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Riaz ur Rehman Saghar

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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 life Riaz-ur-Rehman Saghar was born on 1 December 1941 in Bathinda, Punjab, British India to Maulvi Muhammad Azeem and Sadiqan Bibi. In 1947, his family emigrated to Pakistan as refugees following the partition of India. During the journey, Saghar’s father was murdered by a Sikh extremist, and his infant brother died of starvation. Publications ; Song books * Main Nay Jo Geet Likhay ; Prose * Woh Bhi Kia Din Thay (autobiography) * Lahore Ta Bombay Brasta Delhi (Travelogue of India) * Sarkari Mehmaan Khaana (Book on events inside Jail) ; Poetry * Chand Jharoke Mein * Piare Piare Geet Hamare * Arz Kia Hai, Sur Sitarey * Aangan Aangan Taray ( Poems in this book were presented on PTV for children. All poems started from Urdu alphabets. Federal Ministry of Education also instructed all syllabus book boards to utilize this book). Awards and recognition Saghar has received many awards in recognition of his services to the film industry of Pakistan. Prominent ones are: * National Film Award * PTV

Ric Formosa

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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 two albums, Little River Band and After Hours. Early life Formosa was born in Rome, Italy, but grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He migrated to Australia in 1974 and worked as a music arranger and studio musician. For the latter, he wrote the song “Bourbon Street” and co-wrote “Another Runaway” with fellow member Beeb Birtles. References Further reading *Barkl, Michael. 2010. Vertigo: Riccardo Formosa’s Composition Technique. Saarbrücken. * Barkl, Michael. 1997. Riccardo Formosa. The Oxford Companion to Australian Music (ed. Warren Bebbington). Melbourne: OUP. External links *

Ricardo Castro (composer)

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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 Castro was born at the Hacienda de Santa Bárbara, in the municipality of Nazas, Durango. His father, Vicente Castro, was a federal deputy; his mother was María de Jesús Herrera. Castro began his music education with Pedro H. Ceniseros. In 1879, his family moved to Mexico City, where the boy entered the National Conservatory of Music and studied piano with Juan Salvatierra and . He studied harmony and counterpoint with Melesio Morales. He finished all his studies in just five years, half of the usual ten. He graduated in 1883. Castro began his musical career as a concert pianist and composer before finishing his studies. In 1882, he won two prizes. At 19, Castro finished his First Symphony in C Minor; the symphony was premiered in 1988, 81 years after his death. In 1883, the Government of Mexico chose some of Castro’s works to send to Venezuela for the centenary of Simón Bolívar’s birth and later in 1884 he made a concert tour through the United States. 1896 was the year of the first pr

Ricardo Curto

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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 started his career as a jazz pianist, performing in a jazz trio comprising piano, drums and double bass. He released his first solo album, Cada Día Como El Último, in 2010. The eight-track album featured six of Curto’s original compositions along with renditions of the jazz standards Footprints and Caravan. Curto dedicated the album’s opening and closing tracks to Esbjörn Svensson. Curto studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and completed his master’s degree at Berklee’s Valencia campus. He began scoring films after finishing his master’s degree at Berklee, Valencia. Career Curto has composed music for other television series, including El Desorden Que Dejas on Netflix and RTVE’s Ana Tramel El Juego. Curto joined Netflix’s Élite after working with Carlos Montero Castiñeira on Netflix’s mini-series The Mess You Leave Behind. Although the series’ previous composers had established its musical themes, prior to Curto’s arrival, the series’ soundtrack featured a lot of songs with lyrics

Ricardo Llorca

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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 Evening Division” since 1995. In addition, he is a Composer-in-residence for the New York-based contemporary dance company Henning Rübsam’s Sensedance " and a composer-in-residence of NYOS (“The New York Opera Society” ) since 2008. His work includes operas such as “Las Horas Vacías” (“The Empty Hours”) and the opera “Tres Sombreros de Copa " (“Three Top Hats”). Llorca is also a composer of symphonic, chamber, choral, and music for theater, movies, and television. Some of Ricardo Llorca’s sources for his thematic inspiration are taken from his Mediterranean roots, mixed with elements of contemporary music. Career Cultural management Throughout his career, Ricardo Llorca has fostered partnerships with public and private institutions to advance the appreciation of contemporary and classical music. Since 2008 he has been working as Composer-in-Residence and deputy director at The New York Opera Society, collaborating with Jennifer Cho in organizing concerts and cultural events, seeking sponso

Ricardo Lorenz

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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 was a pupil of John Eaton and Shulamit Ran. After completing his PhD, he was a composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Billings Symphony Orchestra. His works have been performed by symphony orchestras internationally. Partial list of works Orchestral works *Sinfonietta Concertante (1987), for wind quintet and string orchestra; dedicated to Heitor Villa-Lobos *Mar Acá, voor dwarsfluit, chamber orchestra and idiophones (1989) *Piano concerto (1990) *Violin concerto (1990) *Confabulaciones del Alma, three symphonic études (1992) *Concerto for Orchestra (1993) *Entrada triunfal del Rey Magoberry (1995) *Concerto for recorder and orchestra (1995, written for recorder player Aldo Abreu) *Pataruco for Venezuelan maracas and orchestra (1999, written for percussionist Edward Harrison) *Konex-Konex, for folk ensemble and orchestra (2000) *En Tren Vá Changó (2001) *Fantasía, for piano and orchestra (2002) *Rumba Sinfónica, for Latin-American band and orchestra (2007) *Cancione

Ricardo Tacuchian

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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 has held include Titular Professor of both UFRJ and UNIRIO (where he was the Titular Conductor of the Unirio Orchestra), visiting professor of the State University of New York at Albany and of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He received grants and scholarship from Capes, CNPq (Brazil), Other Minds, Fulbright Commission, Rockefeller Foundation (USA), and Appolon Stiftung (Germany), among others. He is a lifetime member of the Brazilian Music Academy, the highest honoring musical institution in Brazil. Partial List of Works 5 Cantatas *O Canto do Poeta (1969): Cecília Meireles; soprano, violin, flute, and piano. RJ, 1970. *Cantata dos Mortos (1965): Vinicius de Moraes; baritone, narrator, mixed choir, oboe, bassoon, piano, timpani, and percussion Sistrum, 1981 . Ouro Preto, 1978. *Cantata de Natal (1978): Holy Bible, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, and Folk *Christmas Cycle of the State of Rio de Janeiro; Soprano, Baritone, Narrator, Mixed Choir, and Symphony Orchestra. Rio d

Riccardo Cocciante

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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 includes recordings in Italian, French, English and Spanish. Early and personal life Cocciante was born on 20 February 1946 in Saigon, French Indochina (now Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam), to an Italian father from Rocca di Mezzo, L’Aquila, and a French mother. At the age of 11, he moved to Rome, Italy, where he attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand. He has also lived in France, the United States, and Ireland. Cocciante has been married to Catherine Boutet since 1983. They have one child together. Career An R&B enthusiast, Cocciante began his musical career as an organ player, and in the late 1960s began performing as a singer at L’Approdo, a Roman club for foreign students. The same year, he covered the Beatles song “Michelle”, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, for the musical documentary All This and World War II, and he released his sole English album in the US, with the single “When Love Has Gone Away” peaking at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1980, Cocciante began a decade-l

Riccardo Drigo

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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 d’orchestre/kapellmeister and Music Director of the Imperial Ballet of Saint Petersburg, Russia, for which he composed music for the original works and revivals of the choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. During his career in Saint Petersburg, Drigo conducted the premieres and regular performances of nearly every ballet performed on the Tsarist stage. Drigo is equally noted for his original full-length compositions for the ballet as well as his large catalog of supplemental music written ad hoc for insertion into already-existing works. Drigo is also noted for his adaptations of already-existing scores, such as his 1895 edition of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s score for Swan Lake. Many pieces set to the music of Drigo are still performed today, and are considered cornerstones of the classical ballet repertory. Life Riccardo Giuseppe Drigo was born in Padua, Italy on 30 June 1846. His father Silvio Drigo was a barrister and his mother, a noble Lupati, was active in politics. None o

Riccardo Gandolfi

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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 composition in the Conservatory of Naples under C. Conti. He then moved to Florence to study under Teodulo Mabellini and Giovanni Pacini. His first opera, Aldina, was staged in the Santa Radegonda theater of Milan. His second opera, Il paggio, was staged at the Royal Theater of Turin and used as libretto by Giovanni Peruzzini. He also wrote Il Conte di Monreale and Caterina di Guisa. He wrote a number of symphonic and chamber works, including a requiem for King Carlo Alberto played in the Turin Cathedral. He wrote a cantata Il battesimo di Santa Cecilia (1875). However, Gandolfi served for two decades as librarian of the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence, and is best remembered for his publications on music and musicians. Publications *Appunti intorno all’arpa, all’oboe e all’organo (Florence 1887); *Giacomo Rossini, in Rassegna nazionale, 16 May 1887, pp. 257–267; *Una riparazione a proposito di Francesco Landino, ibid., 1 December 1888, pp. 538–549; *Commemorazione di W.A. Mozart, i

Riccardo Malipiero

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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 Varese in 1984. Born in Milan, Malipiero was the son of cellist Riccardo Malipiero (1886–1975). He studied piano and composition at Milan Conservatory (in 1930), where he graduated in 1932, and Turin Conservatory, where he obtained a diploma in 1937. He pursued further studies in composition with his uncle Gian Francesco Malipiero in Venice. From 1935 to 1947 he was a lecturer at the Liceo Musicale “Vincenzo Appiani” in Monza. Malipiero was active as a pianist, and also wrote criticism for Il popolo and Corriere lombardo, from 1945 to 1966. He lectured in the United States in 1954, 1959, and 1969, and in Buenos Aires in 1963. Between 1969 and 1984 he directed the Varese Conservatory, in which he joined the music faculty in 1979. Malipiero’s early works were composed using a free atonality. In 1945 he began using a twelve-tone technique in his compositions, becoming one of the pioneers of that technique in Italy. He promoted the twelve-tone technique in articles he contributed in Italian m

Riccardo Piacentini

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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 Composition and Piano at Turin and Alessandria Conservatories, as well as in Literature and Music History at University of Turin with a thesis on the orchestral works of Goffredo Petrassi. He studied with Carlo Pinelli, favorite pupil of Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Franco Donatoni. He participated also in courses and workshops with Sylvano Bussotti, György Ligeti, Ennio Morricone, André Richard (at the Heinrich Strobel Center in Freiburg, where Luigi Nono worked), Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1988 he was among the performed composers at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt. He is particularly active both as composer of foto-musica con foto-suoni for museums - a new musical technique for counterpointing human voice, acoustic and electronic instruments and environmental sounds -, and as pianist of the Duo Alterno. With this internationally acclaimed ensemble, founded in 1997 together with his wife soprano Tiziana Scandaletti, he has performed all over the world, keepin

Riccardo Rognoni

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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 treatise Passaggi per potersi esercitare nel diminuire (“Passages for practice in diminution”), Venice 1592, External links *

Richard Aaker Trythall

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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, 1939, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the younger brother of composer Gil Trythall. His family, related to composer Edvard Grieg, has Welsh and Norwegian ancestry, and moved to the United States from Norway. He attended Central High School in Knoxville and in 1958 he enrolled at the University of Tennessee, where he studied under David Van Vactor graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1961. His interest in composition was fostered by Van Vactor, at the time conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and founder of the University of Tennessee School of Music. He was then admitted to Princeton University in 1961 where he studied under Earl Kim, Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, and Edward T. Cone obtaining a Master of Fine Arts in 1963. He completed his music studies attending, that same year, advanced composition courses at the Berlin University of the Arts where he studied with Boris Blacher under a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship. Trythall was part of the group of David Van Vactor’s notable student

Richard Addinsell

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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 music – including his best-known piece, the Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 Dangerous Moonlight – and subsequently for his musical collaboration with the lyricist and performer Joyce Grenfell. Life and career Early years Richard Addinsell was born in Woburn Square, London, on 13 January 1904, the younger son of William Arthur Addinsell, who was a chartered accountant, and his wife, Annie Beatrice Richards. Addinsell was educated at home before attending Hertford College, Oxford, to study law but going down after 18 months. He became interested in music as an alternative career. In 1925 he enrolled at the Royal College of Music (RCM) but lasted only two terms before leaving, again without obtaining any formal qualification. A revue for Fred Karno followed in 1927, again with Gay, In 1928 Addinsell first collaborated with the author Clemence Dane. The work was Adam’s Opera, described by the two collaborators as “a tragic pantomime, set to music and written in nursery rhyme”. It was p

Richard Allison (composer)

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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 known due to the Julian Bream Consort. He was known to be in the service of the Countess of Warwick in 1599, and then working for Sir John Scudamore. His publications are: The Psalms of David in Meter (1599) and An Hour’s Recreation in musicke, apt for instruments and voyces (1606). His work also appears in Michael East’s and Thomas Ravenscroft’s psalters, and Thomas Morley’s broken consort publication. He referred in the dedication of his Psalmes to the late Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick as ‘my good Lord and Master’. Allison is represented by thirteen compositions in a set of consort books (dated 1588), from the household of Sir Francis Walsingham. Ten four-part settings by him appeared in East’s Whole Booke of Psalms (1592), and he contributed a dedicatory poem to Giles Farnaby’s Canzonets to Fowre Voyces (1598). In 1599, he published his own Psalmes of David in Meter, giving his London address as Dukes Place, near Aldgate, and describing himself as a ‘gentleman’ and a ‘practit

Richard Arnell

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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 includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets. At the Trinity College of Music, he “promoted a pioneering interest in film scores and electronic music” and jazz. Life and career Arnell was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Hélène Marie (Scherf) and Richard Sayer Arnell. In contrast to his grandfather, who played the violin in the Hastings Municipal Orchestra, his father was the architect and builder of the 28-acre Kingsway and Aldwych project, which was completed in 1905. Arnell studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1935 to 1939, and was taught there by John Ireland (composition) and John Arthur St. Oswald Dykes (piano). He was awarded the Farrar Prize for composition during his final year at the college. At the outset of the Second World War, attending the New York World Fair, Arnell (along with other English composers, e.g. Arthur Bliss) was stranded in New York, and stayed on until 1947, thereby finding himself in the position of having an established rep

Richard Arnest

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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 University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1986. While pursuing his degrees, he composed and performed. Career Arnest is a flutist. In the early 1970s, he performed with the Hawaii Performing Arts Company, where he was the first music director. In the mid 1970s, he toured as a member of Aulacord Duo under the Mid-America Arts Alliance. He wrote the music “Children of Light” for “Star Stuff” planetarium show at the Planetarium of the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. Flute World selected him as Featured Composer in 2006. Arnest has also created programs for the Arkansas Educational Television Network. He was a teacher at the Arkansas Governor’s School. Selected works *A Chiu *An English Christmas *Apotheose du Roi *Beata Es *Chiese Serenissime *Haworth Suite *Jacob’s Ladder *Liquescence Awards *EPICmusic, 2004 *ASCAPlus Award, 2005–07 Notes

Richard Barrett (composer)

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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 microbiology from University College London in 1980, he began to study music, taking private lessons with Peter Wiegold, and soon thereafter participating in the 1984 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik where there were fruitful encounters with Brian Ferneyhough and Hans-Joachim Hespos. In the late 1980s he became associated with the so-called New Complexity group of British composers because of the intricate notation of his scores. He is equally active in free improvisation, most often in the electronic duo FURT with Paul Obermayer, formed in 1986, but also since 2003 as a member of the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. Since 1990 about half of his compositions have been written for the ELISION Ensemble, most notably the extended works Opening of the Mouth, DARK MATTER, CONSTRUCTION and world-line. Most of his compositions since the 1990s have involved both acoustic and electronic resources, combined in many different ways. In 2005 he and Obermayer formed the electroacoustic octe

Richard Beaudoin (composer)

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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 in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from North Attleborough High School in 1993, studied privately with bassist Mibbit Threats, and enrolled at Amherst College in 1993 where he remained for three years, studying with Lewis Spratlan. In 1996, he withdrew from Amherst College and spent a year living in Mortlake, near London, studying composition privately with Michael Finnissy. He returned to Amherst College and graduated summa cum laude in 1998. He was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in January 1999. In 2000, Beaudoin returned to London and earned his M.Mus. in Music Composition from London’s Royal Academy of Music in 2002, studying again with Michael Finnissy. He returned to the United States and, in 2008, earned his Ph.D. in Composition and Music Theory from Brandeis University, studying composition with David Rakowski and Martin Boykan, and theory with Eric Chafe. While still a Ph.D. student at Brandeis, he held two visiting professorships at Amherst College: as Joseph A. and

Richard Bunger Evans

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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 music, In commemoration of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, he composed Ireland’s Poet-Patriots, an oratorio that premiered at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Evans also contributed music to the Ken Burns documentary miniseries, The American Revolution (2025). During his 17-year career as a music professor, he founded the country’s first Electronic Music & Recording program. Early life and education Richard Bunger Evans was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1942 to Jean Scholler. In 1944, he was adopted by Henry and Minnie Bunger of Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, and attended public schools there until his graduation in 1960. Evans graduated from Oberlin College where he obtained a B.Mus. in 1964. Evans continued at the University of Illinois and earned a master’s degree in music in 1966 Career During his post-graduate studies, he taught at Queens University of Charlotte. In 1968 Evans accepted a position at Oberlin Conservatory to teach music theory. He then moved to Los Angeles, Cali

Richard Burmeister

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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 the head of the piano department of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Along with fellow composers Joseph Pache, Asger Hamerik, Fritz Finke and Otto Sutro, Burmeister played a sizeable role in the 1890s musical culture of Baltimore. From 1897 to 1899 he was director of the Scharwenka Conservatory of Music’s New York City branch. Burmeister returned to Europe and taught at the Royal Conservatory of Dresden and at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. He died in Berlin in 1944. a ballade for pianoforte, and “The Chase After Fortune” (described as a “symphonic fantasy”) for orchestra. He also published several arrangements, including an arrangement for pianoforte and orchestra of Liszt’s Concerto Pathétique for two pianofortes, a reorchestration of Chopin’s F-minor Piano Concerto, and a piano arrangement of Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in E-Flat Minor BWV 853. References External links *

Richard Cameron-Wolfe

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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 School of Music with Joseph Battista and Menahem Pressler (piano) and Bernhard Heiden, Iannis Xenakis, Juan Orrego-Salas, and John Eaton (composition). Career Before moving to New York City, he taught at Indiana University, Radford College (Virginia), and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In New York he performed and composed for several major ballet and modern dance companies, including the Joffrey Ballet and the Jose Limon Company. He then taught music theory and history, composition, and music resources for choreographers at Purchase College, State University of New York from 1978-2002. His ideas on the intersection between choreography and music are cited in Oxford’s volume Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance. He composed the libretto or the opera Los Caminos del Paxos with Arturio Arias. Since 1989 Cameron-Wolfe has been a frequent guest of music schools and festivals in Russia and former Soviet nations and a promoter of the exchange of musical ideas, sc

Richard Carrick

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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 compositions are influenced by diverse sources including traditional Korean Gugak music, the flow concept of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Gnawa Music of Morocco, Jazz, experimental music, concepts of infinity, the works of Italo Calvino and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his work as improviser. He is co-founder/co-artistic director of the critically acclaimed experimental music ensemble Either/Or with whom he performs regularly as pianist and conductor. Carrick is currently Chair of the Composition Department at Berklee College of Music. In 2011 and 2013 Carrick was Adjunct Associate Professor of Composition at Columbia University and taught composition and history at New York University 2009–2012. For a decade he trained young composers for the New York Philharmonic in New York City and internationally. He has received numerous awards including a 2015–16 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2015 Gugak Fellowship for Korean Traditional Music, and a Fromm Commission of Harvard University. His music, described as “c

Richard Charke

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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 Colley Cibber as leader of the orchestra at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1729. Soon thereafter, he began performing as a solo violinist and singing in small roles at the theatre. He eventually graduated to lead roles in the musical productions at Drury Lane, starring in such productions as Henry Carey’s The Contrivances (1729) and Cibber’s Damon and Phillida (1729). Charke possessed a good sense of humor and had a talent for wit, which he ultimately made use of in pantomimes, mostly as a composer but also as a writer. He wrote several amusing “Medley Overtures” that became highly popular for pantomime performances during the 1730s and 1740s. He authored only one pantomime, Harlequin Restored, or, The Country Revels, which contained music by both himself and Thomas Arne and premiered at Drury Lane on 14 December 1732 (although the Burney Collection of newspapers showing contemporary playbills give the date as 20 March 1732). In addition to his contribution to pantomimes, Charke compo

Richard Danielpour

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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 received a nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards for his piece The Passion of Yeshua. Early life Danielpour was born in New York City of Persian descent and grew up in New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. He studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986. His primary composition professors at Juilliard were Vincent Persichetti and Peter Mennin. Danielpour taught at the Manhattan School of Music from 1993 to 2017. He joined the faculty of Curtis Institute of Music in 1997. He joined the faculty of the Herb Alpert School of Music of the University of California Los Angeles in 2017. Music In common with many other American composers of the post-war generation, Danielpour began his career in a serialist milieu, but rejected it in the late 1980s in favor of a more ecumenical and “humdrum” idiom. He cites the Beatles—along with

Richard Dering

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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 techniques which anticipated the advent of Baroque music in England. Some of his surviving choral works are part of the repertoire of Anglican church music today. Despite being English, he lived and worked most of his life in the Spanish-dominated South Netherlands owing to his Roman Catholic faith. Dering was likely a Protestant in England in his early life, but it is thought that in his early thirties he converted to Roman Catholicism during his time in Italy. Following the English Reformation in the 16th century, religious tensions were high. A number of English composers who had converted to Catholicism — or were suspected of converting — went to live in exile in Roman Catholic countries in Continental Europe. It is known that Dering visited Florence and then lived for a time at the English College in Rome, a seminary for English Catholic priests. A letter from Sir Dudley Carleton to Sir John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton dated 25 June 1612 makes reference to Harington’s serv

Richard Donovan (composer)

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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 1891 in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied at the Yale School of Music and the Institute of Musical Art, the latter of which he graduated from in 1922. He also studied under Charles-Marie Widor in Paris. In 1923, Donovan’s was employed as a teacher at Smith College. He also taught at the Institute of Musical Art for a period. He joined the faculty of Yale in 1928 and was Battell Professor of Music Theory from 1947 to 1960. He was also acting dean of the school of music between 1940 and 1941. Donovan died on 22 August 1970 in Middletown, Connecticut. Works Orchestral * Wood-notes (for flute, strings, harp; 1924–5) * Smoke and Steel (symphonic poem after Carl Sandburg; 1932) * Symphony (for chamber orchestra; 1936) * Ricercare (for oboe and strings; 1938) * Suite (for oboe and strings; 1944–5) * Design for Radio (1945) * New England Chronicle (1947) * Passacaglia on Vermont Folk Tunes (1949 ) * Symphony (1956) * Epos (1963) Chamber * Chamber sextet (for wind, piano; 1932) * Piano suite (19

Richard Dünser

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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 the of his hometown and later at the Vienna Academy of Music with Francis Burt. From 1985 to 1987, he studied composition with Hans Werner Henze at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and in 1987 he was a composition fellow there. He was for a summer composition scholar in Tanglewood, U.S. From 1987, he taught composition at the Innsbruck department of the Mozarteum University Salzburg as well as at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory, and in 1991 he was appointed professor of music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where he has also led a composition class since 2004. Dünser was composer in residence of the Wiener Konzertverein (the chamber orchestra of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra) and, with Christian Roscheck, co-initiator of the concert series of the same name at the Wiener Musikverein (Brahmssaal). His most important works, which have been interpreted by international ensembles, conductors and soloists, include the orchestral piece Der Wanderer (commissioned by t

Richard Edward Wilson

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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. His oeuvre includes orchestral, operatic, instrumental, and chamber music among other genres. Life and career Wilson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was at a young age drawn to the concerts of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra. His studied piano with Roslyn Raish, Egbert Fischer, and Leonard Shure. He studied cello with Robert Ripley and Ernst Silberstein. In 1963, Wilson graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Moevs and Randall Thompson. He later received an MA from Rutgers University. From 1966 to 2016, he taught at Vassar College, where he was Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Music. Since 1992 he has been composer-in-residence with the American Symphony Orchestra. Music Richard Wilson’s compositions are marked by a stringent yet lyrical atonality which often sets him apart from the established schools of modern American music: minimalism, twelve-tone, neo-romanticism, and avant-garde. Two of his works, Eclogue fo

Richard Edwardes

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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 known for his comedies and interludes. Life Richard Edwardes was born around 1523 in Somerset. Edwardes began his studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in May 1540 and joined Christ Church, Oxford as it opened in 1546. He joined Lincoln’s Inn but did not take up law as a career. After he died in 1566, he was succeeded by William Hunnis. Works Plays In 1566, Edwardes’ Palamon and Arcite was performed before Elizabeth I at Oxford when the stage fell — three people died and five were injured as a result. Despite the tragic accident, the show continued to play that night. The excellent Comedie of two the moste faithfullest Freendes, Damon and Pithias (written in 1564, published in 1571), a comedy, is his only extant play. The ladies were named as Howard, Dacres, Baynam, Arundel, Dormer, Mansell, Margaret Cooke, and Bridges. The verses are found in a British Library manuscript, (Cotton MS Titus A XIV), and were not included in the Paradise. Music Edwardes was less well known as a composer,

Richard Einhorn

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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 electronic music with Jack Beeson, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Mario Davidovsky. His best-known work, Voices of Light (1994), is an oratorio scored for soloists, chorus, orchestra, and a bell. It was inspired by Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), and it has been performed while the film is screened. He has also composed many horror and thriller film scores, including Shock Waves (1977), Don’t Go in the House (1979), Eyes of a Stranger (1981), The Prowler (1981), Dead of Winter (1987), Blood Rage (1987), Sister, Sister (1987), and Dark Tower (1989). He also contributed to the soundtrack of Liberty! The American Revolution (1997). In his mid-fifties, Einhorn experienced significant hearing loss. In a 2011 New York Times article, he discussed his use of hearing loops to enjoy concerts with his hearing aid. Musical works Concert works *The Origin “is a multimedia oratorio in celebration of the life and work of Charles Darwin”. Libretto compiled from Darwin’s

Richard Emsley

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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 College, Cardiff, after which he moved to London, where he still lives. He attended Peter Maxwell Davies’ composition classes at the Dartington Summer School of Music, and co-founded the Cardiff Composers’ Ensemble while a student there. In the 1970s he co-founded, with James Clarke, the ensemble Suoraan, which specialised in performances of music by contemporary composers, including Iannis Xenakis, Michael Finnissy and James Dillon. In 2002, Métier released a CD of Emsley’s music, entitled Flowforms. In addition to composing, Emsley works as a music engraver. He was the first ever user of the notation software Sibelius, having tested it extensively before it was released, and engraved the first score published using Sibelius: Antara by George Benjamin (published by Faber Music). List of works *The lunar silences, the silent tide lapping… (1973) for flute, clarinet, percussion (4 players), piano and violin *Hologenesis (1978) for solo clarinet *At Once (1979) for flute (doubling alto flute),

Richard Faith

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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 of piano pedagogy literature, orchestral and chamber works, opera and most prolifically, song. A neo-romantic, Faith has always been first and foremost a melodist. Biography Richard Bruce Faith was born in Evansville, Indiana. His mother was a homemaker active in community affairs, and his father, a dentist. Both parents were very supportive of his choice to become a musician as they too came from musical backgrounds. Faith’s mother studied piano before her five children were born; his father picked up musical skills without a teacher and played piano, violin and sang in the church choir. Around age eight, Richard began to study piano with his fifteen-year-old cousin and he soon began improvising melodies on the keyboard. Between the ages of eleven and twelve he began writing down his piano compositions, one of which later became a work for women’s chorus entitled “Daffodils” (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) with poetry by William Wordsworth. Before his natural bent toward composing coul

Richard Fall

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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 Born in Jevíčko, Österreich-Ungarn, Fall grew up in a family of musicians. His two brothers Leo and Siegfried as well as his father were also composers and conductors. Fall worked as operettas conductor in Berlin and Vienna and as film composer in Hollywood. After the Anschluss (1938), he fled National Socialism to France. On 20 November 1943 he was deported from the Drancy internment camp to the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he died early in January 1945, before the liberation of the concentration camp. Works Stage plays *Goldreifchen. Fairy tale in 3 acts. Libretto: and Mia Ewers. UA 1909 Vienna *Das Damenparadies. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. UA 1911 Vienna *Wiener Fratz. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Ernst Klein and . UA 1912 Vienna *Arms and the Girl. Operetta in 2 scenes, Libretto: Austen Hurgon. UA 1912 London *Leute vom Stand. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Robert Bodanzky and Fritz Grünbaum. UA 1913 Vienna *Der Weltenbummler. Operetta in one

Richard Farrant

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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 the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal in 1552. The year of his birth cannot be accurately determined. During his life he was able to establish himself as a successful composer, develop the English drama considerably, found the first Blackfriars Theatre, and be the first to write verse-anthems. He married Anne Bower, daughter of Richard Bower who was Master of the Chapel Royal choristers at the time. With Anne he conceived ten children, one of whom was also named Richard. Work with Royalty As a member of the Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, Farrant was active in ceremonies surrounding the royal family. He began his work with the Chapel Royal around 1550 under the reign of Edward VI. Fortunately, for Farrant, this is a time that saw huge developments in Latin Church Music. Composers like William Byrd and Christopher Tye were busy expanding and elaborating on the Church Music of the day. In Farrant’s twelve years with the Chapel Royal, he was able to participate in funerals for Edward VI and Ma

Richard Festinger

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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 music, magna cum laude, from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding director of Earplay, a new chamber music ensemble based in the Bay Area. He has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, Camargo Foundation, Cité internationale des arts in Paris, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the Ligurian Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Almeria, Spain, Ucross Foundation Centre International d’Accueil et d’Échanges des Récollets, the Aaron Copland House, the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation in 2003 to compose his work Hidden Spring for the Cygnus Ensemble. Also in 2003 Works and Process at the Guggenheim commissioned and premiered his settings of poet/author Denis Johnson, The Coming of Age with Amy Burton, soprano and Th

Richard Flury

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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 Hans Huber in Switzerland and Joseph Marx in Vienna. After studying abroad he returned to Switzerland, took a conducting course with Felix Weingartner in Basel, and then became a music teacher at his old school, the Solothurn Canton School, where he stayed for over 30 years, until 1961. He conducted the Solothurn City Orchestra from 1919 until 1949, also conducting various other local orchestras and choirs, playing in dance bands and teaching violin. There are four operas, four violin concertos, five symphonies, seven string quartets, eight masses, 11 violin sonatas and around 180 songs. He wrote an autobiography, Lebenserinnerungen (1950), which includes worklists. Flury married Lily Sollberger in 1924 and there were four children. They divorced and he married again in 1939, this time to a former violin pupil, Rita Gostele. At this time he helped Jewish musicians (such as Gottfried Kassowitz, a pupil of Schoenberg and Berg) secure musical positions in neutral Switzerland. There is a bu

Richard Ford (music editor)

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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 Ben Affleck, Alexander Payne, Ted Demme and Kathryn Bigelow. He started his musical career as a bass player in his home town of London and later in New York City, working with, amongst others, guitarist Bill Nelson and singer/songwriter Joe Jackson. Ford moved to Los Angeles in the 1990s, where he started his music editing career. He is best known for his work on films such as Argo, The Descendants, Sideways, Election, Training Day and American History X. Early career Ford grew up in London within a musical family. He started playing piano at the age of four, and became a member of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s boys choir at the age of ten. He went on to study cello and alto sax as a teenager, and by his 20s had become known as a session bass player in London and later in New York. During this time he recorded and toured with various artists including guitarist Bill Nelson (on his project Bill Nelson’s Red Noise), singer/songwriter Bram Tchaikovsky, singer Mary Hopkin, producer Tony

Richard Franck

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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. His father, who had studied with Felix Mendelssohn and knew the value of good instruction, sent Richard to the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied with two of the leading teachers of the day, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn. During the course of a long career, Franck held teaching positions at conservatories in both Germany (Kassel, Berlin, Heidelberg) and in Switzerland (Basle). Although he did not reach the front rank amongst his contemporaries, he was nevertheless well respected as a concert artist and as a composer. His conservative style was influenced by Reinecke and by his friend, the Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852–1921). Franck was firmly in the tradition of Mendelssohn and Schumann though it’s clear that he was not immune from the influence of Wagner, Grieg and Reger also. Critics who were familiar with his compositions and his piano playing regularly lavished praise upon them. For example, the Schweizerische Musikzeitung (Swiss Musical Journal), writing about his First P

Richard Fuchs

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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 German Army, and was awarded the Iron Cross. He was active in the Jüdischer Kulturbund Baden and President of the B’nai B’rith Lodge in Karlsruhe in the 1930s. He designed the Gernsbach Synagogue - destroyed in Kristallnacht in 1938 - among other buildings, few of which survive. After Kristallnacht he was in incarcerated at the age of 50, along with his brother Walter, on 1 November 1938 for some weeks in Dachau concentration camp. He was released when his application to emigrate to New Zealand was accepted, and he did so via England, arriving on 17 April 1939, bringing with him a selection of his compositions, listed below. In Wellington he worked as an architect with Natusch and Sons, and the Housing Department while continuing to compose and taking an active part in the Wellington music scene. However, whereas in Germany he was persecuted as a Jew, in New Zealand, he was shunned as a German. He wrote further chamber music, another string quartet and a piano quintet, songs, including A New

Richard Genée

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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 most famous for the libretto of Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss II’s most famous operetta. He co-wrote the libretto without having met top-billed librettist Karl Haffner, who constructed the new story based on a play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, which was considered too shocking to perform outside Paris. Genée, however, wrote the operetta’s actual text and drew nothing from Haffner beyond the names of the characters. One of his best-known works was the libretto of Carl Millöcker’s operetta Der Bettelstudent, which he co-wrote with Friedrich Zell (the pseudonym of Camillo Walzel). He also wrote the libretto to Ella Adayevskaya’s 1877 opera Zarya. In 1857, he was conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra Mainz. Librettos and plays * Polyphen oder Ein Abenteuer auf Martinique (1856) * Der Geiger aus Tirol (1857) * Der Liebesring um (1860) * Ein Trauerspiel (1860) * Ein Narrentraum (1861) * Die Generalprobe (1862) * Die Herren von der Livrée (1862) * Die Talismänner (1863) * Rosita (1

Richard Gibson (composer)

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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 of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers. Gibson has also been active as a producer for classical recordings. One of these – the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra’s Forbidden City Tour CD – won an East Coast Music Award (ECMA) in 2008 for Classical Recording of the Year. Education * B.Mus., Dalhousie University (Steve Tittle, composition) * M.Mus., University of Western Ontario (Peter Paul Koprowski, composition) * PhD, King’s College London (David Lumsdaine, composition) Awards * 1983 – First Prize, Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) competition for young composers * 1992 – New Brunswick Award for Excellence in Arts Compositions Solo works * Nightingales for Katy (flute) 1982 * Cantilena (guitar) 1984 * Sonate (saxophone) 1984 * Resonances (percussion) 1985 * Sept Miniatures (guitar) 1986 * Hemispheres (bass guitar) 1987 * Prélude, Fugue et Allegro Vivace (piano) 1987 * 25 Préludes (piano) 1996 * Cora (percussion) 200

Richard Grayson (composer)

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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 1969—only the third person to receive a UCLA music Ph.D., after Michael Zearott and Edward Applebaum—and in the same year joined the music faculty of Occidental College, where he taught until his retirement in 2001. His 32 years of annual keyboard improvisation concerts, in which he improvised based on audience requests, were a highlight of that college’s concert season. He is also a composer of instrumental and vocal music as well as of live electronic music. His awards include a Fulbright Scholarship to study in 1965–66 with Henri Pousseur in Brussels and at the Cologne Courses for New Music, and a composition grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. From fall 2001 until June 2016 he taught music theory courses at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica. For over three decades Grayson has given concerts and seminars for the Yamaha Music Education Foundation and has visited Japan many times to perform and teach. For the past ten summers he has taught improvisation courses at the

Richard Grégoire

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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 he won the Genie Award for Best Original Score at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992. Grégoire was a graduate of the Université de Montréal, where he was a student of Serge Garant. Awards In addition to his Genie win in 1992, he was a nominee on three other occasions, receiving nods at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Exit, at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Heat Line (La ligne de chaleur), and at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996 for Water Child (L’Enfant d’eau). He was also a two-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Original Music, receiving nods at the 1st Jutra Awards in 1999 for Streetheart (Le Cœur au poing) and at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2000 for Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes). At the 6th Jutra Awards in 2004, he was the recipient of the Jutra Hommage lifetime achievement prize. References External links * *

Richard Hageman

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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 Maurits Hageman of Zutphen, a violinist, pianist and conductor, and of Hester Westerhoven of Amsterdam, a singer who performed under the name Francisca Stoetz. A child prodigy, he was a concert pianist by the age of six. He studied at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Brussels. For a short time Hageman was accompanist to Mathilde Marchesi in Paris. He travelled to the United States in 1906 to accompany Yvette Guilbert on a national tour. He stayed and eventually became an American citizen in 1925. Rosina sang at the Metropolitan Opera, but the couple had an acrimonious divorce in 1916. His second and third wives were also sopranosRenee Thornton and Eleanore Rogers. He was a conductor and pianist for the Metropolitan Opera between 1908 and 1922, and 1935-1936, coach of the opera department at the Curtis Institute from 1925 to 1930, and music director of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Ravinia Park Opera for seven years. Hageman was a coach in voice and collaborative at the Chicago Musica

Richard Harris (composer)

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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 Edinburgh, where his tutors included Kenneth Leighton. At Edinburgh he co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus, with whom he was a member until 2002, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five CDs. Compositions by Harris feature on the Argo CD Loopholes, and in full on the ensemble’s own CD Landscapes Of The Heart; he also produced successful arrangements of works by Terry Riley and Thomas Ades. His work Hexada was featured in the UK television programme The Score. In 1992 Harris began teaching piano, theory and A-level music at Westminster School, where he himself had been a pupil. In 1994 Harris became a published author with Faber Music, and in 1997 was chosen by the film composer Carl Davis to be his personal music arranger. Harris’s books range from his own compositions and educational tutors to film, jazz and pop arrangements, and include collaborations with Evelyn Gl

Richard Harvey (composer)

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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 television soundtracks. He is also known for his guitar concerto Concerto Antico, which was composed for the guitarist John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra. In April 2012, UK radio listeners voted Richard Harvey’s Concerto Antico into the Classic FM Hall of Fame for the first time. Early life and career Born in Enfield, Middlesex, By the time he graduated from London’s Royal College of Music in 1972, he was accomplished on the recorder, flute, krumhorn, and other mediaeval and Renaissance-era instruments, as well as the mandolin and various keyboards. He could have joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra, but instead chose to work with Musica Reservata, an early music ensemble. He subsequently met another RCM graduate, Brian Gulland, and went on to form the progressive rock and folk band Gryphon. Harvey also composed the theme song for TBS’s World Championship Wrestling, called “Dynamics”. Harvey is also a prolific composer of production music and founding partner of West One Musi

Richard Heinrich Stein

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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 his Op. 26 pieces, the Zwei Konzertstücke für Violoncello und Klavier. Three of the symbols Stein uses in these pieces have become part of the standard system of quarter-tone notation known as the Stein-Zimmermann accidentals. The Zwei Konzertstücke are among the earliest pieces of music published in Europe to incorporate quarter-tones. From 1891 through 1898, Stein attended the Hallenser Städtische Gymnasium in Halle. He later attended schools in Wernigerode and Merseburg before graduating from the Königliche Domgymnasium in Magdeburg. Stein received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen in 1911 after completing his dissertation on psychologist Wilhelm Wundt. Stein left Germany during World War I and lived in the Canary Islands between 1914 and 1919. After returning to Berlin, Stein directed his own music school in Nikolassee from 1920 to 1922, served as the musical director at the Urania Theater, and directed the Berliner Rundfunk for a short time. Stein was an advocate for quar

Richard Henry Walthew

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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 of the 20th century. Life Richard Henry Walthew was born in Islington in Middlesex, the only son of Richard Frederick Walthew (1833-1910) and his wife Emily Jeffreys (1842-1930), and was educated at Islington Proprietary School. William Heath Robinson was also at the school and he remained a lifelong friend. Walthew was a pupil of Hubert Parry for four years at the Royal College of Music (1890–1894). A contemporary at the RCM was Ralph Vaughan Williams. Recognition as a composer came early, with the success of his cantata The Pied Piper (performed by the Highbury Philharmonic Society on March 20, 1893, and published by Novello) and the Piano Concerto (first performed at Queen’s Hall on 3 May 1894 by the Strolling Players´ Amateur Orchestral Society with the composer as soloist). From 1900 until 1904, Walthew was music director of Passmore Edwards Settlement. He taught the opera class at the Guildhall School of Music and was for a time conductor of the University of London Musical Societ

Richard Heuberger

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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 in Graz, the son of a bandage manufacturer. He initially studied engineering, but gave it up in 1876, and turned to music. He studied at the Graz Conservatory (where he studied with Robert Fuchs), and later transferred to Vienna, where he eventually became the chorus master of the Wiener Akademischer Gesangverein, conductor of the Wiener Singakademie, director of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein (Vienna Men’s Choral Association), and a teacher at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien. Although Heuberger wrote many operas, ballets, choral works, and songs, he is best known today for his operetta Der Opernball, composed in 1898. He taught at the Vienna Conservatory from 1902. Among his pupils was Clemens Krauss. Selected works Operettas *Der Opernball (1898) *Ihre Excellenz (1899), revised as Eine entzückende Frau *Der Sechsuhrzug (1900) *Das Baby (1902) *Der Fürst von Düsterstein (1909) *Don Quixote (1910) Operas *Abenteuer einer Neujahrsnacht (1886) *Manuel Venegas (1889), revised as Mirjam, o

Richard Hey Lloyd

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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 accountant, and his wife Ann Lloyd (née Hey). He was a chorister of Lichfield Cathedral (1942–47) and was educated at Rugby School (1947–51) where he held a music scholarship. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar (1952–55). His teachers included Peter Le Huray, Philip Radcliffe and Patrick Hadley. He took the Music Tripos and held the Cambridge degree of MA as well as the FRCO and ARCM diplomas. After National Service he was organist and choirmaster at SHAPE near Paris. From 1957 to 1966 he was assistant organist of Salisbury Cathedral under Christopher Dearnley. In 1966 he was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers of Hereford Cathedral. He was chief conductor at the Hereford Three Choirs Festival in 1967, 1970 and 1973. In 1974 he moved to Durham on his appointment as Organist and Master of the Choristers of Durham Cathedral. In 1985 he became deputy headmaster of Salisbury Cathedral School. Ill health forced his early retirement in 1988. In

Richard Hill (composer)

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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 and composition. Life and career At the Royal College of Music Hill became a founder member of the London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble. He also worked in rock and jazz circles playing with the Dave Keir Jazz Band among others. After leaving College, Hill played in a number of symphony orchestras on a freelance basis including the Royal Opera House Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and the Philharmonia. Working under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Schwarz, Hill further broadened his musical experience by playing Duke Ellington’s music under Billy Strayhorn in a production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. In the 1960s, Hill’s career underwent a sea change when he joined Polydor Records as a producer and studio arranger at the height of the sixties pop boom. He stopped playing and began to compose. This in turn led to a career as a media composer in film, television and theatre. Film scores included To Kill a Clown starring Alan Alda and Baffled! Starring Susan

Richard Hoffman (composer)

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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 to New York City in his 16th year. He received early instruction from Anton Rubinstein, Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, Theodor Döhler and Leopold von Meyer. and was also a teacher. He attained an international reputation for his performances. He wrote Some Musical Recollections of Fifty Years about his life, which was published in 1910. He died on 17 August 1909 in Mount Kisco, New York. The marble replica of the bust of her father was exhibited at the National Academy of Design. Selected recordings *“Dixiana”, and “In Memoriam L.M.G.” on recital The Wind Demon and other 19th-century piano works by Ivan Davis (piano) References Further reading * External links *

Richard Hoffmann (composer)

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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 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Richard and Emanuela Hoffmann. In 1935, the family emigrated to New Zealand, where Hoffmann subsequently received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Zealand in 1945. Musical style About the String Trio, which was begun in 1961 (Altmünster, Austria) and, after approximately a year’s interruption, completed in 1963 (Los Angeles, California) the composer wrote: Teaching career Hoffmann began his career as a professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1954, where he worked until 2004. He was a visiting professor at the University of California in Berkeley from 1965 to 1966, at Victoria University in 1968, at Harvard University in 1970, at the University of Iowa in 1976 and at Vienna University in 1984. His students included Jonathan Dawe, Pierre Jalbert, Stan Link, David Serkin Ludwig, Christopher Rouse, Daniel Schechter, and Robert Spano just to name a few. Achievements Hoffmann received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation Commission

Richard Hofmann (composer)

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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 director. He studied with Raimund Dreyschock (1824–1869) and Salomon Jadassohn and settled in Leipzig as a music teacher. He was Professor at Leipzig Conservatory and leader of the Leipzig Choral Society. Hofmann composed numerous instructive pieces for piano, string and wind instruments. Among his literary works are Katechismus der Musikinstrumente (A Catechism of Musical Instruments) published in 1890, and Praktische Instrumentationslehre (Practical Instrumentation, translated by Robin Humphrey Legge) of 1893. Notable students include George Strong, Donald Heins, Jean Paul Kürsteiner, Frank Welsman and Richard Wetz. Hofmann died in 1918 at the age of 74. Selected works ;Orchestral * Aus der Jugendzeit for string orchestra, Op. 60 ;Chamber music * 3 Sonatinas for cello and piano, Op. 42 * Sonatine für angehende Spieler (Sonatina for Advancing Players) in F major for viola (or flute) and piano, Op. 46 (1885) * 2 leicht ausführbare Sonatinen (2 Easy Sonatinas) for oboe (or violin) and piano, O

Richard Hol

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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 of Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the more revolutionary music of Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner. Life Richard Hol followed a course in piano under Jan George Bertelman at the royal conservatory of Amsterdam; after his graduation in 1844 he made a living as piano accompanist. In part on the basis of his choral compositions he was appointed director of the Amsterdamse Toonkunstkoor in 1857. In 1862, when Johannes Verhulst was appointed to the position, Hol removed to Utrecht, where he came to occupy the center of musical life, taking up the post of Ferdinand Kufferath in directing the city concerts (stadsconcerten) and the Utrecht Toonkunstkoor for the remainder of his life. In addition he was organist at the cathedral, 1869–1888. From 1875 he served as director of the Stedelijke Muziekschool at Utrecht, teaching music theory and history himself. Among his prominent pupils were Johan

Richard Hundley

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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 lesser means. At the age of seven, he was sent to live with his paternal grandmother, Anna Susan Campbell, at her home in Covington, Kentucky. Campbell, a lover of music, owned a lovely, large piano that immediately caught Hundley’s attention. After no time at all, she came to realize that Hundley was a naturally gifted musician with a great interest in the piano, so she enrolled him in lessons with a local piano teacher by the name of Mrs. Wyman. Hundley’s grandmother would come to be one of the largest influences on his life, as she encouraged his musical pursuits and provided financial support for his education. Hundley joined Milanov’s studio in 1967, and his collaboration with this highly esteemed soprano and her students heavily impacted his compositional style. Of all the pieces Hundley penned, his most well-known work is “Come Ready and See Me.” Compositions For solo voice *“Spring” (1952) *Softly the Summer (1957) *Epitaph on a Wife (1957) *“The Astronomers” (1959) *“Maiden Snow

Richard Hygons

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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 late 15th-century composer have survived, one of them, a five-voice setting of the Salve Regina Marian antiphon, has attracted interest from musicologists because of its close relationship to music being written at the same time on the continent, as well as its high level of workmanship. Life Hygons seems to have spent his entire career at Wells Cathedral; at any rate, no records survive indicating his activities elsewhere. He is first mentioned in 1458 as a vicar-choral, and in 1460 he was ordained as an acolyte. Between 1461 and 1462 he was one of the five organists that the cathedral employed. A document dated 7 December 1479 gives more detail than any other about his duties: he was given a house to use, rent-free, near to the cathedral; he was given an annual salary of a little over 96 shillings; he was to teach all aspects of music to the choristers, and was expected to teach organ to anyone who had the talent. His required presence at certain masses, Vespers, and Matins was also giv

Richard Johnston (composer)

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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 became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1957. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in February 1997. The library at the University of Calgary holds a substantial amount of his papers, manuscripts, and transcripts in its “Richard Johnston Canadian Music Archives Collection”. His original fieldwork tapes and transcripts made during his research as a folklorist are part of the collection at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Early life and education Born Albert Richard Johnston in Chicago, he began his musical education with Ruth Crazier-Curtis. He entered Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois in 1934 but left the school after just one year. He later matriculated to Northwestern University where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1942. He briefly taught on the music faculty of Luther College in Wahoo, Nebraska before beginning private studies with Nadia Boulanger in Madison, Wisconsin in 1943–1944. With her he performed the worl

Richard Jones (composer)

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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 the Drury Lane Theater Orchestra in London possibly as early as 1723; according to John Hawkins, in 1730 he succeeded Stefano Carbonelli as the orchestra’s leader. He taught violin as well; Michael Christian Festing was one of his pupils. He was a stage composer at a time when Georg Frideric Handel’s music dominated the British stage, and much of his music, or what of it survives, shows clear Italianate influence. He died in 1744, of which his position in Drury Lane was succeeded by Richard Clarke. Works ;Stage *Apollo and Daphne, masque (1725, music lost) (Written with John Thurmond, and Henry Carey *The Miser, pantomime (1726, music lost; keyboard reduction survives in part) (Written with John Thurmond) *The Mock Doctor, ballad opera (1732, music lost) *Hymen’s Triumph, pantomime (1737, music lost) ;Other *While in a Lovely Rurall Seat, cantata (1720) *6 Suits or Setts of Lessons for keyboard (1732) *8 Chamber Air’s for violin and basso continuo, op. 2 (1735) *6 Suites of Lessons for vi

Richard Klemm

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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 instrument (the double bass) played various other instruments which gained him a musical reputation through his engagements at private celebrations and events such as weddings. As a child Richard Klemm received from his father a musical education in several instruments (the cello, piano, violin and trumpet), and he also sang in the boys’ choir Dresdner Kreuzchor. In 1919 Klemm left Dresden and took up the position of cellist with the Königsberg Kurorchester. During the years 1923-1926 he studied the cello with Hugo Becker in Berlin, composition with Paul Juon, and the piano. He graduated in both musical disciplines, the cello and the piano. For his final graduation examination pieces he played the solo cello sonata by Zoltán Kodály and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. After completing his studies Richard Klemm became a cellist with the Staatskapelle Berlin (the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera. At the same time he also played in the chamber music ensembles of the Staatskapelle Berlin as we

Richard Langdon

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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 church music. Early career He was born in Exeter in 1729, son of Charles Langdon and a grandson of Tobias Langdon (1683–1712), Vicar choral of Exeter Cathedral. In the summer of 1738, Richard became a chorister at Exeter Cathedral and retained this until spring 1748; by then he had become a secondary. Sub-chanter John Hicks was ordered to teach Richard the organ on 1 December 1744. On 16 June 1753, he was appointed as Vicar choral of Exeter Cathedral following the death of former organist John Silvester; soon after, on 23 June, was also appointed the cathedral’s organist. Langdon’s early career was marked without complaints over him or his competence and he taught writing and arithmetic to the choristers. From 1757 to 1769, large sums of money were paid to Richard for subscriptions to volumes of William Boyce’s compositions. The only criticism of Langdon by the cathedral was on 3 March 1759 due to his “frequent” absence and disobedience of the sub-chanter. Soon after on 7 April 1759, he wa

Richard Leveridge

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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 was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1670, and in 1695 became the leading bass singer in the United Company managed by Christopher Rich at Drury Lane, after the defection of several leading singers from Rich’s company. His first important role of which anything is known was as the magician Ismeron in Henry Purcell’s opera The Indian Queen, which included the aria “Ye twice ten hundred deities”. Purcell himself remained loyal to the company, and for several months Leveridge worked closely with him. It is likely that “Arise, ye subterranean winds” in the music (attributed to Purcell) for The Tempest was written for him. After Purcell’s death he continued to work with composers Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke, and took a leading part in Clarke’s Ode upon the death of Mr Purcell at Drury Lane. Leveridge also composed, and in February 1699 all three provided music for Motteux’s adaptation of Fletcher’s The Island Princess, in which Leveridge’s performance, particula

Richard Link

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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 productions. Personal history and education Link was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. After graduating from high school, he moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he attended the University of Alberta and graduated with a bachelor of music degree. He worked professionally in Edmonton as a composer, musical director, and teacher until 1996 when he moved to San Francisco, California. He studied kinesiology and taught musical theatre at San Francisco State University. He attended John F. Kennedy University where he completed a master’s degree in Holistic Health Education. In his masters thesis Art as a Spiritual Practice, he developed a new methodology for teaching performing arts. His thesis asserts that honoring the individual—and focusing on the process, not the product—creates the best possible performance, and ironically, the best final product. In 2006, Link moved to London, where he continues to compose, teach, music direct, and perform. As a teacher of musical performance and composi

Richard Loqueville

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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 students included Edward III, Duke of Bar and the influential composer Guillaume Du Fay. Life and career Little is known of Loqueville’s life. A trained harpist, he taught it to Edward III, the son of the Robert, Duke of Bar, in 1410. He is also known to have taught plainsong to the Duke’s choirboys. From 1413 until the end of his life he taught music at Cambrai Cathedral alongside Nicolas Malin. The celebrated composer Guillaume Du Fay was likely a student his student at the cathedral and Du Fay’s first compositions were probably written under his influence and instruction. He is known to have been married. In 1418 he died in Cambrai. Music Attributed to him are four rondeaux, a ballade, an isorhythmic motet in honour of the Breton saint Yvo, a Marian motet, and several Mass movements. Works Editions Loqueville’s works are included in the following collections: * Notes References Sources ;Books * * * * * * * * ;Journals and articles * * * Further reading * External links * * Works by R

Richard Maxfield

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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 of California, Berkeley (with Roger Sessions) and privately with Ernst Krenek in Los Angeles. A Hertz Prize travel scholarship allowed Maxfield to travel to Europe, where he met Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono. In 1953 he studied at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. In 1954–55 he studied at Princeton University with Sessions and his pupil Milton Babbitt. A Fulbright Scholarship allowed Maxfield to live in Europe between 1955 and 1957, where he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and Bruno Maderna, lived for a brief period with Hans Werner Henze and met John Cage and David Tudor. In 1958, he attended Cage’s courses at the New School for Social Research (now The New School). In 1959 he taught classes there himself, becoming the first American to teach purely electronic music (as opposed to electroacoustic music based on musique concrète-style recordings with microphones). As a student at University of California and in Europe in the 1950s, he composed instrumental scores in a

Richard Meale

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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 1932–1970 Meale was born in Sydney in 1932. At the time the Meale family lived in Marrickville, an inner suburb of Sydney. Meale’s father Oliver was an engineer, and his mother Lilla Adeline was the daughter of Benjamin Richards, a former mayor of Marrickville. His elder brother, Colin Meale, was a high school principal. Meale was a prodigious teenager who left school because he hated exams. Burston had him at 14 reading Gertrude Stein and the whole of Marcel Proust. He was also borrowing modern scores from the collection of the City of Sydney Library. He studied clarinet, harp, music history and theory, but as a composer he was entirely self-taught. Meale’s reputation as a pianist grew exponentially with each premiere of new works by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and other post-war European giants, especially the music of Olivier Messiaen. “To hear Meale play Messiaen is like hearing a sermon by John the Baptist,” Melbourne critic Kenneth Hince wrote. Meale left the Conservator

Richard Michael Levey

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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 Dublin’s concert life in the nineteenth century alive under difficult economic circumstances. Life Levey was born in County Meath, the place name is not established. Levey’s original surname was O’Shaughnessy, but according to one of his most prominent pupils, the composer Charles Villiers Stanford, he changed it “for what he considered to be a more musical one”. Levey was his mother’s maiden name. The name was officially adopted, and all of his children and the following generations were called Levey (according to several sources, Levey had 20 children from three wives). He received tuition on the violin in Dublin by James Barton (c.1785–c.1850) and became a member of the orchestra of the Theatre Royal, Dublin in 1826, aged 15, succeeding Barton as concert master there in 1834. From 1834 until the destruction of the edifice by fire in 1880 he was also the musical director of the Theatre Royal, a role that involved conducting the orchestra, composing more than 100 overtures to plays, and di

Richard Mills (composer)

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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 Australian Opera and artistic consultant with Orchestra Victoria. He was commissioned by the Victoria State Opera to write his opera Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1996) and by Opera Australia to write the opera Batavia (2001). Career Mills was born and grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, and went to Nudgee College in Brisbane. He studied in London with Edmund Rubbra at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked as a percussionist in England and for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Mills started conducting and composing in the 1980s. On 5 June 2013, he withdrew from the Opera Australia Ring cycle. Works Works for the stage * Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (1987), ballet * Earth Poem / Sky Poem (1993), a music theatre work for Aboriginal dancers and musicians, orchestra and electronic sounds * Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1996), opera in two acts, libretto by Peter Goldsworthy after the play by Ray Lawler * Batavia (2001), opera in three acts, libretto by Peter Goldsworthy * The Love of

Richard Mohaupt

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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 Julius Prüwer and Rudolf Bilke. but shortly after this success the Nazis denounced him with the expression “Music Bolshevism” and he was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer. With this exclusion Richard Mohaupt could not work in Germany anymore and so emigrated to the US in 1939 and settled in New York. Mohaupt created his last opera, Der grüne Kakadu, after moving back to Europe in 1955 where he ultimately settled in Austria. (world premiere 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky) * Der grüne Kakadu (world premiere 1958 in Hamburg) Ballets * Die Gaunerstreiche der Courasche (after Grimmelshausen; world premiere 1936 in Berlin) * Max und Moritz (after Wilhelm Busch; world premiere 1949 in Karlsruhe) * Der Weiberstreik von Athen (after Lysistrata; world premiere 1957 in Karlsruhe) Orchestral works * Drei Episoden (world premiere 1938 in Amsterdam) * Concerto for piano and orchestra (world premiere 1938 in Warsaw; world premiere of the revised version at the IGNM festival in Frankfurt/Main in 1951) * Tow

Richard Owen (judge)

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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 District of New York. Early life and education The son of an opera-loving attorney, Owen was born and raised in New York City. He served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945, and then received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Dartmouth College in 1945. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1950 Career After earning his law degree, Owen entered private practice in New York City from 1950 to 1953. He was also an assistant professor at New York Law School from 1951 to 1953. In 1953, Owen became an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, also serving as a special assistant United States attorney general in 1954. He was a senior trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1955 to 1958. He returned to private practice in New York City from 1958 to 1974, also working as associate counsel to the New York State Commission on Alcoholic Beverage Laws from 1963 to 1964. Owen presided o

Richard Peaslee

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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 was most active as a composer for the theatre. Education He received his undergraduate degree in Music Composition from Yale University, and after serving two years in the U.S. Army, received a master’s degree from The Juilliard School, in addition to studying privately with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and William Russo in New York and London. Works He had written the music for: London *the Peter Brook / Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, US / Tell Me Lies and Antony and Cleopatra; *Peter Hall / National Theatre Animal Farm; *Terry Hands / RSC Tamburlaine the Great; *and the musical Moby-Dick. New York City *Joseph Papp / New York Shakespeare Festival Richard III, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Troilus and Cressida and Antigone; *Martha Clarke and Music Theatre Group The Garden of Earthly Delights, Vienna Lusthaus, The Hunger Artist and Miracolo d’Amore; *Broadway Indians, Teibele and Her Demon, Frankenstein and Boccaccio; *children’s / family theatre T

Richard Rijnvos

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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 Ferneyhough. He received a DAAD scholarship and attended a postgraduate course at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg. Awards In 2000 Rijnvos was awarded the Matthijs Vermeulen Award for Times Square Dance. In August 2008 he was awarded the Buma Toonzetters Prize for NYConcerto. Other activities Between October 2009 and 2016 Rijnvos was Head of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Durham; in 2014, he was appointed Chair of Composition at the same institution, and continues to serve in that role. He is also chairman of the Union of Composers in the Netherlands, and artistic advisor of the Ives Ensemble, of which he was managing director between 1991 and 2000. Note The article incorporates material translated from the Dutch Wikipedia as of December 2009. See also *Asko Ensemble References External links * Composer’s website * Composer in the Spotlight: Richard Rijnvos, Netherlands Music Centre

Richard Rodgers

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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 one of the best-known American composers of the 20th century, and his work significantly influenced popular music. Rodgers is known for his songwriting partnerships, first with lyricist Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II. With Hart he wrote musicals throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including Pal Joey, A Connecticut Yankee, On Your Toes, and Babes in Arms. With Hammerstein he wrote musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, such as Oklahoma!, Flower Drum Song, Carousel, Cinderella, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. His collaborations with Hammerstein, in particular, are celebrated for bringing the Broadway musical to new maturity by telling stories that focus on characters and drama rather than the genre’s earlier light-hearted entertainment. Rodgers was the first person to win all four of the top American entertainment awards in theater, film, recording, and television—an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony—now known collectively as an EGOT. He also won a Pulitzer

Richard Rodney Bennett

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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 avant-garde; and for his use of twelve-tone technique and serialism. His body of work included over 200 concert works and 50 scores for film and television. He was also active in jazz, as a composer, a pianist, and an occasional vocalist. For his scoring work, Bennett was nominated for a total of 10 BAFTA Awards, winning once for Best Original Music for the film Murder on the Orient Express (1974). He was also nominated for three Academy Awards (Far from the Madding Crowd, 1967; Nicholas and Alexandra, 1971; and Murder on the Orient Express) and three Grammy Awards, among other accolades. He was the International Chair of Composition of the Royal Academy of Music, and was knighted in 1998. His mother, Joan Esther, née Spink (1901–1983) was a pianist who had trained with Gustav Holst. His father, Rodney Bennett (1890–1948), was a children’s book author, poet and lyricist, who worked with Roger Quilter on his theatre works and provided new words for some of the numbers in the Arnold Book of Old So

Richard Rudolf Klein

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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 children, choral music and hymns, incidental music, and orchestral music, as well as chamber music. Life Klein attended the humanistic Gymnasium in Landau, Germany and learned to play the piano, the violin, and the viola. He later learned the trumpet and the organ. He started composing at a young age and as an adolescent had already conducted his own works with his school orchestra on the occasion of school and commemorative events. In 1935, at the age of fourteen, he started performing piano pieces and songs in broadcasts at the former Rundfunk-Sender Kaiserslautern. His teachers included Wolfgang Fortner (composition), Hans Grischkat and Karl Münchinger (conducting), as well as Philipp Mohler. In 1948, when he was 27, Klein received a lecturing position for music theory at the University of Music in Stuttgart, and one year later he became lecturer of music theory at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold. From 1960 to 1984, he was a lecturer in composition, musical form, score readin

Richard Sahla

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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 a reputation as child prodigy. He excelled on the violin and the piano. Aged 13 he started studying the violin as a pupil of Ferdinand David at the Conservatory in Leipzig, University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, today the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig. He finished as one of the most outstanding students of this world-famous institution. He played his debut concert aged eighteen at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig to rapturous applause for his “technically mature and musically exhilarating play”. His friend Wilhelm Kienzl describes Sahla’s next steps in his autobiography. Both had studied composition under Wilhelm Mayer (also known as W. A. Rémy), whose students included the composers Ferruccio Busoni, Josef Gauby, Richard Heuberger, Emil von Reznicek and Felix Weingartner. Having received his diploma at the Conservatory in Leipzig, the Mecca of violinists, the eighteen-year-old Sahla embarked on an impressive career as violin virtuoso. He quickly gai

Richard Sampson

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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 educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, the Paris Sorbonne and Sens (also in France). Having become Doctor of Canon Law, he was appointed by Cardinal Wolsey as diocesan chancellor and vicar-general in his diocese (the bishopric of Tournai), where he lived until 1517. Meanwhile, he gained English preferment, becoming Dean of St. Stephen’s, Westminster and of the Chapel Royal (1516), Archdeacon of Cornwall (1517) and prebendary of Newbald (1519). From 1522 to 1525 he was English ambassador to Emperor Charles V. He was now Dean of Windsor (1523), Vicar of Stepney (1526) and held prebends at St. Paul’s Cathedral and at Lichfield; he was also Archdeacon of Suffolk (1529). He became one of Henry VIII Tudor’s chief agents in the royal divorce proceedings, which assisted the advancement of his ecclesiastical careerhe was awarded the deanery of Lichfield in 1533, the rectory of Hackney (1534), and treasurership of Salisbury (1535). On 11 June 1536, he was elected Bishop of Chichester, and as such fu

Richard Shephard

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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 most significant composers of church music of his time. Education and musical career Shephard was a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral, where the organist was then the composer Herbert Sumsion, before taking a degree at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, Shephard studied under composer David Willcocks, Hugh Macdonald, the great expert on Berlioz, and Alan Ridout. He started his musical career as a lay vicar in Salisbury Cathedral Choir, and at this time was Conductor of the Salisbury Grand Opera Group, the Farrant Singers, Guest Conductor of the Salisbury Orchestral Society and musical director of various productions at the Salisbury Playhouse. It was at this time when he was greatly influenced by Richard Seal and Lionel Dakers, the former director of the Royal School of Church Music. An article published in 1987 in the Musical Times by Dakers, The RSCM: Past, Present…and Future, states that “Our policy is to provide music of quality and interest for every contingen

Richard St. Clair

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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 British Isles to New England as part of the early colonization of North America. Richard St. Clair’s maternal ancestors emigrated from Norway and Sweden to the American Upper Midwest (in particular, Minnesota) in the latter part of the 19th century along with hundreds of thousands of other Scandinavians who settled there at that time. So many Norwegian immigrants settled in the Upper Midwest that it is locally referred to as “Little Norway.” His paternal ancestors hailed from England and Scotland and were both riders on the Mayflower as well as military men in the American War of Independence. Richard St. Clair was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. The following year his family moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota, a larger city with much greater musical and cultural opportunities than those of his birthplace. The musical environs of Grand Forks served as the foundation for his life in music. The city boasted its own symphony orchestra, a major university with an active music department, a

Richard Stöhr

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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 répétiteur and choral instructor. Between 1903 and 1938, Stöhr taught music theory, including harmony, counterpoint, and form at the conservatory. He became a professor at the same institution in 1915. His students there included prominent conductors, composers, and performers such as Herbert von Karajan, Rudolf Serkin, Erich Leinsdorf, and Samuel Barber, among others. During the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, he was dismissed from the Vienna Conservatory due to his Jewish heritage. He went to the United States the following year and began teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His students there included Leonard Bernstein and Eugene Bossart. He died in Montpelier on 11 December 1967 at the age of 93. Early life and education Stöhr was born as Richard Stern in Vienna in 1874 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Hungary. His father, Samuel Stern, was a professor of medicine at the University of Vienna. His mother, Mathilde, was a member of the Porges family; her brother—

Richard Stoker

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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 associated with a modern yet accessible musical style and spent much of his career teaching at the Royal Academy of Music. Early life and education Richard Stoker was born on 8 November 1938 in Castleford, Yorkshire, England, into a family with a strong musical tradition. He demonstrated musical ability from an early age and became fascinated with the piano keyboard as a child. He began playing the piano at the age of six and started composing music by the age of seven. His earliest musical instruction came from family members, including an uncle who provided piano lessons. At the age of 15, Stoker attended Huddersfield Technical College, where he studied composition and piano with Harold Truscott and Winifred Smith. During this period he attracted encouragement from musicians including Eric Fenby, Arthur Benjamin, and Benjamin Britten, all of whom recognized his early compositional talent. In 1958, Stoker entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied composition under Lennox

Richard Storrs Willis

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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 the United States, though not in Great Britain, of the much-loved hymn “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” (1850), with lyrics by Edmund Sears. He was also a music critic and journal editor. Biography Willis, whose siblings included Nathaniel Parker Willis and Fanny Fern, was born on February 10, 1819, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841. Willis then went to Germany, where he studied six years under Xavier Schnyder and Moritz Hauptmann. After returning to America, Willis served as music critic for the New York Tribune, The Albion, and The Musical Times, for which he served as editor for a time. He joined the New-York American-Music Association, an organization which promoted the work native of naturalized American composers. He reviewed the organization’s first concert for their second season, held December 30, 1856, in the Musical World, as a “creditable affair, all things conside

Richard Strauss

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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 combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style. His compositional output began when he was six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was Don Juan, and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. His first opera to achieve international fame was Salome. This was followed by Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Daphne, Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio. Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (especially the Four Last Songs), the Violin Concerto in D minor, the Horn Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, his Oboe Concerto, and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen. A prominent conductor in

Richard Teitelbaum

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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 electronic music and synthesizer performances. He was a pioneer of brain-wave music. He was also involved with world music and used Japanese, Indian, and western classical instruments and notation in both composition and improvisational settings. Biography Born in New York City, Teitelbaum remembered listening to his father (a successful lawyer) play piano while he was a child. A 1960 graduate of Haverford College, Teitelbaum continued keyboard studies at Mannes School of Music, then pursued his Masters in Music at Yale. He won a Fulbright grant to study in Italy in 1964 with Goffredo Petrassi, then in 1965 with Luigi Nono. While in Italy, he became a founding member of Musica Elettronica Viva with Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski. In the mid-1960s he began researching the use of brain-waves to control musical events His piece In Tune was first performed with Barbara Mayfield in late 1967. In 1970, he returned to the US to study Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University; while there he founded the

Richard Trunk

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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 with Iwan Knorr before traveling to Munich for further studies with Josef Rheinberger. He accompanied numerous singers (including Eugen Gura), taught singing for a time, and served as music critic for the Münchener Post from 1907. He was invited to New York City and Newark, New Jersey to conduct the Arion Society in 1912; he returned home with the outbreak of World War I. He later became music critic for the Bayrische Staatszeitung, and taught singing in Cologne from 1920 until 1934. In 1925 he married the singer Maria Delbran. In 1934, through the involvement of Ernst Röhm, he returned to Munich as the president of the Akademie der Tonkunst. He retired to the Ammersee after World War II. Trunk was a member of the Nazi Party, having joined in Autumn 1931. In 1939, he was awarded the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft by Adolf Hitler. His songs Op. 65 set to music texts by Baldur von Schirach and Hanns Johst. In 1948, a denazification court classified Trunk as a Mitläufer and iss

Richard Wagner

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Richard Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 to an ethnic German family in Leipzig, then part of the Confederation of the Rhine. His family lived at No 3, the Brühl (The House of the Red and White Lions) in Leipzig’s Jewish quarter. He was baptised at St. Thomas Church. He was the ninth, and youngest, child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, a clerk in the Leipzig police service, and his wife, Johanna Rosine Wagner, the daughter of a baker. Wagner’s father Carl died of typhoid fever six months after Richard’s birth. Afterwards, his mother Johanna lived with Carl’s friend, the actor and playwright Ludwig Geyer. In August 1814 Johanna and Geyer probably married, although no documentation of this has been found in the Leipzig church registers. She and her family moved to Geyer’s residence in Dresden. Until he was fourteen, Wagner was known as Wilhelm Richard Geyer. He almost certainly thought that Geyer was his biological father. Geyer’s love of the theatre came to be shared by his stepson, and Wagner took part in his performances. In his autobiography Mein Leben Wagner recalled once playing the part of an angel. In late 1820, Wagner was enrolled at Pastor Wetzel’s school at Possendorf, near Dresden, where he received some piano instruction from his Latin teacher. He struggled to play a proper scale at the keyboard and preferred playing theatre overtures by ear. Following Geyer’s death in 1821, Richard was sent to the Kreuzschule, the boarding school of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, at the expense of Geyer’s brother. At the age of nine he was hugely impressed by the Gothic elements of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz, which he saw Weber conduct. At this period Wagner entertained ambitions as a playwright. His first creative effort, listed in the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (the standard listing of Wagner’s works) as WWV 1, was a tragedy called Leubald. Begun when he was in school in 1826, the play was strongly influenced by Shakespeare and Goethe. Wagner was determined to set it to music and persuaded his family to allow him music lessons. By 1827, the family had returned to Leipzig. Wagner’s first lessons in harmony were taken during 1828–1831 with . In January 1828 he first heard Beethoven’s 7th Symphony and then, in March, the same composer’s 9th Symphony, both at the Gewandhaus. Beethoven became a major inspiration, and Wagner wrote a piano transcription of the 9th Symphony. He was also greatly impressed by a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Wagner’s early piano sonatas and his first attempts at orchestral overtures date from this period. In 1829 he saw a performance by dramatic soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, who became his ideal of the fusion of drama and music in opera. In Mein Leben Wagner wrote, “When I look back across my entire life I find no event to place beside this in the impression it produced on me,” and claimed that the “profoundly human and ecstatic performance of this incomparable artist” kindled in him an “almost demonic fire”. In 1831, Wagner enrolled at the Leipzig University, where he became a member of the Saxon student fraternity. He took composition lessons with the Thomaskantor Theodor Weinlig. Weinlig was so impressed with Wagner’s musical ability that he refused any payment for his lessons. He arranged for his pupil’s Piano Sonata in B-flat major (which was consequently dedicated to him) to be published as Wagner’s Op. 1. A year later, Wagner composed his Symphony in C major, a Beethovenesque work performed in Prague in 1832 and at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1833. He then began to work on an opera, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding), which he never completed.

Richard Wernick

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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 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Life and career Wernick was born January 16, 1934. His birthplace is reported variously as Newton, Massachusetts, Wernick went on to complete his undergraduate studies with Fine at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis, Wernick also studied with Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, and Leonard Bernstein. His studies at Tanglewood included composition work with Ernst Toch, Aaron Copland, and Boris Blacher and conducting studies with Leonard Bernstein and Seymour Lipkin. Wernick also studied at Mills College with Leon Kirchner. During the 1950s and early 1960s, Wernick worked as a theater, film, television, and dance composer. Wernick spent much of his career as a composition professor, teaching at SUNY Buffalo (1964–1965) and the University of Chicago (1965–1968). However, his longest tenure was at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1968 to 1996. In 1983, Riccardo Muti selected Wernick to be the Consultant for New Music to the Philadelphia Orchestra. His role as advisor w

Richard Wetz

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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 Bruckner, as a result of which he actually ended up on the margin of music history”. Biography 1875–1906: Youth Richard Wetz was born to a merchant family in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia (now Poland). During the following years, Wetz devoted himself to the music profession. He gave lessons in the Erfurt city conservatoire (in 1911–1921, composition and history of music), and honed his skills in conducting various choirs During Wetz’s lifetime, his works remained little known outside the circle of his devotees and music-lovers in his home region, to the point that he became nearly unknown after his death. Since that time, his compositions have continued to draw few fans despite the eagerness of his enthusiasts and his reputation as a great music pedagogue. Politically, Wetz made decisions towards the end of his life that may have had an effect on his standing after his death: after the end of the First World War, he became a confessed nationalist who saw the position of his vanquished Germany

Richard Woitach

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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 Opera in New York City and served as a staff conductor there until 1997. In 1981, he collaborated with Canadian operatic soprano Teresa Stratas to record The Unknown Kurt Weill, a landmark Nonesuch record that introduced unpublished songs of German composer Kurt Weill and for which Woitach received a Grammy nomination in 1982. Woitach also was a long time collaborator with Canadian heldentenor Jon Vickers, accompanying him on the piano in several recorded recitals in both Canada and New York City. Woitach was survived by his wife soprano Jeryl Metz, his children and grandchildren. At the Metropolitan Opera he first led, on tour, John Dexter’s production of Les vêpres siciliennes (with Cristina Deutekom, Cornell MacNeil, and Paul Plishka, 1974), then conducted in the House, Madama Butterfly (with Harry Theyard, 1974), La Gioconda, Tosca, Le siège de Corinthe (with Beverly Sills and Shirley Verrett, 1976), Lucia di Lammermoor (with Miss Sills), Tosca (Sylvia Sass’s Met debut, 1977), La travia

Richard Woodward (organist)

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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 Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in 1751, following the appointment of his father (of the same name) from Salisbury to the Dublin cathedral choir as a lay vicar choral. In 1764 Woodward was awarded a gold medal by the Hibernian Catch Club (which has been referred to as the oldest surviving musical society in Europe) for his canon Let the Words of My Mouth, which is inscribed on his memorial at Christ Church Cathedral. In 1771, Trinity College conferred upon him the degree of MusD. He had several students, including British composer Harriet Wainwright. At the age of 22, in 1765, Woodward was appointed organist at Christ Church Cathedral as successor to George Walsh and choral vicar at St Patrick’s Cathedral. His memorial records that he was “Preceptor to the Children of the two Choirs, Dublin.” He died in Dublin aged 33. Music Woodward was a composer of Anglican church music. His folio of glees and anthems formed the first collection of cathedral music published by an Irish composer. Wood

Richard Wüerst

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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 Prussian Academy of Arts and a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn’s. He later taught in the conservatory of Theodor Kullak (what would soon become the Stern Conservatory) and edited the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung (from 1874 to 1875). One of his notable students was Heinrich Hofmann. Selected works Operas *Der Rotmantel (1848 Berlin) *Vineta (21 December 1862, Bratislava) *Die Gastspielreise, Dramatisch-musikalischer Scherz en un acte (after Adolf von Winterfeld). Publié à Berlin: Bloch, ca. 1868. *Faublas, comic opera in three acts, after a Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, libretto by Ernst Wichert (1873 Berlin) *A-ing-fo-hi, comic opera in three acts, after a story by Anton Giulio Barrili, libretto by Ernst Wichert (28 January 1878, Berlin) *Die Offiziere der Kaiserin (1878 Berlin) *Der Stern von Turan Symphonies *Three symphonies (including opus 21 in F, second symphony opus 54(2?) in D minor and opus 36 in C minor, no. 3) *A concerto for violin, op. 37 Instrumental music *Russian Suite for Strings

Rick Baitz

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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, film, television, theatre, and dance. He has also served on the faculties of The Juilliard School, Vermont College of Fine Arts, and Columbia College Chicago, and was founding director of BMI’s “Composing for the Screen” workshop in New York City. Biography Early life and education Born in Los Angeles, Baitz spent his childhood in California, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Durban, South Africa. He graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, and briefly attended the University of Natal in Durban, later returning to the United States to study at Georgetown University. He completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at Columbia University in 1991, studying with Mario Davidovsky and Jack Beeson. The same year, he also attended the BMI Film Scoring Workshop in Los Angeles, led by Earle Hagan. 1988 marked the first of several theatrical collaborations with his brother, playwright Jon Robin Baitz, including incidental music to The Film Society at New York’s Second Stage Theater, Three Hotels for PBS’ Am

Rick Boston

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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, Ghostyhead. Early life and education Richard Wallie Boston was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He studied jazz arrangement and composition. Career Boston played guitar for Belinda Carlisle’s 1988 album, Heaven on Earth. He was a member of Hand of Fate, working with John Keck to produce the 1990 album, Hand of Fate, and is credited for vocals. He played guitar for and produced Sky Cries Mary’s 1991 EP, Exit at the Axis. Boston subsequently worked extensively with Dave Allen, who had founded World Domination Recordings. Boston was the frontman of Low Pop Suicide, singing and playing lead guitar, on their 1993 debut album On the Cross of Commerce; both Allen and Jeff Ward then exited the band. As the only founder left, the band’s second LP, The Death of Excellence, was a more personal vehicle. Exploring a more acoustic sound, Boston released one solo album in 1996, Numb, a verbatim copy of Low Pop Suicide’s last release, the Unzipped EP. In 1997, he partnered with Rickie Lee Jones in songwrit

Rick Shorter

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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. They include Ciska Peters, Big Dee Irwin, and Galt MacDermot. His compositions have been covered by Ola & the Janglers, The Five Tornados, Johnny And The Hurricanes, The Liverbirds, The Esquires, Gene Pitney and Burl Ives. He also composed, arranged, and produced “If I Call You By Some Name” which was a hit for The Paupers. In the 1970s, Shorter returned to his faith and, along with his wife Gwen became very active in the Seventh-day Adventist church from which he had drifted away over prior years. Background The son of a clergyman who used to be a jazz guitarist, Shorter came from a Seventh-day Adventist background. By the time he was ten years old, he was singing professionally at gospel camps. He also had his own local radio show while still at junior high. His cousin is jazz saxophonist, Wayne Shorter, founding member of the group Weather Report. Family Shorter met his wife Gwen née Simmons in a New York night club on 42nd Street. She was an R&B, soul singer, actress and model. He be

Rick Tippe

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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 highest-charting single, “The Craziest Thing,” peaked at No. 9 in 1996. He has won more than 25 awards from the British Columbia Country Music Association, including three consecutive Entertainer of the Year wins from 2001 to 2003. Tippe has toured across the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, and opened for artists such as Tracy Byrd, Terri Clark, Mark Chesnutt and Sawyer Brown. Biography Rick Tippe is the son of Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and British Columbia Country Music Association Hall of Fame inductee Elmer Tippe. He released his first EP, After All These Years, on Ric’n’Rol Music in 1992. Two years later, he released his first studio album, 1994’s Should’a Seen Her Comin. The album produced six charting singles, including Tippe’s first Top 20 song, “Two Broken Hearted Fools.” Its follow-up, 1996’s Get Hot or Go Home, produced another five Top 20 singles, including Tippe’s highest-charting single, “The Craziest Thing.” Tippe was named Male Vocalist of the Year by th

Rick van der Linden

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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 played in several other bands including most notably Trace, as well as solo. Van der Linden was best known for his reworkings of classical music in a pop music domain, often with jazz improvisations. History Rick van der Linden was born in the village of Badhoevedorp, not far from Amsterdam, the second of five van der Linden children. His family moved when Rick was only 5 weeks old to Rotterdam, where they lived until 1957. He started piano lessons at age 7 but gave them up two years later because he wasn’t enjoying them. When he was 11, his family moved again, to Haarlem where van der Linden attended the Triniteitslyceum. At 13, his father convinced Rick to try the piano again, so he was enrolled at the Haarlem School of Music. Two years later he became a private pupil of the Piet Vincent. At 17, he entered the Haarlem Conservatory where Aad Broersen and Albert de Klerk tutored him in the organ. Van der Linden finished his studies two years later and in 1965 passed exams at the Royal Co

Rick Wilkins (musician)

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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 CTV arranging, rehearsing, and often conducting music for television and radio programs of pop-music and variety entertainments. He has arranged music for television specials featuring Julie Amato, Tommy Ambrose, Guido Basso, the Canadian Brass, Burton Cummings, Anne Murray, and Wayne and Shuster among others. In 1976-1977 he worked as a music director for CBS in Los Angeles, where among his projects was directing music for a number of specials starring the Jackson Five. Early life and education Wilkins was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. While still in his teens he worked as a saxophonist and arranger with Jack Ryan’s dance band in the mid-1950s in Hamilton. In 1957, he moved to Toronto where he studied privately with Gordon Delamont and at the Advanced School of Contemporary Music with Phil Nimmons. Career Wilkins performed with a number of dance bands in Toronto, including Benny Louis’s band. In 1960, he started arranging music for Jack Kane and his orchestra with the Canadian

Rickard Göransson

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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 Ariana Grande, Jessie J, Nicki Minaj, Avril Lavigne, Ellie Goulding, Enrique Iglesias, Nick Jonas, Charlie Puth, and Selena Gomez. Göransson’s songwriting credits include eight-times-platinum “Bang Bang”, two-times-platinum “God Is a Woman”, and “Husavik” (from the 2020 film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga), which won the Society of Composers and Lyricists’ Outstanding Original Song for Visual Media in 2021. Personal life Born and raised in Växjö, Sweden, he attended the Stockholm Conservatory of Music. He is based in Los Angeles, California. Career Carolina Liar Rickard joined the band Carolina Liar in 2007. The band is best known for the songs “I’m Not Over” and “Show Me What I’m Looking For” from their 2008 major-label debut album, Coming to Terms, produced by Swedish producers Max Martin and Tobias Karlsson. The band was the supporting act on the David Cook/Gavin Degraw 2011 Fall Tour. In 2012, they were the opening act for the Kelly Clarkson/The Fray Tour. They als

Rickard Näslin

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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 music group Leikstulaget in 1974, and established the Östersunds Spelmanslag (Fiddle Company of Ostersund) in 1993. He was honoured with the title of riksspelman (Swedish for ‘National Spelman’) in 1978 and the Lapp-Nils Medal in 1998. References Jones, Petra: Jämtland (Sweden) Forest, Fjörds, and Fiddles, in Fiddler Magazine (Fall 2006) External links * *Jamtlandica.com Folk Music from Jämtland, Sweden with tunes in MP3 to download Listen to Rickard Näslin’s compositions *Jeanettes brudvals This tune in note form *Schottis från Rödon This tune in note form *Görels vals *Farbror Olles Ganglat Rickard Näslin (violin) and Göran Andersson (violin) play Lapp-Nils songs from Western Jämtland: *Lapp-Nils polska, after Johan Olofsson Munter Mattmar *Lapp-Nils polska, after Bengt Bixo Mörsil

Ricky Hyslop

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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 1830 and Mizu Uni), clarinetist Avrahm Galper (Peanut Suite for solo clarinet), and guitarist Gregory Alliston (Barca for guitar and soprano). Several of his works for violin have been published by The Frederick Harris Music Co, Limited, including three graded volumes for teaching purposes between 1987–1989. Life and career Born in Vancouver, Hyslop began his violin studies as a child in his native city with Allard de Ridder and Jean de Rimanoczy. He began his performance career as a teenager performing as a soloist on CNRV radio. Early on in his career he served as concertmaster or as a member of various orchestras associated with the CRBC and CBC in Vancouver. In 1941 Hyslop became music director for CBC Vancouver’s Harmony House, a program featuring the singers Pat Morgan and Suzanne and the pianist Bud Henderson. He continued in that position up through 1953, during which time he also worked as a conductor for CBC Radio on such variety shows as Here’s Juliette, String Along, and Scored

Rigaut de Berbezilh

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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 de la Rose. About fifteen of his poems survive, including one planh and nine or ten cansos. He was described as capable and handsome, but saup mielhs trobar qu’entendre ni que dire: “he knew better how to compose poetry than to listen to it or recite it.” He referred to her as Miellz-de-Domna, a senhal meaning “Best of Ladies”, in at least four of his works. Though he sang songs about Miellz-de-Domna for a long time, it was not believed that he had a sexual relationship with her. When she died he went to Spain and, according to two manuscripts of his vida, spent the rest of his life at the court of Diego López II de Haro, a famed patron of troubadours. History It is generally accepted that Rigaut was indeed from a family who had been deputies of the lord of the castle of Barbezieux. His family was probably distantly related to that of Jaufre Rudel through the Counts of Angoulême. He himself was probably the younger of two sons, but he married into an Angoumois family of rank. His entire

Rigler-Deutsch Index

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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 Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division; the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the New York Public Library; Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive at Syracuse University; the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings at Yale University; and the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University. History The Rigler Deutsch Index was characterized as a cooperative, ground-breaking effort. Before its creation, sound recordings on the 78 rpm format were typically uncataloged and difficult to locate, as it was unclear where assets were held—although some collections were organized by label name, matrix number, etc. The Rigler Deutsch Index was created by the Associated Audio Archivists Committee (AAA) of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) in 1984. The AAA Committee is made up of elected members from each of the participating institutions. This committee conducts large research projects that provide solutions that are crit

Rihards Dubra

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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 soprano saxophone, choir, and organ. Rihards Dubra was commissioned by Louth Contemporary Music Society (County Louth, Ireland) to write his first choral piece in English based on the words of ‘Hail Holy Queen’. The world première was given by the State Choir Latvija in February 2008 in St.Patrick’s Cathedral Church, Dundalk. Recordings The Royal Holloway Choir (Rupert Gough, conductor) has recorded a CD of Dubra’s sacred choral compositions entitled “Hail Queen of Heaven & other choral works,” released on Hyperion Records (CDA67799), which includes the following: * ‘Oculus non vidit’ * ‘Ave Maria III’ * ‘Miserere mei’ * ‘Hail, Queen of Heaven’ * ‘Duo Seraphim’ * ‘Felix namque es …’ * ‘Stetit Angelus’ * ‘Gloria Patri’ * ‘Missa de Spiritu Sancto’ * ‘Ubi caritas’ * ‘Ave Maria I’ The Cambridge Chorale (Michael Kibblewhite, conductor) has recorded another CD of his sacred choral works entitled “Northern Lights: Music of Rihards Dubra,” released on Meridian Records (CDE 84408), which includes t

Rik Schaffer

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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 industry as a member of several acts such as Tomorrow’s Child and Engines of Aggression. He often works with his partner Margaret Tang. Rik has also composed original soundtracks for video games, gaining recognition particularly for his work on The Elder Scrolls Online and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Discography Studio albums Tomorrow’s Child (glam rock band active between 1988-1996, lead guitarist) *Rocky Coast, Rough Sea (Dream Circle, 1996) Engines of Aggression (industrial metal band active between 1993-2001 , lead guitarist) . *Speak EP (Priority, 1993) *Illusion Is Real single (Priority, 1993) *Inhuman Nature (Priority, 1994) *Engines of Aggression EP (self-released, 2001) Womb (solo grunge project, vocals by Todd Miller except for As Lonely As I Am done by Jamie Alexander 1996 ) Instrumental versions of Clean, Selfless Doubt and As Lonely As I Am (retitled Poinsettia) are present on the soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (as well as an edit version of the in

Rikard Nordraak

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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 born and grew up in Oslo, Norway. He published his Fem norske Digte: Op. 2, consisting of songs and poems by Bjørnson and Jonas Lie. This was the last of his compositions that would be published during his lifetime. In May 1865, he returned to Berlin to continue his education. In October 1865, he caught tuberculosis and died in Paris five months later. He was buried in Kirchhof Jerusalem in the Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg. In 1925, Nordraak’s coffin was exhumed and reburied in the Honor Grove at Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo. His Scherzo Capriccio for piano solo, given the opus number 3, was published posthumously by Edvard Grieg. The piece is a rondo, using several features from Norwegian folk music; rhythms typical in slåtter, and dissonances typical for the hardingfele. Rikard Nordraak. Samlede verker, a critical edition of Nordraak overall compositions were published by Øyvind Anker and Olav Gurvin (1942). Nordraak inspired Grieg to compose Funeral March in Memory of Rikard No

Rilès

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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, with some in French, Spanish, Portuguese and even Japanese. Biography Beginnings Born in France, Rilès started making music at a very early age by learning guitar and making YouTube covers. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree, he decided to focus solely on music as a career. Rilès studied English literature at the University of Rouen while studying music on his own in his free time. He worked as a supervisor for a while to save up enough money and build his own home-studio in his bedroom. He then began to compose and write music independently. Rilès is also talented in arts. He sells his pieces of art as a way to make extra money for his music career. Rilès started his own music career by writing, producing, and mastering his own songs, as well as recording, directing and editing his music videos. This is reflected in his song lyrics where he references recording and producing his music independently. First albums He released his first album, Vanity Plus Mind (2015) and released a varie

Rinaldo del Mel

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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 likely studied with Palestrina, and was a skilled and prolific composer, especially of cyclic madrigals of the type popular in Rome. Life Mel was born in Mechelen to an aristocratic family closely connected to the Duchy of Lorraine; his father was in charge of the financial management of the Duke’s estate. In 1562, at the probable age of eight, he began study at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut, with Séverin Cornet being his principal teacher. In 1572, after finishing his schooling, he was sent to Lisbon by his family, where he may have served as maestro di cappella at the court (according to Giuseppe Baini, the 19th century writer on music, who was not always a reliable source). By 1580 he was in Rome, possibly studying with Palestrina. Records indicate he was at Chieti in 1583, and in January 1584 in Venice; in July of that year he accepted a position as maestro di cappella at Rieti Cathedral, but was dismissed shortly thereafter for being too often absent from his duties. Between 1585 an

Rinaldo di Capua

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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 have been the father of composer Marcello Bernardini. Works Operas * Ciro riconosciuto (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1737, Rome) * Untitled comic opera (1737, Rome) * La commedia in commedia (dramma giocoso, libretto by Francesco Vanneschi, after C. A. Pelli, 1738, Rome) * Vologeso, re de’ Parti (dramma per musica, libretto by Guido Eustachio Luccarelli, after Lucio Vero of Apostolo Zeno, 1739, Rome) * Farnace (dramma per musica, libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini, 1739, Venice) * La libertà nociva (dramma giocoso, libretto by Giovanni Gualtiero Barlocci, 1740, Rome) * Catone in Utica (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1740, Lisbon) * Didone abbandonata (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon) * Ipermestra (dramma per musica, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1741, Lisbon) * Le nozze di Don Trifone (intermezzo, libretto by N. G. Neri, 1743, Rome) * Turno Heredonio Aricino (dramma per musica, libretto by Silvio Stampiglia, 1743,

Risto Apostolov

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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 performer with his band Vodolija, he participated at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song “Mojot TV”, 2010 with the song “Solza”, and 2011 with the song “Ne vrakaj se”. He is also the producer and arranger of Rok Agresori’s song “Ding Dong” which was performed at Eurovision 2009. He has released three studio albums with his band Vodolija. The first two albums were recorded in the studio of Vladimir Petrovski-Karter from Badmingtons. The third album was recorded in his own studio In June 2010, with his band Vodolija, he held acoustic concert on Macedonian Public Television MTV. The concert was broadcast in October 2010. In 2008/2009, he recorded duets with Sonia Sauruk from New Jersey for the songs “Best of Your Love” and “Summertime”. “Summertime” is on the third album of Vodolija. In November 2011, he received the prize for best production for the song of Vodolija “Ti ne si”. In 2012, with his band Vodolija, he represented Macedonia on INFE VISION network contest organised by (Intern

Rita Brondi

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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 research on lute and guitar history, and composed guitar pieces. She was also an editor for the Enciclopedia Italiana. Early life Maria Rita Brondi was born in Rimini in 1884 or 1889. She was taught guitar first by her father, who was a noted performer, She later studied voice with Paolo Tosti in England and composition with M. Manozzi. Career Brondi toured in Europe as a guitarist and singer, known for singing Italian regional folk songs. She performed for Queen Margherita in Rome, and for a number of other titled people, including the Duchess of Aosta in Turin, and Princess Bona Adelaide and the Duke of Ancona. She wrote a book on the history of the guitar, titled Il liuto e la chitarra (1926), which was published in several editions through the twentieth century. She was mentioned as a peer of Italian musicians (1878–1972) and Geni Sadero (also known as Eugenia Scarpa, 1886–1961), though both of them outlived her. Julian Bream mentioned her as making early lute recordings, in company with

Rita Kassabian

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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 Walid Akl who encouraged her to excel in music. She studied piano, harmony, and analysis, then was admitted to Schola Cantorum de Paris (France) in the composition/orchestration class of Patrice Sciortino in September 2001. A maember of the French Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, she is also the chairwoman of the music associations ARKOncerts and A.R.K., which promote young talent. Awards ( Paris ) 2004 * Second prize in orchestration with honour 2005 * first prize in orchestration with honour * prize of composition in chamber music with honour 2006 * prize of composition in solo instrument with honour 2007 * first prize in composition for chamber music * first prize in composition for solo instrument * first prize of composition for chorus * first prize of composition for symphonic music Compositions * April 2005 Impromptu for 2 flutes, cello, 4 timpani and 1 harp (composition prize 2005) * December 2005 Divertimento for solo tenor saxophone, edited by L’Harma

Rita Strohl

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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 Villette (1842–1917) and Jules La Rousse La Villette. She is also the niece of the painter Caroline Espinet. Musical career Born in Lorient, Morbihan, Strohl was a gifted student and entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 13, where she studied piano and solfège. She studied composition and voice privately. She was also a member of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique. In 1884, she started publishing her chamber music trios, and the following year her Messe pour six voix, orchestre, et orgue résonne. Notably honoured by Pierre Louÿs and Henri Duparc, her music has gained renewed interest in recent years. She created the short-lived La Grange Theatre in Bièvres, Essonne in 1912 with her second husband and with the financial support of Odilon Redon, Gustave Fayet and others, performing lyrical works filled with mysticism and symbolism. It closed at the beginning of World War I. Personal life In 1888, she married the sub lieutenant Émile Strohl (1863-1900), givin

Rito Selvaggi

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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 chamber music. He also served as the director of the music conservatories in Palermo, Parma, and Pesaro. Biography Selvaggi was born in Noicàttaro in the Province of Bari, the third of six children. He showed an early talent for music, especially the piano, and in 1910, his family sent him to the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, where he studied under Amilcare Zanella. After graduating from the conservatory, he continued his piano studies with Ferruccio Busoni in Bologna and made his Paris debut in 1913. His career as a concert pianist was cut short by World War I, when he served as a lieutenant in the Italian Army from 1915 to 1918. After the war, he concentrated his musical activities primarily on conducting and composing. He was the co-director (with Tullio Serafin) of the Teatro Regio in Turin and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris from 1918 to 1922 and toured internationally as a conductor from 1923 to 1927. From 1929 to 1943 he was also the artistic director for symphonic musi

River Guerguerian

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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, Guerguerian received his Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music conservatory and graduated with the school’s award for Most Outstanding Percussionist. Music Career and Affiliations River Guerguerian’s music has evolved through explorations of indigenous instruments, and their trance-inducing effect, gathered from travels around the planet. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by chamber ensembles, universities, modern dance companies, and new music festivals. As a studio musician, he has recorded on over 250 albums and film soundtracks. Guerguerian records with musicians of all genres and can be found playing Drumset, Middle Eastern and Afro-Cuban percussion, Frame Drums, Marimba, Tabla, Kanjira, Cajon, Gongs, Singing Bowls, Loopers, and various found objects. He also records percussion tracks for artists at his own recording studio. Between 1988 and 1993, River created works with Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun. A respected music educator, he conducts r

Riz Ortolani

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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 1955 and 2014, with a career spanning over fifty years. Internationally, he is best known for his genre scores, notably his music for mondo, giallo, horror, and Spaghetti Western films. His most famous composition is “More,” which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards. The song was later covered by Frank Sinatra, Kai Winding, Andy Williams, Roy Orbison, and others. Ortolani received many other accolades, including four David di Donatello Awards, three Nastro d’Argento Awards, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. In 2013, he received a Lifetime Achievement from the World Soundtrack Academy. Early life Ortolani was born on 25 March 1926 in Pesaro, Italy. He was the youngest of six children. Ortolani’s father, a postal worker, gave his son a violin at age 4. Ortolani later switched to flute after injuring his elbow in a car accide