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Moacir Santos

Moacir Santos (26 July 1926 – 6 August 2006) was a Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and music educator. Musicians such as Baden Powell, Bola Sete and Wilson das Neves studied under him. As a

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Mocchi (singer)

Mocchi (born 8 June 1990) is a Uruguayan singer and composer. Biography Lu Mocchi was born in Montevideo, where they began their musical training at age eight. They attended piano lessons at the

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Modest Altschuler

Modest (Moisei Isaacovich) Altschuler (February 15, 1873 – September 12, 1963) was a cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer. He was born in Mogilev, then part of the Russian Empire, now in

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Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; ; ; 21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove

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Modesta Bor

Modesta Bor (15 June 1926 – 7 April 1998) was a Venezuelan composer, music teacher and choral arranger. Formerly a promising pianist and music interpreter, she was forced to center her career around

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Mogens Winkel Holm

__NOTOC__ Mogens Winkel Holm (1 October 1936 – 31 October 1999) was a Danish composer. Holm was born in Copenhagen; his father was the architect Tyge Holm. He studied orchestration with Jørgen

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Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah

Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (; born 1962) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and educator. He is a member of Egypt's third generation of classical composers. Biography

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Mohamed El Qasabgi

Mohamed el-Qasabgi (; pronounced in local Egyptian dialect as Mohamed el-Asabgi; 15 April 1892 in Cairo – 25 March 1966) was an Egyptian musician and composer, and is regarded as one of the leading

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Mohamed Iguerbouchène

Mohamed Iguerbouchène; (; 13 November 1907 – 23 August 1966) was an Algerian composer. Early life Mohamed Iguerbouchène was the eldest of eleven children born to Saïd Ben Ali and Sik Fatma Bent

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Mohammed Abdel Wahab

Mohammed Abdel Wahab (), ; 13 March 1902 – 4 May 1991), was an Egyptian singer and actor best known for his romantic and Egyptian patriotic songs. He was known for his Egyptian nationalist and Arab

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Mohammed Fairouz

Mohammed Fairouz (born November 1, 1985) is an American composer. He is one of the most frequently performed composers of his generation and has been described by Daniel J. Wakin of The New York

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Mohammed Flayfel

Mohammed Flayfel (1899–1986; ) was a Lebanese composer and musician. Born in 1899 in the Ashrafiyeh neighborhood of Beirut, some of his notable compositions include "Mawtini" (the national anthem of

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Mohammed Haddad

Mohammed Haddad () (born 2 October 1975) is a Bahraini composer and music critic. He is an active artist in the music scene of Bahrain and a leading composer in the film scores of Bahraini films. He

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Mohammed Zahur Khayyam

Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi (18 February 1927 – 19 August 2019), better known mononymously as Khayyam, was an Indian music director and background score composer whose career spanned four decades.

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Moisès Bertran

Moisès Bertran i Ventejo, in Spanish Moisés Bertrán (born Mataró, 1967) is a Catalan composer. He studied his Masters at the Hartt School of Music. Selected works : Bertran's scores are largely

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Molly Joyce

Molly Joyce is a composer, performer, and recording artist. She is currently a PhD student in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia and teaches music production and

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Momo Wandel Soumah

Momo Wandel Soumah (1926 – June 15, 2003) was a singer, composer, and saxophonist from Guinea, recognisable by his characteristic gravelly voice. Soumah started out in the 1950s playing in dance

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Mon Schjelderup

Mon Schjelderup (16 June 187021 November 1934) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Biography Maria Gustava Schjelderup was born in Fredrikshald (now Halden), Østfold, of parents Captain Christian

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Mona Lyn Reese

Mona Lyn Reese (born August 24, 1951) is an American composer, best known for her operas and choral music. Her work is melodic and accessible with an emphasis on driving or complex rhythms, movement,

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Mona McBurney

Mona Margaret McBurney (29 July 18624 December 1932) was a British pianist, teacher and composer who lived and worked in Australia. Life Mona McBurney was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, the youngest

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Monic Cecconi-Botella

Monic Gabrielle Cecconi-Botella (30 September 1936 – 28 December 2025) was a French pianist, music educator and composer. Life and career Cecconi-Botella was born in Courbevoie on 30 September 1936.

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Mónica Cosachov

Monica Cosachov (born 7 September 1946) is an Argentine harpsichordist, pianist and composer. She also serves as a visiting professor at universities and research centers internationally. Background

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Monica Lynn

Monica Lynn is an American composer who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with

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Monique Buzzarté

Monique Buzzarté (born 1960 in San Pedro, California, United States on August 26, 1960) is a composer, trombonist, and activist was a key part of an international protest on behalf of the

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Monique diMattina

Monique diMattina is an Australian jazz pianist, singer and composer. diMattina composes and performs in a range of genres encompassing jazz roots, country, blues, classical and other contemporary

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Monk of Salzburg

The Monk of Salzburg () was a German composer of the late 14th century. He worked at the court of the Salzburg archbishop Pilgrim von Puchheim (1365–96); more than 100 Liederhandschriften

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Monroe Rosenfeld

Monroe H. "Rosey" Rosenfeld (died December 13, 1918) was an American songwriter and journalist. In 1895, he was described by Ernest Jarrold in Munsey's Magazine as being in the "front rank" of

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Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Jean (?) de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1640) was a French composer and violist. He was a celebrated master of the viola da gamba and was credited (by Jean Rousseau in his Traité de la viole (1687)) with

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Montague Phillips

Montague Fawcett Phillips (13 November 1885 – 4 January 1969) was a British composer of light classical music and songs, including the popular operetta The Rebel Maid of 1921. Career Born in

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Monte Carlo (composer)

Hans von Holstein, better known as Monte Carlo (14 July 1883 — 9 June 1967), was a Danish-born American Broadway composer and author. Life Von Holstein was born in Skamlingsbanken, He came to the

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Monte Cazazza

Monte Cazazza (January 23, 1949 – June 28, 2023) was an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape industrial music through recordings with the London-based

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Monty Norman

Monty Norman ( Noserovitch; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was a British film score composer and singer. A contributor to West End musicals in the 1950s and 1960s, he is best known for composing the

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Mordecai Seter

Mordecai Seter (; February 26, 1916 – August 8, 1994), was a Russian-born Israeli composer. Early life Seter was born Marc Starominsky in Novorossiysk, Russia, in 1916 and emigrated with his family

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Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer

Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer (; 19554 October 2020) was the third Rebbe of the Pittsburgh Hasidic dynasty. Born in the United States, he joined his father, Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer, in

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Mordechai Zeira

Mordechai Zeira (; July 6, 1905 – August 1, 1968), born in Kiev as Dmitry Greben, was an Israeli composer. Mordechai Zaira (Greben) was one of the most important Israeli composers and songwriters. He

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Morfydd Llwyn Owen

Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1 October 1891 – 7 September 1918) was a Welsh composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano. A prolific composer, as well as a member of influential intellectual circles, she died shortly

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Morice Benin

Morice Benin, born Moïse Ben-Haïm (21 July 1947 – 19 January 2021) was a French singer-songwriter. Biography Moïse Ben-Haïm was born in Casablanca on 21 July 1947. His family shortly thereafter moved

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Morishige Takei

was a Japanese composer and court official during the reign of Emperor Showa. Biography He studied Italian at Tokyo College of Language. After studying in Italy and discovering the mandolin and

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Moritz Brosig

Moritz Brosig (15 October 1815 - 24 January 1887) was a German cathedral organist and composer. He came to be seen as a leading representative of the so-called Breslau School of church musicians.

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Moritz Eggert

Moritz Eggert (born 25 November 1965 in Heidelberg) is a German composer and pianist. Life Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt

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Moritz Fürstenau

Moritz Ludwig Carl Ignaz Franz August Fürstenau (born 26 July 1824 and died on 27 March 1889, also in Dresden) was a German flautist and music historian. He left only a few works that gained little

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Moritz Hauptmann

Moritz Hauptmann (13 October 1792, Dresden – 3 January 1868, Leipzig), was a German music theorist, teacher and composer. His principal theoretical work is the 1853 Die Natur der Harmonie und der

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Moritz Heuzenroeder

Moritz Heuzenroeder (15 July 1849 – 10 November 1897) was a pianist, composer and teacher of music born in Germany who had a substantial career in South Australia. History Moritz Heuzenroeder was

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Moritz Moszkowski

Moritz Moszkowski (; 23 August 18544 March 1925) was a German-Polish composer, pianist, and teacher. His brother Alexander Moszkowski was a famous writer and satirist in Berlin. Ignacy Paderewski

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Morris Davis (composer)

Morris Cecil Davis (1 March 1904 – 13 November 1968) was a Canadian composer, arranger, and conductor. He was sometimes referred to as "Rusty Davis". A largely self-taught composer and orchestrater,

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Mort Garson

Morton Sanford Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s, such as

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Morten Eskesen

Morten Eskesen (5 January 1826 - 8 February 1913) was a Danish author, composer and teacher in independent and folk high schools. Early life Erikesen was born in Ulbæk in the parish of Lyne between

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Morten Gaathaug

Morten Gaathaug (born 20 April 1955) is a Norwegian contemporary composer of orchestral works, solo pieces, chamber music, and concertos. His work is influenced by the classics, Norwegian folk music,

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Morten Lauridsen

Morten Johannes Lauridsen III (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale

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Morten Veland

Morten Veland (born 4 December 1977) is a Norwegian musician. He is one of the founding members of the gothic metal band Tristania and the founding member of Sirenia and Mortemia. Background At the

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Mortimer Wilson

Mortimer Wilson (August 6, 1876 – January 27, 1932) was an American composer of classical music. He also scored several musical and dramatic films in the 1920s. Wilson was born in Chariton, Iowa in

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was an important exponent of indeterminacy in music, a

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Morton Gould

Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. Biography Morton Gould was born in Richmond Hill, New York, United States. radio

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Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record

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Moses Milner

Mikhail "Moshe" Arnoldovich Milner (Мильнер, Михаил "Моше" Арнольдович; 1886–1953) was a Russian Jewish pianist and composer. He is notable as composer, and conductor, of the first Yiddish opera in

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Moses und Aron

Moses und Aron (English: Moses and Aaron) is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the music to the third act unfinished. The German libretto is by the composer. It is based on selected

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Mosh Ben-Ari

Moshe "Mosh" Ben-Ari (; born 21 September 1970) is an Israeli musician, lyricist, and composer. Biography Ben-Ari was born in Afula, Israel, to a family of Mizrahi Jewish background. He first

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Moshe Wilensky

Moshe Wilensky (, also, "Vilensky"; 17 April 1910 – 2 January 1997) was a Polish-Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist. He is considered a "pioneer of Israeli song" and one of Israel's leading

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Moshe Zorman

Moshe Zorman (Hebrew: משה זורמן; born 15 May 1952) is an Israeli composer, winner of the ACUM award for lifetime achievement (2023). His works include nine operas —among them “The Inn of Spirits”

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Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab

Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab (Persian: مصطفی کمال پورتراب, born 14 September 1924 – 22 June 2016) was an Iranian musician, composer, music teacher, and music theorist. He was a member of the founding

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Motohiro Kawashima

is a Japanese music producer and DJ. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Yuzo Koshiro on several video games, such as Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3. Biography Kawashima

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Motoi Sakuraba

is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. He is known for his numerous contributions in video games, including the Tales, Star Ocean, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Golden Sun, and Dark Souls series, as

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Motoyuki Shitanda

is a contemporary Japanese composer, music teacher, musicologist and conductor. Biography Shitanda studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Mareo Ishiketa (石桁眞禮生), Toshiro Mayuzumi and

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Moya Henderson

Moya Patricia Henderson (born 2 August 1941 in Quirindi, New South Wales) is an Australian composer. A graduate of the University of Queensland, Henderson was Resident Composer at Opera Australia

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Mozart and scatology

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart used scatological humour in his letters and multiple recreational compositions. This material has puzzled Mozart scholars; some have attempted to understand it in relation to

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Mozart and the Catholic Church

The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Catholic, and the Church played an important role in his life. Life Catholic upbringing Mozart's parents (Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Mozart) were

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Mozart family grand tour

The Mozart family grand tour was a journey through western Europe, undertaken by Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna Maria, and their children Maria Anna (Nannerl) and Wolfgang Theophilus (Wolferl) from

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Mozart in Italy

Between 1769 and 1773, the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold made three Italian journeys. The first, an extended tour of 15 months, was financed by performances for the nobility

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Mozart in popular culture

The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) led a life that was dramatic in many respects, including his career as a child prodigy, his struggles to achieve personal independence and establish a

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Mozart's Berlin journey

One of the longest adulthood journeys of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a visit, beginning in spring 1789, to a series of cities lying northward of his adopted home in Vienna: Prague, Leipzig, Dresden,

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Mozart's birthplace

Mozart's birthplace (German: or ) is a house museum in Austria at No. 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, Austria. The Mozart family resided on the third floor from 1747 to 1773, and Mozart was born in the

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Mozart's nationality

The two main labels that have been used to describe the nationality of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are "Austrian" and "German". However, in Mozart's own life, those terms were used differently from the

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Mozarthaus Vienna

The Mozarthaus Vienna (also known as the Figaro House) was Mozart's residence from 1784 to 1787. The building is located in Vienna's Old Town, not far from St. Stephen's Cathedral, and is his only

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