KU on Music Theory Print

Kuba Badach

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kuba Badach ( Polish pronunciation : ; born 24 August 1976) is a Polish singer, composer, arranger, music producer, music journalist and television personality. He’s a co-founder and member of the band Poluzjanci and member of the band The Globetrotters. In 2024, Badach became a coach on the fifteenth season of The Voice of Poland. Badach was the winning coach when his artist Anna Iwanek won the season. Discography With Poluzjanci * Tak po prostu (2000) *Druga płyta (2010) With The Globetrotters * The Globetrotters (2000) * Fairy Tales of the Trees (2003) Solo * Gwiazdkowe cuda (1988) * Tribute to Andrzej Zaucha. Obecny (2009) * Oldschool (2017) References

Kulanen Ikyo

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kulanen Ikyo is a Nigerian composer and sound editor. He is best known for his work on the films Lionheart, The CEO, and October 1 and television series Blood Sisters. Life and career Kulanen was born in Benue State, Nigeria and graduated from the University of Jos with a Physics degree. He made his debut as a composer in the historical fiction film October 1, directed by Kunle Afolayan. The movie won the best sound editor award at the 2015 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards. Filmography As Composer * October 1 (2014) * Road to Yesterday (2015) * Henna (2015) * The CEO (2016) * Okafor’s Law (2016) * Lionheart (2018) * If I Am President (2018) * 4th Republic (2019) * Oloture (2019) * Blood Sisters (2022 series) * The Black Book (2023 film) Awards and nominations References External links *

Kumiko Omura

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

is a Japanese composer in the field of contemporary instrumental and electronic music. Career Omura studied with Isao Matsushita, Kenjirō Urata and Jo Kondo at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She then took music composition with Prof. Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic music with Ludger Brümmer and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. She further studied electronic music at IRCAM in Paris, and Intermedia Art (master’s degree) with Kiyoshi Furukawa in Tokyo. Her music has been performed in Japan, Korea, USA, and Europe (Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, musica viva in Munich, Festival AGORA, Festival Acanthe in France, Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands, Emufest in Italy, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik in Austria and Music from Japan in New York) by such orchestras and ensembles as the New Japan Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, musikFabrik, Ensemble recherche, Ensemble resonanz and Nieuw Ensemble. Between 2006 and 2010, she was a guest artist at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany, and from 2010–2011 she was a composer-in-residence at Künstlerhof Schreyahn. Recognition * 1994: Irino Prize in Japan * 1998: Gaudeamus Inte

Kuniaki Haishima

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

is a Japanese musician and composer. He is known for his music in several anime and tokusatsu shows, as well as video games, films and dorama. His compositions for the Fuji TV series Tales of the Unusual are his most famous work, though he also composed the soundtrack for Metroid: Other M for the Wii, for which he is known abroad. Works Anime Live action Video games References External links * * Interview at RocketBaby * *

Kurken Alemshah

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurken M. Alemshah (; 22 May 1907 – 14 December 1947) was an Armenian composer and conductor. Biography Alemshah was born in Bardizag (now , near İzmit, Turkey). He began schooling in his hometown, but during the Armenian Genocide his parents sent him to Italy to continue his education at the Moorat-Raphael College in Venice. In 1923, when his teachers there became aware of his musical gifts, they enrolled him at the Milan Conservatory to study music. Following his graduation, Alemshah joined the faculty of the Paris branch of the Murat-Raphaelian school, where he organized the Giligia choir, performing not only in Paris, but also traveling to Venice, directing the choir in an all-Komitas program at St. Mark’s Square. Alemshah presented Tchouhadjian’s popular comic opera Leblebidji Hor-Hor Agha (The Chickpea Vendor), and Haygagan harsanik (The Armenian Wedding), a composition put together by combining Alemshah’s own melodies with popular songs. In 1937, Haygagan harsanik received second prize in an international competition in which twenty nations participated. Concurrently, Alemshah conducted the Alakyaz Choir on a number of occasions, initially to mark the establishment of the So

Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly (, Qūrmanğazy Sağyrbaiūly; 1823–1896) was a Kazakh composer, instrumentalist (kobyz, dombra), and folk artist. He influenced Kazakh musical culture. He was born in 1823 in the Bukey Horde (now Zhanakala District, West Kazakhstan Region). He is buried in the Astrakhan region of Lower Volga in today’s Russian Federation. Biography Kurmangazy was born and raised in the Bukey Horde, in what is now Zhanakala District, West Kazakhstan Region, in a place called Zhideli. His final resting place is in Astrakhan Oblast, at a site formerly known as “Shaitani Bataga”, which is now called “Kurmangazy Hill” in his honor. Kurmangazy Sagyrbaiuly’s origins trace back to the “Kishi Zhuz” (Junior Horde) of the Kazakh people, specifically to the “Sultansiyk” branch of the “Baibakty” clan within the “Baiuly” tribe. His maternal lineage comes from the “Berish” clan, known for its legendary warriors and influential figures. Kurmangazy’s seventh-generation ancestor, “Ershi,” was renowned for his sharp wit and eloquence. A famous saying about him still exists: “Before debating Ershi’s men, try arguing with his women first.” His fifth-generation ancestor, “Baltabai,” and his family we

Kurt Atterberg

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Magnus Atterberg (, 12 December 188715 February 1974) was a Swedish composer and civil engineer. Along with Ture Rangström, he was one the foremost Swedish composers of the generation succeeding Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Hugo Alfvén. Atterberg is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets. Biography Atterberg was born in Gothenburg. His father was Anders Johan Atterberg, engineer; his uncle was the chemist Albert Atterberg. His mother, Elvira Uddman, was the daughter of a famous male opera singer. In 1902, Atterberg began learning the cello, having been inspired by a concert by the Brussels String Quartet, featuring a performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 8. Six years later he became a performer in the Stockholm Concert Society, now known as the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as publishing his first completed work, the Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 1. His String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 2, soon followed. While already studying electrical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology, Atterberg also enrolled at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1910 with a score of his Rhapsody and an incomplete versi

Kurt Farquhar

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Farquhar is a Los Angeles–based television and film composer. Farquhar is a eleven-time BMI award winner, including four for The Neighborhood, four for The King of Queens one for The Game and two for Being Mary Jane. He is known for composing the scores for The King of Queens, Girlfriends, Sister, Sister, Moesha, Being Mary Jane, The Game, Black Lightning, The Neighborhood, and Real Husbands of Hollywood. Farquhar’s career is notable for having scored more prime-time television series than any other African-American composer to date. Currently, Farquhar composes the score to the CBS soap opera Beyond the Gates. In 2026, he was nominated for a NAACP Image award for Outstanding Soundtrack for “The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder”. A native of Chicago, he is the youngest of five children. He is the younger brother of television producer and writer Ralph Farquhar, and the two have worked together on several shows. Farquhar musical education took him from the streets of Chicago to the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston, The National Conservatory of Music in Versailles, France, and Eastern Illinois University, where he studied with noted percussion teacher Johnny Lane. In his l

Kurt Hessenberg

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Hessenberg (17 August 1908 – 17 June 1994) was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Life Kurt Hessenberg was born on 17 August 1908 in Frankfurt, as the fourth and last child of the lawyer Eduard Hessenberg and his wife Emma, née Kugler. Among his ancestors was Heinrich Hoffmann, whose famous children’s book Struwwelpeter Hessenberg was to arrange for children’s choir (op. 49) later in his life. From 1927–1931 Hessenberg studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Among his teachers were Günter Raphael (composition) and Robert Teichmüller (piano). In 1933 Hessenberg became a teacher at the Hoch’sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main, where he himself had taken his earliest music lessons. In 1940 Hessenberg received the “Nationaler Kompositionspreis” (national prize for composition), joined the NSDAP in 1942, and in 1951 he was awarded the Robert-Schumann-Prize of the city of Düsseldorf for his cantata “Vom Wesen und Vergehen” op. 45. Hessenberg was appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in 1953 and taught there until his retirement in 1973. Kurt Hessenberg died in Frankfurt am

Kurt Leimer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Leimer (7 September 1920 in Wiesbaden – 20 November 1974 in Vaduz) was a German concert pianist, composer and piano instructor. Life Kurt Leimer demonstrated musical talent from a young age. His great-uncle, Karl Leimer, was instructor to educator Walter Gieseking who together published several piano textbooks. His talent was recognized by Gieseking, Carl Schuricht, and Wilhelm Furtwängler who helped launch his career as a concert pianist. At the age of 18, he received a scholarship to the Berlin Conservatory, where he studied alongside Vladimir Horbowski and Winfried Wolf. The same year, 1938, Leimer made his concert debut in Berlin. In 1939, he continued his studies under Edwin Fischer. During the latter stages of World War II, Leimer was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was imprisoned in Livorno. The wartime injuries of his peers inspired his most familiar work, the Piano Concerto for Left Hand. The work was inspired by a college friend who lost his right arm to a grenade injury. In 1953, Leimer and the Vienna Philharmonic premiered the work with Herbert von Karajan conducting. In 1955, he premiered his 4th Piano Concerto in C minor with Leopold Stokowski conducting at Carneg

Kurt Rapf

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Johann Rapf (15 February 1922 – 9 March 2007) was an Austrian composer, conductor and organist. Life Born in Vienna, Rapf studied conducting, organ, harpsichord, piano and musical composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. After his studies he was engaged as assistant to Hans Knappertsbusch at the Zurich Opera House during the 1948/1949 season. From 1949 to 1953 he was professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Subsequently, he was music director of the city of Innsbruck until 1960 and thus also principal conductor of the . From 1960 Rapf worked as a freelance conductor, organist, composer and piano accompanist. In 1968 he took over a class “Repertoire Studies” for singers and instrumentalists at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Rapf founded the “Collegium Musicum Wien” which he directed until 1956. In 1986 he founded a chamber orchestra, the “Wiener Sinfonietta”. From 1970 he was until 1987 head of the music department in the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna and from 1970 until 1983 president of the . As a conductor he made numerous tours abroad. As a composer

Kurt Roger

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt George Roger (3 May 1895 – 4 August 1966) was an Austrian–American composer. Roger was born in Austria on 3 May 1895 to Viennese parents and studied in Vienna with Guido Adler, and in class with Arnold Schoenberg - though not following Schoenberg’s 12-tone system. He taught at the Vienna Conservatoire from 1923 to 1938 and his works were receiving high-profile performances (including the premiere of his String Quintet No.1 by the Rosé String Quartet) until the Nazi Anschluss forced his emigration to the United States via London. He became an American citizen in 1945 and held teaching positions in New York and Washington DC, lecturing at several universities and giving radio talks, notably on Bruckner and Mahler. His music has received many notable performances including those by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Kubelik, the Rochester Philharmonic under Erich Leinsdorf, the New York Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Northern Orchestra under Sir Charles Groves and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Jac van Steen. From 1948 onwards Roger was invited back to Austria on lecture tours, whose

Kurt Schindler

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Schindler (17 February 1882 – 16 November 1935) was a German-born American composer and conductor. Biography He was born on 17 February 1882. He came to the United States in 1905 to serve as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, and founded the MacDowell Chorus. He was married to the singer, writer and editor Ursula Greville. He died on 16 November 1935. Legacy Much of his choral output consisted of folksong arrangements, though he composed original pieces as well. Folk Music and Poetry of Spain and Portugal/Música Y Poesía Popular De España Y Portugal by Kurt Schindler was published by the New York Hispanic Institute in the US in 1941. Inline references Sources * *Israel J. Katz: “In the Footsteps of Kurt Schindler: Ballad Collecting in Soria,” in A. Sánchez Romeralo, D. Catalán, and S.G. Armistead, eds., El romancero hoy: Nuevas fronteras (Madrid: Cátedra-Seminario Menéndez Pidal - Univ. of California Press, 1979), pp. 257–66 (with Samuel G.Armistead). *_____: “Melodic Survivals? Kurt Schindler and the Tune of Alfonso’s Cantiga ‘Rosa das rosas’ in Oral Tradition,” in Robert I. Burns, ed., Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth- Ce

Kurt Schwaen

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Schwaen (June 21, 1909 in Katowice – October 9, 2007 in Berlin) was a German composer. Professional career Schwaen studied piano, organ and composition under Fritz Lubrich. From 1929 to 1933 he studied at the universities of Berlin and Breslau, where his teachers included Curt Sachs and Arnold Schering. In 1930 he met Hanns Eisler who had a profound impact on his compositional style. After becoming active in an anti-fascist student group, he joined the Communist Party of Germany; from 1935 to 1938 he was imprisoned because of his political views. After the war he returned to Berlin and spent much of his time working to rebuild the musical culture of that city by writing compositions for amateur music groups, choirs, music schools and chamber ensembles, publishing and serving as a musical advisor. Between 1953 and 1956 he worked with Bertolt Brecht who had a profound impact on his future compositions. He also worked with Ernst Busch. He composed in several genres, producing a cantata for children entitled King Midas. In 1961 he became a member of the DDR Akademie der Künste, where he was head of the music department from 1965 to 1970. From 1962 to 1978 he was president of the E

Kurt Schwertsik

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Schwertsik (born 25 June 1935) is an Austrian composer, also a hornist and academic teacher. He is known for creating the Third Viennese School and spreading contemporary classical music. Life Schwertsik was born in Vienna. A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music, he later studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne and Darmstadt. In 1958 he founded the ensemble die reihe with fellow composer and conductor Friedrich Cerha (famous for finishing the opera Lulu, by Alban Berg) and later, in 1968, the ensemble “MOB art & tone ART” with Otto Matthäus Zykan and Heinz Karl Gruber. He served as hornist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (from 1968) while teaching Composition at the Konservatorium Wien (from 1979). Between 1989 and 2004 he was Professor of Composition at the Vienna Musikhochschule (Academy of Music, when he was studying there, now called University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna). His works are characterised by his particular exploration of tonality and his musical irony and humour. He received the Grand Austrian State Prize (1992), the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1997) and numerous other awards. Kurt Schwertsik is President o

Kurt Sonnenfeld (composer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Sonnenfeld (Vienna, 24 February 1921 – Milan, 22 March 1997) was an Austrian Jewish musician and composer. During World War II, he was interned in Fascist camps established in Italy under the regime of Benito Mussolini. Life Early life Kurt Sonnenfeld was born in Vienna on 24 February 1921, during the city’s peak of cultural, artistic, and musical prominence. From an early age, his musical talent was recognized by his father, Leopold Sonnenfeld, a prominent Jewish actor-musician active in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. He began formal musical studies at the Vienna Conservatory and later trained under renowned Viennese operetta composer Edmund Eysler (1874–1949), studying piano, harmony, composition, and counterpoint. Persecution and emigration In July 1939, amid rising antisemitic persecution following the Anschluss, Sonnenfeld’s parents sent him to Milan. They hoped to secure his eventual emigration to the United States through the legal mechanism of an affidavit, though these efforts proved unsuccessful. Internment at Ferramonti In February 1941, Kurt Sonnenfeld was arrested in Milan and imprisoned at San Vittore prison. Following Italy’s entry into World War II in

Kurt Stallmann

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Stallmann (born 1964) is an American composer who lives and works in Houston, Texas. Education Kurt Stallmann was born in Rockford, Illinois. In 1987, he received a bachelor’s degree in music from Northern Illinois University. That year, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he composed, improvised, and collaborated with modern dance choreographers. In 1990, Yasuko Tokunaga invited Stallmann to join the Dance Division faculty at The Boston Conservatory to design a course for dancers that developed listening and analysis skills for the purpose of creating new choreography. In 1992, after several years of working with dance, he returned to a concentrated musical environment by entering the PhD program in music composition at Harvard University, where his primary teachers were Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky. As a student, he also assisted composer Ivan Tcherepnin with electronic music courses for several years. Teaching In 1999, after graduating, Stallmann joined the Harvard Music Department faculty, as Assistant Professor of Music. During this time, he combined the two studios then at Harvard (HEMS, created by Tcherepnin, and HCMC, created by Davidovsky) into one entity,

Kurt Striegler

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Emil Striegler (7 January 1882 – 4 August 1958) was a German composer and director. Life and career Born in Dresden, the son of a chamber musician at the Saxon State Theatre, he attended the Royal Saxon Kapellknaben Institute in Dresden and was appointed Kapellmeisteraspirant at the Dresdner Hofkapelle by Ernst von Schuch in 1905. In 1912, he was appointed Kapellmeister. For more than 50 years, he was committed to Dresden’s musical life as a teacher, conductor, musician and composer. From 1939 to 1945, he directed the , the Dresden Men’s Singing Society and was docent for composition, conductor training and instrumentation teaching at the orchestra school of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Strieglers’ students include the composer, writer, librettist and director Robert Bosshart, the conductor Rolf Kleinert and the composer and conductor Herbert Trantow. Striegler was a member of the NSDAP and in 1933 succeeded Paul Büttner, director of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and Fritz Busch, general music director of the Semperoper, both of whom had been forced out of office by the National Socialist rulers. In 1950, Striegler moved to Munich. In 1953, the painter a

Kurt Thomas (composer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Georg Hugo Thomas (25 May 1904 – 31 March 1973) was a German composer, conductor and music educator. Life Thomas was born in Tönning. The family lived from 1910 in Lennep where he attended the from 1913 to 1922. Completing with the Abitur on 21 April 1922, he studied law and music at the Leipzig University. He completed his studies in 1925 and worked as a lecturer of music theory at the Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. He composed a Mass in A minor as his Op. 1, which earned him the Beethoven Prize of the Preußische Akademie der Künste in 1927. Initiated by Karl Straube, he was appointed a teacher of composition and leader of the Kantorei (chorale) of the (Institute of church music). The choir was named “Kurt-Thomas-Kantorei” and toured in Germany. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1940, number 7.463.935. External links * * * * Musensöhne documentary about Kurt Thomas and the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main (1939–45) (90 minutes), WDR 2012 * Kurt Thomas (Conductor, Thomaskantor, Composer) Bach Cantatas Website * Kurt Thomas (1904-1973), a remarkable Thomas Kantor and Bach conductor authenticsound.org *

Kurt Weill

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he wrote his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which includes the ballad “Mack the Knife”. Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933, arriving in the United States two years later. Settling in New York, he made a substantial contribution to American musical theater through works such as Lady in the Dark and Street Scene. Family and childhood Weill was born on March 2, 1900, the third of four children to Albert Weill (1867–1950) and Emma Weill (née Ackermann; 1872–1955). He grew up in a religious Jewish family in the “Sandvorstadt”, the Jewish quarter in Dessau in Saxony (now part of Saxony-Anhalt), where his father was a cantor. At the age of twelve, Weill started taking piano lessons and made his first attempts at

Kurt Westerberg

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Westerberg is a composer who was born in Naperville, Illinois in 1950. His mother was a mezzo-soprano and pianist which sparked an early interest in music. He began his musical studies at age five with piano lessons. By age ten he was composing his first pieces for himself. In 1968, he started his undergraduate degree in piano studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. While at St. Olaf, his interest in composition grew and he graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Music in Composition. During his time at St. Olaf, he took lessons with G. Winston Cassler, Arthur Campbell as well as studying with Alan Stout (composer) at Northwestern University. It was through them that he was exposed to the works of Charles Ives and György Ligeti. These composers would become a large influence in Westerberg’s style. Flynn acted as a mentor to Westerberg throughout his teaching and compositional career, and the two released a combined album May 15, 2014, entitled Dual Visions. Dual Visions includes Westerberg’s composition Vision and Prayer on a text by Dylan Thomas. and featuring the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Uncertain Light includes the works Winter Light (1997), Pi