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Composers whose names start with NO.

Post-War

Noah Creshevsky

Noah Creshevsky (January 31, 1945 – December 3, 2020) was a composer and electronic musician born in Rochester, New York. He used the term hyperrealism to describe his work. Biography Noah Creshevsky

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21st Century

Noah K

Noah Flynn Kaplan (born September 11, 1984), known professionally as Noah K, is an American composer, saxophonist, and record producer. Early life and education K grew up in Topanga Canyon,

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Post-War

Noam Sheriff

Noam Sheriff (; 7 January 1935 – ) was an Israeli composer, conductor, educator, and arranger. Noam Sheriff was Artistic Director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, Music Director of the Israel Rishon

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21st Century

Nobin Paul

Nobin Paul is an Indian film music composer who primarily works in Kannada film industry. Early Life Paul was born in Kottayam, Kerala. His family shifted to Bengaluru, Karnataka after his schooling.

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Late Romantic

Nobu Kōda

Nobu Kōda 幸田延 (1870–1946) was a Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher. She was one of the first Japanese women to study music overseas. She studied at the New England Conservatory. She

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21st Century

Nobuo Uematsu

is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix. A self-taught musician, he began playing the piano at the age of twelve.

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21st Century

Nobuyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese musician, composer, arranger, and pianist, who studied composition in Tokyo and Paris. He has composed original soundtracks for Japanese TV series such as the NHK Taiga drama Yae no

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21st Century

Nobuyuki Tsujii

(also known as Nobu Tsujii) is a Japanese pianist and composer. He was born blind due to microphthalmia. Tsujii performs extensively, with a large number of conductors and orchestras, and has

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Renaissance

Noel Bauldeweyn

Noel Bauldeweyn (first name also Noe, Natalis; surname also Balbun, Balduin, Bauldewijn, Baulduin, Baulduvin, and Valdovin; (c. 1480 – after 1513) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance,

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Post-War

Noel DaCosta

Noel G. Da Costa (24 December 1929 – 29 April 2002) was a Nigerian-Jamaican composer, jazz violinist, and choral conductor. Early life and educational career Noel Da Costa was born on 24 December

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20th Century

Noel Estrada

Noel Epifanio Estrada Suárez (June 4, 1918 – December 1, 1979) Musical compositions Estrada became a government employee after being honorably discharged from the Army. He was a protocol official for

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Post-War

Noël Goemanne

Noël Goemanne (Poperinge, December 10, 1926 – Dallas, January 12, 2010) was a Belgian-born musician, who in 1952 emigrated to the United States, where he made a name for himself as an organist, as a

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Entry

Noel Katz

Noel Katz is an American composer and lyricist. He is best known for Such Good Friends, an original musical comedy presented at the fourth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2007, where it

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Post-War

Noël Lancien

Noël Lancien (24 December 1934 – 23 July 1999) was a French composer, conductor and music educator, first Grand Prix de Rome in 1958. Life Born in Paris, spotted very early for his musical gifts,

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Post-War

Noël Lee

Noël Lee (December 25, 1924 – July 15, 2013) was an American classical pianist and composer. Biography Born in 1924 in Nanjing, China, Lee studied music in Lafayette, Indiana, then attended Harvard

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21st Century

Noel Schajris

Nahuel Schajris Rodríguez (born July 19, 1974) is an Argentine-Mexican singer, songwriter and pianist based in Mexico who experienced chart-topping success as part of the duo Sin Bandera until he and

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21st Century

Noel Sean

Noel Sean (born 28 November 1982) is an Indian rapper and actor working in the Telugu cinema and Telugu music. An actor, music producer, television host, Radio Jockey, lyricist and composer. In 2020,

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21st Century

Noelle Scaggs

Noelle Scaggs (born October 8, 1979) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, known as the co-lead singer of the pop group Fitz and the Tantrums. Scaggs has also had numerous

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21st Century

Nokuthula Ngwenyama

Nokuthula Ngwenyama (born June 16, 1976) is an American solo violist and composer of Ndebele and Japanese descent. She is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and has won the Primrose

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21st Century

Nolan Williams Jr.

Nolan E. Williams Jr. (born March 1969) is an American composer, musicologist, and producer. He was an editor of the African American Heritage Hymnal. Early life and education Williams grew up the

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Entry

Nomi Abadi

Nomi Abadi is an American composer, actress, lyricist, pianist, vocalist, activist known for her work on Marvel's Thunderbolts*. Early life Abadi's musical career began with a concert with the Orange

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21st Century

Nora Baldenweg

Nora Baldenweg (born 22 July 1981) is a Swiss Australian musician, vocalist, composer, producer and creative director in fashion. She was the first Swiss female composer to be nominated for the World

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Romantic

Norbert Burgmüller

August Joseph Norbert Burgmüller (8 February 1810 – 7 May 1836) was a German composer, renowned for his contributions during the nascent stages of the Romantic Era. His oeuvre, albeit cut tragically

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20th Century

Norbert Glanzberg

Norbert Glanzberg (né Nathan Glanzberg; 12 October 1910 – 25 February 2001) was a Galician-born French composer. Mostly a composer of film music and songs, he was also notable for some famous songs

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Post-War

Norbert Linke

Norbert Linke (5 March 1933 – 10 November 2020) and instrumental works. From 1952 to 1959 he studied composition at the State Academy of Music in Hamburg with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and Philipp

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20th Century

Norbert von Hannenheim

Norbert Wolfgang Stephan Hann von Hannenheim (15 May 1898, Nagyszeben – 29 September 1945 in the Landeskrankenhaus Obrawalde near Międzyrzecz) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German composer. He is seen

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21st Century

Noriyasu Agematsu

is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer, as well as founding member of the musical group Elements Garden. He composed and arranged tracks on Nana Mizuki's singles Massive Wonders and

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Post-War

Noriyuki Asakura

is a Japanese composer and vocalist, best known for composing the soundtracks to the anime series Rurouni Kenshin and the video game franchises Tenchu and Way of the Samurai. He is well known for

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21st Century

Noriyuki Iwadare

is a Japanese video game composer. Some of his work include the Langrisser, Lunar, Grandia, and Ace Attorney series. Biography Iwadare was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He began

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Post-War

Norma Beecroft

Norma Marian Beecroft (1934–2024) was a Canadian composer, producer, broadcaster, and arts administrator. Early years Born in Oshawa, Beecroft was the daughter of Julian Beecroft, a musician,

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20th Century

Norman Cazden

Norman Cazden (September 23, 1914, in New York City – August 18, 1980, in Bangor, Maine) was an American composer. The son of Russian immigrants, he studied first at the Juilliard School of Music and

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20th Century

Norman Dello Joio

Norman Dello Joio (January 24, 1913 – July 24, 2008) was an American composer active for over half a century. Best known for his choral music, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1957. Life Dello

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20th Century

Norman Demuth

Norman Demuth (15 July 1898 – 21 April 1968) was an English composer and musicologist, remembered largely for his biographies of French composers. Biography Early life Demuth was born in Croydon,

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Post-War

Norman Durkee

Norman Edward Durkee was an American composer and pianist known for his eclectic mix of classical, jazz, rock and blues but best known for his boogie-woogie piano contribution to the 1974

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20th Century

Norman Fulton

Robert Norman Fulton (23January 19095 – August 1980) was an English-born composer, broadcaster and teacher of Scottish ancestry. Life and career Fulton was born in London but educated in Scotland at

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Post-War

Norman Gimbel

Norman Gimbel (November 16, 1927 – December 19, 2018) was an American lyricist and songwriter of popular songs and themes to television shows and films. He wrote the lyrics for songs including "Ready

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Post-War

Norman Hallam (composer)

Norman Hallam (9 October 1945 – April 2025) was an English clarinetist and the composer of the Dance Suite for wind quintet. Born in Coventry, Hallam began playing the clarinet from the age of 11,

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Post-War

Norman Kay (composer)

Norman Forber Kay (5 January 1929 – 12 May 2001) was a British composer and writer. Education and early career Kay, who was born in Bolton, was educated at Bolton School, the Royal Manchester College

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Late Romantic

Norman O'Neill (composer)

Norman Houston O'Neill (14 March 1875 – 3 March 1934) was an English composer and conductor of Irish background who specialised largely in works for the theatre. Life O'Neill was born at 16 Young

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Post-War

Norman Orenstein

Norman Orenstein is a Canadian composer, record producer, and musician. Career Orenstein is the co-founder of the rock/soul band Infidels, and Alta Moda, and was previously associated with the bands

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20th Century

Norman Peterkin

George Norman Peterkin (Liverpool, 21 December 1886 – Guildford, 15 December 1982) was an English composer and music publisher. He is perhaps best known today for his brief song "I heard a piper

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20th Century

Norman Spencer (composer)

Norman Spencer Matthews (March 3, 1891– February 15, 1940), was an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for having served as musical director/composer for Warner Brothers' /Leon

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Post-War

Norman Symonds

Norman Alec Symonds (23 December 1920 – 21 August 1998) was a Canadian composer, clarinetist, and saxophonist who lived and worked in Toronto, Ontario. A leading figure in the third-stream movement

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Post-War

Normand Roger

Normand Roger (born 1949) is a Canadian composer, sound editor and sound designer. He is particularly known for his work as a composer of soundtracks for animated films, having composed more than 200

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21st Century

Nosie Katzmann

Jürgen Katzmann aka Nosie Katzmann and Morrison Long is a German dance music songwriter and producer. He is known for writing songs for several European electronic dance acts like Culture Beat and

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Medieval

Notker Physicus

Notker Physicus (c. 900 – 12 November 975) was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, active as a physician, painter, composer and poet. He is best known for his medical prowess, and may have

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Medieval

Notker the Stammerer

Notker the Stammerer (c. 840 – 6 April 912), Notker Balbulus, or simply Notker, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall active as a composer, poet and scholar. Described as "a significant

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