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Ola Gjeilo

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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, Edition Peters, and Boosey and Hawkes. Biography Ola Gjeilo was born to Inge and Anne-May Gjeilo, and grew up in Skui, Norway. He began playing piano and composing when he was five years old and learned to read music when he was seven years old. Gjeilo studied classical composition with Wolfgang Plagge. He continued his education at Juilliard (2004–06) where he received his master’s degree in 2006, also in composition. From 2009 to 2010, Gjeilo was composer-in-residence for Phoenix Chorale. and Albany Pro Musica. Major compositions ;Sunrise Mass: Orchestrated for strings and choir. “The Ground” for SATB, piano and optional string quartet is based on the last movement of this mass. ;Dreamweaver: Written for choir, piano, and string orchestra. The text is set from a popular medieval ballad from Norway, Draumkvedet, translated into English by Charles Anthony Silvestri, one of his regular collaborators. ;The River: For choir, piano and string quartet. Composed for the 2016 Brock Commission, awa

Ola Mosafinn

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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 Sjursson was born in Voss in Hordaland County, Norway. He was the youngest of five children born to Sjurd Brynjulvsson Liland (1792–1866) and Ingebjørg Klausdotter Mosafinn (1790–1852). He was raised on the Mosafinn farm from which he took has last name. After graduation in 1843 he was first employed as a school teacher, but was also on demand at weddings and parties. He later went to Hardanger, where he soon came to thrive. In the summer of 1872, crown prince and future King Oscar II of Sweden, made a trip to the west coast of Norway and Ola Mosafinn was invited to perform. Later that summer, Mosafinn met famed Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull, who gave the fiddler praise. During the summer of 1879, Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg visited Voss. Grieg sent for Mosafinn who performed at his birthday celebration. He became well known in Norway and made two tours in the United States. In 1890 and 1891, Mosafinn traveled to the United States after being invited several times. He playe

Olav Anton Thommessen

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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 glassperlespill and Gjennom Prisme. He was a professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music until retiring in 2014, and has also been an influential figure in music education and music organisations in Norway. Thommessen has played a significant role in aesthetic discourse in Norway and is known for his modernist and atonal stance. In later life he has become known for engaging in a critical public dialogue with his former student Marcus Paus about the future of art music, that has resulted in the opera monologue The Teacher Who Was Not To Be with a libretto by Thommessen; a 2015 debate between the two was described as “the biggest public debate about art music” in Norway since the 1970s. Background He is a son of the diplomat Knut Thommessen (né Knut Saenger), a grandson of the German gynecologist Hans Saenger and a great-grandson of the gynecologist Max Saenger (also spelled Sänger). He trained in the United States, earning degrees from Westminster Choir College and Indiana Univer

Olav Iversen

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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, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Sahg, as well as its only constant member. Musical career Iversen’s remarkable career began with Trucks, a British/Norwegian pop punk band, whose most popular release was the 2002 novelty single, “It’s Just Porn Mum”. The single was a Top 5 hit in Norway, and peaked at No. 35 in the UK Singles Chart. He’s best known for being the only constant member and co-founder of the hard rock band Sahg in 2004, along with Tom Cato Visnes (King ov Hell), Einar Selvik (Kvitrafn) and Thomas Tofthagen. Iversen has also been an active member in several bands in his country, as Audrey Horne and Manngard. Apart from his musical projects, he has also worked as an art director and graphic designer in Bergen since 2000. Discography With Starling * Mellowcold (EP, 2001) With Trucks * Juice (2003) With Manngard * Circling Buzzards (2006) * European Cowards (2007) With Sahg * Sahg I (2006) * Sahg II (2008) * Sahg III (2010) * Delusions Of Grandeur (2013) * Me

Olav Kielland

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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 (1871–1960) and Margit Løchen (1875–1951). He took his final exams at the Trondheim Cathedral School in 1919. He studied to become an architect like his father at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1919 until 1921. He then moved to Leipzig where he studied conducting, composition, piano and bassoon at the Music Conservatory. In 1929 he attended Felix Weingartner’s masterclass for conductors in Basel, Switzerland. Career Kielland had his debut as a conductor and pianist in Trondheim in 1923. He was repetiteur with the Casino Theatre in Oslo, and conductor with the Stora Teatern in Gothenburg. In 1931, he became the conductor for the Filharmonisk Selskap, now the Oslo Philharmonic), and served as artistic director from 1933 until 1945. In 1939, Kielland was offered the position as chief conductor by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, but was hindered by the outbreak of World War II and could not travel and accept the position. During the war, Kielland was for a short period a member of

Olav Roots

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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 with Artur Lemba and composition under Heino Eller with musicians such as Eduard Tubin, Eduard Oja, Alfred Karindi and Karl Leichter. He then studied at the Estonian Music Academy in Tallinn, where he subsequently taught piano and music theory until 1935. In addition, he completed his piano studies with Alfred Cortot in Paris. In 1942 he studied with Clemens Krauss in Salzburg. In 1944, Roots moved to Sigtuna in Sweden. He taught there at the Estonian School and directed the Stockholm Joint Youth Choir. In November 1952 he became conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia, His Symphony dedicated to the Colombia Symphony Orchestra was first performed under his direction 10 November 1967, and he was made an Honorary citizen of Colombia the same year. He died in Bogotá. References

Oldřich František Korte

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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 pupil of F. Pícha. He was forced to interrupt his studies in 1944–45, when he was imprisoned in a concentration camp. Following the communist Victorious February in 1948 Korte was once more affected by the political situation in former Czechoslovakia. He was forced to find work out of the artistic professions. Nevertheless, he never gave up his musical and literary activities, and gradually became a respected composer and pianist. Korte cooperated with the important Czech experimental theatre Laterna Magika, whose director Alfréd Radok offered him the post of pianist. He toured four continents with the ensemble of Laterna Magika, and played in more than 3000 performances. Style Korte in his whole musical and literary output takes a non-conformist attitude; he is not a “composer of one style”, in whose compositions a strict sense of logic musical rules prevails. He is partly influenced by the works of Bohuslav Martinů and Albert Roussel. Selected works Music *Sinfonietta (1947) - influen

Ole Bull

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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 of his playing. Background Bull was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull (1787–1838) and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden (1789–1875). His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect. He was also the uncle of Edvard Hagerup Bull, Norwegian judge and politician. His father wished for him to become a minister, but he desired a musical career. At the age of four or five, he could play all of the songs he had heard his mother play on the violin. At age nine, he played first violin in the orchestra of Bergen’s theatre and was a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. At eighteen, he was sent to the University of Christiania, but failed his examinations. He joined the Musical Lyceum, a musical society, and after its director Waldemar Thrane was taken ill, Bull became the director of Musical Lyceum and the Theater Orchestra in 1828. during which visit he also travelled to some of the more remote parts of Britain. Catherine Darwin

Ole Hjellemo

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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 and Iver Holter. From 1919 to 1932 he taught violin, harmony, and composition at the Oslo Conservatory of Music, and at the same time was a military musician with the rank of lieutenant in the military band. As a composer, he wrote five symphonies, several other symphonic works and rhapsodies, an award-winning quartet, a violin concerto, and many works for choir. His composition Slått was played by the Norwegian Royal Guards band and drill company in 2002. He also released some roundels from the Gudbrandsdalen valley that he recorded himself. Hjellemo died in Oslo. References

Ole Windingstad

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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 Philharmonic. His most notable symphonic composition was The Tide. Biography Ole Windingstad was born in Sandefjord, Norway. At age 14, he studied at the Music Conservatory in Oslo, Norway and three years later in Leipzig Germany . There he studied piano, organ, composition and conducting. In 1905 he traveled to the United States. He settled in New York in 1906. Ole Windingstad married Anna Hansen. They had five children: Solveig, Alf, Edgar, Jane and Arthur. Solveig, Alf and Jane died of Spanish flu in 1918, and Edgar died in a traffic accident in 1959. In 1926 he was appointed Knight to the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for his work with Norwegian music in America. Ole Windingstad’s most important musical work was a symphony called The Tides, which was composed in 1936 and first performed in Albany in 1938. The Tides was also played in New Orleans in 1941. During his tour as conductor in 1955, Ole Windingstad also performed the piece at the Aula University in Oslo Norway. He was c

Oleg Felzer

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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 Baku in 1989. His pieces have been commissioned by the Continuum Ensemble and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. List of works Oleg Felzer’s works in 1960-1998 is listed in Oleg Felzer scores and sound recordings. * And Harold Again, for viola solo and chamber orchestra, dedicated to Berlioz (1982) * Autographs on the Silhouettes, for violin, cello and piano (1987) * Children Suite, for orchestra (1978) * Dialogue, for viola, piano and orchestra (1970) * Five Bagatelles, for piano (1986) * Five Tanka, for tenor and chamber orchestra (lost) or for tenor and piano (1967) * Four Diary Pages, for chamber orchestra, commissioned by the Nieuw Ensemble (1994) * Four Piano Pieces, Op. 1, (1960-1962) ** Watercolor, Etude, Imprint, March (lost) * Four Songs (1969) ** Bird, Red Bird also for piano * The House That Jack Built, for mixed chorus and piano (1981-1982) and for children’s chorus (1985) * In Memoriam of Dmitri Shostakovich, for orchestra (1977) * Intermezzo, for violin and pia

Oleg Gazmanov

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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. Gazmanov is the lead singer of the pop group Eskadron (, ). His songs have been covered by others in the Russian chanson style, such as Mikhail Shufutinsky. He is also a Candidate for Master of Sport of the USSR in gymnastics and is well known for his acrobatics performed during live shows, especially at the beginning of his musical career in the early 1990s. On 18 March 2022, Gazmanov sang at Vladimir Putin’s Moscow rally celebrating the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation from Ukraine and justifying the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In April and May 2022, Gazmanov participated in a series of concerts in support of the invasion. “Sdelan v SSSR” In the Soviet-nostalgic song "" (, ), which was originally released in 2005, Gazmanov glorified the past of the Soviet Union, presenting various personalities of the Tsarist and Soviet past as being parts of the nation. The New York Times claims he presented Lenin and Stalin as national heroes. In December 2013, Gazmanov was critici

Oleksandr Bilash

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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 songs, ballads, operas, operettas, oratorios and music for films. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1975), People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1977), People’s Artist of the USSR (1990), Hero of Ukraine (2001). Biography Bilash was born on 6 March 1931 in the town of Hradyzk, Ukraine (now Kremenchuk Raion of Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) to a family of skilled amateur musicians. His father, Ivan Panasovych Bilash, played balalaika and guitar; his mother, Yevdokiya Andriyivna, was a solo singer at rural gatherings. After studying for a year in the Kyiv music school for adults, Oleksandr traveled to the city of Zhytomyr where he entered the second year of the Viktor Kosenko Music School. In 1951, Bilash had successfully passed the entrance examinations for entry into the faculty of Composition of the Kyiv Conservatory. He studied composition with the outstanding Ukrainian composer and teaching professor Mykola Vilinsky. Oleksandr Bilash graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1957. F

Oleksandr Kozarenko

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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 Kyiv Conservatory where he studied piano with Vsevolod Vorobyov and composition with Myroslav Skoryk. Kozarenko died from COVID-19 in Ivano-Frankivsk, on 21 March 2023, at age 59. References External links * *

Oleksandr Krasotov

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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. Education Krasotov studied at Odessa State A. V. Nezhdanova Conservatoire (now Odessa State A. V. Nezhdanova Music Academy). He studied composition (Professor Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko), piano (Professor B. Charkovs’kyi) and musicology (Professor A. Kogan) and graduated in 1959. From 1959 to 1969 he received master-courses from Professor Y.A. Fortunatov and Professor Nikolay Peyko (Ivanovo, Moscow). In 1969 Krasotov received the title Doctor of Arts. Finally he worked as Invited Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire of Music in Tianjin, China, where he was also giving master-courses. He had many pupils in Ukraine and abroad. One of them is a Ukrainian composer Julia Gomelskaya. Works Krasotov’s works comprise symphonies and operas, musicals and theater music, oratorios, cantatas, chamber music, jazz music and songs. He participated in various national and international competitions where his works have been honoured with many prizes: *1967 he was Laureate of the Regional E. E. Bagryts

Oleksandr Rodin

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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 performed internationally. His ballets were created in collaboration with the Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Ukrainian contemporary dance theater Kyiv Modern-Ballet. His opera Kateryna, for which he wrote the libretto based on a poem by Taras Shevchenko, was premiered by the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2022. Biography Rodin was born on 2 January 1975, in (now Belarus). He gained first experience in composition at the music college in Chernihiv, where he wrote music for a stage performance. He was their composer in residence in the 2020/21 season. He has created music in various genres, including symphonic works, choral compositions, chamber and instrumental music, as well as ballets and operas. Rodin has made many adaptations of Ukrainian folk songs, updated classical works, and scored dramatic performances, films, and television series. His ballet Soliaris (2021), based on Stanisław Lem, was premiered in 2025 at the Lviv National Opera). Rodin’s opera Kate

Olga de Blanck

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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 Blanck entered the National Conservatory of Music, which her father had founded in 1885. There, she studied piano, solfeggio and music theory. After graduating, she continued harmony studies in Havana with noted Cuban composer, violinist and professor of music Amadeo Roldán (1900–1939), and with professor of music and conductor Pedro Sanjuán (1887–1976). She lived in New York City from 1935–1938 and studied fugue and counterpoint there with Brazilian composer Walter Burle Marx (1902–1990). She lived in Mexico from 1943–1944, studying with composer, violinist and music theorist Julián Carrillo (1875–1965) and composer Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (1916–1994). Career On her return to Cuba, she joined the staff of the National Conservatory of Music, where she collaborated on its technical direction, and worked with composer and professor of music Gisela Hernández (1912–1971) to develop a pedagogy for teaching elemental music. She also was instrumental in founding Ediciones de Blanck, a publishin

Olga Diener

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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 London, Basel, and Paris. Diener’s poetry was first published in 1925 as part of a collection of contemporary lyric poetry by Swiss women. That same year, three of her pieces were premiered by Kornelia Bruggmann and . As of 2025, Diener is the subject of an archival research project comprising Philippe Diener, pianist Simone Keller, and producer and composer . The project aims to get Diener’s music published by a major music publisher. References

Olga Hans

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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 1995 and 1997. She studied music theory with Francis Wesolowski and composition with George Bauer. After graduating, she took a position as assistant professor at the Faculty of Composition, Music Theory, Rhythm and Art Education at the Music Academy in Łódź. Hans is a prizewinner in several composition competitions. In 1997 she won third prize for Fantasy for solo guitar (1994) at the Third National Composition Competition for Classical Guitar in Tychy. In 2004 she won the International Young Composers’ Competition Musica Sacra in Czestochowa and in 2004 the Fifth Ladislav Kubik International Prize in Composition. Her compositions have been performed at music festivals in Poland, the Netherlands, Spain and Great Britain. She is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union. Selected works *Preludium for piano (1992) *Koniugacja for mezzo-soprano and piano (1992); words by Halina Poświatowska *Elegia (Elegy) for cello and piano (1993) *Dwie miniatury (2 Miniatures) for string trio (1993) *Barwna

Olga Neuwirth

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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 treated sociopolitical themes. She has emphasized an open-ended, interdisciplinary approach in her work, collaborating frequently with Elfriede Jelinek, exploiting live electronics, and incorporating video. In her opera Lost Highway, she adapted David Lynch’s surrealist film with the same name. She has also written music for historic and contemporary films. Luigi Nono inspired her both musically and politically. Biography Youth Neuwirth was born in Graz, the daughter of Griseldis Neuwirth and pianist Harald Neuwirth. She is the niece of Gösta Neuwirth and the sister of sculptor Flora Neuwirth. As a child at the age of seven, Neuwirth began lessons on the trumpet but was forced to abandon her original plans to study trumpet after an accident that left her with a jaw injury. Studies and formative experiences As a high school student, Neuwirth took part in composition workshops with Hans Werner Henze and Gerd Kühr. The then-17-year-old composer named her first commissioned composition Die gelbe

Olga Radecki

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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. Radecki was born in Riga (today in Latvia), the eleventh of twelve children born to Mathilde Haarmann and Ottokar Heinrich von Radecki. She studied music in Riga, then in Stuttgart at the Royal Conservatory of Music (today the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart), and in Frankfurt am Main at the Hoch Conservatory, where she joined Mary Wurm in the first composition class the Conservatory opened to women. In addition to Clara Schumann, her teachers included Sigmund Lebert, Dionys Pruckner, Joachim Raff, Julius Ruthardt, and Ludwig Stark. where on November 4, 1882, she debuted as a pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by George Henschel. She appeared with the orchestra twice more during that concert season and again in 1886 and 1907. In 1886, Radecki returned to Europe and gave several concerts in Riga. While there, she received the Mendelssohn Scholarship for performing musicians. In December 1886, Radecki returned to Boston and appeared at Bumstead H

Oliphant Chuckerbutty

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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 church organist and a cinema organist. He was the grandson of the Indian medical professor Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (c.1826–1874). Life and career Chuckerbutty was born in Paddington, London. He began playing the piano at six, and was composing by 14. From 1908 to 1914 he was deputy to E. T. Cook as organist of Southwark Cathedral. In the same year he became organist and choirmaster of Holy Trinity, Paddington, a post that he held until 1948. In the early 1930s Chuckerbutty made Holy Trinity a well-known centre of music, with frequent performances of choral and orchestral music, both old and new. He and guest organists gave regular recitals on what The Musical Times described as “the fine Norman and Beard organ” there. Writings Chuckerbutty contributed several articles and letters to The Musical Times. Among his subjects were the orchestration of light classical music, the ignorance among music critics about good or bad organ playing, and – spread across three issues – a wide-rang

Oliver Drechsel

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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 Drechsel-Püster, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Roswitha Gediga-Glombitza and Pavel Gililov. Master classes with, among others, Peter Feuchtwanger, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and the Alban Berg Quartet complemented this education, which he completed in 1998 with the Konzertexamen. In the same year he released his debut CD “Jürg Baur - Das Klavierwerk” and received the (support prize). For his compositions he received, among others, the 1st prize of the 2007 . Drechsel is dedicated to the performance of 18th and 19th century piano music on original historical instruments from the Dohr Collection (Cologne). This includes piano works by the composers Ferdinand Hiller, Friedrich Kiel, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Christian Heinrich Rinck and Johann Wilhelm Wilms, most of which are world premiere recordings. In addition to solo performances at home and abroad (including in the “Best of NRW” series) as well as radio recordings and CD productions, a further focus of his pianistic work lies in

Oliver Haze

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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 single, “Holy Water” reached number one on the BDS charts in Canada. He also made a cover of Duran Duran’s “Save a Prayer”, another song from his debut album Wandering Trip (2001). Collaborators on his album included producers John Webster (who has worked with Aerosmith and Tom Cochrane), Terry Brown (Rush), and Al Sutton (Kid Rock). ;Charted songs in Canada *“My World Is you” (2000) reached No. 2, 11 weeks in the charts *“Holy Water” (2001) reached No. 1, 15 weeks in the charts *“Save a Prayer” (2001) reached No. 14, 12 weeks in the charts * top 10 in Europe charts (Portugal, England, Germany …) Sources *Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Palmarès anglophone et allophone – Compilation des succès par ordre alphabétique d’interprètes (Compilation of rankings in Anglophone and Francophone Record charts in alphabetical order by performer), p 497 *Drouin, Serge, , Journal de Québec 11 March 2010 *MuchMusic Playlist for week ending 30 June 2001, Billboard, 30 June 2001, p. 68 *Perei

Oliver Kentish

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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 orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber music. He was born in London. In addition to composition, Kentish has been the Artistic Director of the Iceland Amateur Symphony Orchestra (Sinfóníuhljómsveit áhugamanna) since 2005. Kentish was commissioned by the British Government in 1993 to write the work Mitt Folk which was performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and is dedicated to Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. Selected works * Jakobslag, Little Duet for viola and marimba (1999) * Draumar og dansar (Dreams and Dances) for viola and chamber orchestra (2002) * Prelúdía og fúga (Prelude and Fugue) for 10 violas (2005) * Kvinnan fróma for viola and piano (2008) See also * List of Icelandic composers References External links *Kentish’s web site

Oliver King (composer)

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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, he was noticed by Joseph Barnby for his talent, and made King a choirboy in the St. Andrew’s Church which he excelled in the role. He learned the organ and became a deputy organ and assistant to Joseph Barnby until 1874 when he moved to Leipzig to study at the Conservatory. After Leipzig, King moved back to London as a skilled pianist and was appointed the pianist to Princess Louise in 1879. During her trip to Ottawa, King played in several performances, touring across Canada and America as a pianist and composer. After his stay in North America from 1879 to 1883, King moved back to London, with his reputation of being the pianist to Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, he became the organist of the Novello Oratarios and a popular composer of chants and anthems. He wrote a concert-overture “Among the Pines” which won a prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society. His popularity was only in England and he wasn’t able to achieve much fame in the rest of Europe. His performance activity died d

Oliver Knussen

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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 few compositions are “rooted in 20th-century modernism, but beholden to no school but his own” Early life Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, and also participated in a number of premieres of Benjamin Britten’s music. Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert between 1963 and 1969, and also received encouragement from Britten. He spent several summers studying with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood in Massachusetts and in Boston. Musical life Knussen began composing at about the age of six; an ITV programme about his father’s work with the London Symphony Orchestra prompted the commissioning for his first symphony (1966–1967). Aged 15, Knussen stepped in to conduct his symphony’s première at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 7 April 1968, after István Kertész fell ill. After his debut, Daniel Barenboim asked him to conduct the work’s first two movements in New York a week later.

Oliver Korte

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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 Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin. Important impulses were also given to him by private composition studies with Gösta Neuwirth. His compositions have been awarded several composition prizes and scholarships. In 2002 he received his doctorate at Technische Universität Berlin with a thesis on the Ecclesiastical Action of Bernd Alois Zimmermann. After teaching positions at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock as well as a position as research assistant at the Universität der Künste Berlin he was appointed professor for music theory and ear training at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in autumn 2006. He is co-founder of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) and editor of the Schriften der Musikhochschule Lübeck. In the winter semester 2017/18 he also taught as a visiting professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Kortes main work to date is the opera Copernicus for singer, narrator, orchestra and electronics, premiered in 2015 at the Festsp

Oliver Poole (musician)

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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 his first performance as a soloist with the National Youth Orchestra at the age of eight and since has become the subject of numerous press features and broadcasts, including with the BBC, Sky Arts, The New York Times, The Guardian, Voice of America, Russia Today and L’Orient Le Jour. Poole gave a centenary revival of Anton Rubinstein’s 3rd piano concerto at the age of nineteen with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and has since performed at venues around the world, including the Royal Albert Hall, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, Cadogan Hall and with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra, Almaty Symphony Orchestra, and Georgian Philharmonic. He has performed at festivals and events including the Al Bustan Festival, the International Composers Festival and Classic FM: Night at the Movies. He is an artist for Emma For Peace and youth ambassador for the 2022 International Composers

Oliver Wallace

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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 many animation, documentary, and feature films from Walt Disney Studios. Biography Wallace was born on August 6, 1887, in London. After completing his musical training, he emigrated to the Canada originally, and then shortly after to the United States in 1904, becoming a US citizen ten years later. He initially worked primarily on the West Coast in Seattle as a conductor of theater orchestras and as an organist accompanying silent films. At the same time, he also made a name as a songwriter, writing tunes such as the popular “”. With the advent of the talking film era, he worked increasingly for Hollywood film studios in the 1930s. In 1936 he joined Disney Studios and quickly became one of the most important composers in the studio for animated short films. He provided the music for 139 of these shorts. One of his best-known pieces is the song “Der Fuehrer’s Face” from the 1942 Donald Duck propaganda cartoon, though he was uncredited. This parody of a Horst Wessel song was, mainly throu

Oliver Weeks

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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 classical music and ’50s and ’60s rock ’n’ roll. He attended Frome Community College and then Clare College, Cambridge, where he read music and received a starred First. A school visit to Kolkata in 1996 led to a deep engagement with Bengali poetry and music. Weeks wrote his undergraduate dissertation on baul music and Rabindra Sangeet. He also created classical works based on original Bengali source material. He remained at Cambridge to complete an MPhil under Robin Holloway, and subsequently received his PhD in composition from the Royal Academy of Music, London, studying with Simon Bainbridge and Philip Cashian. Career Compositions Orchestras and ensembles who have performed his work include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the ensemble Endymion, the Royal Academy Soloists, and the City of London Sinfonia. Non-classical work and collaborations After fieldwork on the Baul musicians (mystic poets and singers) of Bengal, Weeks collaborated with the Bengali singer Moushumi

Oliveria Prescott

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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 Elizabeth Oliveria Russell. She studied with Lindsay Sloper and then at the Royal Academy of Music under George Alexander Macfarren. She became Macfarren’s amenuensis. She lectured in harmony and composition for Newnham College, Cambridge, and also taught harmony at the High School for Girls in Baker Street, London. In 1876 Prescott’s first symphony in B-flat “Alkestis” won third prize in a competition for new British symphonies that was held at the Alexandra Palace in north London. In that competition Charles Villiers Stanford’s first symphony in B-flat took second place, while Francis William Davenport’s symphony in D-minor was placed first. A total of 38 symphonies had been submitted to the competition. Selected works include: Stage *Carrigraphuga, The Castle of the Fairies, musical comedy in three acts (1914), words by S. Phillips Keyboard *Concert Finale, pianoforte duet (1878) Choral *“A Border Ballad”, four-part song (1844), words by Francis William Bourdillon *Lord Ullin’s Daughter, c

Olivier Alain

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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. His father, Albert Alain (1880–1971) was an organist and composer, as was his elder brother Jehan Alain (1911–1940), and his younger sister, Marie-Claire (1926–2013), was herself a noted organist. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he received first prizes in composition (1951, class of Tony Aubin) and musical analysis (1950, class of Olivier Messiaen). In 1950, he became director of the conservatory in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he worked until 1964. From 1960 to 1974, he served as director of the École César Franck in Paris, and in 1976 founded the Conservatoire National de Région in Paris, whose director he was until 1985, and where he taught classes in musical analysis and chamber music. His notable students include composers Alain Gagnon. Alain’s catalog of musical compositions contains almost 170 compositions of various genres, most of which are still unpublished. He also published a book on harmony (Paris, 1965) and a monograph on Johann Sebastian Bach (Paris, 1970). His

Olivier Aubert

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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 having received initial musical training in his home town, he studied the cello autodidactically. In 1787 he is first mentioned as a cello teacher in Paris. He played in various musical theatres and opera houses and was a member of the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique for 25 years. After having heard Ferdinando Carulli perform in Paris in 1808, he also turned to the guitar; it is not known whether he had any formal tuition on this instrument. His chief merit is having published two good instruction books for the cello at a time when works of that kind were rare and much needed. Besides solo music for his two instruments, he wrote also chamber music including string quartets. In a pamphlet entitled Histoire abrégée de la musique ancienne et moderne he expressed his opinion about several writings on ancient and modern music. Aubert frequently published his compositions himself. He died in Paris aged around 67. Works Chamber music * 3 String Quartets, Op. 1 (Zurich, 1796) * 3 String Quartets, Op.

Olivier Deriviere

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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 Remember Me won the 2013 IFMCA award for Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media. Career Deriviere took interest in music since childhood, studying classical percussion at the age of five. At the age of eight, Deriviere’s mother bought a synthesizer, which he used to write various short pieces, and took interest in game music after hearing the main menu theme for Shadow of the Beast, which led to Deriviere taking advanced harmony and orchestration courses. Deriviere received training at the Nice Conservatoire and Berklee College of Music, and made his debut in the game industry with the soundtrack for Obscure. Following his work on Obscure, Deriviere was contacted by Atari representatives to compose for Alone in the Dark. As the game was more-action oriented, Deriviere sought to compose the music with an epic scale in mind. Deriviere also discussed the game with director David Nadal to ensure a mutual understanding of the soundtrack’s approach. In 2010, Deriviere established

Olivier Greif

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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 father, brothers who were graduates of École Polytechnique), Olivier Greif was deeply marked by the history of his parents, Polish Jews who had settled in France and were victims of Nazi persecution. The blue number on the arm of his father, a survivor of the Auschwitz camp, would later appear in his sonata Le Rêve du monde (The Dream of the World). A child prodigy, he began studying piano at the age of three and performed his first composition, Nausicaa (now lost), at a student recital of his piano teacher Lucette Descaves when he was nine years old. One year later, he entered the Paris Conservatory (now Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, CNSM), where he received various medals before entering, at the age of fifteen, Tony Aubin’s composition class — bypassing the harmony, counterpoint, and fugue prizes. He received a Second Prize in piano in 1966 and a First Prize in composition and chamber music in 1967. After a third-cycle chamber music class with Jean Hubeau, Olivi

Olivier Messiaen

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Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen was born on 10 December 1908 at 20 Boulevard Sixte-Isnard in Avignon, France, into a literary family. He was the elder of two sons of Cécile Anne Marie Antoinette Sauvage, a poet, and , a scholar and teacher of English from a farm near Wervicq-Sud who also translated William Shakespeare’s plays into French. Messiaen’s mother published a sequence of poems, (The Budding Soul), the last chapter of (As the Earth Turns), which address her unborn son. Messiaen later said this sequence of poems influenced him deeply and cited it as prophetic of his future artistic career. His brother , four years his junior, became a poet. At the outbreak of World War I, Pierre enlisted and Cécile took their two boys to live with her brother in Grenoble. There Messiaen became fascinated with drama, reciting Shakespeare to his brother. Their homemade toy theatre had translucent backdrops made of cellophane wrappers. At this time he also adopted the Roman Catholic faith. Later, Messiaen felt most at home in the Alps of the Dauphiné, where he had a house built south of Grenoble. He composed most of his music there. Messiaen took piano lessons, having already taught himself to play. His interests included the recent music of French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and he asked for opera vocal scores for Christmas presents. He also saved to buy scores, including Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, whose “beautiful Norwegian melodic lines with the taste of folk song … gave me a love of melody”. Around this time he began to compose. In 1918 his father returned from the war and the family moved to Nantes. Messiaen continued music lessons; one of his teachers, Jehan de Gibon, gave him a score of Debussy’s opera , which Messiaen called “a thunderbolt” and “probably the most decisive influence on me”. The next year, his father gained a teaching post at Sorbonne University in Paris. Olivier entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1919, aged 11. Messiaen made excellent academic progress at the Conservatoire. In 1924, aged 15, he was awarded second prize in harmony, having been taught in that subject by professor Jean Gallon. In 1925, he won first prize in piano accompaniment, and in 1926 he gained first prize in fugue. After studying with Maurice Emmanuel, he was awarded second prize for the history of music in 1928. Emmanuel’s example engendered an interest in ancient Greek rhythms and exotic modes. After showing improvisational skills on the piano, Messiaen studied organ with Marcel Dupré. He won first prize in organ playing and improvisation in 1929. Despite his grief, he resumed his studies, and in 1930 Messiaen won first prize in composition.

Olivier Métra

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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 with his father. In 1842, he made his debut at the Théâtre Comte. In addition, he learned the violin and played from the age of 19 years in a ball of Boulevard de Rochechouart. On the advice of an orchestra musician, he followed the lessons of Antoine Elwart at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he obtained a first prize of harmony. From 1855 he conducted the orchestra of the Bal Mabille. During this period he acquired great popularity thanks to waltzes such as Le Tour du Monde, la Valse des Roses, Gambrinus, and La Nuit La sérénade. From 1872 to 1877, he conducted the bals of the Opéra-Comique, the orchestra of the Folies Bergère for which he composed several ballets, including Les Volontaires. From 1874 to 1876, he directed the bals of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and, finally, the along with Johann Strauss II. In 1879, he gave the ballet Yedda, on a choreography by Mérante, premiered 17 January 1879. In 1885, he established at Palais Vivienne the “soirées Metra” which consiste

Olivier Toussaint

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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 Paris, in a family of classical musicians. His great-grandfather, Gilbert Duprez was a very well known opera singer. His grandparents were both opera singers, and his mother was a concert pianist who played in big orchestras in France. At the insistence of his mother, he studied economics and social sciences at University in Paris. But as soon as he graduated, he was back making music. He worked professionally as a singer and musician, playing guitar. At the same time he was involved in writing music for television and the cinema. Classical music was a part of his life due to his family background, but it did not fit to his musical expectations. Other than classical music, he was very interested in jazz, easy listening, semi-classical, and pop music. Music career Early years He started a partnership with the French composer, Paul de Senneville in 1968. Soon after, they started to compose many songs together. Their collaboration got well known immediately, and their compositions were recorde

Olle Elgenmark

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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 Elgenmark, M. D. (1908–1972) and Elsa Judith Elgenmark, MA, (née Hellsing) (1908–1937). As his mother died when Elgenmark was only one year old, his father left him to be raised by his maternal grandparents, Hanna Hellsing, (née Hempel, 1873–1957) and the mechanical engineer at Bolinders, Karl Gustaf Fridolf Hellsing (1873–1946). Olle Elgenmark’s parents were both very musically talented, and in the grandparents’ home, music was always present. In 1958 Elgenmark married Agneta Ström (b. 1937) with whom he subsequently had three children. When Elgenmark was a young boy he was given piano lessons, As a student at Östra Real upper secondary school he got the opportunity to play the grand school organ for 15 minutes a week. In an interview Elgenmark told the following story: When he was 17 years old, he had private lessons in organ for the music director and organist Henry Lindroth. The latter asked after the first lesson: “Well, what are your plans for the future?” “I’m going to be an engineer”, th

Olli Kortekangas

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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 choir Candomino. He then studied at the Sibelius Academy as a pupil of Eero Hämeenniemi and Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1974 to 1981, and completed his studies in West Berlin with Dieter Schnebel and in San Diego (UCSD) with Roger Reynolds. Later he has held teaching positions at the Sibelius Academy and the National Theater Academy. He was Composer-in-Residence at Oulu Sinfonia from 1997 to 2007. Career He has composed about 150 works covering a broad range, from choral works and instrumental miniatures to orchestral music and operas. He has received commissions from ten countries. Among his recent large-scale works are Seven Songs for Planet Earth, commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Washington and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Migrations for mezzo-soprano, male voice chorus and orchestra, commissioned by The Minnesota Orchestra and recorded by BIS Records, and the song cycle Songs of Meena, commissioned by The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Kortekangas is particularly kn

Olli Mustonen

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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 five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975 and in 1987 won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which led to his New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall. His debut solo piano recording for Decca, of the cycles of preludes by Dmitri Shostakovich and Charles-Valentin Alkan, won both the Gramophone and Edison Awards. In addition to Decca, he has also made recordings for RCA and Ondine, notably of works by Beethoven and various modern Russian composers. Mustonen has performed with numerous major international orchestras and is regarded as “one of the internationally best-known pianists of his generation.” He has been artistic director of the Korsholm Music Festival in 1988 and the Turku Music Festival from 1990 to 1992. He is co-founder and director of the Helsinki Festival Orchestra, and since 2003 has conducted the chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta. He performed the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s P

Olly Wilson

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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 composers of African American descent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is known for developing a list of Heterogenous Sound Ideals that is widely used to dissect different aspects of music, with an emphasis on African culture. According to Wilson himself, “The essence of Africanness consists of a way of doing something, not simply something that is done” (1991). This motto is the basis of Wilson’s work in the realm of ethnomusicology. He is also known for establishing the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) program at Oberlin Conservatory, the first-ever conservatory program in electronic music. Biography Wilson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Alma Grace Peoples Wilson, a seamstress, and Olly Woodrow Wilson, Sr., an insurance salesman and butler. He graduated with a B.M. degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1959, and earned an M.M. degree in music composition in 1960 from the University of Illinois. His composition instructors included Robert Wy

Oluf Ring

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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 composer Carl Nielsen. Biography Ring was born 24 December 1884 in Jelling. His father, Marius Sørensen, taught history and Danish at Jelling State Seminary. In 1911, Ring became a teacher in Ribe’s educator’s college. Ring’s other works included Svinedregen, an operatic adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. He also edited the Arbejdermelodibogen, a book of folk songs written for workers and popular in Denmark’s Social Democrat labour movement. Ring died on 26 April 1946 in Skårup, Funen. See also *List of Danish composers References