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Lochamer-Liederbuch

The Lochamer-Liederbuch (Lochamer Song Book or Locham Song Book) is an extensive collection of German songs at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It dates from the mid-15th

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Lodewijk Mortelmans

miniatuur Lodewijk Mortelmans (5 February 1868, Antwerp – 24 June 1952, Antwerp) was a Belgian composer and conductor of Flemish ancestry. Sometimes called de Vlaamse Brahms ("the Flemish Brahms"),

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Lodovico Agostini

Lodovico Agostini (1534 – 20 September 1590) was an Italian composer, singer, priest, and scholar of the late Renaissance. He was a close associate of the Ferrara Estense court, and one of the most

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Lodovico Giustini

Lodovico Giustini (12 December 1685 – 7 February 1743) was an Italian composer and keyboard player of the late Baroque and early Classical eras. He was the first known composer ever to write music

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Lodovico Grossi da Viadana

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (usually Lodovico Viadana, though his family name was Grossi; c. 1560 – 2 May 1627) was an Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor

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Lodovico Zacconi

Lodovico (or Ludovico) Zacconi (11 June 1555 – 23 March 1627) was an Italian composer and musical theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He worked as a singer, theologian, and

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Loek Dikker

Loek Dikker (born ) is a Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer. Dikker is known for his scores for the films The Fourth Man, Body Parts, and Rosenstraße, among others. Biography After training as a

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Logan Nelson

Logan Nelson (born November 11, 1996) is an American composer who has composed scores for films, video games, and modern dance productions. In 2018, he received the SABAM Award for Best Young

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Lois Albright

Lois H. Albright Billingsley (May 17, 1904 – August 26, 1995) was an American pianist, violinist, singer, conductor and composer, based in Chicago as a young woman, in Phoenix in midlife, and in New

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Lois Rhea

Lois Burford Rhea Land (24 September 1916 – December 2004) was an American composer, music educator, and organist. She taught and published as Lois Rhea and Lois Rhea Land. Rhea was born in Milton,

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Lois V. Vierk

Lois V. Vierk (born August 4, 1951, in Hammond, Indiana) is a post-minimalist composer who lives in New York City. She received a B.A. degree in piano and ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1974. She then

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Loïsa Puget

Louise Françoise "Loïsa" Puget (11 February 1810 – 24 October 1889) was a French composer. Life Loïsa Puget was born in Paris, her proper first names were Louise Françoise. Her mother was a singer

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Lojze Bratuž

Lojze Bratuž (February 17, 1902 – February 16, 1937) was a Slovene choirmaster and composer from Gorizia who was killed by Italian Fascist squads. He is regarded as a martyr of the anti-Fascist

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Lojze Lebič

Lojze Lebič (born 23 August 1934) is a Slovenian composer and conductor of choral and instrumental music. Life Lebič was born on 23 August 1934 in Prevalje, in the Carinthia region of Slovenia (then

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Lola Carrier Worrell

Lola Carrier Worrell (1 July 1870 – 29 January 1929) was an American composer who wrote instrumental music, songs, and at least one piece for musical theatre. Born in St. Johns, Michigan, she studied

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Lola Folman

Lola Folman (1912–1979) was a Polish Jewish singer and composer popular in Poland in the 1930s. Folman was a folk singer. She was often accompanied by pianist-improviser Max Fishman, was soloist with

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Lola Rae

Rachel Akosua Funmilola Garton (born 20 January 1991), professionally known as Lola Rae, is a Nigerian-born British-Ghanaian singer, songwriter and dancer. She gained recognition following the

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Lolita de la Colina

Dolores de la Colina Flores (born 26 December 1948, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico ), better known as Lolita de la Colina, is a Mexican singer and songwriter. She has written songs for Manoella Torres,

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Lon Kirkop

Marlon Chircop (born 5 August 1991), better known by his artist name Lon Kirkop, is a Maltese novelist, playwright, singer-songwriter and visual artist. He has received numerous accolades throughout

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London (music producer)

Michael Ovie Hunter (born 21 October 1999), known professionally as Thisizlondon (pronounced as London, and formerly stylised in all caps), is a Nigerian-British record producer and DJ. He is best

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Lora Aborn

Lora Aborn Busck (May 30, 1907 – August 25, 2005) was an American composer. Biography Lora Aborn was born in New York City and began studying piano, music theory and composition at the Effa Ellis

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Lord Berners

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 188319 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord

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Lord Vinheteiro

Fabrício André Bernard Di Paolo (born 1980), known professionally as Lord Vinheteiro, is a Brazilian pianist, accordionist, sound engineer, musician, aquarist, and YouTuber. Vinheteiro is best known

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Loré Lixenberg

Loré Lixenberg is a British mezzo-soprano and sound artist, active in contemporary and experimental music. She received the John Cage Award in 2025. Career She studied composition with Andy Vores,

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Loreena McKennitt

Loreena McKennitt (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern

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Loren Gold

Loren Gold is an American keyboardist, vocalist, music director, and songwriter. He is known for his work as a touring keyboardist with prominent rock and pop acts, including Don Felder, Kenny

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Lorenc Antoni

Lorenc Antoni (23 September 1909 – 21 October 1991) was an Albanian composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist. Early years Lorenc Antoni was born on 23 September 1909 in Üsküp (now Skopje), in the

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Lorenz Christoph Mizler

Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof (also known as Wawrzyniec Mitzler de Kolof and Mitzler de Koloff; 26 July 1711 – 8 May 1778) was a German physician, historian, printer, mathematician, Baroque music

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Lorenzo da Firenze

Lorenzo Masi, known as Lorenzo da Firenze (Magister Laurentius de Florentia; died December 1372 or January 1373), was an Italian composer and music teacher of the Trecento. He was closely associated

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Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari

LEF (born Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari; 20 November 1977) is an Italian vocalist, record producer and film score composer. He has worked with Bill Laswell, Lisa Gerrard, Serj Tankian from System of a

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Lorenzo Ferrero

Lorenzo Ferrero (; born 1951) is an Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and has written over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve

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Lorenzo Palomo

Lorenzo Palomo (10 March 1938 – 13 April 2024) was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was chief conductor of the Valencia Orchestra from 1973 to 1976 and conductor and pianist of the Deutsche Oper

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Lorenzo Perosi

Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 – 12 October 1956) was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he

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Lorenzo Pilat

Lorenzo Pilat (born 24 June 1938), also known as Pilade, is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer, mainly active between the second half of the 1960s and the 1970s. Life and career Born in

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Lorenzo Ratti

Lorenzo Ratti (c. 1589–1630) was an Italian baroque composer originating from Perugia. His parents were Girolamo and Isapaola Ugolini. His uncle and teacher was Vincenzo Ugolini. He was the

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Loreto Vittori

Loreto Vittori (5 September 1600 (baptized) – 23 April 1670) was an Italian castrato and composer. From 1622 until his death, he was a mezzo-soprano singer in the papal chapel in Rome. Life Vittori

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Lori Laitman

Lori Laitman (born 1955) is an American composer who has composed multiple operas, choral works, and hundreds of songs. Early life Lori Laitman was born in Long Beach, New York. Career Laitman has

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Lorin Roser

Lorin Roser (born 20th century) is a Chinese American New York–based multifaceted animator, painter, musician and multimedia artist. As an architect and artist his animation work uses "random

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Loris Tjeknavorian

Loris Haykasi Tjeknavorian (; ; born 13 October 1937) is an Iranian Armenian composer and conductor. He has appeared internationally as a conductor, serving as the principal conductor of the Armenian

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Lorne Balfe

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television, and video game scores. Early life and education Balfe was born in Inverness, Scotland. He went to Fettes College in

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Lorne Ryder

Lorne Ryder (born Lorne MacMillan September 1970 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In his thirty six years in the Canadian music scene, he has

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Lorraine Desmarais

Lorraine Desmarais C.M. (born August 15, 1956) is a French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Early life and education Born in Montreal, she earned a Bachelor of Music (1977) and Master of Music

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Lothar Hensel

Lothar Hensel (born 14 September 1961) is a German bandoneon player, composer and arrangeur. Life and career Born in Dormagen, studied school Music at the Berlin University of the Arts, majoring in

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Lothar Kempter

Lothar Kempter (5 February 1844 – 14 July 1918) was a German-Swiss composer and conductor. Biography Kempter was born in 1844 in Lauingen. His father was music teacher Friedrich Kempter. Following

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Lothar Windsperger

Lothar Windsperger (22 October 1885 – 30 May 1935) was a German composer as well as long-standing literary editor and publisher at Schott. Life and career Born in Ampfing, Windsperger, son of a

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Lotta Wennäkoski

Lotta Annukka Wennäkoski (born 8 February 1970) is a Finnish composer. Wennäkoski was born in Helsinki. She studied the violin at the Béla Bartók Secondary Grammar and Technical School of Music in

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Lotte Anker

Lotte Anker (born 1958) is a Danish jazz saxophonist, and composer. With pianist Marilyn Crispell, she serves as one of the co-leaders of the Copenhagen Art Ensemble. Musical career Anker was born in

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Lotte Backes

Lotte Backes (May 2, 1901 - May 12, 1990) was a German pianist, organist, and composer. Life Backes was born in Cologne into a musical family. Her mother, also a composer, was her first teacher. She

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Lotten Edholm

Lovisa Christina Charlotta "Lotten" Edholm or af Edholm, née von Heijne (18 April 1839 - 12 July 1930) was a Swedish composer and a pioneer within the Swedish Red Cross. She was born to the nobleman

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Lou Carter

Louis Carter (September 15, 1918 – September 25, 2005) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and songwriter. He had a long yet low-profile career. Biography Carter played in various big bands,

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Lou Harrison

Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a

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Lou Koster

Lou Koster (7 May 1889 – 17 November 1973) was a Luxembourgish composer and pianist. Specializing in violin and piano, she studied at the Luxembourg Conservatory until 1906, then taught there from

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Lou Pomanti

Lou Pomanti is a Canadian composer, producer, keyboardist, musical director, and award-winning arranger, known for his work in jazz, pop, television and film, and for serving as musical director for

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Louiguy

Louis Guglielmi (3 April 1916 – 4 April 1991), known by his pen name Louiguy (), was a French musician. He wrote the melody for Édith Piaf's lyrics of "La Vie en rose" and the Latin jazz composition

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Louis Adam

Louis Adam or Jean-Louis Adam (born Johann Ludwig Adam) (3 December 1758 – 8 April 1848) was a French composer, music teacher, and piano virtuoso. Life and career Born in Muttersholtz, Alsace, the

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Louis Andlauer

Louis Andlauer (7 September 1876 – 18 July 1915) ) Louis Andlauer won a First prize of organ in the classes of Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in 1901. Louis Andlauer wrote organ and

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Louis Andriessen

Louis Joseph Andriessen (; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent

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Louis Applebaum

Louis Applebaum (April 3, 1918 – April 19, 2000) was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor. Early life He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied at the Toronto Conservatory

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Louis Aubert

Louis François Marie Aubert (19 February 1877 – 9 January 1968) was a French composer. Biography Born in Paramé, Ille-et-Vilaine, Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's

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Louis Beydts

Louis Beydts (/bets/) was a French composer, music critic and theatre director, born 29 June 1895 in Bordeaux and died on 15 August 1953 at Caudéran in Gironde. Life and career His father was a

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Louis Bourgeois (composer)

Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (; c. 1510 – 1559) was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th

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Louis Brassin

Louis Brassin (24 June 184017 May 1884) was a Belgian pianist, composer and music educator. He is best known now for his piano transcription of the Magic Fire Music from Wagner's Die Walküre. Career

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Louis Cahuzac

Louis (Jean Baptiste) Cahuzac (12 July 1880 – 9 August 1960) was a French clarinetist and composer. Cahuzac was an outstanding performer and one of the few clarinetists who made a career as a soloist

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Louis Calabro

Louis Calabro (November 1, 1926 – October 21, 1991) was an Italian American orchestral composer. Biography Calabro studied piano and composition at Juilliard School of Music. Vincent Persichetti was

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Louis Clapisson

Louis Clapisson (15 September 1808 – 19 March 1866) was a French composer and violinist. He composed numerous art songs as well as 22 operas, largely in the opéra comique genre. In his later years he

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Louis Couperin

Louis Couperin (; – 29 August 1661) was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to Paris in 1650–1651 with the help of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières.

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Louis De Francesco

Louis De Francesco, born Luigi Ettore De Francesco, (December 26, 1886 - October 5, 1974) was an Italian-born American composer and conductor. Life and career The son of Vincent De Francesco, Louis

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Louis Deffès

Pierre Louis Deffès (25 July 1819 – 28 May 1900) was a 19th-century French composer. He excelled as a composer of both operas and large-scale sacred music. Life Deffès was born in Toulouse and

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Louis Désiré Besozzi

Louis-Désiré Besozzi (3 April 1814 – 11 November 1879) was a French pianist, organist and composer. Bezozzi, the fourth generation of this traditional family of wind instrument musicians, composed

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Louis Diémer

Louis Joseph Diémer (14 February 1843 – 21 December 1919) was a French pianist and composer. He was the founder of the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s, and also gave recitals on the

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Louis Drouet

Louis-François-Philippe Drouet (14 April 1792 – 30 September 1873) was a 19th-century French flutist and composer. Biography Born of a French father expatriated in the Netherlands and barber by

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Louis Dufort

Louis Dufort (born July 29, 1970) is a composer of electroacoustic music from Montreal, Canada. His work includes music for fixed media, mixed music with processing, and visual music. Over his

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Louis Durey

Louis Edmond Durey (; 27 May 18883 July 1979) was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers. Biography Durey was born into a bourgeois Parisian family, the son of a local

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Louis Émile Gratia

Louis Émile Georges Gratia (17 September 1878 – 31 October 1962) was a French musician, composer, musicologist, musical editor and arranger. Life Gratia was born in Lunéville, (Meurthe-et-Moselle).

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Louis Forbes

Louis Forbes (born Louis Forbstein on August 12, 1902, in St. Louis, Missouri-June 17, 1981) was an American composer, songwriter and conductor. Career Forbes was a music student under the tutelage

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Louis Fourestier

Louis (Félix André) Fourestier (31 May 1892 – 30 September 1976) was a French conductor, composer and pedagogue, and was one of the founders of the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. Early years,

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Louis François Dauprat

Louis François Dauprat (24 May 1781 – 16 July 1868) was a French composer, horn player, and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. He played and taught natural horn only, but was also very

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Louis Franz Aguirre

Louis Franz Aguirre (born in Camagüey, Cuba, 1968) is a Cuban composer and conductor that has achieved international recognition. Academic background Louis Aguirre studied musical composition with

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Louis Ganne

Louis-Gaston Ganne (5 April 1862 in Buxières-les-Mines (Allier) – 13/14 July 1923 in Paris) was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Biography Ganne was born in

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Louis Glass

Louis Christian August Glass (23 March 1864 – 22 January 1936) was a Danish composer. Glass, born in Copenhagen, was an almost exact contemporary of Carl Nielsen and, like Nielsen, was a student of

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Louis Gregh

Louis Charles Félix François Gregh (16 March 1843 – 21 January 1915) was a French composer, conductor and music publisher. Life Gregh was born in Philippeville, now Skikda, Algeria, on 16 March 1843.

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Louis Gruenberg

Louis Gruenberg ( ; June 9, 1964) was a Russian-born American pianist and prolific composer, especially of operas. An early champion of Schoenberg and other contemporary composers, he was also a

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Louis Karchin

Louis Karchin (born September 8, 1951) is an American composer, conductor and educator who has composed over 90 works including unaccompanied and chamber music, symphonic works and opera. Karchin was

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Louis Köhler

Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler (5 September 1820 – 16 February 1886) was a German composer, conductor and piano teacher. Biography Köhler was born in Braunschweig. He studied piano in Vienna under

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Louis Lacombe

Pierre Louis Trouillon-Lacombe (26 November 1818 – 30 September 1884) was a French pianist and composer. Biography Lacombe was born in Bourges (Cher), the brother of composer Felicita Casella. He

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Louis Lambillotte

Louis Lambillotte (born La Hamaide, (Hainaut, Belgium), 27 March 1797; died Paris, 27 February 1855) was a Belgian Jesuit, composer and palaeographer of Catholic music, associated with the

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Louis Lavater

Louis Isidore Lavater (2 March 1867 – 22 May 1953) was an Australian composer and author born in Victoria, of Swiss-Swedish extraction. Henry Lawson and Mary Gilmore. He was a leading proponent of

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Louis Levy

Louis Levy (20 November 1892 – 18 August 1957) was an English film music director and conductor, who worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films. He was born in London and died in

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Louis Lewandowski

Louis Lewandowski (April 3, 1821 – February 4, 1894) was a Polish-Jewish and German-Jewish composer of synagogal music. He contributed greatly to the liturgy of the synagogue service. His most famous

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Louis Liebe

Friedrich Eduard Ludwig (Louis) Liebe (26 November 1819 – 4 July 1900) was a German composer and musical teacher. By 1863, he had published more than 50 works as a composer, including pieces for

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Louis Lully

Louis Lully (4 August 1664 in Paris – 1 April 1734) was a French musician and the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Lully. Life and career Louis Lully was the second child (after Catherine-Madeleine Lully)

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Louis Marchand

Louis Marchand (2 February 1669 – 17 February 1732) was a French organist, harpsichordist and composer. Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as

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Louis Mennini

Louis Alfred Mennini (November 18, 1920, Erie, Pennsylvania – February 22, 2000) was an American composer, music educator, and university administrator. Life and career Born in Erie, Pennsylvania on

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was a Louisiana Creole and Jewish-American composer, pianist, and virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works. He spent most of his

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Louis N. Parker

Louis Napoleon Parker (21 October 1852 – 21 September 1944) was an English dramatist, composer and translator. Parker wrote many plays, developing a reputation for historical works. His 1911 play

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Louis Niedermeyer

Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (27 April 180214 March 1861) was a Swiss and naturalized French composer. He chiefly wrote church music and a few operas. He also taught music and took over the École

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Louis R. Dressler

Louis Raphael Dressler (December 8, 1861 — November 8, 1932) was an American organist and composer. Life and career The son of musician William Dressler and Mary Law Hyde, Louis Raphael Dressler was

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Louis Raffy

Antoine Louis Raffy (1868 in Laroque-Timbaut, Lot-et-Garonne – died in March 1931 in Nérac) was a French composer of church music and organist. Biography Raffy was organist at the which has an organ

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Louis Schindelmeisser

Louis (Ludwig) Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser (8 December 1811 - 30 March 1864) was a nineteenth-century German clarinetist, conductor and composer. He was born Königsberg, Prussia, and studied

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Louis Schlösser

Louis Schlösser (17 November 1800 – 17 November 1886), born in Darmstadt where he made his career, was a violinist, composer, and conductor. He met Ludwig van Beethoven in 1822, and his recollections

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Louis Spohr

Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during

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Louis Thiry

Louis Henry Nicolas Thiry (15 February 1935 – 27 June 2019) was a French concert organist, composer and pedagogue. He was professor of organ at the Regional Conservatoire in Rouen and played in

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Louis Urgel

Louis Urgel (23 September 1857 – 17 August 1942) was the male name under which Louise Legru, née L'Henoret, published her musical compositions. She was one of the few French female composers of light

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Louis Vierne

Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output

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Louis Vuillemin

Charles Louis Joseph Vuillemin (19 December 1879 – 2 April 1929) was a French composer and music critic who strongly identified with his Breton heritage in his music. Life Vuillemin was born in

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Louis W. Ballard

Louis W. Ballard (July 8, 1931 – February 9, 2007) was a Native American composer, educator, author, artist, and journalist. He is "known as the father of Native American composition." Early life

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Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (2 February 1840 – 4 July 1910) was a French Breton composer, pianist, and professor of music history/theory at the Conservatoire de Paris as well as a Prix de Rome

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Louis-Antoine Dornel

Louis-Antoine Dornel (30 March 1680 in Presles, Val-d'Oise near (Beaumont-sur-Oise) – 22 July 1757) was a French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist. Biography Dornel was probably taught

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Louis-Armand Chardin

Louis-Armand Chardin, called Chardiny (1755 – 1 October 1793) was an 18th-century French composer. Biography Born in Fécamp, Chardin made his debut at the Paris opera in 1780 as baritone and was

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Louis-Claude Daquin

Louis-Claude Daquin (; or D'Aquino, d'Aquin, d'Acquin; July 4, 1694 – June 15, 1772) was a French composer, writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist.

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Louis-Emmanuel Jadin

Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (21 September 1768 – 11 April 1853) was a French composer, pianist and harpsichordist. Jadin was born in Versailles. He learned piano from his brother Hyacinthe Jadin and later

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Louis-Gabriel Guillemain

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (5 November 1705 – 1 October 1770) was a French composer and violinist. Biography Guillemain is thought to have been born in Paris, was brought up by the Count de

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Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis

Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis (4 July 1769 – 20 December 1819) was a French violinist, conductor, choirmaster, teacher, composer, and theatre director. After commencing his studies of music in his

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Louis-Nicolas Clérambault

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (19 December 1676 – 26 October 1749) was a French baroque musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born, and died, in Paris. Biography Clérambault came from

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Louis-Noël Belaubre

Louis-Noël Belaubre (27 December 1932 – 17 July 2017) was a French classical pianist and composer. Biography Born in Muret, Belaubre studied the piano at the Conservatoire de Paris with Lazare-Lévy

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Louis-Toussaint Milandre

Louis-Toussaint Milandre (floruit ca. 1756 – ca. 1776) was a French composer, violinist, viol and viola d'amore player in the court chamber music of King Louis XV of France. Milandre's Méthode facile

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Louise Beach

Louise Beach (born September 29, 1955) is an American composer who has worked in contemporary music and musical theater. Originally working at the State University of New York at Purchase, she won

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Louise Béguin-Salomon

Louise Béguin-Salomon (9 April 1831 – 12 November 1916) was a French pianist, composer and teacher of the late Romantic period. A student of Louise Farrenc at the Conservatoire de Paris,

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Louise Bertin

Louise-Angélique Bertin (; 15 January 1805 – 26 April 1877) was a French composer and poet. Life and music Bertin was born in Les Roches, Essonne, France. Her father, Louis-François Bertin, and also

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Louise Brown Verrill

Louise Shurtleff Brown Verrill (23 March 187017 February 1948) was an American composer and pianist. Verrill was born in Portland, Maine to Lewis F. and Mary Alice Abbott Brown. She studied piano and

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Louise E. Stairs

Louise E. Simpson Stairs (March 24, 1892 - November 1975) was an American composer, organist, and pianist, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Sidney Forrest. She composed several cantatas,

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Louise Farrenc

Louise Farrenc (; 31 May 1804 – 15 September 1875) was a French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher of the Romantic period. Her compositions include three symphonies, a few choral works, numerous

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Louise Filliaux-Tiger

Louise Filliaux-Tiger (22 May 1848 – 28 November 1916) was a French pianist, composer and teacher of the late Romantic period. Born into an artistic family, Filliaux-Tiger attended the Conservatoire

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Louise Geneviève de La Hye

Louise Geneviève de La Hye née Rousseau (7 March 1807 - 18 November 1838) was a French pianist, organist and composer, who sometimes used the pseudonym M. Leon Saint-Amans. Life and career Louise

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Louise Héritte-Viardot

Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot (14 December 1841 – 17 January 1918) was a French singer (contralto), pianist, conductor and composer. She was born in Paris, the eldest child of Pauline

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Louise Japha

Louise Japha (also Louise Langhans-Japha; 2 February 1826 – 13 October 1910) was a German pianist and composer. Life and work Louise Japha grew up in Hamburg, where she learned to play the piano from

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Louise Reichardt

Louise Reichardt or Luise Reichardt (11 April 1779 – 17 November 1826) was a German composer and choral conductor. Her German songs, or Lieder, were written in an accessible style akin to folk music

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Louise Robyn

Margaret Louise Robyn (23 April 1878 - 10 June 1949) was an American composer, music educator, and pianist who taught for many years at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, serving as

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Louise Strantz

Louise Tippelskirch Strantz (2 March 1823 - 8 January 1909) was a German composer, poet and singer. Strantz was born in Dusseldorf to Lieutenant General Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch, commandant of

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Louise Talma

Louise Juliette Talma (October 31, 1906 – August 13, 1996) was an American composer, academic, and pianist. After studies in New York and in France, piano with Isidor Philipp and composition with

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Louise Tunison

Clara Louise Tunison (September 22, 1872 – May 21, 1899) was an American composer and organist, who is best known for composing songs which she published under the name Louise Tunison. Tunison was

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Louise V. Gustin

Louise V. Moore Gustin Taylor (December 23, 1868 – August 29, 1949) was an American composer of popular music. Early life Louise Vivian Moore was born in Jackson, Michigan, the daughter of Francis B.

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Loulou Gasté

Louis "Loulou" Gasté (18 March 1908 – 8 January 1995) was a French composer of songs. He composed more than 1000 songs, including "Battling Joe" and "For You". The song "For You" was popularised

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Lowell Liebermann

Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961, in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Early life and education Liebermann began piano lessons at the age of eight and began

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Lowell Mason

Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792 – August 11, 1872) was an American music director and banker who was a leading figure in 19th-century American church music. Lowell composed over 1,600 hymn tunes, many

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Loyalty (Shostakovich)

Loyalty (; also translated as Faith, Truth, Correctness, Faithfulness, or Fidelity), Op. 136 is a cycle of eight ballads for men's chorus a capella composed by Dmitri Shostakovich based upon texts by

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Loyset Compère

Loyset Compère (c. 1445 – 16 August 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and

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