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Composers whose names start with OS.

20th Century

Osamu Shimizu

Osamu Shimizu (Japanese: 清水 脩, Shimizu Osamu) (4 November 1911, Tennōji-ku, Osaka – 29 October 1986, Tokyo) was a Japanese composer. Biography Shimizu was a Japanese classical music composer in both

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Renaissance

Osbert Parsley

Osbert Parsley (1510/15111585) was an English Renaissance composer and chorister. Few details of his life are known, but he evidently married in 1558, and lived for a period in the parish of St

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Romantic

Oscar Ahnfelt

Oscar Ahnfelt (1813–1882) was a Swedish singer, composer and music publisher. Biography Ahnfelt composed the music for many of Lina Sandell's hymns. He was a pietist, who traveled all over

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Romantic

Oscar Beringer

Oscar Beringer (14 July 1844 – 21 February 1922) was an English pianist and teacher of German descent. Beringer was born in Furtwangen in the Black Forest, but by 1849 he had moved to London when his

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Late Romantic

Oscar Borg

Oscar Borg (11 June 1851 – 29 December 1930) was a Norwegian composer and conductor. He is best known for his compositions of marches for wind bands. Alfred Oscar Johannessen Borg was born in Halden,

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Romantic

Oscar Comettant

Oscar Comettant (18 April 1819 – 24 January 1898) was a 19th-century French composer, musicologist and traveller. Biography Commettant studied the piano and musical composition at the Conservatoire

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20th Century

Óscar Esplá

Óscar Esplá y Triay (5 August 1886 – 6 January 1976) was a Spanish composer. The Conservatorio Superior de Música (conservatory) of the city of Alicante is dedicated to him. The Premio internacional

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Post-War

Oscar Feltsman

Oscar Borisovich Feltsman (Ukrainian & ; 18 February 1921 – 3 February 2013) was a Ukrainian-born composer. Biography Feltsman was born in Odesa, the son of Boris Osipovich Feltsman, a Jewish

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Late Romantic

Oscar Fetrás

Oscar Fetrás (16 February 1854 – 10 January 1931) was a German composer of popular dance music, military marches, piano pieces and arrangements. Fetrás had over 200 compositions to his name. His best

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Post-War

Oscar López Ruiz

Oscar López Ruiz (21 March 1938 – 24 December 2021) was an Argentine guitarist, composer, arranger and record producer. Life and career Born in La Plata, López Ruiz studied guitar with Antonio

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20th Century

Oscar Lorenzo Fernández

Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (4 November 1897 – 27 August 1948) was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro. Life Fernández studied at the Instituto Nacional de

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20th Century

Oscar O'Brien

Oscar O'Brien (7 September 1892 – 20 September 1958) was a Canadian folklorist, composer, pianist, organist, music educator, and Roman Catholic priest. A large portion of his compositions were based

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Post-War

Oscar Prudente

Oscar Prudente (born 9 January 1944) is an Italian pop-rock singer-songwriter, arranger, musician and composer. Career Born in Rossiglione, Genoa, at young age Prudente studied drums, piano and

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20th Century

Oscar Rasbach

Oscar Rasbach (August 2, 1888 – March 23, 1975) was an American pianist, composer and arranger of art songs and works for piano. Biography Oscar was born in Kentucky, but studied "academic subjects

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21st Century

Oscar Strasnoy

Oscar Strasnoy (born November 12, 1970) is a French-Argentine composer, conductor and pianist. Although primarily known for his stage works, the first of which Midea (2) premiered in Spoleto in 2000,

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Late Romantic

Oscar Straus (composer)

Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral

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21st Century

Oscar van Dillen

Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (born 25 June 1958 in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist. Education Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music (sitar, tabla,

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20th Century

Oscar van Hemel

Oscar van Hemel (3 August 1892 – 9 July 1981) was a Dutch-Belgian violinist, music teacher and composer of contemporary classical music. His work includes two operas and symphonies. Life and

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Late Romantic

Oskar Böhme

Oskar Böhme (February 24, 1870 – October 3, 1938 ) was a German composer and trumpeter. Life Oskar Böhme, a son of Wilhelm Böhme, also a trumpeter, was born in Potschappel, a small town near Dresden,

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Late Romantic

Oskar Fried

Oskar Fried (1 August 1871 – 5 July 1941) was a German conductor and composer. He was known as a great admirer of Gustav Mahler, whose works he performed many times throughout his life. Fried was

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20th Century

Oskar Lindberg (composer)

Oskar Fredrik Lindberg (23 February 1887 – 10 April 1955) was a Swedish composer, church musician, teacher and professor. In 1939 he edited the Church of Sweden's hymnbook. His 1912 Requiem was of

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Late Romantic

Oskar Merikanto

Oskar Merikanto (; born Frans Oskar Ala-Kanto; 5 August 186817 February 1924) was a Finnish composer, music critic, pianist, and organist. As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a miniaturist, and

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20th Century

Oskar Morawetz

Oskar Morawetz, (January 17, 1917 – June 13, 2007) was a Canadian composer, teacher and pianist. Biography Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), into a Jewish

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Late Romantic

Oskar Nedbal

Oskar Nedbal (26 March 1874 – 24 December 1930) was a Czech violist, composer and conductor of classical music. Early life Nedbal was born in Tábor in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He studied the violin

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Romantic

Oskar Rieding

Oskar Rieding (29 June 1846 – 7 July 1916) was a German violinist, teacher of music, and composer. Oskar Rieding was born in Banie, Pomerania, now Poland. attended first the recently founded in

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20th Century

Oskar Sala

Oskar Sala (18 July 1910 – 26 February 2002) was a German composer and a pioneer of electronic music. He played an instrument called the Trautonium, an early form of electronic synthesizer. Early

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Entry

Oskar Sikow

Oskar Sikow (Oskar Engström) is a RIAA Gold-awarded record producer and songwriter from Stockholm, Sweden. Sikow has collaborated with artists such as Kacy Hill, LANY, Skott, Erik Hassle, among

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Late Romantic

Ossip Gabrilowitsch

Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch (also Gabrilowitsch; ; 7 February 187814 September 1936) was a Russian-American pianist, conductor and composer. Biography Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born into a Jewish

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20th Century

Osvald Chlubna

Osvald Chlubna (22 July 1893 – 30 October 1971) was a Czech composer. Life and career Chlubna was born on 22 July 1893 in Brno. Intending originally to study engineering, Chlubna switched his major

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Post-War

Osvaldas Balakauskas

Osvaldas Jonas Balakauskas (19 December 1937 – 15 April 2026) was a Lithuanian composer of classical music, academic teacher and diplomat. He taught at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre,

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21st Century

Osvaldo Coluccino

Osvaldo Coluccino (born Domodossola, 22 April 1963) is an Italian composer and poet. Biography His music has been performed in some of the major festivals of classical and contemporary classical

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20th Century

Osvaldo Fresedo

Osvaldo Fresedo (May 5, 1897 - November 18, 1984), nicknamed El pibe de La Paternal ("the kid from La Paternal") was an Argentine songwriter and director of a tango orchestra. He had one of the

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21st Century

Osvaldo Golijov

Osvaldo Noé Golijov (; born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor known for his vocal and orchestral work. Biography Osvaldo Golijov was born and raised in

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Post-War

Osvaldo Lacerda

Osvaldo Costa de Lacerda (March 23, 1927 – July 18, 2011) was a Brazilian composer and professor of music. Lacerda is known for a Brazilian nationalist musical style that combines elements of

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Post-War

Osvaldo Requena

Osvaldo Francisco Requena (29 June 1931 – 25 March 2010) was an Argentine tango pianist, arranger, and composer. Professional career Requena was an arranger and pianist of contemporary tango, as well

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Post-War

Oswald d'Andréa

Oswald Antoine Marie d'Andréa (9 August 1934 – 4 September 2024) was a French pianist and composer of music for film, television and radio. Life and career D'Andréa was born in Tunis on 9 August

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Medieval

Oswald von Wolkenstein

Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377 in Pfalzen – August 2, 1445, in Meran) was a poet, composer and diplomat. In his diplomatic capacity, he traveled through much of Europe to as far as Georgia (as

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