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Lochamer-Liederbuch

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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 century and is regarded as one of the most important surviving collections of music from fifteenth-century Germany. Other names are Locheimer and Lochheimer Liederbuch. Description The song manuscript comprises 45 songs in one-part to three-part settings on 93 pages. 44 songs are in German, one is Dutch. Further reading * * * * * * * External links * * Berlin, Staatsbibl., Mus. ms. 40613 in “Handschriftencensus” * Lochamer-Liederbuch in Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, bibliography * Wolfgang Lempfrid: Musik für Haus und Kammer – Die Liederbücher des Wölflin von Lochamen und des Hartmann Schedel Süddeutscher Rundfunk

Lodewijk Mortelmans

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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”), Mortelmans composed in a number of forms, including piano music and orchestral works, but he was most celebrated in his day for his art songs. Beginning in 1899, he often set the poetry of the priest Guido Gezelle. His opera De Kinderen der Zee (The Children of the Sea) was first produced in 1920 at the Vlaamse Opera. Biography Family Mortelmans was from a family of six surviving children born to Isabella and Karel Mortelmans. His father was a printer, and his elder brother Frans a painter. He was married twice. With Gabriella Mortelmans (d. 3 May 1917) he had seven children, two of which (Frits, d. 22 July 1917 and Guido, d. 10 January 1917) died with her in 1917. Mortelmans composed In Memoriam in her honour. His second wife was the pianist and teacher Gabrielle Radoux. Career Mortelmans studied music at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, where his teachers included Peter Benoit, Joseph Tilborghs, and Jan Blockx, as well as Arthur De Greef (piano) and Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath

Lodovico Agostini

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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 skilled representatives of the progressive secular style which developed there at the end of the 16th century. Life He was born in Ferrara, and spent most of his life there. He was the illegitimate son of Agostino Agostini, a singer and priest of Ferrara mostly active in the 1540s. Lodovico may have studied for a time in Rome, based on the evidence of a madrigal published there, and he became a priest. By 1572, he was singing in the chapel of Ferrara Cathedral, and by 1578 he was on the payroll of Duke Alfonso II d’Este, one of the most famous patrons of music of the late 16th century. Clearly Lodovico was a favorite of the Duke, and he remained in his service for the rest of his life. In the 1580s, he was a composition teacher to the Duke of Mantua, Guglielmo Gonzaga; Agostini dedicated a book of madrigals to him. Gonzaga went on to become a composer of madrigals himself, and in addition was a close associate of Palestrina. Agostini was on good terms with many members of the aristocracy

Lodovico Giustini

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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 for the piano. Life Giustini was born in Pistoia, of a family of musicians which can be traced back to the early 17th century; coincidentally he was born in the same year as Bach, Scarlatti, and Handel. Giustini’s father was organist at the Congregazione dello Spirito Santo, a Jesuit-affiliated group, and an uncle, Domenico Giustini, was also a composer of sacred music. In 1725, on his father’s death, Giustini became organist at the Congregazione dello Spirito Santo, and acquired a reputation there as a composer of sacred music: mostly cantatas and oratorios. In 1728 he collaborated with Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari on a set of Lamentations which were performed that year. In 1734 he was hired as organist at S Maria dell’Umiltà, the Cathedral of Pistoia, a position he held for the rest of his life. In addition to playing the organ at both religious institutions, he performed on the harpsichord at numerous locations, often in his own oratorios. Works and influence Giustini’s main fame rests o

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana

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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 Observants. He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras in music. Life He was born in Viadana, a town in the province of Mantua, Italy. According to a document dating from about 150 years after his death, he was a member of the Grossi family but took the name of his birth city, Viadana, when he entered the order of the Minor Observants prior to 1588. Though there is no contemporary evidence, it has been claimed that he studied with Costanzo Porta, becoming choirmaster at the cathedral in Mantua by 1594. In 1597 he went to Rome, and in 1602 he became choirmaster at the cathedral of San Luca in Mantua. He held a succession of posts at various cathedrals in Italy, including Concordia (near Venice), and Fano, on the east coast of Italy, where he was maestro di cappella from 1610 to 1612. For three years, from 1614 to 1617, he held a po

Lodovico Zacconi

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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 writer on music in northern Italy and Austria; for a time he was in the employ of Archduke Karl of Graz, and worked in Graz and Vienna. Biography Born in Pesaro, in the Marche, Zacconi became an Augustinian friar at Venice, where he was ordained priest. In 1577 he was in Venice studying at the church of San Stefano, and at some point in the following six years he was accepted by Andrea Gabrieli as a student of counterpoint. In 1584 he auditioned at San Marco as a singer, and was accepted; however he seems to have declined the position. Also at this time he met Zarlino, the prominent Venetian School theorist; he was to mention the meeting in the second part of his Prattica di musica (1622). On 20 July 1585, he joined the musical establishment of Archduke Karl of Graz, a position he retained until Karl’s death in 1590. Subsequently, he joined the chapel of Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria, which was directed by Orlande de Lassus. In 1596 he left the employ of Wilhelm, returning to Italy; in the foll

Loek Dikker

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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 classical pianist, Dikker became a jazz musician after seeing a 1959 televised performance by Horace Silver and Sonny Rollins. He gave his first jazz performance in 1960, in a jazz and poetry concert with Godfried Bomans. He later performed in the bands of Hans Dulfer and Theo Loevendie, and with American instrumentalists Oliver Nelson, Cannonball Adderley, and Don Byas. In the mid-1970s, he founded his Waterland Ensemble. He wrote his first film score in 1981, and has scored over sixty films. Dikker is the founder and chairman of Muziekinstituut MultiMedia, an organization founded in 2006 to promote and encourage collaboration among multimedia composers. He is also a board member of FFACE, the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe. Dikker’s sister, , is a screenwriter and director. Filmography (as composer) * (1981) *The Fourth Man (1983) *Peaceful Days (1984) *De droomproducenten (1984) – documentary *Het bittere kruid (1985) *Passage: A Richard Erdman Sculpture (1985

Logan Nelson

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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 International Composer by the World Soundtrack Academy. He composes music for The Morning Show with Carter Burwell. Life and education Nelson was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. In his early years, he “fell in love with” the viola and studied piano and composition with local professors. where he majored in Music Composition and minored in Cinematic Arts. At USC, he studied music composition with Ted Hearne and film scoring with Garry Schyman; Career Logan Nelson has composed the music for Seasons 2 and 3 of the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ drama, The Morning Show, in collaboration with Carter Burwell. He also scored the romantic comedy, Straight Up. The film was produced by Valparaiso Pictures and stars actress Katie Findlay. As a collaborator with Kris Bowers, Logan wrote music for Netflix’s critically acclaimed Dear White People, Their song, Nebula, was described by NEST HQ (Owsla) as “mature, highly-refined synth-pop brilliantly contrasting bright, summery sounds with ghostly, melancholy voca

Lois Albright

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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 York City in her later years. Early life and education Albright was born in Elwood, Indiana, the daughter of Frank A. Albright and Catherine (Kate) Benefiel Albright. Her father was a minister. Her sisters Pearl and Maude were also musical. She began performing music as a teenager. She studied with Sidney Silber, P. Marinus Paulsen, and Louis Luntz. Career Albright played both piano and violin in recitals and concerts. After a piano recital in 1927, L. M. Spaulding in The Music News reported that “Miss Albright played with such beauty of expression and masterly technique that she won the keenest attention of her audience.” While she was in Chicago, she was active in the Chicago Radio Ensemble, the Chicago Lyric Theater, the Fine Arts Vocal Ensemble, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She was also head of the music department at Harding College for two years. Albright moved to Arizona with her ailing mother in 1948. She was a founder and general director of the Phoenix Civic Light Opera

Lois Rhea

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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, Kansas, to Lela Baker and Melville C. Burford. They had one daughter. Although information on a later marriage is not available, after Raymond’s death in 1970, she changed her name to Lois Rhea Land. Rhea served as an organist for Munger Place and Northaven United Methodist churches in Texas, and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Rockwall, Texas, among others. From 1945 to 1964, she worked as a music teacher in Corpus Christi, Texas, public schools. She was an accompanist for the Texas All-State Choir in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1964, she moved to Southern Methodist University, where she chaired the graduate music education division until 1980. She then became an adjunct professor of music education at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas until 1988. Edwin H. Morris and Company, Elkan-Vogel, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Lawson-Gould Music, Mark Foster Music, Plymouth Music Company Inc., Prentice-Hall, and Southern Music. *A Guide to Student Teaching in Music (with Joan Boney) *The

Lois V. Vierk

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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 attended Cal Arts, studying composition with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick, receiving her M.F.A. in 1978. She has conducted extensive study of gagaku music, studying for ten years with Suenobu Togi in Los Angeles, and for two years in Tokyo with Sukeyasu Shiba (the lead ryūteki player in Japan’s Imperial Court Orchestra). She has written many chamber works for different ensembles which are multiples of the same instrument. Her work uses glissando prominently and builds exponentially in level of activity. More recently she has written for mixed instrument ensembles, such as in her piece Timberline commissioned by the Relâche Ensemble, and Red Shift which appeared on the CD Bang on a Can Live Vol. 2. She has also composed for gagaku ensemble. Vierk received a 1993 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Compositions *Kana (1976) for 3 Tenor Voices and 3 Bass Voices *Small Shadow in the Desert (1978) for 3 Clarinets *五 Guitars (Go Guitars) (1981) for 5 E

Loïsa Puget

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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 and saw that her daughter received a musical education including study at the same school as George Sand. Her composition teacher was Adolphe Adam. After completing her studies, Puget composed and performed her own music in salons and married her lyricist Gustave Lemoine (1802–1885) in 1845. She was most productive between 1830 and 1845 – apart from some operas she composed the music for over 300 songs. Many of her songs also appeared in editions with guitar accompaniment, some of which were made by prominent guitarists such as Matteo Carcassi. In 1841, Lemoine and Adolphe d’Ennery wrote a melodrama based on Puget’s most successful song À la grâce de Dieu, which provided the idea for Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix. Puget died in Pau, aged 79. Works Stage *Le Mauvais œil, opera (1836) *La Veilleuse, ou les Nuits de Milady (1869) Songs (to words by Gustave Lemoine) *À la grâce de Dieu (ca. 1840) *Adieu, Cousine *Appelle-moi ta mère (1844) *Ave Maria, prière *Belle pour lui! *Demain, je sera

Lojze Bratuž

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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 struggle of the Slovene population in the Slovene Littoral region during Italian rule. Biography Bratuž was born in a Slovene-speaking family in the town of Gorizia, then the center of the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca. He was educated in the town’s Slovene schools and chose a career in music. After the Slovene Littoral and the adjacent regions of Inner Carniola were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy under the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920, Bratuž remained loyal to his Slovene origins and resisted the forced Italianization of the region, which was populated by a Slovene majority. Initially, he taught singing and was a choirmaster in the village of Šmartno in the Gorizia Hills north of Gorizia, and later in a small seminary in Gorizia. In 1929, he was imprisoned for a short time by the Fascist authorities due to his Slovene patriotism. In 1930, he was appointed coordinator of church choirs in the Gorizia region by the archbishop of Gorizia, Frančišek Borgia Sedej. He led the only

Lojze Lebič

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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 part of Yugoslavia). He attended the University of Ljubljana for a bachelor’s degree in archaeology and the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he studied with composition with Marjan Kozina and conducting with Danilo Švara. He was the youngest member of the Pro musica viva group, a group of composers based in Ljubljana that was advocated for Slovenian modernism. Music Lebič’s early style was fairly traditional, but his work from after 1965 demonstrates the influence of the European avant-garde. The opening of Slovenia to foreign travel in the 1950s and 60s allowed for greater musical and cultural exchange with the rest of Yugoslavia and Europe, encouraging the development of a Slovenian avant garde. Lebič’s 1965 works Meditacije za dva for viola and cello and the cantata Požgana trava are examples of his use of new melodic and vocal techniques. Later, he developed a style that balanced respect for traditional culture with cosmopolitan modernism. References Further reading *Barbo, Matj

Lola Carrier Worrell

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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 music with Carlos Sobimo, Francis Hendricks and Horace E Tureman. Lola married Edward S. Worrell Jr. on January 12, 1891, and they had three daughters. The family maintained homes in New York and Colorado, where Lola founded the Denver American Music Society and served as its first president. She also organized and served as the pianist for the Chamber Music Quintet of Denver. Along with other musicians such as Caroline Holme Walker, Lola maintained a studio at Brinton Terrace in Denver, where she coached pianists, singers, and young composers. She gave recitals with contralto Louis Merten, whom she accompanied on piano. In addition to her work as a musician, Lola filed patents for dolls she developed in 1922, 1924, and 1925. The 1925 patent application described the doll as a “flapper doll.” Her compositions included: Instrumental *Melodie (violin and piano) *Sonata Fantasy (violin and piano) Musical Theatre *Babylonia (libretto by Lola Carrier Worrell and Hugh Abercrombie Anderson) S

Lola Folman

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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 the Moshe Shneur Choir in Warsaw and later a composer and performer in kleynkunst and revi-teater. Folman married lyricist Yitskhok Perlov (who wrote the words to her famous Dos Baytshl Kreln). “Then Lola Folman, a woman of about thirty, slightly plump, dressed in short trousers fashioned, apparently, from an old floral dress and an open, sleeveless shirt - the finest of feminine fashion on the ship - climbed to the top of the companionway ladder. It was hard to guess, from her appearance, why she had gone up there, but when she opened her mouth and began to sing in a lovely clear strong voice, folk-songs from a world no longer extant, a shudder ran through the audience. … Lola Folman sang a new song, Exodus, which excited all of us and was cheered to the echo. The words were written by her husband Yitzhak Perlov.” Folman gave performances in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1948. She emigrated to New York and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Queens, NY in 1979. See al

Lola Rae

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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 release of her debut single, “Watch My Ting Go”, which received critical acclaim and thus earned her a nomination for the Most Promising Female Act to Watch at the 2013 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Growing up and education Lola Rae was born to a British father and a Ghanaian mother in Obalende, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria. She attained her primary and secondary school education at St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi, and Lekki British International High School, Lagos, respectively. She, however left Nigeria for England at the age of 15 to complete her university education at Central Saint Martins, where she studied fashion textiles. Career Lola Rae’s entertainment career started as a dancer when she was joined the dancing group “Mystikal” in 2010. Mystikal Dancing Group auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent, where Rae sang in the competition, and judge Simon Cowell singled Mystikal Dancing group out at the semi-final. At the end of the competition, the group (Mystikal) was signed to Syco for a year. Ra

Lolita de la Colina

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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, Lupita D’Alessio, Sophy, José José, José Luis Rodríguez “El Puma”, Daniela Romo, Arianna, Stephanie Salas, Raphael, Moncho, Manolo Muñoz, Vikki Carr, Trigo Limpio, Ana Gabriel, Raquel Olmedo, María Dolores Pradera, Olga Guillott, Gloria Lasso, Bebo y Cigala, Emmanuel, Estela Núñez, María Jiménez, Pedro Fernández, David Lee Garza, Verónica Castro, Manuel Mijares, Lucero, Yuri, Kika Edgar, Roberto Blades, Pepe Aguilar, Chavela Vargas, La Lupe, Marco Antonio Muñiz, Ernesto D’alessio and many other singers in different music styles. In 1974, she was discovered while in Puerto Rico by Tico/Alegre’s Joe Cain and signed to the label. In 1978, she won the Mexican national selection for the OTI Festival as a composer with the song “”, performed by Lupita D’Alessio, and which represented Mexico in the OTI Festival 1978 placing third. She has also received numerous awards throughout her successful career. It also highlights that she has received on television and the Heraldos of Mexico, as well as

Lon Kirkop

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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 his career, including two national book prizes: one in the Drama category for Fil-Ħajja li Jmiss u Drammi Oħra tat-Triq, and the Prize for Best Emerging Author. In 2020, he won The Literary Contest Of Novels For Youth 2020, organised by the National Book Council and Aġenzija Żgħażagħ, for his debut novel Mitt Elf Isem Ieħor: HappyVeganGirlJules. Additionally, he also won the prestigious Maltese song contest L-Għanja tal-Poplu as a composer and lyricist with the song Fil-Kexxun. Biography Kirkop was born on 5 August 1991, in Malta. His love affair with art, literature and theatre dates to his childhood. Today he managed to find a way to incorporate all his passions into his continuously developing multidisciplinary work. Kirkop studied at MCAST’s Creative Arts Institute and graduated with a B.A.(Hons) in fine arts, in 2017. In 2022, he graduated with an M.A. in printmaking at Cambridge School of Arts, UK. In 2018, he had his first solo visual art show at La Bottega Art Bistro in Valletta

London (music producer)

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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 known for co-producing the 2022 global hit single, “Calm Down” for Rema before Selena Gomez hopped on the remix. It reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100, peaked atop the IMI International (becoming the second song by a Nigerian artist to do so) and remains the most internationally successful Afrobeats song. Signing with Blowtime Entertainment in 2019, he’s produced for other notable artists including Crayon, Ayra Starr, Rema, Wizkid, Selena Gomez, 6lack, Yseult, and Ladipoe. His other successful productions include Rema’s: “Calm Down” and “Ozeba”, Ayra Starr’s “Fashion Killa” and “Bloody Samaritan”, Tiwa Savage’s “Koroba”, and Johnny Drille’s “Mystery Girl”. In 2022, he signed a publishing deal in a joint venture with Sony Music Publishing France and Bluesky Music Publishing. Early life Michael Ovie Hunter was born in Kaduna, to a Nigerian Mom, from Isoko and a British Dad. Michael grew up in the sub-division of the Northern Nigeria state, Kaduna, where he rounded up his high sch

Lora Aborn

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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 Perfield School of Music. She continued studying piano and voice in California and played in a jazz band. She attended Oberlin Conservatory where she studied composition under Dr. George W. Andrews. Aborn continued her studies at the American Conservatory in Chicago under John Palmer and was awarded a gold medal for composition at graduation. She composed a number of commissioned works, and her music has been played and recorded in the United States, China and Europe. She was honored in a list of top American women composers. For many years, Aborn was the organist, director of music and composer-in-residence at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple. She married Harry Busck, an antiquarian book seller who died in 1999, and had two daughters. Aborn died August 25, 2005, in Chicago. A species of moth was named Lora Aborn’s moth in her honor. Works Aborn composed five full length ballets, two operas, works for chamber choir, vocal solos and choral works. Ballet:

Lord Berners

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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 Berners. Biography Early life and education Berners was born in Apley Hall, Stockton, Shropshire, in 1883, as Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt, son of The Honorable Hugh Tyrwhitt (1856–1907) and his wife Julia Mary (1861–1931), daughter of William Orme Foster, Apley’s owner. His father, a Royal Navy officer, and aide- dewas rarely home. house near Wrexham. Berners was educated by the local curate. in spite of her own artistic inclinations . Berners later wrote, “My father was worldly, cynical, intolerant of any kind of inferiority, reserved and self-possessed. My mother was unworldly, naïve, impulsive and undecided, and in my father’s presence she was always at her worst”. Berners father became ill in 1906 , and died in 1907 Berners never got along with his step-father. Berners was first educated at home by governesses and then enrolled at the boarding school Cheam School His inheritance included Faringdon House, in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, which he initially gave to his mother and her second husband;

Lord Vinheteiro

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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 for playing piano covers on his YouTube channel, where he has over 7 million subscribers and over 1 billion views. Vinheteiro was a part of the Pânico program produced by Brazilian radio station Jovem Pan FM. Vinheteiro has been known to be critical of brazilian music, especially funk carioca, and for his alignment with right-wing politics. Career In 1988, at the age of 8, Vinheteiro started learning music. He took private lessons in piano and violin. Vinheteiro enrolled in the Arts Institute (IA) of State University of São Paulo. He did not finish the course. and The Noite com Danilo Gentili Vinheteiro produces content weekly for his YouTube channel, which has over 7 million subscribers. References External links * *

Loré Lixenberg

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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, Robert Saxton and John Woolrich and attended masterclasses with Peter Maxwell Davies. She studied voice with Nicole Tibbels, David Mason, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Galina Vishnevskaya and Martin Isepp. Her experiments in voice extend to physical artworks, direction, and voice/theatre compositions that encompass film/physical theatre/new technologies and the theatre of objects. Lixenberg co-directs the experimental artspace La Plaque Tournante with composer Frédéric Acquaviva in Berlin. As a classically trained mezzo-soprano she has worked and performed the music of Georges Aperghis, Helmut Oehring, Frédéric Acquaviva, György Ligeti, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Harrison Birtwistle, Beat Furrer, Maurice Lemaître, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jocelyn Pook, Peter Maxwell Davies, György Kurtág, Denis Dufour, Bernard Heidsieck and Trevor Wishart as well as interpreted the works of Luciano Berio, Isidore Isou, Nam June Paik, Gil J. Wolman, Luigi Nono, Salvatore Scia

Loreena McKennitt

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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 influences. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear soprano vocals. She has sold more than 16 million records worldwide. Early life and education McKennitt was born in Morden, Manitoba, of Irish and Scottish descent to parents Jack McKennitt (died 1992) and Irene née Dickey (1931–2011). In Morden, she developed her love for music, influenced, in part, by the musical traditions of the local Mennonite community. McKennitt enrolled at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg to become a veterinarian. While in Winnipeg she discovered folk music, including fellow Canadians Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Gordon Lightfoot. After performing at the inaugural Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1974, McKennitt developed an interest in Celtic music and visited Ireland to hear it for herself. She learned to play the Celtic harp and began busking at various places, including St. Lawrence Market in Toronto to earn money to record her first album. In 1981, she moved to Stratford, Ontario to join the Stratford Festival

Loren Gold

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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 Loggins, Roger Daltrey, The Who, Chicago, and Rush. As a music director, Gold has led world tours for artists such as Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Hilary Duff, and American Idol winner Taylor Hicks (for whom he co-wrote the song “The Runaround”). In 2010, he worked on the Who’s halftime show at Super Bowl XLIV. Career history Music director Gold toured in fall 2003 as the keyboard player for Hilary Duff, and continued as her musical director until 2007. In winter 2007, Gold co-wrote with the Canadian songwriter James Renald the first single for the American Idol winner Taylor Hicks, entitled “The Runaround”. Television and national performances of “The Runaround” took place starting in December 2006. Gold became the musical director and keyboard player for Taylor, touring extensively in 2007. Daltrey’s band, No Plan B, also opened for Eric Clapton on several dates during 2010. At the show of October 12, 2009, in Seattle, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder joined the band on stage for performances of

Lorenc Antoni

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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 Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). Three years later, the region with which we would be associated for the rest of his life came to be first part of the Kingdom of Serbia and later Yugoslavia. He was raised as a Catholic in the Albanian Catholic community of Skopje, and is the cousin of Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa). Since a child, he was active in various musical ensembles of the Albanians. He studied music privately in Skopje and Belgrade. After completing his education at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, he relocated to Ferizaj. Career In 1941 Antoni began teaching music in Ferizaj, Prizren, and Pristina. In 1948 Antoni established in Prizren one of the Josip Slavenski music schools of former Yugoslavia for beginners and intermediate music performers. He led and conducted the choir of the school. He also conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the city of Prizren. In the study of folklore, Antoni wrote a seven-volume work on Albanian folk musi

Lorenz Christoph Mizler

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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 composer, and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland. Family of origin Lorenz Christoph Mizler was born in Heidenheim, Middle Franconia to Johann Georg Mizler, a court clerk to the Margrave of Ansbach at Heidenheim, and Barbara Stumpf, of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Education His first teacher was N. Müller, a minister from Obersulzbach, Lehrberg, from whom Mizler learned the flute and violin. From 1724 to 1730, Mizler studied at the Ansbach Gymnasium with Rector Oeder and Johann Matthias Gesner, who became director of the St. Thomas School, Leipzig, from 1731 to 1734. Mizler enrolled at Leipzig University on 30 April 1731, where he studied theology. His teachers there included Gesner, Johann Christoph Gottsched, and Christian Wolff. He earned a BS in December 1733 and a MS in March 1734. During this time, he also pursued the study of composition and had some association with Johann Sebastian Bach, whom, he wrote, he had the honor to call his “good friend and patron.” Mizler moved to Wi

Lorenzo da Firenze

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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 with Francesco Landini in Florence, and was one of the composers of the period known as the Italian ars nova. Life and career Little is known about his life, but some details can be inferred from the music. He was active as a teacher in Florence, probably as a teacher of Landini himself. He became a canon at the church of San Lorenzo in 1348, a post which he retained for the rest of his life. Lorenzo is represented in the Squarcialupi Codex, the illuminated manuscript which is the most comprehensive source of Italian music of the 14th century, with 16 pieces of music, 10 madrigals, 6 ballate and one caccia. In addition to his contribution to that collection, he wrote two mass movements which have survived (one of which is of doubtful attribution) and a pedagogical piece (the Antefana), the text of which shows that he was a teacher. Music His style is progressive, sometimes experimental, but conservative in other ways. While he used imitation, a relatively new musical technique, and hete

Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari

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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 Down, Elisa, Ben Harper, Hamid Drake, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset, Jamie Saft, Pat Mastelotto from King Crimson, Eraldo Bernocchi, Colin Edwin from Porcupine Tree, Markus Stockhausen, Kenneth Kapstad from Motorpsycho, Tony Wakeford, Trevor Dunn, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Raiz, Ambrogio Sparagna, Faraualla, Enrico Gabrielli, Sigillum S, Ephel Duath, Gianluca Petrella, Fabrizio Puglisi, Ståle Storlokken and Carmelo Pipitone. History Singer-composer Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari has made his mark as a singer and producer through a series of releases, including Obake’s Draugr, Seven Mutations and their 2011 self-titled debut, Owls’ The Night Stays, O.R.k.’s Inflamed Rides, Soul of an Octopus and Ramagehead, Somma’s 23 Wheels of Dharma and Berserk’s 2013 self-titled debut. Fornasari’s vocals are astonishing powerful, morphing between an urbane Sylvian-like drawl to a cracked-gravel growl oozing with a creeping malevolence. That theatrically evokes the dystopian pronouncements interleaving B

Lorenzo Ferrero

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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 operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. His musical idiom is characterized by eclecticism, stylistic versatility, and a neo-tonal language. Biography Born in Turin, he studied composition from 1969 to 1973 with Massimo Bruni and Enore Zaffiri at Turin Music Conservatory, and philosophy with Gianni Vattimo and Massimo Mila at the University of Turin, earning a degree in aesthetics with a thesis on John Cage in 1974. His early interest in the psychology of perception and psychoacoustics led him to IMEB, the International Electroacoustic Music Institute of Bourges, where he did research on electronic music between 1972 and 1973, IRCAM in Paris, and to the Musik/Dia/Licht/Film Galerie in Munich in 1974. Lorenzo Ferrero has received commissions from numerous festivals and institutions, his works being constantly performed throughout Europe and North America, particularly in Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Finland, Russi

Lorenzo Palomo

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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 Berlin from 1981 to 2004. Several of his compositions, often based on Andalusian traditions, were performed internationally and were recorded. Biography Soon after his birth in Ciudad Real in 1938, where his father was stationed during the Spanish Civil War, his mother returned with him to Pozoblanco where the family lived. Shortly afterwards, they moved to Córdoba where the composer spent his youth. Palomo studied piano and harmony at the Córdoba Conservatory and at the age of twenty he entered the Barcelona Conservatory, where he studied composition with Joaquín Zamacois and piano with Sofía Puche de Mendlewicz. He studied conducting further with Boris Goldovsky in New York City, with a scholarship from the Fundación Juan March. His ballet La leyenda del Monte Bangkay was premiered in Manila, Philippines, in 1980. His song cycle Canciones españolas (Spanish Songs) was first performed by Montserrat Caballé at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1987. His Nocturnos de Andalucía (Andalusia

Lorenzo Perosi

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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 was still only in his twenties, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios. Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland wrote, “It’s not easy to give you an exact idea of how popular Lorenzo Perosi is in his native country.” Perosi’s fame was not restricted to Europe. A 19 March 1899 New York Times article entitled “The Genius of Don Perosi” began, “The great and ever-increasing success which has greeted the four new oratorios of Don Lorenzo Perosi has placed this young priest-composer on a pedestal of fame which can only be compared with that which has been accorded of late years to the idolized Pietro Mascagni by his fellow-countrymen.” Gianandrea Gavazzeni made the same comparison: “The sudden clamors of applause, at the end of the 19th century, were just like those a decade earlier for Mascagni.” Perosi worked for five Popes, including Pope Pius X who greatly fostered his rise. Biography Early years and education Lorenzo Perosi was born a

Lorenzo Pilat

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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 Trieste, Pilat started his career performing in clubs of his hometown. In 1963 he entered the Clan Celentano label, making his record debut with “Ciao ragazzi ciao”. In the following years he entered the Festivalbar and took part in the Sanremo Music Festival three times, in 1966 as part of the supergroup “Trio del Clan” together with Gino Santercole and with “Il ragazzo della via Gluck”, in 1968 with “Il re d’Inghilterra” and in 1975 with “Madonna d’amore”. His main hits were “Shenandoah” (a cover of traditional song “The Legend of Shenandoah”) and “La legge del menga”. In the 1970s Pilat focused his activities on composing song for other artists, often collaborating with Daniele Pace and Mario Panzeri; among the best known songs he penned, were Tom Jones’ “Love Me Tonight”, Adriano Celentano’s “L’attore”, Gigliola Cinquetti’s “Sì” and “Alle porte del sole”, Gianni Nazzaro’s “Quanto è bella lei” and Orietta Berti’s “Non illuderti mai” and “Fin che la barca va”. As a singer, starting from the

Lorenzo Ratti

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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 predecessor of Carissimi at the Collegium Germanicum and furthermore he was a teacher of Orazio Benevoli. Biography Ratti was born in Perugia in 1589 or 1590; however, the dates and places of his birth and death are not quite clear. Some sources, like François-Joseph Fétis, mention a village called Loreto in the surrounding of Naples as his place of birth, but Robert Eitner does not agree and claims Perugia to be Ratti’s place of birth. Also, an originally signed sheet of music from 1632 casts doubt on his date of death. He was first mentioned in 1598–1599 as a boy soprano of the Cappella Giulia of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and later was its third organist. For a short time he was the first organist of the Perugia Cathedral (1613–1616). Returning to Rome, he became the music director of several ensembles. and as music director at the Collegium Germanicum at S. Loreto. Later, he succeeded Antonio Cifra as the director of music at Santa Casa in Loreto. He is claimed to have composed 157 motets.

Loreto Vittori

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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 was born in Spoleto and educated in Rome. He then worked as a singer in Loreto and Spoleto. In 1618 Vittori was placed under the protection of the Medici family. He moved to Rome in 1621, first in the service of Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV, and in 1632 in the service of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, nephew of the future Urban VIII. He died in Rome, aged 69. Vittori sang at the premiere of Lo Sposalizio di Medoro et Angelica by Jacopo Peri and Marco da Gagliano in 1619, possibly as Angelica. He was Saint Ursula in La Regina Sant’Orsola by Marco da Gagliano in 1624. Back in Rome, the man was Falsirena in La Catena d’Adone by Domenico Mazzocchi in 1626. In 1628, Vittori took an unknown role in La Flora, ovvero Il natal de’ fiori (Flora, or The Birth of Flowers), an opera composed by Marco da Gagliano and Jacopo Peri to a libretto by Andrea Salvadori. He also performed at the wedding festivities of Margherita de’ Medici to Odoardo Farnese in Parma, probably as Galatea

Lori Laitman

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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 composed multiple operas, choral works, and hundreds of songs. Set to poetry by Joyce Sutphen, Living in the Body explores themes such as grief, loss, and the past, and their emotional toll on the body of someone looking towards the second half of their life. The cycle was composed between September 14 and December 3, 2001, and was premiered on March 7, 2002, at the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference at the University of North Texas. and the May 2016 issue of Opera News had a feature about Laitman and The Scarlet Letter. Naxos released the CD in Aug. 2017. Performances took place at The University of Oklahoma in February 2022 and at Wichita State University in April 2022. Vedem Laitman and Mason also collaborated on Vedem, a Holocaust oratorio commissioned by Music of Remembrance. Indianapolis Opera’s double bill of Vedem and Brundibar was produced March 18–20, 2022 (after several Coronavirus delays). It was the first time an opera by a woman was presented by the compan

Lorin Roser

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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 manipulations to explore a world of hitherto unseen shapes and structural possibilities”. Roser is partners with Nina Kuo. Early life and education Lorin Roser was born on the East Coast of the United States. He studied architecture with Kenneth Frampton, Emilio Ambasz, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Craig Hodgetts at Princeton University and earned an Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. Career Roser moved to New York City in the 1980s where he met artist Nina Kuo and began many artistic collaborations with her. Participating in the New York City downtown art scene, he has been a sought-after musician and performer since the 1980s, performing at CBGB’s, Franklin Furnace, the Emily Harvey Foundation, the WhiteBox art center with Elliott Sharp, events for curator/performance artist Arleen Schloss and composed music for Verneta Nemec’s performance art works. He has also written music for Larry Litt and Hector Canonge. He participated in the “Digital Art Symposium” at Lightb

Loris Tjeknavorian

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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 Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989 to 1998 and later from 1999 to 2000. As a composer Tjeknavorian has written 6 operas, 5 symphonies, choral works, chamber music, ballet music, piano and vocal works, concerti for piano, violin, guitar, cello and pipa, as well as music for documentary and feature films. Among his best known works are the opera Rostam and Sohrab, based on the story of Rostam and Sohrab from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, and the ballet Simorgh. After study at the Vienna Music Academy, with Carl Orff at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the University of Michigan, he taught at the Tehran Conservatory. While based in the United Kingdom 1975 to 1985, he was a frequent conductor with various London orchestras and appeared internationally with orchestras in Iran, Israel, Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States. His early compositions evoke the work of Aram Khachaturian, while his oeuvre as a whole is heavily influenced by Armenian folk and sacred music. Tjeknavorian’s early life was suc

Lorne Balfe

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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 Edinburgh, where he had a music scholarship. Career A veteran of Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions, Balfe’s scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Assassin’s Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with the directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Mikael

Lorne Ryder

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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 received three Canadian Country Music Association top-ten nominations for Keyboard Player of the Year, two nominations for Best Country Artist at the Ontario Independent Music Awards, and was nominated for a 2009 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards for Best Original Composition for his song, “Beautiful Feeling.” Career 80s–90s In 1985, while still at (Cawthra Park Secondary School) Lorne co-founded the all original progressive rock band Revision. Lorne played his first gig at the age of 15 in Etobicoke with Revision co founders guitarist frontman George Sheffield, drummer Leo Di Giovanni and guitarist Rob Sanderson. Lorne has credited Di Giovanni for getting him started in bands. In 1988, Lorne co-founded the band First & Last with his brother Kent (Max Bent) and Ralph Herzig. After a horrific accident Herzig was replaced by drummer Harold Vassell. Later they were joined by Bassist and Songwriter Steve Russell aka Psycopath (Infernal Majesty) and later Manitoba Guitarist Mark Grysiuk. They toured Ont

Lorraine Desmarais

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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 (1979) in classical piano at Université de Sherbrooke. She studied with Armas Maiste at McGill University in 1978 and 1979, and later took lessons from Kenny Barron in New York. She has also been influenced by Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson. Career Desmarais has recorded ten albums as a solo performer and musical director, including several with well-known artists such as Michel Cusson and Michel Donato (Vision), Tiger Okoshi (Lorraine Desmarais), Don Alias (Andiamo), André Moisan, Jean Gaudreault and Ted Baskin from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Michel Bettez from the Orchestre Métropolitain (Bleu Silence), in addition to her long-standing team of Frédéric Alarie (double bass) and Camil Bélisle (drums). She has composed a number of pieces for herself and for other performers, including Oliver Jones and Angèle Dubeau. Discography *Trio Lorraine Desmarais (Radio Canada, 1985) *Andiamo (Radio Canada, 1986) *Pianissimo (Radio Canada, 1987) *Vision (Les Disques Scherzo, 1991) * Lorraine

Lothar Hensel

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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 clarinet. During his studies, he began playing the bandoneon. In 1990, he went to Buenos Aires to perfect his playing with teachers Arturo Penón and Nestor Marconi. In Paris, he also had lessons with Juan José Mosalini, one of the most famous tango soloists of tango nuevo. As a bandoneonist, Hensel has worked with renowned orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic which he has recorded in original versions and also in his own arrangements on CD. As a composer, he wrote operas, chamber and orchestral music. In it, he tries to combine mainly South American tango elements with classical European chamber music. As a commissioned work for the , Hensel wrote the chamber opera Ein letzter Tango für Margot H. in 2001. In 2007, his opera Pamina lebt was premiered at the . He also wrote the libretto for this work. In the same year, his 2nd concerto for bandoneon and large orchestra was premiered with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, which was broadcast live by Deutschlandradio. Hensel per

Lothar Kempter

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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 his father’s wishes he started studying law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1868, after his father had died, he changed to studying music. The same year he married singer Caroline Leonoff. He then conducted for three years the orchestra at the Strasbourg theatre. In 1875, he became Kapellmeister at the Aktientheather in Zürich, a position which he held until 1915. In 1879, he became director of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. In 1886, he began teaching music theory and composition at the Zurich Conservatory (merged in 1999 into the School of Music, Drama, and Dance (HMT), itself merged in 2007 into the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)). In 1892, he became a citizen of Zürich. In 1911, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. In 1899, eleven years after his first wife Caroline had died, he married Hedwig Ratzinger, who died in 1908. In 1910, he married Philomena Jakob (alias Philo Jarno). Both were singers at the Stadttheater Zurich. He died

Lothar Windsperger

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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 well-known organist and school teacher, received his first basic musical education from his father, who he lost at the age of five. Windsperger nevertheless remained true to music, even when he first began his training as a primary school teacher in Rosenheim, where he had moved with his mother in 1898, at a . In 1900 he finally changed to the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. There he was taught composition and harmony by Josef Rheinberger and Rudolf Louis, among others, and piano by August Schmid-Lindner. Later he continued his studies with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and work weeks with Hermann Abendroth at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne. In February 1905 Windsperger appeared in Munich with an orchestral concert in which he performed his one-hour, one-movement “Sinfonie der Sehnsucht”. According to the judgement of H. Teibler in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung of 24 February 1905 (p. 151), however, he thereby “only provoked the unwillingness of all well-meaning people

Lotta Wennäkoski

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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 Budapest, Hungary, in 1989–1990 and music theory and composition at the Sibelius Academy between 1994 and 2000 under Eero Hämeenniemi, Kaija Saariaho and Paavo Heininen and in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague between 1998 and 1999 under Louis Andriessen. Wennäkoski began her career as a composer by composing for radio plays and short films. A major landmark on her career was a concert at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in 1999. Her notable works include Sakara for orchestra (2003), commissioned by Esa-Pekka Salonen, the string quartet Culla d’aria (2004), commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Hava for chamber orchestra, the flute concerto Soie (2009), one of the recommended works at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in 2012, Verdigris for chamber orchestra (2015), commissioned by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Flounce for orchestra, commissioned by the BBC and performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2017. As a composer, Wennäkoski has been described a

Lotte Anker

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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 Copenhagen and studied music at Copenhagen University from 1980 to 1984. In 1988, she formed a quartet with piano player Mette Petersen, (the Lotte Anker / Mette Petersen Quartet). In 1992, they added trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. In 1995, she became a member of the free improvising trio Anker, Friis, Poulsen with Hasse Poulsen on guitar and Peter Friis Nielsen on bass. Since 1996, Anker and Ture Larsen have been co-leaders of the 12-piece orchestra Copenhagen Art Ensemble. She recorded the albums Triptych, Live at the Loft and Floating Islands with pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Discography * Beyond the Mist (Stunt, 1989) * Being (Stunt, 1993) * Infinite Blueness (Av-Art, 1996) * Poetic Justice (Dacapo, 2001) * Six Row Barley (Utech, 2005) * Triptych (Leo, 2005) * Alien Huddle (Intakt, 2008) * Live at the Loft (ILK, 2009) * Floating Islands (ILK, 2009) * Birthmark (Clean Feed, 2013) * Squid Police (Konvoj, 2014) with Jakob Riis * What River Is This (ILK, 2014) * Edg

Lotte Backes

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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 went on to study organ and piano at the music conservatories in Strasbourg (1915-1917) and Dusseldorf. (1918-1922). She then continued her studies at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1935 to 1938. she studied composition at the Prussian Academy of Arts. Her works written prior to 1945 were destroyed during World War II. She lived in Berlin from 1931 to 1990. Her works after 1947 include two operas, a symphony, and works for choir and organ. She was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Works Orchestra * Sommerliche Wanderung (1947) * Symphonic Poems Chamber Ensemble * Walk in the summer, fl, ob, van, vlc, per, hp, cel * Sprazzo di luce, string quartet, hp, perc (1974) * Reisebilder, string quartet (1980) * Ballade, fl, hp, pf (1980) * Concertante, vlc and pf (1966) * Concerto, vln and organ (1970) * Episodio, trp and organ (1972) * Movimenti improvvisati, hp and per (1973) * Serenata, vln and hp (1965) * Sonata, trp and org (1972) * Sonata I, vln and org (1972) * Spielmusik, ob and pf

Lotten Edholm

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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 Georg Fredrik von Heijne-Lillienberg and Juliana Charlotta Silfverstolpe, and married Edvard Edholm (1831-1913), physician to the king, in 1867. She served as hovfröken (maid of honour) to the queen dowager Josephine in 1865–67. Lotten Edholm initiated the participation of women in Sweden in the Swedish Red Cross and served as chair of the women’s section of the Swedish Red Cross in 1865–1906. She also started a cooking school in Stockholm. Lotten Edholm was also active as a composer and composed piano music for private use in high society life. In 1919, she published her memoirs, Från barndom till ålderdom (From Childhood to Old Age). Notes References * Svensk uppslagsbok. Malmö 1937. * Lotten af Edholm på Levande Musikarv Further reading *

Lou Carter

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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, especially those led by Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Gray. In 1946, he founded the trio “The Soft Winds” together with Herb Ellis and Johnny Frigo. The group recorded on the Majestic and Mercury labels and wrote a number of hits, among them are “I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out” and “Detour Ahead”. The latter became a jazz standard and was played by such prominent musicians as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Irene Kral, Stan Getz, and Woody Herman. After the trio disbanded in 1950, Carter was a sideman for various bands and worked on two of Buck Clayton’s studio albums. A reunion of the Soft Winds occurred during the 1995 Floating Jazz Festival. The double album Then and Now…: The Soft Winds, 1946–1996 was released. The album included previously unreleased radio recordings from 1947 to 1948 and 11 new tracks. Carter also had a side career as a performer of novelty songs, in the persona of “Louie the Singing Cab Driver.” Bronx-accented Louie was a regular on The Perry Como Show i

Lou Harrison

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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 dissonant, ultramodernist style similar to his former teacher and contemporary, Henry Cowell, but later moved toward incorporating elements of non-Western cultures into his work. Notable examples include a number of pieces written for Javanese style gamelan instruments, inspired after his introduction to noted gamelan musician Kanjeng Notoprojo. Harrison would create his own musical ensembles and instruments with his partner, William Colvig, who are now both considered founders of the American gamelan movement and world music; along with composers Harry Partch and Claude Vivier, and ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee. The majority of Harrison’s works and custom instruments are written for just intonation rather than the more widespread equal temperament, making him one of the most prominent composers to have experimented with microtones. He was also one of the first composers to have written in the international language Esperanto, and among the first to incorporate strong themes of homosexuality

Lou Koster

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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 1908. While still young, she began to compose. Her first success was her one-act operetta An der Schemm (At the Baths), composed in 1922. From 1933, many of her orchestral works, especially her waltzes and marches, were played for radio by the RTL Grand Symphony Orchestra. Her greatest success was however the choral ballad Der Geiger von Echternach (The Echternach Fiddler) which she completed when she was 83. It was premiered in the Abbey of Echternach in July 1972 to great acclaim. Early life and education Born on 7 May 1889 in Luxembourg City, Louise Koster was the daughter of the railway official Jean Koster (1852–1919) and Emma Hoebich (1865–1950). Her maternal grandfather, Franz Ferdinand Bernhard Hoebich (1813–1900), who was born in Silesia, was the conductor of the military band in Echternach from 1842. He later directed the music corps at the grand-ducal court. After retiring in 1878 and becoming a widower in 1882, Hoebich became the music teacher of Lou and her sister Lina (1891–

Lou Pomanti

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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 major Canadian awards shows. Early life Pomanti was born in Toronto and raised in the Weston neighborhood of Toronto. He began studying piano as a youth, completed studies at The Royal Conservatory of Music, and later attended Humber College’s jazz program. Beginning in the 1990s Pomanti expanded into composing and arranging for television and film; his credits include work for CBC, CTV, Global and other networks, and he has served repeatedly as musical director for the Gemini Awards (now part of the Canadian Screen Awards), the Genie Awards, the Juno Awards and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremonies. Awards and honors * 2007 Gemini Award (arranging/conducting) — Pomanti received a Gemini Award for his arrangement and conducting of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” during her Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame induction. * Multiple Gemini nominations and additional honors for his television and live-event work. * He was the recipient of the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award given

Louiguy

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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 “Cerisier rose et pommier blanc”, a popular song written in 1950, made famous in English as “Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)”, which was recast as a resounding mambo hit for Pérez Prado. Guglielmi was born in Barcelona. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris in the same class as Maurice Baquet, Henri Betti, Paul Bonneau and Henri Dutilleux. He created almost three dozen film scores, beginning in 1946 with La Rose de la mer and including To Die of Love (1971). Among the last was the score for Jean Gabin’s final gangster flick, Verdict (1974). He died in Vence, one day after his 75th birthday. Selected filmography * A Cop (1947) * City of Hope (1948) * Memories Are Not for Sale (1948) * The Heroic Monsieur Boniface (1949) * Toâ (1949) * Two Doves (1949) * The Treasure of Cantenac (1950) * The Atomic Monsieur Placido (1950) * One Only Loves Once (1950) * Dakota 308 (1951) * Tomorrow We Get Divorced (1951) * Adhémar (1951) * Village Feud (1951) * The Sleepwalker (1951) * The H

Louis Adam

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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 son of Mathias Adam and Marie-Dorothée Meyer, Adam taught himself violin and harp without a teacher, before going to Paris in 1775 to study piano and harpsichord with Jean-Frédéric Edelmann. Shortly after he wrote two concertante symphonies for harp, piano and violin, which were performed at a Concert Spirituel. Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Henry Lemoine, and Jean-Baptiste Bréval. In addition to being a skilled pianist, he composed a number of piano pieces that were in vogue at the time, especially some variations on Le Bon roi Dagobert. He also wrote two standard instruction books for piano: Méthode ou principe générale du doigté pour le forté-piano (1798) and Méthode nouvelle pour le piano (1802). In 1804, he published the Méthode de piano du Conservatoire, an influential work, which contributed to the advancement of piano technique in Paris. Adam was married three times. His second wife was the sister of the Count de Louvois; the couple had a daughter, Sophie, later married to Colonel Genot.

Louis Andlauer

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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 harmonium pieces, three masses, a cantata, religious motets and several songs. Organist and director of music at the Parisian church of Saint-Éloi, he was also a substitute for Louis Vierne from 1912 to 1914 at the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris. During the Great War he became a sergeant in the , and was killed at the front line on 18 July 1915 at Marœuil (Pas-de-Calais). Bibliography * Biographical notes in Joseph Joubert, Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue, Paris, Senart, 1912, vol. 1, (p. 1) References External links * * Deux Pieces Breves No.1 - Louis Andlauer on YouTube

Louis Andriessen

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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 of The Hague school of composition. Although his music was initially dominated by neoclassicism and serialism, his style gradually shifted to a synthesis of American minimalism, big band jazz and the expressionism of Igor Stravinsky. Born in Utrecht into a musical family, Andriessen studied composition under his father Hendrik Andriessen as well as Kees van Baaren and Luciano Berio. Andriessen taught at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1974 to 2012, influencing notable composers. His opera La Commedia, based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, won the 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and was selected in 2019 by critics at The Guardian as one of the most outstanding compositions of the 21st century. Life and career Andriessen was born in Utrecht on 6 June 1939 to a musical family, His father was professor of composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and later its director. His siblings were composers Jurriaan Andriessen (1925–1996) and Caecilia Andriessen (1931–2019),

Louis Applebaum

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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 of Music with Leo Smith and the University of Toronto with Boris Berlin, Healey Willan and Ernest MacMillan. He also studied composition privately in New York. Film composition Applebaum composed approximately 250 film scores for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) between 1942 and 1960, serving as its music director from 1942 to 1948, then as a consultant from 1949 to 1953. His NFB credits include Royal Journey (1951), The Stratford Adventure (1954) and Paddle to the Sea (1966). He was nominated, along with co-composer Ann Ronell, for an Academy Award for the score of the 1945 war film, The Story of G.I. Joe. He won a 1968 Canadian Film Award for his non-feature music score of Athabasca. He resigned from his administrative duties at Stratford in 1960 though he continued until 1999 to provide incidental music for festival productions. He was composer, music director or sound designer for 70 productions over 46 years. His fanfares have been played prior to every performance at Stratford

Louis Aubert

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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 musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age. He became recognised for his voice, primarily for his renditions of the Pie Jesu from Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem at the Église de la Madeleine. The young Aubert met Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire, and he regularly attended at his composition classes, which greatly influenced his development. Aubert became an excellent pianist. In 1911, he premiered Maurice Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, which were written for and dedicated to him. He also worked as a piano and composition teacher, both privately and on the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris. He counted among his students Henry Barraud, Jean-Marie Beaudet, Jean Berger, Marinus Flipse, and Georges Savaria. He composed music for the church, several ballets, mélodies, and incidental music for the stage. Although Breton by birth at a time of intense Breton nationalism, he was little inspired by his home region, although he was a founding member in 1912 of the A

Louis Beydts

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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 wine-merchant who played the flute, while his mother played the piano. At 16, having finished his school studies, he went into the family business. Having learnt the piano and tried some composition, at 18 he studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin, director of the Bordeaux Conservatoire, although Beydts never enrolled there. Through Vaubourgoin he gained a strict classical harmonic technique. Beydts also studied with André Messager to whom he paid homage in Moineau with a variation on the theme of the swing duet. In Paris he had a work for voice and orchestra Le Sommeil performed at the Concerts Lamoureux in 1926. In 1927 Adieu was performed by the Concerts Colonne, and Le Promenoir des deux amants at the Concerts Pasdeloup. (originally entitled La Noce, staged at the Théâtre Marigny on 13 March 1931) with limited success. In November 1931 la S A D M P (la Société anonyme des messieurs prudents) with words by Sacha Guitry, was seen at the Théâtre de la Madele

Louis Bourgeois (composer)

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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 century. One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the tune known as the Old 100th, to which the Protestant doxology is often sung, is commonly attributed to him. Life Knowledge of his early life is sparse. His first publication, some secular chansons, dates from 1539 in Lyon. By 1545 he had gone to Geneva (according to civic records) and become a music teacher there. In 1547 he was granted citizenship in Geneva, and in that same year he also published his first four-voice psalms. In 1549 and 1550 he worked on a collections of psalm-tunes, most of which were translated by Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze. The extent to which he was composer, arranger or compiler was not certain, until a long-lost copy of the Genevan Psalter of 1551 came to the library of the Rutgers University. In an Avertissement (note) to the reader Bourgeois specifies exactly what his predecessors had done, what he had changed and which were his own contributions. He is one of the three main composers

Louis Brassin

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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 Louis Brassin was born in Aix-la-Chapelle in 1840. His father was a baritone named de Brassine, whose career took him and his family abroad. Louis gave his first concert at the age of six, in Hamburg. At age seven he entered the Leipzig Conservatory as a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. In 1852 he went on concert tours with his two brothers. In 1857 he adopted the surname Brassin. In 1866-67 he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, succeeding Hans von Bülow, then resumed concertising. He was piano professor at the Brussels Conservatoire 1868-78, and played an important role in the musical life of the country. Among his pupils there were Edgar Tinel, Arthur De Greef, Franz Rummel and Alfred Wotquenne. In 1878 he took over the piano class of Theodor Leschetizky at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where his pupils included Vasily Safonov, Wassily Sapellnikoff and Genary Korganov. He died in Saint Petersburg in 1884, aged 43. Transcriptions Brassin’s piano transcription of the Magic Fire M

Louis Cahuzac

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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 in the first part of the 20th century. Life and career Louis Cahuzac was born in Quarante, in Languedoc, in the south of France. His teachers were Felix Pagès in Toulouse conservatoire and Cyrille Rose in the Paris Conservatory. Cahuzac made the first recording of Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto, a piece originally written for the Danish clarinetist Aage Oxenvad. On 22 November 1956, at the age of 76, he recorded the Clarinet Concerto in A major by Paul Hindemith for the EMI music label under the composer’s baton. He was a great teacher also and many students became famous like Eduard Brunner (Munich’s Bavarian Radio Symphony), Yona Ettlinger, Hans Rudolph Stalder, Gervase de Peyer, André Boutard (Paris Opera) or Gilbert Voisin (Geneva international prize winner in 1950) and Palle Nehammer (Royal Danish Orchestra). Cahuzac died at Bagnères-de-Luchon. Compositions His compositions were mainly for the clarinet and all are inspired by his native region in Southern France: *In the Fantais

Louis Calabro

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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 his principal teacher there. Louis Calabro was a music professor at Bennington College of Vermont from 1955 until his death in 1991. He was a composer, teacher, conductor and a percussionist. His students included the American composer Patsy Rogers. Calabro’s original music is published by Elkan-Vogel, Theodore Presser, Tuba Press and Morningstar Music. Calabro has over 100 works to his credit including music for traditional and non-traditional chamber combinations as well as for both large and small orchestral ensembles most notably in America. Calabro believed in writing music for those he knew best and had the distinction of hearing virtually everything he wrote performed during his lifetime. There are many recordings of these performances as well as scores archived at Bennington College and at the University of Vermont. Louis Calabro founded the Sage City Symphony in 1972, an ambitious community orchestra in southwestern Vermont which is still active and continues to commission new

Louis Clapisson

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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 was a professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory and the curator of the conservatory’s museum of musical instruments, many of which had come from his own large collection. However, Clapisson soon decided to devote himself to composition instead. His first compositions were vocal pieces (quartets and duets) which were performed at the Paris Conservatory concert series from 1835. His first operatic work was La Figurante, a five-act opéra comique to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Henri Dupin. It premiered on 24 August 1838. Twenty-one more would follow, almost all in the opéra comique genre, although he did produce one grand opera, Jeanne la folle, which premiered at the Paris Opera in 1848. His last work was an operetta, La Poularde de Caux. It was co-written with five other composers and premiered in 1861, the same year he was appointed professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory. His most successful works were the opéras comiques La Promise (1854) and La Fanchonnette (1856

Louis Couperin

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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. Couperin worked as organist of the Church of St. Gervais in Paris and as musician at the court. He quickly became one of the most prominent Parisian musicians, establishing himself as a harpsichordist, organist, and violist, but his career was cut short by his early death at the age of thirty-five. None of Couperin’s music was published during his lifetime, but manuscript copies of some 200 pieces survive, some of them only rediscovered in the mid-20th century. The first historically important member of the Couperin family, Couperin made contributions to the development of both the French organ school and the French harpsichord school. His innovations included composing organ pieces for specific registrations and inventing the genre of the unmeasured prelude for harpsichord, for which he devised a special type of notation. Life Most of the information about Couperin’s life comes from two sources. Le Parnasse François, a 1732 book by Évrard Titon du Tillet, contains a biographical sketch de

Louis De Francesco

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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 Ettore De Francesco was born in Atessa, Italy on December 26, 1886. For more than three years he worked as a conductor with the De Koven Opera Company; leading performances of Robin Hood on tour from 1915 to 1917. He also worked as a conductor for an opera company organized by Oscar Hammerstein I and for the Aborn Opera Company. In September 1917 De Francesco became a naturalized American citizen. In the 1920s he was active as a conductor of live orchestras which accompanied silent films. By 1927 he was music director of the Famous Players Road Show with The Musical Courier describing him as “one of the most capable directors of motion picture music in the country.” In 1928 music publisher Samuel Fox (SF) hired De Francesco to work as film score composer John Stepan Zamecnik’s assistant in the Sound Synchronization department of his company which contracted with film companies like Paramount Pictures. De Francesco’s first score for SF was the The Wedding March (1928) which he co-wrote wi

Louis Deffès

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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 admitted to the Paris Conservatory in 1839, where he studied with Fromental Halévy and Henri Montan Berton (composition), François Bazin (harmony), Auguste Barbereau (counterpoint and fugue), and Théodore Mozin (piano). In 1844, he composed La Toulousaine. The piece gained great popularity and became a signature tune of his home town. In 1847, he won second prize at the “Concours de Chants Historiques” with his composition Les Charmes de la Paix, and in the same year the Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata L’Ange et Tobie, based on a poem by Léon Halévy. During his stay in Rome, which was connected with the prize, he composed his Messe solennelle, which was first performed in 1850. In 1857, a performance followed at Notre Dame de Paris with 500 participants. In 1855, L’Anneau d’argent, the first of his twenty successful operas, was premiered at the Opéra-Comique. The Franco-Prussian War interrupted the succession of performances of his operas. Instead, he now wrote compositions such as the Ma

Louis Désiré Besozzi

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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 mainly piano and choral works as well as a four-volume work with exercises for choral singing. Biography Born in Versailles, Louis Besozzi belonged a family of artists from Italy, many of them with a reputation of being instrumental in Turin, Naples and Dresden. His great-great grandfather Giuseppe Besozzi was an oboist in Parma, his great-grandfather Gaetano Besozzi oboist at the court of Naples and later in the chapel of Versailles, From 1831 he worked at the Conservatory as successor of Ferdinand Gasse in solfège and later as piano teacher at the École de musique classique et religieuse of Louis Niedermeyer, where he was succeeded by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1865. Many times a prize winner at the Conservatory, he won the 1837 Grand Prix de Rome and went on to study at the French Academy in Rome, where he met Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Charles Gounod, Dominique Papety and others. Later he devoted his life to teaching popular music and the development of orfeónic societies, for which h

Louis Diémer

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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 harpsichord. His output as a composer was extensive, including a piano concerto and a quantity of salon pieces. Life Diémer was born and died in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Ambroise Thomas for composition, Antoine Marmontel for piano, and François Benoist for organ. From the age of twelve, he won several first prizes (Premiers Prix) at the Conservatoire, in piano, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and solfège, and a second prix in organ. He quickly built a reputation as a virtuoso and toured with, among others, the violinists Delphin Alard and Pablo de Sarasate. In 1888, Diémer succeeded Marmontel as professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory. He taught, among others, Robert Casadesus, Alfredo Casella, Marcel Ciampi, Alfred Cortot, José Cubiles, Lazare Lévy, Robert Lortat, Yves Nat, and Édouard Risler. He was also instrumental in promoting the use of historical instruments, giving a series of harpsichord performances as part o

Louis Drouet

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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 profession, Louis Drouet began learning to play the flute as a self-taught man before entering the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of seven. At 16, he was first flutist and teacher of Louis Bonaparte, Napoléon’s brother, and King of Holland. After touring trips to England, the United States and Europe, in 1840 he became director of music by the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. Drouet was a great friend of Felix Mendelssohn. William Gordon, co-inventor of the Boehm system, and were among his pupils. He was often referred to as the “Paganini of flute”. Works The musicologist Arthur Pougin wanted to attribute to Louis Drouet (apparently wrongly) the melody of the unofficial hymn of the Second French Empire, “”, although considered as having been composed by Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland from 1806 to 1810, and Napoléon III’s mother. ;Compositions * 10 concertos * more than 20 duets, trios, solos and fantasies * more than 300 studies ;Pedagogic method * Méthode pour la flûte, ou Traité c

Louis Dufort

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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 career, he has fulfilled numerous commissions for various ensembles and musical organizations, including the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec (ACREQ ), Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ ), Réseaux/Akousma, Chants libres, Codes d’accès, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+ ), EMPAC, Quasar saxophone quartet, Bozzini string quartet, Sixtrum percussion ensemble and Centre d’art et de technologie des médias de Karlsruhe. Particularly notable among his many collaborations is his long-standing partnership with choreographer Marie Chouinard, with whom he has worked since 1996 in composing the music for a great many of her works. In 2023, an entire edition of the journal Circuit, musiques contemporaines was dedicated to the subject of their collaborative work. The composer has also written music for the original soundtracks of the films The Fall of the American Empire (French: La chute de l’empire américain) (2018) and Denys Arcand’s Testamen

Louis Durey

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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 businessman. It was not until he was nineteen years old that he chose to pursue a musical career after hearing a performance of music by Claude Debussy. As a composer, he was primarily autodiadictic. From the beginning, choral music was of great importance in Durey’s productivity. His L’Offrande Lyrique (1914) has been called the first piece of French twelve-tone music. The first of his works to gain recognition in the music world was for a piano duet titled Carillons. At a 1918 concert, this work attracted the interest of Maurice Ravel, who recommended him to his publisher. Communicating with his colleague, Darius Milhaud, he asked him to contribute a piano piece that would bring together the six composers who, in 1920 were dubbed Les Six, culminating in L’Album des Six. Despite their acclaim, Durey refused participation in the 1921 collaborative work Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, which gravely offended Jean Cocteau. Following the Les Six period, Durey continued with his career. Never feeling

Louis Émile Gratia

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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). His father was the painter Charles Louis Gratia (1815–1911) who, after his return to France in 1867, settled for a time in Lunéville and remarried. Gratia specialized in music education, making editions of piano music and arrangements for effective piano pedagogy and acquisition of music theory. His work won the attention and support of important French musicians and teachers like organist Charles-Marie Widor and pianist Isidor Philipp. He died in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), in the suburbs of Paris. Works Writings * Étude du piano: Comment réaliser un maximum de progrès à l’aide d’un minimum de travail (Piano study: how to make the most progress with the least work). Preface by Charles-Marie Widor (Paris: Delagrave 1914). * Instruments de musique du XXe siècle: Les conséquences pédagogiques, professionnelles, sociales, artistiques (Musical instruments of the 20th century; pedagogical, professional, social, and artistic consequences) (Paris: Heugel, 1931). * Répertoire pratique du pianiste:

Louis Forbes

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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 of renowned musicians Edward Kilenyi and Max Steiner. He was under contract to David O. Selznick for seven years, and later served as the director of music for Goldwyn Productions for three years. He also worked for RKO, contributing to several popular films with his musical compositions. In 1951, Forbes joined the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Throughout his career, he penned a number of popular songs, including the “Appointment in Honduras” theme. Forbes’ talent and dedication to his craft earned him critical acclaim and recognition in the industry. He was nominated for five Academy Awards for his music scoring on the films Intermezzo (1939); Up in Arms (1944); Wonder Man (1945); Brewster’s Millions (1945); and This Is Cinerama (1952). Notably, Forbstein was the brother of Leo F. Forbstein, another prominent composer and conductor in the film industry. Forbes died on June 17, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. Film credits * Hong Kong Affair (1958) *Thi

Louis Fourestier

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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, compositions and prizes Fourestier was born in Montpellier, where he studied the cello at the local conservatory. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1909 and was a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant, Paul Dukas, André Gedalge, Paul Vidal, Xavier Leroux (harmony) and Vincent d’Indy (conducting), winning prizes for harmony and counterpoint. In 1924, he won the Prix Rossini for his cantata Patria. This was followed by the Prix de Rome in 1925 for another cantata, La mort d’Adonis, and in 1927 the First Grand Prix for the symphonic poem Polynice. Conducting career Returning from Rome, Fourestier was engaged as a cellist at the Opéra Comique. His conducting career commenced when, in 1927, he took charge of the orchestra for a performance of Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, and he was appointed principal conductor later that year, leaving the company in 1932. He subsequently conducted various orchestras in Paris and elsewhere (Angers, Cannes and Vichy). Professor of conducting and final years

Louis François Dauprat

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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 interested in the first experiments with keyed horns. He successfully ensured the development of a distinctively French school of playing, marginally influenced by the invention of the valve horn. Biography Born in Paris, Dauprat first studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Johann Joseph Kenn, and in 1795, setting up in his horn class where he won the 1798 “Premier Prix”. As a prize, he was awarded an experimental horn model made by Lucien Joseph Raoux’s studio, now one of the most impressive pieces in the museum of the Paris Conservatory. From 1806 to 1808, he was the principal hornist in the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, and from 1808 to 1811, he worked for the Paris Opera Orchestra and the Conservatoire de Paris. He succeeded his teacher as professor in the Conservatory and held that position until 1842 when he was succeeded by the famous solo horn player (and his own former student) Jacques-François Gallay. Dauprat wrote the textbook Méthode pour cor alto et cor basse (Par

Louis Franz Aguirre

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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 Harold Gramatges, Roberto Valera and Tulio Peramo, as well as violin and conducting at the Havana Instituto Superior de Arte. He received a BA in musical composition in 1991. He also underwent postgraduate composition studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in The Netherlands from 2002 to 2004, studying the composition postgraduate program: “Contemporary music through non-Western Techniques” with professor R. Reina, Work as composer Louis Aguirre works as a full-time composer since he moved to Europe in 2002, where he has received numerous commissions. Aguirre has written works for numerous prestigious performers and ensembles such as Ere Lievonen, Enric Monfort, Adam Ørvad, Carlos Gálvez, Juanjo Guillem, Mikkel Andersen, Barbara Lueneburg, Karolina Leedo, Axyz Ensemble, Arbós Trío, Snow Mask Ensemble, Kimbala Percussion Group, DuoMetrie, Verso Duo, Havana Symphony Orchestra, Santiago Symphony Orchestra, Camagüey Symphony Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, TANA String Quartet, Residencia

Louis Ganne

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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 the Auvergne region of France and grew up in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris. He studied under César Franck and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. He conducted at the Nouveau Théâtre de la Rue Blanche and at the Folies-Bergère, and later led a concert series at the Monte Carlo Casino. Ganne is most recognized today for his popular patriotic marches, Le père la victoire and La marche Lorraine. He also composed for the ballet, including the 1902 ballet “In Japan”. He is less well known outside his native France, and his many operettas are now rarely performed. His most successful light opera is the circus musical Les saltimbanques (The Acrobats), from 1899. Selected operas and operettas *Ophélia (1887) *Tout Paris (1891) *L’Heureuse rencontre (1892) *Rabelais, opera in 4 acts (1892) *Les colles des femmes (1893) *Le Réveil d’une parisienne (1894) *La Puce (1894) *Raseur (1895) *Qui veut de l’amour? (1899) *Les saltimbanques, opera in 3 acts (1899) *Miss Bouton d’O

Louis Glass

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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 Niels Gade. However, Glass also studied at the Brussels Conservatory, where he became enamored of the music of César Franck and Anton Bruckner, both of whom stylistically influenced his writing. For several years, he was one of Denmark’s leading concert pianists until a paralysis in one arm made him retire from the stage. He then devoted himself primarily to composing. He composed in most genres and wrote several chamber music works of worth, including four string quartets, a string sextet, a piano trio, a piano quintet and several instrumental sonatas. He wrote six symphonies (1893–1926), which have been recorded on the Danacord and CPO record labels, while some chamber music has been recorded on Da Capo. Glass died in Copenhagen. Symphonies * Symphony No. 1 in E-major, Op. 17 (1894) * Symphony No. 2 in C-minor, Op. 28 (1899) * Symphony No. 3 in D-major, Op. 30 “Forest symphony” (1901) * Symphony No. 4 in E-minor, Op. 43 (1911) * Symphony No. 5 in C-major, Op. 57 “Sinfonia Svastika” (19

Louis Gregh

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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. He grew by acquiring, by auction, parts of the dissolved publishers Léon Escudier (1882), Egrot (1884), and Jochem (1899). He was also the French representative of the publishers Litolff and Universal Edition. His business was quite successful, and he only gave up in old age in 1907, when he sold it to Rouart, which in turn was taken over by Salabert in 1953. Selected compositions Stage works * Un Lycée de jeunes filles (operetta, 1881) * Le Présomptif (opera bouffe, 1883) * Le Capitaine Roland (operetta, 1895) * Arlette (ballet) Vocal music * Le Bon pasteur (L. Capet) (1876) * La Cage du pinson (Villemer & Delormel) (1876) * Je n’ai rien osé lui dire. Récit-naïveté (words: A. Queyriaux) (1876) * La Leçon de charité (Capet & Carel) (1876) * Lettre d’une pensionnaire (Villemer & Delormel) (1876) * Minuit à Venise. Barcarola (A. Queyriaux) (1876) * La Plainte de l’exilé (Villemer & Delormel) (1876) * Les Roses mortes (Villemer & Delormel) (1876) * Connaissez-vous mon amie? (Villemer & De

Louis Gruenberg

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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 highly respected Oscar-nominated film composer in Hollywood in the 1940s. Life and career Louis Theodor Gruenberg was born near Brest-Litovsk (now in Belarus but then in Russia), to Abe Gruenberg and Klara Kantarovitch. His family emigrated to the United States when he was a few months old. His father worked as a violinist in New York City. Young Louis had a talent for the piano, and by the age of eight Gruenberg was taking piano lessons with Adele Margulies at the National Conservatory in New York (then headed by Antonín Dvořák). Gruenberg played both solo concerts and in ensembles from the beginning, and in his early twenties he went to study in Europe with Ferruccio Busoni at the Vienna Conservatory. Before World War I, Gruenberg taught students and toured, both as an accompanist and soloist. In 1919, Gruenberg wrote The Hill of Dreams for orchestra, which gained him the highly acclaimed Flagler Prize and enabled him to devote himself more completely to composition. As Gruenberg began to

Louis Karchin

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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 born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is Professor of Music at New York University. He received a B. Mus. degree from the Eastman School of Music, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was twice a Leonard Bernstein Fellow at Tanglewood. His principal teachers included Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim and Gunther Schuller. Composer Karchin’s music has been recognized by awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Andrew Imbrie Award, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, and Walter N. Hinrichsen Award), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He has received commissions from the Serge Koussevitzky, Fromm, and Barlow Foundations. His 70-minute chamber opera, Romulus, a setting of the Alexandre Dumas, père play, was premiered at the Peter B. Lewis Theatre of the Guggenheim Museum in May, 2007" and subsequently issued on a Naxos CD. Other major works include American Visions, a vocal-instrumental song-cycle on poem

Louis Köhler

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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 Carl Maria von Bocklet, Simon Sechter and Ignaz von Seyfried. As a conductor, he worked in Marienburg and Elbing. After that he settled in Königsberg in 1847, after which time he concentrated on piano teaching and writings on music. Among his pupils were Adolf Jensen and Hermann Goetz. He was a critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung from 1849 to 1886, and was a contributor to Signale für die musikalische Welt from 1844 until 1886. His writings were well known to Liszt and Wagner; he also proposed the formation of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein, with which Liszt was involved. Köhler composed three operas and a ballet, and wrote books on musical theory. He also wrote educational works for piano. He died in Königsberg on 16 February 1886. He was 65 years old. Selected writings * Die Melodie der Sprache (Leipzig, 1853) * Systematische Lehrmethode für Klavierspiel und Musik (Leipzig, 1857–8, 3/1888) * Die Gebrüder Müller und das Streichquartett (Leipzig, 1858) * Führer durch den Clavierunt

Louis Lacombe

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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 showed unusual musical abilities at very young age and was soon hailed as a child prodigy. He studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire from 1829 to 1832 with Pierre Zimmerman and won first prize in piano performance at age 12 in 1831. He began touring Western Europe after leaving the Conservatoire, and in 1834 studied composition in Vienna with Carl Czerny as well as theory with Ignaz von Seyfried and Simon Sechter. At the end of the decade, he settled in Paris and married his first wife; his second wife, Andrea Lacombe (née Favel), whom he married in 1869, was a singer. In Paris, Lacombe initially established himself as a virtuoso pianist, increasingly dedicating himself to composition and music criticism (his essays were partly reprinted in a posthumous collection, Philosophie et musique, 1896). Lacombe’s first published works include a piano quintet, a trio, and some piano pieces. He wrote a number of dramatic symphonies with soloist and choir, and his cantata, Sapho, was performed at t

Louis Lambillotte

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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 restoration of Gregorian music, which he inaugurated and promoted by his scientific researches and publications. Early life Louis Lambillotte was born at La Hamaide, near Charleroi and began studying solfège, piano, and harmony at the age of seven. At the age of fifteen, he became organist in Charleroi; later he went in a similar capacity to Dinant (Belgium). In 1820 he was appointed choirmaster and organist of the Jesuit College of Saint-Acheul, Amiens. While exercising these functions he also studied the classics, and at the end of five years, in August, 1825, he entered the Society of Jesus. The thirty years of his Jesuit life were spent successively in the colleges of Saint-Acheul, Fribourg, Estavayer, Brugelette and Vaugirard (Paris). While occupied in teaching and directing music, he gave himself up more entirely to composition, with a view to enhance both the religious ceremonies and the academic entertainments in those newly founded colleges. His powers of composition were checked by the

Louis Lavater

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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 the Australian bush ballad as a vehicle for music education. In 1938, Alfred Hill composed a musical setting of Lavater’s verse Mopoke. Lavater’s words were also set by Australian composers Doctor Ruby Davy and Fanny Turbayne. Early life Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Lavater was the eldest child of Emily Challinor (née Swindells) and Swiss-born George Theodore Adams Lavater, a civil servant who had migrated to Victoria after the 1851 gold rush. He attended Grammar School in St Kilda and Wesley College. At the University of Melbourne from 1884 he began to study medicine. He later changed his enrolment to study music though did not finish the degree. While at the University Lavater joined the bohemian Buonarotti Club (1883–87), was active in its musical section and accompanied the artists on their painting camps. Much later he recalled lively experiences with the Club in a 1929 Argus interview. Notability Lavater was regarded as a gifted leader of music in rural Victoria. He was fondly known

Louis Levy

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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 Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire). Early life As a child Louis Levy played the violin, beginning with a toy violin that his father bought him at the age of seven. He later became the pupil of Guido Papini but due to his parents’ limited means, ended his studies with Papini and began a period of self-study. This led to him gaining a scholarship at the London College of Music. Papini refused to allow Levy to study under anyone else, so resumed his tuition, this time free of charge. Career He started his career in 1910, arranging and performing music for silent films. He became the head of the music department for all Gainsborough Pictures productions from 1933 onwards. The rich sounds emanating from his large orchestra are all the more impressive when one realises that electrical sound industry was barely ten years old. He worked in particular on Alfred Hitchcock and Will Hay films, directing the music for The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. Levy later had a long running BBC radio seri

Louis Lewandowski

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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 works were composed during his tenure as musical director at the New Synagogue in Berlin and his melodies form a substantial part of synagogue services around the world today. Life Lewandowski was born in, what was then, Wreschen, Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia. At the age of twelve he went to Berlin to study piano and voice, and became solo soprano in the synagogue. Afterward he studied for three years under A. B. Marx and attended the school of composition of the Prussian Academy of Arts. There his teachers were Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen and Eduard Grell. Lewandowski was the first Jew to be admitted to the school at the request of Felix Mendelssohn. After graduating with high honors, he was appointed in 1840, choirmaster of the Berlin synagogue. In that capacity he developed an extensive body of music for the synagogue ritual. In 1866 he received the title of “royal musical director.” Shortly afterward, he was appointed choirmaster in the New Synagogue, for which he composed the enti

Louis Liebe

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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 piano, violin, voice, and male choirs, many of which appeared in France and England. His most popular works included Harmony (words by Adaien Linden of Metz) and a cantata for mixed choir with orchestral accompaniment (words by Emile Drescher). Career From 1842 to 1844, Liebe taught at the Sallmann’schen Schule in Kassel. From 1850 to 1867, Liebe lived in Strasbourg. He was director of the Association of Choral Societies of Alsace and was a music teacher. During this period, he toured Paris, Zürich, Chur, and London. From 1883 to 1886, Liebe was based in Kostanz, where he conducted the Bodan singing society. Personal life and death Liebe married in Mainz in October 1847. He died in 1900 in Chur. Further reading * Neue Berliner Musikzeitung hrsgg. v. Gustav Bock, 6. Jg., Nr. 37 v. 1852-09-22, S. 295, Sp. 1: “Louis Liebe (1819–1900), Musikdirektor in Straßburg; „Louis Liebe, welchem vor Kurzem der Preis für die beste Composition als Männer-Quartett des Gedichtes: ‚Muttersprache‘ von Max von S

Louis Lully

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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) and eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his wife Madeleine Lambert. He married Marthe Bourgeois on 27 December 1694, in St. Martial de Paris, “with the tacit and verbal consent of Madeleine Lambert, his mother, to whom a summons had been made”. Five children were born of this marriage, in the parish of Saint-Paul in Paris, between 1695 and 1705, including a son, Louis-André Lully, who married Suzanne-Catherine Cartaud, aged 17, daughter of architect Jean-Silvain Cartaud, in St. Germain l’Auxerrois. The son survived Louis Lully by only a little over a year, dying in Paris on 21 July 1735. Nearly disinherited by his father following dissolute behaviour and imprisonment, Louis did not have the brilliant career anticipated for him, not only because of his behaviour but also due to his lack of talent. What success he had as an opera composer was mostly down to works written in collaboration with others. For example, he collaborated with his brother Jean-Louis and Pierre Vignon on Zéphire

Louis Marchand

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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 one of the best known French virtuosos of his time. He worked as organist of numerous churches and, for a few years, as one of the four organistes du roy. Marchand had a violent temperament and an arrogant personality, and his life was filled with scandals, publicized and widely discussed both during his lifetime and after his death. Despite his fame, few of his works survive to this day, and those that do almost all date from his early years. Nevertheless, a few pieces of his, such as the organ pieces Grand dialogue and Fond d’orgue have been lauded as classic works of the French organ school. Life Marchand came from a musical family: his grandfather, Pierre (d.1676) had been a schoolmaster and music teacher and his three sons, Jean (Marchand’s father), Pierre and Louis were organists. Pierre held the incumbency at Auxonne for some years before his death in 1684; Louis became curé at the church of Saint-Maurice Pontailler-sur-Saône, 15 kilometres from Auxonne after 1 January 1676, whe

Louis Mennini

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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 November 18, 1920, Mennini was the son of Amalia (née Benacci) and Attilio Mennini. His younger brother was the composer Peter Mennin. Both parents were passionate about music and supported the music education and development of their children. Louis began studies in piano and music theory at a young age, and produced his first music compositions at the age of nine. He graduated from Strong Vincent High School in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1939. Mennini began his professional studies in music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied music composition with Normand Lockwood from 1939 through 1942. His education was interrupted by military service during World War II, and he served as a sergeant in the United States Air Force in England from 1942 through 1945. After the war, he studied music composition with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He earned three degrees from that institution; a Bachelor of Music in 1947, a Ma

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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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 working career outside the United States. Life and career Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born on May 8, 1829, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Edward Gottschalk and Aimée Marie Bruslé. He had six brothers and sisters, five of whom were half-siblings by his father’s biracial mistress. Gottschalk’s family lived for a time in a tiny cottage at Royal and Esplanade in the Vieux Carré. He later moved in with relatives at 518 Conti Street; his maternal grandmother Bruslé and his nurse Sally were both Saint Dominican Creoles, the majority of which migrated to Louisiana and assimilated to Louisiana Creole society. Gottschalk was therefore exposed to a variety of musical traditions and influences and played the piano from an early age. He was soon recognized as a prodigy by the New Orleans bourgeois establishment, making his informal public debut in 1840 at the new St. Charles Hotel. Only two years later, at age 13, Gottschalk left the United States and sailed to Europe, as he and his father realized a c

Louis N. Parker

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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 Disraeli is one of his best known, written as a vehicle for the actor George Arliss who later won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1929 film adaptation, itself based on his earlier 1921 silent film version. In the 1900s, he staged a series of historical pageants: Sherborne Pageant (1905), the Warwick Pageant (1906) and the Bury Pageant (1907), huge productions involving 800–900 participants. Their success inspired a wave of “pageantitis” in England, including several more by Parker. Biography He was born in Calvados, France, the son of the American Charles Albert Parker, who was a grandson of American congressman and judge Isaac Parker, and the Englishwoman Elizabeth Moray. The father was absent at his birth, and the attending French neighbours were so convinced the newborn would not survive that they christened the child immediately. Parker grew up in several continental European countries. As an adult, he was fluent in Italian, French, and German. He was educated at Freiburg a

Louis Niedermeyer

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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 Choron, renamed École Niedermeyer de Paris, a school for the study and practice of church music, with students that include several eminent French musicians such as Gabriel Fauré and André Messager. Life and career Niedermeyer was born in Nyon in 1802. His father was a music teacher from Würzburg, Germany, who had settled in Switzerland after his marriage. There, he studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles and composition with Emanuel Aloys Förster. He then studied in Rome with Vincenzo Fioravanti, the choirmaster of the papal Chapel (1819) and in Naples with Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. While in Rome, he met Gioachino Rossini, who befriended him and encouraged him to write operas. His first opera, Il reo per amore (Guilty for Love), premiered at the Teatro del Fondo in Naples in 1820 and encountered some success. After his studies, he came back to Switzerland and composed Le Lac. He later composed Marie Stuart (on a libretto written by Theodore Anne ) which premiered at the Théâtre de l’Académie Ro

Louis R. Dressler

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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 born in New York City on December 8, 1861. He studied music with his father and Silas G. Pratt. He began working as a church musician at the age of 15, and not long after was appointed organist at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York City. In 1879 he was organist at St. Thomas’ Church in Mamaroneck, New York. On January 23, 1884, he married painter Jeannie Eloise Ayers. By December 1885 he was working as the organist at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1904 Dressler became the substitute organist for Henry Kimball Hadley at Unitarian Church of All Souls in Manhattan, and subsequently was appointed to the post in 1905. He remained in that position for sixteen years. In 1897 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Hope College. At the time of his death he was the head of the religious music division of the music publishing firm Charles H. Ditson & Co. He had held that post for 40 years. His compositional output included the Club House March for band

Louis Raffy

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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 of 23 stops built by the Magen company of Agen (1862). Works Organ and harmonium * L’Orgue, 3 booklets, Paris: Loret fils and H. Freytag, (1899–1901). * Pieces in Échos jubilaires des maîtres de l’orgue, published by abbott Henri Delépine, Procure de musique religieuse (1908 and 1929). * Pieces in the Archives de l’Organiste, 8 vol. published by H. Delépine, Procure de musique religieuse. * École d’Orgue, Méthode complète pour harmonium, 2 vol., Saint-Leu-la-Forêt: Procure de musique religieuse (1908). * Célèbres et Grands Organistes Célèbres et Grands Maîtres Classiques, collection of pieces for organ or harmonium, for the use of the divine service, chosen and annotated by Louis Raffy, 6 vol, Op. 57-62. Arras: Procure générale de musique religieuse (1910–13). * 10 Pieces for organ or harmonium, St-Laurent-sur-Sèvre: L.-J. Biton, (1913). * 200 Versets, préludes, antiennes, etc. dans les tons majeurs et mineurs les plus usités, extraits des œuvres des maîtres anciens, choisis ou transcri

Louis Schindelmeisser

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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 in Berlin and Leipzig. He was an early and enthusiastic partisan of Richard Wagner, arranging his first performances in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt of Tannhäuser, of which he conducted the premiere, Rienzi and Lohengrin. Life Schindelmeisser attended High School for music in Berlin where he studied clarinet under the guidance of French virtuoso J. M. Hostié who had moved to Berlin in 1824. However, it is possible that he taught him earlier in Königsberg since Hostié had settled there already in 1812. He died in Darmstadt. His own operas were in the tradition of von Weber and Spohr and “he kept the lyrical and dramatic components in balance”. Of note is his Sinfonia Concertante Op. 2 for four clarinets and orchestra composed in 1833, believed to be the only one of its kind, Georg Druschetzky wrote a piece for three clarinets and orchestra. Compositions Music for winds * Ouvertüre zu dem Trauerspiel “Uriel Acosta” für Harmoniemusik in E-flat major. * Sinfonia Concertante op.2 for 4 clarinets

Louis Schlösser

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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 of this give a useful impression of Beethoven. Life He was born in Darmstadt in 1800, son of Falk (or Frank) Schlösser. Originally named Lazarus or Löser, he was later known as Louis. His brother Bernhard Schlösser (1802–1859) became a painter in Frankfurt am Main, and his brother Theodor Schlösser became an academy professor in Colmar. He played violin in the court orchestra of Darmstadt, and studied with Christian Heinrich Rinck. As a talented young musician he received a scholarship, and studied for three years, in Vienna with Ignaz von Seyfried, Joseph Mayseder, Jan Václav Voříšek and Antonio Salieri, and in Paris with Jean-François Le Sueur and Rudolph Kreutzer. He wrote his first compositions in Vienna. In Darmstadt he became concertmaster and from 1846 Hofkapellmeister; he gave concerts as soloist and conductor in Darmstadt and elsewhere. He was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Louis Schlösser died in 1886. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Darmstadt. Co

Louis Spohr

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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 his lifetime, Spohr composed ten symphonies, ten operas, eighteen violin concerti, four clarinet concerti, four oratorios, and various works for small ensemble, chamber music, and art songs. Spohr invented the violin chinrest and the orchestral rehearsal mark. His output spans the transition between Classical and Romantic music, of interest in his oeuvre, primarily in Europe, but his reputation has never been restored to that during his lifetime. Life Spohr was born in Braunschweig in the duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel to Karl Heinrich Spohr and Juliane Ernestine Luise Henke on 5 April 1784; then in 1786 the family moved to Seesen. Spohr’s first musical encouragement came from his parents: his mother was a gifted singer and pianist, and his father played the flute. A violinist named Dufour gave him his earliest violin teaching. The pupil’s first attempts at composition date from the early 1790s. Dufour, recognizing the boy’s musical talent, persuaded his parents to send him to Brunswick

Louis Thiry

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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 concerts internationally. His many recordings include the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in 1972, which received several awards and led the composer to describe him as “an extraordinary organist”. Thiry was blind. Biography Born in Fléville-devant-Nancy, Thiry, who was blind, studied music first at the , where he received a first prize in organ (organ class of Jeanne Demessieux) in 1952, followed by studies with André Marchal at Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris. From 1956, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Rolande Falcinelli, graduating in 1958 with a first prize in organ playing and improvisation. He was titular organist of the 1732 Lefebvre organ at the chapel of the Charles Nicole Hospital, part of the University Hospital in Rouen. He was professor of organ in Metz where one of his students was Bernard-Marie Koltès, and held the same position at the where his students included Alain Mabit, Céline Frisch and Benjamin Alard. He took part in many internationa

Louis Urgel

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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 music in the 1920s. Her Vieux Garçons! was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Gaîte-Lyrique on February 21, 1931. She was married to Hector Legru. Works Selected works include: * 1911: Aux petits Enfants, poem by Alphonse Daudet. * 1920: Les Chagrins, for singing and piano. * 1922: Monsieur Dumollet, three-act operetta, libretto by Victor Jannet, lyrics by Hugues Delorme * 1923: Amour de princesse, three-act operetta, libretto by Victor Jeannet and Hugues Delorme * 1925: Qu’en dit l’abbé?, opérette galante in three acts, libretto by Jacques Battaille-Henri * 1928: Une nuit au Louvre, three-act operetta, libretto by Henri Duvernois, lyrics by René Dorin * 1931: Vieux Garçons, conducted by Jules Gressier References External links * Louis Urgel on data.bnf.fr *

Louis Vierne

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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 was organ music, including six symphonies and four suites, and works for choir and organ, including a Messe solennelle for choir and two organs. He toured Europe and the United States as a concert organist. His students included Nadia Boulanger and Maurice Duruflé. When Vierne’s mother died on 25 March 1902, he moved to a larger flat on Rue ses Saints-Pères. A second son, André, was born on 6 January 1903, and a daughter, Collette, was born on 5 January 1907. In 1906, a street accident in Paris caused him to badly fracture his leg, and it was briefly thought that his leg would need to be amputated. The leg was saved, but his recovery, and the task of completely re-learning his pedal technique, took a half a year. *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: Martin Jean; Loft Recordings *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: David Sanger; Meridian Recordings *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: Günther Kaunzinger; Koch-Schwann *Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-6: Jeremy Filsell; Signum Classics *Second Symphony for Organ: Christopher

Louis Vuillemin

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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 Nantes, his grandfather was the piano manufacturer Louis Didion. He studied cello and composition at the conservatory of Nantes and continued at the Conservatoire de Paris, 1899–1904, with Gabriel Fauré (composition) and Xavier Leroux (harmony). He married young; his wife Lucy was a renowned singer at the time, and he collaborated with her in writing his vocal music. In 1912, he was one of the founding members of the Paris-based Association de Compositeurs Bretons. Drafted to World War I, he was severely wounded in a gas attack which was said to have cut short his life. As a music critic, Vuillemin wrote numerous reviews for Comœdia, Musica, Le Courrier musical, Paris-Soir, La Lanterne, etc. He also wrote biographies of Gabriel Fauré (1914), Louis Aubert (1921), and Albert Roussel (1924). Music Vuillemin wrote in many genres including two operas, orchestral and chamber music, vocal and piano music. He attracted some attention for the Breton-influenced Soir armoricains for piano, one of many

Louis W. Ballard

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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 Louis Wayne Ballard was born on July 8, 1931, in Devil’s Promenade near Miami, Oklahoma. His father was Charles G. Ballard, Cherokee, and his mother Leona Quapaw was Quapaw. On his mother’s side, he was related to a prominent medicine chief of the Quapaw Tribe, and on his father’s side he was related to Joel B. Mayes, a principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. His music has been celebrated with three concerts at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. in 2006 as well as a memorial concert held at the same venue on November 10, 2007. Awards and recognition Ballard graduated in 1962 from the University of Tulsa, and was distinguished by being the first American Indian to receive a graduate degree in music composition. In 1969, Ballard’s Ritmo Indio, a three movement work for woodwind quintet, won the Marion Nevins McDowell Award for American Chamber Music. Ballard’s Desert Trilogy, his second work for ballet, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1971. In 1999, he was t

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray

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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 laureate. He was born at Nantes and died at Vernouillet, near Dreux. Debussy was one of his protégés. Career His bucolic upbringing near the family estate of Grézillières certainly added to his eventual fascination with the folklore, music, and culture of Brittany and other nations. Later in life, Bourgault would support the Breton Regionalist Union, an organization indebted to the propagation of Breton culture, ideals, and the notions of independence. He was also represented in the Goursez. Bourgault was from a family of considerable political and ancestral influence. His uncle was Adolphe Billault, the famous minister of the Second Empire, personally selected by Napoleon III to act as France’s Interior Minister from 1854 to 1858. Another of his uncles, Jules Rieffel, from Alsace, founded one of France’s first agricultural schools called the École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes. His father was an important businessman, ship owner and munitions expert. These family connection

Louis-Antoine Dornel

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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 by the organist Nicolas Lebègue. He was appointed organist at the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-en-la-Cité in 1706, where he took over from François d’Agincourt. He was runner-up in the competition for the post to Jean-Philippe Rameau, who eventually refused the terms set by the church authorities. He occupied several organist posts in Paris over a period from 1714 to 1748. In 1719 he was appointed to the abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, following the death of André Raison. From 1725 to 1742, Dornel was appointed successor to du Boussetto as the music master of the Académie Française. He was required to compose a large-scale motet for choir and orchestra to be performed by the Académie each year on the feast of Saint Louis (August 25), but none survive. Dornel’s works for harpsichord and for organ were well regarded at the time, the Mercure de France stating that they were “fort estimées et de très facile exécution” (well regarded and easy to play). We know little more about the rest of h

Louis-Armand Chardin

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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 finally received the following year. He stood out for the beauty of his voice and the purity of his singing. Nevertheless, he acted coldly and never knew how to enliven the stage. The role which made him most honoured was that of Theseus in Œdipe à Colone. Chardin was a composer, and we know of him several small operas that he wrote for the , such as: le Pouvoir de la nature, in one act, 1786; la Ruse d’amour, in one act, 1786; le Clavecin, 1787; Clitandre et Céphise, 1788. In 1787 he had l’Anneau perdu et retrouvé performed at the Comédie-Italienne. He is also known for the music of a melodrama entitled: Annette et Basile. Chardin was one of the first to set music to Florian’s romances Estelle and Galatée. His oratorio Retour de Tobie was given at the Concert spirituel the same year. Chardin wrote the recitatives of Paisiello’s Le Roi Théodore à Venise, when this work, translated by Moline, was performed at the Opera on 11 September 1787. It is also necessary to add to the list of his dram

Louis-Claude Daquin

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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. Life Louis-Claude Daquin was born in Paris to a family originating from Italy, where his great-great-grandfather took the name D’Aquino after converting from Judaism to Catholicism in the town of Aquino. Louis-Claude’s parents were Claude Daquin, a painter, and Anne Tiersant, a grand-niece of Rabelais. One of Louis-Claude’s grand-uncles was a professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France, and another was the principal physician of King Louis XIV. Daquin was a musical child prodigy. He performed for the court of Louis XIV at the age of six. He was for a while a pupil of Louis Marchand. At the age of 12, he became organist at the Sainte-Chapelle, and in the following year took a similar post at the Church of Petit Saint Antoine. In 1722 he married Denise-Thérèse Quirot. Louis-Claude Daquin never lacked for work as an organist. In 1727 he was appointed organist at the Church of Saint Paul in Paris, ahead of Jean-Philippe Rameau who was also a candidate. Five years later, Daquin succeeded his

Louis-Emmanuel Jadin

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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 worked at the Théâtre de Monsieur. His first opera was staged in Versailles in 1788. The following year he took the position of second keyboardist at the Théâtre de Monsieur. In 1792 he became a musician in the National Guard. In 1802 he acted as a professor of music and in 1806 was director of the Théâtre Molière. He later won fame as a pianist and taught at the Paris Conservatory. He was made Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 1824. Many of his works were published in Paris, where he died. The playwright and chansonnier Adolphe Jadin was his son. Selected works Operas *1788 Guerre ouverte ou Ruse contre ruse 3 Acts *1790 Constance et Gernand 1 Act *1790 Joconde after Jean de La Fontaine 3 Acts *1790 La religieuse danoise ou La communauté de Copenhague 3 Acts (also called Le Duce de Waldeza) *1791 La vengeance du bailli ou La suite d’Annette et Lubin 2 Acts *1791 L’heureux stratagème 2 Acts *1792 Amélie de Monfort 3 Acts *1792 L’avare puni 1 Act *1793 Les talismans 3 Acts *1793 Le coi

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain

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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 Rochechouart, and started studying violin at an early age. He was then sent to Italy to complete his training as violinist, and studied under Giovanni Battista Somis in Turin. At the age of 24, Guillemain was working in Lyons, where he quickly established himself as one of the most sought-after performers, and was appointed first violinist of the Acadèmie de Musique. His opus 1, Premier livre de sonates for violin and basso continuo, was published in Dijon in 1734. Guillemain eventually moved back to Paris, where, in 1737, he became a musicien ordinaire to the King. His career was progressing rapidly, and by the early 1740s the composer was among the highest-paid musicians at the court, regularly performing in private concerts before the royal couple. He continued publishing his music, and his works were frequently performed at the court in the late 1740s and early 1750s. Fellow composer Louis-Claude Daquin praised Guillemain in his 1752 Lettre sur les hommes célèbres: When one speaks of a man ful

Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis

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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 hometown of Metz, Persuis moved to Paris in 1787, and entered the orchestra of the Opéra in 1793. His entire career was within this institution; he became choirmaster in 1803, then conductor in 1810, replacing Jean-Baptiste Rey. He simultaneously worked in administrative rôles, as manager, musical inspector-general (1816), stage manager (1817), then chief director from 3 September 1817 until 13 November 1819, on which date illness forced him to resign. Persuis composed ballets, operas, and opéras comiques. His greatest success was Le triomphe de Trajan (1807), written in collaboration with Le Sueur. From 1810 to 1815, Persuis was the most performed composer at the Opéra, with 157 performances, largely due to Trajan. His opéras comiques found favour at the Théâtre Favart. He also adapted others’ works, for example the oratorio Les Croisés (Die Befreyung von Jerusalem, 1813) by Maximilian Stadler. Persuis taught singing at the Conservatoire de Paris until 1802. His name was proposed for a si

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault

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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 a musical family (his father and two of his sons were also musicians). While very young, he learned to play the violin and harpsichord and he studied the organ with André Raison. Clérambault also studied composition and voice with Jean-Baptiste Moreau. Clérambault became the organist at the church of the Grands-Augustins and entered the service of Madame de Maintenon. After the death of Louis XIV and Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, he succeeded the latter at the organ of the church of Saint-Sulpice and the royal house of Saint-Cyr, an institution for young girls from the poor nobility. He was responsible there for music, the organ, directing chants and choir, etc. It was in this post—it remained his after the death of Madame de Maintenon—that he developed the genre of the “French cantata” of which he was the uncontested master. In 1719 he succeeded his teacher André Raison at the organs of the church of the Grands-Jacobins. His Motet du Saint Sacrement in G major is one of the first French wo

Louis-Noël Belaubre

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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 and music composition with Tony Aubin. From 1975, he directed the conservatory of Grasse after having been a professor at the and director of the Chevilly Conservatory. His work for piano is abundant, but he also composed symphonic music, chamber music, vocal music. He recognizes in his career the importance of the music by Béla Bartók, Frank Martin, Bohuslav Martinů, Benjamin Britten while expressing himself in a clear, expressive, diversified language, whose originality and specificity kept him away from the pre-established musical currents. Prizes * 1962: Chamber Music Prize at the Monaco “Concours de Composition Musicale” * 1965: Ballet Music Prize of Geneva * 1972: First prize of music composition of the Stroud composition (England) * 1980: Chevillon-Bonnaud Composition Prize of the Fondation de France for his entire piano work * Winner of the Viotti International Piano Competition * Winner of the Munich International Piano Competition Works Piano * 15 Sonatas: No 1, Op. 5; No 2, Op

Louis-Toussaint Milandre

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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 pour la viole d’amour (Easy Method for the Viola d’amore), published in 1771 (previously thought to be published in 1782), contains thorough information on viola d’amore technique, along with a selection of arrangements and compositions. The method remains an important pedagogical volume. In 1776, Milandre was editor of L’année musicale, a Parisian musical journal. Several composers including Louis van Waefelghem, Vadim Borisovsky and Willy Burmester have made arrangements and transcriptions of Milandre’s works. Works ;Orchestral * Symphonie à sept parties (1776) ;Viola d’amore * Méthode facile pour la viole d’amour, ou l’on traite des differentes gambes, de la double corde, des pincés, des sons harmoniques &c, avec une suite d’airs connus arrangés pour cet instrument seul, d’autres airs avec accompagnement de basse, et deux trio pour une viole d’amour, violon et basse, Op. 5 (1771 ); published by Le Menu, Paris :: Pièces pour une viole d’amour avec basse :: Pièces pour une viole d’amo

Louise Beach

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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 the 1995 National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Composition Award and is a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow, and she was composer of the musicals The Morini Strad and Sabina. Biography Louise Beach was born on September 29, 1955, in Wilmington, Delaware, and obtained her BA (1977) from Wesleyan University. She also taught at the Centre Internationale de la Danse de Paris, Florida State University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Utah. After obtaining her MFA (1996) in Composition from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory, Beach studied with the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and worked with the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Studio. Other compositions she completed include Sonata for Violin and Piano (1997) and Wondrous Love (2002), In 2002, Beach was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition. She was composer for the Willy Holtzman musical The Morini Strad; Alice T. Carter of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review commended her role in the play’s 2010 world p

Louise Béguin-Salomon

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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, Béguin-Salomon became a celebrated pianist in the Parisian concert scene, often programming canonic standards alongside contemporary repertoire. As a composer she authored a wide variety of solo piano works. Life and career Louise-Frédérique Cohen (née Salomon) was born on 9 April 1831 in Marseille, France. She was the daughter of Salomon Rousseau Cohen (1796–1876) and Cesarine Boisset (1796–1880); at some point the family lived in Remilly-Aillicourt. Admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris on 7 July 1843, she studied there until 1851. Béguin-Salomon received the Officier d’Academie honor in 1887 and died on 12 November 1916 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. and Petite suite des pièces faciles dans le style classique (1894). In addition, Béguin-Salomon arranged the Andante movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet No. 1 for piano in 1853. List of compositions Sources: Piano Solo * La Bal breton, quadrille brillant et facile (1849) * Le Mysoli, bluette pour piano, Op. 11 (1853)

Louise Bertin

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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 later her brother, were the editors of Journal des débats, an influential newspaper. As encouraged by her family, Bertin pursued music. She received lessons from François-Joseph Fétis, who directed a private family performance of Guy Mannering, Bertin’s first opera, in 1825. This opera, never formally produced, took its storyline from the book of the same name by Sir Walter Scott. Two years later, Bertin’s second opera, Le loup-garou, was produced at the Opéra-Comique. At age 21, Bertin began working on the opera semiseria Fausto to her own libretto in Italian, based on Goethe’s Faust, a subject “almost certainly suggested” by her father. A performance of the opera was scheduled for 1830, but due to many unforeseen complications, Fausto did not reach the stage until 1831. It was not well received and had only three performances. Shortly before this, Bertin became friends with Victor Hugo. Hugo had sketched out an operatic version of his book Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-D

Louise Brown Verrill

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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 composition in Berlin and Dresden, then married Harry Mighels Verrill in 1895. They had five children. In 1897 she was elected to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Verrill’s music was published by Louis H. Ross & Co. Her works include: Piano *Alone *Birch Tree *Chaconne *Du bist wie eine Blume *Exultation *Four Moods of a Gnome *Ghosts on Parade *It Happened in Spain *It is Spring *Jennie Kissed Me *Lonely Pine *March of the Patriot *Reverie *Rumpelstiltskin *Slumber Song *Tenderness *Tone Pictures *Tone Poem *Walhalla *Waltz *When Shadows Fall *Yellow Moon Vocal *“Pleasant Dreams” *Winter Joy (solo and chorus) *“You Came Like the Dawn” (music by Ivan McScod; text by Louise Brown Verrill) External links *Download free sheet music by Louise Brown Verrill References

Louise E. Stairs

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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, as well as piano and vocal works for children. Stairs was born in Troupsburg, New York, to Alice Clare Stephens and Colonel Ellsworth Simpson. She married Alpheus Wade Stairs on September 3, 1912, and they had a daughter (Ruth). Oliver Ditson, and Theodore Presser Co. Her compositions include: Cantatas *Choral Cantata *Infant Holy: Christmas Cantata *Light O’er Bethlehem: Christmas Cantata Organ *Advent Prayer *Arietta *Soldiers at Play *To Whit, To Whoo Vocal *“His Loving Call” *“Lift Up Your Heads” *“Nest of Baby Bunnies” *“Robin Redbreast’s Song” *“Robin’s Song” *“Sailboats” *“So Longeth My Soul for Thee” *“There is an Eye that Never Sleeps” *“When the Robin Sings” *“Woodland Concert” *Hear works for organ by Louise E. Stairs References

Louise Farrenc

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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 chamber pieces and a wide variety of piano music. Life and career Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont and sister to Auguste Dumont. Her father was in the fourth generation of a master craftsman dynasty employed by the French Royalty; her brother Auguste was in the fifth and final generation of this chain. Growing up, she lived in an apartment connected to the historic Sorbonne University, where many artist families were housed by the French government. She began piano studies at an early age with Cecile Soria, a former student of Muzio Clementi. When it became clear that she had the ability to become a professional pianist she was given lessons by such masters as Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and, given the talent she showed as a composer, her parents decided to let her, in 1818 at the age of fifteen, study composition with Anton Reicha, a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatoire de Paris. However, she was taught t

Louise Filliaux-Tiger

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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 de Paris, spending her subsequent career in the city. As a successful performer and composer for piano, most of her works were for the instrument, although she wrote vocal and chamber music as well. Life and career Louise Sophie Tiger was born on 22 May 1848 in the of Paris, France. Her father was the architect Alexandre-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Tiger, while her mother was the painter . She entered the Conservatoire de Paris sometime before 1868. She died suddenly on 28 November 1916 in Nice, France. :Piano * Deux Pièces Pastorales pour piano, 1890 * Dans les brandes, 1900 References External links * *

Louise Geneviève de La Hye

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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 Geneviève Rousseau was born in Charenton, France, on March 7, 1807. She was the daughter of Marie-Anne Noblot and of the musician Charles-Louis Rousseau, therefore the grand niece of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She studied piano with her father and with Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, and in 1821 entered the Paris Conservatory. Rousseau began teaching at the Conservatory in 1830, but moved to Cambrai after she married with the marquis Chaumont de la Hye. She had two children and returned to Paris in 1834 where she continued teaching and composing. She suffered from poor health and died in Paris at the age of 31. Works La Hye composed works including an opera, cantatas, masses, piano works, duos and string quartets. Selected compositions include: *Le songe de la religieuse *Six mélodies italiennes Her Méthode d’orgue expressif was published after her death, en 1839. Romances * Le Corsaire rouge !, lyrics by M. de la Hye * Chant du crépuscule, lyrics by Victor Hugo, in La Gazette des salons

Louise Héritte-Viardot

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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 Viardot-Garcia and Louis Viardot, niece of Maria Malibran and sister to composer and conductor Paul Viardot. In 1863 Viardot married Ernest Héritte, Honorary Consul and Chancellor of the Embassy of France in Bern. Her performing career was ended by illness, and with the help of Clara Schumann, she found a teaching position as a singing teacher at the Hoch Conservatory. She died in Heidelberg. Works Héritte-Viardot composed mostly chamber music pieces and orchestral works and symphonies, many of which are lost. Selected works include: *Arme kleine Liebe (in Drei Lieder) (Text: Anna Ritter) *Der Schmied, op. 8 no. 5 (Text: Johann Ludwig Uhland) *Erlösung (Text: Anna Ritter) *Saphiren sind die Augen dein (in 6 Lieder) (Text: Heinrich Heine) *Sehnsucht (Text: Anna Ritter) *Sérénade (Text: J. Bertrand) *Tag und Nacht (in Drei Lieder) (Text: Gustav Renner) *Unter’m Machendelbaum (in Drei Lieder) (Text: Ernst von Wildenbruch) *Sonata for cello and piano opus 40, (1909) *Die Bajadere, cantata for choru

Louise Japha

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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 Fritz Warendorf and composition from Georg August Groß and Friedrich Wilhelm Grund. Her first concert was on 10 February 1838 in the local Apollo Hall. To practice the piano she went to the piano factory of Baumgarten und Heins, where she met the young Johannes Brahms. They practised and played together and discussed his first compositions. A long-lasting friendly relationship developed between Louise Japha and Brahms, who was seven years younger than her. Brahms dedicated one of his earliest works (Op. 6, six songs) to Louise and her sister Minna to express his gratitude. At the invitation of Clara Schumann, Louise Japha moved to Düsseldorf with her sister in 1853 to complete her musical studies with the Schumanns. There she met Johannes Brahms again. Franz Liszt dedicated his Beethoven Cantata No. 1 (Celebratory cantata for the unveiling of the Beethoven monument in Bonn, 1845) to her. She worked in association with Stephen Heller, François-Auguste Gevaert, Camille Saint-Saëns, César

Louise Reichardt

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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 and were popular. Louise Reichard was known for composing in the style of “romantic songs,” which are based on poetic settings. Additionally, she was influential in the musical life of Hamburg, Germany, where she lived from 1809. Biography Early life She was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of composers Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783) and Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814) and the granddaughter of Franz Benda (1709–1786). Her grandfather and father were, respectively, Konzertmeister and Kapellmeister at the court of Frederick the Great. After Juliane Reichardt died when Louise was only four years old, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven also contributed greatly to the collection. Hamburg In 1809 she moved to Hamburg, where she studied with Johann Frederich Clasing. Nor did she rely on her family for financial stability. However, due to the prevailing sexism of the times, she was never allowed to conduct them in public. * XII Deutsche und italiänische romantische Gesän

Louise Robyn

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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 director for at least one year. Her piano pedagogy methods and books are still in use today. She published and taught as Louise Robyn. Robyn was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Mary Ann O’Reilly and William Robyn, a merchant. Little is known about her education. She began working at the American Conservatory of Music in 1901, where she taught advanced piano and teacher training. She also chaired the children’s department and in 1937 served as Director of the conservatory. Storm Bull, Jack Fascinato, Irwin Fischer, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. In 1939, Music Clubs Magazine reported at least one Louise Robyn Club in Detroit, Michigan. Robyn collaborated on some publications with Howard Hanks, Louise Johnson, Mildred Ross, and Florence White Williams. She produced many works, all for piano or early childhood music education, which were published by Clayton F. Summy Co., Lyon & Healy, Inc., Oliver Ditson, Robyn Teaching Service, Theodore Presser Company, and Winthrop Rogers Ltd., and include: *Brok

Louise Strantz

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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 Berlin and commander of the Royal Prussian State Gendarmerie. She studied music with Constanze Blank, Jaehns, and Pax. She married Adolf von Strantz, and they moved to Berlin in 1842, where she lived until her death in 1909. Composer Franz Bendel based his Wiegenlied on a text by Strantz. Strantz’s music was published by Bote & Bock, Hermann, and Tobias Haslinger. *Fest - Walzer *Konig Marsch *Reverie *Wilhelm - Marsch Vocal *“Anna Polka” *Cantata: Des Kaiser’s Ruh ‘schütz’ *“Klage dem Liebchen” *Zwei Lieder References

Louise Talma

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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 Nadia Boulanger, she focused on composition from 1935. She taught at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, and at Hunter College. Her opera The Alcestiad was the first full-scale opera by an American woman staged in Europe. She was the first woman in the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the first woman awarded the Sibelius Medal for Composition. Career Born in Arcachon in France to an American mother, Alma Cecile Garrigues, a professional soprano who took the name Cecile Talma around 1900, and a father whose identity remains unknown. Mother and daughter returned to the United States in 1914, settling in New York City. Talma grew up surrounded by music but was also an excellent science student and considered becoming a chemist before deciding on a career as a musician. After graduating from Wadleigh High School, Talma studied chemistry at Columbia University while simultaneously studying piano and composition at the Institute of Musical Arts (now Juilliard) in New York from 192

Louise Tunison

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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 born in New Jersey to Edward and Emily A. Tunison. at the Herald Square Theatre. The same year, the music and lyrics to “Forget Me Not,” “Memories,” and “‘Twas But a Dream” were published in the New York Journal newspaper. “Twas But a Dream” was performed in vaudeville shows. “Dying Rose” and “Song of a Heart” were produced on piano rolls by the Aeolian Company, and “Song of a Heart” was recorded on Victor 31692. Discography Her songs were published by T. B. Harms & Co. *“Forget Me Not” *“Next Summer” *“Song of a Heart” *"‘Twas But a Dream" Death Tunison died of heart disease at age 26 in New York City on May 21, 1899. References External links * * Hear the Victor 31692 recording of “Song of a Heart”

Louise V. Gustin

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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. Moore and Louisa Rawlings Moore. Both of her parents were immigrants from Great Britain. Her father worked for the railroad, and her mother was a shopkeeper. Career Louise V. Gustin was a music teacher and piano demonstrator in Detroit when she began publishing her compositions with her colleague, Frederick E. Belcher (husband of composer Henriette Blanke-Belcher). Belcher’s catalog was soon acquired by Whitney-Warner Publishing, and then Jerome H. Remick, giving Gustin a wider potential audience beyond Detroit. “Janice Meredith: Waltzes” (1900), “When Knighthood Was in Flower: Waltzes” (1900), “X-N-Tric: Two Step” (1900), “Soldier of Fortune March” (1901), “Mistress Nell: Waltzes” (1901), “Viola Waltzes” (1901), “Lindy” (1902), “Neome: Waltzes (1903), “In Love’s Garden” (1904), “MM and MCB March Two-Step” (1905), “Let’s Trot” (1915), and “Waltz with Me: Waltzes” (1915). Some of Gustin’s music was available for player pianos. Writer and composer Monroe Rosenfeld mentioned her as an exa

Loulou Gasté

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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 internationally as “Feelings” and has been covered almost 1200 times. Personal life and death Gasté discovered and helped launched the career of French singer and actress Line Renaud in 1945. They married in 1950. He died at home, at Rueil-Malmaison, close to Paris on 8 January 1995. Selected compositions * 1941: “Avec son Ukulélé” (for Jacques Pills) * 1941: “Le Chant du Gardian” (for Tino Rossi) * 1943: “Elle Etait Swing” (for Jacques Pills) * 1943: “L’âme au Diable” (for Léo Marjane) * 1943: “Sainte-Madeleine” (for Léo Marjane) * 1944: “Domingo” (for Lucienne Delyle) * 1945: “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” (for Lisette Jambel) * 1945: “Quand un Cow-boy” (for Georges Guétary) * 1945: “Le Rythme Américain” (for Lily Fayol) * 1945: “Ce n’était pas Original” (for Jacqueline François) * 1945: “Le Porte Bonheur, Chica Chica” (for Jacques Hélian) * 1945: “Un Oiseau Chante” (for Gisèle Pascal) * 1945: “Luna Park” (for Yves Montand) * 1945: “Battling Jo” (for Yves Montand) * 1947: “Au Chili” (for Jacqu

Lowell Liebermann

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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 composing shortly after. He credits his second piano teacher, Ada Sohn Segal (a Leschetitsky student) with instilling a love of music in him. At the age of 13 he declared his desire to be a composer and at the age of 14 began composition lessons with Ruth Schonthal, a Hindemith pupil. He composed his first Piano Sonata at the age of 15 and performed it at Carnegie Recital Hall a year later. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School, where he received a BM, MM and DMA, studying composition with David Diamond and Vincent Persichetti and piano with Jacob Lateiner. He also studied conducting privately with Laszlo Halasz and spent a year between his Bachelor and master’s degrees serving as assistant conductor to Halasz. Career and works One of Liebermann’s earliest successes was the Sonata for Flute and Piano Op.23, commissioned by the Spoleto USA Festival for flautist Paula Robison and pianist Jean Yves Thibaudet, a work which has gone on to become one of the most frequently performed so

Lowell Mason

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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 of which are often sung today. His best-known work includes an arrangement of “Joy to the World” and the tune Bethany, which sets the hymn text Nearer, My God, to Thee. Mason also set music to Mary Had A Little Lamb. He is largely credited with introducing music into American public schools, and is considered the first important U.S. music educator. He has also been criticized for helping to largely eliminate the robust tradition of participatory sacred music that flourished in North America before his time. Life Mason was born and grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, where he became the music director of First Parish (now First Parish Unitarian Universalist) Church at age 17. His birthplace residence was saved from development in 2011. It was relocated to a town park on Green Street. The Lowell Mason House foundation is an effort to create a Lowell Mason museum and music education center. The foundation remains active as of 2021. He spent the first part of his adulthood in Savannah, Geo

Loyalty (Shostakovich)

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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 Yevgeny Dolmatovsky. It was composed in commemoration of the centennial of Vladimir Lenin’s birth in 1970. Shostakovich had contemplated composing a vocal work in tribute to Lenin as early as 1968; by 1969, he announced that he was envisioning a work in oratorio form. A visit to a mass song event in the Estonian SSR that same year helped him to settle on composing Loyalty as an a capella work for men’s chorus. He composed it for and dedicated it to choral conductor Gustav Ernesaks, but did not inform him about the work until after it was completed. Sources conflict as to when and where Shostakovich began Loyalty, but the score was completed on February 13, 1970. It was premiered in Tallinn, Estonian SSR on December 5 sung by the Estonian SSR State Academic Male Choir conducted by Ernesaks. The work was received warmly in the Soviet Union, but has been mostly ignored and derided elsewhere. Background Compositions for a cappella chorus were rare in Shostakovich’s work. He said in a 1951

Loyset Compère

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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 chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the light Italianate Renaissance style to France. Life His exact place of birth is not known, but documents of the time assign him to a family from the province of Artois (in modern France), and suggest he may have been born in Hainaut (in modern Belgium). At least one source from Milan indicates he described himself as coming from Arras, also in Artois. Both the date and probable place of birth are extremely close to those of Josquin des Prez; indeed the area around the current French-Belgian border produced an astonishing number of excellent composers in the 15th and 16th centuries, composers whose fame spread throughout Europe. Often these composers are known as the Franco-Flemish or Netherlandish School). In the 1470s Compère worked as a singer in Milan at the chapel of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza, during the time that composers such as Johannes Martini and Gaspar van Weerbeke were also singing there. The chapel choir in the e