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Kai Aage Bruun

Kai Aage Bruun (23 January 1899 – 11 May 1971) was a Danish music writer, critic and composer. Bruun grew up in a musical home. His father was cellist in The Royal Chapel and was educated by The

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Kai Gullmar

Kai Gullmar (pseudonym for Gurli Maria Bergström), (2 April 1905 in Sundsvall – 25 March 1982 in Stockholm), was a Swedish composer, musician, singer and actress. Gullmar wrote music for more than 40

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Kai Normann Andersen

Kai Normann Andersen (11 April 1900 – 24 June 1967) was a Danish composer who wrote film scores and music for stage revues and dramas. He composed songs for over 50 films between 1930 and 1965. In

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Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; 14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the

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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (born Leon Dudley Sorabji; 14 August 1892 – 15 October 1988) was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer. His music, written over a period of seventy years,

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Kaj Chydenius

Kaj Oskar Chydenius (16 October 1939 – 20 April 2024) was a Finnish musician and composer, probably best known for his left-wing political songs interpreted by various artists. Biography Chydenius

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Kalevi Aho

Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer. Early years Aho began his interest in music at the age of ten, when he discovered a mandolin in his home and began to teach himself how to

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Kalitha Dorothy Fox

Kalitha Dorothy Fox (1894 – 11 August 1934) was an English composer. She was born in London to wealthy parents. Her mother died in 1905, and a year later, aged 11, she composed the solo piano piece

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Kalle Nämdeman

Kalle Nämdeman (31 December 1883 – 28 June 1945) was the stage name of Karl Gustafsson, a Swedish songwriter, performer and recording artist. Life and legacy As a young man Kalle Nämdeman apprenticed

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Kálmán Mihalik

Kálmán Mihalik (21 February 1896 – 6 September 1922) was a Hungarian physician and composer, best known for setting the music of the Székely Himnusz. Early life and studies Mihalik was born in

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Kamilló Lendvay

Kamilló Lendvay (28 December 1928; Budapest, Hungary − 30 November 2016; Budapest, Hungary) was a prominent award-winning Hungarian composer, conductor, and music educator of the 20th and 21st

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Kamilo Mašek

Kamilo Mašek (11 July 1831 – 29 June 1859) was a Slovenian music composer of Czech descent. Life Mašek was born on 11 July 1831 in Ljubljana, Austrian Empire, and baptized Camillo Leopold Bernhard

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Kamran Aziz

Kamran Aziz (1922 – 7 March 2017) was a Cypriot musician and pharmacist. She was the first female composer and the first female pharmacist in Turkish Cypriot society. She made significant

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Kan (musician)

, known by his stage name Kan (commonly stylized as KAN), was a Japanese singer-songwriter. In 1983, he joined his first band, which was called Annette, before going solo in 1984. Kan wrote the

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Kan'ichi Shimofusa

Kanichi Shimofusa (; March 31, 1898 - July 8, 1962) was a Japanese composer. Kanichi Shimofusa was born in Sunahara, Haramichi-mura, Saitama (now Ōtone, Saitama). He studied composition with Kiyoshi

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Kanako Abe

Kanako Abe (; born 23 March 1973 in Ōsaka, Ōsaka prefecture) is a Japanese conductor, composer and pianist. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, she has performed works by contemporary composers,

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Kane O'Hara

Kane O'Hara (1711 or 1712 – 17 June 1782) was an Irish composer and playwright. Biography O'Hara was born at Templehouse, Connaught, Ireland, the second son of Kean O'Hara, high-sheriff of County

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Kang Sukhi

Kang Sukhi (; October 22, 1934 – August 16, 2020) was a South Korean composer. Careers Kang graduated Seoul National University 1960 majored in Composition, studied in Germany 1970's, He was a

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Karama Mursal

Karama Mursal was a Yemeni singer-songwriter born in Al-Mukalla, the capital of Hadhramaut Governorate, located in southeastern Yemen. He began his artistic career in 1963, at the age of seventeen,

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Kareem Roustom

Kareem Roustom () is a Syrian-American composer, music director, and university teacher, noted mainly for his compositions of contemporary classical music, film scores and his collaboration with pop

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Karel Bendl

Karel Bendl, or , pseudonym: Podskalský (16 April 1838, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire 20 September 1897, Prague) was a Czech composer. Life Bendl was born and died in Prague. He studied at the

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Karel Berman

Karel Berman (14 April 1919 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia – 11 August 1995 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Jewish Czech opera singer, composer, opera director, and translator. Life After

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Karel Boleslav Jirák

Karel Boleslav Jirák (né Karel Bohuslav Jirák; January 28, 1891, Prague, Bohemia – January 30, 1972, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was a Czechoslovak composer and conductor. Jirák became a pupil of Josef

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Karel Goeyvaerts

Karel August Goeyvaerts (8 June 1923 – 3 February 1993) was a Belgian composer. Life Goeyvaerts was born in Antwerp, where he studied at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory; he later studied

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Karel Husa

Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for

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Karel Janovický

Karel Janovický (18 February 1930 – 9 January 2024) was a Czech composer, pianist, BBC producer and administrator who lived in the United Kingdom from 1950. He was one of the youngest of the group of

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Karel Komzák I

Karel Komzák I (4 November 182319 March 1893) was a Bohemian composer, organist, bandmaster and conductor. He was the father of Karel Komzák II and the grandfather of Karel Komzák III. Biography

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Karel Komzák II

Karel Komzák II (8 November 1850 – 23 April 1905) was a Bohemian-born Viennese composer famous for his dances and marches. He composed the Erzherzog-Albrecht-Marsch. Komzák was born in Prague in

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Karel Kovařovic

Karel Kovařovic (9 December 1862 6 December 1920) was a Czech composer and conductor from Prague. Life From 1873 to 1879 he studied clarinet, harp and piano at the Prague Conservatory. He began his

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Karel Navrátil

Karel Navrátil (24 April 1867 – 23 December 1936) was a Czech violinist, composer and music educator. He was born in Prague, and studied in Vienna under Guido Adler and František Ondříček, afterward

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Karel Reiner

Karel Reiner (27 June 1910 – 17 October 1979) was a Czech composer and pianist. He was persecuted by Nazis as a Jew and by communists as a formalist. He was the only classical composer to survive the

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Karel van Ark

Karel (Charles) Pieter Hendrik van Ark (9 September 1839 – 24 August 1902) was a Russian pianist, music teacher, and composer. Biography Karel van Ark was of Dutch origin. He was born on 28 August

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Karel van Steenhoven

Karel van Steenhoven (born November 1958 in Voorburg) is a Dutch recorder player and composer. Biography Starting with a green plastic instrument when he was four years old, Steenhoven began to study

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Karen Khachaturian

Karen Surenovich Khachaturian (, ; 19 September 1920 – 19 July 2011) was a Soviet and Russian composer of Armenian ethnicity, the nephew of composer Aram Khachaturian. Early life and education Karen

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Karen P. Thomas

Karen P. Thomas (born 1957), composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Seattle Pro Musica and Director of Music at University Unitarian Church. With Seattle Pro Musica she has

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Karen Tanaka

Karen Tanaka (born April 7, 1961) is a Japanese composer. Biography Karen Tanaka was born in Tokyo where she started piano and composition lessons as a child. After studying composition with Akira

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Karin Leitner

Karin Leitner (born 1972) is an Austrian flautist and composer. She has played flute and piccolo with the orchestras of the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Leitner studied at

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Karin Rehnqvist

Karin Rehnqvist (born 21 August 1957) is a Swedish composer and conductor of classical music. She composes chamber music, orchestral works, music for the stage, and particularly vocal music,

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Karl Aage Rasmussen

Karl Aage Rasmussen (born 13 December 1947) is a Danish composer and writer. He was born in Kolding. Composition Quotation and particularly collage played an important role in his music from the

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Karl Adolf Lorenz

Karl Adolf Lorenz (13 August 1837 – 3 March 1923) was a German conductor, composer, and music pedagogue. Career Born in Köslin, his family moved to Stettin where he attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium

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Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky

Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky of Woschütz (, also known as Carl Alois, Fürst von Lichnowsky-Woschütz; 21 June 1761 – 15 April 1814) was the second Prince Lichnowsky and a chamberlain at the Imperial

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Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the

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Karl August Hermann

Karl August Hermann (23 September 1851 – 11 January 1909) was an Estonian writer, publicist, linguist and composer. Biography Hermann was born in Võhmanõmme, Põltsamaa Parish, Kreis Fellin in 1851.

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Karl August Krebs

Karl August Krebs (16 January 1804 as Karl August Miedke – 16 May 1880), also Carl Miedtke, was a German pianist, composer, conductor and Kapellmeister. Life Krebs was born in Nuremberg in 1804. His

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Karl Bleyle

Karl Bleyle (7 May 1880 – 5 June 1969) was an Austrian composer and musician, who also lived and worked in Germany. Life Bleyle was born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg. In the parental home of the young

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Karl Clausen

Karl Søren Clausen (15 August 1904 – 5 December 1972) was a Danish pianist, conductor, composer and musicologist. In addition to his work as a high school teacher in German and Music, he composed

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Karl Davydov

Karl Yulievich Davydov (; 15 March 183826 February 1889) was a Russian cellist, described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "czar of cellists". He was also a composer, mainly for the cello. His name

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Karl Feininger

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Feininger (born in Durlach, Grand Duchy of Baden, 31 July 1844; died in New York City, 31 January 1922) was a German–American musician. Biography Feininger came to the United

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Karl Goldmark

Karl Goldmark (born Károly Goldmark, Keszthely, 18 May 1830 – Vienna, 2 January 1915) was a Hungarian-born Viennese composer. Life and career Goldmark came from a large Jewish family. His father,

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Karl Gottfried Brunotte

Karl Gottfried Brunotte (born 2 June 1958 in Frankfurt) is a German composer and music philosopher, particularly noted for his contributions to church music. Life Brunotte studied music sociology,

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Karl Hajos

Karl Hajos (born Hajós Károly, January 28, 1889 – February 1, 1950) was a Hungarian composer who worked on many film scores. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hajos emigrated to the United States

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Karl Heinz Füssl

Karl Heinz Füssl (21 March 1924 – 4 September 1992) was an Austrian composer and musicologist. Life Born in Gablonz, (Czechoslovakia), Füssl went to study in Berlin and began his training with Konrad

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Karl Heinz Schäfer

Karl Heinz Schäfer (17 March 1932 – 12 October 1996) was a German-born composer and arranger who worked mainly in France. Life and career Born in Frankfurt to Jewish parents, he moved with his mother

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Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda

Karl Hermann Heinrich Benda (also Carl Benda), (baptised 2 May 1748 – 15 March 1836) was a German violinist and composer of Bohemian origin. Life Karl Benda was the younger of two sons of the

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Karl Höller

Karl Höller (25 July 1907 – 14 April 1987) was a German composer of the late Romantic tradition. Biography Karl Höller was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He came from a musical family on both sides: his

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Karl Jenkins

Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, His maternal grandfather was a Swedish sailor who settled in Wales after meeting his future wife at a local market. Between the ages of two and five, Jenkins lived in

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Karl Keller

Karl Keller (; 16 October 1784, Dessau – 19 July 1855, Schaffhausen) was a German flautist and composer. His name is sometimes rendered as Charles in English-speaking countries. Keller's works are

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Karl Klindworth

Karl Klindworth (25 September 183027 July 1916) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher. He was one of Franz Liszt's pupils and later one of his closest

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Karl Klingler

Karl Klingler (7 December 1879 – 18 March 1971) was a German violinist, concertmaster, composer, music teacher and lecturer. Life Early years Karl Klingler was born in Strasbourg, at that time in

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Karl Kohaut

Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut (baptised August 26, 1726 – August 6, 1784) was an Austrian diplomat, lutenist and composer of Czech descent. He is considered (along with Bernhard Joachim Hagen) to be one

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Karl Komma

Karl Michael Komma (24 December 1913, Asch, Austria-Hungary (now Aš, Czech Republic) – 23 September 2012, Memmingen, Germany) was a German composer and music-publicist. Life Komma studied at the

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Karl Korte

Karl Richard Korte (June 23, 1928 – March 27, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Ossining, New York, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended the

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Karl L. King

Karl L. King (February 21, 1891 – March 31, 1971) was a United States march music bandmaster and composer. He is best known as the composer of "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite". Early life Karl Lawrence

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Karl Leichter

Karl Leichter (13 October 1902 in Näpi, Rakvere Parish – 7 March 1987 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian musicologist. In 1929 he graduated in theory and composition, studying under Heino Eller with pupils

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Karl Ludwig Drobisch

Karl Ludwig Drobisch (24 December 1803 – 20 August 1854) was a German composer, music theorist and church musician. He wrote an oratorio about Saint Boniface, but it was not successful, which made

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Karl Ludwig Gerok

Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Gerok (27 January 1906 – 28 June 1975) was a German organist, composer and organ teacher. Career Karl Ludwig Gerok was born in Oberfischach, the grandson of , a Stuttgart prelate

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Karl Marx (composer)

Karl Julius Marx (12 November 1897 – 8 May 1985) was a German composer and music teacher. Life Karl Marx was born in Munich, the son of Josef Marx and his wife Emilie, née Eheberg. After early violin

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Karl Merz

Karl Merz (September 10, 1834 – January 30, 1890) was an American composer, author, editor, and arranger of German descent. Biography Merz was born September 10, 1834, in Bensheim, near

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Karl Norbert Schmid

Karl Norbert Schmid (16 December 1926 – 13 February 1995) was a German organist, composer, choir director and music educator. Life and career Schmid was born in Ochsenhausen. Already at the age of

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Karl Pilß

Karl Pilß (4 April 1902 – 22 June 1979), alternative spelling Pilss, was an Austrian pianist, conductor, and composer. He also was a painter. Born in Vienna, he studied piano and music theory with

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Karl Rautio

Karl "Kalle" Rautio (; 20 November 1889 – 15 December 1963) was the composer of the Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic and one of the founders of professional musical art in

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Karl Scharnweber

Karl Scharnweber (born 1950) in Rostock is a German church musician, Jazz musician, and composer. Life After his school years in Rostock, Scharnweber began studying church music at the Evangelische

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Karl Schiske

Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske (12 February 1916 – 16 June 1969) was an Austrian composer and musical composition professor. Life Schiske was born in Győr in what is now western Hungary which was then

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Karl Schuberth

Karl (also Carl) Eduard Schuberth (; 25 February 1811 – 22 July 1863) was a German composer, conductor, and cellist. Life Schuberth was born in Magdeburg, studying piano with his father, Gottlob, and

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Karl Tausig

Karl Tausig (sometimes "Carl"; born Karol Tausig; 4 November 184117 July 1871) was a Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger, and composer. He is widely regarded as Franz Liszt's greatest pupil and one of

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Karl Weigl

Karl Ignaz Weigl (6 February 1881 – 11 August 1949) was a Jewish Austrian composer and pianist, who later became a naturalized American citizen in 1943. Biography Weigl was born in Vienna, Austria,

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Karl-Birger Blomdahl

Karl-Birger Blomdahl (19 October 1916 – 14 June 1968) was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental

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Karl-Ernst Sasse

Karl-Ernst Sasse (December 5, 1923 – November 12, 2006) was a German composer and conductor. He was considered one of the most important film composers in East Germany. His life's work as a composer

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Karl-Rudi Griesbach

Karl-Rudi Griesbach (14 June 1916 – 8 May 2000) was a German composer, librettist, dramaturge, music critic and academic teacher. Life Born in Breckerfeld, Westphalia, * Orchestral work ** Kleine

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Karlheinz Essl Jr.

Karlheinz Essl Jr. (born is an Austrian composer, sound artist, electronic performer, music curator, and composition professor. He is the eldest son of , an entrepreneur and art collector. Biography

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early

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Kārlis Baumanis

Kārlis Baumanis (11 May 1835 – 10 January 1905), better known as Baumaņu Kārlis, was an ethnic Latvian composer in the Russian Empire. He is the author of the lyrics and music of Dievs, svētī

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Kārlis Lācis

Kārlis Lācis (born September 21, 1977) is a Latvian contemporary composer. Along with the scores for theatre productions, movies, and musical arrangements, a large part of his work is dedicated to

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Karmella Tsepkolenko

Karmella Tsepkolenko (; born 20 February 1955) is a Ukrainian author and composer. Biography Karmella Tsepkolenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She studied composition from 1973-79 at the Pyotr

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Karol Beffa

Karol Beffa, born on in Paris, is a French composer and pianist. Biography Beffa is the son of French-Swiss linguist and ethnologist Marie-Lise Beffa and French linguist , and the nephew of

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Karol Kurpiński

Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński (March 5, 1785 – September 18, 1857) was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was a representative of late classicism and early romanticism as well as being a

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Karol Lipiński

Karol Józef Lipiński (30 October 1790 – 16 December 1861) was a Polish music composer and virtuoso violinist active during the partitions of Poland. The Karol Lipiński University of Music in Wrocław,

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Karol Mikuli

Karol Mikuli, also known as Charles Mikuli ( or Կարոլ Պստիկյան; 22 October 1821 – 21 May 1897), was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. His students included Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul

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Karol Szymanowski

Karol Maciej Szymanowski (; 3 October 188229 March 1937) Since musical opportunities in Congress Poland were quite limited, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa. Career In Berlin,

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Karola Obermueller

Karola Obermueller (born 21 March 1977, Darmstadt) is a German composer and teacher. Life Obermueller began her training at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. She studied composition with of the

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Karólína Eiríksdóttir

Karólína Eiríksdóttir (born 10 January 1951) is an Icelandic composer. Biography Karólína was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and studied piano as a child. She later studied composition at the Reykjavik

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Károly Aggházy

Károly Aggházy (30 October 1855, Budapest – 8 October 1918, Budapest) was a Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer. Aggházy was a pupil of Robert Volkmann, Anton Bruckner, and Franz Liszt. He later

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Károly Thern

Károly (Carl) Thern (13 August 1817 – 13 April 1886) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and arranger. He was of German descent, but was among the second generation of composers who

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Kasia Glowicka

Kasia Glowicka (born Katarzyna Głowicka, October 12, 1979), also known as Katarina Glowicka, is a Polish composer and lecturer of computer music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Her body of

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Kaspar Fürstenau

Kaspar Fürstenau (26 February 177211 May 1819) was a German flautist and composer. He wrote about sixty compositions for his instrument among rondos, fantasias, suites and concertos. Together with

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Kassia

Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; c. 810 – c.865 ) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music

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Kate Gentile

Kate Gentile is an American drummer, composer, and record label executive. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, her albums include Mannequins (2017), Biomei.i, and Find Letter X (both 2023). She also

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Kate Loder

Kate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, (21 August 1825 – 30 August 1904) was an English composer and pianist. Biography Ancestry Kate Loder was born on 21 August 1825, within Bath, Somerset where the

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Kate Moore (composer)

Kate Moore (born 1979) is an Australian composer currently based in the Netherlands. Moore was born in Oxfordshire, England, and has studied with Australian composers Larry Sitsky, Jim Cotter, and

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Kate Ralph

Kate Roberts Ralph (3 April 1849–24 December 1937) was a Welsh composer and pianist who received a scholarship from Clara Schumann to attend the Royal Academy of Music. Her bardic name/pseudonym was

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Kate Soper (composer)

Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer and vocalist. She was a recent American Academy in Rome fellow and Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012–13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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Kate Vanderpoel

Cornelia Townsend (born 11 August 1851) was an American song composer who published most of her music under the name Kate Vanderpoel. Biography Townsend was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Horace Gilbert

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Kate Whitley

Kate Whitley (born 1989) is an English composer, comedian and pianist. Career She is classically trained and studied music at King's College, Cambridge. Her music is recorded by NMC Recordings and

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Kate Williams (pianist)

Kate Williams is a British jazz pianist and composer who formed the jazz ensemble Kate Williams Quartet with saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, flautist Gareth Lockrane, bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer

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Kateřina Emingerová

Kateřina Emingerová (13 July 1856 – 9 September 1934) was a Czech composer, pianist and music educator. She was also a prolific music writer and journalist, producing numerous books, essays, reviews

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Katharine Emily Eggar

Katherine Emily Eggar (5 January 1874 – 15 August 1961) was an English pianist and composer. Eggar was born and died in London, England, the daughter of Thomas Eggar and Katherine MacDonald. Eggar

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Katharine Mulky Warne

Katharine Mulky Warne (October 23, 1923 – April 24, 2015) was an American composer, pianist and teacher, who founded the Darius Milhaud Society and organized 15 Milhaud festivals in Cleveland, Ohio,

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Kathe Volkart-Schlager

Kathe Volkart-Schlager (7 February 1897 – 1976) was an Austrian composer and music educator, and pianist. Volkart-Schlager was born in Vienna and studied at the Stuttgart College of Music (now the

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Katherine Balch

Katherine Elise Balch and she won an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. She was the California Symphony Young American Composer-in-Residence from 2017 to 2020 (the first woman to hold the

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Katherine Dienes

Katherine Dienes also known as Katherine Dienes-Williams (born in Wellington, 10 January 1970) is a New Zealand-born organist, conductor and composer. In January 2026 it was announced that she was

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Katherine Hoover

Katherine Hoover (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and chamber music, flutist, composition and theory educator, poet, and conductor. Her

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Katherine Kennicott Davis

Katherine Kennicott Davis (June 25, 1892 – April 20, 1980) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher, whose best-known composition is the Christmas song "Carol of the Drum", later

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Katherine Ruth Heyman

Katherine Ruth Willoughby Heyman (1877 – September 28, 1944), nicknamed "Kitty", was an American pianist and composer. She was a proponent of the music of Alexander Scriabin, and she gave several

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Katherine Young (musician)

Katherine Young is an American bassoonist and composer. She released her solo album Further Secret Origins in 2009 and is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. She is also a professor at Emory University.

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Kathleen Richards

Kathleen Dale née Richards (29 June 1895, London – March 3, 1984, Woking) was an English composer, pianist, musicologist and translator. She used the name Kathleen Richards for her compositions, but

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Kathryn Alexander

Kathryn Alexander (born 1955) is a Guggenheim Award-winning American composer and a professor of composition at Yale University. Early life and education Alexander was born in Texas and was involved

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Kathryn Bostic

Kathryn Bostic is an American composer and artist known for her work on award-winning films, TV, and theater. In 2016, she became the first female African-American score composer to join the Academy

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Kati Agócs

Kati Ilona Agócs (born January 20, 1975) is a Canadian-American composer and a member of the composition faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Agócs

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Katia Beaugeais

Katia Beaugeais is an Australian-French contemporary classical composer based in Sydney. Career After learning piano and saxophone from the ages six and twelve respectively, Katia Beaugeais completed

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Katsuhisa Hattori

was a Japanese classical composer who also wrote music for anime films, television series and OVAs. Hattori was a respected composer in Japan; his style was classical, although he was experienced and

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Katsutoshi Nagasawa

was a Japanese composer of classical music with a modern approach. Nagasawa composed for traditional Japanese musical instruments (e.g., Shakuhachi, Koto, Shamisen). Nagasawa was born in 1923 in

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Katy Abbott

Katy Abbott (born 1971) is an Australian composer. Abbott writes music for orchestra, chamber ensemble and voice. Her work reflects her interests in contemporary Australian cultures and often

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Kay Gardner (composer)

Kay Gardner (February 8, 1941 – August 28, 2002), also known as Cosmos Wonder-Child, was an American musician, composer, author, and Dianic priestess known for using music for creative and healing

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Kay Lande

Kathryn Lande Selmer Brown (November 6, 1930 – November 20, 2022) was an American composer and singer who was best known for her compositions and performances for children, which include three

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Kay Swift

Katharine Faulkner "Kay" Swift (April 19, 1897 – January 28, 1993) was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a hit musical completely. Written in 1930, the

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Kazimierz Serocki

Kazimierz Serocki (3 March 1922 – 9 January 1981) was a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival. Life Serocki was born in Toruń. He studied

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Kazuhiko Hattori

Kazuhiko Hattori (服部和彦 Hattori Kazuhiko, born in 1944) is a Japanese composer, music critic and music producer. Career Born in 1944. Graduated from Nihon University (Department of Technology) in

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Kazuhiko Katō

, nicknamed , was a Japanese record producer, songwriter and singer. He sometimes used the spelling of "Kazuhiko Katoh". History As a member of the Folk Crusaders, Katō launched his recording career

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Kazuhiro Morita

Kazuhiro Morita (森田一浩 or Morita Kazuhiro, born 1952 in Tokyo; died 2021) was a Japanese composer and arranger. Morita studied with Yoshio Hasegawa at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He is known as

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Kazuko Hara

was a prolific Japanese opera composer. Life and career Born in Tokyo, Kazuko Hara studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, graduating in 1957. She

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Kazuo Yamada

was a Japanese conductor and composer. Early life Kazuo Yamada was born in Tokyo in 1912. He began studies at Gakushuin and then Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly the Tokyo Music School).

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