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Paavo Heininen

Paavo Johannes Heininen (13 January 1938 – 18 January 2022) was a Finnish composer and pianist. Biography He was born in Helsinki, where he studied at the Sibelius Academy and was taught composition

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Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals (29 December 187622 October 1973), also known by his birth name, Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ), was a Catalan cellist, composer, and conductor, born in Spain. He made many recordings

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Pablo de Sarasate

Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (; 10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908) was a Spanish virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include

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Pablo Lescano

Pablo Sebastián Lescano (born 8 December 1977) is an Argentine singer, composer, keyboardist, and leader of Cumbia villera group Damas Gratis from 2000. He is considered by many as the founder of the

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Pablo Luna

Pablo Luna Carné (May 21, 1879 Alhama de Aragón – January 28, 1942 Madrid) was a Spanish composer. His best-known composition is the aria "De España vengo" from the zarzuela El niño judío. Life Pablo

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Pablo Manavello

Pablo Manavello (May 21, 1950 – January 18, 2016) was an Italian-born Venezuelan composer, guitarist, singer and songwriter. Career Manavello started his career in the early 1970s in Caracas and

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Pablo Murgier

Pablo Murgier Pazdera (born August 23, 1988) is a pianist, arranger and composer from Argentina based in Paris, France. He is best known for his project the Pablo Murgier Ensemble, which was awarded

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Pacifico (singer)

Luigi "Gino" De Crescenzo (born 5 March 1964), best known as Pacifico, is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and musician. Background Born in Milan, the son of a Neapolitan father and mother from

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Paiboon Butkhan

Paiboon Butkhan (; 4 September 1918 - 29 August 1972) was a Thai composer, playwright, and screenwriter with many famous works. He would eventually be dubbed, "The number one genius composer in

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Pál Kadosa

Pál Kadosa (; 6 September 1903, Léva, Austria-Hungary (now Levice, Slovakia) – 30 March 1983, Budapest) was a pianist and Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was

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Páll Ísólfsson

Páll Ísólfsson (12 October 1893 – 23 November 1974) was an Icelandic organist, composer, pianist, conductor, and school director. He was one of the first Icelanders to study music abroad and is seen

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Páll Ragnar Pálsson

Páll Ragnar Pálsson (born July 25, 1977) is an Icelandic composer. Studies During 1993 to 2004 he was a guitarist in Maus, an Icelandic progressive indie rock band, but took a decisive move towards

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Palle Mikkelborg

Palle Mikkelborg (born 6 March 1941) is a Danish jazz trumpet player, composer, arranger and record producer. He is self-taught on the trumpet, although he studied conducting at the Royal Music

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Palmira Jaquetti i Isant

Palmira Jaquetti i Isant (1895–1963) was a Catalan folklorist, poet, businesswoman, composer, musicologist, ethnologist and writer. Biography Jaquetti was born in 1895 in Barcelona. After completing

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Palokë Kurti

Palokë Kurti (1858–1920) was an Albanian composer, performer, and singer. A native of Shkodër, he was a musical amateur who composed the Unity of Albania March (Bashkimi Shqipnis) in 1881. Kurti took

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Pamela Harrison (composer)

Pamela Harrison (28 November 1915 – 28 August 1990) was an English composer, pianist and music teacher. Harrison's music was influenced by composers including E.J. Moeran, Arnold Bax and John

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Pamela J. Marshall

Pamela J. Marshall (born 31 May 1954) is an American horn player and composer. She was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and studied horn, electronic music and conducting at the Eastman and Yale

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Pamela Motley Verrall

Pamela Motley Verrall (13 August 1915 – 1996) was a Welsh composer and music educator. Her compositions and arrangements for school ensembles were published by Bosworth, Chester Music (now Wise

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Pamela Z

Pamela Z (born 1956) is an American composer, performer, and media artist best known for her solo works for voice with electronic processing. In performance, she combines various vocal sounds

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Pan Shiji

Pan Shiji or Chew Shyh-Ji (; born 29 July 1957) is a Taiwanese composer, writer and music educator. Biography Pan Shiji was born in Taipei, and her family emigrated to Canada in 1974. She took piano

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Pantaleon Hebenstreit

Pantaleon Hebenstreit (27 November 1668 – 15 November 1750) was a German dance teacher, musician and composer. Today his notability rests primarily on the pantalon, a keyboard instrument which he

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Panu Aaltio

Panu Aaltio (born 29 January 1982) is a Finnish film composer. He was educated at the Sibelius Academy and University of Southern California and established himself as a film composer with The Home

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Paola Prestini

Paola Prestini (born ) is a composer of classical music. The New York Times referred to Prestini as "the enterprising composer and impresario" and a "human resources alchemist". She studied there

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Paolino Vassallo

Paolino Vassallo (born 24 July 1856 in Cospicua - deceased 20 January 1923 in Valletta) was a Maltese composer. Biography Paolino Vassallo was the son of Salvatore Vassallo and Victoria Xicluna. At

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Paolo Castaldi

Paolo Castaldi (9 September 1930 – 22 February 2021) was an Italian essayist and composer. Biography Castaldi attended the school of music at the Milan Conservatory, where he studied under Antonino

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Paolo Cavallone

Paolo Cavallone (born in Sulmona in 1975) is an Italian composer, pianist, and poet. He is considered a major composer of today's music scene especially for the aesthetics openness of his works.

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Paolo da Firenze

Paolo da Firenze (Paolo Tenorista, "Magister Dominus Paulas Abbas de Florentia") (c. 1355 – after September 20, 1436) was an Italian composer and music theorist of the late 14th and early 15th

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Paolo Fradiani

Paolo Fradiani is an Italian classical composer and professor. Biography and career Born in Avezzano, Italy in 1984, studied music at Conservatoire of Music "Alfredo Casella" in L'Aquila and at

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Paolo Giorza

Paolo Giorza (11 November 1832 – 4 March 1914) was an Italian-Australian composer of classical music and Romantic music. He was born in Milan, son of Luigi Giorza, a painter and singer. His father

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Paolo Isnardi

Paolo Isnardi (c. 1536 - 5 May 1596) was a late-Renaissance choirmaster and composer. Biography Isnardi was musically educated by Francesco Manara at the Ferrara Cathedral. Although he spent most of

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Paolo Litta

Paolo Litta (7 May 1871, Stockholm – 8 May 1931, Fiesole ) was an Italian composer. He was of mixed Italian and Swedish heritage. He was married to the Italian opera singer, Ida Isori, and dedicated

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Paolo Longo (composer)

Paolo Longo (born October 30, 1967, in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. Life He studied composition, piano and conducting in Trieste, where he graduated in 1990 with highest

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Paolo Lorenzani

Paolo Francesco Lorenzani (5 January 1640 – 28 October 1713) was an Italian composer of the Baroque Era. While living in France, he helped promote appreciation for the Italian style of music.

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Paolo Quagliati

Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555 – 16 November 1628) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was a transitional figure between the late Renaissance

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Paolo Renosto

Paolo Renosto (10 October 1935 – 10 February 1988) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist. Born in Florence, Renosto was educated at the conservatory of his hometown, where he studied piano

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Paolo Serrao

Paolo Serrao (11 April 1830 – 17 March 1907) was a distinguished and influential Italian teacher of musical theory and composition at Naples. Serrao was born in Filadelfia, Calabria. He studied at

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Paolo Sperati

Paolo Agostino Sperati (March 26, 1821 – May 20, 1884) was an Italian conductor, musician, and composer that was active in the theater and opera life of Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in the 19th

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Paolo Tosti

Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti KCVO (9 April 1846, Ortona, Abruzzo2 December 1916, Rome) was an Italian composer and music teacher. Today, he is remembered mostly for his light-hearted songs, which are

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Papa Haydn

The composer Joseph Haydn is sometimes given the nickname "Papa" Haydn. The practice began in Haydn's lifetime and has continued to the present day. identifies three senses of the term, discussed

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Pär Lund

Pär Lund (born 25 September 1972) is a Swedish pianist and composer. Education Lund began composing and playing the piano at the age of 7 and initiated his formal education in 1991 with professor

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Param Vir

Param Vir is a British composer, originally from India. Born in Delhi into a family life permeated with Indian classical music, Param Vir's strong interest in music developed as a teenager when

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Parashkev Hadjiev

Parashkev Hadjiev (Bulgarian: Парашкев Хаджиев; born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 27 April 1912 – 1992) was a Bulgarian composer. He was the son of conductor Todor Hadjiev, an early champion of Bulgarian

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Park Sae-byul

Park Sae-byul (; born October 24, 1985) is a South Korean indie composer and singer-songwriter. Early Life Park Sae-byul was born in Seoul and graduated from Yonsei University with a major in

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Parsegh Ganatchian

Parsegh Ganatchian (17 April 1885 – 21 May 1967) was an Armenian composer, conductor, and sociocultural activist. He is best-known for his part in arranging the music to Mer Hayrenik (Our

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Parvaz Homay

Parvaz Homay (; born 9 February 1980) is an Iranian composer, lyricist, vocalist, and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music. Also known by his birth name Saeid Jafarzadeh

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Pascal Dusapin

Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy. A pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and an admirer of Varèse,

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Pascal Schumacher

Pascal Schumacher (born 12 March 1979 in Luxemburg) is a Luxembourgish jazz musician, composer and percussionist who has founded a number of groups including the Pascal Schumacher Quartet. He also

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Pascale Criton

Pascale Criton (born 1954) is a French composer of contemporary music, and musicologist. She is particularly known for exploiting very dense microtonal scales such as 1/12 tone or 1/16 and beyond for

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Pasek and Paul

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, are an American songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films and television. While Pasek usually writes lyrics and Paul

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Pasquale Anfossi

Pasquale Anfossi (5 April 1727 – February 1797) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Republic of Genoa, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London,

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Pat Carrabré

T. Patrick Carrabré is a Canadian composer, teacher, and radio personality based in Manitoba. He is currently a professor of music at the University of British Columbia, where he serves as Director

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Patric Standford

Patric Standford (5 February 1939 – 23 April 2014) was an English composer, supporter of composers' rights, educationalist and author. Early life and education Patric John Standford (real name John

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Patrice Wilson

Patrice Iteke Wilson (born June 19, 1983), also known by his stage name Pato, is a Nigerian-American former producer, songwriter, and singer. He co-founded the ARK Music Factory (with Clarence Jey)

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Patricia Alessandrini

Patricia Alessandrini (born 1970) is an American composer, sound artist, and musicologist. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and 2024 MacDowell Fellow, Alessandrini specializes in electronic music and sound

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Patricia Blomfield Holt

Patricia Blomfield Holt (15 September 1910 – 5 June 2003) was a Canadian composer, pianist and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Association of Canadian

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Patricia Conroy

Patricia Conroy (born January 30, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. In her career, she has released five studio albums, and one compilation album. She has also released 25 singles, including the

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Patricia Jünger

Patricia Jünger (born 6 August 1951) is a Swiss-Austrian multi-media artist, conductor, sound director and composer. Jünger studied at the Vienna Music Academy, and worked first as a pianist and

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Patrick Ascione

Patrick Ascione (Paris, France, 22 October 1953 - Calvados, France, 21 November 2014) was a French composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. Biography Patrick Ascione (Paris, France, 1953)

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Patrick Cassidy (composer)

Patrick Cassidy is an Irish orchestral, choral, and film score composer. Early life and education Cassidy was born in Claremorris, County Mayo in Ireland. He received a BSc in applied mathematics

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Patrick Defossez

Patrick Defossez (born 7 August 1959 at Valenciennes, France) is a Belgian composer, pianist and improviser of contemporary classical music. A Belgian citizen, he has lived in France for many years

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Patrick Doyle

Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953 ) is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television and theatre, he has composed the scores

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Patrick Grant (composer)

Patrick Grant (born 1963) is an American composer living and working in New York City. His works are a synthesis of classical, popular, and world musical styles that have found place in concert

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Patrick Greene (composer)

Patrick Greene (born 1985) is an American composer and performer of contemporary classical music. A lifelong resident of New England, he has been based in Boston, Massachusetts, since 2008. Education

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Patrick Hadley

Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (5 March 1899 – 17 December 1973) was a British composer. Biography Patrick Sheldon Hadley was born on 5 March 1899 in Cambridge. His father, William Sheldon Hadley, was

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Patrick Hawes

Patrick Hawes (born 5 December 1958) is a British composer, conductor, organist and pianist. Biography Born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, the son of publican parents, Hawes grew up along the

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Patrick Higgins (musician)

Patrick Higgins is an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and producer from New York City, known for his work in experimental and contemporary classical music. Higgins plays guitar and composes

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Patrick Jonsson

Patrick Jonsson is a Swedish film composer and music producer based in London. His credits include the documentaries Virunga (2014) and The White Helmets (2016), and the feature Bends (2013), for

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Patrick Larley

Patrick Larley (born 1951) is a British composer. Biography He was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, England and lived at Fearnhead in Warrington. Patrick is the third of the four children of Ian A. and

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Patrick Liddell

Patrick Liddell is a composer and video artist living in Oakland, California. He earned his Doctor of Music from Northwestern University in 2009. His thesis is titled "Arrow To The Sun: Postmodernism

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Patrick Piggott

Patrick Piggott (15 June 1915 – 9 May 1990) was an English composer, pianist and musicologist. Piggott was born in Dover. He studied with Harold Craxton (piano) and Benjamin Dale (composition) at the

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Patrick Rondat

Patrick Rondat (born 12 October 1960) is a French guitarist. He plays instrumental heavy metal associated with diverse influences such as new-age music, progressive metal, classical music and jazz.

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Patrick Saint-Denis

Patrick Saint-Denis (born 1975) is a Canadian composer based in Montreal. His works have been performed at music festivals in North America, Europe, and Asia. His composition, Les dits de Victoire,

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Patsy Rogers

Patsy Rogers (born 19 January 1938) is an American composer and teacher who has won several awards and commissions. She is active in the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). Rogers was

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Patti Scialfa

Vivienne Patricia Scialfa ( ; is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984 and has been married to Bruce Springsteen since 1991. In 2014,

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Patty Obasi

Patrick Obasi (; 15 May 1951 – 16 October 2012), popularly known as Patty Obasi, was a Nigerian gospel music recording artist. Regarded as one of the pioneers of Nigerian gospel music, Patty Obasi

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Patty Stair

Patty Stair (November 12, 1869 – April 26, 1926 ) was an American organist and composer. Biography Patty Stair was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the niece of tenor Edwin Stair. She studied with music

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Paul Abraham

Paul Abraham (; 2 November 1892 – 6 May 1960) was a Jewish-Hungarian composer of operettas, who scored major successes in the German-speaking world. Abraham was born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (today

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Paul Alan Levi

Paul Alan Levi (born June 30, 1941, in New York City) is an American composer whose compositions have been performed in Carnegie Hall, among other major venues in United States and Europe, as well as

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Paul Ambrose

Paul Ambrose (11 October 1868 – 1 July 1941) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator who was primarily active in the United States. His compositional output includes more

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Paul Angerer

Paul Angerer (16 May 1927 – 26 July 2017 ) was an Austrian violist, conductor, composer and radio presenter. Life Angerer studied music theory and composition with Friedrich Reidinger and Alfred Uhl,

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Paul Arma

Paul Arma (Hungarian: Arma Pál, aka Amrusz Pál; né Weisshaus Imre; 22 November 1905 – 28 November 1987) was a Hungarian-French pianist, composer, and ethnomusicologist. Arma was born in Budapest in

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Paul Baillargeon

Paul Baillargeon (born 1943) is a Canadian composer, known for his music for television shows. He contributed music to 41 episodes of Star Trek shows, and won the 2002 ASCAP Award (Top TV Series) for

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Paul Bastide

Paul Adrien Bastide (6 April 1879 – 18 August 1962) was a French conductor and composer. Career Paul Bastide was born at Quimper and studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the Paris

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Paul Ben-Haim

Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, ; 5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer. Biography Paul Frankenburger (later Ben-Haim) was born in Munich, Germany. He studied composition with

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Paul Bonneau

Paul Bonneau (14 September 1918 – 8 July 1995) was a French conductor, composer and arranger, whose career was mainly in the field of light music and films. Career Born in Moret-sur-Loing in 1918,

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Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles (; December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and

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Paul Buchanan

Paul Gerard Buchanan (born 16 April 1956), is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician, known for critically acclaimed compositions both as a co-founder of the Blue Nile and as a solo performer.

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Paul Büttner

Paul Büttner (10 December 1870 – 15 October 1943) was a German choir director, music critic, music educator and composer of the late Romantic period. Biography Born in Dresden, Paul Büttner's parents

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Paul Carr (composer)

Paul Carr (born 1961) is an English classical music composer. Born in Cornwall, he has been writing music since the age of 15. He studied voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked

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Paul Clark (composer)

Paul Clark is a composer based in London. Early life and education Clark was born in West Kirby in 1968. He studied classical guitar with Lee Sollory. Career Clark co-founded Clod Ensemble with

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Paul Clift

Paul Clift (born 21 March 1978) is an Australian composer and sound artist. His works comprise mostly instrumental music, often with electronics, video or other multimedia elements. Biography Born in

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Paul Cooper (composer)

Paul Cooper (May 19, 1926; Victoria, Illinois – April 4, 1996; Houston, Texas) was an American composer and teacher of classical music. Born in Victoria, Illinois, he received degrees from the

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Paul Corder

Paul Walford Corder (14 December 1879 - 6 August 1942) was an English composer and music professor. Corder was born at Pimlico, London, the son of musician Frederick Corder and his wife Henrietta

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Paul Corley

Paul Corley is an American composer, producer, and sound artist. Biography Corley joined the Icelandic music collective and record label Bedroom Community in 2007, working alongside Nico Muhly, Ben

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Paul Creston

Paul Creston (born Giuseppe Guttoveggio; October 10, 1906 – August 24, 1985) was an American composer of classical music. He composed six symphonies and several concertante works for violin, piano,

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Paul Damance

Paul Damance D’Amance (c. 1650 – after 1718) was a French religious of the ordre de la sainte Trinité et rédemption des captifs, who had several masses in "musical plainsong" published between 1687

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Paul Danblon

Paul Danblon (25 July 1931 – 8 February 2018) was a Belgian composer, opera director and administrator, and journalist. He was one of the pioneers of scientific journalism on RTBF (Radio télévision

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Paul de Maleingreau

Paul Constant Eugène de Maleingreau (23 November 1887 - 9 January 1956) was a Belgian composer and organist. Biography Paul Constant Eugène Malengreau was born in Trélon, Nord, France. He later

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Paul de Wailly

Paul Louis Auguste Warnier de Wailly (May 16, 1854 – June 18, 1933) was a French composer. Life Paul de Wailly grew up in Château de Bagatelle in Abbeville. He lost his father, a naval officer, when

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Paul Desenne

Paul Xavier Desenne Hable (7 December 1959 – 20 May 2023) was a Venezuelan cellist and composer. Biography Desenne was born on 7 December 1959, in Caracas, where he was also raised. In 1977, he was a

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Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them.

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Paul Dirmeikis

Paul Dirmeikis (born 1954) is a French-speaking poet, composer, singer, and painter who lives in Brittany, France. He is of Lithuanian ancestry, and a member of the Lithuanian Composers Union.

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Paul Dolden

Paul Dolden (born January 23, 1956, in Ottawa, Canada), is an electroacoustic music composer, currently living in Montréal, Canada. Paul Dolden began his career at age 16 as a professional electric

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Paul Doornbusch

Paul Doornbusch (born 1959, Melbourne) is an Australian composer and musician. He is the author of a book documenting the first computer music, made with the CSIRAC. Doornbusch spent several years at

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Paul Dresher

Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951, in Los Angeles) is an American composer. Paul Dresher was born and raised in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. From an early age, he was surrounded by music,

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Paul Dukas

Paul Abraham Dukas ( 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and

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Paul E. Beaudoin

Paul E. Beaudoin (born 10 April 1960) is an American composer, visual and interdisciplinary artist, and writer. His work engages sound, image, and text across composition, installation, video, and

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Paul Elwood

Paul Iserman Elwood (born 1958, died 2025) was a composer and banjo player from Greeley, Colorado. He received his B.M.E. at Wichita State University and his M.M. in composition from Southern

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Paul Fauchet

Paul Robert Marcel Fauchet (27 June 1881 – 12 November 1937 ) was a French composer and organist. Life Born in Paris, the son of the organist of the same name, he studied at the Conservatoire de

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Paul Fincham

Paul Timothy Fincham (born 23 January 1959) is a British composer. Early life and family Fincham is the younger brother of television producer Peter Fincham. Fincham returned to composing, based in

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Paul Gallister

Paul Gallister (born September 5, 1984 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer and music producer. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he received a Master of Arts in

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Paul Gilson

Paul Gilson (Brussels, 15 June 1865 – Brussels, 3 April 1942) was a Belgian musician and composer. Biography Paul Gilson was born in Brussels. In 1866, his family moved to Ruisbroek in the Belgian

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Paul Graener

Paul Graener (11 January 1872 – 13 November 1944) was a German composer and conductor. He composed numerous operas and orchestral works in the style of late Romanticism. Biography Graener was born in

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Paul Gutama Soegijo

Paul Gutama Soegijo (29 January 1934 – 7 January 2019) was an Indonesian composer and musician, active in Berlin. Born in Yogyakarta on the island of Java, Soegijo studied composition with Boris

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Paul Hermann (composer)

Paul Hermann (Budapest, 27 March 1902 – unknown 1944), also known as Pál Hermann, was a virtuoso cellist and composer. Career Hermann was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 27 March 1902 and came from a

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Paul Hillemacher

Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (25 November 1852 – 13 August 1933) was a French composer and pianist. Life Born in Paris, Hillemacher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in François Bazin's

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist, and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in

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Paul Hofhaimer

Paul Hofhaimer (25 January 1459 – 1537) was an Austrian organist and composer. He was particularly gifted at improvisation, and was regarded as the finest organist of his age by many writers,

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Paul I, Prince Esterházy

Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha (), () (8 September 1635 He actively participated in various battles against the Ottoman Turks during the Fourth Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664) and the Great

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Paul Jarman

Paul Jarman is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, composer and choirmaster. He is known for his work with school children, assisting them to develop their compositions. Jarman works with other

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Paul Juon

Paul Juon (, Pavel Fyodorovich Yuon; 6 March 1872 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian composer of Swiss origin. Life Juon was born in Moscow on 6 March 1872, the son of Theodor Friedrich Juon

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Paul Keenan (composer)

Paul Keenan (1 August 1956 – 26 June 2001) was a British 20th Century contemporary classical composer. His body of composition spans 27 years, though consistently explores his fascination with both

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Paul Klengel

Paul Klengel (13 May 1854 – 24 April 1935) was a German violinist, violist, pianist, conductor, composer, editor and arranger. He was the brother of cellist Julius Klengel. Biography Klengel was born

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Paul Koulak

Paul Koulak (birth name: Paul Koulaksezian; ; 27 March 1943 – 28 June 2021) was a French composer of Armenian origin. Biography Koulak was born in Saint-Chamond. Two of his three brothers are also in

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Paul Lacombe (composer)

Paul Lacombe (11 July 1837 – 4 June 1927) was a Languedocien (French) composer and pianist. Biography Paul Lacombe was born in Carcassonne into a wealthy family of linen merchants. Initial music

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Paul Lacôme

Paul-Jean-Jacques Lacôme d'Estalenx (4 March 1838 – 12 December 1920) was a French composer. Between 1870 and the turn of the century he produced a series of operettas and operas-bouffes that were

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Paul Ladmirault

Paul Émile Ladmirault (8 December 1877 – 30 October 1944) was a French composer and music critic whose music expressed his devotion to Brittany. Claude Debussy wrote that his work possessed a "fine

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Paul Lamkoff

Paul Lamkoff, (Plonsk, Russian Empire, 14 December 1888 - 11 March 1953) was a Polish-born American cantor and early Hollywood film composer. He is sometimes credited by the less anglicized name Paul

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Paul Lansky

Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York City) is an American composer. Biography Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art,

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Paul Lavalle

Paul Lavalle (born Joseph Usifer, September 6, 1908 - June 24, 1997) was an American conductor, composer, arranger and performer on clarinet and saxophone. Early years Lavalle was born in Beacon, New

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Paul Le Flem

Marie-Paul Achille Auguste Le Flem (18 March 1881 – 31 July 1984) was a French composer and music critic. Biography Born in Radon, Orne, of Breton parentage, and living most of his life in

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Paul Leenhouts

Paul Leenhouts is a Dutch recorder player, composer and conductor. Leenhouts studied music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Together with Daniël Brüggen, Bertho Driever, and Karel van

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Paul Lincke

Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 – 3 September 1946) was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the "father" of the Berlin operetta. His well-known compositions include

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Paul McCandless

Paul Brownlee McCandless Jr. (born March 24, 1947) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the American jazz group Oregon. He is one of the few jazz oboists. He also plays bass

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Paul McSwiney

Paul McSwiney or Paul Mac Swiney (March 1856 – 17 November 1889 ) was an Irish composer and dramatist who emigrated to the United States. A talented artist with a number of pioneering performances in

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Paul Mealor

Paul Mealor CLJ FLSW (born 25 November 1975) is a Welsh composer. A large proportion of his output is for chorus, both a cappella and accompanied. He came to wider notice when his motet Ubi Caritas

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Paul Méfano

Paul Méfano (March 6, 1937 – September 15, 2020) was a French composer and conductor. Biography Paul Méfano was born in Basra, Iraq. He pursued musical studies at the École Normale de Musique de

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Paul Misraki

Paul Misraki (28 January 1908 – 29 October 1998) was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by

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Paul Moravec

Paul Moravec (born November 2, 1957) is an American composer and a university professor at Adelphi University on Long Island, New York and also a member of the composition department of the Mannes

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Paul Mottram

Paul Mottram is a composer, arranger and orchestrator of music for film and television, and also writes production music for Audio Network. Commissioned music credits include Bank Of Dave, Kirstie's

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Paul Mounsey

Paul Mounsey (born 15 April 1959) is a Scottish musician, composer, arranger and record producer. A graduate of Trinity College, London, where he studied with Richard Arnell, Mounsey has composed for

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Paul Nelson (composer)

Paul Nelson (né Paul Eugene Nelson; 26 January 1929 Phoenix, Arizona – 11 April 2008 Providence, Rhode Island) was an American musician and composer. His compositions—in all genres except opera—have

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Paul Newland

Paul Newland is a composer, musician, and founding member of the group rout , and the electric guitar duo, exquisite corpse (David Arrowsmith/Paul Newland). He studied composition at the Royal

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Paul Nordoff

Paul Nordoff (June 6, 1909 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – January 18, 1977 in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) was an American composer and music therapist, anthroposophist and

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Paul Panhuysen

Paul Panhuysen (21 August 1934 – 29 January 2015) was a Dutch composer, visual and sound artist. He founded and directed Het Apollohuis, an art space that functioned during the 80's and 90's having

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Paul Patterson (composer)

Paul Patterson (born 15 June 1947) is a British composer and Manson Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Career Patterson studied trombone and composition at the Royal Academy of

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Paul Pedersen (composer)

Paul Richard Pedersen (born August 28, 1935) is a Canadian composer, arts administrator, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of

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Paul Pratt

Paul Pratt (25 November 1894 – 8 May 1967) was a Canadian clarinetist, pianist, conductor, music educator, composer, and public administrator. His compositional output includes marches, waltzes, a

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Paul Puget

Paul Charles Marie Curet, (also known as Puget, 25 June 1848 – 15 March 1917) was a French composer. Life Born in Nantes into a family of musicians (his father Henri Puget was a renowned tenor at his

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Paul Reade

Paul Geoffrey Reade (10 January 1943 – 7 June 1997) was an English composer. Born in Liverpool, he studied piano and composition (1962-1965) at the Royal Academy of Music with Alan Richardson and

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Paul Reale

Paul Reale (March 2, 1943 – July 22, 2020) was an American composer, pianist, and professor of music at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Reale

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Paul Robb

Paul Jason Robb is an American synthesizer player, producer, songwriter and one of the founding members of the band Information Society. Biography Robb was a member of Information Society from its

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Paul Rougnon

Paul-Louis Rougnon (; 24 August 1846 – 11 December 1934) was a French composer, pianist and music educator. Biography Paul Rougnon was born in Poitiers the son of Louis Rougnon and Claire Clotilde

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Paul Sawtell

Paul Sawtell (February 3, 1906 – August 1, 1971) was a film score composer. Biography Sawtell was born Paul Sawatzki in the village of Geluwe, in the German Reich (now Poland). Sawtell began his

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Paul Scheinpflug

Paul Scheinpflug (10 September 1875 near Dresden – 11 March 1937) was a German conductor and composer. Born in Loschwitz, Scheinpflug studied at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden

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Paul Schoenfield

Paul Schoenfield (24 January 1947 – 29 April 2024), also spelled Paul Schoenfeld or Pinchas Schoenfeld, was a classical composer and pianist known for combining popular, folk, and classical music

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Paul Schwartz (composer)

Paul Schwartz (born 1956) is an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. the basic elements of which are voice, piano, violin, and electronic samples. He has collaborated

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Paul Siefert

Paul Siefert (variants: Syfert, Sivert, Sibert; 23 May 1586 – 6 May 1666) was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school. Biography He was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal

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Paul Siraudin

Pierre-Paul-Désiré Siraudin (18 December 1812 * 1850: Le Courrier de Lyon by Eugène Moreau, Paul Siraudin and Alfred Delacour, Théâtre de la Gaîté * 1852: Le Misanthrope et l'Auvergnat by Eugène

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Paul Spicer (musician)

Paul Spicer (born 6 June 1952) is an English composer, conductor, and organist. He taught choral conducting at the Royal College of Music and conducted the RCM Chamber Choir between 1995 and 2008.

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Paul Steenhuisen

Paul Steenhuisen (born 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer working with a broad range of acoustic and digital media. His concert music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo,

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Paul Struck

Paul Friedrich Struck (6 December 1776 – 14 May 1820) was a German-Austrian classical composer. Biography Struck was born in Stralsund, and began studying music in Berlin in 1792. In later years he

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Paul Taffanel

Claude-Paul Taffanel (16 September 1844 – 22 November 1908) was a French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute

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Paul Thomson (composer)

Paul Ross Thomson (born 18 February 1972 in Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English composer for film, television, and video games and music technologist who lives in the Cotswolds. He won the 2012

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Paul Tobey

Paul Tobey (born September 7, 1962) is a Canadian jazz pianist, as well as a producer, arranger, composer, and director. He has toured and recorded with Terry Clark, Jim Vivian, Pat Labarbera, and

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Paul van Katwijk

Paul van Katwijk (December 7, 1885 – December 11, 1974) was a Dutch-American pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He was an important figure in the classical music culture of Dallas,

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Paul Vidal

Paul Antonin Vidal (16 June 1863 – 9 April 1931) was a French composer, conductor and music teacher mainly active in Paris. Life and career Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse, and studied at the

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Paul von Klenau

Paul August von Klenau (11 February 1883 – 31 August 1946) was a Danish-born composer who worked primarily in Germany and Austria. Biography Klenau was born in Copenhagen, where he studied under Otto

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Paul W. Whear

Paul William Whear (November 13, 1925 – March 25, 2021) was an American composer, conductor, music educator, and double-bassist. Life and career Whear (full name Paul William Whear) was born in

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Paul Walter Fürst

Paul Walter Fürst (25 April 1926 – 28 February 2013) was an Austrian musician and composer. He was also president of the (AKM) since 1998 and for many years managing director and president of the

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Paul Whitty

Paul Whitty (born 1970) is an England-based experimental composer and sound artist born in Northern Ireland. Biography Paul Whitty was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1970 and is currently

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Paul Williams (composer)

Paul Williams is an English composer and pianist. Biography Paul Williams ( Terry Day) studied at the Royal College of Music and Jesus College, Cambridge. While attending university, he teamed up

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Paul Wranitzky

Paul Wranitzky (; 30 December 1756 – 29 September 1808) was a Moravian classical composer. His half brother, Antonín, was also a composer. Life Wranitzky was born in Neureisch (Nová Říše) in Moravia,

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Paul-Baudouin Michel

Paul-Baudouin Michel (7 September 1930 – 30 October 2020) was a Belgian composer, professor, and writer. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Biography

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Paul-Heinz Dittrich

Paul-Heinz Dittrich (4 December 1930 – 28 December 2020) was a German composer and academic teacher. Based in East Berlin, he focused on chamber music, with many works inspired by poetry. His works

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Paula Nenette Pepin

Antonietta Paule Pepin Fitzpatrick (9 April 1908 – 14 November 1990), also known as Nenette, was a French composer, pianist and lyricist. Biography Nenette was born on the island of Saint Pierre et

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Pauline Alderman

Edith Pauline Alderman (January 16, 1893 – October 11, 1983) was an American musicologist and composer. She was the founder and the first Chairwoman of the Department of Music History and Literature

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Pauline Decker

Pauline Decker, née von Schätzel, since 1863: von Decker (27 August 1811 – 13 September 1882) was a German opera singer (soprano) and composer. Biography Born as Johanne Sophie Friederike Pauline von

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Pauline Duchambge

Pauline Duchambge née de Montet (1778 – 23 April 1858) was a French pianist, singer, and composer. Life Duchambge (Montet) was born in Martinique, the daughter of a noble family. She was taken to

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Pauline Gilmour Hatch

Pauline Gilmour Hatch (; 1871–1955) was an American composer and hymnwriter. Life Pauline Gilmour Hatch, only daughter of Henry Lake Gilmour, was born at either Cape May, or Wenonah, New Jersey, on

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Pauline Hall (composer)

Pauline Margrete Hall (2 August 1890 – 24 January 1969) was a Norwegian composer and music critic. She was the founding chairwoman of Ny Musikk (1938–1961) and served as president of the

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer and accordionist. Considered a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music, she was a

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Pauline Thys

Pauline Marie Elisa Thys -Lebault (1835–1909) was a French composer and librettist. She was born in Paris. Her father was the opéra comique composer Alphonse Thys (1807–1879). Initially she composed

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Pauline Viardot

Pauline Viardot (; 18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, she came from a musical family

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Pauline Volkstein

Pauline Volkstein (19 January 1849 – 6 May 1925) was a German composer of more than 1,000 songs. Biography Volkstein was born in Quedlinburg, Germany. She had little formal music training, but came

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Paulo Alvarado

Paulo Alvarado (born 1960) is a Guatemalan cellist, composer and producer born in Guatemala. He studied architecture at Universidad Rafael Landívar but dropped out in 1983 to become a full-time

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Paulo Bethencourt

Paulo Bethencourt (born Paulo Bethencourt da Silva Franco Neto, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a music producer, composer, and arranger. He has created original works for labels and media companies

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Paulo César Pinheiro

Paulo César Pinheiro (born 28 April 1949) is a Brazilian poet and composer. One of the best poets of Musica Popular Brasileira, he wrote lyrics for a great number of songs for some of the best-known

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Paulo Galvão

Paulo Galvão (born 1967 in Portimão, Algarve, Portugal) is a composer, lutenist, theorbist and guitarist. According to Dan Hill, Galvão has published "musical forgeries" for baroque guitar under the

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Paulo Ricardo (musician)

Paulo Ricardo Oliveira Nery de Medeiros (born September 23, 1962) is a Brazilian rock singer, musician and songwriter. He was a longtime member of the band RPM as a bass guitarist and vocalist. He

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Paulo Sérgio Valle

Paulo Sérgio Kostenbader Valle (born August 6, 1940) is a Brazilian composer and lyricist. Career Valle started his career as part of the bossa nova trend when, with his brother Marcos Valle, he

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Pavel Bořkovec

Pavel Bořkovec (10 June 1894 – 22 July 1972) was a Czech composer and music teacher. Life Bořkovec was born on 10 June 1894 in Prague. He studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk. From 1946

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Pavel Chesnokov

Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Пáвел Григóрьевич Чеснокóв) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow, also transliterated Tschesnokoff,

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Pavel Haas

Pavel Haas (21 June 189917 October 1944) was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk

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Pavel Josef Vejvanovský

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (c. 1639 – 24 July 1693) was a Czech-Moravian composer and trumpeter of the Baroque period. Life Vejvanovský was born probably in Hlučín (possibly in Hukvaldy), probably in

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Pavel Karmanov

Pavel Karmanov (; 12 February 1970 – 23 November 2024) was a Russian composer and rock musician. Early life and education Karmanov was introduced to music by his mother, a pianist. He composed his

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Pavel Pabst

Paul or Pavel Avgustovich Pabst (; born Christian Georg Paul Pabst; 15 May 1854 – 9 June 1897) was a pianist, composer, and Professor of Piano at Moscow Conservatory. Life and career Pabst was born

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Pavel Singer

Pavel Singer (Павел Зингер, born September 29, 1962, in Pyatigorsk, USSR) is an Austrian composer, pianist and arrangeur. Biography Pavel (name at birth Paul) Singer was born in Pyatigorsk, to a

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Pavel Šivic

Pavel Šivic (born February 2, 1908, in Radovljica, Slovenia — died May 31, 1995, in Ljubljana ) was a Slovenian composer, concert pianist, and music educator. Šivic wrote the libretto to this opera

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Pavel Weymarn

Pavel Platonovich Weymarn (; 1857 – ) was a Russian writer on music and composer. Weymarn was born in Saint Petersburg and studied at the First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium. He served in the

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Pavle Dešpalj

Pavle Dešpalj (18 June 1934 – 16 December 2021) was a Croatian composer and conductor. Biography Pavle Dešpalj graduated from Music Academy in Zagreb where he studied composition with Prof. Stjepan

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Paweł Łukaszewski

Paweł Łukaszewski (born 19 September 1968) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. He has won seven Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish

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Paweł Mykietyn

Paweł Jan Mykietyn ( Polish pronunciation : ; born 20 May 1971) is a Polish award-winning composer and clarinetist. By the year 2012, Mykietyn had written two symphonies, cello, piano and violin

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Paweł Szymański

Paweł Szymański (born 28 March 1954 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish composer. When he was a student at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Szymański studied composition under Włodzimierz

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