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Composers whose names start with RE.

20th Century

Reba Paeff Mirsky

Reba Paeff Mirsky (May 25, 1902 – November 22, 1966) was an American classical musician and children's writer. A 1953 Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote three books on the fictional Zulu girl Nomusa:

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20th Century

Rebecca Clarke (composer)

Rebecca Helferich Clarke (27 August 1886 – 13 October 1979) was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female

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21st Century

Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders (born 19 December 1967) is a London-born composer In 2019, writers of The Guardian ranked Skin (2016) the 16th greatest work of art music since 2000, with Tom Service writing that

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20th Century

Rebekah Harkness

Rebekah West Harkness (née Semple West; Her grandfather founded the St. Louis Union Trust Company. Career In the 1960s, Harkness became well known as a philanthropist and patron of the arts. Through

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Reception of Johann Sebastian Bach's music

In the 18th century, the appreciation of Johann Sebastian Bach's music was mostly limited to distinguished connoisseurs. The 19th century started with publication of the first biography of the

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Recognition Music Group

Recognition Music Group is one of the largest investors and managers of music IP rights and headquartered in London. The company was created in 2024 through the combination of songs and recordings

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Recording studio as an instrument

In music production, the recording studio is often treated as a musical instrument when it plays a significant role in the composition of music. Sometimes called "playing the studio", the approach is

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21st Century

Reena Esmail

Reena Esmail (born 11 February 1983) is an Indian-American music composer of Indian and Western classical music. Esmail has been commissioned to compose pieces for ensembles including Amherst College

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Post-War

Reg Tilsley

Reginald Longueville Tilsley (16 August 192615 October 1987) was a British composer, arranger, and conductor born at Croydon. He was a prolific composer of library music, whose work has been featured

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21st Century

Regan Ryzuk

Regan Ryzuk (born Regan Onufry Ryzuk, March 29, 1955, New York) is an American composer and pianist. Ryzuk is the son of renowned painter, Onufry Ryzuk and published author and playwright, Mary S.

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20th Century

Regin Dahl

Regin Dahl (5 November 1918 – 29 March 2007) was a Faroese author and composer. Biography Dahl came from a literary family; his father being the translator and provost Jákup Dahl. His own poetry has

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20th Century

Regina Hansen Willman

Regina Kastberg Hansen Willman (October 5, 1914 – October 28, 1965) was an American composer, born in Burns, Wyoming. She married Allan Arthur Willman in 1942; they divorced in 1956, but remained

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21st Century

Regina Harris Baiocchi

Regina Baiocchi ( Harris; born July 16, 1956) is an American musician, music educator, composer and writer of short stories and poetry. Life Regina A. Harris was the third of eight children born in

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21st Century

Regina Irman

Regina Irman (born 22 March 1957) is a Swiss musician, music educator and composer. She has written commissions for a number of Swiss cultural institutions. She teaches at the Pädagogischen

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Romantic

Regina Watson

Regina Cohn Watson (April 23, 1845 – July 31, 1913) was a composer, pianist, and teacher who was born in Germany. Her family later moved to America, first to Detroit, then to Chicago, where Regina

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20th Century

Reginald King (composer)

Reginald Claude McMahon King (5 October 1904 – 31 August 1991) was a British light music composer, pianist, conductor and broadcaster, the founder and leader of Reginald King and his Orchestra.

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20th Century

Reginald Smith Brindle

Reginald Smith Brindle (5 January 1917 – 9 September 2003) was a British composer and writer. He began learning the piano at the age of six, and later took up the clarinet, saxophone and guitar (and

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21st Century

Régis Campo

Régis Campo (born 6 July 1968) is a French composer. Biography He studied composition with Georges Boeuf at the Conservatory of Marseille. Then he entered the Conservatoire de Paris in the classes of

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Reich Music Days

The Reich Music Days (German: Reichsmusiktage) took place from 22 to 29 May 1938 in Düsseldorf. They were a Nazi propaganda event under the patronage of Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels had originally

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21st Century

Reiko Füting

Reiko Fueting (born 1970 in Königs Wusterhausen) is a German composer living in the United States. Life and career Reiko Fueting was born in 1970 in Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany. He studied

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Late Romantic

Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab

Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (16 January 1881 – 14 April 1971) was a Dutch composer. Osorio-Swaab was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to a wealthy and devout Jewish family. Jewish observances were

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Post-War

Reiner Bredemeyer

Reiner Bredemeyer (2 January 1929 − 5 December 1995) was a German composer. Biography Bredemeyer was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he was drafted into military

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Post-War

Reinhard Febel

Reinhard Febel (born 3 July 1952) is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the

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Baroque

Reinhard Keiser

Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to

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Post-War

Reinhard Lakomy

Reinhard Lakomy (19 January 1946 in Magdeburg, Germany – 23 March 2013 in Berlin, Germany ) was a German-language composer, pianist, singer-songwriter, and arranger. His musical styles ranged from

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Late Romantic

Reinhard Oppel

Julius Reinhard Oppel (1878 in Grünberg, Hesse – 1941 in Leipzig) was a German composer. He studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt 1903–1909, was briefly an organist in Bonn, then from 1911

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Post-War

Reinhard Pfundt

Reinhard Pfundt (born in 1951) is a German pianist, composer and academic teacher at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He wrote orchestral works, chamber music and songs, and was awarded

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Late Romantic

Reinhold Glière

Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (born Reinhold Ernest Glier; 23 June 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. He was awarded the titles of People's Artist of the RSFSR (1935)

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Post-War

Reinhold Heil

Reinhold Heil (born 18 May 1954) is a German musician, producer, and film and television composer. He initially achieved success in Germany as a member of the post-punk and Neue Deutsche Welle groups

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Medieval

Reinmar von Hagenau

Reinmar von Hagenau (also Reinmar der Alte, Reinmar the Elder) was a German Minnesänger of the late twelfth century who composed and performed love-songs in Middle High German. He was regarded by his

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Rekesh Chauhan

Rekesh Chauhan BEM is a British Indian pianist and music composer. Education Chauhan studied Economics at the University of Leicester. Career Chauhan combines eastern and western musical styles. He

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Post-War

Relly Raffman

Relly Raffman (1921–1988) was a composer and professor of music at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Early biography Raffman was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 4, 1921. He

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21st Century

Remo Anzovino

Remo Anzovino (born 12 February 1976) is an Italian composer, musician and criminal lawyer. In the early years of his artistic activity, he composed music for theater and sound design; he later found

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Post-War

Renate Birnstein

Renate Maria Birnstein (born 17 November 1946) is a German composer, violinist and pianist. She was born in Hamburg, and studied at the Hochschule fur Musik with Diether de la Motte and György

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Post-War

Renato de Grandis

Renato de Grandis (24 October 1927 – 2 December 2008) was an Italian composer, musicologist, writer and Theosophist. Biography Renato de Grandis was born in 1927 in Venice. He studied piano,

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20th Century

Renato Dionisi (composer)

Renato Dionisi (2 January 1910 in Rovinj – 24 August 2000 in Verona) was an Italian composer and music educator. Biography Renato Dionisi was born in Rovinj in Istria, but soon moved to Borgo Sacco,

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Post-War

Renato Serio

Renato Serio (5 October 1946 – 4 November 2024) was an Italian composer, conductor, and arranger. Life and career Born in Lucca, Serio studied piano, conducting, composition and electronic music. He

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Romantic

Renaud de Vilbac

Alphonse Zoé Charles Renaud de Vilbac (3 June 1829 – 19 March 1884) was a prolific French organist and composer. Biography Vilbac entered the Conservatoire de Paris at age 13 to study the pipe organ

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Post-War

Renaud Gagneux

Renaud Gagneux (; 15 May 1947 – 24 January 2018) was a French composer. Gagneux studied piano with Alfred Cortot and composition with Henri Dutilleux at the École Normale in Paris. In 1966 he went to

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20th Century

René Alix

René Alix (14 September 1907 – 30 December 1966) was a French organist, choral conductor and composer. Biography Born in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, René Alix studied music in Rouen with Marcel Lanquetuit,

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21st Century

René Aubry

René Aubry (born 20 December 1956) is a French composer. He is a multi-instrumentalist known for blending classical harmonies with modern instrumentation. Aubry has composed for choreographers such

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20th Century

René Challan

René Louis Jean Challan (12 December 1910 – 4 August 1978) was a French classical composer, impresario and art director for French record labels. René Challan was composer Henri Challan's twin

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Post-War

René Clemencic

René Clemencic (27 February 1928 – 8 March 2022) was an Austrian composer, conductor, harpsichordist, clavichordist and recorder player. Biography Born in Vienna, Austria, Clemencic was educated at

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Romantic

René de Boisdeffre

René de Boisdeffre (3 April 1838 – 25 November 1906) was a French composer. He is the author of some 60 pieces of chamber music as well as a few pieces for piano and vocal music. General de

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Baroque

René Drouart de Bousset

René Drouard de Bousset (; 12 December 1703 – 19 May 1760) was a French Baroque composer and organist. He was born in Paris on 12 December 1703. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset (d.

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Post-War

René Dupéré

René Dupéré (born 1946) is a Canadian composer from Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada. Biography Dupéré is best known as the composer and arranger of music for contemporary circus productions by the Canadian

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20th Century

René Gagnier

René Gagnier (30 May 1892 – 25 May 1951) was a Canadian conductor, composer, euphonium player, violinist, and music educator. His compositional output includes several marches, waltzes, works for

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20th Century

René Guillou

René-Alfred-Octave Guillou (8 October 1903 in Rennes – 14 December 1958 in Paris) was a French composer and pianist. Hailed as a prodigy aged 7, in an article in Musical America from 1912, Guillou is

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20th Century

René Herbin

René Herbin (1911 – 1 September 1953) was a French composer and pianist. He was killed in the Mount Cimet air disaster in the French Alps. Life Born in Vitry-le-François, Herbin entered the

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Post-War

René Koering

René Koering (born 27 May 1940) is a French composer, film producer and theater director. He is particularly known for his involvement in the creation of the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier

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20th Century

René Leibowitz

René Leibowitz (; ; 17 February 1913 – 29 August 1972) was a Polish and French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher. He was historically significant in promoting the music of the Second

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Post-War

René Maillard

René Maillard (8 April 1931 – 4 December 2012) was a French composer. Life Born in Bois-Colombes, Maillard had his first violin lessons during the Second World War with Charles Maillier, who was a

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20th Century

René Mercier

René Mercier (end of the 19th century – 1 January 1973) was a 20th-century French composer and conductor. Biography Little is known about the life of René Mercier. Even his birth date is unknown.

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Post-War

René Staar

René Staar (born 30 May 1951) is an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor. Life Born in Graz, Staar composed his first pieces as a child. He attended the Östermalms Musikskole Stockholm in

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21st Century

Rene Van Verseveld

Rene Van Verseveld (born 29 June 1959) is a Dutch musician, songwriter, recording engineer, composer and record producer. He lives in Santa Clarita and works in his own studio, Future Sound Studios,

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21st Century

René Villa

José René Villafuerte Flores (born 26 January 1997), known as René Villa, is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter, model and actor, based in Ireland. Biography René Villa was born on 26 January 1997 in

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Post-War

René Wohlhauser

René Wohlhauser (born 24 March 1954) is a Swiss composer, pianist, singer, improviser, conductor and music teacher. Life Wohlhauser was born in Zurich. From 1975 to 1979 he studied counterpoint,

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Late Romantic

Rentarō Taki

was a Japanese pianist and composer of the Meiji era. Taki was born in Tokyo, but moved to many places during his childhood owing to his father's job. He went to Tokyo Music School (now known as

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20th Century

Renzo Rossellini (composer)

Renzo Rossellini (2 February 1908 – 13 May 1982) was an Italian composer, music critic, and music educator. A prolific composer who wrote a wide range of music, Renzo Rossellini was born in Rome on 2

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21st Century

Reuben Pace

Reuben Pace (born in 1974) is a Maltese composer. Life Reuben Pace was educated at University of Malta as well as Bangor University, where he received his PhD in 2012. One of his teachers was Charles

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Post-War

Revol Bunin

Revol Samuilovich Bunin (; 6 April 1924, in Moscow – 4 July 1976, in Moscow) was a Soviet composer. Early life and education Bunin's father, Samuil Markovich, was a bolshevik, a member of the

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Post-War

Rexho Mulliqi

Redžo Mulić (, ; 18 March 1923 – 10 February 1982 ) was a Yugoslavian composer from Montenegro and husband of singer Nexhmije Pagarusha. as well as of the music on the Era dhe Lisi, a 1979 movie. His

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21st Century

Rexxie

Ezeh Chisom Faith (born 10 November 1994), professionally known as Rexxie, is a Nigerian record producer, DJ, and songwriter. He is popular for creating the Zanku sound, and producing Naira Marley's

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Late Romantic

Reynaldo Hahn

Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100.

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21st Century

Rez Abbasi

Rez Abbasi (born August 27, 1965) is a Pakistan-born American jazz guitarist, composer, and record producer based in New York City. Biography Abbasi was born in Karachi, Pakistan. When he was four,

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Post-War

Reza Vali

Reza Vali () is an Iranian musician and composer. Life and education Vali was born in Qazvin in 1952 and studied at the Tehran Conservatory. where he received his PhD in composition and music theory.

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Post-War

Rezo Lagidze

Revaz Ilias dze Lagidze (; July 10, 1921 – October 16, 1981), known professionally as Rezo Lagidze, was a 20th-century Georgian composer. Recognized as the People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1961)

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20th Century

Rezső Kókai

Rezső Kókai (15 January 1906 – 6 March 1962) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. Life Kókai studied composition with János Koessler and piano with Emánuel Hegyi at the Franz Liszt Academy of

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20th Century

Rezső Seress

Rezső Seress (Hungarian: Seress Rezső, ; 3 November 1899 – 12 January 1968 ) was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf ("Rudi") Spitzer. Biography Rezső Seress

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