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Le Sieur de Machy

Machy, known as Le Sieur de Machy (fl. 1655–1700) was a French viol player, composer, and teacher remembered principally for his Pièces de Violle en Musique et en Tablature (1685), a valuable source

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Le Tuan Hung

Lê Tuấn Hùng (born 1960 in Vietnam) is an Australian-Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and

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Leah (musician)

Leah McHenry, mononymously known as Leah (pronounced ) (born November 4, 1984), is a Canadian heavy metal musician who records both as a solo artist and, since around 2015, as a member of Dragonlord.

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Leah Curtis

Leah Curtis is a Los Angeles-based Australian musician and composer. She is best known for her work as composer and orchestrator for film, as well as in contemporary classical composition. Awards

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Leah Reid

Leah Christinne Reid After attending Walnut Hill School as a composition and vocal performance major, In 2016, her piece Single Fish was performed at MicroFest by Accordant Commons in Los Angeles;

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Leandro Campanari

Leandro Campanari (October 20, 1859 – April 22, 1939) was an Italian violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher, At 15, he entered the Conservatory of Music in Milan and studied the violin,

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Lebo M

Lebohang Morake (born 11 July 1964), known as Lebo M, is a South African producer and composer, known for his songwriting and vocal work on the soundtracks to films such as The Lion King, The Power

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Lee Chan-hyuk

Lee Chan-hyuk (; born September 12, 1996), is a South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and author. He debuted as a member of the sibling duo AKMU in April 2014, under YG Entertainment. Life and

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Lee Dong-june

Lee Dong-june (Hangul: , born 5 February 1967) is a music composer from South Korea. Career Lee's career as a composer mostly focused on film score. Lee composed AFC Anthem in 2014 Filmography Film *

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Lee Donghae

Lee Donghae (born October 15, 1986), known mononymously as Donghae, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor. He became a trainee under SM Entertainment after winning a prize at SM's Youth

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Lee Hoiby

Lee Henry Hoiby (February 17, 1926 – March 28, 2011) was an American composer and classical pianist. Best known as a composer of operas and songs, he was a disciple of composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

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Lee Min-hyuk (rapper, born 1990)

Lee Min-hyuk (; born November 29, 1990), commonly known as Minhyuk or Huta, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and presenter. He is a member of the South Korean boy group BtoB. He

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Lee Pattison

Lee Pattison (July 22, 1890, in Grand Rapids, Wisconsin – December 22, 1966, in Claremont, California) was a noted American pianist, composer, arranger, opera director, and teacher. From about 1919

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Lee Seung-hoon (rapper)

Lee Seung-hoon (; ; born January 11, 1992), also known by the mononym Hoony, is a South Korean rapper and dancer. His musical career began in 2011 as a contestant in the first installation of K-pop

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Leevi Madetoja

Leevi Antti Madetoja (; 17 February 1887 – 6 October 1947) was a Finnish composer, music critic, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as one

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Lei Liang

Lei Liang (Chinese: 梁雷; pinyin: Liáng Léi; born November 28, 1972, in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese-born American composer who was a winner of the Grawemeyer Award and a Finalist for the Pulitzer

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Leif Halvorsen

Leif Fritjof Halvorsen (July 26, 1887 – December 28, 1959) was a Norwegian violinist, conductor, and composer. Halvorsen was born in Kristiania Halvorsen was the concert master for the National

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Leifur Þórarinsson

Leifur Þórarinsson (also written Thórarinsson, 13 August 1934 – 24 April 1998) was an Icelandic composer, violinist, music critic, and radio broadcaster. He was among the leading Icelandic composers

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Leilehua Lanzilotti

Leilehua Lanzilotti (born November 5, 1983), is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, performer, and scholar of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Lanzilotti grew up in

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Leith Stevens

Leith Stevens (September 13, 1909 – July 23, 1970) was an American music composer and conductor of radio and film scores. Early life and education Leith Stevens was born in Mount Moriah, Missouri, He

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Lejaren Hiller

Lejaren Arthur Hiller Jr. (February 23, 1924 – January 26, 1994) was an American composer, computer scientist, and chemist. Career Hiller was born on February 23, 1924, in New York City. His father,

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Lejla Agolli

Lejla Agolli (born 4 October 1950) is an Albanian composer. Early life Agolli was born in Korçë, Albania. Education Agolli studied composition and orchestration in Tiranassa Tish Daijan. Career

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Lekan Babalola

Olalekan Babalola (born c. 1960) is a Nigerian jazz percussionist and musician. Born in Lagos, Nigeria where he began playing the conga at a young age, he has released seven albums and jointly won

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Leland (musician)

Brett Leland McLaughlin (born July 22, 1987) is an American singer and songwriter. Based in Los Angeles, California, he has worked closely with a range of popular artists, including Selena Gomez,

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Lelio Colista

Lelio Colista (13 January 1629, Rome – 13 October 1680, Rome) was an Italian Baroque composer, lutenist, and guitarist. Funded by his father, who held an important position in the Vatican Library,

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Lelio Luttazzi

Lelio Luttazzi (27 April 1923 – 8 July 2010) was an Italian composer, musician, actor, singer, conductor, writer, and television and radio presenter. Born in Trieste, Luttazzi began playing the piano

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Lemuel McPherson Christian

Lemuel McPherson Christian MBE (1 May 1913 – 12 June 2000), widely referred to as L. M. Christian, was a Dominican music educator and composer, who wrote the music for "Isle of Beauty, Isle of

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Len Blum

Leonard Solomon Blum (born December 29, 1951) is a Canadian screenwriter, filmmaker and film composer. Early life Blum was born into a Jewish family. He attended Westdale Secondary School in

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Lena Raine

Lena Raine ( or ; born February 29, 1984), also known as Lena Chappelle or Kuraine, in Seattle, Washington. Her father is a musician and her mother is a dancer. She had an early exposure to music due

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Lena Stein-Schneider

Helene Meyerstein (5 January 1874 – 17 June 1958) was a German composer, singer, and pianist who toured throughout the United States during the 1920s and was interned in the Theresienstadt

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Lena Willemark

Lena Willemark (born 12 May 1960) is a Swedish traditional music fiddler, singer, and composer, who combines elements of folk and jazz. Born in Älvdalen, Dalarna, Willemark grew up with the region's

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Leni Alexander

Helene Sara Alexander Pollack (; 8 June 1924 – 7 August 2005) was a German-Chilean modernist composer who was among the first to experiment with electronic music in Chile. She fled to Chile in 1939

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Lennart Ginman

Lennart Ginman (born March 1960) is a Danish-Finnish bassist, composer and music producer. He has cooperated with artists like Steen Jørgensen, lead singer of Sort Sol in two joint albums, and Kirk

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Lennie Niehaus

Leonard Niehaus (June 1, 1929 – May 28, 2020) was an American alto saxophonist, composer and arranger on the West Coast jazz scene. He played with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and served as one of

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Lennie Tristano

Leonard Joseph Tristano (March 19, 1919 – November 18, 1978) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher of jazz improvisation. Tristano studied for bachelor's and master's degrees

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Lennox Berkeley

Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley CBE (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. Biography Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline

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Leo Ascher

Leo Ascher (17 August 1880 – 25 February 1942) was an Austrian composer of operettas, popular songs and film scores. Biography Ascher was born in Vienna. His father, Moritz Ascher, was a local

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Leo Birenberg

Leo Birenberg is an American composer and orchestrator for film and television. Career Born in Kentucky and raised in Chicago, Birenberg studied composition at NYU and USC. While there, he started

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Leo Blech

Leo Blech (21 April 1871 – 25 August 1958) was a German opera composer and conductor who is perhaps most famous for his work at the Königliches Opernhaus (later the Berlin State Opera / Staatsoper

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Leo Brouwer

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939) is a Cuban composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. He is a Member of Honour of the International Music Council. Early years Brouwer was

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Léo Chauliac

Léo Chauliac, né Léon Chauliac (6 February 1913 – 27 October 1977), was a French jazz pianist, composer and conductor. A jazz pianist in the 1930s, Léo Chauliac was the accompanist of Charles Trenet

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Léo Daniderff

Léo Daniderff (Gaston-Ferdinand Niquet; 16 February 1878 in Angers, France – 24 October 1943 in Rosny-sous-Bois, France) was a French composer of the pre-World War II era. His 1917 comical song, a

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Léo Delibes

Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (; 21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas. His works include the ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia

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Leo Fall

Leopold Fall (2 February 187316 September 1925) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas. Life Born in Olmütz, Leo (or Leopold) Fall was taught by his father Moritz Fall (1848–1922), a

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Léo Ferré

Léo Ferré (; 24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and

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Leo Funtek

Leo Funtek (August 21, 1885 – January 13, 1965) was a Slovenian violinist, conductor and arranger. He is best known for work as a music professor and for his 1922 arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's

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Leo Leux

Leo Leux (7 March 1893 – 8 September 1951) was a German composer of film scores. He began working on films during the Weimar Republic, following the introduction of sound films. During the Nazi era,

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Leo Maguire

Patrick Leo Maguire (1903 – 17 December 1985) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and radio broadcaster. Born in Dublin's inner city, Maguire trained as a baritone under Vincent O'Brien, John

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Leo Marchildon

Leo Marchildon (born May 30, 1962) is a Canadian organist, music director, film/theatre music composer and producer based in Prince Edward Island. Early life and education Marchildon was born in

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Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein (born Lev Ornshteyn; ; c. December 11, 1895 – February 24, 2002) was an American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by

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Leo Quayle

Leo Quayle (11 December 1918 - 19 May 2005) was a South African conductor described as the "South African maestro of music theatre." Early life Quayle was born in Pretoria where he trained with his

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Leo Rich Lewis

Leo Rich Lewis (February 11, 1865 – September 8, 1945) was an American composer. Biography Leo Rich Lewis was born in Woodstock, Vermont on February 11, 1865. He graduated from Tufts College in

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Leo Rowlands

Leo Rowlands, O.F.M. Cap. (1891–1967) was a Welsh Catholic priest and musical composer, associated with Rhode Island. Early life Rowlands was born to Welsh parents (his father was a Congregationalist

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Leo Schulz

Leo Schulz (March 28, 1865 – August 12, 1944 ) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American cellist. Biography Schulz was born in Poznań, the then Kingdom of Prussia, currently Poland. His grandfather, a

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Leo Smit (American composer)

Leo Smit (January 12, 1921 – December 12, 1999) was an American composer and pianist. Life Leo Smit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child his mother took him to the Soviet Union where he

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Leo Smit (Dutch composer)

Leopold "Leo" Smit (14 May 1900 – 30 April 1943) was a Dutch composer, murdered during The Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp. Life He came from a mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese-Sephardi

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Leo Smith (composer)

Joseph Leopold Smith (26 November 1881 – 18 April 1952) was an English composer, writer, music critic, music educator, and cellist who was primarily active in Canada. His compositional output

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Leo Sowerby

Leo Salkeld Sowerby (1 May 1895 – 7 July 1968) was an American composer and church musician. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1946 and was often called the “Dean of American church music” in

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Leó Weiner

Leó Weiner (16 April 1885 – 13 September 1960) was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer. Life Education Weiner was born in Budapest

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Leo Zeitlin

Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin (, "Leyb Tseytlin", born 1884, in Pinsk – July 8, 1930, in New York City), known as Leo Zeitlin, was a Russian-Jewish composer. In 1923, he emigrated to the United States.

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Léo-Pol Morin

Léo-Pol Morin (13 July 1892 – 29 May 1941) was a Canadian pianist, music critic, composer, and music educator. He composed under the name James Callihou, with his most well known works being Suite

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Leokadiya Kashperova

Leokadiya Aleksandrovna Kashperova (; 16 May 1872 – 3 December 1940) was a Russian pianist and Romantic composer. She was the piano teacher of composer Igor Stravinsky. She graduated first in 1893

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Leon Bates (pianist)

Leon Bates (November 3, 1949 – November 21, 2025) was an American classical pianist. Background Leon Bates was born in Philadelphia, where by the age of six he had excelled in the study of music,

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Léon Boëllmann

Léon Boëllmann (; 25 September 1862 – 11 October 1897) was a French composer, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is Suite gothique (1895), which is a

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Leon Carr

Leon Carr (June 10, 1910 – March 27, 1976) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor. He developed several famed marketing jingles used in advertisements, including

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Léon de Saint-Réquier

Léon de Saint-Réquier, born Léon-Edgard de Saint-Réquier (8 August 1872 – 1 October 1964) viscount of Saint-Réquier, was a French organist, composer, choir conductor, maître de chapelle and music

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Léon Delafosse

Léon Delafosse (1874 1951) was a French composer and pianist. His musical works included études, arabesques, waltzes and nocturnes. It has been claimed that he was the model for the character of

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Léon Garnier

Léon Garnier (1856 in Lyon – 1905 in Meung-sur-Loire (Loiret)) was a French 19th-century composer and lyricist. Garnier wrote numerous songs with , and particularly two songs, created by Paulus,

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Léon Jehin

Léon Jehin (17 July 1853 – 14 February 1928) was a conductor and composer, especially associated with the opera house in Monte Carlo. Jehin composed the national anthem of Monaco. Life and career

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Leon Jessel

Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel (22 January 1871 – 4 January 1942), was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the

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Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner (January 24, 1919 – September 17, 2009) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of

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Leon Milo

Leon Milo (December 10, 1956 - August 31, 2014) was an American composer, percussionist and sound artist. He was known for music and sonic environments in which instruments, electronics, natural

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Leon Parris

Leon Parris (born 1 February 1981) is an English writer, composer, and actor. Early life and education Parris was brought up in Bedford, England, and was educated at the Bedford Modern School. Career

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Leon Schidlowsky

Jorge León Schidlowsky Gaete (; 21 July 1931 – 10 October 2022) was a Chilean and Israeli composer and painter. He wrote music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and instruments including the

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Leon Stein

Leon Stein (September 18, 1910 in Chicago – May 9, 2002 in Laguna Hills, California) was an American composer and music analyst. Stein attended DePaul University, where he achieved his MM in 1935 and

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Léon Vasseur

Félix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, known as Léon Vasseur (28 May 1844 – 25 May 1917), was a French composer, organist and conductor. While working as a cathedral organist, he turned to composing

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Leonard B. Meyer

Leonard B. Meyer (January 12, 1918 – December 30, 2007) was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in music, and of compositional analysis.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the

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Leonard Enns

Leonard Jacob Enns (born 1948) is a Canadian composer of classical music. He is professor emeritus of the University of Waterloo. Early life and education Enns was born on 2 February 1948 in

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Leonard Kastle

Leonard Gregory Kastle (February 11, 1929 – May 18, 2011) was an American opera composer, librettist, and director, although he is best known as the writer/director of the 1970 film The Honeymoon

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Leonard N. Fowles

Leonard Nowell Fowles (6 October 1870 – 18 January 1939) was an English organist and choirmaster, classical music composer, arranger, teacher, adjudicator and conductor, best remembered for his hymn

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Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV:

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Leonard Woods (sculptor)

Leonard Archibald Woods (1919–2014) was a Canadian sculptor, art historian, musician, composer, and author. He is best known for his sculptures The Angelic Symphony, as well as for being a co-founder

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Leonardo Balada

Leonardo Balada Ibáñez (born September 22, 1933) is a Spanish-American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works. Life Balada was born in Barcelona, Spain. After studying

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Leonardo De Lorenzo

Leonardo De Lorenzo (29 August 1875 – 29 July 1962) was an Italian virtuoso flautist and music educator. He served as the principal flautist at the New York Philharmonic under Gustav Mahler. Included

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Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo (5 August 1694 – 31 October 1744), more correctly Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, was a Baroque composer. Biography Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (currently known as San

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Leonardo Vinci

Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian Baroque composer known chiefly for his 40 or so operas. Comparatively little of his work in other genres survives. A central proponent of the

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Léonce de Saint-Martin

Léonce Marie-Joseph, Comte de Saint-Martin-de-Paylha (31 October 1886 – 10 June 1954) was a French organist and composer. He served as titular organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1937 until his

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Leone Sinigaglia

Leone Sinigaglia (14 August 1868 – 16 May 1944) was an Italian composer and mountaineer. Biography Born in Turin in 1868 to upper-middle-class Jewish parents, Sinigaglia studied music at its

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Leonel Power

Leonel Power (also spelled Lionel, Lyonel, Leonellus, Leonelle; Polbero), c. 1380–1445, was an English composer of the early Renaissance. Along with John Dunstaple he was a dominant figure of

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Leonhard Lechner

Leonhard Lechner (also Leonard, 15539 September 1606) was a German composer, kapellmeister, tenor and music editor who was taught by Orlando de Lassus. He added Athesinus to his signature, referring

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Leonhard von Call

Leonhard von Call (19 March 1767 – 19 February 1815), sometimes referred to as "Leonhard de Call", was an Austrian composer and virtuoso on the mandolin and guitar. During his lifetime he focused

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Leonhardt Schröter

Leonhardt Schröter (c. 1532 – c. 1601) was a German Renaissance choirmaster, teacher, and composer at Magdeburg. Biography Leonhardt (alternatively spelled "Leonhard" or "Leonhart") Schröter (or

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Leonid Desyatnikov

Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (, born 16 October 1955) is a composer. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Composers. Desyatnikov is the author of multiple operas, cantatas and

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Leonid Malashkin

Leonid Dimitrievitch Malashkin (1842 – February 11, 1902) was a Russian composer and conductor. Though he wrote a few works in larger forms, he is today chiefly remembered for his romances,

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Leonid Sabaneyev

Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev (also spelled Sabaneyeff or Sabaneev; ; 1 October 18813 May 1968) was a Russian musicologist, music critic, composer and scientist. He was the son of Leonid Pavlovich

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Leonid Vainshtein

Leonid Moiseevich Vainshtein (, April 20, 1945, Baku – June 20, 1994, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, as well as Honored Artist of Azerbaijan of Jewish background. Biography Leonid

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Leonie Holmes

Leonie Joyce Holmes (born 1962) is a New Zealand composer and lecturer at the University of Auckland with an interest in music education. Early life and education Holmes was born in Auckland in 1962.

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Léonin

Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; ?) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was

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Leonora Baroni

Leonora Baroni (December 1611 – 6 April 1670) was an Italian singer, theorbist, lutenist, viol player, and composer of the Baroque period. Biography Life and career Leonora Baroni was the daughter of

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Leonora Duarte

Leonora Duarte (1610 – 1678?) was a Baroque Flemish composer and musician, born in Antwerp. She belonged to a wealthy Portuguese-Jewish family who were major patrons of the arts and music. She was

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Leonora Milà Romeu

Leonora Milà Romeu (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1942) is a Catalan pianist and composer. Biography The pianist and composer Leonora Milà was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) in 1942, into a family

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Leopold Auer

Leopold von Auer (; June 7, 1845 – July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and

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Leopold Brauneiss

Leopold Brauneiss, (b. 1961) is an Austrian composer, musicologist and teacher, based in Vienna. He studied at the University of Vienna (musicology) and the University of Music and Performing Arts

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Leopold Damrosch

Leopold Damrosch (October 22, 1832 – February 15, 1885) was a German American orchestral conductor, composer, violinist, and teacher. He was the patriarch of the Damrosch family, which includes Frank

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Leopold Friedrich Raab

Leopold Friedrich Raab (1721 - after 1786) was a German composer and violinist of the baroque to early classical era. Raab was born in Glogau (now Głogów,

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Leopold Hofmann

Leopold Hofmann (also Ludwig Hoffman, Leopold Hoffman, Leopold Hoffmann; 14 August 1738 – 17 March 1793) was an Austrian composer of classical music. Biography Hofmann was the son of a highly

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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; ; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III,

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Leopold Koželuch

Leopold Koželuch (, born Jan Antonín Koželuh, alternatively also Leopold Koželuh, Leopold Kotzeluch; 26 June 1747 – 7 May 1818) was a Czech composer and music teacher. He was born in Velvary and

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Leopold Mozart

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (14 November 1719 – 28 May 1787) was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for

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Leopold Neuhauser

Leopold Neuhauser (born Innsbruck, 18th century – died after 1813) was an Austrian musician, composer of instrumental works, and virtuoso of the guitar and mandolin. He lived in Vienna in the early

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Leopold Reichwein

Leopold Reichwein (16 May 1878 – 8 April 1945) was a German conductor and composer. Life Born in Breslau, Reichwein was court Kapellmeister of the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe from 1909 to 1913.

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Leopold Schefer

Leopold Schefer (30 July 1784 in Muskau – 13 February 1862 in Muskau), German poet, novelist, and composer, was born in a small town in Upper Lusatia (then under Saxon rule), the only child of a poor

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Leopold Spinner

Leopold Spinner (26 April 1906 – 12 August 1980) was an Austrian-born, British-domiciled composer and editor. Biography Spinner was born of Austrian parentage in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine, Lwów,

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Leopold van der Pals

Leopold van der Pals (St. Petersburg 4 July 1884 – Dornach 7 February 1966) was a Danish/Dutch modernist composer who developed a personal and lyrical style in composing by involving elements of late

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Leopold von Zenetti

Joseph Leopold von Zenetti (15 November 1805 – 12 October 1892) was an Austrian composer. He was the organist and choirmaster of the parish church in Enns in Upper Austria for 63 years. Life

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Leopold Wenzel

Léopold de Wenzel (23 January 1847 – 21 August 1923), also known as Leopold Wenzel, was an Italian-born conductor and composer, known for his ballets and contributions to Edwardian musical comedies,

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Leopoldine Blahetka

Marie Leopoldine Blahetka (16 November 1809 – 17 January 1885) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Life Leopoldine Blahetka was born in Guntramsdorf near Vienna, the child of George and Barbara

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Leopoldo Mugnone

Leopoldo Mugnone (29 September 1858 in Naples – 22 December 1941 in Capodichino, Naples) was an Italian conductor, especially of opera, whose most famous work was done in the period 1890–1920, both

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Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček (; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European

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Lepo Sumera

Lepo Sumera (8 May 1950 – 2 June 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher. Life and career He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo Tormis in his teens, and from 1968, with Heino Eller at the

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Lera Auerbach

Lera Auerbach (, born Valeria Lvovna Averbakh, ; October 21, 1973) is a Soviet-born Austrian-American classical composer, conductor and concert pianist. Early life and education Auerbach was born to

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Leroy Anderson

Leroy Anderson ( ; June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur

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Leroy Ostransky

Leroy Ostransky (January 17, 1918 – October 11, 1993) was an American composer, music educator, and writer of books on jazz. Early life Ostransky grew up in a Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side in

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Leroy Robertson

Leroy Robertson (December 21, 1896 – July 25, 1971) was an American composer and music educator. Robertson was born in Fountain Green, Utah. One of his earliest instructors was Anthony C. Lund. He

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Les C. Copeland

Leslie Crawford Copeland (June 4, 1887 – March 3, 1942) was an American composer and pianist. Leslie was the youngest of six children born to Willis Emerson Copeland and Fannie Amelia Searles. He was

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Les Six

"Les Six" () is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The name has its origins in two 1920 articles by critic Henri Collet

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Les Synthétistes

Les Synthétistes were a group of Belgian composers whose goal was to synthesize the modern musical tendencies starting in 1925. Drawing mainly on the influence of Ravel, Stravinsky, Hindemith and

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Lesia Dychko

Lesia Vasylivna Dychko (), originally Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko (born 24 October 1939) is a Ukrainian composer and music educator. Life Early years and education Lesia Vasylivna Dychko was born

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Lesley Barber

Lesley Barber (born 1962) is a Canadian composer of music for film, theatre, chamber and orchestral ensembles and she is also a conductor, pianist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Barber is best

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Leslie Adams (composer)

Harrison Leslie Adams Jr. (December 30, 1932 – May 24, 2024) was an American composer. His works have been performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo

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Leslie Bassett

Leslie Raymond Bassett (22 January 1923 – 4 February 2016) was an American composer of classical music. He received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in Music. He had a lifelong relationship with the

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Leslie Stewart (writer)

Leslie Stewart (born 23 May 1949, Benghazi, Libya) is a British-based film and TV screenwriter, playwright and director. Background Born Leslie George Gannagé-Stewart, he co-wrote the song "Mistletoe

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Lester Trimble

Lester Albert Trimble (August 29, 1923 Bangor, Wisconsin – December 31, 1986 New York City) was an American music critic and composer of contemporary classical music. Encouraged by Schoenberg, who

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Letters and writings of George Frideric Handel

Few of the letters and writings of George Frideric Handel remain today—certainly far fewer than remain for other major composers. Handel wrote relatively few letters and kept no diary, yet those

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Lettie Alston

Lettie Beckon Alston (1953 – March 31, 2014) was an American composer known for her piano work and a longstanding series of concerts, "Lettie Alston and Friends". Biography Alston was born in 1953 in

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Letty Katts

Violet Katts (3 January 1919 – 19 September 2007 ), was an Australian songwriter who published under the name Letty Katts, often spelled Lettie. She is best known for her songs "A Town Like Alice"

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Lev Gurilyov

Lev Stepanovich Gurilyov (; 1770–1844) was a Russian serf musician and liturgical music composer, along with pedagogue and composer, who was active in Moscow during the late-18th to early-19th

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Lev Knipper

Lev Konstantinovich Knipper (; 3 December 1898 – 30 July 1974) was a Soviet and Russian composer and OGPU/NKVD agent. Life and career Lev Knipper was born in Tiflis to railway engineer Konstantin

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Lev Kolodub

Lev Mykolajovych Kolodub (; 1 May 1930 – 23 February 2019) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1973), People's Artist of Ukraine (1993), After graduating from the

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Lev Pulver

Lev Mikhailovich Pulver (Yiddish pronunciation: Leib Pulver, , European spelling: Leo Pulver, ; 18 December 1883, Verkhnodniprovsk – 18 March 1970, Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian-Jewish composer

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Lev Zhurbin

Lev Zhurbin (born August 18, 1978, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a composer and violist. Biography Lev Zhurbin immigrated to the United States in the year 1990. He is often credited simply as "Ljova",

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Lew Soloff

Lewis Michael Soloff (February 20, 1944 – March 8, 2015) In the 1980s, he was a member of Members Only, a jazz ensemble who recorded for Muse Records. Soloff was a regular member and sub-leader of

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Lewis Gill (musician)

Lewis Gill (born 1968) is an English composer and musician, who has worked in the contemporary classical, electronica, art rock and experimental music areas. Career Early years (art-rock and

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Lewis Lane

Lewis Lane (August 3, 1901 – January 24, 1977) was an American pianist, composer, lecturer, and musicologist with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) where he worked from 1928 to 1949. Early life

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Lex de Azevedo

Alexis King de Azevedo (born January 14, 1943) is an American composer, songwriter, and pianist known primarily for his film scores and his work on The Swan Princess of which one of his songs was

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Lex van Delden

Lex van Delden, born Alexander Zwaap (10 September 1919 – 1 July 1988) was a Dutch composer and the father of actor Lex van Delden. Early life and education Born Alexander Zwaap in Amsterdam, the

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Lexicon of Musical Invective

The Lexicon of Musical Invective is an American musicological work by Nicolas Slonimsky. It was first published in 1953, with a revised and expanded second edition appearing in 1965. The book is an

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