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Juan Aberle

Giovanni Enrico Aberle Sforza, better known as Juan Aberle, (11 December 1846 – 28 February 1930) was an Italian conductor and composer who lived in Guatemala and El Salvador. Biography Born in

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Juan Andres Otalora

Juan Andres Otalora is a Colombian film and TV composer, arranger and guitarist. He won a Latin Grammy Award in 2014 for producing and arranging the album Fonseca Sinfónico. Born in Bogota, he

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Juan Arañés

Juan Arañés (died c. 1649) was a Spanish baroque composer. His tonos and villancicos follow the style of those preserved in the Cancionero of Kraków. Biography Arañés was born in Aragon, at an

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Juan Bautista Cabanilles

Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (also Juan Bautista Josep, Valencian: Joan) (6 September 1644 in Algemesí near Valencia – 29 April 1712 in Valencia) was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia

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Juan Bautista Comes

Juan Bautista Comes (ca. 1582 – 5 January 1643), per Valencian spelling Joan Baptista Comes, was a Spanish Baroque composer who was born and died in Valencia. It is known that before 1613 he held

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Juan Bermudo

Juan Bermudo (c. 1510) was a Spanish Friar Minor who is best known as a composer, music theorist and mathematician. Life Bermudo entered the Franciscan Order in 1525, belonging to the Province of

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Juan Carlos Calderón

Juan Carlos Calderón López de Arróyabe (7 July 1936 – 26 November 2012) was a Spanish singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Career Born in Santander, he was the author of "Eres tú",

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Juan Carlos Tolosa

Juan Carlos Tolosa (born in Córdoba, 2 October 1966) is an Argentinian composer, pianist, and conductor. Studies Juan Carlos Tolosa began his musical studies in 1972 at Instituto Domingo Zípoli in

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Juan Cornago

Juan Cornago (Johannes Cornago) ( 1400 – after 1475) was a Spanish composer of the early Renaissance. He is the earliest Spanish composer with a large number of surviving works. After the death of

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Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (27 January 1806 – 17 January 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang

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Juan de Anchieta

Juan de Anchieta (1462 – 1523) was a leading Spanish Basque composer of the Renaissance, he served as a singer and chapel master in the royal court of the Catholic Monarchs and their successors.

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Juan de Dios Filiberto

Juan de Dios Filiberto (8 March 1885 11 November 1964) was an Argentine violinist, conductor, poet and composer who became prominent in the Argentine tango genre. Life and work He was born Óscar Juan

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Juan de Espinosa (composer)

Juan de Espinosa (died 1528) was a Spanish composer and music theorist. He claimed to have been in the service of Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza, Archbishop of Toledo, until Mendoza's death in

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Juan de Lienas

Juan de Lienas ( ) was a composer active in Latin America during the early to mid-17th century. He also served as a chapel master and conductor in the Catholic Church. Much of his life is still a

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Juan de Triana

Juan de Triana (fl. 1460 – 1490, died 28 January 1494) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance period, active in the second half of the 15th century during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. Pope

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Juan de Urrede

Juan de Urrede (also Juan de Urreda, born c.1430 in Bruges as Johannes de Wreede , died after 1482 in Salamanca) was a Flemish singer and composer active in Spain in the service of the Duke of Alba,

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Juan Esquivel Barahona

Juan de Esquivel Barahona (c. 1560 – after 1623) was the most prominent of the last generation of Spanish church composers of the Renaissance era. Although he never served in one of the major Spanish

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Juan Francés de Iribarren

Juan Francés de Iribarren (1699 in Sangüesa – 2 September 1767 in Málaga) was a Spanish late baroque composer. Life and career Iribarren was christened on 24 March 1699 at the Church of St. James the

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Juan Francisco García (composer)

Juan Francisco García (born June 16, 1892 - November 18, 1974) was a Dominican merengue composer. He was one of several merengue musicians who sought to promote the genre in the early 20th century,

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Juan García Esquivel

Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002), often known mononymously as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as

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Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (ca. 15901664) was a Renaissance-style Spanish composer and cantor, most of whose career took place in Mexico. Life and career Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla was born in Málaga,

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Juan Hidalgo Codorniu

Juan Hidalgo Codorniu (14 October 1927 – 26 February 2018 ) was a Spanish composer, poet, an action and visual artist. Biography Hidalgo was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. After studying piano

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Juan Hidalgo de Polanco

Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (28 September 1614 – 31 March 1685) was a Spanish composer and harpist who became the most influential composer of his time in the Hispanic world writing the music for the

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Juan José Castro

Juan José Castro (March 7, 1895 – September 3, 1968) was an Argentine composer and conductor. Born in Avellaneda, Castro studied piano and violin under Manuel Posadas and composition under Eduardo

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Juan Manén

Juan Manén (or Joan Manén; 14 March 1883 – 26 June 1971) was a Spanish violinist and composer, born in Barcelona. As a child, his progress in music was so rapid that his father exhibited him as a

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Juan Manuel Abras

Juan Manuel Abras Contel (in Swedish and Polish, Jan Emanuel Abras; born 1 February 1975) is a classical music composer, conductor, musicologist and historian from Sweden. Born in Stockholm to a

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Juan Manuel Cañizares

Juan Manuel Cañizares (born 1966) is a Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer. He is a winner of the "Premio Nacional de Música" (1982) and "Premio de la Música" (2008) awards. Biography In 1966

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Juan María Guelbenzu Fernández

Juan María Guelbenzu Fernández was a Spanish pianist and composer. Biography He was born in Pamplona, Navarra 27 December 1819. Juan had been close with composers Chopin, Thalberg and Liszt. He

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Juan María Solare

Juan María Solare (born August 11, 1966) is an Argentine composer and pianist. Education Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano (María Teresa Criscuolo),

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Juan Morel Campos

Juan Morel Campos (16 May 1857 – 12 May 1896), sometimes erroneously spelled Juan Morell Campos, was a Puerto Rican composer, considered by many to be responsible for taking the genre of danza to its

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Juan Navarro Hispalensis

Juan Navarro of Seville, hence the epithet Hispalensis, (Marchena c. 1530 – Palencia 25 September 1580) was a Spanish composer. He is not related to the Mexican composer Juan Navarro Gaditanus, (i.e.

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Juan Nepomucino Goetz

Juan Nepomucino Goetz () was an Austrian Catholic priest whose arrival in Cuba led to two extraordinary controversies. When Toussaint-Louverture drove out the British, he rang the church bells and

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Juan Orrego-Salas

Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas (January 18, 1919 – November 24, 2019 ) was a Chilean composer, musicologist, music critic, and academic. Life and career Born Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas in Santiago on

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Juan Pampin

Juan Pampin (born January 23, 1967) is an Argentine composer and sound artist who lives and works in Seattle. Biography Since 2002, Pampin has been a professor of composition at the University of

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Juan Pedro Esnaola

Juan Pedro Esnaola (17 August 1808, in Buenos Aires – 8 July 1878, in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine composer from the first half of the nineteenth century. He is remembered as the arranger of the

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Juan Pérez Roldán

Juan Pérez Roldán (1604–1672) was a Spanish composer. He was born in Calahorra and likely died in Zaragoza, Spain. Roldán began as a choirboy at Calahorra Cathedral in 1617. He was appointed maestro

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Juan Trigos

Juan Trigos (born 1965) is a Mexican-American composer and conductor. He is currently a Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts. Biography Trigos

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Juan Vásquez (composer)

Juan Vásquez (or Vázquez, c. 1500 in Badajoz – c. 1560 in Seville) was a Spanish priest and composer of the Renaissance. He can be considered part of the School of Andalusia group of composers along

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Juan Vert

Juan Bautista Vert Carbonell (1890, in Carcaixent – 1931, in Madrid) was a Valencian composer of Spanish zarzuelas. He worked in collaboration with Reveriano Soutullo. Works References External links

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Juanjo Mier Cáraves

Juan José Mier Cáraves (Alles, 28 April 1947 – Santander, 7 August 1997) was a Spanish composer, professor, and pedagogue. He is known for his musical and pedagogical work in Cantabria, as well as

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Judith Bailey (composer)

Judith Margaret Bailey (18 July 1941 – 16 March 2025) was a Cornish clarinettist, composer and conductor. Bailey was born in Camborne, Cornwall. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1959 to

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Judith Bingham

Judith Bingham (born 21 June 1952) is an English composer and mezzo-soprano singer. She was a member of the BBC Singers from 1983 to 1995. She is a fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music.

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Judith Clingan

Judith Ann Clingan (born 19 January 1945) is an Australian composer, conductor, performer and music educator. Since 1997, she has been the Director of Wayfarers Australia (formerly Waldorf Wayfarers)

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Judith Dvorkin

Judith Dvorkin (22 April 1928 – 24 July 1995) was an American composer and librettist. She also used the pseudonym Judy Spencer. Dvorkin was born in New York. She received a bachelor's degree in

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Judith Lang Zaimont

Judith Lang Zaimont (; born November 8, 1945) is an American composer and pianist. Biography Judith Lang Zaimont was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to a Jewish family. Both Zaimont and her sister, Doris

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Judith Shatin

Judith Shatin (Allen) (born November 21, 1949) is an American composer. Biography Shatin was born and raised in Albany, New York, to a clinical psychologist father and a microbiologist mother. At the

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Judith Weir

Dame Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954 ) is a British composer. She served as Master of the King's Music from 2014 to 2024. Appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, Weir was the first woman to hold this office.

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Judy Bailey (pianist)

Judith Mary Bailey (3 October 1935 – 8 August 2025) was a New Zealand-born pianist, classical jazz musician, composer, arranger and senior lecturer who lived in Australia from 1960. Life and career

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Judy Dunaway

Judy Dunaway (born 1964, in Mississippi) is a conceptual sound artist, avant-garde composer, free improvisor and creator of sound installations who is primarily known for her sound works for latex

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Judy Klein

Judy Klein (born 14 April 1943, in Chicago) is an American composer, music educator. She is the founder of the Computer Music Studio at New York University and served as its director in 1980's. Her

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Juhani Komulainen

Juhani Komulainen (born 22 April 1953) is a Finnish composer of modern classical music. He lives in Helsinki. Biography Juhani Komulainen was born in Jämsänkoski, and has studied composition at the

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Jukka Immonen

Jukka Immonen (born 14 April 1978) is a Finnish musician, record producer and composer. Career beginnings Immonen started to develop an interest in music as a teenager when his parents bought him a

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Jules Auguste Wiernsberger

Jean Jules Auguste Wiernsberger (5 July 1857 – 15 December 1925) was a French composer from Alsace. Life and music Wiernsberger was born in Mulhouse. He received his first music lessons from his

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Jules Buckley

Julian "Jules" Buckley (born 8 January 1980) is an English conductor, composer, and arranger. Career In 2004, Buckley and producer/manager Chris Wheeler co-founded the Heritage Orchestra, with the

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Jules Costé

Edme Jules called Jules Costé, (13 February 1828 – 12 November 1883) was a 19th-century French lawyer and composer of operettas and opéras-comiques. Main works *1855: Jacqueline ou la Fille du

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Jules Cottin

Jules Cottin (1868–1922) was a mandolin virtuoso who played in Paris from the 1890s. A pupil of the guitarist Jacques Bosch, he became part of the mandolin revival, which revitalized the instrument

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Jules Danbé

Jules Danbé (16 November 1840 – 30 October 1905) was a French violinist, composer and conductor, mainly of opera. Biography Danbé was born in Caen, Calvados. Trained as a violinist, he was a pupil of

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Jules Duprato

Jules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato (20 August 1827 – 20 May 1892) was a 19th-century French composer. Biography A student of Aimé Leborne at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won first grand prix de Rome

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Jules Garcin

Jules Auguste Garcin Salomon (11 July 1830 – 10 October 1896) was a French violinist, conductor and composer of the 19th century. Life Garcin was born in Bourges. His maternal grandfather, Joseph

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Jules Jordan (composer)

Julius "Jules" Jordan (November 10, 1850 – March 5, 1927) was an American composer, operatic tenor, vocal instructor and conductor. Jordan took the leading part in two important American premieres:

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Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged

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Julia Adolphe

Julia Adolphe (born May 16, 1988 in New York City) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Her works include choral, orchestral, operatic, chamber and art song pieces. Her initial

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Julia Gomelskaya

Julia Gomelskaya (, ; 11 March 19644 December 2016) was a Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gomelskaya graduated from the Simpheropol Tchaikovsky Musical College as a

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Julia Kerr

Julia Kerr (née Weismann, 28 August 1898 – 3 October 1965) was a German composer and pianist. As a composer she used the name Julia Kerwey. She also worked as a translator during the Nuremberg

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Julia Newman

Julia Newman is an American composer best known for her television scores and her collaborations with her father, film composer Thomas Newman, and television showrunner Ryan Murphy. Early Life and

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Julia Perry

Julia Amanda Perry (March 25, 1924 – April 24, 1979) was an American classical composer and teacher who combined European classical and neo-classical training with her African-American heritage. Life

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Julia Smith (composer)

Julia Frances Smith ( January 25, 1905 – April 18, 1989 ) was an American composer, pianist and musicologist. Life and career She was born in Denton, Texas. She graduated from University of North

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Julia Tsenova

Julia Tsenova (also spelled Julia Tzenova, Julia Cenova, or Julia Zenova, ) ( – ) was a Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue. Life and career Julia Tsenova graduated in both Composition

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Julia Usher

Julia Usher (born 1945) is an English musician, project animateur and composer, and is known for musical theater. Besides composing, she also works as a music therapist. Biography Julia Usher began

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Julia Wolfe

Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to The Wall Street Journal, Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its

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Julian Anderson

Julian Anderson (born 6 April 1967) is a British composer and teacher of composition. Biography Anderson was born in London. He studied at Westminster School, then with John Lambert at the Royal

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Julián Bautista

Julián Bautista (21 April 1901 – 8 July 1961) was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was a member of Generation of '27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Jesús Bal

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Julian Berntzen

Julian Berntzen (born 2 February 1981) is a Norwegian vocalist, pianist, violinist and composer known for his Magnetic North Orchestra. He is the son of artist and guitarist Lasse Berntzen, and the

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Julián Carrillo

Julián Carrillo Trujillo (January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist, famous for developing a theory of microtonal music which he dubbed

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Julian Clifford

Julian Seymour Clifford (London, 28 September 1877 – Hastings, 27 December 1921) was an English conductor, composer and pianist particularly associated with the orchestras at Harrogate and Hastings,

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Julian Cochran

Julian Cochran (born 1974) is an English-born Australian composer. Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by

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Julián De La Chica

Julián De La Chica is a Colombian composer, pianist, and record producer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a founding member of the independent record label Irreverence Group Music. He is known for

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Julian Edwards

Julian Edwards (December 11, 1855 - September 5, 1910) was an English composer of light operatic music, who composed many successful Broadway shows in the Progressive Era. He attempted to introduce

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Julian Fontana

Julian (or Jules) Fontana (31 July 1810 — 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of

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Julian Jordan (composer)

Julian Jordan (November 10, 1850 – October 13, 1929) was an American composer, vocal instructor and singer. He worked with Willis Woodward & Co., a publisher in New York City's Tin Pan Alley. In

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Julian Klemczyński

Julian Klemczyński was a Polish composer and teacher who spent the bulk of his career in France. Biography Julian Klemczyński was born in either 1807 or 1810 in the old section (Stare Miasto) of

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Julian of Speyer

Julian of Speyer (; died c. 1250), also known as Julian of Spires, was a German Franciscan composer, poet and historian of the thirteenth century. Born in Speyer, Julian studied at the University of

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Julian Philips

Julian Philips is a British composer. Philips' works have been performed at major music festivals, including The Proms, Tanglewood, Three Choirs Festival, at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre and

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Julian Wachner

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Julian Wagstaff

Julian Wagstaff (born 1970) is a Scottish composer of classical music, musical theatre and opera. Born in Edinburgh, Wagstaff originally studied German language and politics, and graduated from the

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Julian Work

Julian Cassander Work (September 25, 1910—June 15, 1995) was an arranger and composer. Work was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to a family of professional musicians. His grandfather, John Wesley Work

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Julian Yu

Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957) is a Chinese-Australian composer. Biography Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked. In 1984

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Juliana Hall

Juliana Hall (born 1958) is an American composer of art songs, monodramas, and vocal chamber music. She has been described by the National Association of Teachers of Singing's (NATS) Journal of

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Juliane Klein

Juliane Klein (born 3 November 1966) is a German composer and publishing director . Life Born in Berlin, Klein began studying clarinet, piano, musical composition and improvisation at the Hochschule

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Juliane Reichardt

Juliane Reichardt, née Benda (14 May 1752 – 9 or 11 May 1783), was a pianist, singer and composer from the Kingdom of Prussia. Biography Reichardt was born in Potsdam, the youngest of the six

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Julie Reisserová

Julie Reisserová née Kühnlova (9 October 1888 – 25 February 1938) was a Czech composer and music publicist. Biography Julie Reisserová was born in Prague. She studied piano with Adolf Mikeš and

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Julie Rivé-King

Julie Rivé-King (October 30, 1854 July 28, 1937) was an American pianist and composer. Biography Julie Rivé-King was born on October 30, 1854, in Cincinnati, Ohio, of parents Caroline Staub Rivé and

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Julie von Webenau

Julie von Webenau (; October 16, 1813 – July 2, 1887) was a German-Austrian composer. Life von Webenau was born to the government council member Ludwig Cajetan Baroni-Cavalcabò (1765-1847) and the

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Julie Waldburg-Wurzach

Princess Julie Furstin von Waldburg-Wurzach (27 April 1841 – 7 December 1914) was an Austrian composer who published over 60 works for voice and/or piano. She was born in Vienna to Count Frans and

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Julien Belin

Julien Belin was a French composer and lutenist active in the second half of the 16th century; he died after 1584. Biography The only information about his life comes from the Bibliothèque de La

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Julien Hoffmann

Julien Hoffmann (31 May 1924 – 2007 "Arrangement fir Gemöschte Cho'er" and "La Provence", the last composed with Ralph Siegel. which like "La Provence" was published by Bosworth Musikverlag. Hoffmann

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Julien Jabre

Julien Jabre (born November 1976) is a French-Lebanese electronic music composer, producer, and audio engineer. Specializing in house music, he is associated with the French house. Biography During

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Julien Koszul

Julien Koszul (4 December 1844 – 15 January 1927) was a French composer and pipe organist from Alsace. Biography Born in Morschwiller-le-Bas, Alsace, Koszul studied at the École Niedermeyer de Paris

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Julien-François Zbinden

Julien-François Zbinden (11 November 1917 – 8 March 2021) was a Swiss composer and jazz pianist. Life Born in Rolle, Kanton Waadt, Zbinden studied piano in Lausanne and Geneva. He learned musical

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Juliet Palmer

Juliet Palmer is a contemporary composer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Career Juliet Kiri Palmer was born in New Zealand in 1967, where she completed a Masters of Music in performance,

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Juliette Toutain

Marie Juliette Toutain (July 22, 1877 – 1948) was a French pianist, organist, and composer. Early life and education Toutain was born in Trouville-sur-Mer in Normandy, the daughter of Jules Toutain

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Julio de Caro

Julio de Caro (December 11, 1899 – March 11, 1980) was an Argentine composer, musician, and conductor prominent in the Tango genre. Life and work His father opened a conservatory in the San Telmo

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Júlio Medaglia

Júlio Medaglia (born 1938) is a Brazilian composer, arranger, and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he studied theory and conducting with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He continued his studies at the

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Julius Bechgaard

Julius Andreas Bechgaard (19 December 1843 different 22 December – 4 March 1917) was a Danish composer of piano pieces, songs, and operas. Bechgaard was born in Copenhagen. His best known opera,

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Julius Benedict

Sir Julius Benedict (27 November 1804 – 5 June 1885) was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career. Life and music Benedict was born in Stuttgart, the son of a

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Julius Bittner

Julius Bittner (born Vienna, 9 April 1874; died Vienna, 9 January 1939) was an Austrian composer. Life The son of a judge, Bittner also initially pursued a career in law. Until 1920 he was a judge in

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Julius Bürger

Julius Burger (Bürger) (11 March 1897 in Vienna – 12 June 1995 in New York City) was an Austrian then American composer, pianist and conductor. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music under Franz

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Julius Buths

Julius Buths (7 May 185112 March 1920) was a German pianist, conductor and minor composer. He was particularly notable in his early championing of the works of Edward Elgar in Germany. He conducted

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Julius Conus

Julius or Jules Conus (, Yuliy Eduardovich Konyus; 1 February 1869 3 January 1942) was a Russian violinist and composer. Early life and education Conus was born in Moscow, the son of Eduard Conus, a

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Julius Dobos

Gyula Julius Dobos (born in Budapest, Hungary) is a composer, synthesist and music producer, best known for his electronic and orchestral music releases worldwide, and for his film scores and music

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Julius Eastman

Julius Eastman (October 27, 1940 – May 28, 1990) was an American composer. He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and

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Julius Eichberg

Julius Eichberg (13 June 1824 – 19 January 1893) was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Julius Eichberg was born in

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Julius Fučík (composer)

Julius Ernst Wilhelm Fučík (, ; 18 July 1872 – 25 September 1916) was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 400 marches, polkas and waltzes to his

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Julius Harrison

Julius Allan Greenway Harrison (26 March 1885 – 5 April 1963) was an English composer and conductor who was particularly known for his interpretation of operatic works. Born in Lower Mitton,

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Julius Hemphill

Julius Arthur Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2, 1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute.

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Julius Hopp

Julius Hopp (18 May 1819 – 28 August 1885) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger and translator. Life and career Born in Graz, Empire of Austria, the son of the actor and poet Friedrich Hopp,

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Julius Klengel

Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of

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Julius Otto Grimm

Julius Otto Grimm (6 March 1827 – 7 December 1903) was a German composer, conductor and musician who spent the majority of his professional life in Westphalia. He is most-often remembered today as

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Julius Reubke

Friedrich Julius Reubke (23 March 18343 June 1858) was a German composer, pianist and organist associated with the school of Romanticism. A pupil of Franz Liszt, his small œuvre includes the Sonata

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Julius Rietz

August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (28 December 1812 – 12 September 1877 ) was a German composer, conductor, cellist, and teacher. His students included Woldemar Bargiel, Salomon Jadassohn, Arthur O'Leary,

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Julius Röntgen

Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg. Early life and education Julius Röntgen was born

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Julius Stern

Julius Stern (8 August 1820 – 27 February 1883) was a Jewish German musical pedagogue and composer. Biography Stern was born at Breslau. He received his elementary education in music from the

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Julius Weissenborn

Christian Julius Weissenborn (April 13, 1837 – April 21, 1888) was a German bassoonist, teacher and composer. Biography Weissenborn was born in Friedrichs-Tanneck near Eisenberg, Thuringia. He was

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Juliusz Zarębski

Juliusz Zarębski (3 March 185415 September 1885) was a Polish composer and pianist active in the Russian Empire. Some of his manuscripts have been found in the National Library of Poland (BN). Life

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Juls Scherle

Juls Scherle is a German-raised composer based in Los Angeles. Early life Scherle grew up in a musical family. They have been classically trained since age six. Their father is a lute and guitar

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Jun Ishikawa (composer)

, sometimes known as Mushio Funazawa, is a Japanese composer. Along with Hirokazu Ando, Ishikawa is best known for composing for the Kirby video game series. He left series studio HAL Laboratory in

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Jun Miyake

Jun Miyake (Japanese: Hepburn: , January 7, 1958, in Kyoto) is a Japanese composer. His music (e.g., the songs "Lilies in the Valley" and "The Here and After") was used in the film Pina, nominated

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Jun Yamaguchi

is a Japanese composer ISCM World Music Days 2001 Yokohama (2001, selection) and the 72nd Japan Music Competition (2003, finalist). In July 2001, he came to the United States under a grant from the

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June Weybright

June Elizabeth Weybright Reeder (June 15, 1903 – November 15, 1996) was an American composer and music educator who is best known for her piano method books and compositions, published under the name

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Jung Jae-hyung

Jung Jae-hyung (; born January 12, 1970) is a South Korean pop singer-songwriter, pianist and film music composer. Currently, his agency is the Antenna. Career 1995–2007: Debut with band Basis and

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Jung Jae-il

Jung Jae-il (,; born May 7, 1982) is a South Korean composer known for writing the scores of the 2019 Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the Netflix television series Squid Game, which earned

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Junko Mori (composer)

Junko (Yanai) Mori (, born 13 February 1948) is a Japanese composer and music educator. Biography Junko Mori was born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and attended the Tokyo National University of Fine

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Junpei Fujita

is a Japanese arranger and composer, and a founding member of Elements Garden. His work includes composition and arrangement of some tracks of singles and albums of Nana Mizuki He also arranged music

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Junsang Bahk

Junsang Bahk (; born 2 June 1937) is a Korean composer, also active in Austria. Biography Bahk studied composition at the Graduate School, Seoul National University, where he received a Master of

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Juraj Filas

Juraj Filas (5 March 1955 – 31 December 2021) was a Slovak composer. His work included more than 100 compositions: symphonies, cantatas, numerous compositions for chamber ensemble, as well as the

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Juraj Lexmann

Juraj Lexmann (19 January 1941 – 12 November 2025) was a Slovak musicologist, composer, film editor, and academic. He is best known for codifying modern Slovak Roman Catholic liturgical hymnals and

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Juraj Stahuljak

Juraj Stahuljak (16 July 1901, Sv. Jana – 8 February 1975, Zagreb) was a Croatian composer, organist, choir conductor and pedagogue. Biography Juraj Stahuljak (Sv. Jana by Jastrebarsko, 1901 –

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Jürg Baur

Jürg Baur (11 November 1918 – 31 January 2010) was a German composer whose works include Incontri and Mutazioni. Baur studied at the Cologne University of Music and taught there in his later years.

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Jürg Hanselmann

Jürg Hanselmann (born 23 September 1960) is a Swiss-Liechtensteiner pianist, composer and music educator. He teaches piano and composition at the Sargans Cantonal School. Life Born in Grabs,

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Jürg Wyttenbach

Jürg Wyttenbach (2 December 1935 – 22 December 2021) was a Swiss composer, pianist, and orchestra conductor. Life and career Wyttenbach studied at the University of the Arts Bern under Sándor Veress

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Jurgis Karnavičius (composer)

Jurgis Karnavičius (23 April 1884 – 22 December 1941) was a Lithuanian composer of classical music and a forerunner of the development of Lithuanian operatic works. Biography Karnavičius was born in

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Juri Camisasca

Roberto Camisasca (born 9 August 1951), best known as Juri Camisasca, is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Melegnano, a self-taught musician, Camisasca debuted in

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Jüri Reinvere

Jüri Reinvere (born December 2, 1971, in Tallinn) is an Estonian composer, poet and essayist who has been living in Germany since 2005. Jüri Reinvere's polystylistic art does not follow any dogmas of

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Juri Seo

Juri Seo (; born December 31, 1981) is a South Korean composer. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, she has released several albums, two of which were with Innova Recordings. She is also Professor at the

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Juro Mětšk

Juro Mětšk (1 May 1954 – 20 January 2022) was a Sorbian composer. Life and career Born in Bautzen, the son of the Sorbian writer and publicist , he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler

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Jurriaan Andriessen (composer)

Jurriaan Hendrik Andriessen (15 November 1925, Haarlem - 23 August 1996, The Hague) was a Dutch composer. Andriessen studied composition with his father Hendrik at the Utrecht Conservatory before

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Jussi Jalas

Jussi Jalas (23 June 1908 – 11 October 1985) was a Finnish conductor and composer. Biography Jalas was born as Armas Jussi Veikko Blomstedt in Jyväskylä in 1908. His father was Yrjö Blomstedt, an

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Jussifer

Jussi Ilmari Karvinen (born 1984), better known as Jussifer, is a Finnish-American record producer, songwriter and musician. He has worked with Kelly Clarkson, Bebe Rexha, JoJo, Alma and Dinah Jane.

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Justin Connolly

Justin Riveagh Connolly (11 August 1933 – 29 September 2020) was a British composer and teacher. Life Justin Connolly was born on 11 August 1933 in London. He was the son of John D'Arcy-Dawson, a

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Justin Dello Joio

Justin Dello Joio (born October 18, 1955) is an American composer and the fifth-generation composer in the Dello Joio family. Early life and education Dello Joio completed his formal education at the

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Justin Elie

Justin Elie (1 September 1883 – 2 December 1931) was a Haitian composer and pianist. He is one of the best-known composers outside of Haiti. Biography Justin Elie was born in Cap-Haïtien. Return to

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Justin Heinrich Knecht

Justinus or Justin Heinrich Knecht (30 September 1752 – 1 December 1817) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. Biography He was born in Biberach an der Riss, where he learnt to play

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Justin Prabhakaran

Justin Prabhakaran (born 10 June 1986) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer. He has scored music mostly for Tamil films and also a few Malayalam and Telugu films besides two Hindi films.

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Justina Lee Brown

Justina Ogunlolu (born 23 July 1984), known professionally as Justina Lee Brown, is a Nigerian Afro, funk, soul, blues, rock and jazz singer-songwriter. She was the first runner-up in the Nokia First

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Justus Hermann Wetzel

Justus Hermann Wetzel (11 March 1879 – 6 December 1973) was a German composer, writer and music educator. Life Wetzel was born in Kyritz, Brandenburg, the son of a postal clerk. After his Abitur,

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Justus Weinreich

Justus Weinreich (May 24, 1858, Kassel - January 19, 1927, Baden-Baden) was a German composer and musician (violinist and violist). He probably received his first lessons from his father Johann Georg

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Juventino Rosas

José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 18689 July 1894) was a Mexican composer and violinist, known worldwide for the waltz "Sobre las olas" ("Over the Waves"). Life and career Rosas was

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