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Lycia de Biase Bidart

Lycia de Biase Bidart (18 February 1910 – 10 July 1991) was a Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer. She was one of the first women to conduct an orchestra in Brazil,

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Lydia Auster

Lydia Martynovna Auster (; 30 May 1912 – 3 April 1993) was a Soviet and Estonian composer. She was born in Petropavlovsk, Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire. After musical studies in Omsk in 1927–1931,

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Lydia Axionova

Lydia Valeryanovna Axionova (; ; 19 July 1923 – 18 September 2019) was a Soviet and Moldovan conductor, music teacher, choral theorist, music writer, the first professor of choral conducting in

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Lydia Boucher

Lydia Boucher (28 February 1890 – 5 March 1971) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and nun. She was active as a composer from 1923 to 1971, producing several choral works and pieces for solo

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Lydia Kakabadse

Lydia Kakabadse (born 1955) is a British composer of vocal, choral and chamber music. Her musical style is tonal and modal with influences from chant and early polyphony, Orthodox liturgical music

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Lyell Cresswell

Lyell Richard Cresswell (13 October 1944 – 19 March 2022) was a New Zealand composer of contemporary classical music. He was the younger brother of philosopher Max Cresswell. Cresswell studied in

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Lyle Chan

Lyle Chan is an Australian composer, known for his unique approach of writing cumulative works with only one work per genre. His AIDS Memoir Quartet chronicles his years as an HIV/AIDS activist at

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Lyle Mays

Lyle David Mays (November 27, 1953 – February 10, 2020) Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearly all of the group's music, for which Mays won eleven Grammy Awards. His teacher allowed him to

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Lynn Gumert

Lynn Gumert (born 1961) is an American musician and contemporary composer. Biography Gumert studied at Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, with Claude Baker, Eugene O'Brien, and Donald

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Lyons and Yosco

Lyons and Yosco were an American comedy duo, consisting of the Italian-American musicians George Lyons and Bob Yosco. They toured the United States from 1909 into 1923, doing a musical and comedy

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Lyubomir Pipkov

Lyubomir Panaïotov Pipkov () (September 6, 1904 – May 9, 1974) was a Bulgarian composer, pianist, and music educator. He is considered among the founders of Bulgaria's modern professional musical

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Lyubov Streicher

Lyubov Lvovna Streicher (3 March 1888 – 31 March 1958) was a Russian composer, teacher and violinist. She was a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. Streicher was born in

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Lyudmila Lyadova

Lyudmila Alekseevna Lyadova (; 29 March 1925 – 10 March 2021) was a Russian composer who lived and worked in Moscow. Early life Lyudmila Lyadova was born in Sverdlovsk (modern Yekaterinburg) into a

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