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Composers whose names start with RA.

Late Romantic

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal

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20th Century

Rabon Tarrant

Robert W. "Rabon" Tarrant (December 25, 1908 – October 11, 1975) was an American jump blues and jazz drummer, singer and songwriter. His most notable composition was "Blues with a Feeling", later

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Post-War

Rachel Eubanks

Rachel Amelia Eubanks (September 12, 1922 – April 8, 2006) was an American composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. Life and career Rachel Amelia Eubanks was born on September 12, 1922 in San Jose,

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Post-War

Rachel Galinne

Rachel Galinne (Rachel S. Gluchowicz; Hebrew: רחל גלעין; born 7 February 1949) is an Israeli composer. Life and career Rachel Galinne was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated from Uppsala

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21st Century

Rachel Laurin

Rachel Laurin (), born on 11 August 1961, in Saint-Benoît (Québec), and deceased on 13 August 2023, in Ottawa (Ontario), was a Canadian organist, composer and educator. Musical training It was in her

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21st Century

Rachel Portman

Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman (born 11 December 1960) is a British composer. She was the first female composer to win the Academy Award for Best Original Score (for Emma), and was nominated two

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Post-War

Rade Jovanović (composer)

Radoslav "Rade" Jovanović (; 1928–1986) was a Yugoslav composer and songwriter, best known for his legacy collection of sevdalinka folk songs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Biography He attended

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20th Century

Radie Britain

Radie Britain (March 17, 1899 – May 23, 1994) was an American composer, pianist, writer and music educator. Life Early life and education Radie Britain was born near Silverton, Texas, the third child

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Post-War

Radim Drejsl

Radim Drejsl (29 April 1923 – 20 April 1953) was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor. He is considered an important composer of politically engaged songs promoting visions of Czechoslovak

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Classical

Rafael Antonio Castellanos

Rafael Antonio Castellanos (c. 1725–1791) was a Guatemalan classical composer. His style is that of the late Spanish baroque, pre-classical, and classical periods, with frequent reference to

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Post-War

Rafael Escalona

Rafael Calixto Escalona Martínez (27 May 1927 – 13 May 2009) was a Colombian songwriter. He is considered one of the best vallenato songwriters of all time, though he could not play an instrument and

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Romantic

Rafael Hernando

Rafael José Maria Hernando y Palomar (31 May 1822, in Madrid – 10 July 1888, in Madrid) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas, being that his contributions to the genre lead to the development of the

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Late Romantic

Rafael Joseffy

Rafael Joseffy (July 3, 1852 – June 25, 1915) was a Hungarian Jewish pianist, teacher and composer. Life Rafael Joseffy was born in Hunfalu, Szepes County (now Huncovce, Slovakia) in 1852. His youth

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Post-War

Rafał Augustyn (composer)

Rafał Augustyn (born 28 August 1951) is a Polish composer of classical music, pianist, music critic, writer and scholar of Polish philology. As a composer, he has written symphonies, chamber

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21st Century

Rafeeq Saudagar

Rafeeq Saudagar (Urdu: رفیق سوداگر, born 28 March 1971) is an Indian Urdu poet and doctor. He is the President of the Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu (Yadgir Unit). He was awarded the "Achievers Award" by

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Romantic

Raffaello Carboni

Raffaello Carboni (15 December 1817 – 24 October 1875) was an Italian writer, composer and interpreter who wrote a book on the Eureka Stockade which he witnessed while living in Australia. Although

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Post-War

Raffaello de Banfield

Raffaello de Banfield (2 June 1922 – 7 January 2008), also known as Raphael Douglas, Baron von Banfield Tripcovich, was a British-born Italian composer. Family Raffaello de Banfield was the son of

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Late Romantic

Raffaello Squarise

Raffaello Squarise (13 November 1856—15 April 1945), also known as Raphael Squarise, was an Italian violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer, who settled in Adelaide, South Australia, and Dunedin,

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Post-War

Raffi Armenian

Raffi Armenian, (born June 4, 1942) is a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher. He directed the Kitchener–Waterloo Symphony orchestra for many years. Since 1999 he has been the director

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Post-War

Rageh Daoud

Rageh Sami Daoud (; born November 23, 1954; first name also spelled Ragueh and last name also spelled Dawood) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of that nation's

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Post-War

Ragnar Søderlind

Ragnar Søderlind (born 27 June 1945) is a Norwegian composer. He has written ballets and operas, and for the concert hall, programmatic works based on poems. Biography Ragnar studied with Conrad

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21st Century

Ragnhild Berstad

Ragnhild Berstad (born in Oslo in 1956) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Career Berstad started her musical career as a guitarist and music teacher. She later studied music theory at the

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21st Century

Rahul Suntah

Rahul Suntah (born 6 June 1997) is a Mauritian composer, music producer and pianist. Rahul attracted significant media attention from platforms such as BBC and ITV for his viral piano covers of

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Romantic

Raimund Dreyschock

Raimund Dreyschock (30 August 1824 – 6 February 1869) was a Czech composer and violinist. He was the brother of Alexander Dreyschock and father of Felix Dreyschock. Biography Raimund Dreyschock was

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Late Romantic

Raimund Kull

Raimund Kull (3 October 1882 – 10 October 1942) was an Estonian conductor and composer. Born in Narva, at the time part of the Russian Empire, Kull studied trombone at the St. Petersburg Conservatory

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Late Romantic

Raimund Pechotsch

Raimund Leo Pechotsch (23 July 1864 – 20 January 1941) was a composer of romantic and incidental musical theatre pieces. He was a Roman Catholic who also conducted liturgical music. Life Pechotsch

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Post-War

Rainer Böhm

Rainer Böhm (23 February 1952 – 21 May 2013) was a German composer. Life Born in Berlin, Böhm studied composition and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". Afterwards he was a master

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Post-War

Rainer Kunad

Rainer Kunad (24 October 1936, Chemnitz – 17 July 1995, Reutlingen) was a German conductor and composer, especially of opera. Life Kunad studied choir and ensemble conducting at the Dresden

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Post-War

Rainer Riehn

Rainer Riehn (12 November 1941 – 9 June 2015 He met the music theorist Heinz-Klaus Metzger at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the summer of 1965. In 1968 he founded the Ensemble Musica Negativa, in

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Post-War

Rakoto Frah

Philibert Rabezoza (1923 – 29 September 2001), better known by the name Rakoto Frah, was a flautist and composer of traditional music of the central highlands of Madagascar. Born in 1923 near the

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Late Romantic

Ralph Benatzky

Ralph Benatzky (5 June 1884 – 16 October 1957) was a Czech-Austrian composer. He composed operas and operettas, such as Casanova (1928), Die drei Musketiere (1929), The White Horse Inn (1930) and

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20th Century

Ralph Erwin

Ralph Erwin (31 October 1896 – 15 May 1943), originally Erwin Vogl, was the Austrian-born French composer of a number of film scores. Career Erwin Vogl was born in Bielitz, in the part of Silesia

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Post-War

Ralph Lundsten

Ralph Harold Lundsten (6 October 1936 – 5 July 2023) was a Swedish composer, widely regarded as a pioneer of electronic music in Scandinavia. In addition to his musical work, he was also active as a

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Post-War

Ralph Shapey

Ralph Shapey (12 March 1921 – 13 June 2002) was an American composer and conductor. Biography Shapey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his work as a composition professor at the

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Late Romantic

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams ( ; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions

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Post-War

Rambhadracharya

Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (born Giridhar Mishra on 14 January 1950) and has held this title since 1988. Rambhadracharya is the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth, a religious and

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Post-War

Rami Bar-Niv

Rami Bar-Niv (; born December 1, 1945) is an Israeli pianist, composer and author. Life and career Bar-Niv is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he studied piano with Karol

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21st Century

Raminta Šerkšnytė

Raminta Šerkšnytė (born 1975) is a Lithuanian composer, pianist and Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts laureate. Life and career Šerkšnytė was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. From 1982 to

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Post-War

Ramiro Cortés

Ramiro Cortés Jr. (25 November 1933 – 2 July 1984) was an American composer. Cortés was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1933 to Ramiro Cortés, Sr. and Elvira Cortés (née Acosta). He studied with Henry

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Post-War

Ramiz Mustafayev

Ramiz Haji oghlu Mustafayev (, October 16, 1926 — April 10, 2008) was an Azerbaijani composer, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, Laureate of the Shohrat Order. Biography Ramiz Mustafayev was

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Early Romantic

Ramón Carnicer

Ramón Carnicer i Batlle (October 24, 1789 – March 17, 1855) was a Spanish composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile. Biography Carnicer was born in

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Post-War

Ramon Santos

Ramón Pagayon Santos (born 25 February 1941) is a Filipino composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator known for being the Philippines' foremost living exponent of contemporary Filipino classical

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Post-War

Ramón Sender (composer)

Ramón Sender Barayón (born October 29, 1934) is a composer, visual artist and writer. He was the co-founder with Morton Subotnick of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1962. He is the son of

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21st Century

Rand Steiger

Rand Steiger (born June 18, 1957, in New York City) is an American composer, conductor, and pedagogue. Steiger attended the Manhattan School of Music and the California Institute of the Arts, where

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21st Century

Randall Woolf

Randall Woolf (born August 23, 1959) is an American composer known for his diverse contemporary works for chamber orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo players, often combined with digital audio,

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21st Century

Randolph Peters

Randolph Peters (born 28 December 1959) is a Canadian composer who is known for his output of roughly 100 film scores made mostly for Canadian films. Early life and education Peters was born in

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Post-War

Randy Edelman

Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American musician, producer, and composer and conductor for film and television. He began his career as a member of Broadway's pit orchestras; he later

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Post-War

Randy Raine-Reusch

Randy Raine-Reusch (born 1952) is a Canadian composer, performer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist specializing in New and Experimental Music for instruments from around the world, particularly

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Entry

Randy Vancourt

Randy Vancourt is a Canadian composer and entertainer. A Juno Award nominated composer, he has written music for television series such as Man Alive, Hello Mrs. Cherrywinkle, Carmen SanDiego and

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Post-War

Ranko Rihtman

Ranko Rihtman (Sarajevo, ) is a Bosnian pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. Education Ranko Rihtman attended Sarajevo Music Academy, where he graduated at the Department of Ethnomusicology

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Entry

Raoul de Ferrières

Raoul de Ferrières (fl. 1200–10), originally de Ferier, was a Norman nobleman and trouvère. He was born in Ferrières in what is today the département of Eure. In 1209, Raoul was mentioned in a

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Late Romantic

Raoul Koczalski

Raoul Armand Jerzy (von) Koczalski (3 January 1884 – 24 November 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski. Biography Early years Born in Warsaw,

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Late Romantic

Raoul Laparra

Raoul Laparra (13 May 1876 – 4 April 1943) was a French composer. Life Born in Bordeaux, Laparra studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Gedalge, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré and Albert

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21st Century

Raphaël Elig

Raphael Elig (born Raphael Eligoulachvili in Paris) is a French musician and composer of Georgian origin. Life After classical studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and harmony,

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20th Century

Raphaël Fumet

Raphaël Marie Paul Fumet (31 May 1898 – 1979) was a 20th-century French composer and organist. Biography Born in Juilly (Seine-et-Marne), the son of composer Dynam-Victor Fumet (a student with César

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21st Century

Raquel García-Tomás

Raquel García-Tomás (born in Barcelona, 1984) is a Spanish composer specialized in multidisciplinary and collaborative creation. In 2020 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Música in the

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21st Century

Rasmus Borowski

Rasmus Borowski (born 21 May 1974) is a German composer, singer, and actor. Early life and education Rasmus Borowski was born in Hamburg in 1974. His parents, recording engineer Richard Borowski and

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Post-War

Raúl de Ramón

Raúl de Ramón, full name Raúl Alberto de Ramón García del Postigo, (May 12, 1929, Santiago de Chile — April 1984) was a Chilean composer, musician and folklorist and author of numerous widely known

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21st Century

Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon (born 1977) is a Diné composer, musician, and artist. Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation, Chacon became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music,

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Post-War

Ravi (composer)

Ravi Shankar Sharma (3 March 1926 – 7 March 2012), often referred mononymously as Ravi, was an Indian music director who had composed music for several Hindi and Malayalam films. After a successful

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Post-War

Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury; and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's

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20th Century

Ray Evans

Raymond Bernard Evans (February 4, 1915 – February 15, 2007) was an American songwriter best known for being a half of a composing-songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, specializing himself in writing

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Post-War

Ray Griff

John Raymond David Griff (April 22, 1940 – March 9, 2016) was a Canadian country music singer and songwriter, born in Vancouver and raised in Toronto. His songwriting credits reached over 2500 songs,

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Post-War

Ray Holman

Raymond Anthony Holman (born 1944) is a musician, composer, pannist and performer from Trinidad and Tobago. Biography In 1957, Ray Holman began playing steelpan at the age of 13 with the Invaders

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20th Century

Ray Martin (orchestra leader)

Raymond Stuart Martin (born Kurt Kohn; 11 October 1918 – 7 February 1988) was an Austrian-British orchestra leader. He was noted for his light music compositions. Allmusic journalist Bradley Torreano

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Post-War

Ray Santos

Raymond Santos (December 28, 1928 – October 17, 2019) was an American Grammy Award-winning Latin musician, composer, and educator. Santos has played and arranged for such artists as Noro Morales,

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20th Century

Raymond B. Egan

Raymond Blanning Egan (November 14, 1890 – October 13, 1952) was a Canadian-born American songwriter of popular music. Many of his songs have appeared in films and musical theatre. He often

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Entry

Raymond C. Fagan

Raymond C. Fagan was an American music composer, pianist, and Jazz Band leader during the early 20th century. He was an Orchestra leader at the Temple Theater in Rochester, New York. He was

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Post-War

Raymond Daveluy

Joseph Eugène Raymond-Marie Daveluy (; 23 December 1926 – 1 September 2016) was a Canadian composer, organist, music educator, and arts administrator. An associate composer of the Canadian Music

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Post-War

Raymond Deane

Raymond Deane (born 27 January 1953) is an Irish composer. Biography Deane was born in Tuam, County Galway and brought up on Achill Island, County Mayo. From 1963 he lived in Dublin, where initially

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Post-War

Raymond Guiot

Raymond Guiot (; 5 October 1930 – 11 July 2025) was a French flautist and composer. He was known for both classical music and jazz, as principal flute at the Opéra de Paris from 1962 to 1991 and an

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20th Century

Raymond Hanson (composer)

Raymond (Charles) Hanson AM (23 November 19136 December 1976) was an Australian composer and lecturer in composition at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music now known as the Sydney Conservatorium of

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20th Century

Raymond Loucheur

Raymond Loucheur (1 January 1899 – 14 September 1979) was a French composer. Life Very early, he left the town of Tourcoing where he was born to study at Le Havre with Henri Woollett who had Arthur

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Post-War

Raymond Luedeke

Raymond Luedeke (born 1944) is an American / Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. Praised for his idiosyncratic instrumental writing and for his orchestration, Luedeke has more recently

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Post-War

Raymond Premru

Raymond Eugene Premru (June 6, 1934 – May 8, 1998) was an American trombonist, composer, and teacher who spent most of his career in London, England. Life and career The son of a Methodist minister,

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Late Romantic

Raymond Rôze

Raymond Rôze (14 July 1873 – 30 March 1920) was an English composer and conductor. Biography He was born in London and the son of the French soprano Marie Rôze, and the natural son of Prince Alfred,

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Post-War

Raymond Warren

Raymond Henry Charles Warren (7 November 1928 – 4 June 2025) was a British composer and university teacher. Warren studied at Cambridge, and taught at Queen's University Belfast, where he was the

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Post-War

Raymond Wilding-White

Raymond Wilding-White (also known as Ray Wilding-White); (9 October 1922 – 24 August 2001) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music, and a photographer/digital

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Post-War

Raynald Arseneault

Raynald Arseneault (9 June 1945 – 27 January 1995) was a Canadian composer and organist. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output consists of more than 50 works. His style

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Classical

Raynor Taylor

Raynor Taylor (1747 – 17 August 1825) was an English organist, music teacher, composer, and singer who lived and worked in the United States after emigrating in 1792. Active in composing music for

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