Myers attended San Jose University (earning a Bachelor of Music degree), the Eastman School of Music (earning a Master of Arts degree), and the University of Michigan (earning a Doctor of Musical Arts degree while studying composition under Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist William Bolcom and Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty). Career In 2011, Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn invited composers to submit pieces for inclusion on her In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores Album. From more than 400 submissions, Hahn chose Myers’s “The Angry Birds of Kauai” to perform as the 27th and final track. The album was released in 2013. Myers’s work has been presented at Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Kimmel Center, Darmstadt, Het Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Bard College, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Poisson Rouge, amongst others. Noted collaborators and commissioners include the New York City Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, Orchestre national de Lorraine, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Univer

Jeff Toyne

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Jeffrey William Toyne (born January 7, 1975) is a Canadian film composer and recipient of Playback Magazine’s ‘Ten to Watch’ honour. Early life Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, Toyne earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Western Ontario. He pursued graduate studies in composition at the University of British Columbia, graduating with a master’s degree in 1999. Immediately thereafter, he was selected to hold one of the coveted composer-participant positions at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles. There, while writing and conducting several new works, he had the opportunity to study with such jazz and film artists as Jerry Goldsmith, Jack Smalley, Manny Albam, Michael Abene, Bob Florence, Jim McNeely, John Clayton (bassist), Alf Clausen and Horace Silver. This experience was pivotal in broadening Toyne’s compositional scope to encompass not only a classical twentieth century idiom, but also jazz, blues and popular music. Toyne then enrolled in the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television post-graduate program at the University of Southern California in August 2000. Following his graduation from the program in May 2001, he began work

Jeff Tymoschuk

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Jeff Tymoschuk is a Canadian composer who writes music for film, television, video games and theatrical productions. His music is often fast-paced and intense to accompany lively action sequences. Early life Tymoschuk grew up in Souris, Manitoba. Career In 2002, Tymoschuk wrote the musical score for the video game James Bond 007: Nightfire from Electronic Arts. He later composed additional music on James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, supplementing composer Sean Callery’s score. Tymoschuk has also written music for Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice for BigBig Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness and DeathSpank from Hothead Games, and additional music on The Simpsons Hit and Run for Radical Entertainment/Vivendi Universal Games. In 2011, he composed the score for Sleeping Dogs from United Front Games, an open world game set in the Hong Kong underworld. In 2010, he composed the score for the supernatural thriller Altitude for director Kaare Andrews and Foundation Features, starring Jessica Lowndes and Julianna Guill. Other films include Below Zero, starring Edward Furlong and Michael Berryman, and the action/horror

Jeff Walls

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Jeffrey Kermit Walls (August 29, 1956 – May 29, 2019) was an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the 1980s alternative rock band Guadalcanal Diary, which originated from Marietta, Georgia. Early life The son of an engineer, Jeff Walls was born in Marietta, Georgia. Walls went to Marietta High School with future Guadalcanal Diary members Rhett Crowe, Murray Attaway, and John Poe. Family In 1988, Jeff Walls and Rhett Crowe, bassist for Guadalcanal Diary, married. Their daughter, Lillian, was born the following year. Their son, Carson, was born in 1990. Walls and Crowe later divorced. In 1997, Jeff married Hillbilly Frankenstein bassist Phyllis (Bridges) Walls and welcomed stepdaughter Maggie. Grandchildren include Kaitlyn (2003), Eva (2015) and Ezra (2020). Career Guadalcanal Diary Guadalcanal Diary, originating from Marietta, Georgia, was established after Walls and Murray Attaway transitioned away from their high school punk band, Strictly American. The band formed in 1981 and initially released an EP titled “Watusi Rodeo” along with the full-length LP “Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man” under DB Records. In 1985, they signe

Jefferson Friedman

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Jefferson Friedman (born 1974) is an American composer. He has composed several orchestral pieces and television scores including Harley Quinn. Friedman was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. He received an M.M. degree in music composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano, and a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied with David Rakowski and Jonathan Kramer. Friedman also studied with George Tsontakis and Christopher Rouse. He lives in Los Angeles. Career Friedman’s work has received positive reviews. His pieces have been performed throughout the United States and abroad, including at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the American Academy in Rome. Friedman was commissioned by Leonard Slatkin to write three pieces for the National Symphony Orchestra: “March”, “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly”, and “Sacred Heart: Explosion” “March” is a brief closing piece, commissioned by the orchestra as part of the Hechinger Encores series. “The Throne” and “Sac

Jeffery Alan Jones

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Jeffery Alan Jones is a composer, sound designer and re-recording mixer. In 2017, Jeffery won the Grand Jury Award – Best Narrative Feature at SXSW Film Festival for music and sound design in the film Most Beautiful Island and was acclaimed for his work in the film Bitch which debuted at The Sundance Film festival. In the video game industry, he has worked on Call of Duty, Borderlands, Star Trek, Ghost Recon, Pirates of the Caribbean, Mortal Kombat, and Star Wars. He has also collaborated with big brands, including Coca-Cola, Nike, Reebok, GoPro, and Google. He conducted The National Chinese Orchestra in Beijing, China and toured with them all across Asia. He also worked with the famous filmmaker Sherwood Hu who invited him to teach classes at the prestigious Shanghai University for the Arts. In 1990 Jeffery built his own music recording studio beginning with only a 4-track analog tape recorder and a Mac+ computer. Today, Alan Audio Works, located in Los Angeles, serves as both as a state of the art studio. At Alan Audio Works, he has mixed movies, such as Bayou Caviar, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Richard Dreyfuss, All-Star Weekend starring Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Gerard B

Jeffrey Brooks

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Jeffrey Brooks (born 1956) is an American composer living in Minneapolis. Brooks composed the popular work Dreadnought (for wind ensemble) as well as several works for Bang on a Can. Brooks holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Yale University. He studied with Louis Andriessen, Gilbert Amy, Allen Forte and Martin Bresnick. In the mid-1980s, at Yale and Tanglewood, he met Steve Martland, Art Jarvinen, Eleanor Hovda, Michael Gordon and David Lang, who have remained the most important influences in his musical life to this day. Brooks has composed, with few exceptions, instrumental works, from the very small (What Bird am I Thinking of, for piano trio) to the very large (Dreadnought, John Henry, Funeral Music, and Providence), all for forces of 60-plus musicians. Works * The Passion (2017) * Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother (2015) *After the Treewatcher, piano and chamber orchestra (2013) *The Starry Messenger, SSATB (2011) *John Henry Symphony, concert wind ensemble (2010) *Funeral Music, concert wind ensemble (2009) *What Bird am I Thinking of, piano trio (2008) *Providence, double concerto for trumpet and trombone in three movements (2007) *Skeleton Crew

Jeffrey Ching

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Jeffrey Ching (, born 4 November 1965) is a contemporary classical composer. He was born in the Philippines, to Chinese parents. He is married to the operatic soprano Andión Fernández and has two children. His opera was given in the Theater Erfurt in 2009. Selected works *Concerto da camera *Horologia sinica *Kunstkabinett *Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas *Terra Kytaorum *Symphony No. 1 in C major (prem. 1981) *Symphony No. 2, “The Imp of the Perverse” *Symphony No. 3, “Rituals” *Symphony No. 4, “Souvenir des Ming” *Symphony No. 5, “Kunstkammer” References Further reading * Hila, Antonio C. “Understanding the Early Music of Jeffrey Ching: An Erudite Composer”, Unitas, Vol. 75, No. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 454–75. ISSN 0041-7149 * Programme brochure for Weltblech concert, Berlin, 9 January 2001. * Programme brochure for the Kammerorchester Berlin IV. Abonnementkonzert, Berlin, 1 March 2006. * Xu, Jing (徐靜). “Zhuang Zuxin: Meilidi xuanlü rensheng” (庄祖欣: 美丽的旋律人生), Guangming ribao (光明日報), 15 September 2006. * Orosa, Rosalinda L. “Ching Amazes”, The Philippine Star, 28 October 2006. * Programme brochure for Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra concert, Shanghai International Arts Festival,

Jeffrey Hass

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Jeffrey Hass (born November 24, 1953, in New York) is a contemporary American classical composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. He is best known for his compositions combining electronic soundtracks with solo instruments or with large ensembles such as wind ensemble and orchestra. He currently serves the Jacobs School of Music as professor emeritus. Biography Hass studied at the Stecher and Horowitz School of Music from 1960 to 1971. He then attended Vassar College and graduated with a B.A. in music in 1975. He continued his education at Rutgers University, earning an M.A. in Music Composition and Theory in 1979. Finally, he received a D.Mus. in Composition, Theory and Electronic Music, with High Distinction, from the Indiana University School of Music in 1989. Hass was a composition faculty member at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University (retiring in 2019) where he served as Director of the School’s Center for Electronic and Computer Music from 1984 to 2019. He was also appointed adjunct professor of Dance Technology in 2007 and currently serves the Jacobs School as professor emeritus. Later in his career, he developed an interest in composing works for contempo

Jeffrey Mark

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Jeffrey Mark (1898 – December 1965) was an English composer, folk song collector and writer. Life and career Mark was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, the son of a cabinet maker, and in 1909 won a scholarship to the Carlisle Grammar School. At 16 he joined Martin’s Bank in Carlisle. He enlisted in the war at the age of 17 as a gunnery officer, rising to the rank of first lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. But he was gassed in France and hospitalised for a year. The medical consequences and trauma affected him for the rest of his life. In 1924 Mark moved to the US, where for three years he was head of the New York Public Library’s Music Department. While there he worked on the manuscripts of Orlando Gibbons held by the library. During his time in New York, he also studied the self-transformation ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff, under the guidance of A.R. Orage. A nervous breakdown led him to return to England. His Four North Country Songs, concert arrangements of dialect songs – including Sally Gray, L’al Dinah Grayson, Barley Broth and Auld Jobby Dixon – were first performed and broadcast in 1927, and published by OUP in 1928. They also acquired local popularity through performances by

Jeffrey Mumford

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Jeffrey Mumford (born June 22, 1955) is a U.S. composer whose orchestral works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra. His music has been especially praised by The New York Times as being “a philosophy of music making that embraced both raw passion and a gentle imagistic poetry.” Mumford’s compositions, though thoroughly modern, are evocative, exploring the sensuous and tactile nature of sound in subtle and sophisticated ways. Mumford was born in Washington, D.C., and holds degrees from the University of California, Irvine (B.A., 1977) and the University of California, San Diego (M.A., 1981). He was a student of Elliott Carter and Lawrence Moss. Mumford, along with poet Bruce Weigl, holds the rank of Distinguished Professor in the Division of Arts and Humanities at Lorain County Community College in Ohio. Formerly he taught at the Washington Conservatory of Music (1989–99), served as Artist-in-Residence at Bowling Green State University (1999-00), and served as assistant professor of composition and Compo

Jeffrey Ryan

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Jeffrey Ryan (born 1962) is a Canadian composer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. His compositional style ranges from opera, art song, and choral music to chamber ensemble and orchestral works. Ryan has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, Tapestry New Opera Works, the Arditti Quartet, and Elektra Women’s Choir. Repeat performances have been presented by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Canadian Chamber Choir, the Florida Orchestra, and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, as well as a number of art song teams and chamber ensembles. He is an Associate Composer with the Canadian Music Centre. Early life and education Ryan was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated with an honours bachelor of music degree from the Wilfrid Laurier University and the gold medal in music. After earning a master’s degree in composition from the University of Toronto, he went on to receive his doctor of musical arts degree in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Erb. Previous teachers include Alexina Louie, L

Jehan Alain

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Jehan-Ariste Paul Alain (; 3 February 1911 – 20 June 1940) was a French organist, composer and soldier. Born into a family of musicians, he learned the organ from his father and a host of other teachers, becoming a composer at 18, and composing until the outbreak of the Second World War 10 years later. His compositional style was influenced by the musical language of the earlier Claude Debussy, as well as his interest in music, dance and philosophy of the far east. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alain became a dispatch rider in the Eighth Motorised Armour Division of the French Army; he took part in the Battle of Saumur, in which he was killed. His younger brother was the composer, performer and musicologist Olivier Alain and his younger sister was the organist Marie-Claire Alain; the two were responsible for popularising his works. Biography Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the western suburbs of Paris, into a family of musicians. His father, Albert Alain (1880–1971) was an organist, composer and amateur organ builder who had studied with Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne. His younger brother was the composer, organist and pianist Olivier Alain (1918–1994), a

Jehan Chardavoine

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Jehan Chardavoine (baptized on 2 February 1538 at Beaufort-en-Vallée, Anjou – died c. 1580) was a French Renaissance composer mostly active in Paris. He was one of the first known editors of popular chansons, and the author, according to musicologist Julien Tiersot, of “the only volume of monodic songs from the 16th century that has survived to our days.” Biography Jehan Chardavoine is mostly known for his publication, Recueil des plus belles et excellentes chansons en forme de voix de ville, tirées de divers autheurs et Poëtes François, tant anciens que modernes. Ausquelles a esté nouvellement adaptée la Musique de leur chant commun, à fin que chacun les puisse chanter en tout endroit qu’il se trouvera, tant de voix que sur les instruments (“Collection of the most beautiful and excellent songs in the form of voix de ville, taken from various French authors and poets, both ancient and modern. To which texts have been newly adapted the music of their main tune, so that anyone may sing it at whichever place they may be, on voice as well as on instruments.”). Published in 1576, it is the oldest collection of French popular songs ever printed. It begins with an epistle addressed to “Th

Jehan de Lescurel

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Jehan de Lescurel (; also Jehannot de l’Escurel) was a composer-poet of late medieval music. Jehan’s extensive surviving oeuvre is an important and rare examples of the formes fixes before the time of Guillaume de Machaut; it consists of 34 works: 20 ballades, 12 rondeaus and two long narrative poems, diz entés. All but one of his compositions is monophonic, representing the end of the trouvère tradition and the beginning of the polyphonic ars nova style centered around the formes fixes. Identity and career Jehan de Lescurel is also known as Jehannot de l’Escurel. Very little is known of his life; the transmission, notation and circumstances of his works suggest he was active in the early 14th century, and his compositions’s textual references indicate he was active in Paris. It has also been inferred that Jehan was the son of a merchant and probably received his musical training at the Notre Dame de Paris. For many years, scholars assumed he was the ‘Jehan de Lescurel’ who had been hanged on 23 May 1304 along with three other young clerics of Notre Dame, including Oudinet Pisdoé, for “debauchery” and “crimes against women”. Recent research has shown that “Jehan de Lescurel” was a

Jehan Fresneau

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Jehan Fresneau (also Fresnau, Frasnau) (fl. ca. 1468 – 1505) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the composers in the renowned Milan chapel in the mid-1470s, which was disbanded after the assassination of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Life Fresneau was from Cambrai, and was probably a priest. A “Jo. Fremniau” active at Cambrai Cathedral from 1468 to 1469 has tentatively been identified as the same person. He was employed by the French royal chapel between 1469 and 1475, at which time he went to Milan; however, he did not stay there long, for in December 1476 Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza was assassinated, and the many singers and composers of the chapel scattered. Fresneau was among those listed on a safe pass for exit from Milan on 6 February 1477, along with Loyset Compère, Johannes Martini, Colinet de Lannoy, and others. It is not known where he went immediately; his next documented appearance is at the church of St. Martin in Tours in 1486, where he was also in the employ of Louis XII. Between 1494 and 1505 he was at the singing school attached to Chartres Cathedral, where he held various positions, including canon, provost, notary, and procurator. No records doc

Jehan Vaillant

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Jehan Vaillant (; also spelled Johannes Vayllant) was a French composer and music theorist. He is named immediately after Guillaume de Machaut by the Règles de la seconde rhétorique, which describes him as a “master … who had a school of music in Paris”. Besides five (possibly six) pieces of music surviving to his name, he was also the author of a treatise on tuning. With Grimace and F. Andrieu and P. des Molins, Vaillant was part of the post-Machaut generation whose music shows few distinctly ars subtilior features, leading scholars to recognize Vaillant’s work as closer to the ars nova style of Machaut. Life and career Vaillant’s works are conserved in the Chantilly Manuscript, which is also the main source for the works of the Papal singers Matheus de Sancto Johanne, Johannes Symonis Hasprois and Johannes Haucourt. This connexion with the Papal group suggests to certain modern scholars that Vaillant may be the same person who entered the Papal chapel at Avignon as capellanus Johannes Valentis or Valhant on 26 November 1352, during the pontificate of Clement VI. This Vaillant died, still in Papal service, in 1361, probably of bubonic plague. The discovery by Israel Adler, the his

Jen Trynin

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Jennifer Trynin (born 1963), is an American singer-songwriter and author from Boston, Massachusetts. Career She recorded her debut album Cockamamie in 1994 while running her own desktop publishing business. The track “Better Than Nothing” received considerable airplay on alternative rock radio stations across the United States. She later released her second album, Gun Shy Trigger Happy, in 1997. Trynin would later release a book entitled Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be in 2006 about her experience in the music industry. Trynin played guitar for Dave Wanamaker’s band Loveless, who released an album, Gift to the World, in 2003. After Loveless broke up, she took a break from music to raise her daughter. In 2015, Trynin formed the band Cujo and began playing semi-regularly at small clubs in and around Boston. In 2018, Trynin joined Band of Their Own, an all-female supergroup formed to perform at Hot Stove Cool Music, the annual benefit show supporting the Foundation to be Named Later, the charity established by former Boston Red Sox and current Chicago Cubs executive Theo Epstein and his twin brother Paul Epstein. Band of Their Own also features among others Kay Hanley, Freda Love Smit

Jenaer Liederhandschrift

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The (German, the “Jena song manuscript”) is a 14th-century manuscript containing lyrics and melodies to songs in Middle High German. The majority of the lyrics belong to the genre of Spruchdichtung and, with 91 melodies, the manuscript is the single most important source for the music of this genre. It is currently held in the , Jena, with the shelf-mark Ms. El. f. 101. In Minnesang scholarship it is referred to as Manuscript J. A further fragment, consisting of a single sheet, is in the in Dillingen, Bavaria (XV Fragm. 19). Description The manuscript comprises 133 (of an original 154) folios and contains collections of lyrics by 31 named poets, along with an anonymous religious song (a Leich), and the text of the Wartburgkrieg (“The song-contest at the Wartburg”). The quality of the manuscript is exceptional: Of the melodies, Bernoulli notes, “On the whole we cannot imagine a more clearly written example of a document using square notation.” For these reasons, it seems likely that the manuscript was commissioned for display (or possibly as a gift) rather than for use in musical performance. History The manuscript was compiled in about 1330 in Central Germany, possibly Thuringia fo

Jenne Lennon

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Jenne Lennon is a Celtic singer. In 2012, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Elgin Children’s Chorus. Jenne has performed all over the United States and Europe headlining events such as the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in France, the Bergen Music Festival in Norway, and the Unity Temple in the United States. She has worked and recorded with the likes of Emmy nominated composer Sarah Class, the Elgin Children’s Chorus, Global Voices, the Academy of Irish Music and Baal Tinne. Jenne is also a skilled Native American flute player and appeared in an episode of MTV’ s Stand in performing with Sting. She has contributed the original scores to adapted plays for Yeat’s on Baile’s Strand in 2010, Anhouill’s Antigone and Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapine Agile in 2011. Jenne teamed up with producer Roland Labana for The Hyde Park Players’ An Evening of Horror and Suspense and Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros in 2012. Her original score was featured in the Hyde Park Community Players and the University of Chicago’s Classics Department’s modern re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Her most recent work as an arranger, composer, and conductor was featured in the awa

Jennifer Fowler

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Jennifer Joan Fowler (born 14 April 1939) is a British composer of Australian birth. She was born in Bunbury, Australia, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in music and a Bachelor of Music from the School of Music, University of Western Australia in 1960 and 1967, respectively. During her time at University of Western Australia, she won several composition prizes and received the University Convocation Awards for outstanding results. While a student, her pieces were performed in the Festival of Perth and broadcast by ABC. She spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht in 1968. In 1969 she settled in London and works as a free-lance composer. Fowler married computer programmer Bruce Paterson and has two sons. Honors and awards *1970 Prize from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin *1971 Joint winner of the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain *1975 1st prize in the International Competition for Women Composers in Mannheim, Germany *2001 Eat and Be Eaten won a High Commendation at the Paul Lowin Song Cycle Awards *2003 Miriam Gideon prize from the International Association of Women in Music *2006 2nd prize in the Christopher Bodman Memorial Competiti

Jennifer Higdon

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Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962 ) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp Concerto in 2020. Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019, she was a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1994 to 2021. Biography Higdon was born in Brooklyn, New York. She spent the first ten years of her life in Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Seymour, Tennessee. Her father, Charles Higdon, was a painter and made efforts to expose his children to different types of art. He took them to various exhibitions of new and experimental art that gave her her earliest exposure to art and helped her to form an idea of what art was. She also developed an interest in photography and writing at an early age. Despite her early introduction to art, she received very little exposure to classical music in her home. Instead, her early musical education came from listening to rock and folk music from the 1960s. I

Jennifer Margaret Barker

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Jennifer Margaret Barker (born 6 May 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-American classical composer and pianist. Her compositional style is highly influenced by the landscape, culture and musical heritage of Scotland. She is Professor Emerita of Composition and Theory at the University of Delaware. Her music has been recorded on the Naxos Records, Composers Recordings Inc., New World Records, Albany Records, Meyer Media and PnOVA Recordings labels. She is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser Company, Vanderbeek & Imrie Ltd., Southern Percussion and McKenna-Keddie Publishing. Biography Raised in Blanefield, Stirlingshire, Barker studied composition with Scottish composer, John Maxwell Geddes at the University of Glasgow (B.Mus. Hons.), before crossing the Atlantic for graduate studies with American Pulitzer prize-winning composers Melinda Wagner and George Crumb at Syracuse University (M.M.) and the University of Pennsylvania (A.M., Ph.D.) respectively. She also worked with British composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir on the 1992 Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Young Composers Course in Orkney, and with American composers Daniel Strong Godfrey and Jay Reis

Jennifer Walshe

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Jennifer Walshe (born 1 June 1974) is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist. Biography Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) with a doctoral degree in composition in June 2002. Her chief teachers at Northwestern were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2003–04 Walshe was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; during 2004–05 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Walshe’s work has been performed all over the world by ensembles such as Alter Ego, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Schlagquartett Köln, Crash Ensemble, Con Tempo Quartet, Trio Scordatura, Ensemble Ascolta, Champ d’Action, ensemble laboratorium, ensemble surplus, the Rilke Ensemble, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, Callino Quartet, Ensemble 2000, Concorde, Kaleidoscop, Black Hair, Continuum, Musica Nova Consort, ensemble chronophonie, the Scott

Jenny McLeod

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Jennifer Helen McLeod (12 November 1941 – 28 November 2022) was a New Zealand composer and professor of music at Victoria University of Wellington. She composed several major works for big groups including Under the Sun for four orchestras and 450 children, and the opera Hōhepa. Biography McLeod was born in Wellington on 12 November 1941, the daughter of Lorna Bell McLeod (née Perrin) and Ronald D’Arcy McLeod, and grew up in Timaru and Levin. She was musical as a child and could read music at age five. During her professorship, she was influenced by Guru Maharaji’s Divine Light Mission, which led to her early retirement. In the 1997 Queen’s Birthday Honours, McLeod was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to music. McLeod is best known for two major works, Earth and Sky and Under the Sun for large forces. She also composed many songs and hymns. She was a great admirer of, and was greatly influenced by, the music of Messiaen. Her Seven Tone Clock Pieces were first performed by the New Zealand pianist Jeffrey Grice. Before her death in Palmerston North on 28 November 2022, at the age of 81, McLeod lived in Pukerua Bay, working on music theory, especial

Jenő Ádám

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Jenő Ádám (12 December 1896 15 May 1982) was a Hungarian music educator, composer, and conductor. Early life and education Jenő Ádám was born in Szigetszentmiklós (Kingdom of Hungary) on 12 December 1896. From 1911-1915 he attended the teacher-training college in Budapest where he received instruction in the organ and music theory. During World War I he was a prisoner of war (POW) in Russia from 1916-1920; His methodology has had a profound impact on music education internationally and is still studied today by students of the Kodaly Method. The Organization of American Kodály Educators has established an academic scholarship in his name Ádám was also involved in broader music education efforts targeted toward the general population in Hungary. He gave several public lectures that were broadcast on Hungarian television and radio that aimed to popularize both Hungarian folk music and Western classical music. One of these was his own radio program, Fifteen Minutes of Folksong. He also gave lectures on television and radio programs as a guest outside of Hungary; continuing his advocacy on the international stage. While employed as the chorus master of the Hungarian State Opera he cond

Jenő Hubay

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Jenő Hubay de Szalatnya ( ; 15 September 1858 – 12 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber (), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. Early life Hubay was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary. He adopted the Hungarian version of his name, Jenő Hubay, in his twenties, while living in the French-speaking world. Hubay was trained in violin and music by his father, (Károly Huber, later ) from Varjas (), concertmaster of the Hungarian Royal Opera House and a teacher at the Budapest College of Music. His mother was of Italian descent. He gave his début public performance playing a concerto at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen, Hubay began his studies in Berlin. He remained there for five years, receiving instruction from Joseph Joachim. In 1878, following the advice of Franz Liszt, he made his début in Paris, which was a great success. Sitting in the audience was Henri Vieuxtemps, with whom Hubay formed an intimate friendship and from whom he received instruction. In 1882 Hubay was employed at the Brussels music institute as the head of the department of violin studies. Returning to Hungary in 1886, he succeeded his father as head

Jenő Huszka

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Jenő Huszka (a.k.a. ; 24 April 1875, Szeged – 2 February 1960, Budapest) was a Hungarian composer of operettas. Life At the age of 5, he had his first performance – nicely played violin. He studied composition at the Academy of Music (Zeneakadémia) in Budapest. As a young man (in 1896) he was a member of the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris. He also had to study law (this was the wish of his parents). After finishing his studies, he worked in the Ministry of Education in Budapest, in the department of art. His friend Ferenc Martos (1875–1938), a distinguished Hungarian librettist, worked in the same department and wrote all the librettos for his operettas. The music of Jenő Huszka is considered fresh, sweet and romantic. It is inspired by Hungarian folk music and the waltzes of Vienna. List of works (all to libretti by Ferenc Martos unless otherwise indicated) * Tilos a bemenet (No Entry) libretto by Adolf Mérei (1899) * Prince Bob (Bob herceg) (1902) * Aranyvirág (Golden Flower) (1903) * Gül Baba (1905) * Tündérszerelem (Fairy love) 1907 * Rébusz báró (Baron Rebus) 1909 * Nemtudomka (Night-club Girl) 1914 * Baroness Lili (Lili bárónő) (1919) * Hajtóvadászat (Riding to Hounds) 1926 * E

Jenő Takács

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Jenő Takács (; 25 September 1902 – 14 November 2005) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. Life and work Born in Cinfalva on 25 September 1902, he studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Joseph Marx in composition and Paul Weingarten in piano until 1926 at the University of Vienna counterpoint with Hans Gál and musicology with Guido Adler. Since 1920, he had already undertaken tours through Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia. In 1926 he made acquaintance with Béla Bartók; from which a lively contact arose until Bartók’s emigration to the United States in 1940. He was a professor of piano at the conservatory of Cairo, Egypt from 1927 to 1932, where he made Arab and Egyptian Music the subject of his research. He knew Egon Wellesz, Curt Sachs, Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Paul Hindemith. In the years 1932 to 1934 he was a professor of piano and composition at the University of the Philippines, Conservatory of Music. He gave concerts in Japan, China and Hong Kong. Due to a new professorship in piano at the conservatory in Cairo in 1938, he made his first trip to the United States. In 1939, he moved to Sopron in Hungary, however the German authorities made his

Jens Bjerre Jacobsen

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Jens Bjerre Jacobsen (13 October 1903 – 3 January 1986) was a Danish composer and organist. Jacobsen was born in Aarhus but grew up in Salling, where his father was a Grundtvigian Community pastor in Rødding-Krejbjerg. Jacobsen learned to play the piano at an early age from the organist and composer Laurids Lauridsen. At 15, he got admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Music. The time spent at the academy gave his earliest songs and choral work a strong element of Thomas Laub and Carl Nielsen. However, Jacobsen himself never acknowledged this, and claimed that his career as a composer only began after he moved to Paris. Jacobsen became an organist in Paris. Alfred Cortot, the famous pianist and conductor, taught him composition and honed his piano skills. Cortot was a big influence on Jacobsen. Under the former’s tutelage, Jacobsen made immense progress as a composer, a development that is specially noticeable in his music from the 1930s onwards. Notable works *Serenade (fløjte, obo og bratsch 1936) *Mosaïque musicale nr. 1 (fløjte, violin og cello 1936) *Sonatine (violin og klaver 1939) *Koncertante (violin og klaver 1940) *Duo concertante (cello og klaver 1942) *Croquis musi

Jens Joneleit

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Jens Gerd Joneleit (born 17 September 1968) is a German composer, known for his operas. Early life and education Joneleit was born in Offenbach am Main in Germany. His parents both played piano, and he learned music theory when he was only seven years old. In 1975 he started taking percussion lessons, and performed in a local marching band, and local rock and jazz groups. Around 1984 he taught himself piano and started composing his own music. He graduated from the Gymnasium in 1988, and for the next two years completed his community service. He moved to the United States in 1990 to study at the University of South Dakota, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with majoring in Art and a minor in Music in 1992. He then entered graduate school in painting at the University of Wisconsin, and completed his Master of Fine Arts in 1997. Musical career From 1991 Joneleit studied music with Bartók’s pupil Lewis Hamvas in Yankton, South Dakota, and in Vermillion, South Dakota with Robert Marek (1915–1995) and Stephen Yarbrough (born 1946). From 1994 he studied in Madison, Wisconsin with Joel Naumann, a pupil of Stefan Wolpe. In 2003 he hired Roscoe Mitchell of the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Jens Josef

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Jens Josef (born 5 August 1967) is a German composer of classical music, a flutist and academic teacher. Career Born in Solingen-Ohligs, Josef received flute instructions from Rita Eggenweiler and Klaus Grünow, principal flute of the Staatstheater Kassel, and took composition classes with Jörn Tegtmeyer, the director of church music of Hann. Münden. From 1989 to 1997 Josef studied at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, flute with Peter Brock and Paul Dahme, and composition with Gerhard Müller-Hornbach. He finished his examinations in 1995, his concert examinations in 1997. He also studied flute with András Adorján and composition with Rainer Kunad. He was a member of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie in Rostock in 1992/93, and the flutist of the orchestra Saitensprünge in 1994/95. He has worked as a freelance artist, flutist, composer, teacher, and conductor. in 1997 he founded the ensemble Gruppe Kontraste together with Christian Ridil. In 1998 he was principal flute of the Junge Philharmonie Hessen-Thüringen. He has collaborated with the Mutare Ensemble in Frankfurt. He has participated in the educational project Ohrwurm-Projekt, a music project aiming at elementary school children. His o

Jeremiah Clarke

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Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 – 1 December 1707) was an English baroque composer and organist, best known for his Trumpet Voluntary, a popular piece often played at wedding ceremonies or commencement ceremonies. Biography The exact date of Clarke’s birth has been debated. The Dictionary of National Biography states that Clarke “is said to have been born in 1669 (though probably the date should be earlier).” Most sources say that he is thought to have been born in London around 1674. Clarke was one of the pupils of John Blow at St Paul’s Cathedral and a chorister in 1685 at the Chapel Royal. Between 1692 and 1695 he was an organist at Winchester College, then between 1699 and 1704 he was an organist at St Paul’s Cathedral. He later became an organist and ‘Gentleman extraordinary’ at the Chapel Royal, his friend. the Prince of Denmark’s March, which is commonly called the Trumpet Voluntary, written in about 1700. From c. 1878 until the 1940s the work was attributed to Henry Purcell, and was published as Trumpet Voluntary by Henry Purcell in William Spark’s Short Pieces for the Organ, Book VII, No. 1 (London, Ashdown and Parry). This version came to the attention of Sir Henry J. Wood, who

Jeremiah Dencke

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Jeremiah Dencke was born October 2, 1725, in Langenbielau, Silesia and died May 28, 1795, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He joined the Moravian Congregation at Gnadenfrei and was called to Moravian center in Herrnhut in 1748, where he became an organist. He emigrated to the American colonies in 1761 on the same ship with the father of Johann and Simon Peter. year. The oldest existing American Moravian art music is a set of seven solos and three duets Dencke composed for the Single Brethren’s observance in 1765. It was performed in both Nazareth and Bethlehem, whose diaries use the term Vest Psalm when referring to it. Jeremiah Dencke was a Moravian and one of the first American composers. List of works * Meine Seele erhebet dem Herrn * Gehet in dem Geruch Seines Brautigams-Namens * Gesegnet bist du, sein Volk * Meine Herz dichtet ein feines Lied Discography * Flowering Of Vocal Music In America 1767–1823 * Lost Music Of Early America – The Moravians * Music from 18th-Century Pennsylvania (1976) * Christmas in Early America (1994) * Giuseppe Martucci (1995) * America Sings, Volume I: The Founding Years (1995) References

Jeremiah Ingalls

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Jeremiah Ingalls (March 1, 1764 – April 6, 1838) was an early North-American composer, considered a part of the First New England School. Biography Jeremiah Ingalls was born in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1764. When he was thirteen, his father, Abijah Ingalls, died of hardships suffered during the American Revolutionary War. In 1791, Ingalls married Mary Bigelow of Westminster, Massachusetts, and while living in Vermont worked variously as a farmer, cooper, taverner and choirmaster. Ingalls served as the choirmaster at the Congregational Church in Newbury, Vermont from 1791 to 1805, and the choir gained a reputation attracting many people from the surrounding area. In 1805 Ingalls published The Christian Harmony. Ingalls served as a deacon in the church, but in 1810, he was excommunicated from that congregation. In 1819 he moved to Rochester, Vermont and then Hancock, Vermont. Ingalls was described as short and corpulent with a high voice and an advanced skill at the bass viol. Many of Ingalls’ family members were also known for their musical ability. Ingalls died in Hancock, Vermont, in 1838, aged 74. List of tunes *Northfield *Christian Song *New Jerusalem *Fillmore *Apple Tree *R

Jeremy Adelman (composer)

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Jeremy Adelman (born 1973) is an American composer for film and television, trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist, and major-label music producer and arranger in genres including funk, indie and jazz. He is primarily known as the composer and songwriter for prime-time CW TV series Hart of Dixie starring Rachel Bilson. Biography Early life and career Adelman was born in Amityville, New York. He performed as an orchestral trumpeter and moved to NY in 1989 to study at the Juilliard School of Music. During this period he cultivated an interest in Jazz and studied further in Manhattan School of Music’s world-renowned jazz program. Jeremy played in local blues, funk and R&B bands amidst the thriving NYC music scene of the early 90s. He then joined the Mercury Record’s funk band Milo Z, managed by David Sonenberg, and played shows with legendary artists like Bon Jovi, Al Green, Maceo Parker, The Neville Brothers, The Meters, Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers & Toots and the Maytals. He would return to Juilliard in 2001 to study composition with Stanley Wolfe. Composing In 1996, Adelman composed for the 3rd season of Comedy Central’s Viva Variety created by Michael Ian Black, Ben Garant

Jeremy Beck

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Jeremy Beck (born 1960) is an American composer who “knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way.” The critic Mark Sebastian Jordan has said that “Beck was committed to tonality and a recognizable musical vernacular long before that became the hip bandwagon it is today. Indeed, he is … an original voice celebrating music.” Early life Jeremy Joseph Beck was born January 15, 1960, in Painesville, Ohio. His father, Albert William Beck (b. April 4, 1931, in Scranton, Pennsylvania; d. May 16, 2018 in Quincy, Illinois), known as “Al”, was a visual artist and poet who taught for many years at Culver–Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. His mother, Mila Katrine Aho (b. June 24, 1935, Painesville, Ohio; d. March 26, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee), known as “Katrine”, was a pianist and organist who taught music privately. Beck’s parents married in 1958, but not without some controversy: the Beck family was Jewish and the Aho family was Lutheran. Albert’s parents agreed to support the wedding as long as the Ahos knew they were Jewish. Katrine’s parents agreed to support the wedding only if Katrine’s father – Gustav Axel Aho, also known as “G.A. Aho”, a Lutheran min

Jeremy Filsell

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Jeremy Daniel Filsell (born 10 April 1964) is a British pianist, organist and composer who has served as director of music at Christ Episcopal Church in Bradenton, Florida since September 2025. He previously held similar positions in the United Kingdom and the United States, including at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, in New York City from 2019 to 2025. Biography Having played piano and organ from a young age, Filsell was a student at Stivichall Primary School and Blue Coat Church of England School in Coventry. He was a Limpus prize winner for the Royal College of Organists examination, which he took when he was 19, and a silver medalist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He studied music at Oxford University, where he was an organ scholar at Keble College, studying with Nicolas Kynaston and Daniel Roth. He went on to study piano with David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music and Martin Hughes at the University of Surrey. He won second prize in the 1993 St Albans International Organ Competition. He has particular interest in English piano music and French organ music. He plays in a piano trio with Oliver Lewis, violin, and Neil Heyde, cello, and a p

Jeremy Soule

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Jeremy Soule ( ) is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video games. He has composed soundtracks for over 60 games and over a dozen other works during his career, including The Elder Scrolls, Guild Wars, Total Annihilation, and the Harry Potter series. He became an employee of Square in 1994 after several years of private composition studies. After finishing the soundtrack to Secret of Evermore in 1995, he left to join Humongous Entertainment, where he composed for several children’s games as well as Total Annihilation, his first award-winning score. In 2000, he left to form his own music production company, Soule Media, later called Artistry Entertainment. In 2005, he founded DirectSong, a record label that published digital versions of his soundtracks as well as those of classical composers. DirectSong remained active until 2019. Soule’s works have been played in several live concerts such as the Symphonic Game Music Concert in Germany and the international Play! A Video Game Symphony concert series. While many of his works are orchestral, he considers himself someone who creates more than just one type of music. Several of Soule’s soundtracks were creat

Jeremy Turner (composer)

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Jeremy Turner (born June 18, 1975 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist living in California. Biography Jeremy Turner began playing the piano and the cello as a young child. After his family moved to Michigan where his father was Director of Admissions at Michigan State University, Turner attended East Lansing High School. He then furthered his musical studies at The Juilliard School as a pupil of Harvey Shapiro. In 1997, before graduating Juilliard, Turner joined The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at just 21 years old, becoming one of the youngest members ever to join the ensemble. At the end of his first season Turner was invited to join the Met Chamber Ensemble in its inaugural year. In 2005 he took a leave of absence from the Met to be the interim Principal Cellist of The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand. After returning to the Met in 2006, Turner played his final season in 2011 before leaving the orchestra to pursue composition. Composer/performer Turner has recorded with musicians such as Paul McCartney, David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, and The National, has performed with various artists that include Renee Fleming, Joshua Bell,

Jeren Kurbanklycheva

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Jeren Gurbangylyjova (; ; also written as Jeren Kurbanklycheva; born 3 June 1955) is a Turkmen composer who holds the official title of The First Woman Composer of Turkmenistan. Early life and education Jeren was born in Ashkhabad, Turkmen SSR, USSR to a family of the actors Sofya Gurbangylyjova and Muhammetnur Gurbangylyjov. Her debut with her first composition was when she was eight years old; she wrote a song to her father’s new stage play and performed it as a surprise to her dad, in their house in front of their family friends and Muhammetnur’s colleagues. Jeren Kurbanklycheva started her musical studies as a pianist. In her early age, she went to the Special Boarding Music School at Turkmen National Conservatory. Upon graduation she was accepted to Specialized Music School named after Danatar Ovezov where she spent 4 years and received an Undergraduate degree in Piano Performance. After that Kurbanklycheva was accepted to Turkmen National Conservatory to the Composition Department and studied composition under the People’s Artist of Turkmenistan, professor Chary Nurymov. Upon graduation she started working at the conservatory as theory and composition teacher and then later i

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate

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Jerod Impichch a achaaha’ Tate (, ), born July 25, 1968) is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist. His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture and ethos. He has had several commissioned works, which have been performed by major orchestras in Washington, DC; San Francisco, Detroit, and Minneapolis, among others. When the San Francisco Symphony Chorus performed and recorded his work Iholba’ in 2008, it was the first time the chorus had sung any work in Chickasaw or any American Indian language. He is founder and artistic director of the Chickasaw Chamber Music Festival. He was Co-Founder and Composition Instructor for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy. Biography Jerod Impichch a achaaha’ Tate was born in 1968 in Norman, Oklahoma, is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, and is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition. His middle name, Impichchaachaaha, means “his high corncrib” and is his inherited traditional Chickasaw house name. A corncrib is a small hut used for the storage of corn and other vegetables. In traditional Chickasaw culture, the corncrib was built high off the ground on stilts to keep its contents

Jérôme Dorival

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Jérôme Dorival (born in 1952) is a French clarinetist, composer and musicologist. Biography Born in Paris, Jérôme Dorival is one of the four sons of historian and art critic, Bernard Dorival. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Norbert Dufourcq and Rémy Stricker, and at the Sorbonne with Albert Soboul, Pierre Vilar, Dominique Julia and Alphonse Dupront. His doctoral thesis in musicology deals with La Cantatille en France au XVIII, under the direction of Jacques Chailley. As a researcher, he devoted himself especially to the pianist and pedagogue Hélène de Montgeroult, professor at the brand new Conservatoire in 1795 and composer. For the reissue of the scores of Montgeroult, Dorival founded the Éditions Modulation. He is professor of music history at the Conservatoire de Lyon and in Lausanne. Work Compositions * 1993: Le son des choses dans les ténèbres, hommage to Georges Perec * 2001: La cathédrale, nocturne for piano, hommage to Nicolas de Staël. Musicological writings * * Le Concerto pour clavier : approches multiples, partition, histoire, art, with Dominique Dubreuil and Daniel Gaudet, Aléas, 2001 . * (dir.) Les concerts à Lyon au 17e siècle, Musée Gadagne, Musée his

Jerome Kitzke

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Jerome Kitzke (born 1955) is a composer who grew up along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. History He received his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and moved to New York City in 1984. In 1992 Kitzke formed his performing group Mad Coyote. His music has also been performed by the Milwaukee Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, Essential Music, Present Music, Earplay, Zeitgeist, Guy Klucevsek, Margaret Leng Tan, ETHEL and Kathleen Supové. Kitzke has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Music Center, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and BMI. In 2004 and 2006 he visited the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, New York to compose music for their shows. He even put music to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Green Automobile”, which was included on his most recent album The Paha Sapa Give-Back (Innova Recordings, 2014). He is a quarter Persian. Music Chamber works *A Keening Wish, narrator and ensemble *Alone On A Hill in Grandfather Night, mixed trio *Breath and Bone, accordion solo *Haunted America, mixed quartet *In Bone Colored Light, mixed sextet *Mad Coyote Madly Sings, large mixed ensemble *Present Music, large mi

Jérôme Leroy (composer)

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Jérôme Leroy is a French composer and orchestrator based in Los Angeles. Early life and family Born in Paris, Leroy was first introduced to music as a young child playing the piano. He started serious study and practice at the age of five and at the age of fourteen he turned to composition. Leroy attended high school at Lycée Claude Monet, where he studied under composer Annick Chartreux and performed in numerous concerts as a pianist and singer. After having written various chamber pieces in his teens (his minimalist duology, 2017, was premiered at the Conservatoire Municipal de Paris Maurice Ravel and at Lycée Claude Monet in 1999), he applied in 2001 for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, for which he was awarded a scholarship. Berklee College of Music At Berklee, where Leroy studied Film Scoring, he founded the school’s first student-run classical orchestra, which produced its first recording in April 2004 and a string of concerts in the following years. While in Boston, he also joined a community theater company, the Longwood Players. In the spring of 2004, he was Orchestra Manager and Arranger on their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, and was appointed conductor

Jérôme Naulais

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Jérôme Naulais (born 1951) is a French trombonist and composer. Life Born in 1951 into a family of musicians, he began studying music at the age of six. He obtained his first prizes of violin and double bass at the Conservatoire National de Boulogne-Billancourt before starting the study of the trombone and obtaining the first medal of solfège (1970) and a first prize for trombone (1971) at the Conservatoire de Paris. First soloist with the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France (from 1974 to 1976) and the Concerts Colonne (from 1975 to 1982), he has been, since its creation in 1976, soloist of the Ensemble intercontemporain directed by Pierre Boulez. He devotes a significant part of his activity to teaching. After having taught trombone at the music schools of Antony, Fresnes, Sèvres and the École Nationale de Musique de Ville-d’Avray as well as in international academies (France, Belgium, Japan), he is now Director of the École de Musique du Club Musical de la Poste de Paris of which he was also the director of the concert band. He was also director of the Music School of Bonneuil-sur-Marne from 1980 to 1998. He has participated in numerous studio and concert recordings with major int

Jeronimas Kačinskas

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Jeronimas Kačinskas (or Kacinskas; 17 April 1907 – 15 September 2005 ) was a Lithuanian-born American composer. Kačinskas was born in Viduklė, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire, to the family of a church organist. He studied music at the National Conservatory of Lithuania in Klaipėda and at the Prague Conservatory. He later taught at the State Conservatory in Vilnius. His Nonet was premiered in London in 1938, and he married Elena Šlevaitė in 1941. In 1944, they escaped from Lithuania and travelled through Poland into Germany, where they were finally rescued by American troops. In 1949, they arrived in the United States, and Kačinskas became a church organist and choirmaster in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1967 to 1986, he taught at Berklee College of Music. In 1991 he was awarded Lithuanian National Prize. Works ;Opera * Juodas laivas (Black Ship) (1975); libretto by Algirdas Landsbergis ;Orchestral * Symphonic Fantasy No.1 (1940) * Giesmė į šviesą (Hymn to Light), Symphonic Poem (1947) * Atpirkimo misterija (Mystery of Redemption), Symphonic Poem (1956) * Lento, Symphonic Poem (1957) * Vilniaus siuita (Vilnius Suite) (1960) * Symphonic Fantasy No.2 (1960) * Transcendentinės išraiš

Jerry Bilik

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Jerry H. Bilik (born October 7, 1933 in New Rochelle, New York, United States) is an American composer, arranger, songwriter, conductor, and director of stage productions. He received a B.M.E. degree and a M.M. degree from the University of Michigan, which counts Bilik among its notable alumni. He also composed the “M Fanfare.” He has served as Vice President of creative development for Disney on Ice. References External links * *Jerry Bilik Music website - maintained by Jerry Bilik

Jerry Brubaker

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Jerry Brubaker (born 1946) is an American composer and arranger of more than 300 works of music for concert band, symphony, and chorus and a professional French horn soloist. Education and career In 1968, Brubaker received his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music and later pursued a Master of Music degree from the Catholic University of America. Brubaker served for 30 years in the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., as a French horn soloist and composer and arranger. In 1985, he became the band’s chief arranger, and held that position until his retirement from the navy in 1998. After retiring from the military, Brubaker has performed and arranged for the Village Band of Estes Park (CO), City of Fairfax (VA) Band and the Virginia Grand Military Band and is the current president of the Association of Concert Bands. He is an exclusive composer and arranger for Alfred Publishing Co. Inc., and has written commissions for musical organizations across the United States, such as the East Winds Symphonic Band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Personal life Brubaker was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1946 and was an active musician throughout his early years. During g

Jerry Calliste Jr.

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Gerald C. Calliste Jr. (born November 26, 1965), also known as Hashim, is an American entrepreneur, producer, songwriter, publisher, and former DJ who is best known for the hip hop, electro, and dance music song “Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)” (1983). Education Calliste attends the Ross School of Management & Leadership at Franklin University, where he is a double major student studying for a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Sciences. History In 1983, Calliste co-founded the New York Independent record label Cutting Records Inc. with two partners and recorded under the name Hashim. At the age of 16, Calliste used a $50 Casio keyboard (combo calculator) to teach himself how to play keyboards by ear. One year later, he went on to write and produce “Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)”. During the early 1980s, he “made it to #43 in the Billboards Dance Disco Charts”. Since 2001, Calliste Jr. is president and CEO of both Bassmint Music and Caldella Music. According to Kellman in 2007, Hashim was the work of Jerry Calliste Jr. He became involved with music as a teenager; he started DJ at the age of 12, and in the early 1980s, he promoted part

Jerry Hunt

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Jerry Edward Hunt (November 30, 1943 – November 27, 1993) was an American composer who created works using live electronics partly controlled by his ritualistic performance techniques which were influenced by his interest in the occult. He was considered a pioneer of live, electronic and computer-aided audio and video. Hunt lived his entire life in Texas, living in a house he built himself on his family’s ranchland. Hunt was often described as “hyperactive” and always on the move. and a relative of his was a Freemason. As a teenager, Hunt put ads in the local newspapers, offering mail-order instructions “in the path of the infinite.” When a Dallas couple visited and asked for “Master Jerry,” his parents became very concerned about his mental health. As a young adult, Hunt worked as a pianist for various nightclub acts in Texas. Work and artistic vision Jerry Hunt briefly taught at Southern Methodist University. Hunt rarely used traditional instruments in his work. He was a self-taught inventor of electrical and computer-aided musical devices. Hunt’s live performances were considered unique and honest by art-critics. Others have referred to his work as “wonderfully disorienting” bec

Jerry Toth

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Jaroslav “Jerry” Toth (15 November 1928 – 31 March 1999) was a Canadian saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, arranger, composer, and record producer. Life and career Born in Windsor, Ontario, Toth was the son of Slovak violinist and cimbalom maker Carl Toth, the brother of musicians Rudy Toth and Tony Toth, and the brother-in-law of violinist and lyricist Josephine Toth. He studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with Frank Hiron and Herbert Pye. In 1953, he pursued further woodwind studies with Dale Eisenhuth in Los Angeles. From 1945–1953 Toth played alto saxophone in numerous dance bands in Toronto, including those led by Stan Patton, Bobby Gimby, and Trump Davidson. From 1952–1957 he co-led a seventeen-piece jazz band with trombonist Ross Culley and saxophonist Roy Smith. From 1956–1974 he studied orchestration with Phil Nimmons and was a member of Nimmons’ jazz bands. From 1970–1990 he was a member of Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, a big band which often featured him on alto saxophone. He also performed with his own jazz quartet. In the latter part of his career, he was active as a studio musician and record producer. Toth worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Co

Jerzy Fitelberg

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Jerzy Fitelberg (May 20, 1903 – April 25, 1951) was a Polish-American composer. Biography Son of Grzegorz Fitelberg, Jerzy was born in Warsaw. He first studied music with his father. At a young age, his father had him play percussion in the orchestra of the National Theatre, Warsaw to gain experience. He subsequently studied in Moscow. From 1922–1926 he studied composition with Walter Gmeindl and Franz Schreker at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1923 the University helped him get a deferment for the Polish military draft . In 1927 he re-orchestrated Arthur Sullivan’s music for „The Mikado” for Erik Charell’s re-staging as an operetta-revue in Berlin’s Grosses Schauspielhaus. (Review in the Times (London) September 2, 1927) In 1928, his String Quartet no. 2 won first prize in a competition organized by the Association of Young Polish Musicians in Paris. His works were heard at subsequent ISCM concerts of 1931, 1937, 1946 and 1951. Escaping the Nazis, he first traveled to Paris in 1933. There his music was published by Editions Max Eschig. Among the first works he composed in his new city were those reminiscent of Poland. His application for US Citizenship was filed on May 26,

Jerzy Milian

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Jerzy Stanisław Milian (April 10, 1935 – March 7, 2018) was a Polish jazz musician, painter, composer and vibraphonist. At sixteen he graduated from the Secondary School of Music in Poznań. His teachers were Wolfram Heicking and Bogusław Schaeffer. Career In the years 1953–1955, Milian formed a quintet with Stanisław Chwiłkowski, Ryszard Czaplicki, Jerzy Piątek and Stanisław Lisek. In the years 1956–1958, he played vibraphone in a sextet with Krzysztof Komeda, and at the turn of 1959 and 1960 in the quintet of Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski. He was the director and artistic director of the Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television Services Entertainment in Katowice and lecturer at the Poznań Academy of Music. He participated in many jazz festivals, including the annual Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw. He was a jury member at the XII Song Festival of Soviet in Zielona Góra in 1976. Personal life In the years 1950–1957, he was a member of the ZMP. From 1961, he belonged to the Polish United Workers’ Party. Awarded with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Polish, Gold Cross of Merit and badge for distinguished cultural activists. He died on March 7, 2018, at the age of 82. In 2004, he

Jesper Nordin (Swedish composer)

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Jesper Nordin (born 6 July 1971 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer. His music mixes traditional Swedish folk music, rock music, electroacoustics and improvisation. In 2002 his composition Calm Like a Bomb won second prize in Category B: electroacoustic music with voice or instruments in the 24th Russolo Composers Competition, and this piece was released on a CD together with music by the other prizewinners. The following year he was a finalist in Category A: electroacoustic music, of the same competition. He was Composer in Residence at SR P2, Swedish Radio’s serious music channel, from 2004 to 2006. “Residues”, released in 2006 by Swedish Radio, has been hailed as a “milestone for contemporary music lovers” in France and as “a central album of the Swedish music from the first decade of the 21st century” in Swedish press. Nordin was given a recommendation at UNESCO’s Rostrum 2005 and his music has been played at several ISCM festivals. He received the Saltö Foundation Award in 2014 for his work ‘Pendants’. Performances of his orchestral music have been given throughout the world by such orchestras as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Ra

Jess Langston Turner

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Jess Langston Turner (born 1983) is an American composer, who is known primarily for his concert band and choir music. Biography Jess Langston Turner was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1983, the son of Dan and Jamie Langston Turner, professors at Bob Jones University. He took piano lessons at age 8, and trumpet at age 11. He attended Bob Jones University, where he took bachelor’s and master’s degrees in trumpet performance. He then moved on to the University of Hartford, where he earned a master’s in musical composition. In 2015 he completed a doctorate in composition from Indiana University. Recordings Jess Langston Turner’s music has been recorded on five occasions, all by concert bands. Rumplestilzchen was recorded by the North Texas Wind Symphony and the Hartt School Wind Ensemble, the latter of which was released by Naxos; the West Chester University Wind Ensemble recorded him twice: Through the Looking Glass, on their album “Borrowed Inspirations” (2013), and Reanimations on their album “Reanimations” (2015); and the University of Louisville Wind Symphony, which also recorded Through the Looking Glass in 2017 for the American Bandmasters Association National Convention

Jessi (musician)

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Jessica Hyunju Ho (; born December 17, 1988), better known by the stage name Jessi (), is an American rapper and singer based in South Korea. She was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. She moved to Seoul, South Korea, at the age of 15. Jessi originally debuted in South Korea in 2005 and briefly joined the Korean hip-hop group Uptown in 2006. After a hiatus, she returned to music as part of the hip-hop trio Lucky J and as a soloist under YMC Entertainment, until the group’s disbandment in 2016. She then signed with Psy’s record label P Nation in 2019 as its first artist, where she continued her solo career until her departure from the label in 2022. Several of her solo and collaborative singles have been commercially successful, with five Top 10 entries in the Gaon Digital Chart, including her highest-charting solo single “Nunu Nana” and the chart-topping single “Don’t Touch Me” as part of the Refund Sisters. Jessi is a prominent presence in Korean variety programs. She achieved mainstream popularity as part of the first season of Mnet hip hop competition show Unpretty Rapstar, where she placed second. She also served as a judge in competition shows High School Rapper a

Jessica Jung

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Jessica Jung (born April 18, 1989) is an American and South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, author, and businesswoman. She is best known for her work as a former member of the South Korean girl group Girls’ Generation. As an actress, Jung portrayed Elle Woods in the Korean version of the musical Legally Blonde in 2010 and played a role in the television drama Wild Romance in 2012. In August 2014, Jung established a fashion brand, Blanc & Eclare. The next month, she was dismissed from Girls’ Generation, and in 2015, she ended her contract with SM Entertainment. In 2016, Jung signed with Coridel Entertainment in 2016, prior to the release of her debut solo album With Love, J. In May 2018, she signed a contract with United Talent Agency. Her debut novel Shine was released in September 2020. Early life Jessica Jung was born on April 18, 1989, in San Francisco. While on vacation in South Korea, she and her sister, Krystal, were spotted in a shopping mall by a member of SM Entertainment; she later joined the company in 2000. She spent seven years as a trainee before debuting as part of the Korean girl group Girls’ Generation. Jung attended Korea Kent Foreign School during her teenage

Jessica Suchy-Pilalis

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Jessica Ray Suchy-Pilalis (born 1954) is an American harpist. She is specialist in the theory and practice of Byzantine chant. Life and career Jessica Suchy-Pilalis was born and grew up in Milwaukee. She became interested in playing the harp when she was in kindergarten. She graduated from Shorewood High School in 1972. Suchy-Pilalis went on to become an honor student at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM). Her mother, Gregoria Karides Suchy, who taught at UWM, was also a composer who has written harp music for her daughter. She received two grants to study Byzantine music and to perform in Greece between 1984 and 1985. During that year, she became a psalti, or cantor, at the Indianapolis Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. She studied Byzantine music at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theological Seminary with Savas I. Savas and in Greece where she studied primarily with Dimitrios Sourlantzis. In 1988, she received a fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts. She received diplomas with honors in Byzantine Music from two conservatories in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is recognized/certified as an Hieropsalti (Chanter) by both the Greek Orthodox

Jessie Baetz

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Jessie Baetz (born Jessie Elizabeth Drummer; June 28, 1894 – November 28, 1980) the daughter of John Drummer and Esther Ann Oughtred Drummer. She studied and taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. Career She immigrated to New York City, where 1930s census records list her occupation as painter. Her art was included in a Christmas exhibit at the Jumble Shop on West 8th Street. She studied with modernist composer, Johanna Beyer, and played in her concerts for the New York Composers’ Forum. Baetz’s music was influenced by Beyer and Henry Cowell’s use of such techniques as tone clusters, polymeters, string piano, and playing the piano with forearms. Three of her works were performed at the Composers’ Forum on December 15, 1937, where they were part of a program that also included music by Rudolph Forst and Harrison Kerr. Her visual art consisted of “painting sculptures or spatial creations”, including colorful masks. 1966, and 1970. Personal life Jessie Drummer married fellow artist Walter Baetz in 1926. They lived in Shandaken, New York. In 1961 they were both rescued after a carbon monoxide accident in their home. Her husband died in 1978, and she died in November 1980, at a nu

Jessie Gaynor

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Jesse L. Smith Gaynor (February 17, 1863 - February 20, 1921) was an American composer of children’s music. She wrote the music for the well-known children’s lullaby “The Slumber Boat”, in collaboration with the children’s author, Alice C.D. Riley, who wrote the lyrics. Her daughter, Rose Gaynor Barrett (1884-1954), was an American visual artist as well as songwriter under her maiden name, Rose Fenimore Gaynor. Biography Jessie L. Smith was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a prominent businessman of that city and Susan Fenimore Taylor, from whom she inherited her love and talent for music and who was related to James Fenimore Cooper. As a child, Mrs. Gaynor sang correctly before she could talk. She was early placed under instruction, first in instrumental and later in vocal music, and continued her musical studies while in school and college. Aside from her piano study she became somewhat familiar with the cornet, double bass, and violin, and later studied the violin for two years. While at school, she played these various instruments in an amateur orchestra. She later studied piano and theory under Dr. Louis Maas of Boston. Afterward she studied voice under John Dennis Mehan, theory

Jessie Montgomery

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Jessie Montgomery (born December 8, 1981, New York City) is an American violinist, composer, chamber musician, and music educator. Her compositions focus on the vernacular, improvisation, language, and social justice. She is the 2025 Classical Woman of the Year, awarded by the radio program Performance Today. Early life and education Jessie Montgomery, who is of African American heritage, was raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side by playwright and performer Robbie McCauley and composer Ed Montgomery. She began her violin studies at the Third Street Music School Settlement. She holds a bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the Juilliard School, and completed a master’s degree in Composition for Film and Multimedia at New York University in 2012. Starting in 1999, Montgomery became involved with the Sphinx Organization, a Detroit-based nonprofit that supports young African American and Latino string players. After receiving multiple Sphinx awards and grants as a young performer and composer, she now serves as composer-in-residence for the Sphinx Virtuosi, the organization’s professional touring ensemble. Career Montgomery devoted her early career to performance and to teaching

Jessie Seymour Irvine

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Jessie Seymour Irvine (26 July 1836 – 2 September 1887) was the daughter of a Church of Scotland parish minister who served at Dunottar, Peterhead, and Crimond in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She is best known for being the likely composer of the hymn tune “Crimond”, which is commonly used as the music for the hymn “The Lord’s My Shepherd”. Irvine is referred to by Ian Bradley, in his 1997 book Abide with Me: The World of Victorian Hymns, as standing “in a strong Scottish tradition of talented amateurs who tended to produce metrical psalm tunes rather than the dedicated hymn tunes increasingly composed in England.” Early life Jessie Seymour Irvine was born in Dunottar in the north-east of Scotland in 1836. She was the daughter of Rev Alexander Irvine, a Church of Scotland minister. Rev Irvine moved to different church appointments in the north-east of Scotland, serving at Dunottar, Peterhead and Crimond. “Crimond” composition While Rev Irvine was serving at Crimond Church, his teenage daughter Jessie was undertaking training as an organist at the nearby town of Banff. According to some accounts, she composed a tune in 1871 for the metrical version of Psalm 23, “The Lord’s My Shepherd”,

Jesús Arámbarri

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Jesús Arámbarri Gárate (13 April 1902 in Bilbao – 11 July 1960 in Madrid) was a Spanish classical music conductor and composer native to the Basque Country. Jesús Arámbarri has been classed among the cultural treasures of the region, with Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Jesús Guridi, Luís de Pablo, Maurice Ravel, and Pablo de Sarasate. His place in 20th-century classical music is part of a tradition which also includes Isaac Albéniz, José Antonio de Donostia, Manuel de Falla, Felipe Pedrell, Joaquín Rodrigo, Joaquín Turina, and José María Usandizaga. After his early music education at the Bilbao Conservatory of Music, Arámbarri’s teachers included Paul Le Flem, Paul Dukas and Vladimir Golschmann in Paris and Felix Weingartner in Basel. Arámbarri composed some of his most important works while he was a student. After his return to Bilbao he was primarily a conductor and composed only a few more works, which included In memoriam for Juan Carlos de Gortázar (1939), Ofrenda (Offering) for Manuel de Falla (1946), and Dedicatoria (Dedication) for Javier Arisqueta (1949). From 1933 in Bilbao, Arámbarri conducted the (then part-time) Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, which he developed into the first fu

Jesús Bal y Gay

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Jesús Bal y Gay (23 June 1905 – 3 March 1993) was a Spanish composer, music critic, and musicologist. He was a member of Generation of ‘27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo Pittaluga. He married Ascot in 1933. Career Jesús Bal y Gay was born in Lugo, where he began his musical studies. There he established contact with the group from the magazine Ronsel in whose publication he published Hacia el ballet gallego (Towards the Galician ballet) (1924), an effort which represented his launch into professional literary life. With the collaboration of Eduardo Martinez Torner, he embarked on a project that would see him taking many trips and much time, the Galician Songbook, which would not be completed until 1974. It was his most famous and celebrated work. He moved to Santiago de Compostela to study medicine, but he left everything to go to Madrid, where, in 1924, he joined the Residencia de Estudiantes. He died in Torrelaguna. References External links * online edition of Romances and sixteenth century Spanish

Jesús García Leoz

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Jesús García Leoz (Olite, Navarra, 10 January 1904 – 1953) was a Spanish composer, particularly noted for his film scores. He was a favourite pupil of Joaquín Turina and one of the “músicos del ‘27.” Works, editions and recordings * Cinco canciones para canto e piano (1934) (poems by Juan Paredes) * Tríptico de canciones para canto e piano (1937) (poems by Lorca) * Seis canciones para canto e piano (1939) (poems by Antonio Machado) * Dos canciones para canto e piano (1952) (poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez) * Symphony * Sonatina for small orchestra (1945) * Sonata for Violin and Piano * String Quartet in F minor (Opus 2) * Quartet for Piano and Strings * Piano Sonatina * La duquesa del candil (1948) zarzuela in three acts (libretto by Guillermo and Rafael Fernández-Shaw) Selected filmography * Fortunato (1942) * A Palace for Sale (1942) * I Will Consult Mister Brown (1946) * The Black Siren (1947) * Four Women (1947) * Lady in Ermine (1947) * Lola Leaves for the Ports (1947) * The Party Goes On (1948) * Guest of Darkness (1948) * Ninety Minutes (1949) * Night Arrival (1949) * A Man on the Road (1949) * Tempest (1949) * Wings of Youth (1949) * The Maragatan Sphinx (1950) * Tales of the A

Jesús Guridi

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Jesús Guridi Bidaola (25 September 1886 – 7 April 1961) was a Spanish Basque composer who was a key player in 20th-century Spanish and Basque music. His style fits into the late Romantic idiom, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a strong influence from Basque culture. Among his best-known works are the zarzuela El Caserío, the opera Amaya, the orchestral work Ten Basque Melodies and his organ works, where the Triptych of the Good Shepherd can be highlighted. Biography Guridi was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz into a family of musicians. His mother, Maria Trinidad Bidaola, was a violinist and his father, Lorenzo Guridi, was a pianist . After completing his early studies with the Piarists and the Jesuits of Zaragoza he moved to Madrid, where he received lessons from Valentín Arín. Later, in Bilbao, he received violin lessons from Lope Alaña, who introduced him to the society called “El Cuartito”, and studied harmony with José Sáinz Besabe . On 28 January 1901 he gave his first public concert with the Philharmonic Society of Bilbao. At the age of 18 he was enrolled in the Schola Cantorum in Paris, studying organ with Abel Decaux, composition with Auguste Sérieyx, and fugue and counterp

Jesús Rodríguez Picó

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Jesús Rodríguez Picó (born Barcelona, Spain, 12 July 1953) is a composer of contemporary classical music, a clarinet player and a pedagogue. He studied at the Conservatori del Liceu where he obtained a certificate as a clarinet teacher, completing his training in France. He collaborated with many ensembles specialized in the contemporary repertoire, like the Grup Instrumental Català (GIC) and Solars Vortices, as well as forming a duo with the pianist Manuel Cabero. As a performer, he has strived to promote clarinet music and contemporary music, in addition to working in musical pedagogy and in various fields relating to cultural management. Career Rodríguez Picó has written a lot of chamber music and particularly works written for the clarinet or the saxophone, and is often the result of his friendship and collaboration with different instrumentalists. Some examples are Sonata Marina, for saxophone and piano, and Volt, Preludi i Dansa and Horo, both for clarinet. He also writes extensively for orchestra, including concertos and symphonic poems, such as: La ciutat i les estrelles (Concertino for piano and orchestra, 1979), Diomira (1980), El lleó afamat (Preludes for orchestra, 1988