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Peder Elias

Peder Elias Eriksrud Kjørholt (born 14 January 1997) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. He debuted in 2018 and released his first album, Love & Loneliness, in 2022. At the 2023 Spellemannprisen, Elias

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Pedro Albéniz

Pedro Albéniz y Basanta (14 April 179512 April 1855) was a Spanish pianist and composer. He was unrelated to Isaac Albéniz. Life Albéniz was born in Logroño, La Rioja. He began his studies with his

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Pedro António Avondano

Pedro António Avondano (16 April 1714 - 1782) was a Portuguese composer of Italian parentage. Pedro António was born and died in Lisbon. His father Pietro Giorgio Avondano of Genoa, was a violinist

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Pedro Bermúdez

Pedro Bermúdez (1558–1605) was a Spanish composer and chapel master, who has been recognised as one of the most outstanding polyphonists in the New World, and who was active in Granada, Antequera,

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Pedro Carneiro (musician)

Pedro Carneiro (born June 5 1975) is a Portuguese solo classical percussionist, marimba player, composer, and conductor. Carneiro is one of the very few percussion players to have made an

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Pedro de Araújo

Pedro de Araújo (c. 1640 – 1705; possibly 1610 – 1684), was a Portuguese organist and composer who worked with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga, northern Portugal. He was singing master at the

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Pedro de Cristo

Pedro de Cristo (1545/1550 – 12 December 1618) was a Portuguese composer of Renaissance music. He is one of the most important Portuguese polyphonists of the 16th and 17th centuries. Life Pedro de

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Pedro de Escobar

Pedro de Escobar (c. 1465 – after 1535), a.k.a. Pedro do Porto, was a Portuguese composer of the Renaissance, mostly active in Spain. He was one of the earliest and most skilled composers of

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Pedro de Lagarto

Pedro de Lagarto (born circa 1465; died 1543 in Toledo) was a Spanish singer and composer of the Renaissance period. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but a document dated 1537 affirms

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Pedro Espinel Torres

Pedro Espinel Torres (August 1, 1908 – November 8, 1981 in Lima) was a Peruvian composer of música criolla. He is best known for his piece El Rey de las Polkas. Life Espinel worked in various jobs —

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Pedro Garcia-Velasquez

Pedro Garcia-Velasquez (born 28 November 1984, Bogotá, Colombia) is a French-Colombian composer and co-founder of Le Balcon ensemble and BabelScores – an online library of contemporary music. Born in

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Pedro Ipuche Riva

Pedro Ipuche Riva (26 October 1924 – 25 December 1996) was an Uruguayan composer of classical music. According to the catalogue by the Uruguayan musicologist Elsa Sabatés in Músicos de aquí, Vol 4

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Pedro Iturralde

Pedro Iturralde Ochoa (13 July 1929 – 1 November 2020) was a Spanish jazz saxophonist, teacher and composer. Biography Iturralde was born in Falces on 3 July 1929. He began his musical studies with

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Pedro Luís Neves

Pedro Luís Neves is a Portuguese modern composer of classical music and author of several other genres. Pedro Luís Neves works as a composer and musician within many different musical fields, some of

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Pedro Ruimonte

Pedro Ruimonte (or Rimonte, Ruymonte) (1565 – November 30, 1627) was a Spanish composer and musician who spent much of his career in the Low Countries. Early years He was born in Zaragoza, the son of

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Pedro Valenzuela

Pedro Valenzuela (fl. 1569-1579) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance period. He was of Spanish descent, and became a known foreign musician, performing as both a singer and composer. Life It

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Pedro Vilarroig

Pedro Vilarroig (born November 8, 1954) is a professor of physics and cosmology at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and a former Spanish composer. He is a proponent of neotonalism, having

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Peer Åström

Peer Åström (born in Ljusdal, Sweden) is a Swedish composer, lyricist, musician, and record producer and partner. He has collaborated with artists such as Madonna, Celine Dion, Enrique Iglesias,

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Peer Raben

Peer Raben (born Wilhelm Rabenbauer; 3 July 1940 – 21 January 2007) was a German composer who worked with German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Early and personal life Raben was born in

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Peeter Cornet

Peeter Cornet (Pierre, Pietro, Peter, Pieter) (ca. 1570-80 – 27 March 1633) was a Flemish composer and organist of the early Baroque period. Although few of his compositions survive, he is widely

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Peeter Vähi

Peeter Vähi (born 18 May 1955, Tartu) is a classical Estonian composer. Vähi's work Relaxatio, written in 1992 and inspired by Asian intonal elements of Tibetan canticles, is a noted electronic work

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Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (29 December 191225 June 1990) was an Australian composer and music critic. Biography Early life and education Peggy Glanville-Hicks, born in Melbourne in her family's

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Peggy Hubicki

Margaret Olive Hubicki MBE (2 July 1915 – 3 January 2006) was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony, who invented the Colour-Staff method to help people with dyslexia to read music. Life

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Peggy Stuart Coolidge

Peggy Stuart Coolidge (19 July 1913 – 7 May 1981) was an American composer and conductor. She was one of the first female American composers to have a recording devoted to her symphonic works, and

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Peire Raimon de Tolosa

Peire Raimon de Tolosa (or Toloza; fl. 1180–1220) was a troubadour from the merchant class of Toulouse. He is variously referred to as lo Viellz ("the Old") and lo Gros ("the Fat"), though these are

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Pelham Humfrey

Pelham Humfrey (Humphrey, Humphrys) (1647 in London – 14 July 1674 in Windsor) was an English composer. He was the first of the new generation of English composers at the beginning of the Restoration

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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (21 November 1932 – 27 June 2016) was a Danish composer. Biography Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was the son of the sculptor Jørgen

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Penelope Thwaites

Penelope Mary Thwaites is a concert pianist and composer, recording artist and editor. Born in the United Kingdom of Australian parents, she is a citizen of both countries. Thwaites is best-known for

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Peng Xiuwen

Peng Xiuwen (; 7 February 1931 – 28 December 1996) was a noted Chinese conductor and composer. He was a native of Wuhan, Hubei province, in central China. Peng learned to play the erhu beginning at

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Penka Kouneva

Penka Kouneva () (/ˈpɛŋkɑː kuːˈnɛvɑː/; born February 25, 1967, in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-American composer, orchestrator and soundtrack producer. In 1999, she began working in film and

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Penny Axtens

Penelope Axtens (born 1974) is a New Zealand composer. Biography Axtens studied composition at the University of Auckland where she gained an Honours degree before completing a Masters at Victoria

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Pepe Jaramillo

Pepe Jaramillo (born José Jaramillo García; born October 27, 1921, Lerdo, Durango, Mexico; died April 30, 2001, Andalucía, Spain) was a notable Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, and recording

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Peppe Barra

Giuseppe "Peppe" Barra (born 24 July 1944) is an Italian folk singer, actor, playwright and composer. Life and career Born in Rome into a family of Procidan actors, when he was only six years old

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Per Nørgård

Per Nørgård (; 13 July 1932 – 28 May 2025) was a Danish composer and music theorist. Though his style varied considerably throughout his career, his music often included repeatedly evolving melodies,

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Per-Martin Hamberg

Per-Martin Hamberg (born 14 July 1912 in Grundsunda, Sweden,– d. 11. December 1974 in Lidingö, Sweden) was a Swedish composer, scriptwriter, director, author and radio producer. Per-Martin Hamberg

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Percy Buck

Sir Percy Carter Buck (25 March 1871 – 3 October 1947) was an English music educator, writer, organist, and composer. Early life and education Percy Buck was born in West Ham, London, and studied at

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Percy Code

Edward Percival "Percy" Code (3 July 1888 – 16 October 1953) His father, Edward Thomas Code, was a trumpeter who led his own ensemble, Code's Melbourne Brass Band. Percy learnt to play cornet and

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Percy Faith

Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian-American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of instrumental ballads and Christmas

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Percy French

William Percy French (1 May 1854 – 24 January 1920) was an Irish songwriter, author, poet, entertainer and painter. Life French was born at Clooneyquinn House, near Tulsk, County Roscommon, the son

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Percy Godfrey (composer)

__NOTOC__ Percy Godfrey (16 August 1859 – 30 January 1945) was an English composer, organist and music teacher, mostly active in the county of Kent. Education and career Born in Croxall, Derbyshire,

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Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American

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Percy Kahn

Percival (Percy) Benedict Kahn (9 December 18802 May 1966) was an English composer and pianist. His most noted composition was the song Ave Maria with accompaniment by piano, and violin obbligato.

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Percy Sherwood

Percy Sherwood (23 May 1866 - 15 May 1939) was a German-born composer and pianist of English nationality. He was born in Dresden, the son of a lecturer in English at Dresden University, John

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Percy Turnbull

Percy Turnbull (14 July 1902 – 9 December 1976) was an English composer and pianist best known for his piano character pieces and songs. Early life Percy Purvis Turnbull trained as a chorister at the

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Percy William Pilcher

Percy William Pilcher (5 July 1866 – 3 May 1937), ARCO, was an organist, composer, and a railway photographer, who was one of the first in Britain to capture images of moving trains. 250 of his glass

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Pere-Enric de Ferran i de Rocabruna

Pere-Enric de Ferran i de Rocabruna (, Barcelona, 1865 – Brussels, 1919) was a Catalan-Spanish music composer. He received his first composition lessons from in Barcelona, completing his studies with

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Perissone Cambio

Perissone Cambio (c.1520 – c.1562) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance, active in Venice. He was one of the most prominent students and colleagues of Adrian Willaert during

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Pérotin

Pérotin () was a composer associated with the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the broader musical style of high medieval music. He is credited with developing the polyphonic practices of

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Pertti Jalava

Pertti Jalava (born 1960) is a Finnish composer who has written numerous works for various chamber ensembles choral groups and orchestra, including five symphonies and a piano concerto. He wrote

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Petar Stojanović (composer)

Petar Stojanović (7 September 1877 – 11 September 1957) was a Serbian violinist and composer of operettas, ballets and orchestral music. (His birthday is also variously given as 6 September and 25

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Pete Moore (composer)

Pete Moore (20 August 1924 – 1 December 2013) was a British composer and arranger for a string of famous artists from the 1950s onwards. Early life Born in Essex, England, Moore studied composition

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Pete Rugolo

Pietro Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011), known professionally as Pete Rugolo, where his father earned a living as a shoemaker. He began his career in music playing the baritone horn,

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Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard (12 February 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic, philosopher, leading logician, theologian, teacher, musician, composer, and poet. In philosophy, he is celebrated

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Peter Aderhold

Peter Aderhold (born 1966) is a German composer, conductor, and music educator known for his work in opera, orchestral music, and contemporary classical composition. Life and career Born in Berlin,

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Peter Allen (composer)

Peter Allen is a Canadian composer, organist, and keyboard player. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositions encompass a broad

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Peter Andry

Peter Edward Andry, (10 March 1927 – 7 December 2010) was a classical record producer and an influential executive in the recording industry, active from the 1950s to the 1990s. Born in Hamburg,

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Peter Arnold Heise

Peter Heise (11 February 1830 – 12 September 1879) was a Danish composer, best known for the opera Drot og Marsk (King and Marshal). Heise's parents tried to press him into becoming a lawyer, but he

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Peter Askim

Peter Askim is an American composer of modern classical music, conductor, music educator and a double bassist. Background Born in Denmark, to a Norwegian father and an American mother, he grew up in

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Peter Autschbach

Peter Autschbach (born 1961 in Siegen, West Germany) is a German composer, guitarist and music teacher. Biography Peter Autschbach learned to play the guitar being autodidact, in 1988/89 he was a

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Peter Bence

Peter Bence (; born 5 September 1991) is a Hungarian pianist, composer and music producer. He has gained considerable popularity with his piano arrangements of "Despacito", Michael Jackson, Queen and

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Peter Benoit

Peter Benoit (17 August 18348 March 1901) was a Flemish composer of Belgian nationality. Biography Petrus Leonardus Leopoldus Benoit was born in Harelbeke, Flanders, Belgium in 1834. He was taught

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Peter Bernstein (composer)

Peter Bernstein (born April 10, 1951) is an American film score composer, and is the son of Academy Award-winning composer and conductor Elmer Bernstein, with whom he frequently collaborated. Notable

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Peter Best (composer)

Peter Best is an Australian composer who has created or contributed to many film scores. His career started in 1967. In 1969, the founders of Producers Authors Composers and Talent (now PACT Centre

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Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of German/English avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged

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Peter Boyer

Peter Boyer (born February 10, 1970, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and former professor of music. He is known primarily for his

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Peter Brewis

Peter Brewis is a composer and instrumentalist who has been active in several spheres of music from ballet and modern dance to music theatre and rock music. Although he was classically trained,

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Peter Buffett

Peter Andrew Buffett (born May 4, 1958) is an American musician, composer, author and philanthropist. With a career that spans more than 30 years, Buffett is a Regional Emmy Award winner, New York

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Peter Cornelius

Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Early life and education He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard

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Peter Crossley-Holland

Peter Crossley-Holland (28 January 1916 – 27 April 2001 both composed in 1938, won him a composition scholarship at the Royal College of Music, where he was taught by John Ireland. He later he

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Peter Davison (composer)

Peter Davison (born 1948) is an American composer known for New Age/Neo Classical works, and television and film scores. Early years Davison was born in Los Angeles, California. He played flute,

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Peter Dorn

Peter Dorn (born November 1931) is a German composer and classical pianist. Life Dorn was born in Wroclaw, capital of Silesia. He attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig. Cologne 1968, . He studied

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Péter Eötvös

Péter Eötvös (, ; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher. After studies of composition in Budapest and Cologne, Eötvös composed film music in Hungary

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Peter Fish (composer)

Peter Scott Fish (1956–2021 ) was an American musician and composer. He was a six-time Emmy Award winner. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Fish was the youngest of four children of Max and Ida Fish.

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Peter Förtig

Peter Förtig (15 March 1934 – 12 April 2024) was a German composer and music theorist. Life and career Born in Pforzheim, Förtig received his first piano lessons at the age of eight with Hedwig Fuchs

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Peter Garland (composer)

Peter Garland (born January 25, 1952, in Portland, Maine) is a composer, writer and publisher of Soundings Press. Garland was a student of James Tenney and Harold Budd. Much of his work could be

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Peter Gellhorn

Peter Gellhorn (born Hans Fritz Gellhorn; October 24, 1912 – February 13, 2004) was a German conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher. In 1935, he settled in England, where he continued his career

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Peter Gilbert (composer)

Peter Gilbert (born December 23, 1975) is an American composer and teacher of music composition. Biography Gilbert did his doctorate in composition at Harvard University with Bernard Rands and Mario

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Peter Gregson (cellist)

Peter Gregson (born 1987) is a cellist and composer. He was born in Edinburgh and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Academy of Music. Gregson composed the score for the 2015 film A

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Peter Hannan (composer)

Peter Hannan (born 19 March 1953) is a Canadian composer, opera director and recorder player based in British Columbia. Hannan has composed music for the recorder, and is known for his work in the

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Peter Hänsel

Peter Hänsel (born 29 November 1770 in Leppe, Silesia Province; d. 18 September 1831 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian violinist and classical composer of almost exclusively chamber music. He has been

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Peter Herrmann

Peter Herrmann (19 December 1941 – 28 October 2015) was a German composer and academic teacher. He composed three operas and a ballet, but mainly instrumental music both for orchestra and chamber

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Peter Hobbs (composer)

Peter Hobbs (born 17 June 1970) is a New Zealand screen composer and musician. He has scored soundtracks for films, television, commercials, art installations, and contemporary dance works. He also

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Peter Hope (composer)

Peter Hope (born 2 November 1930) is a British composer and arranger. He is particularly noted for his light music compositions, such as the Ring of Kerry Suite, which won an Ivor Novello award, and

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Peter Jarvis

Peter Jarvis (born 1959) is an American percussionist, director, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor, and retired college professor. Career Peter Jarvis (born in

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Peter Jona Korn

Peter Jona Korn (30 March 1922 – 12 January 1998) was a German composer, music educator, conductor, pianist, harpsichord player and writer. He was a son of the Jewish couple Georg Korn, an amateur

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Peter Josef von Lindpaintner

Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (8 December 1791 – 21 August 1856) was a German composer and conductor. Born in Koblenz as the son of a tenor, he studied with Peter Winter and Joseph Graetz. From 1819

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Peter K. Moran

Peter K. Moran (30 June 1767 – 10 February 1831) was an Irish pianist, composer, and music publisher – probably the earliest classical composer from Ireland to emigrate to the United States. Life

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Peter Klatzow

Peter James Leonard Klatzow (14 July 1945 – 29 December 2021) was a South African composer and pianist known for his contributions to classical music in South Africa, particularly through his

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Péter Kőszeghy

Péter Kőszeghy (born 2 September 1971) is a Hungarian composer and music educator. Life Kőszeghy was born in 1971 in Balassagyarmat, Hungary. From 1985 to 1989 he attended the Béla-Bartók High School

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Peter Kreuder

Peter Paul Kreuder (18 August 1905 – 28 June 1981) was a German-Austrian pianist, composer and conductor. Life Kreuder was born in Aachen, the son of a Kammersänger. He enrolled as a piano student at

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Peter Lange-Müller

Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1 December 1850 – 26 February 1926) was a Danish composer and pianist. His compositional style was influenced by Danish folk music and by the work of Robert Schumann;

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Peter Lieberson

Peter Goddard Lieberson (25 October 1946 – 23 April 2011) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. His song cycles include two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Rilke Songs

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Peter Mandrup Lem

Peter Mandrup Lem (baptized 7 June 1758 - 12 January 1828) was an eighteenth-century Danish violin virtuoso. Among his few compositions always mentioned by his contemporaries are his both symphonies,

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Péter Máté

Péter Máté (4 February 1947 – 9 September 1984) was a Hungarian pop singer, composer, and pianist. He was the composer and performer of nearly 150 songs, achieving cult status in Hungarian pop music.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester

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Peter Meechan (composer)

Peter John Meechan (born 29 January 1980) is a British-Canadian composer, conductor, and music publisher. Life and education Meechan studied musical composition at the Royal Northern College of Music

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Peter Mennin

Peter Mennin (born Mennini; May 17, 1923 – June 17, 1983) was a prominent American composer, teacher and administrator. In 1958, he was named Director of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and in

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Peter Nashel

Peter Nashel is an American composer. He has composed scores for a number of films and television series including, I, Tonya, Marco Polo, and Totally Under Control. He is the founder and principal of

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Peter Paul Fuchs

Peter Paul Fuchs (October 30, 1916 – March 26, 2007) was an Austrian-born conductor and composer, best known for his conducting appointments with American orchestras and for his teaching. He was also

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Peter Philips

Peter Philips (also Phillipps, Phillips, Pierre Philippe, Pietro Philippi, Petrus Philippus; c.1560–1628) was an eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders in the

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Peter Planyavsky

Peter Planyavsky (born 9 May 1947) is an Austrian organist and composer. He attended the Schottengymnasium. After graduating from the Vienna Academy of Music in 1966 he spent a year in an organ

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Peter Pope (composer)

Peter Searson Pope (25 March 1917 – 27 November 1991) was a British composer. Biography Peter Pope was born in London in 1917 and was educated at Uppingham School and at the Royal College of Music,

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Peter Racine Fricker

Peter Racine Fricker (5 September 19201 February 1990) was an English composer, among the first to establish his career entirely after the Second World War. He lived in the US for the last thirty

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Peter Reulein

Peter Reulein (born 1966) is a German composer, organ improviser, academic teacher and church musician, from 2000 at the church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main. In 2016 he composed for the Catholic

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Peter Reynolds (composer)

Peter Reynolds (January 12, 1958 – October 11, 2016) was a Welsh composer known for founding PM Music Ensemble. In addition, he was recognised by Guinness World Records as having written with writer

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Peter Ruzicka

Peter Ruzicka (born 3 July 1948) is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival.

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Peter Sandberg

Peter Sandberg is a Swedish neoclassical and electronic musician and composer. He has released several albums, including Motion (2019), Återvända (2020), Midnattssol (2021), and Constellations

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Peter Schacht

Peter Schacht (1 July 1901 – 25 January 1945) was a German composer. Life Born in Bremen, Schacht came from a wealthy Bremen merchant family. In his home town, he attended the humanistic Gymnasium,

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Peter Schat

Peter Ane Schat (5 June 1935 – 3 February 2003) was a Dutch composer. Biography Schat was born on 5 June 1935 in Utrecht. He studied composition with Kees van Baaren (1952–1958) at the Utrecht

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Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele (; From 1990 to 1993, Schickele's P. D. Q. Bach recordings earned him four consecutive wins for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. was born on July 17, 1935, in Ames,

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Peter Scott Lewis

Peter Scott Lewis (born August 31, 1953 in San Rafael, California) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Career Lewis's works have been commissioned and/or performed by the

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Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe FAHA (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was a distinguished Australian composer and music educator. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries

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Peter Seabourne

Peter Seabourne (born 1960) is an English contemporary classical composer based in Lincolnshire, England. Biography Seabourne studied at Clare College, Cambridge with Robin Holloway, and University

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Peter Tahourdin

Peter Richard Tahourdin (27 August 192828 July 2009) was an English-born Australian composer. His compositions range from orchestral (5 symphonies) and chamber music to choral and educational music,

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Peter Thomas (composer)

Peter Thomas (1 December 1925 – 17 May 2020) Further reading * Gerd Naumann: Der Filmkomponist Peter Thomas – Von Edgar Wallace und Jerry Cotton zur Raumpatrouille Orion. ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart

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Peter Togni

Peter Anthony Togni (born September 12, 1959) is a freelancer Canadian composer and broadcaster based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Biography Togni was born in Pembroke, Ontario in 1959, and is the son of

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Peter Vermeersch

Peter Vermeersch (born 1959 in Waregem) is a Belgian composer, clarinet player and producer. He is a main character in several Belgian bands such as X-Legged Sally, A Group and the Flat Earth

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Peter Warlock

Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 189417 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in

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Peter Westergaard

Peter Talbot Westergaard (28 May 1931 – 26 June 2019) was an American composer and music theorist. He was Professor Emeritus of music at Princeton University. Biography Westergaard was born on 28 May

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Peter Winter

Peter Winter, later Peter von Winter, (baptised 28 August 1754 – 17 October 1825) Further reading * Linda Tyler: "Winter, Peter", in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London: Macmillan 1992), .

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Peter Zauner (composer)

Peter Zauner (1 December 1886 – 26 June 1973) was an Austrian farmer, Kapellmeister, composer, church musician and music teacher. In his Austrian homeland he is primarily remembered as the composer

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Peterhouse partbooks

The Peterhouse partbooks are a collection of English partbooks dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are named "Peterhouse" after Peterhouse in Cambridge, where the books were

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Pēteris Barisons

Pēteris Barisons (Sēlpils, 18 April 1904 — 13 July 1947) was a Latvian late romantic composer noted specially for his vocal output, which remain his most performed works. A disciple of Ernests

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Pēteris Plakidis

Pēteris Plakidis (4 March 1947 – 8 August 2017) was a Latvian composer and pianist. Early life Plakidis was born on 4 March 1947 in Riga, Latvia. He was educated at the Emīls Dārziņš College of Music

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Pēteris Vasks

Pēteris Vasks (born 16 April 1946) is a Latvian composer. Biography Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian

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Petr Eben

Petr Eben (22 January 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster. Life and career Born in Žamberk in northeastern

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Petr Kotik

Petr Kotik (surname originally Kotík) (born January 27, 1942, in Prague, Czech Republic) is a composer, conductor and flutist based in New York City. In Prague, he founded and directed Musica Viva

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Petr Kroutil

Petr Kroutil (born 31 January 1973 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech musician and actor. He is a vocalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader who plays clarinet, flute, saxophone, and the

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Petr Skoumal

Petr Skoumal (7 March 1938 – 28 September 2014) was a Czech musician and composer. He is best known as a composer of music for films and theatre performances. Biography Petr Skoumal was born on 7

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Petr Wajsar

Petr Wajsar (born 14 November 1977) is a Czech composer. His work has been performed by the Czech Philharmonic, the Berg Orchestra, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. He is also known for composing

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Petros Peloponnesios

Petros Peloponnesios ("Peter the Peloponnesian") or Peter the Lampadarios (c. 1735 – 1778) was a cantor, composer and teacher of Byzantine and Ottoman music. He served as second domestikos between

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Petros Shoujounian

Petros Shoujounian (born 1957) is an Armenian Canadian composer who focuses on orchestral, piano, chamber, and choral music. Life Petros Shoujounian was born in Gyumri (then Leninakan, Armenia in

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Petros Tabouris

Petros Tabouris (born 1964) () is a Greek musician, composer, and musicologist, known for his contributions to the preservation and interpretation of ancient and traditional Greek music. Biography

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Petrus de Cruce

Petrus de Cruce (also Pierre de la Croix) was active as a cleric, composer and music theorist in the late part of the 13th century. His main contribution was to the notational system. Life

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Petrus de Domarto

Petrus de Domarto (fl. c. 1445–1455) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first

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