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Composers whose names start with PR.

21st Century

Praiz

Praise Ugbede Adejo (born 8 March 1985), better known by his stage name Praiz, is a Nigerian R&B singer, songwriter, and producer. Praiz finished second runner-up at the maiden season of Project Fame

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Prakash Alex

Prakash Alex is an Indian composer and singer who primarily works in South Indian films. Early life Prakash Alex was born to Reverend K. P. Alexander and Leelamma, a school teacher, in

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Praxilla

Praxilla (), was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC from Sicyon on the Gulf of Corinth. Five quotations attributed to Praxilla and three paraphrases from her poems survive. The surviving

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20th Century

Predrag Milošević (composer)

Predrag Milošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Милошевић; February 4, 1904 in Knjaževac – January 4, 1988 in Belgrade) was a composer, conductor, pianist, pedagogue, and music writer. As one of those

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20th Century

Prenk Jakova

Prenk Jakova (; 27 June 191719 September 1969) was an Albanian composer, musician, and author of Mrika (1958), which is considered the first Albanian opera. External links * * *Full List of

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Late Romantic

Preston Ware Orem

Preston Ware Orem (April 20, 1865 – December 20, 1938) was an American composer, pianist, and writer on music. He is frequently grouped with other composers as part of the Indianist movement in

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20th Century

Priaulx Rainier

Ivy Priaulx Rainier (3 February 190310 October 1986) was a South African-British composer. Although she lived most of her life in England and died in France, her compositional style was strongly

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Post-War

Pril Smiley

Pril Smiley (born 19 March 1943) is an American composer and pioneer of electronic music. Biography Pril Smiley was born in Mohonk Lake, New York. She worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic

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Post-War

Primož Ramovš

Primož Ramovš (March 20, 1921 – January 10, 1999) was a Slovenian composer and librarian. Life Ramovš was born in Ljubljana, then the administrative centre of the Slovenian part of the Kingdom of

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Romantic

Prince Edmond de Polignac

Prince Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac (19 April 18348 August 1901) was a French aristocrat and composer. Ancestry Edmond was a member of the Polignac family, one of the more illustrious

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Late Romantic

Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia

Prince Joachim of Prussia (27 September 1876 – 24 October 1939) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern. He was the second eldest son of Prince Albert of Prussia and his wife Princess Marie of

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Baroque

Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar

Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar () (25 December 1696 – 1 August 1715) was a German prince, son by his second marriage of Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Despite his early death he is remembered as

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Early Romantic

Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806)

Prince Frederick Louis Christian "Ferdinand" of Prussia (; 18 November 1772 – 10 October 1806), was a Prussian prince, soldier, composer and pianist. Prince Louis Ferdinand fought in the Napoleonic

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Early Romantic

Princess Amalie of Saxony

Amalie Marie Friederike Auguste (10 August 1794 – 18 September 1870), Princess of Saxony, full name Maria Amalia Friederike Augusta Karolina Ludovica Josepha Aloysia Anna Nepomucena Philippina

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Late Romantic

Princess Anna of Montenegro

Princess Anna of Montenegro (18 August 1874 – 22 April 1971) was the seventh child and sixth daughter of Nicholas I of Montenegro and his wife Queen Milena. Family and early life Anna was born on 18

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Early Romantic

Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)

Cecilia of Sweden (22 June 1807 – 27 January 1844) was a composer, a Swedish princess by birth, and Grand Duchess of Oldenburg by marriage. She was the daughter of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and

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Late Romantic

Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (23 September 1853 – 22 February 1923) was the only daughter of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, by his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia. She was

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Post-War

Priscilla McLean

Priscilla McLean (née Taylor; born May 27, 1942) is an American composer, performer, video artist, writer, and music reviewer. Life Priscilla Taylor was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the daughter

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21st Century

Priti Paintal

Priti Paintal (born 1960) is a British composer, performer, music producer and promoter who lives and works in England. Life Paintal was born in New Delhi, India, the daughter of the distinguished

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Post-War

Przemysław Gintrowski

Przemysław Adam Gintrowski (21 December 1951 – 20 October 2012) was a Polish composer and musician. Gintrowski debuted in 1976 on a review of the Warsaw Riviera with the song "Epitaph for Sergei

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