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Nic Gotham

Nicholas Ivor Gotham, known as Nic Gotham, (27 September 1959 – 25 July 2013) was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer. His 1992 chamber opera, Nigredo Hotel, won two Dora Awards and was

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Nicanor Abelardo

Nicanor Santa Ana Abelardo (February 7, 1893 – March 21, 1934) was a Filipino composer known for his kundiman songs. Biography Early life Nicanor Abelardo was born in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan to

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Niccola Spinelli

Niccola Spinelli (29 July 1865 – 17 October 1909) was an Italian composer of operas. Born in Turin, the son of a jurist, he studied composition at the Naples Conservatory under Paolo Serrao. His

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Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli

Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (; 4 April 1752 – 5 May 1837) was an Italian composer, chiefly of opera during the classical period. Life Early career Zingarelli was born in Naples, where he studied (from

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Niccolò Castiglioni

Niccolò Castiglioni (17 July 1932 – 7 September 1996) was an Italian composer, pianist, and writer on music. Castiglioni was born and raised in Milan, where he began studying piano at the age of 7.

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Niccolò da Perugia

Niccolò da Perugia (Niccolò del Proposto also spelled as Nicolò. Latin, Magister Sere Nicholaus Prepositi de Perugia) (fl. second half of the 14th century) was an Italian composer of the Trecento,

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Niccolò Jommelli

Niccolò Jommelli (; 10 September 1714 – 25 August 1774) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for

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Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; ; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, guitarist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the

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Niccolò Piccinni

Niccolò Piccinni (; 16 January 1728 – 7 May 1800) was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although somewhat obscure today, Piccinni was at one time one of the

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Nicholas G. J. Ballanta

Nicholas G.J. Ballanta (1893–1962) was a Sierra Leonean music scholar, composer, and educator who conducted field research on the music of West Africa in the early 20th century. His education in

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Nicholas Halley

Nicholas Halley is a Canadian conductor, keyboardist, and composer based in Nova Scotia. Halley is the founder and Artistic Director of Capella Regalis Choirs, and the Assistant Director of Music at

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Nicholas Hooper

Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer and guitarist. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon, as well as the TV movies The Girl in

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Nicholas Lanier

Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (baptised 10 September 1588 – buried 24 February 1666) an honour given to musicians of great distinction. He was the court musician, a composer and performer and

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Nicholas Lens

Nicholas Lens Noorenbergh (born 1957) is a Belgian composer of contemporary music, particularly known for his operas. His work is published by Schott Music and distributed by Universal Music Group

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Nicholas Ludford

Nicholas Ludford (c. 1485 – 1557 ) was an English composer of the Tudor period. He is known for his festal masses, which are preserved in two early-16th-century choirbooks, the Caius Choirbook at

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Nicholas Maw

John Nicholas Maw (5 November 1935 – 19 May 2009) was a British composer. Among his works are the operas The Rising of the Moon (1970) and Sophie's Choice (2002). Biography Born in Grantham,

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Nicholas McRoberts

Nicholas Owen McRoberts (born 16 January 1977) is an Australian composer and conductor of classical music. Career He studied music in Australia, before moving to Paris, France where he lives today.

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Nicholas Michael Smith

Nicholas Michael Smith OBE (born 1967, also known as Nick Smith, ) is a British conductor, composer, and music educator. Since 1994, Smith has lived and worked in the People's Republic of China. His

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Nicholas O'Neill (composer)

Nicholas O'Neill (born 1 April 1970) is an English composer, arranger, organist and choral director. Biography O'Neill attended The King's School, Gloucester, and was a chorister at Gloucester

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Nicholas Staggins

Nicholas Staggins (died 13 June 1700 ) was an English composer. Staggins first studied music under his father. He was made Master of the King's Music by Charles II in 1674. In 1682, he was granted a

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Nicholas Van Slyck

Nicholas Van Slyck (October 25, 1922 - July 3, 1983 ) was an American composer of classical music. He founded the New School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976. Early life He was born in

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Nicholas Vines

Nicholas Vines (born Sydney, 1976) is an Australian composer currently based in Sydney. He is particularly active at home and in the United States. Interpreters of Vines’ work range from specialist

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Nick Didkovsky

Nick Didkovsky (born 22 November 1958) is a composer, guitarist, computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve. He is a former student of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros and Gerald

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Nick Driver

Nick Driver is an American rock and Americana singer-songwriter, based in North Carolina. In 2010, he released his debut solo album, Warm Is Your Color, which had a top-ten song hit on SiriusXM's The

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Nick Glennie-Smith

Nickolas Glennie-Smith (born 3 October 1951) is an English film score composer, conductor, and musician who is a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, contributing to scores including The Rock

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Nick Peros

Nick Peros (born March 17, 1963) is a Canadian classical composer. He bases his musical work on symphonic, orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber genres and is also a published author. He was born in

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Nick Roth (composer)

Nick Roth (born 27 April 1982) is an Irish / British saxophonist, composer, producer and educator. Work Roth's work explores the liberation of improvisation from composition, the poetic syntax of

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Nickitas J. Demos

Nickitas John Demos (born 1962) is a Greek American composer. He is known for his inventive inclusion of Greek elements and influence in his music. Education Demos holds a Doctor of Musical Arts

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Nickolas Mohanna

Nickolas Mohanna is an American artist, composer, and guitarist. His interdisciplinary practice employs a variety of media to explore and blur the borders between music, sound art, video and drawing.

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Nico Dostal

Nico Dostal (full name: Nikolaus Josef Michael Dostal) (27 November 1895 – 27 October 1981) was an Austrian composer who later specialised in operetta and film music. Life Dostal was born in

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Nico Fidenco

Domenico Colarossi (24 January 1933 – 18 November 2022) known professionally as Nico Fidenco, was an Italian singer and film soundtrack composer who gained considerable popularity in 1960 with the

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Nico Muhly

Nico Asher Muhly (; born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians. A prolific composer, he

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Nicola Antonio Manfroce

Nicola Antonio Manfroce (20 February 1791, in Palmi – 9 July 1813, in Naples) was an Italian composer. His first work was a cantata for Napoleon's birthday, which was performed at the Neapolitan

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Nicola Campogrande

Nicola Campogrande (born 9 October 1969 in Turin) is an Italian composer. His music is published exclusively by Breitkopf & Härtel. He's also active as music journalist, writing for the newspaper

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Nicola Conforto

Nicola Conforto (25 September 1718 – 17 March 1793) was an Italian composer. He studied music in his hometown at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto (Music conservatories of Naples), under the

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Nicola d'Arienzo

Nicola d'Arienzo (24 December 1842 – 25 April 1915) was an Italian composer, music pedagogue, and writer on music. He spent his entire career in his native Naples where all but one of his nine of his

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Nicola De Giosa

Nicola De Giosa (3 May 1819 – 7 July 1885) was an Italian composer and conductor active in Naples. He composed numerous operas, the most successful of which, Don Checco and Napoli di carnevale, were

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Nicola Fiorenza

Nicola (or Nicolò) Fiorenza (c. 1700-1710 – 13 April 1764) was a Neapolitan violinist and composer of the late Baroque period and a representative of the Neapolitan School. Life Biographical

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Nicola Francesco Haym

Nicola Francesco Haym (6 July 1678 – 31 July 1729) was an Italian opera librettist, composer, theatre manager and performer, literary editor and numismatist. He is best remembered for adapting texts

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Nicola LeFanu

Nicola Frances LeFanu (born 28 April 1947) is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director. to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy (also a composer, later Dame Elizabeth Maconchy). She

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Nicola Matteis

Nicola Matteis (Matheis) (c. 1650 – after 1713 ) was the earliest notable Italian Baroque violinist in London, whom Roger North judged in retrospect "to have been a second to Corelli," and a composer

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Nicola Montani

Nicola Aloysius Montani, KCSS (6 November 1880 in Utica, New York – 11 January 1948 in Philadelphia ) was a conductor, composer, arranger, and publisher of sacred music. His earliest musical studies

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Nicola Piovani

Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and film, television, and theatrical scores. A graduate of the Verdi Conservatory and pupil of Manos

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Nicola Porpora

Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati

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Nicola Sabini

Nicola Sabini (also Sabino; c. 16751705) was an Italian composer of the mid-Baroque period who spent his career in Naples. An influential figure in early Neapolitan opera buffa, his most important

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Nicola Sala

Nicola Sala (7 April 1713 – 31 August 1801) was an Italian composer and music theorist. He was born in Tocco Caudio and died in Naples. He was chapel-master and professor at Naples, having devoted

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Nicola Samale

Nicola Samale (born 14 September 1941) is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Nicola Samale studied 1959–72 at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Flute (Diploma 1963) Conducting (with

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Nicola Vaccai

Nicola Vaccai (15 March 1790 – 5 or 6 August 1848) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher. Life and career as a composer Born at Tolentino, he grew up in Pesaro, and

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Nicola van Westerhout

Nicola van Westerhout (also Niccolò; 17 December 1857 – 21 August 1898) was an Italian composer. Biography Early life and education Of Flemish origin, the family van Westerhout settled in Apulia in

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Nicola Vicentino

Nicola Vicentino (1511 – 1575 or 1576) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most progressive musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a

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Nicolae Bretan

Nicolae Bretan (; 25 March 1887 – 1 December 1968) In 1916, he received a degree in law at the University of Cluj. In addition to composing, Bretan held various positions as baritone singer, actor,

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Nicolao Dorati

Nicolao Dorati (c. 1513 – February 1593) was an Italian composer and trombone player of the Renaissance, active in Lucca. Although he was primarily an instrumentalist, all of his published music is

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Nicolas Bacri

Nicolas Bacri (born 23 November 1961) is a French composer who has written more than one hundred sixty works, including seven symphonies, eight cantatas, eleven string quartets, seven piano trios,

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Nicolas Becker (sound engineer)

Nicolas Becker is a French composer and sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Sound of Metal. Selected filmography * Sound of Metal (2020, co-won with Jaime

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Nicolas Bernier

Nicolas Bernier (28 June 1664 – 5 September 1734) was a French Baroque composer. Biography He was born in Mantes-sur-Seine (now Mantes-la-Jolie), the son of Rémy Bernier and Marguerite Bauly. He

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Nicolas Champion

Nicolas Champion (also Nicolas Liégeois, dis le Liégeois; c. 1475 – 20 September 1533) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. He was a member of the renowned musical

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Nicolas Chédeville

Nicolas Chédeville (20 February 1705 – 6 August 1782) was a French composer, musette player and musette maker. Biography Nicolas Chédeville was born in Serez, Normandy; musicians Pierre Chédeville

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Nicolas Chopin

Nicolas Chopin (; 15 April 17713 May 1844) was a teacher of the French language in Partitioned Poland, and father of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. Life Nicolas Chopin was born in the village of

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Nicolas Collins

Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954, in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music, a sound artist and writer. He received his BA and MA from Wesleyan University, and his PhD from the

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Nicolas Dalayrac

Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac (; bapt. 13 June 175326 November 1809), nicknamed the Musician poet, more commonly Nicolas Dalayrac, was a French composer of the Classical period. Intended for a military

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Nicolas de Grigny

Nicolas de Grigny (baptized 8 September 1672 – November 30, 1703) was a French organist and composer. He died young and left behind a single collection of organ music, and an Ouverture for

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Nicolas de La Grotte

Nicolas de La Grotte (also La Crotte) (1530 – c. 1600) was a French composer and keyboard player of the Renaissance. He was well known as a performer on the organ and on the spinet, as well as a

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Nicolas Economou

Nicolas Economou (; 11 August 1953 – 29 December 1993) was a Cypriot composer, pianist and conductor born in Nicosia, Cyprus. Economou came to international attention at the 1969 Tchaikovsky

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Nicolas Errèra

Nicolas Errèra (born 21 May 1967) is a French composer and musician working all over the world. Co-founder of innovative electronics groups Grand Popo Football Club and Rouge Rouge, he also composes

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Nicolas Flagello

Nicolas Oreste Flagello (March 15, 1928 – March 16, 1994) was an American composer and conductor of classical music. He was one of the last American composers to develop a distinctive mode of

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Nicolas Gigault

Nicolas Gigault (ca. 1627 – 20 August 1707) was a French Baroque organist and composer. Born into poverty, he quickly rose to fame and high reputation among fellow musicians. His surviving works

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Nicolas Gombert

Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – c. 1560) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous and influential composers between Josquin des Prez and Palestrina, and best

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Nicolas Goupillet

Nicolas Goupillet also Coupillet or Goupillier (Senlis, ca. 1650 - Paris, ca. 1713) was a French Baroque composer - albeit a composer who may not have himself composed all of his works. In 1683 the

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Nicolas Grenon

Nicolas Grenon (c. 1375 – October 17, 1456) was a French composer of the early Renaissance. He wrote in all the prevailing musical forms of the time, and was a rare case of a long-lived composer who

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Nicolas Isouard

Nicolas Isouard (; also known as Nicolò, Nicolò Isoiar or Nicolò de Malte; 18 May 1773 – 23 March 1818) was a Franco-Maltese composer. Biography Born in Valletta, Malta, Isouard studied in Rabat or

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Nicolas Lebègue

Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue (also Le Bègue; c. 16316 July 1702) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was born in Laon and in the 1650s settled in Paris, quickly establishing

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Nicolas Métru

Nicolas Métru (c. 1610 in Bar-sur-Aube – 1668 in Paris) was a French organist, viol player, and composer of pieces for viol and airs. From 1642 he was organist at St. Nicolas-des-Champs, then some

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Nicolas Millot

Nicolas Millot (d. 1590 or later) was a French composer of the late Renaissance, mainly of chansons. He was also a singer in the French royal chapel, which he served in various capacities for about

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Nicolas Nabokov

Nicolas Nabokov (Николай Дмитриевич Набоков; 17 April 1903 – 6 April 1978) was a Russian-born composer, writer, and cultural figure. He became a U.S. citizen in 1939. Life Nicolas Nabokov, a first

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Nicolas Namoradze

Nicolas Namoradze (born 19 August 1992) is a classical pianist, composer, and educator. He came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition,

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Nicolas Panagopoulos

Nicolas Panagopoulos (born 1954, in Athens) is a Greek composer of contemporary music. He studied piano and music theory at the National Conservatory of Athens. He continued his studies with a

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Nicolas Payen

Nicolas Payen (also Nicolas Colin) (c. 1512, in Soignies – after April 24, 1559) was a Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster of the Renaissance, associated with the Grande Chapelle, the Habsburg

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Nicolas Racot de Grandval

Nicolas Racot de Grandval (1676 – 16 November 1753) was a French composer, harpsichordist and playwright. He was born and died in Paris and was also named „Le Père Grandval“. Although a respectable

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Nicolas Roze

Nicolas Roze (17 January 1745 – 30 September 1819) was a French composer and music theorist. Biography Born in Mercurey, Roze was a choirboy at the , Nicolas Roze was noted for his beautiful voice

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Nicolás Ruiz Espadero

Nicolás Ruiz Espadero (February 15, 1832 – August 30, 1890) was a Cuban pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the posthumous works of American composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

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Nicolas Séjan

Nicolas Séjan (17 March 1745 – 16 March 1819 He was appointed to the Chapelle Royale in 1789. He lost his charges during the French Revolution, but later recovered some of them. He left a few works

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Nicolas Slonimsky

Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27 1894 – December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (), was a Russian-American musicologist, conductor, pianist, lexicographer, and composer. Best known for his

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Nicolas Zourabichvili

Nicolas Zourabichvili (born 24 October 1936) is a French composer. Biography Born in Paris, Zourabichvili began piano studies at the Bordeaux conservatory. He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger

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Nicolas-Charles Bochsa

Robert-Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (; 9 August 1789 – 6 January 1856) was a French harpist and composer. His relationship with Anna Bishop was popularly thought to have inspired that of Svengali and

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Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux

Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux (1745–1797) was a French composer born in Paris. According to music critic François-Joseph Fétis, Méreaux studied music under French and Italian teachers before

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Nicolas-Joseph Wackenthaler

Nicolas-Joseph Wackenthaler (6 December 1840 – 19 May 1913) was a French organist and composer. Life Born in Sélestat (Bas-Rhin), Wackenthaler belonged to a large family of Alsatian organists. His

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Nicolaus à Kempis

Nicolaus à Kempis, Nicolaus a Kempis or Nicolaes a Kempis (c. 1600 – buried in Brussels on 11 August 1676) was a Flemish composer and organist active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century. He

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Nicolaus A. Huber

Nicolaus A. Huber (born 15 December 1939) is a German composer. Education Huber was born in Passau. From 1958 to 1962, he studied music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and

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Nicolaus Adam Strungk

Nicolaus Adam Strungk (christened 15 November 1640 in Braunschweig – 23 September 1700 in Dresden) was a German composer and violinist. Life Nicolaus Adam was the son of the organist Delphin Strungk.

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Nicolaus Bruhns

Nicolaus Bruhns (also Nikolaus, Nicholas; late 1665 – 8 April 1697 in Husum) was a Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his

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Nicolaus Ricci de Nucella Campli

Nicolaus Savini Mathei alias Ricci de Nucella Campli, (fl. 1401–1425; d. 1438 or after), also Niccolò Ricci and Nucella, was an Italian composer, singer, and scribe of the late fourteenth and early

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Nicolaus Vetter

Andreas Nicolaus Vetter (; c. 1666 – 13 June 1734) was a German organist and composer. Biography He was born in Herschdorf, in present-day Thuringia. In his Zur Geschichte des Orgelspiels (1884),

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Nicolaus Zacharie

Nicolaus Zacharie (c. 1400 or before – 1466) was an Italian composer of the early Renaissance. Until recently he had been confused with the earlier composer Zacara da Teramo, but recent research has

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Nicole Carignan

Nicole Carignan (born 1952) is a Canadian composer and music educator living in Quebec. She is a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Early life and education Carignan was born in

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Nicole Laurel Asensio

Isobelle Nicole Laurel Asensio (born July 7, 1986), professionally known as Nicole Asensio, is a Filipino actress, singer and songwriter. After providing lead vocals for all-girl rock band General

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Nicole Lizée

Nicole Lizée (born 7 April 1973) is a Canadian composer of contemporary music. She was born in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan and received a MMus from McGill University. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. She

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Nicole Rampersaud

Nicole Rampersaud is a Canadian trumpeter and composer. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a member of several bands, and her solo debut album Saudade was nominated for the 2024 East Coast Music

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Nicolò Gabrielli

Count Nicolò Gabrielli di Quercita (21 February 1814 – 14 June 1891) was an Italian opera composer. Biography Born in Naples, at the time when the city was the capital of the Kingdom of the Two

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Nicu Alifantis

Nicu Alifantis (born May 31, 1954) is a Romanian Folk singer, songwriter, stage actor and poet. With an over fifty-year musical career, Alifantis is best known for his discography created with fellow

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Nicu Covaci

Nicolae "Nicu" Covaci (19 April 1947 – 2 August 2024) was a Romanian guitarist, painter, and music composer. He is best known as the leader and founding member of rock and cult band Phoenix, for

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Niel Gow

Niel Gow (22 March 17271 March 1807) was a Scottish fiddler in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Early life Gow was born in Strathbraan, Perthshire, in 1727, as the son of John Gow and

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Niels Eje

Niels Eje (born 1954) is a Danish composer and oboist. Early life Niels Eje was born in Copenhagen and was educated at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music from 1974 to 1979. Thereafter he studied with

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Niels Gade

Niels Wilhelm Gade (22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. Together with Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, he was the leading Danish

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Niels Marthinsen

Niels Marthinsen (born 1963 ) is a Danish composer in the classical tradition. He studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus from 1982 to 1990 as a student of Per Nørgård. Other

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Niels Viggo Bentzon

Niels Viggo Bentzon (24 August 1919 – 25 April 2000) was a Danish composer and pianist. Biography Bentzon was born and died in Copenhagen. He was the son of Viggo Bentzon (1861-1937), Rector of

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Nigel Butterley

Nigel Henry Cockburn Butterley (13 May 1935 – 19 February 2022) was an Australian composer and pianist. Life and career Butterley was born in Sydney and learned to play the piano at the age of five.

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Nigel Godrich

Nigel Timothy Godrich (born 28 February 1971) is an English record producer, recording engineer and musician. He has worked with acts including Radiohead, Travis, Beck, Air, Paul McCartney, U2,

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Nigel Hess

Nigel John Hess (born 22 July 1953) is a British composer, best known for his television, theatre and film soundtracks, including the theme tunes to Campion, Maigret, Wycliffe, Dangerfield, Hetty

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Nigel Keay

Nigel Keay (born 1955) is a New Zealand composer. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher. Nigel Keay has held the following composer

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Nigel Osborne

Nigel Osborne (born 23 June 1948) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker. He served as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh and has also taught at the Hochschule für Musik,

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Nigel Westlake

Nigel Westlake (born 6 September 1958) is an Australian composer, musician and conductor. As a composer for the screen, his film credits include the feature films Ali's Wedding, Paper Planes, Miss

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Nikhil Korula

Nikhil Korula (born December 27, 1978) is an Indian American singer-songwriter, bandleader, and label owner, known as founder and front-man of The Nikhil Korula Band, or NK Band. Based in Los

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Nikita Koshkin

Nikita Arnoldovich Koshkin (; born 28 February 1956) is a classical guitarist-composer born in Moscow USSR. His early influences included Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, as well as rock

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Nikka Costa

Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born June 4, 1972) is an American singer whose music combines elements of pop, soul, and blues. She began her career as a child singer in the early 1980s. She is the daughter

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Nikki Iles

Nikki Anne Iles (née Burnham; born 16 May 1963) is a British jazz composer, pianist and educator. Early life Iles was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 16 May 1963. She started her musical

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Nikki McKibbin

Katherine Nicole McKibbin (September 28, 1978 – November 1, 2020) was an American rock music singer-songwriter who finished third in the debut season of the reality television series American Idol.

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Nikolai Bakhmetev

Nikolai Ivanovich Bakhmetev (, scientific transliteration: Nikolaj Ivanovič Bachmetev; 1807–1891) was a Russian soldier, composer, violinist and long-serving director of the Imperial Court Capella in

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Nikolai Dmitriev (composer)

Nikolai Dmitrievich Dmitriev (; 5 August 1829 – 27 July 1893) was a Russian composer and pianist. Dmitriev was born in Moscow and attended a boarding school. He studied piano with Alexandre Villoing.

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Nikolai Kapustin

Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin (, 22 November 1937 – 2 July 2020) was a Soviet-born Russian composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in the synthesis of jazz

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Nikolai Karetnikov

Nikolai Nikolayevich Karetnikov (; 28 June 1930 in Moscow – 9 October 1994 in Moscow) was a Russian composer of the so-called Underground – alternative or nonconformist group in Soviet music.

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Nikolai Korndorf

Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf (, January 23, 1947 – May 30, 2001) was a Russian and Canadian (from 1991) composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia, and in Vancouver, British

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Nikolai Lodyzhensky

Nikolai Nikolayevich Lodyzhensky (Russian: Николай Николаевич Лодыженский; 1 January 1843 15 February 1916) was a Russian composer and diplomat. Lodyzhensky was born in Saint Petersburg. He was the

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Nikolai Medtner

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (; 5 January 1880 – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist. A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number

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Nikolai Myaskovsky

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (; ; 20 April 18818 August 1950) was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the Soviet Symphony". Myaskovsky was awarded the

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Nikolai Peiko

Nikolai Ivanovich Peiko (; 25 March 1916, Moscow – 1 July 1995, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet composer and professor of composition. Early life Peiko began his music education at the Academic

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Nikolai Rakov

Nikolai Petrovich Rakov (; 14 March 1908 – 3 November 1990) was a Soviet violinist, composer, conductor, and academic at the Moscow Conservatory where he had studied. He composed mostly instrumental

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio

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Nikolai Roslavets

Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets ( 23 August 1944, also Mykola Andriiovych Roslavets) was a modernist composer active in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. Roslavets was a convinced modernist

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Nikolai Rubinstein

Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (; 14 June 1835 – 23 March 1881) was a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich

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Nikolai Tcherepnin

Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin or Cherepnin (; May 15 1873 – 26 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Nikolai Titov

Nikolai Alexeyevich Titov (; 10 May 1800 in St. Petersburg – 22 December 1875 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian composer, violinist, and Major General in various regiments during the 19th century. He

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Nikolaos Mantzaros

Nikolaos Chalikiopoulos Mantzaros ( ; ; 26 October 1795 – 12 April 1872) was a Greek-Italian composer, born in Corfu. He was a major representative and founder of the so-called Ionian school of music

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Nikolaus Brass

Nikolaus Brass (born 25 October 1949) is a German composer. Life and career Born in Lindau (Bodensee), Brass began composing early. After graduating from high school in 1968, he studied medicine in

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Nikolaus Decius

Nikolaus Decius (also Degius, Deeg, Tech a Curia, and Nickel von Hof; c. 1485 – 21 March 1541 ) was a German monk, hymn-writer, Protestant reformer and composer. Biography He was probably born in Hof

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Nikolaus Herman

Nikolaus Herman (first name also Nicolaus or Niklas; 1500 – 3 May 1561) was a German Lutheran cantor and teacher, creating numerous Protestant hymns. Some of them are contained in hymnals in several

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Nikolaus Zmeskall

Count Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz (20 November 1759, Leštiny, Kingdom of Hungary (present day Slovakia) – 23 June 1833, Vienna, Austria) was an official in the Hungarian Court Chancellery,

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Nikolay Afanasyev (composer)

Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (; 12 January 1821 3 June 1898) was an Imperial Russian violin virtuoso and composer. His memoirs 'Vospominaniya' ('Reminiscences') appeared in 1890, and recorded his

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Nikolay Kedrov Sr.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Kedrov Sr. (; 28 October 1871 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian composer of liturgical music. His setting of Otche Nash (The Lord's Prayer) is one of the best-known in the

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Nikolay Sokolov (composer)

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov (; 26 March 185927 March 1922) was a Russian composer of classical music and a member of the circle that grew around the publisher Mitrofan Belyayev. Career Sokolov was

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Nikos Gounaris

Nikos Gounaris (; 1915 – 5 May 1965) was a Greek tenor who was enormously popular as a light music singer in the 1950s. Biography Gounaris was born in 1915 in Zagora. He began playing the mandolin at

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Nikos Papazoglou

Nikolaos "Nikos" Papazoglou (in Greek: Νίκος Παπάζογλου; 20 March 1948 – 17 April 2011) was a Greek singer-songwriter, musician, and producer from Thessaloniki. Papazoglou began performing in a

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Nikos Skalkottas

Nikos Skalkottas (; 21 March 1904 – 19 September 1949) was a Greek composer of 20th-century classical music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical

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Nils Henrik Asheim

Nils Henrik Asheim (born 20 January 1960 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian composer and organist, living in Stavanger. Asheim is educated at Norges Musikkhøgskole and the Sweelinck Conservatory in

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Nils Lindberg

Nils Lindberg (11 June 1933 – 20 February 2022) was a Swedish composer and pianist. Biography Lindberg was born in Uppsala on 11 June 1933. He was known both as a jazz composer and musician, but was

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Nils-Göran Areskoug

Nils-Göran Areskoug (18 May 1951 – 10 June 2025) was a Swedish physician, musicologist, composer, and author. He served as Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Research at the Swedish Academy and

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Nilson Lombardi

Nilson Lombardi (January 3, 1926 – April 9, 2008) was a pianist, composer and Brazilian maestro with a vast contribution to the classical music in many countries. His compositions have also been

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Nimrod Borenstein

Nimrod Borenstein (; born 1969) is a British-French-Israeli composer and conductor whose music is widely performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan. His works are becoming part

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Nina Humphreys

Nina Humphreys is a British composer of music for film and television. Humphries was educated at Brighton College from 1989 to 1991 and has a bachelor's degree in Music from the University of Exeter

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Nina Makarova

Nina Vladimirovna Makarova (; 12 August 1908, Yurino, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate – 15 January 1976, Moscow) was a Russian composer who had great interest in Russian and Mari folksongs. She studied

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Nini Bulterijs

Nini Bulterijs (also spelled Bulterys) (20 November 1929 – 12 December 1989) was a Belgian composer. She was born in Temse, East Flanders, and studied piano with Jozef d'Hooghe and harmony with

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Niniola

Niniola Apata (born 15 December 1986), known professionally as Niniola, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. She participated in the sixth season of Project Fame West Africa in 2013 After releasing

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Nino Marcelli

Nino Marcelli (about 1890 – August 4, 1967) was an Italian composer and conductor who revived the San Diego Symphony orchestra. Marcelli wrote compositions for musical theatre and oratorio including

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Nino Rota

Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (; ; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico

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Niño Ruven

Ruven Jiménez Urbano (Doña Mencía, 1997), known by his stage name Niño Ruven, is a Spanish musician and composer specialized in flamenco. He has established himself as one of the leading and

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Ninón Lapeiretta de Brouwer

Ninón Lapeiretta Pichardo de Brouwer (January 4, 1907 – September 22, 1989), also called Ninón Lapeiretta de Brouwer, was a composer and pianist from the Dominican Republic. She is known for her

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Ninot le Petit

Ninot le Petit (also Johannes Parvi) (fl. ca. 1500 – 1520) was a French composer of the Renaissance, probably associated with the French royal chapel. Although a substantial amount of his music has

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Nisar Bazmi

Nisar Bazmi (1 December 1924 – 22 March 2007) was a composer and music director of Indian and Pakistan film industry. Nisar Bazmi was known as one of the accomplished musicians of South Asia. He also

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