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Composers whose names start with NE.

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Neapolitan School

In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy, the best known of whom is Alessandro Scarlatti,

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20th Century

Necil Kazım Akses

Necil Kazım Akses (6 May 1908 – 16 February 1999) was a Turkish classical composer. Life Akses studied music and composition at the Musikakademie in Vienna with Joseph Marx and at the Prague

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21st Century

Ned Bouhalassa

Ned Bouhalassa (born 25 August 1962 in Le Mans, France) is a composer of film scores, television scores, and electroacoustic music. Bouhalassa is a Canadian citizen, and has been living in Montreal

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Post-War

Ned Rorem

Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was

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21st Century

Ned Rothenberg

Ned Rothenberg (born September 15, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and

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21st Century

Negin Zomorodi

Negin Zomorodi (; also as "Negin Zomorrodi", ; born 22 April 1973 in Tehran) is an Iranian composer and pianist. Biography Negin Zomorodi was born in 1973 in Tehran. She began playing the piano at

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Negro Folk Symphony

The Negro Folk Symphony is a symphony composed by William L. Dawson in 1934 and revised in 1952. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra debuted the Negro Folk Symphony on November 14, 16,

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Medieval

Neidhart von Reuental

Neidhart (Middle High German ) c. 1190 (later often called Neidhart von Reuental) was one of the most famous . With around 1500 documented strophes of his songs surviving, Neidhart has the largest

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Neil Bartram

Neil Bartram is a musical theatre composer/lyricist based in New York. Bartram is the composer and lyricist of Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Theory of Relativity and Broadway's The Story of

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21st Century

Neil Brand

Neil Brand (born 18 March 1958) is an English dramatist, composer and author. In addition to being a regular silent film accompanist at London's National Film Theatre, Brand has composed new scores

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Post-War

Neil Chotem

Neil Chotem (9 September 1920 – 21 February 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator. Works Chotem's compositional style is tonal, and often incorporates

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Post-War

Neil Richardson (composer)

Neil Grant Richardson (5 February 1930 – 8 October 2010) was an English composer and conductor. Richardson composed "Approaching Menace" (the Mastermind theme tune) and "The Riviera Affair". During

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Post-War

Neil Rolnick

Neil Burton Rolnick (born October 22, 1947) is an American composer and educator living in New York City. Life Rolnick was born in Dallas, Texas, and studied English literature at Harvard University

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Post-War

Neil Slater

Kenneth Neil Slater (born July 3, 1931) is an American educator, composer, and pianist. In 2008, he retired as professor emeritus. He has composed over 80 works for jazz ensemble and has written for

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21st Century

Nélida Béjar

Nélida Béjar (born 1979 in Munich) is a Spanish composer based in Germany. She studied Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and Composition with Wilfried Hiller at Richard Strauss

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Late Romantic

Nellie von Gerichten Smith

Nellie von Gerichten Smith (April 24, 1871 – May 15, 1952) was an American composer, pianist, violinist, and writer who composed two operas. Smith was born in Sierra County, California, to Cecelia

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20th Century

Nellie Weldon Cocroft

Ellen Weldon Cocroft (November 4, 1885 – June 27, 1986) was an American musical composer. Early life Ellen Estelle Weldon was born on November 4, 1885, in Quitman, Georgia, the daughter of Richard

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Post-War

Nelly Moretto

Nelly Moretto (20 September 1925 – 24 November 1978) was an Argentine composer and pianist who is considered to be an innovator of electronic music in South America. She also served as the

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Post-War

Nelly Uchendu

Nelly Uzonna Edith Uchendu, MON (1950 12 April 2005), was a Nigerian singer, composer and actress. Revered for modernising traditional Igbo folk music, Uchendu rose to prominence upon the release of

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Post-War

Nelly Vuksic

Nelly Vuksic (born August 19, 1938) is an Argentinian conductor and singer. She has worked with a variety of groups in several styles, and has released albums with Americas Vocal Ensemble. Outside of

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Post-War

Neneco Norton

Neneco Norton (born Elio Ramon González; December 8, 1923 – March 9, 2013) was a Paraguayan musician, composer and orchestra director. Early life and career Norton was born on December 8, 1923, in

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21st Century

Nerida Tyson-Chew

Nerida Tyson-Chew (born 1965) is an Australian music composer, conductor and orchestrator, principally working in screen music. She won her first Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Award, in

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Post-War

Netta Aloni

Netta Aloni (; born 1945) is a contemporary Israeli composer who composes for vocal and instrumental ensembles. He has written chamber, choral and instrumental works for both solo and group

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20th Century

Netty Simons

Netty Simons (née Rothenberg) (26 October 1913-1 April 1994) was an American pianist, music editor, music educator and composer. Biography Netty Simons was born in New York City and studied music at

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21st Century

Nevel Gracias

Nevel Lourdes Sacramento Gracias (11 February 1964 – 13 May 2022) was an Indian Catholic priest, playwright, actor, singer, composer, director, and literary editor who primarily worked on the Konkani

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