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Moacir Santos

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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 composer, Santos worked with Nara Leão, Roberto Menescal, Sérgio Mendes and Lynda Laurence, among others. His music was highly respected by musicians in Brazil and the United States, despite never achieving wider recognition. Mark Levine, Anat Cohen, and Muiza Adnet have all released albums consisting entirely of Santos’ music. Life and career Moacir Santos was born in Flores do Pajeú, Pernambuco in 1926. His mother died when he was two years old, and as his father had already left the family, he was taken in by another family. In 1967, Santos and his wife, Cleonice, moved to Pasadena, California, with the intent of breaking into the film industry. Shortly before dying, Santos was awarded the Shell Music and Premio Tim awards. Discography As leader * Coisas (Forma, 1965) * Maestro (Blue Note, 1972) * Saudade (Blue Note, 1974) * Carnival of the Spirits (Blue Note, 1975) * Opus 3 No. 1 (Discovery, 1979) * Ouro Negro (Universal, 2001) * Choros & Alegria (Adventure Music, 2005) As sideman

Mocchi (singer)

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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 Virgilio Scarabelli Alberti School and continued at the W. Kolischer Conservatory. At age thirteen they began playing guitar and bass, and joined various bands in which they participated as a guitarist, bassist, and vocalist. In 2009, they won the “Canto Joven – Movida Joven 2009” award and a mention for best composition, granted by the . The following year they received the same prize and a unique mention for composition. In April 2014, they were the opening act for Paul McCartney at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, which was a turning point in the visibility of their career. Mocchi was the executive producer of the documentary Botija de mi país (2013), which deals with the careers of ten Uruguayan musicians established in the United States, including José Serebrier, who was nominated 38 times for Grammy Awards, and won eight. In November 2016, they presented their second album entitled Mañana será otro disco, with the participation of , Julián Kartun, Andrés Beeuwsaert, and violinist

Modest Altschuler

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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 Belarus, into a Jewish family. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and emigrated to the United States in 1893. that soloists in the Orchestra included Mischa Elman, Josef Lhevinne, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Vassily Safanov. Shilkret also noted that the Orchestra “played for the great ballerina Pavlova and her partner Mordkin 1910 .” After disbanding the orchestra on the eve of the first World War, Altschuler moved to California, where he built a notable reputation as a teacher and performer. With help from his cousin, film executive Joe Aller, he composed and performed in film scores, including The Sea Hawk (1924), Dawn to Dawn (1933), It’s All in Your mind (1938), Buffalo Bill Rides Again (1947), and Song of My Heart (1948), He was also active in southern California’s musical community. In 1926, he organized the Glendale Symphony Orchestra. Altschuler founded a musical dynasty which includes his niece Eleanor Aller, his grand-nephew symphony conductor Leonard Slatkin, violinist Judith Aller,

Modest Mussorgsky

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The spelling and pronunciation of the composer’s name have caused some confusion. The family name derives from a 15th- or 16th-century ancestor, Roman Vasilyevich Monastyryov, who appears in the Velvet Book, the 17th-century genealogy of Russian boyars. Roman Vasilyevich bore the nickname “Musorga” (from , meaning “music maker” ), and was the grandfather of the first Mussorgsky. The composer could trace his lineage to Rurik, the legendary ninth-century prince of Novgorod and founder of the Russian monarchy. In Mussorgsky family documents, the spelling of the name varies: “Musarskiy”, “Muserskiy”, “Muserskoy”, “Musirskoy”, “Musorskiy”, and “Musurskiy”. The baptismal record gives the composer’s name as “Muserskiy”. In early (up to 1858) letters to Mily Balakirev, the composer signed his name “Musorskiy” (). The “g” made its first appearance in a letter to Balakirev in 1863. Mussorgsky used this new spelling (, Musorgskiy) to the end of his life, but occasionally reverted to the earlier “Musorskiy”. The addition of the “g” to the name was likely initiated by the composer’s elder brother Filaret to obscure the resemblance of the name’s root to an unsavory Russian word: :мусoр (músor) — n. m. debris, rubbish, refuse Mussorgsky apparently did not take the new spelling seriously and played on the “rubbish” connection in letters to Vladimir Stasov and to Stasov’s family, routinely signing his name Musoryanin, roughly “garbage-dweller” (compare dvoryanin: “nobleman”). The addition of the “g” and the accompanying shift in stress to the second syllable (i.e., Mu-SÓRK-skiy), sometimes described as a Polish variant, was supported by Filaret Mussorgsky’s descendants until his line ended in the 20th century. Their example was followed by many influential Russians, such as Fyodor Shalyapin, Nikolay Golovanov, and Tikhon Khrennikov, who, perhaps dismayed that the great composer’s name was “reminiscent of garbage”, supported the second-syllable stress that has also become entrenched in the West. The Western convention of doubling the first “s”, which is not observed in scholarly literature (e.g., The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians), likely arose because in many Western European languages a single intervocalic /s/ often becomes voiced to /z/ (as in “music”), unlike in Slavic languages where the intervocalic /s/ is always unvoiced. Doubling the consonant thus reinforces its voiceless sibilant /s/ sound. “Modest” is the Russian form of the name “Modestus” which means “moderate” or “restrained” in Late Latin. He was called “Modinka” (), diminutive form with the stressed O, by his close friends and relatives.

Modesta Bor

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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 composing and teaching after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome in 1951. Life and career Modesta Bor was born in Juan Griego, Isla de Margarita. She studied in Caracas with Elena Arrarte, Juan Bautista Plaza, Antonio Estévez, Maria de Lourdes Rotundo and Vicente Emilio Sojo, graduating with a degree in composition in 1959. She continued her studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Aram Khachaturian. In 1960 she won her first National Music Prize with Sonata for viola and piano.After completing her studies, Bor returned to Venezuela to work as a composer, teacher and choir director, becoming head of the music department in the Central University of Venezuela Culture Department. She also served as director of the musicology section of Folklore Research of the National Service. She died in Mérida. Works Bor composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano and vocal performance, writing more than 95 choral works for mixed and 130 for equal-voice choir. Selected works inc

Mogens Winkel Holm

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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 Jersild at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and oboe with Mogens Steen Andreassen, then for some years was assistant oboist with the Royal Danish Orchestra and worked in the music department at Danmarks Radio. From 1965 to 1971, he was also the music reviewer for Politiken and Ekstra Bladet. He also held a number of posts in music organisations, including president of Det Unge Tonekunstnerselskab (The Society of Young Musicians) and for almost 20 years, of Dansk Komponist Forening (the Danish Composers’ Association). In 1999 he was elected to membership of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Holm was a prolific composer in a wide range of genres, but ballet was his speciality. In collaboration with, among others, his brother the dancer and choreographer Eske Holm, he originated a long series of ballets, both at the Royal Danish Theater and on Danish and Swedish television between 1964 and 1984. His music has been described as dramatic and often very gestural. Paradoxically enough, it is expe

Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah

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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 Abdelfattah was born in Giza. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the College of Applied Arts of Helwan University, Orman campus in Egypt and went on to attain second and third B.A. degrees from the Faculty of Composition and Department of Ear Training (Solfege) at the same year 1986, from the Cairo Conservatoire, with “excellent honors”. In Egypt he studied composition under Gamal Abdel-Rahim, music history under Samha El-Kholy, harmony under Awatef Abdel Karim, counterpoint under Laiela El-Saiyad, instrumentation under Gihad Dawoud, orchestration under Youssef Elsisi, score reading under Gamal Salama, Schenkerian analysis under Ahmed El-Saedi, music education under Ikram Matter and solfege under Aiyda Danial. Abdelfattah was appointed to the faculty at Cairo Conservatoire in 1987, and he later obtained his M.A. degree, with his thesis entitled “Dodecaphony and Maqamat” from the Academy of Arts in Cairo in 1990, supervised by Awatef Abdel Karim. Abdelfattah is a multidisciplinary artist who

Mohamed El Qasabgi

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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 Egyptian composers in the 20th century. Most of his credits went to Umm Kulthum, Asmahan, and Layla Murad who sang most of his great works and scores. Until today, most critics classify Mohamed El Qasabgi as the master of the oud due to his great abilities and skills which he had during his time. In most of his tunes, there is a real sensation of the pure Oriental spirit, mixed with European musical techniques and taste. This was mostly seen in songs like Ya Toyour, Raa’ El Habeeb, Ana Albi Daleeli. In the above-mentioned songs and many others, he was widely recognized by most musicians and critics at that time as the leader of development of Oriental music, and mixing it with newest musical techniques and influences brought in from Western classical traditions of his time. Important dates * 1892 Birth of El Qasabgi. * 1917 Actual journey begins. * 1920 Mohamed El Qasabgi composes songs for great singers of that time, including the legendary Mounira El Mahdeya. * 1920 through 1923 The le

Mohamed Iguerbouchène

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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 Areski. He attended an English primary school in Algiers. It was there that he was spotted by Bernard Fraser Ross (born Bernard Fraser), a homosexual Scottish bachelor and wealthy heir who spent his winters in Algiers. Fraser Ross had previously served eight years in prison as a procurer for Lord Battersea and other aristocrats. Ross convinced Iguerbouchène’s parents to let him take the boy to England to pursue a career in music. Training Due to Fraser Ross’s reputation, Iguerbouchène was likely privately educated. He later lied about his early years: claims that he studied at a Norton College, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, or even one of the predecessors of the Royal Northern College of Music, and under Robert Fischhof and Alfred Grünfeld have proven to be false. However, he was certainly a musical prodigy. Early works included Kabylia Rapsodie n. 9 and Arabic rapsodie n. 7. Inheritance and marriage Following Fraser Ross’s death in 1929, Iguerbouchène inherited all

Mohammed Abdel Wahab

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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 nationalist and revolutionary songs like “O Egypt, Happiness Is Here”, “The Call of Duty”, “The Greatest Homeland”, “The Rising Generation”, “Egypt Called Us and We Have Answered”, “Tell Egypt”, “Patriotism Is My Obligation”, “Voice of the Masses”, “O Breeze of Freedom”, and “Arms from My Country”. He also composed the national anthem of Libya, which was adopted from 1951 to 1969, and again since 2011. in a neighborhood called Bab El-Sheriyah, where there is now a statue of him. He began his singing career at an early age and made his first public performances at age seven at local productions. He was 13 when he made his first recording. Mohamed Abdel Wahab was a very close friend to compatriot singer Abdel Halim Hafez. Film career In 1933, Abdel Wahab began composing his own style of Egyptian film musical after visiting Paris and familiarizing himself with French musical film. He introduced a lighthearted genre of musical film to Egyptian culture eventually composing eight musical comed

Mohammed Fairouz

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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 Times as an “important new artistic voice”. Fairouz began composing at an early age and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. His teachers included Gunther Schuller, Halim El-Dabh, and John Heiss. Fairouz lives in New York City. Vocal music Fairouz says that he first set the poem “The True Knowledge” by Oscar Wilde to music at the age of 17 and has gone on to write hundreds of art songs and over a dozen song cycles. In Poets & Writers Magazine, he described himself as being obsessed with text. and sets poetry by Arab Andalucian poet Ibn Khafaja. Musicians for Harmony commissioned the song cycle Furia for baritone Randall Scarlata together with the Imani Winds and the Borromeo String Quartet and sets Western texts about the Middle East. Jeder Mensch, was written for Kate Lindsey with texts set from the diaries of Alma Mahler. Lindsey is also the soloist in a 2014 recording of Fairouz’s 2012 cycle, Audenesque (in memory of W. B. Yeats), with the L

Mohammed Flayfel

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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 Iraq and former national anthem of Palestine until 1996) and Suriyah, Ya Dhat al-Majdi (the anthem of the short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria). His “Humat ad-Diyar” was selected in a 1938 competition as the national anthem of Syria. He also worked on several other patriotic songs, occasionally in collaboration with his brother, Ahmad Salim Flayfel. Mohammed Flayfel is also credited for discovering the talents of a young Fairuz when she participated in a radio talent show and he advised her to enroll in the Lebanese Conservatory. He died in 1986. References

Mohammed Haddad

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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 is best known for his work on the soundtrack of the critically acclaimed Bahraini motion picture A Bahraini Tale. Early life and family Mohammed Haddad was born on October 2, 1975, in Muharraq, Bahrain, the second child of father Qassim Haddad and Mother Moza Al Shamlan, along with his elder sister Tufool Haddad and younger brother Mahyar Haddad. His father poet Qassim Haddad is an influential cultural figure in Bahrain. In 1982, when Haddad was seven years old, he told his parents that he wanted to study music and become a musician. Picked up the Keyboard at the age of 8 and quickly became the leading musician in his primary school’s music band. When he moved to his intermediate school at the age of 12, he picked up the Oud and made it his major instrument until he flew to Cairo to pursue a degree in music, where he studied music composition and conducting at the Cairo Conservatory of Music, focusing on the Piano. Upon his return to Bahrain from Cairo in 2001, he secured a position as

Mohammed Zahur Khayyam

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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. He won three Filmfare Awards: for Best Music in 1977 for Kabhi Kabhie and 1982 for Umrao Jaan, and a lifetime achievement award in 2010. He was awarded the 2007 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Creative Music, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India’s National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre. He was awarded the third-highest civilian honour, Padma Bhushan, by the Government of India in 2011. Early life Khayyam was born to a Punjabi Muslim family on 18 February 1927 in Rahon in Punjab, British India. As a boy, Khayyam ran away to his uncle’s house in New Delhi. There he was trained under classical vocalist and composer Pandit Amarnath. Career Khayyam went to Lahore looking for roles in films. There he met Baba Chishti, a famous Punjabi music director. After listening to a composition by Chishti, he sang to him its first part. Impressed, Chishti gave him an offer of joining him as an assistant. Khayyam assisted Chishti for six months and came to Ludhiana in 1943. He was only 17 then. He gai

Moisès Bertran

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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 published by Clivis Publicacions, Editorial de Música Boileau, Tritó Distribucions and La Mà de Guido ;Stage * El último día de Francisco Pizarro, Opera (2006–2009) ;Orchestral * Introspecció for string orchestra (1990) * Rondó (1992) * Catalanesca (1994) * Hartford, Fantasia for string orchestra (1999) * Petita Simfonia for string orchestra (1998) * Tres Momentos en Antioquia (2002) * Variaciones Sinfónicas sobre un tema de Henry Eccles (Symphonic Variations on a Theme of Henry Eccles) (2005) ;Concertante * Concerto for piano and orchestra (2000) * Esguards Silents for guitar and string orchestra (2003) * Concertino for piano and string orchestra (2006) * A Double Bass Fantasy, Fantasia for double bass and wind orchestra (2010) * Concerto for violin and orchestra (2012–2013) ;Chamber music * Absència for violin and piano (1990) * Piano Trio (1995) * Sonatine pour Mykeko for flute and piano (1997) * Quartet Ciutat Vella for flute, violin, viola and cello (1998) * Trio for oboe, bassoon and p

Molly Joyce

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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 orchestration at Berklee Online. Early life and education Molly Joyce was born in 1992 in Pittsburgh, PA. She started her instrumental music education on the violin. After a car accident permanently damaged her left hand at the age of 7, she began playing the cello by using her left hand for the bow and right hand on the fingerboard. She also learned to play the trumpet and began composing on the computer. Joyce attended The Juilliard School for her undergraduate degree (graduating with scholastic distinction). She also earned degrees at Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she was the recipient of the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Grant, and Yale School of Music. Joyce has studied with Samuel Adler, Martin Bresnick, Guus Janssen, David Lang, Han Lash, Missy Mazzoli, Martijn Padding, Christopher Rouse, and Christopher Theofanidis. Career Joyce has contributed compositions to many recordings of other artists. As a solo artist, she released an EP, Lean Back and Release, in 2017 and an LP titl

Momo Wandel Soumah

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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 bands, but moved to modern Guinean music following the cultural revolution. He was a part of the greatly influential Syli Orchestra (originally Syli Orchestre National) who were formed under the instruction of the first elected president Sekou Toure. The group of Guinea’s elite musicians were selected to travel throughout Guinea and inspire and instruct musicians across the country and help set up the regional orchestras that were key to Sekou Toure’s ‘Authenticité’ programme to promote and proliferate ‘authentic’ Guinean traditional music after colonial rule. From the mid 1980s Soumah developed an idiosyncratic blend of jazz and African traditional music. He died suddenly on June 15, 2003. At the time of his death Soumah was musical director of . Discography * Matchowé (1992) * Afro Swing (2001) * Momo Le Doyen (soundtrack, 2007) ;Contributing artist * Unwired: Africa (2000, World Music Network) * Desert Blues 2 (2002, Network) See also * a film by Laurent Chevalier, 2006 References Extern

Mon Schjelderup

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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 Bernhard Koren Schjelderup (1819–1889) and Anne Sofie Preus Berg (1831–1898). She was also the cousin of composer Gerhard Schjelderup (1859–1933). Schjelderup grew up in a musical home, and wrote her first composition at age 14. She studied piano with Agathe Backer Grøndahl. Later she continued her studies in piano and theory at the Royal Music Institute of Berlin, and in composition at the Conservatory in Paris with Jules Massenet. In 1894 she made her public debut as pianist and composer in Christiania. She continued her study with Massenet and began working as a composer and a piano teacher at the Music Conservatory in Christiania. Mon Schjelderup never married and retired at the age of 34 due to disabling mental illness. She died in 1934 in Asker, Akershus. Works Schjelderup composed about forty songs, piano pieces, violin pieces, a sonata for violin and piano and orchestral works. Selected compositions include: For Orchestra: *Prelude to 5 Act II of The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen *Fe

Mona Lyn Reese

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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, and contrasting textures. Her music communicates and expresses emotions traditionally or experimentally without allowing a prevailing fashion to dictate style, form, or harmony. In 2014, the San José Chamber Orchestra and Chorus performed a suite from Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim in the San José City Hall Rotunda. Reese received a Continental Harmony commission in 2000, created by the American Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts to enable small to mid-size communities in each state to commission new pieces for the millennium. Reese’s opera The Three Fat Women of Antibes received its premier performance with orchestra in May 2009 by the San José State University Opera Workshop (Michel Singher, Music Director, Daniel Helfgot, Director). The opera, written with her husband and librettist Thomas Hassing, is a humorous chamber opera for four singers based on the W. Somerset Maugham short story of the same name. The opera premiered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1998. O

Mona McBurney

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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 of six children of teacher and scholar Isaiah McBurney and art and music teacher Margaret McBurney. Mona studied music in Edinburgh with Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who was later a principal of the Royal Academy of Music. The family emigrated to Victoria, Australia, in 1881, and settled in Geelong. McBurney attended the Ladies’ College where her brother Samuel was principal and the University of Melbourne in 1881. In 1892 she continued her studies at the University of Melbourne as a music student with G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, graduating in 1896. After ending her studies, McBurney worked as a composer and educator. In 1907 she conducted a women’s orchestra in her Northern Ballad which was a commission for the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work Works McBurney composed an opera, a concerto for piano and orchestra, a string quartet, two choral odes, a number of piano works and about thirty songs. Selected works include: * “Ode to Dante”, 1902 * The Dalmatian, opera, libretto adapted from a popu

Monic Cecconi-Botella

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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. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice Duruflé, Jean Rivier and Henri Dutilleux. After completing her studies, she worked as a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire of Aubervilliers. In 1983, she became a professor of music analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1966, Cecconi-Botella won a First at the Prix de Rome. Her opera Noctuaile won a Grand Prix du Disque. In 2008, she founded the Festival Seasons of the Voice in Gordes, Provence. Cecconi-Botella died on 28 December 2025, at the age of 89. Works Cecconi-Botella explored multi-media arts in her compositions. Selected works include: *Bucolique for flute and piano *Cérémonie for viola and piano *Noctuaile opera in two parts, libretto by René David *He Signed Vincent (about the life of Vincent van Gogh) *The Woman of the Ogre, opera, book by Pierrette Fleutiaux *Operaclown, children’s opera, libretto by René Pillot *Pirlipipi, children’s opera, libretto by Pierre Gripari *Triangle Crystal, children’s oper

Mónica Cosachov

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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 Cosachov was born in Buenos Aires and studied composition, piano and harpsichord at the Conservatorio Nacional de Buenos Aires. She later studied at the Yehudi Menuhin International Academy and the Academy Chigiana in Italy. During her studies, she developed an intense interest in chamber music. Music career Cosachov is associated with the Camping Musical Bariloche music festival, is a founding member and soloist of the Camerata Bariloche, and became Director of the Department of Research and Teaching through her work with the Fundación Bariloche (Bariloche Foundation). Her interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work on new perspectives in the formation of musicians and scientists led to her participation as a visiting professor at universities and research centers abroad. She is currently Director of the Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Música (the Interdisciplinary School of Music), training center and artistic and social projects, work for which she won the Alicia Moreau de Justo prize

Monica Lynn

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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 Stefan Kostka, David Neumeyer and Forrest Pierce. She continued her education at the University of Missouri in Kansas City where she studied with James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, and at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, studying with Ben Leeds Carson, David Cope, Karlton Hester, David Evan Jones, Hi Kyung Kim, Paul Nauert and Peter Elsea. Lynn taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz while working on her degree. Her music has been performed internationally. Honors and awards *2009-10: UCSC Grant; ASCAP Award *2008-09: European American Musical Alliance, Lindsay and Brian Shea Fellowship; Brevard Institute Scholarship Award; selected composer, South Oxford Six, Summer in Sombor, SERBIA; Finalist, College Music Society Pacific Central/Pacific Southern SuperRegional Conference; Finalist, California Summer Music, San Francisco, CA; UCSC Grant; ASCAP Award *2007-08: UCSC Graduate Student Association Scho

Monique Buzzarté

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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 International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) against discrimination based on gender by the Vienna Philharmonic. The protests lead to the admission of women as members of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1997. The orchestra announced that harpist Anna Lelkes had been admitted as the first female member of the orchestra. Lelkes had been playing with the orchestra for twenty years but she had been denied membership due to her gender. Buzzarté’s research interests include finding compositions for brass instruments by women composers. Buzzarté studied with Stuart Dempster and Ned Meredith, and is certified to teach Pauline Oliveros’s deep listening practices. She holds a BA and BMus from the University of Washington and a MMus from the Manhattan School of Music. Monique Buzzarté was the editor (with Tom Bickley) of the Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening published in 2012. Discography *Sleeping Awake Music of Noah Creshevsky (2019, Open Space 37) *E (and sometimes, why) If, Bwana with/and/by Trio Scord

Monique diMattina

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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 styles. Personal life and education diMattina grew up in Melbourne, Australia, from Italian and English convict heritage. She studied law at the University of Melbourne before taking up jazz piano and composition at Victorian College of the Arts, focussing her masters thesis on pianist Wynton Kelly. diMattina lives in Melbourne with her two daughters. She teaches at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Monash University. Career In 2000, following Queens Trust and Fulbright postgraduate awards, In 2000, diMattina orchestrated Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark starring Björk. In 2009 diMattina released her first solo piano album, Senses, followed by Welcome Stranger, in which she sings and plays piano. The album mostly contains original songs, with a cover of Paul Kelly’s “Dumb Things” in a New Orleans style. In 2011 diMattina released her second solo piano album Sun signs, designed around the twelve signs of the zodiac. During this period she performed a regular segment called “Shak

Monk of Salzburg

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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 (manuscripts) in Early New High German are attributed to him. His name and monastic order is unknown; some of the introductions to the manuscript sources mention the names Herman, Johans, and Hanns and describe him as either Benedictine or Dominican. Despite this confusion, all the manuscripts that contain his works “agree that he was a learned monk who wrote sacred and secular songs”. His compositions overcome the Minnesang traditions and even approach recent polyphonic settings. List of songs, ordered by liturgical calendar Advent * Maria keusche muter zart * Vor anegeng der sunne klar * Joseph, lieber nefe mein * Mein trost, Maria, raine mait * Besniten wirdigkleichen * Eia herre got, was mag das gesein From the Sunday after Epiphany to Lent * Ave, meres sterne * Maria pis gegrüsset * Des menschen liebhaber * Do got in dem throne sas * Maidleich pluem, der jungkfrawn kron * Von unnser vrawen mitleiden Easter season * Die nacht wirt schir des himels gast * Maria stuend mit swidem smerzen * Eia d

Monroe Rosenfeld

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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 successful popular song writers, with a reputation as a “graceful, prolific, and versatile composer”. Biography Rosenfeld was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Jewish German immigrants. By the early 1880s, he was working in New York City as a songwriter, often using pseudonyms such as E. Heiser and F. Belasco. He started having success around 1884 with such songs as “Climbing Up the Golden Stairs”, and “Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back”, written with Scottish-born composer Felix McGlennon and recorded by Dan Quinn. His other successes as a songwriter included “Johnny Get Your Gun” (1886, credited as F. Belasco), and his most famous work, “With All Her Faults I Love Her Still” (1888), which sold more than 100,000 copies in piano sheet music. The latter song was based on an earlier tune by Theodore Metz, but Rosenfeld was notorious for making use of lax copyright laws to claim publishing rights in his own name, and sometimes bragged that he stole some of his best tunes. Rosenfeld

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

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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 adding the seventh string, tuned to the note AA (A 1 in scientific pitch notation), on the bass viol. Life and works Few details of his life are known; for example, neither the names of his parents, nor the precise dates of his birth and death. Research has revealed that his first name was Jean (other sources mention the name of Augustine of Autrecourt, Sieur de Sainte-Colombe) and also that he had as teacher the theorbo and viola player, Nicolas Hotman. Sainte-Colombe performed publicly in the Parisian Salons, as did most of his colleagues and music masters such as Le Sieur Dubuisson. According to Titon du Tillet, he often performed in consort with his two daughters and with his own students, as attested by the copyist who wrote out his pieces for two viols as well as the solo-viol Tournus Manuscript. Sainte-Colombe’s most notable student was Marin Marais, who wrote Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, in 1701, as a memorial to his instructor. Sainte-Colombe’s students also included th

Montague Phillips

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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 Tottenham, London, Phillips began his musical career as a choirboy at Saint Botolph’s Church, Bishopsgate. He studied piano and organ and made his debut as an organist at the age of twelve. In 1901 he attended the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen. His contemporaries at the academy included Arnold Bax, York Bowen and Benjamin Dale. In 1926 he became a professor at the Royal Academy, while working as a freelance composer and performing as a pianist, accompanist and conductor. His students there included Dennis Brain. Phillips was friendly with the composers Eric Coates and Haydn Wood. He lived in Esher for more than 50 years, residing at Clare Cottage, Clare Hill where he died in 1969 at the age of 84, outliving most of his contemporaries. His obituary in The Times described him as “essentially a composer in the salon tradition of the late nineteenth century, to which his musical idiom belonged”. His wife Clara Butterworth, with whom he had a son an

Monte Carlo (composer)

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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 U.S. in 1906 to avoid studying medicine. They collaborated on a number of shows and a large number of songs. In 1930, he was living with his wife at 10 Williams Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York. In 1942, he was living at 145 West 55th Street, New York. After the death of his wife in 1956, he moved to Houston, Texas. There he became vice-president of Carsen Music Publishing, founded by his step-son, Edward C. Benjamin Sr. Songs with music or lyrics by Monte Carlo “Little Town in the old County Down” “Dinny Danny; The Irish Yacki Hula” “That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone” “Every Tear Is a Smile in an Irishman’s Heart” “By the waters of Killarney” “Just a bit of Irish lace” “Two Blue Eyes, One Little Green Isle” “My Home in the County Mayo” “The Hills of Connemara” “The Old Wooden Bridge in Athlone” Several songs became very popular after being recorded by John McCormack in the early 1920s. Shows *The Voice of McConnell by George M. Cohan, (1918; supplied songs) *Tangerine (1921) *Elsie (1923)

Monte Cazazza

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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 Industrial Records in the mid-1970s. Career Cazazza, based primarily in San Francisco during his early career, is credited with coining the phrase “Industrial Music for Industrial People”. This was later used to encapsulate the Industrial Records label and the artists representing it. Later, the noise collages and experimental sound manipulation coming out of Industrial Records came to be known as industrial music. Cazazza had built up an underground reputation as a particularly volatile performer with a potentially dangerous and antisocial aesthetic. Re/Search Magazine’s Industrial Culture Handbook described his work as “insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events.” The Futurist Sintesi show near the end of 1975 was heralded on a promo flier as “Sex - religious show; giant statue of Jesus got chainsawed and gang raped into oblivion”. Cazazza did not limit his “performances” to the familiar dynamic of stage, audience, and audience reaction. Much of his work involved acts designed for max

Monty Norman

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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 “James Bond Theme”, first heard in the 1962 film Dr. No. He was an Ivor Novello Award and Olivier Award winner, and a Tony Award nominee. Early life Monty Norman was born on 4 April 1928 in Stepney in the East End of London. His father, Abraham Noserovitch (anglicised to Norman), was a Jewish cabinet maker who immigrated to the United Kingdom from Latvia when he was a child; his mother, Ann (Berlyn), who was also Jewish, worked as a seamstress. His mother gave him his first guitar (a Gibson) when he was sixteen. Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Worth, and Bob Hope, and Expresso Bongo (which Time Out called the first rock and roll musical). Expresso Bongo, written by Wolf Mankowitz, was a West End hit and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard. Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Norman won two different libel actions refuting Barry’s claim that he was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001. In the

Mordecai Seter

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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 to Mandate Palestine in 1926. Seter learned to play the piano from the age of seven in Russia, and continued with his lessons and studies in Tel Aviv. In 1932, he went to Paris, France, where he studied composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger. There, he pursued a musical language founded on his own unique synthesis of the latter, and other, European influences with more local ones. Style Upon his return to Palestine in 1937, Seter grew interested in developing a style inspired by Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. In Paris, he had been fascinated with cantus firmus-based techniques found in Western Medieval and Renaissance music, which derived from Catholic plainchant. Therefore, when, in 1938, he encountered the volumes of Abraham Zevi Idelsohn’s Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies that contained traditional Sephardic and Mizrahi liturgical tunes, he consciously adopted them as a major influence, not only in and of themselves, but eventua

Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer

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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 Ashdod, Israel, to serve as rosh yeshiva of a new Pittsburgher yeshiva in that city in 1981. After succeeding his father as Rebbe, he expanded the Hasidic presence in Ashdod with new schools and institutions, and increased the number of Pittsburgher families to nearly 200 in Ashdod. He also shepherded Pittsburgher Hasidim in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Beit Hilkia, New York City, and California. An accomplished Torah scholar and musical composer, he led the Hasidut for three decades until his death in 2020. Early life and family Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1955. Leifer traced his paternal ancestry to Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna, the founder of the Nadvorna dynasty, who was the great-grandson of Grand Rabbi Meir the Great of Premishlan, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. At the time of his birth, his father was teaching Torah and Hasidut and eventually founded a Hasidic yeshiva in Newark. He also studied in the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio. And in the Lakewoo

Mordechai Zeira

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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 wrote melodies for the best poets and songwriters, including Jacob Orland, Nathan Alterman, Aharon Ashman and Alexander Penn. His works are still played today, some in modern versions by young artists. At the time he was called “the troubadour of the Hebrew singer”. Biography Mordechai Zaira was born Dmitry Mark (Mitya) Greben in the city of Kiev in the Russian Empire (now the capital of Ukraine). He studied mechanics at the Polytechnic of Kyiv, but due to the difficulties of earning a living, he stopped his studies after two semesters and moved to sewing shoes. In 1924 he was arrested for being in the Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair, but received a permit to leave the Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel at the age of 19. In Israel, he joined Kibbutz Afikim (then called “Kibbutz Hashomer Hatzair S.S.S.R.”), which was then located near Yavne’el. The members of the kibbutz staged a performance of a Hebrew opera called “Carmela”. The orchestra, which included a concertina and co

Morfydd Llwyn Owen

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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 before her 27th birthday. Early life and education Owen was born in Treforest, Wales on 1 October 1891 to William Owen, an accountant, and his wife, Sara Jane (née Jones), who ran a drapery business. They were both amateur musicians. She was a musical child, showing great talent at an early age and received piano lessons early on. While in her teens she appeared as a soloist in a performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto. At 16 she began to study piano and composition with Dr David Evans in Cardiff and had her first published work, a hymn tune entitled “Morfydd”, produced in 1909. After attending Pontypridd County School and two years of study with Evans, Owen won a scholarship to study at University College, Cardiff and was formally admitted into the composition class. Many of her works were performed in student recitals at Cardiff, and she graduated in 1912. The same year, she was admitted to the Gorsedd of the Bards at the Wrexham National Eisteddfod under the name Morfydd Llwyn Owen,

Morice Benin

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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 to France and francized the family named to Benin. Therefore, he took the name Maurice. He again changed his first name to “Morice” for his singing career. Morice Benin died in Die on 19 January 2021 at the age of 73. Discography Studio albums *Peut-être (1972) *Il faudrait toujours pénétrer les gens… (1973) *Je vis (1974) *Peut-être (1975) *C’était en … (1976) *Tu vois c’que j’veux dire (1978) *Passage (1980) *Apocalypse (1981) *Sémaphore (1982) *Aimer sans issue (1983) *Chants de solitude (1984) *Chemin d’Alliance (1985) *Escale (1987) *Respirer (1988) *La Cinquième Saison (1990) *Essentiel (1991) *Funambule amoureux (1996) *La vie à tous (1999) *Vie Vent (2000) *Breizh ardente (2001) *In’spir (2001) *Après le déluge (2002) *La Mémoire et la Mer (2003) *Être (2005) *Pour prendre le large (2008) *Atteindre (2009) *L’Élan (2009) *Arpenteurs (2009) *Des astres annoncés (2012) *Infiniment (2014) *L’Inespéré, entre les lignes… (2017) *L’air de rien (2018) *Juste l’heure (2020) Compilation

Morishige Takei

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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 guitar, he returned to Japan and in 1915 established what would become the Sinfonia Mandolini Orchestra, a mandolin orchestra. The orchestra would continue (with breaks) through 1949, when he died. He became a composer, with 114 compositions for mandolin and guitar. World War II affected music in Japan, through the National Mobilization Law of 1938. One of the effects of the law was to allow the government to assert control of music, banning western music and instruments, including the electric guitar, banjo and ukulele. In spite of this, Takei was able to maintain his mandolin-guitar orchestra until 1943. His orchestra, named the Orchestra Sinfonica Takei in 1923, was temporarily renamed Takei-Gakudan (shedding non-Japanese words in its name), December 1941. After the war, he rose higher in the imperial court. He continued the work of promoting the mandolin and guitar, giving a concert with his orchestra November 6, 1949. He fell ill at a rehearsal, however, on December 12 and died two days

Moritz Brosig

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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. Despite his Roman Catholic faith, he wrote more than thirty chorale preludes, working in a musical genre more traditionally associated with Lutheran worship. Life Provenance and early years Moritz Brosig was born the youngest son of Joseph Brosig, a minor landowner at Fuchswinke in the countryside on the southern edge of Lower Silesia. His mother Barbara was the daughter of the man who owned the Kreuzer printing works in the Silesian capital, Breslau. Music professional In 1838 Brosig took over as the organist at St. Adalbert’s church in the heart of the city. During this period he deputised with growing frequency for his teacher-mentor, In 1869 the organist Franz Dirschke shared his opinion in the “Zeitschrift für katholische Kirchenmusik” (“Journal of Catholic Church Music”) that Brosig’s playing appealed alike to the musical expert and to the musically untutored: “one can only regret that all those splendid and accomplished improvisations which he had created as a cathedral organist dur

Moritz Eggert

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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 (with Wolfgang Wagenhaeuser and Claus Kühnl), at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (with Leonard Hokanson) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (with Wilhelm Killmayer). Later he continued his piano studies with Raymund Havenith and Dieter Lallinger, and his composition studies with Hans-Jürgen von Bose in Munich. In 1992 he spent a year in London as a post-graduate composition student with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Moritz Eggert’s oeuvre includes 7 operas as well as ballets and works for dance and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements. In 1997, a German TV station produced a feature-length film portrait about his music. As a pianist he has collaborated with many artists, as soloist with orchestra, as chamber music partner in various formations and as a Lied accompanist. In 1996 he presented the complete works for piano solo by Hans Werner Henze for the first time in one concert. In 1989 he was a pr

Moritz Fürstenau

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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 significance, but was extremely helpful as a theater historian. With his former conductor Richard Wagner, he remained on friendly terms, standing by him even after his departure from Dresden. As an early admirer of him, he was in the 1870s with the founding of the Dresden Wagner Society and as early as 1854, he was already involved in the establishment of the Musicians Association, remaining chairman until his death. He also served as a delegate of the General German Musician Association. For his services he was granted the title of professor of music from the king. At the request of Saxon King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Fürstenau was granted permanent position as flutist at the Royal Chapel of Dresden in 1842, being later promoted to royal chamber musician in 1844. With the singer Jenny Lind, Fürstenau traveled in 1855 on a grand tour through the Netherlands, while they appeared together as soloists. Frederick Tröstl and Fürstenau were the first instructors at the newly founded p

Moritz Hauptmann

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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 Metrik explores numerous topics, particular the philosophy of music. Biography Hauptmann was born in Dresden, and studied violin under Scholz, piano under Franz Lauska, composition under Grosse and Francesco Morlacchi (who was a rival in Dresden of Carl Maria von Weber). He completed his education as a violinist and composer under Louis Spohr, and until 1821 held various appointments in private families. In addition, he studied mathematics and acoustics. Hauptmann was initially employed as an architect before finding success as a musician. Notable in his early musical output is a grand tragic opera, Mathilde. He joined the orchestra of Kassel in 1822 under Spohr’s direction. There, he first taught composition and music theory. His pupils included Ferdinand David, Friedrich Burgmüller, Gustav Graben-Hoffmann, Charles Edward Horsley, Friedrich Kiel, Ernst Naumann, Oscar Paul, Isidor Seiss and others. In 1842, Hauptmann became Thomaskantor in Leipzig (a post once held by Johann Sebastian Bach

Moritz Heuzenroeder

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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 born in Ottersberg the youngest son of Dr. Ferdinand Anton Joseph Leopold (known as Joseph Leopold) Heuzenroeder, a prominent Sanitätsrat (medical practitioner) originally from Duderstadt, and from early childhood was preoccupied with performing music. He left Germany for South Australia some time before 1871 and settled in Gawler, where for a year or two he conducted a jeweller’s shop, but he had a greater love for music, and returned to Germany for three or four years to further study piano under Dr. Sebert, gaining Royal Academy of Stuttgart qualifications, and studying voice production. On his return he settled in Adelaide and advertised himself as a teacher of singing; the baritone Richard Nitschke and singing teacher Minna Fischer were two of his pupils. He was a friend of Hermann Schrader, who considered him a musical genius. He founded an orchestra at Tanunda, and a choral society at Angaston. He moved from Adelaide to Tanunda early in 1897; he died unexpectedly the same year. He n

Moritz Moszkowski

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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 said: “After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique.” Although less known today, Moszkowski was well respected and popular during the late nineteenth century. Life and career He was born in Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland), into a wealthy Polish-Jewish family whose parents had come to Breslau from Pilica, near Zawiercie, in 1854. He was an ardent Jew at a time when many Jews downplayed their Jewishness. He showed early talent while very young, beginning his musical training at home until 1865, when his family moved to Dresden. There he continued his piano studies at the conservatory. He moved to Berlin in 1869 to continue his studies first at the Julius Stern Conservatory, where he studied piano with Eduard Franck and composition with Friedrich Kiel, and then at Theodor Kullak’s Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, where he studied composition with Richard Wüerst and orchestration with Heinrich Dor

Morris Davis (composer)

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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, he wrote more than 200 jingles for Canadian radio and television. He also contributed incidental music to more than 100 radio and TV programs and composed more than 30 scores for feature films; including the scores to Whispering City (1947), La Forteresse (1947), Le Curé de village (1949), and Tambour battant (1952). He also composed a number of orchestral works, songs, and jazz pieces. His jazz concerto Blues and Finales in G (1942) is written in the style of Rhapsody in Blue, and his Serenade for Trumpet in Jazz (composed before 1948) was played often in concerts by Maynard Ferguson. Life and career Born in Ottawa, Davis began his musical education in Montreal where he studied the piano with such teachers as Nicholas Eichorn, Alfred La Liberté, and A.E.J. MacCreary. He studied law at McGill University (MU) where he earned of Bachelor of Arts in 1930. While a student there he notably wrote the MU’s annual Red and White Revue in 1926 and 1927. In 1927 he co-wrote the review The Little R

Mort Garson

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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 Mother Earth’s Plantasia (1976). He also co-wrote several hit songs, including “Our Day Will Come”, a hit for Ruby & the Romantics. According to Allmusic, Mort Garson boasts one of the most distinctive and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop. He later moved to New York City where he studied music at the Juilliard School of Music. He worked as a pianist and arranger before being called into the Army near the end of World War II. Early career After leaving the forces he became an active session musician, with an ability to carry out any or all of the musical chores on any given session: composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and pianist as required. In 1957, he co-wrote Brenda Lee’s minor hit “Dynamite” with Tom Glazer, and he also co-wrote Cliff Richard’s 1961 UK hit “Theme for a Dream”. In 1963, with lyricist Bob Hilliard, he wrote one of the great lounge hits of the 1960s, “Our Day Will Come”, a hit

Morten Eskesen

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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 Skjern and Varde in west Jutland. His parents, Eske Mortensen and Margrete Pedersdatter, were farm owners. From age 14 to 20, he worked at the farm during summer and as an assistant teacher and tutor during winter. He received his teaching diploma from Snedsted College in 1848. Career From 1851 to 1853 was a schoolteacher in Bevtoft in southern Jutland, where he met the politician Hans Andersen Kruger. This gave him an interest in the South Jutlandic dialect. He was a teacher in west Jutland and then a tutor and folk high school teacher in different parts of the country. He associated with Christen Mikkelsen Kold, who is credited with setting the model for Danish schools, and N. F. S. Grundtvig. From 1853 to 1854 Eskesen was the folk high school superintendent in Uth, near Horsens in east Jutland. From 1856 to 1858 he was a teacher at Grundtvig’s folk high school in Marielyst. Between 1858 and 1884 he was an independent school leader on Funen, first in Rudme and then in Odense. In 1874 h

Morten Gaathaug

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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, and contemporary composers. Career Gaathaug studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo where he followed composition classes with Johan Kvandal and piano classes with Kari Edgren Gierløff. He was a Slovakian State Stipend recipient and studied at the Bratislava Music Academy in 1981-82 with teachers Eva Fischerová (piano) and Vladimír Bokes (composition). Currently Gaathaug teaches piano at the Kontra culture school in Ski and he has also been active as a music critic in Drammens Tidende and Aftenposten. Gaathaug produced more than 100 works in a variety of genres, including orchestral works, solo pieces, chamber music as well as songs and concertos for trumpet and oboe, a De profundis (García Lorca) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra plus a concertino for accordion and orchestra. In his compositions 24 fugleportretter, De tapte fuglers verden and Ornis musicalis, the composer utilizes bird song in his music. As well as international music, Gaathaug has devoted much time to foc

Morten Lauridsen

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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 from 1994 to 2001, and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019. Biography A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lauridsen worked as a Forest Service firefighter and lookout on an isolated tower near Mount St. Helens. He attended Whitman College for 2 years, before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen. His works have been recorded on more than 200 CDs, five of which have received Grammy Award nominations, including O Magnum Mysterium by the Tiffany Consort, A Company of Voices by Conspirare, Sound The Bells by The Bay Brass, and two all-Lauridsen discs entitled Lux Aeterna by the Los Angeles Master Chorale led by Paul Salamunovich and Nocturnes with the Polyphony choir and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Stephen Layton. A recipient of numerous grants, prizes, and commissions, Lauridsen chai

Morten Veland

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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 age of 14, Veland began saving to buy his first electric guitar. He would lock himself up and practice every day and night. He and bandmate Kenneth Olsson, who would later form Tristania, formed Uzi Suicide. They were described as a fusion of rock and metal. However, he grew more interested in the UK gothic scene. It took his songwriting to a darker, gloomier place. Fragments of Uzi Suicide turned into Tristania. as well as responsible for the growling vocals. He left Tristania after the first two full-length albums due to social and musical differences. 2001–present: Sirenia After Tristania, in 2001, Veland formed his own band Sirenia, composing the same genre of music, in which he contributes nearly all of the instruments as well as the growling vocals. The rest of the band (except female singer and choir members) are mostly used on live performances only. Mortemia While taking Sirenia on a more melodic direction, Veland began writing other types of music. Mortemia is a studio project

Mortimer Wilson

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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 Lucas County, a rural area in the south-central portion of the state. He studied organ, violin and composition with Frederick Grant Gleason at the Chicago Music College. He then studied in Leipzig, Germany with Max Reger. Upon return to the USA in 1911 he taught composition at the Atlanta Conservatory and conducted the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1916, he moved to Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia. The suite for piano trio From My Youth Op. 5 was published in 1911 (in two books of four pieces each) and premiered by the Sitting Trio. It has been recorded by the Rawlins Piano Trio. The short piano suite Silhouettes from the Screen, Op. 55 (1919) includes miniature musical portraits of William S. Hart, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Theda Bara (who is portrayed in an atonal, expressionistic style) and Douglas Fairbanks). For the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad. Douglas Fairbanks encouraged Wilson to provide a fully-fledged classical score, unusual at the time. Wilson composed lei

Morton Feldman

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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 development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman’s works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration. Biography Morton Feldman was born in Woodside, Queens, New York City, on January 12, 1926. His parents, Irving and Frances Breskin Feldman, were Russian Jews who had emigrated to New York from Pereiaslav (Irving, in 1910) and Bobruysk (Frances, in 1901). His father was a manufacturer of children’s coats. As a child he studied piano with Vera Maurina Press, who instilled in him a “vibrant musicality rather than musicianship”. Feldman’s first composition teachers were Wallingford Riegger, one of the first American followers of

Morton Gould

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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 program, Keep ‘Em Rolling, and Major Bowes’ Shower of Stars, as well as The Chrysler Hour on CBS, where he reached an audience of millions. In 1942, he composed music for the short film Ring of Steel, directed by Garson Kanin and produced by the Film Unit of the U.S. Office for Emergency Management. In 1943, he was hired by the William H. Weintraub advertising agency as its musical director, believed to be the first position of its kind in the advertising field. In 1936, Gould married Shirley Uzin, and lived in apartment with her and her sister on Austin Street in Forest Hills, Queens. The marriage ended in divorce in 1943, and Gould moved into an apartment on nearby 78th Avenue with his brother, Walter Gould, adjacent to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. In the following year, Gould married Shirley Bank. This marriage, too, ended in divorce. Gould had four children with Shirley Bank. On February 16, 1945, their son Eric was born. Their first daughter, Abby, was born on February 3, 1950, Gould comp

Morton Subotnick

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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 company, Nonesuch. He was one of the founding members of California Institute of the Arts, where he taught for many years. Subotnick has worked extensively with interactive electronics and multi-media, co-founding the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender, often collaborating with his wife Joan La Barbara. Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multi-media performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Most of his music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre. Early career Subotnick was born in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from the University of Denver. In the early 1960s, Subotnick taught at Mills College and with Ramon Sender, he co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center. During this period he also collaborated wi

Moses Milner

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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 post-revolution Russia “Die Himlen brenen” (“The Heavens Burn”) in 1923. Biography Moses Milner was born in Rokitno Basilovsky, Kiev Governorate in 1886. He sang in the choir of the Brodsky Choral Synagogue in Kiev, then attended the Kiev Conservatory. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1907 till 1915. While in St Petersburg Milner began to compose Yiddish songs for Susman Kiselgof (Зусман Кисельгоф)’s Society for Jewish Folk Music (Общество еврейской народной музыки). He also wrote incidental music for Jewish theaters. He provided music for the Habima Theater and State Jewish Theater, Moscow (GOSET) (Государственный еврейский театр (ГОСЕТ)), and the Leningrad choir Evokans (Евоканс). He died in Leningrad in 1953. References

Moses und Aron

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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 incidents from the Book of Exodus (chapters 3-32). Compositional history Moses und Aron has its roots in Schoenberg’s earlier agitprop play, Der biblische Weg (The Biblical Way, 1926–27), a response in dramatic form to the growing anti-Jewish movements in the German-speaking world after 1848 and a deeply personal expression of his own “Jewish identity” crisis. The latter began with a face-to-face encounter with anti-Semitic agitation at Mattsee, near Salzburg, during the summer of 1921, when he was forced to leave the resort because he was a Jew, although he had converted to Protestantism in 1898. It was a traumatic experience to which Schoenberg would frequently refer, and of which a first mention appears in a letter addressed to Wassily Kandinsky (April 1923): “I have at last learnt the lesson that has been forced upon me this year, and I shall never forget it. It is that I am not a German, not a European, indeed perhaps scarcely even a human being (at least, the Europeans prefer the worst o

Mosh Ben-Ari

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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 discovered music as a child through the traditional Jewish and ethnic chants that were part of his everyday life. He started playing music at the age of 16 and has since studied music around the world, including in India, the Sahara, and the Sinai. He plays various string instruments including acoustic and classic guitar, Indian sarod, Persian tar, Turkish cümbüş, Moroccan sintir, and bass. In 1997, together with a few friends, he founded the world music ensemble Sheva (, Seven). The band members come from Muslim and Jewish backgrounds and the main theme in their songs is the call for peace in the Middle East and around the world. Their first album, (, “Heavenly Wedding” or “Celestial Marriage”) featured the hit song Salaam ("", from Arabic: ), also known as ′Od Yavoh′ Shalom ′Alaynu ("" lit. “Still, it will come, Peace upon us”). The band has released four studio albums and one live album. In 2001, Ben-Ari’s debut solo album, Ad Elay ("", “Unto me”), came out. In 2004, he released his second

Moshe Wilensky

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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 composers, and was a winner of the 1983 Israel Prize, the state’s highest honor. Life Wilensky, who was Jewish, was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910, the son of Zelig and Henia (née Liebman). He studied music at the Warsaw Conservatory in Warsaw, specializing in conducting and composition, and immigrated to Palestine in 1932. Music career A pianist and composer, Wilensky wrote music for theaters and musical troupes of the Israel Defense Forces, including the Nahal choir in the 1950s. He worked with the Kol Yisrael orchestra. Among his songs are “Kalaniyot” (“Anemones”), “Hayu Zmanim” (“In Those Times)”, “Autumn,” “Ring Twice and Wait,” “Each Day I Lose,” “The Last Battle”, and “Mul Har Sinai” (“Opposite Mt. Sinai”). He wrote music for many of Natan Alterman’s poems. In 1983, Wilensky was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew song (melody). In 1990, a special concert in honor of his 80th birthday was given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2005, Vilenski was voted the 187th-greatest Isra

Moshe Zorman

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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” after Natan Alterman’s play of the same name—as well as works for symphony orchestra, chamber groups and choirs. His works and arrangements have been performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Welsh BBC Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (IBA), the Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva and the Baltimore Symphony, among others. He has also written music for theatre productions at the Habima and Cameri theatres in Israel and for the Inbal and Bat-Sheva dance companies. Biography Zorman studied composition with Prof. Leon Schidlowsky and Prof. Tzvi Avni. After graduating from the Tel Aviv Music Academy, he studied for his Ph.D at New York City University Graduate Ceber CUNY with George Perle and participated in composers’ seminars in Vermont (with Mario Davidovsky) and in Canada (with John Cage). He returned to Israel in 1985 to teach at Tel Aviv University and is a professor at the Levinsky College of Education. occupation=Composer, arranger, musicologist Zorman was a member of the

Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab

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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 board and vice-president of the Supreme Council of the Iranian House of Music. Biography Mostafa Kamal Pourtrab was born on 14 September 1924 in Tehran. His father was a Soviet military officer who came to Iran after the October Revolution of 1917 and got married. He was the first child in the family. His father was familiar with playing Tar, and since his son was also interested in music, he bought him a Neylabak at an early age. A year later, Mostafa turned Neylabak into a flute, and at the age of nine, he played the flute at a ceremony in Hamedan. In 1940, after finishing primary school, he moved to Tehran with his family and enrolled in the Higher Conservatory of Music to study in high school. In the first test, Mostafa’s very sensitive ear caught the attention of the examiners, and they chose the difficult and little-known instrument of the Bassoon as his main instrument. He learned the bassoon from Czech masters who were employed by the conservatory in those years. In 1940, he worked

Motohiro Kawashima

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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 was born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He grew up listening to artists such as George Gershwin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Haruomi Hosono. He later moved to Tokyo and got interested in techno culture. During his time at Kunitachi College of Music he began producing techno music and was introduced to Yuzo Koshiro, who was looking for staff at his company, Ancient. He would go on to join his company in 1992, where he composed for Shinobi II: The Silent Fury and the Game Gear and Master System versions of Batman Returns, with Koshiro assisting him on both projects. The two would work together again for Streets of Rage 2 and Streets of Rage 3, with him composing approximately half of the latter’s soundtrack. During this time they would also frequently go to nightclubs together for musical inspiration. In addition to his work on video games, Kawashima has also composed for other productions, including songs for artists, commercials and anime. He currently works as a lecturer in the compu

Motoi Sakuraba

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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 well as several other anime series, television dramas, and progressive rock albums. Career Sakuraba was born on August 5, 1965, in Akita Prefecture, Japan. While attending Meiji University, Sakuraba began to take music composition seriously and formed the progressive rock band “Clashed Ice” in 1984, consisting of him on keyboards and Genta Kudo on drums and vocals. After the duo had graduated the following year, they were noticed by music producer Shingo Ueno, and ending up signing with Made in Japan Records. The band had then added bassist Tetsuya Nagatsuma, and was renamed as “Deja Vu”. In 1988, the band would release their only studio album, Baroque in the Future, composed by Sakuraba. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, Mario Tennis Open, Mario Golf: World Tour, and many Tales series games, including Hearts, Graces, Xillia, Xillia 2, Zestiria, and Berseria. In 2014, he was selected to provide musical arrangements for Brawl’s successor, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. For this title, S

Motoyuki Shitanda

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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 Kenjiro Urata (浦田健次郎) graduating in 1979 with a degree in music composition. He is currently professor at Akita University where he teaches composition. Also, he is part-time lecturer at Seirei Women’s Junior College in Akita and guest lecturer at Trinity College of Music in London. He has received several awards and distinctions including 1st prize in the 1985 Sasagawa Award Music Composition Competition for Festal March (1984), and 1st prize in the 1993 Asahi Composition Award for (Sketch of Sound) (1990). Shitanda is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers and Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan (Academic Society of Japan for Winds Percussion and Band). Selected works * (1995) * (1998) * (2000) * (2000) * (2002) * (2003) * (2004) * (2005) ;Orchestra * Symphony No.1 (1994) * (2003) ;Concert band * Festal March (フェスタル・マーチ) (1984) * March in Blue (マーチ・イン・ブルー) (1988) * , Fantasia for Concert Band (1989) * (1990) ;Concertante * Concerto for viola and orchestra (1998) * Karavinka (カラヴィン

Moya Henderson

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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 during their first season at the Sydney Opera House in 1973. In the mid-1970s, Henderson studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and music-theatre with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne Musikhochschule. Henderson’s compositions include such pieces as the work for organ and pre-recorded tape, Sacred Site (1983), The Dreaming written for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, “Six Urban Songs: The Patrick White Song Cycle” for soprano and orchestra (1983), and an opera, Lindy (1997), There, she continued her musical education in Germany then returned to Australia towards the end of 1976 to teach composition as a part-time lecturer at the University of Sydney. In 1978, she became resident composer in the Department of Music, and in a three-year span, she worked to stimulate the interest of students in music-theatre by encouraging them to create their own music-theatre compositions. Works Henderson did not focus on one style of composition. Her works ranged from chamber music, instrumental music

Mozart and scatology

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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 an “impressive list” of psychiatric conditions Mozart is claimed to have had. Others have noted that the scatology is understood in terms of its role in Mozart’s family, his society and his times. Examples A letter dated 5 November 1777 to Mozart’s cousin (and probable love-interest) Maria Anna Thekla Mozart is an example of Mozart’s use of scatology. The German original is in rhymed verse. Mozart’s canon “Leck mich im Arsch” K. 231 (K 6 382c) includes the lyrics: This would be translated into English as “lick me in the arse, quickly, quickly!” “Leck mich im Arsch” is a standard vulgarism in German, euphemistically called the Swabian salute (). Although contemporary German would rather say “Leck mich am Arsch.” The closest English counterpart is “Kiss my arse”. Context Musicologist David Schroeder wrote in 1999: The passage of time has created an almost unbridgeable gulf between ourselves and Mozart’s time, forcing us to misread his scatological letters even more drastically than his ot

Mozart and the Catholic Church

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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 Catholics and raised their children religiously, insisting upon strict obedience to the requirements of the Church. They encouraged family prayer, fasting, the veneration of saints, regular attendance at mass, and frequent confession. Leopold Mozart continued to urge strict observance upon Wolfgang even when the latter had entered adulthood. In 1777, he wrote to his wife and son, who at the time were on their journey to Paris: Is it necessary for me to ask whether Wolfgang is not perhaps getting a little lax about confession? God must come first! From His hands we receive our temporal happiness; and at the same time we must think of our eternal salvation. Young people do not like to hear about these things, I know, for I was once young myself. But, thank God, in spite of all my youthful foolish pranks, I always pulled myself together. I avoid all dangers to my soul and ever kept God and my honor and the consequences, the very dangerous consequences, before my eyes. By “very dangerous consequen

Mozart family grand tour

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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 1763 to 1766. At the start of the tour the children were aged eleven and seven respectively. Their extraordinary skills had been demonstrated during a visit to Vienna in 1762, when they had played before the Empress Maria Theresa at the Imperial Court. Sensing the social and pecuniary opportunities that might accrue from a prolonged trip embracing the capitals and main cultural centres of Europe, Leopold obtained an extended leave of absence from his post as deputy Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg. Throughout the subsequent tour, the children’s Wunderkind status was confirmed as their precocious performances consistently amazed and gratified their audiences. The first stage of the tour’s itinerary took the family, via Munich and Frankfurt, to Brussels and then on to Paris where they stayed for five months. They then departed for London, where during a stay of more than a year Wolfgang made the acquaintance of some of the leading musicians of the day, heard much music,

Mozart in Italy

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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 and by public concerts, and took in the most important Italian cities. The second and third journeys were to Milan, for Wolfgang to complete operas that had been commissioned there on the first visit. From the perspective of Wolfgang’s musical development, the journeys were a considerable success, and his talents were recognised by honours which included a papal knighthood and memberships in leading philharmonic societies. Leopold Mozart had been employed since 1747 as a musician in the Archbishop of Salzburg’s court, becoming deputy Kapellmeister in 1763, but he had also devoted much time to Wolfgang’s and his sister Nannerl’s musical education. He took them on a European tour between 1763 and 1766, and spent some of 1767 and most of 1768 with them in the imperial capital, Vienna. The children’s performances had captivated audiences, and the pair had made a considerable impression on European society. By 1769, Nannerl had reached adulthood, but Leopold was anxious to continue 13-year-old

Mozart in popular culture

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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 career, his brushes with financial disaster, and his death in the course of attempting to complete his Requiem. Authors of fictional works have found his life a compelling source of raw material. Such works have included novels, plays, operas, and films. The listing below include only some prominent items from among thousands. Fiction * Don Juan in 1812, by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Hoffmann also played an important role in establish the critical reputation of Mozart’s music. *Eduard Mörike. Mozart’s Journey to Prague (1856). * Mozart appears in Hermann Hesse’s novels Der Steppenwolf and Die Morgenlandfahrt. * In 1968, David Weiss published Sacred and profane: a novel of the life and times of Mozart, a narrative account on the composer’s life drawing heavily on the documented historical record, but with invented conversations and other details. * Mozart appears as a key character in the 1985 cyberpunk story “Mozart in Mirrorshades” by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner, available in the antholog

Mozart's Berlin journey

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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, and Berlin. Departure The journey took place during a difficult period of Mozart’s career when he was no longer earning much money from concerts, and his income from the composition of operas had not made up the difference. He was borrowing money, for example from his friend Michael Puchberg, and the financial situation was very worrisome. Mozart’s passage to Berlin was free of charge: he accompanied his aristocratic patron and fellow Mason Prince Karl Lichnowsky, (a patron of both Mozart and Beethoven) who had his own reasons for visiting Berlin and had offered Mozart a ride. Mozart and Lichnowsky departed Vienna on the morning of 8 April 1789. The King was a great potential source of concert income and commissions for new works. Mozart also reported to Constanze that he had worked out an agreement with Domenico Guardasoni, the director of the Italian opera in Prague, for a new opera for a fee of 250 ducats (ca. 1,000 florins). Solomon’s hypothesis of infidelity The trip was the first

Mozart's birthplace

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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 residence on 27 January 1756. He was the seventh child of Leopold Mozart, who was a musician with the Salzburg Royal Chamber. Since 1880, the building has housed a museum, which depicts the early life of Mozart, his first musical instruments, his friends, and his passionate interest in opera. The third floor exhibits Mozart’s childhood violin as well as portraits, documents, and early editions of his music, and the second floor is devoted to Mozart’s interest in opera and includes the clavichord on which he composed The Magic Flute. The structure is owned by the Mozart Foundation. History The house was built in the 12th century After marrying Anna Maria Pertl on 21 November 1747, Leopold Mozart rented the apartment on the third floor which consisted of a kitchen, a small cabinet, a living room, a bedroom and an office. greater prosperity and the need for space led them to move into more spacious quarters in the Tanzmeisterhaus, also a Mozart museum today. Museum A museum since 1880, Oth

Mozart's nationality

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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 way they are used today, because the modern nation states of Austria and Germany did not yet exist. Any decision to label Mozart as “Austrian” or “German” (or neither) involves political boundaries, history, language, culture, and Mozart’s own views. Editors of modern encyclopedias and other reference sources differ in how they assign a nationality to Mozart (if any) in light of conflicting criteria. Salzburg Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was then the capital of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, a small, quasi-sovereign state in the Holy Roman Empire. Thus in one sense Mozart’s nationality could be said to be “Salzburgian”, though English-language biographers do not generally use this term to designate his nationality. Holy Roman Empire The Archbishopric of Salzburg was but one of more than 300 similarly quasi-independent states in the part of Europe that was populated by German speakers. Most of these states, Salzburg included, were included in a larger political entity, the Ho

Mozarthaus Vienna

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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 surviving Viennese residence. It is now a museum. History The house is located at Domgasse 5. It was built in the 17th century, originally with two floors, and was redeveloped in 1716. Mozart rented rooms here from 1784, at which time it was also known as the Camesina House, after the family who had owned it since 1720. The original entrance of the house facing Schulerstraße (the one used by Mozart) was walled up to make room for a shop, and the house is entered today from its rear in the Domgasse. In 1941, the 150th anniversary of Mozart’s death, his former rooms were opened to the public as part of “Imperial German Mozart Week”, a Nazi event intended to honour him as a “typically German” composer (in contrast to his polyglot lifestyle). In 1945 the running of the exhibition was taken over by the Vienna Museum. Despite its apparently attractive location near St. Stephen’s Cathedral, visitor numbers at the so-called “Figaro House” were relatively modest, at around 80,000 per year. In 2004