PI
Composers whose names start with PI.
Pier Francesco Tosi
Pier Francesco Tosi (c. 16531732) was a castrato singer, composer, and writer on music. His Opinoni de' cantori antichi e moderni... was the first full-length treatise on singing and provides a
Read → Late RomanticPierantonio Tasca
Pierantonio Tasca (1858–1934) was an Italian opera composer. His first opera, Bianca, premiered in 1885, to a libretto by Enrico Golisciani. Eva Tetrazzini, elder sister of the famous Luisa
Read → Post-WarPiergiorgio Farina
Piergiorgio Farina (25 April 1933 – 28 July 2008) was an Italian jazz violinist, composer and singer. Career Born Piergiorgio Farinelli in Goro, Ferrara, Farina was the cousin of the singer Milva. He
Read → 21st CenturyPierluigi Billone
Pierluigi Billone (born 14 February 1960 in Italy) is an Italian composer known for works which often "reinvent" the performance techniques of the instruments involved. Biography His music has been
Read → 21st CenturyPierluigi Castellano
Pierluigi Castellano (born 1958, in Rome) is an Italian musician, composer and journalist. Biography Castellano began his career by studying piano, clarinet, composition and electronic music,
Read → Post-WarPiero Cassano
Piero Cassano (born 13 September 1948) is an Italian keyboardist, singer and composer, a founding member of the Genoan band Matia Bazar. Early career and Jet Cassano started playing the piano at a
Read → 20th CenturyPiero Coppola
Piero Coppola (11 October 1888 – 17 March 1971) was an Italian conductor, pianist and composer. Life and career Coppola was born in Milan; his parents were both singers. He studied at the Milan
Read → Post-WarPiero Milesi
Piero Milesi (1953 in Milan – 2011 in Levanto) was an Italian musician, composer, and music arranger. Biography Milesi began his career by studying cello, composition, and experimental electronic
Read → 21st CenturyPiero Niro
Piero Niro (born 1957) is an Italian composer, classical pianist, and academic specialising in the philosophy of music and aesthetics. Niro was born in Baranello in the southern Italian region of
Read → Post-WarPiero Piccioni
Piero Piccioni (; December 6, 1921 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian film score composer. A pianist, organist, conductor, and composer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film
Read → RenaissancePierre Alamire
Pierre Alamire (also Petrus Alamire; probable birth name Peter van den Hove; c. 1470 – 26 June 1536) was a German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat
Read → Early RomanticPierre Baillot
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (; 1 October 1771 – 15 September 1842) was a French violinist and composer born in Passy. He studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti and taught at the
Read → BaroquePierre Beauchamp
Pierre Beauchamp or Beauchamps (; 30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp–Feuillet notation. His grand-father was
Read → Post-WarPierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war
Read → Post-WarPierre Brabant
Pierre Brabant (26 August 1925 – 28 August 2014) was a Canadian composer and pianist. He appeared in concerts and recitals throughout Canada and performed numerous times on Canadian television and
Read → EntryPierre Cadéac
Pierre Cadéac (fl. 1538–1558) was a French composer and probably singer of the Renaissance, active in Gascony. He wrote both sacred and secular vocal music, and had his music published in Paris and
Read → 20th CenturyPierre Camonin
Pierre Camonin (25 February 1903 – 14 November 2003) was a French organist, composer and improviser. Biography Born in Bar-le-Duc, Camonin was a student of Marcel Ciampi for the piano at the
Read → Post-WarPierre Cao
Pierre Cao (22 December 1937 – 14 May 2026) was a Luxembourgish composer and conductor. Background Pierre Cao was born in Dudelange on 22 December 1937. He studied composition and conducting at the
Read → 20th CenturyPierre Capdevielle (musician)
Pierre Capdevielle (1 February 1906 – 9 July 1969) was a French conductor, composer, and music critic. In 1938 he was awarded the Prix Blumenthal and in 1948 he founded the Centre de documentation de
Read → RenaissancePierre Certon
Pierre Certon (ca. 1510–1520 – 23 February 1572) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation after Josquin and Mouton, and was influential in the late
Read → EntryPierre Cerveau
Pierre Cerveau was a French Baroque composer, born in Anjou and active during the last quarter of the 16th century. Biography The name Cerveau first appeared in 1573, as a "passing cantor" in the
Read → EntryPierre Clereau
Pierre Clereau (died before 11 January 1570) was a French composer, choirmaster and possibly organist of the Renaissance, active in several towns in Lorraine, including Toul and Nancy. He wrote both
Read → Post-WarPierre Cochereau
Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau (9 July 1924 – 6 March 1984) was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue. Cochereau was titular organist of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris from
Read → BaroquePierre Dandrieu
Pierre Dandrieu (d'Andrieu) (baptised in Angers on 21 March 1664 – 20 October 1733) was a French priest, composer and organist. Life Pierre Dandrieu was baptised in Angers. After studying with
Read → Late RomanticPierre de Bréville
Pierre Eugène Onfroy de Bréville (21 February 1861 – 24 September 1949) was a French composer. Biography Pierre de Bréville was born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse. Following the wishes of his parents, he
Read → RenaissancePierre de la Rue
Pierre de la Rue (c. 145220 November 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. His name also appears as Piersson or variants of Pierchon and his toponymic, when present, as
Read → RenaissancePierre de Manchicourt
Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – 5 October 1564) was a Renaissance composer of the Franco-Flemish School. De Manchicourt was born at Béthune. Little is known of his early life other than that he was
Read → ClassicalPierre Desvignes
Pierre Desvignes (27 September 1764 – 27 January 1827) was a French composer. Life Born in Velars-sur-Ouche (Burgundy) (modern department of Côte-d'Or), from a family of modest farmers, Desvignes was
Read → BaroquePierre Du Mage
Pierre Du Mage (also Dumage; baptised 23 November 1674 – 2 October 1751) was a French Baroque organist and composer. His first music teacher was most likely his father, who was the organist at
Read → 21st CenturyPierre Estève
Pierre Estève (born February 11, 1961, in Cahors, France, is an electric singer-songwriter and composer with a wide range of styles, a musician, a contemporary artist acclaimed for his digital
Read → BaroquePierre Février
Pierre Février (21 March 1696 – 5 November 1760) was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. Biography Born in Abbeville, Province of Picardy, in 1696, he arrived in Paris in 1720 and
Read → MedievalPierre Fontaine (composer)
Pierre Fontaine (; c. 1380 – c. 1450) was a French composer of the transitional era between the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and a member of the Burgundian School of composers. While he
Read → EntryPierre Gambini
Pierre Gambini (born in Corte, Corsica) is a French songwriter and composer. He started in the 1990s as part of the musical formation I Cantelli singing polyphonic Corsican songs and launched a solo
Read → ClassicalPierre Gaveaux
Pierre Gaveaux (6 October 1760 – 5 February 1825) was a French operatic tenor and composer, notable for creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée and for composing Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal,
Read → Post-WarPierre Henry
Pierre Georges Albert François Henry (; 9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer known for his significant contributions to musique concrète. Biography Henry was born in Paris, France,
Read → Post-WarPierre Jansen
Pierre Georges Cornil Jansen (28 February 1930 – 13 August 2015 at Saint-Pierre-Saint-Jean) was a French film scores composer. He was in particular the permanent collaborator of Claude Chabrol for
Read → 21st CenturyPierre Kolp
Pierre Kolp is a Belgian composer and music pedagogue born in Cologne, Germany, on 23 March 1969. With composers Juan Carlos Tolosa, Francis Ubertelli, and David Nuñezañez, he founded the Black
Read → Post-WarPierre Labric
Pierre André Labric (born 30 June 1921) is a French organist, pedagogue, and composer. Biography Born in Conches-en-Ouche in Eure, Normandy, Labric studied organ at the Rouen Conservatoire with
Read → Post-WarPierre Mariétan
Pierre Mariétan (23 September 1935 – 23 March 2025) was a Swiss composer. Biography Born in Monthey, Mariétan studied first at the Geneva Conservatory in 1955–60 with Marescotti and later with,
Read → Post-WarPierre Max Dubois
Pierre Max Dubois, or Pierre-Max Dubois (1 March 1930 – 29 August 1995) was a French composer of classical music, conductor, and music educator. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not
Read → RenaissancePierre Moulu
Pierre Moulu (1484?c. 1550) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance who was active in France, probably in Paris. Life Little is known of his life, but internal evidence in his compositions
Read → RenaissancePierre Passereau
Pierre Passereau (fl. 1509–1547) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Along with Clément Janequin, he was one of the most popular composers of "Parisian" chansons in France in the 1530s. His
Read → Post-WarPierre Petit (composer)
Pierre Petit (21 April 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a French composer. Life Petit was born in Poitiers, the son of a professor of the khâgne. He studied literature and music in Paris (Hattemer Course,
Read → BaroquePierre Robert (composer)
Pierre Robert (c. 1618 – 30 December 1699) was a French composer and early master of the French grand motet. Biography Robert was educated at the boys choir, or maîtrise, of Notre Dame de Paris under
Read → Early RomanticPierre Rode
Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode (; 16 February 1774 – 25 November 1830) was a French violinist and composer. Life and career Born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Pierre Rode traveled in 1787 to Paris and
Read → 20th CenturyPierre Sancan
Pierre Charles Sancan (24 October 1916 – 20 October 2008) was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor. Along with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux, he was a major figure among French
Read → 20th CenturyPierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer ( English pronunciation: , ; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) The genre emerged in Europe from the utilization of new music technology developed in the post-war era,
Read → 21st CenturyPierre Strauch
Pierre Strauch (born 1958) is a French cellist, composer and conductor. Strauch studied cello with Jean Deplace. Strauch won fourth prize at the Rostropovitch Cello Competition in 1977. In 1978
Read → RenaissancePierre Vermont
Pierre Vermont (l’aîné, primus, Vermond seniorem; c. lk=no – before February 22, 1533) was a French composer of the Renaissance, associated with the Sainte-Chapelle. Twelve of his works have
Read → Post-WarPierre Villette
Pierre Villette (; 7 February 1926 – 6 March 1998) was a French composer of choral and instrumental music. Villette was born into a musical family in 1926 at Duclair, Normandy. He studied with
Read → 21st CenturyPierre Yves Lenik
Pierre Yves Lenik (born 27 July 1958) is a French composer, known for his work in French documentaries. His work included the scores for TV series: "Régis l'éventreur" by Georges Combe and TV
Read → BaroquePierre-Gabriel Buffardin
Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (Toulon, 24 March 1693 - Paris, 13 January 1768) was a French flutist and composer of the late Baroque period. He was a son of Jean-Joseph Buffardin (Vaison-la-Romaine, 22
Read → 21st CenturyPierre-Henri Wicomb
Pierre-Henri Wicomb is a South African composer of contemporary music, including orchestral compositions, chamber music, electroacoustic works, and film scores. Early life and education Wicomb was
Read → ClassicalPierre-Joseph Candeille
Pierre-Joseph Candeille (8 December 1744 – 24 April 1827) was a French composer and singer, born in Estaires. He studied at Lille before moving to Paris, where he worked singing basse-taille in the
Read → Early RomanticPierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman
Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman (19 March 178529 October 1853), known as Pierre Zimmermann and Joseph Zimmermann, was a French pianist, composer, and music teacher. Biography Zimmerman was born in
Read → ClassicalPierre-Louis Couperin
Pierre-Louis Couperin (14 March 1755 – 10 October 1789) was a French organist and composer, a member of the famous Couperin dynasty of composer-organists. Life Like his brother Gervais-François,
Read → Early RomanticPierre-Louis Dietsch
Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch (also Dietch, Dietzch, Dietz) (17 March 1808 – 20 February 1865) was a French composer and conductor, perhaps best remembered for the much anthologized Ave Maria 'by'
Read → Early RomanticPierre-Louis Hus-Desforges
Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges (24 March 1773 – 20 January 1838) was a French cellist, conductor and composer. He is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges Jarnowick". The
Read → 20th CenturyPierre-Octave Ferroud
Pierre-Octave Calixte Ferroud (6 January 1900 – 17 August 1936) was a French composer of classical music. Life Ferroud was born in Chasselay, Rhône, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg (for
Read → 21st CenturyPiers Hellawell
Piers Hellawell (born 14 July 1956) is a British composer and professor of composition, currently residing in The Western Isles of Scotland. Biography Hellawell grew up in England and studied
Read → BaroquePieter Bustijn
Pieter Bustijn (; also Pierre Bustyn or Pieter Buystijn ; baptized in 1649 – 22 November 1729) was a Dutch composer, organist, harpsichordist and carillon player of the Baroque period. Bustijn
Read → Post-WarPieter Goemans
Pieter Goemans (1925-2000) was a Dutch composer, probably best known for having written the classic song "Aan de Amsterdamse grachten". Biography Goemans was born on 6 June 1925 in Amsterdam. The son
Read → ClassicalPieter Hellendaal
Pieter Hellendaal (1 April 1721 – 19 April 1799) was a Dutch composer, organist and violinist. At the age of 30, he migrated to England where he lived for the last 48 of his 78 years, and where he
Read → 21st CenturyPieter Schlosser
Pieter Schlosser (born August 17, 1980) is a Guatemalan-American film and television composer best known for Destiny 2, Disney's Secrets Of Sulphur Springs, Telemundo's Malverde: El Santo Patron,
Read → ClassicalPieter van Maldere
Pieter van Maldere, known also as Pierre van Maldere (16 October 1729 – 1 November 1768) was a Flemish violinist and composer. He was a violinist of the Royal Chapel, the court orchestra in Brussels
Read → ClassicalPietro Alessandro Guglielmi
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (9 December 1728 – 19 November 1804) was an Italian opera composer of the classical period. Biography Guglielmi was born into the Guglielmi family of musicians in Massa.
Read → RenaissancePietro Aron
Pietro Aron, also known as Pietro (or Piero) Aaron (c. 1480 – after 1545), was an Italian music theorist and composer. He was born in Florence and probably died in Bergamo (other sources state
Read → 21st CenturyPietro Borradori
Pietro Borradori (Milan, 1965) is an Italian composer and pianist. Biography He began to play Piano at the age of 8 years-old. At 12, he started to compose his first short pieces for piano. He then
Read → RenaissancePietro Della Valle
Pietro Della Valle (; 2 April 1586 – 21 April 1652), also written Pietro della Valle, was an Italian composer, musicologist, and author who travelled throughout Asia during the 17th century. His
Read → ClassicalPietro Denis
Pietro Denis (1720–1790), also known as Pierre Denis, was a French mandolin virtuoso and teacher, and composer. He studied under Giuliano in Naples and established himself in Paris. He is best known
Read → BaroquePietro Domenico Paradies
Pietro Domenico Paradies (also Pietro Domenico Paradisi) (170725 August 1791) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and music teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled
Read → Late RomanticPietro Floridia
Pietro Floridia (5 May 1860 in Modica – 16 August 1932 in New York City) was an Italian composer of classical music. According to David Johnson (quoting the notes, by Luigi della Croce, to the
Read → BaroquePietro Gnocchi
Pietro Gnocchi (27 February 1689 – 9 December 1775) was an Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer of the late Baroque era, active mainly in Brescia, where he was choir director
Read → 20th CenturyPietro Grossi
Pietro Grossi (15 April 1917 – 21 February 2002) was an Italian composer pioneer of computer music, visual artist and hacker ahead of his time. He began experimenting with electronic techniques in
Read → BaroquePietro Locatelli
Pietro Antonio Locatelli (3 September 1695 in Bergamo – 30 March 1764 in Amsterdam) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Biography Bergamo Little is known about Locatelli's childhood. In
Read → Late RomanticPietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera
Read → ClassicalPietro Nardini
Pietro Nardini (12 April 1722 – 7 May 1793) was an Italian composer and violinist, a transitional musician who worked in both the Baroque and Classical era traditions. Life Nardini was born in
Read → BaroquePietro Paolo Bencini
Pietro Paolo Bencini (c. 1670 – 6 July 1755) was an Italian Baroque composer and Kapellmeister. He was the father of Antonio Bencini (died 13 March 1748), who was also known as a composer of sacred
Read → Early RomanticPietro Raimondi
Pietro Raimondi (December 20, 1786, Rome – October 30, 1853) was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras. While he was famous at the time as a composer of operas and
Read → RenaissancePietro Taglia
Pietro Taglia (fl. second half of the 16th century) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, active in Milan, known for his madrigals. Stylistically he was a progressive, following the innovations
Read → BaroquePietro Torri
Pietro Torri (c. 1650 – 6 July 1737) was an Italian Baroque composer. Life Torri was born in Peschiera del Garda, Republic of Venice. From 1684 to 1688, he served as the organist and choirmaster of
Read → Late RomanticPinhas Minkowsky
Pinhas Minkowsky (; April 5, 1859 – January 18, 1924) was a Russian hazzan and composer. Biography Phinehas Minkovsky was born in Bila Tserkva in April 1859. His father, Mordecai, a descendant of
Read → Post-WarPino Calvi
Pino Calvi (12 January 1930 – 4 January 1989) was an Italian pianist, arranger, conductor and soundtrack composer for TV series and films, which included Tunis Top Secret (1959), Crimen (1960) and
Read → Post-WarPino Presti
Giuseppe Prestipino Giarritta (born 23 August 1943), professionally known by his pseudonym Pino Presti, is an Italian conductor, arranger, bassist, composer and record producer from Milan. He is a
Read → 21st CenturyPiotr Damasiewicz
Piotr Damasiewicz (born 11 April 1980), also known as Damaś, is a Polish composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. His instruments include the trumpet, double bass and piano. He studied music in
Read → Post-WarPiotr Lachert
Piotr Lachert (5 September 1938 – 18 September 2018) was a Polish composer, pianist and teacher. Lachert lived and worked in Warsaw, Paris, Hannover, Brussels and in Pescara (Italy) and was a piano
Read → Post-WarPiotr Moss
Piotr Moss (born 13 May 1949 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1981, he has lived in Paris and since 1984 has been a French citizen. In 2011, his concerto for
Read → 21st CenturyPiotr Rubik
Piotr Andrzej Rubik ( Polish pronunciation : ; born 3 September 1968) is a Polish composer of symphonic pop music for orchestra, film and theatre as well as conductor, music producer and vocalist. He
Read → EntryPippa Cleary
Pippa Cleary is an English musical theatre composer and lyricist. She is best known for her collaborations with Jake Brunger and Rob Madge. She is the first female composer with three West End shows.
Read → 20th CenturyPippo Barzizza
Giuseppe "Pippo" Barzizza (; 15 May 1902 – 4 April 1994) was an Italian composer, arranger, conductor and music director. Giuseppe Barzizza, called Pippo, was born in Genova on 15 May 1902, and died
Read → BaroquePirro Albergati
Count Pirro Capacelli Albergati (20 September 1663 – 22 June 1735) was an Italian aristocrat, and amateur composer. Albergati was born in Bologna. The Albergatis were one of the most eminent families
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