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Phạm Duy

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Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was a Vietnamese songwriter. With more than one thousand songs to his credit, he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with Văn Cao and Trịnh Công Sơn. His entire body of work was banned in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and subsequently in unified Vietnam for more than 30 years. Upon his repatriation in 2005, the government began to ease restrictions on some of his work. Biography Phạm Duy was born as Phạm Duy Cẩn, on 5 October 1921, in his house at the Hàng Thùng Street of Hanoi City, Tonkin, French Indochina. His father Phạm Duy Tốn was a progressive journalist and writer, and one of the earliest writers of European-style short stories. Phạm Duy Tốn was also one of the founders of the Tonkin Free School movement. Phạm Duy’s father died when he was two, and he was raised largely by his older brother Phạm Duy Khiêm, whom he described as a strict and tyrannical figure. Phạm Duy Khiêm later became a professor and South Vietnam’s ambassador to France, as well as a Francophone writer. He attended Thăng Long Primary School where his teachers included Trần Trọng Kim a

Pheelz

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Phillip Kayode Moses (; born 5 June 1994), better known as Pheelz, is a Nigerian record producer, singer, songwriter, and graphic designer. Pheelz is credited to have produced all but one song on Olamide’s Baddest Guy Ever Liveth album. In 2022, he had a hit with his song “Finesse”, a collaboration with Bnxn (formerly known as Buju). Early life Pheelz is a native of Ogun State, but he was born and raised in Ojo, a local government area in Lagos State. He started music as a 10-year-old singer in church. In 2013, Pheelz was listed in NotJustOks “Top 10 Hottest Producers in Nigeria”. He produced all but one song on Olamide’s Baddest Guy Ever Liveth album, a move which made him gain grounds in the Nigerian music industry and won him a nomination at The Headies 2013. In 2014, he was also nominated in the Producer of the Year category at the 2014 edition of The Headies and at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Pheelz has gone on to produce and be credited in popular songs and albums including The Chairman by M.I, Ghetto University by Runtown and Seyi or Shay by Seyi Shay. In 2014, Pheelz collaborated with COPILOT Music and Sound on a cover of Carlinhos Brown’s “Maria Caipirnha (Samba

Phil Kline

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Phil Kline (born 1953) is an American composer, sound artist, and performer most recognized for his Unsilent Night (1992) and Zippo Songs (2004). Beginning as a guitarist and singer in the New York City art punk scene, Kline has since gained notability through his song cycles and theatrical works, musical performance art pieces, work with Bang on a Can, and WQXR’s online new-music radio show. With five studio albums to date, a majority of his compositional work can be found on Cantaloupe Music. Education and early works Kline was born in 1953 and grew up in Akron, Ohio. After moving to New York City to pursue a degree in English literature from Columbia University and graduating in 1975, he attended Mannes College of Music. In the late 1970s, Kline began his career as a full-time musician and first joined the band Dark Day with Robin Crutchfield (also of the band DNA). When he left Dark Day, he co-founded the no-wave, art-punk band The Del-Byzanteens alongside filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, author Lucy Sante, and painter James Nares. After these projects, he also toured internationally and recorded with the Glenn Branca Ensemble and began assisting with video projects by Nan Goldin. Caree

Phil Miller

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Philip Paul Brisco Miller (22 January 1949 – 18 October 2017) was an English progressive rock composer and guitarist and a central part of the Canterbury scene. He was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. Self-taught on guitar, Miller formed his first band, Delivery, at age 17, which backed blues musicians playing at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. In the 1970s he was a founding member of Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North and National Health. In later years he was a member of Short Wave (with Hugh Hopper, Pip Pyle, and Didier Malherbe), and In Cahoots with Richard Sinclair, Elton Dean, Peter Lemer, and Pip Pyle. In 2005 and 2006, Miller toured with a re-united Hatfield and the North. Miller also performed and recorded extensively in solo projects. Miller died on 18 October 2017 in London from cancer. Discography Filmography * 2015: Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales (DVD) References External links * Official website * Biography at Calyx, the Canterbury website * Interview with Phil Miller at allaboutjazz.com * Phil Miller Discography * Canterbury Music Family Tree

Philip Bezanson

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Philip Thomas Bezanson (January 6, 1916 – March 11, 1975) was an American composer and educator. Life Born in Athol, Massachusetts, Philip Bezanson graduated from Yale University School of Music in 1940. Following military service, he enrolled in the graduate program of musical composition at the State University of Iowa. He joined its faculty in 1948 and received his PhD there in 1951. In 1954, Bezanson was appointed head of the program in musical composition, and in 1961, was made a full professor. In 1964, Dr. Bezanson was appointed to the faculty and named head of the Music Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He held the latter post until 1973 when he returned to full-time teaching at the University for the last two years of his life. An influential educator and composer, Philip Bezanson helped guide the Department of Music at UMass Amherst through its period of rapid expansion in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dr. Bezanson was active as a composer, particularly from 1946 through 1975, and he received several awards, including the prestigious Fromm Foundation award for his Piano Sonata in 1953. A prolific and productive composer, Bezanson won several prestig

Philip Bračanin

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Philip Bračanin (born 26 May 1942) is an Australian composer and musicologist. Life Bračanin was born in Kalgoorlie, the son of Croatian immigrants. His early musical studies were with Miss Olive Ruane, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1962 with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and music. Professor Bracanin served on the boards of the Australian Music Centre, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and 4MBS Classic Radio. Bračanin initially began composing music in the 1970s for the purposes of creating music that would more effectively teach his students salient aspects of twentieth century compositional techniques. He eventually became interested in creating more serious compositions for their own sake, with his 1977 Trombone Concerto being now regarded as his first mature work. He has since produced a considerable body of music, including symphonic works, choral works, chamber music, and pieces for solo piano. Many works by Bračanin are published by the Australian Music Centre. He has occasionally been musically inspired by the Dalmatian Croatian musical heritage of his forebears. In 1995 his Guitar Concerto won the APRA Awar

Philip Cannon (composer)

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Jack Philip Cannon (21 December 1929 – 24 December 2016) was a British composer and teacher. His choral music and songs have enjoyed extensive performances worldwide. Brief biography Philip Cannon was born in Paris on 21 December 1929, to Franco-British parents. The family moved to Falmouth in Cornwall in 1936, where Philip was educated at the local Grammar School. Cannon subsequently studied with Imogen Holst at Dartington and with Gordon Jacob and Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where (in 1951) he was awarded the Octavia Travelling Scholarship. In 1958 he became a lecturer in music at Sydney University, before returning to the Royal College in London in 1960 as Professor of Composition, a post which he held until his retirement in 1995. He was appointed FRCM in 1971. Cannon’s String Quartet of 1964 won two international awards in France. A number of high-profile commissions followed, including his work for 24 solo strings Oraison funèbre de l’âme humaine (1970) for French Radio, his choral work Son of Man (1975), commissioned by the BBC to mark the entry of the UK into the EEC, and three works of great beauty for the Three Choirs Festival: The Temple in 1974 (whic

Philip Cashian

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Philip Cashian (born 1963) is an English composer. He is the head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early life and education Philip Cashian was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied at Cardiff University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oliver Knussen and Simon Bainbridge. In 1997 he completed his doctorate at Durham University. Career In 1990 he was the Benjamin Britten fellow at Tanglewood where he studied with Lukas Foss. He was awarded the Britten Prize in 1991, the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1992 and the PRS Composition Prize in 1994. His fast-paced style of music has been described as “an uncompromising reflection of the modern world”. Cashian has collaborated and worked with many leading musicians, ensembles and orchestras. Performances include the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Riga Sinfonietta, Ensemble Profil (Romania), Arctic Philharmonic, the Esprit Orchestra (Toronto), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Ergon Ensemble (Athens), Festival de Mùsica de Alicante, Bergen Festival, Aspen Music Festival,

Philip Cogan

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Philip Cogan (1750 – 3 February 1833) was an Irish composer, pianist, and conductor. Biography Cogan was born in Cork, where he was a choirboy and vicar choral at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral. In 1772, he was appointed a stipendiary at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, but left the post a few months later due to ill health. From 1780 to 1806 he was organist at St Patrick’s Cathedral. He also conducted the orchestras of the Smock Alley and Crow Street theatres “to the detriment of his church duties”. In fact, Cogan’s compositions for the stage outnumber those for the church by far. He not only wrote operas himself (The Rape of Proserpine, 1776; The Ruling Passion, 1778; etc.), but also collaborated with other Dublin composers, as in The Contract (1782, with John Andrew Stevenson, Tommaso Giordani, and one Laurent). In 1787, Cogan was a co-founder of the Irish Musical Fund Society. He was an active participant in Dublin’s musical life for many years including performances in the annual “Commemoration of Handel” festivals at the Rotunda and at various charity concerts in both Catholic and Protestant churches. Cogan was a much sought-after teacher and counted among his pupils a number of no

Philip Corner

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Philip Lionel Corner (born April 10, 1933; name sometimes given as Phil Corner) is an American composer, trombonist, alphornist, vocalist, pianist, music theorist, music educator, and visual artist. Biography After The High School of Music & Art in New York City, Philip Corner received his BA (1955) at CCNY, where his most important teacher was Fritz Jahoda; and an MA (1959) from Columbia University where his composition teachers were Otto Luening and Henry Cowell, The two years in between (1955–57) were spent in Paris at the Conservatoire Nat’l de Musique, following the class “Philosophie Musicale” of Olivier Messiaen. Equally important was his friendship with the Canadian painter Paul-Emile Borduas, who introduced him to “la grande aventure nord-américaine”, to which he returned and became part of the group around John Cage. At the same time he resumed his studies of the piano with Dorothy Taubman, which was to have a significant role in his compositional as well as performing life. He taught Modern Music at the New School for Social Research from 1967 to 1970, inheriting the class founded by John Cage at double remove after Richard Maxfield, with whom he was teaching assistant,

Philip Gbeho

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Philip Comi Gbeho (14 January 1904 – 24 September 1976) was a Ghanaian musician, composer and teacher. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Arts Council of Ghana and was a director of music and conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Ghana. However, he is probably best known as the composer of the musical arrangement for Ghana’s National Anthem. Gbeho grew up in the southeastern town of Keta where he learned to play the organ at school and was a pupil organist. He furthered his musical education at teacher training college. In addition to teaching, he became an organist at the local cathedral where he founded a leading choir and started a small school of music to prepare students for external music exams. He received scholarships to study at the Trinity College of Music in London, where he held lectures, led a dance troupe, and became a regular broadcaster on the BBC overseas radio programmes. On his return to the Gold Coast, he embarked on a campaign to popularise indigenous music. He was a strong advocate for the establishment of an Arts Council and the building of a National Theatre. He was also the leading force behind the creation of a National Symphony Orch

Philip Glass

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Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 31, 1937, the son of Ida (née Gouline) and Benjamin Charles Glass. His family were Latvian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish emigrants. His father owned a record store and his mother was a librarian. In his memoir, Glass recalls that at the end of World War II his mother aided Jewish Holocaust survivors, inviting recent arrivals to America to stay at their home until they could find a job and a place to live. She developed a plan to help them learn English and develop skills so they could find work. Glass developed his appreciation of music from his father, discovering later that his father’s side of the family had many musicians. His cousin Cevia was a classical pianist, while others had been in vaudeville. He was related to Al Jolson. Glass built a sizable record collection from the unsold records in his father’s store, including modern classical music such as Hindemith, Bartók, Schoenberg, In a 2011 interview, Glass stated that Franz Schubert—with whom he shares a birthday—is his favorite composer. He studied the flute as a child at the Peabody Preparatory of the Peabody Institute of Music. At the age of 15, he entered an accelerated college program at the University of Chicago where he studied mathematics and philosophy. In Chicago, he discovered the serialism of Anton Webern and composed a twelve-tone string trio. In 1954, Glass traveled to Paris, where he encountered the films of Jean Cocteau, which made a lasting impression on him. He visited artists’ studios and saw their work; Glass recalls, “the bohemian life you see in Cocteau’s Orphée was the life I … was attracted to, and those were the people I hung out with.” Glass studied at the Juilliard School of Music where the keyboard was his main instrument. His composition teachers included Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma. Fellow students included Steve Reich and Peter Schickele. In 1959, he was a winner in the BMI Foundation’s BMI Student Composer Awards, an international prize for young composers. In the summer of 1960, he studied with Darius Milhaud at the summer school of the Aspen Music Festival and composed a violin concerto for a fellow student, Dorothy Pixley-Rothschild. After leaving Juilliard in 1962, Glass moved to Pittsburgh and worked as a school-based composer-in-residence in the public school system, composing various choral, chamber, and orchestral music.

Philip Grange

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Philip Grange (born 17 November 1956) is an English composer and academic. Career Grange was born in London. He attended Peter Maxwell Davies’s classes at Dartington, and then took further, private, lessons with Davies while at The University of York, where he also studied composition with David Blake. He was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge (1985–7), and Northern Arts Fellow in Composition at Durham University (1988–9) before joining the music department at Exeter University as lecturer (1989), reader (1995) and professor (1999) in composition. In 2000 he moved to the University of Manchester, where he is Professor of Music. Works Grange’s first published pieces date from the late 1970s, and include Cimmerian Nocturne (1979), which was commissioned by The Fires of London, and included a performance under director Peter Maxwell Davies at the 1983 Proms as well as performances in Britain and abroad. Other early works include The Kingdom of Bones for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, (1983), Variations (1988) and Concerto for Orchestra: Labyrinthine Images (1988) During the early 1990s Grange completed two BBC commissions, Focus and Fade for the BBC S

Philip Hagemann

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Philip Hagemann (born 21 December 1932) is an American composer and conductor. Hagemann was born in Mount Vernon, Indiana, the son of Harry Philip and Lorene (Knight) Hagemann. He learned to play the piano and the saxophone and took music degrees at Northwestern University in Evanston and Columbia University. From 1954 to 1956 he served in the US Army. He was a choral conductor in New York, and has published 75 works for choir. He has composed 10 one-act operas and two full-length operas. His Christmas choral piece Fruitcake which includes both spoken and sung passages, is a humorous version of the cake recipe, and has sold over 150,000 copies of sheet music. The music critic Anthony Tommasini has written of Hagemann: “His music may lack a strong contemporary profile: his language is essentially tonal and lushly chromatic. Whole-tone melodic patterns recall Ravel”. He added that “he injects grittiness into his music through the piling up of clusters and dissonance. He also writes effectively for the voice”. References Notes Sources * Anon, Shaw goes Wilde (2019) (opera programme), Pegasus Opera Company, London. * Hagemann, Philip (2019). “Philip Hagemann’s journey into opera: Shaw

Philip Hammond (composer)

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Philip Hammond (born 5 May 1951), is an Irish composer. He has also been a teacher, writer and broadcaster. He has written for The Brodsky String Quartet, the Ulster Orchestra and Lontano. He has also written for the flautist James Galway, pianists Barry Douglas, Michael McHale, and Anthony Capparelli, the British violinist Tasmin Little, the Russian pianist Nicolai Demidenko, and singers Ann Murray, Suzanne Murphy, Robin, Tritschler, and Sarah Walker. Early life and education Hammond was born in Belfast. After studying at Cabin Hill Preparatory School and Campbell College, Belfast, Hammond graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1974 as a Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts. In 2003 he was awarded a Doctorate of Music from Queen’s. Career as a composer While teaching at Cabin Hill, Hammond regularly performed as a pianist and accompanist with the mezzo-soprano Daphne Arlow and in a piano duo with Michael McGuffin, performing and presenting for BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio Three and RTE. His first major commission, Thanatos (1977), was written for the choir of the Royal Victoria Hospital. It became controversial when what was to have been its first live performance was disrupt

Philip Harper (trumpeter)

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Philip Harper (born May 10, 1965) is an American jazz trumpeter. Early life Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper grew up in Atlanta. He studied under Jackie McLean at the University of Hartford Hartt School. Career Harper played with the Jazz Messengers and Mingus Big Band. He also signed with Verve Records and produced four albums for them. From 1988 to 1993, Harper played in the Harper Brothers with his brother, Winard. Other band members included Justin Robinson on alto saxophone, Stephen Scott on piano and Michael Bowie on bass. Discography * 1988 Harper Brothers (Verve) * 1989 Remembrance: Live at the Village Vanguard (Verve) * 1991 Artistry (Verve) * 1992 You Can Hide Inside the Music (Verve) * 1993 Soulful Sin (Muse) * 1994 The Thirteenth Moon (Muse) With Cecil Brooks III *Hangin’ with Smooth (Muse, 1990) With Etta Jones *Reverse the Charges (Muse, 1992) With Houston Person *Why Not! (Muse, 1991) *The Lion and His Pride (Muse, 1991 1994 ) References

Philip Hart (organist)

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Philip Hart (1674 or 1676 – 18 July 1749) was an English organist and composer. Life His father, James Hart (1647–1718), was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, chorister of Westminster Abbey, and a composer. Philip Hart was for many years organist of churches in London: he became assistant organist of St Andrew Undershaft in 1696, sole organist from 1697 until his death; he was organist of St Michael, Cornhill from 1704 to 1723. On 28 May 1724 he was elected the first organist of St Dionis Backchurch. He died, at an advanced age, on 17 July 1749, and was buried at St Andrew Undershaft on 22 July. Hart was said by the writer John Hawkins to have been a sound musician, but to have “entertained little relish” for innovations. Hawkins also described Hart’s frequent use of the “shake” in playing, and recorded how he was wont to discourse on music at Thomas Britton’s house in the company of Handel, Pepusch and others. Compositions * “An Ode to Harmony”, his setting of John Hughes’s “Ode in Praise of Musick”, performed on Saint Cecilia’s day 1703 * Fugues for the Organ or Harpsichord * Anthems: “I will give thanks”, and “Praise the Lord, ye Servants” * Many songs, including “A Song upon the

Philip Hayes (composer)

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Philip Hayes (baptised 17 April 1738 – 19 March 1797) was an English composer, organist, singer and conductor. Life and career Hayes was born in Oxford. His early musical education was overseen by his father William Hayes. He was awarded the degree of B.Mus in 1763 for the masque Telemachus and received his doctorate in 1777. He sang at the Chapel Royal in London from 1767, but returned to Oxford in 1776 to take up the post of organist at New College, Oxford and to assist his ailing father, whom he succeeded as Heather Professor of Music in 1777. He also replaced him as organist of Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University Church, and added the post of organist at St John’s College in 1790. His professorial ‘lectures’ took the form of specially composed odes and oratorios which were performed in the Oxford Music School. In 1780 he was appointed conductor of the annual Festival of the Sons of the Clergy held at St Paul’s Cathedral, and in 1791 he presided over Haydn’s visit to Oxford. As a conductor, he was one of the first English musicians to use a roll of paper with which to beat time but he was best known for his difficult personality and corpulence. His frequent trips to Lon

Philip Herschkowitz

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Philip Herschkowitz (; Russian: Филипп Гершкович, Filipp Gershkovich) (7 September 1906 – 5 January 1989) was a Romanian-born composer and music theorist, pupil of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, who spent 47 years, from 1940 to 1987, in the Soviet Union. Biography Born to a Jewish family in Iaşi, he graduated from the conservatory in the city in 1927 and entered the Music Academy in Vienna, Austria, where he studied with Joseph Marx. Then he studied privately with Berg (1928–1931), and with Webern (1934–1939). He left Nazi German-occupied Austria and arrived in the Soviet Union in 1940, settling first in Chernovtsy, which he left on 22 June 1941 at the beginning of the German invasion, and then moving to Tashkent (in the Uzbek SSR) where he lived until 1944. He settled in Moscow in 1946, where we began to teach privately, exerting a major influence on several generations of Russian musicians, including leading figures of the so-called “Underground division”. Among these were the composers Andrei Volkonsky, Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Nikolai Karetnikov, Boris Tishchenko, Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Hrabovsky, Vyacheslav Artyomov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Alexande

Philip James

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Philip Frederick Wright James (May 17, 1890 – November 1, 1975) was an American composer, conductor and music educator. Life James was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. At an early age he began piano, violin and theory lessons, and served as choirboy in several New Jersey churches. From 1904 to 1909 he studied organ with J. Warren Andrews and in 1907 began advanced harmony and counterpoint lessons with Homer Norris. In World War I James played in and subsequently became bandleader of the American Expeditionary Forces Headquarters Band. Victor Herbert heard his work with the band and upon James’ discharge from the Army hired him as musical director for his musical comedy My Golden Girl. In 1921 James co-founded and became the first conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. From 1929 to 1936 James was conductor of the Bamberger Symphony, broadcast weekly over radio station WOR in New York. In 1923 James began a long teaching career at New York University, serving as head of the music department from 1934 until his retirement in 1956. His students at NYU included Milton Babbitt, Bernard Herrmann, and Marvin David Levy. In 1932 he won a $5000 prize from NBC for his satirical compo

Philip Knapton

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Philip Knapton (20 October 1788 – 20 June 1833) was an English organist and composer, active in the musical life of York. Life Knapton was born in York in 1788, son of Samuel Knapton, an organist and double bass player, and a music publisher. He received his musical education at Cambridge, studying under Charles Hague, but did not graduate from the university. He returned to York, where he was a resident until his death. In about 1812 he became organist of St Saviour’s Church, York, the first after the installation of the organ. Soon afterwards, feeling that psalmody had fallen into neglect, he produced A Collection of Tunes for Psalms and Hymns, Selected as a Supplement to those now used in several Churches in York and its Vicinities, published in York in 1816; he selected tunes that he considered had neither a “gloomy style” nor a “light and indecorous style”. It went into at least three editions. He was one of the assistant conductors at the York festivals of 1823, 1825, and 1828. References External links * Philip Knapton (1788 - 1833) The LiederNet Archive *

Philip Krumm

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Philip Krumm (born April 7, 1941, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American composer who was “a pioneer of modal, repetitive pattern music”. Krumm studied orchestration and composition with Raymond Moses in high school, with Frank Sturchio at Saint Mary’s University, with Ross Lee Finney at University of Michigan, and with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the University of California at Davis. In 1960, as a high school student, Krumm began producing an early concert series of major modern works by John Cage, Richard Maxfield, Philip Corner, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, himself and others at McNay Art Institute, San Antonio. He recruited “Blue” Gene Tyranny, also in high school at the time, to perform in this series. Krumm then moved to Ann Arbor, MI where he was a performer and composer in the ONCE Festival in 1962–64. While touring with the ONCE Group, he participated in a Carnegie Hall performance with Yoko Ono, George Brecht, and Terry Jennings. In 1963 he met Jerry Hunt while performing at Roger Shattuck’s ‘Pataphysics Festival in Austin, Texas, and the two composers toured together and collaborated on several projects. Compositions * Paragenesis for two violins and piano (1959) * Axis (1

Philip Kruse

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Philip Antony Kruse (born 13 May 1949) is a Norwegian orchestra leader, composer, arranger, producer, text writer, and musician (trumpet and vocals). He is the second son of Colonel Erling O. Kruse (born 1922) and Eunice Cooklin (born 1925). Career In his early career he joined the group Bendik Singers with his brother Bjørn Kruse. Bendik Singers was a vocal quartet founded by Arne Bendiksen, where the two brothers sang with Anne-Karine Strøm and Ellen Nikolaysen. They won the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix twice. Kruse worked with Arne Bendiksen’s record company in 1971 to 1979 before he got together with Frode Thingnæs and started Frost Music A/S in 1979. He led this music publishing company until it was sold to EMI in 1999. He was chairman of GramArt and is the chairman of the main jury of the Edvard price given by TONO and director of the Norsk Musikkfond. In 1997 he received the Oslo City Culture Grant. In 2011, he became chairman of the board of NMFF (Norwegian Music Publisher Association) and board member of TONO. Bibliography *Philip A. Kruse (2011): Musikkforlaget : fra copyright til cash (in Norwegian) Discography *1974: Bendik Singers (Triola), with Bendik Singers *1978: No

Philip Lasser

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Philip Lasser (born August 4, 1963) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, music theorist, and pianist. He is a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School in New York City since 1994. Life and career Philip Lasser was born in New York City on August 4, 1963, and began taking piano lessons at only the age of five. At age sixteen, he entered the Ecole d’Arts Americaines in the Palace of Fontainebleau, France. He studied at Harvard University and, following receipt of a Bachelor’s degree, he lived in Paris from 1985 to 1988. In 1988 Lasser entered Columbia University for a Master’s degree in Composition, then entered Juilliard, receiving a degree in Doctor of Musical Arts. He wrote an academic work on the contrapuntal analysis of music entitled The Spiraling Tapestry, published by Rassel Editions. His piece Twelve Variations on a Chorale by J. S. Bach has been recorded by pianist Simone Dinnerstein on the Telarc record label. Lasser is president of the European American Musical Alliance. As director of EAMA’s Summer Music Programs in Paris in Cassis, France, and at the Yaddo Colony. Partial list of compositions ;Orchestral * So Says the Wind for string orchestra (

Philip Martell

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Philip Martell (6 October 1907 – 11 August 1993) was a British composer, arranger, musical director, orchestra leader, and most notably head of music at Hammer Studios. Early life Born in Whitechapel and brought up in the East End, Martell began to play the violin at the age of five, enrolling at the Guildhall School of Music in 1919, aged 11. After graduation he began working in the West End of London as leader and then conductor, and also became involved with the early film industry, arranging sequences of classical music to accompany silent films. But as sound came to films in the 1930s Martell returned to the theatre, and also formed his own orchestra, The Forum Orchestra, in 1936. By the early 1950s he was conducting London productions of top musicals and shows, such as Love From Judy (Saville Theatre, September 1952), After the Ball (Globe Theatre, 1954) and Free as Air (Savoy Theatre, 1957). Film career Martell received his first film credit as musical director in 1949 on Val Guest’s Murder at the Windmill and was both musical director and composer of the film score to Guest’s Miss Pilgrim’s Progress (1950). He was sponsored by Guest to join Hammer Studios in 1954. He succee

Philip Miller (composer)

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Philip Miller is a South African composer and sound artist based in Cape Town. His work is multi-faceted, often developing from collaborative projects in theatre, film, video and sound installations. Miller is currently an honorary fellow at ARC (The Research Initiative in Archive and Public Culture) at the University of Cape Town. Education Philip Miller trained firstly as a lawyer at the University of Cape Town and practised as a copyright lawyer. He studied music composition in South Africa with composers Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph and Peter Klatzow at the University of Cape Town Music School. He completed his postgraduate studies in Electro-Acoustic music composition for film and television at Bournemouth University. While doing so he studied with UK composer Joseph Horovitz. He then returned to South Africa to begin working full-time in music. Collaboration with William Kentridge One of Miller’s most significant collaborators is the internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge. His music to Kentridge’s animated films and multimedia installations has been heard in some of the most prestigious museums, galleries and concert halls in the world, including MoMA, SFMOMA, The Guggen

Philip Munger

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Philip Munger (born November 3, 1946) is an American composer, music educator, political blogger, and environmentalist living in Alaska. He is perhaps best known for “The Skies are Weeping”, a seven-movement cantata written in tribute to Rachel Corrie, an American member of the International Solidarity Movement killed in 2003 by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces while she tried to prevent a house demolition in the southern Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. He currently lectures on cultural history at two campuses of the University of Alaska Anchorage and occasionally teaches tuba at the main Anchorage campus. He was born in 1946 and attended Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Washington, where he studied musical composition. Life Philip Munger was born in 1946 and attended Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Washington, where he studied musical composition. Munger currently serves on some boards, including Friends of Mat-Su as Secretary of the Board, Anchorage Civic Orchestra as vice president, Alaskans for Ethical Government as board member and Alaska Democratic Party as District 13 and Mat-Su Area secretary. Musical career Philip Munger attende

Philip Pope

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Philip R. J. Pope is a British composer and actor. Education He was educated at Downside School and New College, Oxford. Performer Pope appeared in the Oxford Revue in Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1978 and 1979, both with Angus Deayton. He performed in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Radio Active (1980–87), alongside Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Fenton Stevens, which later led to the television series KYTV. Fenton Stevens is credited with telling the joke (written by Perkins) about Ringo Starr not being the best drummer in the Beatles, frequently misattributed to John Lennon or Jasper Carrott. It was broadcast on Radio Active on 15 September 1981. Though Beatles biographer Mark Lewisohn initially claimed that it was Pope who said the line, Fenton Stevens later clarified that it was actually him. He also told Beatles fan Andrew Dixon that the cast initially thought it was a real joke that the Fab Four had told themselves. He has also starred in a number of television comedy series, including Who Dares Wins (1983–88), Chelmsford 123 (1988–90), Round the Bend (1989–91) and KYTV (1989–93). He made guest appearances in Blackadder as the painter Leonardo

Philip Radcliffe

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Philip FitzHugh Radcliffe (27 April 1905 – 2 September 1986) was an English academic, musicologist and composer, born in Godalming, Surrey. Early life He was educated at Charterhouse and read Classics at King’s College, Cambridge, gaining a scholarship and a First in Part I of the degree, but then only a Third in Part II, causing him to switch his attention to music, studying under Edward Dent and Henry Moule. He was a gifted pianist. Career Philip Radcliffe had his first sight of Cambridge in December 1923 when he sat for a scholarship examination. “I attended evensong in the Chapel of my future College and can still recall the impact made upon me by the quiet, other-world sound of the choir singing Remember, O thou man.” His dissertation on tonality in sixteenth and seventeenth century music developed on the work of Richard Terry and Edmund Fellowes. Radcliffe became a music fellow at King’s College, Cambridge in 1931, and a lecturer between 1947 and 1972. His pupils included Philip Brett, Winton Dean, Jeremy Dibble, Peter Dickinson, Sebastian Forbes and Richard Lloyd. He lived in King’s for the rest of his life, never leaving it for more than a few weeks. His academic writings i

Philip Rosseter

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Philip Rosseter (1568 – 5 May 1623) was an English composer and musician, as well as a theatrical manager. His family seems to have been from Somerset or Lincolnshire, he may have been employed with the Countess of Sussex by 1596, and he was living in London by 1598. In 1604 Rosseter was appointed a court lutenist for James I of England, a position he held until his death in 1623. Rosseter is best known for A Book of Ayres which was written with Thomas Campion and published in 1601. Some literary critics have held that Campion wrote the poems for Rosseter’s songs; however, this seems not to be the case. It is likely that Campion was the author of the book’s preface, which criticizes complex counterpoint and “intricate” harmonies that leave the words inaudible. The two men had a close professional and personal relationship; when Campion died in 1620, he had named Rosseter his sole heir. Rosseter’s lute songs are generally short, homophonic, with minimal repetition or word painting (imitating textual meanings through music), while at the same time being rich in musical invention. Rosseter’s only other book was Lessons for Consort (1609) for a broken consort of bandora, cittern, lute,

Philip Sparke

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Philip Allen Sparke (born 29 December 1951) is an English composer and musician born in London, noted for his concert band and brass band music. His early major works include The Land of the Long White Cloud – “Aotearoa”, written for the 1980 Centennial New Zealand Brass Band championship. He subsequently went on to win the EBU New Music for Band Competition three times, including in 1986 with a commission from the BBC called Orient Express. Since May 2000, his music has been published under his own label Anglo Music Press, and distributed by Hal Leonard. Notable achievements * 1997 Sudler Prize - Dance Movements * 2000 Iles Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians - Services to brass bands * 2005 National Band Association/William D. Revelli Memorial Band Composition Contest - Music of the Spheres * 2011 BUMA International Brass Award - Contributions to brass music * 2016 National Band Association/William D. Revelli Memorial Band Composition Contest - A Colour Symphony * 2018 International Award - Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic Works Music for Wind Band and Brass Band * 1973/1976 Gaudium * 1975 The Prizewinners for Brass-Band * 1978/1995 Fantasy for Euphonium *

Philip Springer

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Philip Springer (born May 12, 1926) is an American composer, best known for co-writing the classic Christmas song “Santa Baby”. In a musical career spanning over 70 years, he is credited in 540 musical pieces, including composing songs for numerous well-known singers. Life and career Early life Philip Springer was born in New York City in 1926 to Jewish parents. His mother, Sylvia, was a concert pianist and his father, Mordecai, a lawyer by profession, was a very musical person. Springer’s musical talent was clear from a young age; at six he played a Bach piano piece by ear. Springer went to grade and high school in Cedarhurst, Long Island, then a rustic small town. In 1944, he graduated from Lawrence High School, having been voted the best singer and the most musical person of his class in the yearbook. U.S. Army service Springer served as a truck driver in World War II; he was Mickey Rooney’s Musical Director in 1945 when he did a show in Regensburg, Germany. Education Springer studied composition under Otto Luening at Columbia College, his father’s alma mater, graduating in 1950. During his time at Columbia, he co-composed the music for two Varsity Shows (1948 and 1950), includi

Philip van Wilder

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Philip van Wilder (Weldre, Welder, Wylder, Wyllender, de Vuildre, Wild, Wildroe; c. 1500 – February 24, 1554) was a lutenist and composer from the Habsburg Netherlands, active in England. Life and career Early years Like Peter van Wilder, who also worked in the Tudor court and was presumably related to him, Philip was probably born in Millam, near Wormhout, or in the nearby village of Wylder (“Wilder” in Dutch). His father may have been Mathis (Matthew) van Wilder, a lutenist from the court of Philip the Fair of Castile who also worked at the Tudor court from 1506 to 1517. It can be speculated that Peter and Philip were his two sons, and that he used his influence to secure court employment for them in England. It is not known when Philip arrived in England, but since Peter dated his residence in England from 1515, it is possible that the two travelled together. A note in Italian in the Jacobean scorebook anthology GB-Lbl Egerton 3665 describes Philip as “Master Philip of Flanders, musician to King Henry VIII, who lived in England around the year 1520”. He was certainly in London by 1522, living in the parish of St Olave’s Hart Street (close to the Tower of London) and having £60 "

Philip Venables

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Philip Venables is a British composer known for his operatic and theatrical works. Life and career Born in Chester, Venables studied at Jesus College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied under Philip Cashian and was awarded the DipRAM diploma and the Manson Fellowship in Composition. Venables’ orchestral works include Arc, written for the BBC Philharmonic; String Quartet for the Duke Quartet at Wigmore Hall; Hyaline, for the London Symphony Orchestra; and The Revenge of Miguel Cotto for the London Sinfonietta. His operatic and vocal works include In America et ego, performed at the Bregenz Festival; UNLEASHED, for Tête à Tête (opera company): The Opera Festival; va and Thalidomide for the BBC Singers. His artistic collaborations have included Bound to Hurt, with Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon; and Illusions, with avant-garde cabaret artist David Hoyle. Venables wrote the 2016 operatic adaptation of 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane for the Royal Opera at the Lyric Hammersmith. Authorised by Kane’s estate as the first operatic adaptation of her work, the opera was well received by critics and nominated for the 2017 Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production. V

Philip Wilby

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Philip Wilby (born Pontefract, 1949) is a British composer, organist and choir director. Education Educated at Leeds Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford, he joined the staff at the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in the Department of Music in 1972. There he taught various composition, liturgy, directing, and score reading classes as well as co-founding the Leeds University Liturgical Choir. Music composing Composing for many different instruments and ensembles (piano, organ, voice, chamber ensemble, wind orchestra), Wilby is most known for his compositions for brass band. Many of Wilby’s pieces are based on his strong Christian beliefs. Famous works that fall in this category are … Dove Descending, Revelation, and The New Jerusalem. Many of Wilby’s works are written especially to be used as test pieces in brass band contests all over the world. One recent composition to fit this description is Vienna Nights, which was commissioned as the test piece for the 2006 British Open Brass Band Championship held in Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Most famously though Paganini Variations, one of his finest pieces of work, which was selected as the test piece for the 2011 Regional Champion

Philipp Christoph Kayser

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Philipp Christoph Kayser (10 March 1755 – 24 December 1823) was a German pianist, composer, orchestra musician, music teacher and poet. He was a close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Life Kayser was born in Frankfurt on 10 March 1755, the son of the organist of the St. Catherine’s Church, Frankfurt. His father gave him his first music lessons. He studied music theory with Georg Andreas Sorge. Already at grammar school, Kayser became friends with Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, who was three years older and later became the most successful playwright of the Sturm und Drang movement. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also joined him later, as did the Strasbourg poet Heinrich Leopold Wagner and the Livonian Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, who lived in Strasbourg and visited Frankfurt from time to time. In 1774, Kayser became a freemason in the Zurich lodge Modestia cum libertate. In 1775, Kayser moved to Zurich. Goethe paid him a visit there in 1775 and 1779. Goethe was so enthusiastic about his songs, that he sent him his Singspiel “Jery und Bäteli” for setting to music. First Kayser refused. However, this did not harm Goethe - he still stood by him as his chosen composer. “What I apprecia

Philipp Dulichius

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Philipp Dulichius (also Deulich, Deilich, Teilich, Dulich, Dulichs) (18 December 1562 – 24 March 1631) was a German composer. Life Dulichius Philip was born in Chemnitz, where his father, Caspar Deulich, was a clothier, councillor and mayor. Of his student days it is only known for certain that he was enrolled in the University of Leipzig in 1579. In 1587 he became cantor at the Gymnasium in Stettin. Since 1618 he taught at the same Gymnasium. He was also a teacher at the Marienkirche in Stettin and at the court of the Pomeranian Duke. In 1630 he retired after 43 years of service, and he died in Stettin. The Marienkirche, where he was buried, burnt down in 1789 and was never rebuilt. Philip Dulichius composed 232 motets, which were highly appreciated at his time and earned him the nickname of the Pomeranian Lassus. On the occasion of the Heinrich-Schütz Days in September 2004 in Greifswald a lecture was given on “Philipp Dulichius - Kantor an St. Marien und am Fürstlichen Pädagogium Stettin 1587-1631” (Philip Dulichius - cantor at St Mary’s and at the Gymnasium of Stettin 1587-1631). In Dulichius’ birth town Chemnitz a memorial plaque was placed at the St Jacob’s church in November

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach

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Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (25 July 1657 – 17 April 1714) was a German Baroque composer, a prolific writer of church music and secular music. Much of his work is lost due to a fire. Life Erlebach was born in Esens, Lower Saxony, the son of Johann Philipp Erlebach, a musician at the court of Count Ulrich II of East Frisia (1605–1648), the principality where the younger Erlebach received his early musical training. which contains over 75 such pieces. From the more than 120 instrumental works Erlebach is known to have produced, only 13 pieces survive. Surviving works * VI Ouvertures begleitet mit … Airs nach französischer Art, a 5, 6, 1693 * Six sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and continuo, 1694 Further reading *Bernd Baselt and Dorothea Schroeder’s article in New Grove Dictionary of Music * Bernd Baselt: Der Rudolstädter Hofkapellmeister Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, 1963 * Bernd Baselt: Die Musikaliensammlung der Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtischen Hofkapelle unter Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. Traditionen und Aufgaben der hallischen Musikwissenschaft, 1963, pp 105–134 External links * * Sonatas linnrecords.com

Philipp Jakob Riotte

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Philipp Jakob Riotte (16 August 1776 – 1856) was a German composer who lived primarily in Vienna. In the 1820s, his works were among the most-performed at the Theater an der Wien. He was a contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven. Very few of his works remain in the active repertoire today. Life Philipp Jakob Riotte was born at St. Wendel (Saarland). He was probably descended from a French emigrant Huguenot family. The earliest records indicate he was expelled as choirboy in his hometown of Sankt Wendel. He studied violin, violoncello and later piano and organ. In 1793 he received his first employment as an organist at a seminar in Trier. In 1794 to 1805 he resided in Blieskastel, the residence of the Imperial counts of Leyen, as well as in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach. In Offenbach, he continued his studies with the composer and music publisher Johann Anton André. From 1806 to 1808 Riotte was active as a Kapellmeister in Gdańsk and as a chief conductor in Magdeburg. In 1808, Riotte established himself in Vienna. At first he made a living by giving piano lessons and selling his own compositions. In addition, he was active as a musical correspondent. Between 1810 and 1815, he contrib

Philipp Jarnach

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Philipp Jarnach (26 July 1892 17 December 1982 in Börnsen) was a German composer of contemporary music (“Neue Musik”), pianist, teacher, and conductor. Along with composers such as Hindemith, Jarnach is considered one of the leading and formative composers of the late German Romantic and early modern (“Neue Musik”) eras. Jarnach was born in Noisy-le-Sec, France, the son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother. Until 1914 he lived in Paris, where he studied piano under Édouard Risler and harmony under Albert Lavignac at the Conservatoire de Paris. During the First World War he was a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zürich. He later completed the opera Doktor Faust, which Busoni had left unfinished on his death in 1924. In the 1920s Jarnach worked in Berlin as a pianist, conductor and composer. In 1927 he became a teacher in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1949 he founded the Hamburger Musikhochschule (Hamburg Music Academy) which he directed until 1959 and at which he taught until 1970. His students included Ivan Rebroff (known as Hans Rolf Rippert at that time), Kurt Weill, Otto Luening, Wilhelm Maler, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Jürg Baur, Walter Steffens, Colin Brum

Philipp Maintz

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Philipp Maintz (born 28 February 1977, in Aachen) is a German composer. Career Maintz studied composition with Michael Reudenbach and Robert HP Platz, and electronic music with Karlheinz Essl. He studied further at the CRFMW (Centre de Recherches et de Formations Musicales de Wallonie) of the University of Liège and the IRCAM (Institut des Recherches et Coordinations Musicales). He received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2005. He was granted a scholarship from the Federal Government for the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2010 he was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo. His opera Maldoror on a libretto by Thomas Fiedler after Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2010. His works have been performed at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, the Salzburg Festival, among others. Artists have included the Arditti String Quartet, the Ensemble intercontemporain, das Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart with Lothar Zagrosek, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Pierre-André Valade. Discography * hängende gärten / tríptico vertical, on: Philipp Maintz – Orchestra Works Vol.1, NEOS 2018 (NEO

Philipp Scharwenka

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Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (16 February 1847 – 16 July 1917) was a Polish-German composer and teacher of music. He was the older brother of Xaver Scharwenka. Early training Scharwenka was born in Szamotuły (Samter), Grand Duchy of Posen. Like his younger brother Xaver he received his first intermittent musical instruction in Posen (today Poznań). After the closure of the Gymnasium (college) in 1865 he studied music theory together with his brother under Richard Wüerst and Heinrich Dorn at the new Musical Academy in Berlin where, from 1868, he himself was taken on as teacher of Theory and Composition. In this period his own first compositions appeared. In 1874 he brought out an overture and a symphony for the first time in a concert of his own. Compositions His many teaching obligations notwithstanding, Philipp Scharwenka stood in the front line as a composer and was recognised as such during his lifetime. His compositions include three Symphonies, Symphonic Poems, a Violin concerto, some Choral works (of which Sakuntala became very famous), the 4-act opera Roland, as well as numerous instrumental works such as Sonatas, Quartets, Caprices and Dances. Many of the major conductors of t

Philipp Stolle

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Philipp Stolle (1614 – 4 October 1675) was a German composer, tenor and theorbo player of the Baroque era. Stolle was born in 1614 at Radeburg. He was a pupil of Caspar Kittel. He worked for many years at the Dresden court of Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, while Heinrich Schütz was Kapellmeister there. On 16 January 1649 Stolle married Anna Maria Krätzschmar. At the request of the Dresden court poet David Schirmer, Stolle produced musical settings for 68 of Schirmer’s poems, published in 1654 as the songbook Singende Rosen Oder Liebes-und Tugend-Lieder. The settings were for soprano, theorbo or viola da gamba, and basso continuo. Schirmer also included 51 of the songs from Singende Rosen in his famous 1657 collection Poetische Rosen-Gepüsche. Eventually Stolle was transferred into a new ensemble at court, under the musical direction of Giovanni Andrea Bontempi. This was set up by the Elector’s son, the future Johann Georg II, in response to the chronic decline of his father’s Kapelle. However, in 1653, Stolle wrote to Johann Georg II asking to be released, pointing out that after 21 years of service at Dresden, his annual salary of 300 thaler was still not enough for him to pro

Philipp Wolfrum

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Philipp Julius Wolfrum (17 December 1854 – 8 May 1919) was a German conductor, musicologist, composer, organist and academic teacher. He was influential to university education in church music in Heidelberg, and in 1907 became the town’s Generalmusikdirektor. Career Born in Schwarzenbach am Wald, Philipp Wolfrum was the son of Johann Heinrich Wolfrum, a teacher and church musician (Kantor). He first also worked as a teacher. On a scholarship, he studied from 1876 at the Königliche Musikschule in München organ and composition with Joseph Rheinberger, piano with Karl Bärmann, and choral singing and conducting with Franz Wüllner. From 1878 he was conductor, soloist and composer in Bamberg. In 1884 he was appointed an assistant teacher for music at the theology seminary of Heidelberg University. There, he installed formal education in church music, and initiated public musical events in the town. In 1885 he founded the choirs Akademischer Gesangverein and Bach-Verein (now: ). In 1888 he was appointed Außerordentlicher Professor. In 1890 he published Die Entstehung und erste Entwicklung des deutschen evangelischen Kirchenliedes in musikalischer Beziehung (The origins and initial develop

Philippe Baden Powell

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Philippe Baden Powell (born 15 April 1978 in Paris) is a French-Brazilian pianist and composer. Biography Baden Powell started playing the piano at the age of 7. Taught by his father, the Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell, he learned the intricacies of composition, harmony, and improvisation. As a teenager, he lived with his family in Brazil, where Gonzalo Rubalcaba became his musical role model. He also studied at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro and the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris. After studying in Paris, he moved back to Rio de Janeiro and worked with Brazilian musicians such as Seu Jorge, Marcelo D2, Maria Bethânia, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira and Roberto Menescal. In 2005, Baden Powell won third prize at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition. With Brazilian trumpeter Rubinho Antunes, he founded the quartet Ludere. Baden Powell has released 13 albums, including Notes Over The Poetry, in collaboration with singer David Linx and drummer André Ceccarelli, and Retratos, which was released with the Brazilian quartet Ludere. In 2022 he released Entre eux deux with Melody Gardot, described by one reviewer as “showcasing Gardot’s mellifluou

Philippe Basiron

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Philippe Basiron (Philippon de Bourges) (c. 1449just before 31 May 1491) was a French composer, singer, and organist of the Renaissance. He was an innovative and prominent composer of the late 15th century, and was praised by many of his contemporaries. Life He was probably born in Bourges, and received his early training there, becoming a choirboy at the attached to the royal palace (now the ) in October 1458, along with his brother Pierron. Between October 1458 and 31 March 1459 the brothers were assigned to the care of Jehan Gaudier, and in 1462 the composer Guillaume Faugues became briefly magister puerorum (master of the choirboys); he may have been a formative influence on the young Philippe. The boy’s musical gifts were sufficiently distinguished that he had a clavichord purchased for him in 1462, an extremely rare occurrence for a choirboy of 12 or 13 years old. Ockeghem also visited Bourges that year, but if the boy made his acquaintance then is not known; however the influence, and possibly friendship, of the older composer was to become clear later. In 1464 he already had a position of authority, being given the responsibility for the musical instruction of the other boy

Philippe Boesmans

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Philippe Boesmans (17 May 1936 – 10 April 2022) was a Belgian pianist, composer and academic teacher. He studied to be a pianist at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and was self-taught as a composer, influenced by the Liège Group of Henri Pousseur, André Souris, and Célestin Deliège, and by attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He worked for the Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française (RTBF) from 1961, as a producer from 1971. Boesman became primarily recognised for his operas, with works written for the Royal Opera House La Monnaie in Brussels as composer in residence since 1985. Four operas were written in collaboration with Luc Bondy who adapted plays for him, Schnitzler’s La Ronde, Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Strindberg’s Miss Julie and Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda by Witold Gombrowicz, and who directed the world premieres of the operas. Au monde was honoured with an International Opera Award in 2015. His last opera based on Feydeau’s vaudeville ‘On purge bébé’ had its world premiere at La Monnaie in Brussels in December 2022. Life Boesmans was born in Tongeren and studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, He studied first with , then with Stefan Askenase

Philippe Boivin

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Philippe Boivin (born 1954) is a French contemporary composer. Life Born in Metz, after studying musicology at the Sorbonne, Boivin obtained his Certificate of Aptitude for Secondary Teaching Professorship in 1976, which allowed him to teach. Between 1977 and 1979, Boivin studied writing at the Conservatoire de Paris and followed Alain Bernaud’s harmony classes. He then studied composition at the École normale supérieure de Paris with Max Deutsch. Registered at the University of Vincennes in 1979, he trained in new technologies, notably with Iannis Xenakis. The following year, he attended a training course on computer-assisted music composition at IRCAM. He then went to California at the Center for Music Experiment of the University of California, San Diego. From 1985 to 1988, he was a regular producer at Radio France. Since 1990, Boivin has been involved in musical composition and educational activities, regularly participating in seminars and giving lectures. He continues his activities as director of the Conservatoire de musique et de danse of Ivry-sur-Seine, and since 2008 at the Centre de formation des musiciens intervenants of the University of Provence. His compositions are

Philippe Brault

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Philippe Brault (born 1981) is a Canadian record producer and film score composer from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time Prix Iris winner for Best Original Music, winning at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019 for The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) and at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for Drunken Birds (Les Oiseaux ivres). He has received two other nominations in the category, alongside Pierre Lapointe at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012 for The Salesman (Le vendeur) and in 2022 for Maria Chapdelaine, and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for The Fireflies Are Gone. His other film credits include All That We Make (Fermières), The Procession (Le Cortège), A Revision (Une révision), Norbourg and The Origin of Evil (L’Origine du mal). He is a regular collaborator with Lapointe, and has produced albums for Émile Bilodeau, Koriass, Patrice Michaud, Laurence Nerbonne, Ariane Moffatt and Safia Nolin. References External links *

Philippe Capdenat

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Philippe Capdenat (17 July 1934 – 2 May 2025) was a French composer and academic teacher. First a mining engineer, he started composing avant-garde music, but turned to chamber music, music for the stage (opera, ballet, play music) and vocal music, using traditional instruments. He was a teacher at several French universities and conservatories. Career Born in Bordeaux, Capdenat attended special courses in mathematics in addition to his schooling, took piano lessons and conducted a youth choir. From 1954 to 1958 he studied mining engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Saint-Étienne, where he also took classes in piano and composition at the conservatory. He served in the military in Algeria for two years. From 1960 to 1967, he worked in Paris as an engineer, but also continued to study music, with Max Deutsch at the École Normale. He was the leader of the Chorale Jéricho and the chamber orchestra Orchestre de Chambre Philippe Capdenat. In 1967 he toured Denmark, conducting the radio orchestra of Odense. In 1968–69 he collaborated with Maurice Béjart in Brussels on the ballet Je fus cet enfant-là. In 1971, he was awarded the Hervé Dugardin Prize of the Société de

Philippe Chamouard

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Philippe Chamouard (born 24 February 1952 in Paris) is a French composer of contemporary classical music. His catalogue includes orchestral, concertante, chamber, vocal and choral works, with particular emphasis on symphonic writing. Biography Chamouard was born in Paris in 1952. He studied piano with Guy Lasson and harmony, counterpoint and composition with Roger Boutry. Since the early 1990s, his orchestral works have been performed in France and abroad, including by the Orchestre Colonne and at festivals and concert series in several European and non-European countries. Music Chamouard’s music has been described as continuing to use established musical forms, including the symphony and concerto, within a contemporary tonal or neo-tonal idiom. La Montagne de l’âme, recorded by the Transylvania Symphony Orchestra under Alain Pâris, and later symphonic works recorded for labels including Hortus and Indésens. Recordings The following selected recordings include albums devoted wholly or substantially to Chamouard’s music: Further reading * Jong, D. “Guide to Records.” American Record Guide. 1995;58(6):105. * Vroon, D. V. “Guide to Records: Chamouard.” American Record Guide. 1999;62(5

Philippe Courbois

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Philippe Courbois (fl. 1705–1730) was a French Baroque composer. It is commonly stated that he was maître de musique of the Duchess of Maine, but Michele Cabrini convincingly refutes this claim in his edition of Courbois’s cantatas. At least three of his masses were performed for King Louis XIV at Versailles. Sometime before 1710, Courbois published a book of seven cantatas with texts by Louis Fuzelier, who would later write the libretto of Les Indes Galantes. It is these cantatas for which he is most famous today Works, editions, recordings *L’amant timide (recorded on French Cantatas “Dans un bois solitaire” Gérard Lesne 1999 Virgin) *Ariane (on Les Déesses outragées, Agnès Mellon, Alpha) *Orphee (on Amour viens animer ma voix, Olivera, Ramée) *Dom Quichotte - Loin des yeux qui m’ont fait captif, 1710 (text by Louis Fuselier) References

Philippe de Monte

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Philippe de Monte (1521 – 4 July 1603), sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance active all over Europe. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the time. Sources cite him as being “the best composer in the entire country, particularly in the new manner and musica reservata.” Others compare his collections of music with that of other influential composers, such as Orlande de Lassus. Life and career Philippe de Monte was born in Mechelen around 1521. After boyhood musical training at St. Rumbolds Cathedral in Mechelen, where he was a choirboy, Monte went to Italy — a common destination for a young Flemish composer in the sixteenth century – where he made a name for himself as a composer, singer, and teacher. He lived and worked in Naples for a while, and in Rome, in the employ of Cardinal Orsini, although he was in England for a brief period, 1554–1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I, while she was married to King Philip II of Spain. Monte reported that he disliked working in Philip’s choir since all the other members were Spaniards. While in England, Monte was acquainted wi

Philippe de Vitry

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Philippe de Vitry (31 October 12919 June 1361) was a French composer-poet, bishop and music theorist in the style of late medieval music. An accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, he was widely acknowledged as a leading musician of his day; the early Renaissance scholar Petrarch wrote a glowing tribute, calling him: “… the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth, so great a philosopher of our age.” The important music treatise Ars nova notandi (1322) is usually attributed to Vitry. It is thought that few of Vitry’s compositions survive; though he wrote secular music, only his sacred works are extant. Life and career Details of Philippe de Vitry’s early life are vague. While some medieval sources claim that he was born in the Champagne region, modern researchers have found that he may have originated from Vitry-en-Artois near Arras. Given that he is often referred to in documents as a Magister, Vitry is thought likely to have studied at the University of Paris. Later he was prominent in the courts of Charles IV, Philippe VI and Jean II, serving as a secretary and advisor. Perhaps aided by these Bourbon connections, he also held several canonries, including Clermont, B

Philippe Falliex

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Philippe Falliex (Born 27 April 1966 in Lyon, France) is a French composer specializing in background music for television and radio programs. Stereolithe: 2001-present Since 2001, Philippe Falliex has dedicated himself to composing music for televised and radio programs. He created Stereolithe, a company through which his work is contracted. Stereolithe has been responsible for the theme and background music for some of the most prominent shows on French television and radio. Television shows for which he composed music #Sans Auncun Doute (More than 400 episodes) #Le grand Frère, Confession Intime #Les soirées Anti-Arnaque #Le grand Quizz #La soirée du Sommeil #Une nuit à Marrakech #Au cœur de L’armée de Terre #En vol avec l’armée de l’air #Les Voisins #Les Sept Péchés Capitaux #Otto #Les imitateurs #Ca peut vous arriver #Le champion du rire #Le champion de la télé #La Maison du Bluff #Zone Paranormale Radio shows for which he composed music #La bonne touche, hosted by Jean-Pierre Foucault et Cyril Hanouna #L’heure du crime, hosted by Jacques Pradel #Tout le plaisir est pour nous, hosted by Flavie Flament #Le grand quiz des histoires de France, hosted by Laurent Boyer #On refait l

Philippe Gaubert

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Philippe Gaubert (5 July 1879 – 8 July 1941) was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute. He was a respected conductor and a composer, primarily for the flute. Biography Gaubert – commonly referred to as Gauberto – was born in Cahors but moved to Paris with his parents when he was six. His mother, who worked as a housekeeper, occasionally cleaned the apartment of Paul Taffanel, who began teaching Philippe the flute. Taffanel was Professor of Flute at the Paris Conservatoire, and Gaubert began studying there in 1893, aged 13. He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars. After a prominent career as a flautist with the Paris Opéra, he was appointed in 1919, at the age of forty, to three positions that placed him at the very centre of French musical life: * Professor of flute in the Conservatoire de Paris (teacher of Marcel Moyse) * Principal conductor of the Paris Opéra * Principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire In 1907, he participated in the first performance of Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet. Among his recordings as conductor, o

Philippe Hersant

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Philippe Hersant (; born 21 June 1948 in Rome) is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Selected works :: Hersant’s works are largely published by Éditions Durand. ;Stage * Le Château des Carpathes, Opera in a prologue and 2 scenes (1989–1991); libretto by Jorge Silva Melo after the novel by Jules Verne * Wuthering Heights, Ballet in 2 acts (2000–2001); based on the novel by Emily Brontë * Le Moine noir, Opera in 8 scenes (2003–2005); libretto by Yves Hersant after the short story The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov * Les Éclairs, Opera (“drame joyeux”) in 4 acts (2021); libretto by Jean Echenoz after his novel Des éclairs ;Orchestral * Aztlan (1983) * Stances (1978, revised 1992) *Le Cantique des 3 enfants dans la fournaise (1995), poem by Antoine Godeau, in front of La Messe à 4 Choeurs H.4 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier with same chorus and orchestra. (recorded in 2019) *5 Pièces (1997) * Patmos for string orchestra (2007) ;Concertante * Concerto No. 1 for cello and orchestra (1989) * Concerto No. 2 for cello and orchestra (1996–1997) * Streams for piano and orchestra (2000) * Concerto for violin and orchestra (2003) * Musical humors, Concerto for viola and strin

Philippe Leduc

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Philippe Leduc (born 1951 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Quebecois composer, conductor, author and arranger. Discography Albums Source: * Diginada (2010) * The Wings of Fire, Volume I: Blood (1995) * The Wings of Fire, Volume II: Toil (1997) * Splendeur & Misère (Previously released as “Éclair de Lune”) (1993) Compilations * Mes Grands Classiques (2009) Books * Les Ailes du Feu (1997, Éditions STANKE) Children’s Albums/books * Chabicouin au Marais long (CD) * Chabicouin à la ferme (CD) * Chabicouin au Marais long (Livre-CD) * Shubiquack (CD) Concerts * The Wings of Fire (Montreal, Canada) Videos * No Pasaràn * Anastasia Élégie * The Wings of Fire, Volume II: Toil * The Wings of Fire, Volume I: Blood Awards * 2005 **SOCAN Award Movie and television music **Triple platinum (300,000 albums sold) Marie-Hélène Thibert, self-titled album, arrangements, orchestration, and production of the song “Le Ciel est à moi” * 2004 **SOCAN Award Movie and television music * 2003 **GEMINI Award Best Musical Theme, Television, “Zone Libre” * 2001 **Grand Prize Concours Grafika, “Docs en Stock” * 1998 **Harmony Award 42nd Competition for Films and Videos (Japan) **Silver Award New York Festival TV P

Philippe Leroux

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Philippe Leroux (born 24 September 1959) is a French composer living in Montreal, Quebec, who has been identified as “one of the most important composers in contemporary music.” Biography Leroux was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. He studied composition starting in 1978 with Ivo Malec, Claude Ballif, Pierre Schaeffer, and Guy Rebeil at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he obtained three first prizes. He studied at both the Groupe de Recherches Musicales and at IRCAM during this period. He was selected for a residency at the French Academy in Rome from 1993 to 1995. From 2001 to 2006 he was a composition teacher at IRCAM, in the Cursus d’Informatique Musicale programme. Since 2011 he has been an associate professor in composition at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. Selected works * (D)Tourner (2016/17) for solo percussion and 10 instruments * Envers IV (2016) for symphony orchestra * Postlude à l’Épais (2016) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano * De l’imitation (2015) for saxophone quartet and electronics * White face (2015) for string quartet * Nomadic Sounds (2015) for a cappella choir * Quid sit musicus (2013/14) for 4 voices, gui

Philippe Manoury

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Philippe Manoury (born 19 June 1952) is a French composer. Biography Manoury was born on June 19, 1952, in Tulle, France, and began composition studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Gérard Condé and Max Deutsch. He continued his studies from 1974 to 1978 at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michel Philippot, Ivo Malec, and Claude Ballif. In 1975, he undertook studies in computer-assisted composition with , and joined IRCAM as a composer and electronic music researcher in 1980. From 2004 until 2012, Manoury served on the composition faculty at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught composition, electronic music, and analysis in the graduate program. After retiring from UCSD, he returned to France, settling in Strasbourg. Music Manoury’s work is strongly influenced by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Iannis Xenakis, and his early work from 1972 to 1976 combines serial punctualism with dense sound masses characteristic of the music of Stockhausen and Xenakis, and the paintings of Jackson Pollock. In it “Manoury … mercifully knows how to use the abundance of percussion instruments in ways far more discriminately than his contemporaries beholde

Philippe Musard

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Philippe Musard (8 November 1792 – 31 March 1859) was a French composer who was crucial to the development and popularity of the promenade concert. One of the most famous personalities of Europe during the 1830s and 1840s, his concerts in Paris and London were riotous (in several senses of the word) successes. Best known for his “galop” and “quadrille” pieces, he composed many of these numbers himself, usually borrowing famous themes of other composers. Musard plays an important role in the development of light classical music, the faculty of publicity in music, and in the role of the conductor as a musical celebrity. He has been largely forgotten subsequent to his retirement in the early 1850s. History Philippe Musard was born in Tours on 8 November 1792 to parents of limited financial means. Musard joined a unit of the Imperial Guards as a cornet player. When Napoleon was defeated, he moved to London, started as a violinist, and eventually his career progressed to the point of leading the orchestra of King George IV and organized balls, becoming wealthy in the process. Between 1821 and 1825 many of his compositions were published in London, and some of these were performed in Par

Philippe Rogier

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Philippe Rogier (c. 1561 – 29 February 1596) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active at the Habsburg court of Philip II in Spain. He was one of the last members of the Franco-Flemish school, in the closing days of the Renaissance period in music history, and was a prolific composer; however most of his music was lost in the destruction by fire of the library of John IV during the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Life He was born in Arras, then in the Spanish Netherlands now in France, around 1561. Presumably he received his early training there or nearby, and his talent was sufficient for him to be brought in 1572 to Spain to sing in the choir of Philip II in Madrid. Boys were often recruited from the Low Countries to become singers in the imperial chapel; the numerous cathedral schools in the towns of northern France and the Netherlands provided a rich environment from which the Habsburgs could cherry-pick the best musicians. Rogier became assistant director of the capilla flamenca in 1584, chaplain by 1586, and director of music at the court of Philip in 1586 on the death of the previous director, George de La Hèle. Sometime before 1595 he also became a priest. Rogier

Philippe Sarde

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Philippe Sarde (born 21 June 1948) is a French film composer. Considered among the most versatile and talented French film composers of his generation, Sarde has scored over two hundred films, film shorts, and television mini-series. He received an Academy Award nomination for Tess (1979), and twelve César Award nominations, winning for Barocco (1976). In 1993, Sarde received the Joseph Plateau Music Award. References External links * * * (fr) book : Philippe Sarde :Des notes pour l’écran, Daniel Bastié, Éditions Grand Angle, 2015

Philippe Tatartcheff

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Philippe Tatartcheff (born in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Canadian poet and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist who wrote French language songs recorded by folk duo Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Origins and early life Tatartcheff’s family was originally from the Swiss Cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchatel and Fribourg. After moving to Montreal in the early 1950s, they eventually settled in Timmins, Ontario, where his father, Dr. Michael Tatartcheff, was a physician and surgeon, and the town doctor. While at McGill, he met Anna McGarrigle, who was studying at Beaux-Arts at the time (1964-1968). * “Naufragée du Tendre” * “Mais quand tu danses” * “Excursion à Venise” * “Arbre” * “Forever and the Same” ;with Kate McGarrigle * “Side of Fries” * “Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse” * “Hang Out Your Heart” * “Ah tournesol” * “Approaching Montreal” (2011) * “Cows in Snow” (2008) * “Dogs in Snow” (2008) * “Frelighsburg morning” (2008) Bibliography References

Philippe Verdelot

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Philippe Verdelot (1480 to 14851530 to 1540) was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. He is commonly considered to be the father of the Italian madrigal, and certainly was one of its earliest and most prolific composers; in addition he was prominent in the musical life of Florence during the period after the recapture of the city by the Medici from the followers of Girolamo Savonarola. Life Verdelot was born in Les Loges, Seine-et-Marne, France. Details of his early life are obscure. He probably came to Italy at an early age, spending the first decade or two of the 16th century at some cities in northern Italy, most likely including Venice. A painting of 1511, described by Vasari but never positively identified, is believed by many musicologists to show Verdelot in Venice with an Italian singer. Verdelot is known to have been maestro di cappella at the Baptisterium San Giovanni in Florence from 1523 to 1525; and he seems also to have been employed at the Cathedral there, from 1523 until 1527. In 1526 he collaborated with Niccolò Machiavelli on a production of Machiavelli’s famous cynical comedy La Mandragola. While the play was written in 1518,

Philippus de Caserta

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Philippus de Caserta, (; also Philipoctus, Filipotto, or Filipoctus) was a medieval music theorist and composer associated with the style known as ars subtilior. Life and career Philippus’ name indicates that he came from Caserta. He is generally thought to have worked at the Papal court at Avignon in the 1370s as his ballade, Par les bons Gedeons, praises antipope Clement VII. However, it has been suggested that Philippus never left Italy, that he wrote the above ballade at Fondi near Caserta, where Clement was elected Pope, and that he worked at the francophile court of Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Music Most of his surviving works are ballades, although a Credo was recently discovered, and a rondeau has been attributed to him. His ballade En attendant souffrir was written for Bernabò Visconti, confirmed by the presence of Visconti’s motto in the upper voice. Two of Caserta’s pieces, En remirant and De ma dolour, use fragments of text from chansons by the most famous composer of the century, Guillaume de Machaut. Caserta’s own repute was significant enough for Johannes Ciconia to borrow portions of Caserta’s ballades for his own virelai, Sus une fontayne. Five theoretical treatises ha

Phill Niblock

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Phillip Earl Niblock (October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024) was an American composer, filmmaker, and videographer. In 1985, he was appointed director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium. Early life and education Niblock was born in Anderson, Indiana on October 2, 1933, to Herbert and Thelma Niblock. He attended Indiana University and graduated with a BA in economics in 1956. He served a brief stint in the U.S. Army after graduating, and in 1958, he moved to New York, where he worked as a photographer and filmmaker. Career Niblock’s first musical compositions date from 1968. Unusually, even among the avant-garde composers of his generation, he had no formal musical training. He cited the musical activities of New York in the 1960s (and occasional memorable performances, such as the premiere of Morton Feldman’s Durations pieces) as a stimulus. All of his compositions were worked out intuitively rather than systematically. His early works were all done with tape, overdubbing unprocessed recordings of precisely tuned long tones played on traditional instruments in four, eight, or sixteen tracks. Since th

Phillip Houghton

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Phillip Houghton (26 April 1954 – 30 September 2017) was an Australian classical guitarist and composer. Born in Melbourne, he began studying music at the age of 20 at Melba Conservatorium of Music. After a year, he then began studying privately with well-known classical pianist and guitarist Sebastian Jorgenson at the Montsalvat Artists Colony in Eltham, Victoria. Although Houghton had little compositional training, his music has achieved critical acclaim. In particular, his piece Stélé was recorded by John Williams in his 1998 album The Guitarist. Karin Schaupp made the first complete recording. Houghton composed music for film and Television, including the motion picture “The Custodian” (John Dingwall) and the animation series Plasmo (Tony Lawrence). He wrote a large number of unpublished sketches for electronic media and produced a record of his own experimental improvisations on electric guitar and piano frame, distributed privately. Houghton lived for many years in Sydney, teaching from his home in Petersham and then Summer Hill. He was highly regarded as a teacher, with a profound understanding of guitar technique and musical interpretation. He died, unexpectedly, within mon

Phillip Ramey

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Phillip Ramey (born September 12, 1939) is an American composer, pianist, and writer on music. Ramey was born in Elmhurst, Illinois. He studied composition with the Russian-born composer Alexander Tcherepnin from 1959 to 1962, first at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France, then at DePaul University in Chicago. He later studied composition with Jack Beeson at Columbia University (1962–65). He had professional associations with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, William Schuman, David Diamond and Vladimir Horowitz. Thomson honored him with a musical portrait for piano titled “Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard”, and Copland dedicated two piano pieces to him: “Midsummer Nocturne” and “Proclamation”. For many years, Ramey was a close friend and a neighbor of Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, where he has summered regularly. In 2017, the New York Public Library acquired Ramey’s archive of manuscripts, scores and recordings of his music, which will be catalogued and made available for scholarly research. Ramey is the composer of orchestral works, including three piano concertos, along with chamber music and many works for solo piano, among them ten so

Phyllis Chen

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Phyllis Chen (born 1978) is an American composer, sound artist, and pianist. A member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, she co-composed their 2016 album On The Nature Of Thingness and is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. After suffering from tendinopathy, she began doing work on the toy piano, including an album and music festival both named UnCaged Toy Piano. Biography Chen, a native of Blacksburg, Virginia, daughter of Dan and Jenny Chen. She started learning piano as a young child. one year earlier than her class. her doctoral dissertation Inventions on the Keyboard was supervised by André Watts. In 2001, she joined the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) as one of their founding members. In 2016, she and Nathan Davis composed the ICE’s album On The Nature Of Thingness. She eventually became Artist Emeritus at ICE. As she once recalled, she “never found the piano to be entirely fulfilling and always thought there was something missing”. and she also composed a toy piano album of the same name. She was the toy pianist for the 2009 musical Coraline at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. She also performed the toy piano at the 2012 Ringling International Arts Festival, where Gayle

Phyllis Fergus

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Phyllis Fergus Hoyt (October 2, 1887 – December 2, 1964 ) was a composer, reciter, pianist, and advocate for music by women composers. Life Phyllis Fergus was born in Chicago, where she attended a variety of cultural events, including musical concerts. Beginning in her twenties, she attended Smith College, where she studied composition with Henry Dike Sleeper and was a member of student composer group known as the Clef Club. Her first major event with the League was in 1933 in Chicago, which featured conductor Ebba Sundstrom and the Women’s Symphony playing music from 13 women composers including Gena Branscombe and Mary Carr Moore. Selected works list and compositional style Fergus specialized in a type of composition known as “story poems”, a work written for spoken word performed with piano accompaniment, although she also wrote works for orchestra, operettas, songs, chamber music, and choral works. Her story poems were often humorous in nature, and featured topics like families, marriage, and courtship. Orchestral Works *The Highwayman : A Dramatic Reading for Speaking Voice and Orchestra Story Poems * “The Usual Way” (1942) * “My Mother’s Ma: A Modern Grandmother” (1918) * “Ap

Phyllis Tate

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Phyllis Tate (6 April 1911 – 29 May 1987) was an English composer known for forming unusual instrumental combinations in her output. She is mainly remembered for her works for solo and chamber ensembles, rather than larger scale forms. Biography Early life and education Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate was born at Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, the daughter of an architect, Duncan Tate. She was excluded from primary school by her headmistress at the age of 10 for singing a lewd song her father taught her at the end of the year. While at the academy, she studied composition, timpani, and conducting. Tate married a music editor, Alan Clifford Frank, in 1935. They reportedly initially bonded over a mutual dislike of Ludwig van Beethoven’s music. During her school years, she also composed a symphony and several smaller pieces, although none from this era survive. * A Secular Requiem: The Phoenix and the Turtle (1970) for mixed voices, organ, and orchestra, setting Shakespeare’s poem as the text for a funeral. * All The World’s A Stage (1977) for chorus and orchestra. * Saint Martha and the Dragon (1978), for narrator, solo soprano, solo tenor, choir, chamber orchestra & tape. A setting

Phyllis Zimmerman

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Phyllis E. Zimmerman (1934–2012) was an American composer, choral conductor, and music educator. Biography Zimmerman was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania in 1956. She studied vocal performance at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota with conductor Paul J. Christiansen, graduating in 1959. Zimmerman taught music and directed choirs at Churchill Area High School in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania before becoming the choral director at Santa Barbara (California) High School, where she taught from 1969 to 1995. Her choirs toured Europe several times and performed in Romania by invitation of the U.S. State Department. During the late 1970s, Zimmerman was involved with the International League of Women Composers, which was absorbed into the International Alliance for Women in Music in 1995. Following her retirement in 1995, Zimmerman founded the Canticle A Cappella Choir, a community choir that recorded several CDs and performed on National Public Radio and NBC-TV. Concordia College honored her as a Distinguished Alumna in 2006. * “An Easter Carol” * “Fog” (words by Carl Sandburg, music by Phyllis Zimmerman) * “Four Settings of Poems by Sara T