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Riaz ur Rehman Saghar

Riaz-Ur-Rehman Saghar (Punjabi, , born 1 December 1941, Bathinda, Punjab, British India; died 1 June 2013, at Lahore, Pakistan) was a poet and film song lyricist active in Pakistani cinema. Early

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Ric Formosa

Riccardo Formosa (born 1 September 1954) is an Italian-born Australian musician and composer. He was the lead guitarist of the pop band Little River Band from 1975 to 1976 and recorded their first

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Ricardo Castro (composer)

Ricardo Rafael de la Santísima Trinidad Castro Herrera (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz. Life

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Ricardo Curto

Ricardo Curto is a Spanish composer who creates film scores. He composed the soundtracks for several popular Netflix series and is a two-time Hollywood Music in Media Award nominee. Early life He

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Ricardo Llorca

Ricardo Llorca (born 1958, Alicante) is a Spanish-American composer based in New York City since 1988. Llorca is a Juilliard School graduate and a faculty member of "The Juilliard School of Music

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Ricardo Lorenz

Ricardo Lorenz (born May 24, 1961) is a Venezuelan composer and academic. In 1992 Lorenz left the Jacobs school to pursue doctoral studies in music composition at the University of Chicago where he

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Ricardo Tacuchian

Ricardo Tacuchian, born in Rio de Janeiro (born 18 November 1939), is a Brazilian conductor, composer and Doctor in Musical Arts (Composition) at the University of Southern California. Positions he

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Riccardo Cocciante

Riccardo Cocciante (; born 20 February 1946), also known in French-speaking countries and English-speaking countries as Richard Cocciante (), is an Italian and French singer and songwriter. His work

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Riccardo Drigo

Riccardo Drigo (; 30 June 1846 – 1 October 1930) was an Italian composer of ballet music and Italian opera, a theatrical conductor, and a pianist. Drigo is noted for his long career as principal Chef

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Riccardo Gandolfi

Riccardo Gandolfi (16 February 1839 – 6 April 1920) was an Italian composer and music critic. Biography Born in Voghera. His mother Camilla Guiscardi was a painter. He was sent to study musical

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Riccardo Malipiero

Riccardo Malipiero Jr. (24 July 1914 – 27 November 2003) was an Italian composer, pianist, critic, and music educator. He was awarded the gold medal by the city of Milan in 1977 and by the city of

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Riccardo Piacentini

Riccardo Piacentini (born 3 July 1958, in Moncalieri, Province of Turin) is an Italian composer and pianist, professor of Composition at the Milan Conservatory. Biography He graduated in 1980 in

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Riccardo Rognoni

Riccardo Rognoni or Richardo Rogniono (ca. 1550 – before 20 April 1620) is the earliest known member of the Rognoni family which started one of the earliest of all violin schools, based in Milan. His

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Richard Aaker Trythall

Richard Aaker Trythall (July 25, 1939 – December 21, 2022) was an American-born Italian composer and pianist of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Trythall was born on July 25,

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Richard Addinsell

Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 190414 November 1977) was an English composer, known early in his career for his music for the theatre in collaboration with Clemence Dane, later for his film

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Richard Allison (composer)

Richard Al(l)ison (born c. 1560–1570 – died before 1610) was an English composer. He wrote de la Tromba, a popular broken consort piece which has several professional recordings and first became well

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Richard Arnell

Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell (15 September 191710 April 2009) was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works

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Richard Arnest

Richard Arnest (born 1950) is an American composer and performer. Early life and education Arnest received degrees in music composition from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1972 and the

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Richard Barrett (composer)

Richard Barrett (born 7 November 1959) is a Welsh composer. Biography Barrett was born in Swansea, Wales and attended Olchfa School. After completing his first bachelor's degree in genetics and

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Richard Beaudoin (composer)

Richard Beaudoin (born October 10, 1975) is an American composer of contemporary music. His music and writings explore compositional uses of expressive timing, or microtiming. Life Beaudoin was born

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Richard Bunger Evans

Richard Bunger Evans, also known as Richard Bunger (born 1942) is an American composer and pianist. He has composed and performed music for opera, musical theatre, string orchestra, and chamber

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Richard Burmeister

Richard Burmeister (1860 in Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – 1944) He made concert tours through Europe in 1883-85, and in 1885 he married fellow Liszt pupil Dory Petersen. From 1885 to 1897 was

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Richard Cameron-Wolfe

Richard Cameron-Wolfe is an American composer and pianist. Early life and education Cameron-Wolfe was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University

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Richard Carrick

Richard David Carrick (born 1971 in Paris, France) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition for 2015–16 while living in Kigali, Rwanda. His

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Richard Charke

Richard Charke (c. 1709 – c. 1738) was an English violinist, composer, operatic baritone, and playwright. Charke was born in London. He initially worked as a dancing-master before being appointed by

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Richard Danielpour

Richard Danielpour (born January 28, 1956) is an American composer and academic, currently affiliated with the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of California, Los Angeles. Danielpour

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Richard Dering

Richard Dering (c. 1580–1630) — also Deering, Dearing, Diringus, etc. — was an English Renaissance composer during the era of late Tudor music. He is noted for his pioneering use of compositional

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Richard Donovan (composer)

Richard Frank Donovan (1891–1970) was an American composer and organist. He was the Battell Professor of Music Theory at Yale University from 1947 to 1960. Biography Donovan was born on 29 November

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Richard Dünser

Richard Dünser (born 1 May 1959) is an Austrian composer of stage works, orchestral music and chamber music, among others. Life Born in Bregenz, Dünser studied composition after his Matura first at

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Richard Edward Wilson

Richard Edward Wilson (born May 15, 1941) is an American composer and pianist. Rejecting serialism, to some extent Wilson engages in tonality, though often with the use of considerable chromaticism.

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Richard Edwardes

Richard Edwardes (also Edwards, circa 1523 – 31 October 1566) was an English poet, playwright, and composer; he was made a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and was master of the singing boys. He was

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Richard Einhorn

Richard Einhorn (born 1952) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Einhorn graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1975, and studied composition and

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Richard Emsley

Richard Emsley (born December 1951 in Goole, Yorkshire) is a British composer, sometimes associated with the New Complexity school. Emsley initially studied with Arnold Whittall at University

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Richard Faith

Richard Faith (March 20, 1926 - February 28, 2021) was an American composer who has been known primarily in university music circles as a concert pianist, professor of piano, and a published composer

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Richard Fall

Richard Fall (3 April 1882 – January 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish descent. One of his most famous compositions is the popular Was machst du mit dem Knie lieber Hans. Life

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Richard Farrant

Richard Farrant ( 1525 – 30 November 1580) was an English composer, musical dramatist, theatre founder, and Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. The first acknowledgment of him is in a list of

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Richard Festinger

Richard Festinger (born 1 March 1948) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and educator. Biography Festinger was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. in

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Richard Flury

Richard Flury (26 March 1896 in Biberist – 23 December 1967) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Flury was the son of a restaurateur and accomplished amateur trumpeter. His composition teachers were

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Richard Ford (music editor)

Richard Ford, formerly known as Rick Ford, is a music editor and record producer for feature film soundtracks and scores. He has worked with a number of critically acclaimed film makers, including

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Richard Franck

Richard Franck (3 January 1858 – 22 January 1938) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. Life He was born in Cologne and was the son of the German composer, pianist and teacher Eduard Franck.

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Richard Fuchs

Richard Fuchs (; 26 April 1887 – 22 September 1947) was a German composer and architect, the older brother of German national team Olympic football player Gottfried Fuchs. Life Fuchs was in the

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Richard Genée

Franz Friedrich Richard Genée (7 February 1823 – 15 June 1895) was a Prussian-born Austrian librettist, playwright, and composer. Life Genée was born in Danzig. He died in Baden bei Wien. Works He is

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Richard Gibson (composer)

Richard Gibson (born December 13, 1953) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, and Professor of Composition at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick. He is an Associate Composer

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Richard Grayson (composer)

Richard Grayson (March 25, 1941 – July 3, 2016) was an American composer and pianist. Biography Richard Grayson was born in New York on March 25, 1941. He received his PhD in composition from UCLA in

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Richard Grégoire

Richard Grégoire (May 18, 1944 – December 10, 2025) was a Canadian film and television composer from Montreal, Quebec. He was most noted for his work on the film Being at Home with Claude, for which

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Richard Hageman

Richard Hageman (9 July 1881 – 6 March 1966) was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer. Biography Richard Hageman was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. He was the son of

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Richard Harris (composer)

Richard Frank Keith Harris (born 5 March 1968) is a London-based composer, arranger, transcriber, teacher and pianist. Richard Harris studied composition and orchestration at the University of

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Richard Harvey (composer)

Richard Allen Harvey (born 25 September 1953) is an English composer and musician. Originally a member of the mediaevalist progressive rock group Gryphon, he is best known now for his film and

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Richard Heinrich Stein

Richard Heinrich Stein (28 February 1882 – 11 August 1942) was a German composer and musicographer. He is best known for the symbols he developed to notate quarter-tones, which Stein first used in

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Richard Henry Walthew

Richard Henry Walthew, often known as Richard H. Walthew (4 November 187214 November 1951) was an English composer and pianist, and an important figure in English chamber music during the first half

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Richard Heuberger

Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger (18 June 1850 in Graz, Austria – 28 October 1914 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher. Heuberger was born

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Richard Hey Lloyd

Richard Hey Lloyd (25 June 1933 – 24 April 2021) was a British organist and composer. Biography Richard Lloyd was born near Stockport, Cheshire, the younger of two children of Charles Yates Lloyd, an

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Richard Hill (composer)

Richard Vincent Hill (22 August 1942 – 13 June 2026) was a British composer. He initially studied trombone at the Royal College of Music in London in the 1960s, before moving into music production

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Richard Hoffman (composer)

Richard Hoffman (24 May 1831 – 17 August 1909) was an English-born American pianist and composer. Early life and education Richard Hoffman was born on 24 May 1831 in Manchester, England. He migrated

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Richard Hoffmann (composer)

Richard Hoffmann (20 April 1925 – 24 June 2021) was an American composer, musicologist and educator. He served many years as a professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Early life Hoffmann was born

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Richard Hofmann (composer)

Richard Hofmann (30 April 1844 – 11 November 1918) was a German composer and music teacher who worked in Leipzig. Richard Hofmann was born in Delitzsch where his father was the municipal music

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Richard Hol

Richard (or Rijk) Hol (23 July 1825, in Amsterdam – 14 May 1904, in Utrecht) was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence

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Richard Hundley

Richard Albert Hundley (September 1, 1931 – February 25, 2018) was an American pianist and composer of art songs for voice and piano. Early life Hundley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a family of

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Richard Hygons

Richard Hygons (also Higons, Huchons, Hugo; c. 1435 – c. 1509) was an English composer of the early Renaissance and early proponent of the English votive style. While only two compositions of this

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Richard Johnston (composer)

Richard Johnston (7 May 1917 – 16 August 1997) was a Canadian composer, conductor, editor, folklorist, music critic, music educator, music producer, and university administrator of American birth. He

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Richard Jones (composer)

Richard Jones (1680? - died 20 January 1744) was an English composer and violinist. Jones's first publication appeared in 1720, a solo cantata While in a Lovely Rurall Seat. He was associated with

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Richard Klemm

Richard Klemm (born 1902 in Dresden; died 1988 in Berlin) was a German cellist, composer and teacher. Biography His father (Oskar Richard Klemm) was a versatile musician, who besides his main

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Richard Langdon

Richard Langdon (1729 – 8 September 1803) was a British organist, mainly at Exeter Cathedral, where he spent his early years, and later at Bristol Cathedral and Armagh Cathedral. He also composed

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Richard Leveridge

Richard Leveridge (or Leueridge) (19 July 1670 – 22 March 1758) was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs. Life Richard Leveridge

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Richard Link

Richard Link is a Canadian composer, musical director, teacher, and performer presently living in London, England. An accomplished pianist, he often music directs, conducts, and plays for his own

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Richard Loqueville

Richard Loqueville (died 1418) was a French composer active during the transition between Medieval and Renaissance music. A musician at Cambrai Cathedral, Loqueville was a harpist and teacher, whose

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Richard Maxfield

Richard Vance Maxfield (February 2, 1927 – June 27, 1969) was a composer of instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music. Born in Seattle, Maxfield studied at Stanford University, University

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Richard Meale

Richard Graham Meale, AM MBE FAHA (24 August 193223 November 2009) was a highly regarded Australian composer of instrumental works and operas, and an influential music educator. Life and works Sydney

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Richard Michael Levey

Richard Michael Levey (25 October 1811 – 28 June 1899), mostly known as R. M. Levey, was an Irish violinist, conductor, composer, and teacher. He was one of a handful of noted musicians who kept

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Richard Mills (composer)

Richard John Mills (born 14 November 1949) is an Australian conductor and composer. He was the artistic director of Victorian Opera from 2013 to 2023, and formerly artistic director of the West

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Richard Mohaupt

Richard Mohaupt (14 September 1904 – 3 July 1957) was a German composer and Kapellmeister. Life and career Richard Mohaupt was born in Breslau, where he studied music at Breslau University with

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Richard Owen (judge)

Richard Owen (December 11, 1922 – November 20, 2015) was an American attorney, jurist, and composer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern

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Richard Peaslee

Richard Peaslee (June 13, 1930, New York NY – August 20, 2016) was a composer who worked in a variety of idioms, including chorus, orchestra, dance, and soundtracks for film and television, but he

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Richard Rijnvos

Richard Rijnvos (born 16 December 1964, in Tilburg) is a Dutch composer. Education and influences Rijnvos studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Jan van Vlijmen and Brian

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was

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Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer and pianist. He was noted for his musical versatility, drawing from such sources as jazz, romanticism, and

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Richard Rudolf Klein

Richard Rudolf Klein (21 May 1921 in Nußdorf/Pfalz – 17 December 2011) was a German composer, musician, and teacher. His compositional output is diverse, including nursery rhymes and music for

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Richard Sahla

Richard Sahla (17 September 1855 in Graz – 30 April 1931 in Bückeburg) was a concert violinist, conductor and composer. Biography Richard Sahla grew up in his hometown Graz, where he quickly acquired

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Richard Sampson

Richard Sampson (died 25 September 1554) was an English clergyman and composer of sacred music. He was an Anglican bishop of Chichester, and subsequently of Coventry and Lichfield. Biography He was

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Richard Shephard

Richard James Shephard MBE, DL, FRSCM (20 March 1949 – 20 February 2021) was a British composer, educator, and Director of Development and Chamberlain of York Minster. He was acclaimed as one of the

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Richard St. Clair

Richard Collins St. Clair (born September 21, 1946) is an American composer, pedagogue, poet and pianist. Life History and Musical Career In the 17th c. St. Clairs (or Sinclairs) emigrated from the

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Richard Stöhr

Richard Franz Stöhr (; 11 June 1874 – 11 December 1967) was an Austrian composer and music educator. In 1900 Stöhr studied composition with Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory working as a

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Richard Stoker

Richard Stoker (8 November 1938 – 24 March 2021) was a British composer, writer, actor, artist, and educator. Best known for his orchestral, chamber, operatic, and choral compositions, he was

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Richard Storrs Willis

Richard Storrs Willis (February 10, 1819 – May 10, 1900) was an American composer, mainly of hymn music. His best known melody is probably the one called, simply, Carol. This is the standard tune, in

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (; ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, he

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Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 – April 9, 2020) was an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. A student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, and Luigi Nono, he was known for his live

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Richard Trunk

Richard Trunk (born Tauberbischofsheim, 10 February 1879 - died Herrsching, 2 June 1968) was a German composer, pianist, conductor, critic, and member of the Nazi Party. Life He studied in Frankfurt

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to

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Richard Wernick

Richard Frank Wernick (January 16, 1934 – April 25, 2025) was an American composer. He is best known for his chamber and vocal works. His composition Visions of Terror and Wonder won the 1977

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Richard Wetz

Richard Wetz (26 February 1875 – 16 January 1935) was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies. In these works, he "seems to have aimed to be an immediate continuation of

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Richard Woitach

Richard Woitach (July 27, 1935 – October 3, 2020) was an American conductor, pianist, and composer. In 1959, after studying music at the Eastman School of Music, Woitach jointed the Metropolitan

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Richard Woodward (organist)

Richard Woodward the younger (c.1743/44 – 22 November 1777) was an Irish composer and organist, probably of English birth. Biography Woodward was probably born in Salisbury and became a choirboy of

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Richard Wüerst

Richard Wüerst (22 February 1824 – 9 October 1881) was a German composer, music professor and pedagogue. Wüerst was born and died in Berlin. He was a pupil of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen at the

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Rick Baitz

Richard Keith Baitz is an American composer, born in 1954. His work incorporates elements of classical, jazz, electronic and world music, and has been extensively utilized for the concert stage,

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Rick Boston

Richard Wallie Boston is a Canadian musician, composer and producer based in Los Angeles, United States. He is known for his roles in Low Pop Suicide and for producing Rickie Lee Jones' album,

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Rick Shorter

Rick Shorter (May 1, 1934 – September 1, 2017) was an American songwriter, music producer, and author. During the 1960s when he was most active, he produced and arranged for a multitude of artists.

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Rick Tippe

Ricky Clarence "Rick" Tippe (born December 21, 1958) is a Canadian country music artist. Tippe has released seven albums on Moon Tan Music, including a greatest hits collection in 2000. His

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Rick van der Linden

Rick van der Linden (5 August 1946, Badhoevedorp, North Holland – 22 January 2006, Groningen) was a Dutch composer and keyboardist. Van der Linden first gained fame as a member of Ekseption, but he

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Rick Wilkins (musician)

Rick Herbert Richard Wilkins (born 1 February 1937) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and tenor saxophonist. He is primarily known for his work as an arranger. He has worked extensively for CBC and

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Rickard Göransson

Rickard Bertil Göransson is a Swedish songwriter, producer, and musician. He was the lead guitarist for American alternative rock band Carolina Liar. He has written and produced for artists including

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Rickard Näslin

Rickard Näslin (born 24 September 1947 in Östersund) is a Swedish musician based in Jämtland, Sweden. He is a violinist and composer of Swedish folk music. Näslin was a founding member of the folk

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Ricky Hyslop

Ricky Hyslop (26 April 1915 – 2 June 1998) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger. He was commissioned to write works by the Buffalo Philharmonic (the symphonic poems Toronto

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Rigaut de Berbezilh

Rigaut de Berbezilh (also Berbezill or Barbesiu; , ) was a troubadour (fl. 1140–1163 ) of the petty nobility of Saintonge. He was a great influence on the Sicilian School and is quoted in the Roman

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Rigler-Deutsch Index

The Rigler and Deutsch Index of Recorded Sound, also known as the Rigler Deutsch Index, is a union catalog collocation of the U.S. holdings of 78 rpm records in the collections of the Library of

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Rihards Dubra

Rihards Dubra (born 28 February 1964 in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Latvian composer. Many of his works are religiously influenced, including a Te Deum and an Alma Redemptoris Mater for

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Rik Schaffer

Rik Schaffer is an American composer, musician, and sound designer. He's known as one of the top sound designers in the video game industry. He formed Womb Music in 1996 after being in the music

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Rikard Nordraak

Rikard Nordraak (12 June 1842 – 20 March 1866) was a Norwegian composer. He is best known as the composer of the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". Biography Rikard Nordraak was

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Rilès

Rilès Kacimi ( ; ; born 4 January 1996) is a Franco-Algerian songwriter, composer, record producer and performance artist from Rouen, Normandy. His songs are mainly written and performed in English,

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Rinaldo del Mel

Rinaldo del Mel (also René del Mel, del Melle) (probably 1554 – c. 1598) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, mainly active in Italy, and a member of the Roman School of composition. He

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Rinaldo di Capua

Rinaldo di (da) Capua (Capua, c. 1705 – probably Rome, c. 1780) was an Italian composer. Little is known of him with any certainty, including his name, although he was known to Charles Burney. He may

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Risto Apostolov

Risto Apostolov (Cyrillic: Ристо Апостолов) is a Macedonian songwriter, composer, and music producer. He is also guitarist, singer, and leader of rock band Vodolija. Career As a composer and

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Rita Brondi

Maria Rita Brondi (5 July 1889 – 1 July 1941) was an Italian guitarist, lutenist, singer, composer, and music historian. She gave concerts throughout Europe as a guitarist and singer, conducted

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Rita Kassabian

Rita Kassabian is an Armenian composer in Lebanon. She was fascinated by the piano from an early age: from 1996 till 1997, she followed the advice of her mentor and internationally known late pianist

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Rita Strohl

Rita Strohl (born Aimée Marie Marguerite Mercédès Larousse La Villette) (8 July 1865 – 27 March 1941) was a French composer and pianist. Early life Strohl was the daughter of the painter Élodie La

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Rito Selvaggi

Rito Selvaggi (22 May 189819 May 1972) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, poet, and educator. He composed numerous works, including operas, oratorios and sacred music as well symphonic and

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River Guerguerian

River Guerguerian is a multi-percussionist, composer, and educator. Canadian-born, River is of Armenian-Egyptian descent and currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Education In 1989,

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Riz Ortolani

Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (; 25 March 192623 January 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, and orchestrator, predominantly of film scores. He scored over 200 films and television programs between

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