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L'Infonie

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L’Infonie was an avant-garde Québécois chamber ensemble founded in Montreal in 1967, under the direction of classical composer Walter Boudreau and artist/poet Raôul Duguay. The name is derived from a pun for the French words for “symphony” and “the Inferno”. They produced four albums between 1969 and 1974, after which the project ended. It was intended both as a commercial music group and a novel approach to collective improvisation. L’Infonie had as many as thirty full-time musicians during its artistic apex. Duguay published the group’s manifesto in 1970. They released a number of albums on the avant-garde side of Quebec’s progressive rock and jazz-rock scenes, blending disparate genres like classical, jazz, rock and electronica, proving to be influential in Montreal’s political counterculture in the early 1970s until its 1974 dissolution. Their albums have since become sought-out collector’s items. The ensemble’s third album, Vol. 333, was re-released on vinyl in 2016 by Montreal label Mucho Gusto. Unfinished Infonie Unfinished Infonie (L’Infonie inachevée…), a 1973 documentary film by Roger Frappier about the ensemble, won the Canadian Film Award for Best Sound at the 25th Ca

Lia Ouyang Rusli

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Lia Ouyang Rusli, also known professionally as OHYUNG, is an American composer, musician, and artist. She is known for her work as a composer on films such as Problemista (2023) and Sorry, Baby (2025). She creates electronic and ambient music as the solo project OHYUNG. Rusli released her most recent OHYUNG album, IOWA, on 6 March 2026. Career Rusli self-released her debut OHYUNG album, (Untitled) Chinese Man with Flame, on 1 May 2018. Her sophomore album, PROTECTOR, was released on 8 April 2020 via the music collective and platform Chinabot. For her third album, OHYUNG collaborated with drummer Matt Evans to release GODLESS in 2021 with Deathbomb Arc. Collectively, these first three albums have been noted for their intensity, political themes, and multi-genre style of hip-hop, electronic, and noise music. OHYUNG’s fourth album, imagine naked!, was released on 22 April 2022 through the label NNA Tapes. The nearly two hour-long album marked a shift from Rusli’s earlier work, as it was her first completely ambient release. NPR praised imagine naked! and featured it on NPR Music’s lists of 50 Best Albums and 11 Best Experimental Albums for 2022. The track “my torn cuticles!” was also

Liana Alexandra

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Liana Alexandra Șaptefrati (born Liana Moraru; 27 May 1947 – 10 January 2011) was a Romanian composer, pianist, and music educator. Biography Alexandra was born in Bucharest, Romania, on 27 May 1947. From 1965 to 1971, she studied at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory (now the National University of Music Bucharest) under Tudor Ciortea and Tiberiu Olah and took composition courses in 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1984 in Darmstadt, Germany. Iuliana Porcos described her work as “characterized by a clarity of orchestration and particularly by an evolving repetitive structure which induces a feeling of plenary meditation. Her composing style is defined by simplicity, accessibility and clarity, in accord with the 20th century composers’ wish to approach consonance (a new type of consonance), minimalism and archetype.” Her music was associated with the “New Simplicity” movement by revewers of the 1980 Darmstadt Festival, who praised her Incantations II derived “in an original manner from elements of Rumanian folk music”. Alexandra married the Romanian cellist and composer Şerban Nichifor in 1978. They performed together as Duo Intermedia from 1990 and were co-directors of the Nuova Musica Cons

Licia Missori

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Licia Missori (born in Rome, Italy) is an Italian pianist, keyboardist, composer, songwriter and music producer. Her work spans a diverse array of genres, ranging from classical music to rock and dark wave, as well as symphonic metal, Celtic fusion and video game music. Trained a classical pianist from the age of five, Also, she has toured alongside film actor Giancarlo Giannini in Italian theaters. In 2010, Missori founded the alternative rock band The Dark Side of Venus, for which she is a songwriter, composer, pianist, and keyboardist. The band won the Italian Opening Band Live Music Festival 2011, opening Paolo Benvegnù’s concert in Trieste in the same year. In 2012, The Dark Side of Venus released the single Dirty Paradise, which was produced by Novembre’s guitarist Massimiliano Pagliuso. In 2016, the band released the album Power to Victims, its cover featuring a black and white photograph of Missori’s hands and forearms wrapped in chains, shot by Italian fashion photographer . In the following year, The Dark Side of Venus toured with Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Sirenia, and The Birthday Massacre. Missori is currently also a member of the Celtic fusion band Green Clouds as pi

Licinio Refice

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Licinio Refice (Patrica, February 12, 1883 – Rio de Janeiro, September 11, 1954) was an Italian composer and priest. With Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi he represented the new direction taken by Italian church music in the twentieth century, and he left the popular song Ombra di nube (1935) as well as two completed operas. His first opera Cecilia, about the legend of Saint Cecilia, created a sensation with its premiere in 1934 in Rome at the Teatro Reale dell’Opera, with Marcello Govoni as Opera Director; Claudia Muzio took the title role. His second opera, Margherita da Cortona, appeared in 1938. A third opera, Il Mago (1954), was left incomplete (within the first act). Refice died in 1954 during morning rehearsals of Cecilia in Rio de Janeiro; Renata Tebaldi was singing the title role. Selected filmography * Cardinal Messias (1939) Recordings of Cecilia At least five recordings exist of Cecilia (role key: conductor/Cecilia/Cieca/Valeriano/Amachio/Tiburzio/Urbano). * Refice/Tebaldi/Ulisse/Misciano/Meletti/Panerai/Neri - 1953, live in Naples – House of Opera (casting inaccurate on their site) * de Fabritiis/Pedrini/Marini/Misciano/Meletti/Dadò/Clabassi - 1954, live in Milan – Melodram (t

Lico Jiménez

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José Manuel Jiménez Berroa (7 December 1851 – 15 January 1917), known as Lico Jiménez, was a Cuban pianist and composer. Early years José Manuel “Lico” Jiménez Berroa was born in Trinidad, Cuba, Las Villas province into a musical family. He was the son of Maria Andrea Berroa and violinist Jose Julian Jiménez and was baptized in 1852 at the Parochial Church of the Santísima Trinidad. His grandfather was Francisco Nicasio Jiménez, orchestra and band leader. Jiménez studied music as a child with his father and grandparents and his aunt, Cuban musician and composer Catalina Berroa, and at the age of 15 was hired as an accompanist for a concert at Palacio Brunet by visiting German violinist Karl Werner. At the recommendation of Werner, Lico’s father, Jose Julian Jiménez, who was the first Black musician in the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, concertized to raise the funds to send his two sons, Lico and Nicasio Jiménez to Europe in 1867, where Lico studied piano with the Carl Armbrust in Hamburg, Carl Reinecke and Ignaz Moscheles at the Leipzig Conservatory and in Paris with Antoine Marmontel. Jiménez fathered a son, Angel Zambrana, in Trinidad, Cuba, whose many descendants currently th

Lidia Zielińska

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Lidia Zielińska (born 9 October 1953) is a Polish composer and music educator. Biography Lidia Zielińska was born in Poznań, Poland. She graduated from the State Higher School of Music in Poznań in 1979 after studying composition under Andrzej Koszewski. She also studied composition and electronic music in Poland and at ‘Musicultura’ in Breukelen, the M. Deutsch Symphonic Workshop in Paris, IRCAM courses in Kraków and the Polish Society for Contemporary Music courses in Rydzyna and Wzdów. Zielińska took a position as professor of composition at the Poznań Academy of Music, and worked as a violinist in the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra and the Agnieszka Duczmal Chamber Orchestra. She also taught at the State Higher School of Visual Arts, Wrocław Academy of Music, and was a guest lecturer for summer courses in Poland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Belarus and Moldova. Zielińska received a number of prizes for her compositions in Poland, Yugoslavia, Germany, Switzerland and France. In 1993/94, she worked with the EuroMusicTheater project, and in 1994/95 was part of the Donau Ballet project. In 1995/96 she was the composer-in-residence at the Electronic Music S

Liis Viira

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Liis Jürgens (Viira) (born Jürgens; years 2010-2020 Viira; born 7 April 1983) is an Estonian composer, harpist, and animator. She has also used the pseudonym Liz Wirestring. Life and career Liis Jürgens has written quite diverse music for orchestras and choirs as well as chamber music and electroacoustic improvisations. Despite being one of the best-known harp players in Estonia and a member of Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, she often uses harp along with non-classical instruments. She has admitted her compositions for human voice are difficult for singers as she uses voice like just another instrument. Jürgens tends to stress the importance of lyrics, and has often composed her own due to lack of poetry intrinsically harmonic with the music. Jürgens has also been playing in ensembles Una Corda and Lippajad. She has composed music for film, like Eleonore de Montesquieu’s documentary Paldiski (2005). In 2012, Viira’s Liivaterade raamat represented Estonia on International Rostrum of Composers run yearly by International Music Council. In the end of 2015, Viira and Margo Kõlar gained a lot of media coverage with their Baby Symphony (Reverbeebi) presented on Estonian Music Days. I

Lil Kesh

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Keshinro Ololade (born 7 March 1999), known professionally as Lil Kesh, is a Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter. He rose to the limelight after releasing the hit single “Shoki” in 2014. Early life and education Ololade was born and raised in Bariga, an area in Lagos State. He attended Stockbridge College for his primary and secondary education, and then proceeded to the University of Lagos, where he studied Linguistics. Later, he moved on to the National Open University and studied Mass Communication online. Career He began, his musical career in 2012 which was when he started rapping among his colleagues in Bariga. Shortly after, on 2 January 2014, he released “Lyrically”, his debut single which went viral within Nigerian universities. Viktoh, another Nigerian rapper, heard the song and played it to Olamide. Olamide liked the song and signed Kesh to his record label, YBNL Nation. Under YBNL, Kesh dropped a series of hit singles like Shoki , Efejoku , Gbese , e.t.c and released his debut studio album, “YAGI”. Subsequently in 2014, Lil Kesh released a hit single “Shoki”. Shoki topped several musical charts and brought him to the limelight. As a result of this musical production,

Lila Lalauni

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Lila Lalauni (; 9 June 1918 – 12 February 1996) was a Greek pianist and composer who frequently performed in Greece and around Europe. She was also the first person to teach Manolis Kalomiris’ Symphonic Concerto for piano and orchestra. Early life and education Lila Lalauni was born on 9 June 1918 in Athens and was the daughter of music critic Alexandra Lalauni (1894–1974) and musician Alexandros Xanthopoulou. She was the granddaughter of composer Timotheos Xanthopoulos (c. 1864–1942). She expressed a talent for music at an early age and became a piano child prodigy. From the age of six, she began studying piano in Vienna. Three years later, aged nine, Lalauni performed as a soloist with the Vienna Symphony orchestra as well as performing with the Athens Conservatory Symphony orchestra aged twelve. From 1927 to 1930 she studied piano at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and then afterwards studied composition under Robert Konta, before graduating from the academy in 1934. Afterwards, Lalauni travelled to Paris where she was taught to play the organ by Marcel Dupré. She was also taught by the composer Karl Weigl and the pianist Artur Schnabel. Career Lalauni made her debut as a concer

Lila-Gene George

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Lila-Gene George (September 25, 1918 – December 22, 2017) was an American composer and pianist. Her work included chamber music, piano and vocal music. Education George graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in English and French in 1939 and a bachelor’s in music theory in 1940. and in 1969 won the Sigma Alpha Iota Oklahoma Composer’s Award. for nine summers in Fontainebleau, France, and with Narcis Bonet for two summers. From 1963 to 1965 she studied under German-American composer Otto Luening at Columbia University. As an adjudicator for the National Piano Guild, she judged a student piano recital at a festival sponsored by the San Jacinto Music Teachers Association in March 1972. On November 20, 1986, it was reported that George would have a recital at the Horton Foote Theater at Wharton Junior Community College that Sunday. Personal life After graduating college, she married on September 11, 1941, to Richard P. George, a petroleum engineer. They were married for 66 years until Richard’s death. , the Junior League of Houston , the Houston Friends of Music (now Chamber Music Houston) , and the International Alliance of Women in Music in memory of noted composer and

Lili Boulanger

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Marie Juliette Boulanger (; 21 August 189315 March 1918), professionally known as Lili Boulanger (), was a French composer and musician, associated with the Symbolist and Impressionist movements. The first woman to win the Grand Prix de Rome composition competition, her older sister was the composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger; their father was the composer Ernest Boulanger. Critics and scholars have praised her output for its harmonic language, formal control, and emotional depth, despite the brevity of her career. Her notable works include her three psalms for chorus and orchestra, the song-cycle Clairières dans le ciel (to poems by Francis Jammes), the D’un soir triste and D’un matin de printemps diptych, the Vieille prière bouddhique, Pie Jesu, her Prix de Rome cantata Faust et Hélène and various others. Boulanger died in 1918 at the age of 24, after years of chronic illness. Biography Early life and education Marie Juliette Boulanger was born on 21 August 1893 to a middle-class musical family in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. Her mother was Raïssa Ivanovna Myshetskaya (Mischetzky; 1858–1935), a Russian princess from Saint Petersburg who descended from Michael o

Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl

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Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl (October 7, 1882 - April 22, 1942) was an Austrian composer and member of the Nazi party, known by the pseudonym Lio Hans. Her opera Maria von Magdala was performed at the Vienna Volksoper on December 22, 1919, and was the only musical stage work by a female composer to be performed in Austria in the 20th century until Olga Neuwirth’s Bählamms Fest in 1999. Life and career Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl grew up in an upper-middle-class environment. In 1909 she married the general staff Doctor Hans Scheidl. In 1912 their daughter Amelia Christiane was born and in 1917 their second daughter Eleonore. Her house in the Viennese Cottage district () became a meeting place for the Viennese theater and music scene. From 1905 her works, most of which were composed in the late Romantic style, were performed under the pseudonym Lio Hans in the Bösendorfer-Saal and in the , amongst others. The contemporary critic Max Springer found it understandable that the composer had chosen a male pseudonym in view of prejudice against women at the time. The socio musicologist Ursula Simek suggests that Hutterstrasser-Scheidl was able to create a surprise effect when appearing at t

Lili Wieruszowski

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Lili Wieruszowski (10 December 1899 in Cologne – 2 March 1971) and her sister Helene became a well-known historian. Lili’s parents converted from Judaism to Protestantism and raised their daughters as Protestants. Wieruszowski studied music at the Cologne Conservatory, then at the Berlin University of Music. In 1925 she was employed as an organist at the Charlottenburg Epiphany Congregation. This job ended in 1933 when she was banned from playing the organ in Germany because of her Jewish background. She moved to Basel where she became well known as an organist and composer during the 1940s and 1950s. Her music was published by Schott, Foetisch, Krumpholtz, and Zwingli Verlag. Wieruszowski’s compositions include: Organ *22 Chorale Preludes and Intonations *Chorale Preludes 1946 (with Rudolph Moser) *43 Chorale Preludes 1956 *26 Chorale Preludes 1965 Vocal *Geneva Psalter *Huguenot psalms *Psalm 25 *Psalm 33 *Psalm 47 *Psalm 107 *psalm settings in the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church Hymnal (some with instrumental accompaniment) References

Lilian Elkington

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Iris Lilian Mary Elkington (15 September 1900 – 13 August 1969) was an English pianist and composer. She studied piano, organ and composition (with Sir Granville Bantock) at the Birmingham and Midland School of Music and began her musical career as a pianist, performing piano concertos and solo pieces at Birmingham Town Hall and in Bournemouth and Harrogate. Howard Carr conducted a second performance 15 months later, on 21 December 1922 in Harrogate. During the 1920s it was played fairly often around the Midlands area. Marriage By 1924 she had formed a duo with the violist and violinist Arthur Kennedy, whom she met while studying in Birmingham. A pupil of Rowsby Woof at the Royal Academy of Music, Kennedy later played with various BBC orchestras. After her marriage to Kennedy in August 1926 she gradually withdrew from both composing and performing, except as a local church musician. She made occasional appearances in BBC radio broadcasts of recitals from Birmingham between 1925 and 1929, including a performance of works by Liszt, Chabrier, Chopin and Dohnanyi in April 1926. She was organist at the Sacred Heart Church in Aston (where she was also married), at Abbey Church in Erdingt

Lillian Tait Sheldon

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Lillian Alison Tait Sheldon (10 September 1865 – 10 January 1925) was an American composer and organist who composed many hymns. Sheldon was born in Gouverneur, New York to Lucretia Maria and George Peter Tait. She married James Otis Sheldon and they had two children. Little is known about Sheldon’s education. She was the organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Gouverneur from 1885 until her death in 1925. Although most of her compositions were hymns, her “Rock-a-By Baby Lullaby” was published in the January 1897 edition of Ladies’ Home Journal. Sheldon’s music was also published by B.F. Woods Music Co., J. Fischer & Brother, and Oliver Ditson Co. Her compositions, all for voice and piano, included: *“Around the Great White Throne” *“He Knows” *“Hear, Forgive and Save” (text by Eliza Morris) *“Hosanna We Sing” (text by Rev George S. Hodges) *“Jesus, Shepherd of the Sheep” (text by Henry Book) *“Lord, Within Thy Temple Fair” *“More Love to Thee, O Christ” *“Through Peace to Light” References

Lily Reiff

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Lily Sertorius Bamberger Reiff (21 June 1866 - 8 May 1958) was a German composer and pianist who spent much of her life in Switzerland. A patron of the arts as well as a musician, she helped found Switzerland’s first chamber orchestra. Her music was composed under the name Lily Bamberger Sertorius through opus 11 and later under the name Lily Reiff. Biography Reiff was born in Bamberg, Germany. She studied at the Music Academy in Munich for two years before moving to Weimar in 1883 to study with Franz Liszt for a year. She also studied with Ludwig Thuille in Munich and with Max Conrad and Friedrich Hegar in Zurich. As a student, Reiff presented concerts for charity with the violinist Adolf Busch, who was a friend of her family. Reiff toured as a concert pianist from 1885 to 1888, when she married professor Eugen Bamberger. In 1891, she married the manufacturer and cellist Hermann Reiff. The Reiffs hosted weekly tea recitals at their home, where young musicians performed and networked. They also managed a concert series at the Lilienberg retirement home in Affoltern am Albis, sometimes performing themselves. A 1951 Zürcher Woche magazine profile of Reiff focused on her patronage of

Lily Strickland

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Lily Strickland (January 28, 1884 – June 6, 1958) was an American composer, painter and writer. Biography Lily Strickland was born on January 28, 1884, in Anderson, South Carolina. Her father was Charlton Hines Strickland and her mother was Teresa Hammond Reed. She had two brothers and was the only daughter. When her father died, the family moved into the home of her grandparents, Judge and Mr. J. Pinckney Reed. Strickland began studying piano at age six and was encouraged by her parents to continue composing throughout her life. She studied piano and composition at Converse College and in 1905 received a scholarship to study at the Institute of Musical Arts (later Juilliard) in New York City. In 1912, she married Joseph Courtenay Anderson, an English teacher at Columbia University. She followed Joseph around and compose, write, and paint wherever he went. They never had children due to both of their dreams of traveling and exploring the world. When Anderson became manager for an American company in 1920, the couple moved to Calcutta, and spent the next ten years in India. Strickland traveled in Africa and Asia, painted and published articles in American magazines. She received an

Lin Wang (composer)

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Lin Wang ( (original name), also called ), is a Chinese composer. Lin Wang was born in Dalian, China, in 1976. Biography Lin Wang studied music composition at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (1996–2001). Later she studied composition and music theory at Hochschule für Musik Saar with Theo Brandmüller, and electronic music at IRCAM at the Centre Georges Pompidou in France. She also studied theatrical philosophy in music theater at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, under Chaya Czernowin. It was selected for performance again in the same year at the Biennale di Venezia and the Bregenz Festival. In 2010, her opera “Die Quelle” (The Source) was premiered at the 11th Munich Biennale. Lin Wang and Can Xue co-wrote the libretto. In this opera, drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one’s own identity. Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used in its music. An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera. Her third opera “Oh, wie schön ist Panama!” (Oh, the Beautiful Panama!) was based on an illustrated children book by Janosch. It was premiered at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2013.

Linda Bouchard

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Linda Bouchard (born 21 May 1957) is a Canadian composer and conductor. She is also an active conductor, teacher and producer. Biography Bouchard was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was raised in Montreal, Quebec. She has a BA in music (Bennington College, Vermont, 1979) and an MMus in composition (Manhattan School of Music, New York City, 1982). Her teachers were Ransom Wilson, Sue Ann Kahn, Harvey Sollberger (flute), David Gilbert and Arthur Weisberg (conducting), and Elias Tanenbaum, Ursula Mamlock and Henry Brant (composition). She has cited Henry Brant as a major influence in her music. She has experimented with different spatial placements of performers, both as a composer and as a conductor. Her music is characterized by timbral explorations and percussive explosions. Bouchard went to the U.S. in 1977 to study composition with Henry Brant. She lived in New York City from 1979 to 1990, where she composed, led new music ensembles, and made orchestral arrangements for The Washington Ballet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and various churches in the New York metropolitan area. She was Assistant Conductor for New York Children’s Free Opera from 1985 to 1988 and guest-conducted the Orches

Linda Catlin Smith

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Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957 in New York City) is a composer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music. Smith studied composition and theory with Allen Shawn in New York, and with composers Rudolf Komorous, Martin Bartlett, John Celona, Michael Longton, and Jo Kondo at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; and attended lectures of Morton Feldman, by invitation, in Buffalo, New York. She studied piano with Nurit Tilles and Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and with Kathleen Solose in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also studied harpsichord with Erich Schwandt. She moved to Toronto in 1981, where she produced a series of concerts at Mercer Union Gallery. She was Artistic Director of Arraymusic, one of Toronto’s major contemporary music ensembles, from 1988 - 1993. She is a member of the performance collective, URGE. She has given lectures at many universities in Canada, and has taught composition privately and at Wilfrid Laurier University. Outside of teaching, her time is devoted to writing music. Drawn to an ambiguity of harmony and narrative, her work i

Lindsay Cooper

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Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She collaborated with a number of musicians, including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter, and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group. She wrote scores for film and TV and a song cycle Oh Moscow which was performed live around the world in 1987. She also recorded a number of solo albums, including Rags (1980), The Gold Diggers (1983), and Music For Other Occasions (1986). Cooper was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late 1970s, but did not disclose it to the musical community until the late 1990s when her illness prevented her from performing live. In September 2013, Cooper died from the illness, in London, at the age of 62. Her classical training interested the group as they were continually looking for new musical directions. In spite of having just had all four wisdom teeth extracted, she immediately joined the band in the studio to record their second album Unrest (1974). However, following their European tour supporting C

Lindsay Jones (composer)

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Lindsay Draper Jones (born June 9, 1969, Durham, North Carolina) is an American composer, sound designer and educator. His career spans over three decades and includes nominations for Tony Award, Drama Desk Awards, and Helen Hayes Awards, as well as wins and nominations in regional theatre and film. He has also taught and lectured at universities and schools across the country. before finally moving to Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the age of eight, where he would spend the rest of his childhood. He attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and received a BFA in Acting. In 2017, Lindsay was inducted into the inaugural class of his alma mater’s Richard J. Reynolds High School Arts Hall Of Fame in Winston-Salem, NC. Career Theatrical Jones began his career in sound design and composition for theatre in 1994 when he was asked to design a production of “Suburbia” for Roadworks Productions in Chicago. Jones has worked in both Broadway and off-Broadway theatre. His Broadway credits include Slave Play (2020), The Nap (2018), and A Time to Kill (2013). He is one of only five individuals in Tony Awards history to have received nominations for both Best Sound Design of

Lindsay Sloper

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Lindsay Sloper (full name Edward Hugh Lindsay Sloper; 14 June 1826 – 3 July 1887) was an English pianist and composer. Life Sloper was born in London in 1826. After studying the piano in London under Ignaz Moscheles, he went, around 1841, to Aloys Schmitt in Frankfurt, and later to Georg Jacob Vollweiler in Heidelberg and Xavier Boisselot in Paris. He remained in Paris until 1846, when he returned to London. He appeared occasionally as a pianist at the concerts of the Musical Union (1846) and the Royal Philharmonic Society (1849), of which he subsequently became a member. He claimed to have taught Jane Stirling, and to have introduced her to Frédéric Chopin. A reviewer of a concert in 1847 (one of many of his concerts reviewed in The Musical World) wrote: “Mr. Sloper’s powers of expression and unerring mechanism were more finely developed in the Sonata Apassionata of Beethoven than in any other part of the programme. The last movement was taken with extraordinary rapidity, but the energy, precision and finish of the performer’s style were preserved throughout with undiminished power.” As his teaching connection grew, his public appearances waned. That same year the child prodigy pi

Lindsay Vickery

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Lindsay Vickery (born 1965) is an Australian composer and performer. Early life and education Lindsay Vickery was born in Perth. He studied composition with John Exton and Roger Smalley at the School of Music, University of Western Australia. He has written much ensemble and interactive electronic music, exploring readymades and collage (notably interrogating the work of Charlie Parker) as well as improvisation, nonlinear writing and computer-performer pieces. His chamber opera Rendez-vous: An Opera Noir is based on the Nouveau Roman DJINN: un trou rouge entre les pavés disjoints by French author Alain Robbe-Grillet. Career His interactive electronic music often employs experimental interfaces such as the Yamaha MIBURI and other self-devised alternative controllers. He has performed on reed instruments, electronics or as a conductor in the groups alea new music ensemble, Magnetic Pig, HEDKIKR, SQUINT, Candied Limbs and Decibel, and with artists such as Jon Rose (Music in the Age of Shopping, The People’s Music), Stelarc, Amy Knoles and Cat Hope. His works have been performed by groups such as The California Ear Unit, Topology, Clocked Out, Ensemble Scintilla Divina, the MATA Ensemb

Lino Liviabella

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Lino Liviabella (7 April 1902 – 21 October 1960) was an Italian composer. Liviabella was born in Macerata. In 1936 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his “La vittoria” (“The Victor”). He died, aged 58, in Bologna. Selected works ;Chamber music * Sonata No. 1 in A minor for violin and piano (1920–1928) * Natale, Suite for violin and piano (1923) * Sonatina per l’Elevazione for violin and harmonium (1924) * Canzonetta for violin and piano (1925) * Aria for violin and organ or harmonium (1925) * String Quartet No. 1 (1926) * Danza for violin solo (1926) * Adagio for oboe and piano (1926) * S. Francesco, Meditazione for viola, 2 violins, double bass and organ (1926) * Due espressioni liriche (2 Lyric Expressions) for string quartet (1927) * Preludio in modo minore for 2 violins, cello and harmonium (1928) * String Quartet No. 2 (1929) * Bululù, Marionetta meccanica del romanzo “Eva ultima” di Massimo Bontempelli for violin and piano (1930) * Canto andaluso for violin and piano (1930) * Sonata ciclica for cello and piano (1931) * Sonata No. 2 in One Movement for violin and piano (1932) * Lento for flute, 2 violins, piano and harp * Sonata No. 3 in One

Lionel Daunais

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Noël Ferdinand Lionel Daunais, (December 31, 1901 – July 18, 1982) was a French Canadian baritone and composer. Life Born in Montreal, Quebec, Daunais studied singing with Céline Marier and harmony and composition with Oscar O’Brien. In 1923, he won first prize at the Montreal Musical Festival. He made his professional opera debut in January 1926 as Ourrias in Charles Gounod’s Mireille at the Orpheum in Vancouver. The following March he gave his first recital at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Daunais was also awarded the Prix d’Europe in 1926 which provided him with the opportunity to pursue studies in Paris with Émile Marcellin at the Opéra-Comique. In 1929, he joined the roster of principal artists at the Opera of Algiers. With that company he sang several leading roles, including Escamillo in Carmen, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Lescaut in Manon, and Valentin in Faust. In 1933, the TL was engaged by CRBC for its network series One Hour with You, on which the group performed for 87 weeks. In 1934, the TL released the LP album Chansons de Lionel Daunais for Radio Canada International. In 1936, the group performed for the CBS radio network in New York w

Lionel Newman

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Lionel Newman (January 4, 1916 – February 3, 1989) was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He won the Academy Award for Best Score of a Musical Picture for Hello Dolly! with Lennie Hayton in 1969. Newman was one of ten children, the youngest of seven boys, born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. While the family had little money, the children’s mother, Luba, was a strong woman who encouraged them to achieve. Newman migrated to Hollywood where, at the age of 16, he began conducting for impresario Earl Carroll. This was where he met his future wife, Beverly Carroll, an Earl Carroll Vanities showgirl, and niece of the impresario. Newman had formal training in New York, and after moving to Los Angeles, he continued his studies with Joseph Achron and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In the 1930s, Newman earned his stripes conducting national tours and working as the piano accompanist for Mae West. She used to scold him for holding his hands too high in the pit saying, “I’m the show, Newman, not you.” At the age of 18, he obtained a job playing piano on the Holland America ocean liner, the S.S.Rotterdam, with his “Newman’s Society Orchestra”. This trip had great

Lior Navok

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Lior Navok (; born September 6, 1971) is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. Navok studied composition privately with the Israeli composer Moshe Zorman, and completed a Bachelor’s degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied composition (with Yinam Leef) and conducting. He later completed he studied for a Master’s and Doctorate at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with John Harbison. His music has been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the Oper Frankfurt, Nuernberg Opera, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. Amongst the awards he has received are those from the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has also received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation, Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award, and Israel Prime Minister Award. In 2004, he was one of seven composers awarded commissions for new musical works by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. His stage music includes two operas, The Bet, based on a short s

Lipa Feingold

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Lipa Feingold (, 1878–1945) was a Russian-born American songwriter, pianist, composer, and jeweler. The peak of his popularity as a composer was in the 1920s and 1930s; his pieces were performed by many well-known New York Jewish music figures such as Abe Ellstein, Yossele Rosenblatt and Alexander Olshanetsky, and later by Theodore Bikel and Leibele Waldman. His father was a jeweler. As a youth, Lipa was interested in music and took lessons from the cantor and composer Nissan Spivak who was at that time living in Berdychiv. They had a second child, Charles, in New York in 1906. When Bessa contracted tuberculosis in 1907, a doctor recommended that they leave the city and they ended up settling in Denver, Colorado. Feingold also acted on stage in Denver Yiddish theatre productions, and had a solo singing and comedy act where he was occasionally accompanied by his wife who could play violin. Starting in around 1919 he also led a Zionist girls’ choir called Hatikvah. He became interested in children’s education and became a Sunday school music teacher at B’nai Israel. In 1923, after being invited as a guest soloist (Baritone) at Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol-Beth Joseph during the High Holida

Lisa Conway

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Lisa Conway-Bühler, also known as LCON, is a Canadian musician, vocalist, composer and producer. She has performed as part of The Owle Bird, Chrome and the Ice Queen, and is the former singer and lyricist of Toronto-based Del Bel. Early life and education Conway grew up in northern British Columbia where she started playing music as a child. She began playing the violin at the age of four and learned to play the guitar before developing an interest in songwriting. Her father worked as an elementary school music teacher and at the age of 13 she used his recording equipment to record and produced an album for her high school band. Influenced by Canadian composer Oliver Schroer while attending camp as a teenager, she later moved to Ontario to attend York University in Toronto, where Schroer had studied. She completed a residency with the Canadian Film Center in 2016. Toronto Star reviewer Ben Rayner called the band’s release Oneiric “one of the most accomplished albums, Canadian or otherwise, released in 2011.” During the mid-2010s Conway co-owned and operated Wildlife Sanctuary Sound, a recording and production studio in Grey County, with musician and producer Andrew Collins. They me

Lisa de Londres

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Lisa de Londres ( 1220–1250) was a trobairitz, a female composer in Old Occitan. Her work is known only from three lines quoted in Italian translation in the Reggimento e costumi di donna of Francesco da Barberino (died 1348), who also mentions her in his Documenti d’amore. The three lines are: It is unclear what kind of poem the three lines are taken from, perhaps a tenso, an ensenhamen or a cobla esparsa. In a tenso with , the Comtessa de Dia seems to allude to this poem by Lisa. In the Commentario of his Documenti, Barberino gives a Latin summary of a six-stanza tenso between Lisa (now called domina Lysa) and Felip Engles on courtly love. From the Latin summaries alone, the work appears “masterful” (meisterliche), according to Angelica Rieger. Saverio Guida and Gerardo Larghi tentatively identified Lisa with Salvatja de Londra, who judged a partimen between Lanfranc Cigala and Lantelm. Antoine Thomas suggested that Lisa was the same person as Auliane de Anglia, mentioned elsewhere by Barberino. “Londres” has sometimes been taken to refer to London (as in Friedrich Christian Diez), partially on the basis that her interlocutor’s name, Felip Engles, means “Philip the Englishman”. I

Lisa Hannigan

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Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish musician, singer, composer, and voice actress. She began her musical career as a member of Damien Rice’s band. Since beginning her solo career in 2007, she has released three albums: Sea Sew (2008), Passenger (2011), and At Swim (2016). Hannigan’s music has received award nominations in Ireland and the United States. Hannigan drew attention in North America for her role as Blue Diamond in Steven Universe, an animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar. Early life and education Hannigan was born in Dublin but grew up in Kilcloon, County Meath, Ireland. in Kilcloon, then attended The King’s Hospital, a co-educational independent school at Palmerstown, Dublin, then enrolled at Trinity College Dublin to study French and art history. Career While in college, Hannigan met Damien Rice at a concert in Dublin in early 2001. Some of Hannigan’s live recordings were available through trading networks radio shows. These recordings included: “Willy” by Joni Mitchell, “Be My Husband” by Nina Simone (from the 1965 album Pastel Blues), “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin and “Love Hurts” by Boudleaux Bryant. Hannigan performed live with

Lisa Scola Prosek

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Lisa Scola Prosek (born March 25, 1958) is an American composer and librettist. Among her compositions are two oratorios and seven operas. She is San Francisco Bay Area-based. Life and career Scola Prosek was born in New Jersey and raised in Rome. She graduated from Princeton University, where she studied with Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, Lukas Foss, and Gaetano Giani Luporini. She was commissioned by San Francisco’s Thick House Theater for her operas Daughter of the Red Tzar, Belfagor and Sail the Blue Aegean. Her first operatic composition was Satyricon which premiered in 2002. She is the recipient of several commissions, grants and awards, including from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, the LEF Foundation, Meet The Composer, Theatre Bay Area, The Hewlett Foundation, the Zellerbach Foundation, and the American Composers Forum. In addition to her work as a composer, she is principal pianist and general manager of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. Works Chamber operas * Satyricon (2002) * I Quaderni di Leonardo (2006). Opera in Italian, text by the composer, with chamber orchestra, Thick House Theater, San Francisco. Videography by Jakub Kalousek. Jim

Lisa Streich

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Lisa Streich (born 19 April 1985) is a Swedish composer of contemporary classical music. Motorised instruments and spectral chords characterize her works. Biography Lisa Streich was born on 19 April 1985 in Norra Råda, Sweden. She grew up in Germany Teachers had been Johannes Schöllhorn and Adriana Hölszky. Streich composed FALTER for violin for the 2021 ARD International Music Competition. Until 2023, she was scholarship recipient at the Norwegian Academy of Music, with Helmut Lachenmann as her mentor. In 2024, Streich has been composer-in-residence at the Lucerne Festival and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She received commissions by the Berlin Philharmonic (ISHJÄRTA), Lucerne Festival (REIGEN), and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (FLÜGEL). The trumpet concerto MEDUSE was premiered in 2024 by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Personal life Streich lives on Gotland, Sweden. cold and hot is the contrast in ISHJÄRTA (Ice Heart). Streich uses electronics and prepares instruments with small motorised machines, that create a mechanical sound. Alan Gilbert said in an interview: “She integrates the performers strongly into the creative composition process.” * 2017 Ernst

Lisle Ellis

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Lisle Ellis (born November 17, 1951) is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer who is known for his improvisational style and use of electronics. Biography Ellis was born in Campbell River, British Columbia. Ellis began playing electric bass in his teens and worked professionally from an early age in numerous environments including studios, radio & TV shows, and strip clubs. He was born Lyle Steve Lansall, but used his initials L. S. as his stage name Ellis; he also used the name L. S. Lansall-Ellis professionally. Ellis studied at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Walter Robertson and attended Douglas College in Vancouver. He later studied at the Creative Music Studio in New York City from 1975-1979. Ellis lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1982 until 1983 and then Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1983 until 1992. In 1986 Ellis was the first recipient of Canada’s Fred Stone Award, given annually to a musician for integrity and innovation. In the early 1980s in Vancouver, and the late 80’s in Montreal, Ellis was a conspicuous activator of musician alliance organizations, performance venues, and concert series presentations. One collective in particular, Vancouver’s New Orchestra W

Lists of composers

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This is a list of lists of composers grouped by various criteria. Name *List of composers by name Women *List of female composers by name *List of female composers by birth date *List of Australian female composers Genre *Anime composer *List of Carnatic composers *List of film score composers *List of major opera composers *List of composers of musicals *List of musicals by composer: A to L, M to Z *List of ragtime composers *List of symphony composers *List of acousmatic-music composers * List of Spaghetti Western composers *List of television theme music composers Western classical period *List of classical music composers by era *List of medieval composers *List of Renaissance composers *List of Baroque composers *List of Classical-era composers *List of Romantic composers *List of 20th-century classical composers *List of 21st-century classical composers Nationality or ethnicity * List of composers by nationality * Chronological list of American classical composers * Chronological list of Argentine classical composers * Chronological list of Armenian classical composers * Chronological list of Australian classical composers * Chronological list of Austrian classical composers

Liszthaus Raiding

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The Liszthaus Raiding is the building where Franz Liszt was born in 1811 which has been a museum since 1979. It is located in Raiding, a town in Burgenland province of Austria. A concert hall next to the house was opened in 2006. History Liszt’s time and earlier The stone building was built in the 16th century; it was part of an estate created by von Guniafalva, a noble, and extended in the mid-17th century by his son-in-law Johann Illesy. The estate was bought in 1805 by the Esterházy family. At that time, Raiding (Hungarian name Doborján) was in the Kingdom of Hungary. The building had a roof of wooden shingles, and had six rooms, a kitchen and a room for wine fermentation. Adam Liszt, father of the composer, was steward of the sheep on the Esterházy estate; he was also a musician, playing cello in Prince Esterházy’s orchestra. The future composer, only son of Adam Liszt and his wife Maria Anna, was born here on 22 October 1811. He was baptized the following day in the neighbouring town of Unterfrauenhaid. Franz received music lessons from his father from the age of six. Adam was unable to obtain funds for Franz’s education from the Esterházy family, and the Liszts moved to Vienn

Liu Shueh-shuan

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Liu Xue'an

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Liu Xue’an (刘雪庵 1905–1985), whose pen names were Yan Ru (晏如), Wu Qing (吴青), and Su Ya (苏崖) was a Chinese composer. Among his best known songs include “The Great Wall Ballad”, “When Will You Return?,” and “Red Bean Poem” (红豆词). He taught at the Sunan College of Education in Suzhou, the music department of the East China University in Shanghai and at the Arts Normal College and the Conservatory of Chinese. Liu was criticized and suffered during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 and during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. He offered a public self-criticism in 1980 before he was rehabilitated, however criticism of his song “When Will You Return?” continued in mainland China for some time as an example of “yellow music”, a product of decadent and immoral society. References

Livingston & Evans

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Livingston and Evans were the songwriting and composing team of Jay Livingston (1915–2001) and Ray Evans (1915–2007), who worked on movies, television and stage. They met while attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. They played together in bands. In either 1937 or 1938, the pair moved to New York City to begin their songwriting careers. They wrote the 1940 hit song “Goodbye Now” for the 1938 Broadway musical revue Hellzapoppin, but years went by without further success. In 1944, they moved to Hollywood at the encouragement of Johnny Mercer to work in films. The following year, they were signed by Paramount Pictures. Some of their best known songs are: *the Christmas song “Silver Bells” *“Buttons and Bows” *“Mona Lisa” *“Que Sera, Sera” *“Tammy” They also wrote the theme music for the television shows Bonanza and Mister Ed, with Livingston singing the lyrics for the latter: “A horse is a horse, of course, of course …”. They received three Academy Awards for Best Song - for “Buttons and Bows” in The Paleface (1948), “Mona Lisa” in Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) and “Que Sera Sera” in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - and a total of seven nominations. The duo appea

Lívio Tragtenberg

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Lívio Romano Tragtenberg (born 1961) is a Brazilian musician, composer, music theorist, professor and record producer. Biography Tragtenberg was born in São Paulo in 1961, to professor and sociologist and actress . On his father’s side, he is of German-Jewish descent, and has a brother – Marcelo, a physician – and a sister – Lucila, a soprano singer. When he was 13 years old he learned by himself how to play the drum kit, leading on to other instruments. During his later youth he met and befriended poets Décio Pignatari and siblings Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, who heavily influenced him, later dropping out from high school to follow a career on music. His debut album, Ritual, came out in 1980. Later in the 1980s he composed the operas O. de A. do Brasil and O Inferno de Wall Street, the latter based on a poem by 19th-century author Sousândrade, and was a session musician for the 1988 EP The Early Years, by progressive rock band Violeta de Outono. Throughout the 1990s to the mid-2000s he continued to release albums, collaborating with Pignatari and , and was a music theory professor for Unicamp from 1990 to 1998. He also managed the projects Blind Sound Orchestra (which is compos

Liviu Marinescu

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Liviu Marinescu (born February 12, 1970, in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer of orchestral and chamber music. He teaches at California State University, Northridge. Early life He studied music composition at the National University of Music Bucharest with Adrian Iorgulescu, and Cleveland State University with Edwin London. In 2000 he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at University of Maryland, where he worked with Lawrence Moss. Career His music has been recorded and released by Capstone Records, Centaur Records, Navona Records and has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Orchestra 2001, Bohuslav Martinu Symphony, as well as the National Chamber Radio Orchestra and the Bucharest Music Academy Symphony in Romania. In 2002 he was awarded a prize and commission by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. In 1994 began working as a professor. Marinescu taught at Concordia College, West Chester University, University of Maryland and Cleveland State University, and lectured at universities across Europe, including Trondheim Conservatory in Norway, Palacky University in the Czech Republic and the National University of Music in Bucharest. Compositions External l

Liza Lehmann

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Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann (11 July 1862 – 19 September 1918) was an English soprano and composer, known for her vocal compositions. Her father was the German painter Rudolf Lehmann, and her mother was Amelia (A.L.) Chambers, a music teacher, composer and arranger. Lehmann “grew up in an intellectual and artistic atmosphere” The same year, she wrote a voice study text, Practical Hints for Students of Singing. Leslie was the father of the conductor Steuart Bedford and the composer David Bedford. Lehmann completed her memoirs in 1918 and died, shortly after completing them, Music After her performing career ended in 1894, Lehmann concentrated on composing music for the rest of her life. and Bird Songs (1907), with words attributed to “A.S.”, thought to have been Alice Sayers, the family nurse. She became known for her art songs, parlour songs and other works in the following years. Many of her songs are for children, ranging from the sweet and trivial “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden” to the melodically and harmonically passionate “Stars” in The Daisy-Chain. Her tenor song “Ah, moon of my delight” from In a Persian Garden has been recorded through the years

Liza Lim

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Liza Lim (born 30 August 1966) is an Australian composer. Lim writes concert music (chamber and orchestral works) as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on installation and video projects. Her work reflects her interests in Chinese culture and the aesthetics of Aboriginal art and shows the influence of non-Western music performance practice. Early life and education Liza Lim (林瑞玲) was born in Perth, Western Australia, to Chinese parents. They were doctors who during her early years spent time working and studying in Brunei, and she was sent to boarding school. At the age of 11, she was encouraged by her teachers at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne to turn from piano and violin to composition. Lim earned her PhD from the University of Queensland, her Master of Music from the University of Melbourne (1996), and her Bachelor of Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (1986). She studied composition in Melbourne with Richard David Hames and Riccardo Formosa and in Amsterdam with Ton de Leeuw. Career Lim has been a guest lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer School, the University of California, San Diego, she is married to Daryl Buckley, its artistic director.