NO on Music Theory Print

Noah Creshevsky

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 was born Gary Cohen in Rochester, New York, to Joseph and Sylvia Cohen. He changed his surname to Creshevsky in order to honor his maternal grandparents. At the same time he also changed his first name because, he said, “I never felt like a Gary.” He studied in the preparatory division of the Eastman School of Music from the age of 6 until 1961, then earned a B.F.A. degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1966, studying with Lukas Foss. There, he founded the New York Improvisation Ensemble. He also served on the faculties of Juilliard and Hunter College, and was a visiting professor at Princeton University during the 1984 academic year. This alliance of opposites is heard both in his text-sound compositions (1973-1986)—Pop Art works in which extreme and unpredictable juxtapositions of iconographic sonic materials establish links between music and society —and in later pieces, in which the integration of electronic and acoustic sources and processes “creates virtual ‘su

Noah K

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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, California. During high school he performed jazz professionally throughout Los Angeles. In 2002, he composed and performed music on the ABC television series Once and Again. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Joe Maneri and Jerry Bergonzi. He was Maneri’s last student. After graduating, K moved to Brooklyn, New York, and traveled monthly to Framingham, Massachusetts for lessons in composition, theory, and improvisation with Maneri until Maneri’s death in 2009. K received an MFA in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2015 where his advisor was Steven Mackey. In 2018 he was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship from the Princeton University Graduate School. He has been the recipient of composition fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In 2022, he received a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University. He has been visiting professor of music and adjunct professor at NYU’s Gallati

Noam Sheriff

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 LeZion Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Composition and Conducting at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University, and Director of the Academy from 1998 to 2000. He was also artistic director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. Awards *1991: ACUM Prize for his life’s work. *2003: EMET Prize for music. Personal life Noam Sheriff was married to the Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff from 1982 until Noam Sheriff’s death in 2018. References External links * Noam Sheriff’s website * Sheriff’s home page at C.F. Peters edition

Nobin Paul

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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. Prior to entering the film industry, he composed advertising jingles. Filmography Awards References External links *

Nobu Kōda

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 later studied in Europe. She was the sister of Kōda Rohan. Early life Nobu Kōda was born on 19 April 1870. Both her and her sister Andō Kōko studied at the Tokyo Music School (now known as Tokyo University of the Arts). As a child she studied the koto and studied western music with Nakamura Sen. She graduated from the Institute in 1885 as part of the first graduating class. Her brother Rohan Koda was one of the most highly respected authors of the time. His daughter Aya, granddaughter Tama, and great-granddaughter Nao were all award-winning authors. They all wrote personal accounts of their family’s history & often mentioned Nobu, preventing her from falling into obscurity. References External links * 幸田延: ヴァイオリンソナタ第2番ニ短調/ Nobu Koda: Violin Sonata No.2 d-minor, recording of Violin Sonata No. 2

Nobuo Uematsu

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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. Uematsu joined Square in 1986, where he first met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. The two later worked together on many games at the company, most notably in the Final Fantasy series. After nearly two decades with Square, Uematsu left in 2004 to create his own production company and music label, Dog Ear Records. He has since composed music as a freelancer for other games, including ones developed by Square Enix and Sakaguchi’s studio Mistwalker. Many soundtracks and arranged albums of Uematsu’s game scores have been released. Pieces from his video game works have been performed in various Final Fantasy concerts, where he has worked with conductor Arnie Roth and Game Concerts producer Thomas Böcker on several of these performances. Uematsu was also the keyboardist in The Black Mages in the 2000s, which played various hard rock versions of his Final Fantasy compositions. He has since performed with the Earthbound Papas, which he formed as the successor to The Black Mages in 201

Nobuyuki Nakajima

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Sakura (nominated for the 42nd International Emmy Awards, Drama Series). In recent years, he participated in Jane Birkin’s world tours (Jane Birkin sings Serge Gainsbourg “Via Japan”) as musical director, orchestrator and pianist (over 70 concerts in 27 countries) 2011–2013. Since 2016, he also joined her world tour “Gainsbourg Symphonique”, as the orchestral arranger and pianist. Discography Studio albums * ETE,Palma ~ a vague impression of the summer ~ (2006) * PASSACAILLE (2007) * MELANCOLIA (2010) * Cancellare (2012) * clair-obscur (2014) * Broken Blossoms (2015) Original soundtrack albums * The Fallen Angel (Ningen Shikkaku) (2010) * Tamayura OVA (2010) * Tamayura ~ hitotose ~ (2011) * Yae no Sakura I (2013) * Yae no Sakura II (2013) * Yae no Sakura III (2013) * Yae no Sakura complete edition (2014) * The Mourner (2015) Works as a Composer Film * The Fallen Angel (dir. Genjiro Arato / 2010) * The Mourner (dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi / 2015) * good-bye (dir. Toshihiro Hanyu / 2015) * sinsin

Nobuyuki Tsujii

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

(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 received critical acclaim for his unique techniques for learning music and performing with an orchestra while being unable to see. Early life and education Nobuyuki Tsujii was born blind due to microphthalmia. From an early age, he exhibited exceptional talent and musical ability. At age two, he began to play “Do Re Mi” on a toy piano after hearing his mother hum the tune. He began formal piano study at the age of four. In 1995, at age seven, Tsujii won the first prize at the All Japan Music of Blind Students by the Tokyo Helen Keller Association. In 1998, at age ten, he debuted with the Century Orchestra, Osaka. He gave his first piano recital in the small hall of Tokyo’s Suntory Hall at age 12. Subsequently, he made his overseas debut with performances in the United States, France, and Russia. In October 2005, he reached the semifinal and received the Critics’ Award at the 15th International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland. In April 2007, Tsujii entered Ueno Gakuen U

Noel Bauldeweyn

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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, active in the Low Countries. A contemporary of Josquin des Prez, he had a strong reputation until well after the middle of the 16th century. That some of his works have long been misattributed to Josquin, the most renowned composer of the age, is indicative of his skill as a composer. Life Little documentation of his life has yet come to light. He is known to have been the singing master at St. Rombouts in Mechelen between 1509 and 1513, replacing Jean Richafort. That he held a position of such high status, in a church which was a musical center – and also used by the Burgundian court chapel itself – indicates that he was probably not younger than about 25 at the time. In 1513, Jacques Champion took Bauldeweyn’s position at St. Rombouts, but the circumstances of his departure, and where he went, are not known. The extraordinarily wide distribution of his music in sources, ranging from Italy, Bohemia, the Netherlands, and Spain, suggests that he may have traveled, though at what point in h

Noel DaCosta

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 1929 Lagos, Nigeria to parents from Kingston, Jamaica, who were Salvation Army missionaries. After returning to Jamaica while Da Costa was young, they emigrated to New York City, living in Harlem. While in High School, he was inspired by one of his teachers to work in an artistic field. Da Costa completed his Bachelor’s at Queens College in 1952 and his Master’s in theory and composition at Columbia University in 1956, studying with Otto Luening and Jack Beeson. He studied with Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence, Italy, under a Fulbright Fellowship, and shortly thereafter in 1961 took positions teaching at Hampton University and the City University of New York. In 1970 he accepted a position at Rutgers University, where he taught until 2001. He died the following year at the age of 72. Musical career Da Costa was also a co-founder of the Society of Black Composers. His first music set to poetry being Tambourines by Langston Hughes. He also worked with choral groups, becoming the director of th

Noel Estrada

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 the State Department. It was during the 1940s and 1950s that he wrote and interpreted his songs in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Among the many songs which he wrote were the following: “El Romance del Cafetal” (Romance of the coffee field); “Verde Navidad” (Green Christmas); “El Amor del Jíbaro” (The poor farmers Love); “Pobre Amor” (Poor Love); “Pedacito de Borinquen” (A piece of Puerto Rico); “Amor del Alma” (Love of the Soul); “Lo Nuestro Termino” (Our love is Finished); “Llévame a Ver a Jesús” (Take Me to see Jesus"); etcetera. However, it was “En mi Viejo San Juan” (In my Old San Juan) that would bring Estrada international acclaim. “En Mi Viejo San Juan” Estrada composed “En mi Viejo San Juan” in the 1940s, in New York City. It is Estrada’s most popular composition, and is considered a second national anthem by many Puerto Ricans, especially those who live abroad. The City of San Juan honored Estrada as an adopted citizen and would later adopt the song as its official city anthem.

Noël Goemanne

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 choirmaster, and as a composer, especially of sacred music. Education Goemanne began studying music at the age of six, and obtained his first music degrees magna cum laude from a so-called “central examination board”. He then studied full-time at the Lemmensinstituut, where he had renowned teachers, among them composer Marinus De Jong, choirmaster Jules Van Nuffel, and organist Flor Peeters, and at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, where he his teachers included Pierre Froidebise and Charles Hens. Subsequently, he studied for two more years with Flor Peeters as a private student. In Belgium During World War II, the Nazi occupier tried to persuade him to become a composer for the Third Reich, but he refused. He was later arrested for playing music by Felix Mendelssohn, a Jewish composer, in public. His wartime experiences turned him into a committed pacifist, which was reflected in his demand, to which he adhered till the end of his life, that his singers sing the “Dona nobis pacem” (Gran

Noel Katz

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 won five awards, including Talkin’ Broadway’s Citation as the season’s best musical. It tells the story of three old friends working together in the early years of live television who are forced to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the consequences of the different choices each character makes. The NYMF presentation of Such Good Friends featured Tony nominees Liz Larsen and Brad Oscar. Katz composed Our Wedding, The Musical, a musical written for his own actual wedding, which was featured in The New York Times in 2003. He has composed scores for a variety of Second City (NY) improv-based revues, including We Built This City on Rent Control, A Time For Heroes and Hoagies, and Generation F’d. He has also taught song improvisation at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Circle in the Square and the National Dance Institute. Works * Through the Wardrobe * Murder at the Savoy * The Heavenly Theatre (composer) * The New U. * On the Brink * Not a Lion * The Christmas

Noël Lancien

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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, Lancien entered the Maîtrise de la Radio when it was created in 1945 and began composing. He joined the Conservatoire de Paris in rue de Madrid in 1949, and he obtained the First Prix de Rome in 1958 for his cantata Une mort de Don Quichotte. He studied musical analysis with Olivier Messiaen and musical composition with Tony Aubin and Darius Milhaud, and won a second conducting prize in 1959. He was director of the Conservatoire de Toulouse from 1964 to 1970 and of the Conservatoire de Nancy from 1970 to 1997, and conductor of the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy during the same period. He directs half of the programs, and brings to Nancy soloists such as Maurice André, Pierre Barbizet, Yuri Boukoff, Roger Bourdin, Jacqueline Brumaire, Annie Challan, Xavier Darasse, Christian Ferras, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Alexandre Lagoya, Frédéric Lodéon, Mady Mesplé, Nathan Milstein, Daniel Wayenberg and Pierre Sancan. Lancien died in Mauvages (Meuse). Works *Deux sonnets de Shakespeare for str

Noël Lee

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 University, studying with Walter Piston, Irving Fine, and Tillman Merritt and was also a student at the Longy School of Music in the early 1940s. Following World War II, he traveled to Paris, where he studied music with Nadia Boulanger and was a friend of Douglas Allanbrook. He composed orchestral, chamber, piano, vocal, and film music. In addition, he completed several unfinished piano works by Franz Schubert, and composed cadenzas for piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. He was also well known for his piano accompaniment. Lee was a visiting professor at Brandeis University, Cornell University, and Dartmouth College. He received numerous awards throughout his career, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his creative work in 1959, and from France, twice laureate of the Fondation de France, in 1998, the grade of Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and, in 1999, from the city of Paris, the Grand Prix de la Musique. Lee’s fi

Noel Schajris

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 fellow singer and songwriter Leonel García concluded their partnership in 2007. Schajris began his solo career in 2009 with the release of his first full-length solo album Uno No Es Uno, which was received with critical and commercial success, reaching number 10 on Billboards Latin Pop Albums chart and number 27 on Billboards Top Latin Albums chart. Career Schajris sang in a quartet with Luis Fonsi on the song “Aquí Estoy Yo” from Fonsi’s 2008 album Palabras del Silencio. This quartet also included artists David Bisbal and Aleks Syntek. In December 2008, Brian McKnight’s Christmas album featured Schajris performing a verse in Spanish on the track “Silent Night”. Schajris has also co-written songs for artists such as Alejandro Fernández, Yuridia, Paulina Rubio, Ednita Nazario, Fanny Lu, and others. Schajris volunteered in a charity organization called Playing for Change, which accepts donations to help build music schools for underprivileged children. The group records and films musicia

Noel Sean

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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, he participated in a Telugu reality TV show Bigg Boss 4 as contestant. Early and personal life Noel was born on 28 November 1982 in Hyderabad to Samuel and Sarah. He has three siblings. Noel went on to pursue the Bachelor of Fine arts in SVCFA and became a web designer successfully. He worked for Cognizant as a trainee until he joined the film industry. Noel married Indian actress Ester Noronha in January 2019 after being engaged for a year. On 31 October 2020, they made it public on social media that they had been officially divorced after being separated for a year. In 2020 Sean participated in the Telugu reality TV show Bigg Boss 4 hosted by Nagarjuna. Music Noel has produced several independent songs and released them on his official YouTube channel. He collaborated with lyricist Ananta Sriram and singers Ramya Behara. Filmography Television Discography Film songs *Vikramarkudu - 2006 *Chandamama - 2007 *Mantra - 2007 *Victory - 2008 *Andamaina Manasulo - 2008 *Vishaka Express - 20

Noelle Scaggs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 collaborations with the Black Eyed Peas, Dilated Peoples, Quantic, Mayer Hawthorne, and Damian Marley. In 2008 she became a co-lead singer of the indie pop and neo-soul band Fitz and the Tantrums, and is featured on their 2010 album Pickin’ Up the Pieces, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. She has toured extensively with the band and performed on shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Conan, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ellen, GMA, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and The Late Late Show with James Corden. She has been critically acclaimed for her “powerhouse vocals” and charismatic on-stage presence. Early life Scaggs was born on October 8, 1979, in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a DJ and Scaggs was exposed to his vinyl collection at a young age, including Parliament, Teena Marie, and The Pointer Sisters. She also listened to her parents play artists such as Marvin Gaye and The Temptations during house parties, and was influenced as a young singer by the music of

Nokuthula Ngwenyama

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 International Viola Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Background Sixteen-year-old Nokuthula Ngwenyama came to international attention when she won the Primrose International Viola Competition in 1993 and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1994. Since then, she has been a soloist with orchestras around the world, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. She has appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center, Japan’s Suntory Hall, the Louvre, and the White House. She is an alumna of the Crossroads School, Colburn School for the Performing Arts, Curtis Institute of Music, and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. She also has a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University. She is a past president of the American Viola Society

Nolan Williams Jr.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 son, grandson and great-grandson of Baptist ministers. At the age of 4, he heard the song Lean on Me played by the choir at his father’s church. After the service, he asked one of the musicians to play the song for him again on the piano. At home, Williams went to the family’s piano and, with no formal lessons, he sounded out the notes until he could play the song himself. Williams’ first piano teacher was his great-aunt Daisy Marie Young. In 1990 he received a B.A. in music (piano performance) from Oberlin College, and in 1993 he received a Master of Divinity degree in theology from Howard University. Book publications As a musicologist, Williams is best known as the Music Editor of the African American Heritage Hymnal, which he began work on in 1993. Working with co-editor Dr. Delores Carpenter, pastor of Michigan Park Christian Church in Washington, D.C., the hymnal took nine years to compile. The 2001 publication included 575 hymnals, spirituals and gospel songs. Noted musicologist, D

Nomi Abadi

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 County Chamber Orchestra as their youngest soloist at age 5, playing a Mozart concerto. Growing up in Orange County, California, Abadi was homeschooled by her mother and taught piano by her father, the late classical and ragtime pianist Marden Abadi. At age 8, she began professional training in classical piano at the Mannes School of Music after auditioning at Juilliard. She graduated early from the Orange County School of the Arts at age 16 and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Music career Abadi has composed the music for more than thirty films, games, concerts, musical theatre and solo projects. She was a score assistant for the American post-rock band Son Lux on their score for Thunderbolts*. Her composition credits include Sebastian (2023), starring Darius McCrary, and Gothic Springs (2019), starring Peyton List. Abadi’s vocals are featured on Satanic Planet’s 2021 self-titled LP release on the track “Devil in Me” featuring the poetry of Satanic Temple founder Lucien

Nora Baldenweg

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Soundtrack Awards (Public Choice). She is a member of the World Soundtrack Academy and the European Film Academy. Career Baldenweg has been working as a composer, producer and co-founded the music production company GREAT GARBO in 2004. She has composed music for over 300 advertising commercials for brands like Sony, Mastercard, Dove (one of the most viewed online ads of all time) and 20 fictional films and TV series. Many of her most famous works were produced in the context of the trio Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg and Lionel Baldenweg, comprising herself and her two brothers Diego Baldenweg and Lionel Baldenweg. Besides her career in music, Baldenweg simultaneously held positions in fashion publishing as editor-at-large/Paris director (Russh), editor-at-large/Paris director/senior editor (Indie), In May 2014 she relaunched the Paris-based magazine Modzik as editor-in-chief. In May 2017 she became editor-in-chief of UK-based magazine Lula. Since 2017 she works as a creative dir

Norbert Burgmüller

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 short due to his untimely drowning at the age of 26, continues to resonate in the annals of classical music. Life Burgmüller was born in Düsseldorf, the youngest son in a musical family. His father, August Burgmüller, was the director of a theatre. His mother, Therese von Zandt, was a singer and piano teacher. He had two brothers, Franz and Friedrich. Friedrich was also a composer. After the death of their father, the family had financial troubles. They were given support from Count . Burgmüller studied with Joseph Kreutzer in Düsseldorf, and Louis Spohr and Spohr’s pupil Moritz Hauptmann in Kassel. After his study he became their piano teacher. He became engaged to Sophia Roland, but in 1830 the relationship ended, to Norbert’s distress. He became epileptic and began to drink excessively. In the same year he returned to Düsseldorf to live with his mother. There he befriended Felix Mendelssohn. He became engaged to Josephine Collin, but this relationship ended too. After Mendelssohn lef

Norbert Glanzberg

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 of Édith Piaf. In his twenties he lived in Germany, where he began his career scoring films for directors including Billy Wilder and Max Ophüls. When the Nazi regime came to power there in 1933, he, as a Jew, fled to Paris, where he performed in nightclubs under bandleaders such as Django Reinhardt, which is where he first met Piaf. At different times from 1939 to 1945 he toured with Piaf, when he wrote many of her songs and accompanied her on piano when she sang. For many of those years they were lovers, and Piaf saved his life on more than one occasion by hiding him from both the French Vichy police, who were helping the Nazis round up Jews for deportation, and later from the Nazi occupiers themselves. After the war he continued writing film scores for French films along with composing classical music, which included works and songs from Berlin and romantic classics. At the end of his career he wrote a concerto for two pianos in 1985 which was inspired by the novels of Isaac Bashevis S

Norbert Linke

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Jarnach. During the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for Neue Musik (1962-1964) he received his “final touches” from Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1962 to 1972 he was a teacher at the , before he was a lecturer and professor in music teacher training at the FHS Darmstadt until 1976. Linke became known mainly for chamber music, but also for vocal and orchestral music. Linke has received numerous composition prizes (Hilversum, Darmstadt, Hamburg several times, Hof, Munich, Bonn), including the 1977 Johann-Wenzel-Stamitz-Prize (Stuttgart). Since 1971 he has been a full member of the music section of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg. From 1976 until his retirement he taught as a full professor of music at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 1985 to 1991 Linke was 1st chairman of the and has been its honorary member since 2013. The Wiener Institut für Strauss-Forschung (WISF) also elected him as an honorary member in 2020. His pseudonym was Aaron Aache

Norbert von Hannenheim

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 as one of the most brilliant later pupils of Arnold Schoenberg. Life A member of the Saxon community in Transylvania, Hannenheim was born in the city of Nagyszeben (in German: Hermannstadt, present-day Sibiu). He visited the German High School in Hermannstadt and received private piano lessons. Hannenheim occupied himself with music since his childhood and occasionally wrote compositions as an autodidact. In 1916 he was scheduled to perform a movement of his piano sonata, but recruitment into the army prevented this. From his early times date some tonalic settings of poems, which he partly published himself. He studied in Graz, Austria, from 1922 to 1923, and subsequently with Paul Graener in Leipzig. Here he composed pieces of chamber music for different ensembles, pieces for orchestra, one concerto for violin with chamber orchestra, one concerto for violoncello with chamber orchestra, one symphony for big orchestra in one movement and a concerto for big orchestra. In 1925, in the com

Noriyasu Agematsu

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Eternal Blaze, “Brave Phoenix” on the single Super Generation and the track “Tears’ Night” on the album Alive & Kicking, composed the track Shin’ai and the music for “UNCHAIN∞WORLD” on the single Silent Bible. He composed and arranged the music for the track “Heart-shaped chant” on the single Secret Ambition and the track Justice to Believe. He composed the music for the track Mugen and the tracks “Trickster” and “DISCOTHEQUE” from the single Trickster. Along with his fellow Elements Garden members, he is the composer and arranger for the BanG Dream! franchise, including overseeing music production for its anime. Works Anime Video games References External links * * * Noriyasu Agematsu at Media Arts Database * Noriyasu Agematsu at Video Game Music Database * Profile at www.ariamusic.co.jp (Japanese)

Noriyuki Asakura

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 combining traditional Japanese music with elements of rock, jazz, and other world music. He established the music production studio Mega-Alpha in 2003, which composes for various types of media. Career Asakura was born in Itabashi, Tokyo and raised in Ehime Prefecture. Asukara was interested in music since childhood, but gained a greater interest after listening to Led Zeppelin, performing for multiple amateur rock bands as a guitarist and vocalist. While attending Nihon University, Asakura entered the music industry professionally in 1982, marking his debut by performing the theme song for Keiji Yoroshiku as Noriyuki Asakura & GANG. He has since began composing music for television programs and movies, as well as producing music for a number of Japanese pop stars during the 1980s and early 1990s. He debuted in the anime industry by composing 1987’s Junk Boy, followed by Time Travel Tondekeman and the Shakotan Boogie original video animation. Asakura composed his first video game score for

Noriyuki Iwadare

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 to compose video game music after years of being involved with university bands. He began composing for Toaplan, arranging their arcade video game soundtracks for their Sega Mega Drive home console ports, notably the Mega Drive version of Zero Wing (1990), before composing for other companies such as Game Arts on their Lunar and Grandia series. The first award he won was the Best Game Music award, the Mega Drive/Genesis category for Lunar: The Silver Star in 1991. He also won the Best Game Music award in the Sega Saturn Music category for Grandia in 1997 and in the Dreamcast category for Grandia 2 in 2000. Iwadare first composed music for Tokyo Disney Resort, in addition to Japanese dance programs, television programs, and radio programs. He dreams to have orchestral arrangements of his musical works, which he himself has done several times, as with the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra arrangements (orchestral arrangements of the Ace Attorney series music). He was a special guest at the 11th Fre

Norma Beecroft

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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, machinist, and inventor who pioneered the development of magnetic tape, and actress Eleanor Beecroft (née Norton). She received her earliest musical education from her parents, both of whom had musical training. Her father had originally intended to pursue a career as a pianist and had given concerts in his early 20s. His career, however, was cut short when he lost three of his fingers in a woodworking accident. Her parents married in 1931 and their marriage produced four other children (including the poet and painter, Jane Beecroft) besides Norma. The couple divorced in 1947 when Norma was 13 years old. Education In 1950 Beecroft began taking private piano lessons with Aladar Ecsedy until she entered the Royal Conservatory of Music in 1952. She attended classes at the Conservatory through 1958 where her teachers included Gordon Hallett (piano), Weldon Kilburn (piano), and John Weinzweig (music theory and composition). In 1957-58 she studied the flute privately with Keith Girard and in the sum

Norman Cazden

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 New York’s City College, and then in 1944 at Harvard University under Aaron Copland and Walter Piston. While still a student at the Juilliard School, he composed for dance companies and wrote his first symphony. He also performed as a concert pianist and was a piano teacher at Juilliard from 1934 to 1949. After 1941, he worked at Camp Woodland in the Catskill Mountains, where he succeeded Herbert Haufrecht as musical director from 1945 to 1960. Cazden also taught at the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Michigan, and since 1950 at the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana. After being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he lost this position in 1953 and received no academic position for the next 16 years. He gave private piano lessons during this time and worked on research on folk music. Beginning in 1969 he taught at the University of Maine. Cazden composed an operetta, music for the stage, two symphonies, two chamber music concerts, a brass suite,

Norman Dello Joio

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Joio was born in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father, Casimiro Dello Joio, was an organist, pianist, part-time composer, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the Metropolitan Opera. He taught Norman piano starting at the age of four. In his teens, Norman began studying organ with his godfather, Pietro Yon, who was the organist at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. In 1939, he received a scholarship to the Juilliard School, where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar. While he was a student, he worked as organist at St. Anne’s Church, but he soon decided that he didn’t want to make his living as an organist. In 1941, he began studying with Paul Hindemith, who encouraged him to follow his own lyrical bent, rather than sacrificing it to atonal systems. He received numerous awards and much recognition. He was a prolific composer in a variety of ge

Norman Demuth

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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, Surrey, at 91 St James’ Road. On leaving Repton School in 1915, he volunteered as Rifleman No. 2780 with the 5th London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) in the City of London on 17 September 1915, falsifying his age by adding one year on enlistment to seek active-service for which he was then under-age. In early March 1916 he was sent to France with a reinforcement draft to the Regiment’s 1st Battalion on the Western Front, and was wounded in the leg by shrapnel fragments from the accidental detonation of a Mills Bomb on 28 June 1916 in the frontline village of Hebuterne during the prelude of the Battle of the Somme. He was medically evacuated to England and subsequently discharged from the British Army as medically unfit for further war service in November 1916. In Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Demuth says: Almost the last feather I received was on a bus. I was sitting near the door when I became aware of two women on the other side talking at me, and I thought to myself, “Oh Lord, he

Norman Durkee

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Bachman–Turner Overdrive hit “Takin’ Care of Business”. Described as a piano prodigy, he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington, where he sat next to serial killer Ted Bundy in trigonometry. He had already written and performed a symphony for piano and orchestra. Durkee attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship 1967 before returning to his native Washington state. He taught at the K-12 level at the Bush School in Seattle as well in higher education at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Durkee spent most of his career in Seattle as musical director for local productions of Hair and Tommy (featuring a young Bette Midler) as well as director of the Teatro Zinzanni, a “circus dinner theater” in Seattle. He would later serve as Midler’s musical director. He also wrote ballets for the Pacific Northwest Ballet, scores for the Seattle Repertory Theatre, music for the 1979 experimental film The Legend of B

Norman Fulton

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Glasgow High School. From 1929 until 1933 he studied harmony and composition with Norman Demuth at the Royal Academy of Music. He worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1936 until 1960, composing much incidental music for radio features between 1937 and the early 1950s, including the music for Children’s Hour throughout the 1940s. In 1953 he was appointed Head of West Regional Music. From 1963 until February 1967 he was the presenter of Music to Remember on the BBC Home Service. In 1966 he returned to the Royal Academy as professor of harmony and composition. He married Olga Pett Ridge, daughter of the novelist William Pett Ridge, in 1936, and there were a son and a daughter. He lived at 55 Clarence Road, Bickley in Kent. Fulton died of lung cancer at Guy’s Hospital on 5 August 1980, aged 71. His daughter Jill Pett Fulton had a successful career as a ballerina and married the conductor Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Selected works Fulton composed three symphonies. No. 1, the Sinfon

Norman Gimbel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 to Take a Chance Again” (with composer Charles Fox) and “Canadian Sunset”. He also co-wrote “Killing Me Softly with His Song”. He wrote English-language lyrics for many international hits, including “Sway”, “Summer Samba”, “The Girl from Ipanema”, “How Insensitive”, “Drinking-Water”, “Meditation”, “I Will Wait for You” and “Watch What Happens”. Of the movie themes he co-wrote, five were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards or both, including “It Goes Like It Goes”, from the film Norma Rae, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 1979. Gimbel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. Background Gimbel was born on November 16, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Lottie (Nass) and businessman Morris Gimbel. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria. He studied English at Baruch College and Columbia University. Gimbel said that he relied on Lieberman to inspire his songwriting creativity since he had passed the most creative days o

Norman Hallam (composer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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, staying there until 1999 when he retired for health reasons. Hallam was also a member of the Canzona Wind Quintet from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s. His best known composition is the Dance Suite (1980) for wind ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon), which was written for Canzona. It has four movements: Waltz, Bossa Nova, Quickstep and Charleston. Other pieces include a Fantasy for four horns and a Fantasy for unaccompanied clarinet (1992), which has been performed by Michael Whight. His jazz-influenced Clarinet Concerto, premiered in October 1998, was composed for Kevin Banks, who performed it twice (at Cheltenham and Poole). Banks has described the difficulties of the piece as “fiendish”. Hallam contracted polio in 1949 at the age of four, and used a wheelchair all his life. He had a daughter and son from his first marriage. He married his second wife Sally (a viola player) in the early-1980s, and they had a son and daughter. References External links * ‘Charleston’ fro

Norman Kay (composer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 of Music and the Royal College of Music. His teachers included Richard Hall in Manchester and Gordon Jacob in London. as well as The Keys of Marinus and The Sensorites. After leaving Doctor Who following its first season, Kay provided the incidental music for many of the Out of the Unknown stories during the rest of the 1960s, as well as composing the atmospheric theme tune of its first three seasons. Kay also provided music on productions such as Late Night Horror in 1968, the theme music for Special Branch in 1969, as well as musical direction for many other television productions, including the series Highway with Harry Secombe in the 1980s. He also scored the 1968 comedy heist film Diamonds for Breakfast. Concert music His first concert works, including two string quartets, appeared in the 1950s. But his first big success was with the large scale (35 minutes in length) cantata King Herod, for soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra, composed for the Llandaff Festival in

Norman O'Neill (composer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Street in Kensington, London, the youngest son of the Irish painter George Bernard O’Neill and Emma Stuart Callcott, the daughter of organist and glee composer William Hutchins Callcott. He studied in London with Arthur Somervell and with Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt from 1893 to 1897. His studies there were facilitated by Eric Stenbock. He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at Hoch’s Conservatory in the late 1890s. He married Adine Berthe Maria Ruckert (29 July 1875 – 17 February 1947) on 2 July 1899 in Paris. Adine was a celebrated pianist (a pupil of Clara Schumann) and music teacher in her own right – she later became head music mistress at St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith. O’Neill began to have some success with concert music, including a 1901 performance of his overture In Autumn given at the Henry Wood Proms. In 1904 he composed the incidental music to John Martin-Harvey’s production of Hamlet at the Lyric Theatre, London. In

Norman Orenstein

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Michaele Jordana and the Poles, among others. As of 1996, Orenstein split his ties with I.R.S. Records / Capitol Records, and is now an independent, unsigned artist. Orenstein began creating music early in his life and cites his mother’s blues and jazz record collection and Jimi Hendrix as inspirations. After being involved with multiple rock and R&B bands in the 1970s, Orenstein collaborated with singer Molly Johnson in Toronto and they began creating their own music under the moniker Alta Moda. Alta Moda’s first album release was on the Epic label for CBS Records, and had some commercial success. In 1990, Orenstein and Johnson signed with Miles Copeland III’s I.R.S. Records. They recorded and released the first album as Infidels, which saw worldwide release and again some commercial success as well as a Juno Award in 1991. While still keeping a hand in songwriting and record production, Orenstein began composing for film in 1994, scoring Steve Di Marco’s Spike of Love. Orenstein conti

Norman Peterkin

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 piping”. Peterkin was born in Liverpool and was mostly self-taught in music. He started work with the local organ builder Rushworth & Dreaper in the late 1900s, moving to their Singapore office in 1911, and later to Hong Kong. While there he established himself as a pianist and also began to compose, much influenced by Cyril Scott. He returned to England in 1918. In 1924 he became second-in-command to Hubert Foss at the Oxford University Press Music Department (which had published some of his songs), taking over as head of department when Foss resigned in 1941. The strain of keeping things going almost alone throughout the war exhausted him, and he asked for early retirement at the end of 1947. He was succeeded at OUP by Alan Frank. As a composer, Peterkin wrote mostly songs and a few short piano pieces, such as the suites Dreamer’s Tales (1918), Betel-Jade-Ivory (1920) and Centaurs. A Rhapsody for violin (or oboe) and piano was published by OUP in 1926. Most of his works were composed duri

Norman Spencer (composer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Schlesinger’s Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts from 1933 to 1936. Career Spencer was born in Minneapolis. By 1911 he was living in California and working as a pianist. Beginning in 1919 he was credited as a songwriter for many songs as well as writing scores for musical stage shows. Spencer served as composer and director of music for Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1936, along with fellow composer Bernard Brown, creating film scores for animated short films in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series produced by Leon Schlesinger. His son Norman, Jr. reportedly handled the musical arrangements for both series. Filmography Clifford McCarty lists the following credits for Norman Spencer: *Buddy’s Day Out (1933) *I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933) *Beauty and the Beast (1934) *Buddy and Towser (1934) *Buddy of the Apes (1934) *Buddy the Detective (1934) *Buddy the Gob (1934) *Buddy the Woodsman (1934) *Buddy’s Bearcats (1934) *Buddy’s Beer Garden (1934) *Buddy’s Circ

Norman Symonds

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 in Canada, he composed several jazz works which employed classical forms. Early life and education Symonds was born in Nelson, British Columbia. He grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, where he began playing the clarinet as a teenager. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II from 1938 to 1945. While stationed in Halifax he played with a dixieland band under the direction of saxophonist Charles “Bucky” Adams. The ensemble performed at the Stratford Festival in 1956. In 1967 the orchestra performed his Democratic Concerto along with the Fred Stone Quartet. In 1968 Symonds travelled about rural Canada on a fellowship from the Canada Council, writing and composing; his work became a 13-part radio series titled Travelling Big Lonely. Symonds’ composition “A Gift of Thanksgiving” was performed in 1980 by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 1987 his work was included on the National Arts Centre Orchestra recording Canadian Classics Vol. 2. Selected compositions *“Concerto Gros

Normand Roger

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 such works since 1970. He has also worked on the creation of music for documentaries, feature films, television dramas, children’s series, commercials, and new technologies with 3D and virtual reality. He is the composer of many original soundtracks for Frédéric Back, Paul Driessen, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Caroline Leaf and Aleksandr Petrov. Thirteen of his works have been nominated for Academy Awards, of which six have won. He also notably wrote the theme for the PBS’s Mystery!. Roger lectures throughout the world on music and sound for animation. Roger has spent nearly 40 years creating soundtracks for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in his hometown of Montreal, after first being hired for its animation department at the age of 22. His extensive NFB credits include Every Child and The Sand Castle, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He is married to animation film director and producer Marcy Page, whom he met while working with on her film, Paradisia

Nosie Katzmann

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 Captain Hollywood Project, for whom he contributed various chart hits, among them “Mr. Vain”, “More and More” and others. “More and More” was his first No. 1 in Germany. In 1993, “Mr. Vain” became his biggest hit so far, topping the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK. Discography Solo *Greatest Hits 1 (2008) *Greatest Hits 2 (2010) *Katzmann (2014) Writing / production credits References External links *Nosie Katzmann on Eurodance Encyclopædia

Notker Physicus

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 been physician to the Holy Roman Emperors Otto I and Otto II. His paintings, now lost, were well regarded in his time, and two of his compositions survive, an office and hymn. Aside from physicus (), or the equivalent medicus, he was also nicknamed piperis granum () on account of his monastic dedication. He is sometimes called Notker II, living after St. Gall’s Notker the Stammerer and before Notker Labeo. Life and career Notker’s birth year is unknown; the philologist estimated it around 900, which is also given by the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. His life was spent at the Abbey of Saint Gall, although only two specific dates can be connected with Notker, aside from his death. By 956 or 957, he had obtained the cellarius () position as an administrator, and by 965 the hospitarius () position as a physician. Notker is probably identifiable with a Notker notarius, indicating that he was a notary. His medical expertise probably led him to be physician of the Holy Roman Emperors Otto I a

Notker the Stammerer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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 figure in the Western Church”, Notker made substantial contributions to both the music and literature of his time. He is usually credited with two major works of the Carolingian period: the Liber Hymnorum, which includes an important collection of early musical sequences, and an early biography of Charlemagne, the Gesta Karoli Magni. His other works include a biography of Saint Gall known as the Vita Sancti Galli and a martyrology, among others. Born near the Abbey of Saint Gall, Notker was educated alongside the monks Tuotilo and Ratpert; all three were composers, making the Abbey an important center of early medieval music. Notker quickly became a central figure of the Abbey and among the leading literary scholars of the Early Middle Ages. A renowned teacher, he taught Solomon III, the bishop of Constance and on occasion advised Charles the Fat. Although venerated by the Abbey of Saint Gall and the namesake of later scholars there such as Notker Physicus and Notker Labeo, Notker was ne