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Na'ama Zisser

Na'ama Zisser () is a London-based composer. Her work is visually driven and often collaborative with other art forms, with a focus on opera, contemporary dance, moving image, installations, staged

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NaBBoo

Boban Apostolov (, born 2 November 1984), known as NaBBoo, is a Macedonian composer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. Biography Boban Apostolov was born in 1984 in Yugoslavia. At the age of

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Nachum Heiman

Nachum Heiman (; May 6, 1934 – August 17, 2016) was an Israeli composer and musician. Some of the over 1,000 songs he composed have become classics of Israeli folk music. Biography Nachum (Nakhche)

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Näcip Cihanov

Näcip Ğayaz ulı Cihanov (15 January 19112 June 1988, Russification : Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov) was a Soviet and Tatar composer, pedagogue and statesman. He was born in Uralsk; and died in Ufa.

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Nadeeka Guruge

Nadeeka Guruge (; born 27 September 1976) is a Sri Lankan composer, musician, and music educator. He is best known for his work in film and theatre music. Guruge has received multiple awards for his

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Nadezhda Simonyan

Nadezhda Simonyan (26 February 1922 - 7 June 1997) was a Russian composer, who wrote over 40 film scores for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for

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Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and

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Nagisa (harpist)

Nagisa or Nakisa was a noted harpist and composer of Sasanian music in the royal court of Khosrow II (). She was singing in this court. Nizami mentioned her in his book Khosrow and Shirin. Amir

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Naida McCullough

Naida Portia McCullough (c. 1901 – September 19, 1989) was an American educator, pianist, and composer based in Los Angeles. Early life Naida McCullough was born in Colorado, the younger daughter of

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Naji Hakim

Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim (Arabic: ناجي صبحي حكيم Naji Sobhi Hakim ; born 31 October 1955) is a Franco-Lebanese organist, composer, and improviser. He studied the organ under Jean Langlais at the

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Najla Jabor

Maia de Carvalho Najla Jabor (25 September 1915 – 9 March 2001) was a Brazilian conductor and composer. She composed concerti and symphonic works, but is best known for sacred songs. She was born and

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Nam Tae-hyun

Nam Tae-hyun (; born May 10, 1994), also known as Taehyun, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, producer and actor. He was previously the main vocalist of K-pop group Winner, in which he also

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Nancy Dalberg

Nancy Dalberg (born Nancy Hansen, 6 July 1881 – 28 September 1949) was a Danish composer. Born into a wealthy family, she studied under notable composers such as Johan Svendsen and Carl Nielsen, the

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Nancy Galbraith

Nancy Galbraith (born 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American postmodern/postminimalist composer. She is professor of composition at Carnegie Mellon University. Compositions Note: This list

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Nancy Laird Chance

Nancy Laird Chance (born March 19, 1931) is an American pianist and composer. She studied at Bryn Mawr College from 1949 to 1950 and Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 with Vladimir Ussachevsky,

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Nancy Plummer Faxon

Nancy Plummer Faxon (November 19, 1914 – February 1, 2005) was an American soprano, music educator, and composer of organ music. Early life and education Nancy Blanton Plummer was born in Jackson,

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Nancy Telfer

Nancy Telfer (born May 8, 1950) is a Canadian choral conductor, music educator and composer. Biography Nancy Ellen Telfer was born in Brampton, Ontario. She began piano lessons at age six and later

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Nancy Van de Vate

Nancy Jean Van de Vate (; December 30, 1930 – July 29, 2023) was an American-born Austrian composer, violist and pianist. She also used the pseudonyms Helen Huntley and William Huntley. She is known

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Nando Lauria

Nando Lauria (born 11 May 1960) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. Biography At the age of seven, Lauria picked up the violão (Brazilian acoustic guitar). He was raised in a musical family—his

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Nanna Liebmann

Nanna Magdalene Liebmann, née Lehmann, (September 27, 1849 – May 11, 1935) was a Danish, music educator, music critic, concert promoter and composer. Early life Nanna Lehmann was one of nine children

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Nanne Grönvall

Marianne Elisabeth Grönvall (, née Nordqvist; born 18 May 1962), known by her stage name Nanne (), is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Biography Grönvall's musical career started in the 1980s group Sound

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Nannie Louise Wright

Nannie Louise Wright (June 30, 1879 March 16, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator born in Fayette, Missouri. She graduated from Howard-Payne Junior College in Fayette and the

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Naoki Kodaka

is a Japanese video game music composer who worked for Sunsoft. He is currently a professor of music at several universities and occasionally composes new music for special events. Following his

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Naoya Wada

is a Japanese composer and arranger. Biography Born on June 6, 1986, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. A self-taught pianist, he began composing music at age 11 and completed his first band composition

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Napoléon Alkan

Napoléon Alexandre Alkan, born Napoléon Alexandre Morhange (2 February 1826 – August 1906), was a French composer and music teacher. Career Alkan was born in Paris, one of six children of Alkan

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Napoléon Coste

Claude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste (27 June 1805 – 14 January 1883) was a French classical guitarist and composer. Biography Napoléon Coste was born in Amondans (Doubs), near Besançon,

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Napoléon Henri Reber

Napoléon Henri Reber (21 October 1807 – 24 November 1880) was a French composer. Life and career Reber was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, and studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote

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Napoleon Orda

Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda (; ; 11 February 1807 – 26 April 1883) was a Polish–Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer, and artist, best known for numerous sketches of historical sites of the

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Narcisa Freixas

Narcisa Freixas i Cruells (13 December 1859 – 20 December 1926) was a Catalan sculptor, painter and composer. She was born in Sabadell, Barcelona, the daughter of Pere Freixas Sabater, and first

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Narcisse Girard

Narcisse Girard (28 January 179716 January 1860) was a French violinist, conductor and composer. Life Girard was born in Nantes. A pupil of Pierre Baillot (violin, winning first prize in 1820), and

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Narendra Bhide

Narendra Bhide (1973 – December 10, 2020, in Pune) was an Indian film score composer, best known for his work on the films Aandhali Koshimbir (2014), Chi Va Chi Sau Ka (2017), Hampi (2017), and

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Narong Prangcharoen

Narong Prangcharoen (born 23 July 1973) is a Thai composer of contemporary music. His compositions have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize, and the Alexander Zemlinsky International

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Natalia Janotha

Natalia Janotha (8 June 18569 June 1932) was a Polish pianist and composer. Biography Natalia Janotha was born in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Juliusz Janotha, who was a composer and teacher at

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Natalia Raigorodsky

Marie Leda Natalia Raigorodsky Heimsath Harter Parris (28 July 1929 - 28 August 2018) was an American composer, educator, and music critic who produced over 150 works, including two operas and two

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Natalie Draper

Natalie Draper is an American composer who teaches composition at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music. Biography Draper completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Peabody Institute of Johns

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Natalie Sleeth

Natalie Allyn Sleeth (née Wakeley; October 29, 1930 – March 21, 1992) was an American composer of hymns and choral music. Sleeth was born in Evanston, Illinois. She began to study the piano at the

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Natalise

Natalise (born Robin Nathalis Chow, on September 27, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter. Natalise has been featured on television networks such as the WB, UPN, CBS, ABC, and MTV. She is also

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Natasha Barrett (composer)

Natasha Barrett (March 1972, Norwich, England) is a British contemporary music composer specialising in electroacoustic art music. Her compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues. In

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Natela Svanidze

Natela Svanidze (, ; , ; 4 September 1926 – 17 November 2017) was a Georgian composer. Biography Natela Svanidze was born in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. She studied composition at Tbilisi State

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Nathan Currier

Nathan Currier (born 1960, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer. Biography Coming from a musical family, Currier is son of composer Marilyn Currier (1931) and brother of composer

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Nathan Felix

Nathan Felix (born 1981) is a classical music composer from Austin, Texas. He now resides in San Antonio. He is also the band leader for The Noise Revival Orchestra. Felix is known for his innovative

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Nathan Wang

Nathan Tsung-hsien Wang (; born August 8, 1956) is an American film composer, who has worked extensively in both the United States and in Hong Kong. He is best known internationally for his work with

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Nathaniel Cleophas Davis

Nathaniel Cleophas "N.C." Davis (1888-1972) was an African American musician, composer, educator, bandleader, and owner/publisher of N.C. Davis Music Company of Nashville, Tennessee. Early life Born

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Nathaniel D. Mann

Nathaniel D. Mann (1866–1915) was an American composer best known for his work with L. Frank Baum. He composed at least two songs with Baum, "Different Ways of Making Love" and "It Happens Ev'ry

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Nathaniel Giles

Nathaniel Giles (1558 – 1633 or 1634) was an English Renaissance organist and composer. He was the organist for Worcester Cathedral and wrote Anglican anthems. While Master of the Children of the

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Nathaniel Stookey

Nathaniel Stookey (born 25th April 1970, San Francisco, California) is an American composer and musician. Education Stookey is the son of Richard Phelps Stookey, an attorney and novelist, and Martha

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Nathi

Nkosinathi Mankayi (born 23 December 1982), professionally known as Nathi, is a South African singer-songwriter. He shot to limelight upon the release of his critically acclaimed song titled

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Natsagiin Jantsannorov

Natsagiin Jantsannorov (; born on 25 March 1949) is a Mongolian composer and musicologist, known for his modern classical Mongolian works. Early life Jantsannorov was born on 25 March 1949 in a place

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Naughty Boy

Shahid Khan (; born 1 January 1981), known professionally as Naughty Boy, is an English DJ, record producer, music programmer and songwriter. In 2012, Khan signed a three-year publishing deal with

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Nazim Aliverdibeyov

Nazim Aghalar oghlu Aliverdibeyov (August 24, 1926, Baku – February 16, 1986, Baku) was an Azerbaijani composer. He was the composer of the music for many famous Azerbaijani films. Life Nazim

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