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Ma Ke (composer)

Ma Ke (; 1918 – July 27, 1976) was a Chinese composer and musicologist, best known for his patriotic songs, including "Nanniwan". Ma was born into a Christian family, at Xuzhou, Jiangsu, and his name

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Maarten van der Vleuten

Maarten van der Vleuten () is a Dutch producer, composer and recording artist born in Vught, The Netherlands in 1967. Between 1987 and 2007 he used over two dozens of aliases, producing Detroit

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Mabel Batten

Mabel Veronica "Ladye" Hatch Batten (née Hatch; 1856–1916) was a British composer and singer of lieder. Life and career Early life and education Mabel Hatch was born in Calcutta to a well-connected

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Mac Quayle

Frederick MacDonald "Mac" Quayle, Jr. is an American composer for film, television, and video games. He has worked as the score composer for several TV series, including Sam Esmail productions Mr.

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Maciej Kamieński

Maciej Kamieński (13 October 1734, Sopron – 25 January 1821, Warsaw) was a Polish classical composer of Slovak origin. He studied music in Sopron, where his patron was Count Henckl von Donnersmarck.

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Maciej Radziwiłł

Prince Maciej Radziwiłł (; 10 November 1749 – 2 September 1800) was a Polish–Lithuanian noble (szlachcic), composer and librettist. Biography Around 1780, Maciej (Matthias) lived at Nieśwież, the

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Maciej Zieliński

Maciej Zielinski (born March 29, 1971) is the award-winning Polish composer, arranger and music producer, known for his contemporary classical and film scores, songs and original television music.

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Maciej Żółtowski

Maciej Żółtowski - alternative spelling: Zoltowski (born 1971, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish conductor and composer. Maciej Żółtowski studied violin at the F. Chopin and J. Elsner Music Schools in

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Maciek Pysz

Maciek Pysz (born 6 September 1982 in Rybnik, Poland) is a jazz musician, guitarist and composer. He is known for his clear lyrical phrasing, his virtuosity and his imaginative, cinematic

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Madalyn Akers Phillips

Madalyn Akers Phillips (August 1889 – August 24, 1949), born Maddalena Marie Heryer, was an American composer and organist. Early life and education Heryer was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, the

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Madame Ravissa

Madame Ravissa de Turin (Genovieffa Bernardina Maria Vignola Ravissa de Turin) (mid 18th century – 20 February 1807) was an Italian singer and composer. She was from Turin, but apparently lived in

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Madame Ronssecy

Madame Ronssecy (active 1780-1820) was a French composer and harpist who emigrated to England. Little is known about her, although several of her works for harp were published in the late 18th and

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Maddalena Casulana

Maddalena Casulana (c. 1544 – c. 1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have had a whole book of her music printed and

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Maddalena Laura Sirmen

Maddalena Laura Sirmen (; 9 December 1745 – 18 May 1818), commonly known as Madame Sirmen, was an Italian composer, violinist, and opera singer of the musical Classical period. Biography Birth and

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Madeleine Dring

Madeleine Winefride Isabelle Dring (7 September 1923 – 26 March 1977) was an English composer, pianist, singer, and actress. Life Madeleine Dring spent the first four years of her life at Raleigh

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Madeleine Isaksson

Madeleine Isaksson (born 1956) is a Swedish/French composer. Biography Madeleine Isaksson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm from 1979 to 1987. She received a diploma as a piano and

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Madelene Van Aardt

Madelene Olivier Van Aardt (14 August 1896 – 6 July 1982) was a South African composer and teacher. Her published compositions include the piano piece Fusion (1935) and four songs, with two in

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Mademoiselle Beaumesnil

Henriette Adélaïde Villard or Henriette-Adélaïde de Villars, known under the stage name of Mlle Beaumesnil (30 August 1748 – 5 October 1813), was a French opera singer and composer. Biography Mlle

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Mae Doelling Schmidt

Mae Doelling Schmidt (née Mary Metzke; 22 May 1888 Chicago – 11 March 1965 Chicago) was an American virtuoso pianist, composer, clubwoman, and music educator from Chicago. She was on the faculty of

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Maestro Piero

Maestro Piero (Magister Piero or Piero) (born before 1300, died shortly after 1350) was an Italian composer of the late medieval era. He was one of the first composers of the Trecento who is known by

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Maewa Kaihau

Erima Maewa Kaihau (; 1879 – 27 February 1941) was a New Zealand composer, pianist and music teacher, sometimes known as Louisa Maewa Molesworth. She is best known for her contributions to the song

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Magali Babin

Magali Babin (born 1967) is a Canadian musician, composer and sound artist based primarily in Montreal, Quebec. Active since the mid-1980s, she has received several commissions from many new music

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Magaly Ruiz

Doris Magaly Ruiz Lastres (born 1941) is a Cuban musician and composer. Her compositions have been performed at a number of international music festivals. Life Magaly Ruiz was born in Santa Clara,

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Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure

Madeleine Thérèse Marie Boucherit Le Faure (; 13 May 1879 – 14 October 1960) was a French pianist and composer. A teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris, she authored several pieces for piano,

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Magister Franciscus

Magister Franciscus () was a French composer-poet in the ars nova style of late medieval music. He is known for two surviving works, the three-part ballades: De Narcissus and Phiton, Phiton, beste

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Magnom

Joseph Bulley, known professionally as Magnom, is a Ghanaian record producer and recording artist, who produces music ranging from Hiphop, dancehall, and Afrobeats. He gained the attention of

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Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson

Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson (8 September 1925 - 1 January 2005) was an Icelandic composer, pianist and conductor. Jóhannsson studied with Franz Mixa and Victor Urbancic at the Reykjavík College of

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Magnus Lidehäll

Magnus Lidehäll is a Swedish award-winning producer, composer, and songwriter. He works closely with the songwriting duo Vargas & Lagola – with whom he won the composer of the year award at the

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Magnus Lindberg

Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and the London Philharmonic Orchestra's

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Mahmoud Abuwarda

Mahmoud Abuwarda (born 1990) is a Palestinian composer, classical guitarist, and music educator based in Istanbul. Early life and education Abuwarda was born in Gaza in 1990. He received his early

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Maia Ciobanu

Maia Ciobanu (born 5 May 1952) is a Romanian composer and music educator. She is also the author of books, studies and papers on music. Early years Maia Ciobanu was born in Bucharest and studied at

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Maija Einfelde

Maija Einfelde (born 2 January 1939) is a Latvian composer. Biography Maija Einfelde was born in Valmiera, Latvia, and began her music studies with her mother, who was a church organist. She

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Maistre Jhan

Maistre Jhan (also Jehan, Jan, Ihan) (c. 1485 – October 1538) was a French composer of the Renaissance, active for most of his career in Ferrara, Italy. An enigmatic figure, of whom little

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Maj Sønstevold

Maj Sønstevold (born Lundén; 9 September 1917 – 14 March 1996) was a Swedish composer who lived and worked in Norway. Biography Maj Sønstevold was born in Sollefteå, Sweden. She studied piano in

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Maja S. K. Ratkje

Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (born 29 December 1973 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian vocalist and composer. She plays on vocals and electronics instruments. Career Ratkje studied composition at

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Majoie Hajary

Marie Majoie Hajary (Paramaribo, 16 August 1921 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 25 August 2017) was a Surinamese-born Dutch-French composer and pianist of contemporary classical music and jazz. She was also a

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Maki Ishii

was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Born in Tokyo, Ishii studied composition privately (with Akira Ifukube and Tomojiro Ikenouchi) and conducting with Akeo Watanabe

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Makky Kaylor

Makky Kaylor (born Morris Alan Kaylor) is an American songwriter born on February 10, 1964, in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a professional songwriter, notably recognized in 2024 as the composer of

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Makoto Moroi

(17 December 1930 – 2 September 2013) was a Japanese composer. Biography Makoto Moroi was born in Tokyō, and is the son of Saburō Moroi. He studied composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi at the Tokyo

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Makoto Shinohara

was a Japanese composer. Biography Born in Osaka, Japan, Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, piano with , and

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Makoto Yoshimori

is a Japanese composer and pianist known for his soundtracks for many animations. He also works on various artists like Ogawa Mishio, Yumeno Kabu, Umezu Kazutoki, Ohtaka Sizzle, Watanabe Takao and

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Maksim Dunayevsky

Maksim Isaakovich Dunayevsky (; born 15 January 1945 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of Russia (2006). He is the artistic director and chairman of the artistic council of

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Malcolm Arnold

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer and conductor. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos,

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Malcolm Dalglish

Malcolm Dalglish (born August 14, 1952) is an American hammered dulcimer player and builder, composer, and choral director. A virtuoso performer on the hammer dulcimer, he is a former member of the

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Malcolm Forsyth

Malcolm Forsyth, CM (December 8, 1936 – July 5, 2011) was a South African-Canadian composer, teacher, and trombonist. Biography Born in Pietermaritzburg, Forsyth attended Maritzburg College, South

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Malcolm Goldstein

Malcolm Goldstein (born March 27, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Canadian composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the

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Malcolm Lipkin

Malcolm Lipkin (2 May 1932 – 2 June 2017) was an English composer. Early life and career Malcolm Leyland Lipkin was born in Liverpool. While a schoolboy at Liverpool College, he studied the piano

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Malcolm Peyton

Malcolm Cameron Peyton (January 12, 1932 – January 26, 2025) was an American composer, concert director, conductor and teacher. Life and career Peyton was born in New York City on January 12, 1932.

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Malcolm Riley

Malcolm Riley (born 9 June 1960) is a British composer and author most associated for his work as a scholar of the work of Percy Whitlock. Early life and education Riley was born in Northallerton,

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Malcolm Williamson

Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. According to Grove Music

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Maleek Berry

Maleek Shoyebi (born 11 August 1987), professionally known as Maleek Berry, is a British-Nigerian record producer and recording artist. After his break into the spotlight in 2012, Maleek Berry was

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Malek Jandali

Malek Jandali (, ) (born 1972) is a Syrian-American Jandali immigrated to the United States and studied music in North Carolina. Since then, he has performed with orchestras across the world and

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Man Parrish

Manuel Parrish (born May 6, 1958) is an American songwriter, vocalist and producer. He, along with artists such as Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa,

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Mana-Zucca

Mana-Zucca (December 25, 1885 – March 8, 1981) was an American actress, singer, pianist and composer. Biography Mana-Zucca was born Gussie Zuckermann (first name uncertain) in New York City on

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Manfred Gurlitt

Manfred Gurlitt (6 September 1890 – 29 April 1972) was a German opera composer and conductor. He studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck and conducting with Karl Muck. He spent most of his

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Manfred Kelkel

Manfred Kelkel (15 January 1929 – 18 April 1999) was a 20th-century French musicologist and composer of contemporary music. A pupil of Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, he became

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Manfred Stahnke

Manfred Stahnke (born 30 October 1951) is a German composer and musicologist from Hamburg. He writes chamber music, orchestral music and stage music. His music makes extensive use of microtonality.

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Manfred Trojahn

Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher. Career Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966

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Manoah Leide-Tedesco

Tranquillo Manoah Leide-Tedesco (August 19, 1894 – January 29, 1982) was an Italian-American composer, conductor and violinist. Biography Tranquillo Manoah Leide-Tedesco was born in Senigallia,

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Manos Hatzidakis

Manos Hatzidakis (also spelled Hadjidakis; ; 23 October 1925 – 15 June 1994) was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek composers of all time. He

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Manos Tsangaris

Manos Tsangaris (born 8 December 1956) is a German composer, musician, sound art installation and performance artist, and a poet. Since 2024, he is president of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (AdK).

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Mansi Barberis

Mansi (Clemensa) Barberis (March 12, 1899 – October 11, 1986) was a Romanian violinist, music educator, conductor, and composer. Life Clemensa Barberis was born in Iași, the daughter of Giuseppe

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Mansoor Hosseini

Mansoor Hosseini (; born 1967) is an Iranian-Swedish percussionist and composer of classical music, born in Iran, who studied in Paris and Brussels. His works comprise chamber music and orchestral

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Manu Delago

Manu Delago (born 31 July 1984) is an Austrian musician and composer. Biography Delago was born in Innsbruck, Tyrol, and took music lessons as a child in accordion and piano. As a teenager he mainly

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Manuel Alejandro

Manuel Álvarez-Beigbeder Pérez (born 21 February 1932), better known as Manuel Alejandro, is a Spanish composer of Latin love songs, which are better known as ballads. He has written, composed, and

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Manuel Blasco de Nebra

Manuel Orlandi Blasco de Nebra (2 May 1750 – 12 September 1784) was a Spanish organist and composer who lived in Seville. He was the son of José Blasco de Nebra (Lacarra), the organist of Seville

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Manuel Cardoso (composer)

Manuel Cardoso (baptized 11 December 1566 – 24 November 1650) was a Portuguese composer and organist. With Duarte Lobo and John IV of Portugal, he represented the "golden age" of Portuguese

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Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (, 23 November 1876, Cádiz, Spain14 November 1946, Alta Gracia, Argentina) was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique

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Manuel De Sica

Manuel De Sica (24 February 1949 – 5 December 2014) was an Italian composer. Born in Rome, the son of Vittorio De Sica and María Mercader, De Sica enrolled at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa

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Manuel de Sumaya

Manuel de Sumaya (1680 – December 21, 1755) was the most notable composer of New Spain (present-day Mexico). With this support he was able to begin keyboard study with cathedral organist José de

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Manuel Enríquez

Manuel Enríquez Salazar (17 June 1926 – 26 April 1994) was a Mexican composer, violinist and pedagogue. He was a fellow member of the Academy of Arts of Mexico, of the National Seminary of Mexican

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Manuel Esperón

Manuel Esperón González (August 3, 1911 – February 13, 2011 ) was a Mexican songwriter and composer. Along with the famous Mexican author Ernesto Cortazar, Esperón cowrote many songs for Mexican

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Manuel Fernández Caballero

Manuel Fernández Caballero (Murcia, 14 March 1835 – Madrid, 26 February 1906) was a Spanish composer, notably of zarzuelas. His works were seminal works in the young Género chico form of zarzuela.

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Manuel José de Quirós

Manuel José de Quirós (died 1765) was an 18th-century Guatemalan composer. Life Born in Santiago de Guatemala, present day Antigua Guatemala, towards the end of the 17th century, Quirós had a

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Manuel Machado (composer)

Manuel Machado (c. 1590–1646) was a Portuguese composer and harpist. He was mostly active in Spain, as he was born when the kingdoms of Portugal and Spain were in a dynastic union. Life Manuel

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Manuel Palau

Manuel Palau Boix (4 January 1893 – 18 February 1967) was a Spanish composer and teacher in Valencia Conservatory. He wrote a large number of symphonic, band (wind orchestra), choral and chamber

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Manuel Penella

Manuel Penella Moreno (31 July 1880 in Valencia – 14 January 1939 in Cuernavaca) was a Spanish composer. His father was the composer Manuel Penella Raga. His daughter Magdalena Penella Silva married

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Manuel Ponce

Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948), known in Mexico as Manuel M. Ponce, was a 20th-century Mexican composer, music educator, and scholar whose work connected the concert

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Manuel Quiroga (violinist)

Manuel Quiroga Losada (15 April 189219 April 1961) was a Spanish violinist and composer. He was described by music critics as "the finest successor of Pablo de Sarasate", and he is sometimes referred

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Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (ca. 15551635) was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón. Coelho was born in Elvas around 1555 and probably

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Manuel Valls (composer)

Manuel Valls i Gorina (; 21 July 1920 – 1984) was a Catalan composer, pianist, music critic, and music educator. Valls was born in Badalona. He was a first cousin of painter Xavier Valls, himself the

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Manuela Cornejo Sanchez

Manuela Cornejo Sanchez (1854–1902) was an Argentine composer and teacher. Sanchez was born in Salta. Little is known about her education. She taught music at Normal School No. 1 (Escuela Normal) in

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Mappe Of

Mappe Of is the stage name of Tom Meikle (born February 26, 1993), a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and avant-folk musician from Whitby, Ontario. Signed to Paper Bag Records,

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Mara Margaret Helmuth

Margaret Mara Helmuth (born 1957) is an American composer. She studied at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and then continued her studies at Columbia University, graduating with a

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Marbrianus de Orto

Marbrianus de Orto (Dujardin; also Marbriano, Marbrianus; c. 1460 – January or February 1529) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance (Franco-Flemish school). He was a contemporary, close

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Marc Battier

Marc Battier (born 21 December 1947) is a French composer and musicologist. Battier was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France. He is known as a co-founder with Leigh Landy and Daniel Teruggi of the

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Marc Blitzstein

Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock,

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Marc Canham (composer)

Marc Canham is a British composer of music for film and video games. In 2008, he scored Far Cry 2, and in 2020, he composed the film score to I Care A Lot, for which he received an ASCAP award.

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Marc Daubert

Marc Daubert (born January 13, 1963) is an American musician. He collaborated with Phish for a brief time in their early history. Daubert was a close friend of guitarist Trey Anastasio. Anastasio,

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Marc de Ranse

François-Marie Dieudonné Marc, Baron de Ranse (20 April 1881 – 12 February 1951) was a French pianist, organist, maître de chapelle, choral conductor and composer. Biographie Born in Aiguillon in

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Marc Delmas

Marc Marie Jean Baptiste Delmas (28 March 188530 November 1931) was a French expressionist composer and writer. Life and career Marc Delmas was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, and studied at

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Marc Dubugnon

Marc Dubugnon (born 24 May 1946) is a musician, organist and teacher of the Canton de Vaud. Sources * Dubugnon, Marc, Sept toccatas et deux chorals, Aethon, 1988, cote BCUL: DCR 9564 * Dubugnon,

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Marc Lavry

Marc Lavry (; December 22, 1903, Riga – March 24, 1967, Haifa) was an Israeli composer and conductor. Born in Latvia and trained in Germany, Lavry immigrated to Palestine in 1936, where he was

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Marc Liebeskind

Marc Liebeskind (born 1956 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss composer, guitarist, musician, sound engineer and producer. His musical influences vary from Jazz, Hindustani music (North Indian

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Marc Mellits

Marc Mellits (born 1966) is an American composer and musician. Mellits was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1984 to 1988, at the Yale School of Music from

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Marc Neikrug

Marc Edward Neikrug (born September 24, 1946) is a contemporary American composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in New York City, the son of cellists George Neikrug and Olga Zundel. He is best

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Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman ( ; born October 22, 1959) is an American composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, widely known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman, actor

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Marc Streitenfeld

Marc Streitenfeld (born 1974) is a German composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with director Ridley Scott. Streitenfeld has composed the music for many high-profile Hollywood

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Marc Vaubourgoin

Jean Joseph Marc Vaubourgoin (19 March 1907 in Caudéran (today a western neighbourhood of Bordeaux) – 1 April 1983 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris ) was a 20th-century French composer. Biography

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Marc-André Dalbavie

Marc-André Dalbavie (born 10 February 1961 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French composer. He had his first music lessons at age 6. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied

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Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ (born September 5, 1961) is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the prelude of his Te Deum H.146, Marche en rondeau,

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Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers

Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (17 November 1772 – 9 August 1827) was a French composer, dramatist, and songwriter. Désaugiers is easily confused in historical writings with his father,

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Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (also spelled Ingegnieri, Ingignieri, Ingignero, Inzegneri) (c. 1535 or 1536 – 1 July 1592) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was born in Verona and died in

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Marc'Antonio Pasqualini

Marco Antonio Pasqualini (stage name Malagigi; Rome, 25 April 1614 – Rome, 2 July 1691) was an Italian castrato opera singer who performed during the Baroque period. He has been described as "the

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Marcabru

Marcabru (; fl. 1130–1150) is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two vidas attached to his poems tell different stories, and both

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Marcantonio Negri

Marcantonio Negri (died October 1624) was an Italian composer, singer, and musical director of the early Baroque era. He was part of the musical establishment of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice during

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Marcel Bitsch

Marcel Bitsch (December 29, 1921, Paris – September 21, 2011, Toulouse) was a French composer, teacher and analyst. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and also was professor of counterpoint

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Marcel Chadeigne

Alexis Marcel Félicien Chadeigne (2 January 1876 – 2 January 1926 ) was a French classical pianist and composer. He was composer Alain Bernaud's grandfather. Life Born in the 18th arrondissement of

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Marcel Chyrzyński

Marcel Chyrzyński (born in 1971) is a Polish composer. He has been described as "a polystylist with an enormous sense of humour, and a lover of rhythm and jazz improvisation". Chyrzyński's works have

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Marcel Delannoy

Marcel-François-Georges Delannoy (9 July 1898 – 14 September 1962) was a French composer and critic. He wrote operas, ballets, orchestral works, vocal and chamber works, and film scores. Life and

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Marcel Dupré

Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré (; 3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Early life and education Born in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child

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Marcel Frémiot

Marcel Frémiot (29 February 1920 – 19 January 2018) was a French composer and musicologist. Biography Born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Frémiot was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris and

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Marcel Gagnon (musician)

Marcel Gagnon (born 2 May 1950) is a Canadian composer, singer, guitarist, and substance abuse counsellor. Career Born in Prince George, British Columbia, a member of the Lheidli T'enneh Band and the

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Marcel Grandjany

Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany ( ) (3 September 1891 – 24 February 1975) was a French-American harpist and composer. Biography Early life Marcel Grandjany was born in Paris and began the study of

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Marcel Landowski

Marcel François Paul Landowski (18 February 1915 – 23 December 1999) was a French composer, biographer and arts administrator. Biography Born at Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, Brittany, he was the son of

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Marcel Lanquetuit

Marcel Louis Robert Lanquetuit (8 June 189421 May 1985) was a French composer, organist, conductor, improviser and teacher of music. Life Marcel Lanquetuit was born in 1894 in Rouen, Normandy,

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Marcel Mihalovici

Marcel Mihalovici (Bucharest, 22 October 1898 – Paris, 12 August 1985) was a French composer born in Romania. He was discovered by George Enescu in Bucharest. He moved to Paris in 1919 (at age 21) to

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Marcel Pérès

Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on

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Marcel Poot

Marcel Michel, Baron Poot (7 May 1901 – 12 June 1988) was a Belgian composer, professor, and musician who was born in Vilvoorde and died in Brussels. Biography Youth and education Poot was born in

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Marcel Quinet

Marcel Alfred Quinet (6 July 1915 – 16 December 1986) was a Belgian composer and pianist. He studied at the Mons Conservatory briefly and then the Brussels Conservatory, where he obtained prizes for

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Marcel Rubin

Marcel Rubin (7 July 1905 – 12 May 1995) was an Austrian composer. Born in Vienna, where he studied with Richard Robert and Franz Schmidt, he later emigrated to Paris, where he pursued further

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Marcel Stern (composer)

Marcel Stern (4 November 1909 – 2 August 1989) was a French composer and violinist. Life Born in Paris, Stern studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1936 with

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Marcel Tyberg

Marcel Tyberg (27 January 1893, in Vienna – 31 December 1944, in Auschwitz-Birkenau) was an Austrian composer, conductor and organist. His music is late-Romantic in style. Biography and career Marcel

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Marcela Pavia

Marcela Pavia (born 1957) is an Italian-American composer. Life Marcela Pavia was born in Argentina of Italian descent, and also maintains Italian citizenship. She studied composition at the National

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Marcela Rodríguez

Marcela Rodríguez (born 18 April 1951) is a Mexican composer. Biography Marcela Rodríguez was born in Mexico City. She studied the guitar and composition with Leo Brouwer of Cuba. She studied for a

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Marcelle Soulage

Marcelle Fanny Henriette Soulage (12 December 1894 – 17 December 1970) (sometimes published under the name of Marc Sauval ) was a French pianist, music critic and composer. Career Marcelle Soulage

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Marcelle Villin

Marcelle Henriette Marie Villin (8 May 1921 – 29 March 2022) was a French composer and organist who published her music under the name "Marcelle Villin." Biography Marcelle Henriette Marie Villin was

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Marcello Abbado

Marcello Abbado (7 October 19264 June 2020) was an Italian pianist, composer, conductor and academic teacher. His compositions include several orchestral works, two ballets, numerous pieces for solo

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Marcello Aitiani

Marcello Aitiani (Castrovillari, 1951) is an Italian painter and composer. He has carried out musical and classical studies. Graduated in Law, at the same time he dedicated himself to research in the

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Marcello Bernardini

Marcello Bernardini (or Marcello da Capua; near Capua, 1730 or 1740 – around 1799) was an Italian composer and librettist. Little is known of him, save that he wrote 37 operas in his career. His

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Marcello Giombini

Marcello Giombini (24 July 1928 in Rome, Italy – 12 December 2003 in Assisi, Italy) was an Italian composer, well known for scoring many Spaghetti Westerns, Italian horror and giallo movies, and

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Marcelo Koc

Marcelo Koc (4 June 1918 in Vitebsk, Belarus – 26 October 2006 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine composer. Education and career Koc studied at the Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland and in 1938 went to

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Marcelo Peralta

Marcelo Peralta (5 March 1961 – 10 March 2020) was an Argentine performer, teacher, composer, and arranger who played saxophone, piano, accordion, and the Latin American aerophones. Early life and

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Marchetto Cara

Marchetto Cara (c. 1465 – probably 1525) was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the Renaissance. He was mainly active in Mantua, was well-connected with the Gonzaga and Medici families, and,

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Marchetto da Padova

Marchetto da Padova (Marchettus of Padua; fl. 1305 – 1319) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the late medieval era. His innovations in notation of time-values were fundamental to the

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Marcial del Adalid y Gurréa

Marcial del Adalid y Gurréa (24 August 1826 – 16 October 1881) was a Spanish composer. He studied music in London between 1840 and 1844 with Ignaz Moscheles and it is possible that he also studied

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Marcin Bortnowski

Marcin Bortnowski (born 1 March 1972 in Żary, Poland) is a Polish composer of classical music. Life He studied composition with Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil at the Music Academy in Wrocław,

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Marcin Leopolita

Marcin Leopolita (also Martinus Leopolita; ; Life Leopolita was born in Lwów in the Kingdom of Poland (present-day Lviv, Ukraine). By the age of 20 he was a member of the royal music ensemble at the

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Marcin Mielczewski

Marcin Mielczewski (c. 1600 – September 1651) was, together with his tutor Franciszek Lilius and Bartłomiej Pękiel, among the most notable Polish composers in the 17th century. Biography By 1632 he

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Marcin Przybyłowicz

Marcin Przybyłowicz (born ) is a Polish composer and sound designer. He is mostly known for as the lead composer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077. He also composed the score to the

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Marco Ambrosini

Marco Ambrosini (born 1964) is an Italian musician, composer and arranger living in Germany. In 1982, he founded the international ensemble, Oni Wytars, together with Peter Rabanser. Studies

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Marco Antonio Cavazzoni

Marco Antonio Cavazzoni (c. 1490 – c. 1560) was an Italian organist and composer. He was the father of composer Girolamo Cavazzoni. All of his extant music is contained in the print Recerchari,

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Marco Antonio Rivera Useche

Marco Antonio Rivera Useche (1895–1990) was a Venezuelan musician and composer. He was born in San Cristóbal on 19 June 1895 and died on 15 July 1990. He married Juanita Moreno Morales, with whom he

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Marco Anzoletti

Marco Anzoletti (Trento, 4 June 1867 – Mesiano, 23 January 1929) was an Italian violinist and composer. He wrote a vast amount of music and made significant contributions to musicological research.

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Marco Attura

Marco Attura is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Biography He obtained diplomas in piano, composition, choral music and orchestral conducting (cum laude). He furthered his studies at the

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Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti

Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (23 December 1801 – November 1878) was an Italian classical guitarist and composer. Biography Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti was born in Bologna on 23 December 1801. He

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Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The

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Marco Betta

Marco Betta (born 25 July 1964) is an Italian composer. Biography Marco Betta, author of opera, film score, orchestral and chamber music, has studied composition at the Conservatorio di Palermo with

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Marco Castello

Marco Castello (born 8 September 1993) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. Life and career Born in Syracuse, after high school, Castello studied jazz

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Marco da Gagliano

Marco da Gagliano (1 May 1582 – 25 February 1643) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted

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Marco Dall'Aquila

Marco Dall'Aquila (c.1480 – after 1538) was a Venetian lutenist and composer known for musical forms called polyphonic ricercars. He was born in L'Aquila but lived and worked in Venice. He often

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Marco de Goeij

Marco de Goeij (born 1967 in Gouda) is a Dutch composer, known for having reconstructed the lost musical score for Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra in 1999. De Goeij studied classical

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Marco Enrico Bossi

Marco Enrico Bossi (25 April 1861 – 20 February 1925) was an Italian organist, composer, improviser and teacher. Life Bossi was born in Salò, a town in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, into a

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Marco Frisina

Marco Frisina (born 16 December 1954, in Rome) is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and composer. He is director of the Pastoral Worship Center at the Vatican. Biography After the Liceo classico,

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Marco Fusi (clarinetist)

Marco Fusi (born 1972) is an Italian clarinetist and composer. Career In 2002, he founded the group Yesh Gvul, with whom he recorded two albums, Moon Waltz and Addio a Lugano, distributed all over

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Marco Giuseppe Peranda

Marco Giuseppe Peranda (baptized 4 April 1626 in Macerata – 12 January 1675 in Dresden) was an Italian musician and composer active in the Holy Roman Empire. Life He was one of the most notable

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Marco Lo Muscio

Marco Lo Muscio (born 1971) is an Italian organist, pianist and composer, who lives and works in Italy, Europe, Russian Federation and America. Biography Marco Lo Muscio was born in Rome, Italy.

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Marco Marazzoli

Marco Marazzoli (1602? – 26 January 1662) was an Italian priest and Baroque music composer. Early life Born at Parma, Marazzoli received early training as a priest, and was ordained around 1625. He

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Marco Oppedisano

Marco Oppedisano (born November 20, 1971, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of

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Marco Scacchi

Marco Scacchi ( – 7 September 1662) was an Italian composer and writer on music. *"Marco Scacchi". The Concise Grove Dictionary of Music. Oxford University Press, 1994. External links

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Marco Schädler

Marco Schädler (born 2 March 1964, in Triesenberg) is a composer from Liechtenstein. He studied music at the conservatory in Feldkirch, Austria. Life and career As a child, Marco Schädler played

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Marco Stroppa

Marco Stroppa (born 8 December 1959, in Verona) is an Italian composer who writes computer music as well as music for instruments with live electronics. Biography Marco Stroppa studied piano,

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Marco Tutino

Marco Tutino (born 30 May 1954) is an Italian composer. His emergence during the late 1970s was as the spearhead of an Italian Neo-Romantico group, founded with two other composers, Lorenzo Ferrero

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Marco Uccellini

Marco Uccellini (Forlimpopoli, Forlì 1603 or 1610 - 10 December 1680) was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer. His output of mainly secular music for solo violin is considered to have been

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Marcos Balter

Marcos Balter (born April 1, 1974) is a Brazilian contemporary classical music composer and the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University. Life and professional career

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Marcos Portugal

Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal (24 March 1762 – 17 February 1830), also known as Marco Portogallo in Italian, was a Portuguese-Brazilian classical composer, who achieved great international fame

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Marcos Soares Pereira

Marcos Soares Pereira (died 1655) was a Portuguese composer and mestre da Capela Real. He was the brother of the famous Portuguese composer João Lourenço Rebelo. Life Marcos Soares Pereira was born

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Marcus Österdahl

Marcus Österdahl (born 27 January 1943) is a Swedish musical director and entrepreneur. The Telstars In 1963, Österdahl was one of the founder members of , a pop-jazz group consisting of some of the

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Marcus Paus

Marcus Nicolay Paus (; born 14 October 1979) is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers. in Norway and abroad. His work includes chamber music, choral

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Marek Kopelent

Marek Kopelent (; 28 April 193212 March 2023) was a Czech composer, music editor and academic teacher, who is considered to have been at the forefront of the "New Music" movement, and was one of the

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Marek Stachowski (composer)

Marek Stachowski (21 March 1936 – 3 November 2004) was a Polish composer. He received many awards and won many competitions for composers, including first prize at the K. Szymanowski Competition in

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Marga Richter

Florence Marga Richter (October 21, 1926 – June 25, 2020) was an American composer of classical music, and pianist. Biography Marga Richter was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, the daughter of the

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Margaret Bonds

Margaret Allison Bonds (March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher. One of the first Black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United

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Margaret Brouwer

Margaret Brouwer (born February 8, 1940, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American composer and composition teacher. She founded the Blue Streak Ensemble chamber music group. Biography Brouwer studied

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Margaret Drynan

Margaret Isobel Drynan (December 10, 1915 – February 18, 1999) was a Canadian composer, musician, writer and educator. She was born Margaret Isobel Brown in Toronto. She received a BMus from the

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Margaret Garwood

Margaret Garwood (March 22, 1927, Haddonfield, New Jersey – May 3, 2015, Philadelphia) was an American composer who is best known for her operas. She turned into composition relatively late in her

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Margaret Lucy Wilkins

Lucy Wilkins (born 13 November 1939) is an English music educator and composer known for opera. Biography Margaret Lucy Wilkins was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, and began composing at age

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Margaret Purcell

Margaret Purcell (18 August 1914 – Fall 1991 Purcell's father was the journalist Pendleton Dudley and her mother the motorist Hermine Dudley. Purcell's sister was the dancer, choreographer, and

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Margaret Rizza

Margaret Rizza (born 1929) is an English composer, primarily of church music. She taught singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1977 to 1994. Life Margaret Rizza was born in 1929

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Margaret Rosezarian Harris

Margaret Rosezarian Harris (September 15, 1943 – March 7, 2000) was an American musician, conductor, composer, and educator, the first African-American woman to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic,

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Margaret Ruthven Lang

Margaret Ruthven Lang (November 27, 1867 – May 29, 1972) was an American composer and violinist primarily active in Boston. Lang is often considered the first woman composer to have a composition

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Margaret Scoville

Margaret Lee Scoville (3 May 1944 - 1978) was an American composer of chamber, electronic and piano music. Scoville was born in Pasadena, California. She studied music at the State University of New

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Margaret Sutherland

Margaret Ada Sutherland (20 November 189712 August 1984) was an Australian composer, among the best-known female musicians her country has produced. Career Margaret Sutherland's father was George

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Margaret Vardell Sandresky

Margaret Ferrell Vardell Sandresky (born 28 April 1921) is an American composer, organist and teacher. She was still composing on her 100th birthday. She was a founding member of the Society for

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Margaret Wigham

Margaret Viola Wigham (February 3, 1904 – April 17, 1972) was a composer, music educator and pianist, born in Minnesota. She was nationally known as a mid-century composer of student piano pieces.

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Margareta Hallin

Gunhild Margareta Hallin Ekerot (20 February 1931 – 9 February 2020) was a Swedish opera singer, composer and actress. Early life and debut Hallin was born on 20 February 1931, in Karlskoga. Hallin's

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Margareta Xenopol

Margareta Xenopol (28 January 1892 – 8 July 1979) was a Romanian composer, pianist and singer. She was the daughter of historian and author Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol. Life Xenopol was born in Iași,

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Margarete Schweikert

Margarete Schweikert (16 February 1887 – 13 March 1957) was a German composer, music critic, violinist, and pianist who composed chamber music, approximately 160 songs, and a children's operetta, The

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Margarethe Danzi

Maria Margarethe Danzi ( Marchand; 1768 – 11 June 1800) was a German composer and soprano. Maria Margarethe Marchand was born in the Holy Roman Empire. Some sources give her birthplace as Munich and

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Margaritis Kastellis

Margaritis Kastellis (Castellis) () (1907–1972 ) was a Greek composer and army officer known for his work in military music. His arrangement and adaptation of the Hymn to Liberty for military band is

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Marģeris Zariņš

Marģeris Zariņš (24 May 1910, Jaunpiebalga – 27 February 1993, Riga) was a Latvian composer and writer. He was an author of symphonic and vocal symphonic music, choir music, vocal chamber music,

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Margriet Ehlen

Margriet Ehlen (born 28 September 1943) is a Dutch poet, composer, conductor and educator of classical music. Life and career Ehlen was born in Heerlen and has composed for a large variety of

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Margriet Hoenderdos

Margriet Hoenderdos (6 May 1952 – 14 October 2010) was a Dutch composer. She was born in Santpoort, Netherlands, and studied piano with Thomas Bollen at the Zwolle Conservatory. She continued her

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Margrit Zimmermann

Margrit Zimmermann (7 August 1927 – 23 February 2020) was a Swiss pianist, composer, conductor and music educator. She taught music and worked as a conductor in Bern, where she also established an

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Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt

Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (24 February 1884 – 2 August 1964) was a French composer and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Paris and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux,

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Marguerite Canal

Marie-Marguerite-Denise Canal (29 January 189027 January 1978) was a French conductor, music educator and composer. She was born in Toulouse into a musical family, and her father introduced her to

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Marguerite de Pachmann

Marguerite de Pachmann Labori (14 December 1864 – 3 July 1952), born Anna Louisa Margaret Okey, was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and music educator. She married two famous men, Russian

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Marguerite Melville Liszniewska

Marguerite Melville Liszniewska (April 17, 1879 – March 7, 1935) was an American pianist, teacher, and composer. Early life and education Melville was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of

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Marguerite Monnot

Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961), was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", "Hymne à l'amour") and the

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Marguerite Olagnier

Marguerite Olagnier (née Joly) (1844 – 12 September 1906) was a French vocalist, composer and poet who began her musical life singing at the Théâtre des Variétées in Paris. Career While traveling in

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Marguerite Roesgen-Champion

Marguerite Sara Roesgen-Champion (24 January 1894 – 30 June 1976) was a Swiss composer, pianist and harpsichordist who used the pseudonym Jean Delysse. She composed works for orchestra, harpsichord

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Mari Takano

is a Japanese composer, pianist, essayist, and teacher. Takano's work, and musical voice, has been recognized as among the most distinctive to be found amid Japanese composers of the "post-Takemitsu

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Mari Vihmand

Mari Vihmand (born 17 May 1967 in Tallinn) is an Estonian composer. From 1987 to 1995 she taught music theory at the Tallinn Music High School. Early life and education In 1997 she graduated from

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Maria Anna Stubenberg

Maria Anna von Stubenberg, aka Maria Anna von Buttlar-Stubenberg (August 9, 1821 – December 1, 1912) was an Austrian-born composer who used Hungarian and Romani folk tunes in her compositions.

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Maria Bach

Emilie Marie Baroness von Bach (1896–1978) was an Austrian pianist, violinist, composer and artist. Early life and family Maria Bach was born in Vienna, Austria, on 11 March 1896. Her parents were

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Maria Baptist

Maria Baptist (born 30 August 1971) is a German musician (pianist, composer) and professor. Career Maria Baptist was born in 1971 in East Berlin in a very musical family. Her grandfather was an

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Maria Brizzi Giorgi

Maria Brizzi Giorgi (7 August 1775 – 7 January 1812 in Bologna) was an Italian organist, composer and pianist noted for her improvisational ability. A military march composed by Brizzi was performed

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Maria Carolina Wolf

Maria Carolina Wolf, née Benda, (1742 – 2 August 1820) was a German pianist, singer and composer. Life Maria Carolina Wolf's father was Franz Benda, first violinist and composer at the court of

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Maria Cattarina Calegari

Cornelia Calegari Maria Cattarina (also known as Maria Caterina) (1644 – after 1675), was an Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun. She was revered for her singing talents in her home city and

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Maria Chefaliady-Taban

Maria Chefaliady-Taban (4 November 186311 June 1932) was a Romanian pianist, music educator and composer. She composed romantic-style works with folk elements, typified by her choral composition Hora

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María de Baratta

María Mendoza de Baratta (27 February 1890 – 10 June 1978), also known by the pseudonym Yara Maya, was a Salvadoran ethnomusicologist, composer, pianist, folklorist and advocate for the preservation

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María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui

María Emma de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui (24 September 1873 – 20 October 1957) was a Cuban pianist and composer who lived and worked in Spain. She was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and moved to Spain

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Maria de Lourdes Martins

Maria de Lourdes Martins (26 May 1926 – 31 August 2009) was a Portuguese pianist and composer. Life Maria de Lourdes Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of Lisbon Conservatory teacher

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María Dolores Malumbres

María Dolores Malumbres Carranza (11 April 1931 – 5 January 2019) was a Spanish pianist, music educator and composer. Life María Dolores Malumbres was born in Alfaro, La Rioja. She first studied

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María Escribano

María Escribano (24 January 1954 – 22 December 2002) was a Spanish composer and music teacher. Biography María Escribano was born in Madrid, Spain. She studied piano and composition at the Royal

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Maria Frances Parke

Maria Frances Parke (26 August 1772 – 31 July 1822) was an English soprano, pianist and composer of keyboard works. Parke was born in London. Her father was the oboist John Parke, while her uncle was

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Maria Grenfell

Maria Grenfell (born 1969) is an Australian music teacher and composer. Early life and education Maria Grenfell was born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia in 1969. She grew up and was educated in

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María Grever

María Grever (14 September 1885 – 15 December 1951) was the first female Mexican composer to achieve international acclaim. She is best known for the song "What A Difference A Day Makes" (originally

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Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes

Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes (born 1933) is a Brazilian composer, pianist, musicologist, conductor and music educator. Fernandes was born in Brazópolis in Minas Gerais state, and graduated in piano

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Maria Hester Park

Maria Hester Park (née Reynolds) (29 September 1760 – 7 June 1813) was a British composer, pianist, and singer. She was also a noted piano teacher who taught many students in the nobility, including

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Maria Hofer

Maria Hofer (1894–1977) was a renowned organist, pianist and composer. The daughter of an accomplished female singer, she was born in Amstetten, Lower Austria. Already as a child she was learning the

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Maria Lamburn

Maria Lamburn (Madalena, Maria Madalena, Galé Ritonic; Born 26 November 1960) is a British composer and musician whose style uses large scale instrumental scores. Education * Royal Academy of Music

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Maria Linnemann

Maria Catharina Linnemann (born 1947) is a British composer and music teacher, based in Germany, who wrote mainly music for classical guitar including pieces for beginners. Life and career Linnemann

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Maria Luigia Pizzoli

Maria Luigia Pizzoli (10 February 1817 – 13 January 1838) was an Italian pianist and composer. She posthumously received the honour of . Personal life Pizzoli was born in Bologna, Italy, on 10

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María Luisa Escobar

María Luisa González Gragirena de Escobar (née María Luisa González Gragirena; known artistically by her married name María Luisa Escobar; also credited as Maritza Graxirena; 5 December 1903 – 14 May

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María Luisa Ozaita

María Luisa Ozaita Marqués (20 May 1939, in Barakaldo, Spain – 5 April 2017, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist, conductor and composer. Biography María Luisa

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María Luisa Sepúlveda

Maira María Luisa Sepúlveda (14 August 18984 April 1958) was a Chilean composer and music educator. Biography María Luisa Sepúlveda was born in Chillán, the daughter of Bernardo Sepúlveda, professor

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Maria Margherita Grimani

Maria Margherita Grimani (1680 – c.1720) was an Italian composer who, at some points in her life, was active in Vienna. Among her compositions was the first opera by a woman to be performed at the

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Maria Newman

Maria Louise Newman (born January 18, 1962) is an American composer of classical music, as well as a violinist and pianist. She is the youngest child of Alfred Newman, a prominent Hollywood film

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Marià Obiols

Marià Obiols (26 November 1809 – 10 December 1888), also known as Mariano Obiols, was a Catalan composer, conductor, and professor of music. He served as the music director of the Gran Teatre del

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Maria Rodrigo

María Rodrigo (20 March 1888 – 8 December 1967) was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was the daughter of Pantaléon Rodrigo, and studied music at the Madrid Conservatorium under José Tragó for

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Maria Rosa Coccia

Maria Rosa Coccia (4 January 1759 – November 1833) was an Italian harpsichordist and composer. She achieved fame as a child, after composing sonatas and an oratorio that was performed at the Oratory

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Maria Rosa Ribas Monné

Maria Rosa Ribas Monné (25 July 1944 in Barcelona, 20 February 2024) is a Catalan composer and pianist. She teaches at the Catalonia College of Music and at the Music School Victòria dels Àngels of

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Maria Szymanowska

Maria Szymanowska ( Polish pronunciation: ; born Marianna Agata Wołowska; Warsaw, 14 December 1789 – 25 July 1831, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish composer and one of the first professional

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Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (; ; 17 October 1720 – 19 January 1795) was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer,

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María Teresa Lara

María Teresa Lara Aguirre del Pino (Tlatlauquitepec, 1904 – May 23, 1984) was a Mexican lyricist and composer. Family Lara was a daughter of Joaquín M. Lara and his wife, María Aguirre del Pino. Her

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Maria Teresa Luengo

Maria Teresa Luengo (born 25 November 1940) is an Argentine composer and musicologist. Life Luengo was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University

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María Teresa Oller

María Teresa Oller (1920 – 2 September 2018) was a Spanish composer and folklorist of the Valencian Community. Since the 1950s, she carried out extensive fieldwork to collect traditional Valencian

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Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón

Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón (4 March 1907– 18 March 1996 ) was a Spanish composer. She was born in Barcelona and studied piano as a child. When she married, she gave up her musical activities, but

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María Teresa Prieto

María Teresa Prieto (18961982) was a Spanish composer and pianist who lived and worked in Mexico. Prieto's music was often performed in prestigious venues such as the Palacio de Bellas Artes but was

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Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt

Maria Theresia von Ahlefeldt (16 January 1755 – 20 December 1810) was a German born aristocrat and a Danish composer. She is known as the first female composer in Denmark. Biography Born in

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Maria Theresia von Paradis

Maria Theresia Paradis (May 15, 1759 – February 1, 1824) was an Austrian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom her close friend Mozart may have written his Piano

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Maria Vespermann

Maria Vespermann Gorres Arndts (5 April 1823 – 22 May 1882) was a German composer, writer, and painter who sometimes used the pseudonym Carl Pauss. Her music was also published under the names Maria

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Maria Xaveria Perucona

Maria Xaveria Perucona or Parruccona (Novara, c. 1652 - after 1709 in Galliate) was an Italian nun and composer. Her only known work, Sacri concerti de motetti a una, due, tre, e quattro voce, dates

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Maria Zubova

Maria Voinovna Zubova (Russian: Мария Воиновна Зубова), (1749?–1799) was a Russian poet, composer, and concert singer, known for her rendition of folksongs. She was born in Saint Petersburg and was

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Marian Arkwright

Marian Ursula Arkwright (25 January 1863 – 23 March 1922) was an English composer, pianist and string player (viola and double bass). She was one of the first women in England to earn a Bachelor of

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Marian Dora

Marian Dora (born 1970 in Southern Germany) is an anonymous German underground film director known for controversial horror films. Biography Marian Dora's first appearance in the film scene dates

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Marian Grudeff

Marian Grudeff (April 18, 1927 – November 4, 2006) was a Canadian concert pianist music teacher and musical theatre composer of Bulgarian origin. Early life and education Born in Toronto, Ontario,

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Marian Hadenko

Marian Illich Hadenko (15 September 19553 December 2021) was a Ukrainian composer, singer and television presenter. He was a recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine (1997) and the People's Artist

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Marian Sawa

Marian Sawa (January 12, 1937 in Krasnystaw – April 27, 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer, organist, improviser, musicologist, and pedagogue. Biography Sawa graduated from the Chopin University

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Mariana Ingold

Mariana Ingold (born 1958) is a composer, instrumentalist, singer and teacher belonging to the movement of Uruguayan music, Mariana has been active as an artist since 1977 in Uruguay and

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Mariana Villanueva

Mariana Villanueva (born Mexico City, 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer. Biography She began her musical studies at National Conservatory in México City, studying under Mario Lavista,

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Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado (born August 4, 1959) is a Venezuelan writer and composer. Biography Marianella Machado was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied at the Conservatorio de Musica José Ángel

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Marianna Bottini

Marianna Bottini née Motroni-Andreozzi (7 November 1802 – 25 January 1858) was an Italian composer and harp teacher. A contemporary of Rossini, Bottini was of the most prominent voices in Italian

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Marianna Liik

Marianna Liik (born 8 September 1992) Education Marianna Liik was born in Kärdla, on the island of Hiiumaa. Works Marianna Liik has composed music for orchestra, ensembles, choir, as well as

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Marianna Martines

Marianna Martines, also Marianne von Martinez (4 May 1744 – 13 December 1812), was an Austrian composer, pianist, and singer of the Classical period, based in Vienna. Early life Marianna Martines's

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Marianne Sessi

Marianne Sessi Natorp (died 10 March 1847) was an Italian soprano and canzonetta composer. Her birth date is listed as 1770, 1771, 1773, or 1776 in various sources. She was best known as a member of

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Mariano Bolognesi

Mariano Andrés Bolognesi y Cervantes ( Boloñese; — ) was a Peruvian colonel, educator and composer. He was the son of composer Andrés Bolognesi and a younger brother of colonel Francisco Bolognesi.

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Mariano Garau

Mariano Garau (1952) is an Italian contemporary composer. Early life He was born in Iglesias, a medieval city of Sardinia, Italy. He devoted himself to music under the guidance of composer Pietro

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Mariano Mores

Mariano Alberto Martínez (18 February 1918 13 April 2016), known professionally as Mariano Mores, was an Argentine tango composer and pianist. Biography Mariano Martínez was born in the San Telmo

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Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma

Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma (Zaragoza, 14 December 1779 - Madrid, 28 March 1847) was a Spanish composer. His musical training commenced when, at the age of 8 he entered the Zaragoza Cathedral choir.

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Marianus Königsperger

Marianus Königsperger (also called Johann Erhard Königsberger) born 2 December 1708 in Roding (Oberpfalz); and died 9 October 1769 in the Prüfening Abbey at Regensburg) was a German composer,

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Marie Bigot

Marie Kiéné Bigot de Morogues (3 March 1786 – 16 September 1820) was a French pianist and composer. She is best known for her sonatas and études. Career Marie Kiéné was born in Colmar in Alsace.

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Marie Bottrell

Marie Diane Bottrell (born 1961) is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter. Bottrell released many singles which appeared on Canadian country music charts, and has received multiple Country

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Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis

Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (6 June 1745, Marcei – 29 March 1825, Aubevoye) was a French composer, pianist, and salonnière. Contemporaries credited Mlle Bayon (or Baillon) for making the fortepiano

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Marie Jaëll

Marie Jaëll (née Trautmann) (17 August 1846, Steinseltz – 4 February 1925, Paris) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and

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Marie Prestat

Marie Joséphine Claire Prestat (1862–1933) was a French organist, pianist, composer and teacher. She was a native of Paris where she spent her entire life. She is known principally as a composer of

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Marie Samuelsson

Marie Samuelsson (born 15 February 1956) is a Swedish composer. Biography Marie Samuelsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied piano and improvisation at Birkagården College from 1979 to 1981,

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Marie Siegling

Marie Regina Siegling (February 7, 1824 – January 2, 1920) was an American composer. Biography She was born on February 7, 1824, in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest daughter of Prussian

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Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault

Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (; 26 August 1695 – 1793) (known as Mademoiselle Quinault , the elder) was a French singer and composer. Quinault was born in Strasbourg. Her father was the actor

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Mariecke van der Linden

Mariecke van der Linden (Ravenstein, 1973) is a Dutch visual artist and opera composer. She works on music videos as an art director in the field of set design, costumes and styling. Furthermore she

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Marielli Sfakianaki

Marielli Sfakianaki-Manolidou (born 12 January 1945) is a Greek writer, singer and composer. Biography Marielli Sfakianaki was born in Athens, Greece, the daughter of Cretan pianist, composer and

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Mariia Yaremak

Mariia Yaremak (born 7 April 1997, Obolonnya) is a Ukrainian composer, pianist, arranger and music editor. She has taken part in several hundred concerts, international and national projects

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Marij Kogoj

Marij Julij Kogoj (Trieste, 20 September 1892 – Ljubljana, 25 February 1956) was a Slovenian composer and writer of Italian birth. He is noted for his expressionist music, including the opera (Black

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Marija Hladnik Berden

Marija Hladnik Berden, also known as Mimi Hladnik (30 March 1892 – 10 May 1924), was a Slovenian teacher, organist, and composer. She was regarded as one of the most musically gifted women of her

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Marika Takeuchi

Marika Takeuchi (born 14 March 1987 in Kawasaki) is a Japanese contemporary composer, film composer, music producer and pianist. Education Takeuchi is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in

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Marilyn Crispell

Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Scott Yanow described her as "a powerful player... who has her own way of using space... She is near the top of her

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Marilyn J. Ziffrin

Marilyn Jane Ziffrin (August 7, 1926 – March 16, 2018) was an American composer, music educator, author, and musician. Biography Early life and education Marilyn Ziffrin was born in Moline, Illinois,

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Marilyn Michaels

Marilyn Michaels (born Marilyn Sternberg, February 26, 1943) is a comedian, singer, actress, impressionist, author, and composer. Family Marilyn Michaels was born in Manhattan to Russian Jewish

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Marilyn Rinehart

Marilyn Jeanette Plank Rinehart (30 September 1926 - 13 March 2012) was an American organist who composed and arranged works for chorus and organ. Rinehart’s parents were Martha Rudy and Raymond

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Marilyn Shrude

Marilyn Shrude (born July 6, 1946) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist, and Distinguished Artist Professor of composition at Bowling Green State University, since

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Marin Marais

Marin Marais (; 31 May 1656, Paris – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French composer and viol player of the middle Baroque era. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his

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Marina Kifferstein

Marina Kifferstein (born July 19, 1989) is a violinist, composer, improviser, and educator based in New York City. She is a member of contemporary classical quintet TAK ensemble, The Rhythm Method

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Marina Rosenfeld

Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York City. Her work has been produced and presented by the Park Avenue Armory, Museum of Modern Art, Portikus

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Marina Tucaković

Marina Tucaković (; 4 November 1953 – 19 September 2021) was a Serbian lyricist and songwriter. Born and raised in Belgrade, Tucaković first started writing songs at the age of 19. After the success

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Marinus De Jong

Marinus de Jong (14 January 1891, Oosterhout - 13 July 1984, Ekeren) was a Belgian composer and pianist of Dutch origin. Biography Marinus de Jong was born in Oosterhout (The Netherlands) to a

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Mario Baltadjiev

Mario Baltajiev is a Bulgarian composer. Biography He was born in 1971 in Yambol, Bulgaria in the family of opera singers. At the age of 6, he started playing the piano. He claims that he did not

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Mario Capuana

Mario Capuana (1576 in Sicily – 4 May 1647 in Noto) was an Italian composer of motets and a requiem. He was maestro di capella at the Cathedral of Noto in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his

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Mario Castelnuovo

Mario Castelnuovo (born 25 January 1955) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Rome, after the diploma in surveying Castelnuovo studied French literature at the

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one

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Mario Cazes

Mario Cazes (17 July 1890 – 3 November), was a 20th-century French composer, conductor and violinist extremely popular during the 1920s and 1930s. He was a recipient of the ordre national of the

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Mario Davidovsky

Mario Davidovsky (March 4, 1934 – August 23, 2019) was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He

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Mario Duschenes

Mario Duschenes, CM, LL.D. (27 October 1923 – 31 January 2009) was a Canadian flautist, recorder player, music educator and conductor. Early life Mario Duschenes was born in Altona, near Hamburg,

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Mario Grigorov

Mario Grigorov is a Bulgarian composer for film and television and a concert pianist. He performs on the piano and improvises in the styles of jazz, classical and world music. Mario Grigorov's father

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Mario Lavezzi

Bruno Mario Lavezzi (born 8 May 1948) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and guitarist. Life and career Born in Milan, he studied piano and guitar at the Scuola Civica di

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Mario Lavista

Mario Lavista (April 3, 1943 – November 4, 2021) was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual. Life and career Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de

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Mario Nascimbene

Mario Nascimbene (28 November 1913 – 6 January 2002) was one of the best known Italian film soundtrack composers of the 20th century. His career spanned six decades, during which time he earned

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Mario Pasquale Costa

Mario Pasquale Costa (24 July 1858 –27 September 1933) was a prolific Italian composer primarily known for his art songs, Neapolitan songs, and operettas. Costa was born in Taranto to Angelo and

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Mario Ruiz Armengol

Mario Ruiz Armengol (known as "Mayito" or "Mister Harmony") (March 14, 1914 in Veracruz, Mexico – December 22, 2002 in Cancun, Mexico), was a Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, conductor and music

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Mario Savioni

Mario Savioni (born 1608 in Rome, died 22 April 1685) was an Italian composer and a male alto of the Baroque era. Biography Savioni receives training as a choirboy under the direction of Vincenzo

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Mario Talavera

Mario Talavera Andrade (December 13, 1885 – March 27, 1960) was a Mexican musician, tenor, songwriter and conductor. Born and raised in Xalapa, Mario Talavera was the son of Francisco and Sebastiana

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Mario Zafred

Mario Zafred (2 March 1922 Trieste – 22 May 1987 Rome) was an Italian composer, music critic, and opera director. He also served as the president of various Italian music conservatories including the

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Marion Bauer

Marion Eugénie Bauer (15 August 1882 – 9 August 1955) was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of

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Marion Dix Sullivan

Marion Dix Sullivan (1802–1860) (fl. 1840–50) was an American songwriter and composer. She was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, the daughter of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins and the sister of

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Marion Morrey Richter

Dr. Marion Morrey Richter (2 October 1900 - 6 January 1996) was an American composer, music educator and pianist Richter was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Dr. Charles Bradfield Morrey, a bacteriologist,

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Marion Osgood

Marion Gilman Osgood (January 4, 1859 – November 1, 1957) was an American violinist, composer, and orchestra conductor. She established her own company, the Marion Osgood's Ladies Orchestra, which

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Marion Verhaalen

Marion Verhaalen (9 December 1930 – 16 March 2020) was an American composer, music educator, musicologist, and nun who published books about Latin American composers and music. Life and career

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Marion Vree

Marion Frances Wyma Vree-Brown (18 July 1920 – 10 April 2012) was an American composer/arranger and music educator. Vree was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Peter and Mina (Westrate) Wyma. She

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Marion W. Easterling

Marion Wesley Easterling (March 12, 1910 - December 10, 1989) was an American music composer in the genre of southern gospel who claimed he had written around 300 songs. His compositions include

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Marios Tokas

Marios Tokas () (8 June 1954 – 27 April 2008) was a Greek-Cypriot composer of traditional music born in Limassol, Cyprus. During the 1974 invasion, he fought as a soldier against the Turkish

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Maris Vijay

Maris Vijay is a film composer and singer, who works in Tamil and Hindi films and independent music. Film career Maris Vijay started his film career in 2013 when he began Miracle Waves Studio, a

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Marisa Rezende

Marisa Rezende (born 8 August 1944) is a Brazilian music educator and composer. Personal life Marisa Rezende was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of a doctor (Nunes de Barcellos) and his wife

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Marius Constant

Marius Constant (7 February 192515 May 2004) was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Although known in the classical world primarily for his ballet scores, his most widely known music was

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Marius Flothuis

Marius Flothuis (30 October 1914 – 13 November 2001; born and died in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic. Biography Flothuis first took courses at Vossius Gymnasium in

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Marius Monnikendam

Marinus Adrianus (Marius) Monnikendam (28 May 189622 May 1977) was a Dutch composer, organist, and music critic. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In 1925 Monnikendam went to Paris and

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Marius Ulfrstad

Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad (11 September 1890 – 29 October 1968) was a composer, organist and music teacher. His compositions were well known at his time, but are largely forgotten today. Biography

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Marjan Kozina

Marjan Kozina (4 June 1907 – 19 June 1966) was a Slovene composer. He is considered one of the most important Slovene composers of the 20th century. His best known works include a symphony, composed

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Marjan Mozetich

Marjan Mozetich (born 1948) is a Canadian composer who has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He has written compulsory competition

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Marjorie Goetschius

Marjorie Goetschius (23 September 1915 – 7 May 2001) was an American composer, pianist, cellist, and singer. She was born in Raymond, New Hampshire. Her songs were interpreted by popular singers such

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Marjorie Merryman

Marjorie Merryman (born 1951 ) is an American composer, author, and music educator. She is a member of the composition faculty at the Manhattan School of Music since 2007, where she also served as

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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1 October 1857 – 22 November 1930) was a Scottish singer, composer and music teacher and supporter of women's suffrage and pacifism. According to Ray Perman, Kennedy-Fraser

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Mark Aanderud

Mark Aanderud (born 1976) is a Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor. Aanderud started piano studies at 8 years old at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Mexico City. He started

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Mark Abel

Mark Abel (born April 28, 1948) is an American composer of classical music. Background After a brief stay at Stanford University in the late 1960s, Abel was active on the New York rock scene during

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Mark Adamo

Mark Adamo (born August 1, 1962) is an American composer, librettist, and professor of music composition at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He

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Mark Alburger

Mark Alburger (April 2, 1957 – June 20, 2023) was an American composer and conductor active in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the founder and music director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber

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Mark Andre

Mark Andre (born 10 May 1964) is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as "Marc André", his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling. He lives in Berlin. Andre's

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Mark Baechle

Mark Baechle (alternately spelled Mark Bächle, born June 25, 1977) is a Swiss composer based in New York City. Early life and education Baechle was born in Basel, Switzerland. He studied film scoring

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Mark Bowden (composer)

Mark Bowden (born 1979) is a British composer of classical music. Biography Bowden studied composition with Richard Steinitz at the University of Huddersfield before completing a master's degree at

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Mark Bradshaw (composer)

Mark Bradshaw (born 1983) is an Australian composer known for his work in film and television, as well as his former relationship with Ben Whishaw. Early life Bradshaw was born in Sydney, where he

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Mark Brunswick

Mark Brunswick ( January 6, 1902 – May 25/26, 1971) was an American composer of the twentieth century. He had only recently completed the second act of an opera based on Ibsen's The Master Builder

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Mark Bucci

Mark Bucci (26 February 1924 – 22 August 2002) was an American composer, lyricist, and dramatist. Influenced by Giacomo Puccini, his work is composed in a contemporary yet lyrical style, which

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Mark Carlson (composer)

Mark Carlson (born June 13, 1952) is an American composer, flutist, UCLA professor, and the founder and artistic director of the chamber music ensemble Pacific Serenades. Biography Born in Fort

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Mark Delpriora

Mark Delpriora (born 1959) is an American classical guitarist and composer. Delpriora is currently Chair of the Guitar Department at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has been on the faculty

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Mark Edgley Smith

Mark Edgley Smith, also written Mark Edgley-Smith (20 March 1955 – 26 July 2008) was a British composer. He was born in Wimbledon and educated at Tiffin School, Kingston upon Thames. It was at Tiffin

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Mark Engebretson

Mark Engebretson, DMA, Northwestern University (born 1964, California) is a saxophonist and composer. His music combines computer music and live performance, the latter usually performed on

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Mark Fax

Mark Oakland Fax (15 June 1911 – 2 January 1974) was an American composer and a professor of music. Child prodigy Born on June 15, 1911, in Baltimore, Maryland, Fax was a child prodigy. By age

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Mark Fradkin

Mark Grigoryevich Fradkin (May 4, 1914 – April 4, 1990) was a Soviet composer, author of numerous popular songs (many of which were co-written with poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky) and musical scores for

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Mark Gresham

Mark Gresham (born 6 March 1956, Atlanta, Georgia, United States) is an American composer and music journalist. In 2003, he was the recipient of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award for 'Sounds Like Home,' an

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Mark Grey

Mark Grey is an American classical music composer, sound designer and sound engineer. Education and early career Mark Grey attended San Jose State University in California, where he studied

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Mark Gustavson

Mark Gustavson (born September 19, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gustavson lives on eastern Long Island and teaches at various

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Mark Houston

Mark Houston (December 5, 1946 – February 28, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, playwright, actor, and newspaper columnist. Born in Texas and educated in Oklahoma, he began his career as an

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Mark Kopytman

Mark Kopytman (; December 6, 1929 – December 16, 2011) was a composer, musicologist and pedagogue. He was a professor and a rector of the Rubin Academy (Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance), and a

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Mark Korven

Mark Korven is a Canadian musician and composer for film and television. Works Film * 1987 – I've Heard the Mermaids Singing * 1990 – White Room * 1991 – Sam & Me * 1992 – The Grocer's Wife * 1992 –

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Mark London

Mark London (born 30 January 1940) is a Canadian-born British soundtrack composer, songwriter and music producer. He is perhaps best known as composer of the song "To Sir with Love". History Mark

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Mark Lothar

Mark Lothar ló:tar (born Lothar Hundertmark; 23 May 1902 in Berlin – 6 April 1985 in Munich) was a German composer. Life From 1921 to 1926, he studied piano with Franz Schreker and Walther Carl

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Mark Mancina

Mark Mancina (born 1957) is an American film composer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Media Ventures, Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including Speed, Bad Boys, Twister, Tarzan,

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Mark Miller (composer)

Mark A. Miller (born 1967 Early life and education Miller was born into a family of United Methodist pastors, including his father and grandfather. Miller is married to Michael Murden. They have two

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Mark Minkov

Mark Anatolievich Minkov (; 25 November 1944 – 29 May 2012) was a Soviet and Russian music composer. His music is featured in a number of operas, ballets, stage performances, and films. He composed

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Mark Nichols (composer)

Mark Nichols (born February 22, 1964) is an American playwright, composer, and lyricist, best known for his musicals Little Boy Goes to Hell (1988), Joe Bean (2003), and How to Survive the Apocalypse

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Mark Petrie

Mark Petrie (born 20 May 1979) is a New Zealand film, television and video game composer. He is best known for composing the music in trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy, Life of Pi, Mission

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Márk Rózsavölgyi

Márk Rózsavölgyi (; born Mordecai Rosenthal; 14 August 1787 – 23 January 1848) was a Hungarian composer and violinist. He has been called "the father of csárdás". Life and music Rózsavölgyi was born

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Mark Slater (composer)

Mark Andrew Slater (born 1 April 1969) is a British film composer, conductor, cellist and pianist. He is the composer for the film Flatland, 400 Years of the Telescope., and numerous planetarium

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Mark Sonnenblick

Mark Sonnenblick is an American songwriter and composer, with credits in musical theater, film, and television. He is one of the lyricists for the musical The Devil Wears Prada, and has written songs

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Mark Thomas (composer)

Mark Thomas (9 April 1956 – 19 July 2023) was a British composer. He is known for his work on Twin Town (1997), The Final Curtain (2002), Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) and The Magic

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Mark Watters

Mark Watters (born May 25, 1955) is an American composer of music for film and television. Biography Watters is a six-time Emmy award-winning composer, conductor and arranger. He was born in Irving,

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Mark Wessel (composer)

Mark Wessel (March 26, 1894 – May 9, 1973) was an American pianist and composer. Life Wessel was born in Coldwater, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern School of Music, now known as Bienen

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Mark-Anthony Turnage

Mark-Anthony Turnage (born 10 June 1960) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Life and career Mark-Anthony Turnage was born in Corringham, Essex on 10 June 1960. His initial

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Marko Ciciliani

Marko Ciciliani (born 23 February 1970) is a composer, audiovisual artist and performer. Life Marko Ciciliani (born 1970 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a composer and sound artist. His family emigrated to

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Marko Rothmüller

Marko Rothmüller (born Aaron Rothmüller; 31 December 190820 January 1993) was a Croatian operatic baritone, composer and pianist. Early life and education Rothmüller was born in the village of

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Markus Heinrich Grauel

Markus Heinrich Grauel (sometimes Marcus Heinrich Graul; 17?? – 1799) was a German composer and cellist of the classical period. Life Grauel was born in Eisenach, though his birth year remains

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Marmaduke Barton

Marmaduke Barton FRCM (29 December 186524 July 1938) was an English pianist, composer and teacher at the Royal College of Music for almost 50 years. Career Marmaduke Miller Barton was born in

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Märt-Matis Lill

Märt-Matis Lill (born 6 November 1975) is an Estonian composer. Early life and education Märt-Matis Lill was born in Tartu, and is the son of writer, translator, cultural critic, and philosopher Jaan

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Marta Canales

Marta Canales Pizarro (17 July 1893 – 6 December 1986) was a Chilean violinist, choral conductor, and composer. She was born in Santiago and made her debut as a violinist at age eleven playing

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Marta Jiráčková

Marta Jirácková (born 22 March 1932) is a Czech composer. Biography Marta Jiráčková was born in Kladno. She studied with Emil Hlobil at the Prague Conservatory of Music, and after graduating in 1959,

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Marta Lambertini

Marta Lambertini (13 November 1937 – 25 March 2019) was an Argentine composer. Biography She was born in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, and studied at the Universidad Catolica Argentina with Roberto

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Marta Ptaszynska

Marta Ptaszyńska (born 29 July 1943) is a Polish composer, percussionist and professor of music at the University of Chicago. She has been described by the Polish Music Center of the University of

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Martha Callison Horst

Martha Callison Horst is an American composer. Her music has been performed by Earplay, Alea III, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Fromm Players, Left Coast Ensemble, Dal Niente, Composers, Inc., members

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Martha Llwyd

Martha Llwyd (1766 – 16 October 1845), born Martha Williams, was a Welsh poet and Methodist hymnwriter. Due to health problems, Llwyd was unable to walk. She was carried aloft in her chair. Early

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Marthe Servine

Marthe Servine (1862 in Paris – 1960 ) was a French-American composer and pianist, primarily known for her works for solo piano, and songs. Biography Marthe Servine was born in Paris to French

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Marthinus Lourens de Villiers

Marthinus Lourens de Villiers was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church from 1912 to 1930, then a full-time musician until his death in 1977 and is especially known for his setting of Die Stem.

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Marti Epstein

Marti Epstein (born November 25, 1959) is an American composer. She is Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Education Epstein was born in

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Marti Montserrat Guillemat

Martí Montserrat Guillemat (sometimes erroneously cited as Guillamet, b: El Morell, Tarragona, July 4, 1906 – d: Barcelona, January 12, 1990), also known as Serramont, was a Catalan musician.

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Martin Agricola

Martin Agricola (6 January 1486 – 10 June 1556) was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist. From 1524 until his death, he lived in the German city of Magdeburg, where he was a

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Martin Amlin

Martin Amlin (born June 12, 1953) is an American composer and pianist. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He serves as the Mildred P. Gilfillan Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of

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Martin Armiger

John Martin Armiger (10 June 1949 – 27 November 2019) was an Australian musician, record producer and composer. He was one of the singer-songwriters and guitarists with Melbourne-based rock band the

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Martin Arnold (composer)

Martin Arnold (born 19 August 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian composer of experimental music. His music has been widely performed and commissioned by ensembles including the BBC Scottish

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Martin Boykan

Martin Boykan (April 12, 1931 – March 6, 2021) was an American composer known for his chamber music as well as music for larger ensembles. Biography Boykan was born in New York City. He studied

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Martin Bresnick

Martin Bresnick (born 1946) is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music. Education and early career Bresnick grew up in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York

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Martin Christoph Redel

Martin Christoph Redel (born 30 January 1947) is a German composer, music theorist, percussionist and university teacher. Life Martin Christoph Redel was born in Detmold on 30 January 1947 as the son

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Martin Codax

Martin Codax or Codaz, Martín Codax () or Martim Codax was a Galician medieval joglar (non-noble composer and performer, as opposed to a trobador), possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present-day Spain.

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Martin Forciniti

Martin Forciniti (born Wenning 1962 in Horstmar, Westfalen) is a German church musician and composer. Life Forciniti studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the Robert

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Martin Horntveth

Martin Horntveth (born 20 September 1977) is a Norwegian musician (primarily drummer), composer and electronica artist. He was born in Tønsberg, and is the younger brother of tubaist Line Horntveth,

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Martin Karl Hasse

Martin Karl Woldemar Hasse (20 March 1883 – 31 July 1960) was a German university lecturer, composer and music writer. Life Born in Dohna, Hasse was the son of the pastor Martin Hasse (1852-1915) and

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Martin Kennedy (composer)

Martin Kennedy (born March 24, 1978) is a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Martin Kennedy was born in Wakefield, England to Barry and Ann Kennedy, and

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Martin Léon

Martin Léon (born April 26, 1966) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and composer from Quebec, most noted as a three-time winner of the Prix Jutra/Iris for Best Original Music. Background Originally

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Martin Lohse

Martin Lohse (born 29 May 1971) is a Danish classical composer and visual artist. Biography Martin Lohse was born in Copenhagen, where he began his education at the Musical Science Institute

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Martin Mulvihill

Martin Mulvihill (born in Ballygoughlin, County Limerick, Ireland in 1923; died 21 July 1987) was an Irish traditional musician, composer, teacher, and author. He composed roughly 25 tunes in the

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Martin Musaubach

Martin "Musa" Musaubach (born May 23, 1982, in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine band-leading pianist, composer, arranger and producer in MUSA's. About Musa was the member of jazz, blues and Latin

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Martín Palmeri

Martín Palmeri (born 1965) is an Argentine composer and conductor. Early life and education Palmeri was born in 1965 in Buenos Aires. He has trained in orchestral conducting, choral direction,

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Martin Peerson

Martin Peerson (or Pearson, Pierson, Peereson) (between 1571 and 1573 – December 1650 or January 1651 and buried 16 January 1651) was an English composer, organist and virginalist. Despite Roman

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Martin Peudargent

Martin Peudargent (or Peu d'argent, also Martin von Huy; Huy, c. 1510-1570s) was a Flemish composer and chapel master of William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg in Düsseldorf. Mainly motets survive from

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Martin Pierre d'Alvimare

Martin Pierre d'Alvimare du Briou (18 September 1772 – 3 June 1839), sometimes spelled Dalvimare, was a French musician, harpist and composer. He was harp master of Queen Hortense. Biography Martin

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Martin Pierre Marsick

Martin Pierre Marsick (1847–1924), was a Belgian violinist, organist, singer, composer and teacher. Marsick was the owner of the Marsick Stradivarius. At the time of his birth, Marsick was the

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Martin Röder

Martin Röder, sometimes as Martin Roeder, (7 April 1851 – 10 June 1895) was a German composer, conductor, voice teacher, music journalist, and writer on music. Born and educated as a musician in

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Martin Romberg

Martin Romberg (born 3 January 1978) is a Norwegian neo-romantic contemporary composer. He is one of the most active orchestral composers of his generation in Scandinavia. He is mostly known for his

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Martin Rößler

Martin Rößler, also Martin Rössler (1934 – 31 October 2024), was a German church musician, Protestant theologian, music director and university lecturer in Tübingen. Career Born in Pforzheim, Rößler

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Martin Scherber

Martin Scherber (16 January 1907 – 10 January 1974) was a German composer and the creator of what he described as "metamorphosis symphonies". Childhood and youth Scherber was born as the third child

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Martin Schlumpf

Martin Schlumpf (born 3 December 1947) is a Swiss musician, composer, conductor, improviser (double bass, saxophone and bass clarinet) and academic teacher. Career Born in Aarau, Schlumpf studied at

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Martin Segerstråle

Martin Segerstråle , born August 31, 1984, in Turku, Finland, is a Finnish music director, pianist, conductor and composer. Segerstråle studied Musical Direction and Coaching at the Royal Academy of

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Martin Shaw (composer)

Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (9 March 1875 – 24 October 1958) was an English composer, conductor, and (in his early life) theatre producer. His over 300 published works include songs, hymns, carols,

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Martin Smolka

Martin Smolka (born 11 August 1959 in Prague) is a contemporary Czech composer of classical music. Works ;1983 * Slzy (Tears) ;1985-1988 : Hudba hudbička (Music Sweet Music) for ensemble. ;1988 *

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Martin Terefe

Martin Terefe (born 18 April 1969, Stockholm, Sweden ) is a Swedish record producer and songwriter, now living and working in London, who has produced Grammy, Brit and Juno award -winning albums with

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Martin Tingvall

Martin Tingvall (born 1974 ) is a Swedish jazz pianist and composer. Biography Tingvall was born in Tomelilla. He was raised in the southern Swedish county of Skåne and attended a music school there.

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Martin Wegelius

Martin Wegelius (10 November 1846 – 22 March 1906) was a Finnish composer and musicologist, primarily remembered as the founder, in 1882, of the Helsinki Music Institute, now known as the Sibelius

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Martin Wesley-Smith

Martin Wesley-Smith (10 June 1945 – 26 September 2019) was an Australian composer with an eclectic output ranging from children's songs to environmental events. He worked in a range of musical

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Martindale Sidwell

Professor Martindale Sidwell FRCO (23 February 1916 – 20 February 1998) was an English organist, composer and teacher. Life John William Martindale Sidwell was born in Little Packington, Warwickshire

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Mārtiņš Brauns

Mārtiņš Brauns (17 September 1951 – 24 November 2021) was a Latvian composer and musician. He composed multiple pieces, most notable of which is Saule, Pērkons, Daugava, a choir song regularly

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Martinus Fabri

Martinus Fabri (died May 1400) was a composer of the late 14th century. Fabri was probably either from the County of Flanders or in an area in the Holy Roman Empire that is now in the Netherlands,

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Martinus Sieveking

Martinus Sieveking (March 24, 1867 – November 26, 1950) was a Dutch virtuoso pianist, composer, teacher and inventor born in Amsterdam. Also known as Martin Sieveking, he performed as a soloist

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Márton Illés

Márton Illés (born 12 December 1975 in Budapest), is a Hungarian composer and pianist. Illés received musical training in piano, composition and percussion in Győr from 1981 to 1994. In 1993, he

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Marty Walsh (musician)

Martin Kevin Walsh (born January 21, 1952) is an American guitarist, songwriter, arranger, composer and record producer. In 1979 Walsh had the opportunity to play on his first Billboard charting

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Marusia Churai

Maria or Marusia Churai (; 1625–1653) was a mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet, and singer. She became a recurrent motif in Ukrainian literature and the songs ascribed to her are widely

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Marvin Duchow

Marvin Duchow (June 10, 1914 – May 24, 1979) was a Canadian composer, teacher and musicologist who lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec. He was an expert on Renaissance music and the music of

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Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the

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Mary Ann Wrighten

Mary Ann Wrighten Pownall, née Mary Matthews, (b. 1751, d. 12 August 1796) was an English singer, actress and composer. Life Mary Ann Matthews was born in England of a jeweler father and shop-keeper

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Mary Anne à Beckett

Mary Anne à Beckett (29 April 1815 – 11 December 1863) was an English composer, primarily known for opera. She was the wife of the writer Gilbert à Beckett, who provided the libretti for two of her

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Mary Augusta Wakefield

Mary Augusta Wakefield (19 August 1853 – 16 September 1910) was a British composer, contralto, festival organiser, and writer. Biography Early life Wakefield was born in Kendal, where her paternal

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Mary Carr Moore

Mary Carr Moore (6 August 1873 – 9 January 1957) was an American composer, conductor, vocalist, and music educator of the twentieth century. She is best remembered today for her association with the

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Mary Chandler (composer)

Kathleen Mary Chandler (16 May 1911 – 19 November 1996) was an English composer, oboist, pianist and teacher. Born in Eltham, South London, she studied music privately and at the Blackheath

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Mary Dickenson-Auner

Mary Dickenson-Auner (24 October 1880 – 25 May 1965) was an Irish violinist, composer, and music teacher. She wrote symphonies, oratorios, operas, and chamber works, with some of her early works

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Mary Elaine Gentemann

Sister Mary Elaine Gentemann, CDP (October 4, 1909 – December 7, 2008) was an American religious sister and musical composer, a member of the religious order of the Sisters of Divine Providence. She

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Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (15 March 1856 – 12 September 1938 ) was an American soprano and composer. Life Early life and education Mary Elizabeth Turner was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter

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Mary Ellen Childs

Mary Ellen Childs (born April 13, 1957 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American composer and multimedia artist and founder of the ensemble Crash. She grew up as a dancer and writes music often

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Mary Finsterer

Mary Finsterer (born 25 August 1962) is an Australian composer and academic. Life Finsterer was born in Canberra in 1962. She graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of

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Mary Helena Synge

Mary Helena Synge (8 July 1840 – 5 February 1917) was an Irish composer, pianist, and singer who spent many years in England, where she died. Synge was born in Parsonstown to Margaret Jemima

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Mary Jeanne van Appledorn

Mary Jeanne van Appledorn (October 2, 1927 – December 12, 2014) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Education and career Born in Holland, Michigan, van Appledorn

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Mary Knight Wood

Mary Knight Wood Mason (17 April 1857 – 20 December 1944) was an American pianist, music educator, and composer. She was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Lieutenant-governor,

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Mary Kouyoumdjian

Mary Kouyoumdjian (born 1983) is an Armenian-American composer and documentarian based in Brooklyn, NY. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2024 for her work Paper Pianos and was

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Mary Louisa White

Mary Louisa White (2 September 1866 – January 1935) was a British composer, pianist, and educator who invented a Letterless Method of musical notation. Her parents were Robert and Louisa Makin White.

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Mary Lucas

Mary Lucas (born Mary Anderson Juler, 24 May 1882–14 January 1952), sometimes referred to as Mary Anderson Lucas, was an English composer and pianist. Biography Her father Henry Juler (1842-1921) was

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Mary Lynn Lightfoot

Mary Lynn Lightfoot (born 1952) is an American choral composer and music publishing editor. From Canton, Missouri, Lightfoot has published over 300 choral pieces during her career. Her works are well

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Mary Lynn Twombly

Mary Lynn Twombly Aprahamian (born 8 January 1935) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist who publishes under the name Mary Lynn Twombly. Life and career Twombly was born in New York. From

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Mary Mageau

Mary Jane Mageau (4 September 1934 – 9 January 2020) was an American-born writer, harpsichordist and composer who had lived and worked in Australia graduating with a Master of Music degree. In 1974

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Mary McCarty Snow

Mary Helen Snow McCarty (26 August 1928 - 14 October 2012) was an American composer, organist/pianist, and publisher who wrote The Waveform Music Book: Composing, Teaching, Performing Electronic

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Mary McDonald (composer)

Mary McDonald (born 1956) is an American composer, arranger, producer, pianist, and organist. Early years Mary McDonald showed an early talent for music, playing hymns by ear by age five. She

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Mary Rodgers

Mary Rodgers (January 11, 1931 – June 26, 2014) was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the 1972 novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie

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Mary Rosselli Nissim

Mary Rosselli Nissim (9 June 1864 - 26 September 1937) was an Italian composer, designer and pianist who composed four operas and many songs. She won at least two major awards. Life and career

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Mary Watson Weaver

Mary Eliza Watson Weaver (January 16, 1903 – November 16, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, and poet who was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Life Mary received B.A. and B. M. degrees from Smith

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Mary Wiggins

Mary Wiggins (February 10, 1904 – April 17, 1974) was an American composer, educator, organist, and pianist, born in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Biography Wiggins studied composition at Carnegie-Mellon

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Mary Wurm

Mary J. A. Wurm (her surname was originally Würm) (18 May 1860 in Southampton – 21 January 1938 in Munich) was an English pianist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Wurm was born as Mary

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Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 – October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist. She is known for working extensively with a family of psychoacoustic phenomena called

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Marzena Komsta

Marzena Komsta (born 7 February 1970) is a Polish composer of contemporary music who resides in France. Life and career Marzena Komsta was born in Gdynia, Poland, and studied composition at the S.

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Masa Takumi

, better known as Masa Takumi, is a Japanese Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Reggae Album, won a Best

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Masaharu Iwata

is a Japanese video game composer. In high school his musical projects included composing on a synthesizer and playing in a cover band. *Gimme a Break: Shijou Saikyou no Quiz Ou Ketteisen (1991)

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Masahito Arai

is a Japanese singer and composer. Debuting with the band Diary in 1977, he joined the group Pal in 1979 and had a solo debut in 1987, performing the song "Anime ja Nai" for the 1986 anime Mobile

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Masakazu Natsuda

Masakazu Natsuda (夏田 昌和 Natsuda Masakazu, born 2 July 1968 in Tokyo) is a Japanese composer, former student of Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire de Paris. Career Natsuda studied musical composition

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Masaki Kyomoto

is a Japanese actor, singer-song writer, and guitarist. He is famous for playing the role of Ryu on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu series. He has appeared in films and television series including

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Masao Akashi

was a Japanese music arranger in distributors Being Inc., mainly in their label B-Gram Records. In 1988, he debuted as arranger in debut single Dakara Sono Te wo Hanashite by Japanese hard-rock band

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Masao Koga

was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's yonanuki

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Masayuki Hirahara

Masayuki Hirahara (平原 誠之 Hirahara Masayuki July 15, 1980) is a Japanese pianist and composer. Early life Masayuki Hirahara was born and raised in Kobe, Japan. He started taking piano lessons when he

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Masguda Shamsutdinova

Masguda Islamovna Shamsutdinova (; born June 1, 1955, in Kshlau-Yelga, Bashkir ASSR) is a Tatar writer and composer. Biography Masguda Shamsutdinova was born in Bashkortostan. She studied music in

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Mason Bates

Mason Wesley Bates (born January 23, 1977) is a Grammy award-winning American composer of symphonic music and DJ of electronic dance music. He is the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy

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Masoud Sekhavatdoust

Masoud Sakhvatdoust (مسعود سخاوت دوست) (born 21 September 1984) is an Iranian writer, composer and musician. He is the composer of more than 50 international films. He won the Best Composer award at

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Massimiliano Quilici

Massimiliano Quilici (3 April 1799 - 18 October 1889) was an Italian composer. Born in Lucca, Quilici began his studies under his uncle Domenico Quilici; later he attended the Liceo Musicale di

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Massimo Di Gesu

Massimo Di Gesu is an Italian composer, born in 1970. Academic studies At the Milan Conservatory Di Gesu attained the Diploma in Piano in 1992, and the Diploma in Composition in 1995. He studied

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Massimo Troiano

Massimo Troiano (died after April 1570) was an Italian Renaissance composer, poet, and a brief, but vivid chronicler of life at the court of Bavaria's ruler, Duke Albrecht V in the late 1560s, the

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Master Abdullah

Master Abdullah (Punjabi, ), (1930 – 31 January 1994) was a Pakistani film music composer. He is known for his music in movies like "Badla" (1968), "Commander" (1968), "Ziddi" (1973), and "Sheeshay

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Máté Balogh

Máté Balogh (born 9 November 1990 in Győr) is a Hungarian composer, performer and assistant professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and at the University of Szeged. His works have

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Máté Bella

Máté Bella (, ; born 28 November 1985) is a Hungarian composer and university professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary. He has worked across multiple genres of music, including

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Matei Socor

Matei Socor (September 15, 1908 – May 30, 1980) was a Romanian composer and communist activist. Biography Born in Iași, his father was the noted journalist Emanoil Socor, He completed high school in

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Matelo Ferret

Jean Pierre "Matelo" Ferret (1918 – 24 January 1989) (also spelled Matelot, Matlo and Matlow, surname also later spelled Ferré on occasion) was a French musette and gypsy jazz guitarist and composer.

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Mateo Flecha

Mateo Flecha (Catalan: Mateu Fletxa; 1481–1553) was a Spanish composer born in Kingdom of Aragon, in the region of Prades. He is sometimes known as "El Viejo" (the elder) to distinguish him from his

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Mateo Flecha el Joven

Mateo Flecha el Joven, in Catalan Mateu Fletxa el Jove (Prades. Baix Camp, c. 1530 – Sant Pere de la Portella, Berguedà, 20 February 1604) was a Catalan composer, and nephew of Mateo Flecha the

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Mateo Romero (composer)

Mateo Romero (ca. 1575 – 1647) was a Belgian-born Spanish composer of Baroque music and master of the royal chapel. Biography Romero was born as Mathieu Rosmarin in Liège, Belgium, and, following the

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Mateusz Rudkowski

Mateusz (or Mieczysław) Rudkowski (also ; c. 1809 — c. 1887) was a Polish composer of choral and piano music. He received his musical education in Lviv and Vienna. In 1850-1860 he was kapellmeister

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Matheus de Sancto Johanne

Matheus de Sancto Johanne (died after 10 June 1391), also known as Mayshuet, was a French composer of the late Medieval era. Active both in France and England, he was one of the representatives of

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Mathew Rosenblum

Mathew Rosenblum (born March 19, 1954) is an American composer whose works have been commissioned, recorded and performed by musical groups such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Boston

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Mathia-Mathithiahu Gavriel

Mati Gavriel (birth name Mathia-Mathithiahu Gavriel, ; born January 14, 1986, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a German-Israeli composer, record producer, musician, and singer. He is also known as Mathia

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Mathias Spahlinger

Mathias Spahlinger (born 15 October 1944 in Frankfurt) is a German composer. His work takes place in a field of tension between diverse musical influences and styles. Between Renaissance music and

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Mathieu Charbonneau

Mathieu Charbonneau (born 1981) is a Canadian musician, record producer, and film composer, originally from Cumberland, Ontario, and currently based in Montreal, Quebec. Charbonneau has composed

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Mathieu Gascongne

Mathieu Gascongne (first name also Matthieu or Matthias; last name also Gascogne, Gascongus, Gascone, Gasconia, and Guascogna; fl. early 16th century) was a French composer of the Renaissance.

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Mathilda d'Orozco

Mathilda Valeria Beatrix d'Orozco (14 June 1796 – 19 October 1863), also by marriage known as Cenami, Montgomery-Cederhjelm and Gyllenhaal, was a Swedish (originally Spanish-Italian) noble and

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Mathilde Kralik

Mathilde Aloisia Kralik von Meyrswalden (3 December 1857, in Linz – 8 March 1944) was an Austrian composer. Biography Mathilde Kralik was the daughter of Bohemian glass industrialist Wilhelm Kralik

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Mathilde von Rothschild

Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild (5 March 1832 – 8 March 1924) was a German-Jewish baroness, composer and patron. Life and career Mathilde von Rothschild was born in Frankfurt, the second oldest

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Matilde Capuis

Matilde Margherita Mary Capuis (1 January 1913 – 31 January 2017) was an Italian organist, pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Naples and studied at the Conservatorio di Musica

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Matilde Salvador i Segarra

Matilde Salvador Segarra (23 March 1918 – 5 October 2007) was a Spanish composer and painter. Life Salvador was born and raised in Castellón de la Plana, Valencian Community. She was married to the

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Matilee Loeb Evans

Matilee Loeb Evans Preston (April 28, 1879 – February 21, 1963) was an American composer and cornetist. She wrote music for piano and was a charter member of the Los Angeles Woman’s Orchestra. She

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Mats Lidström

Mats Lidström (born 1959) is a Swedish solo cellist, recording artist, chamber musician, composer, teacher and publisher. His first teacher was Maja Vogl, of the music conservatory in Gothenburg. He

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Matt Uelmen

Matt Uelmen (; born July 31, 1972) is an American video game music composer and sound designer. He is best known for his work in Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo series, which was recognized with the

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Matteo Buzzanca

Matteo Buzzanca, also known by the pseudonym Teodorf, (born 28 September 1973) is an Italian musician, composer and record producer. Biography His work revolves around the creation of songs and

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Matteo Carcassi

Matteo Carcassi (8 April 1792 – 16 January 1853) was an Italian guitarist, teacher and composer. Biography Carcassi was born in Florence, Italy, and first studied the piano, but learned guitar when

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Matteo Curallo

Matteo Curallo (born 25 January 1976, in Asti) is an Italian musician and composer. Biography Curallo studied electronic music at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi in Turin. He holds

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Matteo Fischetti

Matteo Fischetti (28 February 1830 – December 1887) was an Italian pianist and composer active in Naples. Life and career Born in Martina Franca, Fischetti studied piano from the age of six in his

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Matteo Marangoni

Matteo Marangoni (12 July 1876 – 1 June 1958) was an Italian art historian, art critic and composer. Marangoni's art criticism aimed at identifying pure figurative values, in which an artwork's

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Matteo Salvi

Matteo Salvi (24 November 1816 – 18 October 1887 ) was a composer of opera and classical music and a theatre director. Salvi was born in Botta di Sedrina (Provincia di Bergamo), Italy. A student of

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Matthaeus Pipelare

Matthaeus Pipelare (c. 1450 – c. 1515) was a Netherlandish composer, choir director, and possibly wind instrument player of the Renaissance. He was from Louvain, and spent part of his early life in

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Matthäus Stegmayer

Matthäus Stegmayer (also Matthias; 29 April 1771 – 10 May 1820) was an Austrian composer, musician, music publisher, librettist and actor. Life and career Born in Vienna, Stegmayer was the son of a

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Mattheus Le Maistre

Mattheus Le Maistre or Matthaeus Le Maistre ( 1505–1577) was a Flemish Renaissance choirmaster and composer who is best known for his time in Dresden. His music was superior but in no way

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Matthew Aucoin

Matthew Aucoin (born April 4, 1990) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and writer best known for his operas. Aucoin has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lyric

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Matthew Barnson

Matthew Barnson (born 1979) is an American composer. Biography Barnson is a native of Utah He pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. Barnson is the youngest

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Matthew Dewey

Matthew Ingvald Dewey (born 1984) is an Australian classical music composer, singer, and music producer. Biography Matthew Dewey is an Australian composer and music producer who studied composition

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Matthew Dubourg

Matthew Dubourg (1703 – 3 July 1767) was an English violinist, conductor, and composer who spent most of his life in Ireland. Among other achievements, Dubourg led the orchestra at the premiere of

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Matthew Head (composer)

Matthew Head is an American composer and music producer. Life and career Head was born in Marietta, Georgia. He attended Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia, but dropped out and later

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Matthew Hindson

Matthew John Hindson AM (born 12 September 1968) is an Australian composer. Biography Matthew Hindson was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, in 1968. He studied composition at the Universities of

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Matthew Jones (musician)

Matthew Jones (born 1974) is a British violist, violinist and composer primarily known for his international performance work as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is also a professor of

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Matthew Kaner

Matthew Kaner (born 1986) is a British composer. His work has been performed by various orchestras and ensembles including the BBC Singers, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London

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Matthew King (composer, born 1967)

Matthew King (born 1967) is a British composer, pianist, and educator. His works include opera, piano and chamber music, and choral and orchestral pieces. He has been described by Judith Weir, Master

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Matthew Locke (composer)

Matthew Locke (c. 1621 – August 1677) was an English Baroque composer and music theorist. Biography Locke was born in Exeter and was a chorister in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward

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Matthew McCauley (producer)

Matthew McCauley (born 1954) is a Canadian composer and record producer based in Los Angeles. In 1977 Matthew produced Dan Hill's song "Sometimes When We Touch". His film scores include Between

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Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson (born July 22, 1984) is a classical composer of operas, choral works, orchestral and chamber music. Biography Matthew Peterson was born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He

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Matthew Ricketts (composer)

Matthew Ricketts (born 1986) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow as well as the recipient of the 2020 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American

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Matthew S

Matthew S is the pseudonym of Matteo Scapin, an Italian electronic music producer, musician and composer. He is known for his diverse production style, which is influenced primarily by electronic

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Matthew Shlomowitz

Matthew Shlomowitz (born 7 February 1975) is a composer of contemporary classical music and Associate Professor in Composition at the University of Southampton. Biography He was raised in Adelaide,

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Matthew Taylor (composer)

Matthew Taylor (born 6 December 1964) is an English composer and conductor. Biography Taylor was born in London and attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music. He first studied composition with Robin

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Matthias Dahms

Matthias Dahms (born October 17, 1961) is a German virtuoso vibraphone and marimba soloist, percussionist and composer. He has been a percussion soloist ever since 1990, giving concerts and drum

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Matthias Keller (musician)

Matthias Keller (born 1956 in Bremen) External links * * Matthias Keller (3)

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Matthias Maute

Matthias Maute (born 1963) is a virtuoso recorder player and composer. Maute was born in Ebingen, Germany and studied in Freiburg and Utrecht with Baldrick Deerenberg and Marion Verbruggen. In 1990

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Matthias Pintscher

Matthias Pintscher (born 29 January 1971) is a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. Biography Pintscher was born in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia. As a youth, he studied the violin and

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Matthias Vanden Gheyn

Matthias Vanden Gheyn ( or ; 7 April 1721 – 22 June 1785) was a Flemish musician from the Baroque/Classical transition period. He is a descendant of the famous bell founding family of the same name.

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Matthias Weckmann

Matthias Weckmann (Weckman) (c.1616 24 February 1674) was a German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla (Thuringia) and died in Hamburg. Life His musical training

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Matthias Werrecore

Hermann Matthias Werrecore (c. 1500 in village of Warcoing, Pecq – after 1574) was a Flemish composer in Italy. He was maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral from 1522 to 1550 where he was in charge

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Matthijs Vermeulen

Matthijs Vermeulen (born Matheas Christianus Franciscus van der Meulen) (8 February 1888 – 26 July 1967), was a Dutch composer and music journalist. Early life Matthijs Vermeulen was born in Helmond.

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Matti Bye

Matti Bye (born 25 July 1966) is a Swedish pianist and composer. He has composed music for over 30 films and TV series as well as additional scores for theatre and dance pieces. In 2014, he was

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Mattias Olsson

Mattias Olsson (born 9 January 1975) started his career as a classical percussionist playing in orchestras and big bands on Ekerö outside of Stockholm. As a sideline to recording and producing bands

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Mattio Rampollini

Mattio Rampollini (also Matteo) (?June 2, 1497 – c. 1553) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, active in Florence. Employed by the Medici, he was a colleague of the more famous Francesco

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Matvey Blanter

Matvey Isaakovich Blanter (; 10 February 190327 September 1990) was a Soviet composer, and one of the most prominent composers of popular songs and film music in the Soviet Union. Among many other

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Mátyás Seiber

Mátyás György Seiber (, sometimes given as Matthis Seyber; 4 May 1905 – 24 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work

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Maude Valérie White

Maude Valérie White (1855 – 1937) was a French-born English composer who became one of the most successful songwriters of the Victorian period. Early years Although born near Dieppe in Normandy to

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Maung Thit Min

Maung Thit Min, born Dewa (6 June 1953–5 June 2011) was a prominent Burmese songwriter, composer and writer. Along with Thukhamein Hlaing, , and Min Chit Thu, he was considered one of the "Four

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Maura Bosch

Marjorie Ann Hess a.k.a. Maura Bosch (born 1956) is an American composer. She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Hartt College of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music

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Maurice Besly

Edward Maurice Besly (1888–1945) was an English composer, conductor, schoolteacher, organist, and arranger best known for his popular ballads, The Second Minuet and Time, You Old Gipsy Man. More

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Maurice Blackburn (composer)

Joseph Albert Maurice Blackburn (22 May 1914 – 29 March 1988) was a Canadian composer, conductor, sound editor for film, and builder of string instruments. He is known for his soundtracks for

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Maurice Delage

Maurice Charles Delage (13 November 1879 – 19 or 21 September 1961) was a French composer and pianist. Life and career Maurice Charles Delage was born and died in Paris. He first worked as a clerk

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Maurice Duhamel

Maurice Duhamel (23 February 1884 – 5 February 1940) was the pen-name of Maurice Bourgeaux, a Breton musician, writer and activist who was a leading figure in Breton nationalism and federalist

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Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Gustave Duruflé (; 11 January 1902 – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher. He is particularly well known for his Requiem (1947). Life and career Duruflé

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Maurice Emmanuel

Marie François Maurice Emmanuel (2 May 1862 – 14 December 1938) was a French composer of classical music and musicologist born in Bar-sur-Aube, a small town in the Champagne-Ardenne region of

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Maurice Fleuret

Maurice Fleuret (; 22 June 1932 – 22 March 1990) was a French composer, music journalist, radio producer, arts administrator, and festival organizer. Working at the Ministry of Culture in the 1980s,

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Maurice Franck

Maurice Franck (22 April 1897 – 21 March 1983) was a French conductor, composer and music educator. Life Born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Franck was one of the sons of Jules Franck, harp

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Maurice Greene (composer)

Maurice Greene (12 August 1696 – 1 December 1755) was an English composer and organist. He was an admirer and friend of George Frideric Handel. Biography and works He was born in London, the son of a

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Maurice Jarre

Maurice-Alexis Jarre (; 13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor, mainly of film scores. He was particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean,

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Maurice Jaubert

Maurice Jaubert (3 January 1900 – 19 June 1940) was a prolific French composer who scored some of the most important films of the early sound era in France, including Jean Vigo’s Zero for Conduct and

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Maurice Le Boucher

Maurice Georges Eugène Le Boucher (25 May 1882 – 9 September 1964), was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904, he entered the Conservatoire de

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Maurice Ohana

Maurice Ohana (12 June 1913 – 13 November 1992) was a French composer. Ohana's output includes choral works, string quartets, suites for ten-string guitar, a Tiento for six-string guitar, and operas.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy,

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Maurice Thiriet

Maurice Thiriet (; 2 May 1906 – 28 September 1972) was a French composer of classical and film music. Biography Born in Meulan, Yvelines, Maurice Thiriet attended the Paris Conservatory from 1925 to

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Maurice Vaute

Maurice Vaute (27 April 1913 – 21 June 2000) was a Belgian composer of classical music, conductor and music teacher. Biography Maurice Vaute was born on 27 April 1913 in Roisin and studied at the

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Maurice Yvain

Maurice Yvain (12 February 1891 – 27 July 1965) was a French composer noted for his operettas of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of which were written for Mistinguett, at one time the best-paid female

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Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (; 25 May 1572 – 15 March 1632), also called Maurice the Learned or Moritz, was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1592 to 1627.

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Mauricio Buraglia

Mauricio Buraglia (born 1954 in Bogotà) is a Colombian composer, recording-artist, musician-lutenist and theorbist of Italian descent, active in Paris, France. Biography Buraglia composed incidental

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Mauricio González de la Garza

Mauricio González de la Garza (October 6, 1923 – July 2, 1996) was a Mexican journalist, writer and music composer. Life and career Mauricio González de la Garza was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas,

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Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer and academic teacher. Life and career Early life and education Mauricio Raúl Kagel was born on 24

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Mauricio Rosenmann Taub

Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (29 June 1932 – 8 March 2021) was a Chilean composer, writer and poet. Background A native of Santiago, he studied piano and composition initially in Santiago, then in

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Mauricio Sotelo

Mauricio Sotelo (born 2 October 1961 in Madrid) is a Spanish composer and conductor. Sotelo began his musical studies as a self-taught player of the guitar, and later at the Real Conservatorio de

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Maurizio Colasanti

Maurizio Colasanti is an Italian conductor and composer. Biography At the age of 5 he began studying music with maestro Mimì De Renzis; just a year later he held his first solo concert with the band

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Maurizio Fabrizio

Maurizio Fabrizio (born 16 March 1952) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, producer, musician and singer-songwriter. Life and career Born in Milan, after studying at the conservatory in 1969

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Maurizio Guarini

Maurizio Guarini is a self-taught keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known as a member of the progressive rock band Goblin. Biography Born in Rome, Italy in 1955, Guarini started

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Mauro Cardi

Mauro Cardi (born July 22, 1955, in Rome, Italy) is an Italian composer. Biography Trained at the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatoire of Rome, under the guidance of Irma Ravinale, Gino Marinuzzi jr., Guido

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Mauro Giuliani

Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (27 July 1781 – 8 May 1829) was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer. He was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century. One of his

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Max Aruj

Max Aruj (born August 7, 1989) is an American composer known for his work in film, television, and video games. Early life Aruj was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He began playing

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Max Baumann

Max Georg Baumann (20 November 1917, Kronach – 17 July 1999, Berlin) was a German composer. Biography He studied conducting, piano, and trombone Berlin Hochschule für Musik with Konrad Friedrich

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Max Beckschäfer

Max Beckschäfer (born 23 February 1952 in Münster) is a German organist, composer and academic who taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Hochschule für Musik

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Max Brod

Max Brod (; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was an Israeli author, music critic, composer, and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka

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Max Bruch

Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has

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Max Butting

Max Butting (6 October 1888 – 13 July 1976) was a German composer. Life Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and

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Max d'Ollone

Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone (13 June 1875 – 15 May 1959) was a 20th-century French composer. Life and career Born in Besançon, d'Ollone started composing very early, entering the Paris

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Max Deutsch

Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French composer, conductor, and academic teacher. He studied with Arnold Schoenberg and was his assistant. Teaching at the Sorbonne

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Max Donner

Max Donner (22 May 1883/4 – 30 May 1962) was an American violinist, composer, conductor, and teacher of violin, chamber music, and composition. Life and career The son of Adolph and Bertha Donner, he

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Max Drischner

Max Drischner (31 January 1891 – 25 April 1971) was a German composer, Kantor, organist, and harpsichordist. Life and work Max Drischner was born in Prieborn (now Przeworno), Silesia. After

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Max E. Keller

Max Eugen Keller (born 19 March 1947, Aarau) is a Swiss composer, jazz pianist and improvising musician. He was one of the first free-jazz musicians in Switzerland. Since 2007 he is chairman of the

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Max Erdmannsdörfer

Max Erdmannsdörfer (14 June 184814 February 1905) (sometimes seen as Max von Erdmannsdörfer) was a German conductor, pianist and composer. He was born in Nuremberg. He studied at the Leipzig

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Max Ettinger

Max Ettinger (27 December 1874 – 19 July 1951) was an Austrian-German-Swiss composer and conductor. Life Born in Lemberg, Ettinger was the grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Lemberg and the son of the

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Max Fiedler

August Max Fiedler (21 December 1859, Zittau – 1 December 1939, Stockholm) was a German conductor and composer, He was noted as an interpreter of Brahms. He first studied the piano with his father,

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Max Fishman

Max Shakhnovich Fishman (Polish: Mieczysław (Mietek) Fiszman /Fischman/; Romanian: Max Fișman; Russian: Макс Шахнович Фишман, known as Max Benovich Fishman), (December 12, 1915—September 24, 1985)

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Max Janowski

Max Janowski (1912 – April 8, 1991) was a composer of Jewish liturgical music, a conductor, choir director, and voice teacher. Born in Berlin into a musical family, Max was the son of Chaim Janowski,

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Max Josef Beer

Max Josef Beer (25 August 1851 – 25 November 1908 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer. Max Josef Beer studied with Felix Otto Dessoff and at a very young age received a commission from the Austrian

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Max Kortlander

Maximilian Joseph Kortlander (September 1, 1890 – October 11, 1961) was an American composer, arranger, and pianist. He is best known for his numerous piano rolls which he performed for QRS Music

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Max Lifchitz

Max Lifchitz (born 1948 in Mexico City) is a classical pianist, composer, and conductor. Lifchitz was born and grew up in Mexico City. After one year of study in Mexico, he moved to the United States

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Max Méreaux

Max Méreaux (born October 1946) is a French composer. He was born in Saint-Omer, near Calais, where he undertook his first music lessons. After gaining his baccalaureate in philosophy, Méreaux

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Max Meyer-Olbersleben

Max Meyer-Olbersleben (5 April 1850 in Olbersleben – 31 December 1927 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist. Biography Meyer-Olbersleben studied with Carl Müllerhartung and Franz Liszt at

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Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus (August 9, 1939 – February 3, 2009) was an American musician, sound artist, and noted interpreter of contemporary and experimental percussion music in the 1960s. He created dozens of

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Max Oesten

Max Oesten (var: Otto Max Oesten, Max Otto Östen, Otto Östen) 1843–1917, was a German pianist, organist and prolific composer. Life Max Oesten was born in Berlin the son of the German composer

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Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the

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Max Richter

Max Richter (; ; born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist. He works within postminimalist and contemporary classical styles. Richter is classically trained, having graduated

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Max Stern (composer)

Max Stern (; born March 31, 1947, in Valley Stream, New York) is a composer, critic, double-bassist, conductor and educator. He has created a rich genre of biblical compositions blending East and

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Max Trapp

Hermann Emil Alfred Max Trapp (November 1, 1887 – May 31, 1971) was a German composer and teacher. A prestigious figure in the Berlin cultural scene during the 1930s, Trapp, amongst others in the

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Max von Schillings

Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was the chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schillings' opera

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Max Wagenknecht

Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht (14 August 1857 – 7 May 1922) was a German composer of organ and piano music. Biography He was born in Woldisch Tychow, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia and spent most of his

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Max Weil

Max Weil (November 21, 1869 — February 18, 1944) was an American violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He is chiefly remembered for his contributions to music in the city of Halifax,

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Max Wohlberg

Max (Moshe) Wohlberg (February 9, 1907 - April 19, 1996) He was one of the initial members of the Cantors Assembly established in 1947 and served as its president from 1949 to 1951. He helped to

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Maxim Berezovsky

Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky ( ; ; c. 17452 April 1777) was a composer of secular and liturgical music, and a conductor and opera singer, who worked at the Saint Petersburg Court Chapel in the

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Maxim Fadeev

Maxim "Max" Aleksandrovich Fadeev (; born 6 May 1968) is a Russian singer-songwriter, composer and producer. Biography Early life and career Maxim Fadeev was born on 6 May 1968 in Kurgan, Kurgan

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Maxim Shalygin

Maxim Shalygin (born January 30, 1985) is a Ukrainian–Dutch composer, conductor, and performer known for his innovative compositions that blend a wide range of techniques. Early life and education

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Maxime Goulet (composer)

Maxime Goulet (born June 7, 1980) is a Canadian composer, who writes concert music for orchestra and scores for video games. Early life and education Maxime Goulet was born and raised in Montreal,

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Maxime Jacob

Maxime Jacob, or Dom Clément Jacob, (13 January 1906 in Bordeaux – 26 February 1977 in En-Calcat Abbey, Dourgne, Tarn) was a French composer and organist. Biography Jacob studied at the Paris

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Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert

Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert (born 1974, Soltau, Germany) is a composer and violinist. He studied both in Augsburg with John van Buren, and later on at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Heinz

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Maximilian Joseph Leidesdorf

Maximilian Joseph Leidesdorf (5 July 1787 – 27 September 1840) was an Austrian pianist, composer and music publisher. Life Leidesdorf was born in Vienna, and studied under Johann Georg

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Maximilian Marcoll

Maximilian Marcoll (* 1981 in Lübeck) is a German composer and performer. He studied percussion, instrumental and electronic composition in Lübeck and Essen. In his work he has focused on the

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Maximilian Stadler

Maximilian Johann Karl Dominik Stadler, Abbé Stadler, born August 1748, in Melk – 8 November 1833, in Vienna), was an Austrian composer, musicologist and pianist. In 1766, he entered the Benedictine

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Maximilian Steinberg

Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg (; – 6 December 1946) was a Russian composer of classical music. Though once considered the hope of Russian music, Steinberg is far less well known today than his

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May Brahe

Mary Hannah (May) Brahe (née Dickson) (6 November 188414 August 1956) was an Australian composer, best known for her songs and ballads. Her most famous song by far is "Bless This House", recorded by

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May Matar

May Matar () is an Arabic singer, composer, and director. She was born in Kfaraakka, Lebanon, on October 8, 1987. Her debut single and music video "El Kawn Zghir" was released in 2007 and won an

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Maya Badian

Maya Badian (born 18 April 1945 in Bucharest) is a Romanian-born Canadian composer, musicologist, and professor. Biography Badian began to compose at five years of age, and later attended the

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Maya Shenfeld

Maya Shenfeld () is a Jerusalem-born composer and musician based in Berlin, Germany. She has released two albums: In Free Fall (2022) and Under the Sun (2024). Early life and education Shenfeld was

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Mayako Kubo

Mayako Kubo (born 5 December 1947) is a Japanese pianist and composer. Biography Mayako Kubo was born in Kobe, Japan, and studied piano at Osaka College of Music. In 1972 she continued her studies in

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