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Nic Gotham

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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 nominated for the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Biography Life and career Gotham was born in Eastleigh, England and grew up in Ancaster, Ontario where his family emigrated when he was four years old. He studied at the University of Western Ontario and at York University, Toronto under the saxophonist David Mott and composer James Tenney. In the mid-1980s he played with Fred Stone’s improvising ensemble (known informally as Freddie’s Band). He went on to form his own ensembles which were active in the Canadian jazz scene during the late 1980s and 1990s, including his first band “Gotham City”, “Hemispheres” (a fifteen piece “big band” specialising in jazz and new music), and “40 Fingers” (an improvising saxophone quartet). In 1988 Gotham approached Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald to write the libretto for his first opera, Nigredo Hotel after having composed the incidental music and sound effects for her play Goodnight Desdemona. The opera, a commission by Tapestry New Opera Works

Nicanor Abelardo

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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 Valentin Abelardo and Placida Santa Ana, on February 7, 1893 His mother belonged to a family of artists in Guagua, the Henson. He was introduced to music when he was five years old when his father taught him solfeggio, the bandurria, and the guitar at 6. His quick mastery of the instruments made him a local prodigy. He could play his father’s arrangement of Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” on the guitar at age 6. He also learned the violin and other string instruments given to him by his father, and learned how to play quickly without much difficulty. In 1901, he wrote his first composition, “Ang Unang Buko”, and dedicated it to his grandmother. In 1902, Nicanor’s uncle, the painter Juan Abelardo, took him to Manila to attend several schools. During this time Nicanor became the favorite among the haranistas who admired his skill at such a young age. This was also the time when he learned how to play the piano. He saw a piano for the first time at a factory of one of his uncle’s client

Niccola Spinelli

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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 opera Labilia won the second-place prize in an 1890 opera competition organized by Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno, and premiered in Rome on 9 May 1890; A basso porto was first performed in England by the Carl Rosa Co. in March 1899 at Brighton, and by the Queen’s Hall Orchestra on 11 October 1900, under Henry Wood. The opera focuses on the slums of Naples, where Spinelli used mandolins and guitars in several places in his orchestral score. The mandolinists were Florimond and Cesare Costers. The mandolins were an important part of the opera, accompanying the tenor song of the second act, and the finale of the third act. More importantly, Spinelli composed an intermezzo for mandolins and orchestra, as a prelude to the third and last act, a departure from the customary instrumentation. Philip J. Bone said that the audience reaction to the intermezzo “was extraordinary”. Bone, a music historian, added more detail about the use of mandolins by Spinelli, saying, “Spinelli makes good us

Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli

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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 the age of 7) at the Santa Maria di Loreto conservatory under Fenaroli and Speranza. In 1789–1790 Zingarelli went to Paris to compose Antigone. He left France hurriedly at the time of the revolution and eventually returned to Italy. He was appointed maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral in 1793, and remained there until 1794, when he took up the prestigious post of maestro di cappella at the Basilica della Santa Casa, Loreto. Rome In 1804, Zingarelli was appointed choir master of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Seven years later he publicly refused, as an Italian patriot, to conduct a Te Deum for Napoleon’s new-born son, known as King of Rome, in St. Peter’s Basilica. As a result of this refusal he was captured and taken to Paris. Nevertheless, the Emperor was a great admirer of Zingarelli’s music and soon gave the composer his liberty. In addition, Zingarelli was awarded a state pension. Naples In 1813, Zingarelli moved to Naples, where he became director of the conservatory. Then in 181

Niccolò Castiglioni

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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. He received his performer’s diploma from the Milan Conservatory in 1952, and graduated there in composition in 1953. His student compositions were marked by Stravinsky’s neo-classicism, but after graduation his style changed under the influence of the Second Viennese School. His interest in twelve-tone technique was joined with musical-political engagement, though this was short-lived. The Impromptus I–IV, identified by the composer as his first true opus, abandoned these expressionistic tensions, and these four short pieces exhibit a close relationship to Webern’s aphoristic style, while also moving closer to the European avant garde. Personal contact with Luciano Berio at the RAI electronic music studio in Milan also influenced Castiglioni’s direction at that time, and his attendance at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse completed this development. During the years 1958 to 1965 he taught at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. From 1966 to 1970 he taught composition as composer-in-residence at SUNY

Niccolò da Perugia

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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, the musical period also known as the “Italian ars nova”. He was a contemporary of Francesco Landini, and apparently was most active in Florence. Life and career Little is known for certain about his life; only a few biographical details are verifiable from extramusical sources. He was probably from Perugia, and may have been the son of the provost (“proposto”) there. In 1362 he was listed as a visitor to the monastery of Santa Trinita along with Gherardello da Firenze. From the evidence of his music, he was probably a friend of the Florentine poet Franco Sacchetti, and must have done the bulk of his composing between 1360 and 1375, since those are the outside dates known for the poems he set. He may be the same as the Ser Niccolò recorded as a notable singer of laude in 1393. One of his compositions, La fiera testa, was likely written against the Visconti family when Florence was at war with Milan between 1397 and 1400; Niccolò may have been in Perugia then. Music A total of 41 compositio

Niccolò Jommelli

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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 certain operatic reforms including reducing ornateness of style and the primacy of star singers somewhat. Biographical information Early life Jommelli was born to Francesco Antonio Jommelli and Margarita Cristiano in Aversa, a town some 24 km north of Naples. He had one brother, Ignazio, who became a Dominican friar and was of some help to him in his elder years, and three sisters. His father was a prosperous linen merchant, who entrusted him for musical instruction to Canon Muzzillo, the director of the choir of Aversa Cathedral. When this proved successful, he was enrolled in 1725 at the Conservatorio di Santo Onofrio a Capuana in Naples, where he studied under Ignazio Prota alongside Tomaso Prota and Francesco Feo. Three years later he was transferred to the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, where he was trained under Niccolò Fago, with Don Giacomo Sarcuni and Andrea Basso, as second maestri (maestri di canto), or singing teachers. He was greatly influenced by Johann Adolf Has

Niccolò Paganini

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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 pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers. Son of a ship chandler from Genoa, Paganini showed great gifts for music from an early age and studied under Alessandro Rolla, Ferdinando Paer and Gasparo Ghiretti. Accompanied by his father, he toured northern Italy extensively as a teenager. By 1805 he had come into the service of Napoleon’s sister, Elisa Bonaparte, who then ruled Lucca where Paganini was first violin. From 1809 on he returned to touring and achieved continental fame in the subsequent two and a half decades, developing a reputation for his technical brilliance and showmanship, as well as his extravagant, philandering lifestyle. Paganini ended his concert career in 1834 amid declining health, and the failure of his Paris casino left him in financial ruin. He retired and died in Nice (at that time still part of the Kingdom of Sardinia) in

Niccolò Piccinni

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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 most popular opera composers — particularly of the Neapolitan opera buffa — of the Classical period of music of the mid- to late-18th century. Life Piccinni was born in Bari, in the Apulia region of Italy. From the age of fourteen, he was educated at the Conservatory of San Onofrio by Leonardo Leo and Francesco Durante, due to the intervention of the Bishop of Bari. His father, although himself a musician, was opposed to his son following the same career. Piccinni’s first opera, Le donne dispettose, was produced in 1755 with the patronage of Prince Vintimille. La buona figliuola represented a special moment in the history of eighteenth-century music, in which comedy began to take on a new dramatic force. It was the moment at which the self-consciously sentimental theatrical project of Carlo Goldoni (the opera’s librettist) was married with the developing musical language of classicism. This can especially be seen in the sensitive writing of Cecchina’s act 2 aria “Una povera ragazza”. The

Nicholas G. J. Ballanta

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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 European music influenced his musical compositions. The years he spent collecting indigenous African music prompted him to compose musical plays or operas set in African villages; his work combines elements from both African and European music. Early life Nicholas George Julius Taylor was born to Krio parents on 14 March 1893 in Kissy, near the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone. His mother was a Christian woman named Sarian Ade Wray, and his early memories included singing in the choir at St. Patrick’s Anglican Church. His father, Gustavus Taylor, played the violin and organ. A ship’s engineer, Gustavus Taylor travelled between Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Nicholas remembered his father performing concerts in the Gambia. Gustavus died in a shipping accident when Nicholas was ten years old. In 1905, Nicholas was sent to the CMS Grammar School in Freetown. Completing the high school course in less than the normal three years, he went to work as a clerk in the Sierra Leone attorney general’s of

Nicholas Halley

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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 the All Saints Cathedral in Halifax. Career From 2005 to 2008 Halley worked as the assistant director of Chorus Angelicus, a children’s choir, and Gaudeamus, a professional adult chamber choir, both founded by his father, Paul Halley. During this time, he performed as a conductor at Tanglewood’ Ozawa Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, as well as on national and international tours. In 2008, Halley moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to continue studying under his father, who moved to Nova Scotia to become Director of Music at the University of King’s College, St. George’s Round Church, and the Atlantic School of Theology. As an apprentice to his father, Halley continued to develop his musical life, focusing on developing skills in liturgical music, pipe organ and choral direction. From 2008 to 2021, Halley was the assistant director of Music at the University of King’s College in Halifax. Working together with his father who was Director of Music at

Nicholas Hooper

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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 the Café and My Family and Other Animals among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello Award for Original Score in 2004 for The Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for Prime Suspect: The Final Act. He studied at the Royal College of Music in the early 1970s where he scored his first films. His highest-profile scores were for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, for which he reunited with old friend director David Yates, with whom he had worked before on The Tichborne Claimant, The Way We Live Now, State of Play, The Young Visiters and The Girl in the Café. These were Hooper’s most notable works on blockbuster films. For Half-Blood Prince, he was nominated for a Grammy. However, he chose not to return for the final two installments, which were composed by French composer & conductor Alexandre Desplat. Hooper then scored the soundtrack to the Disney documentary African Cats, which was chosen as o

Nicholas Lanier

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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 Groom of the Chamber in the service of King Charles I and Charles II. He was also a singer, lutenist, scenographer and painter. Biography Nicholas Lanier was a descendant of a French family of royal musicians, the Lanière family, who were Huguenots, and was baptised at Greenwich. His father and grandfather left France to escape persecutions. His aunt, Emilia Bassano, was the daughter of Venetian musicians at the Tudor court and, before her marriage to Alfonso Lanier, had been the mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, and possibly Henry Wriothesly, Earl of Southampton. Historian A. L. Rowse suggested that she may well have been the famous Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The family settled in England in 1561. Nicholas Lanier was the son of Frances Galliardello and John Lanier, who was the son of Nicholas Lanier the Elder, court musician to the French King Henry II. His maternal grandfather was another royal musician, Mark Anthony Galliardello. Nicholas was fir

Nicholas Lens

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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 and Sony BMG. In 2020 Lens signed with Deutsche Grammophon. He lives alternately in Brussels and Venice, and has one daughter, the Berlin-based painter Clara-Lane Lens Works Operas * Costello in limbo (Elizabeth Costello at the gate), opera, world premiere 2028 at La Monnaie with libretto by John M. Coetzee in a staging by Barbora Horáková Joly and Allison Cook as soprano falcon in the title role * Is this the gate?, chamber opera with libretto by J. M. Coetzee, world premiere at Adelaide Festival, Australia 2024 * L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S, trance-minimal chamber opera with libretto by Nick Cave, written and produced by Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave, release by Deutsche Grammophon 2021 * Shell Shock, opera with libretto by Nick Cave, world premiere on 24 October 2014 at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie * Slow Man, opera with libretto by J. M. Coetzee based on his novel Slow Man, world premiere on 5 July 2012 at the Malta Festival, Grand Theatre, Poznań Vocal and chamber music * The Puppet Designer (Der

Nicholas Ludford

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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 Caius College, Cambridge, and the Lambeth Choirbook at Lambeth Palace, London. His surviving antiphons, all incomplete, are copied in the Peterhouse partbooks (Henrican set), which disappeared from view until some were rediscovered in 1850, and the rest only in 1926. Ludford is well known as being the composer of the only surviving cycle of Lady Masses, small-scale settings of the Ordinary and Propers in three parts to be sung in the smaller chapels of religious institutions on each day of the week. Ludford’s composing career, which appears to have ended in 1535, is seen as bridging the gap between the music of Robert Fayrfax (1465–1521) and that of John Taverner (1490–1545). Music scholar David Skinner has called Ludford “one of the last unsung geniuses of Tudor polyphony”. In his Oxford History of English Music, John Caldwell observes of Ludford’s six-part Mass and Magnificat Benedicta that it “is more a matter of astonishment that such mastery should be displayed by a composer of whom v

Nicholas Maw

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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, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence Frederick Maw and Hilda Ellen Chambers. He attended the Wennington School, a boarding school, in Wetherby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 14. He attended the Royal Academy of Music on Marylebone Road in London where his teachers were Paul Steinitz and Lennox Berkeley. He then studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Max Deutsch. From 1998 until 2008, Maw served on the faculty of the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught music composition. He had previously served on the faculties of Yale University, Bard College, Boston University, the Royal Academy of Music, Cambridge University, and Exeter University. Personal life In 1960, Maw married Karen Graham, and they had a son and a daughter. Their marriage was dissolved in 1976. He took up residence in Washington, DC in 1984, living there with his companion Maija Hay, a ceramic artist, until his death. Compositions Maw is best known for Sc

Nicholas McRoberts

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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. In 2023 he founded Opéra Biarritz with the support of the city and acts as their artistic and musical director. Their original adaptation of La traviata received widespread praise. With Opéra Biarritz he has since conducted its New Year’s concert and, in April 2026, a charity concert with the Basque choirs Oldarra and Itsasoa in aid of the restoration of Biarritz’s Sainte-Eugénie church. In 2023 he conducted the Orchestre Demos Orchestre de Paris at the Philharmonie in Paris and was subsequently named as conductor for the 2024/2025 season. His Symphony No. 1 “From the Old World” was premiered by the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra on 27 August 2022 with the composer conducting. His Adagio for Strings was commissioned for the Nürtinger Chamber Orchestra and first performed on 14 November 2021, conducted by Friederike Kienle. It was written during the Covid lockdowns and recorded with the Janáček Philharmonic in March 2021. The French première was given by the Ensemble Orchestral de Biarritz,

Nicholas Michael Smith

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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 contributions to classical music performance and education in China have been the subject of documentaries and interviews on Chinese television and radio. In 2011, Smith was awarded an OBE in recognition of his “services to music and to UK/China relations”. Biography After relocating to Beijing in 1995, Smith worked with the Beijing Concert Hall on educational concerts to foster interest in western classical music with Chinese audiences. In 1997, Smith founded the Peking Sinfonietta and, in 2002, the Beijing International Festival Chorus. Smith has worked with Chinese author Hong Ying composing incidental music for her children’s book The Girl from the French Fort, premiering the work at Beijing Concert Hall in 2016. Smith has also translated several of Hong Ying’s children’s books into English. In 2019, Smith’s recording of the oratorio Corona Divinae Misericordiae by David Braid with soprano Patricia O’Callaghan was nominated for a Juno Award for ‘Classical Album of the Year’. In 2020

Nicholas O'Neill (composer)

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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 Cathedral under the direction of John Sanders. O’Neill went on to study music at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, first under John Harper and then under Grayston “Bill” Ives. O’Neill holds the posts of Composer in Residence to the Parliament Choir and to the Academy of Saint Cecilia. He is also President of Cantores Salicium, and associate director of Music at St. Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. He was Organist of St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark, until the end of 2010 and was Chorus Master to the Malcolm Sargent Festival Choir for a decade. His music has been performed and broadcast internationally, his Missa Sancti Nicolai being chosen as the Mass setting for the BBC1 live television broadcast of Midnight Mass in 2011. His Christmas carol Sweet Was The Song was recorded by the BBC Singers in 2011 and featured in their Carols For Breakfast series, and his arrangement of This Joyful Eastertide featured as the Anthem on BBC Radio 4’s The Daily Service in 2013 with the Cho

Nicholas Staggins

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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 musical doctorate by Cambridge University, and from 1684 until his death was Professor of Music at Cambridge. Following his death on the night of 12–13 June 1700, he was succeeded by John Eccles. From the few fragments of his compositions that survive, his musical ability is generally regarded to have been slender. His most significant work was his music for John Crowne’s masque Calisto, or The Chaste Nymph. His other works include odes for the birthdays of William III (in at least 1693, 1694 and 1696). He also wrote incidental music for John Dryden’s Conquest of Granada and Marriage à la Mode, George Etheridge’s The Man of Mode, Nathaniel Lee’s Gloriana, and Thomas Shadwell’s Epsom Wells. In Tom Brown’s Letters from the Dead to the Living, Staggins is described as “bandy legged and contemptuously regarded”. Following his death he was buried in Woollon on 16 June 1700 at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. References External links * Song from Marriage à la Mode

Nicholas Van Slyck

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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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1922. He graduated from Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in 1940 and Harvard University (Class of 1944) where he studied with Walter Piston. He served in the United States Navy from March 1943 to June 1945 in World War II. He was a Seaman 2nd Class (Musician) and served with the 30th Construction Battalion (Seabees). While attending Harvard in the 1940s, he was also the director of the Harvard Chamber orchestra. Career He was a composer and concert pianist. From 1950 to 1962, he was the director of the South End Music Center in Boston, Massachusetts and from 1962 to 1976, he was the director of the Longy School of Music of Bard College. From 1962 to 1967, he was the conductor of the Quincy Symphony. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra played his music at the 10 year anniversary of the New School. Honors *1983 Composer of the Year from Music Teachers National Association Works References External links *Allmusic profile *The Harvard Crimson coverage abo

Nicholas Vines

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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 new music ensembles to high school students. He has received prizes from the US, UK and Poland, as well as Australian honours such as APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards. His compositions are published by Faber Music, Wirripang and the Australian Music Centre. Three albums of his music are available commercially: Torrid Nature Scenes (Stephen Drury & the Callithumpian Consort), Loose, Wet, Perforated (Guerilla Opera) and Hipster Zombies From Mars (Ryan MacEvoy McCullough). While at the University of Sydney, Vines’s main teachers were Anne Boyd, Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards. He later completed a PhD at Harvard University, studying with Harrison Birtwistle, Bernard Rands, Magnus Lindberg, Julian Anderson, Lee Hyla, Mario Davidovsky, Judith Weir and Michael Finnissy. Vines actively identifies with transmodernism. His compositional approach is rooted in the technical resources of the Western classical canon, while embracing sounds and ideas from an array of popular, experimental, Australian and

Nick Didkovsky

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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 Shapiro. He received a master’s degree in Computer Music from New York University in 1987 and went on to develop a Java music API called JMSL (Java Music Specification Language). JMSL is a toolbox for algorithmic composition and performance. JMSL includes JScore, an extensible staff notation editor. JMSL can output music using either JavaSound or JSyn. He has presented papers on his work at several conferences. He was a composing member of the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet for the ten years of the band’s tenure, and has also played in John Zorn’s band. record label is a harbor for his more extreme musical projects such as “split”, a guitar collaboration with Dylan DiLella of the technical death metal band Pyrrhon . His debut solo album was released in 1997 and featured contributions from Frith. His second album, Body Parts, came out of a collaboration with Guigou Chenevier. Didkovsky has composed for or performed on a number of CDs including: * 1987, Doctor Nerve Armed Observation, Label:

Nick Driver

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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 Coffee House radio station. Wildy’s World stated about Warm Is Your Color that “Driver looks to bring the energy of punk to the finesse and precision of pop music.” He has released several full-length albums and singles since, and his songs have been featured on the television shows Bad Girls Club: Atlanta, Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, The Real World: St. Thomas, and The Real World: Portland. On September 9, 2014, he released the EP Staring at My Ceiling in the Dark. Driver tours and records as part of The Nick Driver Band, which has appeared at festivals such as FloydFest. In 2011, he was nominated at the John Lennon International Songwriting Contest for folk, and in 2012, he was nominated for Humanitarian Songwriter of the Year at the Las Vegas Music Awards. Early life, education and early career Driver was born in Zebulon, North Carolina, where he grew up on a farm. Driver has stated that “I wanted to play music for as long as I can remember. I guess around 1999 it hit me that makin

Nick Glennie-Smith

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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 (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound), the 2006 historical film Children of Glory and the 1993 spy thriller Point of No Return. Glennie-Smith has also composed the scores for the films Home Alone 3 (1997), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), We Were Soldiers (2002), Secretariat (2010), the score for the Disney direct-to-video animated film The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride (1998), Lauras Stern (2004), The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island and A Sound of Thunder (both 2005). Glennie-Smith is a part of Hans Zimmer’s film score company Remote Control Productions, for which he has conducted music for the soundtracks on Transformers (2007–2017), X-Men: First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (both 2011). He was Zimmer’s accompanist on the score for Man of Steel (2013). Glennie-Smith is the master composer of the music in the French theme park le Puy du Fou. He has collaborated with the former Pink Floyd bassist, Roger Waters. He worked on Waters’ score for the

Nick Peros

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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 Toronto, Ontario. Compositions and recordings Peros’ catalogue of works includes compositions for a cappella chorus, accompanied solo voice, solo instrumental works, as well as chamber and orchestral works. Vocal Peros’s vocal works are primarily songs for solo voice and piano and are settings of various poetic texts, including texts by Emily Brontë, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, A.E. Housman, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, et al. His CD Songs (Phoenix Records, 2000), performed by soprano Heidi Klann and pianist Alayne Hall, features thirty-one songs for voice and piano, seventeen of which are settings of the poetry of Brontë, with a number of those being the first time her poems have been set to music. Choral Peros’s choral works focus largely on a cappella motets, composed for two to five part choruses and characterized by both homophonic and polyphonic textures. Peros’ debut CD Motets (Phoenix Records 1999), Prayer of Consolation is a large-scale a cappella choral wor

Nick Roth (composer)

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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 philosophical enquiry, and the function of music as translative epistemology (MaTE). He has developed projects in collaboration with scientists Thomas E. Lovejoy, Margaret D. Lowman, Iain Couzin and Henry S. Horn and his work has been commissioned and performed by the European Saxophone Ensemble, T. S. Eliot Foundation, RTÉ ConTempo Quartet, Happy Days International Beckett Festival, Trio InVento, The Ark Cultural Centre for Children, Dublin Dance Festival, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Yurodny Ensemble, Emma Martin Dance, National Concert Hall Dublin, Temenos and Rough Magic, with performances at international festivals including the Irish representation at the ISCM World Music Days 2016 in Tongyeong, South Korea. As a performer, his collaborations include work with Jennifer Walshe, Savina Yannatou, John Taylor, Iarla Ó Lionáird, M.C. Schmidt, Gavin Bryars, Bobby McFerrin, Tom Arthurs, Lucas Niggli, Kate Ellis, Mihály Borbély, Matthew Jacobson, Miklós Lukács, Francesco Turrisi, Cora Venus

Nickitas J. Demos

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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 degree in Composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University where he studied with Donald Erb. He also holds a Master of Music degree in composition from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he studied with Donald Erb, Eugene O’Brien, Harvey Sollberger, and John Eaton. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied composition with Roger Hannay. Critical acclaim His music has been described as “rich… powerful” having “remarkable substance” as well as “lively… attractive, kinetic and… intriguing” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; as “fresh and exhilarating” by The Nashville Scene; as “…compelling…deeply evocative music…well worth exploring…” by the Georgia Music News and as “ambitious…sophisticated” and “…a reflection of the current mix of styles and aesthetic postures” by the New York-based magazine, The New Music Connoisseur. The premiere of his work,

Nickolas Mohanna

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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. Biography Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1979 , he moved to the Bay Area to study printmaking at San Francisco State University and later went to the University of California, Davis for an MFA in Art Studio. While there he took courses with Mike Henderson, Bob Ostertag, Annabeth Rosen, Douglas Kahn, and Wayne Thiebaud. He lives and works in New York. Work In his sound compositions, there is a “tendency of sculpting and orchestrating a minimal array of sounds into sonically rich and spacious atmospheres.” Some pieces explore field recordings processed into abstract soundscapes with electroacoustic procedures. “While other arrangements invoke a post-punk minimalism with flashes of Arthur Russell.” Most of the sounds are sourced from local environments. While certain tracks “bury melodies in multiple layers of distortion to reveal their latent chromatic richness through gradually mutating textural contrast.” The “consistent tone makes it all flow together like raindrops forming a lake.” The m

Nico Dostal

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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 Korneuburg, Lower Austria, and was the nephew of composer Hermann Dostal. He initially studied law at the University of Vienna, but turned to studying music at the Academy for Church Music in Klosterneuburg, and made a name for himself when his Great Mass in D major premiered in Linz in 1913. After participating in World War I, Dostal worked as the theatre Kapellmeister in Innsbruck, St. Pölten, Vienna, Chernivtsi and Salzburg, before moving to Berlin in 1924, where he turned his hand to secular music. He worked in music publishing and as a freelance arranger for Oscar Straus, Franz Lehár and Robert Stolz, among others. Whilst working as a Kapellmeister and composer, Dostal wrote the music for the film The Emperor’s Waltz (1933) and enjoyed great success with his first operetta Clivia. This was followed by Die Vielgeliebte (1934) (The Much-Loved), Die ungarische Hochzeit (1939) (The Hungarian Wedding), and numerous pieces of film music. In 1946 Dostal moved to Vienna, then in 1954 to Salzburg,

Nico Fidenco

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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 release of the song “What a Sky” (Italian: “Su nel cielo”), taken from the film Silver Spoon Set by Francesco Maselli. Self-taught in music, Fidenco did a few cover versions of film title songs for the Italian market. With the song “Legata a un granello di sabbia”, he was the first Italian singer to sell one million copies of a single. This interest in cinema led him to be a prolific soundtrack composer, including scores for westerns and many Joe D’Amato films. Selected filmography Discography 45 rpm singles * 1960: What a Sky / Su nel cielo RCA Italiana 45N 1109 * 1961: Just that Same Old Line / Trust Me RCA Italiana 45N 1122 * 1961: Non è vero / Una voce d’angelo RCA Italiana 45N 1127 * 1961: Il mondo di Suzie Wong / Tornerai… Suzie RCA Italiana 45N 1144 * 1961: Ghinza Street / Ghinza Street (strumentale) RCA Italiana 45N 1155 * 1961: Legata a un granello di sabbia / Ridi, ridi RCA Italiana PM45-1166 * 1961: Exodus / Come nasce un amore RCA Serie Europa PM45-3000 * 1962: Little Grain

Nico Muhly

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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 has composed for many notable symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles and has had two operas commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Since 2006, he has released nine studio albums, many of which are collaborative, including 2017’s Planetarium with Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister. He is a member of the Icelandic music collective and record label Bedroom Community. Biography Early years and personal life Muhly was born in Vermont to Bunny Harvey, a painter and teacher at Wellesley College, and Frank Muhly, a documentary filmmaker. Muhly was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, and sang in the choir at Grace Episcopal Church in Providence. He began studying piano at age 10. He graduated from the former in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and received a Master’s degree in music in 2004 from Juilliard, where he studied composition with John Corigliano and Christopher Rouse. In 2014, Muhly told the New York Times that he lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New

Nicola Antonio Manfroce

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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 court on 15 August 1809. Early life and education Little is known about Manfroce’s early years. He was the son of Carmela Rapillo and Domenico Manfroce, who served as maestro di cappella (chapel master) in Cinquefrondi. Sent to Naples by his father, Nicola pursued humanistic studies at a college and soon showed exceptional musical talent. From 1804, he studied composition at the Pietà dei Turchini Conservatory under Giovanni Furno and Giacomo Tritto. Career Manfroce’s first known work was the cantata La nascita di Alcide, composed in honor of Napoleon I and performed in 1809 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples for the royal court of Joachim Murat and Caroline Bonaparte. His early successes encouraged him to move to Rome, where he perfected his counterpoint studies under Nicola Antonio Zingarelli. His first opera, Alzira, premiered in Rome in 1810 at the Teatro Valle. Hecuba and final years The celebrated impresario Domenico Barbaja commissioned Manfroce to write a new opera, the three-act

Nicola Campogrande

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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 Corriere della Sera, and as radio host for RAI Radio3. He published several popular books about music. Selected works Stage * Il ventre del mare, words by Alessandro Baricco (1994) * Macchinario, words by Dario Voltolini (1995) * Capelas imperfeitas, words by Dario Voltolini (1997) * Cronache animali, on lyrics by Toti Scialoja (1998) * Quando piovvero cappelli a Milano, words by Gianni Rodari (from Tante storie per giocare) (2000) * Lego, words by Dario Voltolini (2000) * Alianti, words by Dario Voltolini (2001) * Tempi burrascosi, words by Dario Voltolini (2009) * Opera italiana, libretto by Elio and Piero Bodrato (2010) * De bello gallico, libretto by Piero Bodrato (2016) * Folon, libretto by Piero Bodrato (2017) * La notte di San Nicola, libretto by Piero Bodrato (2020) * I due usignoli, libretto by Piero Bodrato (2023) Orchestral (with and without soloists) * Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra (2002) from the Concerto per cembalo e archi BWV 1052 (Bach) * Sinfonietta (2004) * Absolut

Nicola Conforto

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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 tutorship of Giovanni Fischetti and Francesco Mancini . After receiving his training, he made his debut during the carnival of 1746 in Naples as an opera composer with La finta vedova (The false widow). In the following years he staged his other works both in Naples and in Rome; the fame he achieved thanks to these successes meant that in 1750 he received the commission from the Teatro San Carlo for his first opera seria, Antigonus . In 1749 he married the singer Zefferina Anselmi, with whom he had three children. In 1751 he wrote the cantata Gli orti esperidi (The Hesperides gardens) in honor of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, to celebrate the name day of the Spanish king Ferdinand VI on 30 May 1752 he presented the drama Siroe, and on 23 September 1754 for the birthday celebrations of the King of Naples Charles III he presented L’eroe cinese (the Chinese hero). These latter two works gained much acclaim in Madrid, so much so that in 1756 he was named compositore d’opera di cort

Nicola d'Arienzo

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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 operas were premiered. His other compositions included instrumental music, sacred music and art songs. From 1909 until 1911, d’Arienzo served as the director of the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella having taught there since 1875. He also wrote several books on the history and theory of music. Life and career Nicola d’Arienzo was born in Naples, the son of Maddalena (née Santelia) and Gaetano d’Arienzo. His father, a notary, was strongly opposed to him pursuing a career in music, and he initially studied piano secretly with Pietro Labriola and Michelangelo Russo. His uncle Marco d’Arienzo, a lawyer by profession and a prolific librettist by avocation, paid for the lessons and helped the young Nicola to overcome his father’s opposition. He went on to study harmony and counterpoint with Vincenzo Fioravanti and orchestration with Giovanni Moretti, both of whom were opera composers. From 1872, d’Arienzo had a parallel career as a music pedagogue and writer. He was appointed to the chair

Nicola De Giosa

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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 in the Neapolitan opera buffa genre. His other works included sacred music and art songs. His songs were particularly popular, bringing him fame as a salon composer both in Italy and abroad. De Giosa died in Bari, the city of his birth, at the age of 66. Life and career De Giosa was born in Bari to Angelantonio and Lucia (née Favia) De Giosa. He initially trained to be a flautist, first in Bari with his elder brother Giuseppe and then with Errico Daniele. Daniele recognized his talent and persuaded De Giosa’s father to enroll him at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. He passed the entrance examination at age 14 with sufficient merit to be awarded free tuition at the conservatory and continued his flute studies there with Pasquale Bongiorno. He also studied composition with Francesco Ruggi, Niccolò Zingarelli, and later with Gaetano Donizetti. According to contemporary accounts, he was one of Donizetti’s favourite pupils. In 1839, while still a student, two of his compos

Nicola Fiorenza

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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 information on Fiorenza’s schooling and early life is very scarce; he must have been born in the city of Naples somewhere in the very beginning of the 18th century. Nevertheless, we can be sure that he received his training at the conservatory of S. Maria del Loreto in his hometown under Giancarlo Cailò and Francesco Barbella. The first verifiable date in Fiorenza’s career is 1726, the year in which his sinfonia in A minor for flute, two violins and basso continuo was published. From 1734 to 1740 Fiorenza played, maybe as a violinist, in the Cappella Reale and with the orchestra of the Teatro S. Bartolomeo. More information is available about Fiorenza’s later years. An account of his election to the post of teacher for violin, cello and double bass at the Naples conservatory of S. Maria del Loreto on 22 May 1743 indicates that he succeeded Nicola Vitolo (who in his turn was the successor of Fiorenza’s former teacher Barbella). From 1750 onwards, however, Fiorenza was confronted with a series of

Nicola Francesco Haym

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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 into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini. Libretti that he provided for Handel included those for Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Flavio, Tamerlano, Rodelinda, and several others; for Bononcini, he produced two, Calfurnia and Astianatte. Compositions Haym was born in Rome. His career began as a cellist in Italy, and he arrived in London in 1701: he swiftly became master of the 2nd Duke of Bedford’s chamber music. He wrote the libretto for Bononcini’s Camilla, a seminal work of enormous success that did much to establish Italian opera in London. Later, when operas in London came to be performed entirely in Italian, rather than in a bilingual blend of English and Italian, Haym spent much time adapting both libretti and music for the many pasticcios that were staged at this time. Haym became the teacher and manager of the already successful soprano Joanna Maria Lindehleim negotiating a 100 guinea contract for ten performances in 1706. They would live toge

Nicola LeFanu

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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 studied at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship. She later became Director of Music at St Paul’s Girls’ School (1975–77), taught at King’s College London (1977–1995, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor), and was then a Professor of Music at the University of York, where she was Head of Department from 1994 to 2001. She retired from teaching in 2008. In 1979 she married the composer David Lumsdaine. She earned a Doctorate in Music from the University of London in 1988 and holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Durham and Aberdeen and from the Open University. She is active in many aspects of the musical profession, as composer, teacher and director. Works LeFanu has written around sixty works, including music for orchestra, chamber groups and voices (including four string quartets), and six operas. Her music is published by Chester Novello and Edition Peters. Opera * Dawnpath, a chamber op

Nicola Matteis

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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 of significant popularity in his time, though he had been utterly forgotten until the later 20th century. Very little is known of his early life, although Matteis was probably born in Naples, describing himself as ‘Napolitano’ in several of his works. He came to London in the early 1670s and according to the diarist Roger North, had a city merchant as a sponsor, who schooled him in the ways of currying favor from the gentry (by allowing them to accompany him in parlor recitals and other minor performances). John Evelyn reports in his diary for 19 November 1674, the earliest notice of Matteis, “I heard that stupendious Violin Signor Nichola (with other rare Musitians) whom certainly never mortal man exceeded on that instrument, he had a stroak so sweete, made it speaking like the Voice of a man and when he pleased, like a Consort of severall Instruments: he did wonders upon a Note: was an excellent Composer also. Nothing approched the violin in Nichola’s hand: he seemed to be inspired a

Nicola Montani

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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 were in Indianapolis with his brother Gaetano, Charles Schultze, composition with H. D. Beissenherz, organ with W. H. Donley, and Leslie E. Peck. In Indianapolis he formed part of the Montani Brothers Orchestra, and was also a member of the early Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Karl Schneider. In 1903 he studied in Rome at the Conservatory of St. Cecilia, studying voice with Clara Bretschneider and future wife Catherine Sherwood, organ with Filippo Capocci, Gregorian chant with Rodolfo Kanzler and Antonio Rella. Further personal studies were pursued in Rome with Don Lorenzo Perosi, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir. In 1906 he studied Gregorian chant with the Benedictine Solesmes monks exiled on the Isle of Wight in Appuldurcombe House, including with Dom André Mocquereau and Dom Eudine. Upon his return to New York, he was music director of Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, and professor of music at the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Mahwah, NJ. He moved to Ph

Nicola Piovani

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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 Hatzidakis, he began his professional career in the 1960s, and has written over 190 film scores since 1968. He is known for his collaborations with eminent directors like Roberto Benigni, Giuseppe Tornatore, Mario Monicelli, Nanni Moretti, and the Taviani Brothers. Piovani succeeded Nino Rota as Federico Fellini’s go-to composer for his final three films. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for a Grammy Award for his work on Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful (1997). Aside from his film scores, Piovani also works in musical theatre and opera, and also writes concert and chamber music. Life and career After high school, Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. In 1971 and 1973 collaborated for the music of two albums of the songwriter Fabrizio De André: Storia di un impiegato and Non al denaro non all’amore né al cielo. In 2008, after De

Nicola Porpora

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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 Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn. Biography Porpora was born in Naples, Italy. He graduated from the music conservatory Poveri di Gesù Cristo of his native city, where the civic opera scene was dominated by Alessandro Scarlatti. Porpora’s first opera, Agrippina, was successfully performed at the Neapolitan court in 1708. His second, Berenice, was performed at Rome. In a long career, he followed these up by many further operas, supported as maestro di cappella in the households of aristocratic patrons, such as the commander of military forces at Naples, prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, or of the Portuguese ambassador at Rome, for composing operas alone did not yet make a viable career. However, his enduring fame rests chiefly upon his unequalled power of teaching singing. At the Neapolitan Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio and with the Poveri di Gesù Cristo he trained Farinelli, Caffarelli, Salimbeni, and other cel

Nicola Sabini

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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 opera is the 1701 comedy Scherzo drammatico, Il mondo abbattuto. Life and career Nicola Sabini, also known as Nicola Sabino, was born c. 1675, probably in Naples. He studied with Angelo Durante (uncle of the better known Francesco Durante) at the . In May 1699, Sabini succeeded his teacher as the Convervatorio’s maestro di cappella. Possibly because of illness, he left his post in 1702, and died of tuberculosis three years later. Sabini was a member of the Congregazione de’ Musici (Congregation of Musicians) in Naples. An influential figure in the early history of opera buffa in Naples, Sabini’s most important work was the 1701 scherzo drammatico (dramatic jest), Il mondo abbattuto. Written to a libretto by S. de Falco for the Feast of Saint Casimir, it premiered for the city’s Congregazione de’ Musici at the San Giorgio Maggiore. Only the opera’s text survives, but by using both Tuscan and Neapolitan dialects, it created an influential model for future opera buffa. Sabini wrote a sacred

Nicola Sala

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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 himself to the collection of the finest models of printed music. Biography Sala studied music in Naples at Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini from 1732 to 1740 under Nicola Fago and Leonardo Leo. Some of his pupils were Carlo Lenzi, Giuseppe Gherardeschi, Benedetto Neri, Étienne-Joseph Floquet, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Louis Julien Casels de Labarre, Ercole Paganini, Gaspare Spontini, and many others. He probably wrote his first composition, the opera Vologeso, staged first in Rome, in 1737. In 1745 he was accepted as successor to Leo in the position of master of the royal chapel. In the sixties represented some of his works at the Teatro di San Carlo, including the drama Zenobia, composed by his pupil Ambrogio Minoja, was well received. In 1787 he became second master of the Pieta Turchini, where he stayed for 47 years as teacher and director of the conservatory. He was one of the most important Neapolitan teachers, having taught many musical composers. He wrote several pedagogical treatis

Nicola Samale

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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 Franco Ferrara, Diploma 1970), Composition as well as Instrumentation (Diploma 1972). He refined his conducting in classes with John Barbirolli (1964) and Hermann Scherchen (1965). Still in his studies, he won several conducting competitions, in particular 1968 in Florence (1st prize), 1969 at La Scala, Milan (2nd prize), 1969 the Respighi Competition in Venice (1st prize) and 1970 the RAI Competition in Rome (1st prize). Samale works as a composer and conductor. He appeared with almost all Italian orchestras and at Italian opera houses, furthermore in Bucharest, Frankfurt, Grenoble, Johannesburg, Katowice, Ljubljana, London, Mannheim, Miami, Paris, Pretoria, and Stuttgart. Samale was Principal Guest Conductor of the Sinfonica Abruzzese (1984–88), Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce (1993–94) and the Gran Orchestra Sinfonica di Montescaglioso in provincia di Matera (1997–2000) as well as Artistic Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Catanzaro (20

Nicola Vaccai

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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 studied music there until his parents sent him to Rome to study law. Having no intention of becoming a lawyer, he took voice lessons and eventually studied counterpoint with Giuseppe Jannaconi, an important Roman composer. When Vaccai turned twenty one, he went to Naples and became a disciple of Paisiello, whose Barber of Seville was considered a comic masterpiece until Rossini’s Barber swept it from the stage 35 years later. Vaccai launched his career in Venice, initially earning his living by writing ballets and teaching voice. He had his first operatic success with I solitari di Scozia in Naples in 1815. In Parma he was commissioned to write Pietro il grande, where he was also one of the soloists in the first performance. This was followed by Zadig e Astartea (Naples, 1825) and then his best known opera Giulietta e Romeo (Milan, 1825). Vaccai’s sojourn in London began with a production of his most successful opera, Romeo and Juliet, at Kings Theatre in April, 1832. His charm and conti

Nicola van Westerhout

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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 the seventeenth century, first in Bari and then in Monopoli. Nicola van Westerhout, grandfather of Niccolò, moved to Mola di Bari, where the composer himself and his father, Onofrio Augustine, were both born. At the age of 13, van Westerhout composed an opera on the subject of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, showing remarkable musical talent. He was then helped, by the City Council of Mola di Bari, to move to Naples and attend the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella, where he studied composition with Nicola De Giosa, Nicola D’Arienzo and Lauro Rossi. Career and musical style Westerhout spent the rest of his life in Naples, where he established himself as a pianist and composer. In 1897, one year before his death, he returned to the Naples Conservatory as harmony teacher. While the majority of Westerhout’s compositions are instrumental and vocal chamber music, he is perhaps best known for his operatic works. His operas include: Tilde, which has been lost; Cimbelino, which was first performe

Nicola Vicentino

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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 microtonal keyboard. Life Little is known of his early life. Born in Vicenza, he may have studied with Adrian Willaert in Venice, which was close by, and he acquired an early interest in the contemporary humanistic revival, including the study of ancient Greek music theory and performance practice (about which little was known, but was then being uncovered, through the work of scholars such as Girolamo Mei and Giangiorgio Trissino). At some time in the 1530s or early 1540s, he went to Ferrara, which was to become the center for experimental secular music in Italy from the middle to the end of the 16th century. Apparently, he served as a music tutor to the Duke of Ferrara and some of his family members in the House of Este, and some of Vincentino’s music was sung at the court of Ferrara. During the late 1540s, his reputation as a music theorist grew. He established his reputation as a composer with his publication of a book of madrigals in Venice in 1546, and in 1551 he took part in one of the

Nicolae Bretan

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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, stage director, and director-general. He made his professional debut as a singer in 1913 in Bratislava, continuing to roles in Oradea and at the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, where he served as first baritone from 1922 to 1940. Over his career he performed works by Verdi, Gounod, Bizet, Puccini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Delibes, and Rossini. Bretan also worked as a translator of libretti, translating his own Luceafărul into Hungarian and Golem into Romanian and German. In 1915 Bretan married pianist Nora Osvát. Together they had two children: (baritone) and Judit (actor and educator). In 1944, Osvát’s family, who were Jewish, were transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. Refusing to become a member of the Romanian Communist Party in 1948, he was not favoured by the Romanian communist regime, who treated the composer as a “non-person”. Biographer Hartmut Gagelmann attributes Bretan’s lack of wider recognition to censorship by the Communist Party of Romania, though this claim

Nicolao Dorati

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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 vocal, and consists mainly of madrigals. A few details are known of his life. He was part of a family of musicians, many of whom were trombonists in Lucca, and he was born in that town. A younger brother, Bartolomeo, also played the trombone. Nicolao was hired as a trombonist by the city when it created the Cappella di Palazzo in 1543, and in 1557 he became director of that ensemble, a position he kept for the rest of his life. Most of Dorati’s surviving music was published in Venice. He produced three collections of madrigals for five voices (1549, 1561, 1567); a book of madrigals for from five to eight voices (1551); a collection of madrigals for four voices entitled Le stanze della signora Vittoria Colonna (1570); and a book of madrigals for six voices (1579). In addition to this considerable output of secular music, he wrote at least three motets, two of which were for six voices and published in 1585, and one of which survives incomplete. Additionally, a few works appear in publicat

Nicolas Bacri

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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, five violin and piano sonatas and four violin concertos. Career Nicolas Bacri was born in Paris, France. His musical studies began with piano lessons at the age of seven. He continued to study harmony, counterpoint, analysis and composition as a teenager with Françoise Levechin-Gangloff and Christian Manen. After 1979, he continued his studies with Louis Saguer. In 1980, Bacri entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Claude Ballif, Marius Constant, Serge Nigg, and Michel Philippot. After graduating in 1983 with the premier prix in composition, he attended the French Academy in Rome. Back in Paris, he worked for four years (1987–91) as the Director of Chamber Music for Radio France. Bacri has received commissions in major musical fields: opera, symphony, concertante, vocal, choral and chamber music. In February 2020 Riccardo Muti conducted the world premiere of his Concertante Elegy for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra op. 150 “Ophelia’s Tears,” with soloist J. Lawrie Bloom, a p

Nicolas Becker (sound engineer)

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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 Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh) * Dahomey (2024, sound with Corneille Houssou and Cyril Holtz) References External links *

Nicolas Bernier

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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 studied with Antonio Caldara and is known for an Italian-influenced style. After Marc-Antoine Charpentier he is probably the most Italian-influenced French composer of this era, and replaced Charpentier as maître de musique des enfants (master of choristers) at the royal Sainte-Chapelle in 1704. He died in Paris. “French composer, harpsichordist, theorist and teacher. He probably learnt music in the maîtrise of the collegiate church of Notre Dame, Mantes, and in that of Evreux Cathedral. According to the Etat actuel de la Musique du Roi (1773) he then studied with Caldara in Rome. In 1692 Bernier was living in the rue Tiquetonne in Paris and was teaching the harpsichord. On 20 November 1693 he failed to win the post of maître de musique at Rouen Cathedral in competition with Jean-François Lalouette. He was appointed head of the maîtrise of Chartres Cathedral on 17 September 1694 and remained there until 18 March 1698, when he obtained a similar position at St Germain-l’Auxerrois, Paris. A T

Nicolas Champion

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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 establishments of the Habsburg court, including the chapels of Philip I of Castile and Charles V. While with Philip’s chapel he was a close associate of composers such as Pierre de La Rue, Marbrianus de Orto and Alexander Agricola. Life Champion was born in or near Liège, where he probably received his early training. Little information survives regarding his early life and the first record relating to his involvement with Philip’s Grande chapelle, the Habsburg chapel choir, dates from 13 November 1501, prior to Philip’s first trip to Spain. He was one of the few singers who remained with the chapel after Philip’s death in 1506, maintained by his wife Joanna the Mad; for several years after Philip’s death, Joanna traveled around Castile with his corpse in its coffin, having her chapel choir sing requiems to it each night, until her father Ferdinand I finally had her locked up in the fortress at Tordesillas. After the dissolution of Joanna’s chapel, Champion joined the chapel of Charles V. While th

Nicolas Chédeville

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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 (1694–1725) and Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696–1762) were his brothers. Louis Hotteterre was his great uncle and godfather, and may have given him instruction in music and turning instruments. He began playing the oboe and musette (a bagpipe-like instrument commonly used in French baroque music) in the Paris Opera orchestra in the 1720s. After Jean Hotteterre’s death in 1732, he took over his post in Les Grands Hautbois, the royal oboe band. He retired from the opera in July 1748, though returned occasionally to play the musette there. When he was nearly 70, he married the younger daughter of a valet who had once worked for the Duc d’Orléans, and was still describing himself as musette player to the king. In his last years he experienced financial difficulties. His ten houses were signed over to creditors in 1774, following which he separated from his wife. He resigned from Les Grands Hautbois in 1777, petitioned for bankruptcy in 1778 and died in Paris four years later. Lawyers were st

Nicolas Chopin

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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 Marainville-sur-Madon (Vosges department), in the province of Lorraine, France. He was the son of François Chopin (9 November 1738, Ambacourt – 31 January 1814, Marainville), a wheelwright and village administrator for Marainville, and Marguerite, née Deflin (1 February 1736, Diarville – 21 August 1794, Marainville), an educator respected by her colleagues and students. François and Marguerite were married on 17 January 1769. Nicolas had four sisters, only two of whom survived to adulthood: Anne (b. 23 November 1769, Marainville), who married Joseph Thomas on 13 February 1798, and Marguerite (5 August 1775, Marainville – 10 March 1845), who married Nicolas Bastien on 2 December 1798. Nicolas’ godmother was his aunt Thérèse Lhumbert née Chopin, the half-sister of his father François. the Polish-born estate administrator for Count Michał Jan Pac. Weydlich took an interest in the education of young Nicolas, teaching him the rudiments of the Polish language, while Weydlich’s wife—a Parisian,

Nicolas Collins

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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 University of East Anglia. Upon graduating from Wesleyan, he was a Watson Fellow. Biography In the 1980s Collins was “a pioneer in the use of microcomputers in live performance, and has made extensive use of ‘home-made’ electronic circuitry, radio, found sound material, and transformed musical instruments.” Trained in the experimental compositional tradition of Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, and David Tudor, all of whom he worked with closely, Collins also immersed himself in the New York Improvised Music scene of the 1980s. Using home-built instruments that combined circuitry, simple computers and traditional instruments such as trombones and slide guitars, he collaborated and performed with Tom Cora, Shelley Hirsch, Christian Marclay, Zeena Parkins, John Zorn and others. Collins’s compositions frequently ask performers to respond to unpredictable musical cues, as in Devil’s Music (1985), in which the performer DJs with snippets of live scanning radio, or Still Lives (1993), in which a so

Nicolas Dalayrac

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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 career, he made the acquaintance of many musicians in the Parisian salons, which convinced him of his true vocation. Among his most popular works, Nina, or The Woman Crazed with Love (1786), which tackles the theme of madness and arouses real enthusiasm during its creation, premiered on 23 November at the Stroganov Palace. The Two Little Savoyards (1789), which deals with the rapprochement of social classes, a theme bearing the ideals of the French Revolution, Camille ou le Souterrain (1791), judged as his best production or even Léon ou le Château de Monténéro (1798) who by his leitmotifs announces a new genre. His first compositions were violin duos, string trios and quartets. He published them under a pseudonym with Italian consonance. The quartets were very successful, and the true identity of their author was eventually discovered. According to René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt, he was initiated into Freemasonry and was a member of the Masonic lodge of «The Nine Sisters». In 1778 h

Nicolas de Grigny

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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 harpsichord. Life Nicolas de Grigny was born in Reims in the parish of Saint-Pierre-Le-Vieil. The exact date of his birth is unknown; he was baptized on September 8. He was born into a family of musicians: his father, his grandfather, and his uncle, Robert, were organists at the Reims Cathedral, the Basilica of St. Pierre and St. Hilaire, respectively. Few details about his life are known, nothing at all about his formative years. Between 1693 and 1695 he served as organist of the abbey church of Saint Denis, in Paris (where his brother André de Grigny was sub-prior In 1695 Grigny married Marie-Magdeleine de France, daughter of a Parisian merchant. Apparently he returned to his hometown soon afterwards: the record of the birth of his first son indicates that de Grigny was already in Reims in 1696. The couple went on to produce six more children. By late 1697, Grigny was appointed titular organist of Notre-Dame de Reims (the exact date of the appointment is not known), the city’s famous cathedral

Nicolas de La Grotte

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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 composer of chansons. In addition, he was one of very few French composers of the 16th century with a surviving composition written specifically for the keyboard. Life Nothing is known about his early life; the first record of La Grotte’s life is from 1557, when he was employed as a keyboard player (organ and spinet) to the King of Navarre, Antoine de Bourbon, at Pau in southwestern France. In 1562 he was given a position with the Duke of Anjou, along with Guillaume Costeley, and when the Duke of Anjou became King Henry III of France in 1574, La Grotte acquired the prestigious post of ‘vallet de chambre et organiste ordinaire’. His reputation as an organist seems to have been high; several writers in the early 1580s, such as La Croix du Maine and Jean Dorat, praised his playing. Between 1586 and 1589 he attempted to purchase land outside of Paris (whether he was successful is not known) and he went to Tours during the 1590 siege of Paris, where he stayed with the as-yet-uncrowned Henry IV o

Nicolas Economou

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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 Competition when he was 16. After studying at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow he eventually moved via Düsseldorf to Munich. From his base there he established himself throughout Europe as a concert pianist, composer, arranger, conductor and organiser of music festivals. In December 1993 Economou died in a car accident in Cyprus. Early life, training Nicolas Economou was the first child of his family. His parents, who loved classical music, decided to expose him to music as a creative outlet rather than a career. At the age of five, he started taking piano lessons and soon began improvising on the piano and composing short pieces of music. When Solon Michaelides, the celebrated Cypriot composer, conductor, musicologist and friend of the family heard him play for the first time, when Economou was not yet seven years old, he declared: “This child is a blessing to his parents, Cyprus, and the World”. On his advice, Economou’s musical training was undertaken by George Arvanitakis. The turning

Nicolas Errèra

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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 soundtracks for films and television. Early life Nicolas Errèra comes from a family of artists. An only child, his father is a playwright and his mother a set designer. He was born in Paris. He majored in science to attain his baccalaureate and also studied philosophy. When he was a teenager he joined the group of the English theatre director Peter Brook, under whom he featured in 3 plays. Alongside his studies he took lessons in piano and composing at the École normale de musique de Paris, studying under Serge Petigirard (piano) and Max Deutsch (composing). Here he was awarded his first prize for composing. He also studied Harmony and Counterpoint with the composer Jeannine Richer . In 1998 he set up the electro pop group Grand Popo Football Club and in 2002 he created the group Rouge Rouge. Both groups went on to be associated with the French touch. Career Cinema He has written music for more than 60 French and international films, including Au nom de ma fille, Sleepless Night by Fréd

Nicolas Flagello

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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 expression based wholly on the principles and techniques of late romanticism. Biography Early life Nicolas Flagello was born in New York City, into a musical family. His father Dionisio was an amateur oboist, his mother Genoveffa was a vocalist and his maternal grandfather Domenico Casiello was a composer who is reputed to have studied with Giuseppe Verdi. His brother Ezio Flagello was a bass who sang at the Metropolitan Opera. After his family emigrated to the United States from Salerno, Nicolas continued to enjoy strong family ties with his Italian relatives which created a lasting impression on him. At the age of three, he undertook piano lessons with a maternal aunt, and soon began voice lessons, studies on the violin and lessons on several woodwind instruments. By the age of seven he appeared in public recitals as a pianist and also vocalized as a boy-soprano earning the nickname “Il Poccolo Caruso”. In the 1930s, Flagello embarked upon an Old World apprenticeship with the Italian-America

Nicolas Gigault

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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 include the earliest examples of noëls and a volume of works representative of the 1650–1675 style of the French organ school. Life Little is known about Gigault’s life. François-Joseph Fétis, a 19th-century musicologist, claimed Gigault was born in Clayes-en-Brie, a village near Paris. However, no locality survives by that name. It is supposed that Gigault’s birthplace was just outside Paris. A similar situation occurred concerning Gigault’s date of birth: André Pirro deduced in the early 20th century that Gigault must have been born in 1624/5, however, a later study by Pierre Hardouin revealed that the composer could not have been born before 1627. Gigault’s father, Estienne Gigault, was a bailiff at the law-courts of Paris. Gigault was born into poverty and his financial situation remained dire at least until 1648, when he and his two younger brothers renounced their rights of succession to avoid their father’s debts. Nicolas Gigault’s mother died when he was a child. Nothing is known ab

Nicolas Gombert

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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 represents the fully developed, complex polyphonic style of this period in music history. Life Details of his early life are sketchy, but he was probably born around 1495 in southern Flanders, probably between Lille and Saint-Omer, possibly in the town of La Gorgue. German writer and music theorist Hermann Finck wrote that Gombert studied with Josquin; this would have been during the renowned composer’s retirement in Condé-sur-l’Escaut, sometime between 1515 and 1521. Gombert was employed by the emperor Charles V as a singer in his court chapel in 1526 and possibly as a composer as well. Most likely he was taken on while Charles was passing through Flanders, for the emperor traveled often, bringing his retinue with him, and picking up new members as he went. A document dated 1529 mentions Gombert as magister puerorum (“master of the boys”) for the royal chapel. The exact duration of his service in the galleys is not known, but he was able to continue composing for at least part of the time. He

Nicolas Goupillet

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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 then fifty-year-old “Sun King” Louis XIV commanded that a competition be held to select four rotating seasonal choirmasters to replace the retiring Henry Du Mont and at the Chapelle royale. Of the 35 applicants, four were selected: Michel Richard Delalande, then the late Lully’s assistant Pascal Colasse; Guillaume Minoret a minor figure from Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois; and finally Nicolas Goupillet, from Meaux. Goupillet was dismissed from the Chapelle Royale in 1693 when it was discovered that he had been passing off as his own compositions the works of Henry Desmarets - a talented composer who had passed over because of his youth in the competition 10 years earlier. At first the story went around that Desmarets had simply heard his works performed by chance, later suspicions were aroused that Desmarets had been complicit in the deception and blown the whistle when Goupillet failed to pay him. And yet Goupillet clearly could compose when he had to, since the second stage of the original

Nicolas Grenon

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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 learned his craft in the late 14th century but primarily practiced during the era during which the Renaissance styles were forming. Life The earliest records of Grenon are from Paris, where he worked first in the Notre Dame Cathedral, and on the death of his brother moved to a job at the St Sépulchre as a canon. He rose in the ecclesiastical hierarchy at St Sépulchre, and then left Paris, moving first to Laon in 1403, and then Cambrai in 1408. In 1409 he took a post for the Duke of Berry as the “master of the boys”, the music teacher and caretaker of the choirboys, at Bourges; and in 1412 he began his career with the Burgundian court of John the Fearless (Duke of Burgundy). In 1419 he returned to Cambrai, and from 1425 to 1427 worked in Rome as the master of the choirboys in the papal chapel under Pope Martin V. He retired to Cambrai, where in the 1440s he worked with Guillaume Dufay on a complete revision of the polyphonic liturgical music of the cathedral. He died in Cambrai in 1456 a

Nicolas Isouard

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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 Mdina with Francesco Azopardi, in Palermo with , and in Naples with Nicola Sala and Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi. From 1795 he was organist at St John’s Co-Cathedral - the Conventual Church of the Order of Saint John in Valletta He moved to Paris, where he worked as a free composer and became friends with Rodolphe Kreutzer. The pair worked together on several operas, including Le Petit page, ou La Prison d’état (1800) and Flaminius à Corinthe (1801). Isouard adopted the pseudonym Nicolò (or Nicolò de Malte) and found rapid success in the field of opéra comique with Michel-Ange (1802) and L’Intrigue aux fenêtres (1805). He composed regularly for the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique, writing some thirty works for the theatre. He composed masses, motets, cantatas, romances, and duos, along with over 45 operas. Family and legacy Isouard had two daughters, Sophie-Nicole (1809–1885), a composer of romances, and Annette-Julie (1814–1876), a pianist and composer. His brother Joseph (1794–1863) had a ca

Nicolas Lebègue

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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 himself as one of the best organists of the country. He lived and worked in Paris until his death, and frequently made trips to other cities to consult on organ building and maintenance matters. Lebègue’s reputation today rests on his keyboard music. He made particularly important contributions to the development of the French organ school by devising pieces with independent pedal parts and developing the Tierce en taille genre. His oeuvre also includes the earliest published unmeasured preludes, as well as some of the earliest known noëls (Christmas songs). Life Lebègue was born in Laon, and nothing certain is known about his early years or training. It may be possible that his uncle (also named Nicolas Lebègue), a maître joueur d’instrument, played some role in Lebègue’s music education. Equally little is known about the circumstances of Lebègue’s move to Paris: the first reference to Lebègue is found in a 1661 document, in which the composer is already described as “the famous Parisian

Nicolas Métru

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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 time later master of music for the Jesuits. He taught Couperin and Lully and was an outstanding viol player. His first publication - which survives - was a collection of laudatory airs to verse by Guillaume de Baïf, a minor poet but son of Jean-Antoine de Baïf, for the victorious return of Louis XIII to Paris in 1628 after the end of the 14-month siege of Protestant La Rochelle. His third collection of airs also contains laudatory texts, for the marriage of Louis XIV. His duets for two viols (Paris, 1642) are the first printed example, and therefore probably antedate the duets of Sainte-Colombe. His fantasias for viols, as those of Henry and Moulinié, derive from the air de cour and the dance rather than older styles. His 1642 publication reflects the change in development of the viol in the 1630-1650s with the upper parts being written with the new smaller viols in mind. Works, editions and recordings Works *Recueil des vers du Sr. G. de Baïf, mis en musique par N. Métru, chantez en l’al

Nicolas Millot

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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 thirty years. After Claude Goudimel, Guillaume Costeley, and Nicolas de La Grotte, he was one of the leading composers of chansons in France in the 1560s. Life No information has yet been found regarding his early life. The earliest surviving records involves his employment with the Ste Chapelle in Paris at the end of 1559, where a Noel Millot, probably the same person, was one of the clerks. By the next year he begins to appear in the archives of the French royal chapel as a singer, and he remained there until at least 1590. Among his duties was the recruitment of singers from other regions of France. In 1572, Charles IX sent him to Tours to find choirboys. There are several other references to his activity in the royal chapel in the 1570s and 1580s, including a mention that he was one of the maîtres de chapelle of Henry III in 1575, and that he had been sous-maître de la chapelle de musique du Roy for 20 years by 1585. He seems to have ended his career as master of the choirboys (maîtr

Nicolas Nabokov

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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 cousin of Vladimir Nabokov, and of the baron Eduard von Falz-Fein, was born to a family of landed Russian gentry in the town of Lubcza near Minsk, and was educated by private tutors. In 1918, after his family fled the Bolshevik Revolution to the Crimea, he began his musical education with Vladimir Rebikov. After living briefly in Germany he settled in Paris in 1923, where he studied at the Sorbonne. Nabokov was married five times. His first wife was the Russian princess Nathalie Shakhovskaya (1903–1988). His last (1970–1978) was the French photographer Dominique Nabokov. He had three sons: French publisher Ivan Nabokov, Alexander Nabokov, and anthropologist Peter Nabokov. His close friends included the philosopher and fellow émigré Isaiah Berlin and composer Igor Stravinsky. Career After the years in Paris from 1923 to 1932, in 1933 he moved to the U.S. as a lecturer in music for the Barnes Foundation. He taught music at Wells College in New York from 1936 to 1941, then moved to St. John'

Nicolas Namoradze

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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, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive prizes for pianists, in Calgary, Canada. Early life and education Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, he grew up in Budapest, Hungary, where he began piano lessons at age seven and attended the Liszt University of Music and a British international school. He made his orchestral debut at age 12. Upon hearing Namoradze while rehearsing with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Emanuel Ax suggested he move to New York City and study with him at the Juilliard School. Namoradze followed this advice, and after completing his undergraduate studies in Budapest, Vienna, and Florence, he moved to New York in 2013 to study with Ax. In 2015 he earned his master’s degree at Juilliard, followed in 2020 by his doctorate at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he held the Graduate Center Fellowship, with a dissertation on Macroharmony in Ligeti’s Etudes, Book 3. In addition to Emanuel Ax, his teachers included Zoltán Kocsis, András Schiff, Eliso Virs

Nicolas Panagopoulos

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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 scholarship from the French government at the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance (CNSMDP). Studies He studied music analysis with Betsy Jolas (1973–1975), electroacoustic music with Pierre Schaeffer (1975–1978) and composition with Olivier Messiaen (1974–1978). He received a first place award for composition unanimously by the jury. Additional studies * Acoustic courses in the laboratory of E. Leip at the University of Jussieu Paris VI * Seminars on “Image and Sound” at the École Normale of Paris * Practical training in composition and computer music at IRCAM (Institute de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique) * Orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg with Jean-Sébastien Béreau Music In 1979, subsidized by the French Ministry of Culture, Panagopoulos conducted research on new music notation and dealt with the potential relations between vision and hearing, a method adapted on his compositions. One of his most significant works is Five Seasons

Nicolas Payen

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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 imperial chapel, at the end of the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Life Payen was born in Soignies, and received his earliest musical training in that town, in the church of St. Vincent. When he was about 13 years old he went to Spain to sing in the choir of Charles V; children were commonly recruited in the Low Countries for service in the imperial chapel. In the 1530s he may have attended university, but this portion of his life is poorly documented. In the 1540s he rose in the chapel hierarchy, becoming successively a clerk and a chaplain, and in 1556 he took over the post of maestro di capilla, the director of music, from Cornelius Canis who had retired the previous year simultaneously with the abdication of Charles V. Thus Payen became the first maestro di capilla for Habsburg monarch Philip II of Spain. Payen acquired honors including prebends. In 1558 he became canon at the church in Tournai. He died in Madrid the next year or shortly after. Music and influence Payen’s musi

Nicolas Racot de Grandval

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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 musician, at one time organist at St Eustache, his interests ran more to comedy, both in written comic dramas, such as the “Broken bed pot” and in musical comedy such as frivolous parodies on Clérambault’s cantatas. His sister Marie-Hortense married the actor Charles Botot Dangeville. Works ;Theatre *1693: La Baguette, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 4 April *1697: Le Bourget, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 23 May *1701: Les Trois Gascons, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 4 June *1702: Le Bal d’Auteuil, comedy in 3 acts and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 22 August *1704: Le Port de mer, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 27 May *1707: Le Diable boiteux, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 8 October *1709: La Foire Saint-Laurent, comedy in 1 act and in verse, Théâtre-Français, 20 September *1713: L’Usurier gentilhomme, comedy in 1 act and in prose, Théâtre-Français, 11 September *1717: Le Prix de l’arquebuse, comedy in

Nicolas Roze

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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 and received a good musical training. He was not twelve years old when he composed a motet with orchestra. He was invited to enter the King’s music as a page, but his parents preferred to have him finish his studies at the Beaune college and then at the Autun seminary. A master of music in Beaune from 1767 to 1769, he had a mass of his composition performed there, and went to Paris to present it to Antoine Dauvergne, superintendent of the music of the king. In 1769, the latter commissioned him the motet Dixit insipiens, given to the Concert Spirituel. His first published work was a Quartet for flute and strings in C minor (1769). After spending a few years at the Cathédrale Saint-Maurice d’Angers, he settled in Paris, where in 1775 he became a chapel master in the . In 1779, after a dispute with the ecclesiastical authorities, he devoted himself to the teaching of music and wrote his system of harmony, which was published by Jean-Benjamin de La Borde. His motet Vivat in æternum was perfor

Nicolás Ruiz Espadero

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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. Espadero was born and died in Havana. In his time, he was the most famous Cuban composer, the only one published abroad, the only one who, at least in the eyes of his Cuban contemporaries, could compete with composers from Europe. Yet of all the Cuban composers of the 19th and early 20th century he was the most parochial and idiosyncratic one. Without schooling and formal musical training, he grew into a chronically shy person, emotionally dependent on his mother. He composed and continually practised, but gave few concerts and had little contact with other people. Espadero never left Cuba, indeed he seldom ever left his own house, where he lived with seventeen cats, surrounded by stacks of European music scores. Universally described as a recluse, he died from accidental burns after his usual bath in alcohol. Although brought up in a cosmopolitan atmosphere and surrounded by black Cuban music, he was the one Cuban composer who adopted but little of the local music tradition that inspired Ma

Nicolas Séjan

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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 for the harpsichord and the pianoforte as well as the organ. Nicolas Séjan was Louis-Nicolas Séjan’s father, his successor at the church of Saint-Sulpice. He died in Paris on 16 March 1819 and was buried at Montmartre Cemetery. See also * French organ school * References External links * * Noël suisse on data.bnf.fr * Swiss Noel - Nicolas Séjan on YouTube * Nicolas Séjan on isni.org * Biographie sur le site “Musica et Memoria” * Nicolas Séjan on IdRef * Nicolas Séjan on Musicalics

Nicolas Slonimsky

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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 writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Biography Early life in Russia and Europe Slonimsky was born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy in Saint Petersburg. He was of Jewish origin; his grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Zelig Slonimsky. His parents adopted the Orthodox faith after the birth of his older brother, and Nicolas was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church. His maternal aunt, Isabelle Vengerova, later a founder of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, was his first piano teacher. He grew up in the intelligentsia. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he moved south, first to Kiev , then to Constantinople, and ultimately to Paris, where many other Russian musicians and his sister Yulia Slonimskaya Sazonova had already fled. He worked as accompanist to the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, and he toured Europe in 1921–22 as accompanist to tenor

Nicolas Zourabichvili

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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 (1959–1962) and with Max Deutsch (1962–1964). He was awarded the Lili Boulanger Prize in 1970. In 1965 his philosopher-to-be son François was born. He wrote scores for director Otar Iosseliani’s films: Favorites of the Moon (1984), And Then There Was Light (1989), The Butterfly Hunt (1992), Brigands-Chapter VII (1996), Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999), Monday Morning (2002), Gardens in Autumn (2006), Winter Song (2015). Selected works *Mtskheta (1976) *Declaracion del desangelado (1971) *Aus ödem Traumland, for string orchestra (first performed 1975 by the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France conducted by André Girard) *Mass (1976) *La Fuite (1987) for violin solo *Syntonie ligulienne (1996) for flute solo *For piano solo: Sonata, Six variations, Thrène pour Thelonious Monk (1983), Vita nova (1994) *Three string quartets * Gebet für die Irren und Sträflinge (1966) recorded by the Ensemble Musique Vivante de Paris (conducted by Gabriele Guevara, soprano Anna-Maria Miranda) *

Nicolas-Charles Bochsa

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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 Trilby in George du Maurier’s 1894 novel Trilby. Life The son of a Bohemian-born musician, , Bochsa was born in Montmédy, Meuse, France. He was appointed harpist to the Imperial Orchestra of Napoleon in 1813, and began writing operas for the Opéra-Comique. However, in 1817 he became entangled in counterfeiting, fraud, and forgery, and fled to London to avoid prosecution. He was convicted in absentia, and sentenced to twelve years hard labour and a fine of 4,000 francs. Safe from French law in London, he helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1821, and became its secretary. He taught there, among others, the British harp virtuoso Elias Parish Alvars. When his criminal conviction was revealed in 1826, he was forced to resign. He then became musical director of the Kings Theatre, London. In 1839, he became involved in another scandal when he ran off with the opera singer Anna Bishop, wife of the composer Henry Bishop. They performed together in North America and throughout Europe (except Fr

Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux

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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 becoming the organist of the Church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. He wrote several motets for the church and had his oratorio Esther performed at the Concert Spirituel in 1775. His first published work was the cantata Aline, reine de Golconde in 1767. He went on to compose several operas. His son, Joseph-Nicolas Lefroid de Méreaux (1767–1838), was also a composer, mostly of piano music. - Le retour de tendresse comédie mêlée d’ariettes 1 act Louis Anseaume 1 October 1774 Théâtre des Italiens - Laurette opéra 1 act Danzel de Malzeville 23 July 1777 Comédie Italienne - Alexandre aux Indes tragédie lyrique 3 acts Étienne Morel de Chédeville 26 August 1783 Paris Opéra - Œdipe à Thèbes tragédie lyrique 3 acts Comte Duprat de Lantouloubre 30 December 1791 Paris Opéra - Fabius tragédie lyrique 3 acts J. Martin (known as Barouillet) 9 August 1793 Paris Opéra - References Sources * Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse Dictionnaire des Opéras, Paris, 1881. Available online here * Benoît Dratwicki, “Foreig

Nicolas-Joseph Wackenthaler

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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 grandfather, François-Joseph Wackenthaler (9 December 1767 – 17 February 1828), was organist at the St. George’s Church, Sélestat from around 1800 to 1828. His father, François-Charles Wackenthaler (31 October 1806 – 13 February 1859), eighth child of François-Joseph, succeeded him in 1828 as organist at Saint-Georges de Sélestat until his own death in 1859. His uncle, Joseph Wackenthaler (20 November 1795 – 3 March 1869), second child of François-Joseph, was Kapellmeister from 1819, then organist from 1833 to 1869 at the Strasbourg Cathedral. Another uncle, François-Louis Wackenthaler (18 September 1811 – 24 May 1849), tenth child of François-Joseph, was appointed organist at the St. Faith’s Church, Sélestat around 1830 and held this position until his death in 1849. His cousin, François-Xavier Joseph Wackenthaler (5 December 1823 – 11 October 1856), second child of Joseph, was an organ teacher at the École Niedermeyer de Paris from the opening of the school in 1853 until his death in 18

Nicolaus à Kempis

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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 is known for introducing the latest innovations from Italy into Flemish polyphonic music. Life Not much is known about a Kempis. He was born around 1600, but it is unknown where. Because of his knowledge of contemporary Italian music, some musicologists have opined that he came from northern Italy, perhaps from Florence but there is no evidence for this. Current research is considering the possibility that Kempis was never in Italy and that he only came into contact with the then new Italian violin music through the migration of other musicians caused by the wars of religion. The earliest extant piece of biographical information about him is his nomination as organist of the cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudule in Brussels around 1626. He had various sons of whom Joannes Florentius succeeded him in his role as organist in 1670. He died in 1676 and was buried in Brussels on 11 August 1676. Nicolaus à Kempis was the first musician to introduce the Italian viol style and techniques of G

Nicolaus A. Huber

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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 subsequently composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Günter Bialas. He pursued his education further with Josef Anton Riedl, Karlheinz Stockhausen and, above all, with Luigi Nono. From 1974 until his retirement in 2003, Huber was Professor of Composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Style and influences Riedl and Schnebel inspired Huber’s vocal and linguistic experiments. Riedl in particular encouraged Huber’s radical tendencies. His treatment of musical material was most strongly formed by his contact with Stockhausen, while Nono inspired in him an acute historical and political (Marxist) awareness, particularly evident in his second compositional phase, beginning around 1969. Huber took part in Stockhausen’s composition project Ensemble at the 1967 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, an experience that gave him an appreciation of the potential for improvisation—a factor that marks not only his compositions for conventional forces, but also his mixed- and multi-media experiments. Stockhaus

Nicolaus Adam Strungk

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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. He studied organ under his father, then at the University of Helmstedt. From 1660 he studied violin with Nathanael Schnittelbach, performing for the Duke of Wolfenbüttel, and Kaiser Leopold I in Vienna. From 1665 he was chamber musician in the service of Prince Johann Friedrich in Hanover. In 1679 Strungk became director of the Hamburger Ratsmusik. In 1688 he succeeded Christian Ritter as deputy Kapellmeister and organist in Dresden, where in 1693 he succeeded Christoph Bernhard as Hofkapellmeister. He left after three years, in 1696, to take up directorship of the Leipzig Opera. He died of fever („am hitzigen Fieber“) a few years later. His fourth daughter, Dorothea Christine Lachs, was a noted poet and author of the libretto to Telemann’s Germanicus. Works Strunck’s surviving keyboard compositions, two ricercars and seven capriccios, were composed in Rome and Vienna between 1683 and 1686. They were written in a strictly contrapuntal style with two or three sections, each having a dif

Nicolaus Bruhns

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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 generation. Biography Bruhns was born in Schwabstedt (Danish: Svavsted), a small settlement near Husum. He came from a family of musicians and composers. His grandfather, Paul Jakob Bruhns (died 1655), worked as lutenist in Lübeck. His three sons all chose musical careers; Bruhns’ father, also named Paul (1640–c. 1689), became organist at Schwabstedt, possibly after studying with Franz Tunder. Nicolaus was apparently a child prodigy: according to Ernst Ludwig Gerber, he could play the organ and compose competent works for keyboard and voice already at an early age. He probably received his first music lessons from his father. At age sixteen, Bruhns, together with his younger brother Georg (1666-1742), was sent to Lübeck to live with their uncle Peter, who would teach Bruhns the violin and the viola da gamba. The two brothers also studied the organ and composition; Georg under Bernhard Olffen, organist of St. Aegidien, and Nicolaus under Dieterich Buxtehude. The latter, one of the best comp

Nicolaus Ricci de Nucella Campli

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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 fifteenth centuries. Only a single work by Nicolaus is known, the ballata De bon parole. Life Nothing was known of this composer until the discoveries of Giuliano Di Bacco and John Nádas, published in summary form in 1998 and more completely in 2004. From his name it seems he was born or active in Abruzzo, since “Nucella” or “Nocella” is a small località less than 2 km south-east of Campli. He is documented as a member of the papal chapels of Popes Boniface IX, Innocent VII, and Gregory XII of the Roman obedience from 1401–1410. He was listed as “cantor dnp” (singer for the lord, the pope) and “prepositus ecclesie S. Victorie de Nucella Campli Aprutin. dioc.” (“Provost of the church of Saint Victoria of Nocella, Campli in the diocese of Teramo “) in a document from November 10, 1401. He is later listed as also being a familiar of the pope (March 27, 1405), then a priest (July 15, 1407), then a scribe for the pope (May 5, 1410), while gaining affiliations with several other churches. On O

Nicolaus Vetter

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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), August Gottfried Ritter gives 30, Oct. 1660 as birth date, and “nach 1740” as time of death. Vetter first studied music with Georg Caspar Wecker in Nuremberg and was a student at the Rudolstadt Gymnasium from 1683 to 1688. He then moved to Erfurt to study with Johann Pachelbel, succeeding him as organist of the Predigerkirche when he left for Stuttgart in 1690; during this time, he may have attended the University of Erfurt. He was succeeded by J.H. Buttstedt in July 1691, when he went to Rudolstadt to take up a position as castle organist; he was later honoured with the appointments of Government Advocate, Church Procurator and Master Over The Page Boys. His surviving compositions are now few, since World War II led to the destruction of all his free organ compositions and a work for chorus and orchestra entitled Zum frohen Empfang Grossherzogs Carl Fürsten Primas. The manuscript Mus.40035 of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, gave his name as the composer of variations three and eigh

Nicolaus Zacharie

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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 established his identity; he was one of a few native Italian composers working in the early 15th century whose work has survived. Life He was probably from Brindisi or somewhere nearby, on the evidence of papal archives. The earliest solid record of his life is February 7, 1420, when he was employed at Florence Cathedral as a singer; on the evidence of his motet Letetur plebs, which includes the comment in the score “composed in Taranto, in a great hurry” it is presumed he was already active as a composer prior to coming to Florence in 1420. Just a few months later – June 1 – Pope Martin V hired him during a trip to Florence, taking him back to the papal choir in Rome, probably in September when he returned there, having successfully ended the Western Schism a few years before. Zacharie remained in the choir until 1424, and after an absence of ten years joined again for a few months in 1434; his whereabouts between those two periods is unknown. At the end of his life he was a chaplain a

Nicole Carignan

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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 Plessisville and earned a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), a B.Mus. and a M.Mus. in composition and a PhD in comparative and intercultural education from the Université de Montréal. Career Carignan has written articles about music education, and has led seminars and workshops on composition in South Africa, Europe, Russia and the United States. She is a researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Université de Montréal, the Department of Education of UQAM and at Cleveland State University. She has also taught at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. She has earned honourable mentions from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation for two of her projects: Intercultural encounters between immigrants learning French and pre-service teachers at UQAM and the development of a teacher’s guide for the DVD A lesson in discrimination Selected compositions *“Quiebra” (1994) * “Time, Space and Context: The Last 23 Days” References

Nicole Laurel Asensio

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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 Luna, she began a solo career and released her first album Schizoprano in 2015. Early life and family A member of the Laurel family, Asensio is the daughter of singer Iwi Laurel. Her maternal grandparents are former Vice President of the Philippines Salvador Laurel (the son of Philippine President Jose P. Laurel), and the singer Celia Diaz-Laurel. She is the first cousin of actress Denise Laurel and niece of theater artist Cocoy Laurel. Her paternal grandmother is famed opera singer Fides Cuyugan-Asensio. Asensio began singing as a child, but “didn’t undergo formal voice lessons like most heirs of musical legends do. Instead, living with her grandmother, mother, and uncle, was enough for her to discover her musicality.” She graduated from De La Salle University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in literature. In 1998, at age twelve, Asensio performed as one of the orphans in her first major production Annie with Repertory Philippines. The following year she performed in another musical (Th

Nicole Lizée

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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 was a member of Montreal indie rock band The Besnard Lakes. Career Lizée has been described as a “brilliant musical scientist.” She takes her inspiration from various sources including early MTV videos, rave culture, films by Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, and 1960s psychedelia. She has composed pieces for the Kronos Quartet, the San Francisco Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gryphon Trio, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, the Australian Art Orchestra, So Percussion and Eve Egoyan. Her music has been performed at international venues including Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, and the Cité de la Musique. In 2024, she received a Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for Don’t Throw Your Head in Your Hands. Discography Solo studio albums * This Will Not Be Televised (2008), Centrediscs * Bookburners (2014), Centrediscs Collaborative albums * Gr

Nicole Rampersaud

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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 Award for Instrumental Recording of the Year. Biography Nicole Rampersaud was born in Toronto and raised there. She attended the University of Toronto, where she graduated from the Jazz Performance Program, and the New England Conservatory of Music, where she was awarded a Master of Music degree in jazz performance in 2006. She is founding trumpeter for the trio c_RL, formed in 2009. In 2019, she was the first composer-in-residence for the OBEY Convention. In 2021, she formed (with Parmela Attariwala and Germaine Liu) Understory, an improv project centered on virtual performance. She performed at the 2022 Guelph Jazz Festival. She also formed the duo Brass Knuckle Sandwich with pianist Marilyn Lerner, playing as trumpeter. In November 2023, she released Saudade, her debut solo trumpet Saudade was nominated for the 2024 East Coast Music Award for Instrumental Recording of the Year, losing to Flying Pooka!’s The Ecstasy of Becoming. She, Liu, and Matana Roberts headlined the final act of

Nicolò Gabrielli

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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 Sicilies, Nicolò Gabrielli was the scion of a distinguished yet decayed aristocratic family originally from Gubbio and settled thereafter in Tropea and Palermo. He showed since his early childhood a talent for music that led him to enter the Naples conservatory where he studied under the supervision of Nicola Zingarelli and Gaetano Donizetti. He dedicated himself especially to musical composition, and debuted in August 1835 with a melodrama in Neapolitan dialect, I dotti per fanatismo. Nicolò Gabrielli was a very prolific composer, and from 1835 onwards worked at many melodramas, opera buffas, commedias and farsas, including La lettera perduta (1836), Il Cid (1836), La parola di matrimonio (1837), L’americano in fiera ossia Farvest Calelas (1837), Vinclinda (1837), L’affamato senza danaro (1839), Edwige o Il sogno (1839), Il padre della debuttante (1839), La marchesa e il ballerino (1839), Nadan o L’orgoglio punito (1839), L’assedio di Sciraz ossia L’amor materno (1840), Basilio III Demetrio

Nicu Alifantis

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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 band “Alifantis & Zan” and for his collaborations with other folk bands such as “Pasărea Colibri”. Biography Nicu Alifantis was born on May 31, 1954, in Brăila to Greek-Macedonian parents. His mother, Evdocsia, was Aromanian, and his father, Menelaus, was Greek. Alifantis studied music privately and made his stage debut in 1973. He was employed in 1975 at the “Maria Filotti” Theater in Brăila and became quite well-known and loved by the public, so that in 1976 the record label Electrecord published his first record material, Cântec de noapte, with four tracks. In the same year, he enrolled in ATM. After the army, he became a member of the Cenacle Flacăra, led by the poet Adrian Păunescu, and participated in most of the “artistic events”, his songs appearing on the compilations Folk 1 and Folk 2 published by Electrecord in 1977 and 1978, respectively. In 1983, at the appearance of the triple LP that marked 10 years of activity of the cenacle, Alifantis is the best represented singer-son

Nicu Covaci

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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 which he was the lead vocalist and guitar player, with more than 60 years of activity. Biography Nicolae Covaci was born in Timișoara, on 19 April 1947. His mother Tamara came originally from Bessarabia while his father Grigore came from Banat, close to the Serbian border. He took up playing guitar at the age of 15 and in 1962 he, together with Florin “Moni” Bordeianu, founded a band called Sfinții (The Saints). Covaci died in Timișoara on 2 August 2024, at the age of 77. 1960s * 1962: Nicolae Covaci founds the student band “Sfinții” (The Saints) in Timișoara. The band wins the second prize at the Bucharest Student Festival. From the very beginning the band is criticized for having a western European influence. * 1963: The band’s recordings of their own compositions first receive radio air play. * 1965: The Saints are banned. The authorities accuse the band of spreading religious propaganda, and the band is forced to change its name. PHOENIX is born. Under their new name, the band plays thr

Niel Gow

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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 Catherine McEwan. The family moved to Inver in Perthshire when Niel was an infant. He started playing the fiddle when very young, and at age 13 received his first formal lessons from one John Cameron of Grandtully. In spite of being something of a musical prodigy, he originally trained as a weaver, but eventually gave up that trade to become a full-time musician. He was widely considered the best fiddle player in Perthshire, an area which was renowned for its musicians—the story goes that at age 18 he entered a competition that was being judged by John McCraw, a blind musician, who awarded him the first prize and then went on to claim that he “would ken his bow hand among a hunder players” (detect Niel’s style among a hundred players). This attracted the attention of the Duke of Atholl, who became Gow’s patron, and also ensured his employment for balls and dance parties put on by the local nobility. In time he became renowned as a fiddler. Musical career According to John Glen (1895), Gow comp

Niels Eje

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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 Lothar Koch of the Berlin Philharmonic. Career His career included a position as principal oboist in the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, (1979 to 1990) performances in Europe, USA and Japan as soloist and chamber musician. Niels Eje has composed and arranged a large repertoire for different classical ensembles as well as music for concerts, theatre, TV and documentaries. He is the founder of Trio Rococo (harp, Berit Spaelling, oboe Niels Eje, and cello, Inge Mulvad,) whose album ‘Norwegian Wood’ was released worldwide. Niels Eje has participated on several recordings with various artists in a number of genres, including with Miles Davis on the album Aura, and with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Berit Spaelling, Inge Mulvad in the album In the Name of Music In 1998 Niels Eje founded the interdisciplinary project Musica Humana Research together with Professor Lars Heslet, Copenhagen University Hospital. The research projects were aimed at creating a new specially designed music enviro

Niels Gade

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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 musician of his day, in the period known as the Danish Golden Age. Biography Gade was born in Copenhagen, the son of a joiner and instrument maker. He was intended for his father’s trade, but his passion for a musician’s career, made evident by the ease and skill with which he learned to play upon a number of instruments, was not to be denied. Though he became proficient on the violin under Frederik Wexschall, and in the elements of theory under Christoph Weyse and Weyse’s pupil Andreas Berggreen, he was to a great extent self-taught. He began his professional career as a violinist with the Royal Danish Orchestra, which premiered his concert overture Efterklange af Ossian (“Echoes of Ossian”) in 1841. When the performance of his first symphony had to be delayed in Copenhagen, it was sent to Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn received the work positively, and conducted it in Leipzig in March 1843, to enthusiastic public reaction. His work attracted the notice of the king, who gave the composer a

Niels Marthinsen

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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 teachers include Hans Abrahamsen, Steen Pade, Karl Aage Rasmussen and Poul Ruders. He received the Victor Borge Prize in 1993, the H. C. Lumbye Prize in 2008. The 2006 Danish National Opera production of Marthinsen’s opera Skriftestolen received the Danish Reumert Prize in 2007 for Opera of the Year. List of works Source: * 1986 Erscheinungen (orchester) * 1988 Airborne (flute, piano, violon, and cello) * 1988 Echoes of a Dove * 1988 Sept Poèsies des saisons japonaises * 1989 Olé * 1990 Vulcan’s Forge * 1990 Burst * 1992 Rhapsodie Espagnole * 1992 Cradle Song * 1992 Concerto * 1992 Wildlife * 1992 Minotaurus * 1992 Shadow Figures * 1993 Den Forstenende Skov * 1993 Abgesang * 1993 Chimes at Midnight * 1993 Heldenleben * 1993 Panorama * 1994 Columbus * 1994 Bolero * 1994 Cupid and Death * 1994 Reveille * 1994 Slagtøjskoncert * 1994 Tubakoncert * 1995 Devil in Disguise * 1995 Strygekvartet * 1995 En Miniature * 1996 Symphony * 1996 Lyriske stykker * 1996 Angels and Insects * 1996 Heroisk Etude

Niels Viggo Bentzon

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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 Copenhagen University, and Karen Hartmann (1882-1977), concert pianist. Through his mother, Bentzon was descended from the Danish composer Johann Hartmann and was the great-grandson of the Danish composer J.P.E. Hartmann. From 1938 to 1942, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under Knud Jeppesen and Christian Christiansen. He then taught at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (1945–50) and at The Royal Danish Academy (1950–88). As a pianist, he left many recordings of works by Beethoven, Scriabin, Busoni, Schoenberg, Petrassi and others, as well as himself. He is also well known for the three-note jingle D/Eb/Bb (pronounced D/S/B in Danish) on the acronym of DSB, the Danish Railroad Company “Danske Statsbaner”, his most performed piece as it is played on arrival of any train in Danish rail stations. Niels became well-known in Denmark as a composer, as he has over 650 works to his credit, often times experimenting with avant-garde techniques. Works Niels Viggo Bentz

Nigel Butterley

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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. He attended Sydney Grammar School, but music was not taught at the school at that time, so he sought training from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He then travelled abroad and spent a year in Europe, where he studied with Priaulx Rainier in London. After returning to Australia, Butterley composed his work Laudes in 1963. He won the Prix Italia award for his work In the Head the Fire in 1966. In 1967 he was the inaugural winner of the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award. He continued to compose throughout the following decades, composing works for the Sydney Proms concerts such as Interaction for Artist and Orchestra, music performed while artist John Peart painted and First Day Covers, a collaboration with Barry Humphries’ character Dame Edna Everage. Butterley went on to win the Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize in 2001. Butterley lectured at the Newcastle Conservatorium from 1973 to 1991, and later at the Sydney Conservatorium. He also broadcast programs on ABC Classic FM. On 10 June 1991

Nigel Godrich

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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, R.E.M., Pavement, Roger Waters, Arcade Fire and Idles. Early in his career, Godrich worked as the house engineer at RAK Studios, London, under the producer John Leckie. He first worked with Radiohead while engineering their second album, The Bends (1995), at RAK. Radiohead hired him to produce OK Computer (1997), which was a major success and brought him attention from major artists. He has produced all of Radiohead’s albums since, along with several other projects with the Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. Godrich won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Album for the 2003 Radiohead album Hail to the Thief. Godrich is a member of the bands Atoms for Peace (with Yorke) and Ultraísta. In 2006, he launched the music webseries From the Basement. With Beck, Godrich composed the score for the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Early years and education Nigel Godrich was born in Westminster, London, the son of Victor Godrich, a BBC sound supervisor, and Brenda God

Nigel Hess

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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 Wainthropp Investigates, Badger and Ladies in Lavender. Biography Hess was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. He was educated at Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys, and went on to study music at Cambridge University, where he was music director of the famous Footlights Revue Company. He has since worked extensively as a composer and conductor in television, theatre and film. Hess has composed numerous scores for both American and British television productions, including A Woman of Substance, Vanity Fair, Campion, Testament (Ivor Novello Award for Best TV Theme), Summer’s Lease (Television & Radio Industries Club Award for Best TV Theme), Chimera, Titmuss Regained, Maigret, Classic Adventure, Dangerfield, Just William, Wycliffe (Royal Television Society Nomination for Best TV Theme), The One Game, Every Woman Knows a Secret, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (Ivor Novello Award for Best TV Theme and Royal Television Society Nomination for Best TV Theme), Badger, Ballykissangel, New Tr

Nigel Keay

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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 residencies: Mozart Fellowship, University of Otago 1986 and 1987, Nelson School of Music 1988 and 89, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 1995. Keay was born in Palmerston North. Between 1983 and 1995, he received several grants from the Arts Council of New Zealand for various commissions, one of them being a one-act opera At the Hawk’s Well 1. His music, which ranges from solo and chamber music combinations to full symphony orchestra, has sometimes been driven by literary and philosophical ideas. Throughout his career he has wherever possible played in or directed his own works. He became an Associate-Violist with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1994. Nigel Keay moved to France in 1998 and lives now in Paris where he continues to work as a freelance composer and violist. In 2001, his Viola Concerto 2 was performed at the 29th International Viola Congress in Wellington by the Chamber Orchestra of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Franck Chevalier as viola solois

Nigel Osborne

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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, Theater und Medien Hannover. Known for his extensive charity work supporting war traumatised children using music therapy techniques, especially in the Balkans during the Bosnian War, and in the Syrian conflict. He speaks eight languages. Osborne was born in Manchester, England, to a Scottish family. He studied composition with Kenneth Leighton, Egon Wellesz, and Witold Rudziński. His compositions include the opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union, Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra commissioned by the City of London Sinfonia, I am Goya, Remembering Esenin, and Birth of the Beatles Symphony. Osborne retired from his Edinburgh University position in 2012, and is now working internationally as freelance composer, arranger and aid worker. Currently working with war-traumatised children from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Career Osborne studied composition with Egon Wellesz, first pupil of Arnold Schoenberg (1968–69), also with Kenneth Leighton (his predecessor as Reid Profess

Nigel Westlake

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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 Potter, Babe and its sequel Babe: Pig in the City, Children of the Revolution, Blueback and The Nugget. He also composed the theme for SBS World News. Biography Westlake was born in Sydney, the son of Sydney Symphony Orchestra principal clarinettist Donald Westlake. In 1983, Westlake studied bass clarinet and composition in the Netherlands Personal life Westlake is married to Jan Loquet Westlake, and together, they had two sons. Their son Eli was killed in a road rage incident on 7 June 2008, at age 21. Westlake composed Missa Solis - Requiem for Eli and dedicated it to Eli. It was premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Myer Music Bowl in February 2011. Filmography * Candy Regentag (1989) * Act of Necessity (1991) * Antarctica (1991) * Backsliding (1991) * Babe (1995) * Children of the Revolution (1996) * Wild Australia: The Edge (1996) * Babe: Pig in the City (1998) * A Little Bit of Soul (1998) * Solarmax (2000) * The Nugget (2002) * Horseplay (2003) * Hell Has Harbour Vie

Nikhil Korula

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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 Angeles, California, Korula has released seven albums and EPs on his independent record label Groove Infinity Records, including The Freedom EP (2003), The Way Things Work (2004), Acoustic B-Sides & Rarities EP (2007), the two-disc album Live Vibes (2010), Music of the New Day (2012), Solo Sessions EP (2013) with Jeff Coffin and Butch Taylor, and A Decade in the Sun (2014). Korula frequently tours with the Nikhil Korula Band, and has performed at festivals such as Bonnaroo, the Playboy Jazz Festival, SXSW, and Summerfest. He has also headlined venues such as House of Blues and the Viper Room, as well as numerous college campuses. The group has opened for bands and artists such as Jason Mraz, John Mayer, The Roots, Erykah Badu, and Rusted Root. Korula and the band have also had songs featured on the soundtracks of shows such as Greek, Burn Notice, The Real World, and Guiding Light. In 2014, the music video for Korula’s song “Fade Away” directed by Jethro Rothe-Kushel won Best Music Video Film a

Nikita Koshkin

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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 music. Koshkin first came to prominence with his suite The Prince’s Toys, completed in 1980 and first performed by the Czech-born guitarist Vladimir Mikulka. Koshkin’s best-known guitar work is Usher-Waltz (1984), a piece inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher, written for the guitarist Vladislav Blaha. It was made famous by John Williams’ performance in the Seville Concert CD in 1993. Other famous performers of Koshkin’s work include the Assad Duo and the Zagreb and Amsterdam Trios. His other important works include the set of variations The Porcelain Tower and the Andante quasi Passacaglia e Toccata: The Fall of Birds (1978). Besides writing works for solo guitar, Koshkin has composed guitar-ensemble music as well; in addition to numerous pieces for guitar duo, he has written two works for guitar quartet, Changing the Guard (1994) and Suite for Four Guitars (composed for the Georgia Guitar Quartet, 2007). Early life Koshkin received his first guitar from his g

Nikka Costa

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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 of music producer Don Costa. Early life Nikka Costa was born in Tokyo, Japan to Italian-American parents. She was exposed to music from childhood, often surrounded by well-known artists as she traveled with her father, producer and musician Don Costa. At age five, Nikka recorded a single with Hawaiian singer Don Ho. At age nine, she recorded an album with her father accompanying on guitar, and performed with Frank Sinatra on the White House lawn. Also at age nine, she recorded the song “(Out Here) on My Own” (from the movie Fame) with her father. The single reached No. 1 in Italy, No. 72 in Germany, No. 7 in Switzerland, No. 32 in the Netherlands, and No. 13 in the Flanders region of Belgium., . The album Nikka Costa was released (outside of the U.S.) in 1981. Her second album, Fairy Tales (cuentos de hadas), was released in 1983. Don Costa died of a heart attack shortly after the album was recorded. The pop album Here I Am… Yes, It’s Me (Loca Tentación) was released in 1989. Adult ca

Nikki Iles

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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 education at primary school, where she learnt to play the harmonica and the clarinet, and at eleven years old she won a junior exhibition at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied clarinet and piano She became a member of the Bedfordshire Youth Jazz Orchestra. Iles was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to music. In 2025 Iles was announced as the new principal conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Bigband. Discography As leader/co-leader As sidewoman With Anthony Braxton *Composition No. 175 / Composition No. 126: Trillium Dialogues M (Leo, 1994) With Mike Gibbs *By the Way (Ah Um, 1993) With Ingrid Laubrock *Some Times (Candid, 1998) With Tina May *One Fine Day (33Jazz, 1999) *I’ll Take Romance (Linn, 2002) *More Than You Know (33Jazz, 2004) *A Wing and a Prayer (33Jazz, 2005–06) With Sylvan Richardson *Pyrotechnics (Blue Note, 1992) With Geoff Simkins *Don’t Ask (Symbol, 1999) With Martin Speake *Secret (Basho, 2000) With Stan Sulzmann *Treasure Trove

Nikki McKibbin

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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. Before American Idol, McKibbin appeared in the first season of Popstars. In May 2007, she released a rock album called Unleashed. American Idol In 2002, McKibbin appeared on the first season of American Idol, placing third. McKibbin was in the bottom three every week except one, a total of six times (including elimination). Post-Idol career Immediately following her stint on American Idol, McKibbin signed with 19 Management and RCA Records. They urged her to record a country album, but she was determined to stay true to her rock roots; she rejected the idea, saying she felt she would be “selling out.” The creative differences resulted in no releasable recordings being produced. McKibbin ran Angelfire Productions, a karaoke company, but after Idol, “got out of the karaoke business” to focus on her music career. In 2004, she appeared on the holiday CD Christmas in a Fishbowl with several other reality stars for Fishbowl.com. In May 2005, McKibbin joined Dallas rock band Downside. They did

Nikolai Bakhmetev

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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 Saint Petersburg. Biography Bakhmetev was born in 1807 in the Russian Empire. He served in the military before devoting himself to music. In 1861 he succeeded Alexei Lvov as director of the Imperial Court Capella. He remained in the position until 1883, overseeing repertoire, performance practice and the publication of official choral editions. Works Bakhmetev edited and published the two-volume Obikhod notnovo tserkovnovo peniya (Common Book of Musical Church Singing, 1869–1879), which became the standard liturgical collection of the Imperial Court. Under his supervision, three further volumes of sacred choral compositions were issued, and his editorial revisions of traditional chants had lasting influence on Russian Orthodox church music. Legacy Lvov-Bakhmetev’s Obikhod became the most widely used “court” edition of its time and influenced later four-part choral arrangements. Iakov Tichai for example adapted it extensively for Orthodox services in Japan under St. Nicholas of Japan. T

Nikolai Dmitriev (composer)

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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. Dmitriev served in the judicial department and was a member of a court in Berdyansk. He studied composition and toured Russia, performing in various charity concerts at the same time, as a pianist and conductor (Vyatka, Taganrog, Mariupol, Kazan, Ryazan). Dmitriev’s performing career began in the 1840s in Moscow. He lived in Kharkov from 1857, taught piano and flute, and opened a music salon there. He taught Mykola Lysenko in 1858. Dmitriev left Kharkov some time later, returning in 1861. He lived in Ryazan from 1863, Kazan from the 1870s, and Vyatka from 1874. He settled in Taganrog in 1885, where he died in 1893. As a composer, Dmitriev’s musical language was largely influenced by the Russian style and also other Romantic styles. His music is influenced by Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Glinka. Dmitriev’s music is distinguished by its virtuosity and expressiveness. He was a composer of mazurkas. Dmitriev also composed a symphony (unfinished), about 100 romances (55 published), and the popu

Nikolai Kapustin

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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 idioms and Western classical structures. A virtuoso of the “Moscow School” of piano playing, Kapustin composed 161 opus numbers, including 20 piano sonatas, six piano concertos, and sets of preludes and fugues, all of which utilize a sophisticated harmonic and rhythmic language derived from bebop, stride piano, and jazz fusion. Born in Horlivka, Ukraine, Kapustin was a student of the legendary pedagogue Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory. He rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s as a jazz pianist and arranger for the Oleg Lundstrem State Jazz Orchestra and later the “Blue Screen” Orchestra. Despite the improvisational sound of his music, Kapustin was a meticulous composer who wrote out every note, articulation, and nuance. He famously rejected the label of “jazz musician,” insisting that he was a classical composer whose works were meant to be performed exactly as notated, without improvisation. For much of the 20th century, Kapustin’s music remained a well-kept secret

Nikolai Karetnikov

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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. Biography Karetnikov studied at the Central Musical School (1942–1948) and the Moscow Conservatory (1948–1953) where his teachers were Vissarion Shebalin (composition), Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano), Igor Sposobin and Viktor Tsukkerman (theory). He also studied privately with Philip Herschkowitz, a pupil of Berg and Webern. He was influenced by music of the New Viennese school and was a firm supporter of twelve-tone technique. His ballets Vanina Vannini and The Geologists were performed at the Bolshoi Theatre with choreography by Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev. However, the authorities found the music unacceptable. It was criticized, and then banned from the performances in the Soviet Union for decades. His Symphony No. 4 (1963) received its first performance in 1968 in Prague, just before the Soviet army invasion to suppress the Prague Spring. His third ballet Little Zaches Called Zinnober was performed at the Hanover Opera House (1971) in the composer’s absence, because he was not give

Nikolai Korndorf

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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 Columbia, Canada. Biography Born in Moscow, (Russian SSR,Soviet Union), Korndorf studied composition with Sergey Balasanian at the Moscow Conservatory from 1965 to 1970. During these years, he wrote a one-act opera A tale on… () based on the work of Semyon Kirsanov. In 1973 Korndorf completed post-graduate studies with his opera Feast in the Time of Plague based on the play of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. He studied conducting with Leo Ginsburg from 1967 to 1979 and taught composition and orchestration at the Conservatory from 1972 to 1991. In 1973 he became a member of the Union of Composers and the Moscow Presidium of the Soviet Composers’ Union. He was a co-founder and deputy president of the New Association for Contemporary Music (ACM). His early works were written in a traditional and academic manner until he adopted an atonal post-expressionist style. Later, he turned to a kind of minimalist repetitive aesthetic, notable in his Confessiones (1979) for double bass and twelve win

Nikolai Lodyzhensky

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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 son of an impoverished landowner, and came from a musical family related to the composer Alexander Dargomyzhsky. His sister Anka fell in love with Alexander Borodin, who had to write many letters to his wife to explain his daily meetings with her. an opera, Dmitri the Usurper (based on Alexander Pushkin’s play Boris Godunov Borodin wrote his String Quartet No. 2 in D while spending a summer holiday at Lodyzhensky’s estate at Zhitovo in 1881. Lodyzhensky himself wrote some music in the string quartet genre. The only music he ever published was Six Romances for voice and piano, in 1873, which showed great promise, displaying melodic and harmonic invention. Another set of four romances is in manuscript. His early work gained the respect of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Vladimir Stasov, but he was criticised in other quarters and this may have discouraged him from continuing to compose. In that year, 1873, he was sent to Budapest, whence he wrote to Stasov saying he could not dedicate himself

Nikolai Medtner

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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 of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include 14 piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, two works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, a few shorter works for violin and piano, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise. His 38 Skazki (generally known as “Fairy Tales” in English but more correctly translated as “Tales”) for piano solo contain some of his most original music. Biography Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow on 24 December 1879, according to the Julian calendar, or 5 January 1880 by the Gregorian calendar. He was the son of Karl Petrovich Medtner (1846–1921) and Alexandra Karlovna Goedicke (1843–1918), and the fifth of their six children. Both of them were of German origin. Medtner took piano lessons from his mother until the age of ten. He also had lessons from his mother’s brother, Fyodor Goedicke (the father of his more famous cousin Alexander Goedicke). He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1

Nikolai Myaskovsky

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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 Stalin Prize five times. Early years Myaskovsky was born in Nowogieorgiewsk, near Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, the son of an engineer officer in the Russian army. After the death of his mother the family was brought up by his father’s sister, Yelikonida Konstantinovna Myaskovskaya, who had been a singer at the Saint Petersburg Opera. The family moved to Saint Petersburg in his teens. Though he learned piano and violin, he was discouraged from pursuing a musical career, and entered the military. However, a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony conducted by Arthur Nikisch in 1896 inspired him to become a composer. In 1902 he completed his training as an engineer, like his father. As a young subaltern with a Sappers Battalion in Moscow, he took some private lessons with Reinhold Glière and when he was posted to Saint Petersburg he studied with Ivan Krizhanovsky as preparation for entry into the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he enrolled in 1906 and became a student

Nikolai Peiko

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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 Music College from 1933 through 1937 where his teachers included Igor Sposobin (harmony) and Genrik Litinsky (composition). This was followed by three years of training at the Moscow Conservatory where his teachers included Nikolai Myaskovsky (composition), Nikolai Rakov (orchestration), and Viktor Zukkerman (analysis). He graduated in 1940. Career Peiko worked in a military hospital during World War II and taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1942 to 1949. After working in the period 1941–1943 in Ufa at a military hospital, Peiko partly worked with and was influenced by Dmitri Shostakovich. From 1959 until retirement Peiko was professor of composition at the Gnessin State Musical College where his students included Sofia Gubaidulina, Alexander Arutiunian, and Inna Zhvanetskaya. Peiko taught his students twelve-tone technique. Peiko’s first successful work was From the Legends of Yakuta (1940). During World War II he composed several patriotic pieces, including Dramatic Overture (1941) an

Nikolai Rakov

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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 works, for orchestra, chamber music and piano music, especially pedagogic works. In 1946, he received the Stalin Prize for his first violin concerto, which became known internationally. Life Born in Kaluga, Rakov first studied violin at the Rubinstein Music School in his hometown, and later composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Reinhold Glière and Sergei Vasilenko. External links * Catalog of works (in English) * Nikolai Petrovich Rakov musicalics.com * Midi samples of selected works (in Russian) * Broadcast from 1955 of Rakov’s Scherzino for violin and piano (British Library)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Early years#

Rimsky-Korsakov was born in Tikhvin, 200 km miles east of Saint Petersburg, into a Russian noble family. Tikhvin was a town of Novgorod Governorate at that time. Throughout history, members of the family served in Russian government and took various positions as governors and war generals. Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov was famously a lover of Catherine the Great. By a Tsar’s decree on 15 May 1677, 18 representatives of the Korsakov family acquired the right to be called the Rimsky-Korsakov family (the Russian adjective ‘Rimsky’ means ‘Roman’) since the family “had a beginning within the Roman borders”, i.e. Czech lands, which used to be a part of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1390, Wenceslaus Korsak moved to the Grand Prince Vasily I of Moscow from the Duchy of Lithuania. The father of the composer, Andrei Petrovich Rimsky-Korsakov, was one of the six illegitimate sons of Avdotya Yakovlevna, daughter of an Orthodox priest from Pskov, and lieutenant general Peter Voinovich Rimsky-Korsakov, who had to officially adopt his own children as he was unable to marry their mother because of her lower social status. Using his friendship with Aleksey Arakcheyev, he granted them all the privileges of the noble family. Andrei went on to serve in the Interior Ministry of the Russian Empire, as vice-governor of Novgorod, and in the Volhynian Governorate. The composer’s mother, Sofya Vasilievna Rimskaya-Korsakova, was also born as an illegitimate daughter of a peasant serf and Vasily Fedorovich Skaryatin, a wealthy landlord who belonged to a noble Russian family. Her father raised her in full comfort, yet under an improvised surname, Vasilieva, and with no legal status. By the time Andrei Petrovich met her, he was already a widower: his first wife, knyazna Ekaterina Meshcherskaya, died just nine months after their marriage. Since Skaryatin found him unsuitable for his daughter, Andrei secretly “stole” his bride from the father’s house and brought her to Saint Petersburg, where they married. He later recalled that his mother played the piano a little, and his father could play a few songs on the piano by ear. Beginning at six, he took piano lessons from local teachers and showed a talent for aural skills, but he showed a lack of interest, playing, as he later wrote, “badly, carelessly, … poor at keeping time”. Although he started composing by age 10, Rimsky-Korsakov preferred literature to music. This love, with subtle prompting from Voin, encouraged the 12-year-old to join the Imperial Russian Navy. Voin, now director of the school, Ulikh perceived Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical talent and recommended another teacher, Feodor A. Kanille (Théodore Canillé). Beginning in late 1859, Rimsky-Korsakov took lessons in piano and composition from Kanille, whom he later credited as the inspiration for devoting his life to composition. Through Kanille, he was exposed to a great deal of new music, including Mikhail Glinka and Robert Schumann. Voin cancelled his brother Nikolai’s musical lessons when the latter reached age 17, feeling they no longer served a practical purpose. In November 1861, Kanille introduced the 18-year-old Nikolai to Mily Balakirev. Balakirev in turn introduced him to César Cui and Modest Mussorgsky; all three were known as composers, despite only being in their 20s. Rimsky-Korsakov later wrote, “With what delight I listened to real business discussions Rimsky-Korsakov’s emphasis of instrumentation, part writing, etc! And besides, how much talking there was about current musical matters! All at once I had been plunged into a new world, unknown to me, formerly only heard of in the society of my dilettante friends. That was truly a strong impression.” Balakirev encouraged Rimsky-Korsakov to compose and taught him the rudiments when he was not at sea. When he showed Balakirev the beginning of a symphony in E-flat minor that he had written, Balakirev insisted he continue working on it despite his lack of formal musical training. By the time Rimsky-Korsakov sailed on a two-year-and-eight-month cruise aboard the clipper in late 1862, he had completed and orchestrated three movements of the symphony. He composed the slow movement during a stop in England and mailed the score to Balakirev before going back to sea. At first, his work on the symphony kept Rimsky-Korsakov occupied during his cruise. He purchased scores at every port of call, along with a piano on which to play them, and filled his idle hours studying Berlioz’s Treatise on Instrumentation.

Nikolai Roslavets

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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 and cosmopolitan thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards. Among his works are five symphonic poems (three of them are lost), two violin concertos, five string quartets, two viola sonatas, two cello sonatas, six violin sonatas, and five piano trios. Life Roslavets was born in Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire. There are three autobiographies by Roslavets that differ considerably from one another. In one of them, published 1924, the composer deliberately misrepresented his biography in order to prevent the attacks by the “Proletarian Musician” faction. There are differing accounts of Roslavets’ birthplace, some indicating that he was born in Dushatyn to a peasant family, In 1902 Roslavets was accepted as a student at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied violin under Jan Hřímalý, free composition under Sergei Vasilenko, and counterpoint, fugue and musical form under Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Alexander Ilyinsky. He graduated in 1912 with a silver m

Nikolai Rubinstein

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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 Tchaikovsky. Life Born to Jewish parents in Moscow, where his father had just opened a small factory, Rubinstein showed talent at the keyboard early on. He studied piano first with his mother, and while the family was in Berlin between 1844 and 1846, he studied piano with Theodor Kullak and harmony and counterpoint with Siegfried Dehn; during this time both he and his brother Anton attracted the interest and support of Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer. When the family returned to Moscow, Nikolai studied with Alexander Villoing, who also toured with him. He studied medicine to avoid army conscription, graduating from Moscow University in 1855. in Paris. He also gave the first performance of Balakirev’s piano work Islamey, the work for which he is best known today. According to Harold C. Schonberg, Anton Rubinstein is reported to have said that “if Nikolai had really worked on it, he could have been the better pianist of the two.” One of Nikolai’s pupils, Emil von Sauer, wrote a comparison of the tw

Nikolai Tcherepnin

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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 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He conducted for the first Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Life Nikolai Tcherepnin was born in 1873 to a well-known and wealthy physician of the same name. The elder Nikolai moved in elite circles of artists including Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Modest Mussorgsky. Young Nikolai’s mother died when he was a baby, and when his father remarried, was replaced by an ambivalent stepmother. As a child, Nikolai’s father beat him regularly and enforced a general code of strict discipline. At his father’s insistence, Nikolai earned a law degree, though during this time he composed steadily. In 1895 he graduated with his degree in law from the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1898, he earned a degree in composition under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and a degree in piano under Karel van Ark. His talents and high family status earned him a job as the orchestral teacher at the Court Chapel in 1899. For six years he taught there before returning to the S

Nikolai Titov

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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 is considered to be the “Grandfather of the Russian Romance.” His compositional style was considered to be in the pre-classical orientation, thus setting the groundwork for the developments by Glinka and his contemporaries. He is considered to be one of the most popular romance composers of the 19th century. His songs were praised for their homely sensibility and ruminative harmonic language, albeit encased in simple yet effect forms that appealed to the at-home Amateurs and seasons musicians alike. His repertoire can still be heard today. Family and children Nikolai Alexeyevich Titov was born on April 28, 1800, in St. Petersburg to a family of art song and small-form composers. Titov also had a younger brother named Mikhail Alekseyevich, who was likewise a notable and technically proficient composer of romances, salon plays, and other small genres during the 19th century. Nikolai Titov was married in 1893 to Sofia Alekseevna Smirnova, great grandmother of Russian Postwar painter Nataly

Nikolaos Mantzaros

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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 (Επτανησιακή Σχολή). Recent research and performances have led to a re-evaluation of Mantzaros as a significant composer and music theorist. Biography Mantzaros was of noble Greco-Italian descent, coming from one of the most important and wealthy Venetian families of the “Libro d’Oro” di Corfu and therefore he never considered himself a “professional composer”, The first and second stanzas were adopted initially in 1864 as the Royal Anthem of Greece and on 28 June 1865 as the Greek national anthem. However, recent research and performances have proved that Mantzaros had broader activities as a significant composer and music theorist, which go beyond the established perception of him as the mere composer of the National Anthem. Recordings * Mantzaros-Solomos: The Hymn to the Liberty (Lyra, CD0064, 1991) * Music of the Ionian School. N.Mantzaros, N.Lambelet, P.Carrer (Motivo, NM1049, 1996). The ‘Nikolaos Mantzaros Chamber Music Ensemble’ performing arrangements from piano Sinfonias by Ma

Nikolaus Brass

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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 Munich, Scotland and at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied composition with Peter Kiesewetter in Munich, with Frank Michael Beyer at the Universität der Künste Berlin and with Helmut Lachenmann in Hanover. In 1980–86, he participated in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. There, he met Morton Feldman, who had a lasting influence on his further musical thinking and work. For many years, Brass worked as a medical doctor - first as a hospital doctor, from 1982 as editor of the journal Ärztliche Praxis - and at the same time as a composer. The “concrete confrontation with the existential fragility of human existence, with departure and happiness, but also pain, infirmity and death, acted like a compass in the search for expression”. Since 1981 Brass’ works have been regularly performed at festivals. In 2008 his work was the focus of the International Weingartener Days for New Music. His compositions Void (for piano) and Void II (for solos and orchestra) - so named after the Voids, the “leeren

Nikolaus Decius

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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 in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, around 1485. He studied at the University of Leipzig and obtained a master’s degree at Wittenburg University in 1523 and became a monk. Although a monk, he was an advocate of the Protestant Reformation and a disciple of Martin Luther. He wrote in 1523 “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr”, a German paraphrase of the Latin Gloria, adapted by Luther in 1525. Decius’s version was first sung on Easter Day at Braunschweig on 5 April 1523. Decius’s Low German version first appeared in print in Gesang Buch by Joachim Sluter, printed in 1525. In 1526, Decius became preacher at the Church of St. Nicholas in Stettin at the same time as Paulus von Rhode was appointed preacher at St. James’s in Stettin. In 1535 he became pastor of St. Nicholas and died there in March 1541 after a suspected poisoning. Shortly before his death he wrote the hymn “O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig” (O Lamb of God, innocent) sung on a tune from the 13th century. Decius’s version was first published in A

Nikolaus Herman

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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 languages. Career Herman was born in Altdorf. In 1518 he came as cantor and teacher at the Latin School of Joachimsthal (now Jáchymov, Bohemia). He was a supporter of the Reformation; a letter of Martin Luther to him is dated 6 November 1524. He collaborated with people such as Johannes Mathesius, who served there from 1532 as principal of the school, and from 1540 as a pastor. On 24 June 1557 Herman retired. He published his hymns, which he wrote primarily for teaching children, in 1560 under the title (The Sundays’ Gospels through the year in songs written for the children and Christian fathers). Hymns Several of his hymns are part of present-day hymnals, such as the current German Protestant hymnal (EG) and the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob (GL). He created text and melody for a few hymns: * "" (also: “allzugleich”) (Praise God, you Christians all the same) (EG 27, GL 134): The hymn text was published in 1560, with a melody Herman had already published in 1554 (then as tune of “”, Zahn N

Nikolaus Zmeskall

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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, living in Vienna. He was a musician and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. Life Zmeskall was educated at Neusohl (now Banská Bystrica in Slovakia), and studied philosophy and law at the universities of Trnava and Pest. After qualifying as a lawyer he moved to Vienna in 1784, where he was a civil servant at the Hungarian Court Chancellery. He was an amateur musician, and according to his own account he had lessons in composition from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. He was a founding member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, and was a member of its committee from 1813 to 1825. His compositions include string quartets, a piano rondo and several cello sonatas; they are in the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. Beethoven dedicated his String Quartet No. 11 in F minor (published in 1816) to Zmeskall. In May 1824 Zmeskall, despite being in poor health, was present at the premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Beethoven, a month before his death, wrot

Nikolay Afanasyev (composer)

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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 experiences as a touring musician, as part of a panorama of Russian musical life during the mid 19th century. He became an honorary member of the Russian Musical Society in 1896. Biography Afanasyev was born in Tobolsk in 1821. He obtained his musical education from his father, the violinist Yakov Ivanovich Afanasyev, an illegitimate son of Prince Ivan Dolgorukov. In 1838, two years after his debut as a violinist in Moscow, he was appointed concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. However, he resigned in 1841 to conduct the serf orchestra of a wealthy landowner at Vïksa, near Saint Petersburg. In 1846, Afanasyev left to embark on a concert tour of Russia, and eventually settled in Saint Petersburg in 1851, where he continued to perform as a soloist and as the concertmaster (sometimes conductor) of the Italian Opera. He quit orchestral work to begin teaching piano in 1853 at the Smolny Institute, before touring Western Europe with moderate success in 1857. After returning to Russia,

Nikolay Kedrov Sr.

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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 repertoire. Family Kedrov was born in Saint Petersburg, in the Russian Empire, into the family of a Russian Orthodox archpriest. His wife was Sofia Gladkaya (Kedrova; ru: Софья Николаевна Гладкая; 1874–1965), a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre. His elder daughter was soprano Irina Kedrova and his younger daughter was Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress Lila Kedrova. His son was Nikolay Kedrov Jr. Career From 1894 to 1897, he studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, becoming an operatic baritone who performed at various theaters, including the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1897, he organized a men’s vocal quartet (Saint Petersburg Russian vocal quartet). Their first concert was held in 1898 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The repertoire of the quartet included Russian folk songs, ballads, opera music, then gradually liturgical music appeared. The quartet each year successfully toured Europe, including participation in Diaghilev’s seasons. In 1913-14, Feodor Chaliapin and

Nikolay Sokolov (composer)

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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 born in Saint Petersburg in 1859. A student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he taught Alexander Tcherepnin, Dmitri Shostakovich and Yuri Shaporin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the posthumous dedicatee of Shostakovich’s Theme and Variations in B-flat major for orchestra, Op. 3. Sokolov’s recorded works include his contributions to several collaborative projects of the “Belyayev circle”, including the set of character pieces for string quartet known as Les Vendredis as well as a set of variations for piano and orchestra on a Russian theme. Other works include a Quintet, Op. 3, also arranged for string orchestra as a serenade; final chorus from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s Don Juan, Op. 5; choruses for women’s voices, Op. 12 (published 1892); piano variations, Op. 25; Variations on a popular Russian theme for string quartet (published 1899). There are also three string quartets, in F major, A major and D minor, and a string trio in D minor, his Op. 45 (published in 1916). A

Nikos Gounaris

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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 the age of four. He attended the Athens Conservatoire. Gounaris was a Greek elafró/light music singer and among the foremost Greek composers and musicians of the 1950s and 1960s. He was especially popular in the Greek community in America. A great deal of his entertainment was at two Greek resorts in the Catskills in upstate NY, the Sunset and the Monte Carlo. He mainly sang about the sad side of love and betrayed lovers. Hit songs included “Ena vradi pou ‘vrehe,” “Glikia mou matia agapimena,” and “Omorfi Athina”. He composed about 400 songs and played with the Trio Bel Canto during the 1960s. He died in 1965 in Athens of cancer. Famous songs *Αγάπη μου όμορφη - My beautiful love *Από τότε, την Άνοιξη - Since then, in Springtime *Αυτός ο άλλος - That other man *Γλυκά μου μάτια αγαπημένα - My sweet, beloved eyes *Είναι αργά πια τώρα να χωρίσουμε - It’s too late for us to split up *Εκεί ψηλά στον Άη-Λια - On top of St Elias’ hill *Ένα βράδυ που ‘βρεχε - On a rainy night *Θυμήσου - Rememb

Nikos Papazoglou

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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 number of Greek local groups in the 1960s. In 1972, he moved to Aachen, Germany with the group Zilotis (, “Zealot”) in an attempt to break into the international music scene. The group recorded six songs in Milan, Italy. Shortly afterwards, he returned to Greece. In 1976, Greek songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos invited him to participate in Acharnees, a cycle of songs and stage acts based on the ancient comedy The Acharnians by Aristophanes. There Papazoglou met Manolis Rasoulis and in 1978 the two, along with Dionysis Savvopoulos and Nikos Xydakis, produced the influential Ekdikisi Tis Gyftias (, “Revenge of the Gypsies”). The work received critical acclaim. Papazoglou and Rasoulis cooperated the following year on another successful work, Ta Dithen (Τα δήθεν, “The so-called”). Since 1984 the artist organized his tours by himself. He and his band known as Loxi falaga (, “Oblique order”), played in small venues in villages and on small islands, gaining huge popularity with the general public. H

Nikos Skalkottas

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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 repertoire and the Greek tradition. He also produced a sizeable amount of tonal music in the last phase of his musical creativity. Biography Skalkottas was born in Chalcis on the island of Euboea. He started violin lessons with his father and uncle Kostas Skalkottas at the age of five, three years after his family moved to Athens because Kostas had lost the post of town bandmaster in 1906 due to political and legal intrigues . He continued studying violin with at the Athens Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1920 with a diploma of high distinction. The following year a scholarship from the Averoff Foundation enabled him to study abroad. From 1921 to 1933 he lived in Berlin, where he first took violin lessons at the Prussian Academy of Arts with Willy Hess . Deciding in 1923 to give up his career as a violinist and become a composer, he studied composition with Robert Kahn, Paul Juon, Kurt Weill and Philipp Jarnach. Between 1927 and 1932 he was a member of Arnold Schoenberg’s Mastercl

Nils Henrik Asheim

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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 Amsterdam. His production comprises chamber music, orchestral works, sacred music, musical theater and digital music, and his Lillehammer −94 fanfare is released on record by “Gardemusikken”. Asheim is awarded Spellemannprisen twice, in 2005 in the class Contemporary music, for 19 March 2004, Oslo Cathedral and 2010 in the class Contemporary composer of the year, for Mazurka – remaking Chopin. He was also nominated in 2003 in Open class for Kom regn together with Anne-Lise Berntsen. He was awarded Edvard-prisen for “Chase” in 2002 in the class Contemporary music and in 2011 he was awarded Lindemanprisen. Honors *Spellemannprisen 2005 in the class Contemporary music, for 19 March 2004, Oslo Cathedral *Arne Nordheim’s Composer Award 2007 *Spellemannprisen 2010 in the class Contemporary composer of the year, for Mazurka – remaking Chopin *Edvard Prize in the class Contemporary music, for “Chase” *Lindemanprisen 2011 Discography ;As composer * 1988. Flere artister. Kruse, Olav Berg, Asheim, Sam

Nils Lindberg

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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 also active in other styles. Lindberg died on 20 February 2022, at the age of 88. Discography class=“wikitable sortable” !Year recorded !Title !Label !Notes - 1960 Sax Appeal Barben Some tracks quintet, some tracks septet; with Rolf Billberg (alto sax), Harry Backlund and Allan Lundstrom (tenor sax), Lars Gullin (baritone sax), Sture Nordin (bass), Conny Svensson (drums) - 1962 Trisection Most tracks with Idrees Sulieman and Jan Allan (trumpet), Sven-Olof Walldoff (bass trumpet), Eje Thelin (trombone), Olle Holmqvist (tuba), Rolf Billberg (alto sax), Bertil Lofdahl and Harry Backlund (tenor sax), Erik Nilsson (baritone sax), Sture Nordin (bass), Sture Kallin (drums) - 1970 Contradictions (Club Jazz 1) - 1972 7 dalmålningar Swedish Society Discofil Bibliography *As You are, Music Memories (2006), Swedish, 168 pages, Stockholm: Svenskt visarkiv, Jazz Department at The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, 0281-5567 ; 17 References External links *Composer’s website, accessed 8

Nils-Göran Areskoug

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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 as Associate Professor in Musicology at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Early life and education Areskoug was born in Växjö, Sweden on 18 May 1951. He trained as a medical doctor and was certified as a cantor and organist at the Lund Cathedral in 1968. Early music teachers in Växjö included Nils Andersson, Ture Olsson, Janis Ozolins, Sylvia Mang-Borenberg, and Ladis and Boiana Müller. He studied musicology with Martin Tegen and literature with E.N. Tigerstedt at Stockholm University (from 1970), was supervised in his doctoral studies by Ingmar Bengtsson at Uppsala University (1974) and mentored by Bo Wallner at Royal University College of Music, Stockholm. As a pianist, he studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Hans Leygraf in 1969 and, as a conductor, with Sergiu Celibidache in Mainz, Stuttgart and Munich from 1978 to 1995. As a composer, Areskoug attended seminars with mentors such as Olivier Messiaen in Paris 1973, and György Ligeti in Stockholm, during the 197

Nilson Lombardi

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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 interpreted in international recitals and recordings on disc by Eudoxia de Barros, Attilio Mastrogiovanni, Orlando Retroz, Beatriz Balzi, and others. Lombarti was awarded the APCA prize of São Paulo Association of Art Critics of classical music lovers and artists influencing contemporary classical music in Brazil and abroad. Nilson Lombardi worked with Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993), one of the most important contributors of Brazilian music. Lombardi was defined as a follower of the work of Guarnieri. Nilson Lombardi’s family made the donation collection of the composer at the Tatuí Musical Conservatory “Dr. Carlos Campos”, the Conservatory of Tatuí. The collection includes about 600 items, including books, music, trophies, a typewriter, and every work of Nilson Lombardi. Singer and producer Marcia Mah released the book “Nilson Lombardi Complete Works” in 2002, published by TCM. It has 408 pages of biography and pieces for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber music, symphony orchestra

Nimrod Borenstein

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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 of the repertoire of many ensembles and orchestras. Education Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Borenstein grew up in Paris, France, where he started his musical education at the age of 3. In 1984, he became a Laureat of the Cziffra Foundation and moved to London, England, in 1986 to pursue his studies as a violinist with Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music. He was then awarded the highest scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust to study composition with Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy. As of 2014, he is an Associate of the Academy and listed amongst the alumni. Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy has been a supporter of Borenstein’s music for many years. In 2013 Ashkenazy conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra for a performance of The Big Bang and Creation of the Universe. Later that year he conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in the world premiere of If you will it, it is no dream. The past few years have seen Nimrod Borenstein’s compositions premiered and per

Nina Humphreys

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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 and an MA in Film Music from Bournemouth University. Works Humphreys has composed music for: References External links *Official website *British Comedy Guide: Nina Humphreys

Nina Makarova

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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 under Nikolai Myaskovsky, like composer Aram Khachaturian, whom she married in 1933. Her nickname was “Gayane” (Гаянэ). She conducted her symphony in Moscow on 12 June 1947. She also co-composed several pieces with her husband, including the music to Margarita Aliger’s play “A Tale of Truth” (1947) and music to ’s play “Spring Stream” (1953). Nina and Aram’s son, Karen, became an art critic. Works *Two Melodies for oboe and piano *Piano Sonatina (1933) *Violin Sonata (1934) *Two Melodies for violin and piano *Symphony in D minor (1938) – revised in 1962. CD Russian Disc RDCD 11382: USSR SO, O. Koch (cond) *Six Etudes for piano (1938) *“Cantata for Molotov” for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1940) *Song Cycle after Pushkin *Song Cycle after Rustaveli *Children Song dedicated to Stalin *Music to the Play “A Tale of Truth” after M. Aliger – composed jointly with Aram Khachaturian. First Performance: 1947, Moscow, Central Theater of the Red Army. Producer: A. Okunchikov. Designer: N. Shifri

Nini Bulterijs

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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 Yvonne van den Berghe at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp. She continued her studies in composition with Jean Louel privately and with Jean Absil at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. After completing her studies, she taught at small music schools in Hamme, Vilvoorde and Mechelen before taking a position as professor at the Lemmens Institute at Louvain and in 1970 at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of Antwerp. She retired from teaching in 1988 and died in Wilrijk. Bulterijs won second place in the 1963 Prix de Rome contest and in the 1966 Queen Elisabeth International Composition Competition. She received the 1969 Emile Doehaerd Prize. Works Bulterijs composed orchestral, chamber ensemble, choral and instrumental works and songs. Selected compositions include: *Sonata, 2 violins, pianoforte, 1960 *Symphonic Movements, orchestra, 1960 *Pianoforte Concerto, 1961 *Trio for piano, viol and cello, 1962 *Arion (cantata, text: B. Decorte), solo violin, chorus, orchestra, 1963 *Concerto

Niniola

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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 her debut single “Ibadi”, she was nominated for Most Promising Act to Watch at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Early life Niniola Apata was born to the family of Rt. Brigadier General Simeon Olaosebikan Apata and Mrs. Margaret Apata on 15 December 1986 and raised in Lagos State, Nigeria. She is the direct elder sister to Teni. Education Niniola began her education both primary and secondary school education at Apata Memorial High School, and she earned a bachelor of education certificate from the University of Lagos. Career Niniola participated in several social activities and competitions while attending secondary school. She finished third runner-up in the sixth season of Project Fame West Africa. During the competition, she performed a live rendition of “Limpopo” with Kcee and her Cobhams Asuquo-produced track “Itura”. She has cited Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, The Cranberries, Madonna, Beyoncé and Angélique Kidjo as her key musical influences. Her singles “Ibadi

Nino Marcelli

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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 one for the Bohemian Club. After the war, Marcelli settled in San Francisco with a position as cellist in the San Francisco Symphony. Marcelli used four main themes for Philistine: the theme of Dagon, the God of the Philistines; the theme of Saph, the nobility of the race; the theme of Saph’s love for humanity and his belief in brotherhood; and the theme of the forest. In 1937, Marcelli published two instructional books, one for cellists and the other for bass players, and in 1939 he published an instructional book for orchestra and band. Marcelli spoke as a guest lecturer at University of Southern California, University of Idaho, Western State College of Colorado and the California Music Colony. In 1950, he joined with George A. Finder to create a multi-colored plastic ukulele that would aid instruction. At Marcelli’s death, aged 77, in August 1967, the San Diego Tribune memorialized him, saying: Works *1922 – The Rout of the Philistines, A Forest Play, a Grove Play *Song of Thanks, ch

Nino Rota

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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 Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare screen adaptations, and for the first two installments of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, earning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 – an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Vis

Niño Ruven

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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 innovative bassoonists of his generation, being the creator and the only worldwide exponent of the flamenco bassoon. Biography Niño Ruven was born in Doña Mencía, south of Spain, on 25 March 1997, although he has resided in the city of Lucena for a good part of his life. His stage name comes from the way his family has always referred to him. He debuted as a soloist at thirteen, moment in which he began to compose his first works. His artistic sensitivity can be appreciated in several recitals and competitions related to the classical world, from which he will gradually move away. In 2014, he obtained his first recognition, the Special Jury Award of the 1st Seville Double Reed Society Competition, awarded for his «outstanding performance and musical talent». In 2016, an American publisher specialized in double reed instruments published his compositional work as “something totally different, original and challenging”. He said goodbye to everything which is considered to be orthodox that year an

Ninón Lapeiretta de Brouwer

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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 works for various instruments including piano, wind ensemble, full orchestra and voice. She sometimes utilized national Dominican music as a starting point for her work. Early life She was born Ninón Lapeiretta Pichardo in Santo Domingo, daughter of Natalia Pichardo Gómez and Alesandro Lepeiretta, an immigrant from France. As a child she studied piano. Career Her earliest works were more traditional canciones, criollas, and dances. In 1940 she began to study under Enrique Casal Chapí, the director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN) in the Dominican Republic. Lapeiretta de Brouwer continued to compose pieces, expanding to ballets and works for orchestras and ensembles. As director, Casal Chapí often championed native composers and performed their works with the symphony, and Lapeiretta de Brouwer earned exposure both in the Dominican Republic and abroad. The OSN under Casal Chapí premiered Lapeiretta de Brouwer’s work Dos Caprichos for wind ensemble in 1942, as well as her orchestral p

Ninot le Petit

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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 survived in several sources, his actual name is not known with certainty. Life Two identifications have been proposed by musicologists in the latter half of the 20th century. The first possibility, suggested by Barton Hudson in 1979, is that le Petit may have been Johannes Baltazar alias le Petit, since a singer of that name was in the papal chapel between 1488 and 1502, and his name resembles that in the attribution of some “le Petit” motets in a Vatican manuscript. The second possibility is that “le Petit” may be the same as Jean Lepetit, the singing master at Langres Cathedral between 1506 and 1510. Baltazar died in 1502, Lepetit after 1529; stylistically the music of le Petit suggests composition in the first two decades of the 16th century. Music and influence Le Petit’s style is similar to that of Antoine de Févin and Jean Mouton, the two most famous French composers associated with the French royal chapel. He preferred clear harmonies, a texture occasionally broken by long duets,

Nisar Bazmi

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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 introduced new singers like Alamgir and Mehnaz Begum. The duo of composers Laxmikant–Pyarelal were musicians with Bazmi in India before the partition. Bazmi is primarily remembered for his compositions in the voice of playback singer Ahmed Rushdi. Music and popular film songs of Nisar Bazmi class=“wikitable” - !Film Song !!Singers !!Song Lyrics By !!Film and year - ““Mohabbat Mei Tere Sar Ki Qasam” Ahmed Rushdi, Noor Jehan Masroor Anwar film Aisa Bhi Hota Hai (1965) - “Ho Tamanna Aur Kya Jaan-E-Tamanna Aap Hain” Nayyara Noor Masroor Anwar film Aas (1973) Death and legacy Nisar Bazmi died on 22 March 2007 in Karachi and was buried the next day near his residence in North Karachi. A major Pakistani English-language newspaper commented after his death, “In the death of Nisar Bazmi, students of music in Pakistan have lost an opportunity to benefit from the experience of a virtuoso who scored 140 films in all.” “Nisar Bazmi was a thorough professional and a man of rare imagination. He used