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Lü Ji (composer)

Lü Ji (; Yale romanization: Lyǔ Jì; 1909 – January 5, 2002), originally named Lü Zhanqing (吕展青; pinyin: Lǚ Zhǎnqīng; Yale romanization: Lyǔ Jǎn-Chīng), was a Chinese composer. He was also a music

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Lu Yen

Lu Yen (; 20 November 1930 – 1 October 2008) was a Chinese-born Taiwanese composer. Biography Yen was born in Nanjing, China, and was educated in National Taiwan Normal University, Mannes College,

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Ľubica Čekovská

Ľubica Čekovská (Humenné) is a Slovak composer and pianist. Biography Čekovská studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her works have been

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Lubomyr Melnyk

Lubomyr Melnyk (born December 22, 1948) is a composer and pianist of Ukrainian origin. Melnyk is noted for his 'continuous music', a piano technique featuring extremely rapid notes and complex

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Lubor Bárta

Lubor Bárta (8 August 1928 – 5 November 1972 in Prague) was a Czech composer. Life and career Bárta was born on 8 August 1928 in Lubná. He studied musicology and aesthetics from 1946 to 1948 at

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Luboš Fišer

Luboš Fišer (30 September 1935 – 22 June 1999) was a Czech composer, born in Prague. He was known both for his soundtracks and chamber music. From 1952 to 1956 he studied composition at the Prague

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Luboš Sluka

Luboš Sluka (born September 13, 1928, in Opočno) is a Czech contemporary composer. Life and career Lubos Sluka was admitted to Prague Conservatory where he completed his studies in three subjects -

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Luc Brewaeys

Luc Brewaeys (25 October 1959 in Mortsel, Belgium – 18 December 2015 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Belgian composer, conductor, pianist and recording producer at the VRT (Flemish Radio & Television). He

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Luc Ferrari

Lucien Ferrari (5 February 1929 – 22 August 2005) was a French composer and pioneer in musique concrète and electroacoustic music. He was a founding member of RTF's Groupe de Recherches Musicales

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Luc Van Hove

Luc Van Hove (born 1957, Wilrijk, Belgium) is a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Luc Van Hove received his musical training at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. He

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Luca Antignani

Luca Antignani (born 1976 in Italy) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. He also teaches various theory music classes in Switzerland, and France. Life Luca Antignani graduated in

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Luca Antonio Predieri

Luca Antonio Predieri (13 September 1688 – 3 January 1767) was an Italian composer and violinist. A member of a prominent family of musicians, Predieri was born in Bologna and was active there from

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Luca Belcastro

Luca Belcastro (born 18 September 1964 in Como, Italy) is an Italian composer of classical music. Education Belcastro graduated in Classical guitar and in Composition, with the highest grade. He

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Luca D'Alberto

Luca D’Alberto (born 6 May 1983) is an Italian composer, musician, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist hails from Teramo, Abruzzo. Early life and background D’Alberto was born and brought up

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Luca Flores

Luca Flores (October 20, 1956 - March 29, 1995) was an Italian pianist and composer. He is considered one of the most interesting exponents of the Italian jazz scene. Biography Born in Palermo, the

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Luca Francesconi

Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, later with Karlheinz Stockhausen and then Luciano Berio. Early years Luca Francesconi was born in

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Luca Gianquitto

Luca Gianquitto (; born 29 September 1978 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian guitarist and music composer living in Amstelveen, Netherlands. Biography Gianquitto's mediterranean style is mainly

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Luca Lombardi (composer)

Luca Lombardi (born 24 December 1945) is an Italian composer. Biography Lombardi was born in Rome. He studied composition initially with Armando Renzi and Roberto Lupi, later enrolling at the Pesaro

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Luca Luciano

Luca Luciano (born 12 August 1975) is a solo artist and a thinker, a clarinet virtuoso and a composer with a strong interest in philosophy, who has made his career in Great Britain, lived in London

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Luca Marenzio

Luca Marenzio (also Marentio; October 18, 1553 or 1554 – August 22, 1599) was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigals, and wrote

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Lucas Santtana

Lucas Mascarenhas Santana (born October 18, 1970), known as his stage name Lucas Santtana, is a Brazilian singer, composer and producer from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In his CD, Sem Nostalgia (YB

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Lucas Vidal

Lucas Vidal (born 6 March 1984) is a Spanish composer, conductor, and record producer. Vidal became the youngest Berklee College of Music student ever to compose and record the score to a feature

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Lucía Álvarez

Lucía Álvarez Vázquez (born November 28, 1948) is a Mexican composer and pianist widely known throughout Latin America. Born in Mexico City, Álvarez received her degree in piano and composition from

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Lucia Contini Anselmi

Lucia Contini Anselmi (15 October 1876 – after 1913) was an Italian pianist and composer. Life She was born on 15 October 1876 in Vercelli, Piedmont. was an Italian pianist and composer. She studied

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Lucia Dlugoszewski

Lucia Dlugoszewski (June 16, 1925 – April 11, 2000) was a Polish-American composer, poet, choreographer, performer, and inventor. She developed a unique approach to the grand piano called the "timbre

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Lucia Ronchetti

Lucia Ronchetti (born 3 February 1963) is an Italian composer. Biography Ronchetti studied composition and computer music at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and took part in composition

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Luciana Souza

Luciana Souza (born 12 July 1966) is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who also works in bossa nova, pop, classical and chamber music. She won a Grammy Award in 2007, and has been nominated for

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Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular Sequenza, his series of solo pieces using extended techniques, and his 1968

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Luciano Chailly

Luciano Chailly (Ferrara, 19 January 1920 – Milan, 24 December 2002) was an Italian composer and arts administrator of French descent. He was an eclectic and prolific composer in the post-war Italy,

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Luciano Cilio

Luciano Cilio (1950 – 21 May 1983) was an Italian composer and musician. Born in Naples, Cilio was trained in both architecture and music. In the early 1970s, he became involved with Italy’s

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Luciano Gallet

Luciano Gallet (June 28, 1893 in Rio de Janeiro – October 29, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian composer, conductor and pianist. Gallet was born in Rio de Janeiro to a French-Brazilian father

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Luciano Sgrizzi

Luciano Sgrizzi (30 October 1910 – 11 September 1994) was an Italian harpsichordist, organist, pianist and composer. Life and career Luciano Sgrizzi was born in Bologna on October 30, 1910. His

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Lucie Vellère

Lucie Vellère (23 December 1896 – 12 October 1966) was a Belgian composer. Biography Lucie Vellère was born in Brussels, and began piano lessons with her father at the age of six. She studied with

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Lucien Cailliet

Lucien Cailliet (May 22, 1891 – January 3, 1985) was a French-American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist. Biography Cailliet was born in 1891 at Dampierre-sur-Moivre, in northern France.

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Lucien Capet

Lucien Louis Capet (8 January 1873 – 18 December 1928) was a French violinist, pedagogue and composer. Career Capet came from the Paris proletariat. By the age of fifteen, he had to maintain himself

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Lucien Deiss

Lucien Deiss, was a French Catholic priest, biblical scholar, and liturgical composer. He was born in Eschbach, Bas-Rhin, on 2 September 1921, and died on 9 October 2007 at the age of 86. Deiss

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Lucien Durosoir

Lucien Durosoir (1878 – 5 December 1955) was a French composer and violinist whose works were rediscovered thanks to manuscripts found by his son Luc. Durosoir studied the violin with Joseph Joachim

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Lucien Garban

Lucien Garban (1877–1959) was a French composer, music arranger and editor who wrote transcriptions still performed in the modern repertoire. The Bibliothèque nationale de France lists about twenty

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Lucien Goethals

Lucien Goethals (26 June 1931 – 12 December 2006) was a Belgian composer. Life Lucien Goethals was born in Ghent, but spent his formative years in Argentina, where he studied at the Dima Conservatory

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Lucien Haudebert

Lucien Haudebert (10 April 1877 – 24 February 1963) was a French composer who strongly identified with his Breton heritage. Life Haudebert was born in Fougères, Département Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.

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Lucien Martin

Lucien Martin (30 May 1908 – 29 October 1950) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer. Only one of his compositions was published, the art song La Chanson des belles, which was performed by

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Lucien Posman

Lucien Posman (born 22 March 1952 in Eeklo) is a Belgian composer. Lucien Posman is honorary professor composition, counterpoint and fugue at the Royal Conservatory of the University College Ghent.

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Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert

Lucien-Leon Guillaume Lambert or Lucien Lambert, Jr. (1858–1945) was a French pianist and composer of African-American Creole descent. His family was noted for talent in music and gained

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Lūcija Garūta

Lūcija Garūta (14 May 1902 – 15 February 1977) was a Latvian pianist, poet and composer. She is mostly known for composing the cantata Dievs, Tava zeme deg! in 1943. Life and career Lūcija Garūta was

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Lucio Agostini

Lucio Agostini (30 December 1913 (Fano, Italy) – 15 December 1996 (Toronto)) was an Italian-born composer, arranger, and conductor who established his career in Canada. Life At age three, Agostini

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Lucio Fabbri

Lucio Fabbri (born 25 March 1955) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Crema, Lombardy, Fabbri graduated in violin and then in the early 1970s he

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Lucio Garau

Lucio Garau (born 9 December 1959) is an Italian composer of contemporary music and pianist. Garau graduated in Piano and Composition at the Conservatorio di Cagliari, where he studied with Franco

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Lucio Godoy

Lucio Godoy (born 1958) is an Argentine-Spanish film composer and music producer. He lived in Madrid from 1992 to 2013, working as a film ad TV composer, scoring and doing the music production for

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Lucio Gregoretti

Lucio Gregoretti (born 1961) is an Italian composer. He composed operas, symphonic and chamber music, electroacoustic music, as well as incidental music for theatre plays, musical comedies, and film

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Lucius R. Wyatt

Lucius Reynolds Wyatt (born August 18, 1938) is an American trumpet player, composer and professor. Wyatt was born in Waycross, Georgia. From an early age he studied piano with his mother as well as

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Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (31 August 1918 – 16 August 2008) was a Filipino composer and pianist. She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.

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Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana

Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (also "Lucretia") (3 July 1590 – 7 May 1662) was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. She entered the Camaldolese convent of Santa Christina in Bologna in 1598. She was

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Lucy Armstrong

Lucy Armstrong (born 2 September 1991) is a British composer based in London, who was appointed Fellow of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London in 2018. She is currently

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Lucy Simon

Lucy Elizabeth Simon (May 5, 1940 – October 20, 2022) was an American singer and composer for the theatre and of popular songs. She recorded and performed as a singer and songwriter, and was known

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Lucy Ward (musician)

Lucy Victoria Ward is an English singer-songwriter from Derby, England. She performs, with a voice described as expressive and powerful, traditional English folk songs as well as her own material.

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Ludmila Frajt

Ludmila Frajt (31 December 1919 – 14 March 1999) was a Yugoslav and Serbian composer. She wrote choral, orchestral and chamber works, music for films and radio-dramas, electro-acoustic works, as well

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Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska

Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska (1849 – 2 November 1898) was a Polish singer and composer. She was born in Małachowo, near Poznań, and studied singing in Vienna with Mathilde Marchesi and in Milan

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Ludmila Ulehla

Ludmila Ulehla (20 May 1923– 05 December 2009) was an American composer and music educator. Biography Ludmila Ulehla was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. She began the study of piano and violin

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Ludolf Nielsen

Karl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen (29 January 1876 – 16 October 1939) was a Danish composer, violinist, conductor, and pianist. Today he is considered one of the most important Danish composers of the early

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Ludomir Różycki

Ludomir Różycki (; 18 September 1883 Warsaw – 1 January 1953 Katowice) was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a

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Ludovic Bource

Ludovic Bource (; born 19 August 1970 in Pontivy) is a French composer best known for his work in film scoring. He rose to international critical acclaim in 2011 for composing the Golden Globe- and

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Ludovic Lamothe

Ludovic Lamothe (12 May 1882 - 4 April 1953) was a Haitian composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of Haiti's most important classical composers. Biography Early life A native of

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Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (; born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later

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Ludovico Roncalli

Count Ludovico Giuseppe Antonio Filippo Roncalli, or simply Count Ludovico (1654–1713), was an Italian composer. Roncalli was born in Bergamo on 6 March 1654 and baptized at the church of San

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Ludovicus Episcopius

Lodewijk de Bisschop, Latinised as Ludovicus Episcopius (c. 1520 in Mechelen – 29 April 1595 in Straubing) was a Flemish Roman Catholic priest and composer of the late Renaissance and one of the

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Ludvig Irgens-Jensen

Paul Ludvig Irgens-Jensen (13 April 1894 – 11 April 1969) was a Norwegian twentieth-century composer. Biography Irgens-Jensen studied piano with Nils Larsen while a philology student at the

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Ludvig Mathias Lindeman

Ludvig Mathias Lindeman (28 November 1812 – 11 March 1887) was a Norwegian composer and organist. He is most noted for compiling Norwegian folk music in his work Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier.

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Ludvig Norman

Ludvig Norman (28 August 183128 March 1885) was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important

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Ludvík Podéšť

Ludvík Podéšť, pseudonym Ludvík Binovský (19 December 1921 – 27 February 1968), was a Czech composer, conductor, music journalist and editor. Life and career Podéšť was born on 19 December 1921 in

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Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský

Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský () (17 July 1870 in Vienna – 27 October 1931 in Prague) was a Czech conductor and composer. He was founder and first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Ludwig Abeille

Johann Christian Ludwig (Louis) Abeille (20 February 1761 in Bayreuth – 2 March 1838 in Stuttgart) was a German pianist, organist, conductor, music teacher and composer. Life His father was baronial

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Ludwig August Lebrun

Ludwig August Lebrun (baptized 2 May 1752 – 16 December 1790) was a German oboist and composer. Life Lebrun was born in Mannheim. The well-known and celebrated oboe virtuoso (a contemporary described

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Ludwig Daser

Ludwig Daser (c. 1526 – 27 March 1589) was a German renaissance composer and choirmaster. His career is marked by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation struggles of his time. A noted composer in

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Ludwig Engländer

Ludwig Engländer (October 20, 1853 Vienna, Austrian Empire – September 13, 1914) was an Austrian Empire-born American composer of more than 30 musicals. He was born in Vienna, Austrian Empire.

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Ludwig Göransson

Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson (; ; born 1 September 1984) is a Swedish musician, composer, and record producer. Based in the United States, he is often regarded as one of the most successful composers

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Ludwig Hartmann (composer)

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Hartmann (3 August 1836 – 14 February 1910) was a German composer and music critic. Life Born in Neuss, Hartmann was the son of music director in Neuss, Friedrich Hartmann.

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Ludwig Lenel

Ludwig Lenel (May 20, 1914 – April 22, 2002) was a German organist and composer. Early life and education Lenel was born May 20, 1914, in Strasburg, Germany during the German Empire in present-day

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Ludwig Minkus

Ludwig Minkus (), also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (23 March 1826 – 7 December 1917), was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violinist and teacher of music. Minkus is noted for the music he

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Ludwig Roselius (composer)

Ludwig Roselius (2 August 1902 – 6 February 1977) was a German composer and conductor. Life and career Roselius was born in Kassel, the son of the merchant Georg Roselius and a relative of the coffee

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Ludwig Rottenberg

Ludwig Rottenberg (11 October 1865 – 6 May 1932) was an Austrian/German composer and conductor. Biography Rottenberg came from a German-speaking Jewish family in Czernowitz, the then-capital of

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Ludwig Schmidseder

Ludwig Schmidseder (24 August 1904, in Passau – 21 June 1971, in Munich) was a German composer and pianist of the "Light Muse". Several of his Schlager compositions are still popular tunes today. The

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Ludwig Schuncke

Christian Ludwig Schuncke (21 December 18107 December 1834) was a German pianist and composer, and close friend of Robert Schumann. His early promise was eclipsed by his death from tuberculosis at

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Ludwig Senfl

Ludwig Senfl (born around 1486, died between December 2, 1542 and August 10, 1543) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was

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Ludwig Thuille

Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (30 November 1861 – 5 February 1907) was an Austrian composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the so-called Munich

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, he was mentored

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Ludwig van Beethoven (Baerer)

Ludwig van Beethoven is a series of sculptures of Ludwig van Beethoven by German-American sculptor Henry Baerer. Versions are displayed in Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, as well as

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Ludwig van Beethoven in film

The composer Ludwig van Beethoven has been the subject of a number of biographical films. List of films A now-lost French silent film called Beethoven was mentioned in the press in January 1913, and

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Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith

Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith (Prague, 7 July 1746 – Paris, 3 October 1820) was a Bohemian horn player and versatile composer influenced by Joseph Haydn and Ignaz Pleyel. Today he is chiefly remembered

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Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer

Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer (February 8, 1789 – October 13–25, 1878) was a German composer, conductor, and violinist born in Potsdam. In 1802, he debuted in Berlin with his first major violin performance.

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Ludwig Wilhelm Reuling

Ludwig Wilhelm Reuling (also Wilhelm Ludwig Reuling; 22 December 1802 – 29 April 1877) was a German composer and conductor at opera houses in Vienna. Life Reuling was born in Darmstadt in 1802; his

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Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson

Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson (Lewis-William Ferguson-Tepper, Tepper von Ferguson, Louis-Guillaume Tepper de Ferguson; 18 December 1768, Warsaw – 12 September 1838, Paris) was a Polish–Russian

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Luella Totten

Luella Totten (c. 1870 – November 5, 1950) was an American pianist, composer, and music educator. She was also known as Louis von Heinrich. Early life Luella G. Totten was born in Pittsburgh,

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Luichy Guzman

Luis Alberto Guzmán (; born 22 July 1974) is a Dominican composer and singer-songwriter. He has composed the music for the films Quiero ser fiel, Ladrones and Veneno: Primera caída – El relámpago de

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Luigi Arditi

Luigi Arditi (16 July 1822 – 1 May 1903) was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor whose career took him around Europe and the Americas, finally settling in London. Life Arditi was born in

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Luigi Astolfi

Luigi Astolfi (; 1790s–1860s) was an Italian dancer, choreographer and composer. Life Luigi Astolfi was born in Lombardy in the 1790s. In 1817 he had his first success as a dancer performing Osvaldo

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Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also ; ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured

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Luigi Bottazzo

Luigi Bottazzo (9 July 1845 – 29 December 1924) was an Italian organist and composer. Life Early years Bottazzo was born in Presina di Piazzola, Padua, Italy. At the age of nine he was permanently

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Luigi Capotorti

Luigi Capotorti (17 March 1767 – 17 November 1842) was an Italian composer of both sacred and secular music. He was the maestro di cappella of several Neapolitan churches; the composer of ten operas,

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Luigi Carlini

Luigi Carlini was an Italian composer specializing in opera, with a career centered in Milan in the 19th century. Life and career Luigi Carlini was born in Naples, Campania, Italy in the late 18th

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Luigi Castellacci

Luigi Castellacci (1797 in Pisa – 1845) was an Italian virtuoso on the mandolin and guitar, an instrumental composer and the author of popular French romances with guitar and piano accompaniments. He

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Luigi Ceccarelli

Luigi Ceccarelli (born 20 April 1953 in Rimini, Italy) is an Italian composer. Biography Luigi Ceccarelli completed his musical studies in the ‘70s at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro

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Luigi Cherubini

Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini ( ; ; 8 or 14 September 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred

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Luigi Dallapiccola

Luigi Dallapiccola (3 February 1904 – 19 February 1975) was an Italian composer and pianist known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. Biography Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria,

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Luigi de Baillou

Pietro Luigi Francesco de Baillou (27 July 1736 – 14 March

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Luigi Denza

Luigi Denza (24 February 1846 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian composer. When Denza was Professor of Music at the London Academy of Music, he was asked to judge the 1904 Feis Ceoil Irish Singing

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Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata

Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata (15 May 1807 – 24 September 1881) was an Italian composer and music critic. Life Before 1849 Born in Würzburg in the Grand Duchy of Würzburg (now Bavaria), Casamorata was

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Luigi Legnani

Luigi Rinaldo Legnani (7 November 1790 – 5 August 1877) was an Italian virtuoso guitarist, singer, composer and luthier. Life Born in Ravenna, Legnani was trained as a string player while very young

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Luigi Lopez

Luigi Lopez (30 September 1947 – 6 May 2025) was an Italian composer, musician and singer-songwriter. Life and career Lopez started his career as songwriter in the late 1960s, and in 1970 he started

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Luigi Mancinelli

Luigi Mancinelli (; 5 February 1848 – 2 February 1921) was an Italian conductor, cellist and composer. His early career was in Italy, where he established a reputation in Perugia and then Bologna.

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Luigi Maria Viviani

Luigi Maria Viviani (? – 1856) was an Italian composer, conductor and violinist of Florentine origin. He was primarily noted for his ballet scores, most of them composed for the choreographers

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Luigi Mosca

Luigi Mosca (1775 – 30 November 1824) was an Italian composer of operas and sacred music and a noted singing teacher. He composed eighteen operas, most of which were originally for theatres in

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Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono (; 29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music. Biography Early years Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his

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Luigi Ricci (composer)

Luigi Ricci (8 July 1805 – 31 December 1859) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works. He was also a

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Luigi Russolo

Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises

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Luigi Vannuccini

Luigi Vannuccini (4 December 1828 – 14 August 1911) was an Italian conductor, composer and teacher of bel canto Life Born in Foiano della Chiana, Vannuccini began his musical studies with his father

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Luis Abraham Delgadillo

Luis Abraham Delgadillo (August 25, 1887 – December 20, 1961) was a Nicaraguan composer. He was director-general of musical culture for Nicaragua and later led the National School of Music in Managua

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Luis Advis

Luis Advis Vitaglich (10 February 1935 – 9 September 2004) was a Chilean professor of philosophy, and a noted composer of traditional and New Chilean music. He was officially recognized as a

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Luis Antonio Ramírez

Luis Antonio Ramírez (10 February 1923 Santurce, Puerto Rico – 15 May 1995 San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a Puerto Rican composer. Formal education From 1954 to 1957, Ramírez studied piano and harmony

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Luis Bordón

Luis Bordón (1926-2006) was a Paraguayan composer and interpreter of the Paraguayan harp. Early life and career Luis Bordón was born in the city of Guarambaré, Paraguay on August 19, 1926, and from a

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Luis de Briceño

Luis de Briceño (also Briçeño, Brizeño; fl. 1610s–1630s) was a Spanish guitarist and music theorist who introduced the Spanish guitar style in France, where previously only the lute was considered a

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Luís de Freitas Branco

Luís Maria da Costa de Freitas Branco (12 October 1890 – 27 November 1955) was a Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music who played a pre-eminent part in the development of

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Luis de los Cobos

Luis de los Cobos Almaraz (Valladolid, 20 April 1927 – Geneva, 16 November 2012) was a Spanish composer. In 1944, he was briefly jailed for taking part in protests against the Francoist government,

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Luis de Milán

Luis de Milán (also known as Lluís del Milà or Luys Milán) (c. 1500 – c. 1561) was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist, and writer on music. He was the first composer in history to publish

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Luis de Narváez

Luis de Narváez (fl. Approx: 1490 - 1550) was a Spanish composer and vihuelist. Highly regarded and infleuntial his works are still performed to this day including his very famous "Guárdame Las

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Luis de Pablo

Luis de Pablo Costales (28 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a Spanish composer belonging to the generation that Cristóbal Halffter named the Generación del 51. Mostly self-taught as a composer and

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Luis Días (composer)

Luis Díaz Portorreal, best known as Luis Días (June 21, 1952 – December 8, 2009), was a Dominican Republic musician, composer and performer of popular music. He was immersed in the popular music and

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Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom

Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom (6 December 1971 – 21 July 2013) was a Colombian composer of contemporary classical music who lived and worked in Paris since 1999. He was also a high performance athlete,

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Luis Gianneo

Luis Gianneo (9 January 1897 – 15 August 1968) was an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. As music educator, he was the teacher of composers Ariel Ramirez, Juan Carlos Zorzi, Marta Lambertini,

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Luis Jorge González

Luis Jorge González (January 22, 1936 – February 3, 2016) was an Argentine composer and educator. Life Born in San Juan, Argentina, on January 22, 1936, Luis Jorge González (also known as Luis Jorge

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Luis Mariano de Larra

Luis Mariano de Larra y Wetoret (1830, in Madrid – 1901, in Madrid) was a Spanish writer, son of journalist Mariano José de Larra. Noted as the librettist of numerous zarzuelas such as El Toro y el

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Luis Pacheco de Céspedes

Luis Pacheco de Céspedes (25 November 1895 – 16 February 1982) was a Peruvian composer, violinist, and conductor. Life and career Luis Pacheco de Céspedes was born in Lima, Peru on 25 November 1895.

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Luis Sandi

Luis Sandi Meneses (22 February 1905, Mexico City – 1996), was a musician, teacher and composer. Biography The complete name is Luis Sandi Meneses. Born February 22, 1905 in Mexico City, the only

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Luisa Casagemas

Lluïsa Casagemas i Coll (b. 13 Dec 1873, d. ? after 1930; one source says c. 1942) was a Catalan violinist, singer and composer. She was born in Barcelona and studied composition with Francesc de

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Luise Adolpha Le Beau

Luise Adolpha Le Beau (25 April 1850 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 17 July 1927 in Baden-Baden) was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and

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Luise Greger

Luise Sumpf Greger (27 December 1862 – 25 January 1944 ) was a German composer and pianist. Life Greger took lessons at five and at nine she played for the Tsar. She began composing at 11. While

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Luiz Päetow

Luiz Päetow (born 1979) is a Brazilian theatre director, actor and playwright. Early life and education Päetow started working at age 11, with several productions of the British Council Theatre Group

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Luka Sorkočević

Count Luka Sorkočević (; January 13, 1734 – September 11, 1789) was composer from the Republic of Ragusa. His music has been preserved, like other Sorkočević family possessions, in the archives of

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Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor. Career Born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany, in 1922, Foss was soon recognized as a child

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Lukas Ligeti

Lukas Ligeti (born in Vienna, Austria, 13 June 1965) is an Austrian composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical and various world musics, especially

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Lukas Nathanson

Lukas Nathanson (born 4 July 1986) is a Swedish record producer, composer and songwriter. He is commonly known for collaborating with producers Scott Effman, Kenneth Coby as well as various artists

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Luke Bedford

Luke Bedford (born 25 April 1978) is a British composer. He studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge at the Royal College of Music, and won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 2000.

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Luke Cissell

Luke Cissell (born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist known for creating works that feature "bright, glowing melodies and ornate structures while

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Luke Flintoft

Luke Flintoft (1680 - 3 November 1727), was an English clergyman and composer. Flintoft was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and took the degree of BA at Queens' College,

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Luke Flynn

Luke Flynn (born 1988, in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American composer of film, television, and concert music. He is most widely known for his choral, orchestral, and concert band works. In the film

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Luke Mombrea

Luke Mombrea is an American composer of modern classical and electroacoustic music. He is best known for works utilizing live electronic elements, microtonality, folk music and field recordings.

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Lullaby of the Leaves

"Lullaby of the Leaves" is a musical composition by composer Bernice Petkere and lyricist Joe Young. A Tin Pan Alley song first performed in 1932, the jazz standard is considered the biggest critical

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Lulu Dikana

Lungisa Dikana (18 December 1978 – 3 December 2014) was a South African recording artist and vocalist. Her music career shot to limelight in 2008 following the release of her debut album My Diary, My

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Luming Lu

Lu Lu-ming (; born 23 June 1982), also known as Luming Lu, is a Taiwanese film score composer. He won Best Original Film Song with the horror film Detention (2019) in the 56th Golden Horse Awards and

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Luna Alcalay

Luna Alcalay (21 October 1928 – 9 October 2012) was a Croatian-born Austrian pianist, music educator and composer, described as "one of the most internationally renowned Austrian composers."

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Luna Pearl Woolf

Luna Pearl Woolf (born 1973) is a Canadian-American composer, producer, and dramaturg. Her oeuvre includes opera, chamber music, orchestra, and choral compositions including works for dramatic

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Lupus Hellinck

Lupus Hellinck (also Wulfaert) (1493 or 1494 – c. 14 January 1541) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of masses, as well as German chorales and motets. Although he

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Luther Henderson

Luther Henderson (March 14, 1919 – July 29, 2003) was an American arranger, composer, orchestrator, and pianist best known for his contributions to Broadway musicals. Early life and career Born in

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Lutz Glandien

Lutz Glandien (born 1954) is a German avant garde composer and musician based in Berlin. He has composed a number of classical and electroacoustic pieces, released four solo albums, and collaborated

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Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau

Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (born 1963) is a German composer of classical music. He was born in Regensburg and studied composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater

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Lưu Hữu Phước

Lưu Hữu Phước (12 September 1921 – 8 June 1989) was a Vietnamese composer, a member of the National Assembly, and Chairman of the Committee of Culture and Education of the National Assembly of the

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Luzzasco Luzzaschi

Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 10 September 1607) was an Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was born and died in Ferrara, and despite evidence of travels to Rome it is

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