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Rabindranath Tagore

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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 Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful” poetry of Gitanjali. Tagore’s poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”, At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha (“Sun Lion”), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dram

Rabon Tarrant

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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 recorded by Little Walter and many other musicians, becoming a blues standard. Biography Tarrant was born in Ennis, Texas. He later lived in Wichita Falls with his uncle, By the mid-1930s, he was based in California, where he played with Edith Turnham’s Orchestra in San Diego, and then with Bert Johnson’s brother Cee Pee Johnson’s orchestra in Hollywood. He first recorded as the drummer with Jack McVea’s orchestra in 1944. Tarrant was occasionally credited on records from 1945, and became the vocalist on about one-third of the tracks recorded by McVea in the late 1940s. He also wrote for McVea’s band, his songs including “Lonesome Blues,” “Naggin’ Woman Blues,” and “Slowly Going Crazy Blues.” Tarrant also led his own sessions from around 1945, on some of which his band included Charles Mingus (bass) and Lucky Thompson (tenor saxophone). As Rabon Toren, he recorded with Charlie Whitfield in 1952. From the early 1950s, Tarrant led his own band, which performed for the following two decades.

Rachel Eubanks

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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, California, US. Her parents, Joseph Sylvester and Elizabeth Amelia Eubanks, struggled during the Great Depression, still managing to take Rachel and her brothers Jonathan and Joseph to the concerts of numerous musicians: Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson. Settling in Oakland, California, Eubanks attended Roosevelt Junior High School and later Oakland High School. Eubanks learned both clarinet and alto horn in elementary school, later taking piano lessons. She wrote her first composition at 11 years old; after finishing a poem for Mother’s Day, Eubanks considered it incomplete and decided to set it to music. Other early pieces include the works Just You and I and Memories of Mother of Mine. Her first serious work came at age 14: the Waters of the Ganges for piano, inspired by the stories of a family friend who went to India as a missionary. Eubanks married Mac MacDonald, a Baptist minister, in 1950. Her future plans did not align with the traditional responsibilities for the

Rachel Galinne

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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 University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 and then studied composition with Leon Schidlowsky at the Rubin Academy at Tel Aviv University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1984 and a Master of Music degree in 1988. She also studied composition with Witold Lutoslawski in France, and attended Darmstadt. After completing her studies, she worked as a composer. In 1994 she received the Prime Minister’s Prize for Composers and the ACUM Prize. Discography Galinne has issued the following CD albums available at the Israel Music Institute: *Rachel Galinne (1999) *Prisms (2004) *I Will Walk in the Land of the Living (2008) *A Voice Crieth in the Wilderness (2011) Works Selected works include: *Islossning, 2 pianoforte, percussion, 1984 *Cycles, 1986 *Concerto, 2 pianoforte, orchestra, 1988 *Trio, cl, va, pianoforte, 1989 *Symphony no.1, 1996 *Symphony no.2, 1998 *Uneginotai Nenagen And We Shall Sing my Song of Praise (Isaiah xxxviii), 16-pt mixed chorus, 1993 *Amitai in memo

Rachel Laurin

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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 hometown, with her mother Madeleine Brunet, who played both the piano and the organ, that Rachel Laurin began studying piano at age 9, and then organ at 14. Her interest in composition emerged at 15, and at 17, she moved to Montréal to pursue her studies. From 1978 to 1980, she attended Collège Marguerite-Bourgeoys (now Marianopolis College) where she studied organ with Lucienne L’Heureux-Arel. Admitted to the Montreal Conservatory of Music in 1980, she studied organ with Gaston Arel and Raymond Daveluy, piano with Raoul Sosa, and jazz with Nick Ayoub. During her studies, she won the McAbbie Foundation Scholarship (1985), the Wilfrid-Pelletier Scholarship of Excellence (1986), and the Conrad-Letendre Scholarship (five times). In a review of a 2016 recording, Choir & Organ magazine commended her “imaginative and demanding scores”, “well crafted in a kind of New World fusion of musical styles from France, Germany and England.” Although several works require virtuosity from the performer,

Rachel Portman

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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 further times (for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat). She has composed more than one hundred scores for film, television and theatre, and has collaborated with the BBC on several projects, including an opera based on The Little Prince and a choral symphony called A Water Diviner’s Tale. Portman’s career in music began with writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Mike Leigh’s Four Days in July and Jim Henson’s Storyteller series. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2010, and is an honorary member of Worcester College, Oxford. Portman is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. She was made an honorary fellow in a ceremony at the RCM, where Prince Charles (now King Charles III), then President of the RCM, presented the award. Early life and education Portman was born in Haslemere in Surrey, England, the daughter of Sheila Margaret Penelope (née Mowat) Portman and Berkeley Charles Berkeley Portman. Portman studied

Rade Jovanović (composer)

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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 schools in Goražde and Priboj. With the breakout of the World War II at the age of 13 he joined the Yugoslav partisans. Consequently, some of his songs were dedicated to his brothers in arms. He contracted tuberculosis during imprisonment on Goli Otok during the war but was able to survive harsh conditions of partisans life. After the war he had propelled as a youth leader before being sent to the island of Goli Otok, where he was held as a political prisoner due to the Cominform Resolution. He was released after 18 months and returned to his hometown. His first successful song was “Često mlađan prošetam kraj Drine”. Another one followed “Na obali Drine” performed by Zaim Imamović. Then Nada Mamula sang “Negdje u daljine”, and “Sjecaš li se ratni druže” i “Bolan ti ležim jarane” were performed by Gvozden Radičević. Country-wide recognition shortly follows when he wins at the festival Ilidža 1964 with his song “Jablani se povijaju”, performed by Safet Isović. That song alone won the awards for

Radie Britain

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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 of Edgar Charles and Katie (Ford) Britain. Her unusual first name was reportedly her mother’s choice, as Britain described in her autobiography, with her mother stating, “I wished to call you Radie. It’s a strong name, and you will make it stronger by making a name for yourself.” In 1905, the Britain family moved to a ranch near Clarendon, Texas, to be closer to education opportunities for the children. During this time, she attended her very first orchestral concert, a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Frederick Stock. In 1922 she studied with organist Pietro Yon in Dallas, who furthered Britain’s desire to travel to Europe to continue her musical education. She made the arrangements, and by 1923 was studying with Marcel Dupré in Paris. Works Britain incorporated musical idioms from the southwestern United States into her compositions. According to a letter she wrote in 1989, Britain composed 257 works, including 55 pieces for or

Radim Drejsl

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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 communist regime in the 1950s. Drejsl applied the ideas of socialist realism in his music. Biography Drejsl was born on 29 April 1923 in Dobruška, Czechoslovakia. Following his graduation at the gymnasium in Rychnov nad Kněžnou in 1942 he continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory. From 1942 to 1946 he studied composition with Karel Janeček and Pavel Bořkovec; and conducting as a pupil of Pavel Dědeček. Later (from 1946 to 1950) he deepened his musical skills at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1949 he became director of the Vít Nejedlý Army Artistic Ensemble (Armádní umělecký soubor Víta Nejedlého) in Prague. In April, 1953, shortly after his return to Prague from the Soviet Union, Drejsl committed suicide. He was allegedly so disappointed by the terrible life conditions in the Soviet communist world that his enthusiastic devotion to the communist ideas was destroyed. However, the speculations of murder were unproven. His alleged suicide has been identified by communists as

Rafael Antonio Castellanos

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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 Guatemalan folk music idioms. Life From an early age, Castellanos trained as an apprentice under his uncle Manuel José de Quirós, chapelmaster of the cathedral of Santiago de Guatemala. In 1740, the young Rafael signed a composition for voice and basso continuo, on the Latin text of the Second Lamentation of Jeremiah. This piece reflects his mastery of baroque writing and an unusual expressive talent. In 1745 he became a journeyman and was admitted as a member of the cathedral orchestra as first violin, sometimes also playing harp. During the 1750s he produced various of his own compositions for the matins services, along with those of his uncle. When Quirós died in 1765, Castellanos was appointed his successor as chapel master, with the duties of conducting cathedral music during matins, vespers, and Mass, and of composing suitable music for different liturgical occasions. After the earthquake of 1773 life changed dramatically in the City of Santiago de Guatemala, which would shortly move to t

Rafael Escalona

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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 rarely sang. He was a co-founder of the Vallenato Legend Festival, along with Consuelo Araújo and Alfonso López Michelsen. Escalona was a long-time friend of Gabriel García Márquez, who mentions him in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and described him as “the intellectual of vallenato.” Early life and education Escalona was born on 27 May 1927 in Patillal, in the Colombian department of Cesar (but at that time in Magdalena). He was the seventh child of colonel Manuel Clemente Escalona Labarces, a veteran of the Thousand Days’ War, and Margarita Martínez Celedón. Unusually for early vallenato figures, his family were wealthy. Escalona attended school at the in Valledupar, and there aged 15 he wrote his first song “El Profe Castañeda” about a teacher Heriberto Castañeda. Escalona left the school in 1943 after completing the third year of his , and started attending the in Santa Marta. After repeating his fifth year three times, Escalona left the Liceo Celedón without graduating in 1948, a

Rafael Hernando

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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 zarzuela grande. His body of work consists of 17 operettas and some religious works. None of his zazuelas has been in the repertoire of today. Biography Son of Pedro Hernando and Eugenia Hernando Palomar, his mother left him an orphan at the age of two. At fifteen he entered the Madrid Conservatory, In 1843, he moved to Paris, studying with Miguel García and befriending Daniel Auber. Works *1849 El duende - Zarzuela - Libreto by Luis de Olona *1849 Palo de ciego - Zarzuela en 1 acto - Libreto by Juan del Peral *1849 Colegialas y soldados - Zarzuela en 2 actos - Libreto by Mariano Pina *1850 Bertoldo y comparsa - Libreto by Gregorio Romero y Larrañaga *1851 Escenas de Chamberí - Collective work - Libreto by Luis de Olona *1851 Segunda parte de El duende - Zarzuela en 2 actos - Libreto by Luis de Olona *1852 El novio pasado por agua - Zarzuela en 3 actos - Libreto by Manuel Bretón de los Herreros *1852 El secreto de la Reina - Co-authors Joaquín Gaztambide and José Inzenga *1853 Don Simpli

Rafael Joseffy

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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 was spent in Miskolc, and he began his study of the piano there at the age of eight. He studied in Budapest with Friedrich Brauer, the teacher of Stephen Heller. In 1866, he went to Leipzig, where his teachers were Ignaz Moscheles and Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel. In 1868, he became a pupil of Karl Tausig in Berlin, remaining with him for two years. Later he spent two summers with Franz Liszt in Weimar. He made his debut in Berlin in 1872 and was immediately acclaimed as a master pianist of great brilliance. He moved to the United States in 1879, where he lived in New York City. Joseffy made his American debut in New York in 1879, with an orchestra under Leopold Damrosch. He soon after played with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and subsequently made many appearances in New York and other American cities with Theodore Thomas and the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. In December 1889 he was a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch for the grand opening of Lincoln Music H

Rafał Augustyn (composer)

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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 orchestra works, vocal and electronic music, as well as music for theatre. Since the mid-1990s, Augustyn has collaborated with visual artists, architects and photographers on numerous multimedia artworks. Education and career Augustyn was born on 28 August 1951 in Wrocław, Poland. He studied composition under Ryszard Bukowski at the State Higher School of Music in Wrocław between 1971 and 1974, and between 1975 and 1977 at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice, where he studied under Henryk Górecki. In 1979, Augustyn began to teach at the Institute of Polish Philology at Wrocław University and has remained there since. His works have had numerous performances at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, as well as at other Polish festivals, and across Europe, North America and the Far East. As a music writer and critic, he has written for such journals and periodicals as Ruch Muzyczny and Odra. One of his major pieces, his “Symphony of Hymns”, took 20 years to complete, typically lasts for 100 minutes

Rafeeq Saudagar

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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 the Karnataka Urdu Academy and the Karnataka Centre Muslim Association in Raichur on 23 June 2019. Early life Saudagar was born to Abdul Razak Saudagar and Hafeeza Begum on 28 March 1971 in Kadechur, Yadgir district, Karnataka. He is a doctor He began writing poetry at the age of 18 but published his first book in 2004. He is also a supporter of the Urdu language and the Urdu-speaking people of India. Personal life Saudagar married Kahkashan Saudagar in 2004. The couple has three sons and lives in Millat Nagar, Yadgir city, Karnataka. * President - Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu (Yadgir Unit) - 2012–Present. Bibliography * Safar Kahkashan Ka. * Yaad e Maazi. References External links * Dr Rafeeq Saudagar - WikiMedia. *Rafeeq Saudagar official Facebook page

Raffaello Carboni

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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 only a spectator at the Eureka Rebellion he was charged with treason in the Supreme Court of Victoria, but found not guilty of the charge and released on 21 March 1855. Carboni left Australia on 18 January 1856 for Europe. After periods of travelling, he returned to Italy, where he died in Rome in 1875. He was, however, arrested and tried for treason, but later acquitted in March, having been taken ill with dysentery in gaol. In July 1855, Carboni was elected to the local court at Ballarat to adjudicate mining disputes. His book, The Eureka Stockade, the only complete first-hand description and analysis of the causes of the attack on the Eureka Stockade, was published a year after the uprising. Carboni became a naturalised British citizen, but left Australia on 18 January 1856, sailing in the Impératrice Eugénie, and using some of the gold found at Ballarat to pay for his travels. After three years’ travel during which he visited Jerusalem and Bethlehem, he returned to Italy and worked f

Raffaello de Banfield

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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 Austro-Hungarian flying ace Gottfried von Banfield (last surviving Knight of the Military Order of Maria Theresa) and the Countess Maria Tripcovich (originating from Trieste), who acquired a permanent residence in England in 1920. He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was married to (1923-2017) on 27 December 1976. The marriage remained childless; Brandolini d’Adda had three children from her first marriage to Count Leonardo Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga. Life Raffaello de Banfield attended the Swiss International Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, the “Dante Alighieri” Lyceum in Trieste, the University of Bologna and the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice led by Gian Francesco Malipiero. He studied composition from 1946 to 1949 at the National Conservatory (under the direction of Henri Busser) with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In these years he met Herbert von Karajan with whom he had a lifelong friendship, and also with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc. In the United

Raffaello Squarise

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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, New Zealand. He was a pioneer in the establishment of classical music in New Zealand. Biography Early years in Italy Raffaello Squarise was born in Vicenza, then part of the Austrian Empire, where his father, Antonio Squarise, worked as a sculptor. He attended the Istituto Musicale, Turin, for six years, studying violin under Francesco Bianchi and Pietro Bertuzzi, and composition under Carlo Pedrotti. Around this time he played in the orchestra of the Teatro Regio. Squarise graduated in 1875, completing a miniature Symphony in C Minor for his final examination. On returning to Vicenza he completed further study under Francesco Canneti. He afterwards served as military bandmaster at Contarina and municipal bandmaster at Arzignano. Australian years Squarise left Italy for Australia in 1882, arriving in Melbourne in August that year. He spent much of the next year as a violinist in the touring opera orchestras of the Williamson, Garner and Musgrove Company, and the Cagli and Paoli Opera C

Raffi Armenian

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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 of Orchestral Studies at the University of Toronto. From 2008 to 2011 he was the director of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Early life and education Armenian was born in Cairo and had his first music lessons there, moving in 1959 to Vienna to study piano with Bruno Seidlhofer. After graduating, he put his musical studies aside and attended the University of London from 1962 to 1965, where he majored in metallurgy. He returned to the Vienna Academy of Music and studied from 1965 to 1969. In 1968, Armenian was one of two finalists at the International Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon, France. Career Armenian emigrated to Canada in 1969 to become the assistant conductor of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. From 1971 to 1993, he was the artistic director and conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Under Armenian’s guidance, the K-W Symphony developed from an amateur ensemble in the mid-1970s to a professional orchestra. A

Rageh Daoud

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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 third generation of such composers. He has composed for piano, voice, and orchestra, and has written a number of film scores. Life and career Rageh Daoud was born in Cairo. He began his studies at the Cairo Conservatoire at the age of nine, later studying composition there with Gamal Abdel-Rahim, graduating in 1977. He also studied piano with Ettore Puglisi. While continuing his piano studies with him, he attended the composition class which the late Gamal Abdel-Rahim had founded at the Conservatoire, where he studied with him composition, the theory of traditional Arab modes and contemporary composition. In 1977 he obtained his diploma in musical composition with honors. He was appointed assistant at the Composition Dept. of the Conservatoire in 1978. In 1981 he got a scholarship to pursue post graduate studies in composition at the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied with Prof. T. Christian David and the British Frances Burt. In 1987, Daoud obtained his graduate diploma, and later

Ragnar Søderlind

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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 Baden in Oslo and with Erik Bergman and Joonas Kokkonen at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. This was followed by studies in conducting at the Norwegian State Academy of Music where he is currently a faculty member. As a composer, Søderlind initially composed orchestral works which were strongly influenced by late Romanticism and early 20th-century European music. His style has become more advanced over the years, yet throughout he has been a master of orchestration and has maintained his personal stamp on sound. In addition to orchestral music, his output includes incidental music for plays, ballets and operas. He has also arranged a considerable amount of music, including several works by Edvard Grieg, and he has recently written an opera that includes Grieg’s music for Olav Tryggvason. Discography *Søderlind’s Violin Concerto has been recorded together with Johan Kvandal’s on the Centaur label. *Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, “Rokkomborre”, London Symphony Orchestra, Ragnar Söderlind conductor,

Ragnhild Berstad

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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 University of Oslo and composition with Lasse Thoresen and Olav Anton Thommessen at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, where she received her diploma in 1997. Berstad’s works have seen performances at a number of festivals at home and abroad including the 1997 ISCM World Music Days in Seoul with her work Respiro, the 1999 Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival with the work Toreuma, NYC in 1998 with the work Focus! as well as the 1998 Bourges Festival for Electro-acoustic Music and the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris and Numus in Aarhus in the same year. In 2012 Berstad premiered a new orchestral work Requiem performed by the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and Oslo Camerata at the Oslo International Church Music Festival. 2014 saw Berstad’s work Cardinem performed by the Klangforum Wien at the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. The work was commissioned by Klangforum Wien as part of the orchestra’s Giacinto Scelsi Revisited-project. The work also saw performances the same year

Rahul Suntah

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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 popular songs reaching millions of views on Instagram and his innovative ways of playing the piano. Suntah pursued his tertiary studies abroad in the UK and got his Bachelor’s degree in Audio and Music Technology from UWE Bristol in 2019 and his Master’s degree in Composition for Film and Television from the University of Bristol in the UK in 2021. Career Suntah began composing music at the age of 13 and was a self-taught pianist after finishing his ABRSM Grade 5 exams. During his time at university he was among the winners of the annual UWE Bristol Talent Show in 2019. In February 2020, Suntah independently released his debut EP entitled Piano Stories entirely composed and self-produced by himself. In August 2020, Suntah was among the finalists of the Mauritian talent show Zenes Montre To Talan depi Lakaz. Suntah started getting recognition online after several of his videos went viral on Instagram and Facebook such as his piano rendition of Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca. His cover of Gorillaz'

Raimund Dreyschock

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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 born on 30 August 1824 in Žáky (now Czech Republic). At eleven years old his father sent him to the Prague Conservatory where he studied violin under Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis. After completing his musical studies, Dreyschock made a number of tours and moved to Leipzig in 1845. There he performed in the Gewandhaus and was offered the position of second Concertmaster in the orchestra. He accompanied his brother Alexander on some of his tours. In 1850, Dreyschock became Concertmaster in the Gewandhaus and violin teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory. He retired from performing in 1868 and died on 6 February 1869 in Stötteritz, Leipzig. Notes References External links *

Raimund Kull

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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 from 1900 until 1906. He then worked as an orchestra conductor in St. Petersburg, Kazan, and Rostov. Selected works ;works for orchestra * 1920: “The Battle of Kriusha” (‘Kriuša lahing’) * “Homeland” (‘Kodumaa’) * “Naughty Maiden” (‘Vallatu neiu’) Acknowledgements *Order of the Cross of the Eagle, 3rd class (1932) *Order of the White Star, 3rd class (1937) References

Raimund Pechotsch

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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 was born in Vienna, his father Adalbert Pechotsch being a composer of some note. The band had been contracted to perform at the Melbourne Exhibition of 1881. He remained in Australia, but moved to Sydney. He was in Brisbane then left for New Zealand 1889. Pechotsch was musical director for Australian stage producer Oscar Asche. Raimund also worked for music publisher Palings and taught violin and piano in Sydney for many years. Pechotsch wrote incidental music for Walter Howard’s 1910 play The Prince and the Beggar Maid which was very successful in London and Australia. He also wrote music (orchestrated for ensemble of twenty) to accompany “Pete” a Lewis Parker stage adaptation of Hall Caine’s novel The Manxman. Later in life he remarried Alice McCarthy, the daughter of fellow Australian composer Dr William Charles MacCarthy. Works * The cycling schottische * A lost love with words by Frederick Augustus Packer * Emu waltz (1896) * For thee : song with violin obligato with words by Ernest

Rainer Böhm

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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 student for composition at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. In 1984 he became musical director at the Berliner Ensemble. He worked with theatre directors such as Heiner Müller, , Claus Peymann and Manfred Wekwerth. He also wrote several scores for the documentary film director Volker Koepp. Böhm died in Berlin at the age of 61. Awards * 1978: Critics Prize of the Berliner Zeitung. * 1982: Critics Prize of the Berliner Zeitung. * 1983: Hanns Eisler Prize Film musics * 1971: Frankfurter Tor * 1976: Mama, I’m Alive * 1976: Hostess * 1979: Am Fluss * 1979: Tag für Tag * 1980: Blaue Pferde auf rotem Gras (Theatre recording) * 1982: In Rheinsberg * 1981: Verflucht und geliebt * 1981: Casanova auf Schloss Dux (Television play) * 1983: Mein Vater ist ein Dieb * 1984: Leben in Wittstock * 1984: Iphigenie in Aulis (Theatre recording) * 1984: Amok * 1985: Ete und Ali * 1989: Die Beteiligten * 1991: Letzte Liebe * 1993: Adamski * 1998: Victor Klemperer – Mein Leben ist so sündhaft lang * 2002: Uckerma

Rainer Kunad

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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 Conservatoire from 1955 to 1956 and then, until 1959, composition with Fidelio F. Finke and Ottmar Gerster at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig. He spent the last years of his life as a freelance artist in Tübingen. Kunad composed piano pieces, chamber and orchestral music and operas (among others, Bill Brook, according to a story by Wolfgang Borchert and Der Meister und Margarita after the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov). Works Operas * Bill Brook (1959/60), premiered Dresden 1965 * Das Schloss (1961/62) * Old Fritz (1962/63, premiered Dresden 1965 * Maître Pathelin oder Die Hammelkomödie (1968), premiered Dresden 1969 * Sabellicus (1972/73, premiered Berlin 1974 * Litauische Claviere (1974, premiered Dresden 1976 * Der Eiertanz, premiered Bautzen 1975 * Vincent (1975/76), premiered Dresden 1979 * Amphitryon, premiered Berlin 1984) * Der Meister und Margarita (1982/83), premiered 1986 * Der Traum (1993), premiered Hagen 2000 Ballets * Ich: Orpheus (1964/65) * Wir aber nennen Liebe lebendigen Frieden (1

Rainer Riehn

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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 1977 the series Musik-Konzepte, which he published until 2003 (together with Heinz-Klaus Metzger). In 1984 Metzger and Riehn received the Deutscher Kritikerpreis as editors of the Musik-Konzepte. electronic composition, realized in Utrecht about a poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont * Das Lied von der Erde, a work of six songs by Gustav Mahler, arrangement for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg, finished by Rainer Riehn (premiere by Ensemble Musica Negativa, Toblach 1983) * nichts – als das Kinderspiel eines Erwachsenen, string trio (premiere by trio recherche, Konstanz 2002) References External links * Website of Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn (in German)

Rakoto Frah

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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 capital city of Antananarivo to a poor rural family, Rakoto Frah surmounted the challenges posed by his underprivileged origins to become the most acclaimed 20th century performer of the sodina flute, one of the oldest traditional instruments on the island. Through frequent international concerts and music festival performances, he promoted the music of the highlands of Madagascar and became one of the most famous Malagasy artists, both within Madagascar and on the world music scene. After gaining regional recognition for his sodina skills as a youth, Rakoto Frah rose to national fame in 1958 when he was selected by Malagasy President Philibert Tsiranana to perform on the sodina for the visiting French president Charles de Gaulle. This event launched his career as a professional musician. He first played at traditional ceremonies around the country, then expanded his performances from 1967 to include participation in international music competitions and festivals. His popularity declined i

Ralph Benatzky

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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 Meine Schwester und ich (1930). Life He was born Rudolf Josef František (Rudolph Josef Franz) Benatzky on 5 June 1884 in Moravské Budějovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He was born to a Czech mother and ethnically German father, who taught at a German school. From 1899, he studied at a real school in Litoměřice, but was soon expelled. He continued his studies in Vienna. He graduated from German studies at the University of Vienna and received a doctorate in music at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák. His first job after his studies was as a conductor and kapellmeister in Munich, and in the following years he worked in several small cabarets, for which he wrote songs, lyrics and smaller operettas. In 1914, he became the director of the Rideamus cabaret in Vienna. In 1913, his first full-length operetta Der lachende Dreibund premiered in Berlin, but it was not until the operetta Liebe im Schnee, which premiered in Vienna in 1916, that he achie

Ralph Erwin

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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 which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He served in the Austrian Army during the First World War. After the war, Erwin established himself as a leading German songwriter. He had a great success with I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (), which featured in the film of the same title of 1929. The song became the signature tune of Richard Tauber. It was prominently used in the 1933 film Baby Face and Bing Crosby also later sang an English version, in The Emperor Waltz (1948) Erwin was a Jew and, following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, he went into exile in France. There, he continued to work on film scores. Erwin was still in the country during Nazi Occupation of France and was eventually arrested. He died in the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. Selected filmography * I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (1929) * Le Roi des resquilleurs (1930) * The Little Escapade (1931) * Checkmate (1931) * When Love Is Over (1931) * Amourous Adventure (1932) * The Importance of Being Earnest (1932) * Madame Mak

Ralph Lundsten

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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 film director, visual artist, and author. Over the course of his career, he released more than 80 albums, often exploring themes related to nature, Nordic mysticism, and futurism. Among his recognitions, he received the Illis quorum medal from the Swedish government in 2008 for his contributions to Swedish culture, and his piece Out in the Wide World was used for decades as the interval signal of Radio Sweden International. Life and career Lundsten was born and raised in Ersnäs, in the northern Swedish province of Norrbotten. He later settled in Nacka, on the outskirts of Stockholm, where he lived in a distinctive pink wooden mansion built in 1878, known as Castle Frankenburg. The house also served as the location of his private electronic music workshop, the Andromeda Studio, one of the earliest studios of its kind in Sweden. During the 1950s, Lundsten began constructing his own electronic musical instruments and experimenting with sound, positioning himself among the earliest pioneers

Ralph Shapey

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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 University of Chicago, where he taught from 1964 to 1991 and where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players. Shapey studied violin with Emanuel Zeitlin and composition with Stefan Wolpe. He served in the United States Army in World War II before moving to New York City, where he worked as a violinist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue. In 1963, he conducted the orchestra and chorus at the University of Pennsylvania before accepting his position in Chicago. Shapey was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1982. Upon hearing the news via a telephone call, he was skeptical, reportedly asking, “Which of my friends or enemies put you up to this?” and slamming down the receiver. The French-American composer Edgard Varèse was among Shapey’s most important influences. Both composers had a fascination with unusual sonorities, counterpoint masses, and the outer extremes of pitch space. The coordination of static “sound blocks” in Shapey’s music is also reminiscent of another French compose

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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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 including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social outlook. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–1908 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music and free it from Teutonic influences. Vaughan Williams is among the best-known British symphonists, noted for his very wide range of moods, from stormy and impassioned to tranquil, from mysterious to exuberant. Among the most familiar of his other concert works are Fantasia on a Theme b

Rambhadracharya

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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 social service institution in Chitrakoot named after Tulsidas. Rambhadracharya can speak 22 languages and is a spontaneous poet and writer in Bhojpuri, Sanskrit, Hindi, and several other languages. He has authored more than 240 books and 50 papers, including four epic poems, Hindi commentaries on Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa, a Sanskrit commentary in verse on the Ashtadhyayi, and Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthanatrayi scriptures. He is acknowledged for his knowledge in diverse fields including Sanskrit grammar, Nyaya and Vedanta. He is a Katha artist for the Ramayana and the Bhagavata. His Katha programmes are held regularly in different cities in India and other countries, and are telecast on television channels like Shubh TV, Sanskar TV and Sanatan TV. He was born on Makara Sankranti day, 14 January 1950. He was named Giridhar by his great-aunt, a paternal cousin of his paternal grandfather, Suryabali Mishra. The great-aunt was a devotee of Mirabai, a female saint

Rami Bar-Niv

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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 Klein and composition with Paul Ben-Haim, Alexander Boskovitch, and Ödön Pártos. He won a grant from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in 1966 to continue his studies at Mannes College of Music in the United States, where he studied with Nadia Reisenberg and with the theorist Carl Schachter. During the summer of 1968, Bar-Niv studied with duo pianists Vronsky & Babin. In 1970, William Gunther asked Rami Bar-Niv to replace him in the First Piano Quartet. Bar-Niv has performed in concerts worldwide. In 1974, he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Paul Paray. He presented a series of violin and piano recitals with Shlomo Mintz in Israel, and has performed extensively with various chamber ensembles in Israel and abroad. He was the first Israeli musician to perform in Egypt after the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and in 1989, received the annual “Best Performer Award” from the Israeli government. Bar-Niv’s compositions have been

Raminta Šerkšnytė

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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 1994, she studied music at Kaunas J. Naujalio high school and with her aunt, Rymantė Šerkšnytė. From 1994 to 2000, she studied composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music with Osvaldas Balakauskas. From 1997 to 2007, she studied composition abroad. After completing her studies, she worked as a pianist and composer. Her music has been performed internationally in Berlin, New York, Toronto, Moscow and at a number of international music festivals. Awards *1995 – Juozas Gruodis Composers Competition, first prize for the song Misterioso for two flutes and bass *2003 and 2006 – Lithuanian Composers’ Union, twice awarded the prize for the best chamber work (2003 for Oriental Elegy for string quartet, 2006 for Almond Blossom for chamber ensemble) *2005 – Gold Cross of the Scene as the best theater composer *2005 – Lithuanian Ministry of Culture Prize for young artists *2005 – UNESCO ’s International Rostrum of Composers for “Vortex” for solo violin and ensemble *2007 – Muses Mill Prize *2008 – L

Ramiro Cortés

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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 Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions, Halsey Stevens, and, in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship, with Goffredo Petrassi. He worked for a brief period in the 1960s as a computer programmer, and then taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (1966–67), University of Southern California (1967–72), and the University of Utah (1972–84). He died of heart failure in Salt Lake city on 2 July 1984. His earlier compositions employed serial technique, but beginning in the late 1960s he turned to a freer form of chromatic atonality. He was “perhaps the first Mexican-American composer of classical music to earn an international reputation.” *Yerma, Symphonic Portrait of a Woman (1955). Premiered Nov 23, 1955 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, after winning a composition prize by the Philharmonic’s Women’s Committee. *Three Pieces for Piano *Suite for Piano *The Falcon, for soprano and piano. A setting of the Corpus Christi Carol. *Chamber Concerto for

Ramiz Mustafayev

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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 born on October 16, 1926, in Leninsk. In 1941 he entered the acting faculty of the Theater College. During his education, he worked as an actor at the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators, and then at the Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre. In 1948, he entered the Hajibeyov Azerbaijan State Conservatoire and studied in the class of Professor Bulbul. In 1952 he successfully graduated from the vocal faculty of the Conservatory. He is the author of the operas “Vaqif”, “Polad”, “Aydın”, “Şirin”, “Xan və əkinçi”, “Tərs keçi”. From 1968 to 1973, R. Mustafayev worked as the secretary of the Composers Union of Azerbaijan. He has been a member of the Board of the Composers Union since 1957. The composer wrote works in large-scale, especially monumental music genres except ballet. R. Mustafayev wrote 6 operas, 6 musical comedies, 9 oratorios, cantatas, 8 symphonies, more than 300 songs and romances, various instrumental works, etc. Ramiz Mustafayev died on April 10, 2008, in Baku. Famil

Ramón Carnicer

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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 Tàrrega, Spain. His first major positions were as conductor for the opera, and he was influential in the development of the Spanish national opera style, zarzuela. He conducted the Italian Opera in Barcelona from 1818 to 1820, and the Royal Opera in Madrid from 1828 to 1830, as well as composing nine operas. * Il dissoluto punito, ossia Don Giovanni Tenorio (1822, premiered again in 2006), Opera in Italian, in two acts, libretto by Giovanni Bertati. * Elena e Malvina (1827), Opera in two acts * Cristoforo Colombo (1829), Opera * Eufemio di Messina (1832), Opera * Guglielmo Tell (1834), Opera * Eran due or sono tre, o sea, Gli esposti (1836), Opera buffa in two acts. Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti * Ismalia o Morte ed amore (1838), Opera in two acts * Laura y Don Gonzalo (1841), òpera in 4 acts. Music attributed to Carnicer. Libretto attributed to Manuel Bretón de los Herreros * Ipermestra (1843), drama in three acts. Words by Pietro Metastasio. Authorship discussed * Lucrezia Borgia. Attribut

Ramon Santos

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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 music, *Likas-An

Ramón Sender (composer)

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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 Spanish writer Ramón J. Sender. Education Sender was born in Madrid, Spain, and left the country during the civil war following the Fascist coup there in 1936. He studied piano with George Copeland, harmony with Elliott Carter, and counterpoint and fugue with Harold Shapero (1948–1951). Sender attended the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Columbia University in New York, where he studied with Henry Cowell. He also studied with Robert Erickson at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1959–1962) and at Mills College, where he studied with Darius Milhaud. Sender holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an M.A. from Mills College. San Francisco Tape Music Center Sender co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1962 with Morton Subotnick and also collaborated with composers and visual artists including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Martin, Joseph Byrd, Terry Riley, William Maginnis, and many others until 1966 when the Center was incorporated

Rand Steiger

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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 he became a faculty member in 1982. In 1987, he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, where he served as chair of the music department from 2006 to 2009. At UCSD, Steiger was instrumental in overseeing the planning, development, and building of the music school’s acclaimed Conrad Prebys Music Center. In 2009, he was visiting professor in the music department at Harvard University. As a composer, Steiger first won notice in the 1980s for his work Quintessence. He was a fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1987 to 1989, and has had compositions recorded by contemporary classical music ensembles recording for Centaur, CRI, Crystal, New Albion, and New World. His work often features elements of computer music and digital manipulation alongside traditional orchestral forces. Steiger was the founding artistic director and a member of the California EAR Unit. He has also conducted contemporary ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Sospeso, La Jolla Sy

Randall Woolf

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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, turntables, and video. He studied composition privately with David Del Tredici and Joseph Maneri, and at Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D. He is a member of the Common Sense Composers Collective. He is composer-mentor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. In 1997, he composed a ballet version of Where the Wild Things Are in collaboration with Maurice Sendak and Septime Webre. He created three pieces for video and live instruments with directors Mary Harron (director of “American Psycho”) and John C. Walsh. He has worked frequently with John Cale, notably on his score of American Psycho. He re-created four of Nico’s songs for Cale’s tribute concert “On the Borderline”, sung by Peter Murphy, Lisa Gerrard, Sparklehorse, Stephin Merritt, Peaches, and Meshell Ndegeocello. He arranged over 40 of Cale’s songs for orchestra, including the entire Paris 1919 album (performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January 2013), songs from The Velvet Underground and Nico, and “Music for a New Society”. His work

Randolph Peters

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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 Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Career Peters wrote a large amount of music for Canadian television, radio, dance and theatre. From 1996 to 2001 he was the composer-in-residence and curator for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; he also served as the director of that symphony’s annual New Music Festival. Peters composed several operas for the Canadian Opera Company, The opera premiered in Toronto at the Hummingbird Centre in April, 1999. * Dancing on wings of fire : for diatonic button accordion (A/D) and orchestra (1994) * Guiltless blood (1990) * Sonata for violin and piano (1990) * The golden ass (1999) * Survivors : a mass for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (1994) Sources *“Randolph Peters”. The Canadian Encyclopedia. External links * *https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37612 on Canadian Music Centre *https://www.composers21.com/compdocs/petersr.htm on The Living Composers Project

Randy Edelman

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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 produced solo albums for songs that were picked up by leading music performers including The Carpenters, Barry Manilow, and Dionne Warwick. He is known for his work in comedy films. He has been awarded many prestigious awards along with two nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and twelve BMI Awards. Edelman was given an honorary doctorate in fine arts by the University of Cincinnati in 2004. Some of Edelman’s best known films scores include Twins, Ghostbusters II, Kindergarten Cop, My Cousin Vinny, Beethoven, The Distinguished Gentleman, Gettysburg, Angels in the Outfield, The Mask, Pontiac Moon, The Indian in the Cupboard, The Quest, Dragonheart, Daylight, and XXX. He also wrote the theme of the popular television series MacGyver. Many of his musical pieces have been reused in television advertising, trailers, Disney movies, and award shows. Life and career Edelman was born on 10 June 1947 in Paterson, New Jersey, to a Jewish family. He was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, the

Randy Raine-Reusch

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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 those from East and Southeast Asia. Research Raine-Reusch studied at the Creative Music Studio in the 1977 with artists such as Frederic Rzewski, Jack Dejohnette, and Karl Berger, playing only an Appalachian dulcimer. In 1984, he received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to undertake study overseas in Indonesia, Burma, and Thailand. He studied khaen in Mahasarakham, Thailand with master musicians Nukan Srichrangthin and Sombat Sinla. After meeting famed Samul Nori drumming Kim Duk Soo in 1986, Raine-Reusch remained in Korea after a concert performance in 1987 to study kayageum with Living National Treasure (South Korea) Park Gwii Hi. He studied didjeridu in Australia while performing at World Expo 88 in Brisbane. 1n 1989, Raine-Reusch returned to Thailand to study khaen, then undertook research on traditional mouth organs in the upriver regions of Sarawak, in southern China, and finally studied the sho in Kyushu, Japan, including lessons with Living National Treasure (Japan)

Randy Vancourt

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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 Dudley the Dragon. He is also a writer of stage musicals including Chutzpah a Go-Go, Born Lucky, Boardwalk! and The Rocky Road To Dublin. His recordings have received international airplay, with his Radio Freaks songs appearing on the syndicated Dr. Demento radio show. He is a founding member of the comedy troupe Radio Freaks notable for his popular poem Just A Common Soldier. Works * Forever For Now (1992) * Chutzpah a Go-Go (1993) * Boardwalk! (2007) * Smashed (2008) * Born Lucky (2008) * The Rocky Road To Dublin (2010) * The Bonnie Banks (2012) * Bring The Piano (2016) * Tuned (2018) References External links * * RandyVancourt.com * Boardwalk! The Doo Wop Musical * Born Lucky * Radio Freaks Comedy Show * Chutzpah à Go-Go

Ranko Rihtman

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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 and Conducting, followed by attendance at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, USA, in 1982 and 1983, where he completed professor Herb Pomeroy’s Jazz Composition and Arranging class. Teaching From 2016 to 2017 he was a lecturer at the Sarajevo Music Academy teaching a jazz harmony, arranging and piano . Since moving to Poreč, in 2015, he occasionally appeared on the Croatian music scene as an arranger. He held same position at the Hed College of Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv (most recently part of Ono - Academic College), after moving to Israel at the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1992, where he also served as an academic advisor. Private life In 1992, at the beginning of the Bosnian War, Rihtman moved to Israel where he lived and continued his musical work until 2015. In 2015, Rihtman moved to Poreč, Istria, Croatia, where he currently resides. See also *Music of Bosnia and Herzegovina References

Raoul de Ferrières

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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 donation to the Abbey of Noé. A total of eleven chansons courtoises have been attributed to him in at least one manuscript, although several are attributed to other people in other copies, making the establishment of his corpus a fraught question. The most famous of Raoul’s songs seems to have been RS1559, Quant li rossignols jolis (“When the pretty nightingales”), which is probably the song Johannes de Grocheio (c.1300) describes as a cantus coronatus (‘crowned song’, meaning probably that it had received a prize in a competition). This widely copied song is also ascribed to the Chastelain de Couci in several manuscripts as well as being transmitted anonymously in yet others. It was used as a model for the anonymous Marian song L’autrier m’iere rendormis (RS1609). Musically, it starts at the upper octave, flows downwards, and establishes a centre on d. Most of Raoul’s melodies, including Quant li rossignols, were recorded in what is sometimes (anachronistically) called bar form and more corr

Raoul Koczalski

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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, Koczalski was taught first by his mother, then by Julian Gadomski (1888–1890). Having made his first public appearance in 1888 (aged 4), his parents took him to play for Anton Rubinstein, who foresaw the possibility of a performing career. He never studied at a conservatory but had further private lesson on the piano and in composition with Ludwig Marek (1891–1892), Karol Mikuli (1821–1897) (Chopin’s favorite Polish student and composer) and instrumentation with Henryk Jarecki (1893–1894). At the age of 7 he gave concerts, and at 9 he was playing in major European cities as a virtuoso. His thousandth concert was given in Leipzig in 1896, and by the age of 12 he had received awards such as the Order of the Lion and Sun (from the Shah of Persia), the title of Court Pianist (from the King of Spain), and a medal from the Turkish Sultan. Already as a child he had a very extensive repertoire. During World War I he was interned in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Iranian king Naser al-Din Shah Qajar descr

Raoul Laparra

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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 Lavignac. In 1903 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Alyssa. Laparra worked as a music critic for the magazines Le Ménestrel and Le Matin and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his students were Claude Champagne and Cemal Reşit Rey. His compositions are often influenced by Spanish and Basque folk music. He remains one of the masters of French Hispanism without remaining locked up in this speciality. He was the brother of the painter William Laparra. He died during the bombing of Boulogne-Billancourt in 1943 and is buried in Chézy-sur-Marne. Selected works * Peau d’âne, Opera, 1899 * La Habanera, Drame lyrique, 1900–1903 * Amphitryon, stage music for the play by Molière, 1904–1907 * La Jota, Conte lyrique, 1908–1911 * Suite ancienne en marge de Don Quichotte for violin or viola and piano, 1921 * Le Joueur de viole, Conte lyrique, 1925 * Le Livre de l’aurore, Suite for flute and piano, 1926 * Las Toreras, Zarzuela after Tirso de Molina, 1929 * L’Illustre Frégona,

Raphaël Elig

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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, counterpoint and fugue lessons with Jeannine Richer, Elig followed the film music classes of Laurent Petitgirard. He completed his training by studying electronic music at the CCRMA, (Center For Computer Research In Music & Acoustics) acoustic and musical research centre of the Stanford University in California. His professional career began as a composer, author and performer at EMI Group where he released two records in the early 1990s (J’me Fais du Bien and Les Garçons Aiment les Filles). In parallel he writes music for the theatre (Patrick Timsit, Clémentine Célarié, Sophia Aram, for the TV (Chic, Square Artist on Arte and Cash Investigation, Thalassa on France TV) and also composes advertising music for prestigious brands (Cartier, Vuitton, Air France, etc.). He wrote songs for Gloria Gaynor, Yi Zhou, Sophia Aram In the mid 90’s, he joined the band Res Rocket, with English and American musicians on the Internet. The principle was to play music remotely and use the Internet as a vector of cre

Raphaël Fumet

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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 Franck, 1867–1949), brother of writer Stanislas Fumet, father of flautist Gabriel Fumet, Raphaël Fumet became a pianist and improviser at an early age. In parallel to his studies of musical composition with Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris, he was employed in many Parisian cinemas due to his ability to improvise on the organ during silent films. His charisma as a musician earned him the friendship of many artists, mainly in Montparnasse; he was especially connected with painters and sculptors as yet unknown as Soutine, Modigliani, Jeannette Hébuterne, Juan Gris, Joseph Bernard. Raphaël Fumet withdrew first to the countryside in the famous College of Juilly in Seine-et-Marne where he remained ten years as Maître de chapelle. During the 1940 debacle, he left Jully with his family and moved to Angers where he became professor of piano and harmony at the conservatory, as well as organist at St. Joseph’s Church. His work The history of art has always been that of genius rather

Raquel García-Tomás

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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 Composition category, annually granted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain. With her work “Alexina B.” she became the second female composer to premiere an opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the first in the 21st century. Life and career She studied musical composition at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC) and earned her doctorate at the Royal College of Music in London, where she lived for six years. She has worked on joint creations with the English National Ballet, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Dresden Music Festival. Her music has been performed at the Auditori de Barcelona, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Teatre Lliure, the National Theater of Catalonia, the Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Teatro Español, the Teatros del Canal, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Her compositions have been heard in various cities, mainly in Europe, but also in Cairo, Rosario, and Buenos Aires. She collaborated in the creation of the chamber opera “Dido reloade

Rasmus Borowski

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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 singer Gabi Borowski, often took him to the cinema, where Rasmus discovered his passion for films and music. At the age of four, Rasmus performed his first voice recording in a studio. When he was seven, he started taking guitar lessons. Around this time, he also started making his first short films with his father’s Super 8mm film camera. In 1985 he and his mother moved to Brunswick and then, in 1988, to Zimbabwe, where Rasmus went to a boarding school. In 1990, he returned to Brunswick to finish school in Germany. After his Abitur, Borowski took guitar lessons with Andreas Becker (Fee, Peter Maffay), singing lessons with Jane Comerford (Texas Lightning), lessons in orchestral composing and arrangement with Matthias Petereit, as well as acting and voice over lessons with Prof. Marianne Bernhardt at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 1998/2002, Borowski successfully completed the Kontaktstudiengang Popularmusik (Popkurs) at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He

Raúl de Ramón

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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 songs in Chile, such as The Curanto, Nostalgia Colchaguina, Camino de Soledad, Rosa Colorada, Canción de la Caballería, El Amor del Arriero and many more. He married María Eugenia Silva Fuentes and together they produced two children, Carlos Alberto (lawyer), and Raúl Eduardo (neurosurgeon). He performed alongside his wife and his two children in the group Los de Ramón with whom he traveled and presented Chilean music in the entire U.S.A. Throughout his career he performed in more than 92 concerts and travelled throughout Mexico and the rest of the countries of Latin America. Education De Ramón studied at The Grange School in Santiago and soon graduated as an architect from the Catholic University of Chile. He spent an important part of its youth in the country in the Colchagua province where he became absorbed by the fundamentals of the Chilean culture of the Central Zone, crossing it by horse and taking feeling of its roots, falling in love deeply with the basis of Chilean heritage whi

Raven Chacon

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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, for his Voiceless Mass in 2022. He has also been a solo performer of noise music and worked with groups such as Postcommodity. Life and career Raven Chacon was born in 1977 in Fort Defiance, Arizona, within the Navajo Nation. He attended the University of New Mexico, where he obtained his BA in Fine Arts in 2001, then received an MFA in music composition from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004. He was a student of James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo Smith and Christopher Shultis. Chacon’s visual and sonic artwork has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. His room-sized sound and text installation, Still Life, #3 (2015), was exhibited in the Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York. His collective and solo work has been presented at Sydney Biennale, Kennedy Center, the Whitney Biennial, Adelaide International, Vancouver Art Gallery, ASU Art Museum, Musée d’art contemporain de Mon

Ravi (composer)

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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 career in Hindi cinema, he took a hiatus in the 1970s and made a successful comeback in 1982 in the Malayalam music scene under the stage name Bombay Ravi. Biography Ravi was born in Delhi on 3 March 1926. He had no formal training in classical music; instead he learned music by listening to his father sing bhajans. In 1947 he went meet the famous singer Mohammed Rafi who was singing at the independence day celebration event ‘Jashn e Jamhooriat’ at the Coronation Hotel, Fatehpur, Delhi. He told Rafi that he wanted to be music director. According to Ravi, Mohammed Rafi advised him to first learn music and notation. He taught himself to play harmonium and other classical instruments and worked as an electrician at the Post and Telegraph, Delhi, Ravi composed several hit songs and received Filmfare nominations for the following films: Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960), Do Badan (1966), Hamraaz (1967), Ankhen (1968), and Nikaah (1982). He won Filmfare awards for Gharana (1961) and Khandan (1965). Th

Ravi Shankar

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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 highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar. Shankar was born to a Bengali family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and America, playing Indian classical music. He increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on Harrison helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in Western pop music in th

Ray Evans

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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 lyrics for film songs. On music Livingston composed, Evans wrote the lyrics. Biography Early life and family Ray Evans was born on February 4, 1915, to a Jewish family in Salamanca, New York, United States. Career Evans was valedictorian of his high school class, where he played clarinet in the band. The Salamanca High School yearbook from 1931 states: “His original themes and brilliant oral talks are the despair of his classmates. Ray’s quite a humorist, too. At times, his satire is positively killing.” He received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1936, writing a senior thesis on “The relation between the central bank, member banks and the money market”. Together they played in the university’s college dance orchestra, “The Continentals”. During school vacations the orchestra was engaged to play on several international cruises. After graduation the duo continued their partnership, seeking a career as a song-writing team in New Y

Ray Griff

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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, many of which were recorded by Nashville’s top recording artists. and raised in Winfield, Alberta. He began songwriting in the early 1960s and had early cuts by Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, and others. Griff had battled throat cancer in his later years, Discography Albums Singles * A “Weeping Willow Tree” also peaked at number 39 on the Canadian RPM Top 40 chart. References External links *Ray Griff website

Ray Holman

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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 Steel Orchestra, led by Ellie Mannette, for whom he composed his first pan piece, “Ray’s Saga”, recorded by the Invaders in 1961. At 20, he became the youngest player to win the solo Ping Pong (an early version of the tenor pan) competition in the 1964 Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival. Later, he became arranger for Invaders Steelband, doing classical pieces such as “Dream of Olwen” and “Etude in Ab.” In 1963, he moved to work with the steel band Starlift, whom he achieved consistent success with in both the Panorama competition and the informal “Bomb” played on the road at Carnival. Two of his most renowned arrangements were “I Feel Pretty” and “Penny Lane”. During the 1960s his arrangements placed Starlift in the top 3 twice (1964: “Mas in South” – Kitchener, 3rd place; 1968: “Jane” – Sparrow, 2nd place) before finally winning the coveted first prize in 1969 with his arrangement of Kitchener’s “The Bull”. After placing second in 1970 with Sparrow’s “Pan Man,” Starlift was joint winner o

Ray Martin (orchestra leader)

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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 stated, “Ray Martin created a legacy for himself in British popular music through his work with his orchestra during the 1950s. His regular appearances on radio and television kept him in the public spotlight, while his position at EMI Records made him an influential producer at the label. His use of pseudonyms has blurred the path of his career through the years, making his many contributions even harder to keep track of. But his original compositions are what really made him popular; tracks like “Marching Strings” have become stables sic of many public and city bands and orchestras since their release”. Career Raymond Stuart Martin was born as Kurt Kohn into a liberal Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, he immigrated to England and was a Carroll Levis discovery. He returned to England in October 1941, joining the British Army, having been officially cleared. Whilst working as an executive and talent scout for EMI/Columbia in the early 1950s, he spotted Ruby Murray, and was the

Ray Santos

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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, Machito, Tito Rodriguez, Eddie Palmieri, and Tito Puente among many others. He was nicknamed El Maestro. Santos attended Juilliard School and graduated in 1952. Career Santos started his career in music playing Latin-inspired big band music in the 1950s. He played with bands in the Catskills and at the Palladium in New York City. Santos served as music consultant and arranger for the soundtrack of the motion picture The Mambo Kings. He arranged the Oscar-nominated song Beautiful Maria of My Soul. He arranged and directed the orchestra for Linda Ronstadt’s Frenesí album, for which he won a Grammy. Santos taught at the City College of New York for over 20 years, directing the Latin Band. He retired from City College in December 2013 at the age of 84. Santos arranged Jon Secada’s album To Beny Moré With Love. In 2018, Santos contributed arrangements to Eddie Palmieri’s Mi Luz Mayor album. He died on October 17, 2019, at age 90. References External links *

Raymond B. Egan

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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 collaborated with composer Richard A. Whiting. Early life and education Egan was born in Windsor, Ontario. He moved with his family to the United States in 1892 and settled in Michigan, where he attended the University of Michigan. Career Egan’s first job was a bank clerk, but he soon moved on to be a staff writer for Grinnell’s Music Co. in Detroit. Beginning in the 1910s, he and Whiting wrote many popular songs, including “Till We Meet Again”, “The Japanese Sandman” and “Ain’t We Got Fun”. Egan wrote songs for Vaudeville As well as Whiting, he later went on to write songs with Walter Donaldson, Ted Fiorito, Harry Tierney, and Gus Kahn. His song “I Never Knew” was included on Judy Garland’s 1950 Second Souvenir Album. Egan died in Westport, Connecticut, aged 61. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. One of his works (co-written with Richard A. Whiting) named Hands In Hand Again was remixed and covered by the dark ambient band Midnight Syndicate in their 2005 album The 13th

Raymond C. Fagan

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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 discovered in 1921 by J.H. “Mickey” Finn, a Temple Theater Manager from Detroit, Michigan. Early career Encouraged to recruit an Orchestra to tour the Vaudeville Temple Theater music circuit, Fagan had been at the Hotel Rochester with Bing (Byng) Bands as early as 1899. He acquired his passion for music as a teenager when he worked at Edwards Music Store in Rochester. He wrote short story scripts with songs at his church society gatherings as well as performed on local stages. His Bing Band arrangements became popular in the Rochester music scene during the early 1910s. He first introduced his version of “jazz-rag” at the Hotel Rochester on November 4, 1916. Popular Lake Ontario boat trips entertained Jazz in August 1917. Fagan had an Orchestra of 40 Syncopators in 1919. During the 1920s, records were made of his music and distributed across the country. He created a new Jazz band called, the “Worlds Fastest Melody Unit”, and the “18 Aristocrats of Jazz”. The band performed at the Shea Theater i

Raymond Daveluy

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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 Centre, his compositional output consisted mainly of works for solo organ. He had an active international career as a recitalist and concert performer from 1946 through the 1990s. He held a number of church posts in Montreal, including serving as organist of St-Jean-Baptiste Church (1946–1951), Immaculée-Conception Church (1951–1954), and St-Sixte Church (1954–1959). In 1980, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada. He was married to pianist Hilda Metcalfe. Career Born in Victoriaville, Quebec, Daveluy was the son of organist and bandmaster Lucien Daveluy, with whom he began his initial musical studies at the age of 11. His sister Marie Daveluy had a successful career as a classical soprano. From 1939–1946 he studied music theory privately with Gabriel Cusson in Montreal and was also a pupil of organist Conrad Letendre from 1942–1948. He was awarded the Prix d’Europe in 1948 which enabled him to pursue further studies in organ performance with Hugh Giles in New York City. Daveluy assum

Raymond Deane

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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 he studied the piano at the then College of Music with Fionn Ó Lochlainn. He studied at University College Dublin, graduating in 1974, and became a founding member of the Association of Young Irish Composers, a predecessor of today’s Association of Irish Composers. He won a number of awards as a pianist. In 1974, Deane won a scholarship to study with Gerald Bennett at the Musikakademie in Basle, Switzerland. He moved on to Cologne as a student of Mauricio Kagel but was persuaded to change to studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen, which Deane abandoned after six months “due to Stockhausen’s lack of engagement with his students at this period”. With a DAAD scholarship, Deane continued his studies with Isang Yun in Berlin. In the 1991 Accents Festival in Dublin, he was the featured composer (with Kurtág), also at the 1999 Sligo New Music Festival (with Roger Doyle). He represented Ireland in several ISCM festivals (Mexico City, Manchester, Hong Kong), and works were performed at the festival

Raymond Guiot

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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 influential teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1977, but was influenced in his compositions also by jazz and popular music. He recorded in many genres, also adapting classical compositions in jazz. Life and career Guiot was born in Roubaix External links * * * Raymond Guyot (in French) flute.etoile-b.com *

Raymond Hanson (composer)

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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 Music. A highly regarded teacher and mentor to many prominent Australian musicians, Early years Hanson was born in the Sydney suburb of Burwood on 23 November 1913, the youngest of five children to Australian-born railroad engineer William Hanson, and his English-born wife Lilian, née Bennett. The marriage broke up when Hanson was quite young. Hanson was sickly as a child, suffering from bronchial complaints and a recurring ear infection that left him almost deaf in his left ear. He began experimenting in musical composition from the age of eight, inspired by his older sister’s piano practice. Hanson’s mother brought him up as a Baptist, and though he later left the faith he retained a lifelong interest in spirituality. Hanson attended Burwood Public and Fort Street High Schools, but left before completing his third year. He continued however to pursue piano lessons, aided by teacher Anne Spillane who kindly provided him with free lessons as his family was too poor to pay for them. He

Raymond Loucheur

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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 Honegger among his students. Then, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris and worked with Henri Dallier, Paul Fauchet, Nadia Boulanger for harmony, André Gedalge for counterpoint and fugue, Max d’Ollone and Paul Vidal for musical composition, Vincent d’Indy for conducting. At the same time, Joseph Baggers taught him the practice of timpani. In 1928, he brilliantly won the 1st Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Héraklès à Delphes on a libretto by René Puaux and performed on 26 October 1929 by the Concerts Lamoureux where it received an excellent welcome. Between 1925 and 1940, he taught in schools in the city of Paris. In 1935, he received the Georges Bizet Prize. In 1942, he was principal inspector of music education in the schools of the Seine then became general inspector of public instruction (1946) and director of the Conservatoire de Paris (1956 - 1962). He received the Grand Prix national de musique in 1934. Loucheur died in Nogent-sur-Marne at age 80. Works Ballet * Hop-Frog, tale

Raymond Luedeke

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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 concentrated on works for music theatre. Although born in New York City, he spent 29 years as Associate Principal Clarinet with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a position he left in 2010. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Ray Luedeke is artistic director of Voice Afire Opera-Cabaret in New York City. Biography Son of Otto Luedeke, an officer in the US Army and a competitor in the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games, Raymond Luedeke had a peripatetic childhood. Between the ages of 5 and 8, he lived in Japan. He alludes that his first concert of classical music was heard in Tokyo and that the music was Japanese classical music. He began piano lessons in Japan but did not continue this until the family was living in Massachusetts, where he took up the clarinet at the age of nine. He was soon composing his first pieces, something he continued when the family moved to New Jersey. In 1966 Luedeke received his bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, majoring in Mus

Raymond Premru

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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, Premru was born in Elmira, New York and grew up in the Finger Lakes region south of Rochester. As a teenager he started playing the trombone and studied with Dale Clark at the Eastman School of Music’s preparatory department. After high school he enrolled at Eastman to study trombone with Emory Remington and composition with Louis Mennini and Bernard Rogers. Soon after graduating in 1956, he travelled to England for composition study with Peter Racine Fricker, intending to stay a few months. He began freelancing on trombone and bass trumpet, becoming a regular in the London jazz scene with groups like the Kenny Baker Dozen. In 1958, he won the bass trombone position in the Philharmonia Orchestra, where he performed for the next 30 years. In 1958 he married Susan Talbot, with whom he had two daughters. As a session musician, he worked with Frank Sinatra, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles (on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band). In 1964 he joined the

Raymond Rôze

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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, Duke of Edinburgh (and therefore the grandson of Queen Victoria). He studied in Brussels with Arthur De Greef before first working in England at the Lyceum Theatre where he was Musical Director. He also established a singing school in London in 1899 and was Musical Director for various theatre companies. His output consisted mainly of incidental music for plays including a number at His Majesty’s Theatre under Sir Herbert Tree, including Trilby in 1895. His music was twice performed in London’s Promenade concerts (in 1901 and 1911). Rôze was Musical Director of the Royal Opera House and his three-act opera Joan of Arc was premiered there on 1 November 1913. A review in The Times was very critical of the opera’s disjointed nature and warned that “a drama with the characters singing and an orchestra to accompany them is not necessarily an opera.” Later in the same month he engaged Frank Bridge to conduct Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser. Joan of Arc received a further performance in Pari

Raymond Warren

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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 first person in the UK to be given a personal chair in composition in 1966, before becoming Hamilton Harty Professor of Music in 1969. He was Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol from 1972 until his retirement in 1994. His works include a choral Passion, a Violin Concerto, three Symphonies, a Requiem, the oratorio Continuing Cities, six operas and an extensive amount of music for children, young people and community music making. Biography Raymond Warren was born in Axbridge, Somerset on 7 November 1928. His mother was Gwendoline C. Warren, née Hallett. Warren studied at Bancroft’s School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1949–52), In 1972 he was appointed Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, a post from which he retired in 1994. Following retirement he composed to commission for a wide variety of performers notably the Brunel Ensemble (Symphony No.3, In My Childhood) and the London Children’s Ballet (Ballet Shoes, 2001). He collaborated with

Raymond Wilding-White

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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 artist. Biography Wilding-White was born in Caterham, Tandridge, Surrey, England, and spent the first five years of his life in England before moving to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris, France, where he had his first formal instruction in music at the Conservatoire Camille Saint-Saëns. In 1932 the family moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, his mother’s family home. By 1940 he had moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Family Wilding-White’s father, Charles Dunning White was an American diplomat. Raymond Wilding-White had a number of brothers including Henry, Charles, and Alexander. His wife Glennie was also an accomplished musician, composer and playwright, as was his son Charles. Education & Work In 1940, Wilding-White enrolled in the chemical engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but dropped out to assist in the war effort as a civilian. After the war he was accepted at the Juilliard School in New York City, earning his bachelor’s degree in pian

Raynald Arseneault

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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 was particularly influenced by Ivan Wyschnegradsky and Giacinto Scelsi; both of whom he met with in Europe during the 1970s. He served for many years as the organist and director of sacred music at Saint-Marc Church in Rosemont. Born in Quebec City, Arseneault studied with Françoise Aubut and Gilles Tremblay at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he graduated with a premier prix in composition in 1973. That same year he won the Prix d’Europe which enabled him to pursue studies in France. He remained for eight years in that country where he studied composition with Tony Aubin, Claude Lefebvre, Claude Ballif, Ivo Malec and Michel Philippot. Raynald Arseneault’s music has been performed in numerous music festivals around the world, and has been recorded by the RTBF, the ORTF and the CBC. Some of the principal performers of his music are, notably, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France (Edgar Cosma), the Orchestre Métropolita

Raynor Taylor

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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 the theater, outdoor pleasure garden, and the Anglican Church and Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, he was one of the first notable composers active in America. Biography Raynor Taylor was born in Soho, in Westminster, London, England, between August and November 1747. As a boy he sang in the choir at the Chapel Royal for many years, notably singing at the funeral of George Frideric Handel in 1759. Music historian J. R. Parker reported that Taylor’s hat accidentally dropped into the composer’s grave during the funeral ceremony. He studied organ, singing, and music composition with Samuel Arnold in London as a teenager, and at the age of eighteen became the organist at Chelmsford. In 1765 he was appointed the resident composer and musical director for the Sadler’s Wells Theatre and the Marylebone Gardens, serving in both positions for more than 25 years. In 1792 Taylor immigrated to the United States, partially due to the encouragement of his pupil Alexander Reinagle. He in