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Lü Ji (composer)

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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 writer, educator, and administrator. He was born in Xiangtan, Hunan in 1909 and became interested in music from an early age, learning to play several traditional instruments.He graduated from Changsha Chang Jun Secondary School in Changsha, https://web.archive.org/web/20090202024045/http://haotushu.com/book/15433/ and studied music at the Shanghai Music Training School (now the Shanghai Conservatory of Music).In 1931 or 1932 he joined the Leftist Dramatic League in Shanghai, https://web.archive.org/web/20110221052001/http://www.kervan.unito.it/contents/documents/k1_pisa.pdfand he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1935. http://www.csonline.com.cn/infomation/rlcsmr/t20040810_219132.htm He became one of the most active composers of revolutionary Chinese music during the 1930s. In a 1936 article entitled “Zhongguo xin yinyue” (China New Music), he set out his philosophy about revolutionary music: After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he was appointed vice pres

Lu Yen

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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, City University of New York, and University of Pennsylvania. He received Taiwan’s in 1993 and 1998. As a pupil of William Jay Sydeman, Mario Davidovsky, George Rochberg and George Crumb, Lu was well known of his atonal writings combining counterpoint skills. George Rochberg commented that Lu’s music “has a unique scent”. Lu wrote in his article “My Artistic Journey” that he wished to write “music praising mother nature’s great beauty and powers.” During 1967–2008, Lu wrote 6 solo instrumental works, 70+ chamber ensemble works (excluding art songs), 5 Chinese chamber works, 16 orchestral works, 1 Chinese orchestra piece, and 11 art songs. Among these works, there was a repeated theme about the sound of bell, which Lu always remembered from his childhood in the Jiangnan region of China. Two biographies were published in Taiwan, Lu Yen: A Cold Fire of Music, written by Taiwanese poet Chen Li (陳黎) in 1997 and A Poetic Journey of Nostalgia, by Canadian-Taiwanese composer Shyh-ji Chew () and Ta

Ľubica Čekovská

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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 featured at ISCM World Music Days festivals (2009, Sweden; 2013, Slovakia) and Prague Spring festivals (2006, 2013, 2015). She was awarded the Ján Levoslav Bella Prize for her piano concerto Two Portraits (2003), and the 2012 SOZA Award for international performances of Slovak music. Čekovská works in a variety of genres, including composing for film, television, and theatre. She is represented by the German music publisher Bärenreiter. Her latest opera, Impresario Dotcom, was commissioned for the Bregenzer Festspiele in 2020, but postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Čekovská then created a special abridged version for the restructured Festtage im Festspielhaus event in August 2020. Awards * 1998 Royal Academy of Music - The Cuthbert Nunn Composition Prize * 1998-2000 The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust * 2000 Royal Academu of Music -The Leverhulme Award * 2004 Music Fund Slovakia - Ján Levoslav Bella Prize * 2011-2012 SOZA Award * 2013 Tatrabanka Fundation Award * 2020 Krištáľové

Lubomyr Melnyk

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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 note-series, usually with the sustain pedal held down to generate harmonic overtones and sympathetic resonances. “This is a completely-completely different piano universe from everything that has existed before”, Melnyk explains. Music Melnyk links his piano technique to his national identity. “This music would not exist at all if I were not Ukrainian. Our distinguishing feature is that we tend to sacrifice ourselves. Ukrainians are self-sacrificing for things that are important to them”. These overtones blend or clash according to harmonic changes. Most of his music is for the solo piano, but he has also composed chamber music and orchestral works where he plays the continuous piano and is accompanied by musicians with other instruments, for example: “The End of the World” or “Vocalises and Antiphons”. Some pieces are performed for two pianos, where he plays over a recording of himself, for instance “Niche-Nourish-Niche-Xon”. Of his technique, he has said: There’s an act of creation. For thi

Lubor Bárta

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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 Charles University in Prague and was a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague until 1952. While he was still a student, he composed his first chamber works: Piano Variations, Three Polka Studies, Violin Sonata, Divertimento for Wind Quintet and String Quartet. His early compositions were influenced by Stravinsky and Bartók, but he gradually came into his own compositional style, especially apparent in his instrumental works. From 1952 to 1955 he was an artistic leader of the ensemble Proud. He subsequently lived as a teacher and freelance composer in Prague. He composed three symphonies, concerti, string quartets, piano pieces, sonatas and other chamber music. Bárta died on 5 November 1972 in Prague, at the age of 44. Selected works ; Orchestral * Symphony No.1 (1955) * Concerto for chamber orchestra (1956) * (Dramatic Suite) (1958) * (From Eastern Bohemia), Symphonic suite (1960) * , Suite for chamber orchestra (1964) :# :# :# :# * Symphony No.2 (1969) * for str

Luboš Fišer

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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 Conservatory as a pupil of Emil Hlobil. From 1956 he studied at the AMU in Prague. His first publicly performed compositions were Four Pieces for Violin and Piano (1954). Selected compositions ;Orchestra & Wind Ensemble * Patnáct listů podle Dürerovy Apokalypsy (Fifteen Prints after Dürer’s Apocalypse) (1965) * Double (1969) * Lament for chamber orchestra (1971) * Report for wind ensemble (1971) * Labyrinth (1977) * Serenády pro Salzburg (Serenades for Salzburg) for chamber orchestra (1979) * Meridián (1980) * Sonata for orchestra (1998) ;Concertante * Concerto da camera for piano and orchestra (two versions, 1964 with full orchestra, 1970 with wind) * Concerto for piano and orchestra (1979) * Romance for violin and orchestra (1980) * Concerto for two pianos and orchestra (1983) * Concerto for violin and orchestra (1998) * Sonata per Leonardo for guitar and orchestra * Pastorale per Giuseppe Tartini for guitar and orchestra ;Chamber * Dialogue for trumpet and organ (1996) * Impromptu for

Luboš Sluka

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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 - percussion, conducting and composition. In 1951, Sluka was chosen as Arthur Honegger’s student, as well as George Auric’s assistant. However, his stay in Paris has been cancelled due to political reasons. He graduated at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in composition with Jaroslav Řídký and Pavel Borkovec, film music with Václav Trojan in 1959. From 1962 to 1963, he was employed as the program editor in Czech Television, from 1963 till 1969 he’d worked in the music publishing company Panton. In February 1992 was voted the chairman of the Society of composers and in January 1995 the chairman of the whole Association of musical artists and scientists of the Czech Republic. Sluka’s work is very complex and diverse (more than 350 compositions). He had also paid a great heed to vocal and vocal-symphonic compositions (8 song cycles, 5 cantatas), film and television productions (70 full-length films, 30 television productions, 3 musicals and 5 TV serials), as well as to orchestral musi

Luc Brewaeys

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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 studied composition with André Laporte in Brussels, with Franco Donatoni in Siena (Italy) and with Brian Ferneyhough in Darmstadt (Germany). Prizes and distinctions * 3rd prize of the European Competition for Young Composers (1985). * 1st prize in the category “young composers” from the international tribunal of composers of UNESCO (1986). * 1st prize “Prix de Musique Contemporaine du Québec” (1988) for the work entière. * 1st prize for the competition of European composers at the International meeting of contemporary music in Metz (1988). * The prize for the “Musique de la Communauté Flamande” (1989) * The SABAM prize (1990) * 1st prize for “Premio Musicale Città di Trieste” for symphonic composition (1991). Works and Discography Vocal and Choral works *2015 On a day 9’ *2010 speechless song, seeming many, being one ‘Sonnet n° 8’ by William Shakespeare ca. 6’ *2009 vogliamo inneggiare all’uomo 3’ *2007 Fantasia con tre canzoni popolare Napoletane 8’ *2006 L’uomo dal fiore in bocca Ope

Luc Ferrari

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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 (GRMC), working alongside composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. Biography Ferrari was born in Paris and was trained in music at a very young age. He studied the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen, and composition under Arthur Honegger. His first works were freely atonal. A case of tuberculosis in his youth interrupted his career as a pianist. From then on, he mostly concentrated on musical composition. During this illness, he had the opportunity to become acquainted with the radio receiver, and with pioneers such as Schönberg, Berg, and Webern. In 1954, Ferrari went to the United States to meet Edgard Varèse, whose Déserts he had heard on the radio, and had impressed him. This seems to have had a great effect on him, with the tape part in Déserts serving as inspiration for Ferrari to use magnetic tape in his own music. In 1958, he co-founded the Groupe de Recherches Musicales with Pierre Schaeffer and François-Bernard Mâche. He taught in insti

Luc Van Hove

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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 studied composition with Willem Kersters and music analysis with August Verbesselt. Afterwards he pursued advanced studies at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg (orchestral conducting) and at the University of Surrey. He has gained several awards, including the Sabam Prize for Contemporary Music (1993). He is an honorary professor of composition and music analysis at Luca, School of Arts, campus Lemmensinstituut of Leuven and former professor of composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, department of the Artesis Plantijn University College of Antwerp. He is also a former extraordinary professor at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts (President of the Class of the Arts in 2011), and Commander in the Order of Leopold II. Luc Van Hove received commissions from and was performed by numerous Belgian orchestras, ensembles and soloists, e.g. the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Flemish Radio Orchestra (Brussels

Luca Antignani

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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 piano, orchestral conducting, electronic music and composition at the Scuola Civica “Claudio Abbado” in Milan, at the Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the IRCAM in Paris. His compositions have been committed by prestigious institutions and performed in several international music festivals such as the Biennale (Venice), Teatro dell’Opera, MiTo, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montréal), Opéra Comique, Radio France, Présences, Résonances and Agora (Paris), Orchestra della RAI (Turin), Orchestre des Pays de Savoie (Annecy), Opéra, Orchestre National, Société de Musique de Chambre, Festival Biennale en Musiques, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain and Chœur Britten (Lyon), Musica (Strasbourg), Les Musiques, Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée (Marseille), Dresdner Musikfestspiele (Dresde), and numerous other cities such as San Francisco, Philadelphia, Bloomington, Ithaca (USA), Tallinn (Estonia) and Rostock (Germany). Several works b

Luca Antonio Predieri

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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 1704. In 1737 he moved to Vienna, eventually becoming Kapellmeister to the imperial Habsburg court in 1741, a post he held for ten years. In 1765 he returned to his native city where he died two years later at the age of 78. A prolific opera composer, he was also known for his sacred music and oratorios. Although his operas were largely forgotten by the end of his own lifetime and most of their scores lost, individual arias as well some of his sacred music are still performed and recorded. Life The son of Vitale Predieri and Maria Menzani, Predieri was born in Bologna to a prominent family of musicians which included organist and composer Giacomo Maria Predieri (1611–1695), singer Antonio Predieri (1650–1710), singer and composer Angelo Predieri (1655–1731), and singer and composer Giacomo Cesare Predieri (1671-1753). He studied the violin with Abondio Bini and Tommaso Vitali, and counterpoint with Giacomo Cesare Predieri, Angelo Predieri, and Giacomo Antonio Perti. He is recorded as hav

Luca Belcastro

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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 attended specialization courses with Azio Corghi at the Accademia G. Petrassi in Parma and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Roma, where he graduated with top marks and “Premio SIAE”. Career Belcastro’s orchestral works have been awarded in important International Competitions, among those “Ciutat de Tarragona” International Award for Musical Composition (E),“Valentino Bucchi” - Roma, “2 Agosto” - Bologna, “Concours Européen du Jeune Compositeur” - Strasbourg (F), and executed by Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orchestra of Colours - Athens, OSER Toscanini - Parma, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Milano-Classica. His Opera “1896 - Pheidippides… corri ancora!” has been awarded at the “Dimitris Mitropoulos - World Opera Project” - Athens 2001. His chamber music works won the First Prize in numerous International Competitions, among those “Edvard Grieg” - Oslo (N), “Biennale Neue Musik - Hannover” (D) (performed by The Hilliard

Luca D'Alberto

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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 in Teramo, Abruzzo. He completed his graduation in violin and viola summa cum laude with a Ministerial Mention in Italy. He studied with Clara Campi, Rocco De Massis (First Violist of “San Carlo Napoli”), Antonio Anselmi (First Violinist of “Musici Di Roma”) Reiner Schmidt. As a winner of international selection, he attended the Music academy in Cremona and Milano studying with Bruno Giuranna and Simonide Braconi (First Viola in Scala, Milan). During his classical studies, he became interested by other musical genres such as electronic music, rock, and experimental music. Career In 2004, D’Alberto collaborated with Xabier Iriondo, a former guitarist and founder of Italian rock band Afterhours, creating with him the experimental music project Choral Funis Dualitas. In the same year, D’Alberto became a Violectra Official Player, testimonial of this particular instrument alongside the likes of Jean-Luc Ponty and Nigel Kennedy. During 2012 and 2015, he continued his artistic career as a so

Luca Flores

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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 youngest of four siblings, he moved with his family to Mozambique in 1959. There he began playing piano at the age of 5. When he returned to Italy in 1966, he spent some time in Rome and then in Portugal, before arriving in Florence in 1972. He studied at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory where he graduated in piano with honours in 1981. Later on he studied jazz with Roberto Pichini, Marco Vavolo, Enrico Pieranunzi and Franco D’Andrea. His encounter with jazz took place in the early 1970s: he frequented Florentine clubs such as the Andrea del Sarto, where he met the nascent community of Italian jazz musicians. He made his national debut in the “Tiziana Ghiglioni Sextet” (with Tiziana Ghiglioni, Maurizio Caldura Nuñez, Luca Bonvini, Franco Nesti, Alessandro Fabbri) with which he recorded his first LP, Streams (1984). Together with Gianni Cazzola he formed the “Matt Jazz Quintet” (with Maurizio Caldura Nuñez, Alessandro Di Puccio, Marco Vaggi). With these groups he took part in major Italia

Luca Francesconi

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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 Milan. His father was a painter who edited Il Corriere dei piccoli and conceived Il Corriere dei ragazzi, while his mother was an advertiser. Francesconi spent his early years in QT8, a working-class quarter in Milan. At the age of five he began to learn the piano. Although he was accepted into the junior high school section of the city’s conservatory six years later, he pulled out. Instead, Francesconi opted to attend the junior high school in QT8. Education Francesconi returned to the Conservatory of Milan in 1974, while he was still attending the Berchet Classical Languages High School, and explored the musical landscape, taking an interest in different sounds. He played in jazz and rock groups as well as in classical concerts. Francesconi worked as a session man in recording studios, and composed music for theatre, cinema, advertising, and television. Francesconi attended the Milan Conservatory and enrolled in the composition course conducted by Azio Corghi. “From him I learnt the tr

Luca Gianquitto

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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 influenced by jazz, blues and rock. In 2005 he was recognised among the “New Italian Jazz talents” by Chicco Bettinardi commission and in the same year he signed off a contract with Wide Sound releasing the instrumental album My Big Room. A track of the CD, “Floriana” was represented in Italian Jazz, Vol.3 (2010), a compilation featuring some of the most influential Italian jazz musicians of the year. In 2016 Luca released a second instrumental album Nibiru (LG Music). The CD was presented with a sold-out concert at The Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. During his career he travels and plays as professional musician on venues and events such as Montreal Jazz Festival, Eurojazz in Mexico City, Istanbul Jazz Festival. Besides the live performances Luca’s guitar has recorded music for movies, big bands, rock projects, and other countless collaborations with jazz and pop artists. Luca has a master’s degree in Jazz Music at the Conservatory of Naples, specializing in Big Band arrangement and Jazz Im

Luca Lombardi (composer)

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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 Conservatory where he studied with Boris Porena, receiving his diploma in 1970. He then studied musicology at the University of Rome, graduating with a thesis on Hanns Eisler. From 1968 to 1972 he lived in Cologne where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, and Frederic Rzewski at the Cologne Courses for New Music, and with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik. He also studied for a time in Berlin with Paul Dessau in 1973 at the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. From 1973–1994 he was a professor of composition at the Conservatories of Pesaro and Milan, since then he is a freelance composer. Lombardi composed around 180 works, including 5 operas, 3 symphonies, as well as numerous orchestral works and chamber music. His vocal-symphonic composition “Italia mia” was first performed at Milan’s La Scala in February 2012. He is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Munich). Personal life He

Luca Luciano

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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 for more than twenty years and now lives between the UK and Italy. Early life and education Luciano was born in Naples, Italy. and his interpretations are praised as “bold and unique”. Introduced as “the new voice of the clarinet” by De Klarinet magazine, a keen promoter of new music, he has been described by Musician Magazine as “a noted Italian clarinettist and composer who now makes his home in London, having developed an enviable reputation as an instrumental virtuoso around the UK and overseas via recordings and concert hall appearances”. Praised by the International Clarinet Association for “the full range of his abilities”, Luciano was introduced by the BBC as “one of Europe’s leading exponents of jazz clarinet”. He has “established himself as the friendly face of contemporary clarinet” according to the Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine. He has held several recitals, master-classes, lecture-recitals and workshops in the UK, Europe and South America including the South Bank Centre in L

Luca Marenzio

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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 some of the most famous examples of the form in its late stage of development, prior to its early Baroque transformation by Monteverdi. In all, Marenzio wrote around 500 madrigals, ranging from the lightest to the most serious styles, packed with word-painting, chromaticism, and other characteristics of the late madrigal style. Marenzio was influential as far away as England, where his earlier, lighter work appeared in 1588 in the Musica Transalpina, the collection that initiated the madrigal craze in that country. Marenzio worked in the service of several aristocratic Italian families, including the Gonzaga, Este, and Medici, and spent most of his career in Rome. Early years According to biographer Leonardo Cozzando, writing in the late 17th century, Marenzio was born at Coccaglio, a small town near Brescia, as one of seven children to a poor family. His father was a notary clerk in Brescia. A birthdate of October 18, 1553 has been proposed, based his father’s stating in 1588 that his

Lucas Santtana

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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 Music, 2009), he recreates the Brazilian guitar tradition, mixing up sounds from the 1950s, like João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi, with mashups, samples and his own creations. His album O Céu É Velho Há Muito Tempo was considered one of the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2019 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA). APCA also chose his album O Paraíso as one of the 50 best Brazilian albums of 2023. References External links * Lucas Santtana Official Website * Lucas Santtana on facebook * Lucas Santtana on Twitter

Lucas Vidal

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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 film with a full orchestra, and he is best known for composing the score for the 2013 film Fast & Furious 6. Life Lucas Vidal was born and grew up in Madrid. His father is also a musician, and his grandfather was one of the founders of the record company Hispavox. He began studying piano and flute at age 4. When he was 16 years old, he went to Berklee College of Music for a summer term to play sax and was introduced to the film scoring department. Vidal decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a film composer. He met his business partner, Steve Dzialowski, and decided to create a company, Music and Motion Productions, while attending Berklee. Vidal made history when he became the youngest Berklee College of Music student ever to compose and record the score to a feature film with a full orchestra. Hundreds of recording sessions and dozens of movie scores, commercial music jobs, video game soundtracks and ballet scores later, Vidal is getting his biggest-ever assignments. After studying

Lucía Álvarez

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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 the School of Music at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She studied under Carlos Vázquez, Pablo Castellanos, Jorge Suárez, Américo Caramuta and Pierre van Hawe. Her music reflects aspects of Neo-romantic traditions rather than avant-garde styles that popularized throughout the late 20th century. Since the 1970s, Álvarez has composed music for films, television, and more than 100 concert works, including duets and quartets for strings, chamber music, and symphonic orchestras. Her work includes Midaq Alley (1995), for which she won the Ariel Award for Best Original Score in 1995, The Beginning and the End (1993), and Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles (2002). She is considered one of the best composers in the history of Mexican cinema. References Sources * * * External links *Lucía Álvarez - IMDb *Nuestro socios y su obra - Lucía Álvarez *SensaCine - Biografia *Ariel de Oro para Lucía Álvarez - UNAM *The Sphinx Catalog for Latin-American Cello Works - Lucia Álvarez *Sociedad

Lucia Contini Anselmi

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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 piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Alessandro Parisotti at the Conservatory in Rome. Contini Anselmi composed more than thirty works, mostly for piano but also eight for orchestra, three for violin and piano. She also composed a ballet, Driadi e satiri (Dryads and Satyrs), and an operetta, La Sponda Magica (The Magic Shore), a fairy opera in three acts. Her death date is unknown, although it is generally agree that she died after 1913. Some of her works were performed at the University of Melbourne in 2020. Works Anselmi’s works include compositions for orchestra, solo piano, violin and cello. Selected works include: *Prelude *Gavotte *Minuet *Sonata for Piano in C minor *Sibylla Cumaea *Ludentia *Inno guerresco References

Lucia Dlugoszewski

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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 piano,” which involved using objects on the strings and playing the piano’s interior with percussion mallets, hands, or other methods. She also invented many percussion instruments, including Unsheltered Rattles, Tangent Rattles, Square Drums, and Ladder Harps. She is known for her long association with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, for which she first composed in 1951. She served as the company’s music director until Hawkins’s death in 1994, after which she became its artistic director. Background and early years The daughter of Polish immigrants, Dlugoszewski was born and raised in Detroit. Beginning at the age of six, she studied piano under Agelageth Morrison at the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts, also known as the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Later in life, she studied pre-med at Wayne State University, where she also took physics courses. In 1950, Dlugoszewski moved to New York City, where she became based for the rest of her life. In New York, she took piano lessons from

Lucia Ronchetti

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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 seminars with Sylvano Bussotti at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (1981–85) and with Salvatore Sciarrino at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello (1988–1989). She studied humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she got her degree in 1987, presenting a dissertation on Bruno Maderna’s orchestral compositions. In 1991 she received a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne. She subsequently studied musicology with François Lesure at the École pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne, and received a doctorate with her thesis on the orchestral style of Ernest Chausson and Wagnerian influence on late 19th-century French orchestral writing. In Paris she participated in composition seminars with Gérard Grisey (1993–1996) and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM (1997) under the supervision of Tristan Murail. In 2005 she was a visiting scholar as a Fulbright Fellow at the Music Department of Columbia University

Luciana Souza

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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 seven others, most recently in 2024. Souza is considered to be one of jazz’s leading singers and interpreters. The New York Times called her voice “smooth-surfaced, coolly sensuous and dartingly agile.” Early life and education Souza was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. Her father Walter Santos was a singer, songwriter, and commercial musician who also contributed background vocals to bossa nova recordings by Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto, and her mother Tereza Souza was a poet and lyricist. She began her recording career at age three with a radio commercial. Career Souza has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider, Danilo Pérez, Guillermo Klein, John Patitucci, and others. She has been a soloist in new works by composers including Osvaldo Golijov, Derek Bermel, Patrick Zimmerli, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, performing with the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta

Luciano Berio

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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 orchestral composition Sinfonia) and for his pioneering work in electronic music. His early work was influenced by Igor Stravinsky and experiments with serial and electronic techniques, while his later works explore indeterminacy and the use of spoken texts as the basic material for composition. Life and career Berio was born in Oneglia (now part of Imperia), on the Ligurian coast of Italy on 24 October 1925. After the war, unable to continue studying the piano because of his injured hand, he instead focused on composition. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, counterpoint with Giulio Cesare Paribeni and from 1948 composition with Giorgio Federico Ghedini. from whom he gained an interest in serialism. From 1954 he attended the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik at Darmstadt, His students included Louis Andriessen, Noah Creshevsky, Steven Gellman, Dina Koston, Steve Reich, Luca Francesconi, Giulio Castagnoli, Flavio Emilio Scogna, William Schimmel and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. Al

Luciano Chailly

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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, combining tonal, polytonal, and twelve-tone techniques. Grew up under fascism, Chailly remained apolitical and was a humanist. As he witnessed the brutality of war by serving in second World War, several compositions reflect his repudiation of war. from whom he drew his major musical influence. He met the writer Dino Buzzati in 1954. He wrote the opera libretti for five of his novels: Ferrovia soprelevata, Procedura penale, Il mantello, Era proibito, L’aumento. Chailly also wrote the music for some of his subjects: the ballet Fantasmi al Grand Hotel and the play Drammatica fine di un noto musicista. From 1962, following the launch of Rai 2, he was appointed director of music programs, composing music for television dramas, including those based on the novels The Idiot of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mastro-don Gesualdo of Giuseppe Verga, for documentaries and for films, such as Madre ignota directed by Gian Vittorio Baldi. In this period, he also composed the Missa Papae Pauli in honour of Pop

Luciano Cilio

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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 progressive rock and experimental theater scenes. He collaborated with musicians such as Alan Sorrenti and Shawn Phillips. Cilio recorded and released an album of minimalist music, Dialoghi del presente, in 1977. The album is organized as a suite of four movements plus an interlude, and uses instruments such as acoustic guitar, mandolin, strings, piano, woodwinds, voice, and percussion. O’Rourke cites De Simone as responsible for rediscovering Cilio’s work, and draws comparisons to artists such as Nick Drake, Bill Fay, This Heat, Popol Vuh, and Arvo Pärt. References External links *Luciano Cilio: Dell’Universo Assente, review *Luciano Cilio Dell’Universo Assente official reissue at Die Schachtel

Luciano Gallet

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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 and a French mother and displayed musical talent at a young age, winning the Gold Medal from the Instituto Nacional de Música in 1916. He began piano playing as a school boy, and first studied and graduated in architecture, before enrolling at the Instituto Nacional de Música to study music with Henrique Oswald, Abdon Milanez and Agnelo França. In 1917, he studied harmony with Darius Milhaud. In 1922, he started to conduct the choir and the orchestra of the Instituto Nacional de Música and in 1926 he became publisher of the music magazine Weco. In 1930 he was one of the founders of the Associação Brasileira de Música and became Director of the Instituto Nacional de Música. Gallet spearheaded a campaign called Reagir! (to fight back) in 1930 to “rescue” Brazilian music and culture from what he saw as popular indifference. His initial article, published in the newspaper O Globo, was republished and circulated widely. Gallet was married to Luisa Gallet until his death in 1931. She later mar

Luciano Sgrizzi

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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 father, Domenico Sgrizzi, was a postal worker who died when Luciano was six years old. At the age of 13 he began studies as a pianist at the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. and by Alessandro Scarlatti. He made a number of recordings, of which seven were awarded the Grand Prix du Disque. These included the complete concertos of Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach for solo harpsichord, and many of the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. In 1980 he was named Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and in 1985 was named Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Cultural Minister Jack Lang. He died in Monte Carlo, (Monaco), where he had lived for the last few years of his life. Compositions * Dancing Song: Valzer (1933) * Concerto for piano and orchestra (1935) * String trio (1935) * Concerto per orchestra (1936) * Impressioni (1936) * Introduction and Scherzo, flute and piano (1937) * Paesaggi (1951) * Suite Napoletana (1951) * Englische Suite nach Werken der

Lucie Vellère

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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 Emile Chaumont for violin, Paul Miry for harmony, and Joseph Jongen for composition. She was awarded the 1957 “Prix du Brabant” and received an award from the American Section of the International Council for Women for her compositions. She made her primary living as a pharmacist and composed as a hobby. Selected works Vellère composed works for voice, solo instruments, chamber ensembles, chorus and orchestra in a traditional style. Most of her works show impressionistic tendencies. *Chanson nocturne (for violin and piano) 1920 *String Quartet No. 1 in d minor 1937 *String Quartet No. 2 in e minor 1942 *Piano Trio 1947 *Fantaisie en trois mouvement (for violin and piano) 1950 *String Quartet No. 3 1951 *Nocturne (for cello and piano) 1954 *Petite Symphony 1956 *Arlequinade (for trumpet and piano) 1959 *Bagatelles (String Trio) 1960 *Dialogue (for oboe and piano) 1960 *Intermède (for flute and piano) 1960 *Sonata for violin and viola 1961 *Divertissement (for violin and piano) 1962 *String

Lucien Cailliet

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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. He studied at several French music conservatories, most notably the Conservatory in Dijon, where he graduated at age 22. He also received a degree from the National Conservatory in Paris. He became a bandmaster in the French Army and, in 1915, toured the United States with the French Army Band, including performances at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. In 1919 or 1920, Cailliet emigrated to the US and joined the Philadelphia Orchestra, as a clarinetist, saxophonist, and staff arranger, where he worked closely with Leopold Stokowski. Around this time he also founded the Cherry Hill Wind Symphony, which would later become the Wind Symphony of Southern New Jersey. In 1923, at age 32, he became an American citizen, and attended graduate school at the Philadelphia Musical Academy. Cailliet served as Associate Conductor of The Allentown Band (Pennsylvania) beginning in 1934, during which time he conducted many of his own arrangements. After receiving his Doctor of Music Degree in

Lucien Capet

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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 by playing in bistros and cafes. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Maurin and later appeared as soloist with French orchestras. Between 1896 and 1899, he was the concertmaster of the orchestra of the Concerts Lamoureux. He also taught violin at the Société Sainte-Cécile de Bordeaux (1899–1903). His notable students include Jascha Brodsky and Ivan Galamian, both of whom became influential violin teachers of the latter part of the twentieth century. Lucien Capet had a successful career as a soloist and chamber musician, forming the Capet Quartet in 1893. The quartet went through many changes of personnel and made several recordings of Beethoven string quartets and Romantic and Classical works. Capet was also a well-regarded teacher, known especially for his bow technique. With the violinist and chamber musician Suzanne Chaigneau, Capet founded the Institut moderne du violin in 1924. Capet wrote a book on “Superior Bowing Technique” which is an es

Lucien Deiss

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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 composed over 400 pieces of liturgical music, many inspired by Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony with biblical texts. His Biblical Hymns and Psalms (1965) was one of the first major collections of new music for English-language Masses, responding to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council in which he participated, and earning him an honorary Doctorate in Sacred Music from his congregation’s Duquesne University. The National Association of Pastoral Musicians named him “Pastoral Musician of the Year” for United States Catholics in 1992. He received a Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros for the 2005 album Ave Maria that he recorded with his Chevilly seminary choir. Works Musical compositions Italian: * Donaci, Signor, un cuore nuovo * Popolo regale * Terra tutta, da’ lode a Dio * Un solo Signore * Alleluia, la tua parola French: * Souviens-toi de Jésus-Christ * L’Esprit de Dieu * Terre entière chante ta joie * Un seul Seigneur * Peuple de prêtres, peuple de rois * Dieu Re

Lucien Durosoir

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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 and Hugo Heermann in Germany before his first tour as a young virtuoso in 1899. In addition to giving the first performances of French music in Austria-Hungary and Germany (Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Lalo, Widor, Bruneau), he also gave the French premiere of the Strauss violin concerto in 1901. His career as a violinist was cut short by World War I. Durosoir served in the Fifth Division, which took part in some of the bloodiest battles of the war (Douaumont, the Chemin des Dames, and Eparges). At the encouragement of General Mangin, Durosoir formed a string quartet with his fellow soldiers Henri Lemoine (second violin), André Caplet (viola), and Maurice Maréchal (cello). After his demobilization in February, 1919, he began to compose at his home in southwest France. For the next thirty years he composed a host of works, including three string quartets, (1920, 1922 and 1933–34) a large piano sonata (Le Lys, 1921), a piano quintet (1925), an orchestral suite (Funérailles, 1930), and about twenty

Lucien Garban

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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 original works by Garban and a large number of transcriptions by other composers. He also transcribed a few scenes from the opera L’enfant et les sortilèges for piano or piano four hands. The four hand piano duet version of La valse frequently is performed. Other Garban transcriptions include L’apprenti sorcier by Paul Dukas and Saint-Saëns’s Le carnaval des animaux for solo piano. Around 1900, Garban along with Maurice Ravel and a number of young artists, poets, critics, and musicians joined together in an informal group; they came to be known as Les Apaches (“The Hooligans”), a name coined by Ricardo Viñes to represent their status as “artistic outcasts”. Notable recordings * The duo Sergio Tempo - Karin Lechner, for example, recorded his version of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, suite No. 2 transcribed for two pianos in 2007. * Leon Fleisher recorded Garban’s La valse piano transcription as a duet with his wife – pianist Katherine Jacobson – on the 2015 album Four Hands References

Lucien Goethals

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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 of Buenos Aires. When he returned to Belgium, he continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent up to 1956, where he earned his first prize in organ, music history, counterpoint, and fugue. He later studied orchestration with Norbert Rosseau, and serial technique and electronic composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig and De Meester. He worked at the IPEM in Ghent ever since it was founded in 1962, and was its artistic director from 1970 to 1987. He died in Ghent, aged 75. Aesthetics Goethals was a stubborn proponent of “high” culture, in opposition to postmodernism thinking, which wants to dissolve the separation between “high” and “low” culture into the function of a global post-industrial culture of consumption. Compositions *Musica Dodecafonica, for piano (1959) *Twee Kristallen, for piano (1961) *Studies I–VIIb, for tape (1962–73) *Diálogos, for wind quintet, percussion, 2 string quintets, string orchestra, and 4-track tape (1963) *Endomorfie I, for violin, piano, and t

Lucien Haudebert

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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. He received his first music lessons at age 5 from the local organist at the Catholic church of Saint Léonard and was able to play his first Bach prelude at age 7. He studied philosophy at a college in Laval and subsequently received a degree in business studies (Diplôme des Hautes Études Commerciales), following his father’s wishes. He spent his military service at Vitré until September 1900. Musically largely self-taught, against his parents’ wishes he then went to Paris where he made the acquaintance of Gabriel Fauré, then organist at the Eglise de la Madeleine, and received private lessons from him, cut short by his suffering from anemia. Roman Catholic himself, he married his Protestant wife Mary (1879–1958) in Paris in 1907, a poet who often provided the words for Haudebert’s songs and choral pieces. He participated in World War I, leaving the army as lieutenant. He spent his life mainly in Paris where he died. Music The strength of Haudebert’s music lay in his melodic inventivene

Lucien Martin

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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 Jeanne Desjardins in its premiere on the CBC Radio program Sérénade pour cordes. Life and career Born in Montreal, Martin was the son of violinist and string-instrument maker Cyrice Martin. He began his musical training with his father before entering the Conservatoire national de musique at the age of 7. He excelled at the school and earned a gold meld just a couple years later. He was named “the champion young violinist of the world” by the American press after a triumphant concert at the Central Theater in Biddeford, Maine in 1916. Martin continued his violin studies in Montreal with Albert Chamberland (1917–1920), Alfred De Sève (1920–1923), and Camille Couture (1923–1925). He also studied harmony with Georges-Émile Tanguay. From 1925–1928 he toured the United States as a concert and recital violinist. He won the Prix d’Europe in 1931 which enabled him to pursue further studies in France at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Maurice Hayot. He earned a ’licence de concert’ f

Lucien Posman

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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. He is founder and honorary chairman of ComAV, the Flemish composers’ association and member of The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He was co-founder in and artistic collaborator of De Rode Pomp, a chamber music platform in Ghent managed by his brother André Posman. He studied music theory and composition at the Royal Conservatories of Ghent and Antwerp. His mentor for composition was Roland Coryn, Nini Bulterys for counterpoint & fugue. He composed a symphony, an opera, concertos, chamber music for various ensembles and a relatively large number of vocal works, mostly using poetry by William Blake. As composer he is a representative of postmodernism and has an important voice in this debate in Flanders. Some of his works have been awarded composition prizes. Posman’s works have been performed at many national and international festivals. Compositions Instrumental *Solo: piano: Reynaert & de Pauw (2018); Misverstand 1002 (2014); Een slaapmutsje, (2014); Le Conte

Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert

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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 international acclaim. Life and career Lucien-Leon Lambert was the son of New Orleans composer Charles Lucien Lambert, who married a French woman and emigrated from the U.S. in 1854. Lambert, Jr. was born in France and studied music with his father. After growing up in Brazil, where his father was employed, Lambert, Jr. went to France to study at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet. After completing his studies, he worked as a musician and composer. His Prométhée enchaîné won the Prix Rossini in 1885. After a successful career in France, Lambert relocated to Portugal where he worked as pianist in the Royal Court, along with his uncle Sidney Lambert. In the 1870s he was recognized by the Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil (where his father had stayed until his death in 1896) for innovations in music. In 1905 he recorded three wax cylinders for the Pathe Company in Lisbon, thought to be the first classical music recordings made by a performer of African descent. Lambert is som

Lūcija Garūta

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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 born in Riga (at the time Russian Empire) in the family of an accountant. From 1919 to 1925, she studied at the Latvian Conservatory with professor Jāzeps Vītols for piano and others including Jānis Mediņš, and . During her studies she was the pianist répétiteur at the Latvian National Opera. After graduation, she worked at Riga Radio from 1925 to 1926. In 1926 she took a position teaching music theory and piano at the . In 1926 she also continued her studies with Alfred Cortot, Isidor Philipp and Paul Le Flem, and in 1928 she studied composition with Paul Dukas at the Paris École Normale de Musique. In 1926 she made her debut in Paris, and afterwards became active as a composer, holding concerts with singers , and Mariss Vētra, violinist Rūdolfs Miķelsons and cellist Atis Teihmanis. In 1939 she served on the Latvian music promotion association’s board of directors. In the 1920s and 1930s, Lūcija Garūta was one of the most active pianists both as a soloist as well as accompanist, perfo

Lucio Agostini

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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 moved with his family to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His father, Giuseppe Agostini, was a composer and conductor and it is from him that he had his initial musical training beginning at age five. He later pursued further studies in harmony and composition with Louis Michiels and Henri Miro and in cello with Peter Van der Meerschen. At 16, Agostini was playing with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra as a cellist and was a part-time band player in a nightclub band playing saxophone and clarinet. From 1932 to 1943, he composed film music for the Associated Screen News of Canada newsreels, and in 1934 he began working as a conductor for the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (the forerunner to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). In Toronto, where he moved in 1943, he composed and conducted the incidental music for drama series and variety programs on the CBC radio and television, and for over 20 years he held the position as conductor and arranger on the popular weekly series Front Page Ch

Lucio Fabbri

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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 was a member of the progressive rock groups Il Pacco and Piazza delle Erbe. After these experiences he worked as a session musician for several artists, including Roberto Vecchioni, Claudio Rocchi, and Eugenio Finardi, with whom he composed the hit “La radio”. In 1978 Fabbri made his solo debut with the instrumental album Amarena, and the same year he became a member of Premiata Forneria Marconi as violinist and keyboardist. Starting from the 1980s he devoted himself to arranging and conducting, notably collaborating with Matia Bazar, Paul Young, Umberto Tozzi, Mika, Paola & Chiara, Miguel Bosé, Milva, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Gianni Morandi, Enzo Jannacci, Fiorella Mannoia, Giorgio Faletti, Giusy Ferreri, Howard Jones, Ivan Graziani, Marco Mengoni, Massimo Ranieri, Max Pezzali, Chiara, Negrita, Nik Kershaw, Captain Sensible and Tony Hadley. Fabbri also composed the music for several videogames and commercials, and produced several artists, notably Dolcenera. References External links

Lucio Garau

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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 Oppo. His compositional aesthetics are influenced from acousmatic issues, but he also composes vocal and instrumental chamber music, sometimes with live electronics. In 1991, he founded MiniM Ensemble to investigate the techniques of minimal music. He is the artistic director of Amici della Musica di Cagliari. Discography *Musica presente 4 (AA.VV. Fonit Cetra) (1994) *Ricercare 1 (AA.VV. Ricercare) (1997) *Ricercare 2 (AA.V. Ricercare) (1998) *Electric Dream (AA.VV. Intersound) (1999) *Le Corde di Sicilo (AA.VV. Unda Maris) (2004) *Isole in musica (AA.VV. Agorà) (2007) *35-36 Bozen Festival of contemporary music (AA.VV. Bozen) (2011) Works *op. 1, EO’ (voice and delay) (1990) *op. 2, Hidden Music for 12 strings (1989–91) *op. 3, Hidden music for a percussionist (1991) *op. 4, Sacrum (5 male voices) (1992) *op. 5, Canoni (recorder and delay) (1992) *op. 6 n. 1, Epitaffio (3 Harps) (1991) *op. 6 n. 2, Epitaffio (voice and string trio) (1992) *op. 6 n. 3, Epitaffio (clarinet, violin, alto,

Lucio Godoy

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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 more than 50 feature films. In 2013, he became the director of the Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games master’s degree program at Berklee College of Music’s campus in Valencia, Spain. His feature film credits include: Fin (Jorge Torregrosa), Blackthorn (Mateo Gil), Un cuento chino, Amador, Los Lunes al sol (Fernando León de Aranoa), Triage (Danis Tanović), Los girasoles ciegos, La educación de las hadas (José Luis Cuerda), Mataharis (Icíar Bollaín), El penalti más largo del mundo, El club de los suicidas (Roberto Santiago), Nacidas para sufrir, Cachorro (Miguel Albaladejo), El corredor nocturno, Las razones de mis amigos, Silencio en la Nieve, (Gerardo Herrero), Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo), Don’t Move (Sergio Castellitto) and El aura (Fabián Bielinsky). He has also worked as musical producer for other composers’ films, including Mar adentro, Los otros (Alejandro Amenábar), Todo sobre mi madre, Carne trémula and La flor de mi secreto (Pedro Almodóvar). Critical reception Hi

Lucio Gregoretti

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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 scores. Biography He studied composition with Mauro Bortolotti and music history with Bruno Cagli at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in the city of his birth, Rome, and there obtained his diploma. He also attended seminars and courses in composition with Sylvano Bussotti and Ennio Morricone, and courses in conducting with Franco Ferrara and Giampiero Taverna. He has been composer-in-residence at a number of institutions, including Instituto Sacatar (Brazil, 2006), the MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire, 2005 and 2006), (Germany, 2005), Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany 2002–2003). His works have been commissioned and performed by a number of institution including Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, Solistes Européens (Luxembourg), Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, ISCM Bucharest, Festival Pergolesi-Spontini (Jesi), Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti (Naples), Progetto Sonora (Cologne), Todi Music Fest (To

Lucius R. Wyatt

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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 trumpet. At Central High School he worked with the bandleader E. C. Christian. Attending Florida A&M University, he studied with William P. Foster, Johnnie V. Lee, Phillip Cooper, and Lenard C. Bowie, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1959. He then attended the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Robert V. Sutton, Frederick Fennell, Sidney Mear, and Donald Hunsberger, obtaining his master’s degree in 1960. The title of his dissertation was The Mid-Twentieth-Century Orchestral Variation, 1953-1963; he received his Ph.D. in 1974. He also studied trumpet privately with Sigmund Hering. Wyatt was on the faculty of Tuskegee University from 1960 to 1963 and 1965 to 1974. During 1963-1965 Wyatt toured with the U.S. Army Headquarters Band. Since 1974 Wyatt has been on the faculty of Prairie View A&M University. Selected compositions *Rondo for brass quartet (1969) *Diversions for solo percussionist and wind ensemble (1974) *Centennial Salute for symphonic band (1978) Sele

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

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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. Biography Lucrecia “King” Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La Union Philippines, the third of the six children of Marcial Kasilag Sr., a civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist and a violin teacher. She was Kasilag’s first solfeggio teacher. The second was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman. Kasilag later studied under Doña Pura Villanueva, during which time performed her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn’s May Breezes, at a student recital when she was ten years old. During World War II, she took up composition, and on 1 December 1945, she performed her own compositions in a concert at Philippine Women’s University. From 1946 to 1947, Kasilag taught at the University of the Philippines’ Conservatory of Music and worked as secretary-registrar at Philippines Women’s University. She completed a Bachelor of Music in 1949, and then attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, studying theory with Allen I. McHose and compo

Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana

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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 taught by her aunt, Camilla Bombacci, who was the convent organist, and by Ottavio Vernizzi, who was the unofficial music master. Vizzana’s works are influenced by stile moderno (seconda prattica) music, especially the works of Claudio Monteverdi. Biography and works Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana was born on July 3, 1590 in Bologna, Italy to Ludovico Vizzana and Isabetta Bombacci. She entered the Camaldolese convent of Santa Christina in 1598 following her mother’s death and adopted the religious name Donna Lucrezia Orsina (or Ursula), where it is believed she learned music from her aunt, Camilla Bombacci, the convent organist, and Ottavio Vernizzi, unofficial music director of the convent. Vizzana’s motets were published in Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati a l e più voci in 1623, the only collection of music ever published by a Bolognese nun. There are ten solo motets, eight duets, one trio, and one quartet all with continuo. The works feature other characteristics of the stile mo

Lucy Armstrong

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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 doing a three year residency at Glydnebourne. Armstrong composed a chamber opera, Nadja’s Song, for the Bergen National Opera which premiered in Bergen and was later performed at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in London and in Bogotá. In 2022, Salford Choral Society and The Piccadilly Symphony orchestra premiered a 25 minute work for chorus and orchestra by Armstrong and Rebecca Hurst. In 2023, The Cambridge Philharmonic and chorus commissioned a piece which was premiered in March 2023. Conductor Chloé van Soeterstède and The Arch Sinfonia commissioned a 20 minute saxophone concerto which was premiered with Gillian Blair playing alto saxophone in June 2023. She has composed for: Psappha, London Sinfonietta, Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Fontana Mix (Italy) Size Zero Opera, The Borealis Saxophone Quartet, RNCM Engage, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, The Meon Valley Orchestra, John Miller’s Brazmataz, Gillian Blair, Erin Royer and A4 Brass. Her work has been performed in venu

Lucy Simon

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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 for the musicals The Secret Garden (1991) and Doctor Zhivago (2011). In 1963, Simon began performing with her sister Carly Simon as the Simon Sisters. The duo released three albums, beginning with Meet the Simon Sisters, which featured the song “Winkin’, Blinkin’ and Nod”; based on the poem by Eugene Field, the song became a minor hit and reached No. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100. Simon won a Grammy Award in 1981 with her husband, David Levine, in the Best Recording for Children category for In Harmony, and again in 1983 in the same category for In Harmony 2. Simon received Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for composing the music for the Broadway musical The Secret Garden. Early life and education Simon was born in New York City on May 5, 1940. Her father, Richard L. Simon, was the co-founder of the book publisher Simon & Schuster, Inc.; her mother, Andrea (Heinemann) Simon, was a former switchboard operator, civil rights activist, and singer. She was the older sister of musician

Lucy Ward (musician)

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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. Three of her albums, Adelphi Has to Fly, Single Flame and I Dreamt I Was a Bird, have been critically acclaimed and have each received four-starred reviews in the British national press. Early life and education The youngest of six children, Lucy Ward grew up in Littleover, Derbyshire. She went to St Peter’s Junior School in Littleover, and Littleover Community School. set to a tune by Lucy Ward. “Alice in the Bacon Box”, a song written by Ward in the style of a traditional folk song, tells the story of Derbyshire hermit Alice Grace (1867–1927) from Little Eaton who, on being evicted from her cottage, lived in a box previously used for storing bacon, which had been given to her by the local butcher. The album was critically acclaimed and received a four-starred review in The Guardian. I Dreamt I Was a Bird Ward’s third album, I Dreamt I Was a Bird, was released by Betty Beetroot Records on 2 October 2015. It received a four-starred review in The Daily Telegraph Pretty Warnings Ward’s four

Ludmila Frajt

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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 as music for children. She has won numerous awards for her music for children. Biography Ludmila (Lida) Frajt was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia into a family of musicians. Her father Jovan (Jan) Frajt, born in 1882 in Plzeň (nowadays in the Czech Republic), settled in Serbia in 1903. He worked as a violinist, organist, conductor, composer and music publisher. He founded a publishing house Edition Frajt in Belgrade. After his death in 1938, his son Stevan Frajt, also a musician, continued to run this family business. Ludmila Frajt received her first music lessons at home; then she attended the Belgrade Music School, where one of her teachers was Josip Slavenski. In 1938 she enrolled to study composition at the newly founded Belgrade Music Academy (nowadays Faculty of Music), with Miloje Milojević. Her studies were interrupted by the World War II. After the country was liberated, she resumed her study. However, her professor Milojević died in 1946, and therefore she graduated with Josip S

Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska

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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 with Francesco Lamperti and composition in Warsaw with Gustaw Roguski and Zygmunt Noskowski. She taught in Poznań beginning in 1877, and later in Warsaw. Her symphonic poem Rusalka won an award in Chicago in 1893. She married Teodore Jeske-Choiński and died in Warsaw. Works Mikorska wrote for orchestra and theater, and also dances and works for piano. Selected works include: *Rusalka symphonic poem *Markiz de Créqui, comic opera, 1892 *Filutka, operetta, 1884 *Zuch dziewczyna, operetta, 1884 References External links * Scores by Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska in digital library Polona

Ludmila Ulehla

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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 very early and wrote short compositions at the age of five. Later she studied composition under Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan School of Music and was awarded a master’s degree. Ulehla took a position on the faculty of the same school in 1947, and was Chair of the Composition Department from 1972 to 1989. Ulehla was named Outstanding Educator in Who’s Who of American Women, and has received ASCAP awards. She wrote a book entitled Contemporary Harmony – Romanticism Through the 12-Tone Row which was published by Advance Music. Works Ulehla’s compositions were primarily for solo and chamber ensembles. Selected works include: *Elegy for a Whale *Gargoyles for Hindell *Michelangelo for Orchestra *Remembrances for Heifetz *Unrolling a Chinese Scroll *Sybil of the American Revolution, chamber opera, 1993 *Undersea Fantasy for Orchestra, 1999 *Sonata for Improvisation for clarinet, soprano saxophone and piano. References

Ludolf Nielsen

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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 1900s (together with the more famous Carl Nielsen). Life Nielsen was born in Nørre Tvede, Denmark. Although his family lacked any musicians, Ludolf took to music at a very young age. After a few years of violin lessons from local fiddlers, at eight he was playing at local festivals and other country occasions. In his mid-teens, he moved to Copenhagen, which exposed him to a much broader musical milieu. At 19, he won a scholarship to the Danish Royal Academy of Music. There, he studied violin, piano, and music theory. His composing talents were apparently self-developed. When about 20, Nielsen started composing, at the same time as Tivoli Orchestra hired him as a violinist. Some of his works were performed in 1899, but his first major success was with the symphonic poem Regnar Lodbrog, which gained him an additional scholarship that gave him the opportunity to spend time in the musically rich city of Leipzig, where he composed a few string quartets and had them published. He returned to

Ludomir Różycki

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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 member of the group of composers known as Young Poland, the intention of which was to invigorate the musical culture of their generation in their mother country. Life He was a son of a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition. He completed his studies with distinction, and then continued his studies in Berlin at the Academy of Music under Engelbert Humperdinck. He began his musical career as a conductor of opera and professor of piano in Lwów in 1907. It was while in Lwów that he began to compose. Subsequently, he moved to Warsaw but had to flee during the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, he lived and taught in Katowice. Music Różycki’s ballet Pan Twardowski (1920) was the first Polish large-scale ballet to be performed abroad, being seen in Copenhagen, Prague, Brno, Zagreb, Belgrade and Vienna, and being performed over 800 times in Warsaw. His eight operas included Casanova and Eros i Psyche (Eros and Psyche, to the libretto of Jerzy Żuławski), the lat

Ludovic Bource

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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 Academy Award -winning score for The Artist. Life and career Bource first studied music at a conservatory in Brittany, moving afterwards to the Centre d’Informations Musicales (CIM), in Paris, where he studied Jazz. Bource began his career composing music for commercials, but later moved on to short films, such as, En attendant (2000), Spartacus (2003), and Sirene Song (2005). After working on the Michel Hazanavicius film Mes amis, Bource has become a long-time collaborator with the director. He has since scored such Hazanavicius films as OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), its sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009), and most recently the black-and-white silent film The Artist (2011). The latter, recorded with award-winning Brussels Philharmonic, elevated Bource to international fame and earned him numerous accolades, including a César Award, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar. He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. F

Ludovic Lamothe

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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 Port-au-Prince, he was born into a distinguished literary family, and both his parents were pianists. His grandfather, Joseph Lamothe, was also a noted instrumentalist. Lamothe had his first lessons from his mother and studied the piano and clarinet at the Institution Saint Louis de Gonzague in his native Port-au-Prince where he exhibited exceptional technical and compositional abilities from a young age. Lamothe’s repertoire included a range of méringue, from the most formal, elite-oriented forms to the méringue of the low orders. Another musical scholar, Claude Carré of the online magazine Boutoures has described Lamothe as “representing the nationalist movement in Haitian classical music” and being “an emblematic figure, a piano virtuoso and a performer of Chopin, who left us a number of important compositions for piano.” In 2001, a CD recording titled A Vision of Ludovic Lamothe was published on the IFA Music Records label, featuring some of his pieces, including the Ballade in A Minor, Dan

Ludovico Einaudi

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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 incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music. Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions, including This Is England, The Intouchables, I’m Still Here, the TV series Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario (1996), for which he won the Grolla d’oro. His music was used as the score for the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning films Nomadland and The Father. He has also released a number of solo albums for piano and other instruments, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013. On 1 March 2019, Einaudi announced a seven-part project named Seven Days Walking, which was released over the course of seven months in 2019. In 2005, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Early life and education Einaudi was born in Turin, Piedmont. His father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher His paternal grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955. His mother,

Ludovico Roncalli

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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 Pancrazio in the Città Alta in Bergamo on 8 June 1654. He was the younger son of Conte Giovanni Martino Roncalli (1626–1700) and brother of Francesco, Conte di Montorio (1645–1717). He was ordained to the priesthood and died in Bergamo on 25 August 1713. The Roncalli family still possess a portrait of him in clerical dress .A note on the back of the painting reads “Comes Ludovicus Roncalius I.V.D. Iuris Utriusque Doctor) et abbas, et suis legatis ad Sancta exercitia promovenda insignis largitur. Obiit ann. 1713 Die 25 augusti. Aetatis sue ann. 59. men. sex”. (Count Ludovico Roncalli, graduate in civil and canon law and priest, illustrious donor of his erudition for the promotion of spiritual exercises. Died in the year 1713, 25th day of August at the age of 59 years and 6 months). Another note in smaller letters reads “Ritratta quando era in età d’anni XXXII” (painted when he was 32 years of age). The portrait is reproduced in Dell’Ara’s article and in the liner notes to the recordings of Jorg

Ludovicus Episcopius

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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 first to compose secular songs in the Dutch language. Life Episcopius was born in Mechelen around 1520 as the son of Antonius de Bisschop. His father was the sexton and singer of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-over-de-Dijle church in Mechelen. His received his musical training at the St. Rumbolds Cathedral in Mechelen. The choirmaster of the cathedral was Theo Verelst, who was also the teacher of Philippus de Monte and Cypriano de Rore. Episcopius studied from 1538 to 1541 at the University of Leuven and became a priest. From 1545 to 1565 and from 1577 to 1585, he was choirmaster at the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht. He was replaced by Jean de Chaynée. When his successor de Chaynée was assassinated, Episcopius was reinstated in his former position. # (Susanna bathed in a fountain, after Susanne un jour from composer Didier Lupi Second) # (my heart enjoys in pleasure and virtue) References Further reading *The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, London, 2001 *Fünf weltliche flämis

Ludvig Irgens-Jensen

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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 University of Oslo. He began composing in 1920 and the radical nature of his work attracted some interest. In 1928, Irgens-Jensen submitted his Passacaglia for Orchestra to the International Schubert Competition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Franz Schubert’s death. The competition was eventually won by Kurt Atterberg’s Symphony No. 6. Although Irgens-Jensen’s work only received second prize in the Scandinavian Composers Division, the work was performed all over the world and helped Irgens-Jensen gain international fame. In 1930, the composer achieved another great success with his choral symphonic work Heimferd, written to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the death of St. Olav II of Norway. This work won first prize in a composition competition and quickly became popular in Norway. Heimferd is now considered an important landmark in the history of Norwegian choral music. During the Second World War, Irgens-Jensen composed several songs and orchestral works to patriotic texts; due t

Ludvig Mathias Lindeman

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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. Background Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was born in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the seventh of ten children born to Ole Andreas Lindeman (1769–1857) and Anna Severine Hickmann (1782–1844). In 1833 he was sent to Oslo to take his final exams and then studied theology at the university. In 1839, Lindeman succeeded his elder brother, Jacob Andreas Lindeman (1805–1846), as cantor and organist of the Oslo Cathedral. Lindeman was in the position for 48 years until his death in 1887. Composer Fredrikke Waaler was one of his students. Career Lindeman was a contributor to Jørgen Moe’s song and folk-ballad collection, Samling af Sange, Folkeviser og Stev i norske Alumuedialekter (1840), putting together the melody supplement to the volume at Bishop Moe’s request. The following year, he published his own selection of Norwegian folk melodies, Norske Fjeldmelodier harmonisk bearbeidede for Pianoforte (1841). When in 1871, the major new organ in the Royal Albert Hall in London was inaugurated

Ludvig Norman

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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 Swedish symphonists of the 19th century. Norman was born Fredrik Vilhelm Ludvig Norman in Stockholm. Norman began his musical training with Lindblad and later studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1848 to 1852, where he also made the acquaintance of Robert Schumann. Starting in 1857, he taught at the Royal Music Academy of Stockholm. In 1860, he became the conductor of the Nya harmoniska sällskapet and obtained the post of Kapellmeister at the Royal Swedish Opera the following year. After 1881, he conducted the choral concerts of the Musikvorenigen. He was married to the noted violinist Wilma Neruda in 1864. Their son was a famous alpinist. As conductor, he is remembered for premiering Franz Berwald’s fourth symphony on 9 April 1878. Norman composed in a wide variety of genres, including four symphonies, four overtures, four sets of incidental music for plays, cantatas, and chamber music, as well as a great number of lieder and songs for choir. He was the dedicatee of Woldemar Bargiel'

Ludvík Podéšť

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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 Dubňany. He studied music composition at Brno Conservatory under Jaroslav Kvapil from 1941, graduating in 1948. He became a music reporter for the Czech Radio studio in Brno while studying musicology at Masaryk University under Bohumír Štědroň and Jan Racek. In Brno, he also worked as director of the Radost Youth Choir, for whom he wrote a large number of choral works. For the years 1953–1956, Podéšť replaced Radim Drejsl (1923–1953) as director of the Vít Nejedlý Army Artistic Ensemble (Armádní umělecký soubor Víta Nejedlého) in Prague, then during 1958–1961, he worked as an editor of music broadcasts for Czechoslovak Television. Podéšť composed a number of songs within the genre of popular music and “trampská hudba”. His songs are catchy, especially noted for their pleasing melodies and jolly optimism. Podéšť is the author of several professional journal studies such as Za odkazem V. Nejedlého (Vít Nejedlý Legacy; Hudební rozhledy, Vol. 8, 1955), Harmonická práce L. Janáčka (The Harmoni

Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský

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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. Biography Jan Čelanský, Ludvík’s father, worked as a kapellmeister in Horní Krupá (Havlíčkův Brod district). Ludvík studied at the gymnasium in Havlíčkův Brod, and from 1887 to 1891 at the teaching institute in Kutná Hora. He worked as a teacher in Dolní Krupá for one year before devoting himself exclusively to music. From 1892 to 1894 he studied composition with K. Stecker at the Prague Conservatory, then at the dramatic school of the National Theatre and at Pivoda Operatic School. Orchestra *Premiéra na vsi (Premiere in the Countryside), Overture (1900) *Vzkříšení Polsky (Resurrection of Poland), Overture (1904) * Symphony “From My Life” in five movements *Duchovní vývoj člověka dle starého zákona (The Spiritual Evolution of Man According to Ancient Law), Symphonic Trilogy (1915–1918) :# Adam :# Noe (Noah) :# Mojžíš (Moses) *Hymnus slunci (Hymn to the Sun), Symphonic Poem (1919) Songs *Nálady (Moods) (1895); words by the composer *Melancholické písně (Melancholic Songs) (1895); words

Ludwig Abeille

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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 valet and his mother was Christine Louise Abeille, both of whom were employed at the Bayreuth court. Starting at age eleven, he was educated at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart, where his teachers were Antonio Boroni, Ferdinando Mazzanti, and Johann Gottlieb Sämann. In 1782, he became a member of the musicians of the Court at the Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart. He joined the faculty of Karl’s High School (Hohe Karlsschule), a rigorous military academy, in 1786. In 1802, he became concertmaster and later organist of the Court, replacing Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg. In this position, Abeille served as Maestro di Capella to the Duke for several years. In 1815, he became court organist at the court church and director of the Stiftsmusik. He retired in 1832. Ludwig Abeille was married to Henriette Hedwig née Haug, the daughter of the instrument maker Johann Friedrich Haug and his first wife Christine Dorothea Herdle (1736–1766). Christine was a daughter of the Ludwigsburg court musician Johann Jako

Ludwig August Lebrun

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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 being “charmed by his divine oboe”) played with the orchestra at the court of the Prince-Elector Carl Theodor in Mannheim. He started playing with the orchestra at the age of 12 and became a full member at the age of 15. His father, also an oboist probably from present-day Belgium, worked from 1747 at the Mannheim court. He was a contemporary of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, and belonged to the Mannheim school. In the summer of 1778 he married the soprano Franziska Danzi, one of the most outstanding and well-known singers of the time and the sister of composer Franz Danzi. With her, he travelled extensively across Europe: Milan, Paris, London, Vienna, Prague, Naples, Munich and Berlin. The couple’s playing and singing complemented each other perfectly and arias with obbligato oboe were written for them, as for instance those in Günther von Schwarzburg (1777) by Ignaz Holzbauer, L’Europa riconosciuta (1778) by Antonio Salieri and Castore e Polluce (1787) by Georg Joseph Vogler. The mu

Ludwig Daser

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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 his day, Daser has been largely overshadowed by Orlande de Lassus, who replaced him in Munich. Biography Daser was born in Munich near the year 1526, the son of fisherman Achacius Daser. At an early age he joined the Bavarian Hofkapelle in Munich. An ordained priest, He became the Munich court choirmaster in 1552, replacing Andreas Zauner. In addition to conducting and composing, Daser was responsible for training boys for the choir, and for hiring vocal and instrumental musicians for the chapel. There is some controversy surrounding Daser’s activities between 1563 and 1572. Daser was subject to an Inquisition, His son-in-law Balduin Hoyoul succeeded him as Kapellmeister in Stuttgart. Daser was significantly influenced by the Franco-Flemish School, demonstrated by his methodology for tying the cantus firmus to the Ordinary. The sources of his melodies often originate from the Netherlands. Daser was highly respected by his contemporaries, receiving high commendation from Bavarian court chr

Ludwig Engländer

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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. According to his obituary in The New York Times, he had studied with Jacques Offenbach. He immigrated to New York City on October 13, 1882, and became a naturalized American citizen on February 13, 1891. By the 1890s Engländer was composing prolifically, either for the New York stage, or popular songs (many of which were interpolated into various other productions including A Trip to Chinatown. Already by 1903 he had come in for criticism of his Teutonic sound. Perhaps for that reason he occasionally returned to Vienna near the end of his life to write musicals for that audience. The year before he died he is listed as having residence in Vienna. At the time of his death he was living in Far Rockaway, Queens, with his sister. Works *Der Prinzgemahl (1883); revised and translated into English as The Prince Consort (1883) *The Seven Ravens (1884) *1776 (1884) *Madelaine, oder Die Rose der Champagne (1888) *The Passing Show (1894) *A Daughter of the Revolution *The Twentieth Century Girl (1895)

Ludwig Göransson

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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 in Hollywood of the 21st century. For his work in music, film and television, he has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and six Grammy Awards. As a record producer, he has frequently collaborated with Childish Gambino, producing his studio albums Camp (2011), Because the Internet (2013) and “Awaken, My Love!” (2016), among others. Göransson’s producing work on Gambino’s 2018 single “This Is America” was met with acclaim and accolades, including two Grammy Awards (for Record of the Year and Song of the Year). He has also produced for other recording artists, such as Adele, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Chance the Rapper, Haim, Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott and Moses Sumney. For television, he received his first break as a composer for the NBC comedy series Community (2009–2015), followed by the Fox comedy series New Girl (2011–2018). Göransson transitioned into dramatic work, scoring t

Ludwig Hartmann (composer)

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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. He was educated at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig under Moscheles and Hauptmann and then went to Weimar as a pupil of Franz Liszt. He appeared at a concert given by Schröder-Devrient at Dresden in 1859. Latterly he was almost exclusively employed in musical journalism. and contributed numerous articles to periodical literature. Further reading * Kristina Popova (ed.): Die Dresdner Gesellschaft in Porträtzeichnungen von Robert Sterl. Robert Sterl Haus, Naundorf 2007, p. 8f. * Hartmann on Retrobibliothek References External links * *

Ludwig Lenel

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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 France, the son of the late Walter and Luise (Borckenhagen) Lenel. During his youth, Lenel met and was strongly influenced by Albert Schweitzer, who frequently stayed with the Lenel family while visiting Heidelberg. He then later studied organ with Schweitzer, and assisted him on tours of Germany and Switzerland in 1932 and 1936, respectively. In between those tours, Lenel’s concert for two violins and string orchestra premiered at the Collegium Musicum in Heidelberg in 1933. In 1935, he was awarded his diploma from Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne. In 1938, he was awarded a diploma from Basel Music Academy in Switzerland. After emigrating to the United States, Lenel worked as an organist while continuing his study of music composition at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where he was awarded his masters of music degree in 1940. Career Lenel served on the faculties of Monticello College and Elmhurst College in Illinois, Westminster College in Pennsylvania, and The New School for Social Re

Ludwig Minkus

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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 composed during his career in St. Petersburg, Russia. Beginning in 1871 Minkus served in the official post of Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a position he held until it was abolished upon his retirement in 1886. During his long career in St. Petersburg, Minkus composed for the original works and revivals staged by the ballet masters Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa. Among the composer’s most celebrated compositions is his score for La source (1866; composed jointly with Léo Delibes), Don Quixote (1869); and La Bayadère (1877). Minkus composed many pieces for older works. The most well-known of Minkus’s additional music is the Grand Pas classique and Mazurka des enfants composed for Petipa’s 1881 revival of Paquita. Early life Ludwig Minkus was born Aloysius Bernhard Philipp Minkus on 23 March 1826, in the Innere Stadt district of Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire. His father, Theodor Johann Minkus, was born in 1795 in Groß-Meseritsch, Mora

Ludwig Roselius (composer)

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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 magnate Ludwig Roselius. He was a répétiteur at the Deutsche Opernhaus Berlin for the 1921/1922 season. He studied composition with Georg Schumann at the Prussian Academy of the Arts from 1921 to 1923, and received a PhD from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin on the subject of the motets of Andreas Raselius in 1924. He achieved his greatest success with the stage works Godiva and especially Gudrun, which was premièred in Graz in 1938 and performed again in Berlin. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 and ended World War II as a prisoner of war. He received the Bremer Musikpreis in 1964 in recognition of his contributions. Roselius died 6 February 1977 in Bremen. * Der dunkle Reigen, op. 23 (Totentanzsuite) * Festliche Intrade for speaker, choir, and orchestra * Zwischen Meer und Moor, op. 27 (Niederdeutsche Suite für Orchester) * Friesische Musik, op. 30 * Es waren zwei Königskinder, op. 31 (Fantasie für Orchester) Instrumental works * Variationen für Klavier über ein deutsche

Ludwig Rottenberg

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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 Bukovina, which was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy at the time. He studied music in his birthplace, and later at the Vienna Conservatory. He conducted an amateur orchestra and worked as a Lieder accompanist during his studies. He started his professional conducting career at the Brno opera house. In 1892 he succeeded Felix Dessoff as Erster Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera. He was recommended for the position by Johannes Brahms and Hans von Bülow, being preferred to two other famous applicants, Richard Strauss and Felix Mottl. He held this position until 1926. During his tenure he worked with six different artistic directors, and helped establish the Frankfurt Opera as one of the leading opera houses of its time. Numerous contemporary operas were staged there during this period, among others the world premiere performances of Der ferne Klang (1912), Die Gezeichneten (1918) and Der Schatzgräber (1920) by Franz Schreker. Other important performances, partly German premieres, inclu

Ludwig Schmidseder

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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 young Schmidseder followed his father’s wishes and trained as a banker, whilst taking piano lessons in secret. He furthered his musical education at the Munich Conservatorium, then left for South America in 1926, ending up in Rio de Janeiro. Starting out as a dishwasher, he went on to become an entertainer and play in a trio on ocean cruises. Schmidseder composed music for the trio, and developed into a virtuoso piano player. From 1930 he worked in Berlin, composing film music, creating operettas and writing more than 500 songs, some of which became much-loved hits. He moved from being a bar pianist (until 1936) to being the house composer at the old Berlin Metropol-Theatre. His operetta Die Oder Keine (That One or No One) was performed more than 600 times. Schmidseder joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933. After World War II, Schmidseder continued to compose film music and appear in films. The corpulent cook would later become famous as a TV cook and produced a book of recipes. Selected work

Ludwig Schuncke

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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 the age of 23. He was generally known as Ludwig, and that name also appears as Louis in some references. His surname appears as either Schuncke or Schunke. Biography Ludwig Schuncke was born in Kassel in 1810. His father and first teacher Johann Gottfried Schuncke (1777–1840), and his uncle Johann Michael Schuncke (1778–1821), were both professional horn players. He demonstrated his talents very early, and they were encouraged. In March 1822, aged only 11, he performed Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 85, under the direction of Louis Spohr. He then went on a concert tour of Germany. Carl Maria von Weber expressed his approval of Schuncke’s early compositions. He went to Paris for study, where his main teachers were Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Anton Reicha and Henri Herz, and where he also had friendships with people such as Hector Berlioz, Sigismond Thalberg and Johann Peter Pixis. In Paris, he made his living by demonstrating Duport pianos, and he also lived in Duport’s

Ludwig Senfl

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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 music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany. He and his teacher Isaac played an important role in the development of the German folksongs and their adoption as models for polyphonic compositions as well. Life Senfl was probably born in Basel around 1486, and lived in Zürich from 1488 until 1496, when he joined the choir of the Hofkapelle of Emperor Maximilian I in Augsburg. Apart from one brief visit in 1504 he appears never again to have lived in Switzerland. In 1497 he followed the Hofkapelle to Vienna, and between 1500 and 1504 he probably studied in Vienna for three years, the standard practice for choirboys whose voices had broken, as part of the normal training for the priesthood. During this period he studied with Heinrich Isaac, serving as his copyist by 1509; he is known to have copied much of the older composer’s Choralis Constantinus, an enormous work which he w

Ludwig Thuille

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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 School of composers, whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss. Biography Thuille was born in Bozen, then part of Tyrol, now in Italy. He lost both his parents in 1872 when he was 11, and moved in with his step-uncle in Kremsmünster, Austria. There he sang in the Benedictine choir and studied organ, piano, and violin. His musical abilities were exceptional, so in 1876 the widow of a composer/ conductor, Matthaus Nagiller, took him to Innsbruck for more advanced musical training. There, in the summer of 1877, he met the young Richard Strauss, whose family was visiting the town; the two became lifelong friends. His Innsbruck teacher of organ and theory recommended him to the distinguished composer Josef Rheinberger in Munich, who took him as a pupil in the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, from where he graduated with honors in 1882. A year later he became a teacher, and few years thereafter a professor of theory and composition. His many pupils included Hermann Abendroth, E

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Early life and education#

Beethoven was the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven, a musician from the city of Mechelen in Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), who moved to Bonn at the age of 21. Ludwig was employed as a bass singer at the court of Clemens August, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, eventually rising to become, in 1761, Kapellmeister (music director) and hence a preeminent musician in Bonn. The portrait he commissioned of himself toward the end of his life remained displayed in his grandson’s rooms as a talisman of his musical heritage. Ludwig had two sons, the younger of whom, Johann, worked as a tenor in the same musical establishment and gave keyboard and violin lessons to supplement his income. Johann married Maria Magdalena Keverich in 1767; she was the daughter of Heinrich Keverich (1701–1751), who was head chef at the court of Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff, Archbishop of Trier. Beethoven was born of this marriage in Bonn, at what is now the Beethoven House Museum, Bonngasse 20. There is no authentic record of the date of his birth; but the registry of his baptism, in the Catholic Parish of St. Remigius on 17 December 1770, survives, and the custom in the region at the time was to carry out baptism within 24 hours of birth. There is a consensus (with which Beethoven himself agreed) that his birth date was 16 December, but there is no documented proof of this. Of the seven children born to Johann van Beethoven, only Ludwig, the second-born, and two younger brothers survived infancy. Kaspar Anton Karl (generally known as Karl) was born on 8 April 1774, and Nikolaus Johann, who was generally known as Johann, the youngest, was born on 2 October 1776. Johann was Beethoven’s first music teacher. He later had other local teachers, including the court organist Gilles van den Eeden (d. 1782), , a family friend, who provided keyboard tuition, Franz Rovantini, a relative who instructed him in playing the violin and viola, and court concertmaster Franz Anton Ries, who instructed Beethoven on the violin. His tuition began in his fifth year. The regime was harsh and intensive, often reducing him to tears. With the involvement of Pfeiffer, who was an insomniac, there were irregular late-night sessions with the young Beethoven dragged from his bed to the keyboard. Beethoven’s musical talent became obvious at a young age. Aware of Leopold Mozart’s successes in this area with his son Wolfgang and daughter Nannerl, Johann attempted to promote his son as a child prodigy, claiming that Ludwig was six (he was seven) on the posters for his first public performance in March 1778. Beethoven’s musical abilities far exceeded his mathematical capabilities. As a student at the Tirocinium, Beethoven learned how to add numbers but he could neither divide nor multiply. Throughout Beethoven’s life, he instead used addition as a means of simulating multiplication (thus adding up a column of sixteen sevens, rather than multiplying 16 × 7).

Ludwig van Beethoven (Baerer)

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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 Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The sculpture in Central Park was dedicated on July 22, 1884. It includes two bronze statues, including a bust of Beethoven and an allegorical female figure on a polished Barre Granite pedestal. File:Central Park NYC - Beethoven statue by Henry Baerer - IMG 5719.JPG Central Park, Manhattan, New York City File:Beethoven by Henry Baerer.jpg Golden Gate Park, San Francisco File:Brooklyn Prospect Park Beethoven 02.JPG Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City See also * 1884 in art References External links * Prospect Park: Beethoven Memorial, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Ludwig van Beethoven in film

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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 there were at least a further six silent films about Beethoven before 1927. The Life of Beethoven (German: Das Leben des Beethoven) is a 1927 Austrian silent drama film directed by Hans Otto and starring Fritz Kortner as Beethoven. Un grand amour de Beethoven was directed in 1936 by Abel Gance; it stars Harry Baur. Albert Bassermann portrayed Beethoven in the 1941 film The Great Awakening. Steven Geray portrayed Beethoven in the 1943 short film Heavenly Music (1943). Eroica is a 1949 Austrian film depicting the life and works of Beethoven (Ewald Balser). It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival. The film is directed by Walter Kolm-Veltée, produced by Guido Bagier with Walter Kolm-Veltée and written by Walter Kolm-Veltée with Franz Tassié. Erich von Stroheim portrayed Beethoven in the 1955 French film, Napoléon. In 1962, Walt Disney produced a made-for-television, largely fictionalised, life of Beethoven titled The Magnificent Rebel, starring Karlheinz Böhm as Beethoven. The fil

Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith

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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 because of his adaptations of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The French composer and writer Hector Berlioz immortalized him in a diatribe in his autobiography. Biography Lachnith was born in Prague. After early studies with his father Franz, an able church musician in Prague, Lachnith from 1768 onwards became a member of the court orchestra in Zweibrücken. In 1773 he went to Paris to study French horn with Johann Josef Rudolf (Rodolphe) and later composition with François-André Danican Philidor. Since 1783 he was living permanently in Paris, where his symphonies were played in the Concerts de la Reine (i. e. Marie Antoinette). With the onset of the French Revolution he got in trouble with the new authorities and had to resign from his post at the Paris Opera. He fled from the terror of the revolution in 1790, came back and henceforth eked out a meagre existence by giving private lessons and arranging operas and even oratorios for Parisian theatres. In 1801 he became instructor at the Pa

Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer

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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. After a brief period of studying French violin style in Mitau (Latvia), Maurer went to Russia at age 17 in 1806, where he would stay for most of his life. For this reason, Maurer is considered both a German and a Russian composer. Upon his arrival in St. Petersburg, Maurer performed extensively until the French violinist and composer Pierre Baillot aided Maurer in becoming the conductor of the Count Vsevolozhsky’s orchestra in Moscow. Maurer conducted the orchestra until 1817 when he toured as a performer in Germany and Paris. In 1819 Maurer began using Hanover as a base for directing and conducting, while touring and composing. During this period Maurer also maintained a composing partnership with Aleksey Nikolayevich Verstovsky in the opera-vaudeville form. Toward the end of this period in Maurer’s life, he toured Germany with his sons Vsevolod and Alexis, who played violin and cello respectively. By 1833, however, Maurer was back in St. Petersburg, where he would remain for the rest

Ludwig Wilhelm Reuling

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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 father was the city priest of the Protestant church. His first music lessons were at his parents’ home. From 1818 he studied violin and composition with Christian Heinrich Rinck, and from 1819 was in the orchestra of the court theatre of Darmstadt. In 1824 he moved to Vienna, where he studied with Ignaz von Seyfried and Emanuel Aloys Förster. Becoming acquainted with members of the Theater in der Josefstadt, he composed short works for the theatre, which were well received. His Zauberoper Das graue Männchen (The dull little man), commissioned by the theatre and performed in October 1829 was successful, and as a result he became Kapellmeister of the Theater in der Josefstadt. He composed Singspiele for this theatre, and for the Theater in der Leopoldstadt and the Theater an der Wien; other commissions included two operas that were performed in Trieste. From 1830 Reuling was Kapellmeister at the Theater am Kärntnertor. While Louis Duport was director until 1836, he wrote many Singspiele an

Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson

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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 musician and composer, a music teacher mainly associated with the Imperial Lycée in Tsarskoye Selo (near St Petersburg, Russia). Biography Origin of the family Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson was born in Warsaw as the sixth child and third son of the extremely wealthy Polish banker Piotr Fergusson Tepper and his wife Maria-Philipina, née Valentin d’Hauterive. The surname ‘Ferguson’ indicates the Scottish origin of the family. Indeed, in 1703, his grandfather William Ferguson of Inverurie had emigrated from Scotland to Poland. In 1714, William Ferguson married Katherina-Concordia Tepper, a sister of the wealthy and influential merchant and banker, furrier and fur trader Pjotr Tepper of Poznań. Pjotr Tepper managed the large-scale international trade using family connections, and imported goods to Poland from many countries, including Britain. William Ferguson and Katherina-Concordia had three sons. One of them, Peter (1732–1794), who would become Ludwig-Wilhelm’s father, entered into par

Luella Totten

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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, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William Henry Denny Totten and Ann Elizabeth Covert Totten. Her father was in the iron business. “Pittsburgh, that wonderful city of steel, iron, coal, smoke, art and progress, with its unnumbered millions and millionaires, has produced nothing more remarkable than this woman composer,” declared a music magazine in 1908. She studied piano in Chicago, and in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky. She also worked with Edvard Grieg. Later in life, she studied composition at Yale University School of Music. In 1900 she won the Steinert Scholarship, a competitive award for piano study at Yale. In 1902 she became the third woman to earn a Bachelor of Music degree at Yale. She pursued further studies in composition at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and with Max Reger in Leipzig, before World War I. Career Totten taught music at Shimer College from 1894 to 1898. She had an affair with politician and physician Henry Winfield Haldeman. She was fired from her position at S

Luichy Guzman

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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 Jack, for which he won the Premio La Silla in 2018. In 2009, Guzman received an award for producing the stage musical Les Misérables from the Asociacion de Cronistas de Arte de Santo Domingo. Early life and family Luis Alberto Guzmán was born on 22 July 1974 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to Josefina (née Peña) and Luis Guzmán Molina a musician. As a young child, he played the keyboard at home but never had piano lessons. His father is a legendary dominican rocker, and with his help and the help of his aunt he learned to play the guitar at the age of 12. Luichy attended Colegio Dominicano De La Salle, graduating in 1993. Guzmán has two brothers, Luis Eduardo and Luis Omar, and one sister, Ayerine. Career Early career Guzman began his career playing guitar and singing in the late 1980s with the band Razon Vital. After that he went through various local bands either as a backup singer or as a guitar player. After a stint at being an actor in various musicals he released his first al

Luigi Arditi

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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 Crescentino, Piemonte, Kingdom of Sardinia. He began his musical career as a violinist, and studied music at the Milan Conservatory under Bernardo Ferrara (violin) and Nicola Vaccai (composition). He made his debut in 1843 as a director at Vercelli, and it was there that he was made an honorary member of the Philharmonic Academy. Arditi conducted opera throughout Italy and in 1846 travelled to Havana, Cuba to co-direct the opera orchestra there with the double bass player Giovanni Bottesini. Their company made long tours of America, and he subsequently moved there to conduct operas in New York, Philadelphia and other cities with the Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company until 1856. Then, following a visit to Constantinople, he decided to settle in London, but made several trips again to America with the Royal Italian Opera Company. He also conducted in Germany, and in other major European cities such as St. Petersburg, Vienna and Madrid. After 1885, he was in England, conducting at Covent Gar

Luigi Astolfi

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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 e Olfrida by Giuseppe Sorrentino at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice. In the following years he also started to practise as a choreographer, especially in Lisbon and, to a lesser extent, also in Porto, in Vienna, and in Russia, but with less success; performances of Belisario and Gli esiliati in Siberia (1831) by Gaetano Donizetti, and La muette de Portici by Daniel Auber (1838) were warmly received by critics and audience. Later he was also composed the music that he performed as a dancer; his first success was Le sette reclute, performed for the first time in 1832 at the Teatro alla Canobbiana in Milan. Again at the Canobbiana in 1837 I minatori di Salerno was performed for the first time: this was his most performed ballet, not only by Astolfi himself but also by other performers; this was the only work by Astolfi to be performed after his death. He was premier danseur of both Italian and Portuguese dancers at the Royal Theatre of Saint John in Lisbon until the season 1839–40, whic

Luigi Boccherini

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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 somewhat apart from the major classical musical centers. He is best known for the minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275), and the Cello Concerto in B major (G 482). The latter work was long known in the heavily altered version by German cellist and prolific arranger Friedrich Grützmacher, but has recently been restored to its original version. He is also particularly well known for his Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid (Night Music of the Streets of Madrid). Boccherini’s output also includes several guitar quintets. The final movement of the Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D (G 448) is a fandango, a lively Spanish dance. Biography Boccherini was born into a musical family in Lucca, Italy in 1743. He was the third child of Leopoldo Boccherini, a cellist and double-bass player, and the brother of Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, a poet and dancer who wrote libretti for Antonio Salieri and Joseph Haydn. Luigi received his first music lessons at age five by his father, who taught

Luigi Bottazzo

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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 blinded in an accident. He received a musical education in counterpoint, organ and piano at Padua’s Institute for the Blind, where at the age of nineteen he joined the staff. * 7 Marce religiose, op. 204; * Piccola Suite, op. 207; * Messa VIII “Degli angeli”, op. 208 a * Sonata in Re minore, op. 210; * Messa S.Teresa del Bambin Gesù, op.229; * Messa S.Clara Vergine, op.262; * Laudate Eum in Chordis et Organo, op. 269 (sette entrate solenni); * XII Motecta Natalicia ad chorum unius vocis mediae, op. 278 * 4 Pastorali, op. 279; * Missa pro Defunctis, op. 281; * Messa S.Tarcisio, op.318; * Laus Tibi Christe, op. 339; * Messa nuziale, op. 368; * Missa in honorem S. Luciae ad duas voces aequales, op. 180 * Pange lingua, op 347 a * Ave Maris Stella, op. 347 b Writings * (n.d.) Brevi nozioni sulle forme musicali (Turin). * (n.d.) L’organista di chiesa. Breve metodo per organo (Milan, n.d.). * (n.d.) Studi sulla periodologia musicale (Padua). * (n.d.) e Metodo teorico-pratico di armonia (Padua).

Luigi Capotorti

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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, five of which premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; and a teacher of composition and singing whose students included Stefano Pavesi and Saverio Mercadante. Born in Molfetta, he studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio in Naples and spent his entire career in that city. In his later years, Capotorti retired to San Severo, where he died at the age of 75. Life Capotorti was born in the southern Italian town of Molfetta the son of Maria née Berardi and Michelangelo Capotorti. He showed an early talent as a violinist and at the age of 12 was hired by the town’s cathedral to play whenever the Eucharist was carried outside. In 1783 his father enrolled him in the Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio in Naples where he studied violin under Michele Nasci and counterpoint and composition under Giuseppe Millico, Giacomo Insanguine, and Niccolò Piccinni. Further reading *Panunzio, Maria Pia (1999). Un musicista molfettese a Napoli. Società di Storia Patria per la Puglia (

Luigi Carlini

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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 century. Luigi Carlini’s Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia, a cultural depiction of Mary, Queen of Scots, was his debut opera. The production was adapted from a 1802 drama by Camillo Federici, titled The Triumph of the Carbonari (). In September 1817, Carlini presented a two-act drama featuring Luigi Lablache, Giovanni David, and Luigi Sirletti. The composer premiered the opera The Youth of Henry V () in 1819 at the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo in Naples, featuring a libretto by Italian poet Felice Romani. He returned with a production of Solimano II, or The Three Sultanas () at Teatro San Carlo in 1820, collaborating with Andrea Leone Tottola and Charles-Simon Favart. Carlini premiered Adelaide di Baviera at Teatro San Carlo in 1821 with libretto provided by Andrea Leone Tottola. In collaboration with Austrian composer Robert Gallenberg, he contributed to the musical composition of Niobe by Italian choreographer Gaetano Gioja, later staged at Naples’ Teatro di San Carlo in January 1822. That

Luigi Castellacci

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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 was the son of musical parents and as soon as he was capable of holding a mandolin, his father placed one in his hands and gave him instruction on the instrument and in the theory of music. Castellacci’s progress was rapid; he performed frequently as a musical prodigy in his native city. Having thoroughly studied the mandolin for some years, he extended the sphere of his concert performances with the instrument throughout northern Italy. He then turned his attention to the guitar, devoting several years to this instrument. He taught both instruments. About the year 1820 he left his native Pisa to tour as a professional mandolin and guitar virtuoso. He was drawn to Paris (as had Ferdinando Carulli and Matteo Carcassi). He made a name there in the musical world, particularly by his performances on the guitar and his vocal compositions with guitar accompaniment. He was well established by 1825 and appeared as a guitarist in the most influential musical circles, being esteemed and recogniz

Luigi Ceccarelli

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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 (Italy), where he studied Electronic Music and Composition with Walter Branchi, Giuliano Zosi and Guido Baggiani. His career as a composer began in 1975, and was strongly influenced by digital technology and research into Sound Spatialisation. In addition to his exclusively musical work, right from the start, he dedicated a significant part of his professional activity to experimental theatre, contemporary dance, cinema and visual arts. After moving to Rome in 1978, he began to collaborate with the Gruppo di lavoro intercodice - ALTRO (inter-codex work-group), an artistic association led by the painter Achille Perilli, and during this period, his contacts with artists in various other disciplines allowed him to develop forms of music that were closely related to the visual arts and the theatre. With ALTRO, he wrote and performed the music for the performance Abominable A, which was staged at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 1981, ALTRO became a dance company with the name of Altro

Luigi Cherubini

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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 music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living composer of his era. Cherubini’s operas were heavily praised and interpreted by Rossini. Early years He was born Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini in Florence in 1760. There is uncertainty about his date of birth. Although 14 September is sometimes stated, evidence from baptismal records and Cherubini himself suggests 8 September is correct. Perhaps the strongest evidence is his first name, Maria, which is traditional for a child born on 8 September, the feast-day of the Nativity of the Virgin. From opera to church music After Les deux journées, Parisian audiences began to favour younger composers such as Boieldieu. Cherubini’s opera-ballet Anacréon was an outright failure and most stage works after it did not achieve success. Faniska, produced in 1806, was an exception, receiving an enthusiastic response, in particular by Haydn and Beethoven. Les Abencérages (1813), an heroic drama set in Spain during the last days of

Luigi Dallapiccola

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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, Austria-Hungary (current Pazin, Croatia), to Italian parents. Unlike many composers born into highly musical environments, his early musical career was irregular at best. Political disputes over his birth region of Istria led to instability and frequent moves. His father was headmaster of an Italian-language school – the only one in the city – which was shut down at the start of World War I. The family, considered politically subversive, was placed in internment at Graz, Austria, where the budding composer did not even have access to a piano, though he did attend performances at the local opera house which cemented his desire to pursue composition as a career. Once back in Pisino after the war, he travelled frequently. Dallapiccola took his piano degree at the Florence Conservatory in the 1920s. He also studied composition with Vito Frazzi. He became a professor at the conservatory in 1931; Dallapiccola’s early experiences under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini coloured his outlook and o

Luigi de Baillou

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Pietro Luigi Francesco de Baillou (27 July 1736 – 14 March 1804)

Luigi Denza

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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 Contest, a prototype of today’s musical reality shows. On 16 May 1904, Denza attempted to mentor Joyce, and would have awarded him the Gold Medal, but Joyce could not sight read, missing a crucial part of the competition; Denza instead awarded Joyce the third-place Bronze medal. Disgusted, Joyce gave the medal to his Aunt Josephine; the medal ended up years later being bought by Michael Flatley at an auction. Notes References External links * * * Luigi Denza (composer) in Discography of American Historical Recordings at UC Santa Barbara * *

Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata

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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 the son of the Grand Duke’s inspector Luigi Giacomo Casamorata, who stayed with the Grand Duke Ferdinando III in exile in Germany. Already when he was seven years old, he moved to Florence and studied piano. In 1825, while he was attending law school at the university, he tried a competition for composition at the Accademia di Belle Arti with Ferdinando Giorgetti. was gonfalonier in Fiesole, and town counselor/representative in Florence. Characteristics as a critic Casamorata was a very traditionalist critic, linked to formalist ideals. He was convinced that the main scope of music was to imitate nature, and that of the first representation in Italy, at the Pergola in 1843, of Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber, judged as unbalanced between the wind instruments and strings. The debate regarding sacred music He actively participated in the debate regarding the esthetics of sacred music, inaugurated by the Cecilian Movement (with which he actively collaborated in the writing of the Ma

Luigi Legnani

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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 but dedicated himself to guitar and voice. His debut as an operatic tenor was in Ravenna in 1807; his singing career spanned 17 years. His career as a guitarist began with a concert in Milan in 1819, and continued with the 1822 concerts in Vienna and return visits in 1833 and 1839. He tried to continue the guitar tradition established there by Mauro Giuliani. Music Legnani is perhaps best known for his 36 Caprices op. 20 for the guitar, which cover all the major and minor keys, and which were probably inspired by Paganini’s 24 Caprices for the violin. He and Paganini were friends from the 1830s; while it was once thought that he and Paganini performed together in public (Powroźniak mentions a concert in Northern Italy in 1837), there is no evidence to support this claim. After the 1850s Legnani retired from active performance and became an instrument maker, concentrating on guitars and violins. The “Legnani model” guitar was popular in Central Europe through the middle of the nineteenth

Luigi Lopez

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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 a long professional association with lyricist Carla Vistarini, co-writing the ’s single “Mi sei entrata nel cuore”. In the second half of the 1970s, he was a member of the short-lived supergroup , with Vastarini, Tony Cicco and Viola Valentino, among others. In 1982, his composition “Where Did We Go Wrong” won the World Popular Song Festival. As a singer, he is better-known for “Pinocchio perchè no?”, the Italian theme song of the anime Pinocchio: The Series. References External links *

Luigi Mancinelli

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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. After 1886 he worked mostly in other countries, as principal conductor at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London and at the “Old Metropolitan” Opera House in New York, and in other appointments in Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Mancinelli was highly regarded not only in the Italian repertory, in which he first came to prominence, but also in German and French opera. Despite his high reputation as a conductor, his compositions met with limited success, and none of them entered the regular repertoire. Life and career Early years Mancinelli was born in Orvieto in central Italy. In Florence he studied composition with Teodulo Mabellini. In 1874 he moved to the Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, as principal cellist and assistant maestro concertatore. He made his conducting debut there in Aida when the regular conductor was unable to appear, owing to temporary inebriety. In Italy he worked principally in Bologna, conducting opera at the Teatro Comunale, serving as maestro di cappel

Luigi Maria Viviani

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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 Giovanni Galzerani and Antonio Cortesi. His 1851 score for Fausto was particularly praised for its obbligato written for the bimbonclaro (a variation on the bass clarinet invented by the Florentine clarinetist and instrument-maker, Giovanni Bimboni). Viviani also composed two operas: L’eroe francese, which premiered in 1826 at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, and L’amore in guerra, which premiered in 1829 at the Teatro Alfieri in Florence. Ballet scores *Ero e Leandro, Giovanni Galzerani (choreographer), premiered Teatro Regio, Turin, 7 December 1823 *La conquista del Perù, Giovanni Galzerani (choreographer), premiered Teatro Comunale, Bologna, 1 May 1824 *L’eroe peruviano, Giovanni Galzerani (choreographer), premiered La Fenice, Venice, 26 December 1824 *Virginia, Giovanni Galzerani (choreographer), premiered La Fenice, Venice, 8 February 1825 *Oreste, Antonio Cortesi (choreographer), premiered Teatro Regio, Turin, 26 December 1825 *Chiara di Rosemberg, Antonio Cortesi (choreographer), premiere

Luigi Mosca

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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 Naples, but played throughout Italy in their day. Biography Mosca was born in Naples and studied at the Pietà dei Turchini Conservatory there. Like his elder brother Giuseppe Mosca (also an opera composer), he studied composition under Fedele Fenaroli. Works Operas *L’impresario burlato (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Antonio Signoretti, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1797) *La sposa tra le imposture (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Antonio Signoretti, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1798) *Un imbroglio ne porta un altro (opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1799) *Gli sposi in cimento (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Saverio Zini, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1800) *L’omaggio sincero (musical allegory in honour of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, libretto by Giuseppe Pagliuca, Teatro del Palazzo Reale, Naples, 1800) *Le stravaganze d’amore (opera buffa, libretto by Francesco Saverio Zini, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1800) *Gli amanti volubili (opera buffa, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti,

Luigi Nono

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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 grandfather was a notable painter. Nono began music lessons with Gian Francesco Malipiero at the Venice Conservatory in 1941, where he acquired knowledge of the Renaissance madrigal tradition, amongst other styles. After graduating with a degree in law from the University of Padua, he was given encouragement in composition by Bruno Maderna. Through Maderna, he became acquainted with Hermann Scherchen—then Maderna’s conducting teacher—who gave Nono further tutelage and was an early mentor and advocate of his music. Scherchen presented Nono’s first acknowledged work, the Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell’op. 41 di A. Schönberg in 1950, at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. The Variazioni canoniche, based on the twelve-tone series of Arnold Schoenberg’s Op. 41, including the “Ode-to-Napoleon” hexachord, marked Nono as a committed composer of anti-fascist political orientation. (Variazioni canoniche also used a six-element row of rhythmic values.) Nono had been a member of the Italian Resistance duri

Luigi Ricci (composer)

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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 conductor. Life Ricci was born on 8 July 1805. He was born and educated in Naples, where he wrote his first opera at the conservatory in 1823. His triumphs in 1831 at La Scala with Chiara di Rosembergh and in 1834 with Un’avventura di Scaramuccia made him famous throughout Europe, and in 1835 he and his younger brother Federico collaborated in the first of the four operas they wrote together. In 1837 Ricci ran into financial problems, brought about mainly by his extravagant life-style. He was forced to accept a job at Trieste, and he composed no operas for seven years. Then, however, he fell in love, at the same time, with both Francesca and Ludmila, the 17-year-old identical twin sisters of the singer Teresa Stolz, also singers, and this inspired him to create (in 1845) an opera for them both to sing in, at Odesa. Back in Trieste he married Ludmila (without, however, letting go of the other). He then composed three more operas on his own, which were well received, although his greatest su

Luigi Russolo

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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 (1913). Russolo completed his secondary education at Seminary of Portogruaro in 1901, after which he moved to Milan and began gaining interest in the arts. He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of noise music concerts in 1913–14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921. He designed and constructed a number of noise-generating devices called Intonarumori. Biography Luigi Russolo was perhaps the first noise artist. His 1913 manifesto, L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noises), stated that the industrial revolution had given modern men a greater capacity to appreciate more complex sounds. Russolo found traditional melodic music confining, and he envisioned noise music as its future replacement. Russolo designed and constructed a number of noise-generating devices called Intonarumori, and assembled a noise orchestra to perform with them. A performance of his Gran Concerto Futuristico (1917) was met with strong disapp

Luigi Vannuccini

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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 Ernesto, who had been singing teacher in Florence for Adelina Patti and continued at the conservatory of that Tuscan city. He was a violinist at the Teatro Leopoldo (formerly “Teatro Nazionale”) and between 1848 and 1873 he conducted operas at the Teatro della Pergola. In Florence, moreover, he founded a singing school that soon acquired great fame, not only in Italy, but also abroad, particularly in America. He was a close friend of Rossini. He was part of the historical “Quartetto Fiorentino” with Giuseppe Buonamici, Bruni and . He was much loved as a teacher and orator. In England, a collection of “Solfeggi” from the best Italian vocal tradition was published. He composed sacred music, works for piano and chamber music. Vannuccini died in Bagni di Lucca at the age of 82. His pupils included tenor William Lavin; baritones David Bispham and Harry Plunket Greene; and soprano Mary Howe. Work * Sedici piccoli studi per canto : su parole del Metastasio. * 2 Morceaux pour violon et violonce

Luis Abraham Delgadillo

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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 and the National Symphony Orchestra. Biography Luis Abraham Delgadillo was born on August 26, 1887, in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, where he was first educated. He then studied music at the Milan Conservatory in Italy at the initiative of the Nicaraguan government, for five years. Upon his return to Nicaragua, Delgadillo took conductorship of the Banda de los Supremos Poderes (Band of the Supremos Poderes). He was also made the first director-general of musical culturethe position having been created specifically for him. From 1921 to 1925 he lived in Mexico City where he taught music theory at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. Delgadillo conducted at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1930. He was in New York when the 1931 Nicaragua earthquake occurred, composing Romance Oriental (Eastern Romance) in response. He taught composition in Panama City for two years beginning in 1943, simultaneously editing the journal Armonía. Delgadillo founded Nicaragua’s National School of Music a

Luis Advis

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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 fundamental figures of Chilean music in 2003. Biography Advis was born in Iquique in northern Chile. He graduated in Philosophy from the Universidad de Chile and held numerous academic posts in various schools of higher learning in his country. Musical work Advis did not formally study music or composition at university, but he studied piano with Alberto Spikin and composition with Chilean academic and musician Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (to whom the amalgamation of the European classical music traditions with Latin American musical expressions is owed). Although Advis recognized his appreciation of traditional classical music, he felt the need to revitalize and develop popular and folk music through works such as cantatas and symphonies. Prominent in his repertoire for vocalists are the cantata Santa María de Iquique (a milestone of the New Chilean Song movement), the Canto para una Semilla (Song for a Seed) based on poems by Violeta Parra (recorded by Inti-illimani, Isabel Parra and Carmen Bunst

Luis Antonio Ramírez

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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 with Alfredo Romero in San Juan, Puerto Rico, graduating from the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. From 1957 to 1964 Ramírez studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory in Spain with the support of scholarship funds provided by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the Puerto Rico Department of Education. Awards In 1966 and 1968, the Ateneo Puertorriqueño bestowed upon Ramírez the Fine Arts Award. Ramírez is the recipient of several other awards and commissions from fine arts institutions that include the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra. Selected works ;Orchestral *Fantasia sobre un mito antillano for trumpet, string orchestra, guitar and timpani (1971) *Tres piezas breves (3 Short Pieces) (1972) *Fragmentos (1973) ;Chamber music *Meditación a la memoria de Segundo Ruis Belvis for viola and piano (1973) ;Piano *Diez improvisaciones (10 Improvisations) (1971) References

Luis Bordón

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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 very early age he showed interest towards the art of musical performance, supported and promoted by his father. He began his studies with the Paraguayan harp and soon after developed a delicate and particular style which was “impossible to be imitated by anyone,” according to comments from people who heard him play. Since 1950 and for several years he joined the orchestra of Julián Rejala, a Paraguayan folk music band, which conducted tours around the country and then to the neighbouring country of Brazil, highlighting his participation in the group as the leading musician. Interpreter of the Paraguayan harp, along with his colleagues Félix Pérez Cardozo, Digno García, Albino Quiñónez, Cristino Báez Monges and others. He settled with his art for a long time in Brazil where he developed most of his career, being considered in the decades of the ’70s and ’80s as an artist of greater success in presentations and record sales throughout Brazil. In the neighboring country, he recorded 34 al

Luis de Briceño

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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 serious plucked instrument. Nothing is known about his youth or his activities in Spain. He married Anne Gaultier. In February 1627, two sons, Charles and Claude, were baptized in the church of Saint-Sulpice. Their godparents were Claude Lesclop, an instrument maker; Bertrand de Vignolles, a field marshal to Louis XIII; and Jeanne de Montluc, wife of the Marquis de Sourdis. He travelled in high courtly circles in both countries, and is first cited as an authority on the Spanish guitar in 1614. His Metodo mui facilissimo para aprender a tañer la guitarra a lo español (1626, Very Easy Method to Learn to Play the Guitar in the Spanish Style) is the main source of knowledge of the Spanish style, since few books appeared during this period in Spain itself. His own transcriptions include villanos, villancicos, pasacalles, tonos frances, españoletas, romances, folías, seguidillas and a “Danza de la Hacha”. A selection was recorded by Le Poème Harmonique, directed by Vincent Dumestre, for Alpha

Luís de Freitas Branco

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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 Portuguese music in the first half of the 20th century. Life Luís Maria da Costa de Freitas Branco was born in Lisbon into an aristocratic family who for centuries had had close ties to the royal family in Portugal. His brother, Pedro, was a conductor. Luís had a cosmopolitan education, studied piano and violin beginning in childhood and began composing at a precocious age. He studied music in Berlin and Paris, where he worked with Engelbert Humperdinck and other composers. He returned to Portugal and became professor of composition starting in 1916 at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music, where he became a leading force in restructuring musical education. There he taught, among many others, Joly Braga Santos. During the 1930s he increasingly encountered political difficulties with the authorities and was finally forced into retirement from his official duties in 1939. He continued to compose, however, and to pursue his research into Portuguese early music, publishing several books and numerous art

Luis de los Cobos

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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, and after he finished his studies in 1949 he couldn’t find a job since he lacked the certificate of adherence to the Spanish State, so he went to exile, settling in Geneva after studying orchestral conducting under Bernardo Molinari in Rome and Eugène Bigot in Paris. Like Xavier Montsalvatge and Manuel Castillo he has been defined as a missing link in the postwar Spanish music, as he was influenced by Shostakovichian modernism while the Spanish scene evolved from nationalism to the Darmstadt avantgarde through his contemporaries of the 1951 Generation. He composed four operas, two symphonies, four concertos and six string quartets. Compositions Opera * La gloria de Don Ramiro (1975) * Mariana Pineda (1982) * La Pasión de Gregorio (1983) * The Incarnation of Desire (1994) Ballet * Winnie the Pooh (1992) Orchestral Symphony orchestra * Symphony No. 1 ″Cursus Vitae″ (1956) * Agonía recurrente (1966) * Symphony No. 2 ″El pinar perdido″ (2012) String orchestra * Jungla 1967 (1967) Chamber orc

Luis de Milán

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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 music for the vihuela de mano, an instrument employed primarily in the Iberian peninsula and some of the Italian states during the 15th and 16th centuries, and he was also one of the first musicians to specify verbal tempo indications in his music. Life Luis de Milán probably lived all his life in Valencia, though details are sketchy at best. He seems to have been employed by the Valencian court of Germaine de Foix until around 1538. In 1535 he published his first book, a parlor game with music called El juego de mandar. The next year he issued what would be his most important book, El maestro. This was the first printed collection of vihuela music, and both books were composed during his ducal court residence. It is likely that Milán was a Valencian nobleman who entered minor religious orders before later becoming the rector of a parish church. He would have eventually been married sometime before 1555, and died in 1559. Milán’s final work titled El cortesano provides insight into court li

Luis de Narváez

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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 Vacas” which is popular with classical guitarists. Narváez is also known for Los seys libros del Delphín, a collection of polyphonic music for the vihuela which includes the earliest known variation sets and other works. Life The exact date or even year of Narváez’s birth is unknown. He was born in Granada and the earliest surviving references to him indicate that as early as 1526 he was a member of the household of Francisco de los Cobos y Molina, a well-known and very successful patron of the arts who was the Secretary of State and commentator for the kingdom of Castile under Charles V. Narváez lived in Valladolid with his patron until the latter’s death in 1547, although he was working for the Duke of Medina Sidonia between 1539 and 1540. It was during this period that the composer published Los seys libros del delphín (Valladolid, 1538), a large collection of music. By 1548 Narváez was employed as musician of the royal chapel, where he also taught music to choristers. His colleagues ther

Luis de Pablo

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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 influenced by Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he co-founded ensembles for contemporary music, and organised concert series for it in Madrid. He published translations of notable texts about composers of the Second Viennese School, such as Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt’s biography of Arnold Schoenberg and the publications of Anton Webern. He wrote music in many genres, including film scores such as Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive, and operas including La señorita Cristina. He taught composition not only in Spain, but also in the U.S. and Canada. Among his awards is the Premio Nacional de Música. Life Luis de Pablo was born in Bilbao. After losing his father in the Spanish Civil War, he went with his mother and siblings to live in Madrid from age six. Although he started to compose at the age of 12, his circumstances made it impossible to consider an artistic career, and so he studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid. For a short time after graduating in 1952, he was employed as

Luis Días (composer)

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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 customs of Dominican folklore. In the artistic realms he is known as “El Terror” (“The Terror”), due to his particular performance style and his overtones. He was the author of lyrics and music that fused many diverse musical styles. In some circles, Luis was considered to be the Father of Dominican Rock, due to his contributions to alternative music and his experimentation with Dominican rhythms blended with rock guitar patterns. In his fusions, Luis accomplished fusions of rock, reggae, jazz and blues with more than 40 ethnic rhythms from the Dominican Republic and Haiti, such as merengue, bachata, and mangulina, among many others. Biography The composer, guitarist and singer named Luis Díaz Portorreal was born in Bonao, Dominican Republic, on June 21, 1952. Since childhood, he felt a direct impulse to become a musician, given that his father was a Tres player, (an instrument similar to the guitar used in rural Dominican towns), and his mother was a singer of Salves. Lively melodies a

Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom

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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, member of the French hang gliding team. Biography Rizo-Salom obtained a master of composition at the Javeriana University in Bogotá in 1998. In 1999, he decided to come to France to continue his studies with Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris. Interested in computer music and new technologies, he followed the curriculum composition and computer music at IRCAM in 2005 where he made Big Bang for viola and electronics. Between 2005 and 2007 he was composer in residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. He also received support from institutions such as the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundation, the Colombian government, the Academy Villecroze, foundations Meyer, Tarrazi, Legs St. Paul, and the Georges Wildenstein (Academy of Fine Arts). His works were commissioned by the Concert Hall Shizuoka (Japan), the French ministry for culture, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Festival du Larzac, the SACEM, the IRCAM, Radio France and Steirisches Kammermusik Festival (Austria). He

Luis Gianneo

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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, , and Rodolfo Arizaga, among others. Founder of Orquesta Juvenil de Radio Nacional and co-founder of Symphonic Orchestra of Tucumán. Gianneo is acknowledged as a leading Argentine composer and one of the most influential members of the Grupo renovación, which he joined in 1931. He composed nearly 100 works including every genre except opera. His earliest compositions exhibit the influence of indigenous culture and landscape of northwest Argentina; after joining the Grupo renovación, he adopted a neoclassical approach; in 1960 he traveled to Europe, where he met Goffredo Petrassi and Luigi Dallapiccola, who brought his attention to the post-war avant-gardists and prompted him to incorporate a dissonant atonal language and free use of serialism in his late works. Homage To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death, with two concerts in the Salón Dorado of the Teatro Colón, on 4 August and on 25 August 2018 respectively, the Cuarteto Gianneo performed the world premiere of his complet

Luis Jorge González

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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 González Fernández) was a composer and composition teacher. He earned a “Licenciado en Piano, Armonía y Dirección Coral” degree at the Escuela de Música at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Mendoza, in 1963. He studied composition privately with Austrian musicologist Erwin Leuchter in Buenos Aires between 1957 and 1959, and again later, between 1963 and 1964. After 1965, he taught music theory at Departamento de Música at the Universidad Provincial “Domingo Faustino Sarmiento” in San Juan, and conducted the choir Agrupación Coral Sanjuanina between 1967 and 1969. He was invited to compose the music for the large, annual Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia (Grape Harvest Festival) in 1968. González moved to the United States in 1971 and studied composition at the Peabody Institute. He was a student of Earle Brown and Robert Hall Lewis, and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1977. In 1978 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He returned to San Juan, Argentina, in 1980, and taught

Luis Mariano de Larra

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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 Tigre, Un embuste y una boda, Todo con raptos, El cuello de la camisa, con el Sr. Suricalday amongst others, his most famous work is undoubtedly El barberillo de Lavapiés (1874), set to music by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. Larra worked for the Ministry of Development and contributed to various publications of the time such as the Gaceta de Madrid, from which he resigned to devote himself exclusively to literature. He also wrote many comedies, among which is his much successful La oración de la tarde, drama in three acts and verse whose protagonist Don Diego de Mendoza, dragging his righteous indignation for reasons of honor, implements the evangelical precept of forgiving every injury. It premiered at Teatro del Circo on 25 November 1858 with great acclaim. Works *En Palacio y en la calle *Las tres noblezas *Quien á cuchillo mata *A caza de cuervos! con el Sr. Larrea *Una nube de verano *El amor y el interés *La pluma y la espada *La paloma y los halcones *La planta exótica *El Rey del mu

Luis Pacheco de Céspedes

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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. He was trained as a musician in his native city by violinist Claudio Rebagliati (1843–1909) and musicologist and composer Luis Villalba Muñoz (1872–1921). In 1910 he went to Paris where he was a pupil of the writer Henri Duvernois. After graduating from the conservatory he worked for many years as an arranger for the music publishing firm of Francis Salabert; specializing in orchestration. With the onset of World War II, Céspedes left France for Peru where his compositional style transitioned into incorporating Peruvian folk music into his compositions. His wife, the American choreographer and dancer , was a collaborator, often designing dances to accompany his music. In 1941 he was appointed musical director of Radio Nacional del Perú, and was also active as a guest conductor of operas at the Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú. In 1946 he was the recipient of the government of Peru’s Duncker Lavalle National Prize for his string quartet Siclla. three sonatas for violin and piano, the opera

Luis Sandi

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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 child of Genaro Sandi and María Meneses. Sandi did not attend public primary school, but was privately tutored by his mother’s sister, Manuela Meneses, who was a public school teacher. Between the ages of six and fourteen Sandi lived in Tacubaya, a suburb of Mexico city. As his interest in music increased, at the age of fifteen Sandi entered the National Conservatory of music where he studied violin with José Rocabruna, an eminent Spanish violinist. Sandi studied voice with Elvira González, and composition with Estanislao Mejía (b. 1882) a nationalist. Sandi also had a composition workshop with Carlos Chávez with whom he studied instrumental conducting. Luis Sandi conducted in various instances Orquesta Sinfónica de México and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. At one time, he focused on composition. From his production, opera Carlota (libretto by Francisco Zendejas) and Bonampak ballet stand out. His continuous contact with Coro de Madrigalistas (which he founded in 1938) made him compose and a

Luisa Casagemas

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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 Paula Sánchez i Gavagnach and violin with Agustí Torelló. She began composing at an early age and made her debut as a composer in 1893 with a symphonic poem. Casagemas’ opera Schiava e regina won a prize at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892; it has to be performed in 1893 at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; it would be the first opera by a woman performed there. However, an anarchist attack with a bomb interrupted the opera season and the theatre was closed for months. So, the opera was not performed; as a compensation for the author, several fragments were performed before the Spanish royal family in Madrid in 1894. After, it was forgotten and never performed nor recorded. Afterward Casagemas sang her own compositions at the salon of novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán, and he introduced her to musical and literary society. Works Casagemas composed over than 300 works, solo and chamber music and songs with piano. Selected works include: *Crepusculo for orchestra (1893) *Schiava e

Luise Adolpha Le Beau

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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 Franz Lachner, but her primary instructor was Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. Like many other 19th century female composers, Le Beau began her career in music as a pianist, and later earned her living teaching, critiquing, and performing music. She studied languages from 1863 through 1866 as a guest at the local girls’ school. At age sixteen, she completed her education with a degree from a private institution for girls, and from then on devoted herself to music. Education Following her confirmation on Easter of 1865, Le Beau began to take piano lessons from Hofkapellmeister William Kalliwoda in Karlsruhe. She also received singing lessons from Anton Haizinger. In 1868 she made her debut as a pianist, playing the E-flat major Concerto of Beethoven and the G minor Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn in Karlsruhe. In 1870, she met Franz Lachner and Anton Rubinstein. Le Beau applied for piano lessons with Clara Schumann in 1873 to be taken in Baden-Baden. Her studies with Schumann lasted for one summer,

Luise Greger

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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 still in Berlin in the 1890s, Richard Strauss proclaimed her to be a composer. She continued composing into her seventies and in 1933-34 her musical Christmas fairytale “Goose Girl” was performed 13 times to much acclaim. At an old age she was a resident of a nursing home. On December 2, 1943, she was taken to the Merxhausen State Institution because of “gradually increasing senile mental disorder”. There she died on January 25, 1944, from hunger as a victim of National Socialist euthanasia. Decades later her family found some of her songs in a trunk and she has since been honored in many forums in Germany and the US. Some of her descendants are American and it was through her music that they connected with their German family. The “Luise Greger International Women in Music Festival” started in Langley, on Whidbey Island, WA, celebrating her works and those of other talented local and international female composers from Washington state. The “father of Langley” Jacob Anthes was from Hesse,

Luiz Päetow

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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 in São Paulo, including plays by William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nelson Rodrigues, and also musicals by Cole Porter with guest director Nancy Diuguid. Later, he entered the Conservatory for Dramatic Arts (located inside the School of Communications and Arts) and acted in Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen, Bertolt Brecht’s The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent. As a child, he also developed cinephilia, attending international film festivals where, after seven years, he was allowed to work as an interpreter for the jury members Abbas Kiarostami, Artavazd Peleshyan, Béla Tarr and Oja Kodar. At age 19, he audited a master’s degree course on Pier Paolo Pasolini. Career Between 1996 and 2001, Päetow became a central player for CPT (Centre for Theatre Research). During this period, he created the experimental Prêt-à-Porter. For this specific project, he directed, wrote and starred in five plays: Passengers, Under the Bridge,

Luka Sorkočević

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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 the Dubrovnik Franciscan convent. He is known as the first Croatian symphonist. Biography Luka (Lukša) Sorkočević was born in Dubrovnik and received an extensive education. His music teacher was the Italian composer Giuseppe Valentini, who was maestro di cappella of Dubrovnik Cathedral in the 1750s. He continued his education in Rome where he studied musical composition with Rinaldo di Capua. Later, Sorkočević married a girl from the Luccari (Lukarević) family and held several posts in various branches of Dubrovnik politics and society. During his relatively brief stint in Vienna as the ambassador to the imperial court he met several leading composers of his time, like Gluck and Haydn, and the famous poet Metastasio – a valuable experience for his later life and work. With serious health problems, he committed suicide by throwing himself from the third floor of his palace in Dubrovnik in 1789, at the age of 55. Although he also wrote a few vocal pieces, his most interesting works are the

Lukas Foss

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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 prodigy. He began piano and theory lessons with Julius Goldstein Herford in Berlin at the age of six. His parents were Hilde (Schindler) and the philosopher and scholar, Martin Foss. In 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, the Jewish family moved from Germany to Paris, where Lukas studied piano with Lazare Lévy, composition with Noël Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes, and the flute with Marcel Moyse. In 1937 he moved with his parents and brother to the United States, where his father (on advice from the Quakers, who had taken the family in upon arrival in Philadelphia) changed the family name to Foss. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Isabelle Vengerova (piano), Rosario Scalero (composition) and Fritz Reiner (conducting). At Curtis, Foss began a lifelong friendship with classmate Leonard Bernstein, who later described Foss as an “authentic genius.” In 1961 Bernstein conducted the premiere of Foss’s Time Cycle, while Foss would conduct the premiere of Be

Lukas Ligeti

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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 African traditional and popular music styles. Biography Ligeti is of Hungarian ancestry (although he never learned to speak the Hungarian language fluently, since his parents spoke Hungarian to one another but spoke German to him while he was growing up) and is the son of the noted composer György Ligeti (1923–2006). He was born without citizenship, due to being the child of Jewish parents who had fled from Hungary. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where he studied composition with Erich Urbanner, Kurt Schwertsik, Heinrich Gattermeyer, and Dieter Kaufmann; as well as jazz drums with Fritz Ozmec, earning a Diploma (with “unanimous distinction”) in 1993 and an M.A. (with highest grade) in 1997. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2020. Ligeti has done numerous cross-cultural collaborations and exchanges with non-Western musicians, experimenting with both ancient African traditional instruments and modern

Lukas Nathanson

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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 including Akon, Chris Brown, Natalia Jiménez, Sofia Reyes, and Prince Royce. Nathanson was nominated for two Grammy Awards for his work on the albums Creo En Mi by Natalia Jiménez and X by Chris Brown. Career Nathanson started producing music in Stockholm, Sweden and signed his first publishing deal at age 16 with reactive songs. In his early career, he has worked with Finnish rapper Pikku G, Cuban band Alianza and Japanese idol group Arashi. In 2012, Nathanson moved to the Los Angeles, where he started collaborating with writers and producers at recording studios. He later began a production duo with Scott Effman and worked with artists in various genres, including Akon, Chris Brown, Boyz II Men, The Saturdays, Priscilla Renea, and Prince Royce. In 2014, Nathanson received a Grammy nomination for Chris Brown’s X as the best urban contemporary album. and with OVÖ’s “Inga Problem” in 2020. Production discography References

Luke Bedford

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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. This was followed by post-graduate study with Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2007 Bedford signed to Universal Edition London. Awards include the 2000 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize for composers under 29 and the 2004 BBC Radio 3 Listeners’ Award at the British Composer Awards. In 2007, Bedford became the first compositional recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Artists’ Award since David Sawer in 1993. 2007 also saw him receive a nomination for the Royal Philharmonic Society large-scale composition prize, for his song cycle On Voit Tout En Aventure. In 2008, Bedford received his second British Composer Award for his 2007 orchestral work Wreathe. In 2012, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. Bedford was the Wigmore Hall’s first ever Composer-in-Residence, from 2008-2011. In 2015 his work for large orchestra, Instability, was premiered at the Proms, and in October 2017 his Concerto for Saxophone Quartet & Orchestra had its premiere at the Berlin Philha

Luke Cissell

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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 incorporating a heady range of styles” from classical to bluegrass, jazz, folk, post-rock, and art pop. Cissell was a champion fiddler and classical violinist in his youth, earned a degree from Princeton University, and has worked as a producer, arranger, and session musician with a broad range, with credits on albums by artists such as singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and composer Philip Glass. Known for performing every part on most of his studio album releases, Cissell has composed and recorded a number of works that prominently feature strings. Selected works * Cosmography (2013) * Infinite Progress (2014) for solo violin * Backwoods (2015) * String Quintet (2016) * Sonata for Viola and Piano (2017) * Three Piano Pieces (2017) * Thinking/Feeling (2018) for mandolin, banjo, electric guitar, electric bass, strings and electronics * String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2 (2019) * Nightside (2020) * Emerald Cities (2021) * Pulp (2023) for string orchestra * Serenade for Strings (2023) References External

Luke Flintoft

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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, Cambridge in 1700. He was appointed priest-vicar at Lincoln Cathedral in 1704. He remained there until 1714. On 4 December 1715 he was sworn as a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and is described in the ‘Cheque Book’ as ‘from Worcester,’ which therefore was probably his birthplace. On 9 July 1719 he was appointed reader in Whitehall Chapel, and was subsequently made a minor canon of Westminster. He died on 3 November 1727, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. Flintoft’s Chant His claim to a place in musical history depends upon the question whether a certain ‘double chant’ in G minor, attributed to him, is or is not the first specimen of the kind in existence. The arguments for and against this will be found in ‘Notes and Queries,’ 3rd ser. x. 206, xi. 267, 391, and 445. Flintoft’s Chant, described as “perhaps the most beautiful chant ever composed”. References Bibliography

Luke Flynn

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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 industry, he has composed the scores for several movies, including Holmes and Watson (2018); his film music credits include numerous other titles, such as Frozen II, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, La La Land, and many others. Education Flynn graduated summa cum laude from Butler University with a masters of music composition, where he studied with Michael Schelle, and was a graduate assistant in music composition, and a teaching assistant in music technologies. He graduated summa cum laude from Clarke University, with a Bachelor of Arts in music composition, where he studied with Amy Dunker, and was the recipient of the Francis J. O’ Connor Memorial Award, Clarke University’s most prestigious award given to a single graduating senior. Flynn also studied music composition at 鹿児島国際大学, the International University of Kagoshima in Japan, with Japanese composer Tadashi Kubo. Composition Awards and Accolades (Winner, runner-up, or finalist) *Winds Composition Contest Saxony (2023) *American Priz

Luke Mombrea

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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. Education Mombrea studied cognitive neuroscience and music composition at the University of California, Davis and University of California, Los Angeles, before receiving a Master’s of Music in composition at the Royal College of Music, London. Career His string quartet Lowlands was premiered by the Carducci Quartet in 2023 and features archival folk music transformed into looping minimalist structures. His piece Black Gold was commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra in 2023 and received its premiere at LSO St. Luke’s in May 2024. Performances of his concert music have been featured on both BBC 3 Radio and NTS Radio. Mombrea has had audiovisual works featured at venues including Art Basel, the Wallace Collection, Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Culver City Hall and the Barbican Centre. He has worked in film and television, scoring the upcoming HBO pilot Point Unknown, which stars the musical artist Corbin. Mombrea has also worked in the music department on films and television shows includi

Lullaby of the Leaves

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“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 and commercial success of Petkere’s composing career. The song was a hit for George Olsen and his Music in 1932. By January 1933, more than 50,000 copies had been sold in the U.S.—ten times more than the usual hit song of the era. It has since been recorded numerous times in its lyrical version and as an instrumental, including hot jazz sextet version by Benny Goodman in 1951, a haunting bop-accented rendition by Anita O’Day in 1952, a cool jazz version by Cal Tjader on vibraphone in 1952, a rousing surf rock version by the Ventures in 1961, a lively piano version by Mary Lou Williams in the 1950s, and a widely heard version by Ella Fitzgerald on her 1964 album Hello, Dolly!. Since 2002, jazz pianist Tamir Hendelman has been performing his unique arrangement of the song, especially as part of the Jeff Hamilton Trio. The song was released in “Imagination”, a 1958 album recorded by Billy Eckstine, with Pete Rugolo Orchestra. EmArcy label. In 2017, British artist The Caretaker (James Leyl

Lulu Dikana

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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 Thoughts. She died on 3 December 2014 after a short illness. Life and career Born into a family of musicinas in Kwazakhele, a small town in Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth, Lulu began singing as a chorister in her local church at the age of 15. Her father, Vuyiselie Dikana was a drummer for a band known as “Black Slave and the Flamingo”. An alumna of Fort Hare University where she studied Law, Lulu released her debut album titled My Diary, My Thoughts in 2008 produced by Nigerian-born music producer Wilson Joel . The album contained hit tracks like “Real Love” and “Life and Death”. Following the success of her debut album, Lulu began working on her second album This Is the Life. The album was released in 2011 and went on to be nominated in three categories at the 2013 Metro FM Music Awards and “Best R&B/Soul/Reggae Album” category at the 19th South African Music Awards. In October 2014, she released I Came To Love, her third studio album which earned her three nomination spots at the 21st

Luming Lu

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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 Best Original Film Score with the drama film The Falls (2021) in the 58th Golden Horse Awards. Early life Lu was born on 23 June 1982 in Pingtung City, Taiwan. His father Lu Yong-hui was a lawyer and a member of the Pingtung Mediation Committee. He learnt to play the piano and violin at a young age. He considered himself deviant and rebellious during his school years and joined the rock music club. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science, he fulfilled his mandatory military service and worked as a math tutor at a cram school. He had also formed a band called Empty Space On a Chessboard, In 2016, he received his first film composing role in his sister’s drama film The Receptionist. He won Best Original Film Song at the 56th Golden Horse Awards and received nominations for Best Original Film Score and Best Music at both the aforementioned Golden Horse Awards and the 2020 Taipei Film Awards. He also became a frequent collaborator of Hsu. In A Leg, he used bass, double bass, and xylophone to

Luna Alcalay

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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.” Biography Alcalay was born in Zagreb, Croatia, to a Jewish family. She studied piano under Bruno Seidlhofer and composition under Alfred Uhl at the Vienna Academy of Music and received a scholarship in 1958 to continue her studies in Rome. She attended the Darmstadt Summer Course. After completing her studies, Alcalay returned to Vienna, where she became a professor of piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. She died in 2012, at the age of 83, in Vienna. Composition prizes * Darmstadt 1963 and 1964 * Gaudeamus Competition 1967 * Berlin 1972 * International ISCM competition Italy 1973 * ORF Steiermark 1973 * “Preis der Stadt Wien” 1992 Works Selected works include: * Apostroph (violin solo) * Apostrophen (violoncello solo) * Gyroskop for viola solo (1998) * un sogno à tre for flute, viola and harp (1990) * relatif à la sonorité (string trio) * Touches (two pianos) * conversations à trois (woodwind trio) * L’intérieur des pensées (string quartet) * Applications (for sixteen strings) *

Luna Pearl Woolf

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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 chamber music, silent film scores, and musical story-telling. Her works have been commissioned Carnegie Hall, Washington National Opera, Tapestry Opera, Minnesota Sinfonia, Salle Bourgie, ECM+, Perelman Performing Arts Center, Concours Musical International de Montréal, among others, with collaborations with artists including Jeremy Irons, Cornelia Funke, Joyce DiDonato, Frederica von Stade, Royce Vavrek, David Van Taylor, Matt Haimovitz, and Dame Evelyn Glennie amongst many others. In 2014 she was an inaugural recipient of Opera America’s first grant for female composers. Biography Luna Pearl Woolf was born in 1973 in Western Massachusetts. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, graduating Summa Cum Laude in music composition in 1996, and a Master of Arts from Smith College in music composition. Woolf’s principal composition teachers have been Mario Davidovsky, Augusta Read Thomas, Lewis Spratlan and Don Wheelock. Woolf was awarded the Ellen Taafe Zwilich Prize from the IAW

Lupus Hellinck

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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 was a Roman Catholic all of his life, his music shows evidence of sympathy for the Protestant Reformation, and three of his motets—including a famous setting of In te domine speravi—were probably inspired by the prison writings of the martyred reformer Girolamo Savonarola. Life Hellinck was probably born in Axel. Little else is known about him until he appears as a choirboy in Bruges at St. Donatian on 24 March 1506. He left in 1511 to go to school, returning to St. Donatian in 1513 as a cleric, where he stayed until 1515. Until recently, nothing was known of his activities for the next four years, but in 1989 some records from the Vatican archives were published that showed that he spent this time in Rome. One of these documents, dated April 1518, gave his age as 24, which gives a birth date of 1493 or 1494. During this time he was a member of the household of Pope Leo X, and around 1518 he was ordained as a priest. A further confusion, not definitively solved, is that music theorist

Luther Henderson

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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 Kansas City, Missouri, Henderson relocated to the Sugar Hill section of Harlem at the age of four. Following a short stint studying mathematics at the City College of New York, he enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1942. Drafted into the Navy during World War II, Henderson became an arranger for the Navy band stationed at the Naval Station Great Lakes, prior to becoming the staff orchestrator for The U. S. Navy School of Music in Washington, D.C., from 1944 to 1946. Following the war, Henderson began a long professional association with a number of musical notables of the era, including Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Jule Styne, and Richard Rodgers. Notably, Henderson maintained a lengthy pre-professional relationship with Ellington, having been neighbors with the Ellington family as a child and schoolmate with his son, Mercer. Henderson went on to serve as classical orchestrator for Ellington’s symphonic works, receiving the nickname

Lutz Glandien

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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 with English percussionist Chris Cutler to record two acclaimed avant-rock albums, Domestic Stories (1992) and p53 (1996). Glandien has received several scholarships and awards, including the Voya Toncitch Prize at the International Piano Composition Contest in Paris in 1987 for his work entitled 365. He was described as “a major talent” by Facelift Magazine in 1994. Biography Lutz Glandien was born in the small town of Oebisfelde in the former German Democratic Republic. At the age of nine years he started taking piano lessons, but abandoned them after a few years when he became more interested in rock music. While at school he founded a rock band, and his interest in music grew. After school he moved to Dresden to study economics at the Dresden University of Technology, where he also became a songwriter and pianist with a local music group. His interest in composition later led to him to study classical contemporary composition at the “Hanns Eisler” Music Academy in East Berlin. After

Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau

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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 München, continued in a masterclass with Hans-Jürgen von Bose from 1992 to 1994. He has been teaching music pedagogy at the Regensburg University. Selected works * Der Jäger von Fall, opera after a libretto by Wilhelm Killmayer (1991) Orchestra * Times Square Music for large orchestra Orchester (1990) * Running Riot for brass band and orchestra (1993) * …mild und leise…, Tristan’s death for large orchestra (2010) Chamber music * Klavierquintett für Paul Celan, piano quintet (1990) * Berührungen for piano 4 hands and conga (1999) * The Day After Rendevouz for violin, tuba and tape (1992) * Silence invades the breathing wood for soprano, violin, viola, cello and small percussion (2011) * Takte und Gewichte, string quartet (2001) * In der Schwebe for cello and piano (2009) * Yolimba läßt grüßen, variations on a theme by Wilhelm Killmayer for violin and piano (2010) * Duo concertant for two pianos (1997) Vocal * Zwei Lieder für Bariton und Klavier, songs for baritone and piano on poems by Ott

Lưu Hữu Phước

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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 Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Phước, together with Mai Văn Bộ and Huỳnh Văn Tiểng, were the members of the famous composer trio Hoàng–Mai–Lưu, known with the common pseudonym Huỳnh Minh Siêng. He was most notably the author of two South Vietnamese national anthems: Giải phóng miền Nam (Liberate the South) of the Việt Cộng-led Provisional Revolutionary Government and Tiếng gọi thanh niên (March of the Youths), whose lyrics was later changed to become Tiếng gọi công dân (March of the Citizens) and used as anthem by the State of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam despite his protest. Youth and pre-1945 activities Phước was born on 12 September 1921 in district Ô Môn, province Cần Thơ (now belongs to Cần Thơ city). He accessed music literature during his childhood and managed to practice several instruments including Đàn nguyệt, mandolin, and guitar. Phước attended the Petrus Ký highschool in Saigon (now the Lê Hồng Phong High School for the Gifted) in about 1935. He met Mai Văn Bộ and Huỳn

Luzzasco Luzzaschi

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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 assumed that Luzzaschi spent the majority of his life in his native city. He was a skilled representative of the late Italian madrigal style, along with Palestrina, Wert, Monte, Lassus, Marenzio, Gesualdo and others. Biography As a pupil of Cipriano de Rore, Luzzaschi developed his craft and eventually came to be an influential pedagogue himself. Anthony Newcomb writes: In 1564, Luzzaschi was appointed as principal organist to the d’Este court. His facility as a keyboard player must have been paramount, for his competence on Nicola Vicentino’s microtonal archicembalo was actively documented throughout his career. Luzzaschi was highly respected by his peers, both as a keyboard player and as a composer. Vincenzo Galilei called him one of the best musicians in Italy, and Banchieri named him one of the top two organists (along with Merulo). Luzzaschi is widely remembered due to his association with the famous Concerto delle donne, a private female vocal ensemble founded by Alfonso II, Duke