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Mujeeb Majeed

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Mujeeb Majeed (born on 21 September 1985 in Thrissur Kerala) is an Indian music composer, music arranger, and singer. He debuted in mainstream cinema as music director of the Malayalam-language film Mandharam released in 2018. Mujeeb works primarily in Malayalam films. His background score for the short film Pawssible won him a Kerala State Television Award for Best Music Director. He is currently based in Kochi, Kerala. Early life As a child, Mujeeb was introduced to music by his family. His grandfather was a self-taught percussionist and his uncles used to sing with several musical troupes in Kerala. In an online interview, he mentioned A. R. Rahman as his primary inspiration to become a music producer. It was after listening to the soundtrack album of the Bollywood film Taal, at the age of 14, that he decided to create his own music. Career An opportunity that came through his friend Asha G. Menon, to compose the title track of a television show titled Hridayaragam, kickstarted Mujeeb’s career as a composer. Mujeeb received his first feature film opportunity in 2018 with Mandharam. In 2021, he composed the songs and background score for the National award winner Thinkalazhcha Ni

Murad Kazhlayev

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Murad Magomedovich Kazhlayev (15 January 193123 December 2023) was a Russian and Lak composer and conductor. He was a People’s Artist of the USSR (1981), (2016), and laureate of international premiums and contests. He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the , a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Biography Murad Kajlayev was born on 15 January 1931 in Baku to a Lak family. He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from the composition class of . He was expelled from there for his ardour for practicing non-academic musical genres but soon he was reclaimed. He worked as a teacher at a musical school named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as a chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphonic Orchestra (1957–1958), artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic Hall (1963–1964) and secretary of administration of the Union of Soviet Composers (from 1968). Awards * Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2021) * Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1960) * People’s Artist of the USSR (1981) * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971) * Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the III and IV degrees (2008, 1995) * Order of Friendship (201

Muriel Herbert

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Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 – 1 May 1984) was a British composer of the early 20th century. Much of her work is for solo voice and piano, with art song settings of texts by English and Irish poets such as Thomas Hardy, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, and W. B. Yeats. Early life Herbert was born in 1897, in Sheffield, and grew up in Liverpool, England. She was the youngest child and only daughter. Herbert grew up singing and playing music in her home, as her mother was the church choir director. Her older brother, Percy, was also a musician and encouraged Herbert to study music, for which she had a natural ability. Herbert began writing down songs for voice and piano at a young age. Her father died in 1909, and the Herbert family struggled with poverty. Hugh Farrie, a journalist for the Liverpool Post, encouraged Herbert to become a concert pianist, but her interest was in composition. Marriage and Paris In 1925, after marrying a young French academic, Emile Delavenay, Herbert traveled to Paris for her honeymoon. Here she was introduced to James Joyce by Emile’s friend, the Irish poet Tom McGreevey. Herbert played and sang her versions of Joyce’s poems, “I hear an army charg

Muriel Pollock

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Muriel Pollock (January 21, 1895 – May 25, 1971) was an American songwriter, composer, pianist, and organist. She wrote and performed music for Broadway shows, radio programs, children’s plays, and piano rolls. Early life Mary Pollock was born in Kingsbridge, New York, the daughter of Joseph Pollock and Rose Graff. Both parents were immigrants from Russia. Her father ran a news stand. She studied at the New York Institute of Musical Art, a precursor of the Juilliard School. Career As a young woman, Pollock played the organ in silent movie theatres, and worked at her father’s news stand. She wrote a musical, Mme. Pom Pom, in 1914, with Marie Wardall. Another 1914 work, “Carnival”, was written for a fundraising event for the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children in Rockaway Park. Pollock’s Broadway credits included Jack and Jill (1923), for which she supplied “additional music”; Rio Rita (1927–1928) and Ups-a Daisy (1928), in which she appeared playing piano duets with Constance Mering; Pleasure Bound (1929), for which she wrote the music; and the musical revue Shoot the Works (1931), for which she wrote both music and lyrics. Pollock worked at Mel-o-Dee Music Company and Rhythmodik Music C

Murray Adaskin

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Murray Adaskin, (March 28, 1906 – May 6, 2002) was a Canadian violinist, teacher, and composer. Biography Born in Toronto to Latvian Jewish immigrant parents, Adaskin was introduced to the violin by his brother, Harry; he also studied in Paris with Marcel Chailley (1929), and in Toronto with Luigi von Kunits, William Primrose (1937), and Kathleen Parlow (1941-43). During the 1940s, he commenced compositional studies with John Weinzweig, Charles Jones and Darius Milhaud at the Music Academy of the West. Among his notable pupils were composers Boyd McDonald, Paul Pedersen, Rodney Sharman and Timothy Williams, and violinist Andrew Dawes. A founding member of the Canadian League of Composers, Adaskin composed more than half of his oeuvre of 130 compositions after retiring to Victoria in 1973. The Order of Canada was conferred on him in 1980. The Adaskin portrait in the Canadian Composers Portraits series was released in 2002. He died in Victoria on May 6, 2002. Compositional style Adaskin’s works encompass orchestra, band and chamber ensembles, solo and duo instruments, voice, and student and occasional pieces. He also wrote the chamber opera, Grant, Warden of the Plains (1967). His tr

Murray Boren

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Murray Boren (born 1950) is a composer of opera, symphonic, chamber, and vocal works. He has written nine operas and over 100 songs and chamber compositions. He also contributed to the Joseph Sonnets. Among his operas are Book of Gold and Emma; both are based on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) history. In 2007, he retired from his position as composer-in-residence at the College of Music of the College of Fine Arts and Communications of Brigham Young University (BYU). Education and career Murray Boren received his BM and MA in composition from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1975 and 1977 respectively. He received a DMA in composition from the City University of New York in 2002. Orson Scott Card was the librettist for Boren’s opera Abraham and Isaac based on Genesis 22 in the Bible. Boren wrote the opera Emma about Emma Smith, wife of the founder of the LDS Church, Joseph Smith. Emma received mixed reviews. It was praised for its freshness, but criticized for being overly chromatic. Allan Kozinn of The New York Times praised the vocal performances and the unique orchestral music; however, he criticized the opera’s slow pace stating that, “the sustain

Music for Children (Prokofiev)

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Music for Children, Op. 65 (, Muzyka dlya detey), is a cycle of twelve character pieces for piano by Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953). Composed in 1935, it is – beside its compositors qualities – considered one of the most popular collections of pedagogical piano music of the 20th century. Background Prokofiev completed Music for Children in 1935, inspired by his former stays in Paris, in the same year as his ballet Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, and his Six Mass Songs, Op. 66. The work was written during a period when Prokofiev was preparing for his return to the Soviet Union, which he completed in 1936. The twelve pieces were first published in 1935 in Berlin by Éditions Russes de Musique. Prokofiev himself performed the premiere on April 11, 1936, in Moscow. Structure The cycle consists of twelve short character pieces, each depicting a childlike scene or mood: # “Morning (Утро)” # “Promenade (Прогулка)” # “A Little Story (Сказочка)” # “Tarantella (Тарантелла)” # “Regret (Раскаяние)” # “Waltz (Вальс)” # “Parade of the Grasshoppers (Шествие кузнечиков)” # “The Rain and the Rainbow (Дождь и радуга)” # “Playing Tag (Пятнашки)” # “March (Марш)” # “Evening (Вечер)” # “The Moon Strolls in the

Muslim Magomayev (composer)

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Abdulmuslim Muhammad oghlu Magomayev (; 18 September 1885 – 28 July 1937), commonly known as Muslim Magomayev (), was an Azerbaijani composer and conductor. He is the paternal grandfather and namesake of Azerbaijani opera singer Muslim Magomayev. Early life He was born Abdulmuslim Magomayev into a family of a blacksmith on the same day another prominent Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov was born. He studied at a primary school in Grozny before being admitted to the Gori Pedagogical Seminary (in present-day Georgia) in 1900. There, Magomayev developed a passion for music and conducting. That was also where he first met Uzeyir Hajibeyov, then his fellow student. However, Magomayev found the musical career financially unpromising and decided to focus on teaching. In 1905, he acquired his teaching certificate at the Tiflis Teachers’ College and was appointed a teacher to the village of Bekovichi (now Kizlyar, Republic of North Ossetia–Alania). In 1906, he was voluntarily reappointed to Lankaran (present-day Azerbaijan). In 1911, he received a license that allowed him to teach in high schools and moved to a Baku suburb, Sabunchu. While teaching at a school, he took up music and cond

Mustafa Özkent

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Mustafa Özkent is a Turkish musician, composer and arranger. Best known for his 1973 album, Gençlik İle Elele, he also earned a reputation as an in-demand session player, arranger, and producer, “creating music that fused psychedelic and pop/rock influences with R&B grooves and jazz-influenced improvisations.” He was referred to by Andy Votel as the “Dr. Frankenstein of Anatolian pop”. Biography Özkent started his professional career in the band the Teenagers in 1960. Embarking a career as a session musician and arranger, Özkent signed with Evren Records which was known for its high production standards and audiophile recording techniques. He started recording Gençlik İle Elele with a hand-picked team of musicians and released it 1973. Discography ;Releases * Gençlik İle Elele (1973) * Elif (1975) * Günün Sevilen Şarkıları - 2 (1992) * Mazideki Şarkılar - 1 (1992) * Dijital Gitar (2005) * Dijital Piano (2006) * Funk Anatolian (2017) * Psychedelic sampling (2021) References External links *

Muzio Clementi

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Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer who was mostly active in England. Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford, who took him to England to advance his studies. Later, he toured Europe numerous times from his long-standing base in London. It was on one of these occasions, in 1781, that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti’s harpsichord school and Joseph Haydn’s classical school and by the stile Galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent and technical legato style, which he passed on to a generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and Carl Czerny. He was a notable influence on Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin. Clementi also produced and promoted his own brand of pianos and was a notable music publisher. Because of this activity, many compositions by Clementi'