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Ma Ke (composer)

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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 was said to be derived from the saint Mark. Having enjoyed chemistry in high school, he studied it at Henan University, where he encountered the composer Xian Xinghai. Ma suspended his studies and became a follower of Xian, including an anti-Japanese roadshow tour of the country. In 1939, Ma traveled to Yan’an. On Xian’s recommendation, he studied at Luxun Academy of Arts with composer Lü Ji and others. He began to collect and record many Chinese folk songs. In 1947, he joined the Chinese Communist Party. After 1949, he was appointed the Vice President of the China Conservatory of Music and the head of the Chinese Opera House. He composed more than 200 musical works, including “Nanniwan”; We are Democratic Youth (我们是民主青年); Powerful Workers (咱们工人有力量); Lüliang Mountains Cantata (吕梁山大合唱); the yangge opera The Couple Learn to Read (夫妻识字); the opera Zhou Zishan (周子山) (co-composed with Zhang Lu () and Liu Chi); The White Haired Girl with Ju Wei, Zhang Lu, and Xiang Yu; Xiaoerhei’s Marriage (

Maarten van der Vleuten

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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 techno, electro, house, experimental and ambient music. In early 2008 he announced that he would only use his real name for future releases. He recorded for R&S Records, Outrage Recordings, Apollo Records (Belgium), Djax-Up-Beats, See Saw, ESP and Klang Elektronik to name just a few. Since 1996 he is also releasing music on his own label Signum Recordings (and its two sublabels Passiflora and Glam). Maarten’s musical vision knows no limits: working in his own studio, he’s constantly experimenting and exploring all aspects of (danceable) music, looking for innovation and bringing new angles to it. Due to his experimental vision towards his music, Van Der Vleuten’s productions are not mainstream material. As a result of that he has gained more credits from within the “underground” scene. Or as the database of the Dutch Rock & Pop Institute writes; “one of the pioneers of the dutch dance scene”. Aliases All known aliases in alphabetical order: 48V Phantom Power, Cliche, Cryptic, DJ Dusk, DJ G-S

Mabel Batten

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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 military family. She was of Anglo-Irish descent, but spent much of her childhood in India due to the British occupation. She studied harmony and composition in Dresden, Germany, and Bruges, Belgium. She was an accomplished singer, pianist and guitar player. They had one daughter, the painter and film maker Lady Cara Harris. She was also friends with composer Ethel Smyth and fellow patroness Winnaretta Singer, princesse de Polignac. After Batten was widowed, she went to live with Hall in Cadogan Square. Batten is credited with nurturing Hall’s writing career and with recognizing her talent “even in the egg.” In 1915 Hall met Batten’s cousin Una Troubridge (1887–1963). When Batten died the following year, Troubridge took care of a defeated Hall and in 1917 they went to live together. Batten is buried in a vault in the Circle of Lebanon on the western side of Highgate Cemetery in London, and Hall chose to be buried at the entrance of the crypt. Portraits Mabel Batten’s portraits were taken

Mac Quayle

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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. Robot and Gaslit; numerous Ryan Murphy productions, such as American Horror Story and its spin-offs American Horror Stories and American Crime Story, 9-1-1 and its spin-offs 9-1-1: Lone Star and 9-1-1: Nashville, Scream Queens, Feud, Pose, The Politician, Ratched, Monster, and The Beauty; as well as the series The Pact and His & Hers. Quayle has also scored additional music for films and video games, and has mixed and produced scores led by other composers. He composed the music for the film Leave the World Behind directed by Esmail. Quayle began his career in the late 1980s, working with producer Hex Hector as HQ2 and briefly performing in hip-hop band Rise Robots Rise. He worked with Cliff Martinez as an additional composer for several films, including Drive, Contagion (both 2011), and Spring Breakers (2013). He won the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for Mr. Robot, and has also been nominated for three other Creative Arts Emmy Awards. E

Maciej Kamieński

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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. After his death (1760), Kamieński moved to Vienna to continue his education. There in 1762, he heard young Mozart play. He visited Warsaw for the first time in 1773: this year the publishing house of J. Engel issued some harpsichord works by Kamieński (today lost). He gave piano and singing lessons, held an inn in Warsaw (on Świętojerska street) and organized public concerts at Dulfowski manor house. Compositions Kamieński’s output includes 8 operas (2 German, 6 Polish), which the composer himself called operettas. Nędza uszczęśliwiona (1778) was long considered the first Polish opera to be performed in public theatre. It opened a new era for Polish musical theatre. Kamieński’s musical language shows a mixture of styles, from baroque and galant to classical. There are also some characteristics of opera buffa. They all are present in Nędza uszczęśliwiona. After his successes, Kamieński turned more and more towards folklore, using structures from authentic Polish folk music. It can be cle

Maciej Radziwiłł

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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 house of Karol Radziwiłł, voivode of Vilnius, who maintained a company of actors, musicians and dancers there and at his estates in Alba (near Nieśwież), Ołyka, Słuck, Biała Podlaska and elsewhere. While at Nieśwież, Radziwiłł wrote the libretto for Jan Dawid Holland’s opera Agatka, czyli Przyjazd pana (‘Agatha, or The Master’s Arrival’) which was performed on 17 September 1784 during King Stanisław August’s visit to Nieśwież. He also wrote the libretto and composed the music for the three-act opera Wójt osady albiańskiej (‘The Headman of the Settlers at Alba’) which premiered in Alba on 4 November 1786. Radziwiłł was owner of Szydłowiec, Grand Podkomorzy of Lithuania since 1786, and castellan of Vilnius since 1788. He moved to Vilnius where he composed some instrumental and orchestral music and was awarded with the Order of the White Eagle on February 18, 1788. Sources *Alina Nowak-Romanowicz: “Prince Maciej Radziwiłł”, Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed September 20, 2008), (subscr

Maciej Zieliński

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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. His contemporary classical music has been awarded at 8 composers’ contests, including two international competitions and it was performed at many international festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn Festival and ISCM World Music Days. He has written scores for popular Polish movies and for independent US productions. In 2019 he received “Best Score” award at the “New Filmmakers LA Awards” in Los Angeles and nomination for “Crystal Pine Award” at the International Sound and Film Music Festival in Croatia. In 2016, 2017, and 2020 he received nominations for the Polish Film Academy Award - “Eagle” (Polish: Polskie Nagrody Filmowe: Orły) in “Best Music” category. In 2012 he was nominated for “Fryderyk” – the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Związek Producentów Audio-Video, ZPAV) in the category “Composer of the Year”. His music has been released on nearly 30 albums. Contemporary classical music Maciej Zielinski’s contemporary classical music is frequently performed at major contem

Maciej Żółtowski

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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 Warsaw. Having earned his diploma in violin performance with distinction, he continued his studies at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he graduated in 1996 in composition and in 1997 in conducting faculty, obtaining both M.A. diplomas with awards. His teachers at the academy included Prof. Marian Borkowski and Prof. Ryszard Dudek. Maciej Żółtowski participated in many master-courses working under supervision of notable artists like Zoltán Pesko, Lászlo Tihanyi, Yuri Simonov and Gianluigi Gelmetti. For the artistic achievements, he received twice the Polish Ministry of Culture scholarship and the Tadeusz Baird scholarship. In 1997, he was awarded with the fellowship of the German Stiftung Kulturfonds in Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf. In 2000, he won the scholarship for young conductors of the Japanese Music Foundation JESC. He was the winner of the first composers’ competition held by the Musica Sacra Institute in Warsaw. In 1999, he was the finalist of the Toru Takemitsu C

Maciek Pysz

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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 compositions inspired by people, places and experiences. Career Maciek Pysz is a self-taught musician, who has been playing guitar since the age of 9. He has been inspired by musicians such as Al Di Meola, Sylvain Luc, Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Biréli Lagrène, Chick Corea and Ralph Towner. Pysz plays acoustic and classical guitars and his influences come from tango, flamenco, Latin, jazz, Brazilian and classical music. His compositions are known for their lyricism, well developed melodic sense, and imagination. He moved to London in 2003 and established his first project, the Maciek Pysz Trio, in 2008 and recorded his first EP Discoveries the same year. Touring and collaborations followed, including a quartet with the addition of accordionist/pianist Maurizio Minardi and harmonica player Patrick Bettison. He appeared on Polish National TV in 2010, and established his trio with drummer Asaf Sirkis and bassist Yuri Goloubev. He appeared at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Poland in 2011

Madalyn Akers Phillips

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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 daughter of David Heryer and Ida May Sperry Heryer. Both of her parents were musical and they identified her musical talents at an early age. She attended Knox Conservatory of Music, and earned a master’s degree in composition from the American Conservatory of Music in 1927, under the supervision of Adolf Weidig. Career Akers Phillips began giving recitals and performing her compositions as a young woman. and 1946 and 1947 benefit concerts in Chula Vista, California, the latter with actor William Farnum. Akers was featured on “Meet the Composer”, a radio program about California composers, in 1932. Compositions by Akers Phillips were featured in 1939 at a festival in California, sponsored by the Native Composers Society, alongside works by Charles Wakefield Cadman and Nathaniel Dett, among others. She chaired a benefit concert for the Red Cross in 1942 in Chula Vista, and a musicale of the Musical Merit Foundation in San Diego in 1946. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, and sou

Madame Ravissa

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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 Paris from 1778 until 1783. She published six sonatas for harpsichord in Paris in 1778, where she was described as Maîtresse de Clavecin et de Chant italien. A copy of the sonatas survived in the collection of Kaiser Franz II of Austria. In 1933 the manuscript was discovered in storage at the by musicologist Ernst Fritz Schmid, and is now housed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. In 1778 her work was described in the Parisian Almanach as “bold modulations that the Italians love and our timorous composers do not dare to allow themselves”. Works *Six Sonatas pour le Clavecin, Op. 1, Sonatas I–III by Madame Ravissa de Turin. Edited by Claudia Schweitzer. For harpsichord or period instrument and modern pianos. Furore Verlag. . Sonatas IV–VI. . References Further reading * “Genovieffa Ravissa” by Claudia Schweitzer and Elke Schröder (10 April 2018), MUGI (in German)

Madame Ronssecy

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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 early 19th centuries. After moving to England in the 1790s, Ronssecy taught in London. She bought Sébastien Érard harp #333, as well as several other Érard harps, probably acting as an agent for her students. Her compositions and arrangements for harp were published by S. Straight (London), and included: *Andantino Variations *Dirge in Cymbeline (by Venanzio Rauzzini; arranged for harp or piano by Ronssecy) *Lullaby (by Stephen Storace; arranged for harp with variations by Ronssecy) *Minuetto Variations (by Jean Baptiste Krumpholtz; variations by Ronssecy) *Scotch Air Variations *Scotch Tune Variations *Shepherds I Have Lost My Love References

Maddalena Casulana

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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 published in the history of western music, dedicated to her female patron Isabella de’ Medici. Life and work Extremely little is known about her life, other than what can be inferred from the dedications and writings on her collections of madrigals. Most likely she was born at Casole d’Elsa, near Siena, from the evidence of her name. She received her musical education and early experiences in Florence. Her first work dates from 1566: four madrigals in a collection, Il Desiderio, which she produced in Florence. Two years later she published in Venice her first actual book of madrigals for four voices, Il primo libro di madrigali, which is the first printed, published work by a woman in western music history. Also that year Orlando di Lasso conducted Nil mage iucundum at the court of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria in Munich; however the music has not survived. She evidently was close to Isabella de’ Medici, and dedicated some of her music to her. In 1570, 1583 and 1586 she published other books of ma

Maddalena Laura Sirmen

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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 background Maddalena Laura Lombardini was born on 9 December 1745 in Venice. Her parents, Piero Lombardini and his wife, Gasparina (née Gambirasi), were poor, though they came from noble origins. At a young age, Maddalena showed musical talent and later began her studies at San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti. Whilst attending San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti, Maddalena received violin lessons from Giuseppe Tartini, visiting him in Padua. By the age of fourteen, she was teaching violin. In 1785, in Paris, Maddalena delivered her last performance as a violinist. After she ended her solo career, Maddalena returned to Italy, where she died on 18 May 1818 at the age of 72. Notes References Citations Works cited * * * * * External links * *

Madeleine Dring

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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 Road, Harringay, before the family moved to Streatham. She showed talent at an early age and was accepted into the junior department of the Royal College of Music where she began on her tenth birthday. She was offered scholarships for violin and piano and chose violin. She studied piano as a secondary instrument, with RCM students guiding her studies for the first several years. As part of their training, all of the students performed in the children’s theatre under the guidance of Angela Bull. Dring formally began composition studies at the junior department with Stanley Drummond Wolff in 1937, in 1938 with Leslie Fly, and worked with Sir Percy Buck for the next two years. Near the end of her studies, she was assigned to Lilian Gaskell for piano studies. She continued at the Royal College for senior-level studies where her composition teacher was Herbert Howells. She had occasional lessons with Ralph Vaughan Williams (an official substitute for Howells). She dropped the violin study after

Madeleine Isaksson

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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 ensemble teacher after studying under Gunnar Hallhagen, and then studied composition under teachers including Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström (composition), Pär Lindgren (electroacoustic music), Arne Mellnäs (instrumentation), and Bo Wallner (music theory and analysis). In 1987 she lived in Amsterdam for a year of studies with the composer Louis Andriessen. Meetings with composers at different composition courses in Europe, Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman and Emmanuel Nunes, have all contributed to Isaksson’s development as a composer. In the early 1990s, she moved to France, where she lives and works near Paris. Works Isaksson has composed for solo, duo, trio, quartet, ensemble, orchestra and vocal music. Instrumental *Chaconne for piano (1982) *7 formade frön (“7 Formed Seeds”) for piano (1984) *Tång (“Seaweed”) for english horn, basson, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, harp, harpsichord, cello and double bass (1984) *Capriola for baritone saxophone and tromb

Madelene Van Aardt

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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 English and two in Afrikaans. Van Aardt was among the first composers to write in the popular light Afrikaans music () genre. Life and career Madelene Olivier was born on 14 August 1896 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province, then in the Union of South Africa. She earned an associate degree from Trinity College London, UK. In 1950 she returned to South Africa, and lived in Somerset East from then onwards. Although the International Encyclopedia of Women Composers describes her as a teacher, it does not list the schools where she taught. According to her footstone, at some point she married and had children, presumably adopting the surname ‘Van Aardt’ from her husband. She died on 6 July 1982 and was buried in Somerset East’s main cemetery; her footstone includes an epitaph, . In the early 20th century, the music of South Africa saw the emergence of a new popular music genre in the Afrikaans language: light Afrikaans music (). Van Aardt was among the earliest composers in the genre, alongside Danie B

Mademoiselle Beaumesnil

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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 Beaumesnil began working in minor comedy roles from the age of seven and debuted as a soloist at the Paris Opera in 1766, substituting for the primadonna Sophie Arnould in the title role of Berton and Trial’s Sylvie. She later sang in many premieres and revivals, patiently hoping that she would finally replace Arnould after her retirement. When the latter left the company in 1778, however, Rosalie Levasseur was preferred and Beaumesnil protested publicly in a letter to the Journal de Paris on 27 December to the effect that she had suffered an act of injustice. She gave rise to a bitter quarrel, also managing to get some sort of compensation by being entrusted the female lead in Gluck’s unsuccessful last opera Echo et Narcisse in September 1779, and did not carry out her threat to resign until 1781, when she finally left the stage. Around the same period she married tenor “Philippe” (Philippe Cauvy, 1754-ca 1820), a celebrated member of the Opéra-Comique (or, to be precise, the Comédie Ita

Mae Doelling Schmidt

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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 the American Conservatory of Music. Early life Mae Doelling Schmidt, born Mary Metzke, was the youngest of four girls born to Julius (aka August) Metzke (surname also spelled Mätzke; 1847–1907) and Marie J. Schwechert (maiden; 1854–1892), both German immigrants from Prussia who married in Chicago on August 28, 1878. Mae’s mother died when she was years old. Adoptee parents Separated from her sisters when she was a toddler, Mae, when she was five, was adopted by German-born Chicagoans, Paul Wilhelm Doelling (1846-1909) Paul and Ida Doelling also adopted Paula Hoffman in 1891. Formal education At the age of 9 Doelling began studying in the Children’s Department of the American Conservatory of Music, where at age 10 she earned a Silver Medal, A 1922 report described Doelling as “forceful when necessary”, but adding that “she relies on brains rather than physical strength to bring out the beauties of the music.” She often included her own compositions in her programs. Her piano compositions

Maestro Piero

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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 name, and probably one of the oldest. He is mainly known for his madrigals. Life No details are known of his life other than what can be inferred from his music, and from an illustration which probably contains his picture. He is depicted as a man of 50–60 years old in a Bolognese illustration from the first half of the 14th century, so he was probably born before 1300. Unlike many of the Trecento composers, he was not a Florentine, since he does not appear in the chronicle by Filippo Villani, which includes all of the musicians active there throughout the 14th century. Piero was possibly from Assisi, and is known to have been in Milan and Verona, employed by the Visconti and della Scala families, respectively; in addition, he may have been in Padua with Antonio della Scala before going to Verona, along with composer Giovanni da Cascia (Giovanni da Firenze). He was also associated with composer Jacopo da Bologna during this period, and the three composers appear to have engaged in a co

Maewa Kaihau

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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 “Now Is the Hour”, and composed several other popular songs in both Māori and English. Life and career Kaihau was born Louisa Flavell in Whangaroa to a French father and a Māori mother of Ngā Puhi descent. On her mother’s side she was a descendent of Hōne Heke. In 1893, the family moved to Waiuku. In the late 1890s, she entered a customary marriage with Henare Kaihau, the Ngāti Te Ata leader and politician; their marriage was formalised in 1903. They had six daughters and two sons. After his death in 1920, she married Charles Molesworth. During their marriage she taught music and played the piano. She is best-known for the song “Haere Ra” or “Po Atarau”, known in English as “Now Is the Hour”. The song was adapted from an existing piano tune, “Swiss Cradle Song”, published under the name of Clement Scott (thought to be Albert Bokhare Saunders). “Swiss Cradle Song” became popular in New Zealand through its use as a Māori farewell song titled “Po Atarau” during World War I. Kaihau refined t

Magali Babin

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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 festivals and organisations. Artistic career Magali Babin is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice in sound art. Exploring space as sound material, Babin draws her materials from haptic proximities, acoustic landscapes, and real-life contexts to create environments composed of sequences, textures, and perspectives. Her works explore imperceptible aspects that create alertness and attention through listening. In recent projects, Babin has examined perception and memory by investigating the ways we identify sounds. Babin has performed in international festivals in Canada, USA, and Europe. Her installations have been presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), as part of the 2011 Quebec Triennial (MTL), at Mois Multi 2012 (QC), and at La Fabrique in 2013 (Nantes, France). Babin has a doctorate in art studies from UQAM. Babin’s sound work occurs through the massive amplification of tiny resonances in different objects. In her solo work, she usually produces dense and br

Magaly Ruiz

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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, Cuba, in 1941. In 1981, she graduated with a degree in Composition from the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, where she studied with Harold Gramatges, César Pérez Sentenat, José Ardévol, Félix Guerrero, Alfredo Diez Nieto, Dolores Torres and Roberto Valera. Works Ruiz’ curriculum is published in prestigious dictionaries such as The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Diccionario Iberoamericano de la Música. Several of her compositions are included as part of the curriculum of the leading music education institutions in Cuba, among them, the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán, the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona and Conservatorio Alejandro Garcia Caturla. Her compositions have been performed at many festivals such as the International Musical Festival, Festival de La Habana, Festival Boleros de Oro, International Festival of Contemporary Music, the International Festival Donne in Musica in Fiuggi, Italy and the Festival

Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure

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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, specifically for children, gave conducting lessons to young students, and directed the chamber orchestra the petits concerts Mozart that she established. Her brother, violinist Jules Boucherit, was two years younger than Madeleine and they often concertized together. She married writer Georges Le Faure on 2 January 1906. Works *Legende for Violin and Viola, copyright 1933 *Impressions. Suite for Violin, Viola and Cello. Paris: Éditions Salabert, 1933. *La journée de Suzy, Histoire d’une poupée, ten easy pieces for piano, specially written for children by Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure, illustrated by R. de la Nézière. Text by G. Le Faure. * Les Enfants. Divertissement chorégraphique tiré des Caractères. Text by G. Le Faure. Illustrations by Ch. Gir. Score sheet for piano, 1932. *La journée de Goudou “L’ours” for violin & piano, Paris : J. Tallandier, 1954 References

Magister Franciscus

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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 tres venimeuse; the former was widely distributed in his lifetime. Modern scholarship disagrees on whether Franciscus was the same person as the composer F. Andrieu. Identity career Franciscus may be the same person as the F. Andrieu who wrote Armes, amours/O flour des flours, a déploration on the death of poet-composer Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377). Although, the scholarly consensus on this identification is unclear. He may also be Franciscus de Goano or Johannes Franchois. Machaut was the most dominant and important composer of the 14th century, and Franciscus’s works show many similarities to his, suggesting the two were contemporaries. Music Only two of his works survive, the three-part ballades: De Narcissus and Phiton, Phiton, beste tres venimeuse. They are both contained in the Chantilly Codex. Reaney notes that Magister Franciscus’s works are likely earlier than Andrieu’s, between 1370 and 1376. Works Editions Franciscus’s works are included in the following collections: * *

Magnom

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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 Ghanaians after he produced the song “illuminati” with Ghanaian BET award winner Sarkodie. Early life Magnom grew up around a dad who listened to all genres of music, which helped him in his love for music. He started out as a rapper in a group with fellow rapper Asem, but he quit rap for record production. During that period he came across a Digital Audio Workstation and realised he could actually create music with it. Magnom attended Christ The King for his junior high school education. He had his secondary education at St. Peters Senior High School and later obtained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from the University of Ghana, Legon where he studied psychology, linguistics and religion. Career Magnom started working professionally while he was in the university and through working with Asem he later got introduced to other mainstream artistes in Ghana. Since then he has worked with several top artistes such as Sarkodie, VVIP, Samini, Edem, Raquel, Guru, 2face Idibia, Shaker, Flowking Ston

Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson

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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 Music (1935–7, 1939–45) and with Bernard Wagenaar and Marion Bauer at the Juilliard School (1947–53). He was active as répétiteur and conductor at the Icelandic National Theater (1956–61), His Fjórar abstraksjónir (‘‘Four Abstractions’’, 1950) for piano was the first Icelandic 12-note composition; composing his Elektrónísk stúdía (Electronic Study) for woodwind quintet, piano and tape in 1958. Working with very limited resources at the Icelandic National Radio, he composed the tape work Constellation in 1961, a key work in his output. The critical reception of his work during the 1960s, including the modernist orchestral work Punktar (1962) and Sonorities I for piano (1963) was negative and quite harsh. Yet Jóhannsson also had a lyrical vein, as is best exemplified in the vocalise Sveitin milli sanda, originally composed for a documentary film in 1962 and by far his most popular work. In 1971 Jóhannsson stopped composing for almost a decade; this extended silence was eventually broken with

Magnus Lidehäll

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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 Swedish Grammy Awards in 2014. Together they have produced, written, and/or co-written songs for Madonna, Wyclef Jean & Avicii (“Divine Sorrow”), Veronica Maggio and Petter, to name a few. Career Magnus Lidehäll started in a rap / hip hop duo alongside Herbert Munkhammar called Afasi & Filthy. “1990 Nånting”, released with the band Snook in 2002, was their biggest hit. Between 2007 and 2008 he became a member of the successful formation Maskinen. He left Maskinen to focus on writing and producing music for other artists. Today he has a great résumé working with both international and local Swedish artists such as: Seinabo Sey, David Guetta, Katy Perry, Madonna, Silk City, Britney Spears and many more. He has also worked with producers such as Bloodshy & Avant and Sebastian Ingrosso. Together with Bloodshy and Henrik Jonback Magnus co-wrote and produced “How I Roll” & “Trip To Your Heart” from Britney Spears’s album Femme Fatale, which was released in March 2011. On Katy Perry’s 2013 album “P

Magnus Lindberg

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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 composer-in-residence from 2014 to 2017. Early life Lindberg was born in Helsinki, where he studied at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen, beginning with piano. He attended summer courses in Siena (with Franco Donatoni) and Darmstadt (with Brian Ferneyhough). After graduating in 1981, he traveled widely in Europe, attending private studies with Vinko Globokar and Gérard Grisey in Paris, and observing Japanese drumming and punk rock in Berlin. Compositions and style Lindberg’s juvenilia include the large orchestral work Donor, composed at age 16. Quintetto dell’Estate (1979) is generally held to be Lindberg’s first opus. His first piece performed by a professional orchestra was Sculpture II in 1982, the second part of a trilogy whose first and third sections were long unwritten. His first great success came with “Action-Situation-Signification” (1982), the first work in which he explored musique concrète. This piece was written for and premiered by the ne

Mahmoud Abuwarda

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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 training in classical guitar at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine, where he studied under guitarist Pedro López de La Osa. He later studied music theory and composition through Berklee College of Music on a Gary Burton Scholarship. Career and compositions Between 2012 and 2022, Abuwarda held several academic and administrative positions at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, including teaching guitar, composition, and music theory, and was the head of the guitar department and the academic supervisor. He also taught at Zemas College in Istanbul. Abuwarda was director of the Sea and Freedom Music Festival in Palestine and has participated in international cultural events, including the Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival (LEFFEST) in Portugal. In 2025, Abuwarda’s orchestral work A Story to Tell premiered in Portugal, performed by the Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa at the Festa do Avante festival. In 2026, he was announced as a winner of the JERUS-IT-ARTS In

Maia Ciobanu

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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 the Conservatory Ciprian Porumbescu. She studied composition with Dan Constantinescu and Myriam Marbe and piano with Aurora Ienei, and also studied with Ștefan Niculescu, Mircea Chiriac, Liviu Comes, and Aurel Stroe. In 1980 she attended the Darmstadt summer courses, and studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Gérard Grisey, Wolfgang Rihm, Hans Peter Haller, Włodzimierz Kotoński, and Tristan Murail. In 1995, she studied at the Swedish Academy of Music in Gothenburg. Career Since 1992 Ciobanu has been musical director of the Group for Alternative Contemporary Music. In 1993 she became a professor at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, and has taught courses on contemporary Romanian music at music academies in Gothenburg (1995) and Cologne (1996), at the Pedagogical College of Rorschach (1997), and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland (2000). Ciobanu won Honorable Mention at the “International Composition Contest – Mannheim GEDOK” in Germany (1981), the Romani

Maija Einfelde

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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 continued her education at Alfrēds Kalniņš Music School in Cēsis, at Jāzeps Mediņš Music College in Riga, and then entered the Conservatoire of Latvia in 1966, studying composition with Jānis Ivanovs. After graduating, she has taught music theory and composition at Alfrēds Kalniņš Music School in Cēsis, Emīls Dārziņš Music College and Jāzeps Mediņš Music College. She has one son, writer Jānis Einfelds. Einfelde’s works have been performed internationally, including performances by the MDR Rundfunkchor at the Berliner Philharmonie, Brigham Young University Choir, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Kansas City Chorale in USA, the Radio Choir of the Netherlands, and at Carnegie Hall, New York City. Honors and awards *First Prize, Barlow Endowment for Music Competition, 1997 *Grand Music Prize of Latvia, 1997 *Award of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, 1999 Her compositions have been recorded and issued on CD including: *No Tevis (From You) // Female Choir Dzintars – 1995, Riga Recor

Maistre Jhan

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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 biographical information has yet emerged, he was one of the earliest composers of madrigals as well as a prominent musician at the Este court in the early 16th century. Biography Nothing is known of his early life, other than that he was French, for the earliest reference to him in the records of the Este court in Ferrara are as a “singer from France.” He received his first payment from them in 1512, and remained employed there until his death 26 years later. During that time, as evident from the number of dedications made to him and favorable commentary in the records, he must have been honored; and he was maestro di cappella, choirmaster, for an unknown amount of the time. Several contemporary writers, including influential music theorist Adrianus Coclico, mention him as an expert composer. Several composers with similar names have been confused with Maistre Jhan. Pioneering 19th-century French musicologist François-Joseph Fétis mistook him for Jhan Gero; records at Ferrara seem to identify him

Maj Sønstevold

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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 Stockholm and with Billy Mayerl in London. She married Norwegian composer Gunnar Sønstevold and in 1945 moved to Norway, where she worked as a composer and music teacher. Later she and her family spent time in Vienna, where she studied with Hanns Jelinek and Karl Schiske and graduated in composition in 1966 from the Akademisches Hauptseminar. From 1971 to 1985 Sønstevold taught in the Music Department of Oslo University. In 1974 she and her husband founded The Maj and Gunnar Sønstevold Music Institute in Rakkestad. Søstevold held a number of positions on the Norwegian music scene and served as a board member of organisations Music Information Centre Norway, the Norwegian Society of Composers and the Norwegian Academy of Music. Output Maj Sønstevold composed jazz, light music and avant garde music for theatre, film, radio and television. She also composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir and solo instrument. Selected works Film music * Skøytekongen (1953) * Trost i taklampa (1955) * To

Maja S. K. Ratkje

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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 the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo under the tutorship of Lasse Thoresen, Olav Anton Thommessen and Asbjørn Schaathun, and got her diploma in 2000. During the summer of 1999, Ratkje studied at IRCAM and she has also studied individually with composers such as Louis Andriessen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ivar Frounberg, Klaus Huber, Joji Yuasa and Kaija Saariaho. She performs and releases music for concerts, recordings, films, installations, theatre, dance and other performances. Maja is a member of SPUNK, a Norwegian improv group, and Agrare, a performance trio consisting of the noise duo Fe-mail and the Swedish dancer Lotta Melin. She has collaborated with, among others, Jaap Blonk, Lasse Marhaug, Joëlle Léandre, Per Inge Bjørlo, Stian Westerhus, Kathy Hinde, Odd Johan Fritzøe, POING, HC Gilje, Stephen O’Malley, Ikue Mori, and Zeena Parkins. As a vocal soloist, Ratkje has performed with ensembles Engegårdkvartetten, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, BBC Scottish

Majoie Hajary

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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 translator and wrote several books for pianists. Life Majoie Hajary (sometimes spelled Majoye Hajary) was born in South America in 1921 In 1937, at the age of 16, Hajary went to study at the Amsterdam Conservatory where she studied piano with Nelly Wagenaar and composition with Hendrik Andriessen. In 1941, Margot Vos’s booklet Sun Rays was published, for which Hajary composed the music and drew the illustrations. She graduated with honors as a performing pianist in June 1942. In 1943, she won the Conservatory’s first prize for her composition Hindoustani Fantaisie, which was performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. She also regularly visited her native country of Suriname. In 1949, she moved to Paris to study composition with Louis Aubert and Nadia Boulanger. She started transcribing ragas and then went on to write them herself. Examples are New Sound From India (1967), Requiem pour Mahatma Gandhi (1968) and Chants du Gita Govinda (1974). In the 1960s she composed Da Pinawiki, an orator

Maki Ishii

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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 from 1952 in Tokyo. In 1958, he moved to Berlin, where he continued his studies under Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer. In 1962 he returned to Japan . His music has been performed by the taiko group Kodo and he has composed for Japanese instruments as well as symphony orchestra and other Western instruments. In 1999, Ishii produced the opera Tojirareta Fune. That same year Ishii received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon for his contributions to Japanese music. His father was the first recipient of the award 44 years earlier. He died in Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, at the Kashiwa National Cancer Center of thyroid cancer on April 8, 2003, at the age of 66. Selected works Orchestral Music * Symphonic Poem GIOH, Op. 60. (1984); recorded 1988 DENON, The Contemporary Music of Japan, COCO-70960, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Koizumi, Kazuhiro conductor, Akao, Michiko, Yokobue, a typical Japanese Flute. * Sō-Gū II for Gagaku and Symphonic Orchestra, recorded 1971 Parlophone by the Gagaku Ensemble and the

Makky Kaylor

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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 Tennessee’s 13th official state song, “Tennessee, In My Dreams.” Kaylor is also a recording artist, entertainer, and radio personality. Career In his early years, Kaylor wrote songs on the piano and performed on stage in elementary school. At 15, he officially began his music career as a lead vocalist and occasional keyboardist, performing regionally. This musical basis paved the way for a career as a studio session vocalist. His session work and songwriting eventually led him to Nashville at age 25, where he became a staff songwriter on Music Row for various music publishing companies and has written numerous songs by multiple artists. While in Nashville, Kaylor became an A-list demo singer for many Hall of Fame songwriters, including Harlan Howard, Randy Goodrum, Bob Morrison, and Jim Weatherly. He is the author of “Confessions of a Session Singer,” published by Hal Leonard Publishing/Backbeat Books in 2007. Kaylor’s recording repertoire includes commercial jingles, like prominent brands s

Makoto Moroi

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(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 National University of Fine Arts and Music, graduating in 1952. He also studied Gregorian chant privately with Paul Anouilh, and Renaissance and Baroque music with Eta Harich-Schneider. He was one of the leading composers who introduced Japanese audiences to new musical styles and devices, including twelve-tone technique, serialism, and aleatory music. He was one of the first Japanese composers to embrace electronic music, and also introduced traditional Japanese instruments like the shakuhachi into his compositions. He died, aged 82, on 2 September 2013. List of works Opera *1959 – The Stars of Pythagoras *1960 – Red Cocoon *1961 – Die lange, lange Strasse lange *1962 – Yamauba *1965 – Phaeton the charioteer Choral *1959 – Chamber Cantata No. 1 *1959 – Chamber Cantata No. 2 *1970 – Izumo, my home *1972 – A romance of playing cards Orchestral *1953 – Composition No. 1 *1958 – Composition No. 2 *1958 – Composition No. 3 *1960 – Composition No. 4 *1961 – Ode to Schoenberg *1966 – The Vision

Makoto Shinohara

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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 conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Wöss. From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris with Tony Aubin, Olivier Messiaen, Simone Plé-Caussade, Pierre Revel and Louis Fourestier. From 1962 to 1964 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik München and at the ; following this he studied with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gottfried Michael Koenig at the in Cologne and then with Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1964 to 1965. He held a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service in 1966 and 1967 and won a scholarship from the Italian government in 1969. In 1971, he was awarded the Rockefeller Prize from the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center and in 1978 won a scholarship from the Dutch government. Shinohara worked with electronic music at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, at the electronic studio at the Technische Universität Berlin, at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York (1971–72) and at Studio NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai) in Tokyo. In 1978 Shinohara was a visiting profes

Makoto Yoshimori

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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 many more. Biography Yoshimori Makoto was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He started his musical career in 1986 participating as a keyboardist in a variety of concerts around the Kansai region. In 1991 he graduated from the music program at the Osaka Kyoiku University and then moved to Tokyo in 1992, at first, as a member of Modern Choki Chokies. From 1995 through 1998, being a multi-keyboardist, he played the piano, synthesizer, and accordion at various night clubs around Tokyo for bands such as Hikashu. He also played the piano and accordion for various musicals such as Big in 1998. He joined the keyboard harmonica orchestra P-blot in 1996 and was considered “the most avant-garde man” of the group because of his acute and clear playing. Through his various activities in Tokyo he dealt with many genres of music and learned different aspects of composition, arrangement, and music production. In recent years he has mainly worked as a composer of soundtracks for anime, often collaborating with di

Maksim Dunayevsky

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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 the Moscow Regional Philharmonic since 2015. Biography Maksim Dunayevsky was born on 15 January 1945 in Moscow. He is the son of the composer Isaak Dunayevsky and the ballerina of the Alexandrov Ensemble and the Moscow Operetta Theater Zoya Ivanovna Pashkova (1922-1994), born out of wedlock. Maksim’s elder brother on the father’s side, Eugene (1932-2000) was an artist. From 1969 to 1974, Dunayevsky was the conductor of the Vakhtangov Theater. In 1974-1975, he was the chief conductor and music director of the Moscow music hall, in 1985-1987 he was the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the State Pop Orchestra of the RSFSR (he attracted such people as Pavel Smeyan, Irina Ponarovskaya, Boris Oppenheim, Weiland Rodd, Andrey Davidyan and musicians of the rock group SV), In 1994, especially for Nikolai Karachentsov, he wrote 10 songs based on poems by Ilya Reznik, which were later included in the actor’s solo album “My Little Lady”, recorded by him in Los Angeles. He lived in the USA f

Malcolm Arnold

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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, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar. Early life Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, After seeing Louis Armstrong play in Bournemouth, he took up the trumpet at the age of 12, and the trumpet with Ernest Hall. In 1941, he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra After a season as principal trumpet with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he returned in 1946 to the London Philharmonic, Arnold died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, on 23 September 2006, aged 84, after suffering from a chest infection. That same day his last work, T

Malcolm Dalglish

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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 folk/Celtic trio Metamora and has performed frequently with the percussionist Glen Velez. In addition to the dulcimer, Dalglish also plays the spoons and bones (both traditional American percussion instruments). Beginning in the mid-1970s he honed his playing at Hap’s Irish Pub in Cincinnati in a duo with flutist and concertina player Grey Larsen. He also composes prolifically for choir, and many of his compositions are for choir with dulcimer accompaniment. He has received more than 50 commissions to compose for choirs around the world. He played the hammered dulcimer in the score for the 1981 film Tuck Everlasting. Several of his songs with the Ooolite choral group come from the poetic work of Wendell Berry. Dalglish attended Oberlin College and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where his publishing company, Ooolitic Music, is based. Discography As leader * 1977 Banish Misfortune (with Grey Larsen) (June Appal) * 1978 First of

Malcolm Forsyth

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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 Africa. He studied trombone, conducting, and composition at the University of Cape Town where he received a Bachelor of Music in 1963. He played trombone with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra while studying for a Master of Music degree in 1966 and a doctorate in 1969. In 1968, he emigrated to Canada to join the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra where he played bass trombone, then principal trombone, for 11 years. He was a music professor at the University of Alberta for 34 years, including as composer-In-residence from 1996 until his retirement in 2002. His students included composers Allan Gilliland, Allan Gordon Bell, Jeff McCune, and Allan Bevan. In 1970, Forsyth wrote Sketches from Natal for the CBC. The Forsyth portrait in the Canadian Composers Portraits series was released in 2002. Forsyth died in Edmonton on July 5, 2011. His daughter is the cellist, Amanda Forsyth. Further reading * * * * * * * References External links * Malcolm Forsyth Canadian Music Centre * * Malcolm Forsyth Tribut

Malcolm Goldstein

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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 early 1960s. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening. In the 1960s in New York City, he was a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, with solo concerts as well as with new music and dance ensembles. Since the mid-1960s he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. Numerous ensembles such as Essential Music, Relâche, Musical Elements, The New Performance Group of Cornish Institute, L’Art pour l’art, Quatuor Bozzini and Klangforum Wien have performed his music, as well as the Ensemble for New Music/Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, of which h

Malcolm Lipkin

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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 privately with Gordon Green from 1944 to 1948, and theory with Dr. Caleb Jarvis. In 1949 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where he continued his piano studies with Kendall Taylor until 1953, as well as harmony and counterpoint with Bernard Stevens. Lipkin began his compositional career writing music for his instrument. He played his Second Piano Sonata to Georges Enesco at the 1950 Bryanston Summer School of Music, where he also took composition lessons from Boris Blacher. From 1954 to 1957 Lipkin studied composition with Mátyás Seiber and later read music externally at London University for his B.Mus. under the guidance of Dr. Anthony Milner, eventually being awarded the degree of D.Mus.Lond for his published, reviewed, publicly performed works. His first major success was the Violin Sonata No 1 (1957), which received over 100 performances within a year of its composition. This was written for the violinist Yfrah Neaman and premiered by Neaman and Howard Fergu

Malcolm Peyton

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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. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and received early classical training in piano starting at age 6, and in trumpet starting at age 9. From 1950 to 1956 he attended Princeton University for both undergraduate and graduate training in musical composition, studying with Edward T. Cone and Roger Sessions, and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship. In 1956–57 Peyton traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany to study with Wolfgang Fortner. From 1958 through 1961 Peyton, along with Edward T. Cone and William Carlin, initiated a series of contemporary chamber music concerts in New York presenting many new works. After joining the faculty at New England Conservatory (NEC) in 1965, Peyton directed with Lyle Davidson Evenings of New Music, the first continuous contemporary music series at NEC, until 1972. Subsequently Peyton directed the Composer’s Series at NEC, presenting works by faculty, invited guests, and students in NEC’s Jordan Hall. Peyton lectured at Boston University i

Malcolm Riley

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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, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Educated at Harrogate High School, he gained an organ scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge. Career Riley’s composition, De Temporibus Canticum (‘Take That Willy for a Walk’), was commissioned by Cranbrook Choral Society to celebrate the Millennium and gave its first performance in December 2000. Riley was also commissioned to write a celebratory piece to open Maidstone Symphony Orchestra’s 100th season, titled “Fairmeadow – An Overture for Maidstone”, first performed on 16 October 2010. He has performed at Derby Cathedral and Bridlington Priory. He was Director of Music at Cranbrook School from 1985 to December 2011. Riley is also the author of two books concerning organist and composer Percy Whitlock. His first, “Percy Whitlock - A Biographical Study” was published to critical acclaim, as was the “Percy Whitlock Companion”, a collection of letters and diary extracts of the early 20th-century composer. He left Invicta Grammar School in Maidstone i

Malcolm Williamson

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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 Online, although Williamson’s earlier compositions aligned with Serialist techniques, “he later modified his approach to composition in the search of a more inclusive musical language that was fundamentally tonal and, above all, lyrical. In the 1960s, he was commonly referred to as the most often commissioned composer in Britain, and over his lifetime he produced more than 250 works in a wide variety of genres.” Life and career Williamson was born in Sydney in 1931; his father was an Anglican priest, Rev. George Williamson. He studied composition and horn at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His teachers included Eugene Goossens. In 1950 he moved to London where he worked as an organist, a proofreader, and a nightclub pianist. In 1952 he converted to Roman Catholicism. From 1953 he studied with Elisabeth Lutyens and Erwin Stein. His first major success was with his Piano Concerto No. 1, premiered by Clive Lythgoe at the 1958 Cheltenham Festival to a standing ovation. Williamson was a pr

Maleek Berry

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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 nominated as “Music Producer of the Year” at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Maleek Berry has worked with prominent artists such as Wizkid, Davido, Wale, Fuse ODG, Runtown and Iyanya. In 2017 the Starboy Label signed act was nominated in the Best Male category of the annual MOBO Awards. Discography Singles As featured artist Production discography Awards and nominations References External links *

Malek Jandali

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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 composed a number of modern classical works. His music was described as “a major new addition to the 21st century symphonic literature” by Fanfare magazine. with “heart-rending melodies, lush orchestration, clever transitions and creative textures”, according to American Record Guide. Jandali’s music ranges from chamber works to large symphonic compositions integrating Middle-Eastern and Western influences. He is the biological paternal cousin of Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson. Early life and education Malek Jandali was born to Mamoun Jandali and Lina Droubi, citizens of Homs in Syria. He has a cousin, Mona Simpson, a novelist and English teacher at UCLA. Other cousins include Mona’s brother, Steve Jobs, founder of Apple. He began his musical career as a classical pianist after his studies at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus with Vladimir Zaritsky and Victor Bunin of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. In 2004 he received his master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at C

Man Parrish

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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, John Robie, Jellybean Benitez, Lotti Golden, Richard Scher and Aldo Marin, helped create and define electro in the early 1980s. He left home at the age of 14 and became a member of the crowd that converged nightly at the Studio 54 nightclub in Manhattan. The song was featured in the film Shaun of the Dead, the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which sold millions of copies. It was sampled in Sway & King Tech’s 1991 song “Follow 4 Now”, from their second album, Concrete Jungle. His biggest chart success in the UK was his recording of “Male Stripper” with Man 2 Man, which peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. He eventually signed with Elektra Records via David Bowie’s manager Tony DeFries who also managed his music career, but was dropped from the label in 1984, when they decided not to release the album he had recorded for them. Elektra signed him for dance music, his manager wanted him to create pop-rock. He has mixed, produced and worked with various artists such as Boy George, Mi

Mana-Zucca

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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 December 25, 1885. The daughter of Polish immigrants, she was a child prodigy who began composing at an early age. Mana-Zucca was interested in music when she was very young. She was frustrated at the age of three when she found that her toy piano didn’t have half tones. Her first piano teacher was her neighbor called Patotnikoff. Not long after that, her piano teacher was changed to Platon Brounoff, who was a Russian immigrant. Shortly after giving her first recital at the age of three and a half, she got a scholarship at the age of four when she had an audition for the National Conservatory of Music (New York City). In the conservatory, she studied with different teachers, including Misses Margulies and Okell. At the age of seven she began to study piano with the eminent Polish pianist and pedagogue Alexander Lambert, who taught at the New York College of Music. Lambert was not only her teacher but also her concert manager and mentor. Her practice regime, dictated by Lambert, was rigorous. So

Manfred Gurlitt

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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 career in Japan. Life Manfred Ludwig Hugo Andreas Gurlitt was born in Berlin on 6 September 1890 to the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt (1854-1893) and Annarella Gurlitt (1856-1935). The Gurlitt family included many who distinguished themselves in the arts. Manfred was the cousin of musicologist Wilibald Gurlitt (1889-1963) and the great-nephew of the composer Cornelius Gurlitt. Another cousin was Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956), an art dealer who was one of a very few authorized by the Nazis to deal in “degenerate art” and whose holdings of art works looted from Jews during the years of Nazi rule came to light in the 21st century. He studied composition for a time with Engelbert Humperdinck and music theory with Hans Hermann and Hugo Kaun. From 1908 to 1910, he was a coach at the Berlin Court Opera and in 1911 acted as musical assistant to Karl Muck at Bayreuth. In 1911-12, he was second conductor in Essen, then in Augsburg for two years. in 1914 he was given the post of first conductor at the Br

Manfred Kelkel

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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 interested in the music of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, whose latest works (from Prometheus: The Poem of Fire to Mysterium) influenced his own compositions. His work on Scriabin and a certain esoteric aesthetic of music are authoritative. Studies and publications Kelkel was born in in Saarland, then under French occupation As a student of Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, Kelkel “always felt a sincere admiration and almost filial recognition for his former teacher, even if, aesthetically speaking, he followed a divergent path.”. From 1969 onwards, the composer resumed his university studies, obtaining a doctoral degree and a State doctorate of music and musicology, “with works that have since become authoritative in their fields”, from his study À la recherche de la musique polynésienne traditionnelle, in ethnomusicology, to State doctorate on lyrical music at the beginning of the 20th century (Naturalisme, vérisme et réalisme dans l’opéra). His postgraduate thesis, dedicate

Manfred Stahnke

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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. He plays piano and viola. Life Manfred Stahnke was born in 1951 in Kiel. At the age of 15 he started to study violin, piano, and composition in Lübeck. Stahnke studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner (1970–1973), with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough (1973–1974), and with György Ligeti (1974–1979). In addition, he studied piano; his primary piano teacher was Edith Picht-Axenfeld. He also holds a doctoral degree in musicology, with a thesis on the subject of Pierre Boulez’s Third Piano Sonata (1979, under Constantin Floros in Hamburg). In 1979–80 he went to the United States to study with the microtonalist Ben Johnston in Urbana, Illinois, and with the computer music researcher and composer John Chowning at Stanford University, California. Since 1989 he is professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He is an emeritus since April 2019. Since 1999 he is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg, where he was the director of the Secti

Manfred Trojahn

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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 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Karlheinz Zöller. From 1971 he studied composition with Diether de la Motte. He also studied with György Ligeti, conducting with Albert Bittner. Since 1991 he is professor for musical composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. From 2004 until 2006 he was President of the ; from 2008 to 2012 he was vice-director of the music section of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Works His works have been published by Bärenreiter and Sikorski. Publications * Students Among Trojahn’s students in composition are Oscar van Dillen, Matthias Pintscher and Daniel Hensel. References External links * * *

Manoah Leide-Tedesco

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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, Italy, but grew up in Naples. His father, Lazzaro Leide-Tedesco, originally from Reggio Emilia, became rabbi of the Jewish community of Greater Naples (1904–1941) and the chief rabbi of Naples. Manoah Leide-Tedesco grew up in an artistic family of composers, singers and musicians. His brother, Enrico Leide (1887–1970) was a concert cellist and orchestra conductor, conducting the first Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from 1920 to 1930. Educated at the University of Naples, Leide-Tedesco did his post graduate studies in Czechoslovakia (1925–1931), receiving his Doctorate in Philology and Sociology. He attended the Prague Conservatory where he continued his musical studies under Ildebrando Pizzetti, Josef Suk and Karel Jirák. From 1922 through 1935, Leide-Tedesco conducted many of the leading symphony orchestras of Central Europe including the Philharmonics of Prague, Vienna and Pressburg. During this time he was entrusted with some of the first performances of the works of Maurice Ravel (L’enfant e

Manos Hatzidakis

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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 was one of the main proponents of the “éntekhno” form of music, along with Mikis Theodorakis, and he is credited as the founder of the Orchestra of Colours, an ensemble performing lesser-known works and the music of Greek composers, and influenced a broad swathe of Greek culture through his writings and radio broadcasts. With his theoretical and compositional work, he is considered to be the first to connect post-war the worded music with traditional music. In 1960, Hatzidakis won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Never on Sunday” from the film Never on Sunday, but he refused the award because he felt that Athens was misrepresented in the film. Early life Emmanouil Hatzidakis () was born on 23 October 1925 in Xanthi, Greece, to lawyer Georgios Hatzidakis, who came from the village of Myrthios, Agios Vasileios, in the Rethymno prefecture in Crete; and Aliki Arvanitidou, who came from Adrianoupolis. The family prospered from sales of tobacco grown locally, but the boy’s father d

Manos Tsangaris

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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). Life Born in Düsseldorf, Tsangaris studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1976 to 1983 composition with Mauricio Kagel and percussion with Christoph Caskel, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Alfonso Hüppi. Since 1980, he has participated several times in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse for Neue Musik and worked for the Münchner Kammerspiele. In 1991, he was invited by the Soviet composers’ association as artist-in-residence in Moscow, in the same year he received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship from the city of Cologne, in 1992/93, the scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and in 1997 the art prize of the Akademie der Künste (AdK) Berlin, of which he has been a member since 2009. In the same year, he received the Orchestra Prize of the Donaueschinger Musiktage for his piece Batsheba. Eat the History. Since 2012, he is head of the AdK section music. Since 2024, he is president of the AdK. In 2017, he was elected full member of the Bayerische Akademie der

Mansi Barberis

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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 Barberis and Marguerita Cazaban. She began to improvise on the piano at an early age. When an aunt transcribed one of the pieces, composer George Enescu recommended that Barberis take theory lessons. She studied with Italian professors in Iași and later studied violin, voice, and composition at the George Enescu Conservatory. Barberis graduated from the Conservatory in 1922. She married surgeon Gheorghe Plăcințeanu, taking the surname Barberis-Plăcințeanu, and had a daughter, which she left with her parents so she could continue her studies in Berlin. She returned to Romania after a year and took professional employment, but later continued her studies in Paris during three sessions, studying voice, conducting, opera, composition and orchestration. In 1936 she also studied voice briefly in Vienna with Max Reger. Her opera were performed at the Romanian National Opera, Bucharest and by the Opera Company of Iași. Her music was also recorded and broadcast on Romanian Television (RTV). She was

Mansoor Hosseini

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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 pieces. He founded the Ensemble Themus in Gothenburg, focussed on theatrical music. Career Hosseini studied composition with Philippe Capdenat and Yoshihisa Taïra in Paris. He studied music theory and computer music with Peter Swinnen at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and composition with Carl-Axel Hall in the Musikhögskolan (sv) of Gothenborg. External links * *Themus Ensemble members

Manu Delago

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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 played drums for various rock bands. In 2003 he picked up the Hang, which gradually turned into one of his main musical instruments. After graduating from the Mozarteum, Innsbruck, in classical percussion, Delago moved to London and studied jazz drums at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, beginning his focus on the Swiss instrument, Hang. Later he studied composition at the Trinity College of Music in London. After completing his studies, he worked as a composer, ensemble leader and musician. Since 2007 he has performed internationally including at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Barbican in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Sydney Opera House and Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. Career Between 2000 and 2007 Delago was working as live and studio drummer for various Austrian bands such as HotchPotch, Zabine, Michael Tschuggnall, Nadine Beiler, Bluatschink and more. In 2006, after playing together in different bands, Delago and Christoph Pepe Auer founded the first Han

Manuel Alejandro

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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 arranged songs for the likes of Luis Miguel, Plácido Domingo, Nino Bravo, Julio Iglesias, Raphael, Hernaldo Zúñiga, José José, José Luis Rodríguez, Emmanuel, Enrique Guzmán, Isabel Pantoja, Rocío Jurado, Rudy Marquez, and Jeanette, among many others. Biography Manuel Alejandro was born in 1932 in Jerez de la Frontera–Cádiz. He is the son of one of Spain’s most renowned contemporary symphonists, Germán Álvarez Beigbeder. It was his father, an accomplished musician, professor, and composer, who inspired Manuel Alejandro to pursue music and become a composer. Musical career Hits of the 60s He started writing songs for Spanish singer Raphael during the 1960s. Many of those songs are now considered classics. The list includes such hits as: * “Yo Soy Aquél” * “Primavera en Otoño” * “Desde Aquel Día” * “Cuando Tu No Estas” * “Cierro Mis Ojos” * “Hablemos Del Amor” * “Amor Mio” * “Digan Lo Que Digan” * “Estar Enamorado” * “Como Yo Te Amo” Hits of the 1970s and ’80s He continued writing a few son

Manuel Blasco de Nebra

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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 Cathedral since 1735, and became his assistant organist in 1768, taking over in 1778. He was renowned for his excellent sight-reading and playing of the organ, harpsichord and fortepiano, of which some impression can be obtained from his surviving compositions. During his short life (he predeceased his father), he composed about 170 works, although only 30, all for keyboard instrument, are still in existence. Six sonatas were recovered and edited by musicologist Robert Parris from the first edition of the Sonatas, Op.1 , held at the Library of Congress in Washington. Another twelve sonatas and the six pastorellas were found at the Monastery of Montserrat (Catalonia), which have since been published by Egtved in an edition by the Danish musicologist Bengt Johnsson. Later still, María Inmaculada Cárdenas Serván discovered a further six sonatas at the Encarnación Monastery of Osuna (in the province of Seville), which she published with the support of the Spanish Musicology Society. Two other

Manuel Cardoso (composer)

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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 polyphony. Cardoso is not known to be related to an older contemporary composer of the same name; the precentor Manuel Cardoso, who published a book of Latin passions in Leiria in 1575. Cardoso was born in Fronteira, near Portalegre, most likely in 1566. He attended the Colégio dos Moços do Coro, a choir school associated with the Évora cathedral, studying with Manuel Mendes and Cosme Delgado. In 1588 he joined the Carmelite order, taking his vows in 1589. In the early 1620s he was resident at the ducal household of Vila Viçosa, where he was befriended by the Duke of Barcelos—later to become King John IV. For most of his career he was the resident composer and organist at the Carmelite Convento do Carmo in Lisbon. Cardoso’s works are models of Palestrinian polyphony, and are written in a refined, precise style which completely ignores the development of the Baroque idiom elsewhere in Europe. His style has much in common with Tomás Luis de Victoria, in its careful treatment of dissonance, occasio

Manuel de Falla

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Falla was born Manuel María de los Dolores Falla y Matheu in Cádiz. He was the son of José María Falla, a Valencian, and María Jesús Matheu, from Catalonia. In 1889 he continued his piano lessons with Alejandro Odero and learned the techniques of harmony and counterpoint from Enrique Broca. At age 15 he became interested in literature and journalism and founded the literary magazines El Burlón and El Cascabel.

Manuel De Sica

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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 Cecilia, in which he studied with Bruno Maderna. He debuted as a composer for his father’s film A Place for Lovers (1968). In 1969, he formed a band, The Ancients, with whom he appeared in the TV-show Studio Uno. In 1993, De Sica won the Nastro d’Argento for Best Score for Carlo Verdone’s Al lupo, al lupo. In 1996 he won the David di Donatello for Best Score for Carlo Lizzani’s Celluloide. De Sica died of a heart attack on 5 December 2014 at the age of 65. Selected filmography * The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) * Gang War (1971) * The Crimes of the Black Cat (1972) * Gang War in Naples (1972) * Lo chiameremo Andrea (1972) * A Brief Vacation (1973) * The Voyage (1974) * Cagliostro (1975) * Quel movimento che mi piace tanto (1976) * Sexycop (1976) * The Twist (1976) * La portiera nuda (1976) * Canne mozze (1977) * Dear Father (1979) * I’m Photogenic (1980) * Sunday Lovers (1980) * I’m Going to Live by Myself (1982) * A Boy and a Girl (1983) * Cuori nella tormenta (1984) * Lui è peggio di

Manuel de Sumaya

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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 Ydiáquez, whose assistant he became in 1708. He continued composition and counterpoint studies with maestro de capilla Antonio de Salazar. In 1710, due to his failing eyesight, Salazar requested of the cathedral chapter that Sumaya be named as his assistant. In 1714, Sumaya was promoted to the position of principal organist. In 1715, Salazar died and Sumaya competed for and was appointed to the post of maestro de capilla, prevailing over his long-time rival Francisco de Atienza. During Sumaya’s tenure as maestro, he produced many dictámenes (administrative reports) that reveal him as a composer who placed great value on traditional Spanish counterpoint and harmony, and a maestro de capilla who enforced high standards for the cathedral’s music. Sumaya’s play Rodrigo, intended to honor the birth of Crown Prince Luis was performed on August 25, 1707, possibly with his own music. He was also hired by the viceroy, Fernando de Alencastre, 1st Duke of Linares, as a composer and translator. The vic

Manuel Enríquez

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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 Culture and the music director of the National Institute of Fine Arts. Life Enríquez was born in Ocotlán, Jalisco, and studied composition with Miguel Bernal Jiménez in Mexico. A scholarship from the Instituto Mexico-Norteamericano of Guadalajara enabled him to continue his education at the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied violin with Ivan Galamian, chamber music with Louis Persinger, and composition with Peter Mennin and Stefan Wolpe, from whom he learned about serial techniques. From the 1960s through the 1980s he had a meteoric career as a violinist, composer, and music administrator. Starting in the 1960s he was most prominent representative of the avant-garde in Mexico (; ). In 1954 Enríquez debuted as a soloist in his own Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra, performed in Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara under the direction of Eisenberg. Continuing his studies at the Mexican-American Institute of Guadalajara, he received a scholarship to transfer to New York (1955).

Manuel Esperón

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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 films, including “¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!” for the 1941 film of the same name, “Cocula” for El Peñón de las Ánimas (The Rock of Souls) (1943), and “Amor con amor se paga” for Hay un niño en su futuro (1952). In 2001, he was given a tribute at the Palace of Fine Arts in the historical center of Mexico City. Until his death in 2011, he was the honorary President for life of the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico. Selected filmography * Come on Ponciano (1937) * While Mexico Sleeps (1938) * Father’s Entanglements (1939) * The League of Songs (1941) * When the Stars Travel (1942) * I Danced with Don Porfirio (1942) * The Rock of Souls (1942) * Alejandra (1942) * María Eugenia (1943) * The Rebel (1943) * Land of Passions (1943) * The Escape (1944) * The Three Caballeros (1945) * The Mulatta of Cordoba (1945) * Adam, Eve and the Devil (1945) * Love Makes Them Crazy (1946) * Ramona (1946) * Caribbean Rose (1946) * Tragic Wedding (1946) * It’s Not Enough to Be a Charro (1946) * The Assoc

Manuel Fernández Caballero

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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. The success of Los bandos de villafrita (1884) consolidated his career. Its sequel was Las grandes figuras (1885). The sainete El dúo de La Africana and its celebrated jota No cantes más La Africana remain as classic examples of a zarzuela duet. Works He also composed religious works and salon songs. He was one of the most successful Spanish composers of the nineteenth century, and enjoyed many successful premieres, from his earlier pieces Entre el alcalde y el rey, Los bandos de Villa-Frita and El lucero del alba, composed for the Cádiz singer Antonia Garcia de Videgain, to the most successful of all his works, Gigantes y cabezudos (1898). Zarzuelas * Entre el alcalde y el rey (1875). * La Marsellesa (1876) * :es:Los sobrinos del Capitán Grant (1877) * :es:El lucero del alba (1879) * Currilla (1883). * Chateau Margaux (1887) * :es:El dúo de La africana (1893) * :es:El cabo primero (1895) * :es:La viejecita (1897) * Gigantes y Cabezudos (1898) References External links * Biografías y Vida

Manuel José de Quirós

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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 religious education while pursuing his musical apprenticeship and reaching the level of a journeyman. Having taken Franciscan orders, he was put in charge of the Franciscan press, where he served until 1738, when he was appointed chapel master of the cathedral choir and orchestra. He served in this capacity for 27 years, until his death in 1765. As chapel master, he was in charge of the education of choir boys and apprentices, besides conducting the cathedral liturgical music. Among his pupils, the most outstanding was Rafael Antonio Castellanos. Quirós is the first musician in the New World to receive a critical review. On the occasion of the ceremonies that elevated the Bishopric of Guatemala to the rank of an Archbishopric, Quirós provided liturgical music during the nine days of celebration in November, 1745. Writer Antonio de Paz y Salgado, a high official in the Spanish colonial government, published his enthusiastic review of these musical performances two years later in Mexico City. A

Manuel Machado (composer)

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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 Machado was born in Lisbon and studied at the Claustra college of the Lisbon Cathedral with the renowned composer Duarte Lobo. He moved to Spain and in 1610 he became a musician of the royal chapel in Madrid, where his father, Lope Machado, was already a harpist. In 1639, he became a musician in the palace of Philip IV of Spain, and in 1642, he was rewarded “for his long years of service”. Work Machado composed several sacred works, but he is better known for his secular 3- and 4-voice cantigas and romances in Mannerist style. Unfortunately, very few of his works have survived (most of them were destroyed during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake). His secular music is characterised by great skill in the flexible use of the meter and harmony to reflect the content of the poems. Machado’s highly expressive word-painting, with rich chromatism, unexpected modulation and dissonant chords (such as augmented chords or inverted seventh chords, which would have caused considerable impact in his own time), as

Manuel Palau

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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 works. He was one of the most popular and important composers of his time. He received the Spanish National Music Award (Premio Nacional de Música) twice, first in 1927 and again in 1945. His music is known within the Spanish classical music for being a representative of what it has been called “Mediterranean” style, like other Spanish musicians such as Vicente Asencio or Oscar Esplá. The cities of Valencia, Alfara del Patriarca, Llíria, Alaquàs and Xirivella named streets after him. There is a Spanish choir called Manuel Palau in his honor. Biography Palau lived some of the sweetest and most bitter moments of art in Spain. He had the good fortune to be a contemporary of a large number of artists (painters, poets, musicians) and scientists who had achieved international significance. However, he also had the misfortune of living through the horrendous events of the military insurrection against the legitimate government of the country and suffered the post-war horrors that severely impeded

Manuel Penella

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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 the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso; through her, he was the grandfather of actresses Emma Penella, Elisa Montés and Terele Pávez. Although his most popular work at home and abroad is the oft-revived opera española El gato montés (a special favourite of Plácido Domingo, who revived it several times and recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon), several of his other works still enjoy popularity in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, notably the chamber opera Don Gil de Alcalá (scored in Mexican style for strings and harp), some of his revues and the ambitious, late zarzuela La malquerida (1935), based on the masterpiece by Jacinto Benavente. Works (not exhaustive) Operas * 1893 El queso de bola, sainete lírico, Valencia * 1906 Las niñas alegres, entremés lírico, Barcelona * 1907 Amor ciego, zarzuela * 1907 El dinero, sainete lírico, Barcelona * 1907 El día de reyes “apropósito en un acto” * 1908 El padre cura, entremés lírico, Valencia * 1908 La perra chica, parody of La Patria chica by Rupert

Manuel Ponce

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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 scene with a mostly forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore. Many of his compositions are strongly influenced by the harmonies and form of traditional songs. Biography Early years Born in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Manuel Maria Ponce moved with his family to the city of Aguascalientes only a few weeks after his birth and lived there until he was 15 years old. He was famous for being a musical prodigy; according to his biographers, he was barely four years of age when, after having listened to the piano classes received by his sister, Josefina, he sat in front of the instrument and interpreted one of the pieces that he had heard. Immediately, his parents had him receive classes in piano and musical notation. Traveling years In 1901 Ponce entered the National Conservatory of Music, already with a certain prestige as a pianist and composer. There he remained until 1903, the year in which he returned to the city of Aguascalientes. This was only the beginning of his travels. In 1904

Manuel Quiroga (violinist)

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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 to as “Sarasate’s spiritual heir”. Enrique Granados, Eugène Ysaÿe (whose sixth Solo Sonata is dedicated to Quiroga) and other composers dedicated compositions to him. Violinists Ysaÿe, Fritz Kreisler, George Enescu, Mischa Elman and Jascha Heifetz, as well as composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Jean Sibelius, held Quiroga’s artistry in great regard. Biography Early years Manuel Quiroga Losada was born in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain in 1892. His first study of the violin was with a local amateur named Juan Sayago. He then moved on to a more qualified teacher, Benito Medal. He gave his first public concert in 1900, at the age of 8. and in 1904 at the Circulo Mercantil in Santiago de Compostela. and Jules Boucherit; he also had some lessons with Jacques Thibaud in 1911. He also associated with George Enescu and Eugène Ysaÿe, and learned some of Kreisler’s compositions, while enjoying the friendship of Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Turina, Pablo Casals, Darius Milhaud, the cellist Juan Ruiz Ca

Manuel Rodrigues Coelho

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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 received early education at the Elvas Cathedral. He may also have studied at the Badajoz Cathedral, where he worked as organist from 1573 to 1577. At some point during the 1580s, Coelho returned to Elvas and worked at the cathedral there. He left the post in 1602 after becoming court organist at Lisbon. He died in 1635, probably in Lisbon. The composer’s surviving works are preserved in a 1620 print Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa, published in Lisbon. The collection, dedicated to Philip II of Portugal, is the earliest surviving Portuguese keyboard print. It contains 24 tientos, 101 liturgical organ versets (kyries and hymn settings), four settings of the Spanish/Mozarabic version of Pange lingua, and four intabulations of Lassus’ Susanne ung jour. This large collection is probably a compilation of earlier composed material. Coelho’s most important compositions are his tientos, which are very long (200–300 bars on average), multi-sectional pieces. Imitative counterpoin

Manuel Valls (composer)

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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 father of former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. He studied at the University of Barcelona and the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. At the Liceu he was mentored by Aita Donostia with whom he studied music theory, music composition, and orchestration. He became a successful composer writing symphonic works, chamber music, choral music, operas, art songs, and songs for solo piano. For many years he taught composition at the University of Barcelona and wrote music reviews for El País. He died in Barcelona. Personal papers of Manuel Valls i Gorina are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Manuel Valls is the composer of the music of “El Cant del Barça”, the official anthem of FC Barcelona. Selected works *Estudio de danza en 5/8 *Preludio para piano *Concierto de guitarra y orquesta *Tocata per a piano *Seis canciones del Alto Duero para voz y piano * Fantasías en forma de concierto para flauta solista y cuerda *La Mare de Déu (SATB chorus) *Poemes de Patrícia: Renaixença

Manuela Cornejo Sanchez

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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 Salta. Her songs were published by the Comison Nacional de Cultura, and included: *“A Mi Patria” *“Himno a Colon” *“Himno a Rivadavia” *“Larmes du Coeur” References External links *Listen to “La Escuela” by Manuela Cornejo de Sanchez

Mappe Of

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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, he released his debut album A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone in 2017. His sophomore release, The Isle of Ailynn, was a mixed-media concept record which included a VR video series made with Google Tilt Brush, released in 2019. The album was recorded at The Tragically Hip’s Bathouse Studios in Bath, ON and was accompanied by nine oil paintings by Canadian artist Quinn Henderson. Discography * “A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone” ** Release: July 28, 2017 ** Format: CD, Digital ** Label: Paper Bag Records * “The Isle of Ailynn” ** Release: November 1, 2019 ** Format: CD, Digital ** Label: Paper Bag Records * “Afterglades” ** Release: September 19th, 2025 ** Format: CD, Digital ** Label: Paper Bag Records References

Mara Margaret Helmuth

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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 doctorate in music. She was a co-editor of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States’ newsletter along with Sylvia Pengilly and Sally Johnston Reid from 1995 to 1996. Works Helmuth is known for electronic music. She composes for fixed format and also creates interactive installations. Selected works include: *Mellipse (1989, 1995) *Abandoned Lake in Maine (1997) *Bugs and Ice: A Question of Focus (2002) *Where Is My Voice, for fixed format audio *Hidden Mountain (2007) *Staircase of Light (2003) *Hidden Mountain 2, interactive multimedia and wireless-sensor-based installation Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including: *Sound Collaborations, v. 36 of the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music Series, Centaur Records *Implements of Actuation collaborations with percussionist-composer Allen Otte, Electronic Music Foundation *Open Space CD 16 music for tape References

Marbrianus de Orto

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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 associate, and possible friend of Josquin des Prez, and was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass. Life The illegitimate child of a priest, Orto was probably born in Tournai, and spent the early part of his life there. While his original surname was Dujardin, he used “de Orto” (the Italian translation of Dujardin) throughout his life. In June 1482, in the household of Ferry de Clugny, Cardinal-Bishop of Tournai (who died 7 October 1483), he went to Rome, where he became a singer in the papal chapel; he may have become an accomplished composer around this time, since his Missa ad fugam seems to have been written in response to the similar composition by Josquin des Prez, tentatively dated to the early 1480s, and Orto’s mass was copied for the Capella Sistina between 1487 and 1490. While he served in the Sistine Chapel Choir until at least 1499, during the papacies of Innocent VIII and Alexander VI, he began to acquire other posts and benefice

Marc Battier

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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 Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, which established a new field in musicology specifically for the musicological study of electroacoustic music. He is also known for developing the study of electroacoustic music in East Asia. His electroacoustic are widely performed and have been commissioned in several countries. He teaches at the Paris-Sorbonne University (1997–present) and has taught at the University of California, San Diego and at UC Irvine. He has been in residence at the Aichi University of Fine Arts and Music in Nagoya (Aichi gedai, Japan), and was invited professor at the Université de Montréal (Canada). He was DAAD Varese Guestprofessor in Berlin (April–July 2012) and then in residence at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (July 2012, Japan). As a full professor, he is the head of a research team, MINT (Musicologie, informatique et nouvelles technologies) which spearhead the field of electroacoustic music studies. This new field became formed when Battier and

Marc Blitzstein

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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, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation and adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translations and adaptations of Brecht’s and Weill’s musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931) and The Spanish Earth (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman’s play Toys in the Attic. Life and career Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2, 1905. His father descended from a family of Jewish bankers. Blitzstein’s musical gifts were apparent at an early age; h

Marc Canham (composer)

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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. Canham has collaborated with several artists including Iggy Pop, Nathan Johnson, Philip Glass, Baaba Maal, Bryan Mantia, and Paul Hartnoll. On creating music, Canham stated that he wanted to deliver emotion through a “sound palette” of combinations of sounds, textures, and ensembles of instruments, then letting loose with melodies and motifs. For I Care A Lot, Canham claims to have created the score from the script, as opposed to the film. Nimrod Productions Along with Richard Aitken and others, Canham founded Nimrod Productions Limited in 2000, a music production company in Oxfordshire, UK. Nimrod has provided orchestral soundtracks for The Getaway, Black Monday, Gran Turismo 4 and Driver versions 2 and 3. It was dissolved in 2019 and succeeded by Nimrod Sound as Rich Aitken’s mix company. Nimrod Studio Orchestra Canham founded the Nimrod Studio Orchestra (NSO) in 2002, a commercial session orchestra which has been behind game scores including 24: The Game, Killzone 2, and Act of War: Direc

Marc Daubert

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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, Daubert, and lyricist/keyboardist Tom Marshall recorded a project entitled Bivouac Jaun. Much of this recording would end up on Phish’s debut album, known as The White Tape. When Anastasio returned to UVM in September 1984, he brought Daubert along. The most circulated Phish tape featuring Daubert is from a performance on December 1, 1984, at the club Nectar’s in downtown Burlington, Vermont. After a run of shows in February 1985 at a club called Doolin’s, Daubert quit the band. Daubert also penned the lyrics to the Phish song “The Curtain,” which was first performed live by Phish in 1987, over two years after Daubert’s departure from the band. Daubert is listed in the album credits on the CD “Lawn Boy” (Elektra Records 1990). He continues to write, produce and copyright music under his own music label Marc Daubert Music. References *The Phish Companion. A Guide to the Band and Their Music (2004) Miller Freeman Books, pages 314, 5, 329, 13, 509 *Go Phish (2000) St. Martins Press pages 9,

Marc de Ranse

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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 Aquitaine, Ranse was a student of Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. His artistic vocation began at the Collège Saint-Caprais of Agen, where he met Joseph Schluty (1829-1920), organist at the Saint-Caprais Agen Cathedral. In 1897, Ranse left for Paris to study music. He was a student for nearly ten years (1897-1907) at the Schola Cantorum with an interruption between 1902 and 1905 due to military service). Among his professors were Vincent d’Indy (music composition), Léon de Saint-Réquier then Fernand de La Tombelle (harmony), Albert Roussel (counterpoint), Gabriel Grovlez (piano), Charles Bordes (vocal ensemble), Abel Decaux (organ (1st degree), Alexandre Guilmant (orgue supérieur), Amédée Gastoué (Gregorian studies). After his musical training, he began a career as a church musician. He composed pieces for organ and harmonium. He was co-founder with Joseph Boulnois of the Spiritual Concerts of Saint-Louis d’Antin. During the First World War, he joined the front. He was wound

Marc Delmas

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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 the Conservatoire de Paris with Xavier Leroux and Paul Vidal. He won the Prix Rossini in 1911 with Anne Marie, Second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Le et la Fée Poète and later the Prix Cressent and Prix Ambroise-Thomas. In 1914 Delmas and Marcel Dupré were tied for first prize on the first ballot of the Prix de Rome, and Camille Saint-Saëns was called in to break the tie. He voted for Dupré, and Delmas took second prize. Delmas taught music in Paris, and was a biographer of noted musicians. He took part in the choral movement and participated in the Conseil Superieur de la Musique Populaire. He died in Paris at the age of 46. Works Delmas was a prolific composer, known primarily for his stage works, but he was also author of choral, solo and chamber music. Selected works include: *Laïs, opera 1908 *Sylvette, operetta 1932 *Camille, opera comique *Balade féerique for French Horn and piano *Promenade for Clarinet and Piano (1920) *Lusacienne, rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1928)

Marc Dubugnon

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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, Marc, Vierne, Louis, Symphonies pour orgue 3 et 4, Aethon, 2003, cote BCUL: DCR 6980 * Delessert, Raphaël, “Après trente-deux ans, l’organiste range ses partitions”, 24 Heures, 2008/02/09, * Dubois, B., “Le titulaire a l’orgue qui le démange”, 24 Heures, 2008/05/23, * Charpilloz, “Un deuxième orgue pour l’église Saint-Martin”, 24 Heures, 2006/12/09, * Grabet, “Derib en vadrouille sur la piste de ses années d’enfance valaisannes”, 24 Heures, 2008/09/13, . External links * Marc Dubugnon on YouTube, * Société des Concerts de St-Martin

Marc Lavry

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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 instrumental in developing the “Mediterranean School” of composition, that merged elements of oriental Jewish and Arab music with modern European classical music. Biography Lavry was born Mark Levin in Riga, Latvia on December 22, 1903. As a child, he studied piano at the Riga Conservatory of Music, where he also began composing. After graduating high school, he moved to Germany, where he earned a degree in architecture, and continued his music studies at the Leipzig Conservatory. He studied piano with Professor Robert Teichmüller, and composition with Paul Graener, and later with Alexander Glazunov. After discovering there already was an older, then more established composer and conductor named Mark Levin, he decided to change his own name to Marc Lavry. He began his conducting career as music director of the opera house in Saarbrücken, and later, of the Tanzbühne Laban, the dance theater directed by modern dance pioneer Rudolf von Laban. In 1929, he became conductor of the Berlin Symphony O

Marc Liebeskind

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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 classical) to music of West Africa and of Brazilian music. Early life and education Marc Liebeskind started playing the guitar at the age of 18. He then formed a rock band called “Carte Blance” that existed for about 2 years. Later, he became a jazz player. Liebeskind attended workshops at the AMR (Association pour l’encouragement de la Musique improvisée). After completing his studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, he studied at the Swiss Jazz School in the neighbouring city of Bern. Career In 1984 Liebeskind went to New York to meet with such influential jazz musicians like John Scofield, John Abercrombie, Bill Frisell and with Barry Harris. Quartet Having returned to Geneva in 1985, Marc formed his first quartet. During the years 1990–1997 he released 4 CDs, which he mostly wrote himself. He traveled to Brasil Africa The musician’s interest in Africa and its influences began at the age of 23 when he started taking regular dance classes with Paco Yé during a period of 5 years. He

Marc Mellits

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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 1989 to 1991, at Cornell University from 1991 to 1996, and at Tanglewood in the summer of 1997. His composition instructors include Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, Martin Bresnick, Bernard Rands, Christopher Rouse, Roberto Sierra, Jacob Druckman, Poul Ruders, and Steven Stucky. Mellits’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. His music is influenced by minimalist and rock music, and has been identified with the postminimalist stylistic trend. He often composes for electric guitar and other amplified instruments. Mellits received a 2004 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Mellits’s commissions include pieces for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Assad Duo, Kronos Quartet, and the Meridian Arts Ensemble. His music has also been arranged by guitarist Dominic Frasca and the experimental music group Electric Kompany. Mellits is a founding member of Common Sense Composers’ Collective, which focuses on new and alte

Marc Neikrug

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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 known for a Piano Concerto (1966), the theater piece Through Roses (1980), and the opera Los Alamos (1988). Among his notable recent compositions are the orchestral song cycle Healing Ceremony (2010), his Concerto for Orchestra (2012), a Bassoon Concerto (2013), and the Canta-Concerto (2014). He studied with Giselher Klebe at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1964 to 1968, and composition at Stony Brook University (M.M., 1971). In 1978 he was appointed consultant on contemporary music to the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Since the late 1990s he has been artistic director of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. He is also known for collaborations with violinist Pinchas Zukerman. Selected recordings Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata No. 1 in D minor for violin and piano, César Franck, Sonata in A for violin and piano, Pinchas Zukerman, violin, Marc Neikrug, piano. CD Philips 1984. References

Marc Shaiman

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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 Billy Crystal, entertainer Bette Midler, and director Rob Reiner. Shaiman has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award — as well as seven Academy Award nominations. Early life, family and education Shaiman was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, on October 22, 1959, the son of Claire (née Goldfein) and William Robert Shaiman. He grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, where he attended Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, but he left school at age 16 to start working in New York’s theaters; he later obtained a GED. Career Shaiman started his career as a theatre/cabaret musical director. He started working at Saturday Night Live as an arranger/writer. He portrayed Skip St. Thomas, the accompanying pianist for The Sweeney Sisters, a singing duo played by Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks, which earned him an Emmy nomination; he returned for an appearance on The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, having co-created Martin Short a

Marc Streitenfeld

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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 features as well as critically acclaimed independent films, including American Gangster, Body of Lies, The Grey, Prometheus, Poltergeist and All I See Is You. Life and career Born in Munich, Germany, Streitenfeld relocated to Los Angeles at age 19 and initially assisted film composer Hans Zimmer. Director Ridley Scott offered Streitenfeld his first composing job when he asked him to write the score for A Good Year (2006). Streitenfeld has written five film scores for Scott, including the BAFTA-nominated score for American Gangster (2007), for which he won the “Discovery of the Year” Award at the World Soundtrack Awards, the sci-fi horror Prometheus (2012) and the action adventure Robin Hood (2010). He has also been recognized for his work with three ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards and two International Film Music Critics Association award nominations. Streitenfeld has also worked with directors Marc Forster on All I See Is You (2017), Joe Carnahan on the action drama The Grey (2011),

Marc Vaubourgoin

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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 Marc Vaubourgoin’s father, Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin, a composer and teacher, gave him his first music lessons. Marc entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux and then completed his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Gedalge, Noël Gallon (counterpoint and fugue), Charles-Marie Widor and Paul Dukas (composition). In 1930, he won the 2nd Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Actéon. He directed the Conservatoire de Nantes from 1937 to 1943, then became conductor for the Radiodiffusion française. In 1954, he became director of the musicology department of the ORTF. As such, he was interested in exhuming works by composers from the 18th century that had been forgotten until then, such as Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau, while baroque music was not yet in fashion. Marc Vaubourgoin had two sons who also distinguished themselves in the field of the Arts: Jean-Raphaël Vaubourgoin, an architect and Thierry Vaubourgoin, a painter. Works * Impressions de Cornouaille: ** Saint-M

Marc-André Dalbavie

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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 composition with Marius Constant and orchestration with Pierre Boulez. Notes External links *

Marc-André Hamelin

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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 Music. Biography Education Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist who was also an amateur pianist, introduced him to the works of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji when he was still young. He studied at the École de musique Vincent-d’Indy in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert and then at Temple University in Philadelphia with Harvey Wedeen. In 1989, he received the Virginia Parker Prize. Performances and recordings Hamelin has given recitals in many cities. His festival appearances have included Bad Kissingen, Belfast, Cervantino, La Grange de Meslay, Husum Piano Rarities, Lanaudière, Ravinia, La Roque d’Anthéron, Ruhr Piano, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Singapore Piano, Snape Maltings Proms, Mänttä Music Festival, Turku and Ottawa Strings of the Future, as well as the Chopin Festivals of Bagatelle (Paris), Duszniki and Valldemossa. He appears regularly in both the Wigmore Hall Masterconcert Series a

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

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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, which has been used as the theme song fanfare before television broadcasts of the Eurovision Network since the inception of the European Broadcasting Union in 1954. Marc-Antoine Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality of his prolific output. He mastered all genres, and his skill in writing sacred vocal music was especially hailed by his contemporaries. He began his career by going to Italy, where he fell under the influence of Giacomo Carissimi as well as other Italian composers, perhaps Domenico Mazzocchi. He would remain marked by the Italian style and become the only one with Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville in France to approach the oratorio. In 1670, he became a master of music (composer and singer) in the service of the Duchess of Guise. From 1690 Charpentier composed Médée, on a piece by Corneille. It was a determining failure in his career of composer: he henceforth devoted himself to religious music. He became the

Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers

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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, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1742 in Fréjus – 10 September 1793 in Paris), who was himself a composer of eleven operatic works, mostly comedies, for the stages of Paris, and left ten stage compositions unperformed. Both father and son died in their early 50s. Biography Desaugiers was born in Fréjus (Var), son of an accomplished composer for the stage. He studied at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, known as “Mazarin College” in Paris, where he had for one of his teachers the critic Julien Louis Geoffroy. He entered the Saint-Lazare seminary with a view to the priesthood, but soon gave up his intention. In his nineteenth year he produced in collaboration with his father a light opera (1791) adapted from Le Médecin malgré lui of Molière. During the French Revolution he emigrated to Santo Domingo, and during the Negro revolt he was made prisoner, barely escaping with his life. He took refuge in the United States, where he supported himself by teaching the piano. In 1797, he returned to his native country,

Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

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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 Cremona. Even though he spent most of his life working in northern Italy, because of his stylistic similarity to Palestrina he is often considered to be a member of the Roman School of polyphonic church music. He is also famous as the teacher of Claudio Monteverdi. Not much is known about his early life, but he probably had family from Venice, and he likely studied with Cipriano de Rore at Parma, and Vincenzo Ruffo at Verona. Sometime around 1570 he moved to Cremona, and established a reputation there as a composer and instrumentalist. He may have been an organist, and is known to have been a string player. In 1581 he became maestro di cappella of the cathedral there, and he apparently remained in this position for the rest of his life. While at this position he is known to have taught Claudio Monteverdi, who became important to the transition into the Baroque period. Ingegneri was close friends with Bishop Nicolò Sfondrato, later Pope Gregory XIV, who was intimately involved with the re

Marc'Antonio Pasqualini

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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 leading male soprano of his day”. He was also a composer, having written more than 250 arias and cantatas. Despite being historically addressed as a soprano, Pasqualini’s vocal range extended no higher than B5. Thus, he was a mezzo-soprano by modern classification. Life and career Marc’Antonio Pasqualini began his singing career at a very young age. On 1 April 1623, at the age of nine, he entered the choir of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where he completed his studies with Vincenzo Ugolini. From 1629 he was in the service of Cardinal Antonio Barberini junior. Under the protection of the cardinal he entered the choir of the Sistine Chapel in January 1631, at the age of 17, and in 1655 he was appointed maestro di cappella of the chapel. In 1647 at the invitation of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Pasqualini stayed in Paris, where he participated in the creation of the opera Orfeo by his composer Luigi Rossi on a libretto by Francesco Buti. In the opera, successfully premiered on 2 M

Marcabru

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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 are evidently built on hints in the poems; not on independent information. According to the brief life in the BnF ms. 12473, Marcabrun was from Gascony (details of the dialect of his poems support this) and was the son of a poor woman named Marcabrunela. This evidently comes from a reading of poem 293,18. According to the longer biography in MS. Vat. Lat. 5232 Marcabru was abandoned at a rich man’s door, and no one knew his origin. He was brought up by Aldric del Vilar, learned to make poetry from Cercamon, and was at first nicknamed Pan-perdut and later Marcabru. He became famous, and the lords of Gascony, about whom he had said many bad things, eventually put him to death. This appears to be based on poems 16b,1 and 293,43 (an exchange between Aldric del Vilar and Marcabru) and guesswork; the link with Cercamon is doubted by modern scholars. Forty-four poems are attributed to Marcabru, learned, often difficult, sometimes obscene, and relentlessly critical of the morality of lords and la

Marcantonio Negri

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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 the same period as Monteverdi and was well known as a composer at the time. Life He was born in Verona, but little is known about his life before his appointment as assistant maestro di cappella at St. Mark’s on 22 December 1612. In this role, he supported Monteverdi, who was the primary maestro di cappella. His first publication, dating from 1608 in Venice, indicates that he had some experience as a composer and singer prior to his arrival at St. Mark’s; however, it is unclear whether he gained this experience in Verona, Venice, or elsewhere. After four years at St. Mark’s, Nehru became abbot of a monastery at Veglia (now Krk, Croatia), an island off the coast of Dalmatia. Despite this new position, he remained partially involved with St. Mark’s on a part-time basis. He resigned from St. Mark’s in 1619, and his position was filled by Alessandro Grandi. Negri died at Veglia. Music and influence Negri’s first book of affetti amorosi (1608) showcases the most modern canzonetta style, feat

Marcel Bitsch

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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 there. Career In 1939, Marcel Bitsch entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony with Jean Gallon, counterpoint with Noël Gallon, musicology with Paul-Marie Masson, and composition with Henri Büsser. After earning his arts degree, Bitsch won the Second Prix de Rome in 1943 and First Grand Prix de Rome in 1945, both times with contemporary Claude Pascal winning the second position. In 1956, Marcel Bitsch started tenure as professor of counterpoint and later fugue at the Conservatoire de Paris. In his later years, he mostly concentrated on teaching and analysing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, producing analytic scores whose page layout was designed to convey the music’s structural features. Among his students are Daniel Roth, Pierre Pincemaille, and Édith Lejet. He retired in fall of 1988. Works *Suite française for oboe and piano *Quatre variations sur un thème de D. Scarlatti for trumpet *Cahiers d’études pour la flûte - The published title for this collection is Douz

Marcel Chadeigne

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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 Paris, son of the composer Félicien Chadeigne, he was a student of Charles de Bériot at the Conservatoire de Paris where he became a friend and fellow student of Ravel and Ricardo Viñes. After winning a first piano prize in 1895 and a second piano accompaniment prize in 1899, Chadeigne became a pianist, singing conductor (1901-1904), then assistant conductor and choir director at the Opéra de Paris (1909-1925), piano teacher at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and professor of solfège at the Conservatoire in 1919, a position from which he resigned in December 1924 for health reasons. Chadeigne died one year later on his fiftieth birthday and was buried in the strictest privacy in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery Career Apart from a few piano transcriptions of works for orchestra, there are no known original creations by Marcel Chadeigne or, at least, they have not been preserved. Between 1895 and 1925, he divided his time between a career as a concert performer, a singing master at the Opera, a pr

Marcel Chyrzyński

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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 been performed throughout Europe, as well as in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the USA and Canada. Chyrzyński completed a master’s degree at the Academy of Music in Kraków in 1995, where he studied composition with Marek Stachowski, orchestration with Krzysztof Penderecki, and computer music with Marek Choloniewski, Richard Boulanger, Cindy McTee and Rodney Oaks. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Kraków, and in 2010 became an associate professor in the Department of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music. In 1998 he was awarded a doctorate in composition. Since 2014 he has been director of the Institute of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory. Chyrzyński has received many awards and prizes, including 1st prize in the A.Krzanowski Competition for Young Composers in Bielsko-Biała, 1st prize at the 3rd All-Polish Adam Didur Composers’ Competition in Sanok (1994), a citation in the Composers’ Competition of the Polish Radio in Warsaw (1996),

Marcel Delannoy

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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 career Marcel Delannoy was born at La Ferté-Alais, Essonne, France. He initially studied painting and architecture and entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but at age 20 he took up music. Having been mobilised during the First World War, he then worked as an artist. However, he was initially self-taught and never attended a conservatory, but he did receive some encouragement from Arthur Honegger (whose biography he wrote in 1953) and some lessons from Alexis Roland-Manuel and André Gedalge. He made his name with the opera Le Poirier de misère (1927), which attracted favourable commentary from Maurice Ravel, among others. That same year, he was one of ten composers who collaborated on a children’s ballet, L’éventail de Jeanne (contributing the ‘Bourrée’). In 1932, Delannoy was one of five composers approached by the producers of the film Don Quichotte for a series of songs to be sung by its star, the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin. The other composers invited were Ravel, Jacques Ibert, Manuel d

Marcel Dupré

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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 prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré was titular organist of Saint-Ouen Abbey from 1911 till his death and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when Marcel was 10 years old. His mother Marie-Alice (née Chauvière) was a cellist who also gave music lessons, and his paternal uncle Henri Auguste Dupré was a violinist and violist. Both of his grandfathers, Étienne-Pierre Chauvière (maître de chapelle at Saint-Patrice in Rouen and an operatic bass) and Aimable Auguste-Pompée Dupré (also a friend of Cavaillé-Coll) were also organists. Having already taken lessons from Alexandre Guilmant (due to his appealing to his father), Dupre entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1904, where he studied with Louis Diémer and Lazare Lévy (piano), Guilmant and Louis Vierne (organ), and Charles-Marie Widor (fugue and composition). In 1914, Dupré won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Psyché. Performances Dupré became famous for performing more than 2,000 organ recitals t

Marcel Frémiot

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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 a pupil of René Leibowitz. He was introduced to musicology by Vladimir Fedoroff. He was artistic director or sound recordist in several record companies (Le Chant du Monde, Harmonia Mundi, disques Jéricho). From 1966, he was a professor of music history at the Marseille conservatory. In 1967–1968, he was a trainee of the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. In 1968, he was the professor of the first class of electroacoustic music at the Marseille conservatory, created on the initiative of its director Pierre Barbizet. In 1970, he founded the “Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille” (GMEM). In 1984, he created the Laboratoire Musique et informatique de Marseille (MIM). Selected works Frémiot wrote about 120 works of instrumental music, electroacoustic, vocal, choral, incidental music or film. He wrote numerous articles in the Encyclopédie de la Musique (Fasquelle), Twenty Century Music (Calder Publishing, London), the Histoire de la musique

Marcel Gagnon (musician)

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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 16th of 20 children in his family, Gagnon was involved in music from his youth, playing for dances, weddings and private functions in central British Columbia, as well as for radio shows in Alberta and British Columbia. His career was interrupted by severe alcoholism, but after undertaking a recovery program, he recorded his breakthrough album Crazy Maker at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2001. The album was nominated for a Best Music of Aboriginal Canada award in the Juno Awards of 2002. He has produced three other albums. In 1997, he graduated with a degree in addictions counselling. Acknowledging himself as a recovering alcoholic and a person affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder, Gagnon became a member of the Board of Directors of the Whitecrow Village FASD Society upon its inception in 2002. He has become a prominent advocate and counsellor for persons affected by the Canadian Indian residential school system. Currently, he is an elder of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation.

Marcel Grandjany

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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 the harp at the age of eight with Henriette Renié. At age eleven, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Alphonse Hasselmans, winning the coveted Premier Prix at age thirteen. Career At seventeen he made his debut with the Concerts Lamoureux Orchestra, and gave his first solo recital, winning immediate acclaim. He appeared with Maurice Ravel in Paris in 1913. His London debut was in 1922 and his New York debut in 1924. He appeared as soloist with major orchestras under the direction of Gabriel Pierné, Alfred Cortot, Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitzky, George Szell, Fritz Reiner and Vladimir Golschmann, among others. From 1921 to 1926, he headed the harp department of the Fontainebleau Summer School. He moved to the United States in 1936 and was appointed head of the Harp Department at the Juilliard School in 1938, where he taught until his death in 1975. In 1943 he was chosen to organize the harp department of the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique

Marcel Landowski

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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 French sculptor Paul Landowski and great-grandson of the composer Henri Vieuxtemps. He was father of a son and two daughters. The younger, Manon Landowski is singer-songwriter, performer, author and composer of musical shows. As an infant he showed early musical promise, and studied piano under Marguerite Long. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1935; in addition one of his teachers was Pierre Monteux. Administrative career In 1966, France’s Cultural Affairs minister André Malraux appointed Landowski as the ministry’s director of music, a controversial appointment made in the teeth of opposition from the then ascendant modernists, led by Pierre Boulez. One of his first acts was the establishment, in 1967, of the Orchestre de Paris, appointing Charles Munch as its first director. He also championed the establishment of regional orchestras at a time when interest in them appeared to be waning. This was part of a so-called “ten-year plan for music”, instituted with the intention of establ

Marcel Lanquetuit

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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, France. His father, Charles (18601932), was a church musician at the church of St-Godard de Rouen. Lanquetuit began his musical studies in his hometown under Albert Dupré, and then began learning the organ and music theory (harmony, counterpoint, fugue) privately with Albert’s son Marcel Dupré. From 1910 to 1914, he played the organ at St-Godard de Rouen. Meanwhile, he continued his studies. In 1913, he studied at the Paris Conservatory of Music under Eugène Gigout, and in 1914 won the Conservatory’s 1st prize for organ. He served in the armed forces from 19141919, and in 1918 he married Marcelle Lacombe. They had one son, Pierre, an architect. He became principal organist at St-Godard de Rouen in 1920. In 1926, he made a recital tour of the United States, visiting New York City, Princeton and Philadelphia (where he played the famous Wanamaker Organ, by some measures the largest pipe organ in the world, in Wanamaker’s department store). In 1938, he was appointed principal organist at Rouen Ca

Marcel Mihalovici

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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 study under Vincent d’Indy. His works include his Sonata number 1 for violin and piano (1920), Mélusine opera (1920, libretto by Yvan Goll), his 1st string quartet (1923), 2nd string quartet (1931), Sonata number 2 for violin and piano (1941), Sonata for violin and cello (1944), Phèdre Opera (1949), Étude in two parts for piano and instrumental ensemble (1951) and Esercizio per archi (1960). Many of his piano works were first performed by his wife, the concert pianist Monique Haas. Mihalovici was the original composer for the music of Samuel Beckett’s radio play Cascando (1962). His Fifth Symphony features a soprano singing a setting of a Beckett poem, and he used Krapp’s Last Tape as the basis for a small opera, Krapp, ou, La dernière bande. His memories of their friendship are recounted in the collected work Beckett at Sixty A Festschrift by John Calder, Calder and Boyars (1967). A strong proponent of neoclassicism, during his career Mihalovici embraced a variety of contemporary styl

Marcel Pérès

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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 Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant. Pérès was born into an Algerian family of Spanish origin which was repatriated to France. He grew up in Nice, where he sang at the cathedral and was organist at the Anglican church. He trained in organ and composition at the Nice conservatoire, before continuing his studies in church music at the Royal School of Church Music and at English cathedrals. He worked at the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Montreal early music studio) and for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1979 he returned to France where he studied medieval music under Michel Huglo at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1984 Peres became director of ARIMM, the Atelier pour la Recherche sur l’Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales (or “Workshop for Research on the Performance of Medieval Music”) with the support of the Fondation Royaumont, created by the Goüin family. In 1994 the Atelier became CERIMM, the Centre Européen pour la Recherche sur l’Interprétation des Musiques Médié

Marcel Poot

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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 Vilvoorde, Belgium, on 7 May 1901. His father, , was the director of the in Brussels and led a wind band in Vilvoorde. Encouraged by his father, Poot learned to play clarinet in his childhood. Although pressured from an early age to pursue a musical career by his father, Poot did not believe himself to be especially talented: Although I was very mediocre, I began studying music at an early age. My father had me join the clarinetists of a local band in which he was saxophonist. Less apt than my young friends, I soon had to give up this position. From then on dates my unpopularity in Vilvoorde. My father, however was determined to make me a musician. We then tried the piano. The town organist, Gerard Nauwelaerts, taught me scales and the Czerny exercises. This did not amuse me at all. But the laborious study continued until I was able to play with my professor overtures by Suppé arranged for four hands. My father then decided to enroll me at the Brussels Conservatory. The first time I was t

Marcel Quinet

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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 harmony in 1936, counterpoint in 1937, fugue in 1938, and a higher piano diploma in 1943. Among his teachers at the Conservatory were Raymond Moulaert and Léon Jongen. A continued his studies with Jean Absil, and won the Belgian Prix de Rome in 1945 for his cantata La vague et le sillon. In 1946 he was awarded the Agniez Prize for his orchestral Divertissement. In 1943 he became the head of the piano faculty at the Brussels Conservatory where he also taught harmony and fugue. Among his pupils there was Paul Danblon. In 1956 he was appointed professor at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. In 1957 he won second prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and his Piano Concerto no.1 was used as a test piece in the 1964 session of the same contest. In 1976 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Quinet’s music is very similar in style to Hindemith and is distinguished by formal clarity and the absence of lyrical effusion. His earlier works were more closely related t

Marcel Rubin

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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 studies with Darius Milhaud. After living in Mexico City for a while, he returned to Vienna after the end of World War II. Among the works he composed there are ten symphonies and the opera Kleider machen Leute (1969). Honours and awards * 1959: State Prize for Music * 1961 and 1965: Award from the Theodor-Körner Foundation * 1964: Title of Professor * 1969: City of Vienna Prize for Music * 1970: Grand Austrian State Prize for Music * 1974: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class * 1979: Honorary Member of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music * 1980: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art * 1985: Honorary Member of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna * 1986: Gold Medal of Vienna Selected compositions Stage works *Die Stadt, ballet (1933, rev. 1980) *Kleider machen Leute, opera (1969) *Der Schneider im Himmel, fairy tale in music (1981) Cantatas & oratorios *Die Albigenser (1961) *O ihr Menschen. Ein Heiligenstädter Psalm (1977) *Auferstehung (1986) *Licht über Da

Marcel Stern (composer)

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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 the cantata Gisèle. After his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, the Société Nationale performed his Divertissement for Orchestra in Paris in 1939. The Second World War interrupted his musical career, though he completed his symphony La Libération during the Liberation in Cannes. The symphony was premiered on the radio in 1945 and by the Concerts Colonne in 1948 at the Théâtre du Châtelet under the direction of Paul Paray. and the Concerto: pour piano et orchestre (1968). He also composed several transcriptions of works by other composers for violin and orchestra, including George Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody. Compositions Classical works (selection) *1935: Cantata Le Château endormi (deuxième Second Grand Prix de Rome) *1936: Cantata Gisèle (Premier Grand Prix de Rome) *1939: Divertissement for small orchestra *1945: Symphony La Libération in E *1964: Bucolique and Iberica, two pieces for flute solo *1968: Concerto for piano and orchestra (YouTube) Cinema Marcel Stern also distingu

Marcel Tyberg

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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 Tyberg was born into a musical family in Vienna. His father, Marcell Tyberg (Sr.), was a well-known violinist, while his mother, Wanda Paltinger Tybergova, was a pianist in the school of Theodor Leschetizky, and a colleague of Artur Schnabel. Although little is known about his musical education, it is assumed that Tyberg had some formal training in orchestration, counterpoint and harmony outside the family home. Tyberg’s father was on good terms with the renowned violinist Jan Kubelik and the two families frequented one another. Marcel dedicated lieder to Jan’s two daughters and, despite a twenty-year age gap, cultivated a lifelong friendship with their young brother, the conductor Rafael Kubelik. Tyberg also became friendly with the Italian violinist and conductor, Rodolfo Lipizer. Tyberg’s Piano Sonata No. 1 (1920) and his Symphony No. 1 (1924) both date from his time in Vienna. In 1927, following the death of his father, Tyberg moved with his mother to the town of Abbazia (Opatija),

Marcela Pavia

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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 University of Rosario in Argentina with Dante Grela, Francisco Kröpfl, and Franco Donatoni. She also studied in Milan, Biella and Academy Chigi of Siena, studying with Georgy Ligeti, Ennio Morricone and Henri Pousseur. She was artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the United States. After receiving her degree, Pavia worked as a composer and taught music at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires, Universidad del Museo Social Argentino and the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires. Her music has been performed internationally. Pavia has published articles in Codex XXI magazine, published by the Associació Música Tell (MIC) of Barcelona, and in Conceptos magazine, published by the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (UMSA) in Buenos Aires. She has also published books of teaching repertoire. Honors and awards Marcela Pavia has won awards in competitions including: *7th International Paul Barson Guitar Compositi

Marcela Rodríguez

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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 while in London, and then returned to Mexico City to study with Julio Estrada and Ma. Antonieta Lozano, Rodríguez works have been performed internationally, including the United States, Venezuela, Spain, her opera “Las Cartas de Frida” in Heidelberg, Germany, Moldavia and Greece. She has taught classes of composition for opera, dance and theater in Mexico and Spain, and at the Catholic University of Colombia and the Catholic University of Washington. Her music composition is usually associated with natural landscapes, human nature and different cultures. Although she has received most of her music education in Mexico with Mexican composers, she claims that her music is not associated with Latin American music. By combining different cultures, her music presents a unique style that contains many music elements from different countries. European culture influences her music the most, once she said “Spain is part of my life”. Marcela Rodríguez’s work Asilah combines Arabian and Spanish cult

Marcelle Soulage

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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 was born in Lima, Peru, to French parents. Her father was a mining engineer and had been appointed Professor of Mineralogical Chemistry in Lima. The family returned to Paris when Marcelle was four-and-a-half years old. She began piano lessons at the age of five, and subsequently entered the Conservatoire de Paris studying with Georges Caussade, Paul Vidal, Vincent d’Indy and Nadia Boulanger. Soulage served as professor of piano and harmony at the Conservatoire d’Orléans (1921–1925) and professor of solfege at the Conservatoire de Paris (1949–1965). Soulage composed orchestral works, chamber music and songs, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Marc Sauval. Her Suite for violin, viola and piano won the Prix Lépaulle in 1918, and Cello Sonata the Prix des Amis de la Musique in 1920. Soulage’s music is published by: Evette & Schaeffer; Buffet-Crampon; Max Eschig; Rouart, Lerolle & Cie; L. Philippo. She died in Paris, France. Selected works ;Orchestral * Valse (1911); composed under the pseu

Marcelle Villin

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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 born in Plomion. She studied music at the Conservatoire de Lille with Kara Chatteley and Edmond Gaujac, and received the Conservatoire’s First Prize. Villin later studied at the Collegium Musicum de France and gave organ recitals throughout the United States and France. She was the organist at Sacre Coeur Church in Antibes. Villin’s music has been published by Editions Musicales Transatlantiques, Gerard Billaudot and Henry Lemoine. She died on 29 March 2022, at the age of 100. Her works include: Chamber *Badinage (violin and piano) *Chant d’Amour Mystique (violin and organ) *Dans ta Demeur, Seigneur (violin and organ) *Extrait Tuerkesse (violin and piano) *Lui et Elle (violin and piano) *Nos Ames s’Elancent vers Toi, Seigneur Jesus (violin and piano or organ) Piano/Organ *Adoration pour une Nuit de Noel (organ) *Alors se Dressant, Il Commanda au Vent et a la Mer *Attente *Elle Court la Micheline *En ce Lieu Savage (etude for left hand) *(L’)Espiegle Jongleur *Esquisses de Vacances *Evo

Marcello Abbado

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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 piano, and chamber music. As a pianist, he played in major concert halls of the world. He taught composition at several conservatories, ultimately at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. In 1989 he was awarded the gold medal for Meritorious Culture and Art (Medaglia d’oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell’arte) by the Government of Italy. Early life and education Born in Milan into a family of famous musicians, External links * * Marcello Abbado (Composer, Arranger) Bach Cantatas Website *

Marcello Aitiani

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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 field of visual arts and music, and telematic communication. Biography Aitiani works in the visual sectors of painting, sculpture, environmental works, such as the rose window of the Collegiate Church of San Gimignano, the sculptures and stained glass windows in the complex of Koningsoord, Arnhem-Paesi Bassi, and in music. At the end of the eighties, Aitiani joined the Florentine artistic current, which has been active since the end of World War II up to the present, including Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Giancarlo Cardini, Albert Mayr, Sergio Maltagliati, Daniele Lombardi, Pietro Grossi. These artists have experimented the interaction among sound, sign and vision, a synaesthetics of art derived from historical avant-gardes, from Kandinskij to futurism, to Scrjabin and Schoenberg, all the way to Bauhaus. His work has been exhibited in festivals, galleries and even international institutions, including: Academy of fine arts of Catanzaro; Museum of Modern Art-Rio de Janeiro; Nation

Marcello Bernardini

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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 father was most likely the composer Rinaldo di Capua. Operas * La schiava astuta (intermezzo, 1765, Rome) * La pescatrice (farsetta, 1768, Rome) * Il Don Chisciotte della Mancia (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, 1769, Turin) * Il cavaliere errante (farsetta, libretto by Marcello Bernardini, 1770, Rome) * La donna di spirito (farsetta, libretto by Marcello Bernardini, after that for La vedova scaltra by Carlo Goldoni, 1770, Rome) * La molinara astuta (intermezzo, 1770, Rome) * Amore in musica (opera buffa, 1773, Rome) * La contessina (dramma giocoso, libretto by Marco Coltellini, after Carlo Goldoni, 1773, Rome) * La bella forestiera ossia La viaggiatrice fortunata (farsetta, 1776, Rome) * La finta sposa olandese (farsetta, 1777, Rome) * L’isola incantata (intermezzo, 1778, Rome) * L’ambizione delusa (intermezzo, 1779, Rome) * Il bassà generoso (intermezzo, 1780, Rome) * Il vecchio ringiovanito (intermezzo, 1781, Rome) * Le vendette giocose ossia Il conte pasticcio (int

Marcello Giombini

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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 1960s peplum films. He is best remembered for his score to the original Sabata (1969), which starred Lee Van Cleef. His son Pierluigi Giombini is also an accomplished musician and composer. Additional biographical information, compositions, filmography, and discography may be found (in Italian) at Marcello Giombini. Music Selected filmography *Vulcan, Son of Giove (1962) *March on Rome (1962) *I sette gladiatori (1962) *The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba (1962) *The Magnificent Gladiator (1964) *James Tont operazione U.N.O. (1965) *Our Man in Jamaica (1965) *The Relentless Four (1965) *For a Few Dollars Less (1966) *Death Walks in Laredo (1966) *Ballad of a Gunman (1967) *Mission Stardust (1967) *Dead Men Don’t Count (1968) *Garringo (1969) *Battle of the Commandos (1969) *Sabata (1969) * Sartana Kills Them All (1970) *Return of Sabata (1971) *Holy Water Joe (1971) * Un gioco per Eveline (1971) *Knife of Ice (1972) * They Believed He Was No Saint (1972) *The Flower with the Petals of Steel (1973)

Marcelo Koc

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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 Buenos Aires where he continued his education with Jacobo Ficher, and Juan Carlos Paz. His œuvre consists of more than 101 works and includes orchestral and concertante works, chamber music, piano and vocal music. Selected works ;Orchestral * Invención a 4 voces (Four-Part Invention), Op. 8 (1948) * Preludio, Intermezzo y Fuga for string orchestra, Op. 13 (1951) * Divertimento para Orquesta de Vientos (Divertimento for Wind Orchestra), Op 17 (1957) * Divertimento para Orquesta de Cuerdas (Divertimento for String Orchestra), Op 17b (1957) * 3 Piezas, Op. 18 (1958) * Estructuras Líricas, Op. 23 (1966) * Núcleos, Op. 25 (1970) * Música para cuerdas (Music for Strings), Op. 34 (1986) * Tríptico, Op. 45 (1998) * Sonoridades, Op. 61 (2000) * Tres Momentos Musicales for string orchestra, Op. 63 (2000) * Música para Conjunto de Cámara (Music for Chamber Ensemble), Op. 67 (1983) * Música 2001 for string orchestra, Op. 74 (2001) ;Concertante * Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op. 26c (1974) *

Marcelo Peralta

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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 education Peralta was born in Buenos Aires. He studied piano and music theory at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1979. At the age of 18, he began to play the baritone sax, showing a particular interest in the music of Serge Chaloff; inspired by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, he learned tenor sax, then alto and finally soprano. While studying harmony and composition under tango composer Sebastian Piana, he taught himself to play trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, clarinet, and Latin American folk instruments. Since that time he taught at several schools. In 1980 he taught music in both elementary and high schools, as welI as at special education institutions. At the same time, he was hired as a saxophone and improvisation instructor at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla (Buenos Aires). Career At 18, he began his career as a freelance musician and went on to play and record with a wide range of artists and in many sty

Marchetto Cara

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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, along with Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was well known as a composer of frottolas. Life Very little is known of his early life. By 1494, he was already employed by the Gonzaga court at Mantua, and he evidently stayed there, without interruption except for travel to sing in nearby cities, until his death. Among his duties were directing the singers both in the Cathedral of San Pietro (Mantua) and in the private estate of the Gonzaga family. As lovers and patrons of music, they employed numerous musicians, and Cara was chief among them: he wrote music for weddings, for state occasions, for intermedi, and for private entertainments, and in so doing created some of the most refined light music of the time. Along with Tromboncino, he was the most famous composer of frottole, and his compositions continued to be collected and published after his death. Most likely, he died in 1525, since his widow remarried in early 1526, and there was at the time a legal requirement for a widow to wait nine mont

Marchetto da Padova

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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 music of the Italian ars nova, as was his work on defining the modes and refining tuning. In addition, he was the first music theorist to discuss chromaticism. Life Most likely he was born in Padua. Little is known about his life, but he is recorded as being music teacher for the choirboys at the cathedral in Padua in 1305 and 1306, and he left Padua in 1308 to work in other cities in the Veneto and the Romagna. His two major treatises seem to have been written between 1317 and 1319, shortly before Philippe de Vitry produced his Ars nova (c. 1322), which gave its name to the music of the age. Marchetto indicated in the treatises themselves that he wrote them at Cesena and Verona. There are no other reliable records of his life, although his fame was evidently widespread, and his work became hugely influential later in the 14th century. Music Only three motets have been reliably attributed to Marchetto, one of them due to his name appearing as an acrostic in the text for one of the parts (/)

Marcial del Adalid y Gurréa

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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 with Chopin in Paris. Both men influenced the style and form of his musical compositions. After finishing his studies, Adalid y Gurréa returned to Spain where he lived in A Coruña and later Madrid. Highly influenced by lieder, his most important compositions were vocal art songs and songs for the piano. A particularly fine example of his work is his 1877 composition Cantares nuevos y viejos de Galicia where he successfully blended the folklore of Galicia with the technique and spirit of Romantic piano music. He also composed one opera Inese e Bianca, which was never staged. In addition to composing, Adalid y Gurréa spent much of his time teaching music courses and organizing music competitions. He was married to writer Fanny Garrido and the father of painter María del Adalid. References Sources *López-Calo, José. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992). and

Marcin Bortnowski

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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, graduating with honours in 1997. He took part in the 2nd International Meetings of Young Composers in Apeldoorn, organised by the Gaudeamus Foundation (1996) and in the experimental and computer music workshops at the University of Ghent (1997). In 2003 he obtained a doctoral degree in composition, and in 2012 a habilitation in the same discipline. In 2020 he received the title of Professor from the President of the Republic of Poland. Apart from writing music, he is also active as a lecturer in composition, contemporary composition techniques and computer music on the faculty of the Academy of Music in Wrocław. His accolades include awards at the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers (2nd Prize for String Quartet No. 2 and Special Prize for String Quartet No. 1 in 1995, 2nd Prize for Music for… in 1997), the National Composition” Competition in Gdańsk, 1997 (3rd Prize for Symphony No. 1) and at the Pan Accordion Competition 2000 (1st Prize for Music in Lent for accordion and string qu

Marcin Leopolita

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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 court of Zygmunt August, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. apparently becoming court composer there in 1560. After 1564, he returned to Lviv, where he lived until his death in 1589. Few compositions by Leopolita have survived. Four motets written in Latin (, , and ) are preserved in organ tablature. Of these, can be restored with confidence to its original vocal form. his connection with the manuscript is uncertain. Leopolita’s five-part mass is the only complete exant 16th-century Polish mass, and the , which adds a sixth voice (a second ) has the distinction of being the earliest extant example of six-part Polish polyphony. It is based on themes from four Polish vernacular Easter songs—hence the designation ‘Paschalis’—of which is the most prominent. Recordings * Early Polish Masses Gorczycki: Missa Paschalis Leopolita: Missa Paschalis Mielczewski: Missa super “O Gloriosa Domina” Jaroslaw Malanowicz (organ) Il Canto CD Accord - ACD018 * Waclaw z Szamotul: Songs and Motets an

Marcin Mielczewski

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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 was a composer and musician in the royal chapel in Warsaw. In 1645 he became director of music to Charles Ferdinand Vasa, the brother of King Władysław IV. Mielczewski died in Warsaw in September 1651. His known works are largely in the stile concertato, and Szweykowski suggests that the way “in which the words are given full expression” means he is likely to have composed secular vocal works in addition to the surviving sacred corpus. In his mass O glorioso domina and one of his instrumental canzonas, Mielczewski quotes popular Polish tunes; the latter is notable for being the earliest documented use of the mazurka in classical music. Works Masses *Missa Triumphalis a 14 *Missa Cerviensiana, six voices and six instruments *Missa O Gloriosa domina, six voices and basso continuo *Missa super ‘O Gloriosa Domina’ Motet * Ante thorum huius Virginis * Audite et admiramini * Audite gentes et exsultate * Beata Dei Genitrix * Benedictio et claritas * Benedictus sit Deus * Confitemini Domino * Cr

Marcin Przybyłowicz

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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 Polish television historical drama Korona królów. He was born on the day of the May 1985 lunar eclipse. Works References External links * * * *

Marco Ambrosini

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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 Ambrosini was born in Forlì in 1964. From 1971 to 1981, Ambrosini studied violin and viola (with Adrio Casagrande) and composition with Mario Perrucci at the “Instituto Musicale G.B.Pergolesi” in Ancona and at the conservatory “G.Rossini” in Pesaro. Musician Ambrosini debuted as a soloist and nyckelharpa player in the theatre “Alla Scala” in Milan, in concerts for the Royal Swedish Concert Agency, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, in the Philharmony in Cologne, Berlin, Moscow, in the Carnegie Hall of New York and also perform with different ensembles for early music, baroque music and contemporary music. Worldwide concert activity includes over 150 CDs, broadcast and television shots as a composer, soloist, or as member of the Katharco Early Music Consort and the ensemble Oni Wytars (Germany), Els Trobadors (Spain), ensemble Unicorn, ensemble Accentus, Clemencic Consort, Armonico Tributo Austria, Ensemble Kapsberger (Rolf Lislevand, Norway), L’Arpeggiata (Christina Pruhar, France), Giovanna Pessi Ens

Marco Antonio Cavazzoni

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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, motetti, canzoni … libro primo, which was published in Venice in 1523. Included are the earliest known ricercars—they are not yet imitative, and are essentially written down improvisations, but there is a considerable amount of thematic development. The rest of the works in the collection are either arrangements of vocal pieces by Cavazzoni or other composers. Their style is firmly rooted in the Renaissance vocal chanson tradition. Published works *2 Ricercari *2 Mottetti: *4 Canzoni: A single piece for keyboard Recercada de maca in bologna, now kept in the parochial archives of Castell’Arquato (Piacenza) in Emilia-Romagna (ms. Musicale n. 2, cc. 5v-6v). References *Apel, Willi. 1972. The History of Keyboard Music to 1700. Translated by Hans Tischler. Indiana University Press. . Originally published as Geschichte der Orgel- und Klaviermusik bis 1700 by Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel. * * Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 23 (1979) Cavazzoni, Marc’Antonio by Oscar Mischiati (Italian

Marco Antonio Rivera Useche

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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 had five children in 1937. Education Rivera was of humble origins. After completing primary education he began to work, eventually practicing the trades of carpentry, jewelry, heraldry and shoemaking. In 1910 he began studying music with the Italian master Nicolas Constantino Chicaroni (Vironto, Italy, 1857 - San Cristóbal, 1927), who had arrived in San Cristóbal in the company of other Italian musicians to be incorporated into the Táchira State Band, including Angelo Mottola (1881-1966), author the state Hymn of Anzoátegui. Career From 1912 Rivera became a full member of the TáchiraState band and from 1913 he started to receive a salary of Bs 100 per month. In 1916 he was exiled for a short period in Colombia for a confrontation with the president of the state, Eustace Gomez, cousin to the president of Venezuela, Juan Vicente Gómez. On his return he began to study English with a German professor named Sildner. He again went into exile in Colombia in 1919 but continued his musical studi

Marco Anzoletti

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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. Biography Marco Anzoletti was born in Trento on 4 June 1867, into a musical family. His father Luigi, a cellist, laid the foundation for their musical pursuits. Other family members were also musicians: Francesco, a pianist, organist, and composer; Giovanni, a violinist; Giuseppe, a violinist and composer; and Luisa, a poet and writer who collaborated with him on piano. After receiving initial musical education at home, Anzoletti enrolled at the Milan Conservatory in 1879 to deepen his violin skills under Gerolamo de Angelis and study composition with Gaetano Coronaro. His career was dedicated to promoting chamber and symphonic music in Italy. Anzoletti’s compositions include the acclaimed “24 Variations for violin and piano on a theme by Brahms” (1894), which garnered praise from the German master. Two years later Anzoletti won first prize with a Sonata in C minor for violin and piano in Milan. Anzoletti composed numerous works for the violin, with piano or organ accompaniment: sonatas,

Marco Attura

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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 Royal Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, Städtische Bühnen in Münster, Germany, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto and the Academy of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where most of Italy’s greatest operatic artists, and many of the finest singers from around the world, have studied and performed. He follows the masterclasses with Daniel Oren, and Jorma Panula. At the age of twenty, he made his debut on the podium of the Teatro degli Industri with Puccini’s opera “Gianni Schicchi” and later with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”. On the occasion of the X edition of the “Giuseppe Sciacca” International Prize for young scholars, he was awarded the 1st Prize Da Vinci Classics (first world premiere of Pietro Mascagni’s satanic rhapsody ), piano version by the author, Brilliant Classics, Tactus and Amadeus Arte. He is a teacher of Score Reading at the Italian Conservatories of Music and carries out conducting activities with one particular predilection for the opera repertoire, from the

Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti

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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 began on the violin, but switched to guitar at age 16. In 1820, he moved to Paris and later to Saint Petersburg, before settling in Belgium. He later toured in France, England, Italy, and the United States. His range of works for solo guitar are extensive, and include a set of innovative and demanding Exercices Op. 49, and also a group of twenty-four Caprices Op.11 (probably inspired by the earlier work of his compatriot Paganini). Sets of variations were composed on themes by Weber Op.9 and Rossini Op.7, and are formally inventive as well as challengingly virtuosic. His original work Nuit de Walpurgis indicates a reference to a Faust opera on the frontispiece, but was more probably an original piece inspired by a work by Mendelssohn, which was in turn based on a poem, De Erste Walpugisnacht, by Goethe (as detailed in a Wikipedia article on the subject). His oeuvre is a testament to his originality as inspired by his contemporaries, rather than simply creating stock sets of variations

Marco Beltrami

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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 Woman in Black, Carrie, A Quiet Place, the Fear Street trilogy, and The Nun II), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science fiction (I, Robot; Snowpiercer), Western (3:10 to Yuma, Jonah Hex, The Homesman), and superhero (Blade II, Hellboy, Jonah Hex, The Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Logan, Venom: Let There Be Carnage). A long-time collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami scored seven of the director’s films including the original four Craven-directed films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011), later returning for the seventh in 2026. He has also worked with such directors as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Ole Bornedal, Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon Ho, Dan Gilroy, and John Krasinski. Beltrami has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and The Hurt Locker (2008), and a Golden Globe Award for A Quiet Place (2018). He won a Satellite Award for Soul Surfer (2011) and an Emmy Award for Free Solo (2018).

Marco Betta

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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 Eliodoro Sollima. Afterwards, he improved his studies with Armando Gentilucci and Salvatore Sciarrino. He made his debut in 1982 at the Festival Spaziomusica of Cagliari, thenceforth his compositions are regularly performed in the main Italian and European institutions. His musical language merges old Sicilian cultures with the main techniques of the contemporary music, in particular the minimalism and the neotonality genres. Between 1994 and 2002, he was artistic director of the Teatro Massimo, working on the project for the reopening of the theatre, that happened after 23 years on 12 May 1997, with a concert of the theatre choir conducted by Franco Mannino and the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. Marco Betta teaches composition at the Conservatoire of Palermo. Works Opera * Bellini ultime luci, 1993. Publisher: Sonzogno. * Sabaoth e Sammael, 1994. Publisher: Sonzogno. * Averroè, 1999, three scenes from Averroè, Le mille e una notte, Il Cantare del Cid. Te

Marco Castello

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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 trumpet at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan. In 2016, he started touring and recording with Erlend Øye as a member of his supporting band La Comitiva. After some singles, in 2021, Castello released his first solo album Contenta tu, recorded at the Butterama Studio in Berlin and produced by The Whitest Boy Alive members Marcin Öz and Daniel Nentwig. In 2022, he released “Magari”, a single in collaboration with Fulminacci, which Rolling Stone Italia ranked third in its list of the 10 best Italian songs of the year. In 2023, Castello founded the record label Megghiu Suli, with whom he produced his second album, Pezzi della sera. In 2024, he recorded with Calibro 35 a cover version of Lucio Dalla’s song “Lunedì Cinema”, which served as the lead single of the band’s EP Jazzploitation and was later included in their album Exploration. In December 2025, he released his third album, Quaglia sovversiva. Discography Album * 2021 – Contenta tu * 2023 – Pezzi della sera * 2025 – Quaglia sovver

Marco da Gagliano

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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 madrigal. Life Gagliano was born on 1 May 1582 in Florence and lived most of his life there. After study with a religious confraternity and Luca Bati, he was employed for six years from 1602 by the church of San Lorenzo as a singing instructor. In 1607, he went to Mantua, where he wrote music for the Gonzaga family, including his impressive operatic setting of La Dafne. In 1609, he returned to Florence to become maestro di cappella at the Compagnia dell’Arcangelo Raffaello, the organisation from which he had received his boyhood musical training. Later that same year, the Medici made him maestro di cappella of their court, a position he held for 35 years. He died on 25 February 1643. Music and influence Gagliano wrote an enormous quantity of music, both sacred and secular, for the Medici; in addition, he was a singer and instrumentalist who entertained them privately. His works include fourteen published operas, of which two survive, La Flora (1628) set to a libretto by Andrea Salvadori and L

Marco Dall'Aquila

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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 performed at concerts in the houses of nobles in the city, and in 1505 he published Tabullatura et rasone de metter ogni canto in liuto. On 11 March 1505, Dall’Aquila also received a grant for a petition where he claimed to have developed a method of printing tablature which he could use to score any lute composition into tablature. In the petition for the grant, he also asked for a ban on other printing methods and imports of music scored by other methods, and for a portion of penalties paid for infringement. However, no printed editions demonstrating his method survive. Works Dall’Aquila’s music is widely available as recordings by contemporary lutenists. Selected works include: *Ricercar No.16, for lute *Ricercar No.33, for lute *Ricercar *Il est Bel et Bon *Ricervar Lautre Jour, No 101 *Nous Bergiers *La Traditora, No 3 *La Traditora, No 2 *La Battaglia (after Janequin) *La cara cosa, for lute (No 36f) *Ricercar/Fantasia for lute *Ricercar for lute (No 24) *Ricercar for lute (No 16) *La

Marco de Goeij

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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 guitar at the Utrecht School of the Arts, graduating in 1992. He continued to study in Paris, following lessons in modern classical music from Wim Hoogewerf, a Dutch classical guitarist and microtonalist. In the mid-1990s, while writing an article about the Concerto for Group and Orchestra as recorded by Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, De Goeij learned that the musical score for the concerto had been missing since it was last performed in 1970. He reconstructed the score by listening to CD recordings and watching videos of live performances. When Deep Purple were performing in the Netherlands in 1998, de Goeij presented his work to Jon Lord. After the score had been completed, the reconstructed concerto was played in concert and recorded by Deep Purple with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1999. Since then, it has been played as part of a 2000–2001 world tour, and on several occasions afterwards. Nowadays Marco de Goeij lives in Bodegraven. He is active as a composer and

Marco Enrico Bossi

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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 family of musicians. His father, Pietro, was organist at Salò Cathedral, which has a one-manual organ built by Fratelli Serassi from 1865 (opus 684), which was restored in 2000/2001. He had two brothers, Costante Adolfo Bossi and Pietro Bossi. He received his musical training at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna and the Milan Conservatory, where his teachers included Amintore Galli (counterpoint and musical aesthetics), Francesco Sangalli (piano), Amilcare Ponchielli (composition) and Polibio Fumagalli (organ). In 1881, Bossi became director of music and organist at Como Cathedral. Nine years later, he was appointed professor of organ and harmony at the Naples Conservatory. In addition, he held directorships at conservatories in Venice (1895–1901), Bologna (1902–1911) and Rome (1916–1923), where he established and implemented the standards of organ studies that are still used in Italy today. His notable pupils included Giulio Bas, Giacomo Benvenuti, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, and Gian Francesco M

Marco Frisina

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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, Frisina graduated in Letters at the Sapienza University of Rome and subsequently in composition at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia. After having joined the Pontifical Major Seminary of Rome in 1978, Frisina studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and got the license in Holy Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome. In 1982 he was ordained a priest and was assigned to the Diocese of Rome. A member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, he was promoted as the chairman of the Diocesan Commission of Holy Arts for the Diocese of Rome and since 2009 rector of the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. He is professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music. In 1984 he founded the choir of the Diocese of Rome that he directed continuously for over four decades. Formed by 250 elements, the choir got involved in various international events and Holy Masses celebrated by the Pope. Since 1985

Marco Fusi (clarinetist)

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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 the world, with the collaboration of Moni Ovadia and Vladimir Denissenkov. With his ensemble cast has worked with institutions such as the Club Tenco Sanremo, Jeunesses musicales International and Fondazione Collegio San Carlo Marco Fusi has also worked as a solo artist in tandem with Vladimir Denissenkov. As composer Fusi has collaborated with journalist and presenter Antonio Lubrano, for which he wrote the music for the show Il Favoliere, Fusi was greatly appreciated by the Undersecretary of Education Nando dalla Chiesa which in 2010 named him to perform in the new year celebrations in Genoa. He also collaborated with Lidia Ravera writing with her Comprami!, show of civic engagement on violence against women In 2012 he wrote with Vittorio Agnoletto , which gets very positive feedback, so that Agnoletto and Fusi are invited to represent it at the European Parliament in Brussels. Also in 2012 he was invited to perform on National Television of Serbia. In 2014 he was given the Internationa

Marco Giuseppe Peranda

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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 Italian musicians in the Holy Roman Empire during the early Baroque alongside Vincenzo Albrici, Carlo Pallavicino and Giovanni Andrea Bontempi in Dresden. These four Italian Kapellmeisters were well rewarded – they earned yearly salaries of 1,200 Reichstalers while Heinrich Schütz, at this point semi-retired, earned 800 Reichstalers a year. A contemporary, Agostino Rossi, records him as being a native of Macerata but his musical style shows an education in Rome. From 1651 Perenda was an alto singer in the chapel of Johann Georg II of Saxony as he combined his own chapel choir with that of his father’s. In 1661 Peranda became Vizekapellmeister and in 1663 Kapellmeister, as successor of Albrici. His opera Dafne (composed in collaboration) was performed to open the Opernhaus am Taschenberg in Dresden. In 1670 he made a journey to Italy, from which two masses and a motet remain in the Kroměříž residence. In 1672 he was promoted again, to Hofkapellmeister, possibly since Christoph Bernhard had ta

Marco Lo Muscio

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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. Marco Lo Muscio studied Piano at the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Italy. He earned a degree in Piano with Professor Tonino Maiorani and a degree in Musical Pedagogy with Professor Giulio Sforza at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica in Frosinone (Italy) and at the Roma Tre University (Italy). He also obtained a degree of Advanced Studies in Piano at the Academy Bartolomeo Cristofori with the pianist Sergio Fiorentino, and a specialization in Pipe Organ with James Edward Goettsche. Since 2004, he has been the art director of the International Organ Summer Festival in Rome, Italy, where internationally acclaimed organists and musicians performed such as Jean Guillou, Thomas Trotter, Stephen Tharp, Roger Sayer, Roger Fisher, Martin Baker, Pauli Pietiläinen, Aivars Kalējs, John Hackett, Pär Lindh, Jakob Lorentzen, Kevin Bowyer, David Briggs, Christopher Herrick, David Jackson, John Scott, Colin Walsh, Carson Cooman, Andrew Nethsingha, Martin Setchell, Alessandro Bianchi, Jean-Paul Imbert, Gai

Marco Marazzoli

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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 moved to Rome in 1626, and entered the service of Cardinal Antonio Barberini. In 1631, he and other musicians such as Filippo Vitali and Landi accompanied the cardinal on a trip to Urbino and may have accompanied him on other official travels. In 1637, Marazzoli was appointed Barberini’s aiutante di camera, and became a tenor in the papal chapel that same year; in 1639 he was awarded the position of musico under Barberini. Barberini patronage About this time, it becomes possible to trace some of Marazzoli’s compositions to specific places and functions. In 1638, he composed the music for a ballet La piazza d’Orlando for the Carnival of Venice and the intermedi for Chi soffre, speri for the Carnival of 1639. These two pieces were performed at the Palazzo Barberini. After 1640, he began composing more for patrons in Ferrara and Venice, including an opera, L’Amore trionfante dello Sdegno (or L’Armida), for a Ferrarese wedding in 1641. Also in 1641, the Barberini were embroiled in the Wars o

Marco Oppedisano

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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 electroacoustic music. His musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for electric guitar, nylon string guitar and electric bass. In addition to musique concrète, compositions by Oppedisano also consist of “live” electric guitar in combination with a fixed playback of various electronic, acoustic (specifically female voice courtesy of Kimberly Fiedelman) and sampled sounds. Oppedisano has also composed works for solo classical guitar, solo electric guitar and mixed ensemble. Biography Oppedisano began playing guitar at the age of 12 and was primarily a rock guitarist before entering studies at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. After two years of classical guitar study at Brooklyn College, he completed composition studies there with Tania León, Charles Dodge, Noah Creshevsky (Hyperrealism (music)) and George Brunner. Oppedisano completed graduate studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College obtain

Marco Scacchi

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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 *

Marco Schädler

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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 music together with his father. At the age of nine, he became a temporary organist in the parish church of Triesenberg, and in Triesen. He was organist until 1998. From 1982 to 1988, he held a part-time position as a piano teacher at the Liechtenstein Music School. He has been a freelance artist and composer since 1988 (theater and ballet music, masses, orchestras, choral and chamber music, sound installations for film and various performances). Schädler studied piano, music theory, musical composition, early music theory and jazz theory at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch, at the City of Basel Music Academy and at the St. Gallen Jazz School. He was a member of the “Liechtensteiner Gabarett” (“Das LiGa”, 1994–2006), since 2009 of OOS. In 1997, he founded the Free Institute for Music, a school for composing and teaching music theory on a creative basis. Schädler co-founded the Schlösslekeller theater in Vaduz in 2003 and co-founded the company RequiemForYou. From 2009 to 2013,

Marco Stroppa

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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, composition, choral direction and electronic music at the conservatoires of Verona, Milan and Venice. From 1980 to 1984, Stroppa collaborated with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua, before moving to the United States, where he continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supported by a grant from the Fulbright Foundation until 1986. At MIT he took courses in cognitive psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence. At the invitation of Pierre Boulez, Stroppa moved to Paris where he led the department for musical research at IRCAM from 1987 until 1990. In 1987, Stroppa founded the composition and computer music course at the International Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary. Following teaching posts at the conservatoires of Lyon and Paris, Stroppa currently is professor of composition at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, where he succeeded Helmut Lachenmann in 1999. Awards * 1985 ASCAP Prize * 1990 Ce

Marco Tutino

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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 and Carlo Galante. He graduated from the Milan Conservatory, where he had studied flute and composition (with Giacomo Manzoni), in 1982. He has composed operas, chamber music and symphonic works which have been performed by important Italian orchestras and concert societies. Some have been performed by music institutions in other countries, notably the BBC Philharmonic, The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Radio Symphony Orchestra, and The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Career During the first part of his career, he showed a fixation with themes involving children. His first opera, performed in 1985 at the Genoa Opera, was a morbid, melancholic version of Pinocchio. In 1987, his second opera, Cyrano, was composed for an Opera Workshop in Alessandria (Piedmont, Italy). It was loosely based on Rostand’s drama, and intended as a showcase for Laura Cherici, a soprano who would become his inspiration and long-time partner. In September 1990 he presented a new opera in Livorno, La

Marco Uccellini

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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 important in the rise of independent instrumental classical music, and in development of violin technique. Life Uccellini’s life, like many composers of the 17th century, is not well documented; however, enough information exists to create a rough biography. He was born into a reasonably affluent noble family in Forlimpopoli, Forlì, who had owned land in the area since the early 14th century. Many members of the family held ecclesiastical posts locally, including Uccellini’s father Pietro Maria, and it is likely that Marco went to study at the seminary in Assisi sometime in the early 1630s. Evidence from his will suggests that Uccellini began his formal musical education there, possibly under another notable early violinist-composer, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, who was then serving as music director (maestro di cappella) at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi. He became Capo degl’instrumentisti of the Este court in Modena from 1641 to 1662, and was the maestro di cappella of the Moden

Marcos Balter

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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 Balter began his music studies at age five at the Conservatório Musical Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was admitted to the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música at age eleven. During his late teenage years, Balter studied privately with composer Almeida Prado and pianist Linda Bustani. He moved to the United States in 1995 to study music composition at Texas Christian University and later on at Northwestern University. His main composition teachers were Augusta Read Thomas, Amy Williams, and Jay Alan Yim. His works have been programmed by prominent music organizations including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Series, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Philharmonie de Paris, San Francisco Symphony, Ojai Music Festival, New World Center, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and the Fromm Music Series at Harvard University. Past honors include the American Academy of Art

Marcos Portugal

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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 for his operas. Biography Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal was born in Lisbon. He studied music at the Patriarchal Seminary in Lisbon where, as a 14-year-old student, he wrote his first work, a Miserere. He later worked as composer and organist at the Patriarchal See, and was maestro at the Theatre of Salitre in Lisbon from c. 1784. He lived in Italy from late 1792 to 1800, possibly funded by the prince regent D. John, the later King John VI of Portugal. He wrote 21 operas for various Italian theatres. The first, I due gobbi (also known as Confusioni della Somiglianza), premiered in Florence in the spring of 1793. His version of The Marriage of Figaro, titled La pazza giornata, ovvero Il matrimonio di Figaro (The Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro), to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi, premiered in Venice in 1799. Like most theatre composers of the time, Portugal set several librettos that had proven successful for earlier operas, such as Metastasio’s Demofoonte (premièred at La Scala, M

Marcos Soares Pereira

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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 in Caminha most probably at the end of the 16th century, as the son of João Soares Pereira and Maria Lourenço Rebelo. Little is known about his musical studies and when or where he was ordained priest. In 1624 Pereira was admitted as chaplain-singer at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Braganza, the most important title in the peerage of Portugal in the middle of the 17th century. In 1629 Pereira replaced Robert Turner (c. 1578-1629) as mestre de capela. After the overthrow of the Philippine Dynasty on 1 December 1640, which had ruled Portugal since 1580, João, Duke of Braganza became king and the ducal chapel moved from Vila Viçosa to Lisbon. In 1641, after the retirement of Filipe de Magalhães, Marcos Soares Pereira was appointed mestre da Capela Real, a position he held until his death in 1655. Musical work None of Pereira’s musical work survived to the present day, most likely due to the Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755, with the destruction of

Marcus Österdahl

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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 most sought after session musicians in Sweden. They were the “house-band” in the monthly TV-Show Drop-In backing most artists in the show and were also the support act for the Beatles on their first tour of Sweden in 1963. Musical career After leaving The Telstars in 1966, Österdahl mainly devoted his talent and time to working as an independent arranger/producer for the major record companies. Many well-known Swedish acts were accompanied by Marcus Österdahl’s Choir & Orchestra, with about 30 tracks reaching number one on the charts. Among Österdahl’s hits as an arranger is “Du är den ende”, the title track from singer Lill Lindfors’ 1967 gold album. That same year, Marcus Österdahl composed, together with producer Curt Pettersson and lyricist Patrice Hellberg, the Swedish entry “Som en dröm” for the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. Due to the constant demand for time in recording studios, Österdahl developed an interest in the business operation of these highly technical facilities

Marcus Paus

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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 works, solo works, concerts, orchestral works, operas, symphonies and church music, as well as works for theatre, film and television. Paus is regarded as “one of the most celebrated classical composers of Norway” and “the leading Norwegian composer of his generation.” Paus has said he considers himself to be a “musical dramatist” or storyteller. He grew up in Oslo’s Røa borough. His grandfather, General Ole (Otto Cicin von) Paus, was head of the army group in the military intelligence service of the exile Norwegian High Command in London during the Second World War, one of the founders of the Norwegian Intelligence Service and later the highest-ranking Norwegian in NATO’s Command Structure in the 1970s; he was born and raised in Vienna to the Norwegian Consul-General Thorleif (von) Paus and a Viennese mother, Gabriele (Ella) Stein, whose family had converted from Judaism to Catholicism. Ella’s father, the Viennese lawyer August Stein (1852–1890), left the Jewish Community of Vienna in 1

Marek Kopelent

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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 most-published Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century. After studies in Prague, he worked as a music editor. In 1959 he became interested in European avantgarde music and incorporated its developments in his style. He received international recognition when his String Quartet No. 3 was performed at festivals throughout Europe. He co-founded and directed a contemporary music ensemble in Prague, Musica Viva Pragensis, and composed chamber music for them. He studied further for one year in West Berlin on a scholarship by Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. When he returned, politics had changed to censorship of contemporary music; he lost his job, and his music was banned. For 15 years, he worked as an accompanist at a music school, and composed pieces for foreign commissions that he could not hear being performed. In 1989, he was able to return, and was appointed professor of composition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He was chairman of the Czech section of th

Marek Stachowski (composer)

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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 1974. Personal life and education Stachowski was born March 21, 1936, in Piekary Śląskie and died in Kraków on 3 December 2004. Stachowski spent the first three years of life with his parents in the Silesia province of Poland. However, after the start of World War II, he traveled with his mother across Poland to Bydgoszcz, where the composer’s father was hiding from the Nazis. In 1952, Stachowski began attending the piano classes given by Stanisław Czerny at the State First Level Music School in Kraków. In 1959, at the State Second Level Music School he obtained a diploma in piano on a “fast-track” basis, and also in 1960 in the theory of music. In 1962 he married Maria Jabłońska. From 1963 to 1968, Stachowski studied composition under Krzysztof Penderecki and music theory at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków (today known as Academy of Music in Kraków), from which he graduated with honours. During his studies at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków (today known as Academy

Marga Richter

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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 American soprano Inez Chandler (1885–1956) and a German army captain, Paul Richter. She studied piano at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis with Irene Hellner and with Helena Morsztyn in New York City. She entered the Juilliard School of Music in 1945 and studied composition with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti and piano with Rosalyn Tureck, graduating with a BS and then MS degree in 1951. Richter was the first woman to graduate from Juilliard with a master’s degree in composition. After completing her studies, she taught music appreciation at Nassau Community College from 1971 to 1972, and later began working as a composer full-time. Richter composed several works for the Harkness Ballet in the early 1950s. Her music was also performed, recorded, and produced on numerous albums by MGM recordings at this time. During the 1970s, two of Richter’s large-scale orchestral works Landscapes of the Mind I and Blackberry Vines and Winter Fruit received significant performances, and s

Margaret Bonds

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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 States, she is best remembered today for her popular arrangements of African-American spirituals and frequent collaborations with Langston Hughes. She was the first African American woman to perform with the all-White and all-male Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the first African American women to have her music broadcast on European radio, the first African American woman to have her music performed widely in Africa, only the second African American woman in classical music to be elected to full membership in ASCAP, and the first woman, Black or white, to win three awards from ASCAP. Life Family background Margaret Jeanette Allison Majors was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 3, 1913. Her father, Monroe Alpheus Majors, was an active force in the civil rights movement as a physician and writer. His work included founding a medical association for black physicians who were denied membership in the American Medical Association on the basis of race. As an author, Majors is known for his b

Margaret Brouwer

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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 at Oberlin College, graduating in 1962, and received her master’s degree from Michigan State University. Having started her musical career as a professional violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Symphony, she went on to earn her DMA in composition from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Donald Erb, Harvey Sollberger, Frederick A. Fox, and George Crumb. From 1996 to 2008 Brouwer served as head of the composition department and holder of the Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is now professor emeritus at CIM. Brouwer was in residence at the Wellesley Composers Conference in 2002 and at the MacDowell Colony in 2001, and was a Norton Stevens Fellow there in 1999. She served as Composer-in-Residence at Indiana University in 2004. In 2004 Brouwer was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2006, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in music. In 2010 she received a Meet The Composer Commissioning/USA aw

Margaret Drynan

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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 University of Toronto in 1943. She studied with Arthur Benjamin, Madeline Bone, Michael Head, E. Kelvin James, James Campbell McInnes, Molly Slater and Healey Willan. She was a long-time member of the choir at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Toronto, also singing with the Tudor Singers and the Toronto Bach Choir. She was choirmaster and organist for Holy Trinity Church in Oshawa. From 1960 to 1969, she was music supervisor for the Oshawa elementary school board and, from 1969 to 1981, was music consultant for the Durham District School Board. From 1983 to 1990. she was choirmaster and organist for t. Matthew’s Anglican Church in Oshawa. Drynan died in Oshawa at the age of 83. References

Margaret Garwood

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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 life, at age 35. Garwood became best known for her operatic adaptation of literary works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, including The Scarlet Letter and “Rappaccini’s Daughter”. She also composed works for instrumental chamber ensembles, orchestras, and other vocal ensembles. Many of her works were commissioned by the Pennsylvania Opera Theater. Death Margaret Garwood died on May 3, 2015, in her home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, at age 83, from acute heart failure. # Cliff’s Edge, Songs of a Psychotic for Voice & Piano (1970) ## Squizophrenia ## Hebephrenia ## Panic ## Breakdown ## Asylum # Haiku Zoo, For Chorus (1975) ## The Whippoorwill, a semi-madrigal ## The Scarecrow, a quasi invention ## The Frog, an antiphonal trifle ## The Dragonfly, lament for a dead child ## The Cow, a fugue ## The Cat, a pseudo-oratorio # Homages, for Piano Trio (1975) # Rainsongs, for Chorus & Orchestra (Part of Choral Trilogy) (1992) ## When that I was a little tiny boy ## All day long the rain has fallen ## What lips

Margaret Lucy Wilkins

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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 twelve. She studied composition at Trinity College of Music in London with Gladdys Puttick and continued her education at the University of Nottingham where she earned her BMus. She continued studying composition there with James Fulkerson and earned her AMusD in 1995. Her compositions have been performed in Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK, and the US. Wilkins taught music theory and piano in St. Andrews from 1964 to 1976, and lectured on composition and women in music at the University of Huddersfield from 1976 to 2003. She also taught at Queen’s University in Belfast as Maude Clarke Visiting professor in 1995. Wilkins co-founded the Scottish Early Music Consort (1969) and later founded the new-music ensemble Polyphonia (1989), serving as music director from 1989 to 1993. She has been a member of professional organizations including the executive committee of the British

Margaret Purcell

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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 teacher Jane Dudley. Education Margaret Purcell studied piano with pianist and composer Katherine Heyman between 1927 and 1928, who was a proponent of the music of Alexander Scriabin. and her mother Hermine Dudley was the first women motorist to drive across the United States. Hermine took her daughter Margaret on a trip abroad in 1938, taking several weeks to explore the fjords and roads of Norway and Sweden. Margaret’s later marriage to Richard Purcell was short, due to an accident. conducting the American Chamber Music Ensemble. This concert also included works by Vincent d’Indy and Richard Arnell. This event also featured choreography by her sister Jane Dudley, and took place at Studios 1 and 2, The Place. Purcell’s setting of text demonstrates a wide interest in authors including Rabindranath Tagore, Langston Hughes, Walter De La Mare, Otomo no Yakamochi and the Hindu mystic Lalla. Selected works References

Margaret Rizza

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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 into a musical family, where her mother played piano and her father was the organist for his local parish church. She attended the Royal College of Music from age 17 to study piano, at which she admits she was not particularly proficient. However, she soon switched to studying singing, and completed her training first at the National School of Opera in London and then at Siena and Rome in Italy, after which she pursued a career as an opera singer, using the name Margaret Lensky, for 25 years. During this time she sang at many of the leading venues for opera, working with conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky. * Choral Works (Mysterium amoris) Gaudete Ensemble, Eamonn Dougan. Naxos References

Margaret Rosezarian Harris

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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, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and 13 other cities’ orchestras. Early life and education Margaret Rosezarian Harris was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Dewey Harris, a railroad mechanic, and Clara Townsend Harris, a dressmaker. At age 3, she was recognized as a musical prodigy, and gave her first piano recital at Chicago’s Cary Temple Auditorium, performing more than twenty short pieces from memory. She toured the United States as a child performer until age 6. At age 10, after performing a movement from Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20 (on November 17 and December 1, 1953) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and moved there with her mother. Her father didn’t come to Philadelphia, and he stayed in Chicago. Harris and her mother visited him. Career In 1970, she took over the role of musical director for the Broadway production of Hair, conducting an orchestra of seven older

Margaret Ruthven Lang

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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 performed by a major American symphony orchestra, when her now-lost Dramatic Overture was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1893. Life Early life and education Margaret Lang was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1867. She was the eldest child of Frances Morse Burrage Lang, an amateur singer, and Benjamin Johnson “B. J.” Lang, active as a conductor, pianist, organist and composer. Her father was a central figure in Boston’s musical life, and as the city’s leading choral conductor, he founded two choral societies: the Apollo Club and Boston Cecilia; as an organist he was closely associated with the Handel and Haydn Society and a number of city churches. These connections through B.J. permitted Margaret’s music to be regularly included in the programs of these ensembles. The Lang family home was a center of cosmopolitan music-making, hosting many of the period’s most eminent musical figures, including Hans von Bülow, Antonín Dvořák and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. As B.J. wa

Margaret Scoville

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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 York, Buffalo, where she participated in the university’s Evenings for New Music as a Creative Associate Graduate Fellow and composer. Her teachers included Morton Feldman, Ramon Fuller, Lejaren Hiller, and William Kothe. Scoville’s piano pieces were recorded by George Skipworth on LP EDUCO 3097. *Pentacycle References

Margaret Sutherland

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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 Sutherland, a journalist and writer and member of a prominent Scottish-Australian family. The painter Jane Sutherland was her aunt and the physicist and mathematician William Sutherland was her uncle. Her sister, Ruth Sutherland was a painter and writer. Her first piano teacher was another aunt, Julia Sutherland (1861-1930), a pupil of Louis Pabst, a German émigré then considered to be Melbourne’s leading piano teacher (himself a pupil of Anton Rubinstein, and Percy Grainger’s first teacher). The Four Temperaments (orchestrated by Robert W. Hughes in 1964), concertos for various instruments (including violin), a symphonic poem entitled Haunted Hills (1953), and the chamber opera The Young Kabbarli (1964; libretto by Maie Casey). A severe stroke in 1969 ended her composing career. Despite the emphasis on non-vocal works in her total output, one of Sutherland’s most recognised pieces is “In the Dim Counties” (1936) for voice and piano accompaniment from Five Songs. Sutherland sets her music

Margaret Vardell Sandresky

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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 Music Theory (SMT) as well as its first female contributor. Sandresky’s first organ lessons were with her father. She earned a BM from Salem College in 1942 and a MM from the Eastman School of Music in 1944, then got a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt, Germany in 1955. Sandresky’s teachers included Harold Gleason, Howard Hanson, Kurt Hessenberg, Bernard Rogers, and Helmut Walcha. She married Clemens Sandresky in December 1956 and they had three children. Sandresky taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Salem Academy and College. She served as the organist at Home Moravian Church, First Baptist Church, and Centenary Methodist Church in Winston-Salem. Sandresky has received commissions from the American Guild of Organists, the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the North Carolina Music Teachers Association, and the Reynolda House Museum

Margaret Wigham

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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. Her pieces often had an educational focus such as chromaticism, counterpoint, learning to play in different keys, or using each hand independently. Her works were published by Oliver Ditson Co., Willis Music, Harold Flammer Inc, Belwin Inc, and R. D. Row. They were also published in Braille and made available through the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. Her compositions include: Orchestra *Concerto for Two Pianos Piano *Bachette *By the Little Mill *Carefree *Fun with a Hoop *Gay Caprice *Happitat *Hop Along My Little Froggie *In the Chapel *Introduction and Sonatina *Just Before Dawn *Little Prelude *Merrily Over the Waves We Go *Musical Moods in All Keys *Musical Playmates *Now It’s Time to Run and Play *O So Happy *Old Cowboy Trail *On Swan Lake *Puppet Mischief *Rhapsody *Scampering Whole Steps *Scherzino Vocal *“I Wonder Where the Robins Go?” (words by Margaret Wigham and Wilma Wigham) References

Margareta Hallin

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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 voice has been described as a coloratura soprano. She was considered to have the talent required for the international scene, but she chose to stay in Sweden. Her opera roles in the 1950s to 1970s included the blind poetess in Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s Aniara, Anne Trulove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, the title role in Verdi’s La traviata, Therese in Lars Johan Werle’s Drömmen om Thérèse, and the Queen Mother in Georg Joseph Vogler’s Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe. Hallin also performed in Glyndebourne, Florence, Vienna, Hamburg, Moscow, London and Copenhagen, as well as making a tour in the Soviet Union. In the mid-1980s, she started composing music. Encouraged by composer Eberhard Eyser, she made her debut in 1986 with poems set to music. The poems were by Nils Ferlin, Harry Martinson, Werner Aspenström and Alf Henrikson – she performed a medley of these in the Drottningholm Palace Church. She was elected as a member of the Swedish Society of Composers in 1990 and was awarded the h

Margareta Xenopol

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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, on 28 January 1892. Romanian opera singer Elena Cernei recorded several of Xenopol’s songs. Works Her compositions include: *Autumn Song *Blue Cigarette Smoke *(The) Days Pass, But the Love Remains *Four Romances *I Am Watching You *I Love Like I Never Loved *Romances without Music *Three Romances *Why Do I Dream? *You Forget Romance References

Margarete Schweikert

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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 Frog King. Biography Schweikert was born in Karlsruhe, the only child of Friedrich and Luise Petry Schweikert. Her father sold insurance and was also a music critic for Neue Stuttgarter Musikzeitung and Karlsruher Blätter. He gave Schweikert her first violin lessons. Her mother played piano and helped her family manage the Jakob Petry Jewelry Store. Schweikert attended the Munz Conservatory and the Baden Conservatory (today the Baden University of Music). She changed her name to Voigt-Schweikert, but continued to publish her music and writing under the name “Margarete Schweikert.” Works Schweikert wrote music criticism for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Karlsruher Tagblatt, Münchner Zeitung, and Neue Musikzeitung. In 1950 Schweikert became an expert advisor for music at the Karlsruhe Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Künstlerinnenvereine (GEDOK; Association of German and Austrian Female Artists). From 1955 until her death in 1957 she served as the director of GEDOK. Schwei

Margarethe Danzi

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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 others Mannheim, and it was possible that the family was on tour in Frankfurt on the date of her birth. She was the daughter of the singer, actress and dancer Magdalena Brochard Marchand and Theobald Hilary Marchand, director of the National Theatre of Mannheim. Margarethe studied music and composition in Munich with Franziska Lebrun and in Salzburg with Leopold Mozart. She apprenticed in supporting roles and debuted in 1787 at the age of 12 at the Mannheim Court Theater, performing the title role in The Youth by Johann Jakob Engel. In 1790, she married conductor and composer Franz Danzi, and performed with him as prima donna of the troupe Domenico Guardasoni on European concert tours. After 1796, Margaret also performed as prima donna at the Munich Court Theatre. She died in Munich of pulmonary disease. Works List of works *Six Sonatas for Keyboard (ca. 1786) — lost (Leopold Mozart unsuccessfully tried to make Torricella publish these sonatas) *Three sonatas for pianoforte with violin

Margaritis Kastellis

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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 still played Greece today. He was born in Chrysoupoli (a city in northern Greece) and died in Athens. He joined the Greek Army at an early age, as a musician, and upon completion of a full career, he left with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, having served as Chief Inspector of Military Bands nationwide. Selected works Compositions For orchestra *Introduction and Round Dance from Epirus *Prelude and Dance from Epirus *Greek Dances (on motives taken from Greek Island tunes) For military band *Introduction and Round Dance from Epirus *On the Mountain Slopes of Zagori *The Booted Eagle *Thessaly (march) Chamber music *Little Suite for clarinet and bassoon *Elegy for two clarinets Piano music *Greek Dances *Little Greek Suite (4 hands) Songs *Listen to my Secret *The Hazelnut Tree *The Sailor *The Shepherdess’ Lover *The Heart of a Woman (for 4 voices) Arrangements and transcriptions For Orchestra *Little Lemon Tree *The Zalongo Dance *Vassiliki (Gives the Orders) *Farewell, ye Fair Maids *

Marģeris Zariņš

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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, cantatas, oratories and operas; contemporary picaresque novels and short stories. He is considered to be the first representative of the Postmodern style in Latvian literature. Biography His father was a choir conductor, organist and organ builder. He completed his primary education at , by which time he was already performing as an organist. After 1925, he attended the then, in 1928, studied organ, piano and composition at the Riga Conservatory. He slowly gained recognition as a composer while working as a teacher and a librarian. Following the Soviet Occupation, he was appointed musical director at the Dailes Theatre (1940–1950), and served as chairman of the Latvian Composers’ Union (1951–1952, 1956–1968). He was also the Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra for the 1951–1952 season. Although he was forced to compose in the acceptable Soviet musical styles, he attempted to experiment whenever possible. Toward the end of the 1960s, he turned to writing. In 1969, the journal

Margriet Ehlen

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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 instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for voice set poetry to music. To this end she has utilized texts by Gerrit Achterberg, Anna Bijns, Emily Dickinson, She studied composition with Gerard Kockelmans, Willem de Vries Robbé and Robert Heppener, piano with Bart Berman and Kees Steinroth and choir conducting with Jan Eelkema. and written about the composer Jean Lambrechts. Many of her works were published by Donemus, a not-for-profit Dutch publishing house that promotes contemporary classical composers. Some others were published by the Rieks Sodenkamp publishing house in Maastricht. Selected works * 1979 Cyclus I, five songs for voice and piano on poems Martin Boot * 1980 Three songs for voice and piano on texts by Martin Boot * 1984 Palimpseste, for songs on poems by Wiel Kusters for mezzo-soprano and piano * 1988 And send the Rose to you, ten songs for choir on texts by Emily Dickinson

Margriet Hoenderdos

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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 studies in composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Ton de Leeuw, and worked in the electronic studio at the Conservatory. In 1985 she ended her studies and received a Prize for Composition. After completing her education, Hoenderdos worked as a composer and taught music privately and at the music school in Zwolle. After 1987 she worked as full-time as a composer. Composition style Hoenderdos’ works are characterized by a rigorous methodological approach that rarely appears in contemporary Dutch music; a “radical research into the essence of sound”. The relationships between various aspects of sound determine the structure of her works, creating not abstract but vital, colourful and even obstinate music. Hoenderdos does not let her emotions or experiences influence her compositions. Since the early 1990s her exclusion of non-musical factors is also reflected in her titles, which are simply the month and year in which they were written. Maart ‘98 (1998), for string quartet, relies hea

Margrit Zimmermann

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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 orchestra. She was awarded the Jubiläumsstiftung der Schweizerischen Bankgesellschaft award in 1986, female composer awards from the city of Unna and the city of Kassel, and an award from the Japan International League of Artists in Tokyo in 1989. Life Zimmerman was born in Bern on 7 August 1927. She studied piano there under Jeanne Bovet and composition under Walter Furrer. Zimmermann trained as a conductor under Ewald Körner in Bern and took master courses from Igor Markevitch in Monte Carlo and Hans Swarowski in Ossiach. She taught music for several years and worked as a conductor. She studied composition with Aurelio Maggioni and Umberto Rotondi and at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where she received her diploma in composition in 1978. She also studied opera conducting under Umberto Cattini. In 1973, Margrit Zimmermann established an orchestra in Bern. She received the Jubiläumsstiftung der Schweizerischen Bankgesellschaft award in 1986, female composer awards from the cit

Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt

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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, Vincent d’Indy and Maurice Emmanuel. She married ethnologist Raoul d’Harcourt and afterward researched South American and Canadian folk music, publishing texts in collaboration with him. She also collected and published folk melodies from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and other countries in standard European notation. She died in Paris. Life Marguerite Béclard was born in Paris in 1884, the third child of Marie-Louise Simonard and Jules Béclard, dean of the Faculté de Médecine. She studied at the Schola Cantorum de Paris: the organ under Abel Decaux, composition under Vincent D’Indy, a co-founder of the school, and counterpoint under Maurice Emmanuel, who helped grow her interest in the music of Ancient Greece and in popular music. In 1908 she married Raoul D’Harcourt, and subsequently followed him to Peru for business in 1912, and again in 1918. In 1925 they published an ethnomusicology book from their travels to Peru, titled La Musique des Incas et ses survivances. This research would partly

Marguerite Canal

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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 music and poetry. She studied singing and piano at the Paris Conservatoire in 1911, and after completing her work there, became a teacher at the Conservatoire. In 1917, she became the first woman in France to conduct an orchestra. Works Canal composed mainly for voice and instrument performance and was noted for songs. Selected works include: *Don Juan, drama, 1920 *Requiem, 1921 *Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1922 *Le Jardin de L’Infante (A. Samain) *Nell (Leconte de Lisle) *Ici bas tous les lilas Meurent (Sully Prud’homme) *Douceur du Soir (G. Rodenbach) *Un grand sommeil noir (Verlaine) *Ecoutez la chanson bien douce (Verlaine) *Il pleure dans mon coeur (Verlaine) *Amours triestes, song cycle *Tlass alka, opera, (begun in 1922 but was never completed) Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including: *Marguerite Canal (1890-1978) Songs, Sonata for Violin and Piano References

Marguerite de Pachmann

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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 pianist Vladimir de Pachmann and French lawyer Fernand Labori. Early life Anna Louisa Margaret Okey (or Oakey, or O’Key) was born in Pipeclay Diggings, New South Wales, the daughter of William Okey and Anna Maria King Blade Okey. She began learning to play the piano in Australia, but focused her training in England, while still a young child. She studied with Henry Wylde and Ferdinand Praeger at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1882, she heard Vladimir de Pachmann play in concert, and went to Germany to study with him. They married in London in 1884. Career Okey began her professional music career in London, and touring in Britain. After marriage, she returned to performing in 1887, in Berlin. She toured in the United States in 1890, and again in 1892. In widowhood after her second husband’s death in 1917, she wrote and taught piano, and gave a rare recital in 1930 in London. Personal life Okey married Vladimir de Pachmann in 1884; they had two sons together, Adrian and Leonide, befo

Marguerite Melville Liszniewska

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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 Charles W. Melville and Mary Theresa Hughes Melville. Her parents were both musical; her father, an organist, was born in Scotland, and her mother, a singer, was born in Canada. Her parents were also both opera singers, and her father was also a well known theatrical composer who later in life was an “advance man” for other well known opera performers. Her paternal grandfather Francis Melville was a pianoforte maker in Glasgow, Scotland. Her brother Frederick (b. 1864 d. 1944) was also an accomplished musician and multi instrumentalist who could play “any instrument he could pick up.” Frederick built his own violin, and family lore has it that he used to play organ concerts at St Patrick’s Cathedral for a dollar admission. She went to study piano and composition in Berlin at age 15, with Ernst Jedliczka and O. B. Boise, and later in Vienna with Theodor Leschetizky. “It is such a beautiful thing to study music,” she said in an interview, “Artistic things get so easily crowded to the wall or

Marguerite Monnot

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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 music for the stage musical Irma La Douce. Career She was classically trained by her father and at the Paris Conservatory (her teachers included Nadia Boulanger, Vincent d’Indy, and Alfred Cortot). Monnot made the unusual switch to composing popular music after poor health ended her career as a concert pianist at the age of eighteen. Soon after, she wrote her first commercially successful song, “L’Étranger”. In 1935, she met Édith Piaf, and in 1940, they became a female songwriting team, remaining friends and collaborators throughout most of their lives. Monnot worked with lyricists such as Raymond Asso, Henri Contet, Georges Moustaki, and collaborated with musicians and writers including Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand, Boris Vian, and Marlene Dietrich, who gathered in Piaf’s living room regularly to play and sing. In 1955, she achieved major success with her setting of Alexandre Breffort’s book, Irma la Douce, which was translated into English and had long runs in London and on Broadway

Marguerite Olagnier

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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 Egypt with her husband Eugène Olagnier, it is believed that she wrote both words and music of an “exotic opera” in four acts, , It was staged at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris on 18 December 1881 and was later performed by Victor Capoul, an Opéra-Comique tenor. References External links * Le Sais digitized online by GoogleBooks * Henson, Karen: “Victor Capoul, Marguerite Olagnier’s Le Sais, and the Arousing of Female Desire”, in Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 52, no. 3 (October 1999), pp. 419–463.

Marguerite Roesgen-Champion

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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 and piano, as well as chamber and choral works. As a pianist she performed several piano concertos by Mozart and Haydn. On harpsichord she performed compositions for harpsichord by Jean-Henry d’Anglebert and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. Roesgen-Champion founded a concert series entitled Suites Française which was used a showcase for students of distinction from the Paris Conservatory. Life Marguerite Sara Roesgen-Champion was born on 24 January 1894 in Geneva. She was a composer, pianist and harpsichordist, and used the pseudonym Jean Delysse. Roesgen-Champion’s mother was singer Cecile Roesgen-Liodet, so Marguerite received her first music lessons at home. She studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, notably piano with Marie Panthès, and composition with Ernest Bloch and Jaques-Dalcroze. Roesgen-Champion died 30 June 1976 in Paris. Works * Sonata for Flute and Keyboard * Blue and Gold Story, piano with 4 hands * French Suite for flute and harp * Domine not in Furore for mi

Mari Takano

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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 generation”. Education Takano completed four years of music instruction at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in her native Tokyo, including a composition course with Mutsuo Shishido and, in 1983, lessons with Yoriaki Matsudaira and Jo Kondo. From 1983, Takano began to study in Germany with Brian Ferneyhough at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (Freiburg University of Music), and in 1986 Takano had private lessons with Morton Feldman. Takano’s initial reputation in Europe was made while she served as pianist, keyboard player and composer with the contemporary music ensemble Hamburg Consort—later Chaosma—in which she participated with fellow Ligeti students Manfred Stahnke, Hans Peter Reutter, Hubertus Dreyer and Sid Corbett. Career Takano resettled in Japan permanently in 1994, and since then Takano has taught at the Shobi Conservatory in Tokyo, the Toho Gakuen School of Music and, from 2004, at the Joshibi Daigaku. Takano has also conducted, and participated in, music courses in the United Sta

Mari Vihmand

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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 Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. 1995–1997, she studied at Lyon Conservatory of Music in France. while her music language is often described as poetic and expressive, with an emphasis on balancing the emotional and rational aspects. Her finely crafted sound qualities distinguish her music from others. Her orchestral piece “Floreo” was awarded first prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 1996, in the under-30 category, showcasing her early international recognition. Works * Laul õnnelikust Corydonist ja Phyllisest (for sopran and chamber ensemble, 1992) * Sinfonie (1993) * Lugu klassist (chamber opera, 1995) * Armastuse valem (opera, 2008) References

Maria Anna Stubenberg

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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. Biography Maria Anna Herrin und Gräfin Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels was born in Graz, Austria, to Gustav Adolf Josef Christian Felix Herr und Graf von Stubenberg and Maria Franciszka Freiin von Staudach. She married Johann Remekhazy von Gurahoncz on February 15, 1840, and Friedrich Graf von Zichy de Zich und Vásonykeö on February 22, 1848. Her married names were 1stly Remekhazy von Gurahoncz, 2ndly von Zichy de Zich und Vásonykeö and 3rdly Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels. Works Stubenberg lived in the Hungarian parts of the Austrian Empire as a child, and used Hungarian and Romani folk tunes in her compositions for voice, piano, and zither. using texts from folksongs and writers such as Eugen Graf Aichelburg, Rudolph Baumbach, William Bosworth, Friedrich Ferdinand, Graf von Beust, Emanuel von Geibel, Heinrich Heine, and Nikolaus Lenau. Her music was published by Josef Eberle and Wiener Musik Verlagshaus (later F. Roerich & Co.). Selected works include: *In mein gar zu dunkles Leben, op. 63 (T

Maria Bach

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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 Robert Bonaventura Michael Wenzel von Bach and Eleonore Josepha Maria Theresia Auguste Bach. In 1897, she moved with her family to the castle, Leesdorf, in Baden, Austria. Bach’s father, Robert, was an attorney, painter, and violinist. Her mother, Elenore, was both a singer and composer who performed under the conductors Gustav Mahler and Johannes Brahms. Maria had two older sisters, Theresa and Katharina, and a younger sister, named Henriette. Theresa wrote poetry that was put to Bach’s music. Katharina married into a highly aristocratic family. Henriette was a solo cellist. Marie took piano lessons at the Musikschule Grimm in Baden and at the age of fourteen began violin lessons. Early music Maria Bach began private piano lessons at the age of five with a faculty member at the Grimm School of Music. She would later take lessons with Paul De Conne in 1912. At the same time, she also began violin lessons with Jaroslav Suchy of the Vienna Opera. On Sundays Maria and Henriette were allowed

Maria Baptist

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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 orchestra musician and composer, her father himself is a pianist. Maria discovered very early her fascination for music and at the age of six she began playing the piano. At the age of eleven she composed her first pieces. Maria developed her desire to become a classical concert pianist. At the age of fifteen Maria listened to recordings of Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett and discovered for the first time the world of jazz and improvisation. Impressed by the musical expression, Maria felt that she had to continue on this path. She began studying piano at the music university in Berlin and won her first international piano competitions on improvisation. During this period, the Berlin Wall fell, which meant a great personal change in Maria’s life. She took the opportunity to move to New York. Here Maria experienced the freedom, space and magic, which opened up whole new musical worlds to her. Maria’s artistic work was significantly influenced and inspired by the tremendous creativity, energy, l

Maria Brizzi Giorgi

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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 for Napoleon when he passed through Bologna in 1807. Haydn, Muzio Clementi and Leopold Kozeluch dedicated works to her. She taught music and was member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. Biography Maria Brizzi Giorgi was born on the 7 August 1775 in Bologna, into a musical family and began to perform in public at an early age. Brizzi married Luigi Giorgi in 1793 and opened a salon, continuing to perform as a pianist in Europe. She was admired as a performer, and Haydn, Muzio Clementi and Leopold Kozeluch dedicated works to her. A military march composed by Brizzi was performed for Napoleon when he passed through Bologna in 1807. She taught music and was member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. Brizzi died in Bologna after childbirth at the age of 36. Giordani wrote a funeral elegy for her, Elogio funebre, and recounts that shortly before her death she got up to improvise at the piano, asking her sister, who was also a pianist, to record her last composition. References

Maria Carolina Wolf

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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 Frederick II, her aunt Anna Franziska Hattasch was a chamber singer and her uncle Georg Benda was conductor, both with appointments at the court of the Duke of Gotha. Wolf received piano and singing lessons from her father. Before her appointment at the court, Benda had looked after her father’s household because of the death of her mother in 1758. However, in 1761 she went on a concert tour with her father to Gotha, Weimar and Rudolstadt, during which her father remarried. At the Weimar court, Maria Benda met the Hofkonzertmeister Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, who received an appointment at the Duchess’ court in 1768. Two years later the couple were married. In 1775 Anna Amalia handed over the business of government to her son Carl August. Ernst Wilhelm Wolf remained as conductor under his reign, and Maria continued working as a singer. The Duchess developed an interest in theater, introduced in 1776 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maria Wolf worked in the plays as an actress and singer and with her h

Maria Cattarina Calegari

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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 became a published composer in 1659, at the age of 15, with the release of her book of motets, Motetti à voce sola. Life and career Cornelia was born at Bergamo. On 19 April 1661, she took her final vows as a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan, taking on the religious name of Maria Cattarina. Her career began in a golden age of female musicians and composers in Italian convents and she became one of the most famous, drawing crowds from near and far. These performances garnered her the title, La Divina Euterpe, in reference to Euterpe the muse. Calegari wrote complex musical compositions, producing multiple masses for six voices with instrumental accompaniment, madrigals, canzonettas, vespers, and other sacred music. Furthermore, she was known for conveying great emotion in her work at a time when most music was devoid of such expression. In 1663, Archbishop Alfonso Litta and the Catholic Church silenced this musical era with orders not to produce or perform musi

Maria Chefaliady-Taban

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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 carturarului Urechia (Scholar Urechia’s Ring Dance). She performed Bach, Schumann, Beethoven and Greig as a concert pianist, and taught singing. Students of Chefaliady-Taban include Mircea Stefanescu. Life Chefaliady-Taban was born in Iaşi and studied at the Iaşi Conservatory, studying piano with Anetta Boscoff and theory and solfege with Enrico Mezetti. Chefaliady-Taban was offered a scholarship to stay another year in Vienna, but was homesick for Romania. On her return to Bucharest she married Vasile Taban, a cashier at the Ministry of Finance, but the couple divorced after five years. After completing her studies, Chefaliady-Taban performed as a concert pianist, debuting on 11 November 1880, and performing works by Bach, Schumann, Beethoven and Greig. Works Chefaliady-Taban’s style has been called romantic, and she incorporated folk-lore into her compositions. She composed choral works and songs. Selected works include: *Hora carturarului Urechia (Scholar Urechia’s Ring Dance) chora

María de Baratta

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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 of Indigenous heritage. Baratta published the first ethnomusicological study of indigenous music of El Salvador. Baratta first studied piano with her mother and, from the age of six, solfège with Agustín Solórzano. Enrolling at the Conservatorio de Música de El Salvador , Baratta studied under Maria Zimmerman and Antonio Gianoli. Baratta continued her studies in Italy at the Bologna Conservatory, and in the United States at Arrillaga Musical College under Vicente de Arrillaga. Career Between 1926 and 1938 Baratta engaged in an active performing career; she also represented the country at various folkloric congresses. During her career she was a member of the Athenaeum of El Salvador, the Salvadoran Academy of History, and the Union of American Women. In 1962 she was elected a Woman of the Americas. She composed a handful of works during her career, only a few of which were published; they include the ballet El Teocalli, Canto al Sol, Ofrenda de la Elegida, Los Tecomatillos, Nahualismo,

María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui

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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 with her family when she was nine years old. She studied with Joaquin Zuazagoitia in Santiago de Compostela and continued her studies in the Conservatorio Real in Madrid. She studied with Louis Diemer and Jules Massenet in Paris and with Vincent d’Indy. After completing her education, she worked as a composer and pianist, giving concerts with Pablo Casals. Her music was performed in Paris and in Cuba. She died in Madrid. Works Selected works include: *Serenata Española *La Peregrinacion de Childe Harold *Poemo sinfonico *En el Campo de Waterloo *La vida de sueño, opera *La infancia *Danzas Cubanas *Seranata andaluza *Ballade guerriere ecossaise (text: Sir Walter Scott) *A une femme for voice and cello She also published an essay La etica y la estitica en la obra musical. References

Maria de Lourdes Martins

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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 Maria Helena Martins. Martins studied at the Lisbon Conservatory with Abreu Mota, Macário Santiago Kastner and Marcos Garin where she would obtain degrees in piano in 1944, and composition in 1949. . She continued her studies in composition with and Jorge Croner de Vasconcellos. here she would learn about Orff-Schulwerk, a child centered music education approach which she would take to Portugal and introduce there. While in Munich she would meet Professor Genzmer who made her aware of the education program. Genzmer also made her aware of the Gulbenkian foundation which funded the Orff-Schulwerk program in Portugal. She would continue her education by acquiring a scholarship from the Gulbenkian foundation and would learn the Kodaly method in the country of Hungary.After completing her studies, Martins took a position teaching at the Lisbon Conservatory. She introduced the Orff-Schulwerk system from the Salzburg Mozarteum in Portugal, and won the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Composition

María Dolores Malumbres

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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 music with her violinist father Jose Luis Malumbres and in Cordoba in 1948. She later studied with Fernando Remacha at the Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music, and at the Zaragoza Conservatory of Music. After completing her studies, Malumbres began to work as a choir director and to teach music privately. From 1984–87 she taught harmony and analysis at the Music Conservatory of Logroño. She began to compose in 1953, and the next year premiered her String Quartet. She also taught at Pablo Sarasate Conservatory of Music in Pamplona. Malumbres married and raised a family, then again studied music for 1980-87 with Carmelo Bernaola, Luis de Pablo, Luigi Nono, Pedro Espinosa, Agustín González and Albert Sarda Acilu. Malumbres is a member of the Association of Women in Music, and her works have been performed internationally. Her biography was published in 2009: Ruiz, Blanco, C., The music keys Dolores Malumbres M. Works Selected works include: *Divertimento in D, for Violoncello solo (2007) *Diver

María Escribano

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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 Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Antón García Abril and Roman Alis. She continued her studies of contemporary music with composers Carmelo Bernaola, Cristobal Halffter and Tomas Marco, analysis with Rodolfo Halffter at the Festival de Granada, Mauricio Kagel and Ligeti Giorgy at Darmstadt and Cologne, Luis de Pablo in Madrid, Arturo Tamayo in Freiburg, and orchestration and composition with Leonardo Balada at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. After completing her studies, she lived in Avila and worked as a composer and music educator. In 1978 she received a scholarship to create the Foundation Juan March, and became composer-in-residence for three years at the Roy Hart Theatre Company in France, where she also worked as pianist and actress. She collaborated with pianist, musicologist, and singer Ana Vega-Toscano for the Spell of Robin Hood and directed Creation Center AGAD in Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila, with actor and director Manuel Azquinezer. Escribano was active as a mu

Maria Frances Parke

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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 the oboist and composer William Thomas Parke. She is known to have played the harpsichord for a concert in 1781. with whom she is sometimes confused. As soprano soloist, Parke performed at the Handel Commemorations, at the Hanover Square Rooms, and at the Salomon concert series (1791–1795) in which Joseph Haydn also participated. Haydn directed a symphony at one of her benefit concerts. Her compositions, performed at the Vauxhall Gardens, included keyboard and vocal works. The Three Grand Sonatas for the piano forte with additional keys, op. 1, were published in 1799. In 1815 she married John Beardmore, following which she retired from music. She died in London in 1822. Works Selected works include: *A Divertimento and Military Rondo for the Piano *Grand Sonata in F Major for Solo Piano *Grand Sonata in E-flat Major for Solo Piano *Grand Sonata in D Major for Solo Piano References External links *

Maria Grenfell

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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 Christchurch, New Zealand, where she graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master of Music degree. She subsequently went to the US, where she completed a Master of Arts at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, while also lecturing in music there. While in the USA she was taught by Stephen Hartke, Erica Muhl, James Hopkins, and Morten Lauridsen in Los Angeles, and Joseph Schwantner and Samuel Adler in Rochester, New York. In 2020, Grenfell composed the score for the ABC documentary Quoll Farm. It was recorded with performers from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She also wrote the score for Simon Plowright’s documentary, Living With Devils, in 2023. As of 2021, she is an associate professor at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania. Winner of the Tasmanian State Award for Ten Suns Ablaze in 2013, and Spirals in 2018 at the Australian Art Music Awards. Personal l

María Grever

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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 “Cuando vuelva a tu lado”), which was popularized by Dinah Washington and has been covered by numerous artists. Early life María Joaquina de la Portilla Torres was born to a Spanish father (Francisco de la Portilla) and Mexican mother (Julia Torres) in León, Guanajuato. For the first six years of her life she lived in Mexico City, moving to her father’s natal city, Sevilla, in 1891. She studied music in France, with Claude Debussy and Franz Lenhard among her teachers. In 1900, she moved back to Mexico and continued her musical studies at her aunt’s solfège school. In 1907, the then 22-year-old de la Portilla married Leo A. Grever, an American oil company executive, and in 1916 became a U.S. citizen and moved to New York City, where she lived for the rest of her life. Career Grever wrote more than 1000 songs — the majority of them boleros — and her popularity reached audiences in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She was said to have possessed perfect pitch and wrote most of

Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes

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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 from the Brazilian Conservatory of Music of Guanabara State in piano and from the Superior School of Music Santa Marcelina in composition and conducting. After completing her studies, Fernandes worked as a choral conductor and music teacher at conservatories and published research on indigenous Brazilian music. Her works have been performed internationally and won awards including the 2006 Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for Opera for Marília de Dirceu. Works Selected works include: *Prelúdio *Valsa *Cantilena *Canto de Maricatu *Marília de Dirceu, opera Her compositions have been recorded and issued on CD, including: *Brasileira: Piano Music by Brazilian Women (2003) Centaur Records References

Maria Hester Park

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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 the Duchess of Devonshire and her daughters. Biography Before her marriage, Maria Hester Park gave four well-received performances, mostly in the Oxford area, on both the piano and the harpsichord. Her first public appearance was at the age of twenty-two as Maria Hester Reynolds in the Hanover Square concert series with a concerto on the harpsichord. She played a Clementi duet with Jane Mary Guest on 29 April 1783, a concerto at Willis’s Rooms in March 1784 and a performance as Mrs Park (“late Reynolds”) in May 1791. she ended her career as a performer, although she earned even more fame as composer and teacher. Her marriage appears to have been happy; several of her husband’s love poems to her still exist. She corresponded with Joseph Haydn, who, on 22 October 1794, sent her a sonata of his composition (Hob. XVI:51) and a thank you letter in exchange for two of her pieces. She died in Hampstead, London at the age of 53, after many years of ill health. The Parks had five daughters and a

Maria Hofer

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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 organ, and within a few years was permitted to participate in church services as organist. Maria Hofer’s later musical education took place at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she studied piano teaching. She also began an organ study, but soon resigned because she did not get along with her teacher. According to Maria Hofer’s Curriculum Vitae written in 1966/1967 and other auto/biographical documents her tutors included Franz Schmidt, Hermann Graedener, Ernst Ludwig, and Richard Stöhr. Her ability to improvise at the organ was fostered by the organist of St. Stephan’s Cathedral, Victor Boschetti; she began to compose in earnest during the First World War. One of Maria Hofer’s non-performing roles was to advise the Viennese publishing-house Universal Edition about organ works; she herself described the post as important for her musical development, since it brought her into contact with many prominent artistic figures, including Maurice Ravel, Alexander Zemli

Maria Lamburn

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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 1978–80 * Goldsmiths College 1980–83 * Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1983-84 Career Lamburn’s debut album Murmur, funded by the Arts Council of England, was recorded for the jazz label Babel Label in 1999. Her next two albums, Heaven on Earth (2006) and Taith Amser (2006) are of songs; Taith Amser received a Creative Wales award, Arts Council of Wales to tour these albums with imagery by photographic journalist Rhodri Jones. After graduating from Goldsmiths and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her compositional output included scores dealing with experimental graphics, minimalism, sonic collage and visual arts improvisation, Maria won the Cornelius Cardew Prize for Composition, in 1982. Her style includes idiosyncratic in rhythm, line and harmony, and is characterised by an interest in perception which has led her to find potentials for interaction, response, and interpretation – such as field research at the Greenham Common anti-nuclear campaign (1986), setting up a wome

Maria Linnemann

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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 was born in Amsterdam but grew up in England. She studied piano, violin, and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1966 to 1970. She moved to Germany in 1971, working as a music teacher. Among her compositions are musicals for children and music for puppet theatres. Her main publisher is Casa Ricordi. External links * * “Musik ist meine Sprache” - Maria Linnemann im Interview (interview, in German) egta.ch March 2022

Maria Luigia Pizzoli

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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 February 1817. Her parents had her educated well, and she became known for her intelligence. She was fluent in Italian and French, and she enjoyed history including art history. She studied music under the teacher . After being taught by Pilotti for 18 months, she wrote her first prelude. also taught Pizzoli the piano. Career Pizzoli was a well-known pianist in Bologna, and she later began to compose her own pieces. She wrote an overture, and later a symphony in 1836. Her first public appearance was in 1837 when she was invited to the Società del Casino di Bologna headquarters to perform on the piano with a well-regarded harpist. At the festival, Pizzoli played one of her works with the support of . She suffered from a heart disease. Death Pizzoli’s father, with approval from his daughter during her last year, gave money as a prize to students who composed the best fugue. The prize was considered to be innovative because women could also receive it. She died on 13 January 1838, at 20 years ol

María Luisa Escobar

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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 1985) was a Venezuelan musicologist, pianist, composer, and caricaturist. She founded the Caracas Athenaeum in 1931. She also served as president of the Venezuelan Red Cross (Valencia, 1921; Caracas, 1922–23). Early life and education María Luisa González Gragirena was born in Valencia in 5 December 1903, the daughter of Henrique A. González and Maria Gragirena y Mijarez de González. At the age of five, she entered the Colegio de Lourdes where she began to study piano. A year later, she composed her first piece titled “Blanca, la niña Angélica” (Blanca, the girl Angélica). At the age of eight, she travelled with her parents to Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, and entered the Welgelegen Habaai School where she studied French and English in addition to piano, violin, and musical composition, concluding with a Baccalaureate in 1917. With this union, she had another son, Toney Escobar González. With Saluzzo, and the musician/composer Pedro Antonio Ríos Reyna, in addition to other artists, sh

María Luisa Ozaita

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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 Ozaita Marques was born in Barakaldo, Vizcaya, in Spain. She studied with Fernando Remacha, and continued her studies in Copenhagen with Leif Thybo and K.J. Isaksen through a MFA exchange scholarship. She also studied harpsichord in France with Kenneth Gilbert and at Darmstadt in Germany. Ozaita performed internationally in Europe, North America and Eastern Europe, and her compositions have also been performed internationally. She lectured on music history, and published professional articles in magazines including Confutatis and OpusMusica and in the book Women in Music by Patricia Adkins Chiti. Ozaita also collaborated on the Spanish edition of Women in Music. She was a member of the La Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País and was the founding president of the Spanish Association of Women in Music. Works Ozaita composed mainly chamber and symphonic works, but was also known for guitar compositions. Selected works include: *Pelleas et Mélisande, opera with text by Pablo Neruda *Prelu

María Luisa Sepúlveda

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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 of philosophy and languages at the Lyceum, and poet Maira Mercedes. She graduated from secondary studies at the Lyceum for Girls. She went on to study at the National Conservatory of Music with Bindo Paoli for piano, José Varalla for violin and Luis Esteban Giarda and Domingo Brescia for harmony, counterpoint and composition. She graduated with a piano degree in 1905, and in composition in 1918, then took a position as professor of piano at the National Conservatory where she worked until 1931. After leaving the Conservatory, she taught harmony and folklore at the Vocational School for Arts Education in Santiago. She died in Santiago. Works Sepúlveda composed many works based on Chilean folk music, and also texts for use in music education including “Método de Guitarra” and “El amigo del niño” for beginning piano students. Selected works include: *La Voz del Pasado *Cancionero Chileno * Estudio Sinfónico y Greca for orchestra (1932) *Canción de las Corhuillas y Trutruka for orchestra (1

Maria Margherita Grimani

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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 Vienna court theater. She may have lived at the noble court for periods between 1713 and 1718; however, she was not employed at the court as a musician. She may also have been one of a number of women composers at the Viennese court who were canonesses, a type of Augustinian nun; others included Caterina Benedicta Grazianini, Maria de Raschenau, and Camilla de Rossi. She was born Maria Margherita Vitalini, and married Giovanni Andrea Grimani (1672 - 1723), Doctor of Law, lawyer and lecturer at the University of Bologna from 1696 until his death. He wrote several legal works as well as some poetry and a wedding song for the marriage of senator Piriteo Malvezzi, Marquis of Castel Guelfo, and the Marquise Artemisia Magnani in 1696. Maria Margherita Grimani’s known works include an opera, specifically a componimento dramatico or opus dramaticum, which may or may not have been staged, Pallade e Marte, dedicated in Bologna on April 5, 1713, and first performed at the imperial theater on the nam

Maria Newman

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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 composer. Maria holds the Louis and Annette Kaufman Composition Chair and the Joachim Chassman Violin Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture in Malibu, California. She is also a founder of the Malibu Friends of Music. Her compositions span a wide range of genres, including large-scale orchestral works, ballet pieces, chamber music, choral and vocal works, and collaborative scores for vintage silent films. Newman has been recognized for her contributions with numerous awards and commissions. She has received musical commendations from the United States Congress (2009), the California State Senate (2009), the California State Assembly (2009), the City of Malibu (2010), and the Annenberg Foundation (2011). Life and career Maria Newman is the youngest child of nine-time Academy Award-winning composer and conductor Alfred Newman and former Goldwyn Girl and businesswoman Martha Louis Montgomery. She is part of the Hollywood Newman family dynasty, known for its musical contr

Marià Obiols

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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 Liceu in Barcelona from its founding in 1847 until his death. A protégé of Saverio Mercadante, he composed three operas, the cantata Il regio imeneo which inaugurated the Liceu theatre, art songs, chamber music, and several pieces of sacred music. His vocal music was largely Italianate in style, reflecting his years of study in Italy as well as the influence of Mercadante. As a professor at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, Obiols influenced the development numerous singers, composers, and conductors and wrote books on piano and solfège methods which became standard texts at the conservatory. Notes References External links *Score of Divertimento for Flute, Clarinet and Piano by Obiols at the International Music Score Library Project

Maria Rodrigo

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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 piano, Valentín Arín for harmony and Emilio Serrano for composition. Maria was the first woman to have her opera performed in Spain. Her sister Mercedes Rodrigo was equally intelligent, being the first woman from Spain to obtain a degree in psychology from the Rousseau Institute in Geneva. The two left Spain for Switzerland during the Spanish Civil War, moved in 1939 to Bogotá, Colombia, at the invitation of rector Agustín Nieto Caballero, and in 1950 to Puerto Rico at the invitation of José María García Madrid. With Pablo Casals, Rodrigo founded the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. She died in Puerto Rico in 1967. Maria was one of the few composers that addressed the composition of zarzuelas, a genre of Spanish music. Early life Background and early life The environment that Maria Rodrigo had growing up was very cultured, and her childhood consisted of being surrounded by high intellects. She acquired her first musical abilities from her father and then piano with Jose Trago and composit

Maria Rosa Coccia

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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 S. Filippo Neri, in defiance of a tradition that women were not allowed to attend the event. After passing the examination for the Roman Accademia di Santa Cecilia, she was admitted to the academy. Life Maria Rosa Coccia was born in Rome on 4 January 1759 and studied with Sante Pesci. At the age of 13, Coccia composed six sonatas for harpsichord and the oratorio Daniello, which was performed the same year in the Oratory S. Filippo Neri, in defiance of a tradition that women were not allowed to attend the event. In 1716 Pope Clement XI had decreed that anyone practising music in Rome must enter the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and pass the exam to become Maestro di Capella. At 16 Coccia passed the exam and received the title, but because of her gender was never allowed to execute the duties of the position, though her music was performed. Her examination piece was hic vir despiciens mundum, and was ‘widely acclaimed’. In 1780 Maestro di Cappella Francesco Capalti of attacked Coccia’s exami

Maria Rosa Ribas Monné

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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 Sant Cugat del Vallès in Catalonia. She studied music at the Conservatory of Barcelona, where she obtained the titles of piano, guitar, solfeo and composition. She was awarded an Honourable Mention for Fugue and the honour prizes of Piano, Chamber Music, Harmony and Composition. She was a disciple of the masters Sofia Puche, Josep Poch, Xavier Montsalvatge and Antoni Ros Marbà, among others. From Carles Guinovart she received knowledge of contemporary music, and with Paul Schilhawsky she specifically worked on the accompaniment of the lied. She also has expanded her training with numerous courses and seminars by renowned musicians such as Rosalyn Tureck, Dimitri Baskiroff, Frederic Gevers, Paul Badura Skoda or Witold Lutoslawsky. In 1980, she won the composition award Francesc Basil de Figueres, and in 1998 the 1st prize in the Caterina Albert composition award, in the name of L’Associació Catalana de la Dona, and in 2009 she won the 1st prize in the Concurs de Dones Compositores de Sant

Maria Szymanowska

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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 virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in Saint Petersburg. In the Russian imperial capital, she composed for the court, gave concerts, taught music, and ran an influential salon. The salons in 18th-century France were intellectual gatherings held at home by educated women. In 1837, the composer and music critic Robert Schumann defined salon music as elegant light music and stated that this type of social music should sound beautiful, delicate, and fashionable. Szymanowska was highly praised by Schumann for her salon music works, especially her etudes. Her compositions—largely piano pieces, songs, and other small chamber works, as well as the first piano concert etudes and nocturnes in Poland—typify the of the era preceding Frédéric Chopin. She was the mother of Celina Szymanowska, who married the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz. Biography Marianna Agata Wołowska was born in Warsaw, Poland,

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini

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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, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written for keyboard, the voice, or both. Life Maria Teresa was born in Milan to Pietro Agnesi, a member of the lesser nobility. He provided early education for both Maria Teresa and her more famous older sister, Maria Gaetana, a mathematics and language prodigy who lectured and debated all over Europe while her sister performed. It was this education that allowed for Maria Teresa to fulfill her passion for music. Maria Teresa was married to Pier Antonio Pinottini on 13 June 1752, and they settled in a district populated by intellects and artists, but eventually suffered severe financial ruin. Pinottini died not too long afterwards. Maria Teresa died in Milan in 1795. Career Maria Teresa had several famous performances, perhaps the most famous on 16 July 1739, when famous French traveller Charles de Brosses was very impressed by her music. He was not the only one; Count Gerolamo Riccati wrote several letters praising her compositions

María Teresa Lara

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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 aunt was Refugio Aguirre del Pino. Her elder brother was Agustín Lara, who was a songwriter and composer, singer and actor. Her sister-in-law was María Félix, mother of actor Enrique Álvarez Félix, who appeared in many telenovelas. She worked with Agustín on several songs and married Nicanor Guzmán Guerrero (1909 – 1992). Some of Agustín’s songs were copyrighted in her name. Works, editions and recordings * Me dejaste * Valencia * Toledo – recorded on recital ¡Ay, ay, ay! References

Maria Teresa Luengo

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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 of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini. In 1973 she was awarded a scholarship that allowed her to continue her studies in electro-acoustic music with Francisco Krópfl, Gerardo Gandini, Femando Von Reichenbach, Gabriel Bmcyc, and Peter Maxwell Davies at the Center of Art and Communication (CAYC). During this time she was invited to participate in a year-long seminar on contemporary music during which she composed The Book of Mirrors. From 1974 to 1975 she taught at the University of El Salvador, and in 1984 began teaching composition at the National University of La Plata. From 1972 to 1993, she also taught at the Municipal School of Fine Arts Carlos Morel of Quilmes. In 1990 she designed the curriculum for study in Electroacoustic Music at the National University of Quilmes and worked as director and professor of composition within the program. Honors and awards *First pri

María Teresa Oller

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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 music, highlight it, and make it known in numerous publications. Oller was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. Biography María Teresa Oller Benlloch was born in Valencia in 1920. She studied at the and obtained the “Extraordinary Prize” in the disciplines of piano and composition. Manuel Palau was her teacher in composition, choir and orchestra conducting, musicology, and music pedagogy, and she became a favorite disciple. She followed Palau’s advice and furthered her music studies with Professor Ernet Jarnack, with the Walker Wagenheim Orchestra and with the choral specialist, Rafael Benedito. In 1954, she obtained a grant from the to perfect her composition studies. Highlights of her early works include the research carried out in the Vall d’Albaida region where Oller visited all the towns while collecting songs such as the fandango of El Palomar or the dances of Bèlgida. She also did extensive work in the Ribera Alta comarca documenting the music of

Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón

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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 after twenty years renewed her interest. She studied piano with Joan Gibert and Carles Pellicer, counterpoint and fugue with Josep Poch and composition with Josep Soler. She also took classes on twentieth-century music with Carles Guinovart. Personal papers (scores) of Maria Teresa Pelegrí are preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Works Selected works include: *Praeludium und Tiento for organ (1975) *Quatre chansons sentimentales: “Le coucher du soleil romantique”, text Charles Baudelaire; “L’heure exquise”, text of Paul Verlaine; “Autome” sic for “Automne” , text by Guillaume Apollinaire; “Saisir”, text by Jules Supervielle *Per a Viola i Piano *Duetto for Cello and Piano *First String Quartet (1974) *Second String Quartet (1984) *Third String Quartet *Tocatta for nine *Passacaglia for Wind, bass, percussion *Variations for orchestra *Tragic poem for orchestra, inspired by La casa de Bernarda Alba of Federico García Lorca *Sinfonietta for wood and string orchestra *Concerto for Vi

María Teresa Prieto

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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 largely forgotten after her death. She studied with pianist and composer Saturnino del Fresno in Asturias. In 1931, she moved to Madrid where she studied with Benito de la Parra at the Conservatory of Madrid. During this time, she was introduced to modal music which greatly influenced her later works. Exile In 1935, Prieto’s mother died, leaving her alone in Spain. Prieto went to stay with her brother Carlos in Mexico in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. During her first years in Mexico, Prieto studied with composer Manuel Ponce. She also studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, California, in 1946 and 1947. She returned to Spain briefly in 1958 to receive the Samuel Ross prize for Modal Quartet, but never returned to live there. Death In 1982, Prieto’s health deteriorated. She died on January 24th, 1982, in Mexico City. Compositional style During her early music education, Prieto was introduced to the works of J. S. Bach and baroque counterpoint. While studying with Ro

Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt

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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 Regensburg, Maria Theresia was the eldest child of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1704–1773) and his third wife, Princess Maria Henriette Josepha of Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (1732–1772). She was a younger half-sister of Karl Anselm, 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis and niece of Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis. She grew in a cultural environment at the princely court in Regensburg, which was a centre of French, German and Italian opera, theatre, ballet, pantomimes and concerts. She was instructed in clavecin playing with her sisters and displayed an early talent of music composition. Maria Theresia was engaged to Prince Joseph of Fürstenberg (1758–1796) from 1772 until her affair with an elderly German Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1702–1781) in 1776. Her family, however, refused permission for her to marry Philipp. In 1780 in Prague, she married the Danish noble Count Ferdinand of Ahlefeldt-Langeland (1747–1815), against the will of her family. This marriage against t

Maria Theresia von Paradis

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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 Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major. She was also in contact with Salieri, Haydn, and Gluck. Early life Maria Theresia Paradis was the daughter of Joseph Anton Paradis, Imperial Secretary of Commerce and Court Councilor to the Empress Maria Theresa, for whom she was named. The Empress, however, was not her godmother, as was often believed. Between the ages of 2 and 5 she lost her eyesight. She received a broad education in the musical arts from: * (music theory and composition) * Leopold Kozeluch (piano) * Vincenzo Righini (singing) * Antonio Salieri (singing and composition) * Abbé Vogler (music theory and composition). By all accounts, Paradis had an excellent memory and exceptionally accurate hearing, as she was widely reported to have learned over sixty concertos by heart, as well as a large repertoire of solo and religious works. In 1773 she was commissioned to perform an organ concerto by Antonio Salieri which survives but without its second movement. By 1775, Paradis was performing as a

Maria Vespermann

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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 Gorres and Maria Arndts. Vespermann was born in Munich to the actor Wilhelm Vespermann and singer Clara Metzger Vespermann. She showed musical talent at an early age, and appeared in her first public concert when she was only 12 years old. Vespermann married the Catholic historian and poet Guido Görres in 1844. They had three daughters before Görres died in 1852. In 1860 she married jurist Carl Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg in Vienna. and her prose was published by Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. Music Her publications include: Piano *Aus den Bergen, opus 8 *Bunte Reihen kurzer Klavierstücke, opus 6 *Four Hand Pieces, opus 5 *Hail Springtime (chorus and piano) *It’s Lovely in Spring (women’s chorus and piano) *Praise the Lord (chorus and piano) *Sacred Songs, opus 3 *Song Cycle ( text Friedrich Wilhelm Weber’s Dreizehnlinden) *Thanks be to the Lord (chorus and piano) *We are the Blacksmiths (men’s chorus and piano) Prose *Dramas for the Christian Home *Juhschreih on the Halseralm *Mozart as a

Maria Xaveria Perucona

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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 from 1675, and is a set of eighteen motets. Biography Perucona was born in Novara in 1652. Her parents were Carlo Parruchono and his wife Margarita. She was of aristocratic birth, as were many of her fellow nun-composers such as Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. She grew up in an aristocratic family that ensured her education in singing, playing instruments and general music. She studied with her uncle, Francesco Beria, and teacher, Antonio Grosso, before she took her vows at age 16 as an Ursuline nun in the Collegio di Sant’Orsola in Galliate, near her hometown of Novara. In 1675, her only work, Sacri concerti de motetti a una, due, tre, e quattro voce, was published in Milan and dedicated to Anna Cattarina della Cerda, who had previously made monetary gifts to Sant’Orsola. In the dedication, Perucona describes the ‘little work’ as ‘the first-born child of my poor genius’. References External links * HOASM: Maria Xavier Perucona * Artemisia Editions Maria Xaveria Perucona * Free scores by Ma

Maria Zubova

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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 the daughter of Vice-Admiral Warrior Yakovlevich Rimsky-Korsakov. She was married to Afanasy Nikolaevich Zubov (1738–1822), Governor of Kursk from 1782 to 1791. With her husband, on June 19, 1780, they moved into an estate located near Murom, Vladimir Oblast, regarded as one of the most ancient cities within Russia. Composer Zubova was the creator of heartfelt poems and a composer of salon songs during the late 18th and was considered by the Russian Writer Daniil Mordovtsev as one of the “literary daughters of Lomonosov and Sumarokov.” Only a small portion of her musical work was published, the majority being published in Saint Petersburg during 1770. She was also a minor translator of French literature, although her work remains unpublished. She is most recognized for her folksong “I am moving to the desert…” written in 1791, whose words are now commonly used within the Russian vernacular. The second line of the first stanza is used, e.g., “From the beautiful places here,” to denote a

Marian Arkwright

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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 Music degree (in 1895), and the first woman to earn a doctorate in music, which she gained in 1913. Arkwright worked as an orchestral musician, composer and conductor, and received a prize for an orchestral work from The Gentlewoman. Life Marian Arkwright was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England on 25 January 1863, a descendent of Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the Spinning Jenny. Her brother was the musicologist Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright. Arkwright studied piano with Bernhard Althaus (1831–1917) and also took piano lessons from Charles Hallé. She also studied double bass with Charles Henry Winterbottom and composition with J.S. Liddle, organist at Newbury. She was awarded the L.R.A.M. in 1891, earned a Bachelor of Arts in music at Durham University in 1895, and a doctorate in music at the same university in 1913, After completing her studies, she worked as an orchestral musician and composer and conducted orchestras including the Newbury Amateur Orchestral Union. In 1906 she rece

Marian Dora

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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 back to the early 90s, when he started making short films as member of a group of anonymous underground filmmakers. Some of these short films were featured on two anthologies, Blue Snuff 1 and Blue Snuff 2 (the latter withdrawn due to its extreme content). These anthologies would later be released in the form of various standalone short films. Dora then started working as film producer, editor, and second unit director on several films by Ulli Lommel, whom he had met and started a long-time partnership with in 1996, including Zombie Nation (2004), Green River Killer (2005), B.T.K. Killer (2005), Killer Pickton (2006), and Absolute Evil (2009). Although Dora had already shot his first feature-film, Debris Documentar, in 2003, his debut as director was marked in 2006 by Cannibal, a reconstruction of the case of Armin Meiwes, who killed and ate a willing victim whom he met on the internet. The film was originally an assignment from Ulli Lommel, but Dora had to release it by himself after its

Marian Grudeff

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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, Grudeff studied piano under Mona Bates and performed Liszt’s Hungarian Fantasy with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11. Career Grudeff gave her first solo recital at the Eaton Auditorium. She performed extensively in Canada and the United States in the 1940s, and taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music from 1948 to 1952. In 1950 she was the musical director of the Toronto theatrical revue Spring Thaw; she continued to be involved with the show during the 1950s and early 1960s, directing, writing songs for the show with Ray Jessel, Grudeff and Jessel subsequently collaborated on songs for the Broadway musical Baker Street; they moved to New York City, where the show ran more than 300 performances and received mixed reviews. They also worked together on music for a new version of Hellzapoppin, which was staged in Montreal during Expo 67, and they cowrote the musical Life Can Be - Like Wow, which was produced at the Charlottetown Festival in 1969. Grudeff returned to the Royal Co

Marian Hadenko

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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 of Ukraine (1999). Biography He was born on September 15, 1955, in the town of Storozhynets near Chernivtsi. He spent his childhood and youth in Storozhynets, where he studied at a music school, and Chernivtsi (where he moved from Storozhynets after graduating from the 8th grade of secondary school No. 1). After completing his military service in the Baltic Fleet of the USSR Navy, in 1977 he began his service in law enforcement agencies in Chernivtsi as an inspector for juvenile affairs. During his service in the police, he graduated from Chernivtsi University in 1982 with a degree in economics. After the death of TV presenter Tamara Shcherbatiuk, who was the author and host of the program “Nadvechirya”, the program “Nadvechirya. Fates”, hosted by Marian Hadenko, began airing. In recent years, he worked, created and lived in Kyiv. He died in Kyiv on the morning of December 3, 2021, of a heart attack. He was buried on December 5, 2021, in Storozhynets next to the grave of his son Volodym

Marian Sawa

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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 of Music in Warsaw, Poland in Feliks Rączkowski’s organ class and Kazimierz Sikorski’s composition class. As a pedagogue he worked in Warsaw music education at the higher and academic level: J.Elsner Music School, K.Szymanowski Music School, F. Chopin Music Academy and Kardynal Stefan Wyszynski University (theoretical and practical musicology). He toured as a soloist and an accompanist around the country and abroad. He recorded many LPs and CDs for such companies as Polskie Nagrania, Veriton, Polonia Records, Arston, DUX, and Acte Preable. He was awarded many composition prizes, including First Prize at the Young Composers Competition ZKP(for Assemblage for orchestra), as well as civil prizes and distinctions (the prizes of the Ministry of Culture and Art, and the Ministry of National Education). Compositions Sawa composed around 1,000 pieces, including instrumental, vocal and vocal-instrumental works. He was a well-known and prolific organ composer (i.e. five organ concerts, sonatas, fa

Mariana Ingold

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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 internationally. Mariana has recorded dozens of records of songs, music for children and instrumental music. She has composed music for theater presentations as well as for many educational videos of Uruguay, Brazil, the United States and Spain, receiving various prizes in recognition of her work. Well known in her country for her involvement with environmental organizations, Mariana has the honor to be the godmother of OCC (Organization of Conservation of the cetaceans https://www.waittfoundation.org/copy-of-aida (whales and dolphins) of the South Atlantic and the River de la Plata). She has made a recording of her children songs (“El Planeta Sonoro”), for the benefit of Aldeas Infantiles SOS, the international orphans’ organization. Mariana is also the creator of healing spaces through individual and group singing (“Sonando y Sanando”, “Afinando el Instrumento”). She has done workshops for actors, dancers, therapists, musicians and educators, as much in Uruguay as in Spain. She also has created m

Mariana Villanueva

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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, Federico Ibarra, Julio Estrada and Daniel Catán and continued her preparation at Carnegie Mellon University, under Leonardo Balada and Lucas Foss, where she received her Bachelors (1992) and Masters (1995) degrees in Music Composition. Since 1987, her works have been performed in Mexico, and occasionally in The United States (New York, New Mexico Indiana, and Pittsburgh) by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Carnegie Mellon Trio and The New Mexico String Quartet. In Europe her music has heard in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. Mariana Villanueva has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award (1999); The MEXICO/USA Rockefeller, FONCA/BANCOMER Prize (1995, 1996); and some other rewards from FONCA (1993, 1997) and Carnegie Mellon University. She has been written works for the Carnegie Mellon Trio (1993), The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (1996); and The Ensamble Cosmopolitano of Berlín (2002). She also has collaborated for the Carnegie Mellon Drama Department under

Marianella Machado

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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 Lamas. She later continued her studies in composition with William Banch, and in 1981 she attended Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington on a Venezuenlan government scholarship, graduating with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition. Marchado returned to Venezuela, where she began work as a music teacher and composer. From 1987-88 she was a research assistant at the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies in Caracas. From 1989-93 she attended the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music, working as a teaching assistant, and graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1993. In 1994 Machado began pursuing an interest in Spanish as second language and Hispanic literature. She attended the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Cincinnati on assistantship where she graduated with a Master of Arts in 1996 and a PhD in Hispanic Literature in 1998. From 1998-2003 she worked as a professor at the Universidad Católica

Marianna Bottini

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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 classical music in the 19th century. She was born, lived, and died in Lucca. She was the daughter of a noble family, born to parents Sebastiano Motroni-Andreozzi and Eleonora Flekestein. Bottini studied counterpoint with Domenico Quilici and was admitted to the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna in 1820 as an ‘honorary master composer’. The majority of her compositional output dates from 1815-1822 (between the ages of 13-20). She subsequently stopped composing at the age of 22 in 1824, after she married the Marquis Lorenzo Bottini, a prominent political figure. Life and work Bottini is well known for at least one clarinet concerto, written for a clarino. Her surviving manuscripts, including her clarinet concerto, are preserved at the Istituto Musicale Luigi Boccherini in Lucca (in the Bottini collection). This includes several chamber works for various instruments, including a quadrino for two violins, clarino, and bass. Reproductions of scores and parts may be made available upon request. S

Marianna Liik

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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 electroacoustic works and theatre music. Her special interest is the sound world that is created by combining the acoustic and electronic means of expression. Liik’s compositions have been performed at various festivals in Estonia and internationally, including in the United States, Poland, Germany, Russia, Australia, Switzerland, and China. In 2019, she was selected for the Roche Young Commissions programme associated with the Lucerne Festival Academy. Her commissioned work Kurzschluss premiered on 1 September 2019, at the Lucerne Festival by the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra under conductor Ruth Reinhardt. Liik’s choral works have been performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Collegium Musicale in collaboration with the Rascher Saxophone Quartet. Her works have been performed at festivals including the Estonian Music Days, AFEKT Festival, Baltic Music Days, and Ung Nordisk Musik. Reception Liik’s music has been noted in critical writing for its focus on timbre, texture, a

Marianna Martines

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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 paternal grandfather was a Spanish soldier who had settled in Naples. Her father, Nicolo Martines, grew up there and for a time pursued a career as a soldier. He later changed careers, serving in Vienna as Maestro di Camera (major-domo) at the papal nuncio; that is, the Pope’s embassy to the Austrian Empire. For service to the Empire, Marianna’s brother Joseph in 1774 acquired a patent of nobility, hence the “von” in the family surname. In his youth in Italy, Nicolo had befriended the poet Pietro Trapassi, who wrote under the name Metastasio. The latter had risen in eminence, to the point that in 1730 he was called to Vienna to serve as the Poet Laureate of the Empire. Metastasio resided with the Martines family for the entire rest of his life (from about 1734 to 1782). His presence would prove crucial to Marianne’s career. The Martines family lived in an apartment in a large building on the Michaelerplatz in Vienna, “a stately building still standing in the Kohlmarkt”, the so-called “Al

Marianne Sessi

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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 the musical Sessi dynasty and a renowned operatic soprano who performed and composed as Marianne or Marianna Sessi. She toured internationally throughout Europe, and was awarded a gold medal by the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Life Sessi was born in Rome to Franziska Lepri and Giovanni Sessi, who were both singers, as were Sessi’s four younger sisters Imperatrice, Anna-Maria, Victoria, and Carolina. She toured internationally, singing throughout eastern and western Europe, Russia, and Scandinavia from 1817 through until 1836. Compositions Sessi was best known as a singer, but she also composed canzonettas which were published by Breitkopf & Hartel. Her vocal compositions include: *“Amare un Infedele Veder si Abandonare” *“Di Puri Affeti Miei” *“E Dunque Vero” *“Ecce Quel Fiero Instante” *“Nasce Nel Vago Aprile Porporea Rosa” *Nocturne (two voices and piano) *“Non t’Accostar a l’Urna” *“Placido Zeffiretto” *“Sempre piu t’Amo” *“Stanco di Pascolar le Pecorelle” *Ten Canzonettes *Thre

Mariano Bolognesi

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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. Biography Bolognesi was born in Arequipa on , being baptised at the El Sagrario Parish on the same day. It is likely that he and Francisco participated in the Liberal Revolution of 1854, as he was ascended to Lieutenant colonel in 1855, following the Battle of La Palma. See also * Francisco Bolognesi References

Mariano Garau

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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 Allori and studied harmony and counterpoint with Rodolfo Cicionesi in Florence. Music He wrote romances for soprano and tenor, children songs, masses and motets for choir. Across forty years of artistic activity he directed many choirs. His recordings include “The Lamentations of Jeremiah” by Thomas Tallis and the “Missa Pange lingua” by Josquin des Prez. For the Jubilee Year, he recorded the “Responsorii della Settimana Santa” by Tomás Luis de Victoria. He collaborated with the Banda Sinfonica Stanislaus Silesu for performance and recording (national premiere) of the Requiem by Frigyes Hidas at the Teatro Comunale in Cagliari. In February 1999 he recorded twenty-four of his compositions in collaboration with Centro Universitario Musicale di Cagliari. In 2000 he won important awards in Rome. His works became part of the repertoire of numerous Italian and foreign choirs. He often collaborated with writer and music critic Natalia Di Bartolo. As a composer and choir conductor Garau worked to

Mariano Mores

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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 section of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1918. Mores left this orchestra in 1948 to form his own, which made its debut at the Presidente Alvear Theater. Pianist, composer and conductor, Mariano Mores established himself as one of the leading tango performers. Together with Enrique Santos Discépolo, he authored such classics as Uno (1943), Sin palabras (1946) and Cafetín de Buenos Aires (1948). Mores and José María Contursi wrote En esta tarde gris (1941), Tu piel de jazmín (1941), Grisel (1942) and Cristal (1944). He co-wrote La calesita (1953) and El patio de la morocha (1951) with Cátulo Castillo, Una lágrima tuya (1949) with Homero Manzi and, Cuartito Azul (1939) with Mario Battistella. Mariano Mores took part in several musical films together with such stars as Delia Garcés, Osvaldo Miranda, Virginia Luque and Hugo del Carril. He starred in the 1949 films Corrientes, calle de ensueños, and La Doctora quiere tangos with Mirtha Legrand. For the 1953 film La voz de mi ciudad he composed one

Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma

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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. He was a disciple of Francisco Javier García, “el Españoleto”, and was influenced by Italian music. Works Songs Spanish Canción fúnebre, (s.a.,1819?), RL 30 Los cantos del trovador, (s.a., 1809?), RL 31 Delio a la ausencia de su amada Nise (s.a., 1810?), RL 32 O sí o no (s.a., 1810?), RL 33 El pescador (s.a., 1810?), RL 34 El pescador (s.a., 1814?), RL 35 La persuasión, s.a., 1831?), RL 36 El propósito inútil (s.a., 1810?), RL 37 Las señas de amor, (s.a.), RL 38 El sueño de mi amor (s.a., 1810?), RL 39 Ya tengo dueño (s.a., 1810?), RL 40 Italian Amo te solo, te solo amai, (s.a., 1825?), RL 41 Aria e vocalizzio, (s.a., 1827?), RL 42 Il capriccio (s.a., 1815?), RL 43 Ch’io mai vi possa, (s.a., 1825?), RL 44 Clori mia bella Clori, (s.a., 1815?), RL 45 Da quel sembiante appresi, (s.a., 1825?), RL 46 Dov’e il mio bene, (s.a.,1825?), RL 47 Un fanciullin tiranno, (s.a., 1815?), RL 48 La felicità (Der Glückliche), (s.a., 1815?), RL 49 In te spero o sposo amato, (s.a., 1825?), RL 50 La nebbia,

Marianus Königsperger

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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, organist and Catholic Monk of the Benedictine Order. Works * Vocal music ** 33 Cantilenae sacrae for voices, 2 Violins and Organ op. 1, Lotter, Augsburg 1733 ** 10 Missae solemnes and 2 Missae pastoritiae such as 1 Veni Sancte Spiritus op. 1, Lang, Regensburg 1740 ** 8 Offertories op. 2, Lang, Regensburg 1741 ** 6 Miserere and 2 Stabat Mater op. 3, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1743 ** 6 Missae op. 4, Lotter, Augsburg 1743 ** 4 Vespern and 4 marianische Antiphonen op. 5, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1743 ** 6 Missae rurales and 2 Requiem for 2 Voices and Basso continuo, other Strings and Instruments ad libitum op. 6, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1744 ** 6 solenne Litaneien op. 7, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1744 ** 17 Offertorien op. 8, Lotter, Augsburg 1744 ** 6 Missae solemniores and 1 Te Deum op. 10, Klaffschenkel, Augsburg 1747 ** 6 Stabat Mater op. 11, Lotter, Augsburg 1748 ** 4 Stationen zum Fest Corporis Christi, 8 Hymnen, 1 Offertorium, 1 Aria de passione and 1 Te Deum op. 12, Lotter, Augsburg 1748 ** 17

Marie Bigot

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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. After marrying M. Bigot, she moved to Vienna in 1804, where she lived for five years. She was highly accomplished at the piano and played for Haydn, who exclaimed, “Oh, my dear child, I did not write this music – it is you who has composed it!” He wrote on the sheet from which she played, “On 20 February 1805, Joseph Haydn was happy”. She became a friend of Salieri. Her husband being the librarian of Count Razumovsky, she also became friendly with Beethoven, who admired her playing. She was the first to play for him, from the autograph, his newly written Appassionata Sonata, impressing him so much that he told her, “That is not exactly the character I wanted to give this piece; but go right on. If it is not wholly mine, it is something better.” He gave her the autograph of the Appassionata. In 1808, after a misunderstanding over Beethoven’s invitation to take Marie and her three-year-old daughter, Caroline, for a drive and her refusal, the famous composer sent an apologetic letter to her an

Marie Bottrell

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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 Female Vocalist of the Year nominations. Early life and education Bottrell was born in London, Ontario. She began singing in her family’s band at age eleven. At age 17 she left school to start a career as a singer. Career Bottrell sang and wrote songs for the Whitestone Country Band as a teenager. In 1978 she recorded an album, Just Reach Out and Touch Me, on the MBS label. A single from this album, “This Feeling Called Love”, was her first hit. Bottrell won the Canadian Country Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year in 1983 and 1984. Later in the 1980s her recording career stalled because of management and label problems, but she began recording again in the 1990s. Bottrell was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010. That year she played the lead role in the tribute show “Patsy Cline: The Legend”. In 2016 Bottrell performed at the Bluegrass in the Country Festival on Manitoulan Island. Discography Albums Singles References External links * *

Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis

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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 popular in France. In 1770 she married the architect Victor Louis. Her surviving works are, as Bayon, a collection of six keyboard sonatas, three of them with violin accompaniment, opus 1 (1769), and, as Louis, the two-act opéra-comique, Fleur d’épine (“May-Flower”), first performed in 1776. Other works discussed during her lifetime include further instrumental chamber music and opéra-comiques, and music for La fête de Saint Pierre performed in 1771. Life In her dedicatory preface to the op. 1 sonatas Bayon’s reference to “the many kindnesses bestowed upon me since my tenderest infancy” by the family of Madame la Marquise de Langeron suggests that her musical training came through such patronage. From the age of about twenty-one she was associated with Madame de Genlis’s salon on the rue de Grenelle. Her good friend, the encyclopedist and philosophe Denis Diderot, who hired her as music teacher for his daughter, Angélique, compared Bayon’s music to that of Domenico Alberti, Johann Chris

Marie Jaëll

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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 others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart, Her students included Albert Schweitzer, who studied with her while also studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor in 1898–99. She died in Paris. Early life and education Her father was the mayor of Steinseltz in Alsace, and her mother was a lover of the arts. She began piano studies at the age of six and by seven, she was studying under piano pedagogues F.B. Hamma and Ignaz Moscheles in Stuttgart. Marie’s mother served as her advocate and manager. A year after she began lessons with Hamma and Moscheles, she gave concerts in Germany and Switzerland. In 1856, the ten-year-old Marie was introduced to the piano teacher Heinrich Herz at the Paris Conservatory. After just four months as an official student at the Conservatory, she won the First Prize of Piano. Her performances were recognized by the public and local newspapers; the Revue et gazette musicale printed a review on July 27, 1862, that reads: “She marked it the piece with the seal

Marie Prestat

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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 organ and piano music, vocal works, and pedagogical texts. Training Marie Prestat began advanced musical studies at a young age at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1876 - at the age of 14 - she was awarded the Conservatoire’s highest diploma (Premier Prix) in Solfège. Among her teachers at the Conservatoire were: for harmony: Charles Lenepveu, gaining Premier Prix in 1885. Organist By 1912 Prestat was organist of the Association des Concerts Spirituels at the Sorbonne. References External links Details of works by Marie Prestat, including some public domain scores and texts, can be found online at: * Biblioteque Nationale de Framce (Online resource, accessed 15 May 2021). * IMSLP Petrucci Music Library. (Online resource, accessed 15 May 2021). * Marie Prestat. Offrande a la Vierge: Alma redemptoris mater (1914). Andrew Pink (2021) Exordia ad missam.

Marie Samuelsson

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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, musicology at the Stockholm University from 1982 to 1983 and composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1987 to 1995 with Sven-David Sandström, Daniel Börtz and Pär Lindgren. She later continued her studies with George Benjamin and 2001 she complemented her studies with Stage d’été for professional composers at Ircam in Paris. Samuelsson is a member of the Royal Swedish Music Academy since 2005. In December 2012, she was elected to vice preses in the presidium of the Royal Swedish Music Academy. Samuelsson was the featured composer of a four-day festival in Stockholm in May 2007 for which her orchestra piece Singla was commissioned and premièred by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Awards * 2008 Kurt Atterberg Prize * 2024 Rosenberg Prize Works Selected works include: *Andra platser (Other places), for alto voice, cello, and percussion, 1989 *Katt: Nio liv (Cat: Nine lives), for woodwind quintet, 1989 *Från Indien till Mars (From India to Mars), dance music f

Marie Siegling

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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 immigrant Johann Zacharias Siegling and his wife Mary Schnierle. Johann Siegling was an instrument maker and music publisher who founded the Siegling Music House in 1819. Her youngest brother was journalist Rudolph Septimus Siegling. Marie Siegling most likely began her musical studies under her mother. Siegling was later educated in Europe and had a career as a musician and composer. In 1844, she traveled with her father to Havana where he had a music store called Siegling & Vallote. They stayed in Cuba for three months, where she performed as “Charleston’s Jenny Lind.” Later in the year, Siegling went to Paris to study music. While on tour in Europe, she met literature professor Eduard Schuman LeClercq, whom she married in 1850. Siegling moved with her husband to Paris and ended her performing career. She had five children. While in Europe, Marie had contact with many of its greatest composers and musicians. She writes in her memoir: “I met many distinguished artists and authors, amongst the

Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault

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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 (1656–1728), and one of her brothers was Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault, a singer, composer, and actor. She made her debut at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1709 in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Bellérophon. She remained at the opera until 1713. In 1714 she began singing at the Comédie-Française, where she remained until 1722 Quinault composed motets for the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles. For one of these motets, thanks to the benevolence of the Duke of Orléans, she was awarded the first and last grand cordon of the Order of Saint Michael ever given to a woman She was the mistress first of Louis, the Duke of Orléans, and later of Philippe Jules François Mancini, the Duke of Nevers, to whom she may have secretly been married. This brought her into higher social spheres and earned her a pension on the King’s privy purse. From 1723 until 1793 she lived in an apartment in the Louvre, at the Pavilion de L’Infante. She died in Paris in 1793. References Further reading *Lamothe-Langon, Etienne

Mariecke van der Linden

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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 makes oil paintings and installations. Van der Linden is known for her portraits of prominent Dutch people such as Eberhard van der Laan, Johan Cruijff en Wubbo Ockels. Early life and education Van der Linden was born in 1973 in Ravenstein. She grew up in Overlangel, a village consisting of 300 inhabitants which lies at the riverbank of Oude Maas. At the age of 14, she started to receive artistic coaching from Børge Ring, a Danish musician, artist and Oscar winner from the animation movie Anna en Bella. When she was 17, Van der Linden was accepted to the preliminary program of the Utrechts Conservatorium in Utrecht. Her formal education began in 1991 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Theo Loevendie where she studied composition Career as a visual artist Her name became more established at the opening of a side wing in the H’ART Museum when her life-sized portraits of notable Amsterdam citizens were revealed. This was accompanied by the mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan

Marielli Sfakianaki

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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 musicologist Kostas Sfakianakis. She studied vocal music and graduated from the Athens Conservatory in 1971. Her daughter is composer Tatiana Manolidou. Works Sfakianaki composes opera, orchestral and sacred choral music. Selected works include: *To mikro kai to megalo i kai t’ antitheta *The MINOS opera *Cretan tale opera She wrote the novel Echoes which received an award from the Society of Greek Writers in 1984. References

Mariia Yaremak

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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 (including the Eurovision Song Contest), and worked with artists, orchestras and on films in Europe, America, and Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she has performed and co-organised more than 40 charity concerts in support of Ukraine in different countries (UK, France, US, Ireland). At her events, she performs original music and arrangements of ancient ethnic Ukrainian melodies in a fantasy style. The works she created for artistic collaborations during the war have received several million views on social media. Biography Maria Yaremak graduated from the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv State Music Lyceum (2012–2014). Afterwards, she entered the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, where she studied at the piano faculty. Due to inflammation of the muscles in her hands, she decided to transfer to the Faculty of Theory and Composition in the class of Bohdana Frolyak after her first year (2014–2018). The composer began her professional career by digitizing scores by foreign and U

Marij Kogoj

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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 Masks), work that was well received in 1920s Slovenia amid a flowering of avant-garde artistic, cultural, and political movements. As a young man, he studied with Franz Schreker and then Arnold Schoenberg. In 1932, schizophrenia ended his career prematurely. His music and milieu is receiving renewed attention in the 21st century, but he remains little known internationally. Biography and music Kogoj was born an orphan in Trieste, where he was misidentified as his deceased brother Marij (27 April 1895 – 31 January 1896). In 1910, he began composing as a self-taught musician while at school in Gorizia (1907–1914). He studied counterpoint and composition with Franz Schreker at the Vienna Music Academy (1914–1917) and then continued his studies with Arnold Schoenberg at Eugenie Schwarzwald’s school (1918). In 1919, he married Marija Podlogar. Among the Slovenian avant-garde, Kogoj was an especially prominent figure between 1919 and 1922. He performed his own music as part of the September 1

Marija Hladnik Berden

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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 generation in Lower Carniola, where she worked as a teacher, church organist, soprano, and pianist. She composed mainly church music, appeared as a soloist, and in addition to her regular employment also taught piano. Her life ended tragically when she was poisoned at the age of thirty-two. Childhood and education She was born on 30 March 1892 into a Slovenian family in Novo Mesto, where she was baptised on 2 April in the Novo Mesto Cathedral. At the time of her birth, her father held the poorly paid post of chapter organist. Because of this, he had the right to use a small plot of church-owned farmland, which he cultivated together with her mother, whose parents were farmers. Of her surviving sisters, one devoted herself to teaching, another, Štefanija Hladnik Hanak, was employed as a piano teacher and founded the Ignacij Hladnik Music School in Novo Mesto, while another was a milliner. Of all the children, she was the most musically gifted and therefore her father’s favourite. Her classm

Marika Takeuchi

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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 Boston, and Shobi Music College in Tokyo. Biography Takeuchi started her music studies as a classical pianist at the age of three, and also played violin and French horn for several years at an early age. Her early career in Japan includes composing additional music for NHK FM’s radio shows, and songwriting for Universal Music Japan’s singer Nami Tamaki’s album “STEP”. Her second album Impressions was nominated for Best Neo-classical Album at the 10th Zone Music Reporter music awards, as well as Album of the Year in the 4th Annual Reviews New Age Awards. Her third album, Rain Stories, was released in 2014 on MRG Recordings. Her fourth album, Colors in the Diary, which is produced by Will Ackerman, and features Eugene Friesen and Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Si-Jing Huang, was released in April 2016. Takeuchi has also scored several films and advertisements. She wrote music for the Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sørgjerd/TSO Photography’s time-lapse video The Arctic Light. This

Marilyn Crispell

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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 field.” Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote: “Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano… She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.” In addition to her own extensive work as a soloist or bandleader, Crispell is known as a longtime member of saxophonist Anthony Braxton’s quartet in the 1980s and ’90s. Biography Crispell was born in Philadelphia and, at the age of ten, moved to Baltimore, where she attended Western High School. She studied classical piano at the Peabody Conservatory beginning at age seven, and also began improvising at an early age, thanks to a teacher who required all her students to improvise regardless of their skill level. Crispell was not interested in jazz until 1975, when, while living on Cape Cod, she heard John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme for the first time. She recalls: “The emotional and spiritual quality of it overpowered me… I can honestly say it’s possibly the most overpowering experience

Marilyn J. Ziffrin

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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, to parents Betty S. and Harry B. Ziffrin, (both children of Russian immigrants who emigrated from Belogorodka, Ukraine, due to growing anti-semitism). Harry, who grew up in the then Tri-Cities of Moline, Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, and Betty, who grew up in St. Louis, were first cousins; their fathers were brothers. They both were first cousins of Lester Ziffren, the famous journalist, and Paul Ziffren, the Democratic Party leader from Los Angeles. Harry Ziffrin owned a liquor distributorship in Moline, but every member of the Ziffrin immediate family played a musical instrument. She also taught private composition lessons at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, from 1972 to 1983. While at St. Paul’s, one of Ziffrin’s compositions students was Augusta Read Thomas, a renowned composer, who remembers Ziffrin as a role model and “an impressive teacher and musician.” She was also the author of Carl Ruggles: Composer, Painter, and Storyteller (Urbana: University of I

Marilyn Michaels

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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 émigré parents. Her mother was cantoress and actress Fraydele Oysher and her father was Harold Sternberg, a senior basso with the Metropolitan Opera for 37 years. Cantor and film actor Moishe Oysher was her uncle. Michaels began performing with her mother at age 7 on the Yiddish stage and throughout Canada. At 14, she was soloist in her father and uncle’s choir, and also sang duets with Oysher on the classic recording, “Moishe Oysher’s Chanukah Party”. She attended the High School of Music & Art as a music major, but switched to Art in her sophomore year. While still in high school, she was signed to Debbie Records, headed by Ray Rainwater (brother of Marvin Rainwater) and her first single, “Johnny Where Are You,” was produced by Phil Ramone. This was followed by a recording contract with RCA Victor record producers Hugo and Luigi, for which she sang “Tell Tommy I Miss Him” — the answer-song to the hit “Tell Laura I Love Her” — by Ray Peterson. She recorded both U.S. and UK versions. She lat

Marilyn Rinehart

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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 Plank. She married Carroll Rinehart in 1948 and they had two daughters and one son. She graduated from Ashland College, and later studied at the University of Arizona. Rinehart belonged to the American Guild of Organists and served as a church organist at First United Methodist Church and at Catalina United Methodist Church, both in Tucson, Arizona. Hall & McCreary (a division of Schmitt Publications), Shawnee Press, and Unity Music Press. *Spirituals and More References External links *Listen to works by Marilyn Rinehart

Marilyn Shrude

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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 1977. Life Born in Chicago, Illinois, Shrude graduated from Alverno College and Northwestern University. Her composition instructors include Alan Stout and M. William Karlins. Her scores are published by American Composers Alliance, Éditions Henry Lemoine (Paris), Neue Musik Verlag Berlin, Southern Music, and Thomas House. Her music has been recorded by the New World, Albany, EROL, Liscio, FoxGlove, MMC, Capstone, Orion, Centaur, Neuma, Access, and Ohio Brassworks labels. Her husband is the classical saxophonist John Sampen, and her daughter the classical/contemporary violinist Maria Sampen, both of whom have performed many of her works. Her son, producer, actor and rock guitarist, is David Sampen. Awards She is the winner of a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (third place, 1984) and a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award. She won a 1998 Cleveland Arts Prize for Music. She is also a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. References External links *Marilyn Shrude of

Marin Marais

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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 operas, and with the master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for six months. In 1676 he was hired as a musician to the royal court of Versailles and was successful there, being appointed in 1679 as ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole, a title he kept until 1725. He was the father of the composer Roland Marais (c. 1685 – c. 1750). Career Marin Marais was a master of the viol, and the leading French composer of music for the instrument. He wrote five books of Pièces de viole (1686–1725) for the instrument, generally suites with basso continuo. These were quite popular in the court, and for these he was remembered in later years as he who “founded and firmly established the empire of the viol” (Hubert Le Blanc, 1740). His other works include a book of Pièces en trio (1692) and four operas (1693–1709), Alcyone (1706) being noted for its tempest scene. Titon du Tillet included Marais in Le Parnasse françois, making the following comments on two of his pieces, Le Labyrinthe, p

Marina Kifferstein

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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 string quartet, and electronic noise project xbucket. Education Born and raised in Manhattan, Kifferstein attended New York City’s School for Strings and went on to major in both violin performance and English as part of Oberlin College and Conservatory’s double degree program, where she studied with violinist Milan Vitek. She continued her studies at Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program, studying with Laurie Smukler and Curtis Macomber. She is currently pursuing a doctorate of Musical Arts at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Career In 2013 Kifferstein co-founded TAK ensemble, a contemporary quintet based in New York City, where she also co-founded The Rhythm Method, an experimental string quartet, in 2014. She is a frequent guest with ensembles such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Ensemble of Lucerne Festival Alumni. As a writer, Kifferstein has contributed to I Care If You Listen , Wet Ink E

Marina Rosenfeld

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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 (Frankfurt), Donaueschinger Musiktage, and such international surveys as documenta 14 and the Montreal, Liverpool, PERFORMA, and Whitney biennials, among many others. She has performed widely as an improvising turntablist, and served as co-chair of Music/Sound in the MFA program at the Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, from 2007 to 2020. She has also taught at Harvard, Yale, Brooklyn College, and Dartmouth. Early life and education Born in New York, NY, in 1968, she moved with her family to New Jersey at a young age. Rosenfeld graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with an AB in music and then attended California Institute of the Arts, where she received an MFA in fine arts and music in 1994. At CalArts, her teachers included Michael Asher, Charles Gaines, Morton Subotnick, Tom Lawson, and Lucky Moscow. Work and career Rosenfeld’s first major work was the Sheer Frost Orchestra (1993). Scored for 17 women with 17 guitars and amplifiers, the piece directs its participants via

Marina Tucaković

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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 of “Dodirni mi kolena” (“Touch my knees”) by the Yugoslav rock group Zana and vocalist Zana Nimani, she continued working with numerous Yugoslav musical acts. Before transitioning to folk music, she collaborated with various Yugoslav pop, rock, and new wave acts, including Oliver Mandić, Zana, Slađana Milošević, and Oliver Dragojević. In the 2000s and 2010s, she continued to write for many folk artists from Serbia and collaborated with numerous pop and folk musicians from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia, such as Ceca Ražnatović, Džej Ramadanovski, Toše Proeski, Severina, Magazin, Jelena Karleuša, Lepa Brena, Neda Ukraden, Selma Bajrami, Dino Merlin, Mišo Kovač, Massimo Savić, Aca Lukas, Ana Nikolić, Doris Dragović, Maja Odžaklijevska, Zdravko Čolić and many others. Many of the songs she wrote are considered some of the greatest hits of all time in the Balkans. She was also widely regarded as one of the most influential and respected Serbian lyricists. Throughout her

Marinus De Jong

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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 working-class family with twelve children. His musical talent became apparent early in his life: he was accepted into the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (Belgium) at the age of fifteen, where he was taught by Lodewijk Mortelmans and Emile Bosquet. At the start of World War I De Jong returned to his native town to recover from a burn-out, but he returned to Belgium after the Armistice of 11 November 1918. He gained fame as a pianist and toured throughout Europe and the United States between 1920 and 1922. Afterwards he married Johanna Corthals, with whom he settled in Kapellenbos, and in 1926 De Jong traded in his Dutch nationality for a Belgian one. In this same year, he was made a teacher of counterpoint and fugue at the Lemmensinstituut, where he would work until 1963. In 1931 he was also appointed professor of piano at the Conservatory of Antwerp, where he became professor of counterpoint and fugue in 1948. In these teaching positions, he wrote two treaties on harmony and counterpoint, of

Mario Baltadjiev

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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 attend a music school, but rather likes to experiment. In the 1990s, he was a member of the group “Allegro”, which performed mainly in clubs. In 1998 started working as a sound engineer and producer at radio FM+ . Two years later, he received an invitation from Magardich Halvadzhiyan to work on the film " The Profit “, a BNT production . After the film’s success, he continued his work with Halvajian, composing music for Global Films’ television shows. In 2012, having already gained a lot of experience in the field of advertising, ballet and cinema, he composed the music for “Aladdin”, a musical created in tandem with the librettist Ivan Angelov, which was staged at the Musical Theater in Sofia. In 2015 Baltajiev produced the musical “The Ugly Duckling”, which was presented on the stage of the Modern Theater. In 2019 Mario was invited by Krasimir Vankov to compose music for the All Inclusive series. After that, he was invited to work on the next Hidalgo Productions project - “Brothers”. In

Mario Capuana

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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 death in 1647. In the years before and immediately after his death were published a small flurry of works in Venice. Editions *Messa da requiem a 4 (Venice, posthumous 1650) – edited with Requiem (1653) of Bonaventura Rubino. 1999. A copy is preserved in the Archive of the Sing-Akademie Zu Berlin, complete with needlessly disparaging comments in the handwriting of Carl Friedrich Zelter. *Sacro Armonie a tre voci con Basso Continuo por sonar il Clavicembalo ò altro Stromento di Mario Capuana Maestro di Capella. *Mario Capuana Motetti concertati a due, tre, quattro e cinque voci (1649) edition 1998. – This is one of the series of Renaissance Sicilian composers including Claudio Pari, Pietro Vinci, Antonio Il Verso, Antonio Formica, Tommaso Giglio, Anselmo Fazio, Giovan Pietro Flaccomio, Erasmo Marotta, Sigismondo d’India, Giandomenico Martoretta, Cataldo Amodei, Bartolomeo Montalbano, Bonaventura Rubino, and Vincenzo Gallo. Recordings *Parce mihi, Domine. on Fabellae Sacrae by Savadi. Pan 2

Mario Castelnuovo

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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 university, specializing in Provençal and Troubadour aesthetics. In the same period he started to play guitar and to attend the Folkstudio, a well-known Roman musical club. In the following years Castelnuovo gradually moved away from the spotlight, still keeping to record critically acclaimed works. Castelnuovo’s style has been described as “characterized by an elegant mastery of melody, by an intimate and elegant atmosphere created by minimalist and refined lyrics and by a delicate and theatrical singing style”. According to Enrico Deregibus’ Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana, his songs are “enchanting”, especially because of their “fascinating and delicate writing, rich in literary references”. Discography ;Album * 1982 - Sette fili di canapa ( IT / RCA Italiana ) * 1982 - Q Concert ( RCA Italiana ) (EP with Marco Ferradini and Goran Kuzminac) * 1984 - Mario Castelnuovo ( RCA Italiana ) * 1985 - È piazza del Campo ( RCA Italiana ) * 1987 - Venere ( RCA Italiana ) * 1988 - Sul nido

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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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 hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States and became a film composer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Biography Born in Florence, he was descended from a prominent banking family that had lived in Tuscany, specifically in Siena, until the latter half of the 19th century. His father was Amedeo and his elder brothers Ugo (born in 1890, lawyer) and Guido (born in 1891, engineer). Castelnuovo-Tedesco was first introduced to the piano by his mother, Noemi Senigaglia, and he composed his first pieces when he was just nine years old. After completing a degree in piano in 1914 under Edgardo Del Valle de Paz (1861–1920), well-known composer and pianist pupil of Beniamino Cesi, he began studying composition under renowned Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti, and received a diploma in composition in 1918. He soon came to the attention of compos

Mario Cazes

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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 Légion d’honneur. Marius Joseph Cazes, the son of Cazes Joseph-Auguste and Avérous Zélie, was the eldest in a family of five brothers and two sisters. Considered one of the greatest violinists of his time, he was the first with his band to perform on Radio Tour Eiffel in 1927. Compositions *1924: Elle est jolie jolie (fox-trot) sung by Denantès *1924: Serenata deï Fiori (Sérénade Boston) sung by Emma Liebel *1924: Violon tzigane (Boston) *1924: Dis-moi je t’aime *1924: Miarko-Tango *1924: Mon Lulu, sung by Emma Liebel *1925: Rien qu’une nuit, “Valse Boston” sung by Georges Vorelli *1925: Sous un clair de lune (Fox-trot) *1925: Napoletana, Emma Liebel, Sonnelly, sung by Emma Liebel *1925: Noël *1926: J’ai peur de toi, 1926. *1926: Pourquoi pleurer ma mie ?, sung by Georges Vorelli, Emma Liebel *1926: Pourquoi ?, sung by Emma Liebel *1926: Un p’tit brin de muguet, “Fox Trot” *1926: Je pense à toi, sung by Mistinguett *1927: C’est l’oiseau blanc, lyrics by Didier Gold, éd. Marcel Labbé *1927:

Mario Davidovsky

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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 is best known for his series of Synchronisms, which incorporate acoustic instruments and pre-recorded electronic sounds played from a tape. Biography Davidovsky was born in Médanos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on March 4, 1934, to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents. Aged seven, he began his musical studies on the violin. At thirteen he began composing. He studied composition and theory under at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1958, he studied with Aaron Copland and Milton Babbitt at Tanglewood in Massachusetts. Through Babbitt, who worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and others, Davidovsky developed an interest in electroacoustic music. Copland encouraged Davidovsky to emigrate to the United States, and in 1960, Davidovsky settled in New York City, where he was appointed associate director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. It was at that time he began to compose the Synchronisms series of electroacoustic works. Synchronisms No. 6 for piano

Mario Duschenes

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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, Germany in 1923, the son of Franz and Grete Duschenes. He studied the recorder, sight singing and the piano before the age of twelve. In 1935, he began studying the flute with his father and brothers. Escaping Germany just prior to World War II, and his work was also influenced by his marriage to a child psychologist, Ellyn Simons, whom he wed in 1951, and with whom he had five children. Between 1954 and 1970 he also taught at McGill University, and subsequently at the University of Montreal between 1970 and 1973. His gracious, avuncular contribution to the musical education of youth was much praised: the music critic for The Globe and Mail wrote that “For all the simplicity of Duschenes’s language, he manages to achieve an intellectual level that patronises neither the children nor their parents,” while that of the Montreal Gazette noted that Duschenes was “probably doing more for the image of young people’s concerts than anyone else in Canada”. Duschenes also conducted regular orchestral

Mario Grigorov

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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 was a concert trumpeter, and his mother was a concert pianist. In 1968, the Sofia Conservatorium suspended its age requirement of seven years of age to allow a 5-year-old Grigorov to begin his classical studies. In 1969, Mario’s father took the opportunity to play in the Shah’s handpicked orchestra, and the family relocated for 6 years. Mario’s tutelage in classical piano continued, and he was exposed to the sounds of the new culture he found himself surrounded by. In 1976, again for Mr. Grigorov’s symphony career, the family relocated to East Germany. While finishing out the 1970s with a classical regimen, Grigorov and his family moved to Vienna, where Mario studied under renowned 20th-century composer Thomas Christian David at the Vienna Conservatorium. In the early 1980s, Mario moved to Sydney, Australia, where he took electronic music and Jazz studies classes with Don Burrows. He worked with many Australian rock groups. He has lived in Iran, Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, a

Mario Lavezzi

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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 Milano. He started his career in 1963, as the singer and guitarist for the band The Trappers. In 1966, following the dissolution of the band, he replaced Riki Maiocchi in the I Camaleonti until 1968, when he had to leave the band after being drafted into the Italian army. he also started collaborating as a composer and a record producer for several albums of Loredana Bertè. and scored the 1984 Carlo Vanzina comedy film Amarsi un po, which starred Tahnee Welch. Lavezzi is the uncle of Italo-disco one hit wonder Diana Est. Discography ; Albums * 1974 - Il Volo * 1976 - Iaia * 1978 - Filobus * 1979 - Cartolina * 1983 - Agrodolce * 1984 - Guardandoti, sfiorandoti * 1991 - Voci * 1993 - Voci 2 * 1997 - Voci e chitarre * 1999 - Senza catene * 2004 - Passionalità * 2009 - A più voci * 2011 - L’amore è quando c’è References External links * * Mario Lavezzi at Discogs *

Mario Lavista

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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 Composición) at the National Conservatory in 1963, under the guidance of Carlos Chávez, Héctor Quintanar, and Rodolfo Halffter. In 1967 he received a scholarship from the French government to study at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where he studied with Jean-Étienne Marie. During his time in Europe, he attended courses by Henri Pousseur, Nadia Boulanger, Christoph Caskel, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1970 he founded Quanta, a collective improvisation group. He also worked at the electronic music studios of Tokyo radio and television in 1972. At the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s he closely collaborated with renowned performers in solo and chamber works where he explored unusual timbre possibilities by the use of extended techniques. In 1982, he founded Pauta, one of the most important music journals in Latin America, and continued to serve as its chief editor. In 1987, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his first (and only) opera Aura, based on the short story by Carlos Fu

Mario Nascimbene

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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 several awards for the innovative contents of his composing style. During his career he composed soundtracks for more than 150 films. Biography Nascimbene studied composition and orchestral conducting at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Music in Milan under the guidance of Ildebrando Pizzetti, Following graduation he wrote several pieces for chamber music and ballet. He was commissioned to write the soundtrack for the film “L’amore canta” (Love Song), directed in 1941 by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and the success of this film opened the doors of an entirely new career for him. He was one of the few composers in Italy whose career was based on his work in the cinema. He was particularly appreciated for the revolutionary innovation of incorporating the sounds of non-orchestral instruments like that of a jaw harp or a harmonica, everyday noises (like the tick-tock of a clock, the ring of a bicycle bell or the ticking sound of typewriters in Rome 11:00) in a musical score, with the purpose t

Mario Pasquale Costa

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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 Maria Giuseppa née Malagisi. His father was a customs official, but the Costa family numbered several notable composers and musicians, including Costa’s uncle Michael Costa and his great-grandfather Giacomo Tritto. Costa studied composition, piano and singing at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory in Naples under another uncle Carlo Costa, Paolo Serrao, and Giuseppe Martucci. By the age of 17, Costa had already published numerous art songs. Possessed of an attractive tenor voice, he often performed them himself for the first time. Between 1881 and 1884 he lived and worked in London where Italian songs were very much in vogue. On his return to Naples, he became very active in the revival of the Neapolitan musical tradition. After 1920 he concentrated on composing operettas, pantomimes, and ballets. Costa died in Monte Carlo in 1933. The following year his remains were brought to Taranto and placed in a monumental tomb erected by the city. References External links *Scores by Mario Pasquale

Mario Ruiz Armengol

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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 teacher. He was the son of pianist and conductor Ismael Ruiz Suárez and Rosa Armengol. Early life and career Ruiz Armengol started to play piano at eight years old and debuted as a conductor at fifteen, along with Leopoldo Beristaín. At sixteen years old Ruiz Armengol was one of the founding members of the XEW-AM (a legendary Mexican radio broadcaster) music band. He studied with José Rolón, Rodolfo Halffter and Joaquín Amparán, and in 1942 met Mexican composer Manuel M. Ponce with whom he started a close friendship. By 1954 he was nicknamed “Mr. Harmony” by American musicians such as Duke Ellington, Billy May and Clare Fischer. Ruiz Armengol became very famous for his boleros. He also wrote more than 31 children’s songs, 19 Cuban dances, 16 studies, 16 reflections, 32 miniatures, 5 waltzes, scherzos, minuets, sonatas, fantasies, preludes and piano works for four hands, chamber music for piano and violin, violoncello, harp and flute. He was a highly reputed Mexican musician, a master of

Mario Savioni

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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 Ugolini at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome from 1617 to 1621. In 1621, he sang as a boy soprano at the Cappella Giulia of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, and later as an alto in 1626. In September 1631, he returns to San Luigi dei Francesi to work with Ugolino as his assistant. At San Luigi, he received higher salary than the other singers. From 1638, he worked with Orazio Benevoli, the Kapellmeister of Cappella Giulia. The collaboration ends in 1644, when he was appointed as the Kapellmeister at San Luigi. Savioni also worked closely with Luigi Rossi, the organist of San Luigi who is also a composer. On 22 February 1642, Savioni sang the role of Alceste in Rossi’s Il Palazzo incantato at Teatro delle Quattro Fontane (Palazzo Barberini). It was during this time that he became closed to Cardinal Antonio Barberini. Recognized by his talent, in the same year, Savioni was accepted into Papal chorus, and in 1659, was appointed as the maestro di cappella. He served there until 1668. Com

Mario Talavera

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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 (née Andrade) Talavera. The young Mario grew up with an intense love for music, especially opera and art songs. He also showed an early interest for composition, writing his first piece of music at the age of nine. As a teenager, he moved with his parents to Córdoba, Veracruz, where he completed his basic education. In 1945 Talavera became a founding member of the SACM (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México, for its acronym in Spanish) along with Alberto Domínguez, Alfonso Esparza Oteo, Manuel Esperón, Ignacio Fernández Esperón, Agustín Lara and Consuelo Velázquez, among others. Talavera died in 1960 in Mexico City from advanced arteriosclerosis at the age of 74. References

Mario Zafred

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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 Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Biography Zafred began his music studies in Venice under Gian Francesco Malipiero before attending the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. After graduating in 1944 with a diploma in music composition he continued to study further under Ildebrando Pizzetti. In 1947 he moved to Paris where he continued to study composition for two years. After returning to Italy in 1949, Zafred began a successful career as a music critic, working first for L’unità (1949–56) and La Giustizia (1956–63). In 1966 he became artistic director of the Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. He left that house in 1968 to become the artistic director of the Rome Opera where he stayed until he became the director of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, Spoleto in 1974. In 1973 he was appointed president of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where he stayed until he became president of the Sindacato Nazionale Musicisti in 1983. In 1985 he was appointed honorary pr

Marion Bauer

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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 the twentieth century. As a composer, Bauer wrote for piano, chamber ensembles, symphonic orchestra, solo voice, and vocal ensembles. She gained prominence as a teacher, serving on the faculty of Washington Square College of New York University, where she taught music history and composition from 1926 to 1951. In addition to her position at NYU, Bauer was affiliated with the Juilliard School as a guest lecturer from 1940 until her death in 1955. Bauer also wrote extensively about music: she was the editor for the Chicago-based Musical Leader and authored and co-authored several books including her 1933 text Twentieth Century Music. Throughout her life, Bauer promoted not only her own work but new music in general. Bauer helped found the American Music Guild, the American Music Center, and the American Composers Alliance, serving as a board member of the latter. Bauer also held leadership roles in both the League of Composers and the Society for the Publication of American Music as a boa

Marion Dix Sullivan

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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 General John Adams Dix of New York. She married John Whiting Sullivan in 1825 and had one son, John Henry, who died of drowning in 1858. Little is known about her background, but she was considered the first American woman to write a “hit” song, “The Blue Juniata,” which was referenced by Mark Twain in his autobiography. The Blue Juniata was the basis for variation sets by other well-known 19th century American composers, such as Charles Grobe and J. Edgar Gould. The song was recorded in 1937 by Roy Rogers and the early Sons of the Pioneers. The song was also referenced with the full lyrics by Laura Ingalls Wilder in her book Little House on the Prairie. It was recorded again by soprano Mara Sindoni as part of her project, Parlor, Music Hall, And Church: A Quilt of Songs By American Women Composers (1790 – 1890) From the American Antiquarian Society’s Collections. Thanks to the research of Pennsylvania musician, Zachariah King, Marion’s gravesite and headstone has been located and is current

Marion Morrey Richter

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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, and Grace Hamilton Morrey, a concert pianist and music educator. Her brother Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr. became a well-known mathematician. She married Otto Clarence Richter in 1928 and they had one son. Richter’s mother was her first music teacher. She went on to earn a B.A. at Ohio State University, as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in music education from Columbia University. She also studied at the Juilliard School, receiving fellowships there from 1925-29. Richter’s teaching career included work at: *1917-22 the Morrey School (her mother’s music school) *1923-28 Heckscher Foundation *1929-52 Columbia University summer school *1934-52 Juilliard summer school. Richter presented lectures and piano recitals throughout the United States and in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and the Soviet Union. An active member of the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC), she was a NFMC Rose Fay Thomas Fellow and chaired the NFMC American Music Department. As the NFMC Ra

Marion Osgood

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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 was the first women’s orchestra organized for professional work in the United States. She was one of the leading solo violinists in the country. Biography Marion G. Osgood was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Her father was associated as a teacher with Lowell Mason, and her mother, Mary A. Osgood, was an author and music composer. George L. Osgood, a Boston musician, was her cousin, and her brother was Professor Fletcher Osgood, elocutionist. She began her musical life as a child, coming from a musical and scholarly family. Osgood worked as a violin teacher in Boston and was one of the leading solo violinists in the US. She composed and published a number of vocal and instrumental pieces, was a scholarly writer regarding art, and met with local success as a writer of short stories in romantic fiction. Osgood organized and conducted the ladies’ orchestra which bore her name. This company was established by her in 1884, was composed wholly of women artists, numbered 30 pieces, and was thorou

Marion Verhaalen

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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 Verhaalen was born in Milwaukee, the fifth child of Carl and Aǵnes Sieberlich Verhaalen. She played accordion and piano by ear as a child, before beginning music lessons at age 12. She started composing organ preludes and interludes in high school. Verhaalen joined the School Sisters of St. Francis in 1949 under the name Sister Mary Vernon, and earned a B.M. in piano at Alverno College; M.M. in piano at Catholic University; and Ed.D. in music education at the Columbia University Teachers College. Verhaalen received two scholarships from the Teachers College in 1968 and 1969. She received a research grant from the Organization of American States to study composers Francisco Mignone and Camargo Guarnieri in Brazil in 1969. She was named the Outstanding Milwaukee Musician in 1980 by the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs. She developed a piano course for Milwaukee public schools, which was published as Keyboard Dimensions I, II, III, and IV. Verhaalen also made 11 trips to Brazil, spending a to

Marion Vree

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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 studied music at the University of Southern California, receiving her BM in 1947, MM in 1953, and DMA 1975. The title of her dissertation was The Development of Netherlands Psalmody from 1565-1773 through the Study of the Bourgeois Tune for Psalm 42. She married Henry Vree and they had a son, Dale, before Vree’s death in 1976. She remarried Harry Wesley Brown Jr. in 1980 and changed her name to Vree-Brown, although her music was published under the name Marion Vree. Vree taught music and directed choral groups in Los Angeles at Alexander Hamilton High School and at Pierce College. She participated in the 1987 Congress on Women in Music (now the International Alliance for Women in Music), during which she hosted a house concert with composer Deborah Kavasch. Vree composed and arranged music which was published by Alfred Music, Carl Fischer Music, Harold Flammer Inc., Theodore Presser Company, Shawnee Press, and Walton Music (now GIA Publications). Works Her compositions for choir (with pian

Marion W. Easterling

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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 “When I Wake Up To Sleep No More”, “Lord Lead Me On”, “Standing By The River”, “Rainbow Of Love”, and “When He Reached Down His Hand For Me”. His first broadcast was on December 2, 1947 Easterling died December 10, 1989, in a Birmingham, Alabama hospital and is buried in Martin Memorial Cemetery in Clanton, Alabama. References Footnotes Sources *1986 Congressional Record, Vol. 132, Pages S 4478 - S 4479 *The Montgomery Advertiser, December 12, 1989, Page 6C. Retrieved May 29, 2022. *Love, Joyanna. “WKLF celebrating 70 years of broadcasting”, The Clanton Advertiser, February 1, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2022. WKLF celebrating 70 years of broadcasting External links *

Marios Tokas

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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 invaders. In 1975, he went to Athens in order to study in the philosophical school. At the same time, he studied in the Ethniko Odio because he wanted to start a career as a musician. In 2004, Tokas and his six-member orchestra gave a concert in Vienna. The concert was co-organised by the Greek Society of Austria and the Athens Sports Association “Pantalkis” with the support of the General Secretariat of Hellenism Abroad of the Greek Foreign Ministry, under the auspices of the Cypriot ambassador to Austria. Music school of Limassol “Marios Tokas” The Music School of Limassol “Marios Tokas” (), housed at Laniteio Lyceum, was named after him. It officially began operation in September 2006. Death On 27 April 2008, Tokas died of cancer in Athens. Cypriot president Dimitris Christofias had visited him in the hospital towards the end of his life. He was buried in First Cemetery of Athens. He is regarded by some as the most prominent composer in Cyprus and Greece. M. Tokas may be remembered for his p

Maris Vijay

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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 recording and mixing studio. He was approached to compose the score and soundtrack for his Tamil film, Vingyani. Maris debuted as a film composer from this film in 2014. In 2018, Maris sung a song in Villavan. Maris received Nation’s Icon Award in 2022. In 2025, Vijay also worked in a Tamil film Vattakhanal. Independent albums *Tere Bina Dil (2002) *Abdul Kalam Anthem is an album of original compositions released for Abdul Kalam (2015) in Sun Music & M-Muzik Official *14 for teen (2008) *Jai Ho Kalam (feat. Savaniee Ravindrra) *Sab Jhoote Hai (feat. Hrishikesh Ranade) *Sab Jhoote Hai (feat. Savaniee Ravindrra) *Allithantha Boomi (feat. K.Suthakaran, Sinmaye Sivakumar, Balaji Sri & Georginaa Mathew) *Enndhan *Kadhavai Sathadi *Somewhere I Lost You References External links *

Marisa Rezende

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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 (Costa Pereira) of Portuguese ancestry. She began playing piano at four without instruction and began lessons at age five. She studied piano at Escola de Musica in Rio, but her studies were interrupted by marriage. The couple moved in 1964 to Boston, Massachusetts, where her husband worked on a master’s degree at MIT. Rezende had two daughters in Boston, and when the family moved back to Rio in 1967, she had a third daughter before resuming her studies in composition. The family moved to Recife, where she worked as a pianist with the orchestra and finished her undergraduate degree. She studied fugue and counterpoint with Morelenbaum and Virginia Fiuza and composition with Padre Jaime Diniz. Career After graduating, she completed a master’s degree in piano at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied composition with Peter Fricker and David Gordon. She also completed a doctorate in composition at UCSB, and post-doctoral work at the University of Keele, England. After co

Marius Constant

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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 the iconic guitar theme for The Twilight Zone American television series. Career Constant was born in Bucharest, Romania, and studied piano and composition at the Bucharest Conservatory, receiving the George Enescu Award in 1944. In 1946, he moved to Paris, studying at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, Tony Aubin, Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger. His compositions earned several prizes, including the Prix Italia in 1952 for his composition Le joueur de flûte. From 1950 on, he was increasingly involved with electronic music and joined Pierre Schaeffer’s Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète. From 1956 to 1966, Constant conducted at the Ballets de Paris, then directed by Roland Petit. To this period belong the numerous ballet scores for Petit and Maurice Béjart, namely: Haut-voltage (1956), Contrepointe (1958), Cyrano de Bergerac (1959), Éloge de la folie (1966) and Paradis perdu (1967). For the 1957 Aix-en-Provence Festival, he wrote a piano concerto, but won wider r

Marius Flothuis

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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 Amsterdam. There he studied piano and music theory with . His musicology studies continued at the University of Amsterdam under the direction of Albert Smijers and . Flothuis graduated in 1969 with a thesis on the arrangements of the works of Mozart. In 1937, Marius Flothuis became assistant artistic director of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In 1942 his career was interrupted because of his refusal to cooperate with occupying Germans. From 1946 to 1950 he was librarian at the Donemus Foundation, and was a music critic there until 1953. That year Flothuis re-joined the Concertgebouw orchestra, becoming artistic director until 1974. Marius Flothuis was also professor of musicology at the Utrecht University from 1974 to 1983. His international reputation was then based on his studies devoted to Mozart. From 1980 to 1994, he was president of Zentral Institut für Mozart-Forschung in Salzburg. He was considered an authority in the field of Mozart music, which led him to write cadenzas for some

Marius Monnikendam

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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 attended Vincent d’Indy’s Schola Cantorum. During this time, he published his first works for piano and cello. He then became a lecturer at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Amsterdam Music Lyceum. Monnikendam composed mostly religious and secular works. He also published books on César Franck and Igor Stravinsky. His Lamentations of Jeremiah for chorus and orchestra, written in 1956 was broadcast by Radio Holland during the funeral services for both former Queen Wilhelmine (1962) and President John F. Kennedy (1963). His most popular work is the Toccata for Organ (1936). His son was film director Vincent Monnikendam. Life He was the son of diamond worker Juda Monnikendam and Catharina Cornelia Bierboom. As a child he lived opposite a church with a Cavaillé-Coll organ, which he often visited and which had a lasting influence on his future career as an organ composer. At the age of 11 he went to the boarding school and gymnasium of the Fathers of Monfort at Schimmert, where there was only a p

Marius Ulfrstad

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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 Ulfrstad was born in Ellingsøya, the son of teacher Mauritz Ulvestad (1858-1919) and Lisa Kvalstein (1861–97). After middle school exam and teacher education Ulfstad started at the Conservatory of Music in Kristiania and completed an organist examination there in 1911. In 1912 he settled in Ålesund as a singer and organist, but studied later composition in Germany, France, and Italy. In 1914 he became organist in Kragerø, and in 1917 he moved to Kristiania, where he worked as a music analyst, conductor, and music teacher. Ulfrstad debuted as a composer in 1919, the same year as he was first married to the singer Ragnhild Albertha Hovde (1895-1978), the marriage was canceled in 1940. He started at the Music Academy in Kristiania in 1922, he was a board member of the Composer Association and a time chairman of the Young Tone Society. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1943 Ulfstad was injured in a fire, which characterized hi

Marjan Kozina

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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 in stages through the late 1940s; the opera Equinox, completed in 1943; two ballets from the early 1950s, and the music for the film On Our Own Land (Na svoji zemlji), which he later arranged into a suite for orchestra. Life Kozina was born to a musical family in Novo Mesto, then part of Austria-Hungary. In Ljubljana, Kozina began studying philosophy and mathematics and in the same time also piano and violin, but later completely turned to the study of music. He graduated from composition in Vienna in 1930, and completed the studies of conducting and composition also in Prague. After his return from Prague he worked for a short time (1932–34) at Ljubljana and Maribor Opera, and then worked at Maribor Music Society (). From 1940 until 1943 and from 1945 until 1947, he worked as a music teacher at the Academy of Music in Belgrade. In World War II, his house was bombed in an air raid and his wife imprisoned by the Gestapo. In September 1943, after the capitulation of Italy, he joined the S

Marjan Mozetich

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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 pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet Competition (Lament in the Trampled Garden) and the 1995 Montreal International Music Competition (L’esprit Chantant for violin and piano). Co-founder of Arraymusic in Toronto, Mozetich served as their artistic director from 1976 to 1978. After his work with Array, he worked for some time at the University of Toronto music library, and then became a freelance composer. Mozetich discovered classical music on CBC Radio, which inspired him to compose romantic music through listening to Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff. He also first heard on the radio what was then considered “super-modern pieces”, which presented him with a totally different, almost science-fiction perspective. He then started improvising some of his own “super-modern pieces” rather than practicing the classics. At this point, he had not yet learned how to record his compositions. and a Bachelor of Music degree in 1972 in composition and piano. With the help of the Canada Cou

Marjorie Goetschius

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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 as Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles. Life Marjorie Goetschius was the granddaughter of Maria Stefany, an opera singer, and Percy Goetschius, a music theorist and composer. She learned to play the piano at the age of five from her mother, Pauline Gaiser (1890–1975), who was a concert pianist. Marjorie met her husband Emery Deutsch at the Juilliard School of Music. A composer of serious music for the concert hall, at Deutsch’s suggestion Goetschius began composing popular songs. Her song “I Dream of You” stayed on the hit parade for 16 weeks in 1944–45. which Goetschius wrote as an adaptation of an Italian lullaby inspired by the birth of her son. * “I’ll Always Be With You” (February 7, 1945) * “Was the Last Time I Saw You (The Last Time)” * “This Is My Confession” References Further reading * * *

Marjorie Merryman

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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 Interim President, Provost and Senior Vice President at Manhattan School of Music. She previously taught at Boston University and Macalester College. While at BU, she was commissioned by many professional musical ensembles to write pieces ranging from small chamber works to a full opera. She has written and published pieces such as “Chinese Moon Poems”, a women’s choral piece based on Chinese poems about the moon. Merryman categorizes herself with other twentieth-century composers heavily influenced by Johannes Brahms—in particular, serialist composers such as those of the Second Viennese School. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including two prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Walter Hinrichsen Award, presented annually by American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2014, the “Arts and Letters Award in Music: “This award is given in recognition of “…. outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

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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 “made a career of collecting Gaelic songs in the Hebrides and singing her own Anglicized versions of them.” Biography Marjory Kennedy was born in Perth to a well-known Scottish singer, David Kennedy and his second wife, Elizabeth Fraser. As a child she used to accompany her father on his tours in Scotland and abroad, playing the piano while he sang. Various of her siblings were also professional musicians, and three of them —Lizzie (soprano), Kate (contralto) and James (baritone) — died in the fire that burnt down the Théâtre municipal of Nice, France, in 1881. Her youngest sister Jessie married the pianist and teacher Tobias Matthay. Their father David Kennedy died aged 61 in 1886 in Ontario, Canada, while on a tour. She became an extra-academical student at the University of Edinburgh school of Music, gathering a collection of Breton and Gaelic folksongs from 1882 onwards, which were later published. In 1887, she married her mother’s younger cousin, the mathematician Alexander Yule Fras

Mark Aanderud

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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 to perform professionally when he was 18 years old. Aanderud is known as a jazz pianist and composer, but through the years he has also performed, composed and recorded in several genres from Jazz and classical music to progressive rock and Latin music. His first CD as a leader, Mark Aanderud Trio 02, was awarded best jazz album of the year 2003 by the Czech Music Awards. In recent years, Aanderud has toured with international artists including the Mexican singer-songwriter and actress Ximena Sariñana and the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group. Aanderud has also recorded additional piano parts with The Mars Volta for their 2009 release Octahedron. Discography ;With The Mars Volta * Octahedron (2009) ;With Stomu Takeishi, Hernán Hecht * RGB (RareNoise Records, 2014) ;With the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group *Los Sueños de un Higado (2009) * Xenophanes (2009) * Woman Gives Birth To Tomato! (2013) * Doom Patrol (2017) References * Ozuna, Tony: “Hip Homecoming”, The Prague Post, 2010-01-13.

Mark Abel

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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 the 1970s and early 1980s, leading his own groups, producing the bands The Feelies and The Bongos, and playing on albums of Tom Verlaine and former Left Banke mastermind Michael Brown. He returned to California in 1983 and worked in mainstream journalism for two decades, eventually becoming foreign editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He moved away from rock during that period, immersed himself in classical and gradually began developing his hybridized style. Career Nine albums of Abel’s music have appeared since 2006. The self-released Journey Long, Journey Far and Songs of Life, Love and Death attracted little notice. But The Dream Gallery, a 69-minute song cycle for seven soloists and chamber orchestra depicting the lives of imaginary archetypal Californians, caught the interest of pianist Carol Rosenberger, director of the Delos Productions label, leading to its recording by USC Thornton conductor Sharon Lavery and the La Brea Sinfonietta. Delos’ release of Gallery in early 2012 be

Mark Adamo

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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 was born in Philadelphia. Early life and education A native of Willingboro Township, New Jersey, Adamo attended Holy Cross High School in Delran Township, New Jersey. He attended New York University, where he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music cum laude in composition in 1990 from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was awarded the Theodore Presser prize for outstanding undergraduate achievement in composition. Career At New York City Opera, he curated the contemporary opera workshop series VOX: Showcasing American Composers. Adamo served as master artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in May 2003. He has directed productions of his Little Women in Cleveland and Milwaukee, both of which were cited as among the best classical-music events of the year by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, respectively; and he has annot

Mark Alburger

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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 Orchestra, as well as the music director of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera. Alburger was also the editor and publisher of 21st-Century Music Journal, which he founded in 1994 as 20th-Century Music. Biography Mark Alburger was born on April 2, 1957, in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. He studied composition with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College; Jules Langert at the Dominican University of California; and Roland Jackson, Thomas Flaherty, and Christopher Yavelow at Claremont Graduate University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in musicology in 1996. He also studied privately thereafter with Terry Riley. Alburger was best known for his use of troping techniques, combining structures and musical passages from a wide variety of pre-existing works across cultures and eras. He has a large opus list, including many concerti, operas, song cycles, symphonies, and a thirteen-hour theatrical setting of the Bible. As a music journalist, he has published in

Mark Andre

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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 compositions durch (2006), …auf… III (2007), and Wunderzaichen (2014) received multiple votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000. Biography Born in Paris, Living in Berlin, Andre taught at the Frankfurt University of Music and at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (2002–2007). and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. and from 2012 a Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. On 2 March 2014 his opera “Wunderzaichen” was premiered in Stuttgart directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito. Works Andre’s music is published by Edition Peters in Frankfurt am Main. *Ein Abgrund for bass-baritone, viola and violoncello based on Georg Büchner’s drama “Woyzeck” (1992) *Un-Fini III (1993–1995) for piano *Le loin et le profond for Ensemble (1994–1996) *Fatal for Ensemble (1995) *AB II for double bass clarinet, cello, cymbalon, percussion, piano and live electronics (1996/1997)

Mark Baechle

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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 at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Career After college, Baechle moved to New York. At the outset of his career, he assisted Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal in New York and started to work as an orchestrator for a number of well-known score composers. He subsequently established his own career as a composer for film and television, writing scores for documentaries, short films, and series. which was shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards in the Live Action Short Film category. Also in 2024, Baechle co-composed (with Marcus Bagalà) the score for the feature-length documentary Clemente, which premiered at SXSW. Baechle’s score for the Swiss period drama Frieda’s Case (Friedas Fall), directed by Maria Brendle, was also released in 2024. The film centers on a historical court case from 1904 and premiered at the 20th Zurich Film Festival to critical acclaim. Awards Baechle received the 2021 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for his work on t

Mark Bowden (composer)

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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 the Royal College of Music where he studied with Julian Anderson. He has received commissions from the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Ulster Orchestra, and Welsh National Opera amongst others and his music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. With Anna Meredith and Emily Hall he created the Camberwell Composers’ Collective. Bowden has received awards and prizes for his music including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, a British Composer Award, and an Ivor Novello Awards nomination for his saxophone concerto Sapiens. Bowden was the first composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum and, with fellow composers in the Camberwell Composers’ Collective, was New Music Associate at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge from 2008-2010. He was the 2011–2012 Music Fellow at Rambert Dance Company. Bowden was Resident Composer at BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 2011 to 2015 and Director of Composition at Royal Holloway, University of L

Mark Bradshaw (composer)

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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 studied experimental music at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) and later attended the University of Sydney. Career Bradshaw is best known for his work in several of Jane Campion’s movies and TV series, including Bright Star and Top of the Lake. Bradshaw has composed for a variety of ensembles including string quartet, orchestra, and a cappella chorus. In 2024 he and choreographer Fadi Giha were awarded a British Council Fellowship to compose and create a piece as artists in residence at Bundanon in Australia. Personal life As of a 2010 interview, Bradshaw was living in London. In August 2012, in Sydney, Bradshaw entered into a civil partnership with British actor Ben Whishaw. Whishaw and Bradshaw met around 2009 on the set of Bright Star where Whishaw played the role of English poet John Keats. The relationship remained private until being made public in 2013. They split in 2022. Work * The Water Diary (short film), 2006 * Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s’étei

Mark Brunswick

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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 when he died suddenly in London in May 1971, at the start of what was to have been an extended tour of Europe with his wife, Natascha Artin Brunswick. Brunswick had been at work on the opera for several years, and Act I had not long before received a concert performance as a work in progress at the City College of New York. Biography Born in New York City, Brunswick was the third of four children of secular Jewish parents. His father, of an Alsatian family background, was a successful manufacturer in the garment industry. His mother was an educated German-born woman, trained as an opera singer, who encouraged Mark’s artistic interests and his pursuit of an education that diverged from the conventional. He attended the Horace Mann School in New York, and later Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Though he took some courses in the extension division of Columbia University, he never formally acquired a college degree. Having by the age of 15 decided on a career of musical composition a

Mark Bucci

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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 frequently employs marked rhythms and memorable harmonies and melodies. Early life and education Mark Bucci was born on 26 February 1924 in New York City. He studied music composition with Tibor Serly in New York City from 1942 to 1945 and then at the Juilliard School with Frederick Jacobi and Vittorio Giannini. At Juilliard he was notably the first winner of the school’s Irving Berlin scholarship award in 1948 which was made possible through a donation by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Bucci also studied composition under Aaron Copland at the Tanglewood Music Center during the summers. He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1953 and 1957. He wrote the score to Holland Dills’s play Cadenza which was given its premiere at the Hedgerow Theatre (HT) in 1947. This was followed by the score for Androcles and Lion which was staged at the HT the following year. Bucci’s first opera, The Boor, was premiered at Finch College on December 29, 1949. It used a libretto by Eugene Haun based on Anton Chekhov’s 1

Mark Carlson (composer)

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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 Lewis, Washington, and raised primarily in Modesto, California, Carlson attended Johnston College at the University of Redlands; received a B.A. from California State University, Fresno, in 1974, where he studied composition with Dennis Riley and David Bates; and received M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1984) degrees in Music Theory and Composition at UCLA, where he studied with Alden Ashforth and Paul Reale. His principal flute teacher was Roger S. Stevens, with whom he studied privately beginning in 1972. In 1982, he founded the Los Angeles-based chamber ensemble, Pacific Serenades, Carlson has taught music theory, composition, orchestration, and classes at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music since 1985, and also taught music theory and composition at Santa Monica College from 1993 to 2008. He retired from UCLA in July 2018 and is living in Palm Springs, California. Carlson is currently composing The Scarlet Letter, an opera in-progress, with librettist Bruce Oldstad. Selected works Concertos * Co

Mark Delpriora

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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 since 1989. Mark is also on the faculty of The Juilliard School, where he teaches guitar studies. He studied guitar with Rolando Valdés-Blain and later with Manuel Barrueco. He studied theory/composition in his early teens with Roland Trogan and later with Giampaolo Bracali. Mr. Delpriora has recorded for Koch International Classics, Soundspells, Philips, Tzadik, and CRI. In addition, he has recorded 6 CDs with flutist Laurel Zucker on Cantilena Records. As a performer, the New York Times wrote after his debut: “The first notes of Mark Delpriora’s guitar recital established him as a musician of authority. In a little Mozart transcription by Julian Bream he showed a rare feeling for the specific gravity of a Mozartean phrase, for the inevitability of its rise and fall. Delpriora is a guitarist to be reckoned with” One of the few students chosen to participate in masterclasses by Andrés Segovia, Delpriora has performed and championed music written for, but rarely played by, Segovia, known a

Mark Edgley Smith

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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 that he began to compose seriously, and he later went to study music at the Queen’s College, Oxford. Mark Edgley Smith had a daughter, Anna February Edgley-Smith (born 25 February 1983), and a son, Milo Henry Edgley-Smith (born 4 May 1999). He died in Cheltenham, aged 53. Chronological list of compositions many juvenilia omitted *Go-round for brass quintet, Op.1 (1976, revised 1983) *Campanile for flute, harp and harpsichord, Op.2 (1976) *Magnificat and Nunc dimittis English text for three equal voices, Op.3 (1975) *Occasional fanfare for brass, piano and percussion (1976, orch. 1983) *Quinta essentia for brass sextet, Op.4 (1977) *Fire festival for mixed chamber choir, Op.5 (1977-8) *The House of Sleep John Gower for mezzo and 9 instruments, Op.6 (1982-3) *Six starsongs for children’s voices, piano and percussion, Op.7 (1983) *In nomine for 6 instruments, Op.8 (1983) *Planh for small orchestra, Op.9 (1984) *Panic relation for clarinet and piano, Op.10 (1985) *Vancouver songbook, Volum

Mark Engebretson

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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 saxophone. Biography Engebretson was born in California and raised in Alexandria, Minnesota. His family later moved to North St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, a retired doctor, is also a saxophonist as well as a clarinettist. Engbretson attended St. Olaf College for a year before transferring to the University of Minnesota. He is currently Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and director of the Alice Virginia Poe Williams Electronic Music Studio at that university. He is a member of Red Clay Saxophone Quartet and was formerly a member of the Vienna Saxophone Quartet. Aside from Northwestern University, he also studied at the University of Minnesota and the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. His teachers have included Frederick Hemke, Jean-Marie Londeix, M. William Karlins, Pauline Oliveros, Marta Ptaszynska, Michael Pisaro and Jay Alan Yim. Music As a composer his influences include Steve Reich, John Cage and György Ligeti. Eric Stokes introduce

Mark Fax

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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 fourteen, Fax was employed as a theater organist playing scores to silent films in Baltimore’s Regent Theater on Saturdays, and gospel music at an African American church on Sundays. then at Eastman earning a Master’s degree in composition. While at Eastman he studied with Howard Hanson. He completed his bachelor’s of music degree with honours; won the prestigious Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in a national competition; and was elected to the All-University Honour Society. Depression-era conditions compelled him to turn down graduate fellowship offers, and he accepted a position at Paine College in Georgia, Public attention In the Washington limelight, he finally received public attention. Washington Post critic Paul Hume praised Fax’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano as “striking…difficult…a work of surprising contrapuntal texture” and declared the composer’s oeuvre “music of rare power.” Til Victory is Won (1967), Fax’s epic operatic history of the African American experience, was mounted at the

Mark Fradkin

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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 forty films. In 1979, Mark Fradkin received the USSR State Prize and, in 1985, he was granted the status of the People’s Artist of the USSR. Biography Mark Fradkin was born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus), to a family of doctors. In the 1920s, having graduated from the technological secondary school, Mark joined a clothing factory in Vitebsk. After two years there, he joined the Third Belorussian Theatre as an actor (later musical administrator). In 1934, he enrolled in the Leningrad Theatre Institute where he started writing music. In 1938-1939, he studied in the Belorussian Conservatory under the guidance of Professor Aladov while working as an actor in the Minsk Children Theater (ТЮЗ). Family Mark Fradkin’s father, Grigory Konstantinovich Fradkin, a medical doctor in Kursk, was executed by the White Army troops retreating from the city in 1920. His mother, Yevgenya Mironovna Fradkina (née Shagalova), also a medical doctor, was murdered during the Holocaust, along with many other

Mark Gresham

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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 article about American composer Jennifer Higdon, published in Creative Loafing (Atlanta) on 13 November 2002. In addition to being a contributing writer for Creative Loafing (Atlanta) from 2002 to 2012, Gresham has also written for NewMusicBox (the online journal of the American Music Center) and other publications. He was a music journalist/critic for ArtsATL. Gresham initially wrote articles for the online-only publication starting in mid-2011 (at the time known as ArtsCriticATL) and then more extensively as of November 2011 upon the departure of Pierre Ruhe, its principal music critic, executive director, and co-founder. Gresham quit writing for ArtsATL in February 2019 over editorial issues that had begun to emerge near the end of 2018. At that point, what had been a very occasional personal music blog, EarRelevant, became, for Gresham, a full-time music journal for which he is both publisher and principal writer References External links *Mark Gresham’s website *EarRelevant (music

Mark Grey

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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 electroacoustic music and composition with Pablo Furman and Allen Strange. Grey received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in composition. Several years of teaching at the California State Summer School for the Arts allowed Grey to meet and establish ties with several contemporary composers and performers, including John Adams. Through Adams, Grey was introduced to Kronos Quartet in 1993. Kronos later recruited Grey to be one of their live performance sound designers. Composer Grey made his Carnegie Hall debut as a composer with Kronos Quartet in 2003. His solo, ensemble and orchestra music has been performed in many venues including the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Barbican Centre in London, Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Philharmonie Hall in Warsaw, UNESCO Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Symphony Hall in Phoenix, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, as well as at the Ravinia, Cabrillo, OtherMinds, Perth International, and Spoleto festiv

Mark Gustavson

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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 universities in the New York City area, including Adelphi University and Nassau Community College. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1981 and received the D.M.A. from Columbia University in 1990. Gustavson also studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Ton De Leeuw on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1985-86 and was a composition fellow at Tanglewood in 1979. His primary composition teachers were Chinary Ung, Ben Johnston and Fred Lerdahl. Music Western classical music, Folk music from around the world, and Jazz blended with Eastern and Western philosophy have all influenced Gustavson’s style. He mostly favors notated music that often sounds improvised. Form is often based on different approaches to variations influenced by naturally occurring cycles. Rhythm can at times be very complex or deceptively simple; for example, the third movement of Quintet for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello is a four-voice canon of continuous eighth notes that create a background for the solo clari

Mark Houston

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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 actor with the Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado. While he was predominantly active with theatre companies in Kansas City, Missouri, he worked nationally as a director, composer, writer, and actor. He was best known for the musical Six Women with Brain Death or Expiring Minds Want to Know for which he served as both composer and lyricist. He also composed the opera Hazel Kirke which was commissioned by Lake George Opera (now Saratoga Opera). In his later career he wrote the political and cultural commentary column “Is It Just Me? " for the Oklahoma Gazette. His father worked in the petroleum industry. He was one of five children born to Dan and Polly Houston. In 1969 Houston was conscripted in the Vietnam War draft. In a 1989 interview, Houston described his war experience as “the darkest time in my life.” Conjur Man in Howard Richardson and William Berney’s Dark of the Moon (1974), Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1974), Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night (1975; also co

Mark Kopytman

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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 Laureate of the Serge Koussevitzky Prize for his composition Voices of Memory (1986). Awarded the title “People’s Artist of Moldova” in (1992) by the Moldovan President for the creation of the first Moldovan National Opera «Casa mare» («The Great House»). Biography Kopytman was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) in 1929. He received his initial training in piano and music theory at Chernivtsi Music College and later went on to study medicine at the Chernivtsi Medical Institute. After graduating from medical college, Kopytman studied composition with Roman Simovych at the Lysenko Academy of Music in Lviv and with S. Bogatirev at Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow. After gaining his second PhD in theory and composition, Kopytman taught at the conservatories of Moscow, Almaty and Chişinău. Several of his compositions won prizes and distinctions in competitions and festivals. Emigration In 1972 Kopytman emigrated to Israel, where he became a Professo

Mark Korven

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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 – Voices from the Shadows * 1994 – Henry & Verlin * 1994 – The Michelle Apartments * 1995 – Curtis’s Charm * 1996 – Lyddie (TV) * 1996 – Joe’s Wedding * 1996 – Giant Mine * 1997 – Cube * 1999 – Win, Again! (TV) * 1999 – The Sheldon Kennedy Story (TV) * 2000 – Falling Through * 2000 – Saint Jude * 2001 – Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story (TV) * 2014 – Cruel and Unusual * 2015 – The Witch * 2017 – Awakening the Zodiac * 2018 – Our House * 2019 – The Lighthouse * 2021 – No One Gets Out Alive * 2021 – Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City * 2022 – The Black Phone * 2024 – Night Swim * 2024 – The First Omen * 2024 – Don’t Move Television * 1988 – The Twilight Zone * 1991 – Grand Larceny * 1993–1994 – Destiny Ridge * 1997 – Michael Grey Eyes * 1997 – The New Ice Age * 1997–1999 – A Scattering of Seeds * 1999–2003 – The Nature of Things * Love Is Not Enough * 2002 – New Year’s Resolutions * 2002 – Friday the 13th: The Devil in Dover * 2003 – The Ex-Factor * 2003 – Talk Mogadishu: Media Under F

Mark London

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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 London was born in Montreal, Quebec, and initially worked as a comedian following a move to London. He first achieved prominence in 1967 as the composer of the melody to “To Sir With Love”, the title song from James Clavell’s movie of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson and Lulu. The song, co-written with lyricist Don Black, was recorded by Lulu and released as a single in the US, becoming the Billboard Year-End Top Single for 1967. Also in 1967, London was the composer, with Mike Leander, of the soundtrack to the movie Privilege, starring Paul Jones. London also acted in the film. The other soundtrack credit during this period was the score for Maximilian Schell’s First Love (1970). London also produced Lulu’s 1978 album, Don’t Take Love For Granted. London was married Lulu’s longtime manager, Marion Massey. London also co-write the soundtrack for seven series of animation films, for children 1 to 6 years old. He also co-wrote the music for Channel One, the first cable new

Mark Lothar

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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 Meiszner in Berlin and with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in Munich. Early on he became famous accompanying singers such as Erna Berger, Corry Nera, who in 1934 on became his wife, and Hermann Prey. In 1933 he was recruited as a music specialist for the German Theater by Max Reinhardt, since Lothar was a member of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur, an antisemitic organization forming part of the Völkisch movement. One year later he became the musical director of the Prussian State Theater in Berlin thanks to Gustaf Gründgens. He held this position until 1944. During his tenure, he composed various pieces on behalf of Joseph Goebbels. In May 1938 his opera Tailor Wibbel, inspired by a play by Hans Müller-Schlösser, was performed at the Berlin State Opera. In August 1944, Adolf Hitler included in the Gottbegnadeten list, an exclusive list of artists exempt from military service. Since 1945 he worked for the Bavarian state theater and since 1955 as free composer based in Munich. He was also renown as a

Mark Mancina

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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, Training Day, Brother Bear, Criminal Minds, Blood+, Planes, and Moana. He has also composed music for the PlayStation 3 game Sorcery. He has made several collaborations with The Walt Disney Company, and has won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Annie Award for Brother Bear. For his work on the Disney Theatrical Productions adaptation of The Lion King, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score in a Musical and won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. Career Mancina has worked primarily as a composer for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney’s The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Nick Glennie-Smith and Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He composed the score for the thriller Twister (1996) and the action films Speed (1994) and Bad Boys (1995). Mancina co-wrote several songs for Hanna-Barbera’s 1990

Mark Miller (composer)

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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 children, Keith and Alyse. His music often references themes of social justice and inclusion. His hymns have been published in hymnals including For Everyone Born: Global Songs for an Emerging Church, Worship and Song, Zion Still Sings, and Voices Together. Selected works Books *Roll Down, Justice: Sacred Songs and Social Justice (2014) *“Revolution of the Heart: Songs by Mark A. Miller” (2022) Albums *Imagine the People of God (2013) *Revolution of the Heart (2024) Hymns and choruses *Child of God *God Has Work for Us to Do *I Believe *Roll Down, Justice! *Welcome *Welcome to God’s Love References

Mark Minkov

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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 the scores for more than a hundred cinema and television films, including Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1985), We Are from Jazz (1983) and Neznayka with Our Court (1983). On May 29, 2012 Mark Minkov died at the age of 68. He was buried at Vostryakovsky cemetery. Early life and career Minkov was born in Moscow, USSR. He attended the Merzlyakovki Conservatory School where he studied composition under Nikolay Sidelnikov. He then studied under Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory in 1964. A song by Minkov based on the lyrics Invisible struggle (translit. Nezrimiy Boi - If somebody, somewhere among us, sometimes…) by Anatoly Gorokhov is featured in almost all the series. It became an unofficial hymn of the Soviet Militia. In 2001, he was awarded the MVD Russian Interior Ministry award for the music theme to the Sledstvie vedut znatoki. Awards and honours * 1970 – member of the Composers Union * 1981 – member of the Cinematographers Union * 1989 – Honored Artist of the RSFSR * 1999

Mark Nichols (composer)

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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 (2009). He is also known in the northwestern United States for his work with Fred Jamison (aka Beaverchief of the Lummi) for whom he arranged 20 Northwest Coast Native songs for orchestra, girl choir, and rock band, performed by the Seattle Symphony in 1996. Career Nichols began his writing career as a solo artist on Seattle’s PopLlama Records after playing keyboards in bands like The Squirrels and Prudence Dredge, and has composed extensively for Seattle film director, Garrett Bennett, and scored all but one of his films, which include End of the Icon, Farewell to Harry, and A Relative Thing. Nichols has written over twenty published works for theater, particularly rock operas, and operas for children. He is one of the founders and composers for the Seattle/Mumbai rock band Manooghi Hi. As an orchestrator, he is known for his work on the classic Sub Pop album by Jeremy Enigk Return of the Frog Queen. Mark has produced a number of other seminal northwest albums, particularly Trillian G

Mark Petrie

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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 Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Avengers: Infinity War, and Venom, as well as writing the score for EA Sports’ Madden NFL American football video games. He has also composed scores for films, television shows, documentaries, political campaigns and sporting events. Early life and influences Petrie was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He began his early musical training while boarding at Dilworth School for eight years, studying piano and composition. After winning a scholarship to study film scoring at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, he relocated to the United States, and completed a degree majoring in film scoring. Career After graduating from Berklee College of Music, Petrie was awarded the BMI Foundation’s Pete Carpenter Film Composing Fellowship. He was flown to Los Angeles to work under the Grammy Award-winning composer Mike Post. He then began writing for TV shows and independent films. In 2007, he collaborated with PostHast

Márk Rózsavölgyi

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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 to a poor tradesman’s family in Balassagyarmat, where his bust (made by Jelena Veszely in 1973) can be found in the Palóc-parkland. His family is believed to have had klezmer connections. From the ages of 11 to 19 he worked as a clerk in Vienna, Pressburg (now Bratislava), and Prague, teaching himself to play the violin. Returning to Pest, he dedicated himself to music, composing in the Hungarian traditional styles, including the verbunkos. His first works were published in Pest in 1811; eventually he published over 200 works. In 1812, he was appointed conductor of the orchestra at the German Theater in Pest. Basing himself in Pest, he travelled through the Habsburg Empire for many years, including extended stays in Baja and Temesvár (now Timișoara, Romania). In 1824, he was made a regular salaried member of the Philharmonic Society of the county of Veszprém, and his name “Rosenthal” was Magyarized to “Rózsavölgyi” (both mean ‘rose valley’ in German (or Yiddish) and Hungarian respective

Mark Slater (composer)

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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 fulldome films. He lives in Tokyo, Japan and is a professor of film music at Andvision International Music School, Tokyo. Slater is a sponsored artist of the Make Art Not War Foundation. Early years Slater was born on 1 April 1969 in Reigate, Surrey. His musical background includes a father who is a professor of music and conductor, a degree from the London College of Music and five years as a cathedral chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Slater appeared on Central TV in 1982 as a treble soloist on A Ceremony of Carols filmed as a follow-up to an album issued by ASV Records and on the 1984 Decca release of the Messiah performed by the Academy of Ancient Music. In 1998, Slater made his debut at Dorking Halls, Surrey as a solo pianist performing Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. Slater’s “crisp” piano playing was compared to Gershwin in a performance of Rhapsody in Blue. A composition by Slater written for a fund raising concert in 1999 for Kosovo War refugees ‘Tempus Fugit’ made a "

Mark Sonnenblick

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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 for the films Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022), Spirited (2022), and Theater Camp (2023). Sonnenblick co-wrote many of the songs for the animated film KPop Demon Hunters (2025), including “Golden”, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 In 2012, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Yale College. He moved to Denver after college, and then to New York City in 2014, where he started writing musicals. He is openly gay, and was honored by Out as one of the Out100 in 2025. Career Theater work Sonnenblick wrote the lyrics for Independents, a musical performed at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2012. He also wrote the music for the musical Midnight at the Never Get, which was staged off-Broadway at the York Theatre in 2018. It was additionally nominated in the category of Outstanding Musical at the 2019 Lucille Lortel Awards. A London production has been announced to open in July 2026. Sonnenblick served as an additional lyricist to Shaina Taub for The Devil Wear

Mark Thomas (composer)

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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 Roundabout (2005), and doing the theme and music for the animated children’s television series Shaun the Sheep. His music for TV series Episodes gained him a nomination for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. Early life Thomas was born in 1956 in Penclawdd on the Gower Peninsula. He attended Gowerton Grammar School, and studied music composition and orchestration at university. References External links * Archived on 21 July 2023 * Mark Thomas at BFI * *

Mark Watters

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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, Texas and majored in Saxophone at the University of Southern California where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Mark served as the music director of the 1996 Summer Olympics, and the 2002 Winter Olympics. Watters has served as guest conductor for ensembles such as The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The London Symphony, The Detroit Symphony, The Dallas Symphony, and The Atlanta Symphony. In 2009, he co-conducted a nationwide tour of Star Wars: In Concert with Dirk Brosse. In August 2012, he conducted the Japanese tour featuring The Tokyo Symphony. He is a former president of the Society of Composers & Lyricists and a former member of the ATAS Board of Governors. Discography Film *Petal to the Metal - Disney *The Pebble and the Penguin - MGM - First score for a theatrically released animated film *All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 - MGM *Africa Before Dark - Disney * The Cat That Looked at a King - Disney * My Little Pony: Dancing in the Clouds - Paramount / Hasbro / SD Entertainment *Hav

Mark Wessel (composer)

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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 School of Music; he later taught piano and theory there. When Wessel left Northwestern, he became a professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Wessel was a former pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. He was twice awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1930 and 1932. He was also the recipient in 1930 of a Pulitzer Scholarship to further his education in Europe. In the 1938 contest of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society his choral-orchestral work The King of Babylon won honorable mention, while his former student David Van Vactor won the competition with his Symphony in D. He died on May 9, 1973, in Orchard Lake, Oakland County, Michigan. Selected compositions *Adagio, for orchestra *Allegro pomposo, for two pianos (pub. 1982) *The Amorous Peacock, for piano *Ballade, for solo violin, solo oboe, string orchestra (1931) *Ballade, for violin and piano (1937) *Concertino, for flute or violin and chamber orchestra (1928) *Concerto, for piano and orchestra (1941) *The D

Mark-Anthony Turnage

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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 musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller. He also has been strongly influenced by jazz, in particular by the work of Miles Davis, and has composed works featuring jazz performers, including John Scofield, Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, and Joe Lovano. Turnage has composed numerous orchestral and chamber works, and three full-length operas. Greek, composed with the encouragement of Hans Werner Henze and first performed in 1988 at the Munich Biennale, is based on Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The Silver Tassie, first performed in 2000, is based on the play by Seán O’Casey. Anna Nicole, with a libretto by Richard Thomas and first performed in 2011, relates the rise and fall of Playboy model and media celebrity Anna Nicole Smith. His opera for family audiences, Coraline, is based on the dark fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman, and was staged by The Royal Opera at the Barbican Theatre in 2018. His operas have been performed around the world in

Marko Ciciliani

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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 Germany in 1971, where he grew up primarily in Karlsruhe. Ciciliani began his musical studies in 1990 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, studying composition and music theory with Ulrich Leyendecker. From 1993 to 1994, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City with Nils Vigeland. He then returned to Hamburg to complete his studies with Manfred Stahnke. In 1996, he moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he undertook postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague until 1998, working with Clarence Barlow and Louis Andriessen. Ciciliani resided in Amsterdam until 2010, working as a freelance composer and active participant in the Dutch music scene. From the early 2000s, he increasingly focused on sound engineering and electronic music performance. He has performed with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Orchestra, MusikFabrik, and ASKO. In 2007, Ciciliani began

Marko Rothmüller

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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 Trnjani near Slavonski Brod to a Jewish family, who owned a store. He was raised with five siblings (three brothers and two sisters): Branko, Avraham, Erich Cvi, Tilika and Elvira. When he was four, Rothmüller moved to Zagreb with his parents Josef and Ana (née Hahn) Rothmüller. He studied at Zagreb Music Academy at the University of Zagreb. He later went to Vienna to train under Regina Weiss, Franz Steiner and Alban Berg. He lived and worked in Zagreb until 1935. Career In 1932 he made his debut in Hamburg, with the role of Ottokar in Der Freischütz and was immediately ranked among the leading European interpreters of heroic baritone roles. Because of antisemitism in Nazi Germany, Rothmüller returned home to Zagreb in 1933. In 1935 he moved to Zurich, where until 1947 he was a permanent member of the Zurich opera emphasizing the roles in Verdi and Wagner operas. Between 1946 and 1949, he was a member of the Vienna State Opera. In London’s Royal Opera House, Rothmüller made his debut in 1939

Markus Heinrich Grauel

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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 unknown. The earliest available information concerning Grauel’s career is a mention of him working alongside his father-in-law, Johann Christian Hertel, at the court of the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Neustrelitz at the time of the Hofkapelle’s dissolution in 1753, when he was forced to search for employment elsewhere. After leaving Neustrelitz, Grauel was employed by Johann Nepomuk Gotthard Graf von Schaffgotsch in Berlin. He began his employment at the Prussian court in Berlin on 1 December 1763, where he remained until his death in 1799. The majority of contemporary accounts concerning Grauel date from his time in Berlin. Most notably, Charles Burney, after his visit to Berlin in 1772 wrote: “M. Grauel, a violoncello performer in the King’s band, played a concerto; it was but ordinary music; however, it was well executed, though in the old manner, with the hand under the bow.” On the contrary, his compositional skill was mentioned favourably by two contemporary commentators, Ernst Lud

Marmaduke Barton

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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 Manchester, the son of a United Methodist Free Church minister, He was educated at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London under one of the first 50 scholarships. His teachers were John Francis Barnett (piano) and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. He met Hamish MacCunn at this time and the two became lifelong friends. He made piano duet arrangements of two of MacCunn’s orchestral works, and some smaller works were dedicated to him. He and MacCunn played piano duets in some student concerts. In 1888 he was awarded a travelling scholarship, enabling him to study with the Franz Liszt pupil Bernhard Stavenhagen in Weimar. and also appeared at the Albert Hall, the Proms (he played the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor on 11 October 1911 under Sir Henry Wood), and in the provinces. He gave frequent solo recitals in London, and he toured South Africa and the Netherlands. and some piano pieces. His students included: Marion Scott, Cyril Rootham, Clara Butt, Lloyd Powell, and the entertainer Anna Russ

Märt-Matis Lill

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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 Kaplinski and classical philologist and translator Anne Lill. Guitarist and violinist Emil Lansoo was his grandfather. He studied composition at the Tallinn Music High School under Lepo Sumera. In 1999 he graduated from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. As composer and the chairman of the Estonian Composers’ Union, he writes on the 70th anniversary of the birth of Lepo Sumera, one of the most influential composers in post-war Estonia, about his old mentor’s restlessness, warmth and work. Affiliations He has been the artistic director of the Pärnu New Music Days Festival. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Estonian Composers’ Union. From 2014, he has been the chairman of Estonian Composers’ Union. Works * 1999 “Üleminekuriitus” (“Le rite de passage”) * 2001 “Seitse laulu sügisest” (for baritone and piano) * 2002 “Linnujäljed taeval” * 2002 “Etnofuturistlikud etüüdid” * 2003 “Farwell” * 2003 “Taeva jõgi” (for chamber orchestra) * 2015 “Kui kivid olid veel pehmed” * 2017 opera "

Marta Canales

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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 Mendelssohn’s “Concerto”. With her brothers, she founded a chamber ensemble that was active from 1916–1920. After her performing career ended, she studied composition with Luigi Stefano Giarda, and then worked as a composer and choral conductor. She died in Santiago, aged 93. Works Selected works include: *“Marta y María”, oratorio for soloists, chorus, organ and string orchestra (1929) *“Misa de Eucaristía” for four mixed voices, chorus and string orchestra (1930) *“Misa de Navidad” for mixed chorus of four voices and orchestra (1930) *“Misa en estilo gregoriano” for voice and organ (1933) *“Madrigales Teresianos”, collection of twelve chorals, four mixed voices on the poetry of St. Teresa of Jesus (1933) *“Himnos y cantos sacros en estilo gregoriano” for voice and organ (1936–1940) *“Elevación”, poem for organ, harp and string orchestra *“Cuatro canciones de cuna” for four voice choirs *“Dos canciones” for four equal voices *“Cantares Chilenos”, collection of ten tunes, harmonized choruses

Marta Jiráčková

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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, took a job in Czechoslovak Radio as a music editor. She studied harmony and composition with Alois Hába from 1962 until 1964, and took a break from composition when she married conductor Václav Jiráček. After her husband died in an accident, she returned to study and composition in the 1970s in Brno with Ctirad Kohoutek and Alois Piňos at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Her composition Loď bláznů (The Ship of Fools) was awarded the 1992 Prize of the Czech Music Fund. Works Jiráčková has composed more than forty works, including vocal music, chamber music, symphonies, ballet, and music for radio and television. Selected works include: Orchestral works: *Sláva Vorlová’s Confession, symphonic sketch with solo trumpet and soprano. Op. 8 (1973) *Nanda Devi, Symphony No. 1, with children’s and female chorus and tower bells, Op. 25 (1979) *Ave Seikilos, composition in one movement for strings and percussion, Op. 31 (1983) *The Butterfly Effect, composition for violoncello so

Marta Lambertini

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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 Caamano, Luis Gianneo and Gerardo Gandini, graduating in 1972. She continued her studies in electroacoustic music in Buenos Aires, at the Centro de Investigationes de la Ciudad with Francisco Kröpfl, Gerardo Gandini, José Maranzano and Gabriel Brncic. After completing her studies, Lambertini taught music at the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música and the National University of La Plata, before taking a position as dean of the Faculty of Music Arts and Sciences of the Catholic University of Argentina. She received several prizes, including the 1st Prize in the National Music Award, the City of Buenos Aires Music Prize, Career Prize APA in 1972 and 1975, and the Konex Award (1999). She served as a jury member in international composition competitions in Brazil and Argentina. She is the author of the book “Gerardo Gandini, music fiction”. She was nominated for Opera Theatres of the World for her opera “Cinderella”, and for the Clarín Award as the most important figure in classical music i

Marta Ptaszynska

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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 Southern California as “one of the best known Polish woman composers” as well as “a virtuoso percussionist specializing in performances of contemporary music”. Career Ptaszyńska was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1998, she was appointed a Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Since 2005 she holds an endowed chair of Helen B. & Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Composition. She has been honored with many prizes and awards including Simon J. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Danks Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Music Foundation Award, the Award at the International Rostrum of Composers at the UNESCO in Paris, several ASCAP Awards, and many more. In 1995, she received the Officer Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Works Orchestral music Vocal and instrumental works Chamber music Instrumental and solo works Multimedia works Music for children Books *Ptaszynska, Marta & Niewiadomska, Barbara; Colorful World of Percussion (1978)

Martha Callison Horst

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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 of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Composers Consortium, and Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound V. Horst studied composition at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis. She is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University. Furthermore, she serves as an Academic Senator representing the College of Fine Arts. In the fall of 2020, she was elected Secretary of the Academic Senate placing her on the Executive Committee with the University administration. Partial list of works * Adagio for orchestra * Cloister Songs * Cloud Gate * Creature Studies * Giant Variations * Night Songs * Sonata No. 1 for piano * Straussian Landscapes * Threads * Three Meditations on Van Gogh * Widening Gyre Discography References External links * * * *

Martha Llwyd

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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 life Martha Williams was born at Nantbendigaid Farm in Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire. Her family moved to Y Felin farm in the neighbouring parish of Llanpumsaint when she was a baby. She was regularly visited by the Methodist leader and fellow hymnwriter William Williams Pantycelyn to discuss their work, and it is alleged that some of her hymns were published under his name. Very little of Martha Llwyd’s work remains, and most of her hymns have been lost to posterity. Some of Llywd’s hymns were published in 1925, as recalled by John Evan Davies (Rhuddwawr). Another descendant is Dafydd’s mother, poet Menna Elfyn. Personal life In 1785 Martha Williams married Dafydd Llwyd, a local blacksmith and prominent member of the village’s Methodist community. The couple lived together in the centre of the village and had nine children, six boys and three girls, born between 1787 and 1807. The rigours of raising such a large family took its toll on her health and with time she became unable to walk. N

Marthe Servine

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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 parents. She was brought to the U.S. at the age of 10 and became an American citizen. and made her debut at the age of 12. At her debut she played the Mendelssohn G Minor Concerto, under Xaver Scharwenka. At this concert, she performed exclusively her compositions, After 1919, but before 1924, Servine moved back to Europe, where the captions on her manuscripts show that she spent some time in France and some in Britain. The performers included the Roth Quartet and herself at the piano. The concert was well received, garnering several positive reviews from major New York newspapers. In the New York Sun review, she was described as a “vigorous person of middle years”. F. D. Perkins, writing in the New-York Tribune shortly after the concert, described her music as showing “solid and well-schooled musicianship and knowledge of form and generosity regarding melody”. Her style was “pervaded by the atmosphere of late nineteenth-century romanticism… it occasionally called to mind Brahms and Cesar Fra

Marthinus Lourens de Villiers

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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. Biography The son of Dirk de Villiers, organist of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Tina Smith, he was introduced to the piano, organ and violin at a very young age by his parents, owners of a music institute in Wellington. He later took up the clarinet and played in the Wellington brass band. He obtained his baccalaureate in 1904, a year after publishing his first piano composition. From 1905 to 1907, de Villiers taught music in Wepener in the Orange Free State. There he founded a brass band, composed and was organist of the Dutch Reformed Church. He then studied from 1908 to 1911 at the theological seminary in Stellenbosch, during which time he became interested and involved in the defense of the Afrikaans language against English. Of British but also Boer descent, he was also affected by the destruction of the Second Boer War, by the efforts to rebuild the population, by his friendships, notably with the former president Marthinus Steyn. He gradually became a pro-Afrikaner activist. From

Marti Epstein

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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 Denver, Colorado in 1959, and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and attended Omaha Burke High School, graduating with the class of 1978. She began composition studies in 1977 while still in high school with Professor Robert Beadell at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She earned degrees from the University of Colorado (Bachelor of Music in Composition, summa cum laude, 1982) and Boston University (Master of Music in Composition, 1984; Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, 1989). Her principal composition instructors were Charles Eakin, Joyce Mekeel, and Bernard Rands. Career Dr. Epstein has received numerous awards and commissions. In April 2020, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and twice a fellow in composition at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she worked with Oliver Knussen and Hans Werner Henze. Composition prizes include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Fromm Foundation Commission, Lee Ettleson Composition Priz

Marti Montserrat Guillemat

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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. Composer, conductor, pianist, accordionist and organist. The Serramont Orchestra was founded in 1932, with slight variations from Musette Serramont Orchestra or Serramont and José de Morato Orchestra, was active more than three decades. He performed throughout Spain and in several countries: Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Belgium, Switzerland and France. He accompanied popular singers of the era as Mario Visconti. Throughout his career, he performed in nightclubs as the Rigat and El Oro del Rin. His orchestra was the first to perform on Spanish TV at their Catalan studio in Miramar (Barcelona). At a very young age he learned to play the piano by ear and at the age of 9 he used to play at his father’s café in El Morell. Years later, he also in other surrounding villages until the family moved to Barcelona and Martin studied in the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. His repertoire dominated the dance music. His first composition, the schottish Ni Pintao dates from 1925. In 1927 he worked as

Martin Agricola

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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 teacher or cantor in the Protestant school. Georg Rhau, a publisher and senator in Wittenberg, was Agricola’s close friend and publisher. Agricola’s theoretical writing was valuable in expounding the change from the old to the new system of musical notation. His Musica instrumentalis deudsch (English: German Instrumental Music), published in 1528, 1530, 1532 and 1542, and then heavily revised in 1545, was one of the most important early works in organology and on the elements of music. Agricola was the first to harmonize in four parts Martin Luther’s famous chorale, “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” (English: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”. Notes References ;Attribution * Further reading *Translation of Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch *Classical Composers Database * *

Martin Amlin

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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 Composition and Theory at the Boston University College of Fine Arts as well as Senior Director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Composition Program. Career Martin Amlin received Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees and the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. At Eastman he studied piano with Frank Glazer and composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Ecoles d’Art Américaines in Fontainebleau and at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Amlin has been a resident at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has performed as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and has been a rehearsal pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He has appeared on the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and with the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio. Works Orchestra *Quatrains from the Rubáiyát for soprano

Martin Armiger

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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 Sports from August 1978 to late 1981, which had Top 30 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart with, “Don’t Throw Stones” (1979), “Strangers on a Train” (1980) and “How Come” (1981); and Top 20 albums with Don’t Throw Stones (No. 9, 1979), Suddenly (No. 13, 1980) and Sondra (1981). Armiger was musical director for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV 1984 series Sweet and Sour and was record producer on the related soundtrack album as well as performing and songwriting. In 1986 he produced and composed for another ABC TV soundtrack for the miniseries Dancing Daze. At the Australian Film Institute Awards of 1986 he shared an accolade for Best Original Music Score with William Motzing for their work on Young Einstein (publicly released 1988). Armiger notably co-produced “Dumb Things” for Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, with Kelly, on the Young Einstein soundtrack. It was later released as the fourth single from the band’s second album, Under the Sun on Mushroom Records impr

Martin Arnold (composer)

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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 Symphony Orchestra, Quatuor Bozzini, the pianist Eve Egoyan, the violinist Mira Benjamin and the cellist Anton Lukoszievieze. Arnold won the €35,000 Open Ear Prize for Music Composition in 2025, awarded by the Oscillating Ear Foundation. Education and career Arnold studied at the University of Alberta, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (1981–82) and was a guest student at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (1982–83). He completed a PhD at the University of Victoria in 1995. Arnold has written about the influence of Komorous’ “aesthetic of the wonderful” on his music. Komorous developed the aesthetic with musical colleagues in the Czech Republic before emigrating to Canada in 1969. According to Komorous, another translation of the Czech word for wonderful is strange. Composers influenced by the aesthetic seek to create musical encounters with the unexpected. Arnold’s music is characterized by a sense of dislocation and discontinuity, effects which are created using atonal melodies a

Martin Boykan

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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 composition first with Walter Piston at Harvard, where he received a BA in 1951. He then went to Zürich to study with Paul Hindemith, with whom he continued his studies at Yale University, earning an MM in 1953. Subsequently, he went to Vienna on a Fulbright scholarship. He also studied composition with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood (1949, 1950), and piano with Eduard Steuermann. Upon his return to the United States in 1955, he founded the Brandeis Chamber Ensemble, whose members included Robert Koff (Juilliard String Quartet), Nancy Cirillo (Wellesley), Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet), and Madeline Foley (Marlboro Festival). This ensemble performed widely with a repertory divided equally between contemporary music and the tradition. At the same time Boykan appeared regularly as a pianist with soloists such as Joseph Silverstein and Jan DeGaetani. In 1964–65, he was the pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf. Boykan had residencies at Yaddo (1981 and 1992), the MacDow

Martin Bresnick

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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 City’s specialized High School of Music and Art. He was educated at the University of Hartford (B.A. ‘67), Stanford University (M.A. ‘68, D.M.A. ‘72), and the Akademie für Musik, Vienna (‘69–‘70), and studied composition with John Chowning, György Ligeti and Gottfried von Einem. He went on to teach at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford University and the Yale School of Music. Career Bresnick’s work has received many prizes, among them: Fulbright Fellowship (1969–70), three NEA Composer Grants (1974, 1979, 1990), Rome Prize Fellowship (1975–76), MacDowell Fellowship (1977), First Prize, Premio Ancona (1980), First Prize, International Sinfonia Musicale Competition (1982), Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant, with Chamber Music America (1983), The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Elise L. Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music (1996), “Charles Ives Living” award, American Academy of Arts & Letters (1998), Composer-in Residence, American Academy In Rome (1999), Berlin P

Martin Christoph Redel

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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 of the flutist Kurt Redel and the pianist Erika Redel-Seidler. He studied percussion with Friedrich Scherz and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn, Giselher Klebe and Johannes Driessler at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie (today: Hochschule für Musik Detmold). He then continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Isang Yun. In 1971 he became a lecturer in music theory and ear training at the Detmold Academy of Music. In 1979 he was appointed professor of composition and Redel led the Detmold Academy as rector from 1993 to 2001. In this capacity, he was also chairman of the Rectors’ Conference of Germany’s conservatoires and vice-president of the Association Européen des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC). From 1992 to 2004, Redel was President of Jeunesses Musicales Germany, which subsequently appointed him its Honorary President and on whose behalf he directed the composition courses for young people at Schloss Weikers

Martin Codax

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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. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth century, judging from scriptological analysis. He is one of only two out of a total of 88 authors of cantigas d’amigo who used only the archaic strophic form (a rhymed distich followed by a refrain). He employed an archaic rhyme scheme whereby i~~o / a~~o were used in alternating strophes. In addition Martin Codax consistently utilised a strict parallelistic technique known as leixa-pren (see the example below; the order of the third and fourth strophes is inverted in the Pergaminho Vindel but the correct order appears in the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional in Portugal, and the Cancioneiro da Vaticana). There is no documentary biographical information concerning the poet, dating the work at present remains based on theoretical analysis of the text. Works in the Pergaminho Vindel The body of work attributed to him consists of seven cantigas d’amigo which appear in the Galician-Portuguese songbooks and in the Pergaminho Vindel (V

Martin Forciniti

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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 Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. He passed the A exam, the concert exam and the music teacher’s exam. He first worked as cantor in Steinfurt then as cantor in Niestetal near Kassel until May 2005. He has also been involved in radio and television recordings, including BBC, ARD, WDR and the Hessischer Rundfunk. He was organ expert of the Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck until July 2006. Furthermore, he conducted the choirs Schola Cantorum Niestetaliensis, Singkreis Kassel-Rothenditmold and the Choir for Sacred Music Niestetal. Since 2009, he has been cantor at the Kurhessisches Diakonissenhaus in Kassel. Compositions * Drei neue geistliche Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier und /oder Band, op. 11 * Der Kreuzweg - 14 Meditationen über die Kreuzwegstationen für große Orgel op. 12 * Arrangement des Soundtracks zum Film “Wie im Himmel” für Klavier * Fantasie über das Thema EwAlD für Klavier, op. 13 * Toccata festiva über das St. Gertrudis Lied “Du zartes Reis aus edlem Stamm” für g

Martin Horntveth

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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, but is best known as the drummer and key member of Jaga Jazzist and The National Bank together with his brother Lars Horntveth. Career Together with Ravi (Ivar Johansen) he started in 1994 the band Jaga Jazzist, where he and his brother Lars are key members. In summer 2003 he and his brother Lars, wrote a commissioned work for Vestfold Festspillene in Tønsberg. The work was performed by the musicians who later became the band The National Bank. He received the Edvard Prize 2005 in the class pop music for the tune Tolerate from the band’s debut album The National Bank, together with his brother Lars and the lyricist Martin Hagfors. As a solo artist he has released two EP’s with electronica music and toured the US and Europe. He also has a more pop/rock oriented solo project under the name Wolf Whistle where he plays all the instruments himself. Horntveth is also musician for the theater group Stella Polaris. In 2003 he also became involved in a noise-rock side-project called Killl with E

Martin Karl Hasse

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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 his wife Cora († 1922), née Wittich. In 1910 in Heidelberg, he married Aline (1881-1936), a daughter of (1854-1907), pastor and writer. Together with his wife he had three daughters. Of these is known by name: Ruth Hasse (1913-2009), violinist, married to Wilhelm Stross (1907-1966), professor at the Munich Academy of Music. Hasse received his first musical instruction as Thomaner-Alumni in Leipzig. This was followed by practical musical training at the Leipzig Conservatory with Stephan Krehl, Adolf Ruthardt, Karl Straube and Arthur Nikisch. On Karl Straube’s recommendation, he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Max Reger and Felix Mottl; at the university there he listened to musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and Hugo Riemann as well as lectures on history, philosophy and German studies. After a temporary activity as assistant to Philipp Wolfrum in Heidelberg and in Chemnitz as cantor, he became municipal music director in Bielefeld in 1910; in

Martin Kennedy (composer)

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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 moved with them as a young child to the United States. He grew up in Pennsylvania and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he attended Central High School. As a youth, he played piano and composed pieces for the Tuscaloosa Children’s Theatre, Theatre Tuscaloosa and the Frank M. Moody Concert Hall, winning national awards and recognition for his work. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance and composition, as well as a Master of Music in composition, from the Jacobs School of Music. In 2005, he received his Doctorate in Music Composition from the Juilliard School where he studied as a C.V. Starr fellow under Milton Babbitt and Samuel Adler. Career After receiving his doctorate, Kennedy became assistant professor of theory and composition at the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023, he wrote a “Bandshell Fanfare” for the 100th anniversary of the Naumburg Bandshell’s opening, performed at the Naumburg Orchestral Conce

Martin Léon

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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 from the Saint-Roch quarter of Quebec City, he studied contemporary music at the Université de Montréal, and subsequently had a seven-week apprenticeship under Ennio Morricone in 1995. With Geneviève Bilodeau he formed the jazz-pop duo Ann Victor, who won CKOI-FM’s L’empire des futures stars competition in 1997 and were nominated in several categories at the 21st Félix Awards in 1999 for their album Ciné-parc. - Canadian Screen Awards 2016 Best Original Song “Red and Yellow” from Our Loved Ones (Les Êtres chers) - rowspan=6 Jutra/Iris Awards 2011 rowspan=6 Best Original Music Aurelie Laflamme’s Diary (Le Journal d’Aurélie Laflamme) - 2012 Monsieur Lazhar - 2016 My Internship in Canada (Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre) - 2017 Kiss Me Like a Lover (Embrasse-moi comme tu m’aimes) - 2021 My Salinger Year (Mon année Salinger) - 2023 You Will Remember Me (Tu te souviendras de moi) References External links *

Martin Lohse

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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 (1990–92) in addition to studies in rhetoric and math (1992–93) as well as geology (1994) at the University of Copenhagen. In 1995 he was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, where he studied composition and music theory as a pupil of Hans Abrahamsen and Niels Rosing-Schow. In 2000 he started a postgraduate course in composition and in 2004 he had his debut from the Royal Academy of Music, where he also got a master in music theory in 2005. Currently he is associate professor in music theory and head of the Music Theory Department at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Music Romantic and, to some extent, Baroque music and minimalism are key elements in the music of Martin Lohse. Symphony in one movement, Collage de temps, mixed with a floating sensation of times, sometimes with long and continues accelerandoes or decelerandoes and at other times with tempos slowly departing from each other. Performances Lohses works have been widely performed. Orchestral works * Lurid Light

Martin Mulvihill

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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 Irish traditional style. Although his mother Brigid Flynn played the concertina and fiddle, In 1971 the Mulvihill family relocated to New York City. Mary Rafferty (of Cherish the Ladies), Willie Kelly, and Patrick Clifford. In 1984, Mulvihill was honored with a NEA National Heritage Fellowship. In 1986, he self-published a songbook titled First Collection of Traditional Irish Music. On 21 July 1987, while on vacation in County Limerick, Ireland, he suffered a heart attack and died. All four of the Mulvihill children are musicians, with Brendan having become a noted performer and recording artist in the traditional Irish fiddle genre. Discography *Traditional Irish Fiddling from County Limerick (Green Linnet LP/cassette, 1978), with Mick Moloney *Irish Music: The Living Tradition (Green Linnet LP/cassette, 1978), Martin Mulvihill School *The Humors of Glin (Global Village cassette, 1986), with Donie O’Sullivan and Gabriel Fitzmaurice References External links * * *Biographical information *

Martin Musaubach

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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 music bands including Labrusca, Zoe, 5 Australes, Reina Venus, Blues Oil and Bin Bin, which Labrusca was the first band he joined in his hometown La Plata—he was only at the early age of 13, as a keyboardist and the youngest member in the band. From around 2007 Musa started his career in China playing live music in some famous jazz bars with his band members as MUSAS. By 2011 he was the musical director in Shangri-La Summit Wing Hotel (Beijing), and leading his own Latin jazz band MUSA’s Trio with bass/ double bassist Lautaro “LuKa” Bellucca and drummer/ percussionist Adriano “Gaofei” Moreira. In the 3rd quarter of 2011, accompanied by LuKa and Gaofei, Musa moved to Taipei to join Gary Chaw Project SENSATION (the band, so as a music project) as the key pianist and composer with the Malaysian Chinese vocalist Gary Chaw and Taiwanese compose-producer Michael Tu. Musa is now living in Taipei as his new home and working location, continued to play music in local jazz bars and venues with h

Martín Palmeri

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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, composition, piano, and singing. It was first performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, His other works include: *Tango del Bicentenario (Bicentenary Tango) *Canto de la lejanía (Song of Distance) (2010) *Oratorio de Navidad (Christmas Oratorio), (2003) *Mateo, an opera (1999) *Fantasía tanguera (Tango fantasy) (2000) *Presagios (Portents) (2001) *Concierto para bandoneón (Bandoneon concerto) (2004) *Concierto de danzas (Dance concerto) *Negro y negro (Black and black) *Sobre las cuatro estaciones (On the four seasons) (2004/2012) *Magnificat (2012) *Tango Gloria (2014) *Amor América (2014) *La Creación (2016) *Tango Credo (2017) *Laudate Pueri (2017) *La Pasión según Astor (2021) References

Martin Peerson

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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 Catholic leanings at a time when it was illegal not to subscribe to Church of England beliefs and practices, he was highly esteemed for his musical abilities and held posts at St Paul’s Cathedral and, it is believed, Westminster Abbey. His output included both sacred and secular music in forms such as consort music, keyboard pieces, madrigals and motets. Life and career From Peerson’s will and the March marriage registers, it appears that he was the son of Thomas and Margaret Peerson of March, Cambridgeshire, in England. It is believed that Martin Peerson was born in the town of March between 1571 and 1573, as records show that his parents married in 1570, but a “Margaret Peersonn” was married in 1573. It therefore seems that Thomas Peerson died a few years after 1570 and that Martin’s mother remarried. In the 1580s, Peerson was a choirboy of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London under organist Thomas Mulliner. Subsequently, he came under the patronage of the poet Fulke Greville. On May Day in 160

Martin Peudargent

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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 Peudargents hand. His motetcollection from 1555 is known as the first music to ever be printed in Düsseldorf. Peudargents musical style is typical for the Flemish school and closely resembles that of composers such as Clemens non Papa, even though Peudargent sticks less to Gregorian modes and strives towards a stronger textual expression. Works (selection) * Sacrarum Cantionum I, 12 motets for 5 voices, J. Bathen, Düsseldorf 1555 * Sacrarum Cantionum II, 14 motets, of which 1 for 6 voices and 13 for 5 voices, J. Bathen, Düsseldorf 1555 * Novi prorsus et elegantis libri musici, in quo continentur partim suavissima … Moteta … latinae & gallicae 4-, 5-, 6-voiced Motets, Oridryus & Buysius, Düsseldorf 1561. Aside of works by Peudargent also music by Josquin Baston, Pierre de Manchicourt, Jean de Latre and Clemens non Papa. This publication has disappeared during the Second World War. * Misit me vivens pater 4 voices, Irrogat omnipotens 6 voices in: Sacrarum Cantionum diversorum autorum

Martin Pierre d'Alvimare

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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 Pierre d’Alvimare du Briou was born on 18 September 1772 at Dreux. His parents were Pierre d’Alvimare du Briou, a lawyer in the Parliament and receiver of gabelles, and Cécile Doury de Sacy. He received an excellent education, and at an early age learned drawing, as well as the harpsichord and harp. Noticed by Duke of Penthièvre residing in the nearby château d’Anet, he was introduced by the latter and Madame de Lamballe to the court at the age of 7, where he played in front of Queen Marie Antoinette. In 1788, he composed his first opéra, Églé. At the age of fourteen, he obtained the office of receiver of salt-tax of his father, but the position did not interest him and it could be done by proxy. He therefore embarked on a military career and became a bodyguard of Louis XVI, which enabled him to compose at leisure. We was at his post for the Insurrection of 10 August 1792 and managed to escape, taking refuge in the porter’s house of one of his friends, who made him pass for his sick son.

Martin Pierre Marsick

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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 youngest of 5 children and by 1868 was one of 18 children. As a child Marsick was a member of the choir at St. Martin’s Basilica in Liège, and was a member of the choir school at Liège Cathedral. and Cécile Chaminade. In 1900, Marsick left both his wife and the Conservatoire de Paris in order to live abroad with his mistress. Marsick also owned the 1705 Marsick Stradivarius during 1879–1880. From 1902–c. 1907 Marsick owned what was later named the Schneiderhan violin. Personal life and death On 23 February 1872, Marsick married Adolphine Adrienne Berthe Mollot (1848– 1923) in Chatou. The couple later divorced. Marsick is buried at the Cimetière de Robermont in Liège. Selected works Marsick published a series of finger exercises entitled Eureka in 1906 and his La Grammaire du violon appeared in 1924. Besides these, he composed the septet Souvenir de Naples for strings, flute, and clarinet; a piano quartet; and a lyric drama, Le Puits. ;Stage * Le Puits, Lyric Drama (c.1900); libretto by August

Martin Röder

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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 Berlin, he began his career as the chorus master at the Teatro Dal Verme (1873-1880). There he also worked as an editor for the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano; also writing for that publication under the pseudonym Raro Miedtner. He worked as an opera conductor in various European cities before embarking as a teacher of singing at conservatories in Berlin, Dublin, and Boston. He died in Boston in 1895. Life and career Martin Röder was born in Berlin, Germany on 7 April 1851. He studied composition with Friedrich Kiel and violin with Joseph Joachim. a post he gained through the assistance of Casa Ricordi. He founded the Società del Quartetto Corale in Milan in 1875 which became well known from performances of vocal quartets. He simultaneously worked as an opera conductor in the 1870s in Bologna, Turin, and the Azores. also working for that publication as an editor. References Citations Bibliography * *

Martin Romberg

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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 fantasy literature and inspired orchestral and choral works, notably treating themes and texts by J.R.R Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, as well as pre-Christian, archaic and Celtic-Christian textual material. Biography Being born to a working-class family in Oslo, Romberg early moved out of Norway to study classical music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, from 1997 to 2005. From the early 2000s onwards, Romberg’s career as a composer, writer and music publisher took him on a dynamic path, both nationally and internationally. Breaking the bond with modernist tradition and his composition teacher Michael Jarrell, he embraced neo-romanticism from 2006. Notably, his compositions have been published by Éditions Billaudot in Paris and performed by numerous esteemed orchestras around the world. Among these are The Astana Symphony Orchestra, The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, The Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Orchestre national Montpellier Langu

Martin Rößler

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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 studied church music and Protestant theology. He was music director in the Tübinger Stift and was active in the training of theologians; after working in the parish offices in Hagelloch near Tübingen and near Reutlingen, he taught liturgy and hymnology at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Tübingen. in which the theology, poetry and history of individual hymnbook verses were worked out. Rößler became known for his portrayal of melodists and poets of Christian hymnbooks. Various biographies have been worked up by Rößler according to historical criteria and today they often form the basis for the short biographies that have been published in all major hymnbooks. On the other hand, Rößler investigated the origin and development of hymnbooks, beginning with the Reformation. In his Bronnweiler sermon volume Rößler as hymnologist published selected examples for the genre of a Liedpredigtde. Publications * (as editor): Karl Ludwig Gerok: “Lehrgang der Orgelimprovisation”.

Martin Scherber

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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 of Marie and Bernhard Scherber in Nuremberg, where his father was First Bassist in the orchestra of the State Opera House. Martin was a quiet child, both alert and dreamy, always full of questions. With his great gift for everything technical, it was generally assumed he would become an engineer and for this reason he attended the secondary modern High School (Oberrealschule, today: Hans Sachs Gymnasium). But already early, at about five years of age, he began to play everything on the piano by heart. He had the absolute hearing. He didn’t want to learn any notes, but after conflicts with his father he accepted them as a mean of the representation of music. Later his strength lay in improvising. He seemed to be immediately at home in music. At the age of thirteen he made his first compositions. At this time, he was having advanced piano lessons with the Nuremberg opera conductor, Karl Winkler. He made his first public appearances as a pianist in 1922. In composing and improvising he fel

Martin Schlumpf

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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 the conservatory of Zurich, the clarinet with Hansjürg Leuthold, the piano with and Evelyne Dubourg, conducting with Ferdinand Leitner, and theory and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn. He continued his studies with Boris Blacher in Berlin. From 1977 to 2011 he was professor of music theory and improvisation at the Departement Musik of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK, formerly Musikhochschule). He served the department as Konventspräsident from 1999 to 2010. Selected works * Trio for flute, viola and harp, 1970 * 5 Stücke für grosses Orchester (5 pieces for large orchestra), 1973 * Tenebrae for soprano, alto, baritone, mixed choir, five brass players, harpsichord and string quintet (after Paul Celan), 1976/77 * Jeux for 3 clarinets, 1979 * Ostinato II for three improvising musicians and orchestra, 1982 * “… per la quinta vox…” for viola solo, 1986 * Winterkreis for saxophone quartet, 1991 * December Rains for piano, 1992/93 * Mouvements for piano and orchestra, 1994/99 * Fr

Martin Segerstråle

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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 Music in London and choral conducting and piano at the Sibelius Academy. He also studied musicology at Åbo Akademi University. Segerstråle has conducted several choirs in Finland and was artistic leader of the Studentkören Brahe Djäknar student choir in 2010. Segerstråle was one of the founding members and first artistic leader of the chamber ensemble Ensemble Vida. He was also the bass principal of the internationally acclaimed chamber choir Key Ensemble for many years. Segerstråle received the Finlands Svenska Sång- och Musikförbund conducting prize, Kurt-Erik Långbacka-priset, in October 2014. In the spring of 2015, he was awarded the Svenska Kulturfonden annual culture prize for outstanding contributions to the music life of Finland. Segerstråle was the MD for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats in Tampere, Finland in 2017-2018 and also MD’d a production of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the same venue in 2019-2020. He has also worked at the Finnish National Opera and the Sw

Martin Shaw (composer)

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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, oratorios, several instrumental works, a congregational mass setting (the Anglican Folk Mass), and four operas including a ballad opera. Biography Shaw delighted in describing himself as a cockney, a title he could claim under Samuel Rowlands’ definition of one born within the sound of the Bow Bells. Born 9 March 1875, he was the eldest of nine children, son of the Bohemian and eccentric James Fallas Shaw (1842–1907), composer of church music and organist of Hampstead parish church and Charlotte Elizabeth Shaw, née James (1850–1912). He was the elder brother of the composer and influential educator Geoffrey Shaw and the actor Julius “Jules” Brinkley Shaw (born in 1882, Clapham, Surrey now South West London), whose career was cut short by the First World War – he was killed in March 1918. He studied under Charles Villiers Stanford at the Royal College of Music, together with a generation of composers that included Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Samuel Coleridge-Taylo

Martin Smolka

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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 * Music for Retuned Instruments ;1989 * Zvonění (Ringing) for solo percussion. * Nocturne ;1990 * L’Orch pour l’orch; ;1990-1992 * Netopýr (The Flying Dog); ;1992 * Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so… and Railway-Bridges, too ;1993 * Trzy motywy pastoralne (Three pastoral motifs). ;1993-1995 * Rent a Ricercar ;1996 * Euforium; * Three pieces for retuned orchestra. ;1996-1997 * : Lullaby ;1998 * 8 pieces for guitar quartet. * Autumn Thoughts for ensemble. ;1999 * Lieder ohne Worte und Passacaglia. * Nešť for orchestra. * Like Those Nicéan Barks of Yore for trombone and life electronics. ;2000 * Blue Note * Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews * Remix, Redream, Reflight; * Houby a nebe (Mushrooms and Heaven), Czech text Petr Pavel Fiala and Martin Smolka. ;2001 * Geigenlieder, German text Christian Morgenstern and Bertolt Brecht; ;2001-2003 * Nagano - Opera, libretto Jaroslav Dušek and Martin Smolka. * Observing the Clouds ;2002 * Missa * Ach, mé milé c moll (Oh, my admired C

Martin Terefe

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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 artists like Jason Mraz, James Morrison and KT Tunstall. He is also a member of the group Apparatjik. Biography Terefe spent his early years in Caracas in Venezuela, where he learned to play the guitar, before moving back to Stockholm in 1979. He travelled to the UK and the US, where he met Michael Dixon, the manager of singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, and who later became Terefe’s manager. Terefe’s early productions in Stockholm were for Swedish artists Sara Isaksson, Ardis and André de Lange. In 1996 Terefe moved to London and set up his own recording studio, Kensaltown Studios, named after Kensal Town, the district of west London where the studios are located. He produced several of Sexsmith’s albums during the 2000s and has gone on to write and produce songs and albums by KT Tunstall, a-ha, Jason Mraz, James Morrison, Martha Wainwright, Train, Cat Stevens, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Cullum, Alyssa Bernal, Beverley Knight and Westlife. Terefe’s productions won two awards at the 2010 Grammy

Martin Tingvall

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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. He continued his education at the local Folk high school of Skurup, and then studied jazz piano, composition and improvisation at the Malmö School of Music. Tingvall was taught inter alia by the Swedish jazz pianist Bobo Stenson. In between, he completed a semester abroad in the Netherlands, at the Hanzehogeschool Groningen. In 1999 he graduated from Malmö. Then he moved to Hamburg, where he worked with Udo Lindenberg, Gunter Gabriel, Inga Rumpf, Baschi and Mandy Capristo. In 2003, Tingvall founded the Tingvall Trio together with bassist Omar Rodriguez Calvo and drummer Jürgen Spiegel, for which he was leased and also composed all the pieces. The trio was awarded three times with the Echo Jazz, and has successfully established itself internationally. Occasionally he also played in the Tim Rodig Group. Tingvall also writes and produces film scores (Jahr des Drachen, Year of the Dragon, 2012, Crime Scene: Another World and Crime Scene: Spooky Worlds, 2013) as well as songs for other arti

Martin Wegelius

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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 Academy. Wegelius studied in Leipzig, Vienna, and Munich. He had intended to pursue a career as a composer and wrote a handful of orchestral works and a significant number of chamber and vocal works. He was a particular admirer of Wagner but wrote predominantly in the Romantic style. After founding the Institute, he had little time for composing and appears to have concentrated exclusively on teaching. Graduates of Wegelius’ Institute include Jean Sibelius and Agnes Tschetschulin. He is often compared with his contemporary and rival Robert Kajanus, founder of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (initially the Helsinki Orchestral Association), the first professional symphony orchestra in the Nordic countries. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki. Publications * Grunderna i allmänna musikläran (1887) * Lärobok i allmän musiklära och analys (1888-89) * Hufvuddragen af den västerländska musikens historia från den kristna tidens början till våra dagar. 1-3 (1891-93) * Kurs i ton

Martin Wesley-Smith

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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 styles, including choral music, operas, computer music, music theatre, chamber and orchestral music, and audiovisual pieces which bring words, music and images together. He often worked with his librettist brother, Peter Wesley-Smith. He was one of the pioneers of computer, or electronic, music. Two main themes dominated Wesley-Smith’s music: the life, work and ideas of Lewis Carroll, and the plight of the people of East Timor. Life Wesley-Smith was born, one of twin boys, in Adelaide. He had two other brothers. His parents were part of the Adelaide establishment. His father was the academic registrar of the University of Adelaide, and his mother was a teacher and a presenter of the ABC’s radio program Kindergarten of the Air. He studied composition at the University of Adelaide. From his student days, Wesley-Smith was a rebel, moonlighting on the banjo with a folkie band, the Wesley Three, when his teachers would have preferred he focus on his classical studies. His work is being jointly arc

Martindale Sidwell

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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 on 23 February 1916, the son of John William Sidwell, a musician, and Mary Martindale. At the age of seven, he joined the choir at Wells Cathedral, and later became assistant organist. He was awarded ARCO in 1936 and FRCO in 1938. During the Second World War he served firstly with the North Somerset Yeomanry and later with the Royal Engineers. Invalided out he became temporary organist at Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa and director of music at Warwick School. Sidwell studied at the Royal Academy of Music with C.H. Trevor. He composed one piece which remained unpublished in his lifetime, a Festal Jubilate for choir and organ. A number of Anglican chants by him are still in the repertoire of some Cathedrals and major churches. He was one of the editors of Secular and Sacred Music published in 1966. In 1944 he married Barbara Hill, a pianist and harpsichordist. He died on 20 February 1998 in London. Appointments *Sub Organist at Wells Cathedral 1932 - ? *Assistant Organist at Wells C

Mārtiņš Brauns

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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 performed at the Latvian Song and Dance Festival. Career Brauns studied at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School from 1958 to 1970, studying piano and choir, before moving on to study conducting and music theory after his voice started changing. From 1975 to 1986, he led the rock band . In addition to film scores, Brauns wrote and composed multiple pieces for various theatre plays. His most famous piece, written in the late 1980s for the Valmiera Drama Theatre, titled Saule, Pērkons, Daugava, of which the lyrics are based on the poem Daugava by Latvian poet Rainis; this song has been performed regularly at the Latvian Song and Dance Festival since 1990, and is even considered the unofficial anthem of the festival. In 2014, an adapted version of the song with lyrics by Catalan poet Miquel Martí i Pol became the official anthem of the Catalan independence movement. Death Brauns was recovering from a heart attack at a hospital when he contracted COVID-19. He died on 24 November 2021, at the age of 70.

Martinus Fabri

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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, and lived near the end of the Middle Ages. The surname “Fabri” was probably a Latinization of a name like Smit, Smeets or perhaps Le Fèvre (all meaning “smith”) . Little is known about his life. Apart from an undated mention of his name in the records of the church of St Donatian, Bruges, he is known to have been a singer at the court of Holland at The Hague from 1395 until his death in May 1400 . Of the three singers known to have been at the court in this time period, he was the only one known to have had a university degree . After his demise, several books of polyphonic music were bought from his estate by the Count of Holland for use in his chapel . Of his compositions, only four complete pieces survive, all ballades. Two of these have French texts (Or se depart and N’ay je cause d’estre lies et joyeux) and are in the ars subtilior style, highly complex and mannered . Both are three-voice compositions, though there are two (incompatible) alternatives for the third voice in Or se depa

Martinus Sieveking

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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 around Europe and the United States during his active career and taught in France and the U.S. after he retired from performing. He is sometimes referred to as The Flying Dutchman due to his Dutch heritage and extremely flighty nature. At the peak of his career, he was pronounced by the New York and Boston critics as one of the four greatest living pianists of that time along with Ignace Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal and Rafael Joseffy. He was also an inventor of both musical and non-musical devices that he had patented in various countries. Early life Sieveking came from an old and aristocratic family, which dated its ancestry back to the fifteenth century. He grew up in a musical atmosphere, as his mother Johanna De Jong was a well-known opera singer and his father, also named Martinus, was a trained musician, choral conductor and a composer with published works in the Netherlands. He was the second in a family of four; his older sibling was named Johanna like his mother, and Martinus was fo

Márton Illés

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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 spent one academic term at the conservatory of Zurich with pianist Hadassa Schwimmer. He studied the piano with László Gyimesi at the Hochschule für Musik Basel, completing his solo diploma in 1998. Later, he continued his piano studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover. He studied composition with Detlev Müller-Siemens from 1997 to 2001 in Basel, with Wolfgang Rihm and music theory under Michael Reudenbach at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe from 2001 to 2005. In 2006, Illés founded the Scene Polidimensionali chamber music ensemble He won an Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2008, and a scholarship to the Villa Massimo in 2009. His first large scale stage work, Die weiße Fürstin, was given its world premiere in April 2010 at the Munich Biennale in a co-production with Theater Kiel. Further performances then took place in Kiel in May and June of that year. Works The works of Illés are published by Breitkopf & Härtel. * Víz-Szín-tér, for orchestra (2019) * Vont-tér, for violin and c

Marty Walsh (musician)

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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 song, “Love Pains”, by Yvonne Elliman. During his career as a session musician in the 1980s, Walsh participated as a guitarist on hits “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” by Barbara Mandrell, “9 to 5” by Dolly Parton, “She Works Hard for the Money” by Donna Summer and “Heartlight” by Neil Diamond. Among Walsh’s credits on albums of artists such as John Denver, Eddie Kendricks, Seals and Crofts, Julio Iglesias, Kenny Rogers and John Fogerty, he was also a touring musician with Supertramp., and took part in recording the albums Brother Where You Bound in 1985 and Free as a Bird in 1987. Walsh contributed to three of LeAnn Rimes’ albums in the late 1990s, Sittin’ on Top of the World (1998), LeAnn Rimes (1999) and I Need You (2001) Aside from his session work, Walsh has written music for Air Supply, Gary Wright, Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA, and a number of television series including Roundhouse. Walsh was also seen on Eddie Money’s music video for “Shakin’” as the rhythm guitarist in 1982. Cu

Marusia Churai

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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 performed in Ukraine. According to the legend she was a native of Poltava (then in Crown of the Kingdom of Poland), and is regarded as the purported author as well as the subject of the well-known Ukrainian folk song “Oi Ne Khody Hrytsiu Tai na Vechornytsi” (Oh Gregory, Don’t Go to the Evening Dances) known in the West as “Yes, My Darling Daughter”. Life No documentary evidence exists about Marusia Churai’s life, and the historicity of her person is a subject of discussion. Alexander Shakhovskoy, the author of a 1839 biography dedicated to the legendary poetess, claimed to have received the information about her life from Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. Some literary scholars consider the figure of Marusia Churai to be Shakhovskoy’s own invention. According to her traditional biography, Marusia was born around 1625 in Poltava, where she spent her whole life. Her father was supposed to be Hordii Churai, a Cossack sotnyk and one of the leaders of the Ostryanyn Uprising against the Polish rule. Af

Marvin Duchow

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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 eighteenth century France. The McGill University Music Library in Montreal is named after him, as is the Duchow String Quartet. Early life and education Duchow was born in Montreal, Quebec. He began studying music theory in 1933 with Claude Champagne at the McGill Conservatory, and took private lessons in composition. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music, from 1937 to 1939 he attended the Curtis Institute, where he studied composition with Rosario Scalero and music criticism with Samuel Chotzinoff. He then attended New York University, while supporting himself by teaching. Career Duchow taught music at several schools while completing his education at New York University. He then returned to Montreal, where he taught at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and, beginning in 1944, at McGill University. From 1957 to 1963 he was the dean of McGill’s Faculty of Music. Among his notable students was composer Alan Belkin and Andrew Homzy https://homzy.ca - a jazz musician/musicologist who w

Marvin Hamlisch

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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 “EGOT”. He and composer Richard Rodgers are the only people to have won those prizes and a Pulitzer Prize (“PEGOT”). Early life Hamlisch was born in Manhattan, to Viennese-born Jewish parents Lilly (née Schachter) and Max Hamlisch. His father was an accordionist and bandleader. Hamlisch was a child prodigy; by age five, he began mimicking the piano music he heard on the radio. A few months before he turned seven, in 1951, he was accepted into what is now the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. His favorite musicals growing up were My Fair Lady, Gypsy, West Side Story, and Bye Bye Birdie. Career Hamlisch attended Queens College, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. His first hit arrived when he was 21 years old: “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows”, co-written with Howard Liebling and recorded by Lesley Gore. It reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1965. His first film score was for 1968’s The Swimmer. He won four Grammy Awards in 1974, two for “The Way We Were”.

Mary Ann Wrighten

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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 mother. She was apprenticed to organist Charley Griffith where she learned music, and made her debut on the stage at about age 15. She married actor James Wrighten in about 1769 in Birmingham, and the couple came to London to work in Drury Lane, where she quickly became successful as a singer and actress with Garrick and Sheridan at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. The couple had two daughters, Mary and Charlotte. They divorced in 1786 in a public scandal, and Mary Ann Wrighten emigrated to the United States to work for theater manager John Henry. Her first American appearance was at the Southwark Theater in Philadelphia in 1792, billed as Mrs. (Hugh) Pownall. She also appeared in New York City, and settled in Charleston, where she died during a yellow fever epidemic in 1796. Mary Ann Powell was scheduled to sing a concert on August 6th, 1796, and after she and her family were expected to return to England. However, on August 2nd Mary Ann discovered her daughter Charlotte had married theat

Mary Anne à Beckett

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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 operas. Their children included the writers Gilbert Arthur à Beckett and Arthur William à Beckett. Her theatrical connections included her brother, the actor and producer impresario Augustus Glossop Harris, and his eldest son, also an impresario, Sir Augustus Harris. Biography Mary Anne à Beckett was born in London, the eldest daughter of Joseph Glossop and his wife, Elizabeth, née Feron. Among their other children was the future actor and producer Augustus Glossop Harris, whose elder son was the impresario Sir Augustus Harris. Glossop, a man of doubtful financial means, was at various times lessee of the Royal Coburg Theatre (now called the Old Vic), and manager of La Scala, Milan, and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. In January 1835 Mary Anne married Gilbert à Beckett, a writer and magistrate. They had two daughters and four sons, including Gilbert Arthur à Beckett and Arthur William à Beckett. Mary Anne à Beckett composed songs, piano pieces, incidental music, and three operas: Agnes S

Mary Augusta Wakefield

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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 ancestors had been members of the Quaker community before converting to Anglicanism. Her parents William Henry Wakefield and Augusta Hagarty Wakefield had four sons (including the cricketer William Wakefield) and two other daughters. Her mother was from an Irish-American background. In the 1860s her father took over the family business, which included a bank and a gunpowder mill. In 1868, he built Sedgwick House a few miles outside Kendal. (The family gunpowder mill started in Sedgwick in the 18th century, but production had moved to a new site in 1850). As a child, Wakefield learned traditional border folksongs from her nurses, which she later included in her collection Northern Songs. As a teenager she was sent to a finishing school in Brighton. She studied music in London with Alberto Randegger and George Henschel, and in Rome with Giovanni Sgambati. Later life Wakefield corresponded with and visited many musicians and writers, including Lucy Broadwood, J. A. Fuller Maitland, Herbert O

Mary Carr Moore

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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 musical life of the West Coast. Early life Moore was born Mary Louise Carr on August 6, 1873, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Unitarian minister Sarah Pratt Carr and her husband Byron Oscar Carr. She passed her childhood in Memphis and Louisville, Kentucky, until the age of ten, when her family moved to the West Coast. Here she would live for the rest of her life. Gifted musically from an early age, Moore began her studies in San Francisco, taking composition lessons from J. H. Pratt and studying singing with H. B. Pasmore. She had begun teaching and composing by 1889; a song she wrote that year was later published. In 1894 she took the lead in her first operetta, The Oracle, when it was premiered by an amateur group in San Francisco. The following year, she gave up singing to devote herself fully to teaching and composition. In 1895 she began teaching in Lemoore, California, moving to Seattle in 1901. Narcissa While in Seattle, Moore began work on her second, and most ambitious, stage work.

Mary Chandler (composer)

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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 Conservatoire from August 1928, with Harry Farjeon (composition) and Harold Craxton (piano). Chandler maintained her interest in music, joining the Society of Women Musicians in 1935 and having her music first performed in public the following year. She took up the oboe from scratch in 1940, when her teachers were Margaret Eliot and Léon Goossens. She joined the Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra on oboe as an amateur in 1942. In 1944, invited by George Weldon, she was appointed principal oboist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (where she was a colleague in the oboe section with Ruth Gipps), and gave many recitals and broadcasts in the Midlands area. In May 1956 the CBSO gave the first performance and broadcast of her Concerto for Oboe d’amore with Léon Goossens as the soloist. The orchestra also performed her 1956 Trumpet Concerto, with soloist Bram Gay. After leaving the CBSO in 1958 she formed the Mercian Trio (flute, oboe and piano), which toured the country. In 1960 she was appo

Mary Dickenson-Auner

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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 appearing under the pseudonym Frank Donnell. During her career as a professional violinist, she performed the world premiere of Béla Bartók’s Violin Sonata No. 1 and also worked with Arnold Schoenberg. Early life and education Mary Frances Dorothea Dickenson was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a well-connected Irish family. Her mother was Mary Frances MacDonnell, the daughter of Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell, a rector of Trinity College and cofounder of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. * Dreyfus, Kay, Margarethe Engelhardt-Krajanek, and Barbara Bold: Die Geige war ihr Leben. Drei Geigerinnen im Portrait (Strasshof: Vier Viertel Verlag, 2000), pp. 99–231.

Mary Elaine Gentemann

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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 is known for creating the first Mass integrating Negro Spirituals, “Mass in Honor of Blessed Martin de Porres” (1945). Personal life Gentemann was born on October 4, 1909, in Fredericksburg, Texas. At age 19, she entered the religious order of the Sisters of Divine Providence becoming known as Sister Elaine. She received a Bachelor of Music from Our Lady of the Lake College in 1929 and a Master of Music from the American Conservatory of Music. Later, she studied composition under Otto Luening, going on to study at the Juilliard School and the Teachers College, Columbia University. From 1929 to her retirement in 1999, she taught music courses at Our Lady of the Lake. During this period, she composed a Mass integrating Negro Spirituals, entitled “Mass in Honor of Blessed Martin de Porres”. Notably, this was 9 years before Our Lady of the Lake allowed Black students and 20 years before the Second Vatican Council would allow vernacular liturgy and modern music. She used the tune of “Nobody

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

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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 of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner, who had just moved to the midwest from Maine. After her birth, the Turners moved to Oquwakwa. Turner learned music from both of her parents, who were musically inclined, but it was her mother who gave her initial piano lessons. Turner Salter was also a member of the League of American Pen Women alongside such composers as Amy Beach, Gena Branscombe, and Phyllis Fergus. Reception and legacy A 1907 review of tenor John Braun’s recital in The New York Times described three of her songs as showing “cleverness and brilliancy.” A 1930 issue of The Musical Courier noted that Turner Salter was “frequently called one of the foremost song composers of America.” Her music was described by D.A. Clippinger, singer and author from Chicago, as being of the highest quality, stating, I often wondered what manner of person it was that had this peculiar gift for vocal writing, who could write songs without dreary spots in them, with no padding, with no evidence that i

Mary Ellen Childs

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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 influenced by dance rhythms. She currently administers the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Dance. Her music is chiefly for small instrumental groups, especially for percussion, string groups or solo piano, and it usually has an essential theatrical or visual dimension. Her collaboration with accordionist Guy Klucevsek led to several works for that instrument. Her works have been widely performed by major ensembles, including a commission from the Kronos Quartet. Her 2007 recording of Dream House features the string quartet ETHEL. Reviews of her work have been published in newspapers nationwide, including The New York Times. She is based in the twin city Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area. Discography * Now (ECM, 2015) * Kilter (“Powerhouse Pianists”, AME 2015) * Ephemeral Geometry (Documerica, Innova Recordings 2015) * Wreck (Innova Recordings, 2013) * Parterre (“Fantasy ’n’ Symmetry”, Performed by QNG, Genuine Recordings, 2012) * Oa Poa Polka (Starkland Recordings, 2012) * Farmstand Now Open

Mary Finsterer

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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 Melbourne. A recipient of the Royal Netherlands Government Award in 1993, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with Louis Andriessen, then returned to Australia and studied with Brenton Broadstock, completing a Master of Music degree in 1995 at the University of Melbourne. She completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2003. Since 2007 Finsterer has completed a body of work that includes In Praise of Darkness, a major orchestral work for the Dutch ensemble Asko/Schönberg in association with Tura Music, a violin duo for soloists Natsuko Yoshimoto and James Cuddeford, a string quartet for the Goldner String Quartet, a chamber work for the Sydney Soloists, and a number of works for her 2009 composer-in-residence position at the Campbelltown Performing Arts Centre. Her orchestral fanfare Afmaeli was the opening piece for the 70th birthday celebrations of composer Louis Andriessen at the Holland Festival in 2009. In the same year Finsterer was the winner of the Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize

Mary Helena Synge

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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 Saunders, Edward Synge, and a family of musicians and writers descended from the Archbishop Edward Synge. Her cousin was the author John Millington Synge. Some of their correspondence is archived at Trinity College Dublin. Synge studied piano and singing at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She gave piano recitals throughout Ireland and England. A recital in London on 10 July 1883, received favourable reviews. She performed in Cork later that year, Synge’s music was published by Ashdown & Parry, Weekes & Company, and Year Book Press of London. Her compositions include: Piano *Album Leaves (collection) *“Farewell” (text by Miss E. Barnard) *“Spring” (for three voices) *“Spring Story” (text by Emmoren) *“Time” References

Mary Jeanne van Appledorn

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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 attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she studied piano and theory with Bernard Rogers and Alan Hovhaness. She received her Bachelor of Music in 1948, her Masters of Music in 1950, and her Ph.D. in music theory from Eastman in 1966. She also completed post-doctoral studies in computer-synthesized sound at MIT in 1982. She was a member of the music faculty of Texas Tech University from 1950 until 2008. She was the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Music from 1989 to 2000. Awards and honors * Premier Prix References External links *Mary Jeanne van Appledorn page, from Texas Tech University site *Interview with Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, January 20, 1988, bruceduffie.com

Mary Knight Wood

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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, manufacturer and philanthropist Horatio G. Knight and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight. She attended Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut, where she studied music with Karl Klauser. She continued her education at the Charlier Institute in New York, and then went to Boston to study under Benjamin Johnson Lang. She had further studies in New York under Albert Ross Parsons, John Henry Cornell, and Henry Holden Huss. Knight married Charles Greenleaf Wood of Boston in 1879. Her husband was a merchant and officer for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. They lived in Boston until 1885, when they returned to Easthampton and soon settled into high society in New York City, living in an apartment in Washington Square. She became an early member of the Manuscript Society of New York, and saw several of her compositions performed during their concerts. She began summering in Onteora Park, where in 1890 she met Mark Twain. In 1891 the Woods built a summer cottage named “Witchwood” at Onteora Park;

Mary Kouyoumdjian

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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 nominated for Best Opera Recording for her album Adoration at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards in 2026. Early life and education Kouyoumdjian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and grew up there. She is a first generation Armenian-American from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide. Kouyoumdjian studied at University of California, San Diego (B.A. in Music Composition); New York University with a focus on Scoring for Film & Multimedia (M.A.); and Columbia University (D.M.A. and M.A.). Primary teachers include Zosha Di Castri, Georg Friedrich Haas, Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Anthony Davis, Steven Schick, and Chinary Ung. Career Kouyoumdjian has been commissioned by Bang on a Can, Carnegie Hall, the Kronos Quartet, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Philharmonic, OPERA America, and many others. Her work has been recorded by artists such as The Merian Ensemble (members of the Atlanta Symphony), Kronos Quarte

Mary Louisa White

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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. Mary Louisa, known to her family as “Louie,” was the oldest of their four children. She also had a half brother and a half sister from her father’s first marriage. White studied music with John Farmer in London, and gave frequent concerts in London and Paris, including at the Steinway Hall in London. She taught piano at Kensington High School at the turn of the 20th century, and worked at the Girls’ Day School Trust with her sisters Jessie and Winnie from 1902 to 1903. At the time, Kensington High School was administered by the Girls’ Day School Trust. White invented the “Letterless Method” of teaching music to beginners. The Letterless Method used metal clefs, rings, disks, and black and white buttons for notes, which children could manipulate for tactile learning. White’s papers, including scrapbooks about her musical career created by her mother and sisters, are archived at University College, London. Her compositions were published by Joseph Williams and Alfred Novello, both of Lon

Mary Lucas

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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 a doctor, and her mother Amy Margaret Churchill Anderson (1860-1922). She was one of five children, growing up in London and (from 1891) Chipstead in Surrey. In 1899 she studied piano at the Dresden Conservatory with Carlo Albanesi, then (1900-1903) at the Royal Academy of Music, and later in life, during the 1920s, she returned to education, studying composition at the Royal College of Music with Herbert Howells and R.O. Morris. She married entrepreneur and inventor Ralph Lucas in 1903, and their son Colin became a noted architect. During the 1920s and 1930s they were living a 10, St Germans Place, Blackheath, London SE13. They later moved to Cookham in Berkshire. Music Lucas gave up composition for over 25 years after she married in 1903 and had a family (two sons and a daughter), but returned in the late 1920s, when the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra performed her Rhapsody (1928) and Fugue (1929). The Stratton String Quartet championed her music, performing her quartets for the Lon

Mary Lynn Lightfoot

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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 known and often cited in research and choral literature because of their age-appropriate difficulty and apt textual settings. Early life Lightfoot’s first musical experience was taking piano lessons from age four through high school. Education Lightfoot graduated from Truman State University with a bachelor’s degree in music education. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was part of the music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, from which she received a scholarship award. She was also the Director of Youth Choirs and Assistant Chancel Choir Director for Blue Ridge Presbyterian Church in Raytown, Missouri. Lightfoot held the position for 25 years before she became the founding editor of an educational choral series designed for school-aged choirs called “Sing! Distinctive Music for Classroom, Concert, and Festival.” She held this position for five years. Lightfoot’s “The Swing” was used as part of a sample choral lesson plan in Sally C. Brown’s A Comparative Study of Current Practices of Selecte

Mary Lynn Twombly

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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 1952 to 1954, she studied with Meyer Kupferman at Sarah Lawrence College; from 1954 to 1958 with Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan School of Music; and from 1971 to 1972, she studied electronic music with Elias Tanenbaum. In 1973 she attended music workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Twombly received the Harold Bauer Piano Award from the Manhattan School of Music in 1957. She received at least one commission from the Little Orchestra Society in 1960, possibly for Alice in Wonderland, which was published and performed in New York that year. She conducted and composed music for films and recordings for Weston Woods Studios from 1966 to 1967. She was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Works Twombly’s compositions include: Ballet *Alice in Wonderland (with optional narrator; choreography by Herta Payson) Operetta *Little Match Girl *Who Are The Blind? Orchestra *Symphonic Statements (piano and string orchestra) Vocal *Eternal Word (narra

Mary Mageau

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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 she accepted an Australian guest lectureship and there married architect Kenneth White, becoming an Australian citizen and resident of Queensland. She was particularly prominent in lobbying for opportunities for women composers. Sitsky described her later works as more elegant and refined. Mageau died in Queensland at the age of 85. Honors and awards *Silver Medal, Louis Moreau Gottschalk International Composer’s Competition *Alienor Harpsichord Concerto Competition for Composers, 1994 *ASCAP Standard Award, granted annually since 1981 *Commendation, Vienna Modern Masters First Recording Awards, 1990 Works Selected works include: *Triple Concerto for piano trio and orchestra *Better Way for treble choir with piano *Ragtime Remembered for quintet (2001) *She Is a Cat for soprano and piano (2000) *Ragtime Remembered for solo piano (2000) *Contrasts in Continuum for unaccompanied viola (1968) *Statement and Variations for viola solo (1979) *Calls from the Heartland for violin with piano (19

Mary McCarty Snow

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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 Music with the ARP 2600 Synthesizer in 1977. She published most of her work under the names Mary Snow or Mary McCarty Snow. Life Snow was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Carrie Beth Sewell and Harry Evans Snow. She married Darrell Keith McCarty in 1951. They had four children before divorcing in 1981. She and her husband formed the Lariken Press publishing company, which published her Waveform Music Book. Her teachers included Anis Fuleihan and Burrill Philips. She gave private piano lessons, taught at Texas Technological University, and served as an organist at several churches in Lubbock, Texas: the First Christian Church, First Covenant Presbyterian Church, Forrest Heights Methodist Church, and St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church. She also established the Lubbock chapter of People Against Violent Crimes, and created a fundraiser for the organization called the “Bach-a-Thon.” Snow received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977 and 1980, as well as a grant from Texas Techno

Mary McDonald (composer)

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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 graduated from Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee in 1978 and took her first position as an organist at Beaver Dam Baptist Church in Knoxville. She was self-taught as a keyboard player and did not read music well, so improvised the music. With her husband’s help, McDonald transcribed tapes of the services which were accepted for publication in Pedalpoint Magazine. With the encouragement of music publisher John Purifoy, she composed her first choral anthem in 1983. Career Besides composing, McDonald works as a choral clinician throughout the United States, conducting workshops. In 1985 she took a position as accompanist for the Tennessee Men’s Chorale. In 2000 she served as the first woman President of the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference. McDonald worked as a sacred choral editor for The Lorenz Corporation for nearly twenty years and continues to work for them as a consultant. She also serves as the organist for Central Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. McDonald is a member

Mary Rodgers

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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 Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions. Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas’ successful 1972 children’s album Free to Be… You and Me. Early life Rodgers, who was of Jewish heritage, was born in New York City. She was a daughter of composer Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dorothy Belle (née Feiner). She had a sister, Mrs. Linda Emory. She attended the Brearley School in Manhattan, and majored in music at Wellesley College. She began writing music at the age of 16 and her professional career began with writing songs for Little Golden Records, which were albums for children with three-minute songs. One of these recordings, “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves”, which was released in 1957, featured performances by Bing Crosby of songs Mary Rodgers wrote with lyricist Sammy Cahn. She also composed music for television, including the jingle for the Prince Spaghetti commercial. Career Her first

Mary Rosselli Nissim

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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 Rosselli Nissim was born in Florence to Janet Nathan and Pellegrino Rosselli. She married Cesare Nissim and they had three children. She studied music with her mother and with Giuseppe Menichetti. In 1896, Rosselli Nissim’s opera Nephta won Honorable Mention at the Vienna Steiner contest. Her work in industrial design won a prize at the 1911 Turin International, an exhibition of industry and work. She died in Viareggio, Italy, in 1937. *Nephta Orchestra *Canzone Anacreontica (bass soloist, chorus, and orchestra) Vocal *“Avventuroso Augello” (madrigal) *“Barcarola” *“Canzonetta” *“Cavallino, Scherzetto” *“Dolce Aprile” *“Gira la Ruota Come l’Amor” *“L’homme Beau” *“Le Gaga” *“Le Petit Homme Gres” *“Le Petit Japonais” *“Voglio Rubare” (madrigal) References

Mary Watson Weaver

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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 College (Massachusetts) and Ottawa University (Kansas). She continued to study music with Rosario Scalero and Deems Taylor at the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), and privately in New York and France. Mary married composer and organist Powell Weaver on March 24, 1938, and they had one son (Thomas Watson Weaver). She gave lectures and recitals, and taught piano at the Kansas City Conservatory, the Curtis Institute, the University of Missouri–Kansas City (1946 – 1957), the Manhattan School of Music (New York; 1957 – 1970), and the Henry Street School of Music (New York). Compositions Mary’s compositions were published by Belwin-Mills, G. Schirmer Inc., Galaxy Music Corporation, and Shawnee Press. She collaborated with her husband on some compositions (noted below), and he set some of her poems to music. Her musical compositions, all for voice, include: *All Weary Men (with Powell Weaver; mixed chorus; 1949) *Confess Jehovah (mixed chorus; 1951) *“Cradle Song” (text by Padraic Co

Mary Wiggins

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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 University with Roland Leich, and privately with Gladys W. Fisher and Harvey B. Gaul. Wiggins taught organ at Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1951 to 1957. She taught piano privately and at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute from 1959 to 1962, and received an award from the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1973. Wiggins died in 1974 in Pittsburgh. *pieces for organ *pieces for violin ;Piano *Catch Me! *Cathedral Bells *Frolicking Waves ;Vocal *The Ghost References

Mary Wurm

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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 Josephine Agnes Würm in England, the sister of Alice Verne-Bredt, Mathilde Verne, and Adela Verne. She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied music in Frankfurt am Main at the Hoch Conservatory, where she joined Olga Radecki in the first composition class the Conservatory opened to women. Her teachers included Clara Schumann, Joachim Raff, Elisabeth Caland and Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women’s orchestra in Berlin. She wrote a piano school according to Caland´s teachings. Her nephew was John Vallier. In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover. Works Selected works include: *Mag auch heiss das Scheiden brennen *Christkindleins Wiegenlied aus des Knaben Wunderhorn (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn) *Wiegenlied im Sommer (Text: Robert Reinick) *Praktische Vorschule zur Caland-Lehre, Hannover 1914 Further reading Caland, Elis

Maryanne Amacher

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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 auditory distortion products (also known as distortion product otoacoustic emissions and combination tones), in which the ears themselves produce audible sound. Biography Amacher was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, Amacher worked extensively with a set of psychoacoustic phenomena known as ‘auditory distortion products’; put simply: sounds generated inside the ear that are clearly audible to the hearer. These tones have a long history in music theory and scientific research, and are still the object of disagreement and debate. In music, they are most commonly known by the name of ‘combination tones’, ‘difference tones’, and sometimes ‘Tartini tones’ (after the violinist Giuseppe Tartini, who is credited with discovering them). Amacher herself termed them ’ear tones’ until 1992, when she discovered the work of David T. Kemp and Thomas Gold and began referring to them by the psychoacoustical terminology of ‘otoacoustic emissions’. It has since become clear that some of the sounds Amacher, and indeed

Marzena Komsta

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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. Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk and at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw under W. Kotonski and Z. Baginski. She continued her studies at the Higher National Conservatory of Music in Lyon under Philippe Manoury and D. Lorraine in acoustic, electroacoustic and computer music, and in Paris at IRCAM for doctoral training in music and 20th century musicology. Her music has been performed internationally and is available as recordings. Awards *1993 Witold Lutoslawski grant *2003 Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto *1999 ”Manuel Valcárcel“ International piano composition competition in Santander, Spain *Fellowship Academy of Warsaw award winner *Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundation award winner *Witold Lutoslawski Foundation award winner Works Komsta composes both instrumental and electroacoustic works. Selected compositions include: *“Sequentia” for amplified string quartet and electronics (2024) *“In death I found life” for Sopran, Alt, clarinet and piano (2023) *“Ad lucem” for 12-voices female

Masa Takumi

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, 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 Global Music Album for his solo album, Sakura, in 2023, and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2024 for “Kashira” for Best Global Music Performance. His music video, Deep Down, was nominated for Best Independent Music Video at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2018. He has written and produced songs for AAA, Da Pump, Eric Martin, and others. Takumi is an anime TV series composer, arranger, and musician who is known for composing theme songs, arranging music, and performing on Claymore, Genshiken, Witchblade, Peach Girl and Koi Kaze, among others. Early life and career Masa Takumi (also known as Masanori Takumi) was born in Osaka, Japan. He is the nephew of Hideki Saijo. Takumi started playing the trumpet at eight years old in his elementary school’s brass band and started playing the drums and composing music at twelve years old. During his teen years he taught himself to play the guitar, bass, and piano. In 2000, Takumi joined the band, Siren where he was a songwriter, drummer, and

Masaharu Iwata

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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) *Cyber Block Metal Orange (1991) – with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Yoshio Furukawa *Koguru Guruguru: Guruguru to Nakayoshi (2001) *Stella Deus (2004) – with Hitoshi Sakimoto *Final Fantasy XII (2006) – with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Hayato Matsuo *IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (2006) – with Yasushi Asada, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, and Kimihiro Abe *Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 (2009) – with Basiscape *Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny (2009) – with Junichi Nakatsuru and Keiki Kobayashi *NHK Kōhaku Quiz Gassen (2009) – with Basiscape *Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman (2010) – with Basiscape *Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure (2011) – with Azusa Chiba and Kimihiro Abe *Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming (2011) – with many others *Grand Knights History (2011) – with Basiscape *Age of Ishtaria (2014) – with Hitoshi Sakimoto *Grand Kingdom (2015) – with Basiscape *Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir (2016) – with Basiscape *Caravan Stories (2017) – with Basiscape *Tsuioku no Ao (2020) – with Basiscape ;Arranger *Final Fantas

Masahito Arai

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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 Suit Gundam ZZ. Life and career Arai was born on March 25, 1958, in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He was influenced by his parents, who both liked various kinds of music such as bossa nova, pop music, and traditional Japanese music; his grandfather played the shamisen. He started playing the guitar during elementary school and started composing music in the first grade of junior high school. While doing band activities in 1976, he was scouting and made his debut as a professional shortly after graduating from Nihon University First High School. Career In 1977, Arai made his professional debut as the vocalist of the group Diary, leaving in 1979 to join the band Pal as their second lead vocalist. In 1986, he was approached to create an anime song for his debut solo career, with him debuting with the song “Anime ja Nai” for the anime Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. In 1993, Omega Tribe producer Koichi Fujita made him the vocalist for the project’s final iteration, Brand New Omega Tribe, which last

Masakazu Natsuda

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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 with Jō Kondō, Masayuki Nagatomi and Teruyuki Noda at the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music (東京藝術大学 Tōkyō Gei-jutsu Daigaku), where he obtained his Bachelor of Music in 1991 and his Master of Music in 1993. He also studied orchestral conducting with Kazuyoshi Akiyama at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Yokohama. From 1993 to 1997, he studied composition with Gérard Grisey and orchestral conducting with Jean-Sébastien Bereau and the Conservatoire de Paris, where he earned first prizes with praise. In 1992 he made his debut as a conductor with his composition Morphogenesis in a performance with the New Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Since 1998 he is conductor of the contemporary ensemble Alpha and since 2001 of the “Ensemble Vivo” with which he mainly performs contemporary works such as Voltex Temporum I-III by his former teacher Gérard Grisey and The Desert Music by Steve Reich. Works Orchestral music *Soliton - for chamber orchestra (1995) *Megalithic Waves - for chamber orches

Masaki Kyomoto

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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 Legend of the Eight Samurai, Sukeban Deka, Kamen Rider Black,Kamen Rider Agito, Ultraman: Towards the Future (aka Ultraman Great), Cutie Honey, Chage and Aska, Ōedo Sōsamō, Mito Kōmon, Anmitsu Hime, Food Fight, Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, Ii Hito, GARO, Tenchu:Yamino Shiokinin and most recently 81diver. He has performed on the soundtracks to GARO and Garo Special: Byakuya no Maju, performing the first two ending themes for the former, and producing GARO Project’s performances of the final two ending themes for the series and the ending theme for the special. Masaki got a role in a buster film Legend of the Eight Samurai as Inuzuka Shino and it became a sensation that lead to Masaki’s break out role “Ryu” on a popular Japanese period piece samurai drama series Hissatsu Shigotonin where he played Japanese obi-belt maker who is ex-ninja turned to be an assassin (shigotonin) to kill bad guys. He became a big star by that role and since then has appeared in numerous period piece drama seri

Masao Akashi

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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 B’z. By 1998, his arrangement work had been involved with many Being artists including Manish, Wands and Zard. Although Akashi was no longer working for Being Inc., he sometimes provided producing jobs for various artists such as Naomi Tamura, Maria, Color Bottle and Sonoda Band. Akashi died on May 19, 2025, at the age of 68. List of provided works as arranger ★ album ☆ single/coupling B’z *B’z ★ *Off the Lock ★ *Bad Communication ★ *Wicked Beat ★ *Mars (B’z album) ★ *Love is, Seasons, Itsuka no Merry Christmas (Reprise) (Friends (B’z album)) ★ *The 7th Blues ★ *Teki ga Inakerya (Loose (B’z album))★ *Lady-Go-Round ☆ *Kimi no Naka de Odoritai ☆ *Be There ☆ *Taiyō no Komachi Angel ☆ *Easy Come, Easy Go! ☆ *Itoshii Hitoyo Good Night… ☆ *Lady Navigation ☆ *Alone ☆ *Blowin’ ☆ *Zero ☆ *Ai no mama ni Wagamama ni Boku wa Kimi dake o Kizutsukenai ☆ *Hadashi no Megami ☆ *Don’t Leave Me ☆ *Motel ☆ *Tokyo ☆ Zard *Good-bye My Loneliness (song) ☆ *Koi Onna no Yūutsu, It’s a Boy (Good-bye My Lonelines

Masao Koga

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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 scale, was popularly known in Japan as . He was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure (Fourth Class) and the People’s Honor Award for his contributions to Japanese music. Life Koga was born in 1904 in the village of Taguchi (today part of the city Ōkawa) in the Mizuma District of Fukuoka Prefecture; he was the sixth of eight children. In 1910, Koga’s father, Kitarō, died. As a result, Koga, his mother, older sister, and younger brother moved to Korea in 1912, where his eldest brother had migrated for work. His family first traveled to Incheon, before settling in Keijo (today part of Seoul). During this period, Koga was gifted a taishōgoto from his cousin; then later, while enrolled at the Keijō Good Neighbor Trade School, a mandolin from an older brother living in Osaka. He was regarded as a notable figure for establishing the genre enka, though Koga considered that he was a ryūkōka composer. He wrote numerous songs for Ichiro Fujiyama and Hibari Misora. Koga’s songs have been heard

Masayuki Hirahara

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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 was eight years old. Through these lessons, he became interested in composition and he studied it by himself. In his first year of the high school, he studied under a pianist who had graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts for one year. After that, he taught himself how to play and compose. In 1999 he participated in the music competition of the Great Hanshin earthquake (Kobe earthquake) Reconstruction Memorial Classic Festival and he won Hyogo Arts & Culture Association’s Prize and a golden award in composition section. He worked for a publisher which publishes a monthly piano magazine from 2000 to 2003. Performing and composing career With the encouragement of those who heard his performance in 1999, he started his career as a performer at a hall in Kobe in February 2003. His performances moved the audiences and his reputation spread by word of mouth; he held a concert at an 800-person capacity hall in Tokyo in October of the same year. In 2009, Princess Takamado heard his pe

Masguda Shamsutdinova

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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 Kazakhstan and graduated from Kazan State Conservatoire in the Republic of Tatarstan. She continued her studies at the Tatar History Institute and St. Petersburg State University and received a Ph.D. in 2002. The same year Shamsutdinova moved to Seattle, Washington, where she lives and works. Honors and awards *2003 Best Composer, Art-Horde International Theater Festival *2002 Best Composer, Nauruz International Theater Festival *2000 1st Place, Tatar Theater Festival *1994 Best Composer, Tatar Theater Festival *1993 Tatarstan Republican Award for contributions to national music *1983 Diploma, Romanian Drama Festival in the USSR Works Shamsutdinova’s compositions are influenced by Tartar folk music. She composes chamber and symphony music, and for film soundtracks. Selected works include: *Dervish symphonic poem 2006 *Symphony No.3, Genghis-Khan 2004 *Marriage of Geese choral 2001 *Amazons of Tartary 2002 *The Butterfly on the Snow 2002 *Hymn to Prophet Muhammad, Maulid an-Nabi 2006 Shams

Mason Bates

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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 Center, and he has also been in residence with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the California Symphony. In addition to his notable works Mothership, Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, he composed the score to Gus Van Sant’s film The Sea of Trees. In a 2018 survey of American orchestras, he was rated the second-most performed living composer. On September 21, 2025, his opera The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 140th season. Life Bates was born in Philadelphia and raised in Richmond, Virginia, and Newtown, Virginia, where his family homestead and farm is located. He exhibited an early interest in creative writing at St. Christopher’s School and received a letter from the Mayor of Munich in response to his poem The Village of a Million People, written after a visit to the German city. His earliest choral compositions were conducted by his piano teacher Hope Armstrong Erb, a

Masoud Sekhavatdoust

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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 the Fajr Film Festival for Breath and “The Situation of Mehdi” and “Fragrant”, “Number 10”. He won the Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Music for Lipar. he also won the Hafez Awards 2020 For movie “When the Moon Was Full” . Biography Masoud Sekhavatdoust was born in 1984 in Qazvin. He started learning the Santoor at the age of 10 and continued with his master Parviz Meshkatian up to the advanced level. At the age of 15, he started taking harmony and composition lessons from Alireza Mashayekhi. He has taken part in a few master classes of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and Professor Roger Wallis from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and he has also taken an advanced stage course in Iran with Professor Kiawash Sahebnasagh. He has taken a few Conducting lessons with Taghi Zarabi. He is a nominee for the award Crystal Simorgh Best Music Shena-ye Parvaneh (2020), Crystal Simorgh Best Music Shabi Ke Mah Kamel Shod (2019), Golden Butterfly The Best Artistic & Technical

Massimiliano Quilici

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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 Lucca, of which he would later become director. His opera Francesca da Rimini premiered at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca in 1829, and his opera Batrolomeo della Cavalla was first seen at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice in 1838; the former is to a libretto by Felice Romani, while the latter is set to a text by Jacopo Ferretti. Francesca da Rimini is recorded as having been a fiasco at its premiere. A third opera, La penna del Diavolo of 1861, is also recorded as having been performed in Florence. He also wrote much sacred music, He died in the city of his birth, and is interred in the Cimiterio di Lucca. References

Massimo Di Gesu

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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 composition with Bruno Bettinelli, Besides further piano studies with Valerio Premuroso, he attended post-graduate composition courses at the Petrassi Academy (Parma), at the University of Central England (Birmingham), and at the University of Leeds. Style «At first, his musical thought could be traced back to the expressionism of Schönberg and the mastery of Berg. Actually, what is here perceptible is the mighty shadow of J. S. Bach» (Flavio Emilio Scogna on Gradus ad responsum for piano). and based on a distinctly atonal harmonic idiom His compositional technique enables the construction of melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal structures ) linking the elements of the musical narrative: a work which the ensemble had commissioned on the occasion of the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth. La Scala String Quartet had already played Di Gesu’s works such as Ansikte mot ansikte (for Serate Musicali - Milano, and Ente Concerti Pesaro ) and WOLFiliGrANG (at the Rovereto Mozart Festival ). In 20

Massimo Troiano

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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 only period in which Troiano is known to history. Life Nothing is known of Troiano’s early life other than that he was from the vicinity of Naples, possibly from the town of Corduba, since in his first and second books of canzoni he calls himself “Massimo Troiano di Corduba da Napoli”. Only his activities during the three-year span of 1567-70 are documented, but those in some detail. In 1567 he published in Treviso a book of canzoni, secular songs on his own verse. By early 1568 he was in Munich, in the service of the House of Wittelsbach, singing in the Bavarian Hofkapelle under the direction of Orlande de Lassus. He traveled between Munich and Venice at least twice, with one extended stay in Venice in 1569, where he waited for the Duke of Bavaria to send him money and an acceptance letter for continued service. He remained in Munich until Easter 1570, when he was accused of murdering one of his musical colleagues, and fled. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but he was never found, an

Master Abdullah

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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 Ka Ghar” (1978). Early life and family He was born Sadiq Ali in 1930 in Lahore. His elder brother Master Inayat Hussain (1923–1993) was a film music composer in the early days of Pakistan film industry and was better known in Pakistan than Master Abdullah himself. Career Master Abdullah began his film career in 1962 with the Urdu film Suraj Mukhi (1962). Major Films of Master Abdullah * Malangi (1965) References

Máté Balogh

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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 been performed internationally at contemporary music festivals and concert series in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, and he has received composition awards in a range of competitions and artistic programmes all over the world. Early life and education Balogh was born in Győr, Hungary, in 1990 and raised up in the industrial town of Dunaújváros, formerly known as Stalin City. He studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he was a student of Zoltán Jeney. During his studies, he spent an academic year at the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Tartini in Trieste, Italy, studying with Fabio Nieder. He later was the mentee of Péter Eötvös and also attended the masterclasses of György Kurtág, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Heinz Holliger, Philip Glass and Toshio Hosokawa. Composer’s career His pieces have been performed throughout Europe as well as in China, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, South-Africa, Canada and the United States of Ameri

Máté Bella

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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 classical contemporary, opera, choir, musicals, theater music and pop music. Early life and education Máté Bella was born 28 November 1985 in Budapest, Hungary. Bella began his musical studies at Ferenc Erkel Primary School for Music. He later attended the Weiner Leó Secondary Music School in Budapest, where he specialized in composition and piano. He continued his music education between 2002 and 2006 at the Béla Bartók Music Institute, where he focused on composition under the mentorship of Miklós Kocsár. After graduating in 2006, he was admitted to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he completed his studies in 2011. In 2013, he spent a semester at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków on an Erasmus scholarship. Máté was awarded a scholarship for the New National Excellence Program in 2017, and in 2018, he received his summa cum laude doctoral degree. This was followed by the recognition of his ensemble piece Chuang Tzu’s Dream by the International Music Council in Lisbon

Matei Socor

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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 his native city, followed by the Bucharest Conservatory from 1927 to 1929 and the Leipzig Conservatory from 1930 to 1933. In 1929-1930 and 1934-1939, Socor was a collaborator at the Bucharest Folklore Institute. From 1933, he was active as a conductor, both domestically and abroad. He composed music in almost every genre, including choral, vocal symphonic, symphonic, chamber and opera. In 1945, following the establishment of a communist-dominated government, he was placed in key posts as a propagandist. From 1945 to 1952, he headed Romanian Radio. From 1949 to 1954, he was president of the Romanian Composers’ Union, In his post, Socor laid down the ideological parameters for artistic music under the new communist dictatorship and became the ruling party’s key representative in its relations with the musical community. Echoing familiar rhetoric of the day, he claimed that western music was undergoing a “full-blown process of decadence”, that Paul Hindemith was promoting mysticism while O

Matelo Ferret

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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. He was an associate of Django Reinhardt and the youngest brother of guitarists Baro and Sarane Ferret. He recorded with his own sextet in Paris in the 1940s and continued performing there, with occasional recording sessions, until his death in 1989. He was noted for a musical style that incorporated Russian and Hungarian influences and lived long enough to see a resurgence of interest in gypsy jazz in which he was recognised as one of the great surviving players of the genre. Two of his sons, Boulou and Elios Ferré, continue to play a more modern and individualistic form of gypsy jazz-based guitar music in Paris. Biography Born into a Romani family, Matelo Ferret was the youngest of the three brothers from Rouen, France who made their way to Paris and there made the acquaintance of Django Reinhardt in 1931. He was known by his French nickname “Matelo,” which meant “sailor”. He replaced guitarist Gusti Malha alongside accordionist Émile Vacher and later played with Guérino, another well

Mateo Flecha

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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 nephew, Mateo Flecha “El Joven” (the younger), also a composer of madrigals. “El Viejo” is best known for his ensaladas, published in Prague in 1581 by the same nephew. Life and career Mateo Flecha directed the music at the cathedral of Lleida (September 1523 – October 1525). From there he moved to Guadalajara, in the service for six years of the Duke, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. From there he went to Valencia where he assumed direction of the chapel choir of the Duke of Calabria. While thus employed, three of his works were included in songbooks associated with that chapel, including the Cancionero de Uppsala. In 1537 Flecha moved to Sigüenza where he served as maestro di cappella for two years. From 1544 to 1548 he lived in the castle at Arévalo as teacher of the Infantas Maria and Joanna, daughters of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500-1558). Toward the end of his life Mateo Flecha became a monk of the Cistercian Order, living in the Monastery at Poblet, where he died in 1553. Flecha'

Mateo Flecha el Joven

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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 Elder. He took up the Carmelite habit in Valencia. Much appreciated by Pope Sixtus V, he was an outstanding musician and prefect of the musicians of Charles V. After residing in Italy for an uncertain period, in 1564 he was chaplain to Maria-Theresa, wife of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and later he was a singer of the imperial chapel. When Maximilian died, Emperor Rudolf II names him Abbot of Tihany (Plattensee, Hungary). In the years 1570, 1581 and 1586, he travellend along Spain to recruit singers for the imperial chapel. His main works were published in Venice and in Prague, a city he had visited several times. In Venice he published Il 1.° libro de madrigali a 4 et 5 (1568, “The First Book of Madrigals at 4/5 voices”), a collection of 31 madrigals. In Prague he printed, in 1581, three polyphonic music books: Libro de música de punto, in four volumes but lost, Divinarum completarum psalmi, incomplete, and Las ensaladas, dedicated to Giovanni Borgia. This latest collection contains

Mateo Romero (composer)

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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 early death of his father was, like many children from the then-Spanish Netherlands, recruited as a child to serve as a choir boy at the Madrid court. Between 1586 and 1593 he was taught in Spain by his countrymen George de la Hèle and Philippe Rogier. He took the name Romero in 1594. In 1598 he was maestro de capilla at the Spanish court of Philip II of Spain and Philip III of Spain. He remained in this position till 1634. In 1609 he was ordained a priest and was private chaplain to Philipp III. He was also secretary of the Order of the Golden Fleece. After the death of Philip, he was also chaplain to King John IV of Portugal. Romero was one of the most appreciated composers of his time; he was known as “El Maestro Capitan”. His service extended over the threshold of two musical eras, the Renaissance and Baroque. Although he was not part of the polyphonic school of the great Franco-Flemish school, he played an important role in the introduction of Italian stile moderno in Spain. Works

Mateusz Rudkowski

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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 of the choir of Greek Catholic seminary in Lviv, and directed the Ukrainian choir of Stauropegion Institute. Rudkowski was a member of the Galician Music Society in Lviv, and taught its members choral and especially church singing. Some of his compositions were published at his own expense and by Żupański in Poznań, and others by Wild and Kallenbach in Lviv. He composed a mass performed in Lviv in 1855 or 1856. Rudkowski’s compositions were regularly reviewed in Ruch Muzyczny: Opp. 2 and 3 in 1860, Opp. 4 and 5 in 1861. Sources * * * Енциклопедія українознавства: Словникова частина: в 11 т. / Наукове товариство імені Шевченка; гол. ред. проф., д-р Володимир Кубійович. Париж; Нью-Йорк: Молоде життя; Львів; Київ: Глобус, 1955—2003. * Муха Антон. Композитори України та української діаспори. К.: 2004. References External links * * Scores by Mateusz Rudkowski in digital library Polona

Matheus de Sancto Johanne

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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 the complex, manneristic musical style known as the ars subtilior which flourished around the court of the Avignon Papacy during the Great Schism. Life and career Matheus was probably born in the diocese of Noyon, northeast of Paris. Nothing of his early life is known, nor is his age when he begins to appear in historical records. He worked in England from about 1366 as a clerk for the son-in-law of Edward III, and later for Philippa of Hainault, queen consort of Edward. In 1368 he came back to France. The next ten years are a blank, but at some time during this period he had begun working for Robert of Geneva, who later became Antipope Clement VII. In November 1378 – the same year Clement became pope – he is recorded as being a clerk for the Louis I, Duke of Anjou, and between 1382 and 1387 he was at the papal court in Avignon as a chaplain. and five secular works: three ballades and two rondeaux. Two of the ballades, and one of the rondeaux, are for three voices, and these are later com

Mathew Rosenblum

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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 Modern Orchestra Project, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, FLUX Quartet, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Newband among other ensembles, in venues throughout North America, Europe and Asia including the Andy Warhol Museum, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Thailand’s Prince Mahidol Hall, as well as Merkin Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, the Miller Theatre, The Kitchen, Carnegie Recital Hall, and Symphony Space in New York City. Rosenblum’s music has been recorded on such labels as Mode Records, New World Records, Albany Records, Capstone Records, Opus One Records, New Focus Recordings, and the Composers Recordings Inc. label, and has been published by Edition Peters, of Leipzig, London, and New York. Early life Rosenblum was born in Flushing, Queens and began playing the saxophone at age eight. He attended the High School of Music and Art (“Music

Mathia-Mathithiahu Gavriel

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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 Gavriel, Mati Moon, or MLDY, and currently resides between Los Angeles and New York City. Early life Mathia-Mathithiahu Gavriel was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to an Italian/Greek father and a German mother. He then moved to Germany when he was six years old. When he was 18, he moved to London, where he studied sound engineering. Gavriel then moved to Berlin in 2006 to pursue a career in music. He resides between Los Angeles and New York City, and works on various projects. Career From August to November 2010, Gavriel participated in the first season of X Factor. He reached the semi-finals and finally finished third. The jury consisted of Sarah Connor, who was also Gavriel’s mentor, Till Brönner, and George Glueck. His music has been featured in art installations at the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, and Frieze Art Fair. In addition, he has collaborated with Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans for over a decade, including supplying music for her art installations. Gavriel has been

Mathias Spahlinger

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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 jazz; between musique concrète and post-Webernian minimalism; between noise, improvisation, and notation; and between aesthetic autonomy and political consciousness, Spahlinger’s works carry out conflicts for which there are no fixed models. Life His father was a cellist. He taught him fiddle, viola da gamba, recorder, and later cello from 1951. In 1952 he got piano lessons. In 1959 he began to study jazz intensively, took saxophone lessons and wanted to become a jazz musician. In 1962 he left school and took an apprenticeship as a typesetter. During this time he took private composition lessons with Konrad Lechner. After finishing his apprenticeship he continued his studies with Lechner at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. In 1968 he became a teacher at the Stuttgart Music School for piano, theory, early musical education and experimental music. From 1973 to 1977 he studied composition with Erhard Karkoschka at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. In 1978 he became a guest lecturer for m

Mathieu Charbonneau

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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 music for film and television, including A Colony (Une colonie), directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles; Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu), directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette; Viking, directed by Stéphane Lafleur; and Lac-Mégantic: This Is Not an Accident (Lac-Mégantic: ceci n’est pas un accident), directed by Philippe Falardeau. His score for Viking, co-composed with Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux was nominated for Best Original Music at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards. In 2011 he contributed to the National Parks Project, visiting Prince Albert National Park with Andre Ethier, Rebecca Foon and Lafleur to shoot and score a short documentary film about the park. He is an active member of the bands Avec pas d’casque, Torngat, Charbonneau/Amato, Ferriswheel and Organ Mood. He was also a member of The Luyas from 2010 to 2014, and Timber Timbre from 2013 to 2019. Émilie Laforest, and Joëlle Saint-Pierre. Filmography * Eye on Juliet - 2017 * A Colony (Une colonie) - 2018 * Goddes

Mathieu Gascongne

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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. Contemporaries, such as Adrian Willaert (as quoted by the renowned Venetian theorist Zarlino) grouped him with Josquin, Ockeghem, and Jean Mouton as among the finest composers of the time. Compared with those others, however, little of his output has survived. Life Little is known for certain about his life, and there are two principal theories regarding where he lived and worked. The first is that he was associated with the French royal court, for he wrote several motets for official occasions (such as the coronation of King Francis I in 1515); this would have put him there at the same time as Jean Mouton and just after Antoine de Févin. In addition, one document describes him as a priest of the Meaux diocese, and also associates him with the cathedral in Tours; it also names him as a singer in the royal chapel in 1517–1518. A second theory is that he was associated with a group of composers active at Cambrai, since his music appears in manuscripts there. Possibly both theories are correct,

Mathilda d'Orozco

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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 salonist, composer, poet, writer, singer, amateur actress and harpsichordist. Biography D’Orozco was born in Italy to the Spanish ambassador in Milan, Count Nicolas Blasco d’Orozco and Sabina Lederer. She was first married to marquess Cenami, stable master of the court of the sister of Napoleon, Princess Elisa Bonaparte, while she was appointed lady-in-waiting to Elisa. She was widowed before she was twenty. In 1817 in Vienna, she married second to the Swedish Count colonel Josias Montgomery-Cederhjelm (d. 1825), with whom she had four children. In 1839, she married the Swedish Baron Carl Alexander Fredrik Gyllenhaal. In connection with her second marriage (1817), d’Orozco moved to Sweden, where she was to live the rest of her life. In Sweden, she became a noted socialite in the capital, later called “one of the most noted ornaments in the salons of high society during the first happy and vibrant period of the reign of Charles XIV John (reign 1818–1844). Used to the warmer climate of Italy, s

Mathilde Kralik

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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 von Meyrswalden (1807–1877) from Eleonorenhain. After the death of his first wife Anna Maria Pinhak (1814–1850), he married Louise Lobmeyr (1832–1905) on 28 May 1851. Mathilde was the fourth of five children from his second marriage to Louise née Lobmeyr. Her brother was Richard Kralik von Meyrswalden, the poet philosopher, historian and arts administrator. Kralik was born in Linz, and her first compositions were lyrical poems and hymns based on her brother’s works. The family regularly had music in the house, as her father William played the violin and her mother Louise played piano. In this way the musically gifted children not only learned the milieu of classical chamber music, but also string orchestra furnished music of the time by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Early on the parents recognized the musical gifts of their daughter, and the financial circumstances of her father allowed Mathilde the best music teachers of her time. Kralik took piano lessons from her mother, and later was

Mathilde von Rothschild

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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 daughter of Charlotte and Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschild. Mathilde was talented in music and studied with Frédéric Chopin. In 1849, she married the banker Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, a cousin of her father. The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grüneburg, and also lived in a villa in Königstein im Taunus. They had three daughters two of whom survived childhood, Adelheid Rothschild (who married her cousin Edmond James de Rothschild) and Minna Caroline Rothschild (who married Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild). Von Rothschild made grants to a number of foundations including The Rothschilds’ Hospital Foundation and the Georgine Sara von Rothschilds’ Hospital Foundation. She also funded orphanages, sanatoriums, rest homes for the elderly, research projects for the University of Heidelberg and The Jewish Museum of Antiquities. She also founded the at Frankfurt am Main. Von Rothschild wrote so

Matilde Capuis

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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 Benedetto Marcello di Venezia with Gabriele Bianchi and at the Florence Conservatory. After completing her studies, she took a position at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of Turin where she became chair of theory and then composition. For many years she performed in a duo with cellist Hugh Attilio Scabia. Capuis died in 2017 at the age of 104. Works Capuis’ compositions include: *Symphony in G major *Concentus brevis (Concerto) for oboe and string orchestra (1975) *Overture for orchestra *Variations for orchestra *Corale for organ, string orchestra and two horns *Dialogue for string orchestra *Leggenda par la Notte di Natale for string orchestra *Three Moments for cello and string orchestra *Fantasia *Preludio e fughetta *Suite in Miniature for piano trio *Sonata No. 1 in C Minor for cello and piano *Sonata No. 2 in D Minor for cello and piano *Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp Minor for cello and piano (1966) *Sonata No. 4 in G major for cello and piano (1975) *Sonata No. 5 for cello and piano (198

Matilde Salvador i Segarra

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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 composer Vicente Asencio (1908–1979). She was a leading figure in promoting the culture and music of the Valencian Community. One of her most famous compositions was Homenatge a Mistral for solo guitar. Matilde Salvador died of a stroke on 5 October 2007 in her native Valencia, aged 89. Works Piano * 1935 Campanas * 1937 Danza de la luna. (de Romance de la luna) (Fuera de catálogo) * 1937 Danza del niño mirando a la luna. (de Romance de la luna) (Fuera de catálogo) * 1946 Planyívola (Fuera de catálogo) * 1954 Judas (Fuera de catálogo) Vocal * 1935 Canción de atardecer, para voz y piano. (de Set cançons) (Fuera de catálogo) * 1935 Cuentan que la rosa, para voz y piano. (de Set cançons) (Fuera de catálogo) * 1935 Nana, para voz y piano. (de Vuit cançons) (Fuera de catálogo) * 1936 El amor y la llama para voz y piano. (de Set cançons) (Fuera de catálogo) * 1937 Tres cançons valencianes, para voz y piano, (Existe en versión orquestral realizada por Vicente Asencio) ** Cançó alegre ** Cançó d

Matilee Loeb Evans

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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 published under the names Matilee Loeb Evans, Matilee Loeb-Evans Preston, and M. L. Preston. Preston was born in Toledo, Ohio, but grew up in Los Angeles, California. Her earliest music teacher was her father, Leopold Loeb, who had studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Her first solo performance on cornet was in 1891. She later played cornet with the Los Angeles Women’s Orchestra and studied organ with Frank Harvey Colby. In 1919, Preston’s letter to Pacific Coast Musician was published: “To my mind it is certainly a great mistake for a girl to discontinue her musical studies after marriage. Home duties, of course, are many and various, especially where there are children in the family, but, by careful planning and conserving of time, a woman can devote some part of each day to the study of music.” Preston’s compositions were published by Brehm Brothers, Koninsky Music Co., and Theodore Presser Company. Piano *A Breath of Lavender: Romance *Dance of the Bubbles (four hands) *Dance of the Gobl

Mats Lidström

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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 then went on to study at the Juilliard School (New York) with Leonard Rose whose own teaching goes straight back to Luigi Boccherini (via Felix Salmond, Bernard Whitehouse, Alfredo Piatti and Gaetano Zanetti). Lidström plays the “Grützmacher” Rocca (Giuseppe Rocca 1857). Career In performance Lidström has performed and recorded as a soloist with some of the world’s major orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Czech Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony, with conductors such as André Previn, Andrew Litton, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Maxim Shostakovich, Leif Segerstam, Osmo Vänskä, Franz Welser-Möst and Lü Jia. He has worked as principal cellist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Britten Sinfonia, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and St Martin-in-the-Fields of London, The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestr

Matt Uelmen

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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 inaugural Excellence in Audio award by the IGDA in 2001. He also worked as a sound designer for the real-time strategy game StarCraft, and worked on World of Warcrafts expansion The Burning Crusade in 2007. From 2009 until the studio’s closure in 2017, Matt Uelmen worked as a member of the Runic Games team, as a composer and sound designer for the Torchlight games. Biography Early life and work Growing up in the South Bay area of Greater Los Angeles, Uelmen began taking piano lessons at age six from his tutor, Lenee Bilski, who provided him with a strong theoretical foundation. During college, he was also a keyboardist in a six-member bar band, where he acquired practical experience and learned about “arrangement, interaction and economy”. On December 31, 1996, Blizzard released their first game of the company’s successful series, Diablo. His work in Diablo was so well received that Uelmen was loaned to Blizzard’s StarCraft team (but stayed in Redwood City), where he did sound design; t

Matteo Buzzanca

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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 soundtracks. He has made arrangements and written songs for various albums and he has produced music for documentaries, exposures, theatrical events, commercials, short films and films, not only in Italy but also abroad. He has written songs for X Factor Italia, The Voice of Italy and artists such as Max Gazzè, Emma Marrone, Marco Mengoni, Luca Carboni, Malika Ayane, Patty Pravo, Raphael Gualazzi, Noemi, Giusy Ferreri, Francesca Michielin and Zero Assoluto. He graduated in Application of Music, from Rovigo’s Conservatorio F. Venezze, with the maximum of marks and distinction he has also graduated in Economy and Business from the Università degli Studi Cà Foscari, in Venice. Since 2015 he has been professor of Sound for Movies in Milan’s SAE Institute. He currently is an exclusive author for Sugar Music. Author and producer for other artists Between the years 2002 and 2007’ he collaborated with the singer songwriter Andrea Chimenti to create two albums, Il porto sepolto (as arranger) and Viet

Matteo Carcassi

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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 still a child. He quickly gained a reputation as a virtuoso concert guitarist before the age of twenty. By 1815, he had settled in Paris, where he earned his living as a teacher of both the piano and the guitar. On a concert tour in Germany in 1819, he met his friend Jean-Antoine Meissonnier for the first time. Also a well-known guitarist, Meissonnier published many of Carcassi’s works in his Paris publishing house. For Meissonnier, he also arranged a number of popular songs for guitar that were originally written for piano, including works by Théodore Labarre and Loïsa Puget. From 1820 onward, Carcassi spent the majority of his time in Paris. In 1823, he performed an extremely successful series of concerts in London that earned him great fame, both as a performing artist and as a teacher. However, in Paris, a long time passed before his talents were truly recognized, partly because of the presence of Ferdinando Carulli. Carcassi was in Germany again during the autumn of 1824. Afterwards

Matteo Curallo

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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 a degree in sound design from the Brera Academy in Milan. He began his career in 2001 when he worked on the music and the artistic production of Modho’s album, Soluzioni. Music for theatre In the 2000s, Curallo worked as a theatrical composer for shows that were performed both in Italy and abroad. These include Il Deserto Dei Tartari, Polvere, Il Piccolo Principe, and La Gabbianella e Il Gatto. He also put various shows to music for the Teatro Piemonte Europa Foundation, which were played in Italy and France. These included: Bar Franco-Italien, written by Myriam Tanant, directed by Jean Claude Penchenat, and Remake with Giulia Lazzarini (actress in Strehler, Ronconi), also in Piccolo Theatre of Milan. In 2008, with the Nut Performance group, he won the Gran Premio della Giuria del Jongeren Performance Festival of Groeningen with the work Le 7 solitudini. It was chosen by the jury for its “high level of execution and for the innovative performance of the work, not excluding its original

Matteo Fischetti

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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 native city. He was then sent to Naples to study piano under Michele Cerimele and composition under a number of teachers including Giovanni Moretti and Giuseppe Lillo. He composed over 200 pieces of instrumental and vocal music as well as three operas, all of which premiered in Naples. Fischetti’s most popular opera was Aida di Scafati (Aida of Scafati), a parody of Verdi’s Aida. It was performed over 100 times in Naples and revived in other Italian cities for many years. It was given its first performance in modern times in October 2014 in a production organized by the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella. In his later years Fischetti also taught piano and composition. He died in Naples at the age of 57. Operas *Aida di Scafati (comic opera in a prologue and three acts); libretto by Enrico Campanelli; premiered Teatro Fenice, Naples, 11 June 1873 *La sorrentina (comic opera in three acts); libretto by Ernesto La Pegna; premiered Teatro Fenice, Naples, 6 September 1873 *Un’altra figlia di

Matteo Marangoni

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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 poetic values are identified. His books are positively influenced by the school of Benedetto Croce and Heinrich Wölfflin, clarifying their concepts on the basis of observation and following logic as a science of pure concept. Life Born in Florence, Italy, to Maria Augusta Malvisi and her physics-teacher husband Carlo Marangoni, he took his secondary school diploma in 1896 but did not continue with his studies straight away, instead moving to London to indulge his passion for music. There he performed as a pianist and composed short pieces for voice and piano – Barcarola in 1897, Serenata in 1900, Le pastorelle montanine di Franco Sacchetti in 1901, Tre canti di Giacomo Leopardi in 1902 and Gavotta, also in 1902. He later returned to Florence and attended the Facoltà di scienze, graduating in 1905 in anthropology. He then moved to Paris and back to London as well as travelling in Germany, becoming interested in the figurative arts. On his second return to Italy in 1909 he took an art history

Matteo Salvi

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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 Gaetano Donizetti, he is best known for having completed the score of Donizetti’s unfinished opera Le duc d’Albe for its first public performance in 1882, some forty years after Donizetti’s death. (The libretto was translated into Italian, and the opera was performed as Il duca d’Alba.) Salvi is usually credited as the composer of the tenor aria “Angelo casto e bel” in Il duca d’Alba, although as he was helped in the reconstruction of Donizetti’s score by several composers, including Amilcare Ponchielli, there has been some dispute as to the degree to which he was the aria’s sole composer. He died in Rieti, Italy. Principal compositions *La prima donna 1843—opera to a libretto by Carlo Guaita *Lara 1843—opera to a libretto by Leopoldo Tarentini and dedicated to Johann Simon Mayr *I Burgravi 1845—opera to a libretto by Giacomo Sacchèro *Caterina Howard 1847—opera to a libretto by Giorgio Giachetti *Messa: a voci sole con accompagnamento d’organo *Cantata per soli e coro con orchestra: la

Matthaeus Pipelare

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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 Antwerp. Unlike many of his contemporaries, many of whom traveled to Italy, Spain or elsewhere, he seems never to have left the Low Countries. In spring 1498 he became the choir director at the Illustrious Confraternity of Our Lady at ’s-Hertogenbosch, a position he held until 1500. From his name it is presumed that either he or perhaps his father was a wind player, for example a town piper. Pipelare’s style was wide-ranging; he wrote in almost all of the vocal forms current in his day: masses, motets, secular songs in all the local languages. No instrumental music has survived. In mood his music ranged from light secular songs to sombre motets related to those of Pierre de La Rue, an almost exact contemporary. He wrote 11 complete masses which have survived to modern times (although many of the manuscripts were destroyed in the Second World War), as well as 10 motets, and 8 chansons; the chansons are both in French and Dutch. One of the masses is a four-voice cantus firmus setting of L'

Matthäus Stegmayer

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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 master tailor and citizen of Vienna and. His sons were Karl Stegmayer (1800–1862; conductor, and the author of several montanistic half-timbering and stage plays), Ferdinand Stegmayer (1801–1863; choirmaster) and Wilhelm Stegmayer (born 1805; a child actor and later a military officer). Stegmayer was a member of the Wiener Sängerknaben in the Dominican Church, Vienna and attended the Akademische Gymnasium from 1783 to 1789, but following his inclination he joined the acting society of Johann Christian Kunz and in 1790 the troupe of Christof Ludwig Seipp in Bratislava, with whom he travelled the Austrian provinces. From 1792, he started to compose incidental music for the stage with Seipp, his first work being the music for August von Kotzebue’s Singspiel Der Eremit von Formentara. In the same year, he was engaged at the Theater in der Josefstadt as a young lover. From 1796, he worked at Emanuel Schikaneder’s Theater auf der Wieden as a composer, comic actor and playwright. From 1801, he

Mattheus Le Maistre

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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 progressive, influential in both Counter-Reformation and Lutheran courts. Biography Early life and employment Born circa 1505 in Roclenge-sur-Geer, in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège yet he studied music from his early childhood Nothing is known regarding the identity of his musical instructors. It is speculated that, prior to his time in Munich, he worked in Leipzig because his name appears in music directories there. As such he was the first in a line of foreign musicians employed at the Bayerischer Hofkapelle. Here he introduced Propers for the weekdays. Additional perks of the position included one new uniform each year, plus free food upon the occasions of a court banquet. and although officially retired he retained the title of Kapellmeister and remained at the Saxon court until his death. It therefore follows that his writings have been described as both humanistic and pedagogic. He was among the early composers to write chorales with the melody defined in the treble, writing in this manner a

Matthew Aucoin

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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 Opera of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard University, and NPR’s This American Life. He was appointed as Los Angeles Opera’s first-ever Artist-in-Residence in 2016. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. He is currently Visiting Professor of Composition and Conducting at Boston University. Biography Aucoin was born and raised in the Boston area. While attending Medfield High School, he was the keyboardist in an indie rock band, Elephantom. He attended Harvard College, where he studied poetry, graduating summa cum laude in 2012. His mentors at Harvard included Jorie Graham and Helen Vendler. As an undergraduate, Aucoin conducted productions of Die Fledermaus and Le Nozze di Figaro with the Dunster House Opera Society, now known as Harvard College Opera. Aucoin then received a graduate diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with composer Robert Beaser. Concurrently, he served as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. Between 2013 and 2

Matthew Barnson

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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 recipient of a Barlow Commission from the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications. He was awarded a 2009 Charles Ives Prize. He is currently an assistant professor of composition at Stony Brook University. Works Barnson’s works have been performed by the following individuals / groups: - Arditti String Quartet - Curtis Symphony Orchestra - The New York Virtuoso Singers - Members of Alarm Will Sound - Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra - Soprano Nicole Cabell - Countertenor Ian Howell - Academy Manson Ensemble, with conductor Simon Bainbridge - Shouse Ensemble F-Plus Discography *Sibyl Tones (Tzadik Records, 2014) References External links * Matthew Barnson, official website * StonyBrook University Department of Music Faculty Profile * Guggenheim Foundation Fellow Profile * Soundcloud Page

Matthew Dewey

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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 with Professor Douglas Knehans at the University of Tasmania and composition/theatrical design/singing with Greek-Australian composer/designer Constantine Koukias. His very early years were spent training with the IHOS Music Theatre Laboratory in the creation of new musical-theatrical works, and this early exposure led to a career that flourished at a young age. In 2003 he sang the bass role in the Australasian premiere of Hydrogen Jukebox by Philip Glass. He works mostly in concert music and opera/music-theatre and has been involved in the premieres of more than 20 new works as a principal performer and singer, and numerous other productions variously as composer, orchestrator, conductor and compositional assistant. He currently works as the music director for ABC Classic FM in Sydney. Major works Orchestral * Symphony No. 1 (Port Arthur, 1996), for string orchestra. Commissioned by Damien Holloway. Premiered at the Hobart Town Hall, by the Hobart Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Edwin P

Matthew Dubourg

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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 Georg Friedrich Handel’s great oratorio Messiah. Biography Dubourg was born in London, the illegitimate son of a court dancing master, his mother’s identity is unknown. In 1712, at age 9, he performed a Corelli sonata standing on a stool at the home of Thomas Britton. At age 11, in 1714, he furthered his studies under the celebrated Italian violinist, composer and music theorist Francesco Geminiani. He performed a sonata at the Queen’s Theatre in March 1714, a benefit concert in May at Hickford’s Room, as well as many other performances during the London season. On 17 June 1727 he married Frances, the daughter of musician Bernard Gates at Stanmore, Middlesex. They had one child, a daughter named Elizabeth, who married oboist Redmond Simpson on 22 September 1753, who had one child. Dubourg served as concert-master from 1728 to 1764 in Dublin. The deed was witnessed by a woman named Elen: Du Bourg (sic) of the City of Dublin, Spinster, possibly a relative of Dubourg’s. Four years later, a D

Matthew Head (composer)

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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 landed a job at a small studio in Atlanta. His notable works as a music producer include the OWN series Greenleaf, the Halle Berry and Lena Waithe produced Boomerang on BET, P-Valley on Starz, PBS and WETA’s The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, Lifetime’s Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia, and Step Up: High Water season 2, for which he collaborated with Timbaland. Selected filmography As Composer Television Film As Music Producer * 2024 – The Piano Lesson * 2019-2022 – Step Up (20 Episodes) * 2021 – Queens (6 Episodes) * 2021 – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia * 2020 – P-Valley (5 Episodes) * 2018-2019 – The Resident * 2017-2018 – Greenleaf Awards and nominations References External links * *

Matthew Hindson

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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 Sydney and Melbourne with composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Eric Gross, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards. Hindson’s works have been performed by ensembles and orchestras throughout his native Australia, including most of its professional symphony orchestras and chamber groups. Overseas, his compositions have been presented in New Zealand, Germany, France, Austria, the UK, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Canada and Thailand, and have been featured at such key events as the 1994 and 2000 Gaudeamus Music Weeks in Amsterdam, the 1997 ISCM Festival in Copenhagen and the 1998 Paris Composers Rostrum. His music often displays influences of popular music styles within a classical music context, and, as a result, musical elements such as driving repeated rhythms and high dynamic levels are typically found in his works. Indeed, directness and immediacy are common features in much of his music. One of his most notable works, Speed (1996), was thought by some to

Matthew Jones (musician)

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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 viola and head of chamber music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and runs an in-demand performance health consultancy practice. He is fluent in Italian. Biography Jones was born in Swansea, Wales, and began studying violin at the age of five. After graduating with a first class degree in mathematics from the University of Warwick, he studied violin at the Royal College of Music in London and viola privately with violist Rivka Golani. Performing career Hailed by The Strad magazine as “a worthy successor to Lionel Tertis” and winner of the prize for the most promising British entrant at the 2003 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, Jones is violist of the Bridge Duo (viola and piano), the Debussy Ensemble (flute, viola and harp) and violinist with Ensemble MidtVest (an innovative ten-piece ensemble based in Denmark). He can frequently be seen performing in major international concert venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall in London,

Matthew Kaner

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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 Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta at music venues such as the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room, LSO St. Luke’s, the Seiji Ozawa Hall, Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square and Snape Maltings. In 2016, he was the BBC Radio 3 embedded composer in residence for its 70th anniversary in which he composed 14 pieces which were repeatedly broadcast on the station. Education Kaner studied at King’s College London before pursuing postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Julian Anderson, where he now works as a professor of composition. Career In 2012, Kaner was the Margaret Lee Crofts Fellow in composition at Tanglewood where he had the opportunity to work with composers like George Benjamin, Oliver Knussen and Michael Gandolfi. In the following year, he received the Royal Philharmonic Society composition prize. Kaner was commissioned afterwards to write for the Philharmonia Music of Today series which was premiered by members of the Philharm

Matthew King (composer, born 1967)

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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 of the Queen’s Music, as “one of Britain’s most adventurous composers, utterly skilled, imaginative, and resourceful." Matthew King has a YouTube channel called ‘The Music Professor’. Operas Several of King’s pieces incorporate a community component, combining amateurs and young people with professionals. King’s first chamber opera, The Snow Queen, was composed for the British soprano Jane Manning and her virtuoso ensemble Jane’s Minstrels. The Snow Queen was described by one reviewer as “music of distinctive beauty with disarming theater sense.” The opera Jonah, with a libretto by Michael Irwin (author), was commissioned by the Canterbury Festival and first produced in Canterbury Cathedral in 1996; the dramatic cantata Gethsemane was premiered by Florilegium at the Spitalfields Festival in 1998; the Brunel (opera project), featured on BBC Radio 4’s Setting Brunel to Music in October 2003. The community opera On London Fields (libretto by Alasdair Middleton), and winner of a Royal Phil

Matthew Locke (composer)

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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 Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons. At the age of eighteen Locke travelled to the Netherlands, possibly converting to Roman Catholicism at the time. Locke, with Christopher Gibbons (the son of Orlando), composed the score for Cupid and Death, the 1653 masque by Caroline-era playwright James Shirley. Their score for that work is the sole surviving score for a dramatic work from that era. Locke was one of the quintet of composers who provided music for The Siege of Rhodes (1656), the breakthrough early opera by Sir William Davenant. Locke wrote music for subsequent Davenant operas, The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (1658) and The History of Sir Francis Drake (1659). He wrote the music for the processional march for the coronation of Charles II. Locke’s treatise on music theory, Melothesia, was published in 1673. The title page describes him as “Composer in Ordinary to His Majesty, and organist of her Majesty’s chapel”—those monarchs being Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. Locke also

Matthew McCauley (producer)

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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 Friends (1973), City on Fire (1979), Middle Age Crazy (1980), In the Custody of Strangers (1982) and Thunder Run (1986). Early life McCauley was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of composer William McCauley and Patricia McFarlane, daughter of author Leslie McFarlane. In 1973 he composed the score for the film Between Friends. He also composed the music for the 1975 film Sudden Fury, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1977 McCauley and Fred Mollin produced Ronney Abramson’s album Stowaway at True North Records. That year McCauley travelled to Egypt, where he and anthropology student Mark Lehner began to study and map the Giza Plateau, near Cairo. A year later McCauley and Mollin produced the album Alibi for the band America. In 2000 McCauley was music director of the television series Andromeda; in 2001 he won a Leo Award for his composition for the series, “Music from a Distant Drum”. In 2002 he was presented with a Cleveland Regional Emmy award for his composition “Squeakers

Matthew Peterson

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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 studied music composition at St. Olaf College, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Gotland School of Music Composition where his teachers included Mary Ellen Childs and Sven-David Sandström. Peterson is a freelance composer based in Smedjebacken, Sweden, first arriving on a Fulbright Award in 2008. His Fulbright project was the true-crime chamber opera Voir Dire, a work that received critical-acclaim after its 2017 world premiere at Fort Worth Opera. He is a member of FST (the Association of Swedish Composers) and has been commissioned by Swedish musicians and ensembles including the Swedish Radio Choir, Dalasinfoniettan, guitarist Mårten Falk, Gustaf Sjökvist Chamber Choir, Uppsala Vokalensemble, Sofia Vokalensemble, and Stockholm Saxophone Quartet. His music has been featured at international music festivals Svensk Musikvår, Purpur (South Africa), Ljudvågor, Lund Choral Festival, Jubilate and Sound of Stockholm. In 2014 Peterson was awarded the ASCAP Rudolph Nissim Award for o

Matthew Ricketts (composer)

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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 Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2016 Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, the 2015 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award, a 2013 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and eight prizes in the SOCAN Foundation’s Awards for Young Composers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Biography Matthew Ricketts was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He attended McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where he studied composition with Chris Harman, Brian Cherney, and John Rea. He earned a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, where he studied with George Lewis and Fred Lerdahl. Ricketts’s music has been performed by the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as well as by ensembles and soloists including JACK Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, the Chiara String Quartet, FLUX Quartet, soprano Tony Arnold, and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM). He was Composer-Collaborator-In-Residence

Matthew S

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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 music and ambient music, but also elements of tech house. Biography Matthew S began his career in 2009 with the release of his first EP Reiz Musik 014 and also teaches at Pantarhei in Vicenza. He collaborated as sound designer with Gruppo L’Espresso and Gruppo Magnolia, a TV production society leader in creating new entertainment formats that include different genres. In 2015, Matthew S produced his first album Call Me by Your Name with fashion designer Von Felthen. and won “Best New Generation Electro” by MTV New Generation (MTV Italy) He also received the prize “Città di Thiene 2015”. In 2016, he signed a contract for exclusive publishing with Il Nuovo Rumore Italiano (INRI) / Metatron, a well-known independent publisher in Italy which gives the producer access to his own Italian and international network. The music video for his single “Inside” was heavily played from September to October on MTV Music (Italy) . After publishing “Inside”, He created a remix of the song “Tokai” by Anti An

Matthew Shlomowitz

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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, Australia, and studied with at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and with Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University. He also studied privately with Michael Finnissy in the United Kingdom. Since 2002 he has lived in London where he lectured at the Royal College of Music and for the Syracuse University London Program. He taught composition at Durham University during the 2008/09 academic year and was a Programme Collaborator for the Borealis Festival in Norway. Music He is co-director of Plus minus ensemble and the performance series Rational Rec and is a member of InterInterInter, a group that creates events mixing performance and audience activity. He was also a co-founder of Ensemble Offspring. He has been represented by the New Voices scheme at the British Music Information Centre and by the Australian Music Centre. The bulk of his compositions are for chamber ensembles and often involve unusual instrumental combinations. Free Square Jazz, for instance, is for recorder, electric guitar

Matthew Taylor (composer)

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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 Holloway at Queens’ College, Cambridge University and later at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Royal Academy of Music. He later continued his composition training with Robert Simpson and Sir Malcolm Arnold. As a conductor he trained with Robin Page, Vilém Tauský, and with Leonard Bernstein at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik festival. Taylor appeared as Guest Conductor with the English Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, European Community Chamber Orchestra and St Petersburg State Academic Orchestra and has recorded for Hyperion Records and Dutton. Matthew Taylor has conducted first performances of pieces by Robert Simpson, Vagn Holmboe, David Matthews and James Francis Brown. Taylor’s compositions, which include six symphonies, eight string quartets and a considerable body of other chamber music, have been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John McCabe, Martyn Brabbins, Geo

Matthias Dahms

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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 courses and mallet-instrument classes in Europe as well as overseas. Biography Dahms was born in Berlin. His father owned a car sales company and was an amateur jazz pianist, while his mother was an artist. Dahms received his university education at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik at Karlsruhe, Germany, and later an advanced diploma as Master of Arts from the University of the Arts Berlin. During his university years he additionally had private lessons with David Friedman (USA) and attended workshops with e.g. Keiko Abe, Billy Hart, Dave Weckl, Billy Cobham, Ed Thigpen, David Liebman/Richard Beirach, and Reinhard Flatischler. Dahms’ playing, which is famous for its beautiful tone and atmosphere, besides accurate tempo and rhythm, has been remarked as: “Stars and angels - extraordinary sense for moods and colors“, “Rhythmical percussionism together with classical dream, Matthias Dahms created a music that conquers all”. In 1999 he was chosen to become part of the ‘Who-Is-Who’ Career In t

Matthias Keller (musician)

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

Matthias Maute

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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 he won first prize in the soloist category of the competition Musica Antiqua Bruges, Belgium. He subsequently won the Dutch Impressariat Chamber Music Competition. He is a professor at McGill University in Montreal and a member of Vox Saeculorum, a society of composers working in early historical styles. Matthias Maute is artistic director and conductor of the professional choir Ensemble ArtChoral, artistic director of the Bach Society of Minnesota and co-artistic director of Montreal Baroque Festival. Matthias Maute was Mécénat Musica Composer in residence from 2014 to 2018, composing 57 movements of Mécénat Musica Compositions for 113 emerging artists, featuring solo music, chamber music for ensembles and orchestral music with choir. 78 movements of Maute compositions are broadcast on the Mécénat Musica videoclip channel on YouTube Matthias Maute was Mécénat Musica Ambassadeur en résidence from 2013 – 2022. Mécénat Musica Ambassador-in-Residence presents Mécénat Musica in the cultural

Matthias Pintscher

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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 conducting. He began his music studies with Giselher Klebe in 1988 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Detmold. In 1990, he met Hans Werner Henze, and in 1991 and 1992, he was invited to Henze’s summer school in Montepulciano, Italy. He later studied with German composer and flutist Manfred Trojahn. He held a Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellowship with the Cleveland Orchestra from 2000 to 2002. With the 2014–2015 season, Pintscher became artist-in-residence with the Danish Radio for a period of three years. For the 2014–2015 season, he was the artist-in-residence at the Cologne Philharmonie. Pintscher concluded his tenure with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the close of the 2022–2023 season. In March 2023, Pintscher first guest conducted the Kansas City Symphony. On the basis of this appearance, the Kansas City Symphony announced in May 2023 the appointment of Pintscher as its next music director, effective with the 2024–2025 season, with an initial contract of five seasons. In Ju

Matthias Vanden Gheyn

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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. During his life, Vanden Gheyn was considered an outstanding virtuoso of the carillon and organ. He is most famous for composing eleven preludes for carillon, which have become standard repertoire among carillonneurs worldwide since the early 1900s. His spot in history was earned in large part due to the tireless research of his biographer Xavier-Victor-Fidèle van Elewyck, a law and music scholar who considered Vanden Gheyn to be the greatest musician of the Southern Netherlands in the 18th century. Biography Matthias Vanden Gheyn was born in Tienen, Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) into a celebrated family of Flemish bell founders, which in the context of bellfounding, first appeared in Mechelen in 1506, and continued into the 19th century and beyond through the foundry activities of the Van Aerschodt and Sergeys families. He was the oldest son of André-François II Van den Gheyn, the head of the family foundry at the time. In 1725, André-François II was commissioned by the city counci

Matthias Weckmann

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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 took place in Dresden (as a chorister at the Saxon Court, under the direction of Heinrich Schütz), then in Hamburg where he worked with the famous organist Jacob Praetorius at the Saint Peter’s church (Petrikirche). He was introduced to the Italian concertato, polychoral and monodic styles — because Schütz had journeyed in Italy when a young man and he had met Giovanni Gabrieli and Monteverdi — as well as the style of Sweelinck’s pupils, some of whom had settled in Hamburg. Weckmann travelled to Denmark in 1637 with Schütz, became organist in Dresden at the Electoral Court of Saxony from 1638 to 1642, and returned to Denmark until 1647 (during the Thirty Years’ War). During a new (and his last) stay in Dresden from 1649 to 1655, he met Johann Jakob Froberger during a musical competition which had been organized by the Elector. They remained friends and in correspondence with each other. In 1655, after a competition, he was named titular organist at Saint James church (Jakobkirche) in Ham

Matthias Werrecore

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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 of eleven adult singers and seven choirboys. Works His best known work is La Bataglia Taliana for four voices, originally published with the German title Die Schlacht vor Pavia (1544), reissued as La Bataglia Taliana con alcune villotte piacevole (Venezia, Gardane, 1549). A battaglia in memory of the Battle of Pavia 1525. The villotte include Andand’ a spasso. His surviving sacred compositions consist of his Cantuum quinque vocum (quos motetta vocant) Hermanni Matthiae Werrecorensis musici excelentissimi, liber primus (1559) dedicated to Antonius Marinus Pansanus, as well as a few other works found in collections and manuscripts. Recordings * La Bataglia taliana in collection War And Faith - composers Giovanni Gabrieli, Andrea Gabrieli, Clément Janequin, Giorgio Mainerio. La Fenice, Daltrocantro, Il Terzo Suono, Gianpaolo Fagotto. Arts Music 2004 * La Bataglia taliana on collection La Pellegrina - composers Giovanni de Bardi, Cristofano Malvezzi, Emilio de Cavalieri, Jacopo Peri Huelgas

Matthijs Vermeulen

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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. After primary school he initially wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who was a blacksmith. During a serious illness his inclination towards the spiritual gained the upper hand. Inspired by a thoroughly Catholic environment, he decided to become a priest. However, at the seminary, where he learned about the principles of counterpoint of the sixteenth-century polyphonic masters, his true calling – music – came to light. On his eighteenth he abandoned his initial ideas and left school. In the spring of 1907 he moved to Amsterdam, the country’s musical capital. There he approached Daniël de Lange, the director of the conservatory, who recognized his talent and gave him free lessons for two years. In 1909 Vermeulen began to write for the Catholic daily newspaper De Tijd, where he soon distinguished himself by a personal, resolute tone which stood out in stark contrast to the usually long-winded music journalism of the day. The quality of his reviews also struck Alphons Diepenb

Matti Bye

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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 nominated twice at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards in which his soundtrack for the film Faro won the award. He also won a Gudbagge in 2009 for his score for the film Everlasting Moments. He has recorded and released numerous solo and collaboration records, include Hydra’s Dream, with Anna von Hausswolff; Maailma, with cult Finnish songwriter Lau Nau; and has collaborated live with producer and musician Samuli Kosminen. Life and career Source: Bye was brought up by his mother, renowned Swedish actress Birgitta Andersson, while his father was Norwegian playwright Anders Bye. At the age of 20, Stockholm’s celebrated Cinematheque Theatre contacted Bye about performing live to old silent films. “Silent film music was like a blank spot on the music map, but I recognised the freedom I’d have as a musician, and the force of the poetry in these forgotten images. To play piano for these films was like a dream. So I started my own ‘university’ in the cinema, improvising directly in front of the film screen,

Mattias Olsson

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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 Mattias Olsson writes articles (music-related) for several Swedish magazines. Early life He was born in Hong Kong to Swedish parents. In 1981 he moved to Stockholm. Starting as a drummer at eight years old he started off playing in big bands, pop and classical ensembles. Career When he was 17 he joined progressive rock band Änglagård. Änglagård consisted of musicians from Ekerö as well as Waxholm. The band was heavily influenced by bands such as King Crimson, Yes and Genesis but also listened to less famous bands such as Shylock, Cathedral and Yezda Urfa. Änglagård quickly became known for their instrumentation skills and their dynamic range often reminiscent of classical music. When the band started the current trend in progressive rock was to use the newest digital equipment. Änglagård decided instead to use old classic prog equipment like the Rickenbacker bass, Minimoog and the Mellotron. Änglagård recorded two studio albums in the 1990s, Hybris (1992) and Epilog (1994). They also re

Mattio Rampollini

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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 Corteccia, and was noted for his madrigals, some composed for the opulent entertainments of the Medici court. He is mainly known as a contributing composer to the Intermedio of 1539. Biography Little is known about his early life. He was probably born in Florence, and the only records of his career are from that city. When Bernardo Pisano left Florence Cathedral to go to Rome in 1520, Rampollini took over the job of singing teacher to the boys there; around this time he may have been Corteccia’s teacher as well. In 1539 he provided some of the music for the wedding of Duke Cosimo de’ Medici and Eleanora di Toledo. The Venetian printer Antonio Gardano printed two madrigals from this wedding in 1539, Ecco la fida and Lieta per honorarte, along with the rest of the music (mostly composed by Corteccia). He evidently was employed by the Medici for his entire life. The largest surviving work of his, the setting of a cycle of seven canzoni by Petrarch, was published in 1554 by Jacques Moderne of Ly

Matvey Blanter

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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 works, he wrote the famous “Katyusha” (1938), performed to this day internationally. He was active as a composer until 1975, producing more than two thousand songs. Childhood and education Blanter, the son of a Jewish craftsman, was born in the town of Pochep, then in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire. He studied piano and violin at the Kursk Higher Music School. From 1917 to 1919, he continued his education in Moscow, studying violin and composition. Career Blanter’s first songs were composed in the 1920s. At the time, he wrote light dance and jazz music, including “John Gray” (1923), a foxtrot that became a major hit. In the 1930s, as Soviet culture grew more ideologically strict, Blanter shifted toward writing Soviet propaganda songs. He emerged as one of the creators of the Soviet “mass song”. Some of Blanter’s 1930s songs were styled after the Red Army songs of the Russian Civil War (1918–1921) and mythologized the war’s Bolshevik heroes. The most famous among these are

Mátyás Seiber

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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 linked many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartók and Kodály, to Schoenberg and serial music, to jazz, folk song, and lighter music. Early life Seiber was born in Budapest. His mother, Berta Patay, was a well known pianist and teacher, so the young Seiber gained considerable skill with that instrument first. At the age of ten, he began to learn to play the cello. After attending grammar school, where he was regarded as “outstanding” in mathematics and Latin according to the almanacs of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he studied the cello and composition from 1918 to 1925, and composition with Zoltán Kodály from 1921 to 1925. For his degree, he wrote his String Quartet No. 1 (in A minor). Pieces composed at this time, such as the Serenade for Six Wind Instruments of 1925, show him combining traditional Hungarian folk tunes with the forms of Western art music. Seiber submitted his Serenade to a composition contest in Budapest shortly after its completion. W

Maude Valérie White

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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 upper middle-class parents, White and her family moved to England when she was only one year old. She spent her childhood in Heidelberg, Paris, and England, and played the piano from an early age. At seventeen she had already composed her first song. She studied composition with Oliver May while in London, and counterpoint and harmony with W. S. Rockstro while living in Torquay. In 1876 White went to the Royal Academy of Music after she finally persuaded her reluctant mother to allow her to pursue music as a career. While at the academy she studied composition with George Alexander Macfarren, and set poems written in English, German, and French. White was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Mendelssohn Scholarship, which she received in 1879. Her father died while she was a child, but when White’s mother died in 1881, White was devastated, and went to Chile to be with her sister and to recuperate and recover her health. Upon returning to London in 1882, she thrust herself into a

Maung Thit Min

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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 Kings” (မင်းလေးမင်း) of Burmese songwriting. His father Colonel Tin Soe was a member of Burma’s Revolutionary Council (RC). He is a second son of U Tin Soe and Daw Mya Mya Than. He studied his secondary education through St. Paul High School (State High School No. 6 Botataung, Yangon). He began his writing career in 1971 and wrote fictional works including The Sun Rises in the East and Sets in the West (), An Untold Story (), Hug Me () and Tomorrow is Blue (). He died on 5 June 2011 in Bangkok’s Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital. References

Maura Bosch

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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 degree in 1978, and at Princeton University where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1982 and a Ph.D. in 2008, after studying with Alexander Lepak, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt and Peter Westergaard. Career She married composer Jeffrey Brooks and lived for a while in Bath, England, where Brooks was composer-in-residence at Bath College. After returning to the United States, the couple settled in Minneapolis. She co-founded and ran Corn Palace Productions, a Minneapolis music theatre company, from 1990 through 1997. The company produced dozens of new works, including three of her own operas. One of them was based on a poem by James Merrill, with whom she collaborated in writing the libretto. She also founded and played with the ensemble Blackstone Bosch from 1997 until 2000. In 2007 Maura Bosch was in residence with the Tubman Family Alliance, a network of shelters for abused women, to compose a work based on their experiences. In 2009, Maura Bosch composed and wrote the libretto

Maurice Besly

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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 ambitious vocal pieces were the Four Poems Op 24, Charivaria (5 songs), and his setting of Christina Rossetti’s The shepherds had an angel for soprano solo and chorus. Besly was born in Normanby, Yorkshire, and was educated at Tonbridge School and Caius College, Cambridge. After a short stage career he studied music at the Leipzig Conservatorium under Teichmüller, Schreck, and Krehl. From 1912 to 1914 he was a music-master at Tonbridge School, returning there after World War I as Assistant Music Master. In 1919 he became director of music and organist of Queen’s College, Oxford (1919–1926), and subsequently took over the Oxford Orchestral Society from Sir Hugh Allen. He gave his first concert in London with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1923, and conducted the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, and the Scottish Orchestra for a portion of the season in 1924. He was sometime Director of the Performing Rights Society. In his latter years he worked in legal practice as a solicitor and notary publi

Maurice Blackburn (composer)

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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 animated film. Personal life Blackburn was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He was a graduate of the Université Laval and the New England Conservatory in Boston. Blackburn composed the music for McLaren’s animation film Blinkity Blank (1954) which won twelve prizes, including the Short Film Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1969 he created an animated film of his own, Ciné-Crimé. He composed the opera Une mesure de silence, whose libretto was written by his wife Marthe. In 1983 he was awarded the Albert-Tessier Prize by the Quebec government. Discography Compilations * Filmusique-Filmopéra with Yves Daoust (Analekta, AN 7005/06, 1996) (2CD) References

Maurice Delage

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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 for a maritime agency in Paris, and later as a fishmonger in Boulogne. He also served for a time in the French army, before embarking on a music career in his twenties. A student of Ravel, who proclaimed him one of the supreme French composers of his day, and member of Les Apaches, he was influenced by travels to India and Japan in 1912, when he accompanied his father on a business trip. Ravel’s “La vallée des cloches” from Miroirs was dedicated to Delage. Delage’s best known piece is Quatre poèmes hindous (1912–1913). His Ragamalika (1912–1922), based on the classical music of India, is significant in that it calls for prepared piano; the score specifies that a piece of cardboard be placed under the strings of the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum. Selected works ;Poèmes symphoniques * Conté par la mer (1908) * Les Bâtisseurs de ponts (1913) after Rudyard Kipling * Overture to Ballet de l’avenir (1923) * Contrerimes (193

Maurice Duhamel

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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 politics in the years before World War II. Early life The son of a coal merchant, Duhamel was born in Rennes. From his youth, he displayed great musical talent, composing his own original works and collecting and arranging traditional Breton songs. He also worked as a journalist for music magazines. Meanwhile, he learned the Breton language and studied Breton literature. At the age of 19, he reported for a local newspaper on the trial of Alfred Dreyfus, which took place in the premises of his high school in Rennes. Like his father he was a Dreyfusard and a Freemason. However, he left Freemasonry because he was shocked by the Affaire Des Fiches in 1905. Political activity He joined the Breton Regionalist Union (Union Régionaliste Bretonne) and composed the piano score for Bro Gozh ma Zadoù, the song chosen by the Union to be the Breton national anthem. In 1912, he resigned from the Union, along with Emile Masson, Camille Le Mercier d’Erm, François Vallée and Loeiz Herrieu, to found the more le

Maurice Duruflé

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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 was born in Louviers, Eure in 1902. He attended Rouen Cathedral Choir School from 1912 to 1918, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling, a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant. The choral plainsong tradition at Rouen became a strong and lasting influence. until 1927. In 1920 Duruflé entered the Conservatoire de Paris, graduating with first prizes in organ with Eugène Gigout (1922), harmony with Jean Gallon (1924), fugue with Georges Caussade (1924), piano accompaniment with César Abel Estyle (1926) and composition with Paul Dukas (1928). In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto (the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part. In 1943 he became Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, from the Vichy regime. Also in 1947, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant at St-Étienne-du-Mont. They married on 15 September 1953. (Duruflé’s first marriage to Lucette Bousquet, in 1932, ended in ci

Maurice Emmanuel

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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 northeastern France. It was there where he first heard his grandfather’s printing press which according to his granddaughter, Anne Eichner-Emmanuel, first gave him the feeling of rhythm. Brought up in Dijon, Maurice Emmanuel became a chorister at Beaune cathedral after his family moved to the city in 1869. According to his granddaughter, Anne Eichner-Emmanuel, he was influenced by the brass bands on the streets of Beaune and by the “songs of the grape pickers which imprinted melodies in his memory so different from all the classical music he was taught in the academy of music.” Subsequently, he went to Paris, and in 1880 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where his composition teacher was Léo Delibes. His other teachers included Théodore Dubois (harmony) and Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (history). Emmanuel also studied classics, poetics, philology and art history at the Sorbonne and École du Louvre. Delibes’ strong disapproval of his early modal compositions (Cello Sonata, Op. 2, Sonatina

Maurice Fleuret

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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, he is best remembered as one of the initiators of the Fête de la Musique. Biography Born in La Talaudière in the department of Loire, Maurice Fleuret received his secondary education at the École normale d’instituteurs in Montbrison. In 1952 he moved to Paris and began studying music in the classes of Norbert Dufourcq, Olivier Messiaen, and Roland Manuel at the Conservatoire de Paris, graduating in 1956. In 1955, he became a lecturer of the Jeunesses musicales de France, a position he held until 1965. From 1974, he became artistic adviser to this same organization. In the meantime, he had undertaken other activities as well. In 1958 he edited the review Musique de tous les temps, from 1960 to 1964 he was director of the music division of the Centre National de Diffusion Culturelle, and in 1962 he began a career as a music critic, first for France observateur and then from 1964 for its successor, the Nouvel Observateur. In 1962 he also became a radio producer, first at ORTF and then at R

Maurice Franck

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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 soloist at the Paris Opera, and Clémence Braun, a good amateur pianist. He married Marcelle Horvilleur, also a musician. Among his cousins were Geneviève Zadoc-Kahn, stage manager of the concerts, and Suzanne Braun, ophthalmologist and wife of politician Louis Vallon. Franck studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau and Paul Vidal. He participated five times in the Prix de Rome, where he won the first Second Grand Prix with his cantata L’autre Mère. From 1937 onwards, he directed a harmony class at the Conservatoire de Paris. Later, he became president of the Conservatoire’s alumni association. At the same time, he taught at Studios Pleyel, Lycée la Fontaine and at the Beethoven Institute founded by Hélène Amiot, alongside other pedagogues such as Noël Gallon, Maurice Hewitt, Georges Jouatte, André-Lévy, René Maillard, René Leroy, Auguste Le Guennant and René Saorgin. At the beginning of the war, Maurice Franck was taken prisoner and sent to an Oflag. He was released

Maurice Greene (composer)

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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 cleric, Thomas Green(e) (1648–1720) who was a chaplain of the Chapel Royal, and his wife Mary Shelton (d. 1722). He became a choirboy at St Paul’s Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King. He studied the organ under Richard Brind, and after Brind died, Greene became organist at St Paul’s. With the death of William Croft in 1727, Greene became organist at the Chapel Royal, and in 1730 he became Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. In 1735 he was appointed Master of the King’s Musick. At his death, Greene was working on the compilation Cathedral Music, which his student and successor as Master of the King’s Musick, William Boyce, was to complete. Many items from that collection are still used in Anglican services today. Greene wrote in the prevailing Georgian England, particularly longer verse anthems, of which Lord, Let Me Know Mine End, is a representative example. In it, Greene sets the text using a polyphonic texture over a continuous instrumental walking bass,

Maurice Jarre

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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, composing the scores to all of his films from 1962 to 1984. He received numerous accolades over the course of his career, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award. Jarre won three Academy Awards for Best Original Score for the David Lean films Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). He was Oscar-nominated for Sundays and Cybèle (1962), The Message (1976), Witness (1985), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), and Ghost (1990). Notable scores also include Eyes Without a Face (1959), The Longest Day (1962), The Train (1964), The Collector (1965), Grand Prix (1966), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Dead Poets Society (1989). He worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, John Huston, Luchino Visconti, John Frankenheimer, and Peter Weir. Three of his compositions spent a total of 42 weeks on the UK singles chart. The biggest hi

Maurice Jaubert

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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 L’Atalante, and René Clair’s Quatorze Juillet and Le Dernier Milliardaire. Many of his film scores were used as the basis for concert pieces. The song “À Paris, dans chaque faubourg” remains well known today. François Truffaut used his music posthumously in four of his films. Serving in both world wars, he died in action during World War II at the age of 40. Early life and education Born in Nice on 3 January 1900, he was the second son of François Jaubert, a lawyer who would become the president of the Nice bar. Jaubert grew up in a musical household, and began playing the piano aged five. After gaining his baccalaureat from the Lycée Masséna in Nice in 1916, he enrolled at the Nice Conservatory of Music, where he studied harmony, counterpoint and piano. He was awarded the first piano prize in 1916. In his films L’Histoire d’Adèle H. (1975), L’Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977) and La Chambre verte (1978) and Small Change (Divertimento from the Sonata a due), François Truffaut uses mus

Maurice Le Boucher

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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 Paris, where he was a student of Gabriel Fauré. In 1907, Le Boucher won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. Later, he became professor at the École Niedermeyer and organist at St. Germain-l’Auxerrois in Paris. He wrote an Organ Symphony in E major, which was published in 1917 by Éditions Leduc, Paris. He wrote a drama on Oscar Wilde la Duchesse de Padoue which was published by Salabert in 1931. In 1920, he was appointed as director of the Montpellier Conservatory, a post he held for 22 years. His students included André David. Le Boucher died in 1964 in Paris. Works * Symphonie pour orgue en Mi Majeur (1917) * Ballade en Ré Mineur, clarinet and orchestra (clarinet and piano) * La Duchesse de Padoue (libretto by P. Grosfil after Wilde) (1931) References External links * Musimen

Maurice Ohana

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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. Life and career Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco (during the French protectorate). His father, an Andalusian of Sephardic Jewish descent, had been born in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, while his mother had Andalusian-Castilian origins. He originally studied architecture, but abandoned this in favour of a musical career, initially as a pianist. He studied under Alfredo Casella in Rome, returning to France in 1946. Around this time he founded the “Groupe Zodiaque”, which fought against prevailing musical dogma. His mature musical style shows the influence of Mediterranean folk music, particularly the Andalusian cante jondo. In 1976 he took French citizenship. He is also known for his extensive use of microtonality; for example, third- and quarter-tones in pieces like Le Tombeau de Debussy and Si le jour paraît…. He was influenced by the use of microintervals in the cante jondo. Ohana rarely composed for large symphony orchestra: Synaxis (1966), Livre des Prodiges (1

Maurice Ravel

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Ravel was born in the Basque town of Ciboure, France, near Biarritz, 18 km mi from the Spanish border. His father, Pierre-Joseph Ravel, was an educated and successful engineer, inventor and manufacturer, born in Versoix near the Franco-Swiss border. His mother, Marie, née Delouart, was Basque but had grown up in Madrid. In 19th-century terms, Joseph had married beneath his status – Marie was illegitimate and barely literate – but the marriage was a happy one. Some of Joseph’s inventions were successful, including an early internal combustion engine and a notorious circus machine, the “Whirlwind of Death”, an automotive loop-the-loop that was a major attraction until a fatal accident at Barnum and Bailey’s Circus in 1903. Both Ravel’s parents were Roman Catholics; Marie was also something of a free-thinker, a trait inherited by her elder son. He was baptised in the Ciboure parish church six days after he was born. The family moved to Paris three months later, and there a younger son, Édouard, was born. (He was close to his father, whom he eventually followed into the engineering profession.) Among his earliest memories were folk songs she sang to him. The household was not rich, but the family was comfortable, and the two boys had happy childhoods. Ravel senior delighted in taking his sons to factories to see the latest mechanical devices, but he also had a keen interest in music and culture in general. In later life, Ravel recalled, “Throughout my childhood I was sensitive to music. My father, much better educated in this art than most amateurs are, knew how to develop my taste and to stimulate my enthusiasm at an early age.” There is no record that Ravel received any formal general schooling in his early years; his biographer Roger Nichols suggests that the boy may have been chiefly educated by his father. Without being anything of a child prodigy, he was a highly musical boy. Charles-René found that Ravel’s conception of music was natural to him “and not, as in the case of so many others, the result of effort”. Ravel’s earliest known compositions date from this period: variations on a chorale by Schumann, variations on a theme by Grieg and a single movement of a piano sonata. They survive only in fragmentary form. In 1888 Ravel met the young pianist Ricardo Viñes, who became not only a lifelong friend, but also one of the foremost interpreters of his works, and an important link between Ravel and Spanish music. The two shared an appreciation of Wagner, Russian music, and the writings of Poe, Baudelaire and Mallarmé. At the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, Ravel was much struck by the new Russian works conducted by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This music had a lasting effect on both Ravel and his older contemporary Claude Debussy, as did the exotic sound of the Javanese gamelan, also heard during the Exposition. Aged fourteen, he took part in a concert at the Salle Érard along with other pupils of Decombes, including Reynaldo Hahn and Alfred Cortot.

Maurice Thiriet

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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 1931, studying counterpoint and fugue with Charles Koechlin, and orchestration and arrangement under Alexis Roland-Manuel. Thiriet’s career revolved mainly around film music, completing around seventy scores from 1942 to 1960. A fellow composer Maurice Jaubert, whose life was cut short during World War II, is often cited as a major influence on Thiriet’s outlook. In 1939, Jacques Rouché opened the doors of the Paris Opéra to him with La Nuit vénitienne, a ballet that immediately won over Reynaldo Hahn. Mobilized in 1940, he was taken prisoner and sent to Stalag IX A. During his imprisonment, he wrote Trois Motets for choir and Œdipe roi, an oratorio that premiered in Paris on January 11, 1942, after his return to France. It was performed by the Chorale Yvonne Gouverné and the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, conducted by Charles Munch. Jean Cocteau himself recited the text. The Trois Motets (Sub Tuum, O Salutaris, and Agnus Dei), written in memory of Maurice Jauber

Maurice Vaute

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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 Conservatories of Mons and Brussels (harmony, fugue, saxophone, etc.). He was a music teacher as well as an orchestra and choir conductor. His compositions are deposited as “Fonds Maurice Vaute” in the library of the Brussels conservatory. He died in Chimay. Style Initially, he was influenced by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Joseph Jongen, his teacher. Later, his compositions were atonal. Compositions Symphonic works *Auprès de toi - aria, 1936 *Arlequins-fantaisie *Gavotte ancienne *Menuetto allegretto *Triptyque for strings and harpsichord *Deux mouvements pour les temps venus *Trinôme for orchestra, soli and wind trio *Concerto for saxophone alto and orchestra *Symphonie de danses for orchestra and saxophone trio *Espace, intensité (symphonie libre) *Les heures, Trois mouvements symphoniques 1. Prélude 2. Rondo giocoso 3. Postlude *Concerto for piano and orchestra *Concerto for violin and orchestra *Rondo pastoral Ballet *Le reflet dans la Meuse (argument de Malfère) *Melos Solo in

Maurice Yvain

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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 entertainer in the world. In the 1930s and 1940s, he became a major success in the United States and several of his pieces appeared in the famous Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. He also composed music for several films of notable directors such as Anatole Litvak, Julien Duvivier, and Henri-Georges Clouzot. Yvain’s music blended with the then “spirit of Paris”. Biography Maurice Yvain was born in 1891 into a musical family in Paris. He was educated by his father, who played the trumpet in the Orchestre de l’Opéra-Comique. From 1903, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of Louis Diemer and Xavier Leroux. An excellent pianist, he first played as an accompanying pianist at the Casino d’Évian. He went on to play with the orchestra at the Casino de Monte Carlo and in the Parisien Cabaret des Quat’z’Arts. After military service from 1912 to 1919, One of his early successes was “Dansez-vous le foxtrot” in 1919. Maurice Chevalier, whom he had met in the army, introduced him to

Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

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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. Life Maurice was born in Kassel, the son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and of his wife Sabine of Württemberg. Although Maurice had been raised in the Lutheran faith, he converted to Calvinism in 1605. On the principle Cuius regio eius religio, Maurice’s subjects were also required to convert to Calvinism. Maurice’s conversion was controversial since the Peace of Augsburg had only settled religious matters between Roman Catholics and Lutherans and had not considered Calvinists. Maurice tried to introduce Calvinism to the lands which he had inherited from the extinct Hesse-Marburg branch of his family. Such a change of faith was contrary to the inheritance rules, and resulted in an ongoing conflict with the Hesse-Darmstadt branch . It also brought him into conflict with the Holy Roman Emperor, Matthias. English strolling players (‘Die Englische Comoedianten’) were frequent visitors to, and performers in, towns and cities in Germany and other European countries, including Kassel,

Mauricio Buraglia

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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 music for Carlo Goldoni’s “L’Impresario de Smyrne”, for the Compagnol theater, and for the “Winter’s Tale” (“Conte d’hiver”) by Shakespeare, for the Amandiers theater. He collaborates with La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Musica Barocca of London, the Ensemble Européen William Byrd, the Ensemble Baroque de Nice, the Ensemble Stradivaria, La Maîtrise de Caen, Akademia, Le Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Nancy et de Lorraine, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Marseille, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the Académie Sainte Cécile, the Ensemble Marin Marais, A Sei voci, Ensemble Matheus and many others. Discography " Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Suites en do majeur 37-Si bemol majeur 4-Do mineur 27 Manuscrit de Dresde (cdbaby) " Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Suites en ré mineur 36 et do majeur 40 “Lobkowitz” Manuscrit de Dresde (cdbaby) “Sylvius Leopold Weiss:Suites en do mineur et fa die

Mauricio González de la Garza

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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, Mexico on October 6, 1923. His parents were Josefina de la Garza de los Santos and Mauricio González Hinojosa. Mauricio was the third of five siblings. The family suffered a big tragedy on April 1934 when the father died from rabbies. Her mother then started to operate a Money Exchange business to support her children. Mauricio studied at St Agustin School and then at the Laredo College. In 1950 he emigrated to Mexico City to study medicine. After a year he quit and started his studies of Philosophy at the University of Mexico (UNAM). Mauricio worked as an editor and translator and in 1953 he started therapy session with the most renowned psychoanalyst of the time: Santiago Ramirez. In 1958 Mauricio secluded himself in the Monastery of Santa de la Resurreccion in Ahuacatitaln, Morelos. He stayed there for almost 5 years. During this time he conducted therapy sessions with some of the monks. The use of psychoanalysis at the monastery became very famous after it the Abbot gave an intervi

Mauricio Kagel

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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 December 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled Russia in the 1920s. He studied music, history of literature, and philosophy in Buenos Aires. In 1957 he moved to Cologne, West Germany, where he lived until his death. As teacher From 1960 to 1966 and from 1972 to 1976 Kagel taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He also taught from 1964–65 at the University at Buffalo as the visiting Slee Professor of music theory. At the Berlin Film and Television Academy, he was a guest lecturer from 1967 on. In 1968, Kagel was the director of the Scandinavian Courses for New Music in Gothenburg and from 1969–74 he served as the director of the Cologne Courses for New Music, succeeding Karlheinz Stockhausen. He was a professor for new music theatre at the Köln Hochschule from 1974–97. Among his students were Moya Henderson, Kevin Volans, Maria de Alvear, Carola Bauckholt, Branimir Krstić, David Sawer, , Juan Maria Solare, Norma Tyer, Gerald Barry, Martyn Harry, and Chao

Mauricio Rosenmann Taub

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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 Stuttgart and Freiburg with a Scholarship of the DAAD. In Paris he studied at the Conservatoire National with Olivier Messiaen and graduated with distinction (premier prix). During this time Rosenmann worked at the French Broadcast at the “Groupe des Recherches Musicales”, studied organ with Édouard Souberbielle and musicology. With André Martinet he studied linguistics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He returned to Germany, attended the Darmstadt New Music Summer School and joined in Freiburg the class of Wolfgang Fortner. He graduated with a composing degree (“Reifeprüng in Komposition und Musiktheorie”) and became a lecturer at the Freiburger Musikhochschule. He was a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen 1974 until 1999. Rosenmann Taub died in Essen on 8 March 2021, at the age of 88. Work In 1960 some poems by Rosenmann were translated into German and published in Freiburg. In 1969 in both Freiburg and Santiago the book Los Paraguas Del No was presented (review i

Mauricio Sotelo

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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 Música de Madrid. In 1979 he moved to Vienna to study at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Four years later, after finishing his course with Dieter Kaufmann, among others, he was admitted in the Chair of Composition commanded by Francis Burt – Sotelo dedicated to him the piece De Vinculis: Ge-Burt. A Francis Burt (2001) for violin – and, decisively for him, in Roman Haubenstock-Ramati’s seminars, to conclude this academic period in 1987, being awarded the Prize of Honour for graduate studies. During his time in Wien (1979–1992) Sotelo works, created (…et l’avare silence (1988), among others) and participates, together with Beat Furrer, in the creation of the Societé de l’Art acoustique, later known as Klangforum Wien. This group has to be considered a sort of “fetish” ensemble to Sotelo for two reasons: first, the personal relationship with Furrer and the musicians; second, the close and continuous work with them to create many pieces, from the Trio Basso – a R.H.R. (1988

Maurizio Colasanti

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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 from his town, Pretoro. He graduated with top marks and honors from the L.D’Annunzio Conservatory of Music in Pescara. Subsequently he graduated “Cum Laude” in theoretical philosophy at the D’Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara University. His musical inclinations and interests led him to conduct the 20th century and contemporary repertoire of authors such as: Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Luigi Dallapiccola, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Barbara Kaszuba, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sofija Asgatovna Gubajdulina, George Enescu, Bruno Maderna. Active in opera, he has directed major titles in both Italian, German and English, including: (Salome) by Richard Strauss, (The Rape of Lucretia) by Benjamin Britten, Les enfants terribles, by Philip Glass. He has collaborated with musicians such as: Uto Ughi, Aaron Rosand, Félix Ayo, Yamandu Costa, Anthony Braxton, Gunther Schuller, Georg Friedrich Haas, An

Maurizio Fabrizio

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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 Fabrizio became a member of the La Scala orchestra as a percussionist under the direction of Claudio Abbado. In 1970 he formed a musical duo with his brother Popi, Maurizio e Fabrizio, recording several singles and entering the main competition at the 21st edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. In 1972 he started a long and fruitful collaboration as arranger and producer with Angelo Branduardi, and also began collaborating as composer and arranger with other artists including Ornella Vanoni, Patty Pravo and Mia Martini. After recording some solo albums between 1975 and 1980, starting from the early 1980s Fabrizio devoted himself to composing, often teaming with lyricist Guido Morra. His collaborations include Eros Ramazzotti, Renato Zero, Riccardo Fogli, Miguel Bosé, Antonello Venditti, Mina, Giorgia, Toquinho, Albano Carrisi, Eduardo De Crescenzo, Donatella Rettore, Rossana Casale, Alexia and Mietta. Fabrizio also composed music for several stage musicals. Discography ;Albums * 1970 -

Maurizio Guarini

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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 playing organ and guitar at the age of 10. He started playing live at high school concerts with some rock bands. Later, his music exploration moved on to progressive / jazz-rock. After graduating from high school in 1973, he attended the Math faculty at the University La Sapienza in Rome. In spring 1975 Massimo Morante from Goblin invited Guarini to join the band, just after Deep Red was released. Starting with the very first concert in September 1975, Goblin, that reached top of the charts at that time, kept touring Italy until the end of 1976. In March 1976 Goblin released the album Roller. Just after three days of recording of the score for the movie Suspiria, on November 23, 1976, Guarini temporarily left the band. Late in 1978, after two years of studio work mainly in studio at RCA Records in Rome, Guarini re-joined Goblin, with a different line-up. Production of the band in the following years includes scores for the movies Patrick (1978), Buio Omega (1979), Contamination (1980), S

Mauro Cardi

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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 Turchi, he graduated in composition, instrumentation for wind orchestra and choral music. In 1982, he received his first international recognition, winning the “Valentino Bucchi Prize” with Melos, for soprano and orchestra. Crucial was the encounter with Franco Donatoni, with which he furthered his education at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena. In 1984, he attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. In 1987, he was selected to represent Italy at the International Rostrum of Composers by UNESCO. In 1988, he won the second prize at the International Competition Gian Francesco Malipiero with In Corde, for orchestra. Mauro Cardi soon developed his individual style, focusing his research on “musical forms moulded by timbre and sound intuitions, with unexpectedly expressive moments”. His poetics reflects his natural aptitude to contrapuntal writing and his fascination with logic and the symbolic value of numbers, attracted to the playful dimensi

Mauro Giuliani

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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 best known works is his Grand Overture, which has become standard early Romantic classical guitar repertoire. Biography Although born in Bisceglie, Giuliani’s centre of study was in Barletta, where he moved with his brother Nicola in the first years of his life. His first instrumental training was on the cello—an instrument which he never completely abandoned—and he may have also studied the violin. Subsequently, he devoted himself to the guitar, becoming a skilled performer on it in a short time. The names of his teachers are unknown. He married Maria Giuseppe del Monaco, and they had a child, Michael, born in Barletta in 1801. After that, he was possibly in Bologna and Trieste for a brief stay. By the summer of 1806, fresh from his studies of counterpoint, cello and guitar in Italy, he had moved to Vienna without his family. There, he began a relationship with the Viennese Anna Wiesenberger (1784–1817), with whom he had four daughters, Maria Willmuth (born 1808), Aloisia Willmuth (born 1

Max Aruj

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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 classical and jazz piano at age six and started composing music in high school, including scoring a student film titled Black Martini. He earned a Bachelor of Music in composition from the USC Thornton School of Music between 2007 and 2012, along with a minor in business administration from USC Marshall School of Business. Career Aruj began his professional career with an internship at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions during his studies at USC, where he later worked extensively with composers Lorne Balfe and Rupert Gregson-Williams. He composed for the video game expansion Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids (2021) and the Netflix animated series Mech Cadets (2023). In 2025, he composed the score for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in collaboration with Alfie Godfrey. Beyond screen media, Aruj co-produced the orchestral album Gravity Deluxe by electronic music artist Gryffin. Selected filmography * Crawl (2019) * Lansky (2021) * The Ice Road (2021) * Assassin’s Cr

Max Baumann

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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 Noetel and Boris Blacher. He spent two years as a choir director and deputy Kapellmeister at the opera in Stralsund (1947–1949). He taught piano and music theory at the Berlin College of Music (1946–1978). In 1960 he was appointed professor. After meeting French organist Jean Guillou during this time, Baumann wrote his first compositions for organ (Invocation op. 67 no. 5, Trois pièces brèves op. 67 no. 6, Psalmi op. 67 no. 2), which Guillou premiered in a concert on January 20, 1963, at St. Matthias church in Berlin. Baumann also appeared as conductor and choirmaster and, in 1963, became interim conductor of the choir at St. Hedwig’s Cathedral. His cantata Libertas cruciata was the first composition written specifically with stereo FM radio in mind. Awards * 1953: Berlin Art Prize. * 1963: Prix Italia for the Dramatic Cantata Libertas cruciata - the first stereophonic work. * 1977: Gold Medal “for special merits” by the district Kronach. * 1977: Golden Orlando di Lasso Medal of general Cec

Max Beckschäfer

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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 Augsburg-Nürnberg. He received commissions from the Munich Biennale, the concert series Klangspuren, the Dresdner Kreuzchor, the Palucca-Ballettschule Dresden and Die Singphoniker. He wrote an organ version of Reger’s Hebbel-Requiem. Life and career Beckschäfer took classes at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich in organ, piano, violin and choral conducting. He studied church music at the Musikhochschule München and continued studying composition with Wilhelm Killmayer. He was a Kantor in Munich from 1976 to 1987. On the initiative of Gabriel Dessauer, who wanted to make a performance of Reger’s Requiem possible, Beckschäfer wrote an organ version of the short work, which the composer had scored for a huge orchestra and a choir to match. The organ version was premiered in 1985 in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden by the Reger-Chor, formed for the occasion, and Beckschäfer as the organist, conducted by Dessauer. In 1987 Beckschäfer received the Rompreis for composition and a fellowship of the Villa Massi

Max Brod

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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 and composer Leoš Janáček. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka. Kafka named Brod as his literary executor, instructing Brod to burn his unpublished work upon his death. Brod refused and had Kafka’s works published instead. In 1939, as the Nazis occupied Prague, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, taking with him a suitcase of Kafka’s papers, many of them unpublished notes, diaries, and sketches. Biography Max Brod was born in Prague in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic). At the age of four, Brod was diagnosed with a severe spinal curvature and spent a year in corrective harness; despite this he would be a hunchback his entire life. He would later pass stewardship of the Kafka materials in his possession to Esther in his will. Another close companion was Felix Weltsch. Their friendship lasted 75 years, from the elementary school of the Piarists in Prague to Weltsch’s death in 1964. He incre

Max Bruch

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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 become a staple of the violin repertoire. Early life and education Max Bruch was born in 1838 in Cologne to Wilhelmine (), a singer, and August Carl Friedrich Bruch, an attorney who became vice president of the Cologne police. Max had a sister, Mathilde (“Till”). He received his early musical training under the composer and pianist Ferdinand Hiller, to whom Robert Schumann dedicated his Piano Concerto in A minor. The Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles recognized Bruch’s aptitude. At the age of nine, Bruch wrote his first composition, a song for his mother’s birthday. From then on, music was his passion. His studies were enthusiastically supported by his parents. His many early works included motets, psalm settings, piano pieces, violin sonatas, a string quartet, and even orchestral works such as the prelude to a planned opera, Joan of Arc. Few of these early works have survived. Bruch’s first music theory lesson was in 1849 in Bonn. It was given by Professor Heinrich Ca

Max Butting

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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 later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. After attending secondary school (Realgymnasium), he studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst (Academy of Composition) in Munich from 1908 to 1914. There, he received instruction in composition from Friedrich Klose, conducting from Felix Mottl and Paul Prill, as well as singing from Karl Erler. He also attended lectures in psychology, philosophy and musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Butting learned composition by private instruction from Walter Courvoisier, for the most part, whom Klose had recommended to him after a disagreement. Butting was medically unfit for service in World War I. On the urging of his father, he worked as an assistant in his father’s business when he returned to Berlin in 1919, where he remained until 1923. However, he was allowed sufficient free time for composing. He quickly got in contact with other young artists and became friendly with Walter Ruttmann and Philipp Jarnach, among others. In 1921, Butting

Max d'Ollone

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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 Conservatoire at 6, winning many prizes, receiving the encouragement of Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Thomas and Delibes. His teachers at the Conservatoire were Lavignac, Massenet, Gédalge and Lenepveu; he won the Prix de Rome in 1897. He was director of music in Angers, professor at the Paris Conservatoire and director of the Opéra-Comique. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he wrote three important articles for Le Ménestrel (29 July, 9 and 16 December) arguing for a more populist approach to composition. At the time of the German occupation of France during World War II, d’Ollone was a member of the Groupe Collaboration. In addition to the works listed below, d’Ollone produced a number of song cycles (including “Les Chants d’Ailleurs”; " Les Chants d’Exil"; “Impressions d’Automne”), which demonstrate a considerable mastery of the French mélodie. There are several works for orchestra, solo instrument and orchestra, and piano wor

Max Deutsch

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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 and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he influenced notable students such as Philippe Capdenat, Donald Harris, György Kurtág, Philippe Manoury, and Jeannine Richer. Career Born in Vienna, Deutsch was a pupil of and assistant to Arnold Schoenberg. He studied under him in Vienna before the First World War, and followed Schoenberg as his assistant to Amsterdam in 1921. Deutsch was a fellow and taught at UNESCO and at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) from 1970 to 1971, and finally, from 1972 to the École Normale de Musique de Paris. He died in Paris. After the Second World War, he devoted himself mainly to teaching music, chiefly following the principles of Schönberg. In Paris, among his hundreds of students, there were composers: Jorge Arriagada, , Colette Bailly, Sylvano Bussotti, Philippe Capdenat, Gérard Condé, Rudi Martinus van Dijk, Ahmed Essyad, Jacqueline Fontyn, Sylvia Hallett, Donald Harris, Félix Ibarrondo, Oswaldo González, György Kurtág, Philippe Manoury, , Luis de Pablo, Yves-Marie

Max Donner

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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 grew up in New York City and studied violin with Henry Schradieck. At age fifteen, Donner traveled to Europe and studied at Berlin’s Stern Conservatory under Gustav Hollaender (violin) and Hans Pfitzner (composition). At Stern, Donner was the first American to be awarded the Gustav Hollaender Medal. He then studied with César Thomson and Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels, where he won first prize in violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Following a tour of Europe as a violin soloist, Donner returned to the United States, where he continued to give recitals, including with Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Donner served as the concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony under the direction of conductor Henry Kimball Hadley. He then moved to California, where he joined the violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and taught violin, at one time heading the violin department of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. As a conductor, Donner worked with Los Angeles’ WPA Fe

Max Drischner

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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 completing his A-levels at the grammar school in Züllichau, he started theological studies in 1910 at Leipzig and Breslau. However, after seven semesters, he gave this up to study the organ, piano, and harpsichord at the Berlin Music Academy. A teacher in his principal subject, Wanda Landowska, had a major influence on him. Between 1916 and the end of the First World War, he was a voluntary medical orderly in France. During this time, he lost the top of a finger on his left hand. After the war, through self-teaching, he acquired an extensive knowledge of music before the Bach period. He gave his first harpsichord concerts in Breslau in 1920 and in Brieg in 1923. In Brieg, he was trained by Paul Hielscher in organ playing and choir leading. In 1923, he founded a youth choir that was later united with the choir from St. Nikolai in Brieg. In 1924, he was appointed as cantor and organist of St. Nikolai in Brieg. During his tenure in Brieg, he composed the majority of his organ and vocal works. He al

Max E. Keller

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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 Swiss Society for New Music. Life and work Keller studied (fellowship by the Heinrich Strobel Foundation in Freiburg, Germany) musicology, history and composition with Hans Ulrich Lehmann and Helmut Lachenmann at the City of Basel Music Academy and with Nicolaus A. Huber and Thomas Kessler. In 1966 he began his career as one of the first Swiss artists of free jazz. In 1967, he had a sensational performance at the Zurich Jazz Festival. He played in various bands in concerts and on radio broadcasts in Europe. Since 1980 he worked as an improvising musician (piano and electronic musical instruments) again. Concerts have taken him to South America, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. He worked together with Dani Schaffner, Christoph Gallio, Peter A. Schmid, , Kurt Grämiger, Daniel Mouthon, Thomas Borgmann, Hans Koch, Urs Leimgruber, Günter Müller, Hans Hassler, Charlotte Hug, Matthias Ziegler, Christian Wolfarth, Günter Heinz and Barry Guy. He has composed about 100 works, including el

Max Erdmannsdörfer

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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 Conservatory, becoming concertmaster at Sondershausen. In 1874 he married the pianist and composer Pauline Fichtner, a student of Franz Liszt. She later used the professional name Pauline Erdmannsdörfer-Fichtner. Erdmannsdörfer corresponded with Liszt, and he premiered Liszt’s symphonic poem Hamlet at Sondershausen on 2 July 1876. He also once owned at least parts of the score of Liszt’s lost Piano Concerto No. 3, which was finally pieced together only in 1989 from separate manuscript pages that had been dispersed as far afield as Weimar, Nuremberg and Leningrad. Max Erdmannsdörfer also had an association with Joachim Raff. He and Pauline were the co-dedicatees of the two-piano version of Raff’s Piano Quintet, Op. 107, and they premiered it at Sondershausen on 22 September 1877. In 1870, Pauline had been the dedicatee of Raff’s Piano Suite in G minor. Erdmannsdörfer completed Raff’s unfinished Symphony No. 11, Op. 214, after its composer’s death, and had it published. He premiered Sir Alexander

Max Ettinger

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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 landowner Herz Ettinger. His mother, Ernestine Landau, gave him his first musical education. He was taught by tutors on his parents’ estate and took his school-leaving examination at the old German-Polish grammar school in Lemberg. In Berlin, he tried to get accepted at the Hochschule für Musik, but was not admitted. He received private lessons there in 1899 from Heinrich von Herzogenberg and Heinrich van Eyken in harmony and composition. From 1900 to 1903, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, Viktor Gluth and Ludwig Thuille, with the latter privately until 1905. In 1906, he worked as a bandmaster in Saarbrücken and in 1910 in Lübeck, but he gave up this job because of health reasons. From 1911, he lived again in Munich as a composer, where he married Josephine Krisack in 1913. In the 1920s, Ettinger was very successful as a composer, his literary operas were performed in Nuremberg, Hamburg, Munich, Kiel and Leipzig. He also worked aga

Max Fiedler

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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, who conducted the accompanying orchestra when Max made his first public appearance at the age of ten in 1870, playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A, K.488. Continuing his musical studies in Zittau with the organist Gustav Albrecht, who had been a pupil of Mendelssohn, Fiedler then entered the Leipzig Conservatory in 1877, where the director, Carl Reinecke, was his piano teacher. He graduated in 1882, with exceptional honours, alongside his friend and colleague Karl Muck. Fiedler also studied composition and was active in the city’s musical life, developing a close relationship with Julius Spengel, a friend of Brahms. Fiedler himself knew Brahms sufficiently well for the composer to ask him to substitute for him in a performance of his Piano Concerto No. 2, an invitation which Fiedler politely declined. He almost certainly heard Brahms conduct the first Leipzig performances of his Symphony No. 2 early in 1878 (though Ethel Smyth later wrote that Brahms “had the knack of rubbing orchestras

Max Fishman

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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) was a Moldavian Soviet composer, pianist, and teacher. Fishman was raised within Jewish, Polish, and Russian cultural traditions. . Born in Warsaw he studied piano at the Chopin University of Music. He was well-known in the Polish music scene. During the Nazi invasion in Poland in 1939 he fled to the Soviet Union. Later he was arrested by the NKVD and deported. In the 1950s, Fishman lived in Chișinău. He laid the pedagogical foundation of the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chișinău. He composed, including piano concertos, chamber music and orchestral works. His aesthetic reflects blend of Ashkenazi Jewish folk motifs, Slavic Romanticism, and Soviet neoclassicism. Biography Life in Poland Max Fishman was born on December 12, 1915, in Warsaw, in the family of an entrepreneur, philanthropist and the head of the Warsaw synagogue (1870, Opatów – July 1, 1936, Warsaw) and Esther Fishman, née Bleiberg (1880, Ćmielów – according to some sources 1942–1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto or Trebli

Max Janowski

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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, a choir director, and , an opera singer. As a youth, Max studied at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory (Klindworth-Scharwenka-Konservatorium) in Berlin. In 1933, he won a piano contest, which led to him becoming the head of the piano department at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, Japan. He emigrated to the United States in 1937 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Max Janowski’s choral works include the traditional Jewish prayers “Avinu Malkeinu” (“Our Father, Our King,” a hymn for the High Holy Days), “Sim Shalom” (“Song of Peace,” which was dedicated to the American diplomat Ralph Bunche), “Yismehu,” and “ve-Shomeru”. From 1938 until his death, Janowski was the music director at KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in Hyde Park in Chicago. On January 29, 2012, the centennial of his birth, a Gala Concert featuring several cantors, cantorial soloists, and area chorales was held at K.A.M. Isaiah Israel to celebrate Janowski’s life and music. Baritone Sherrill Milnes an

Max Josef Beer

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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 government for the compositions Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Auferweckung des Lazarus, and a number of songs. On 15 February 1871, his opera seria in four acts, Elizabeth of Hungary, premiered at Milan’s La Scala, starring Elisabetta Sternberg (soprano), Louis Auguste Arsandaux (tenor), Jean-Louis Lasalle (baritone) and Joseph-Victor Warot (bass). Beer also wrote Der Streik der Schmiede, a verismo one-act opera, which unsuccessfully premiered at Augsburg, 1897. He died in Vienna at age 57 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery. Other compositions *Fünf Minnelieder for pianoforte *Sechs Lieder für eine Singstimme for voice with piano accompaniment *Eichendorffiana, 9 piano pieces *Ghazals, 6 piano pieces *Lyrisches Intermezzo, four impressions for piano *Sturm und Stille, 6 songs based on poems by C. Stögmann, Oskar von Redwitz, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Rückert *Des Sängers Fluch, after Ludwig Uhland, for declamation with piano accompaniment *Ein Fastnachtsmärchen, 8 Carnival pieces for

Max Kortlander

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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 Technologies, Inc. He often collaborated with fellow QRS pianist and composer, Pete Wendling. A song they wrote together in 1922, “Whenever You’re Lonesome (Just Telephone Me)” has become a jazz standard. Life and career Source: Max Kortlander was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1890 to parents Joseph and Elizabeth Kortlander. He attended the Oberlin College Conservatory after high school, and later the American Conservatory, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1914, he was hired by QRS and began writing his own compositions in 1917. His first songs were entitled “The Ragtime Sailor Man” and “Chicken Pranks”. After moving to New York City, he wrote the hit song “Tell Me” (1919), which was recorded by Al Jolson, one of the most popular singers of the time. It garnered total sales of up to $100,000. In 1928, he and Wendling wrote a theme for the popular cartoon, Felix the Cat. It was recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. The original cutting machine used by Kortlander to cut piano rolls is on disp

Max Lifchitz

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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 in 1966 He has appeared in concert and recital throughout the US, Latin America and Europe. In 1980, he founded the North/South Consonance Ensemble, which is dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music from the Americas; he serves as the ensemble’s director. Lifchitz has served on the faculty of Columbia University and the University at Albany, The State University of New York. Max Lifchitz was awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music held in the Netherlands. Compositions * Mosaicos, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, double bass and piano (1971) * Roberta, orchestra (1973) * Exploitations, solo double bass, chamber ensemble and tape (1975) * Intervencion, violin and chamber orchestra (1976) * Exceptional String Quartet, 4 double basses (players wear small sleigh bells on the wrist of right arm) (1977) * Rhythmic Soundscape, piano and percussion (1978) * Affinities, piano (pub. 1979) * Transformations, ce

Max Méreaux

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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 studied musical analysis at the Paris Conservatoire under Jacques Castérède. Méreaux is a music teacher and educational advisor, and adheres to a particular interest in “active teaching methods”. Subsequently, Méreaux has composed several didactic works. He is known for his books on musical therapy written in collaboration with Dr. Léon Bence. Additionally, Méreaux has composed several chamber and orchestral works. Works *Pentacle pour orchestre symphonique. *Rituel pour orchestre d’harmonie et percussions. *Alturas de Macchu Picchu pour baryton et orchestre symphonique sur un poème espagnol de Pablo Neruda. *Hommage à Rameau (pour flûte, clarinette, trompette, piano et orchestre à cordes). *Concerto pour violon et onze instruments à cordes œuvre primée au Concours International de Composition Valentino BUCCHI de Rome en novembre 1981. *Concerto pour violon et douze instruments à cordes dedicated to Tibor Varga *Cosmogonie pour flûte, hautbois, clarinette en la, basson, cor en fa, clavecin et

Max Meyer-Olbersleben

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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 the Weimar Orchestra School, and with Josef Rheinberger, Franz Wüllner, and Peter Cornelius at the Munich Conservatory. After graduation, he became Professor of piano and theory in Weimar. Later, he was Professor of counterpoint and composition at the Bavarian State Conservatory of Music in Würzburg, and became its director from 1907 to 1920. Some notable students were Adolf Sandberger, Heinrich Steinbeck, Bernard Homola and Marc Roland. In addition, he conducted the Würzburg Liedertafel from 1879 and was Court Kapellmeister of Prince-Bishop of Würzburg. Meyer-Olberleben became known primarily as a composer of songs and choral works. His son is the composer Ernst Ludwig Meyer-Olbersleben. Selected works ;Stage * Clare Dettin, Opera in 3 acts, Op. 41 (1894) ;Orchestral * Feierklänge, Concert Overture, Op. 18 (1884) * Fest-Ouverture, Op. 30 (1888) * Sonnenhymnus, Tone Poem, Op. 90 ;Concertante * Concerto in D major for viola and orchestra, Op. 112 ;Chamber music * Piano Trio in E major, Op.

Max Neuhaus

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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 permanent and short-term sound installations during his career, which spanned four decades. Biography Neuhaus was born on August 9, 1939, in Beaumont, Texas, and spent childhood in New York before moving to Houston, Texas, where he graduated from Lamar High School (Houston). He studied percussion with Paul Price at the Manhattan School of Music, graduating with a master of music degree in 1962. After graduation, he attended Darmstadt Summer Courses as well as performed as a percussion soloist on concert tours throughout the United States with Pierre Boulez (1962-1963) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1963-1964). In 1964 and 1965, he presented solo recitals in Carnegie Hall in New York City and fifteen major European cities. In 1966, he released a recording via Mass Art Inc. involving four live realizations of John Cage’s Fontana Mix (1958), an indeterminate graphic score originally intended for a tape piece, with or without additional instruments. Entitled “Fontana Mix-Feed,” Neuhaus’s realizatio

Max Oesten

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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 Theodore Oesten. He spent most of his professional life as a church organist in Königsburg. Oesten was a pupil of August Wilhelm Bach. Among Oesten’s pupils was the German-American fiddler Otto Funk. List of works Choral * op. ? (1879) Aufforderung zum Tanz: polka-rondo (mixed choir and piano). * op. 225 (1914) Für Kaiser und Reich (male-voice choir and orchestra). Harmonium and/or Organ * op. 26 (n.d.) Trauermarsch (after Beethoven op. 26) arr. for harmonium/organ. * op. ? (1869) La Belle Espagnole (piano). * op. 71 (1878) Frühlingsglaube, after F. Ries (piano). * op. 168 (1890) Weihnachtsklänge (piano) * op. ? (1898) Six easy pieces (violin and piano). * op. 201 (1899) Six easy pieces: second set) (violin and piano). External links * Public domain copies of works by Max Oesten at IMSLP. Web resource, accessed 16 December 2021. * Works by Max Oesten listed in the catalogues (Monatsberichte) of the Leipzig music publisher Friedrich Hofmeister for the years 1829–1900. Web resource, accessed 18

Max Reger

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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 Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as Gesang der Verklärten (1903), (1909), Der Einsiedler and the Hebbel Requiem (both 1915). Biography Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger was the first child of Josef Reger, a school teacher and amateur musician, and his wife Katharina Philomena. The devout Catholic family moved to Weiden in 1874. Max had only one sister, Emma, after three other siblings died in childhood. When he turned five, Reger learned organ, violin and cello from his father and piano from his mother. From 1884 to 1889, Reger took piano and organ lessons from Adalbert Lindner, one of his father’s students. During this time, he f

Max Richter

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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 in composition from the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy. Richter arranges, performs, and composes music for stage, opera, ballet, and screen. He has collaborated with other musicians, as well as with performance, installation, and media artists. He has recorded eight solo albums, and his music is widely used in cinema. As of December 2019, Richter has passed one billion streams and one million album sales. Richter has been called a “major figure of contemporary music” and his work has been described as “transcending genres” by the former controller of BBC Radio 3, Alan Davey. His 2004 album, The Blue Notebooks, has been called “one of the best classical works of the century”. Early life and career Richter was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He grew up in Bedford, England, United Kingdom, and his education was at Bedford Modern School and Mander College of Further Education. He had piano lessons and music

Max Stern (composer)

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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 West in contemporary and traditional genres. Musical education Stern sang in the synagogue as a boy and began music in the public schools; playing tuba and contrabass in bands, orchestras, shows etc. In high school, he studied contrabass with Frederick Zimmermann, (NYC,1963–65), and participated in chamber music workshops led by the Budapest String Quartet at SUNY at Buffalo (1963–64). Composition- Samuel Adler, theory- Robert Gauldin, orchestration- Bernard Rogers, contrabass-Oscar Zimmerman, voice classes of Julius Huehn at the Eastman School of Music (BM, Rochester, New York 1969); privately Hall Overton (NYC, 1966 & 67). Further composition- theoretical studies with Alexander Goehr, double bass w. Gary Karr at Yale School of Music, New Haven (MM, 1970). Addition Studies at the First International Kodaly Seminar, Kesckemet, Hungary(1970) and at the Kodaly Musical Training Institute, Wellesley, Mass., pedagogy and choral conducting - Peter Erdei, solfege and folkmusic research with Kati

Max Trapp

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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 Nazi-influenced scene, was regularly invited to contribute to concert programs and competitions. Trapp was born in Berlin and attended the Berlin Hochschule für Musik (now the Berlin University of the Arts) where he studied under Paul Juon and Ernő Dohnányi. After the completion of his studies, he did not have regular employment and worked as an itinerant pianist. In 1920, however, he obtained a post as lecturer at the Berlin conservatoire, becoming a professor there in 1926. His best-known pupils include Josef Tal, Saburō Moroi and Günter Raphael. Between 1926 and 1930, Trapp offered a master class in composition at the music conservatoire in Dortmund. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP. In June 1933, Trapp joined the Nazi movement through an “Appeal to the Creative” (Appell an die Schaffenden). In 1934, he stepped down from the Berlin conservatoire and became the director of a masterclass in composition at the Berlin Academy of Arts (since merged with the University of the Arts). Here from 1936

Max von Schillings

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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 Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was performed at the Metropolitan Opera. The composer married Barbara Kemp, the soprano who sang the title role. Before Mona Lisa, Schillings had already written three operas: Ingwelde (1894), Der Pfeifertag (1899) and Der Moloch (1906). Biography Born in Düren, Max von Schillings was brother to the photographer Carl Georg Schillings. He received his first musical training in violin, piano and theory at the same time as his formal education in Bonn. His teachers were Caspar Joseph Brambach and Otto von Königslow. Schillings later studied jurisprudence, philosophy, literature and art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. On October 1, 1892, he married his cousin Caroline Josefa Peill in Römlinghoven. They were divorced in 1923, and on June 11, 1923, he married the opera singer Barbara Kemp in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Max Schillings was given a professorship by the Royal Bavarian Ministry of the Interior (Königliches Bayeris

Max Wagenknecht

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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 life in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region where he was music teacher at the Franzburg Teachers’ College and in his later life organist and composer in Anklam. He is most well known for his Opus 5, 58 Vor- und Nachspiele (“58 Preludes and Postludes”), completed in July 1889 in Franzburg. The work demonstrates a remarkable gift for melodic organ compositions, bridging traditional church music and the late 19th-century romantic music era. Works Wagenknecht published an unknown number of musical works. The following have been preserved: * Three Polkas, Op. 1, for piano. This work was most likely composed while he was studying at the conservatory in Berlin * Rheinländer, Op. 2, for violin or flute with piano accompaniment (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn) * Three Songs, Op. 3, with texts by Schanz, Kletke and Reinick, with piano accompaniment (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn) * 58 Vor- und Nachspiele, Op. 5, for organ (Stralsund: J. P. Lindner Sohn, 1889) * Opus 10, 13 and 14: songs with

Max Weil

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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, Nova Scotia in Canada. His parents were Samuel Weil and Bertha Weil (née Simon). His family was Jewish. There he was a pupil of violinists Adolf Brodsky and Hans Sitt. After returning to the United States, Weil gave his first public performance at the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (RCKI) in Philadelphia where he played as a soloist during religious services in September 1890. and that same month performed violin duo works with Harry Herzberg in the RCKI’s chamber music concert series. He continued to perform regularly during concerts, religious services, and public events such as funerals and weddings at the RCKI in 1891. On March 12, 1891, Weil made his New York recital debut at Steinway Hall. His repertoire in that concert included violin concertos by Louis Spohr and the Polonaise de Concert, Op. 4 by Henryk Wieniawski. He also performed songs with tenor Henry Duzensi in that concert and with pianist Max Liebling. In June 1891 he was the violin soloist in a concert given at Philad

Max Wohlberg

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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 found the cantorial school at the Jewish Theological Seminary where he was Professor and head of the nusach department. Self-taught, he developed a curriculum for studying nusach and producing scholarly research, His music was rooted in Jewish liturgical traditions, incorporating biblical cantillations, synagogue motifs, Yiddish song phrases, and Israeli folk melodies. These influences stemmed from his extensive exposure to Jewish musical life and were further enriched by his teaching and research. References

Maxim Berezovsky

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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 Russian Empire, but who also spent much of his career in Italy. He made an important contribution to the music of Ukraine. Together with Artemy Vedel and Dmitry Bortniansky, both of whom have cited him as an influence, Berezovsky is considered by musicologists as one of the three great composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music, and one of the Russian Empire’s first composers. Berezovsky’s place of birth and his father’s name are known only from verbal accounts. He is traditionally thought to have been educated at the ; he may have also attended the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, although this is uncertain. In 1758, he was accepted as a singer into the capella at Oranienbaum, before being employed at the imperial court of Catherine II in Saint Petersburg, where he received lessons from the Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi. In 1769, Berezovsky was sent to study in Bologna. There he composed secular works, including Demofonte, a three-act opera seria that was the earliest Italian-style opera

Maxim Fadeev

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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 Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. His father, Alexander Ivanovich Fadeev (1941–2016) was a head teacher at a music college. When he was a child, he attended a musical school in Kurgan, and learned how to play bass guitar. He later attended two universities, both musical, when aged only fifteen. Fadeev started working with professional musicians in 1989, such as Larisa Dolina and Valery Leontyev. He was supported by showman and actor Sergei Kirillov, who also presented Fadeev to the world of professional music. 1993–2003: Linda and Star Factory 2 In 1993 Fadeev started managing singer Svetlana Geiman, who would later become famous as Linda. Fadeev wrote, produced and composed her music material. Having been managed by Fadeev, Linda rose to media attention and a quick shot to stardom followed, backed by both her over-the-top music which pleased the critics, and her offbeat, semi-ethnic, Tibet-driven visual persona, epitomised by the “Vo

Maxim Shalygin

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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 Shalygin began studying composition at the age of sixteen with Iryna Ivashenko in his hometown of Kamianske (then Dniprodzerzhynsk). In 2004, he studied for one year with Boris Tishchenko at the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. He received his first master’s degree in 2010 from the Ukrainian National Academy of Music in Kyiv, where he studied under Ihor Shcherbakov and was influenced by composer Svyatoslav Lunyov. In 2011, he completed a second master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, studying with Cornelis de Bondt and Diderik Wagenaar. Career Shalygin moved to the Netherlands in 2010. Since then, he has composed more than 40 works in genres including chamber music, vocal music, orchestral music, electroacoustic music, and music for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. His work has been described as combining extended instrumental techniques with a tonal musical language while avoiding avant-garde radicalism. His compositions have been performed at i

Maxime Goulet (composer)

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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, Canada to a French speaking family. He studied music composing at Université de Montréal with Alan Belkin. He earned his B. Mus. in 2005 and his Master’s degree in 2007. Later, he attended several trainings and master classes, namely at the Festival international du film d’Aubagne in 2007, and the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles in 2009. Career Concert music The concert music of Maxime Goulet has been performed by a wide range of ensembles and musicians in countries around the world, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Opera, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and many others. Maxime Goulet’s works often explore themes of daily life and playfulness: Symphonic Chocolates evokes various chocolate flavours, Symphonic Aerobic Dance is a workout for orchestra, On Halloween Night evokes creatures assoc

Maxime Jacob

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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 Conservatory with Charles Koechlin and André Gedalge; an admirer of Darius Milhaud and Erik Satie, he was a member of the École d’Arcueil, a group of young composers sponsored by Satie after his rupture with his previous group of protégés, Les Six. Other members of this short-lived group included Henri Cliquet-Pleyel, Henri Sauguet and Roger Désormière. In 1927, Jacob worked with Antonin Artaud at the Théâtre Alfred Jarry composing the score for his production of Ventre brûlé; ou La Mère folle (1927). :252 In 1929, Jacob converted from Judaism to Catholicism (influenced by Jacques Maritain) and became a Benedictine monk at En-Calcat Abbey. He would go on to study organ with Maurice Duruflé, as well as Gregorian chant. Jacob also published two books, L’art et la grâce (1939) and Souvenirs a deux voix (1969). In the English-speaking world, his hymn tune “Living God” in 77.77 meter with 77.77 refrain, used for I Received the Living God (J’ai reçu le Dieu vivant), is well known. Works Vocal *Par l

Maximilian C. Jehuda Ewert

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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 Winbeck. His music was performed in countries like Argentina, Canada, France, Israel, Austria, Norway, Switzerland and the United States. His compositions have been awarded in 1999 by the International Brahms-Competition of the ZEIT-Foundation and in 2006 by the Oslo Grieg Society. From 2001 until 2002 he was in residence of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, by a scholarship of the Bavarian government. At the meantime he was an active violinist, playing in several orchestras, among them the Russian chamber-philharmonics Saint Petersburg and –as a concertmaster- at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Since 2001 Ewert stayed often in Argentina, where he worked together with Oscar Nicolas Fresedo and others, performances of his tangos established him in Buenos Aires. 2006 - 2008 he attended the courses for composition of José Manuel López López, since 2008 he also studies with Walter Zimmermann. In 2007, he was invited by Moritz Eggert to write for the young Lyons concert of the A•DEvantgarde

Maximilian Joseph Leidesdorf

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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 Albrechtsberger, Antonio Salieri and Emanuel Aloys Förster. He became a highly regarded pianist and teacher of the piano in Vienna. In 1822 he joined the music publishing firm of Ignaz Sauer 1759–1833), which had existed since 1798 as the publishers Zu den Sieben Schwestern. Sauer withdrew from the business in 1827, and the company was eventually taken over by Diabelli in 1835. Leidesdorf was a friend of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert; Sauer & Leidesdorf published works by them, also works of Carl Maria von Weber and piano reductions of operas by Gioachino Rossini. He went in 1828 to Florence, where, after a performance of his oratorio Esther, he was appointed court pianist by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and taught at the local conservatory. He died in Florence in 1840. He was the father of the psychiatrist Maximilian Leidesdorf. Works Leidesdorf composed orchestral and chamber music, three masses, a cantata St Cecilia, an oratorio Esther, other choral pieces, songs, and piano music, includin

Maximilian Marcoll

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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 political potential of music and sound. Since April 2021 he has worked as professor of electroacoustic composition and sound art at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Bauhaus University Weimar. Biography Marcoll first studied percussion at the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 1992 to 1997, composition with Friedhelm Döhl and Dirk Reith in Lübeck from 1997, and at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen from 2001 to 2006 with Thomas Neuhaus, Dietrich Hahne, Günther Steinke and Orm Finnendahl. In 2002 he founded the electronic duo dis.playce together with Hannes Seidl. Since 2006 he has been a member of the artist group stock11. From 2007 to 2014 he taught at the Institute for Music and Media at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, also since 2007 at the Institute for Preparatory Studies at the Musikschule Kreuzberg, and from 2017 to 2020 inclusive he held a teaching position at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. In 2021 Marcoll was appointed professor of electroacoustic composition and

Maximilian Stadler

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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 Monastery in Melk Abbey, where he served as Benedictine monk, and then Prior from 1784 to 1786. In 1786, he was Abbot of the Monastery of Lilienfeld, and from 1789 in Kremsmünster Monastery. From 1791, he lived in Linz and from 1796 in Vienna, where he settled the estate of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and was in charge of the Imperial Music Archive. From 1803, he worked as a parish priest of Großkrut in Lower Austria, until he retired in 1816 to Vienna to devote himself to music. Stadler was among the most prominent personalities of Viennese musical life at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. He befriended Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert and wrote numerous essays on Mozart, as well as completed some of Mozart’s unfinished works. He worked on an unfinished Materialen zur Geschichte der Musik unter den österreichischen Regenten (Materials on the History of Music under the Austrian Regency), regarded as the first history of music in Austria. Most of his works

Maximilian Steinberg

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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 mentor (and father-in-law) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his rival Igor Stravinsky, or his student protege Dmitri Shostakovich. In 2014, Steinberg’s choral concerto Passion Week was rediscovered and performed for the first time. It was instantly praised as a masterpiece by both lovers and performers of Classical music. This has triggered a revival of interest in the life and music of Maximilian Steinberg. Life Steinberg was born into a Lithuanian Jewish family in Vilna, Russian Empire (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania). His father, Osey (Hosea) Steinberg (Joshua Steinberg), was a leading scholar of Hebrew. In 1901, he went to Saint Petersburg, to study biology at the university there. He graduated in 1906. In the meantime he also started studying at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He entered Anatoly Lyadov’s harmony class, moving on to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s harmony class and Alexander Glazunov’s counterpoint class. His considerable talent in composition soon became clear, encouraged especia

May Brahe

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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 John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, Lesley Garrett and Bryn Terfel. According to Move.com.au: “She was the only Australian woman composer to win local an international recognition before World War II,” having “290 of her 500 songs published. Of these, 248 were written under her own name, the remainder under aliases. Biography Mary Hannah Dickson was born in East Melbourne in 1884. She was known as May from an early age. Her father was native born and her mother Scottish. She studied piano with her mother, then at Stratherne Girls’ School, Hawthorn, and later with Mona McBurney and the singer Alice Rebotarro. In 1903 she married Frederick Brahe, the couple had two sons and a daughter. By 1910 she was playing in a trio with George W. L. Marshall-Hall, and accompanying singers. In 1912 she left for London to establish herself as a composer, leaving her children behind in the care of family. Her first success was the 1915 song “Down Here,” beginning “It’s Quiet Down Here” with lyrics by P.J. O

May Matar

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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 award from the Belarusian Academy in 2008. The same year, she released “Eh Gharali”, which she composed and recorded alone. The song was well received and exceeded the success of her debut, reaching Melody’s Top 20. “Ma fi Hada,” written by Nizar Francis and composed by Samir Sfeir was released in 2009, and reached number one. The following year, she released “Metlak Mesh Ayzin”, which was directed by Ziad Najjar. This song won the Best Social Song and Video Clip Award. In 2018, after her husband’s death, May performed a live concert at Gemmayze, where she released her first live-recorded album Kel shi bi zakerni fik on the label Anghami. She donated the proceeds from the concert to the Kids First Association. After taking a five-year break from video making, Matar published a single titled " Bla7za w Yawm", which was directed by Elie Berbary and reached the top five. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Matar released her music video “Wahidi”, which was directed by Valentina El khawand. “Wahidi”

Maya Badian

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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 Bucharest National University of Music in Bucharest, where she studied with Tiberiu Olah, Aurel Stroe, Zeno Vancea and Tudor Ciortea, graduating with a master’s degree in Composition in 1968. She continued her studies in orchestral conducting in Weimar, Germany during 1972. Since 1970, Badian has been a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists. She was music director at the Radiophonic Theatre Department of the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation from 1968 to 1972 and a music professor at the George Enescu School of Music in Bucharest between 1973 and 1985. Emigrating with her family to Canada in 1987, she settled in Montreal. In 1990 she took Canadian citizenship, and moved to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1995. Badian is now a professor of theoretical studies, examiner, proof reader, and exam maker for the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music Examinations and also a member of the Canadian League of Composers, and an Associate member with the Canadian Music Centre. In 1992, after two y

Maya Shenfeld

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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 born in Jerusalem and began her musical training there. When she was 20 years old, she had completed her first degree in classical guitar in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. After moving to Berlin, she studied contemporary music performance and composition at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK). Music Shenfeld’s work explores electronic, popular and experimental music and their intersection. Writing for The Guardian, music journalist John Lewis described her work as “invoking the transcendent”, writing that it is “music that uses 21st-century technology to conjure up images of liturgical chants and ancient temples”. Her album In Free Fall (Thrill Jockey, 2022) was number one on Stereogums “10 Best Experimental Albums Of 2022”. In 2022 Shenfeld scored two short films, Piazza Futura by Kevin b. Lee and the documentary The Flagmakers by Cynthia Wade and Sharon Liese. Discography Studio albums References

Mayako Kubo

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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 composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Erich Urbanner in Vienna, where she composed her first pieces of tape music at the Institute of Electroacoustics and Experimental Music. In the 1980s she studied with Helmut Lachenmann in Hannover and Stuttgart and then musicology with Carl Dahlhaus in Berlin. In 1989 Kubo became interested in dramaturgy and theatrical performance, and in 1990 moved to Italy, but then returned to live and work in Berlin in 1994. Honors and awards *1978 – 1979 Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture: work *scholarship *1979 International Contest for Electronic and Experimental Music, *Bourges: award *1980 City of Vienna: work scholarship *1982 – 1983 Alban Berg Foundation: scholarship *1983 – 1984 Ministry of Science and Research of Lower Saxony: scholarship for artists (Schreyahn) *1989 Cultural Senate Berlin: work scholarship *1999 Japan Foundation: fellow *2000 – 2001 Bundesmusikakademie Rheinsberg: work scholarship *2002 Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg