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Composers whose names start with OL.

21st Century

Ola Gjeilo

Ola Gjeilo ( , ; born May 5, 1978) is a Norwegian composer and pianist in the United States. He writes choral music, and has written for piano and wind symphony, publishing through Walton Music,

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Romantic

Ola Mosafinn

Ola Mosafinn (14 July 1828 – 28 December 1912) was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player and composer. Mosafinn is regarded among the more important fiddlers in Norway in the late 19th century. Ola

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Post-War

Olav Anton Thommessen

Olav Anton Thommessen (born 16 May 1946) is a Norwegian contemporary composer who has been one of the foremost modernist composers in Norway since the 1970s. His main compositions include Et

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21st Century

Olav Iversen

Olav Iversen (born 23 September 1977 in Sandøy Municipality, Møre og Romsdal) is a Norwegian heavy metal singer-songwriter and musician. He is better known as a founding member and the guitarist,

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20th Century

Olav Kielland

Olav Løchen Kielland (16 August 1901 – 5 August 1985) was a Norwegian composer and conductor. Early life and education Olav Løchen Kielland was born in Trondheim, the son of Gabriel Kielland

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20th Century

Olav Roots

Olav Roots (26 February 1910 – 30 January 1974) was an Estonian conductor, pianist and composer. Roots was born in Uderna. He studied at the Music School of Tartu from 1923 to 1928, studying piano

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Post-War

Oldřich František Korte

Oldřich František Korte (26 April 1926; Šaľa, Slovakia – 10 September 2014; Prague) was a Czech composer, pianist, publicist and writer. From 1943 to 1949 he studied at the Prague Conservatory, as a

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Romantic

Ole Bull

Ole Bornemann Bull (; 5 February 181017 August 1880) was a Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer. According to Robert Schumann, he was on a level with Niccolò Paganini for the speed and clarity

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Late Romantic

Ole Hjellemo

Ole Hjellemo (March 22, 1873 – September 18, 1938) was a Norwegian musician and composer. Hjellemo was born in Dovre Municipality in Christians amt (county), Norway. He studied under Gudbrand Bøhn

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20th Century

Ole Windingstad

Ole Windingstad (May 18, 1886 – June 3, 1959) was a Norwegian conductor, pianist and composer. He was the conductor of the Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra in Brooklyn, New York and the Hudson Valley

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Post-War

Oleg Felzer

Oleg Felzer (born 1939 in Azerbaijan – died 1998 in New York) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer and teacher. He taught at the Baku Conservatory for many years before coming to New York City from

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Post-War

Oleg Gazmanov

Oleg Mikhaylovich Gazmanov (; born 22 July 1951) is a Russian singer, composer and poet, specializing in patriotic and nationalist songs, as well as songs which cover more conventional pop themes.

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Post-War

Oleksandr Bilash

Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash, sometimes given as Olexandr Bilash, Anglicisation of names : Alexander Bilash (6 March 19316 May 2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and the author of popular lyric

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21st Century

Oleksandr Kozarenko

Oleksandr Kozarenko (; 24 August 1963 – 21 March 2023) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and musicologist. Biography Kozarenko was born in Kolomyia of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. He was a graduate of

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Post-War

Oleksandr Krasotov

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Krasotov (5 May 19365 October 2007) was a Ukrainian composer and laureate of many national and international prizes. He was born in Odessa and died in Tianjin, China.

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21st Century

Oleksandr Rodin

Oleksandr Leonidovich Rodin (, ; born 2 January 1975) is a Ukrainian composer, pianist and painter. He is a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. His works of many genres have been

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20th Century

Olga de Blanck

Olga de Blanck y Martín (11 March 1916 – 28 July 1998) was a Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer. Education Born in Havana to composer Hubert de Blanck and his second wife Pilar Martín, in 1924 de

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20th Century

Olga Diener

Olga Diener (1890–1963) was a Swiss composer, musician, and poet. Biography Diener was born in St. Gallen in 1890. She studied violin and composition in St. Gallen, before continuing her studies in

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21st Century

Olga Hans

Olga Hans (born 30 May 1971) is a Polish composer and music educator. Background Olga Hans was born in Pabianice and studied at the Academy of Music in Łódź receiving diplomas with distinction in

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21st Century

Olga Neuwirth

Olga Neuwirth (; born 4 August 1968) is an Austrian contemporary classical composer, visual artist and author. She is famed especially for her operas and music theater works, many of which have

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Late Romantic

Olga Radecki

Olga Mathilde Agnes von Radecki (23 August 1858 - 2 February 1933) was a Russian composer, conductor, and pianist who studied with Clara Schumann and performed with the Boston Symphony several times.

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Late Romantic

Oliphant Chuckerbutty

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (6 October 1884 – 5 September 1960), also known as Wilson Oliphant, was an English organist and composer, who was equally well known as a

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21st Century

Oliver Drechsel

Oliver Drechsel (born 10 May 1973) is a German concert pianist and composer. Life Drechsel was born in Langenfeld (Rheinland). After initial lessons with his mother, the concert pianist Ruth

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Entry

Oliver Haze

Oliver Haze is a Montreal-based Canadian composer-songwriter and performer, having shared the stage with the likes of Nelly Furtado, David Usher, The Tea Party, Big Sugar and many more. His hit

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Post-War

Oliver Kentish

Oliver John Kentish (born 1954) is a British-born cellist, tutor, and composer, who has lived in Reykjavík, Iceland, since 1977, and was granted Icelandic nationality in 1989. Kentish composes

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Late Romantic

Oliver King (composer)

Oliver Arthur King (5 July 1855, Islington, London - 23 August 1923, Hammersmith, London) was a British composer, pianist, organist and conductor. Oliver King started learning piano at 6-years old,

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Post-War

Oliver Knussen

Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Among the most influential British composers of his generation, his relatively

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21st Century

Oliver Korte

Oliver Korte (born 10 April 1969) is a German composer, music theorician, musicologist and College professor. Life Born in Hamburg, Korte studied musical composition, music theory and musicology in

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21st Century

Oliver Poole (musician)

Oliver Poole (born 4 August 1991) is a British pianist and composer who has been playing the piano since he was 8 and has made over 71 YouTube videos during his career. Career Performances Poole gave

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20th Century

Oliver Wallace

Oliver George Wallace (August 6, 1887 – September 15, 1963) was a British-American composer and conductor from London. He was especially known for his film music compositions, which were written for

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21st Century

Oliver Weeks

Oliver Weeks (born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire) is an English composer, arranger, and guitarist. Early life and education Weeks grew up in Frome, Somerset, and developed an early interest in

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Romantic

Oliveria Prescott

Oliveria Louisa Prescott (3 September 1842 – 9 September 1919) was an English writer and composer. Biography Oliveria Prescott was born in London, the daughter of Frederick Joseph Prescott and

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20th Century

Olivier Alain

Olivier Georges Alain (3 August 1918 – 28 February 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer. Life Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, into a musical family.

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Classical

Olivier Aubert

Pierre François Olivier Aubert (1763 – c.1830) was a French cellist, guitarist and composer. He mostly abbreviated his name as "P. F. Olivier Aubert". Biography Aubert was born in Amiens. After

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21st Century

Olivier Deriviere

Olivier Derivière (born 26 December 1978) is a French video game composer, best known for his work on the Alone in the Dark, Obscure, Remember Me and Streets of Rage 4 soundtracks. His work on

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Post-War

Olivier Greif

Olivier Greif, born in Paris on January 3, 1950 and died in Paris on May 13, 2000, was a French composer. Childhood and education Raised in a supportive environment (a neuropsychiatrist and pianist

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20th Century

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th century, he was also an

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Romantic

Olivier Métra

Jules-Louis-Olivier Métra (2 June 1830 – 22 October 1889) was a French composer and conductor. Biography The son of the actor Jean Baptiste Métra, Olivier Métra began his career at a very early age

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Post-War

Olivier Toussaint

Olivier Toussaint is a French composer, pop singer, orchestra arranger, company manager, and record producer. He represented Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978. Early life He was born in

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Post-War

Olle Elgenmark

Olle Elgenmark (22 February 1936 – 24 December 2016) was a Swedish organist and composer. Early years Elgenmark was born on Södermalm in Stockholm, the son of the paediatrician, Olof Alfred

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21st Century

Olli Kortekangas

Olli Paavo Antero Kortekangas (born 16 May 1955) is a Finnish composer. Kortekangas was born in Turku. His early career in music began at Espoon Musiikkiopisto (Espoo Music Institute) and the youth

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21st Century

Olli Mustonen

Olli Mustonen (born 7 June 1967) is a Finnish pianist, conductor, and composer. Biography Olli Mustonen was born on 7 June 1967, in Vantaa, Finland. He studied harpsichord and piano from the age of

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Post-War

Olly Wilson

Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. (September 7, 1937 – March 12, 2018) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist, double bassist, and a musicologist. He was one of the most preeminent

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Late Romantic

Oluf Ring

Oluf Ring (24 December 1884-26 April 1946) was a Danish composer, known for his folk music work. He composed around 300 melodies, as well as one opera, and was affiliated with prominent Danish

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