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Poldowski

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Poldowski was the professional pseudonym of a Belgian-born British composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski (16 May 187928 January 1932), daughter of the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Some of her early works were published under the name Irène Wieniawska. She married Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, 5th Bt (1869–1961), becoming Lady Dean Paul. Her name appears in a number of forms: * Régine Wieniawski * Irène Wieniawska * Irene Regina Wieniawski or Wieniawska * Lady Dean Paul * Lady Irene Dean Paul * Lady Irene Poldowski Paul * (Madame) Poldowski, Poldowsky or Poldowska. Biography Régine Wieniawski was born on 16 May 1879 in Ixelles, Brussels, where her father, the Polish virtuoso violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski, had earlier settled on his appointment as a professor of the Brussels Conservatory. Her mother was an Englishwoman, Isabelle Bessie Wieniawski (née Hampton), the niece of Irish pianist and composer George Alexander Osborne (who studied under Johann Peter Pixis, François-Joseph Fétis and Friedrich Kalkbrenner and was a close friend of Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz) and a member of a London family that had had associations with Rossini, Meyerbeer, Je

Pollione Ronzi

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Pollione Ronzi (27 February 1833 in Bologna – 3 September 1915 in Milan) was an Italian operatic tenor, composer, conductor, and voice teacher. He sang roles at many important opera houses in Italy, including La Scala in Milan. In 1867, he was heard at the opera house in Livorno as Egidio in Errico Petrella’s La contessa d’Amalfi. In 1871, he sang the role of Rodrigo in Gioachino Rossini’s Otello at the Teatro Regio di Torino. In 1874, he became manager and conductor at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. In 1876, he sang in recital alongside soprano Ida Corani with Clara Schumann as their accompanist in the Royal Philharmonic Society’s concert season in London. He had sung in orchestral concerts with the RPS a year earlier under conductor William Cusins. This was followed in 1854 by Buon Gusto which was first performed at the Teatro di San Carlo. His opera, Dea, premiered at the Vienna State Opera on 4 August 1894. and tenor Franco De Gregorio. References

Polo Piatti

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Polo Osvaldo Ernesto Piatti is a British-Argentine neo-romantic composer, concert pianist and conductor based in the United Kingdom. He is one of very few high-profile international musicians concentrating exclusively on the creation, performance and promotion of melodic, universally appealing classical music. His compositions are performed all over the world for their evocative and passionate character. Considered a pioneer performer of classical piano improvisations since his youth, he toured Europe, Asia, North and South America premiering his own works as a soloist, performing with international orchestras. Piatti is a member of the Royal Society Of Musicians Of Great Britain, the Ivors Academy and the British Music Society among others. Early life and education Piatti started piano lessons at the age of 3 in Buenos Aires, becoming a concert pianist and classical improviser in his youth. At 12 he was admitted to the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated with distinction as Profesor National de Musica. He left South America at the age of sixteen to pursue an international career and continue his music studies in Paris and Berlin, bec

Pomponio Nenna

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Pomponio Nenna (baptized 13 June 1556 – 25 July 1608) was a Neapolitan Italian composer of the Renaissance. He is mainly remembered for his madrigals, which were influenced by Gesualdo, and for his polychoral sacred motets, posthumously published as Sacrae Hebdomadae Responsoria in 1622. Life Pomponio Nenna was born in Bari, in Apulia at the Kingdom of Naples. His father, Giovanni Battista Nenna, was a city official in Bari and was the author of “Il Nennio : nel quale si ragiona di nobiltà”, a book about nobility and virtuous character, published in 1542. Pomponio Nenna probably studied with Stefano Felis in Bari. In 1574 his first pieces of music to be published were four villanelle which were included in the collections of “Villanelle alla Napolitana”, edited by Giovanni Jacopo de Antiquis, who may also have been one of Nenna’s teachers. In 1582 Nenna dedicated his first book of madrigals to Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria, near Bari. Carafa had nominated Nenna to be his successor. and is also the man found in flagrante delicto with the composer Don Carlo Gesualdo’s wife, both of whom were killed in 1590 by Gesualdo’s own hand in one of the most famous murders in the history

Poornachandra Tejaswi (composer)

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Poornachandra Tejaswi is an Indian film composer, lyricist and playback singer who primarily works in Kannada Film Industry. His film debut was made in Pawan Kumar’s directed Lucia, where he wrote the film’s background score, lyrics and songs. Personal life Poornachandra Tejaswi was born (6 October, 1982) into a family where both parents were teachers. He hails from the historical town of Srirangapatna in Mandya District, Karnataka. Tejaswi completed his bachelor’s degree in Engineering from NIE College, Mysore and worked as a software engineer in Mysore for a few years. He belongs to a group of artists in the Kannada Film Industry who have a theatre background. He was part of the Rock band Stone Age and is an active member of the theatre group The Niranthara foundation. Film career Tejaswi began his film career through the critically acclaimed film Lucia (2013). He received a series of nominations and awards including prestigious Karnataka State Award (2014) following soon after. Discography Awards * Karnataka State Award 2014 - For Best music director for Lucia * Filmfare Award (2014) - Best Male Playback Singer for Lucia * Mirchi award (2014) - Upcoming Music Composer for Lucia

Portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach

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The Portraits of Johann Sebastian Bach are various paintings in which the Baroque German composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach is portrayed. The Bach portrait painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann is the best known of all and different copies of it were made over the years. Other paintings have also been discovered often with debate regarding their authenticity. Portraits clearly identified as Bach Elias Gottlob Haussmann In 1747, Bach was admitted as the fourteenth member of the () of Lorenz Christoph Mizler, an association for musical studies founded in 1738. Under the society’s rules, each member had to donate a portrait of himself to the society’s headquarters. It would serve as a model for the engravings that, together with the various biographies of the members, would appear in the Musicalische Bibliothek (Musical library), the official magazine of the association. Upon joining, Bach handed in his own portrait made in 1746 by Elias Gottlob Haussmann. In it, Bach holds the triple six-voice canon BWV 1076. The company, in fact, required candidates to submit a scientific-mathematical work as proof of their erudition. According to an oral tradition, after the dissolution of th

Poul Allin Erichsen

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Poul Allin Erichsen (1910–1970) was a Danish clarinetist and composer. He was married to concert singer and violinist Lise Abrahams and is the father of the hornist and organist Jesper Allin. Early life Poul Allin Erichsen belongs to a branch of the well-known musical family Allin, which originally came from Sweden. His great-grandfather JF Allin played in HC Lumbye’s orchestra in Tivoli Concert Hall. His maternal grandfather Arthur Allin was the cathedral organist in Aarhus . The family also includes the royal chapel musicians Otto Allin, Georg Allin and Georg Allin Wilkenschildt in addition to the royal opera singer Hanna Allin. After graduating from high school in his hometown of Aarhus, he studied with Aage Oxenvad (clarinetist) and Dagmar Bendix (pianist) as well as with Finn Høffding (theory) and Knud Jeppesen (composition) at the Royal Academy of Music (1929-33). He played as 2nd solo clarinetist in the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1935 to 1948 and then as 1st solo clarinetist from 1948 to the end of 1962, when he was appointed professor at the Danish Academy of Music. From 1954 to 1956 , he was chairman of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and managed to get Rafae

Poul Rovsing Olsen

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Poul Rovsing Olsen (November 4, 1922 – July 2, 1982) was a Danish composer and ethnomusicologist. Olsen was born in Copenhagen. He studied with Knud Jeppesen at the Copenhagen Conservatory (1943-6) and with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen in Paris (1948-9), then worked in Copenhagen as a music critic. His early works showed the influences of Bela Bartók, Igor Stravinsky and Carl Nielsen, joined in the 1950s by 12-note serialism, but from the 1960s his music began to reflect his work as a musical ethnologist (A L′inconnu for voice and 13 instruments, 1962): he did fieldwork in Greenland and the Persian Gulf and taught at the universities of Lund (1967-9) and Copenhagen (from 1969). His output includes opera, orchestral and chamber music, piano pieces and songs. His opera Belisa is based on The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden by Federico García Lorca. Compositions Piano: * Piano Sonata No. 1 (1950) * Piano Sonata No. 2 (1952) Orchestral: * Variations Symphoniques, Op. 27 (1953) * Piano Concerto, Op. 31 (1954) * Sinfonia (1958) * Au fond de la nuit, Op. 61 * Lux coelestis (1978) Operas: *Belisa, premiered at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen in 1966 and recorded by Da

Poul Ruders

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Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949) is a Danish composer. Life Born in Ringsted, Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders’s first compositions date from the mid-1960s. Ruders regards his own compositional development as a gradual one, with his true voice emerging with the chamber concerto, Four Compositions, of 1980. His notable students include Marc Mellits. Minor planet 5888 Ruders discovered by Eleanor Helin and Schelte J. Bus is named after him. Music Ruders has created a large body of music ranging from opera and orchestral works through chamber, vocal and solo music in a variety of styles, from the Vivaldi pastiche of his first violin concerto (1981) to the explosive modernism of Manhattan Abstraction (1982). Other works include the operas Tycho (1986), The Handmaid’s Tale (1998, with libretto by Paul Bentley), Proces Kafka / Kafka’s Trial (2005, again with libretto by Bentley), Selma Ježková (2007, after Trier’s Dancer in the Dark ), and the fairytale opera The Thirteenth Child (2016), five symphonies, four string quartets, Violin Concerto No. 1 (1981), Etude and Ricercare (1994) for guitar, for David Starobin, The Bells (songs)

Pozzi Escot

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Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Life Pozzi Escot was born in Lima, Peru. Her father, Marius Emmanuel Pozzi Escot, was a French professor at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru; her mother was Lucía María Zapata Hurtado. After living in Peru, she went to France. Back in Peru, between 1949 and 1953 she studied at the Academy of Music Sas-Rosay (Lima). At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, becoming a citizen three years later. Between 1954 and 1957 she studied at the Juilliard School (in New York), where she graduated with a degree in composition (1956) She has written over thirty articles (mostly published in her own journal) developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics. Her works are recorded on Delos, Neuma, Spectrum, Leo, Music & Arts and Centaur labels and published by Publication Contact International. Pozzi Escot resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her partner, composer and theorist Robert Cogan (1930–2021). References External links *P