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R. O. Morris

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Reginald Owen Morris (3 March 1886 – 15 December 1948), known professionally and by his friends by his initials, as R.O. Morris, was a British composer and teacher. Teacher and author Morris was born in York, son of Army officer Reginald Frank Morris and Georgiana Susan (née Sherard). He was educated at Harrow School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London. On the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, along with his friends George Butterworth and Geoffrey Toye. After a time writing for The Nation as music critic, he rejoined the RCM as a professor of counterpoint and composition in 1920. From 1926 for two years he taught at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia before returning to the RCM. Morris became famous as an exceptional teacher of counterpoint, and wrote several texts including Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century (Oxford, 1922), Foundations of Practical Harmony and Counterpoint (London, 1925), Figured Harmony at the Keyboard (London, 1931), The Structure of Music (London, 1935) and Introduction to Counterpoint (London, 1944). His students included the composers Hugo Cole, Jean Coulthard, Gerald

Rob Burger

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Robert Burger (born March 26, 1971) is an American composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and music director. Biography Burger began playing piano at an early age, starting his formal training at age six with the pianist Jeffrey Marcus. He played in local and school bands during his youth, and then went on to study classical performance at the University of Massachusetts with pianist Nigel Cox, as well as African American Studies and improvisation under the direction of Yusef Lateef. In 1994, he was recruited as accordionist, to the Bill Frisell Band, featuring Joey Baron, Kermit Driscoll, and Don Byron. Burger moved to San Francisco in 1995 and formed the Tin Hat Trio. With them, he co-wrote and co-produced four critically acclaimed recordings for various major labels. The group’s recordings Helium and The Rodeo Eroded each feature guest vocal performances by Tom Waits and Willie Nelson. In 2001, Burger moved back to New York where he worked closely with composer John Zorn, contributing as a featured soloist to many of his scores and recordings. He has released two full-length solo recordings on the Tzadik label, Lost Photograph (2002) and City of Strangers (2009). His third a

Rob du Bois

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Rob du Bois (28 May 1934 – 28 August 2013) was a Dutch composer, pianist, and jurist. Background and education Rob (Robert Louis) du Bois was born in Amsterdam. His French ancestry can be seen from his name, and he maintained a sympathy for the French mentality and language. After graduating from the Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam he studied law at the Gemeentelijke Universiteit in the same city. He began studying music with Chris Rabé at the Volksmuziekschool, later taking piano lessons, initially with Hans Sachs, and later with T. Hart Nibbrig–de Graeff. He decided to become a composer after hearing two symphonies by Matthijs Vermeulen in 1949. As a composer he was self-taught, with influences especially from his contact during the 1950s with the composers Kees van Baaren and Daniel Ruyneman. Musician In 1959, Bois became associated with the group of composers formed around the Gaudeamus Foundation, of which he later became a board member. He first became known outside of Holland as a composer when his music was performed at the Zagreb Biennale and the Warsaw Autumn, in both 1967 and 1969, and at the Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1967 in Prague.

Rob Kapilow

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Robert Kapilow (born December 22, 1952) is an American composer, conductor, and music commentator. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, and a student of Nadia Boulanger. He initially gained recognition for his classical music radio program, What Makes It Great?, which was under the umbrella of National Public Radio’s Performance Today; “PT” is now a stablemate of classical programs produced by American Public Media. “What Makes It Great?” is part of NPR’s NPR Music website. On the program he presented live full-length concert evenings and series throughout North America. Kapilow’s program became a recurring event at New York’s Lincoln Center (where Kapilow has the distinction of being the only artist to have his own series), in Boston, Los Angeles and Kansas City among other venues. In 2014 “What Makes It Great?” relocated to Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, where Kapilow was a 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence. As a G. Schirmer exclusive composer, Kapilow wrote the first musical setting of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, which was premiered and recorded by the New Jersey Chamber Music Society in 1995. It has since achieved gr

Rob Lewis (composer)

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Rob Lewis (born 2 November 1982) is an Emmy nominated English composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He gained critical acclaim for his compositions for looping cello, which formed the basis of his album “Momentum” released in 2018. In 2019, Lewis was commissioned by Google to compose a 60-minute soundtrack as part of an installation in Los Angeles. Excerpts from this composition formed his second album, “98”, which was released in February 2020. In April 2022, he premiered “Tideway Tunnel To Tide”, a composition created using sounds from the Tideway Tunnelling Construction process, as a live-streamed event. The work was subsequently released as a single in connection with the Thames Tideway Tunnel project. TV and film Lewis has composed soundtracks for numerous television shows and films, including the Netflix series Mysteries of the Faith, for which he received an Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Musical Direction and Composition. He also composed the music for Hulu’s Dead Asleep directed by Skye Borgman, Channel 4’s Inside the American Embassy, Genderquake, and the independent feature documentary ‘‘Perception’’ following the work of Egyptian artist El Seed.

Rob Rokicki

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Rob Rokicki is an American composer, lyricist, and musician. He is best known for writing the music and lyrics to the Broadway musical The Lightning Thief. Career Rokicki graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in English and a BFA in musical theater. Rokicki wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (book by Joe Tracz), which debuted at the Lucille Lortel Theatre by Theatreworks USA in 2014 and opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre in 2019. Rokicki performed the orchestrations and co-arrangements for the jukebox musical Punk Rock Girl (book and co-arrangements by Joe Iconis). The show features songs from female-fronted bands, including Blondie, Avril Lavigne, Pat Benetar, No Doubt, and Pink. Rokicki created some song mashups for the musical that debuted in 2022 at The Argyle Theatre in Babylon Village, NY. A recording of Rokicki’s graphic novel musical Monstersongs was released by Broadway Records in 2017. Rokicki cowrote the song “Footprints” with friend and collaborator Joe Iconis and the album features a number of performers, including Megan Hilty, Katrina Rose Dideriksen, and Jelani Alladin. Reviewers ca

Rob Simonsen

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Rob Simonsen is an American composer and conductor. He is best known for his scores in films such as 500 Days of Summer (2009), The Age of Adaline (2015), Gifted (2017), The Only Living Boy in New York (2017), Tully (2018), Love, Simon (2018), The Front Runner (2018), The Way Back (2020), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), The Adam Project (2022), The Whale (2022), Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), It Ends with Us (2024) and Elio (2025), and the television series Life in Pieces (2015–2019). He is also known for collaborating with directors Marc Webb, Julia Hart, Jason Reitman, Shawn Levy, Darren Aronofsky, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Early life Simonsen began playing the piano by ear at an early age. His grandmother was a voice teacher and music was around him in his family home. He later studied music at Southern Oregon University, the University of Oregon and Portland State University. Career Rob’s first break into film composing was the independent feature Westender in 2003. In 2004 he teamed up with composer Mychael Danna and has provided additional music and arrangements on Surf’s Up, Fracture, Moneyball, and the Oscar-winning Life of Pi. Simonsen and Danna co-wrote the score of (

Robbi Finkel

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Robbi Finkel (born Robert Mark Finkel; April 11, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American-Canadian composer, record producer, pianist and arranger. Grammy nominated, Finkel is an honorary lifetime voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy Awards). He is best known for his work on numerous record arrangements and productions in France (Jacques Dutronc ‘Cest pas du Bronze’, Jacques Higelin ‘Champagne pour tout le monde, Caviar pour les autres’, Alan Stivell Tir Na Nog/Symphonie Celte) and in Canada (Cirque du Soleil Alegría, Zumanity, Les Colocs Les Colocs, Suite 2016, and Moist Mercedes Five and Dime). He is also known for his musical composition of the Cybersix animated cartoon series (Tokyo Mitaka Studios, Network of Animation), as well as the music of several multimedia games (Mattel Slotcars, Ubisoft Entertainment Hype: The Time Quest), theatrical (DHC Productions Atreus, Compagnie Pol Pelletier Joie, Océan) and film productions (Les Charlots Charlots’ Connection, Retour des Bidasses en Folie). Early life Finkel started playing piano when he was four years old. In the Philadelphia area he began piano lessons at five with Heinrich Zieg

Robert Aldridge (composer)

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Robert Livingstone Aldridge (September 7, 1954 in Richmond, VA) is an American composer, professor, and current Head of Composition professor, and former Director of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He has written over eighty works for orchestra, opera, musical theater, dance, and various chamber ensembles that have been performed in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He is widely known for his opera Elmer Gantry, based on Sinclair Lewis’s 1927 novel of the same name. which was completed in 2007 and won Best Engineered Album (Classical) and Best Contemporary Classical Composition in the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Biography Aldridge holds degrees in both composition and English literature. Aldridge received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s degree in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a doctorate in composition from the Yale School of Music in 2000. In November 2007, an opera titled Elmer Gantry by Robert Aldridge and with a libretto by Herschel Garfein premiered in the James K. Polk Theater in Nashville. Parables also with a libretto by Herschel Garfein was a w

Robert Alexander Anderson (composer)

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Robert Alexander Anderson (often given as R. Alex Anderson) (June 6, 1894 – May 30, 1995) was an American composer who was born and lived most of his life in Hawaii, writing many popular Hawaiian songs within the hapa haole genre including “Lovely Hula Hands” (1940) and "" (1949), the latter the best known Hawaiian Christmas song. Background Anderson was called “Andy” by his close friends. Anderson was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended Punahou School, where he wrote the school’s football song as a junior and the school song as a senior. Anderson graduated from Cornell University in 1916, where he studied electrical and mechanical engineering and was a member of the Cornell University Glee Club. Despite lacking formal training as a composer, Anderson wrote many songs as a student there, including “When Twilight Falls on Blue Cayuga”. In 1927, he wrote his first hit song, “Haole Hula”. Another well-known song of his was “Punahou” (1966). Anderson’s exploits during World War I involved flying combat missions in France. After being shot down and taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans, he conceived of a daring and ultimately successful escape. This was later turned into the init

Robert Allworth

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Robert Cooper Allworth (10 March 1943 - 26 February 2017) was an Australian composer. His album of his composition Last Look at Bronte was nominated for the 1987 ARIA Awards for Best Classical Album. In the 1997 Australia Day Honours he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for “service to music as a composer and as an advocate of other Australian composers’ works”. Biography Robert Cooper Allworth, was born as Robert Graham Allworth on 10 March 1943, the only child of Australian Army officer, Kenneth Reginald Allworth (11 December 1905 – 26 March 1969) and Gwendolyn ( Jones, 1906–5 May 1969). He was raised in the northern Sydney suburb of Denistone. While a school student he undertook piano lessons and studied musical theory. * Format: CD * Label: Jade Records (JADCD 1057) - ! scope=“row” Concerto Grosso (Music of Australian Composers) (with Mary Mageau, Holland, Brumby, Gross) * Released: 1999 * Format: CD * Label: Jade Records (JAD LP1004) Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. ! - 1987 Last Lo

Robert Ambrose (composer)

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Robert Steele Ambrose (March 7, 1824 – March 31, 1908) was a British-Canadian organist and composer. He was notable for his evangelical music compositions. Life Ambrose was born on March 7, 1824, to Charles Ambrose and Sophia Stoneham in Chelmsford, England. Robert’s father was the organist at Chelmsford Cathedral, where Robert most likely received his early musical training. The family emigrated to Upper Canada in 1837, where Charles purchased a farm. However, lacking the experience to do work on the land, Charles moved to Hamilton, Ontario, in 1845, leaving Robert to work the land himself. Robert made it clear that he did not like farming as it damaged his hands, interfering with his musical abilities. In 1847, the young Ambrose left the farm to join his brother in Kingston, Ontario, teaching music. It is thought that around 1857-1858 Ambrose served as the organist of St. George’s Church. In 1862, Ambrose led the choral service at the consecration of John Travers Lewis. In 1863, Ambrose moved to Hamilton to take up a position as organist and choir director for the Church of the Ascension. The very next year, he was appointed the musical director of what is now Hamilton Ladies Col

Robert Amirkhanyan

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Robert Babkeni Amirkhanyan (; born November 16, 1939) is an Armenian composer and songwriter. He is a professor at the Yerevan State Conservatory. He wrote over 300 songs, vocal series, operettas. Career In 1969 Amirkhanyan graduated from the Yerevan State Conservatory, class of Eduard Mirzoyan. From 1969 to 1972 Amirkhanyan was the musical editor of Armenian Radio. From 1991 to 2013, he served as the President of the Union of Composers of Armenia. He is an author of many popular Armenian songs (“Hayreni yerkir”, “Hayi achker”, “Ding-dong”, “Arise!”, “Arevot andzrev”), soundtracks of films, animation cartoons, operettas, as well as the first Armenian musical, entitled “The Oriental Dentist”. He wrote music for 16 feature films and about 30 animated films. His songs were performed by Raisa Mkrtchyan, Muslim Magomayev, Larisa Mondrus. According to Mir TV, “in the Soviet Union, everyone knew him for his music”. Amirkhanyan’s “Variations for String Quartet” won the first prize in the Young Composers’ Competition of the USSR in 1969. In 1973 Amirkhanyan’s song “Where Are You Boys” won the “Best Song” award at the Berlin City World Youth Festival. In 1975 his composition “Autumn Melody”

Robert Ashley

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Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. His works often involve intertwining narratives and take a surreal multidisciplinary approach to sound, theatrics and writing, and have been continuously performed by various interpreters during and after his life, including Automatic Writing (1979) and Perfect Lives (1983). Life and career Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1952, where he met Ross Lee Finney in 1949. Finney had a good reputation after serving in World War II, in which he was wounded by a land mine. In 1969 he became director of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. In the 1970s he directed the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. His notable students include Maggi Payne and Hsiung-Zee Wong. The majority of Ashley’s recordings have been released by Lovely Music, which was founded by Performing Artservices, the not-for-profit management organization which represents Ashley and other artists. His first album with Lovely Music was 1978’s P

Robert Beaser

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Robert Beaser (born May 29, 1954, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer. Biography Beaser was brought up in a non-musical family. His father was a physician and mother was a chemist. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, where he distinguished himself at a young age as a percussionist, composer and conductor. He made his debut with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony at Jordan Hall when he was 16, conducting the premiere of his orchestral work Antigone. He went on to study with Yehudi Wyner and Jacob Druckman at Yale College, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 1976, and later received his Master of Music, M.M.A. and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of Music. He studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller and William Steinberg. Other teachers included Toru Takemitsu, Arnold Franchetti, Goffredo Petrassi and Earle Brown. He studied with Betsy Jolas on a fellowship at Tanglewood. In 1977, Beaser became the youngest composer to win the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Residence in Rome proved a watershed in his development, and he embraced more tonal language, synthesizing a variety of diverse influences from jazz to folk into his work.

Robert Bernat

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Robert Bernat (July 3, 1931 – December 3, 1994) was an American composer and the founder, artistic director, and conductorof the River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His musical influences included his mentor, Aaron Copland, as well as other American composers including Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, and John Philip Sousa. Biography Bernat was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1931, to Pearl Willie and Andrew Bernat. His mother died when he was four. That same year, his maternal grandfather taught him to play the country fiddle. By the time he was a teenager, he was playing the clarinet and saxophone professionally in jazz bands. At 15, he composed his first sonata for violin and piano. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University (then, Carnegie Tech) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his Master of Fine Arts in Composition from Brandeis University. In 1960, Bernat received a Crofts fellowship to attend the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center in the Berkshires where he studied with composer Aaron Copland. He held academic posts at Bethany College, Brandeis University, Ohio State University and the University of Pit

Robert Browne Hall

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Robert Browne Hall (30 June 1858 Bowdoinham, Maine – 8 June 1907), usually known as R. B. Hall, was a leading composer of marches and other music for wind bands. Life and career A principal American composer of marching music, Hall was born in Bowdoinham, Maine and seldom left his native state during his lifetime, dying in Portland. His music though has traveled around the world. He is particularly popular in the United Kingdom, so much so that many lovers of brass band music there mistakenly imagine that Hall is an English composer. His celebrated “Tenth Regiment March”, written in 1895 and dedicated to the Tenth Regiment Band in Albany, New York, is a well-known staple of brass band concerts and competitions all over the UK, under the title “Death or Glory”. Hall was famous during his lifetime as a particularly fine player on the cornet and served for a time as conductor of the Bangor Band. As soloist, conductor, composer and teacher, Hall is still remembered in Maine. The last Saturday in June every year is officially Robert Browne Hall Day in the State of Maine. Hall suffered a stroke in 1902 from which he never recovered. He died in poverty in Portland as a result of nephritis

Robert Bruce (Scottish composer)

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Robert Richard Fernie Bruce (17 August 1915 – 13 August 2012) was a composer, lecturer and a decorated Flight Lieutenant during the WWII. He was the great grandson of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine and was born on 17 August 1915 in Inverkeilor, a village and parish in Angus, Scotland. He was educated at Rugby School, before enrolling in 1935 at University of Edinburgh. His professor was Donald Tovey, a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. Bruce graduated in 1938. He then studied with Julius Röntgen, a German-Dutch composer of classical music, in Amsterdam. first performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and recorded in 1999 by the Częstochowa Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by . Symphony in B flat is dedicated to Bannock and in part inspired by the night sorties they flew together. His wife died in 2010, and he is survived by a son and a daughter, Katharine and James; an elder son, Richard, predeceased him in death in 2007. Robert Bruce died on 13 August 2012. References External links *The Telegraph: obituary *The Herald: obituary *The Scotsman: obituary *The Guardian: obituary

Robert Brydges Addison

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Robert Brydges Addison (16 August 1854 – 8 July 1920) was an English composer, choirmaster and teacher. Born in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, Addison was the son of clergyman William Fountaine Addison (1817-1893) - who had been Canon of Gibraltar Cathedral. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with George Alexander Macfarren. Following four years as sub-professor to Macfarren Addison was appointed professor of harmony and composition at the academy, a position he held between 1882 and 1892. From 1892 he taught at Trinity College London. His compositions include a Concert Allegro in G, the cantata A Vision (1880), the motet Save Me, O Lord, the anthem They that sow in tears, a Piano Sonata in A minor, and the Andante and Variations for piano. There are also many songs, including Rise! For the Day is Passing, which was performed at the BBC Proms in 1914, and several albums for children. While at the academy he composed a Symphony in G minor, of which two movements were performed on 15 December 1881. His brother was the Oxfordshire painter William Grylls Addison (1853-1904). List of works Orchestral * Symphony in G minor (1881) * Concert allegro in G major, f

Robert Cambert

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Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French. Biography Under Mazarin Born in Paris c. 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières. His first position was as organist at the church of Saint-Honoré in Paris. In 1655 he married Marie du Moustier. At this time he came under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin who was instrumental in his appointment as Superintendent of music to the Dowager Queen Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV. Cambert’s early works with libretto written by Pierre Perrin were frequently performed at court during this period. However, following the death of the powerful Mazarin, and the Queen’s subsequent retirement to a convent, Cambert’s position at court was weakened, as new powers came into force at court. Académie Royale de Musique In 1669 Perrin founded the Académie Royale de Musique, under the auspices of the French King. Cambert was invited to join Perrin in the administration of the project which is considered today to be one of the founding influences of grand opera. However, both Perrin and Cambert were eventually replaced at the academy by Lully. Cambert, furious at the ins

Robert Carl

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Robert Carl (born July 12, 1954, in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut. He was chair of the composition program at the Hartt School, University of Hartford. He has held artist residency’s at Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France (1984 and 1993), Bogliasco Foundation near Genoa, Italy, (2000, 2007 and 2014), at the Rockefeller International Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, (1987), and at the Youkobo ArtSpace and Tokyo Wonder Site in 2007. US residencies include stays at Yaddo, the Djerassi, Ragdale and Ucross Foundations, and at the MacDowell and Millay. He was a recipient of the Copland Award in 1999. Music Carl studied with Jonathan Kramer, George Rochberg, Ralph Shapey, Iannis Xenakis, Betsy Jolas, George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and Robert Morris. From each of the first four respectively, the composer has commented that he feels he learned about time, history, counterpoint/phrasing, and form. His music finds its roots in the spirit of eclectic juxtapositions, transcendentalism, and experiment embodied in the output of Charles Ives and other American “ultramodernists”, including Carl Ruggles. Carl’s music until 1997 tends to e

Robert Carver (composer)

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Robert Carver CRSA (also Carvor, Arnot; c. 1485 – c. 1570) was a Scottish Canon regular and composer of Christian sacred music during the Renaissance. Carver is regarded as Scotland’s greatest composer of the 16th century. He is best known for his polyphonic choral music, of which there are five surviving masses and two surviving motets. The works that can definitely be attributed to him can be found in the Carver Choirbook held in the National Library of Scotland. Carver’s work, noted for the gradual build-up of ideas towards a resolution in the final passages, is still performed and recorded today. Carver was influenced by composers in continental Europe, and his surviving music differs greatly from that produced by many of his contemporaries in Scotland or England at the time. Highly ornate in style, it resembles most closely the richly decorated music of the Eton Choirbook. Carver was the subject of the 1991 BBC radio play Carver by John Purser, which won one of the Giles Cooper Awards for that year. Biography Carver spent much of his life at Scone Abbey. A recently rediscovered charter book for the abbey, with upwards of 50 examples of Carver’s signature, suggests that he spen

Robert Casadesus

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Robert Marcel Casadesus (; 7 April 1899 – 19 September 1972) was a French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a distinguished musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus. Biography Casadesus was born in Paris, and studied there at the Conservatoire with Louis Diémer, taking a Premier Prix (First Prize) in 1913 and the Prix Diémer in 1920. He entered the class of Lucien Capet, who had exceptional influence. Capet had founded a famous quartet that bore his name (Capet Quartet) and in which two of Robert’s uncles played: Henri and Marcel. The Quartet often rehearsed in the Casadesus home, and so it was that Robert was exposed to chamber music. The Beethoven Quartets held no secret for him—he knew them backward and forwards. Beginning in 1922, Casadesus collaborated with the composer Maurice Ravel on a project to create piano rolls of a number of his works. Casadesus and Ravel also shared the concert platform in France, Spain and England. Casadesus toured widely as a piano soloist and often performed with his wife, the pianist Gaby (L’Hôte) Casadesus, whom he married in 1921. Fro

Robert Cogan

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Robert Cogan (February 2, 1930 – August 19, 2021) was an American music theorist, composer and teacher. Career He studied at the University of Michigan (B.M., 1951; M.M., 1952); Princeton University (M.F.A., 1956); Royal Conservatory of Brussels; Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood; and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg. His principal teachers included Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Ross Lee Finney, Philipp Jarnach and Roger Sessions. For more than three decades Cogan was Chair of Graduate Theoretical Studies and Professor of Composition at New England Conservatory, Boston. He also was a visiting professor at the Berkshire Music Center; at State University of New York at Purchase; at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, and Shanghai Conservatory; and at IBM Research. As speaker and/or composer Cogan was programmed in Belgium, Brazil, Canada (Banff Festival), China, France (IRCAM), Paris; Avignon and Nice Festivals), Germany (Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music); North and West German Radios; Zinzig Festival; Bielefeld University), Great Britain (Universities of Edinburgh, London, and Southampton), Italy (Gubbio and Prix Italia festival

Robert Creighton (1639?–1734)

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Robert Creighton or Creyghton (1639? – 17 February 1734) was an English churchman and composer of church music. He served as Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge during the Restoration period, and then as the precentor of Wells Cathedral. Early life Creighton was the son of the elder Robert Creighton, a Scottish churchman. The elder Creighton served as chaplain to King Charles I during the English Civil War and then as chaplain to Charles II during his exile after the defeat of the Royalists; he then returned to England at the Stuart Restoration in 1660, becoming Dean of Wells in 1660 and Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1670. The younger Creighton was born in about 1639, and probably went into exile with his father, returning together with him at the Restoration. Career In 1662, Creighton took the degree of M.A. at Cambridge, where he was elected fellow of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Greek. In the entry in the Dictionary of National Biography upon which the present article is based, William Barclay Squire suggests that Creighton held the Regius Professorship for only one year starting in 1662, since in 1663 John Le Neve in the third volume of his Fasti g

Robert Dalley-Scarlett

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Dr. Robert Dalley-Scarlett (16 April 1887 – 31 July 1959) was an Australian organist, choirmaster, composer and musicologist. History Dalley-Scarlett was born Robert Scarlett in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, a son of Robert Campbell Scarlett and his wife Emily Florence Scarlett, née Hancock. The name “Dalley” was added in tribute to his godfather, William Bede Dalley and hyphenated later. and organ under Arthur Mason, organist of St James’ Church, Sydney 1898–1907, City Organist 1901–1907, and music correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. After several years taking occasional positions as church organist, he was in 1912 appointed organist and choral conductor to Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Grafton. He married Gertrude Alice Peir (1886–1970) in Sydney in 1909; they had two sons. He enlisted with the 1st AIF on 5 May 1916, was gassed in France, transferred to the Pay Corps, London, in February 1917, and returned to Australia where he was honorably discharged in December 1917. While in London, he studied church music under Sir Frederick Bridge and Sir Richard Terry. and Mus. Doc. in 1934, the first Queensland musician to be so qualified. Dalley-Scarlett served with St. And

Robert Davidson (composer)

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Robert Davidson is an Australian composer and lecturer in music at the University of Queensland. Education He holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Queensland (UQ), a Graduate Diploma in Music from Griffith University, and a PhD from the University of Queensland. Musical career He was a bassist in the Opera Australia, Sydney Symphony and Queensland Symphony orchestras. Since 1997, Davidson has directed the post-classical quintet Topology, with whom he plays double bass and occasionally sings. He is co-artistic direction of the organisation. His works have been commissioned and performed by numerous international artists, such as the Brodsky Quartet, Australian String Quartet, Karin Schaupp, Southern Cross Soloists, Paul Dresher Ensemble (San Francisco), and Newspeak (New York). Some of his most well-known works using speech and music include “Not Now, Not Ever!” for choir with then prime minister of Australia Julia Gillard’s 2012 Misogyny Speech, and “Big Decisions”, which tells of the Whitlam dismissal. His research interests include the use of artificial intelligence in music. Recognition Davidson was a finalist in the Art Music Awards in 2013 (Instrumental Work of the

Robert Davine

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Robert Davine (born Aubrey Robert Davine; April 5, 1924 – November 25, 2001) was an internationally recognized American concert accordionist and Professor of Accordion and Music Theory at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. As the chairman of the Department of Accordion for three decades, he is credited with establishing one of the few collegiate academic programs in advanced accordion studies offered in the United States during the 1950s. His concert performances of 20th century classical music with leading orchestras and chamber ensembles helped to demonstrate the accordion’s suitability as an orchestral instrument on the modern concert hall stage. Biography Early life and education Robert Davine initiated his musical education on the piano as a young child. He was first exposed to the accordion at the age of ten. During the 1930s he encountered an accordionist who served as an accompanist in a Spanish dance troupe. The sight of the accompanist performing such an exotic instrument intrigued the young musician and his life long interest with the accordion took flight. Career Robert Davine emerged as the founder of the Lamont School of Music’s Department of Accordion

Robert De Cormier

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Robert Romeo De Cormier Jr. (January 7, 1922 – November 7, 2017), sometimes known as Robert Corman, was an American musical conductor, arranger, and director. He arranged music for many singers and groups, including Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, and worked with Milt Okun. Biography Robert De Cormier was born in Farmingdale, New York, and grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. His father was a shop teacher of French-Canadian heritage, and his mother was a Swedish-born guitarist. De Cormier took up the trumpet at age 7, and continued while attending Colby College in Maine and the University of New Mexico. His trumpet playing ended during World War II, when a German mortar shell nearly severed his right wrist while his Army infantry unit was advancing toward the Rhine River. While recovering at a hospital on Staten Island, he began singing with the CIO chorus, which was where he met and started a lifelong association with Pete Seeger. Because of McCarthyism, and the fact that he had joined the Communist Party as a young man, De Cormier used the name Robert Corman as a pseudonym on many Harry Belafonte recordings. After the war, De Cormier attended and graduated from the Juilli

Robert de Reins La Chievre

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Robert de Reins (Rains, Reims) La Chievre was a trouvère from the Île de France, probably active in the thirteenth century. He is among those trouvères, like Richard de Fournival, who are associated with the early development of the motet and who may be more numerous than previously believed. Robert may have belonged to the La Chievre family documented in Reims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Roman de Renart attributed a poem about Tristan to a certain Chievre de Reins, who may be Robert. This attribution led Wilhelm Mann to conclude that he was active before 1300, though other scholars have argued on linguistic grounds that he must have been writing later. Nine songs are attributed to Robert and “no fewer than four have their first stanza enhanced by a liturgical tenor in a motet appearing anonymously in a polyphonic source”. These four are numbers 1-4 in the list below. Two of these motets (1-2) are preserved as liturgical clausulae. Three of the motets (2-4) have the same music and text as the song versions but one has the same music but transmits a contrafact Latin text. List of works The RS number is that found in the standard catalogue for songs. The refrains

Robert de Visée

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Robert de Visée (1652-1730) was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and a composer for lute, theorbo and guitar. Biography Robert de Visée was born in 1652, in La Flèche, France. He probably knew Francesco Corbetta and would have been familiar with his music. wrote that he studied with Corbetta and this information has been repeated uncritically in later sources including Strizich and Ledbetter 2001. It is however unsupported by documentary evidence . de Visée is first mentioned (by Le Gallois) in 1680, and at about that time he became a chamber musician to Louis XIV, in which capacity he often performed at court. In 1709, he was appointed as a singer of the royal chamber, and in 1719 was named ‘Guitar Master of the King’ (Maître de Guitare du Roi) to Louis XV, the ten-year-old great-grandson of Louis XIV, who succeeded to the throne in 1715. Jean Rousseau reported in a letter of 1688 that Visée was a respected musician at Versailles and played the viol . He died in Paris on February 15, 1730, leaving his son François de Visée as his sole heir. Works Visée published two books of guitar music t

Robert Delaney (composer)

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Robert Mills Delaney, sometimes incorrectly spelled Delany (24 July 1903 – 21 September 1956) was an American composer and teacher. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Delaney began studying the violin as a child in Hanover, Pennsylvania, with Walter Shultz. His musical education continued at the Combs College of Music, where he studied with Henry Schradieck and William Geiger. In 1921, Delaney began undergraduate studies in music at the University of Southern California, but he left the school in 1922 to accompany his parents, Charles Roderic and Anna Louise (née Ritchie) Delaney, on a trip around the world. After returning from the trip, Delaney resumed his music studies but now in Europe: from 1925–1928, he attended the École Normale de Musique de Paris; the Sorbonne (as an auditor); and the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleu, France. While in France, he studied violin with Maurice Reuchsel, Lucien Capet, and Léon Nauwick and composition with Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Honegger, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and G. Francesco Malipiero. When he returned to the United States, Delaney obtained a position as a music instructor at the Santa Barbara Boys School in Carpenteria, CA (

Robert Docker

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Robert Docker (5 June 1918 – 9 May 1992) was an English composer, arranger and pianist, especially noted for his orchestral arrangements and original light music compositions. The son of a Paddington gas worker, he was educated at North Paddington Central School, and with the aid of a London County Council Scholarship was able to study viola, piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. His viola professor at the RAM was James Lockyer. During World War II, he was a sergeant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps stationed in Northumberland. He was later married to the viola player Meryl Unsworth and in later life resided in Suffolk. He was particularly noted for his orchestral arrangements. His first was broadcast in 1936 and his arrangements of popular tunes were regularly heard on BBC radio programmes such as Friday Night is Music Night (where for many years he orchestrated music for Sidney Torch) and Melodies For You. He was widely associated with the BBC Concert Orchestra and in 1990, the BBC broadcast two one-hour programmes entitled The Musical World of Robert Docker. His lighter original compositions include the “Air and Jig” for violin, cello and piano, “Cornet Cascade” an

Robert Elmore

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Robert Hall Elmore (January 2, 1913 – September 22, 1985) was an American composer, organist, pianist who was active in Philadelphia during the mid 20th century and who wrote some organ pieces that are included in recitals today. Early life Robert Elmore was born on January 2, 1913, in Ramapuram, Chennai, India where his parents were missionaries. The family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1918 where Elmore began studying piano at age six and organ at age nine. His first composition was written at age 11. In 1925, the family relocated once again to Wayne, Pennsylvania where Elmore was to live at 130 Walnut Avenue until his death in 1985. Shortly thereafter he began study with famed organist and composer Pietro Yon who was then organist and music director at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. Yon was sufficiently impressed with Elmore’s abilities to have referred to him as “the foremost American organist of the day”. Professional assignments While still in his teens Elmore was appointed organist at the Central Baptist Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania (1925–1933). He also performed as a theatre organist at the Lincoln, Bryn Mawr Seville and Anthony Wayne theaters. From 1938 to 1955 he w

Robert Erickson

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Robert Erickson (March 7, 1917 – April 24, 1997) was an American modernist composer and influential music teacher. He was one of the first American composers to explore the twelve tone technique and to compose tape music. Education Erickson was born in Marquette, Michigan. He learned both piano and violin as a child, and studied composition with Ernst Krenek at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduating in 1943. He returned to Hamline after three years in the US Army, and earned a Master of Arts in music in 1947. Career Teaching He taught at the College of St. Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota, San Francisco State College, the University of California, Berkeley, and chaired the composition department of the San Francisco Conservatory from 1957 to 1966. With composer Will Ogdon, he founded the music department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1967: “We decided we wanted a department where composers could feel at home, the way scholars feel at home in other schools.” and Sound Structure in Music (1975), an important early attempt to systematically study timbre in music. Erickson also served as music director of KPFA radio in Berkeley from 1955 to 195

Robert Evett (composer)

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Robert Evett (November 30, 1922 - February 3, 1975) was an American composer and journalist. Along with Robert Parris and Russell Woollen, he was one of a trifecta described by Irving Lowens as the “Washington School” of composers. Life and career Born in Loveland, Colorado, Evett was the son of a livery stable owner. His mother was a pianist, and introduced him to music; he began composing early. At one point discovering, in his early teenage years, that Artur Schnabel was vacationing in Colorado, Evett showed the pianist a piano sonata he had written, receiving encouragement for his efforts. Shortly thereafter his elder brother Kenneth brought him to Colorado Springs to begin formal study under Roy Harris. He studied under Harris between 1941 and 1947, Evett died in Takoma Park, Maryland. a handful of manuscripts and copies are held by the New York Public Library. Some of his choral work has been recorded. Music and writing Evett’s compositional career saw him receive commissions from the Pan-American Union, the National Symphony Orchestra, Georgetown University, and the Composer’s Forum for Catholic Worship. Concurrently he pursued a career as a writer; he was book editor and mu

Robert Farnon

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Robert Joseph Farnon (24 July 191723 April 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a composer of original works (often in the light music genre), he was commissioned by film and television producers for theme and incidental music. In later life he composed a number of more serious orchestral works, including three symphonies, and was recognised with four Ivor Novello awards and the Order of Canada. Life Robert Farnon was born in Toronto to Robert and Elsie Farnon (née Menzies). He was commissioned as a captain in the Canadian Army and became the conductor/arranger of the Canadian Band of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force sent overseas during World War II. This was the Canadian equivalent of the American Band of the SHAEF led by Major Glenn Miller. He was noted as a jazz trumpeter – his longtime friend Dizzy Gillespie once stated that he was pleased that Farnon took up composing, arranging and conducting, because Robert was the better jazz trumpeter. He married Joanne Dallas, a singer from the SHAEF band, whom he later divorced. At the end of the war Farnon decided to make England his home, and he later m

Robert Fayrfax

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Robert Fayrfax (23 April 1464 – 24 October 1521) was an English Renaissance composer, considered the most prominent and influential of the reigns of Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII of England. He represents the third stage of the development of the English votive style in the Eton Choirbook and the Caius Choirbook. Biography He was born in Deeping Gate, Lincolnshire, to William Fayrfax, Esquire, of Deeping Gate and Ann Tanfield, daughter of Robert Tanfield, Keeper of Arms of St Mary Aldermanbury. He had the patronage of the leading cultural figure of Henry VII’s court, the king’s mother Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509). He became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal by 6 December 1497. He was granted a chaplaincy of the Free Chapel at Snodhill Castle near Dorstone, a post which was given away a year later to Robert Cowper, another Gentleman. Fayrfax was at court at Richmond Palace on 28 March 1502 when Elizabeth of York, the wife of Henry VII, gave him 20 shillings for “setting an Anthem of oure lady and Saint Elizabeth”. This ‘Anthem’ is almost certainly Eterne laudis lilium considering its acrostic ELISABETH REGINA ANGLIE (‘Elizabeth Queen of England’) and its references to both Mary

Robert Fischhof

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Robert Fischhof (31 October 1856 – 31 March 1918 ) was a pianist, composer, and professor at the Vienna Music Conservatoire. Biography Robert Fischhof was born in Vienna to Julius Fischhof, a successful Austrian banker, and Louise Fischhof (née Strakosch), who had been trained as a pianist by Clara Schumann, the famous performer and wife of composer Robert Schumann. The Fischhof home in Vienna was a well-known center for celebrated musicians, composers and singers arriving from all over the world. Fischhof had musical uncles: his father was the youngest brother of Joseph Fischhof, who became Professor of Piano at the Vienna Conservatoire in 1833; and his mother’s brother was Maurice Strakosch, also an excellent pianist, who later became a vocal instructor and international impresario working with the soprano Adelina Patti. Fischhof started his piano studies at the age of five under the supervision of his mother. Later, at the Conservatoire of Vienna, he was taught piano technique by Anton Door and composition by Anton Bruckner and Franz Krenn. After completing his courses at the Conservatoire, he continued his piano studies with Theodor Leschetitzky and Franz Liszt. Fischhof made h

Robert Fleming (composer)

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Robert James Berkeley Fleming (November 12, 1921 – November 28, 1976) was a Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. Robert was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. At a young age his family settled in Saskatoon where he first studied with his mother. Between 1937 and 1939 he studied under Arthur Benjamin, and Herbert Howells in England at the RCM. When he returned to Saskatoon he taught piano before making his formal debut in 1940 at Darke Hall in Regina and later toured Saskatchewan as a recitalist. While studying piano with Lyell Gustin in 1941-2 he became the assistant organist at the Church of St Alban the Martyr in Saskatoon. In 1941 and 1945 he attended The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), to which in later years he contributed music. While at RCM he studied under Healey Willan for composition, Norman Wilks for piano, Ettore Mazzoleni for conducting, and John Weatherseed and Frederick Silvester for Organ. Between 1945 and 1946 he taught at Upper Canada College before joining the National Film Board, where he worked in Ottawa and Montreal as a staff composer between 1946 and 1958 before becoming music director between 1958 and 1970. Between those years

Robert Fokkens

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Robert Fokkens is a South African classical music composer. He is among a new generation of younger composers in post-apartheid South Africa. He was educated in Cape Town at Rondebosch Boys’ School. He currently teaches composition at Cardiff University School of Music. His works are frequently performed in the UK, Europe and South Africa, including performances at the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Holland Music Sessions, the Spitalfields Festival, the South African National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, and the Royal Festival Hall. He had works performed in Japan, Australia and the USA, and his music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His music is included on a 2005 CD of South African choral music, Towards the Light, recorded by the Commotio choir. Fokkens previously studied at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town with Peter Klatzow, and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he held the Manson Fellowship in 2001–2. He has received many awards and scholarships and completed his PhD, supervised by Michael Finnissy at the University of Southampton in 2006. The composer explored writing contemporary music theatre which escapes both ‘opera’ and ‘music

Robert Franz

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Robert Franz Julius Knauth (28 June 1815 – 24 October 1892) was a German composer, mainly of . Biography Franz was born in Halle, Germany, the son of Christoph Franz Knauth. In 1847, Christoph Knauth adopted his middle name Franz as his new surname, and his son followed suit. He suffered in early life from the hostility of his parents to a musical career. He was twenty years old when his father’s opposition was overcome and he was allowed to live in Dessau to study organ playing under Friedrich Schneider. The two years of study under that famous teacher were advantageous chiefly in making him uncommonly intimate with the works of Bach and Händel, his knowledge of which is shown in his editions of the former’s St Matthew Passion, Magnificat and ten cantatas, and the latter’s Messiah and L’Allegro, although some of these editions have long been controversial among musicians. In 1843 he published his first book of songs, which was followed by about fifty further books, containing in all about 250 songs. In his native Halle he filled various public offices, including city organist and conductor of the Singakademie and the Symphony. He also served as royal music-director and music maste

Robert Fuchs (composer)

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Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime. Biography He was born in Frauental an der Laßnitz, Styria, Austria in 1847. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Felix Otto Dessoff and Joseph Hellmesberger among others. He eventually secured a teaching position there and was appointed Professor of music theory in 1875. He retained the position until 1912. He died in Vienna in 1927. He was the youngest brother of Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, The reason his compositions did not become better known was largely that he did little to promote them, living a quiet life in Vienna and refusing to arrange concerts, even when the opportunities arose. He certainly had his admirers, among them Brahms, who almost never praised the works of other composers. But with regard to Fuchs, Brahms wrote, “Fuchs is a splendid musician, everything is so fine and so skillful, so charmingly invented, that one is always pleased.” Famous contemporary conductors, including Arthur Nikisch, Felix Weingartner and

Robert Führer

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Robert Jan Nepomuk Führer (2 June 1807 – 28 November 1861) was a Czech composer. Biography Born in Prague, he became the Director of Music at St. Vitus Cathedral at the age of 32. Despite his considerable artistic gifts, he lived beyond his means. To support his extravagant lifestyle he sold a valuable Stradivarius violin which was owned by the cathedral. This fact was discovered in 1845, when he was dismissed for the crime. Without a church to call home he wandered through several different towns and villages, but never stayed in any one place for too long. During this period he had to support himself from sales of his church music compositions. Luckily this was successful because his music was well loved. No other composer’s works enjoyed as widespread performance amongst the choirs in South Germany and Austria during the second half of the 19th century. His musical style varies from a composer such as Mozart, and is more in keeping with that of an early Cecilian. Many of his pieces were written for rural choirs, and as a consequence, they were not too musically demanding. In spite of this, larger and more difficult works can be found in his output. Although his material was some

Robert Gauldin

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Robert Luther Gauldin Jr. (October 30, 1931 – September 14, 2025) was an American composer. He was professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music. Life and career Robert Gauldin was born in Vernon, Texas, on October 30, 1931, to Robert Luther Gauldin (1905–1959) and Lula Mae Self (1905–1977). He graduated in 1949 from Vernon High School in Vernon. During his senior year, he was Vice President of the Honor Society and, as clarinetist, President of the Band. In the 1949 Vernon High School Yearbook, he was labeled “the BEBOP man.” In 1952, Gauldin earned a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, with High Honors, from the University of North Texas College of Music. He went on to study at the Eastman School of Music where, in 1956, he earned a Master of Music degree in Music Theory, and in 1959, a PhD in Music Theory. From 1959 to 1963 he served as professor of theory at William Carey College. For the next thirty-four years – from 1963 to 1997 – he was a professor at Eastman School of Music. Gauldin died on September 14, 2025, at the age of 93. Compositions *Movement for Wind Quintet (©1953) * (audio via YouTube). Publications Gauldin was the author of Harmonic Practice in T

Robert Greenberg

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Robert M. Greenberg (born April 18, 1954 ) is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Great Courses. Biography Greenberg earned a B.A. in music (magna cum laude) from Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Olly Wilson. He has served on the faculties of UC Berkeley, California State University, East Bay, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he was chairman of the Department of Music History and Literature and Director of the Adult Extension Division. Greenberg is the music historian in residence with San Francisco Performances, and he hosts their Saturday morning series of lecture–performances with the Alexander String Quartet. Greenberg has received numerous awards, including three Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes in composition, and three Meet the Composer grants. Additionally, he has received commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress, the Alexande

Róbert Gulya

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Róbert Gulya (born 10 November 1973) is a Hungarian-British composer. He composes contemporary classical music as well as film scores. Life Robert Gulya studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and attended a film scoring advanced program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His scores are published by Swiss music publisher Éditions BIM. Inter alia, he created several works for the Austrian guitarist Johanna Beisteiner, such as a Concert for guitar and orchestra, which was performed with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Robert Gulya is the owner of the film music production company Interscore LTD. Honours and awards *2014: Cannes Corporate Media & TV Award Winner: Best Music for Where the World Unfolds. *2008: Action On Film International Film Festival, USA: Best Score Feature for the film score of Atom Nine Adventures (USA 2007, director: Christopher Farley) *1997: Third Prize at the International Composer’s Competition In Memoriam Zoltán Kodály, Budapest (Hungary) *1996: Albert Szirmai Prize, Budapest (Hungary) *1995: First Prize at the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest (Austria) List o

Robert Heger

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Robert Heger (19 August 1886 – 14 January 1978) was a German conductor and composer from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. Life and career He studied at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under Franz Stockhausen, then in Zurich under Lothar Kempter and finally in Munich under Max von Schillings. After early conducting engagements in Strasbourg he made his debut at Ulm in 1908 or 1909. He held appointments in Barmen (1909), at the Vienna Volksoper (1911), and at Nuremberg (1913), where he also conducted Philharmonic concerts. He went on to Munich and Vienna, where he recorded a magnificent version of Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic; and then to Berlin (1933-1950), where a live wartime Lohengrin was preserved and afterwards issued on LP, after which he returned again to Munich. In 1932, he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein in the world premiere of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, after Arturo Toscanini had declined Ravel’s invitation to conduct the premiere. In 1937, Heger joined the Nazi Party. Heger conducted one of the final concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic on 12 April 1945 at the Berlin the P

Robert Helps

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Robert Eugene Helps (b. Passaic, New Jersey, United States, September 23, 1928; d. Tampa, Florida, United States, November 24, 2001) was an American pianist and composer. Career Helps studied at the universities of Columbia (1947–49) and Berkeley (1949–51) He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Abby Whiteside and perhaps the most well-known practitioner of her theories of rhythm and of a technique directed from the humerus rather than the fingers. He studied composition with Roger Sessions, who exerted a strong influence on his career, and whose music he often performed and recorded. He cultivated a lifelong interest for Frédéric Chopin’s Études as well as Leopold Godowsky’s Studies on Chopin’s Études which informed both his piano playing and his composition. Helps taught piano at the New England Conservatory of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of South Florida. At the end of his life he divided his time between the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of South Florida. When in California he resided in Berk

Robert Heppener

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Robert Heppener (9 August 1925 in Amsterdam – 25 August 2009 in Bergen ), also known as Bob Heppener, was a Dutch composer. He was among the most important Dutch composers of the 20th century. Early life and education Heppener was born in Amsterdam on 9 August 1925. He studied composition with Bertus van Lier and piano with Jan Odé and Johan van den Boogert at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Career Heppener taught piano and music theory at the Rotterdam Music School. After leaving Rotterdam, he went to Amsterdam, where he taught music theory and composition at the Muzieklyceum. In his later years, he taught composition at the Conservatory of Music in Maastricht. Death Heppener died on 25 August 2009, at the age of 84. References

Robert Hood Bowers

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Robert Hood Bowers (24 May 1877 – 29 December 1941) was an American composer, conductor and musical director of operettas and stage musicals, and a conductor and musical director for radio. He composed the musical scores for some of the most popular silent movies, including Aloma of the South Seas and A Daughter of the Gods. Biography Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Robert Hood Bowers was the eldest son of Ellen Graham Heyser and Oliver C. Bowers (a district attorney of Franklin County, and nominee for the Democratic Party for Pennsylvania’s 17th congressional district for the 1904 elections). When Bowers was 14, he went to the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, graduating in 1896. He started working as head of the Musical Department of Cheltenham Military Academy. At the same time, he continued his musical studies first with Constantin von Sternberg and later with Frederick Grant Gleason at the Conservatory of Chicago, where he won the gold medal in 1902. He married Virginia Belving on September 16, 1905. Their only son was also called Robert Hood Bowers (born in 1906, he became a professor of English at the University of Florida. ) Working as a conductor for

Robert Hughes (American composer)

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Robert Grove Hughes (1933–2022) was an American composer, conductor, bassoonist and music scholar based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was known for his wide-ranging artistic interests—extending to poetry, performance art and social commentary—and advocacy of contemporary, often experimental music. San Francisco Chronicle critic Joshua Kosman described Hughes as a visionary and “musical Zelig” who “played a key role in a vast range of ambitious and influential musical projects.” In subsequent decades he co-founded and led the Arch Ensemble for Experimental Music with baritone vocalist Thomas Buckner and co-directed the performance group MA FISH CO with his wife, artist Margaret Fisher. In his work as a composer and conductor, critics noted Hughes’s fluency in an array of different styles, from overtly avant-garde to accessible, and his ambitious, adventurous programs. He died in Emeryville, California at age 88 on August 11, 2022. Education and career summary Hughes was born in Amherst, New York, near Buffalo, in 1933. While continuing to compose, perform and conduct for various west coast orchestras, Hughes co-founded the Arch Ensemble with baritone vocalist Thomas Buckner in 1

Robert Hughes (composer, born 1912)

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Robert Watson Hughes AO MBE (27 March 19121 August 2007) was a Scottish-born Australian composer. His melodies are driven by short motives and unrelenting ostinato figures. Hughes wrote orchestral works, music for ballet and film, some chamber works and an opera that has never been performed. While some of his works are available in published form, there are a number of well-crafted orchestral works that were recorded but never commercially published. Like other composers of his generation, including Dorian Le Gallienne, Raymond Hanson and Margaret Sutherland, Hughes has been considered by musicologists to write in a style reminiscent of the English pastoral school. However, Hughes listened to a wide range of music and surrounded himself with a variety of musical influences which included Debussy, Roussel, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Sibelius and Bartók. Hughes was also a champion for other Australian composers, through roles that drew on his administrative skills. His own music has of recent times only infrequently been heard either in the concert hall or on recordings. However, his music was earlier championed by many notable conductors including Sir Bernard Heinze, Sir Eugene Goossen

Robert Hugill

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Robert Hugill (born 1955) is a British composer, journalist and blogger. He runs classical music blog “Planet Hugill”. Opera The Genesis of Frankenstein (setting a libretto by the composer based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) was premiered by the Helios Collective at the CLF Art Cafe, Peckham on 28 October 2015, directed by Ella Marchment, choreography by Sarah-Louise Kristiansen, musical director Noah Mosley. When a Man Knows (setting a libretto by the composer based on Alan Richardson’s play of the same name) was premiered at the Bridewell Theatre, London on 31 March 2011 Other compositions Three pieces from the Book of Common Prayer for viola and piano was premiered by Rosalind Ventris (viola) and James Willshire (piano) at Cheltenham Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts in Dean Close School, Cheltenham on 11 Feb 2018. The motet Dominus Illuminatio mea was premiered on 8 December 2016 at Priory Church of the Order of St John, St John’s Square, Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1V 4JJ, by London Concord Singers as part of their 50th-anniversary concert. The pair of cantatas Out of the Shadows and Et expecto resurrectionem were premiered on 3 February 2023 at Hyde Street Methodist Church i

Robert Ian Winstin

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Robert Ian Winstin (6 June 1959 – 26 June 2010) was a composer, conductor and pianist. His “Taliban Dances” - ‘Concerto for Violin & Orchestra’ was labelled a “masterpiece” by the American Record Guide. His “Spirituals for Violin & Orchestra” were premiered at Carnegie Hall. Winstin was born in Chicago. His recordings of his own works included his “September 11, 2001 - 9:05am,” “Taliban Dances,” “Oedipus Requiem,” and his film score to the re-released 1904 classic Le Voyage Dans La Lune. His music has been performed throughout the world by such ensembles as the Rochester Philharmonic, the Toronto Philharmonia, the American Symphonietta, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Galesburg Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Kiev Philharmonic. Winstin had been the Music Director & Principal Conductor of the Millennium Symphony, Composer in Residence of the Kiev Philharmonic, Music Director & Principal Conductor of the American Symphonietta, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Kiev Philharmonic. Winstin also conducted the Virginia Youth Symphonic Orchestra, in Portsmouth, Virginia. As a conductor, Winstin recorded over 50 recordings of

Robert Johnson (English composer)

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Robert Johnson ( 1583 – 1633) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called “Robert Johnson II” to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer. He worked with William Shakespeare, providing music for some of his later plays. Early life Robert Johnson was the son of John Johnson, who was a lutenist to Elizabeth I. In 1594, Robert’s father died, and in 1596, he joined the household of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon as an apprentice. Robert is assumed to have been around 13 at the time, as this was a typical age to begin an apprenticeship, but his date of birth is unknown. Carey and his wife, Elizabeth Spencer, were patrons of the lutenist and composer John Dowland, who dedicated various compositions to them. The family had a London house (Hunsdon House, Blackfriars) and a country home (Hunsdon House, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire), which partially survives. Johnson joined the Carey household at an interesting time in their patronage of the arts. In 1597, Dowland dedicated his First book of songs and ayres to George Carey. As well as supporting musicians, Carey was patron of a theatre company to which William Shakespeare belonge

Robert Kahn (composer)

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Robert Kahn (21 July 1865 – 29 May 1951) was a German composer, pianist, and music teacher. Life Kahn was born in Mannheim, the second son of and Emma Eberstadt. One of his seven siblings was the banker Otto Kahn, whose son Roger Wolfe Kahn was a jazz musician, composer and aviator. Khan’s parents belonged to a German-Jewish family of bankers and merchants. In 1882, Kahn entered the Königlichen Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he studied for the next three years. Between 1885 and 1886, he continued his musical education under Josef Rheinberger in Munich. On a visit to Vienna the following year, Kahn met and befriended composer Johannes Brahms, who offered to make Kahn his pupil. Although Kahn declined the invitation, Brahms’s music exerted a profound influence on his compositional style throughout his career. After finishing his military service, Kahn worked as a freelance composer in Berlin until 1890. For the next three years he was employed as a rehearsal pianist at the Stadttheater in Leipzig. Having been appointed lecturer in composition at his alma mater in 1894, Kahn trained some of the best-known musicians of the 20th century. His students include the pianists Arthur R

Robert Kajanus

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Robert Kajanus (2 December 1856 – 6 July 1933) was a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher. In 1882, he founded the Helsinki Orchestral Society, Finland’s first professional orchestra. As a conductor, he was also a notable champion and interpreter of the music of Jean Sibelius. Life Kajanus studied music theory with Richard Faltin, violin with Gustaf Niemann in Helsinki, with Hans Richter, Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig and Johan Svendsen in Paris. His music drew on the folk legends of the Finnish people. He worked in Dresden in the years immediately after his graduation and returned to Helsinki in 1882. He founded the first permanent orchestra in Finland: the Helsinki Orchestral Society (later to become the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finland’s national orchestra). He was also the founder of the Nordic Music Festival in 1919. He received many decorations, including the French Légion d’honneur. Family Kajanus’s parents were Georg August Cajanus and Agnes Ottilia Flodin. Robert Kajanus was the father of harpists Lilly Kajanus-Blenner (1885–1963) and Aino Kajanus-Mangström (1888–1951), and violinist Kaj Kajanus (1908–1994); the grandfather of award-winning Fin

Robert Kelly (composer)

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J. Robert Kelly (September 26, 1916 in Clarksburg West Virginia – July 4, 2007 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American composer, composition teacher, and violinist. Kelly began studying violin at six with Albert Kember and later majored in violin at the Juilliard School of Music under Samuel Gardner. Kelly earned his Bachelor of Music Degree (1942) from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied composition with Rosario Scalero. After earning his Bachelor’s degree and some time teaching junior college, Kelly begin teaching at the University of Illinois (1946-1976). Later on Kelly continued his studies at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Herbert Elwell and earned his Master of Music Degree in Composition (1952). Robert Kelly Picture Biography Early life Robert Kelly was born in Clarksburg, WV on September 26, 1919; to Dallas D. Kelly and Fannie M. Robinson. While Kelly’s parents were not musicians, despite his father playing the saxophone on rare occasions, the town of Clarksburg was filled with professional musicians. Kelly studied violin with Albert Kember at the age of six and clarinet with Frank Migliaccio. It was during Kelly’s high school career that he beg

Robert Köbler

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Robert Hans Friedrich Köbler (21 February 1912 – 7 September 1970) was a German organist, pianist, composer and professor at the University of Leipzig. Köbler was born in Waldsassen. He studied church music in Leipzig from 1931 to 1934, organ with Karl Straube and piano with Carl Martienssen. He was appointed professor of organ and harpsichord in 1956. of cancer, at age 58. * Klavierstücke für Kinder (Edition Peters) * Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Wilhelm Busch (Breitkopf & Härtel) * Vier gemischte Chöre a cappella (Breitkopf & Härtel) * Fünf Fugen (Edition Peters) Recordings He recorded several LPs, principally of Johann Sebastian Bach works, for the DDR’s Eterna label. He recorded mainly on organ, and occasionally on harpsichord. References External links * * Robert Köbler (Organ) Bach Cantatas Website 2011 * * * * “Bleibet hier und wachet …” / Die Universitätskirche zu Leipzig 1240–1968 – Eine Dokumentation Leipziger Universitätschor 1992 * Uraufführung erinnert an Kirchensprengung (in German) idw-online.de 23 May 2008 * Festkonzert in Weimar Neues Deutschland 14 April 1964

Robert Kurka

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Robert Frank Kurka (December 22, 1921 – December 12, 1957) was an American composer, who also taught and conducted his own works. Biography Kurka was born in Cicero, Illinois. He was mostly self-taught as a musician. He studied for short periods under Darius Milhaud and Otto Luening, and received his Master of Arts degree in music from Columbia University in 1948. After that he lived most of his life in New York. Kurka held teaching positions at City College of New York, Queens College and Dartmouth College. He wrote a total of two symphonies, five string quartets, six violin sonatas, and other works for piano, voice, and chorus. He is probably best known for the instrumental suite, The Good Soldier Schweik. This was inspired by Jaroslav Hašek’s anti-war novel The Good Soldier Schweik, published in English translation in 1956. Kurka expanded his music for an opera of the same name, completed just before his death in 1957. The libretto was written by Abe Meeropol of New York, who in 1937 had written the song, “Strange Fruit” about lynchings in the American South. The opera’s orchestration was completed by Hershy Kay. The Good Soldier Schweik premiered at the New York City Opera on A

Robert Kyr

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Robert Harry Kyr (born April 20, 1952) is an American composer, writer, filmmaker, and Philip H. Knight Professor of Music Composition and Theory at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. Kyr is one of the most prolific composers of his generation, having written 12 symphonies, three chamber symphonies, three violin concerti, numerous large works for orchestra, oratorios and other large-scale choral works, and a wide variety of chamber music. Luminous and sometimes ecstatic in effect, Kyr’s work is basically tonal, and often harmonically and rhythmically complex, its sophistication deriving from its synthesis of both modern and ancient modes, as well as Western and Asian musical traditions. An engaged activist for world peace and environmentalism, or combine music with other media, and touch upon current or historical events. The concepts and titles of Robert Kyr’s works often point to their spiritual and metaphysical dimensions: A Time For Life, On The Nature of Love (Violin Concerto No.1), Unseen Rain, Songs of The Shining Wind, White Tigers, and The Passion According to Four Evangelists. Kyr’s music has been performed widely around the world and he has been commissi

Robert Laidlow

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Robert Laidlow (born 1994) is a British composer. He collaborates with scientists and applies advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, in his compositions. Career In 2018, Laidlow was appointed the Royal Northern College of Music Doctoral Researcher in AI and Composition in association with the BBC Philharmonic and the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM). In 2019 Laidlow’s music was featured twice at the Barbican Centre’s ‘More than Human’ and ‘Life Rewired’ seasons, which explored artistic responses to technology. His piece Turing Test // Prelude, a musical game for the audience based on the prelude from J. S. Bach’s Suite in D major, was first performed by Mahan Esfahani for the Barbican event ‘The Eternal Golden Braid’ and later televised in the Royal Institution’s 2019 Christmas Lectures. His piece Alter was premiered by the Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican event ‘Ada Lovelace: Imagining the Analytical Engine’, curated by Emily Howard. Laidlow’s first string quartet, Aroha, premiered at the Wigmore Hall in May 2019, performed by the Elias Quartet, and was shortlisted for a 2020 Ivor Novello award. His second string quartet, Gravity (2021), w

Robert Lannoy

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Robert Lannoy (18 June 1915 – June 1979) was a French composer, second Prize of the Prix de Rome in 1946. He was then director of the Conservatoire de Lille for 33 years, until his death. Life Born in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Nord department of France in a family of carillonneurs, Lannoy was quickly introduced to the bell tradition. He began his musical studies at the Conservatory of Valenciennes where he studied harmony, violin and bassoon with master Fernand Lamy. He was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris and obtained the supreme awards in the writing classes. He presented himself in vain for the first time for the Prix de Rome in 1938. During his studies at the conservatory, he was also a soldier-musician in the 5th Line Infantry Regiment of Courbevoie. Lannoy was taken prisoner at the beginning of the Second World War and remained so for 5 years despite a few escapes. Sent to Czechoslovakia, he escaped but could not resist visiting Bayreuth, the city of Wagner and was retaken. Sent to Ukraine, in the disciplinary camp of Rawa Ruska, he attempted another escape in 1942, which led to his internment at the citadel of Lemberg. Then sent to Austria in 1943 in a Stalag, he was appoi

Robert Lemay

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Robert Lemay (born February 13, 1960) is a Canadian composer of solo, chamber and orchestral works. Early years and education Born in Montreal, Lemay studied at Laval University, where he received his Master’s degree (M.Mus.) under François Morel. He completed a doctorate (D.Mus.) at the Université de Montréal under Michel Longtin in 1994. He also spent a year at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he studied with David Felder and attended seminars given by Brian Ferneyhough, Louis Andriessen, and Donald Erb. During this time, he met his wife, the pianist Yoko Hirota. From 2004 to 2018, Lemay was President and Artistic Director of the 5-Penny New Music Concerts in Sudbury, where he worked extensively with the Silver Birch String Quartet. Lemay was Composer-in-Residence of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2010. Compositional style Lemay is an atonal composer who has been influenced by the spectral techniques of Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey, the modal approaches of Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis, and the rhythmic modulation of Elliott Carter. Lemay has also written pieces for students including 6 Ushebtis (piano), Train miniature (clarinet), and Bea

Robert Levin (musicologist)

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Robert David Levin (born October 13, 1947) is an American classical pianist, musicologist, and composer. He was a professor of music at Harvard University from 1993 to 2014 and the artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival from 2007 to 2017. Education Born in Brooklyn, Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School and Andrew Jackson High School, and spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He attended Harvard, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1968 with a thesis titled The Unfinished Works of W. A. Mozart. Levin took private lessons at Chatham Square Music School, Conservatoire National de Musique and the Fontainebleau School of Music in: * piano, with Jan Gorbaty, Louis Martin, Alice Gaultier-Léon, Jean Casadesus, Clifford Curzon and Robert Casadesus * organ, with Nadia Boulanger * solfège, with Seymour Bernstein, Louis Martin and Annette Dieudonné * counterpoint, with Suzanne Bloch and Nadia Boulanger * composition, with Stefan Wolpe * conducting, with Eleazar de Carvalho Academic career After graduating from Harvard, Levin was named head of the theory department at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was subsequently appointed a

Robert Lombardo (composer)

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Robert Michael Lombardo (5 March 1932 – 18 March 2026) was an American composer and composition teacher. Life Born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Sicilian immigrants, Lombardo received his musical training at the Hartt College of Music, the University of Hartford (BMus., composition cum laude, 1954, MMus., composition, 1955), Hochschule für Musik, Berlin (1958–1959) He also studied with Philip Bezanson and Boris Blacher. Lombardo began teaching music theory at the University of Iowa in 1959, Works Lombardo’s compositions include over 200 works for opera, orchestra, chamber music, instrumental solos, choral music, musicals, and electronic music. He has collaborated with his wife, Kathleen, poet and playwright, on several compositions. Lombardo is also one of the few composers writing for the mandolin. Dimitris Marinos performed his Concerto for Mandolin and String Quartet in a world premiere in Chicago in 1995. In addition, Marinos has recorded six of Lombardo’s compositions. Roosevelt University hosted a performance of several of his works on his 80th birthday. And for these, Lombardo has been the recipient of multiple awards. In 1964, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Com

Robert Lucas Pearsall

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Robert Lucas Pearsall (14 March 1795 – 5 August 1856) was an English composer mainly of vocal music, including an elaborate setting of “In dulci jubilo” and the richly harmonic part song Lay a garland of 1840, both still often performed today. He spent the last 31 years of his life abroad, at first in Germany, then at a castle he bought in Switzerland. Biography Pearsall was born at Clifton in Bristol on 14 March 1795 into a wealthy, originally Quaker family. His father, Richard Pearsall (died 1813), was an army officer and an amateur musician. Pearsall was privately educated. In 1816 Pearsall’s mother, Elizabeth (née Lucas), bought the Pearsall family’s home at Willsbridge, Gloucestershire, from her brother-in-law, Thomas Pearsall. Thomas had been ruined by the failure of the iron mill that had been the family’s business since 1712. After the death of his mother in 1837, Pearsall sold Willsbridge House again, but although he would never live there again, he regularly chose to be known in publications as ‘Pearsall of Willsbridge’. As for Willsbridge Mill, it was later converted into a flour mill and it stands to this day. Pearsall married Harriet Eliza Hobday in 1817. She was the d

Robert M. Cundick

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Robert Milton Cundick Sr. (November 26, 1926 – January 7, 2016) was a Latter-day Saint composer and organist. Cundick’s interest in music started at a young age, and he studied under Mormon Tabernacle organist Alexander Schreiner and later under Leroy J. Robertson. He also served for many years as an organist at the Salt Lake Tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). This included accompanying the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and playing organ solos on the weekly broadcast, Music & the Spoken Word. Cundick served in World War II and enrolled at the University of Utah where he received his BFA, MFA, and PhD. He joined the music faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1957 but his work there was interrupted due to various callings by LDS Church leaders. After his retirement, Cundick continued to contribute to music in the LDS Church. In his personal life, he married his organ student Charlotte Clark while he was a student at the University of Utah. He died in 2016 at the age of 89. Early life Cundick was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1926. He spent his childhood in Sandy, Utah. His parents, Milton and Florence Pierson Cundick, were both faithful a

Robert MacHardy

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Robert Machardy LL.D né McHardy (10 September 1848 – 8 July 1921) was a 19th-century Scottish composer, conductor, and music educator. A Fellow of the National College of Music, he composed over a hundred works, including operas, cantatas, and oratorios, many of which drew inspiration from Scottish folklore and melodies. Though successful in the 1880s and 1890s, his work being commissioned and performed by some of the most celebrated opera singers of the time, his music ultimately fell into obscurity. In later life, he focused on music examination, teaching, and conducting choral and operatic societies in East Lothian and Lanarkshire. Early life and education Robert McHardy, later adopting the spelling “Machardy,” was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Robert McHardy and Elizabeth McDonald. His brother, James Marius Patrick McHardy, also pursued a career as a composer and conductor. During his youth, the McHardy family briefly emigrated to Australia, returning to Edinburgh around 1856. Machardy attended Edinburgh High School and the University of Edinburgh, where he later became the organist at one of the city’s cathedrals. He reportedly furthered his musical education in continental

Robert Mackintosh

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Robert Mackintosh (c 1745–1807), known as ‘Red Rob’ on account of the colour of his hair, was a Scottish composer and violinist, active in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th century. He was known for his compositions of strathspeys, reels, and jigs, as well as minuets and gavottes. Biography Mackintosh was born in Tullymet, near Pitlochry, Perthshire, about 1745. Around 1773, he was living in Skinner’s Close, just off Edinburgh’s High Street, employed as a music teacher and playing in the orchestra of the Edinburgh Musical Society. His first collection of music was published in 1783, including 54 pieces, including 17 reels. During 1785-88 he was working in Aberdeen, leading the ‘Gentleman’s Concerts’. His second collection was published in Edinburgh in 1793, including 73 pieces, including more reels and strathspeys. A third collection, including 117 pieces, followed in 1796. He later went to London where in 1804 he produced his fourth collection of a further 113 pieces. He died in London in 1807. Works *The Diamond Reel (Miss Steel of Norwich) (1st collection) *Honourable Mrs. Campbell of Lochnell (2nd collection) *Miss Elizabeth (Betty) Robertson (2nd collection) *Miss Ann Munro’s Q

Robert Marcel Lepage

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Robert Marcel Lepage (born 5 July 1951) is a Canadian musician and film score composer. Born in Montreal, Lepage trained in music at the age of 20, and learned to play the clarinet and saxophone. He went on to write the scores for 150 films. of La Presse positively reviewed Lepage’s score for Iqaluit (2016) as “lyrical”. In 2017, Lepage also received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Music for Before the Streets. In his personal life, he has three children, Félix; , a playwright; and Florence, an artist. References External links *Robert Marcel Lepage at the Internet Movie Database *Official website

Robert Miller (composer)

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Robert Miller is an American music composer for film, television and concert hall. Over the years he has earned seven Clio Awards, two AICP Awards, two Emmy “group” nominations for the Coca-Cola spot “It’s Mine” as well as collective Emmys for Coca-Cola’s “Heist". In 2016, Miller received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Interpretation for the film “Of Miracles and Men”. Career Film scoring Miller’s film scoring career ranges across documentaries, thrillers, dramas, and comedies. Some notable films include: * Why We Fight * Teeth * Anytown, USA * Happy Tears * The House I Live In * Particle Fever * You Get Me * Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies * Atomic Homefront * Excuse Me for Living * The Forgotten Kingdom * Future ‘38 * I Love You, Daddy * THE KING * Knife Skills Commercial scoring Miller has scored commercials for Coca-Cola, Mercedes, GE, Pedigree, BMW, Gillette, Toyota, Budweiser, PlayStation, Travelers, SAP, UPMC, Levi’s, and many more. References

Robert Moevs

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Robert Walter Moevs (2 December 1920 – 10 December 2007) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music. Career Moevs was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and served in the United States Army Air Forces as a pilot during World War II. He then received his degree from Harvard University. Moevs was a student of Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger. He taught at Harvard University and Rutgers University. He received the Rome Prize (1952) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1962). In 1978 his Concerto Grosso was awarded the Stockhausen International Prize in Composition. His music has been performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. His papers, including unpublished scores and recordings, are held by the Rutgers Music Library. He died in Hillsborough, New Jersey. Music Discography Notes Sources *Archibald, Bruce, and Richard Wilson. 2008. “Moevs, Robert (Walter)”. Grove Music Online, edited by Dean Roote (accessed 1 October 2013). Further reading *Boros, James. 1990. “The Systematic Chromaticism of Robert Moevs.” Perspectives of New Music 28/1 (Winter): 294–323. *Boros, James. 1990. “A Conver

Robert Moffat Palmer

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Robert Moffat (variously “Moffatt” and “Moffett”) Palmer (b. June 2, 1915, Syracuse, New York; d. July 3, 2010, Ithaca, New York) was an American composer, pianist and educator. He composed more than 90 works, including two symphonies, Nabuchodonosor (an oratorio), a piano concerto, four string quartets, three piano sonatas and numerous works for chamber ensembles. Biography Education Born in Syracuse, New York, Palmer began, at age 12, piano studies with his mother. He attended Syracuse’s Central High School, undertaking pre-college studies in piano and additional study of violin and music theory at the Syracuse Music School Settlement. Early career Palmer came to national attention in an article titled “Robert Palmer and Charles Mills” published in 1943 by critic Paul Rosenfeld in Modern Music. Rosenfeld hails two “new, impressive, distinctive works” by Palmer," noting “an impression of robustness and maturity.” In the Concerto for Small Orchestra (1940), Rosenfeld discerns a “quite original opening movement, (whose) clash of melodies in contrary motion was magnificent and fierce,” signaling “a new composer to be watched with happy expectation.” In Palmer’s first two string quart

Robert Moran (composer)

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Robert Moran (born January 8, 1937) is an American composer of operas and ballets as well as numerous orchestral, vocal, chamber and dance works. Life A native of Denver, Moran studied twelve-tone music privately with Hans Apostel in Vienna and completed his Master of Arts degree in 1963 at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio (Ruppenthal and Patterson 2001). After having lived for periods ranging from a few months to a couple of years in various locales, from Vienna, Berlin, New York City, and Milan to Portland and San Francisco, he has made Philadelphia his home since 1984. Many of his works have been recorded: his two albums for Argo Records were taken out of print, but reissued as a two CD set by Innova Records, which also released a new CD of his music. Some of his music has been made available in mp3 format at the classical midi archives site (Tyranny and Anon. 2008). The Juniper Tree was issued on CD in 2009. Works Operas *The Juniper Tree (1985) (co-composed with Philip Glass) *Desert of Roses (premiered February 1992 at Houston Grand Opera) *From the Towers of the Moon (premiered March 1992 at Minnesota Opera) *The Dr

Robert Morris (composer)

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Robert Daniel Morris (born October 19, 1943) is a British-born American composer and music theorist. Early life and education Born in Cheltenham, England, in 1943, Morris received his musical education at the Eastman School of Music (B.M. in composition with distinction) and the University of Michigan (M.M. and D.M.A. in composition and ethnomusicology), where he studied composition with John La Montaine, Leslie Bassett, Ross Lee Finney, and Eugene Kurtz. Career As a Margret Lee Crofts Fellow, Morris worked with Gunther Schuller. Morris has taught composition, electronic music, and music theory at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Yale University, where he was chairman of the Composition Department and director of the Yale Electronic Music Studio. He was also director of the Computer and Electronic Studio, director of graduate (music) Studies, and associate professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1980 Morris joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music, where he currently teaches as professor of composition. Other teaching posts have included positions at the University of the Arts, the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, the University of Pittsbur

Robert Morton (composer)

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Robert Morton (also Mourton, Moriton; c. 1430 – after 13 March 1479) was an English composer of the early Renaissance, mostly active at the Burgundian court. He was highly regarded at the time. Only secular vocal music, all rondeaux for three voices, survive. Life Little can be reconstructed with certainty about his life except where his activity intersects with the Burgundian court. He was born in England, but no details of his early life are known. From 1457 until 1476 he was a clerc or chappellain in the chapel choir, and unusually he never was promoted to a higher position. By 1460 he was a priest, since he was given that title Messire in chapel documents. The long relatively peaceful period at the court under Philip the Good’s reign ended with Philip’s death in 1467, and under his successor Charles the Bold, the musical activities of the court were seriously disrupted; many of the singers and composers, including Hayne van Ghizeghem, took part in his many futile military campaigns. Morton must have known Hayne rather well, for an anonymous piece survives which describes the virtuosic singing and playing of the two of them together at Cambrai. Payment records for Morton end in

Robert Muczynski

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Robert Muczynski (March 19, 1929 – May 25, 2010) was an American composer. Muczynski studied piano with Walter Knupfer and composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in Chicago, where he received both his Bachelor of Music degree (1950) and his Master of Music degree (1952) in Piano Performance. Muczynski later taught at DePaul University, Loras College, and Roosevelt University, before settling in Tucson, Arizona in the 1960s where he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona as a composer-in-residence and chairman of the composition department. He held both positions until his retirement in 1988. Among the more than fifty published compositions in his catalog, Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 14 (1961), Sonata for alto saxophone and piano (1970), and Time Pieces for clarinet and piano (1984) have entered the repertoire and remain frequently performed in recitals, as has much of his solo piano music. Works by Muczynski have also appeared with increasing frequency on programs in the U.S., Europe, the Far East, Australia and Mexico. Orchestral works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, D

Robert Nagel

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Robert Nagel (September 29, 1924 – June 5, 2016) was an American trumpet player, composer, and teacher. He was an early advocate for brass chamber music, especially the brass quintet. Nagel was the founder and director of the New York Brass Quintet, as well as a founding member of the International Trumpet Guild. He served as a faculty member of the Yale School of Music from 1957 - 1988. As a composer and arranger, Nagel wrote solo and small ensemble music, trumpet method books, and orchestral works. Biography Nagel was born in Freeland, Pennsylvania. At the age of 8, he began playing the trumpet as part of a school band program. At the age of 13, Nagel performed a cornet solo on a national radio broadcast with the Armco Band. Nagel studied composition at Juilliard with Peter Mennin and Vincent Persichetti, while also receiving instruction during the summer at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. After graduation, Nagel worked as a freelance trumpet player in New York City, performing with radio orchestras such as the NBC Symphony Orchestra. As a founding member of the International Trumpet Guild, Nagel promoted the composition and arrangement of new music for brass instruments, especial

Robert Nathaniel Dett

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Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until the age of 11, he moved to the United States with his family and had most of his professional education and career there. During his lifetime he was a leading Black composer, known for his use of African-American folk songs and spirituals as the basis for choral and piano compositions in the 19th century Romantic style of Classical music. He was among the first Black composers during the early years after the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was organized. His works often appeared among the programs of Will Marion Cook’s New York Syncopated Orchestra. Dett performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall as a pianist and choir director. Early life Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in 1882 in Drummondville, Ontario (now part of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada), to Charlotte (Washington) Dett and Robert T. Dett. Descended from previously enslaved people who had escaped and travelled North, his mother was a native of D

Robert O'Dwyer

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Robert O’Dwyer (in Irish: Riobárd Ó Duibhir) (27 January 1862 – 6 January 1949) was an Irish composer mainly known for having written one of the first operas in the Irish language. Biography Robert O’Dwyer was born to Irish parents in Bristol, England, where he received private musical education and acted as a chorister and assistant organist during the years 1872 to 1891. O’Dwyer’s interest in opera manifested itself initially by becoming the conductor of a local amateur opera company in 1889, before he became a conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Society (1891–97) and the Arthur Rousby Opera Company (1892–96), with which he undertook tours throughout the British Isles. After one such tour he settled in Dublin in 1897, where he held various positions as organist in the counties of Dublin and Wicklow. From 1899 he taught music at the Royal University of Ireland and from 1901 conducted the choir of the Gaelic League, for which he wrote numerous arrangements of Irish traditional music and Sean nos songs. He also wrote articles and concert reviews for The Leader, which became an outlet for his increasingly nationalist views. O’Dwyer completed his major composition, the three-act opera Ei

Robert Owens (composer)

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Robert Lee Owens III (September 19, 1925 – January 5, 2017) was an American composer, pianist, and actor. Biography Owens was born in Denison, Texas, and grew up in Berkeley, California. Owens began playing piano at age 4 (taught by his mother Alpharetta Helm ), composing at age 8, and performing at age 10. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Owens used the G.I. Bill to pursue musical education in Europe. He continued his studies under Grete Hinterhofer at the Vienna Academy of Music between 1953 and 1957. Owens died January 5, 2017, in Munich. In 2006, he wrote the Idomeneo Quartet for oboe and strings, based on Mozart’s opera of the same name. Recognition and awards * International Lifetime Achievement Award, from the National Association of Negro Musicians (2008) * The Preisträger International Lifetime Achievement Award from AnDante Kulturmagazin * “Lift Every Voice” Legacy Award for lifetime achievement in opera, from the National Opera Association (2009) * Friend of the Arts, Kappa chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota (2009) * Artist-in-residence at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Texas Southern University, and University of Nebra

Robert Papperitz

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Benjamin Robert Papperitz (4 December 1826 – 29 September 1903) was a prominent German music educator, composer, and organist who served on the faculty of the Leipzig Conservatory for over fifty years. He was highly regarded for his instruction in harmony, counterpoint, and organ, training an influential generation of international composers and performers. Biography Papperitz was born in Pirna, Saxony, on 4 December 1826. Due to his academic success, the Leipzig Conservatory invited him to join its faculty immediately upon his graduation in 1851, where he taught harmony and counterpoint until 1902. In 1868, he succeeded his former teacher Richter as the titular organist of St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig (Nikolaikirche), a post he occupied until 1899. Papperitz died in Leipzig on 29 September 1903 at the age of 76. who later recalled that Papperitz granted him “freer rein” than other instructors, encouraging the integration of chromatic voice leading into his chorale harmonisations. The Irish-born composer Charles Villiers Stanford travelled to Leipzig to study advanced piano under Papperitz between 1874 and 1875. English pedagogue Franklin Taylor, Finnish opera pioneer Oskar Merikan

Robert Parsons (composer)

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Robert Parsons (c. 1535 – 25 January 1572) was an English composer of the Tudor period who was active during the reigns of King Edward VI, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. He is noted for his compositions of church music. Early life Parsons was born around 1530–35, but no details of his birth survive and there is no evidence connecting him with either Robert Parsons (1596–1676), a vicar choral at Exeter Cathedral, or his contemporary, the composer William Parsons of Wells. Although little is known about his life, it is likely that in his youth he was a choir boy, as until 1561 he was an assistant to Richard Bower, Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. Career and influence Parsons was composing during a period of major religious upheaval in England. After the death of Henry VIII in 1547, the new king, Edward VI, advanced the Reformation in England, introducing major changes to the liturgy of the Church of England. In 1549, Thomas Cranmer’s new Book of Common Prayer swept away the old Latin-language liturgy and replaced it with prayers in English. This brand new liturgy suddenly demanded that new music be written in English for the church, and musicians of the Chapel Royal s

Robert Paterson (composer)

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Robert Paterson (born April 29, 1970) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, as well as a conductor and percussionist. His catalog includes over 120 compositions. He has been called a “modern day master” and is primarily known for his colorful orchestral works, large body of chamber music and clear vocal writing in his operas, choral works, vocal chamber works and song cycles. Early years Paterson was born on the West Side of Buffalo, New York. He is the son of Tony Paterson, an award-winning sculptor who was a Professor of Sculpture at the University at Buffalo, and Eleanor Paterson, a painter and bilingual education director at Erie Community College who received her Ph.D. in bilingual education from the University at Buffalo. Although Paterson was surrounded by sculptors and painters while growing up, his father enjoyed contemporary classical music and took him to new-music concerts at the University at Buffalo, where he heard works by Morton Feldman and John Cage, with both composers in attendance. He has one brother, David Paterson, who is also a musician and teaches in the New York City public schools. Paterson began composing on his own at age 13 and studie

Robert Planel

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Robert Planel (2 January 1908 – 25 May 1994) was a French composer, music pedagogue and violinist. Life Born in Montélimar, Planel was the son of the founder (1903) and director of the music school in Montélimar, Alphonse Planel (1869–1947), who himself, from 1902 to 1947, was conductor of the Harmonie municipale “La Lyre” montilienne and also composer. Planel received violin lessons with René Chédécal, then 1st violinist of the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris. From 1922 to 1933, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with, among others, Firmin Touche (1875–1957) (violin), Jean Gallon (1878–1959) (harmony), Georges Caussade (1873–1936) (counterpoint) and with Henri Büsser (1872–1973) and Paul Vidal (1863–1931) (musical composition). During his studies, he worked as a violinist in prominent cinemas in the French capital. In 1933, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for his cantata Idylle funambulesque. As a result, he was able to study and work from 1934 to 1936 in Rome at the “Académie de France” in the Villa Medici. After the Second World War, he was Inspector General of the City of Paris and had great merits for structuring the musical training institutes. From 1972 to 1

Robert Planquette

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Jean Robert Planquette (; 31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas. Several of Planquette’s operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, especially Les cloches de Corneville (1878), the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time. Rip Van Winkle (1882) also earned international fame. Life and career The son of a singer, Planquette was born in Paris and educated at the Paris Conservatoire. He did not finish his studies, lacking the funds to do so, and worked as a café pianist and composer and singing (he was a tenor). A few romances that he composed brought less fame than did his song, “Sambre et Meuse”, first sung in 1867 by Lucien Fugère, who went on to be one of the foremost French opera singers of his day. In 1876, the director of the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques gave Planquette a commission to compose his first operetta, Les cloches de Corneville. It opened in Paris in 1877, running for an extremely successful 480 performances, and then enjoyed an astonishing London run, beginning in 1878, of a record-breaking 708 performances. Planquette’s music has been praised for its pat

Robert Powell (composer)

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Robert J. Powell (July 22, 1932 – January 17, 2025) was an American composer, organist, and choir director. Powell earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State University with a focus on organ and composition. He studied with Alec Wyton at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and he was also Wyton’s assistant at The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. For three years (1965–1968), he served St. Paul’s School (Concord, New Hampshire) as Director of Music. Later, Powell was Director of Music and Organist of Christ Church (Episcopal) of Greenville, South Carolina from 1968 to 2003. He composed in nearly all genres common to church music, including anthems, service music, hymn concertatos, organ music, music for handbell choir, and large-scale oratorios. Powell’s conservative, neo-Romantic style stemmed from his practical approach to composition. According to Powell himself, he writes for “choirs of twenty-five because that’s what most choirs are. When you come right down to it, most choirs are not of cathedral ability or size. My pieces are all practical things and useful for specific occasions.” His publications appear in The Hymnal 1982 as well as in the catalogs

Robert Prescott Stewart

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Sir Robert Prescott Stewart (16 December 1825 – 24 March 1894) was an Irish composer, organist, conductor, and teacher – one of the most influential classical musicians in 19th-century Ireland. Biography Stewart was born in Dublin; his grandfather had moved to Ireland from the Lowlands of Scotland in 1780. He displayed an early talent for music, fostered by his mother, who had been a pupil of Johann Bernhard Logier. He didn’t study music in an academic sense, but received some thorough grounding in church music when he joined the choir school of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in 1833, where he came under the care and tutelage of Rev. John Finlayson and the Master of the Boys, Richard William Beaty. His biographer O.J. Vignoles also mentions Archdeacon Magee and the Dean’s vicar, John C. Crosthwaite, as having had influence on Stewart’s musical education. In 1844 he succeeded John Robinson as cathedral organist, a position he held until his death, and also became the organist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral from 1852 to 1861. In 1846 he succeeded Joseph Robinson as conductor of the University of Dublin Choral Society, another position he held for the rest of his life. He received the d

Robert Russell (composer)

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Robert Russell (1933 – March 29, 2020) was an American composer, educator, and broadcaster. Biography Russell was born in 1933 in Hempstead, New York. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition from the Manhattan School of Music. After graduation, he served on the faculty of the City University of New York. He then became a classical music broadcaster on WNYC, hosting the “world” classical music program Hands Across The Sea upon the retirement of WNYC’s original music director Herman Neuman. In 1977 he joined the staff of Wisconsin Public Radio and remained there until his retirement in 1995. He hosted and produced several classical music programs, including Morning Concert, Tonight At 8, and Sunday Afternoon Live from the Elvehjem. In 1983 he married Barbara Boehm. He died on March 29, 2020 in Madison, Wisconsin. Legacy His compositions were performed worldwide, including premieres at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Some of his music was published by Paul Kapp’s General Music Publication Company; some published scores and manuscripts have been archived by NYPL’s American Music Center. His suite Places for piano 4-hands, which contains extra-musical inspiration an

Robert Russell Bennett

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Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received special Tony Awards recognizing his orchestrations for Broadway shows. Early in his career, he was often billed as Russell Bennett. Life and career Early life Robert Russell Bennett was born in 1894 to a musical family in Kansas City, Missouri. His father, George Bennett, played violin in the Kansas City Symphony and trumpet at the Grand Opera House, while his mother, May, worked as a pianist and teacher. She taught Bennett piano, while his father taught him violin and trumpet. The Bennett family moved to a farm in Freeman, Missouri, when Bennett was four, to speed his recovery from polio. He graduated as the Valedictorian of Freeman High School. By that time, he had demonstrated his aptitude for music and his remarkable ear by picking out the finale of Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata on the white keys of the piano. By his early adolescence, his father often called up

Robert Rutman

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Robert Rutman (15 May 1931 – 1 June 2021) was a German visual artist, musician, composer, and instrument builder. Best known for his work with homemade idiophones in his Steel Cello Ensemble, Rutman is regarded as a pioneer of multimedia performance in his mixing of music, sculpture, film, and visual art. When the Nazis came to power, he and his mother fled Germany, moving to Warsaw in 1938 and then to Finland just before Hitler invaded Poland. By way of Sweden, Rutman arrived in England in 1939 where he attended refugee schools throughout the Second World War. In 1952 Rutman returned to the U.S. and worked as a traveling salesman in Dallas, Texas, before moving to Mexico City to enroll in art school. He married in Mexico, and the couple had a son, Eric. In 1962 Rutman returned to New York where he opened a gallery on West Broadway in Greenwich Village called “A Fly Can’t Bird But A Bird Can Fly”, which presented poetry, theater, music, and visual art as multimedia events. and sculptor Constance Demby, with whom he made his first sound sculptures in 1966. He named one of his creations the steel cello, and another the bow chimes, describing both as “American Industrial folk instrume

Robert Saxton

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Robert Saxton (born 8 October 1953 in London) is a British composer. Biography Robert Saxton was born in London and started composing at the age of six. He was educated at Bryanston School. Guidance in early years from Benjamin Britten and Elisabeth Lutyens was followed by periods of study at Cambridge and Oxford Universities with Robin Holloway and Robert Sherlaw Johnson respectively, and also with Luciano Berio. Saxton won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in the Netherlands at age 21. In 1986, he was awarded the Fulbright Arts Fellowship to the USA, where he was in residence at Princeton and an assistant to Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood. In 1995 he co-directed the composers’ course on Hoy, with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. He has directed the composers’ course at Dartington International Summer School on several occasions and was artistic director of Opera Lab. He has also been a regular member of the BBC TV 4 (digital) Proms broadcasting commentary team and was a member of the Southbank Centre board for nine years. He is Composer in Association at the Purcell School. Saxton has written works for the BBC (TV, Proms and Radio), LSO, LPO, ECO, London Sinfonietta, Nash Ensemb

Robert Schollum

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Robert Schollum (22 August 1913 – 30 September 1987) was an Austrian composer, conductor, music educator, music critic, musicographer and academic scholar. He was president of the for several years in the 1960s and 1980s. Life and career Education Born in Vienna, Schollum studied composition with Joseph Marx, music theory with Egon Lustgarten and organ and piano with Carl Lafite at the Neues Wiener Konservatorium and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He taught as assistant to Anton Maria Klafsky at the New Vienna Conservatory and gave piano lessons at the Conservatory for Folk Music. National Socialism In 1932, Schollum joined the Hitler Youth, later also the SA. From 1933, he performed as a conductor. From 1939 to 1945, he did military service with the Wehrmacht, and after being wounded, he served as a purser on the Russian Front. In addition, he worked as a pianist, conductor and choir director for the Hitler Youth and was a district commissioner of the Reich Chamber of Music for music education. After the airstrike of his Vienna flat in 1944, he moved to Ottensheim near Linz. Career after the Second World War From 1945, Schollum was choirmaster at the Old Cathe

Robert Scholz (pianist)

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Robert Scholz (; 16 October 1902 – 11 October 1986) was an Austrian-born American pianist, conductor, composer and teacher. He achieved fame as a pianist, especially in Austria during the Twenties and Thirties in a piano duo with his brother Heinz Scholz with whom he also published the first authoritative collection of Mozart’s works for piano. After emigrating to the United States in 1938 he became a well-known conductor and founder of the American Chamber Orchestra in New York. In 1963 the US State Department invited him to teach in Taiwan as part of a scholarly exchange program. Here he achieved lasting fame as a conductor and especially as the founding father of Taiwan’s piano tradition. Most influential piano professors in Taiwan today can trace their roots back to his teachings. He died in Taipei in 1986. Life Genealogy Robert Scholz was born in Steyr, Austria, on 16 October 1902. His father, Karl Scholz, was a store manager, his mother, Johanna Mayr, a soprano who met and corresponded with Anton Bruckner. His elder brother, the pianist Heinz Scholz (1897-1988), was president of the Mozarteum Salzburg in 1964. Some genealogical research of the Scholz family from 1750 until th

Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau, in the Kingdom of Saxony (today the German state of Saxony), into an affluent middle-class family. On 13 June 1810 the local newspaper, the (Zwickau Weekly Paper), carried the announcement, “On 8 June to Herr August Schumann, notable citizen and bookseller here, a little son”. He was the fifth and last child of August Schumann and his wife, Johanna Christiane. August, not only a bookseller but also a lexicographer, author, and publisher of chivalric romances, made considerable sums from his German translations of writers such as Cervantes, Walter Scott and Lord Byron. When he was seven he began studying general music and piano with the local organist, Johann Gottfried Kuntsch, and for a time he also had cello and flute lessons with one of the municipal musicians, Carl Gottlieb Meissner. Throughout his childhood and youth his love of music and literature ran in tandem, with poems and dramatic works produced alongside small-scale compositions, mainly piano pieces and songs. He was not a musical child prodigy like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt or Felix Mendelssohn, According to the musical historian George Hall, Paul remained Schumann’s favourite author and exercised a powerful influence on the composer’s creativity with his sensibility and vein of fantasy.

Robert Scott Thompson

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Robert Scott Thompson (born 1959, California) is an American composer of ambient, instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned the B.Mus. degree from the University of Oregon and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, San Diego. His primary teachers include Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa and F. Richard Moore. He creates work in a wide variety of forms ranging from chamber and orchestral music to works for the virtuoso soloist, computer music, and experimental video art. He is the recipient of many prizes and distinctions for his music including the First Prize in Musica Nova 2003 (Czech Republic), First Prize in the 2001 Pierre Schaeffer competition (Italy) and awards in the XVI Concorso Internazionale “Luigi Russolo” (Italy), Irino Prize Foundation Competition 1995 for chamber Music (Japan), and Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (France), among others. He was a Research Assistant of the Center for Music Experiment (CME) Computer Audio Research Lab (CARL) throughout the 1980s, assisting significant composers in the realization of advanced computer music works. In 1991, he was named a Fulbright Research Scholar and was

Robert Simpson (composer)

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Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer, as well as a long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster. He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music (particularly those in the key classical forms: 11 symphonies and 15 string quartets), and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells. Remarkably for a living contemporary composer, a Robert Simpson Society was formed in 1980 by individuals concerned that Simpson’s music had been unfairly neglected. The society aims to bring Simpson’s music to a wider public by sponsoring recordings and live performances of his work, by issuing a journal and other publications, and by maintaining an archive of material relating to the composer. In 2021, he was featured as Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3. Biography Simpson was born in Leamington, Warwickshire. His father, Robert Warren Simpson, was a descendant of Sir James Young Simpson, the Scottish pioneer of anaesthetics; his mother, Helena Hendrika Govaars, was the daughter of Gerrit Govaars, founder of the , the Dutch arm of the Salvation Army. Simpson studied at West

Robert Siohan

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Robert Lucien Siohan (27 February 1894 – 16 July 1985) was a French conductor and composer. Trained as a violist, he also served as choral conductor. Biography Born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, Siohan studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Albert Lavignac, Georges Caussade and Charles-Marie Widor from 1909 to 1922. First Prize in viola, counterpoint and harmony, he was a violist at the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. In 1921, he married Corrie Psichari, granddaughter of Ernest Renan and daughter of Jean Psichari. Vincent d’Indy encouraged him to direct the orchestra, and in 1924, Siohan conducted the premiere in Paris of Le Roi David by Arthur Honegger. In 1929 he founded the “Concerts Siohan”, which he conducted until 1936 and where he premiered many French contemporary works, including L’ascension by Olivier Messiaen in 1934. He was appointed choir director at the Opéra in 1932, then professor of deciphering at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1945, a position he held until 1962. Siohan defended a doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne (Théories nouvelles de l’harmonie) which was published two year later. In 1964, he was appointed Inspector General of Mus

Robert Sirota

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Robert Sirota (born October 13, 1949) is an American composer based in New York City and Searsmont, Maine. Sirota has written solo instrumental, vocal, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and liturgical works. He is the father of American violists Nadia Sirota and Jonah Sirota, and husband to organist and Episcopal priest Victoria Sirota. Dating back to 1994, Robert Sirota’s work can be found on nine studio albums recorded by an assortment of musicians including: Dinosaur Annex Ensemble, the Chiara String Quartet, and the American String Quartet. Most recently, Sirota’s 2020 work for cello and piano, Family Portraits, was recorded by the Fischer Duo for their album 2020 Visions, released on Navona Records on August 26, 2022. Education and career Born in New York, Sirota received his earliest compositional training at The Juilliard School. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree in piano and composition from Oberlin Conservatory, studying with Joseph Wood and Richard Hoffman. Sirota received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which allowed him to study abroad in Paris, where his principal teacher was Nadia Boulanger. Sirota went on to study with Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner, earning his Ph.D. i

Robert Skowronski

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Robert Krzysztof Skowronski (born 28 April 1980) is a Polish-born Swedish musician, songwriter and record producer. He participated at Melodifestivalen 2025 as a songwriter for the winning song “Bara bada bastu” performed by the group KAJ. Biography Robert Skowronski studied at Urdang Academy in London, where he completed the three-year musical artist training. He participated in the talent show Popstars on Kanal 5, where he won, and made his breakthrough with the group Supernatural the same year. Skowronski has been a member of the pop group NEXX and was also a member of the show group Male for a period. He has participated in the Melodifestivalen 2007, where he danced and sang behind Elin Lanto and Jimmy Jansson. Together with the rest of the former ensemble from the Swedish Mamma Mia! cast, he recorded all the choral music for the film of the same name. In 2009, Skowronski and the other members of NEXX were awarded the prize for International Hit of the Year at the Eska Music Awards in Poland and as Newcomer of the Year in Romania. Skowronski is now a co-owner of the music label and publisher Emperial. Some of the artists he has collaborated with as A&R are Alina Devecerski, Alc

Robert Starer

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Robert Starer (8 January 1924 in Vienna – 22 April 2001 in Kingston, New York) was an Austrian-born American composer, pianist and educator. Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy. After the 1938 plebiscite in which Austria voted for annexation by Nazi Germany, Starer left for Palestine and studied at the Jerusalem Conservatory with Josef Tal. In World War II he served in the British Royal Air Force, and in 1947 he settled in the United States. He studied composition at the Juilliard School in New York City with Frederick Jacobi, then with Aaron Copland in 1948 and received a postgraduate degree from Juilliard in 1949. Starer became an American citizen in 1957. Robert Starer taught at the Juilliard School, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he became a distinguished professor in 1986. He was married, had one child, Daniel, and resided in Woodstock, New York until his death. He lived with writer Gail Godwin for some thirty years; the two collaborated on several librettos. Starer was prolific and composed in many genres. His music was characterized by chromaticism and driving

Robert Steadman

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Robert Steadman (born 1 April 1965) is a British composer of classical music who mostly works in a post-minimalist style but also writes lighter music, including musicals, and compositions for educational purposes. He also teaches, writes articles for music education journals, notably Classroom Music, and has written several revision guides for GCSE Music and A-level Music Technology. Background Steadman was born in Chiswick, London, and brought up in Basingstoke, Hampshire. He was a pupil at Richard Aldworth School, before studying on the Pre-Professional Music Course at Cricklade College, Andover. In 1984 he gained an Associate of the Royal College of Music (A.R.C.M.) in tuba. He read music at Keble College, Oxford, graduating in 1986. Compositions While much of his output has been written for amateurs and young musicians he has also written several pieces of music for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, for the London Brass Virtuosi, for saxophonist Sarah Field and for the East of England Orchestra (now Sinfonia ViVA). He has written three symphonies, two operas, and several choral compositions. He has written a great deal for amateurs and chi

Robert Still

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Robert Still (10 June 1910 – 13 January 1971) was a wide-ranging English composer of tonal music, who made strong use of dissonance. He produced four symphonies and four string quartets. As a songwriter he set words by Byron, Keats and Shelley. Education Still was born in London on 10 June 1910 into a family with a strong interest in music. He was a descendant of John Still, bishop of Bath and Wells. Still was educated at Eton College (1923–29) and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in History and French, and then in music. He had a younger brother who died aged 16 and a sister who emigrated to Australia. At school and at university Still developed a lifelong interest in racquet sports, including real tennis, in which he won a university sporting blue. Both his father and grandfather were solicitors in a long-established London firm, and he had been intended for the law. He studied music at Oxford under Ernest Walker, Sir Hugh Allen and others, and then spent two years at the Royal College of Music under C. H. Kitson, Gordon Jacob and the organist Basil Allchin. He also studied under Wilfred Dunwell at Trinity College of Music (modern harmony and counterpoint) and later in

Robert Stoepel

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Robert Auguste Stoepel (born Auguste Stöpel, 1821 – 1 October 1887) was a German-born American composer and conductor. His compositions include Hiawatha, a symphony for orchestra and vocal soloists, as well as incidental music for plays, piano works, songs, and several operas. Born in Berlin, Stoepel worked in Paris and London, but spent a large portion of his career in New York City where he died at the age of 66. From 1857 until their separation in 1869, he was married to the actress Matilda Heron. Their daughter Bijou Heron was also an actress. Biography Robert Stoepel was born Auguste Stöpel in Berlin in 1821. Because his father had a reputation as a court musician, he adopted his forename. His sister, Hélène Stöpel, was noted as a “charming and talented pianist.” (She later married the composer William Vincent Wallace.) After he graduated from the Berlin Conservatory of music, he went to Paris where he graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, where his teachers included Luigi Cherubini, Fromental Halévy, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. He got his start at composing incidental music for dramas there, being one of three composers who contributed to a stage production of Monte-Crist

Robert Strassburg

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Robert Strassburg (August 30, 1915 – October 25, 2003) was an American conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator. Included among his compositions are numerous musical settings of the poetry of Walt Whitman, as well as several sacred Judaic choral works. As a musicologist, Strassburg was an authority on the compositions of the composer Ernest Bloch. Biography Early life Robert Strassburg was born in New York City. Among his teachers in Tanglewood were Igor Stravinsky, Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith. His formal academic studies were completed at the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University, where he obtained a fellowship in composition. He also completed a doctorate in Fine Arts at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. Academic career Strassburg’s professional career as an educator begain at the Philadelphia Music Settlement School, where he served as the chairman of the composition and theory department from 1943 until 1947. After serving as a lecturer at Brooklyn College (1947–1950), Strassburg obtained a position as artist in residence at the Brandeis Arts Institute in Santa Susana, California (1951–1955). He was also the music director of the inst

Robert Suderburg

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Robert Charles Suderburg (28 January 1936 in Spencer, Iowa – 22 April 2013 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Biography The son of a jazz trombonist, Suderburg studied composition with Paul Fetler at the University of Minnesota, where he received a BA in 1957. He did post-graduate studies with Richard Donovan at Yale University (MM 1960), and with George Rochberg at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his PhD in 1966 with a dissertation, “Tonal Cohesion in Schoenberg’s Twelve-tone Music”. After teaching at Bryn Mawr College, the Philadelphia Academy of Music, and the University of Pennsylvania, in 1966 he was appointed professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also became associate director of the University of Washington’s Contemporary Group, and taught there until 1974. From 1974 to 1984 he was chancellor of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and in 1985 joined the music faculty of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He served as chair of the department from 1986 to 1995. In 1994 he was appointed to a named chair, and continued to teach until his retirement in 2001. Suderburg’s comp

Robert Talbot (conductor)

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Jean Robert Talbot (2 December 1893 – 24 August 1954) was a Canadian conductor, violinist, violist, composer, and music educator. For more than 25 years, he was the conductor of the Société symphonique de Québec (now the Quebec Symphony Orchestra). A member of the Société française de musicologie, the International Musicological Society, the Musical Association of London, and the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Music, he was the author of several books on music theory. He also contributed music articles to a variety of periodicals. His compositional output includes one symphony, a string quartet, several songs, many pieces for solo organ, the oratorio Évangéline, the opera Celle qui voit, and several other orchestral works. Many of his manuscripts, writings, and personal papers are part of the collection at the library of the Université Laval. Life and career Born in Montmagny, Quebec, Talbot initially intended to become a lawyer and earned a law degree from the Université Laval in 1915. He then entered the Académie de musique du Québec, where he was a pupil of J.-Alexandre Gilbert, Berthe Roy, and Joseph Vézina. From the academy, he earned a diplôme supérieur (1917), a lauréat dipl

Robert Tempest (composer)

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Robert Tempest (1868, Philadelphia – March 21, 1955, Carlisle, Pennsylvania) was an American composer and concert pianist. He studied piano in his native city with Carl Von Amsburg and Edward Zerdebely. His papers are held in the collection of the Cumberland County Historical Society. He was known for his exceptional gift for memorization, with a July 1898 article in The Musician reporting he had more than 1800 works in his performance repertoire, all of which he could play from memory. As early as October 1887 Tempest was giving concerts at Philadelphia’s Assembly Hall. He played in concerts at other Philadelphia venues, such as Musical Fund Hall, Hermann’s Broad Street Theatre, and the Haseltine Galleries. With the violinist Edwin Brill he gave a recital at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in December 1889. In 1890 he performed in concerts with the soprano Marie Kunkel and pianist Max Weil. As part of the chamber group The Schumann Club, he performed in chamber music concerts at the New Century Club. In 1895 he gave a public recital sponsored by the Philadelphia piano manufacturer CJ Heppe & Son. In January 1896 Tempest was a soloist with the Germania Orchestra (precurso

Robert Turner (composer)

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Robert Comrie Turner, (June 6, 1920 – January 26, 2012) was a Canadian composer, educator, and radio producer. Biography Born in Montreal, Turner graduated in 1943 with a bachelor’s degree in music from McGill University, following studies with Douglas Clarke and Claude Champagne. While enrolled briefly at Colorado College in 1947, he met the percussionist, Sara Scott, whom he married in 1949. In 1947, Turner transferred to Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he studied with Roy Harris. He graduated in 1950 with a master’s degree. During this period, Turner spent summers studying with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of Music, then at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood with Olivier Messiaen. Returning to McGill in 1951, he graduated with a doctorate in 1953. From 1952-68, Turner worked as a CBC Radio producer in Vancouver, where he championed the music of Canadian composers and oversaw broadcasts of the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. Turner’s music has been described as reflecting a variety of influences including jazz, folk music and dance. The composer himself described his music as lyrical and tonal; it also has been noted that Turner coul

Robert Valentine (composer)

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Robert Valentine (c. 1671 – 26 May 1747), also known as Roberto Valentini and Roberto Valentino, was an English composer, recorder player, oboist and violinist, who moved to Rome and became a citizen of the Papal States. He is noted for his large number of compositions for the recorder. Biography Born c. 1671, he was baptized in Leicester on 16 January 1674. He was the son of Thomas Follentine or Follintine, who lived in Leicester from c. 1670 and worked as a town musician there accompanied by his elder sons Thomas and Henry. The family became a prominent one in the musical life of Leicester; descendants included John Valentine, who was the grandson of Robert’s eldest brother Thomas, and John Valentine’s daughter Ann Valentine. Robert Valentine seems to have spent little if any of his adult life in England before moving to the Papal States, where he became known by the Italian versions of his name. He settled in Rome and took a Roman wife, marrying Giulia Bellatti in September 1701 in the parish of Sant’Andrea delle Fratte. They had nine children, although only three of these survived their parents. He died in the same Roman parish on 26 May 1747, only 12 days after the death of hi

Robert Voisey

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Robert Voisey (born 1969) is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary composers and in 2001 created The American Composer Timeline, the first in-depth listing of American composers, spanning from 1690 to the present, to appear on the Internet. A producer of new music and multi-media concerts and events, Voisey is best known for producing the 60x60 project, which he started in 2003 in order to promote contemporary composers and their music. He also founded and directs the Composer’s Voice Concert Series as well as the chamber music project Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame as well as vice president of programs for the Living Music Foundation. Composer Robert Voisey’s compositions fall under a few definitive genres: neo-romantic, ambient, mash-up, text-sound, and dramatic/operatic. His neo-romantic works tend to be chamber works for acoustic instruments while the other styles are electronic incorporating electronic playback of some form. Involved in various types of multimedia, Robert Voisey collaborates with video, dance, poetry, stage performers and others. He has written for film and theatrical stage perf

Robert Volkmann

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Friedrich Robert Volkmann (6 April 1815 – 30 October 1883) was a German composer. Life Robert Volkmann was born in Lommatzsch near Meißen in the Kingdom of Saxony. His father, a music director for a church, trained him in music to prepare him as a successor. Thus, Volkmann learned to play the organ and the piano with his father, studied violin and cello with Friebel, and by age 12, he was playing the cello part in string quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In 1832, he entered the Freiberg Gymnasium for the purpose of becoming a teacher. There he studied music with August Ferdinand Anacker, who encouraged him to devote himself to music more fully. From there he went on to Leipzig in 1836 to study with Carl Ferdinand Becker. In Leipzig, he met Robert Schumann who encouraged him in his studies. They met again several times after that. When he finished his studies, he began working as voice teacher at a music school in Prague. He did not stay there long, and in 1841 he moved to Budapest, where he was employed as a piano teacher and a reporter for the Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung. After a short period of freelance work, he became the choirmaster and organist of a Reform synagogu

Robert W. Parker (composer)

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Robert W. Parker (August 13, 1960 – April 13, 2020) was an American composer, organist, and percussionist based in Southern California. He is best known for his sacred music and compositions for concert band. He also wrote incidental music for the theater. He began his career as a professional musician in his teens, playing organ for a small church meeting that met in a YMCA. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Yale College (1982), a master’s degree from the Yale School of Music (1985), and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University (1996). Parker’s “Sicut Incipiat” (“thus, let it begin”), a commencement march for concert band, was the first work to be commissioned by the Robert J. Flanagan Yale Bands Commissioning Endowment, established in 2007. The composition was added to Yale’s repertoire of commencement music beginning with the university’s 307th commencement ceremony in May 2008. Parker’s music has become part of another school’s tradition: He composed the tune for “Ancora Imparo,” the alma mater of Illinois Central College. Parker has written sacred music for a number of Southern California churches, notably St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in

Robert Walker (composer)

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Robert Walker (born 18 March 1946) is an English composer, writer and broadcaster. He was born in Northampton, England. He was a pupil at Northampton Grammar School (now Northampton School for Boys), and at the same time studied organ with John Bertalot and sang in the choir at St Matthew’s Church, Northampton. He spent a pre-university year at the Royal School of Church Music in 1964 before gaining a choral scholarship as a countertenor at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1965, Subsequently, he was appointed to an organ scholarship at the same college. At Cambridge University he studied composition with Roger Smalley and organ with Arthur Wills (organist at Ely Cathedral). Whilst still at Cambridge he was appointed organist and Master of the Choristers at St James’s Parish Church, Great Grimsby During his time at Grimsby (1968–1973) he had private conducting lessons from Sir Adrian Boult, and a number of compositions were performed, including Three Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins broadcast by Norma Procter and Paul Hamburger on BBC Radio 3. In 1973 Walker left full-time employment to devote as much time to composition as possible. He studied composition with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dart

Robert Ward (composer)

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Robert Eugene Ward (September 13, 1917 – April 3, 2013) was an American composer who is best remembered for his opera The Crucible (1961) after the 1953 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for that opera in 1962. Early work and education Ward was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of five children of the owner of a moving and storage company. He sang in church choirs and local opera theaters when he was a boy. His earliest extant compositions date to 1934, at a time he was attending John Adams High School, from which he graduated in 1935. After that, Ward attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where his composition teachers were Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson and Edward Royce. Ward received a fellowship and attended the Juilliard School of Music in New York from 1939 to 1942, where he studied composition with Frederick Jacobi, orchestration with Bernard Wagenaar, and conducting with Albert Stoessel and Edgar Schenkman. In the summer of 1941 he studied under Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in Massachusetts. From his student days to the end of World War II, Ward produced about forty compositions, of which elev

Robert Wells (composer)

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Robert Henry Arthur Wells (born 7 April 1962) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician best known for the musical , which contains elements of rock, classical and boogie-woogie. Early life and career Wells was born in Stockholm. He attended the Adolf Fredrik’s Music School in Stockholm at the age of 7 in 1969 and four years later, at the age of 11, became the youngest person ever to attend the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. At the age of 16 in 1978, Wells won two major Swedish talent contests. Wells has also participated twice in Melodifestivalen. Wells was the musical director of two Swedish television shows. Wells appeared regularly on Så ska det låta, the Swedish version of The Lyrics Board. Wells’s first musical tour was with the Leningrad Orchestra in 1990. Wells’s music was chosen as the official television theme music for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. Eurovision Wells played piano during the Belarus entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 on 25 May performed by 3+2. Discography Albums “—” denotes releases that did not chart or unknown. Singles class=“wikitable” - ! rowspan=“2” Year ! rowspan=“2” Single ! colspan=“3” Peak chart positions ! rowspan=“2” Certificatio

Robert Wells (songwriter)

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Robert Wells (born Robert Levinson, October 15, 1922 – September 23, 1998) was an American songwriter, composer, screenwriter and television producer. During his early career, he collaborated with Mel Tormé, writing several hit songs, most notably “The Christmas Song” in 1945. Later, he became a prolific writer and producer for television, for such shows as The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, as well as for numerous variety specials, such as If They Could See Me Now, starring Shirley MacLaine. He was nominated for several Academy Awards and won six Emmys and a Peabody Award. Early life and career Robert Wells was born to a Jewish family in 1922 in Raymond, Washington, the son of Edna Irene (Bradford) and Nathan Levinson. He attended a local business college and later the University of Southern California, where he majored in speech and drama. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Both before and after the war, he worked as a scriptwriter and lyricist for both radio and film. Work with Mel Tormé From 1945–1949, Wells collaborated extensively with Mel Tormé. Among their many hits were “Born to be Blue” and “A Stranger Called the Blues”, as well as numerous film

Robert Whinham

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Robert Whinham (1814–1893) was a fiddler, composer and dancing master from Morpeth, Northumberland. Many tunes composed by him are still played, notably the Remember Me hornpipe, Whinham’s Reel, and The Cambo March. A 1995 book on his life and music, called Remember Me by Graham Dixon, summarises most of what is known about him. Early life Whinham was born in 1814, in Morpeth, Northumberland, the son of a market gardener, also named Robert. He was the fourth of five children. Robert Whinham senior is known as the developer of a variety of gooseberry, still cultivated, known as Whinham’s Industry. There are few facts known about his life, though his obituary recorded that he had started learning the violin at the age of eight, at first from one William Banks, later from ‘a German music master in Newcastle’. Career Whinham later organised the Morpeth Brass Band, for much of his life he worked as an itinerant musician and dancing teacher, though frequently returning to Morpeth. In 1854, the Morpeth Philharmonic Society, led by Whinham, gave a concert in Morpeth. There are advertisements for several other engagements around this period. In 1856 and 1857, he led the musicians playing at

Robert White (composer)

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Robert White (also Whyte; c. 1538 – 1574) probably born in Holborn, a district of London, was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His surviving works include a setting of verses from Lamentations, and instrumental music for viols. Life Robert White was the son of an organ builder. He was a chorister, then a singing man, in the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1554 to 1562. During that time, in 1560, he received a Bachelorship of Music from Cambridge University, and in 1562 he moved the few miles to Ely, where he succeeded his father-in-law Christopher Tye as Master of the Choristers and married Christopher Tye’s daughter in 1565. He accepted a similar post at Chester Cathedral in 1566, where he succeeded Richard Saywell and took part in the Chester Whitsuntide pageants during the years 1567 to 1569. Such was his reputation as a choir trainer that in 1570 he was appointed organist and master of the choristers of Westminster Abbey. White and his family died in an outbreak of plague in the Westminster, 1574. Although White seems to have spent much of his life working to the north of the capital, his will (dated 7 November 1574) stated that he left property of some s

Robert William Keith

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Robert William Keith (1787–1846) was an English musical composer and writer. Life Born at Stepney on 20 March 1787, he was the son of Cornelius Keith, organist of St. Peter’s, Cornhill, and of the Danish Chapel in Wellclose Street, and the grandson of William Keith, organist of West Ham Church (d. 1800). From the latter Keith learnt the rudiments of music, and from François Hippolyte Barthélémon and others the violin, harmony, and composition. Keith kept at 131 Cheapside a musical and musical instrument warehouse, and prepared many of his own publications. He died on 19 June 1846. Works While organist and composer to the New Jerusalem Church in Friars Street, Keith published A Selection of Sacred Melodies … to which is prefixed Instructions for the use of Young Organists …, London, 1816. There followed A Musical Vade Mecum, being a compendious Introduction to the whole art of Music; Part I, containing the Principles of Notation, etc., in an easy categorical form, apprehensible to the meanest capacity, London, 1820 (?); Part II, Elements of Musical Composition. Keith compiled instruction-books for pianoforte, flute, and Spanish guitar (by “Paulus Prucilli”), and a violin preceptor,

Robert William Witt

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Robert William Witt (March 4, 1930 – September 18, 1967) was an American neoclassical and experimental composer. A native of Youngstown, Ohio, he was a composer, pianist, and professor of music at Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University. Like his mentor, Vincent Persichetti, Witt was well known for the exploration of new musical forms and for integrating old themes into new works. Life Robert Witt was born in Youngstown, Ohio, son of Alvy T. and Lillian Keffer Witt. Recognized as a prodigy at a young age, Robert began his musical career at the age of five by taking piano lessons. Formal studies in music continued throughout his youth at Ursuline School of Music and Dana School of Music. Witt continued his musical studies at the Cleveland Conservatory of Music with Ruth Edwards from 1945 to 1946, at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore from 1946–1948, where he studied with Nicolas Nabokov, Pasquale Tallarico, and Renée Longy-Miquelle, and at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music from 1949–1950. It was at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music that he began to study with his mentor, Vincent Persichetti, who recommended him for studies at Juilliard. While at Jui

Robert Winterberg

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Robert Anton Winterberg (27 February 1884 – 22 June 1930) was an Austrian composer, conductor, pianist, and theatre director. He is best known as a composer of German-language operettas, most of which he created during the 1910s and 1920s. Two of his operettas were adapted into English for Broadway: Die Dame in Rot (1911, Vienna) as The Lady in Red (1919, Lyric Theatre) and Die schöne Schwedin (1915, Vienna) as The Girl from Brazil (1916, 44th Street Theatre). Winterberg studied music privately with Gustav Mahler, Robert Fuchs, and Hermann Graedener. At the age of 15, he produced his first music compositions which included a piano sonata, a string quartet, and several art songs. A few years later, the first public concert of his music was given at Ehrbar Saal (English: Ehrbar Hall) inside the Palais Ehrbar by baritone Joseph Schwartz and soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn with Winterberg as pianist. In 1906, Türk-Rohn and Winterberg were invited to Peleș Castle in Sinaia by Elisabeth of Romania where they gave a concert of Winterberg’s music for the queen. Well received, the work enjoyed popularity both in Germany and abroad. American playwright Anne Caldwell adapted it into an English lan

Robert Woodcock

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Robert Woodcock (bap. 9 October 1690 – 10 April 1728) was an English marine painter, musician, and composer who lived during the Baroque period. He is notable for having published the earliest known flute and English oboe concertos. Life Robert Woodcock was baptised at Chelsea Old Church on 9 October 1690, the son of Robert Woodcock (1642–1710) and Deborah Littleton. In 1714, Robert junior married Ayliffe Stoaks, by whom he had several children. He resigned his government post around 1723 to become a professional artist. The engraver George Vertue, writing in 1725, called Woodcock “An ingenious gentleman lover of the arts of painting and music, and professor.” The three flute concertos in this set are the earliest known published for that instrument, and the three oboe concertos are the first known by an English composer. This performance is noteworthy in that it shows that at least one of the recorder concertos was written earlier than the publication date. There is other evidence of performances of Woodcock’s concerti from the 1720s through the 1750s, suggesting that his works quickly became part of the standard woodwind repertoire in England at that time. There has been some con

Robert Wykes

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Robert A. Wykes (May 19, 1926 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania; - June 29, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and flautist. He began studying the flute as a child, then served in World War II. He then attended the Eastman School of Music, obtaining a master’s degree in music theory. He taught at Bowling Green State University from 1950 to 1952, also playing flute with the Toledo Symphony. His opera The Prankster premiered at the University in January 1952. Later that year, Wykes left Bowling Green to study and teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he stayed until he graduated with a doctorate in music in 1955. He was appointed to the music faculty of Washington University in St. Louis in 1955, becoming a full professor in 1965. He played flute with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1963 to 1967 and with the Studio for New Music from 1966 to 1969. He retired from Washington University in 1988. He was appointed composer-in-residence at the Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, California in 1989 and was a visiting scholar at the Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University in 1991.

Robert Zollitsch (composer)

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Robert Zollitsch (; born 1966) is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (, literally “Old Ro/Gong”) in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian music and a very important composer of contemporary Chinese art music. Early life and education Zollitsch was born in Munich, Germany in 1966. Zollitsch grew up with the Folk music of his home region, learning early in his childhood a classical Bavarian folk music instrument, the Bavarian zither. From 1986 to 1990 he studied music theory and graduated from the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study Chinese traditional music and the Chinese zither Guqin in Shanghai. Musical career Zollitsch is known as an expert in Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan art music. He has been producing and working with Chinese musicians or singers as Gong Linna, Urna, Du Cong, Qiu Ji, Luo Yan, by composing pieces for traditional Chinese instruments that make extensive use of harmonies, fusing together elements of different cultures, which leads to music that seems to be of traditional Chinese art music style with a western influence, sometimes sounding like

Roberta Bitgood

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Roberta Bitgood (Wiersma) (15 January 1908 – 15 April 2007) was an American organist, choir director, and composer. She was a pioneer of 20th-century American church music, and the first woman to serve as national president of the American Guild of Organists. Early life and education Roberta Bitgood was born in New London, Connecticut, to Grace Robinson Prentis and Robert A.T. Bitgood. She showed an early talent for music, and started violin lessons at the age five. From 1920-1924, she studied at the Williams Memorial Institute. While at Williams, she served as concert master and assistant conductor for her school orchestra. At age fifteen she began taking organ lessons over the summers, and subsequently started performing at local churches. Bitgood attended Connecticut College for Women, studying music with a major focused in violin and organ performance. She graduated with honors in 1928, and continued her studies in New York City at the Guilmant Organ School. Bitgood won a $500 scholarship to attend the school, and, while there, worked with the founder . During her time at Guilmant, she also completed her Associate and Fellowship exams with the American Guild of Organists (AGO).

Roberta Geddes-Harvey

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Anne Catherine Roberta Geddes-Harvey (née Geddes; 25 December 1849 – 22 April 1930) was a Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer. Early life and education Roberta Geddes was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and studied music with Arthur E. Fisher, Humfrey Anger and Edward Fisher, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree from Trinity College, Toronto, in 1899. Career After completing her studies, Geddes-Harvey worked as an organist in Hamilton, and then took a position in 1876 as choirmaster and organist at St. George’s Anglican Church in Guelph; she continued in this position for more than fifty years. Works Geddes-Harvey wrote hymns, anthems, songs, and instrumental works bearing copyright dates from 1897 to 1919. Selected works include: *La Terre Bonne (The Land of the Maple Leaf) libretto by A. Klugh (lost) *The Old Boys Welcome, single remaining song from La Terre Bonne *Salvator, oratorio to words from the scriptures References

Robertinho do Recife

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Carlos Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque (born 1953), known as Robertinho do Recife, is a Brazilian guitarist, record producer, composer born in the city of Recife, Brazil. His first contact with the guitar was at the age of 10. After he was run over by a car, he had to stay long periods of time at home and had to watch a lot of TV. In one of these TV programs he met the Beatles and fell in love with the guitar. He got his first guitar as a gift from his grandfather. At the age of 12 he was already playing with bands in Recife. He had very good technique and later was invited to play with bands like: Watch Pocket, Chicago and Quiet Riot. He played a little of everything: from music for children, to heavy metal and neoclassical. At the end of the 1980s he played with the Brazilian band Yahoo, when they played a cover of “Love Bites”, a song from the British band Def Leppard. He is currently working as a music producer in his own studio in Rio de Janeiro. Since the 1970s he has worked with artists like Geraldo Azevedo, Zé Ramalho and Raimundo Fagner. Discography * 1977: Jardim da Infância * 1978: Robertinho no Passo (featuring Hermeto Pascoal) * 1979: E Agora pra Vocês… Suingues Tr

Roberto Bienzobas

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Roberto Bienzobas Gárate (born in Bilbao on 8 October 1942 ) is a Basque musician, conductor, composer and choir director. Life and career He was born in Bilbao on 8 October 1942. He has worked as a musician and director of orchestras and choirs. He has also worked as a musician, trainer and teacher of musicians and composers in different institutions. As a musician he is trained in transverse flute, flute and piano. As choir director, he has directed different choirs, such as the Coro Euskería of the Sociedad Coral de Bilbao, Coral Gaztelumendi, Coro de Voces Blancas Antxieta and others. He has been directing the Deustoarrak Choir created in 1957 for more than twenty years. References

Roberto Brambilla

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Roberto Brambilla (born 30 October 1975) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Life Brambilla was born in Livorno, Italy, and studied music at the “Conservatorio G. Verdi” in Milan with Alessandro Solbiati. He has improved his studies in different international masterclass given by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Alessandro Melchiorre, Alessandro Solbiati and Alvise Vidolin. and are broadcast on RAI and in many other radio. He is published by BAM International, TEM and Warner/Chappell Music. About the music The musical aesthetics of Roberto Brambilla underlines a research of sound materials, also using electronic tools, such as to highlight micro-sound in the “moment form”. Examples are the glove created to modify the sounds of the piano in his piece Memoriam VII, for female voice and piano, or the use of modern instruments, used with the purpose to modify the timbre of classical instruments, in various works of his repertoire. Awards * 2004 Mario Nascimbene award * 2014 International PAS Works Selected works include: * Cardinal Events for B clarinet (2006) *Ipnagogico for piano four hands, electronic music and the painting “Paesaggi contaminati” by Emanuele Gregolin (2

Roberto Cantoral

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Roberto Cantoral García (7 June 1935 – 7 August 2010) was a Mexican composer, singer and songwriter. He was known for composing a string of hit Mexican songs, including “El Triste”, “Al Final”, “La Barca” and “El Reloj” The Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México () estimated that “La Barca” and “El Reloj” have been recorded over 1,000 times by other artists like Plácido Domingo, Gualberto Castro, José José, Luis Miguel, Joan Báez and Linda Ronstadt. In 2009, he won the Latin Grammy Trustees Award. Iconos, which was released by Marc Anthony in 2010, featured “El Triste”. Cantoral moved to Mexico City to attend college but dropped out to become a band leader. Career 1950–1960 In 1950, Cantoral formed the Hermanos Cantoral () with Antonio Cantoral. 1960–1980 In 1960, Cantoral went solo and achieved international fame for “”, “”, “”, and “”. Personal life Cantoral resided in Rancho Viejo, Texas, just across the border from Mexico. Death In 2010, 75-year old Cantoral died after suffering a heart attack on a flight from Brownsville, Texas, to Ciudad de México. The plane made an emergency landing in Toluca, Mexico, where Cantoral was pronounced dead. His body was placed on public vi

Roberto Carnevale

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Roberto Carnevale (born 15 June 1966) is an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic teacher. Biography and career Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He studied under Roberto Bianco (piano), Franco Donatoni (composition), Salvatore Enrico Failla (musicology) and Ferdinand Leitner (conducting). He is Professor of History of Music and Assistant Headmaster at the , and Headmaster at the CEU. In 1988, he was awarded the international prize “Council of Europe”. His composition have been played all over the world by famous musicians and orchestras (Claudia Antonelli, Giovanni Sollima, Marco Betta, Tonino Battista, Riccardo Risaliti, Aldo Bennici, Vera Beths, Henk Guittart, Maurizio Ben Omar, Gidon Kremer, Graziella Concas, Marina Leonardi, Giorgio Magnanensi, Daniel Schweitzer, Logos Ensemble, Octandre Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Klami Ensemble, Calamus Ensemble, Keldisc Group, L’Offerta Musicale Ensemble, Soloists of Santa Cecilia Academy, Soloists of Teatro La Fenice, Soloists of ORT, London Chamber Group, Ensemble Foriani, Ensemble Bellin

Roberto Ciotti

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Roberto Ciotti (20 February 1953 – 31 December 2013) was an Italian blues musician, composer and guitarist. Life and career Born in Rome, Ciotti began playing the guitar at the age of 12. From 1970 to 1972 he was a member of the jazz band Blue Morning, then he started a solo career as a bluesman, a composer and a professional guitarist, collaborating with Chet Baker, Francesco De Gregori and Edoardo Bennato, among others. His debut album was Supergasoline Blues, released in 1978. Following a long illness, Ciotti died on 31 December 2013, at the age of 60. Discography Albums * Supergasoline Blues (1978, Cramps, 5205 751) * Bluesman (1979, Cramps, 5205 752) * Rockin’ Blues (1982, RCA Italiana) * No More Blue (1989) * Road ’n’ Rail (1992) * Marrakech Express - Turné (1992) * King of Nothing (1994) * Changes(1996) * Walking (1999, Il Manifesto) * Behind the Door (2002) * Troubles & Dreams (2010) * Equilibrio Precario (2013) References External links * * * Roberto Ciotti at Discogs *

Roberto De Simone

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Roberto De Simone (; 25 August 1933 – 6 April 2025) was an Italian stage director, academic teacher, playwright, composer and ethnomusicologist. Beginning as a harpsichordist, he turned to research of early Italian music and co-founded the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare to perform it. The musical La Gatta Cenerentola, which he authored, composed and directed, was first performed at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 1976 and received international recognition. He directed the San Carlo Theatre from 1981 to 1987, and was stage director of operas at La Scala in Milan from 1986. He was director of the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella from 1995 to 2000. Life and career Born in Naples on 25 August 1933, At the same time he started being active as an ethnomusical researcher and essayist, mainly focused on the southern Italy folk music of oral tradition, with specific interest in tarantism and funeral laments. In the second half of the 1960s he met some musicians who shared with him an interest in traditional music, and this encounter led to the foundation of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, with whom De Simone collaborated for a decade. He approached the in 1972 as a pos

Roberto Fabbri

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Roberto Fabbri (born 1964, Rome) is an Italian classical guitarist, composer, teacher and writer. Biography He studied classical guitar under the guidance of Carlo Carfagna at the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” in Rome, where he graduated with full honors in 1986. He obtained a bachelor in music with 110 and praise with an essay on Mauro Giuliani’s Rossiniane. He is the headmaster and teacher of classical guitar at the Academy “Novamusica e Arte” in Rome and also teaches classical guitar at the Institute of High Artistic and Musical Formation “Giulio Briccialdi” in Terni. Musical career He has developed his musical career as a soloist and with the guitar quartet Nexus. He has been the artistic director of Festival Internazionale della Chitarra Città di Fiuggi since 2006. He plays the Ramirez 125° Anniversary 2007 n°1 guitar and uses La Bella strings. Publications Roberto Fabbri has carried out an intense didactic and editorial activity, cooperating with different publishing houses (Anthropos, Berben, Playgame, EMR, Warner Bros., Carisch). His most popular book Suoniamo la Chitarra has been translated into French, Spanish, and German, and now a Chinese translation is coming up. He con

Roberto García Morillo

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Roberto García Morillo (January 22, 1911 – October 26, 2003) was an Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic. Biography García Morillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música “Carlos López Buchardo” (with José André, Floro M. Ugarte, José Gil, and Constantino Gaito), and in Paris studied piano with Yves Nat . Morillo died on October 26, 2003. He worked as a music critic for the newspaper La Nación starting in 1938, and subsequently published in many Argentine and North American periodicals. He was appointed to joint positions as professor of composition in both the national and the municipal conservatories in Buenos Aires in 1942 . Curriculum: *Director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música “Carlos López Buchardo” (1972–79) *Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música and at the Antiguo Conservatorio “Beethoven” *Music critic of the newspaper La Nación (1938–79) *Member of the Comisión de Música Sinfónica y de Cámara de SADAIC *Vicepresident of the Asociación Argentina de Compositores (AAC) *President of the Unión Compositores de la Argentina (CUDA) *Member of the Senato Académic

Roberto Gerhard

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Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish and British composer, musical scholar, and writer, generally known outside his native region of Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard. Early life Gerhard was born in Valls, near Tarragona, Spain. His father was of German and Swiss ancestry; his mother was from Alsace-Lorraine. He studied piano with Enrique Granados and composition with scholar-composer Felip Pedrell, teacher of Isaac Albéniz, Granados and Manuel de Falla. Gerhard visited Falla in Granada, but dismissed him as a possible teacher and decided to shut himself away in a Catalan farmhouse to reflect on his professional future and concentrate on his work. Seeking systematicity, he turned his gaze to German avant-garde music and decided to send a long letter to the composer Arnold Schoenberg, enclosing his compositions, on 21 October 1923, begging to be accepted as his pupil. After the latter’s acceptance, Gerhard immediately left for Vienna. He was Schoenberg’s only Spanish pupil. Gerhard studied with Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin between 1923 and 1928, and the teacher-pupil relationship became a lifelong friendship, as is shown in the complete co

Roberto Lupi

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Roberto Lupi (28 November 1908 – 17 April 1971) was an Italian composer, conductor, and music theorist. Born in Milan and trained at the conservatory there, he began his conducting career in 1937. His compositions of experimental music included large-scale works for chorus and orchestra, chamber music, and stage works. However, Lupi’s most widely heard piece was his Armonie del pianeta Saturno for oboe (or, sometimes, trumpet), harp and strings which was played each night from 1954 to 1986 at the close of RAI television transmissions. He held the chair in composition at the Florence Conservatory from 1941 until his death and published three books on music theory, the last of them posthumously. From the 1950s, his theoretical approach and his compositions, especially his stage works, were strongly influenced by the ideas of Rudolf Steiner. Stage works * Orfeo, choreographed cantata to a libretto based on Book IV of Virgil’s Georgics, choreography by Janine Charrat. Premiere: La Fenice, Venice, 19 September 1951 * La nuova Euridice, opera (mistero melodrammatico) in three acts to a libretto by Maria Della Quercia (Eva Bagni). Premiere: Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 3 October 1957 * La d

Roberto McCausland Dieppa

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Roberto McCausland-Dieppa (born July 6, 1959), also known as Dieppe, is a Colombian pianist, composer, and conductor, specializing in classical, jazz, and Hungarian music. His performances at various venues across the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe, are noted such as Carnegie Hall, Ostrogskich-Chopin Hall, and the United Nations. Roberto became well known after composing and conducting Sinfonia Latina at age seventeen in 1976. Following Sinfonia Latina event, he moved on to classical performances, composing and conducting becoming a critical figure in music education for children, disseminating Caribbean music using folk idioms and dance rhythm, espousing Hungarian music and culture, particularly the music of Franz Liszt, Béla Bartók which he is most passionately interested. Biography Dieppa was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. He gained prominence at the age of 17 when he composed and led the “Sinfonía Latina” with the Barranquilla Philharmonic. In 1976, Dieppa blended rock, jazz, salsa, Spanish, and Caribbean music into a symphony, performed at the Municipal Theater to an audience of around 3,000. Conducting style A noted feature of the conductor’s style is his ability

Roberto Molinelli

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Roberto Molinelli (born 1963, Ancona) is an Italian composer, conductor and violist. He has graduated with honors and won prizes in national and international competitions. His CD on Carl Reinecke’s chamber music was awarded with “CD of the Month” prize on “CD Classical” magazine. As a composer, arranger and conductor he has collaborated with many Artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Gustav Kuhn, Cecilia Gasdia, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Valeria Esposito, Andrea Griminelli, Valeria Moriconi, Federico Mondelci, Enrico Dindo, Elena Zaniboni, Danilo Rossi, Giorgio Zagnoni. His premières have been performed by many Orchestras worldwide (Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, La Scala Theatre, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Radio-TV Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn Bozen, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, I Solisti di Pavia with Enrico Dindo, Euroradio Concerts live via satellite, Symph. Orch. of Sanremo, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio, Symph. Orch. of Bari) in many Concert Halls (Carnegie Hall, New York City, Moscow International House o

Roberto Occhipinti

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Roberto Occhipinti (born March 25, 1955) is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer. He is most noted as a two-time Juno Award nominee for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year, receiving nominations at the Juno Awards of 2006 for his album Yemaya and at the Juno Awards of 2009 for A Bend in the River. Early life and education Occhipinti was born and raised in Toronto. He studied music at the University of Toronto, where he was mentored by Joel Quarrington and Dave Young. Career Occhipinti is a frequent collaborator with his younger brother Michael Occhipinti, in the Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra and Creation Dream. Their cousin David Occhipinti is also a Juno-nominated jazz musician. References External links * Website

Roberto Paci Dalò

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Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author, composer and musician, film maker and theatre director, sound and visual artist, radio-maker. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemble Giardini Pensili and he has been the artistic director of Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario. He won the Premio Napoli per la lingua e la cultura italiana in 2015. Life and career After musical, visual, and architecture studies in Fiesole, Faenza and Ravenna, in 1993 he receives the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Fellowship. He taught Media Dramaturgy and New Media at the university of Siena and teaches Exhibit & Experience Design at UNIRSM Design Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. Since 2017 he is founder and director of Usmaradio, radio station and Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies. In 1993 he conceives the project Publiphono. In 1994, with Marina Abramović and Barbara Bloom he has been invited to the project “Bildende Kunst auf dem Theater” at Hebbel-Theater, Berlin. In 1995 the Kronos Quartet premiered at the Vienna Opera House his composition Nodas. In 1997 he creates Trance Bakxai, an artist’s rave inspired by Euripides. In 2001, he stages the performance work M

Roberto Procaccini

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Roberto Procaccini • Lobbe (born Roberto Procaccini, on , Rome, Italy) is an Italian composer, producer, and keyboard player. Studies He studied piano (classical and jazz) privately, and then at the University of Music in Rome. In 1995 he moved to Boston, United States, where he attended the Berklee College of Music, winning two scholarships (Best and Arif Mardin Scholarship) and graduated Summa cum laude in Contemporary Writing and Production; he followed workshops in composition and conducting with Maestro Mauro Bacherini and Peppe Vessicchio. As a composer divides his time between recordings, film, television and theater. Biography In Italy he worked in various roles (arranger, producer, author, keyboardist) for many artists: Marina Rei, Zero Assoluto, Marco Mengoni, The Niro, Nathalie, Anansi, Otto Ohm, Bandabardò, Patty Pravo, Chiara Civello, Spagna, Ron, Damian Draghici, Claudio Mattone, Tony Renis, Peppe Vessicchio, Max Calò, Mark Armani, Syria, Barbara Eramo, Madame Lingerie, Red Desert, Stefano Palatresi, Enrico Sognato and Luna among others. He has also worked in the U.S. as an author, arranger and producer for EG Daily, Intermusic and Compression Records, in Spain as a s

Robin de Raaff

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Robin de Raaff (; born in 1968 in Breda, the Netherlands) is a Dutch composer and bassist. De Raaff has written six Symphonies, eleven Concertos for solo instrument(s) and orchestra, an Oratorio entitled Atlantis, two main stage Operas for the Dutch National Opera, a chamber Opera, a mini Ballet, and music for screen as well. De Raaff most recently composed a Cantata for mixed Choir and Orchestra on a poem entitled L’Azur by Stéphane Mallarmé commissioned by the Lucerne Festival through the Foundation Pierre Boulez, and co-commissioned by the NTR-Zaterdagmatinee in the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. Currently De Raaff is composing a new Symphony, his Symphony No. 7 “Résonances” for orchestra. His most recent opera Waiting for Miss Monroe is about the death of Marilyn Monroe whose role was sung by American soprano Laura Aikin. His first opera entitled RAAFF is about the complex relationship between the older Anton Raaff and the young “M.” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) in their struggle to create the world premiere of Idomeneo. Both operas were commissioned by the Dutch National Opera co-produced by the Holland Festival. Alongside the creation of these large scale works De Raaff compo

Robin Holloway

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Robin Greville Holloway (born 19 October 1943) is an English composer, academic and writer. Early life Holloway was born in Leamington Spa. From 1953 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral and was educated at King’s College School, where his father Robert was Head of the Art Department. He attended King’s College, Cambridge, and studied composition with Bayan Northcott. Career In 1974, Holloway became an Assistant Lecturer in Music in the University of Cambridge and in 1980 attained a full Lecturer position. In 1999, he became a reader in Musical Composition at Cambridge. He retired in 2011 as professor of Musical Composition. He is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Among his many pupils were Thomas Adès, Huw Watkins, Peter Seabourne, George Benjamin, Judith Weir and Jonathan Dove. Holloway’s doctoral thesis, Debussy and Wagner (later published as a book by Eulenburg), discussed a close relationship between music and language as well as romanticism and tonality. This can be heard in his own works, such as Scenes from Schumann (1969–70), the opera Clarissa (1976) premiered in 1990 at English National Opera under the baton of Oliver Knussen, and Seascape

Robin Maconie

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Robin John Maconie (born 22 October 1942) is a New Zealand composer, pianist, and writer. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Maconie studied with Frederick Page and Roger Savage at the Victoria University of Wellington, receiving a Master of Arts in the History and Literature of Music in 1964. He studied analysis with Olivier Messiaen in 1963–64 at the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1964–65 studied composition for film and radio under Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and electronic music under Herbert Eimert at the Cologne Conservatory. He also studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, and Luc Ferrari at the Second Cologne Courses for New Music at the , also in Cologne, as well as piano with Aloys Kontarsky, conducting with Herbert Schernus, and information science with Georg Heike. Following a temporary lectureship at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1967–69, Maconie emigrated to England to study for a Ph.D in the Psychology of Music at Southampton University. In 1974 Maconie was appointed lecturer in music and technology at the University of Surrey, where he continued until 1985. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Performing Arts at the Savannah College of Art

Robin Minard

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Robin Minard (born 1953) is a Canadian composer and installation artist. Minard was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He began his studies of composition at the University of Western Ontario, then at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, studying under Gilles Tremblay. He then continued his studies with John Rea at McGill University. He was a member of the music design and performance ensemble Sonde from 1979 to 1988. In 1988 he undertook doctoral studies in environmental music at the University of Paris VIII studying under composer Horacio Vaggione. From 1992 to 1996 he taught at the studio for electronic music at the TU Berlin. Since 1997, he has been Professor of Electro-Acoustic Composition at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt and the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, Germany. Artistic work Minard has concentrated his work on electro-acoustic composition and sound installations in public since the early 1980s. One primary area of interest in his work is dealing with acoustic space in an urban world increasingly polluted with noise, and redefining the concept of functional music in that context. He points out that, with the exception of concert halls, theaters and s

Rocco Di Pietro

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Rocco Di Pietro (born 1949) is composer, pianist, author, teacher, and habilitationist whose work crosses multiple disciplinary boundaries. “His work has a literary and visual component linking him with the romantic tradition.” He is based in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Biography Rocco Di Pietro was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1949. He studied composition and piano with Hans Hagen in Buffalo and at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, where he won an ASCAP Fellowship to study composition with Lukas Foss and Bruno Maderna. While at Berskire, Gunther Schuller performed Di Pietro’s Drafts (1971) with the Berkshire Music Center ensemble. Di Pietro’s teacher Bruno Maderna commissioned the work Piece for Bruno (1974) for the Nancy Meehan Dance company, which was conducted by Dennis Russell Davies with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra at the American Dance Festival in New London, Connecticut, 1974. Di Pietro worked exclusively in musical composition for 20 years before earning degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Vermont College. He combined his musical and academic experience as an interdisciplinary professor teaching in prisons and at colleges in New York, Ohio, and California. He toured

Rochus Dedler

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Rochus Dedler (15 January 1779 – 17 October 1822) was a German composer. He is best known as the author of a stage music for the version of the Oberammergau Passion Play by Father . Life Dedler was born on 15 January 1779 in Oberammergau. His father Johann (1737–1811) and his mother Barbara (1736–1825) ran the inn “Zum weißen Lamm” there. Originally Dedler was destined for a spiritual profession. He was a choirboy at Rottenbuch Abbey and went to Munich for further education, where he graduated in 1798 from the (present) Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich). Subsequently, he began the obligatory basic studies (philosophy) at the affiliated Lyceum, but then returned to Rottenbuch to work as chamber scribe of the prelate. In 1802, however, he gave up his spiritual career and took a position as a teacher and choir director in Oberammergau. Dedler was married to Maria Josepha, née Sepp, from Uffing (1779–1824). Together they had three sons and six daughters. Dedler died on 17 October 1822 at age 43 due to a lung disease in Oberföhring, where his brother was a pastor, and was buried there at the cemetery of St. Lorenz. A path leading past the cemetery is named “Rochus-Dedler-Weg” in his honour. In

Rocío Sanz Quirós

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Rocío Sanz Quirós (1934–1993) was a Costa Rican composer. She was born in Costa Rica and completed her music education in California and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She lived and worked in Mexico after 1953. Works Sanz Quirós composed chamber music and orchestral works and also for plays and ballets. Her best known work is Cantata de la Independencia. Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including: *La Noche: Modern Mexican Choral Masterpieces Audio CD (1995) References

Rocoberry

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Rocoberry (Hangul: ) is a South Korean indie pop duo consisting of members Roco and Conan (also known as Berry). They are best known for composing songs for Korean dramas, including the 2017 hit song, “I Will Go to You like the First Snow,” performed by Ailee for the Guardian: The Lonely and Great God soundtrack. They have also composed songs for the soundtracks to Descendants of the Sun and Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo, among others. Career In January 2023, Rocoberry established Brotherhood Entertainment and began full-scale music production under their own label. Through the company, they aimed to broaden their work across drama OSTs, project albums, and releases for new and established artists. Personal life On August 20, 2018, Hayandal Entertainment confirmed that Rocoberry members Roco and Conan would marry on September 15, with the ceremony to be held at a church in Seoul. The two met in 2013 through a church praise band and later formed the group in 2014. After working together as musical partners for several years, they began a romantic relationship in 2017 and announced their marriage. Discography Singles EP Songwriting credits Below are Rocoberry’s songwriting credits

Rod McKuen

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Rodney Marvin McKuen ( ; ; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations for his music compositions. McKuen’s translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of love, the natural world and spirituality. McKuen’s songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide and 60 million books of his poetry were sold as well. on April 29, 1933, in a Salvation Army hostel in Oakland, California According to critic Betty Jean Lifton in The New York Times, McKuen had “two birth certificates, each giving conflicting dates and spelling his father’s name different ways.” He never knew his biological father, who had left his mother. raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a violent alcoholic, McKuen ran away from home. He drifted along the West Coas

Rod Schejtman

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Maestro Rod Schejtman is an Argentine–American symphonic composer, pianist, engineer, and educator. He is the founder of The Piano Encyclopedia, known for developing a methodology to teach improvisation, composition, and ear training, and for integrating classical symphonic forms with cinematic language. Career In 2005, Schejtman launched The Piano Encyclopedia, The methodology has reached over 250,000 students in 75 countries. This event is widely referred to as the “World Cup of Classical Music”. Schejtman has performed internationally, including at the Musilosophy Festival in Rome and Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona. His works have been presented on Radio FM 104.5 and Antena 3 TV, and in concerts for diplomatic audiences. In 2024, Schejtman was selected by Lalo Schifrin—composer of the Mission: Impossible theme, six-time Grammy Award winner, and Honorary Oscar recipient—to co-author Long Live Freedom (Viva la Libertad), a full-length symphony dedicated to Argentina. The premiere took place in Buenos Aires, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra under Emmanuel Siffert. The work was broadcast nationwide by Public Television and Radio Nacional. Long Live Freedom was subsequently

Roddy Ellias

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Roddy Ellias (born 1950) is a Canadian guitarist, composer and improviser. He performs contemporary new music, jazz, and classical repertoire. Career Ellias was born in 1950 in Val-d’Or, Quebec and moved to Ottawa as a child, where he began learning classical guitar. He played in an amateur R&B band in high school. Reviewers have described Ellias as “genius (Bud Freeman), “positively brilliant” (Bill McBirnie) and “exquisite …the kind of subtlety you don’t often hear…anywhere."(Mark Miller). He has performed with Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Tom Harrel, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Nat Adderley, Slide Hampton, Cleo Laine, Pepper Adams, Lew Tabakin, Michel Donato, Mel Tormé, Bud Freeman, PJ Perry, Rob McConnell, the Montreal Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Michel Legrand. As an improviser, “Canadian guitarist and writer Matthew Warnock describes him this way: “as close to being a Zen master on the guitar as he can be.” The Ottawa Citizen reviewed a “concert by pianist Marc Copland, guitarist Roddy Ellias and bassist Adrian Vedady”, calling it “deeply lyrical and personal original music.” “Ellias has had two concert series at Paradiso with local and imported musicians including

Roderick Watkins

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Roderick Evan Watkins DL (born 1964) is an English composer and the Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, in East Anglia. Early life Watkins was educated at Gresham’s School, the Oberlin Conservatory in the United States, where he took a degree in Philosophy and Composition, and then at the Royal Academy of Music. He won all of the Academy’s most important prizes for composition, completed his doctorate, and became a Leverhulme Fellow. He also spent a year at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music in Paris, where he later returned as a research composer. His teachers included Hans Werner Henze, Richard Hoffmann, and Paul Patterson. Career Watkins taught composition and contemporary music at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, becoming Programme Director for Undergraduate Music. He was Professor of Composition and Contemporary Music there from 2005 to July 2014. In 2014, he was appointed as Pro-Vice Chancellor and as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Law, and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin. In 2015, he became Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, then in 2019 Vice Chancellor. Honours Watkin was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cam

Rodney Sharman

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Rodney Sharman (born 24 May 1958) is a Canadian composer and flutist based in Vancouver. His music has been performed in over 30 countries worldwide. He has won several international and national awards, including First Prize in the 1984 CBC Competition for Young Composers. His chamber opera, Elsewhereless, a collaboration with Atom Egoyan, premiered in 1998 and has been staged 35 times internationally. Biography Sharman earned degrees from the University of Victoria School of Music (Victoria, B.C.) and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik (Freiburg, Germany). In May 1991, he earned a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Sharman studied under Murray Adaskin, Rudolf Komorous, Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman, David Felder, Frederic Rzewski, Louis Andriessen and Lucas Foss. Sharman was guest composer at the Institute of Sonology (Utrecht, Netherlands) in 1983-84. He taught at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of British Columbia School of Music, the School for the Contemporary Arts and Faculty of Graduate Liberal Studies, Simon Fraser University. Sharman was the Vancouver Symphony’s (VSO) Composer-in-Residence from 1997 to 2000 and its Composer/Music Advisor

Rodney Waschka II

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Rodney Waschka II is an American composer known for his algorithmic compositions and his theatrical works. Biography Waschka studied at Brooklyn College, at the Institute of Sonology, then newly part of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and earned his doctorate at the University of North Texas. His teachers include Larry Austin at the University of North Texas, Charles Dodge (composer) at Brooklyn College, and Paul Berg, Clarence Barlow, Joel Ryan and George Lewis (trombonist) at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He also studied with Robert Ashley. His music has been performed throughout the world including numerous instances at the annual International Computer Music Conference, at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US festival, at the World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, and various other venues including Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Sheremetev Palace and Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, the International Review of Composers in Belgrade, the Purcell Room in London, Hong Kong City Hall, and the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Currently, Rodney Waschka II is Director and Professor of Arts Studies at North Carolina State University and he is the director

Rodolfo Acosta (composer)

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Rodolfo Acosta Restrepo (born 1970) is a Colombian composer, performer, improviser and professor of music. Biography Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1970, Acosta studied music theory and composition in Colombia, Uruguay, France, U.S.A., Mexico and the Netherlands, at institutions such as G.M.E.B., Fondation Royaumont, STEIM and Berklee College of Music. Among his most influential teachers are Coriún Aharonián, Graciela Paraskevaidis, Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. Acosta’s compositions have received prizes and other recognitions at national and international levels. His music – both acoustic and electroacoustic – has been presented in some thirty countries of the Americas, Europe and Asia, has been published in score form by El Mercurio magazine, Matiz Rangel Editores, the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and the Francisco José de Caldas District University, and on CD by Editorial Musical Sur, ACME (Colombian Association for Electroacoustic Music), Quindecim Recordings, IDCT (District Institute of Culture and Tourism), the Colombian-French Alliance, the FJC District University and the Secretariat of Culture, Recreation and Sports, the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, La Distritofón

Rodolfo Arízaga

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Rodolfo Arizaga (July 11, 1926 – May 12, 1985) was an Argentine composer. Arizaga was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied composition at the National Conservatory under Alberto Williams, José Gil, Luis Gianneo, and Teodoro Fuchs; he also studied philosophy at the National University. After touring Spain in 1950, he went to Paris in 1954 and studied under Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. Here, he also began experimenting with the Ondes Martenot, and composed several works for the instrument. Returning to Argentina in 1960, he taught at Buenos Aires University and worked as music critic for journals and newspapers. He died in Escobar, Greater Buenos Aires. Works *Poema de invierno for violin and piano, 1944 *Sonatina for piano, 1944–45 *Jaquinot, Ballet, 1945 *Dos corales, 1945 *Suite para piano, 1945 *Sonata for piano, 1946 *Toccata for piano, 1947 *Pequeño vals en tono gris, 1948 *Sonatina for piano, 1948 *Bailable Real for orchestra, 1948 *Délires, Cantata, 1954–57; rev. 1970 *Serranillas de la infanzona for piano, 1957 *Sonata Breve for piano and Ondes Martenot, 1958 *El organillo for Ondes Martenot, 1958 *Piezas epigramáticas for piano, 1961 *Prometeo 45, Poema Dramático

Rodolfo Halffter

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Rodolfo Halffter Escriche (30 October 1900 – 14 October 1987) was a Spanish composer, music critic, and professor with Mexican citizenship (from 1939). He wrote in a style always informed by his early engagement with the modernist aesthetics of Madrid’s , finding inspiration in the music of Claude Debussy, Manuel de Falla, and Arnold Schoenberg. Halffter came from a musical family. Though largely self-taught as a composer, he studied Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre and was advised by Falla. His music has been compared to Domenico Scarlatti’s in its neoclassicism and to Falla’s in its mild polytonality. Like others in his milieu, Halffter chose to leave Francoist Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War. He emigrated to Mexico in 1939 and taught there for more than three decades, enjoying increasing recognition. Several notable composers are among his students. Starting in 1953, he became the first composer to use twelve-tone technique in Mexico. Halffter returned to Spain beginning in the 1960s, where he also taught, and received its in 1986. He was also honored in Mexico, where he died. He wrote music in many genres and for many films. Biography Early years Born in Madrid to a family

Rodolfo Narciso Chavarría

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Rodolfo Narciso Chavarría (4 March 1901- 3 October 1968) was a marimba player and composer from Guatemala. Biography He was born in the city of San Cristóbal Verapaz, and his parents were Vicente Adolfo Narciso Peláez and Gudelia Chavarría. * Río Polochic, fox-blues * Ruiseñor Verapaz, capriccio * Reflejos de luna en el lago, concert waltz * Josecito, guarimba * Gilberto Leal, pasodoble * Tezulutlán, blues * Clavel tinto, foxtrot * Corazón voluntario, march (1938) * Chimax, march (Op. No. 278, 1946) * Garza de la mañana (Op. 289,1945) See also * San Cristóbal Verapaz Notes and references References

Rodolphe Kreutzer

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Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d’Abel (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 (1803), known as the Kreutzer Sonata, though he never played the work. Kreutzer made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when at Vienna in the service of the French ambassador, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later King of Sweden and Norway). Beethoven originally dedicated the sonata to George Bridgetower, the violinist at its first performance, but after a quarrel he revised the dedication in favour of Kreutzer. Biography Kreutzer was born in Versailles, and was initially taught by his German father, who was a musician in the royal chapel, with later lessons from Anton Stamitz. He became one of the foremost violin virtuosos of his day, appearing as a soloist until 1810. He embedded with the Army of Italy under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1797, charged with copying Italian musical manuscripts and returning them to France as trophies. He was a violin professor at the Conservatoire de Paris from its foundation in 1795 until 1826

Rodolphe Mathieu

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Joseph Rodolphe Mathieu (10 July 1890 – 29 June 1962) was a Canadian composer, pianist, writer on music, and music educator. The Canadian Encyclopedia states, “Considered too avant-garde for his time because of Debussy’s influence on his music, Mathieu gained recognition too late to inspire the generation that followed.” The pianist Léo-Pol Morin was one of the few important exponents of his work, notably including Mathieu’s Chevauchée and Trois Préludes in his concert repertoire. Mathieu’s song Un peu d’ombre (1913) was included in a number of recitals given by Marguerite Bériza and Sarah Fischer in Europe. Early life and career in Canada Born in Grondines, Quebec, Mathieu’s parents were farmers. In 1906 he moved to Montreal where he began to study the piano with Alphonse Martin and singing with at the age of 16. Through Marier he met pianist and composer Alfred La Liberté who instilled within him an admiration for the works of Alexander Scriabin. He soon began composing music. His first major work was the choral piece Le Poème de la mer (1908) which he dedicated to Marier. Many of his early piano compositions display a strong influence of Scriabin, including Chevauchée (1911) and

Rodrigo de Ceballos

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Rodrigo de Ceballos (also Çavallos, Cevallos, Zaballos; c.1525-c.1581 ) was a Spanish composer. Early life His father’s family de Ceballos Cabanilla came from Burgos, and he may have trained as a musician there. However, he was born in Aracena (Huelva), and was ordained a priest in Seville in 1556. He was the brother of the composer Francisco de Ceballos. Career He is classed among the composers of the Andalusian school, alongside better-known composers such as Francisco Guerrero (who, with Pedro Fernández de Castilleja, gave him his holy orders) or Cristobal de Morales. He occupied a succession of posts in Andalusia. He was named Maestro de capilla in Málaga in 1554, in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba in 1556, and in the Royal Chapel of Granada in 1561 until his death in 1581. Works His polyphonic works, preserved in various Spanish and Latin American cathedrals and monasteries, are often confused with those of Francisco de Ceballos. Francisco, who was maestro at Burgos Cathedral from 1535 to his death in 1571, was Rodrigo’s uncle. 79 works of Rodrigo’s are known to survive; these include 39 motets, three masses, eight psalms for Vespers, six hymns, eight settings of the Magnifica

Rodrigo Leão

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Rodrigo Costa Leão Muñoz Miguez (born 15 October 1964), known professionally as Rodrigo Leão, is a Portuguese musician and songwriter. He became known in the 1980s as a member of the Portuguese groups Sétima Legião and Madredeus. In the 1990s, Leão launched his career as a solo artist, with multiple albums reaching number-one in the Portuguese album charts. Music career In 1982, Leão was one of the founding members of Sétima Legião, one of the most successful bands in Portugal’s 1980s rock scene. In 1985, he started Madredeus with Pedro Ayres Magalhães and Sétima Legião’s Gabriel Gomes as a sideline acoustic project. Madredeus received national and international acclaim and became one of Portugal’s most successful music groups internationally. In 1993, Rodrigo released a mostly instrumental solo album in a neo-classical, minimalist mode, titled Ave Mundi Luminar. In 1994, with Sétima Legião on a long break, he left Madredeus to dedicate himself to his solo career. He has experimented with modern classical music and contemporary pop, joining electronics with string and horn sections. With the project Os Poetas, he composed music for poems from some of Portugal’s greatest poets. Over

Rodrigo Ratier

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Rodrigo Sebastian Ratier (born May 21, 1969) is an Argentine composer, arranger, conductor and pianist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has developed his career as an arranger and a performer in the area of the new Argentine tango, jazz, Latin jazz and classical contemporary music. Biography Beginnings At 6 years old he took his first piano lessons. From 1981, his musical education under Roberto Lara (guitar), Haydée Schvartz (piano) and Ani Grunwald (music theory) be continued. At the same time he studied at the “Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla" and the “Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven" conservatories in Buenos Aires. During the first years of education, he devoted himself to the study of classical guitar and piano, and developed particular interest in composition. In 1984 wrote his first pieces, as result of research on the Argentine folk music and tango, as the fusion of music genres with jazz and classical music. Artistic career Since 1985 he has developed as a composer, pianist, arranger and conductor. The first stage of his career took place in Argentina, where he founded the groups “Los Rodrigo Ratier Trio” (1986), “Vallegrande” (1987), “Atuel” (1991) and “La Puerta

Roger Bellon

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Roger Bellon is a French composer, conductor, orchestrator, and producer, known for his work in film, television, theatre, and opera. Early life He was eight when he had his first piano and composition lessons (c. 1961). Roger Bellon earned his Bachelor Of Music Composition degree from the Berklee College of Music (c. 1975), studying under music legends Gary Burton, Mike Gibbs and Herb Pomeroy among others and completed postgraduate studies in Composition and Conducting, under Pierre Petit (Grand Prix De Rome) at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, Paris. Career He received numerous commissions from the French Government for his chamber as well as symphonic and choral compositions. At twenty-two (c. 1975), his first published composition, “Blackout,” for piano, was commissioned by the École Normale de Musique de Paris for their yearly piano competition. It was published by legendary French music publisher Max Eschig and has been performed and recorded extensively. His Préludes for Piano have been performed by Gabriel Tacchino, one of France’s premier post-war pianists. RCA Records, Paris, signed Roger to their subsidiary label, Balance, where, as an artist, he produced two album

Roger Boucher

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Roger Boucher (13 January 1885 – 20 October 1918) was a French organist and composer. Biography Entered at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1901, Roger Boucher won a 2nd prize in harmony (class of Émile Pessard) in 1906, a 1st prize in piano accompaniment (class of Paul Vidal) in 1907, 1st prize of counterpoint (class of André Gedalge) in 1909, 1st prize in music composition in 1909, 1st prize in organ (class of Alexandre Guilmant) in 1910, and 1st prize in fugue (class of Charles-Marie Widor) in 1910. Roger Boucher was successively organist at Église Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, , in Argenteuil basilica, then titular of the grand organ of the Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin in Paris church, from 1910 to his death. He died as a result of war injuries at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital. Louis Vierne dedicated to him the Pastorale of the second book of the Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre for organ Op. 31. Scores * : Cantabile in A-flat major for organ or harmonium, in Joseph Joubert, Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue, vol. 1 (1912). Bibliography * Biographical notes in Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue (second volume), Joseph Joubert, 1912. * Rollin Smith. Louis Vierne: organist of Notre-Dame C

Roger Bourland

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Roger Bourland (born December 13, 1952) is an American composer, publisher, blogger, and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Biography Born in Evanston, Illinois, Bourland received a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Composition (1976) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studying with Leslie Thimmig and Randall Snyder; a Master of Music in Music Composition (1978) from the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with William Thomas McKinley and Donald Martino; and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Music Composition from Harvard University, studying with Randall Thompson, Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner. Bourland studied at Tanglewood with Gunther Schuller and was awarded the Koussevitzky Prize in Composition (1978). Other awards include the John Knowles Paine Fellowship (Harvard), two ASCAP Grants to Young Composers, numerous Meet the Composers grants, and was a co-founder of the Boston-based consortium “Composers in Red Sneakers.” Bourland has composed over one hundred fifty works for all media: film, solo, instrumental, chamber, vocal and choral music, electro-acoustic music, and music for orchestra, wind ensemble, and other large ensembles.

Roger Boutry

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Roger Jean Boutry (27 February 1932 – 7 September 2019) was a French composer and conductor. Biography Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, Boutry was a pianist, conductor, arranger, and accomplished composer. Born to musician parents, native of Cambrai, his mother was a pianist and singer and father a solo trombone at the Orchestre National de France of which he was one of the founders with Ingelbrecht). While continuing his secondary studies at Lycée Chaptal, he was admitted in 1944 to the Conservatoire de Paris where he won several first prizes: solfege in 1944 (Lucette Descaves’s class), piano: 1st appointed in 1948 (Jean Doyen’s class), harmony in 1949 (Henri Challan’s class), chamber music in 1949 (P. Pasquien’s class), piano accompaniment in 1950 (Nadia Boulanger’s class), fugue and counterpoint in 1951 (Noël Gallon’s class), conducting: 1st appointed in 1953 (Louis Fourestier’s class), composition in 1954 (Tony Aubin’s class), Grand prix de Rome in 1954 and finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958. On his return from the Villa Médicis, he did his military service first in Grenoble with the 6th Battalion of the Alpine Chasseurs and then du

Roger Craig Vogel

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Roger Craig Vogel (born July 6, 1947) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and a music educator. Life The oldest of two children, Vogel was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated in 1965 from Lincoln High School in Cleveland Ohio. He studied music theory and composition at the Ohio State University in Columbus (Ohio) and earned the degrees of Bachelor of Music in composition in 1971, Master of Music in music theory in 1973, and in 1975 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in music theory. His teachers included Marshall Barnes, Jay Huff, Norman Phelps, and Wolf Rosenberg. Although his graduate major was music theory, he was awarded first prize in the Delta Omicron Composition Contest in 1973 and 1974. Also, his original composition Obstreperous Sonority Number 2a for string orchestra won the student concerto competition in 1973, and the following year his work Encounter Number One for large orchestral also won the competition. In 1976, he joined the faculty of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia as an assistant professor and taught both music theory and composition. He became associate professor in 1982, and full professor in 1996. He has been professor e

Roger Donald Dickerson

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Roger Donald Dickerson (born August 24, 1934) is a New Orleans pianist, composer, and educator. Biography Coming from a musical family, Dickerson began piano lessons at 8 years old. In elementary school he played the French horn, baritone and tuba. His experience playing brass instruments continued in college where he played trombone. From a young age, Dickerson was interested in, and influenced by the music of the French Quarter. After high school, Dickerson studied music at Dillard University earning his Bachelor of Music in 1955, then a master’s degree in music from Indiana University School of Music in 1957 where he studied with Bernhard Heiden. Along with elements of New Orleans culture, Dickerson’s work shows the influence of jazz and blues. Work list Orchestral *Concert Overture (1957) *Essay, band (1958) *Fugue ’n’ Blues, jazz orchestra (1959) *A Musical Service for Louis (1972) *Orpheus an’ His Slide Trombone (J. Greenberg), 1974–1975) *New Orleans Concerto, for piano & orchestra (1976) Vocal *Fair Dillard (J. N. Barnum), SATB (1955) *Music I Heard (C. Aiken), for soprano & piano (1956) *The Negro Speaks of Rivers (L. Hughes), for soprano & piano (1961) *Ps xlix, SATB, tim

Roger Dumas (composer)

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Roger Dumas (31 December 1897 – 15 June 1951) was a French composer and conductor. Biography After he finished his musical studies, first at the Conservatory of Nice then the Conservatoire de Paris, Roger Dumas was conductor during the 1920s and 1930s at the Casino de Toulon (a city where he also taught at the conservatory). It is in this entertainment venue and under his musical direction that his first operetta, Flouette, was created in 1924. The second was Le Danseur du casino, premiered at Orange in 1935. He became film score composer on two productions respectively released in 1930 (Cendrillon de Paris, with Alibert and Pauline Carton) and 1931 (Les Vagabonds magnifiques, with Nadia Sibirskaïa and Georges Melchior). His third film was Les Bleus de la marine by Maurice Cammage (1934, music cowritten with Vincent Scotto), starring Fernandel and the screenwriter Jean Manse. In association with the latter (the actor’s stepbrother) as librettist, he composed his third operetta, Ignace, created in Marseille in 1935, then revived at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in Paris in 1936, with Fernandel in the leading role, Andrex, Edmond Castel, Alice Tissot and Henry Trévoux. This op

Roger Goeb

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Roger John Goeb (October 9, 1914 – January 3, 1997) was an American composer. Biography Roger Goeb was born in Cherokee, Iowa. Although he had studied piano, trumpet, French horn, viola, violin, and woodwind instruments from an early age, he turned to the profession of music comparatively late. He studied agriculture at the University of Wisconsin (which twenty years later would be called University of Wisconsin–Madison), earning a BS degree in 1936. He then earned his living for two years playing in jazz bands before going to Paris to study composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Nadia Boulanger (1938–39). Returning to the United States he studied composition privately with Otto Luening, followed by graduate work, first at New York University, and then at the Cleveland Institute with Herbert Elwell, where he earned a Master of Music degree in 1942. Three years later, he gained a PhD at the University of Iowa with his Symphony No. 2 as a dissertation. After teaching stints at Bard College, the Juilliard School, Stanford University, and Adelphi College, he was awarded two successive Guggenheim fellowships in 1950–51 and 1951–52. From the late 1940s until the mid-1960s, Goeb

Roger Harding (singer)

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Roger Harding (1858 – August 29, 1901) was an American singer, composer and music publisher active in the United States from 1890 to 1901. Biography Harding was born in Kentucky in 1858 to Roger Elias Harding, Sr. and Virginia Ford Harding. Per census records, the family moved to Saint Louis by 1870. In the mid-1880s, Harding married Charlotte Oakley. The Hardings had two children, Ethel and Roger, who were both born in New York City. In June 1890, Harding performed in the musical play Billie Taylor in New York City as part of the Ideal Opera Company. In March 1893, he played Nixey Weld in A Night at the Circus at the Harrigan’s Park Theatre in New York. Also in 1893 he joined the minstrel company of Sam Devere, author of “The Whistling Coon” made famous by George W. Johnson. In 1897, Harding began manufacturing phonograph records at 18 E. 22nd St., New York, and late in the year sold the operation to the Excelsior Phonograph Company (later Excelsior and Musical Phonograph Company). Harding continued managing recording for the Excelsior company until August of the following year, when he was replaced in that role by fellow recording artist William F. Hooley. He began recording arou

Roger Jones (composer)

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Roger William Jones (born 1948) is an English musician and composer of church music. Alongside writing cantatas and hymn tunes he leads workshops and conducts performances of his works both around the UK and in other countries. Biography Roger Jones was born in Birmingham on 15 May 1948, the son of Harold and Winifred Jones and studied piano, organ, cello and general musicianship at the Birmingham School of Music. After teacher training at City of Birmingham College of Education (now Birmingham City University Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences), in September 1969 he became Head of Music and then in September 1978 Head of Lower School at Aston Manor School (now Academy). Writing songs for the pupils, his first musical, Jerusalem Joy, was performed at the school in 1973. Before giving up teaching in 1984 he wrote 5 more musicals: Apostle, David, A Grain of Mustard Seed about the Sunday School pioneer Robert Raikes, Saints Alive and Greater than Gold. Up to 2025, Roger Jones had composed a total of 25 musicals. Since leaving teaching in 1984 he has worked full-time in Christian music, and is director of Christian Music Ministries, which publishes his works. within this mus

Roger Mason (musician)

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Roger Ashley Mason is an Australian keyboardist who has been a member of new wave groups Models, Absent Friends and Icehouse. He was a session and backing musician for United Kingdom’s Gary Numan and for various Australian artists. From the early 1990s he has composed music for television and feature films. He appeared on Models best performed album, Out of Mind, Out of Sight (1985), which reached No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and provided a No. 2 hit “Barbados” and a No. 1 hit “Out of Mind, Out of Sight”. On 27 October 2010, Models were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame by former member, Wendy Matthews. As a composer, Mason has won 12 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Awards for his TV and film work, MDA (presented in 2003), The Extra (2005), Peking to Paris (2006), The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2009), My Place (2010), The Outlaw Michael Howe (2014), The Code (2015), The Principal (2016) and Hungry Ghosts (2021). Biography Early years Roger Ashley Mason These awards were incorporated into the APRA Music Awards as the Screen Music Awards from 2002 (see below). - APRA Music Awards The APRA Music Awards are presented annually from

Roger Matton

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Roger Matton OC (18 May 1929 – 7 June 2004) was a Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator. As a composer his works are characterized by their association with folklore and folk music. Early life and education Born in Granby, Quebec, Matton was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Claude Champagne (composition), Isabelle Delorme (music theory), and Arthur Letondal (piano). He pursued further studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Andrée Vaurabourg. He then studied ethnology at the National Museum of Canada with Marius Barbeau. Career Matton started his career working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a composer in both radio and television. In 1956 he joined the staff of Université Laval where he worked as a researcher and ethnomusicologist in the UL’s folklore archives through 1976. He transcribed roughly 300 Acadian songs between 1957 and 1959. Among his students was composer Alain Gagnon. In 1965 he was awarded the Prix de la création at the Congrès du spectacle. In 1966 the Montreal Symphony Orchestra included his Mouvement symphonique II in their concert repertoire for their 1966 t

Roger Neill

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Roger Neill (born December 26, 1963) is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, guitarist and educator. Don’t Think Twice, and Beginners. Notable television scores include the series Mozart In The Jungle and King of the Hill. Neill has created orchestral arrangements for many recording artists, such as the French band AIR, for their album 10 000 Hz Legend, and in concert. In the theater world, Neill is best known for the controversial musical The Beastly Bombing, or A Terrible Tale of Terrorists Tamed by the Tangle of True Love. Early life Roger Neill was born in San Diego, California, and spent his formative years in the neighboring city of El Cajon.By his early teens he was accomplished on flute, piano and guitar. He graduated from Grossmont High School in 1982. Neill was accepted into the USC Thornton School of Music as a flutist, but quickly turned to composition as his main focus, studying with composer Morten Lauridsen, among others. At USC he had his first experiences in film scoring, collaborating with student filmmakers at the adjacent USC School of Cinematic Arts, and attending classes by composer David Raksin. Education While attending the Aspen Center f

Roger Nixon

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Roger Alfred Nixon (August 8, 1921 – October 13, 2009) was an American composer, musician, and professor of music. He wrote over sixty compositions for orchestra, band, choir and opera. Nixon received many awards and honors for his works, many of which demonstrate a feel for the rhythms and dances of the early settlers of his native state of California. Biography Nixon was born and raised in California’s Central Valley in Tulare and Modesto. He attended Modesto Junior College from 1938–1940 where he studied clarinet with Frank Mancini, formerly of John Philip Sousa’s band. He continued his studies at UC Berkeley, majoring in composition and receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941. His studies were then interrupted by four years of active duty in the Navy during World War II, serving as the commanding officer of an LCMR in the Atlantic. Following the war, Nixon returned to UC Berkeley, first receiving a M.A. degree and later a Ph.D. His primary teacher was Roger Sessions, but he also studied with Arthur Bliss, Ernest Bloch, Charles Cushing, and Frederick Jacobi. In the summer of 1948, he studied privately with Arnold Schoenberg. From 1951 to 1959, Nixon was on the music faculty

Roger Quilter

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Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition. Biography Quilter was born in Hove, Sussex; a commemorative blue plaque is on the house at 4 Brunswick Square. He was a younger son of Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet, a wealthy noted landowner, politician and art collector. Roger Quilter was educated first in the preparatory school at Farnborough. He then moved to Eton College and later became a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of composition Iwan Knorr. Quilter belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. As a gay man during the late 19th century, it was difficult to cope with the pressures that were imposed upon him by his hidden homosexuality, and he struggled with mental illness after the loss of his nephew Arnold Guy Vivian during World War II. H

Roger Reynolds

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Roger Lee Reynolds (born July 18, 1934) is an American composer. He is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, and for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds with those newly enabled by technology. Beyond composition, his contributions to musical life include mentorship, engagement with psychoacoustics, The Library of Congress established a Special Collection of his work in 1998. (Edition Peters is now owned by the Wise Music Group as of April 2023) and several dozen CDs and DVDs of his work have been commercially released in the US and Europe. Performances by the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego Symphonies, among others, preceded the most recent large-scale work, george WASHINGTON, written in honor of America’s first president. This work knits together Reynolds’s career-long interest in orchestra, text, extended musical forms, intermedia, and computer spatialization of sound. Reynolds’s work embodies an American artistic idealism reflecting the influence of Varèse and Cage, as well as Xenakis, and has also been compared with that of Boulez and Scelsi. Reynolds lives with his partner of 59 years, Karen, in Del Mar, Califo

Roger Roger (composer)

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Roger Roger (5 August 1911 – 12 June 1995) was a French composer of light orchestral music and film scores, as well as a conductor and bandleader. His aliases included Eric Swan and Cecil Leuter, the last being a pseudonym he used for his electronic music productions, of which he was somewhat of a pioneer. He is best known for his intricately composed and arranged orchestral contributions to commercial production music during the 1950s and 1960s, many of which have more recently achieved wider recognition. He helped revive the musical exotica genre with his album Jungle Obsession in 1971. Career Roger Roger was born in Rouen, Normandy. Mostly through the library system (rather than from specially commissioned scores), Roger Roger’s music is said to have been used for over 50 radio productions, nearly as many television productions, and in over 500 films. Roger Roger married the Swiss singer Eva Rehfuss, sister of baritone Heinz Rehfuss and great-granddaughter of composer Felix Mendelssohn He died in Deauville in 1995. Since his death, renewed interest in light music has seen several CD albums released, both in dedicated albums and in compilations, including music used as the audio

Roger Rooman

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Roger Laurent Rooman (24 July 1948 – 15 August 1996) was an Australian composer of classical music, known for his orchestral and chamber works, particularly for string instruments. His compositions span from mid-1965 until his death. They are considered unique and original, untraceable to any school or style. Early life and education Rooman was born in Maldon, Victoria. His forbears were from France, Belgium and England. He spent most of his life in Melbourne. He studied mathematics and science at Monash University. Rooman developed an interest in classical music during his teenage years and decided to pursue composition. After receiving some initial instruction from a family friend, he continued largely as a self-taught composer. Compositional history Rooman’s earliest known composition is a Tone poem in A minor for orchestra, written in 1965. A little later he composed tone poems in E minor, C-sharp minor, and D minor and a clarinet quintet in B minor. From 1969, Rooman began to evolve his style, moving away from traditional, strict key centers toward a more flexible harmonic approach. While his music became more experimental and complex, he stopped short of full atonality, ensur

Roger Rossi

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Roger Rossi (born 1940) is an American pianist, accompanist, vocalist, bandleader, published author and composer born Roger Rossitto, in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of concert violinist Vincent Rossitto, who graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Bellini in Palermo, Sicily and performed on many of the great stages of Italy including Teatro Massimo. Musician Rossi attended Amityville Memorial High School in Amityville, New York and was elected “Class Musician”. He first studied piano under Mary Findley Ades of Brightwaters, New York and later under James Ball, Professor of Piano Studies at Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York. For years Rossi was piano accompanist and music director for Canadian recording artist Tommy Desmond, and later for Columbia Records artist Gene Stridel. He was on staff for Ultrasonic Recording Studios in New York where he played on several hit recordings including The Shangri-Las No. 1 Billboard hit “Leader of the Pack”. Throughout his 50-plus years as a musician, he’s performed a wide variety of music throughout Canada, New York, and New England. In Florida he was the bandleader in the main dining room of the 5-star Boca Raton Hotel & Club for

Roger Sacheverell Coke

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Roger Sacheverell Coke ( (“cook”); 20 October 1912 – 23 October 1972) was an English composer and pianist. Life Roger Sacheverell Coke was from a wealthy family. He inherited the family estate of Brookhill Hall, Pinxton Coke began composing when he was at Eton College, where he was taught by Henry Ley, and was influenced to take up the piano by hearing Benno Moiseiwitsch. He pursued his study of composition and the piano seriously. He took piano lessons in London with Mabel Lander (herself a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky and teacher of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret) and was later a pupil of Alan Bush. He made his debut as a composer-pianist in 1932 with his first piano concerto, and formed the Brookhill Symphony Orchestra in 1940 to play his own and other neglected works. Coke was homosexual, and a heavy cigarette smoker. two “vocal concertos” for soprano and orchestra and four symphonic poems. In the chamber music field there are sonatas for cello and for violin, as well as extended works for piano solo, notably the 24 Preludes and 15 Variations and Finale, and around 100 songs. Many of his unpublished manuscripts are held at Chesterfield Library. Works Recordings *Violin Sonat

Roger Sessions

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Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions’s friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced him, but he modified his technique to a unique style involving rows to supply melodic themes, while composing subsidiary parts freely. Life Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American Revolution. His mother was Ruth Huntington Sessions. Roger studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14. There he wrote for and subsequently edited the Harvard Musical Review. Graduating at age 18, he went on to study at Yale University under Horatio Parker and Ernest Bloch before teaching at Smith College. With the exception, mostly, of his incidental music to the play The Black Maskers, composed in part in Cleveland in 1923, his first major compositions came while he was traveling Europe with his first wife in his mid-twenties and early thirties. Returning to the United Sta

Roger Smalley

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John Roger Smalley (26 July 1943 – 18 August 2015) was an Anglo-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley was a senior honorary research fellow at the School of Music, University of Western Australia in Perth and honorary research associate at the University of Sydney. Biography Smalley was born in Swinton, Lancashire, England. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Antony Hopkins (piano), Peter Racine Fricker and John White (both composition). In addition, he studied with Alexander Goehr at Morley College, and attended Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Cologne Course for New Music in 1965–66, as well as Pierre Boulez’s Darmstadt summer course in 1965. As a young composer, he was awarded the 1965 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for his orchestral work Gloria Tibi Trinitas. Smalley was appointed in 1967 as the first Composer in Residence at King’s College, Cambridge. In 1969 Smalley and his successor at King’s, Tim Souster, formed the live-electronic group Intermodulation. Over the next six years Intermodulation toured widely in the UK, West Germany, Poland, France and Iran, with a repertoire which included not only works by Souster and Smalley, but also

Roger Steptoe

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Roger Steptoe (born 1953) is an English composer and pianist. He studied music at the University of Reading as an undergraduate and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1974 to 1977 as a post-graduate student. There he studied composition with Alan Bush and piano accompaniment with Geoffrey Pratley. Notable works during this period include the Clarinet Quintet and the solo piano piece Equinox, a series of concertos, and the Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1988) for counter tenor and strings. As a pianist, Steptoe recorded the first modern performances of the Walton and Bridge piano quartets, and in the first recording of the Four Last Songs by Vaughan Williams. Anthony Bye has described Steptoe’s style as “wholeheartedly in the tradition of Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Howells, Britten and Tippett…regenerated with thoroughly contemporary means of expression”. * Petite Sonatine 2 for cello solo (2009) * Quatre romances sans paroles for piano quartet (2001) * Sonata No.3 for brass quintet (1982) * Sonata for clarinet and piano (2003) * Sonata for trumpet and organ (2008) * Sonata for tuba and piano (2007) * Sonata for viola and piano (2010) * Sonata No.1 for vi

Roger Zare

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Roger Joseph Zare (born 1985 Sarasota, Florida) is a Chinese-American composer and pianist. Currently based in Boone, North Carolina. He is known primarily for his orchestral and wind ensemble works, several of which have received significant recognition in the contemporary music community. Life Zare grew up in Sarasota, Florida, and began playing piano at age 5, violin at age 11, and began composing at age 14. He received his BM from the USC Thornton School of Music in 2007, his MM from the Peabody Conservatory in 2009, and his DMA from the University of Michigan in 2012. Zare’s teachers have included Bright Sheng, Kristin Kuster, Paul Schoenfield, Michael Daugherty, Derek Bermel, David Smooke, Christopher Theofanidis, Tamar Diesendruck, Donald Crockett, Morten Lauridsen, Frederick Lesemann, Betty Hines, and Rex Willis. Before his collegiate career, Zare attended Pine View School in Osprey, Florida. 2005–2010 In 2005, while studying under Tamar Diesendruck at USC, Zare won the New York Youth Symphony’s 65th annual First Music commission and was the youngest composer in the foundation’s history to receive that honor, marking the beginning of Zare’s professional career. For the grou

Rogerio Caetano

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Rogerio Caetano (born Goiânia, September 26, 1977) is a Brazilian musician, arranger, musical producer and composer. Bachelor of Music in Composition by the University of Brasília, he is an awarded virtuoso and international reference in 7 string guitar. Using a revolutionary language, within the choro and samba music genres and mixing jazz elements, he represents a new school for this instrument. He has a method for the instrument and a discography with 11 albums, being awarded in 2016 in the Brazilian Music Awards. In 2015 and 2019 he was awarded the IMA (Independent Music Awards), Best Instrumentalists 2015/Embrulhador, and 2017 and 2021, in the Music Pro Awards. His partners include Yamandu Costa, Hamilton de Holanda, Daniel Santiago, Marco Pereira, Eduardo Neves, Celsinho Silva, Luís Barcelos, Gian Correa, Cristovão Bastos, and Coletivo Choro na Rua. He has been promoting his art in Brazil and abroad, performing concerts in countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, USA, China, India, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, and Ecuador. He has recorded with artists such as Zeca Pagodinho, Paulinho da Viola, Arlindo Cruz, Beth Carvalho, Caetano

Rogério Skylab

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Rogério Tolomei Teixeira (born September 2, 1956), known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, author, blogger, record producer, actor and short-lived television presenter. Describing himself as a “corpse within MPB”, his unique musical style which granted him a passionate cult following is characterized by minimalism, repetition and eclecticism, and his writings are permeated by grotesque, shocking and offensive imagery; acerbic allusions to popular culture; metafictional and transgressive devices; absurdist, surreal and oftentimes macabre scenarios; pessimism; foul language; nihilism; and scatological and black comedy – although he has repeatedly denied that his work is purposefully humorous. Some of his most recognizable compositions are “Matador de Passarinho” (which brought him into nationwide fame in the underground scene), “Motosserra”, “Funérea”, “Naquela Noite”, “Carrocinha de Cachorro-Quente”, “Dedo, Língua, Cu e Boceta”, “Eu Chupo o Meu Pau”, “Fátima Bernardes Experiência” and “Chico Xavier & Roberto Carlos” (the latter two being notable for having been censored from their original releases). Also dedicating hi

Rogier Michael

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Rogier Michael von Bergen (ca. 1553 probably in Bergen-op-Zoom – after middle 1623 in Dresden) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer and Kapellmeister of the late Renaissance. Life and work Early life Michael came to Vienna as a child with his father Simon Michael († after 1566); his father was “probably the best mechanic and musician” during the reign of Emperor Ferdinand I (1556-1564) and was listed as a singer in the list of court chapels under Emperor Maximilian II from 1564 to 1566. Rogier presumably spent time as a choirboy in Vienna and in 1564 he joined the court chapel of Archduke Charles II in Graz as a choirboy. Johannes de Cleve then Annibale Padovano were in charge of this chapel, with Padovano advising Rogier to go to Venice to study further under Andrea Gabrieli, which he did from 1569 to 1572. After his return to Germany, he took a position as a tenor singer in Ansbach at the court chapel of George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1572, where he remained until 1574. Dresden On the recommendation of Emilie of Saxony, the sister of Elector August of Saxony, Michael became a singer and musician at the Dresden court orchestra on 1 February 1575. The Elector

Roh Ogura

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was a Japanese composer and writer. Biography He was born in Kitakyushu and lived in Tokyo and Kamakura. First he learned French Modern Music under Shiro Fukai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. Then he studied under Joseph Rosenstock about how to conduct Beethoven’s symphonies and he became very interested in German classical music and wrote many symphonies that made him end up being called, “Ogurahms”. Then he faced a deadlock and abandoned most of his works. Gradually, he became very interested in Bartók. Finally he broke a new ground and started writing his original music inspired by Japanese traditional folk songs and old nursery rhymes. He was also gifted writer who published several books. In the late period of his life he was passionate painter too who painted oil paintings. He was a friend of Minoru Matsuya (1910–1995) and taught his son Midori Matsuya (1943–1994) harmony and composition. He was also a teacher of Hiroaki Zakoji (1958–1987). Works *1937 Sonatine for piano *1953 Dance Suite for two pianos *1953 Dance Suite for orchestra *1954 String Quartet in B *1957 Five Movements on Japanese Folk Songs for orchestra *1958 Nine Pieces on Children’s Songs of Tohoku Region for female c

Rohit Sharma (composer)

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Rohit Sharma is an Indian film composer, most famously known for being the music director of the film The Kashmir Files , directed by Vivek Agnihotri. His film composing career began during the early 2010s when he composed the song ‘Naham Janami’ which was featured in the critically acclaimed film Ship Of Theseus by director Anand Gandhi. Since then, he has composed music for films such as Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2016), Anaarkali of Aarah among others. Early life Rohit Sharma was born in New Delhi, India and holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Delhi College Of Engineering in 1996. Since childhood, he had a natural passion and talent for music and taught himself to play the Indian classical flute. Also a gifted singer, he excelled in music & singing competitions all through school and college, bagging multiple awards as a result. At the age of 17, he sought formal education from Pt. Harshwardhan for Classical Flute. Simultaneously, he trained himself in Western Classical Piano from the Delhi School of Music. In the year 2000, he quit his job to become a professional music composer in Mumbai, India. Career His music career began with composing a number of jingles and music

Roland Cardon

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Roland Cardon (15 April 1929 – 18 August 2001) was a Belgian composer, pedagogue, flautist, clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist. He often published works under the name Guy Rodenhof. After studies at the Ghent Conservatory, from 1955 he was a member of the long-lived band Chasseurs Ardennais in which he played solo flute. In the period 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in woodwind and orchestral music in the music school of Aarlen. From 1973 to 1982 he taught flute at the Music Academy in Vilvoorde. In addition, he taught at the Rijksmuziekacademie in Etterbeek in flute from 1973 to 1977. From 1974 to 1977 he was lecturer in the conducting of wind or fanfare orchestras at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. From 1 January 1982 to 1 July 1994 he was director at the Municipal Conservatory of Ostend. Compositions Orchestra * Serenade, for strings *# Moderato *# Andante *# Allegro Band * 1968 Capriccio in Blue * Ad Futurum * Arlequino, ouverture in sonatenvorm * Blue, sweet & swing, voor klarinettenkoor * Childrens Symphony * Claribel, voor klarinettenkoor * Concertino, voor piano en harmonieorkest * Cricket First * Dance Party, suite *# Bossalero *# Tangentino *# Chachambo *# Salsamba

Roland Carter (composer)

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Roland Marvin Carter (born May 4, 1942) is an American composer and conductor, largely of choral music. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Carter studied music education at Hampton University, from which he received a BA, and New York University, from which he received his MA; he studied piano, choral music, and composition. From 1965 until 1989 he taught music at Hampton University, chairing the department of music and leading the choir. In 1989 he moved to the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, where he directed the choir and continued to teach until his 2013 retirement. Carter is best known for his work as composer, conductor, arranger, and publisher to promote the choral music of African-American composers. He served as president of the National Association of Negro Musicians from 2003 until 2009, and publishes choral music, especially arrangements of spirituals, through his publishing company MAR-VEL; as a composer, he has created numerous spiritual arrangements himself, as well as composing new choral compositions on a variety of texts. Carter has received numerous awards throughout his career, including an honorary doctorate from Shaw University In 2022 the city of Chatt

Roland Dyens

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Roland Dyens () (19 October 1955 – 29 October 2016) was a French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger. He is considered one of the greatest guitarists of his time. Life and career Dyens was born in Tunisia and lived most of his life in Paris. He studied with Spanish classical guitarist Alberto Ponce and with Désiré Dondeyne. As a performer, Dyens was known for improvisation. Sometimes he opened his concerts with an improvised piece, and he might improvise the program itself, without planning or announcing beforehand what he would be playing. He said that a journalist once told him he had the hands of a classical musician but the mind of a jazz musician. He played Bach suites and he played with jazz musicians at the Arvika Festival in Sweden. A heavy metal band did a version of the third movement of his Libra Sonatine. Dyens released several volumes of arrangements that included not only the classical music of Fernando Sor but also the Brazilian music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, jazz standards by Thelonious Monk, the French pop of Edith Piaf, and the Gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt. Awards and honors * International Competition Città di Alessandria, Italy, 1979 * Grand Prix de Acad

Roland F. Seitz

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Roland Forrest Seitz (1867–1946) was an American composer, bandmaster, and music publisher. For his many march compositions he earned the sobriquet “The Parade Music Prince”. Early life and education He was born Roland Forrest Seitz on June 14, 1867, on a farm in Shrewsbury Township near Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of eight children of William and Magdalena Zeigler. Despite an early interest in music, Roland started work as a printer’s apprentice at the weekly Glen Rock Item. He joined the family band performing on the flute; and then the Glen Rock Band performing first on the euphonium and then the cornet. In 1894 at age 27, Seitz enrolled in the Dana Musical Institute in Warren, Ohio. (Dana is now part of Youngstown State University). Roland graduated from Dana in 1898. Career Seitz returned to Glen Rock to teach wind and percussion as well as perform in the town band and soon became their conductor. By 1901, under Seitz, the band was selected to perform at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Beginning with New York Journal published in 1897, Seitz composed nearly fifty marches. One of these marches, Grandioso (1901), is often featured in parades. G

Roland Trogan

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Roland Trogan (August 6, 1933 – May 1, 2012) was an American composer, teacher and author. Biography Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Trogan was a musical prodigy. He performed classical piano music as a teenager on WKNX Radio in Saginaw from 1947 to 1950, before beginning formal training in composition at the University of Michigan. There he studied with Ross Lee Finney, Luigi Dallapiccola and Leslie Bassett and received his B.Mus. in 1954, M.Mus. in 1955, and D.M.A. in 1963. His compositional work during this time was recognized by awards from BMI and the Louisville Symphony, which performed Trogan’s Two Scenes for Orchestra in 1955. A Fulbright Scholarship for study in Rome was rescinded by the House Committee on Un-American Activities because Trogan had signed a petition supporting the prominent socialist, Norman Thomas. In addition to graduate fellowships in music theory and English, Trogan was engaged as Associate Conductor and Composer-in-Residence by the Saginaw Civic Symphony, under the Russian-American conductor Joseph Cherniavsky. Trogan came to Cherniavsky’s attention after learning of Trogan’s prize winning one-act opera, The Hat Man (1954), which was widely performed. While

Rolande Falcinelli

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Rolande Roberte Ginabat-Falcinelli (18 February 1920 – 11 June 2006) was a French organist, pianist, composer, and music educator. Biography Rolande Falcinelli (born Ginabat), the grandniece of Marcel Falcinelli and granddaughter of Louis Napoléon Falcinelli (both painters), was born in Paris and entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1932, where her teachers were noted pianist and pedagogue Isidor Philipp and Abel Estyle (piano), Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (harmony), Simone Plé-Caussade (counterpoint), Henri Büsser (composition), and Marcel Dupré (organ and improvisation). In 1942, she received the second Grand Prix de Rome in composition. From 1946 to 1973, she was titular organist at Sacré-Cœur in Paris. She was succeeded by her student Daniel Roth. Additionally, she taught organ at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau from 1948 to 1955, and at the École Normale de Musique in Paris from 1948 to 1955. In 1948, at Salle Pleyel in Paris, Rolande Falcinelli performed from memory the (then) complete organ works of Marcel Dupré, whose music was in the center of her interests throughout her career as a performer and teacher. In 1955, she succeeded Dupré as professor of organ and impro

Rolf Alexander Wilhelm

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Rolf Alexander Wilhelm (23 June 1927 – 17 January 2013 ) was a German composer, film composer, arranger and conductor. Life Born in Munich, at the age of seven Wilhelm received piano lessons. Afterwards he attended the grammar school in Berlin and Vienna. From 1942 he studied piano with a special permission with Grete Hinterhofer and musical composition with Joseph Marx at the Wiener Musikhochschule. His war deployment as Luftwaffenhelfer and the subsequent imprisonment interrupted the musical career of Wilhelm, who returned to destroyed Munich in 1945 with a Notabitur. There he was able to continue his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1946 and passed the school-leaving examination in 1948. Among his teachers were Heinrich Knappe (conducting), Joseph Haas (musical composition) and Hans Rosbaud (master class) Even before that, in 1946, Radio München, the forerunner of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, produced The Canterville Ghost, one of its first radio plays after the Second World War. Through the mediation of his brother Kurt Wilhelm who acted as assistant director for the play, the nineteen-year-old composer received his first commission. The work was convin

Rolf Gehlhaar

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Rolf Rainer Gehlhaar (30 December 1943 – 7 July 2019) was an American composer, Professor in Experimental Music at Coventry University and researcher in assistive technology for music. Life Born in Breslau, Gehlhaar was the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at a rocket-development research centre in New Mexico. Although he took an interest in music from the age of eight or younger, in the post-war years the family could not afford for him to learn an instrument, and so Rolf only began to play the piano at the age of fifteen, and at about the same time began to compose for fun. He took American citizenship in 1958 and studied at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. Initially, he had studied medicine, but soon changed his major to philosophy and the philosophy of science; then at Yale he attended a course in composition, which was an arousing experience. He moved to Cologne, Germany, in 1967 to become assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen, and became a member of his performing ensemble. In 1969, together with Johannes Fritsch and David C. Johnson, he founded the Feedback Studio, Cologne, a new-music performance ce

Rolf Gupta

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Rolf Arvind Gupta (born 14 January 1967) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and conductor. Early life and education Born in Uppsala, Gupta has studied with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as well as with Ilya Musin and Herbert Blomstedt. Gupta also studied composition with Olav Anton Thommessen, Per Nørgård, Antonio Bibalo and Lasse Thoresen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Career 2003 to 2005 saw Gupta acting as the chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and he led the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra from 2004 to 2006. As a guest conductor, he has worked with such orchestras as the Oslo Philharmonic, which has performed his work Chiaroscuro while touring internationally. Other engagements include a concert version of Grieg’s Peer Gynt with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and the choir of the Mariinsky Opera during Valery Gergiev’s White Nights Festival in Saint Petersburg, Radio France Présences Festival, Moscow Easter Festival, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, BBC, the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, Orchestra della Toscana, Avanti! and Ensemble intercontemporain. From 2006 to 2013,

Rolf Hind

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Rolf Hind (born 1964 in London) is a British pianist and composer. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Rolf Hind was born in London to a German mother and an English father. He studied piano with Kendall Taylor, John Barstow, John Constable, Johana Harris and composition with Edwin Roxburgh and Jeremy Dale Roberts. Hind teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (piano, composition, Research associate) and at the Royal Academy of Music, as well as Brunel University, Dartington Summer School and in conservatories throughout Europe and Asia. His tours have taken him from Carnegie Hall to The Proms and he has played at many major festivals and stages internationally. A specialist in 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, Hind has worked with many composers, and been dedicatee of new works. Such collaborations include John Adams, Unsuk Chin, Tan Dun, Helmut Lachenmann, Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, Thomas Ades, George Benjamin, Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Michael Finnissy, James Dillon, James MacMillan, Julius Eastman and Rebecca Saunders. He has made many appearances as soloist; with the Dan

Rolf Liebermann

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Rolf Liebermann (14 September 1910 – 2 January 1999), was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985 to 1988. He was also the artistic director of the Paris Opera from 1973 to 1980. Life Liebermann was born in Zürich, and studied composition and conducting with Hermann Scherchen in Budapest and Vienna in the 1930s, and later with Wladimir Vogel in Basel. His compositional output involved several different musical genres, including chansons, classical, and light music. His classical music often combines myriad styles and techniques, including those drawn from baroque, classical, and twelve-tone music. Liebermann was the director of the Hamburg Staatsoper from 1959 to 1973, and again from 1985 to 1988. At the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, Liebermann acted as the president of the jury; being responsible for moderating and finalising the results of the seven international juries judging the competition. In 1992 he served on the jury of the Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Spain. In 1989, he was the head of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Fi

Rolf Løvland

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Rolf Undsæt Løvland (born 19 April 1955) is a Norwegian composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist. Together with Fionnuala Sherry, he formed the Celtic-Nordic group Secret Garden, in which he was the composer, producer, and keyboardist. He began composing at an early age (he formed a band at the age of nine) and grew up studying at the Kristiansand Music Conservatory, later receiving his master’s degree from the Norwegian Institute of Music in Oslo. Notable songs Løvland has won the Eurovision Song Contest twice, resulting in Norway’s first two titles. He composed the song “La det swinge” in 1985. He also composed the song “Nocturne” in 1995, as part of the duo Secret Garden. He also composed the song “You Raise Me Up”. In an interview with Radio Norge in February 2010, Løvland stated that this song had been covered more than 500 times thus far. Barbra Streisand asked Ann Hampton Callaway to write lyrics to a Rolf Løvland melody which she entitled “I’ve Dreamed of You”, and sang to James Brolin at their wedding. The song was later recorded on her CD, “A Love Like Ours”, released as a single and selected for the album, The Essential Barbra Streisand. Streisand performed this song on

Rolf Riehm

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Rolf Riehm (15 June 1937 – 3 January 2026) was a German composer who wrote stage and orchestral works as well as music for ensembles and solo instruments. He began as an oboist and music teacher and was later a professor of music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 1974 to 2000. He joined the wind ensemble Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester from 1976 to 1981 as oboist and arranger; they played at political demonstrations. His opera Sirenen was premiered at the Oper Frankfurt in 2014. Life and career Riehm was born in Saarbrücken on 15 June 1937 and grew up in Frankfurt. His father, Karl Riehm, was a school music teacher, and his mother, Elly, was a piano teacher. During his schooling he served already as organist at the American Central Chapel. He completed school with the Abitur in 1957. Riehm worked first as a solo oboist. Riehm’s opera Sirenen had its premiere at the Oper Frankfurt in 2014. Stage music * Das Schweigen der Sirenen, premiered by Staatsoper Stuttgart (1994) Music for ensemble * Uncertain Melody (1989) for eight instruments * Double Distant Counterpoint (J. S. Bach, Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XI) (1994) for large

Rolf Schweizer

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Rolf Schweizer (14 March 1936 – 6 June 2016 ) was a German composer, choirmaster and church music director, who was based primarily at Pforzheim. Schweizer was part of the movement Neues Geistliches Lied, and his compositions, several of which appear in the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), were heavily influenced by contemporary secular music, especially jazz. Life Schweizer was born in Mundingen (now a suburb of Emmendingen). His first musical instruction was as a member of the local brass band. He studied Protestant church music at the Evangelische Kirchenmusikalischen Institut in Heidelberg, with Wolfgang Fortner, , Wolfgang Dallmann, Heinz Werner Zimmermann and others. From 1956 to 1966 he was choirmaster of St John’s in Mannheim. In 1966 he became district choirmaster of Pforzheim, a position he retained until his retirement. In 1969 he was promoted to Kirchenmusikdirektor (church music director), and in 1975 he became state choirmaster (Landeskantor) for Mittelbaden. The couple has three daughters. One of the daughters, Constanze Schweizer-Elser is currently the church choir director at Selb in north-eastern Bavaria. and the second daughter, Felicitas Schewize

Rolf Thomas Lorenz

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Rolf Thomas Lorenz (born 19 May 1959 in Klingenthal) is a German composer and music teacher. Life From 1974 to 1982 Lorenz received composition lessons from Jürgen Golle in Zwickau. From 1978 to 1982 he studied composition, clarinet and piano at the conservatory “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden with Wilfried Krätzschmar, Josef Oehl, and Hermann W. Finke. Since 1982 Lorenz has been teaching clarinet, composition and music theory at the Heinrich-Schütz-Conservatory Dresden, and he also works as a freelance composer. Since 2004 he has been chairman of the Dresden working group of the German Composers’ Association. Prizes * 1. Prize of the 2nd Saxon Composition Competition 2001 organized by the (Drei Bagatellen für 3 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen, Musikverlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig) Compositions * Kaleidoskop für 4 B-Klarinetten und Bassklarinette. Musikverlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig * Columbus Skteches for Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra, 2001 * Solo della ramificazione 1982/2003 for clarinet, Musikverlag Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig * 3 Nocturnes pour clarinette solo 2010/11, self edition * Drei Bagatellen für 2 Trompeten und 3 Posaunen, 2000, Musikverlag Friedrich Hofmeist

Rolf Wallin

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Rolf Wallin (born 7 September 1957) is a Norwegian composer, trumpeter and avant-garde performance artist. Biography Wallin was born in Oslo, where he studied with Finn Mortensen and Olav Anton Thommessen. He later studied at the University of California where his teachers included Roger Reynolds and Vinko Globokar. Wallin’s music combines an intuitive freedom with a rigorous mathematical approach, such as use of fractal algorithms to construct melody and harmony. In 1998 he was awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize. Career highlights * 1976–82 – studied at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. * 1987 – Norwegian Society of Composers Award for …though what made it has gone. * 1991 – developed ‘crystal chord’ technique for generation of harmony in ning. * 1998 – awarded Nordic Council Music Prize for Clarinet Concerto. * 2000 – portrait CD Boyl released on Aurora label; wins Norwegian Spelemann prisen. * 2001 – featured composer at Stockholm International Composer Festival. Key works * …though what made it has gone (1987; mezzo-soprano, piano) * Stonewave (1990; percussion) * Boyl (1995; chamber ensemble) * Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1996) * Ground (1996; cello, strings)

Rollo Dilworth

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Rollo A. Dilworth (born September 23, 1970) is an American choral composer, arranger, conductor, and music educator from St. Louis, Missouri. Education Dilworth, as a young boy, was impassioned by singing experiences in his school and church choirs. At the age of 11, he began experimenting with the music he was given by testing out alternate pitches and rhythms. His elementary music teacher fostered this curiosity by realizing his work. This period marked the beginning of his love for arranging music. At this time, he also began studying music theory and piano. During his high school years, he quickly discovered that he wanted to pursue music as a career. He spent a year teaching elementary school music full-time while also attending the University of Missouri-St. Louis to complete a master’s degree in secondary education. In 1998, both Colla Voce and Hal Leonard contacted Dilworth, offering him publishing contracts. both of which are published by Hal Leonard. In 2003, he was the recipient of North Park University’s Zenos Hawkinson Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership. After 2009, Dilworth accepted a position as a professor of music at Temple University in Pennsylvan

Rom Di Prisco

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Rom Di Prisco (born August 30, 1972), sometimes known as Morphadron, is a Canadian electronic composer. He has provided music for over 30 video games, including the Need for Speed series (second through sixth games), the NHL series (2000–2002), Spy Hunter 2, Guacamelee!, Fortnite, and Anvil Empires. Di Prisco also produces remixes for other artists, including Christopher Lawrence, Unit:187, 3kStatic, and Count Your Curses. In addition, he also works on music for films and television programs. His music has appeared in film and television including Saw 2, The Oprah Winfrey Show, America’s Next Top Model, and The Sopranos, among many others. In December 2010, Di Prisco released his debut solo album, Cryptidalia. The album is currently available as a choose-your-price (including free) download from his website. Discography References External links * Official website

Romain-Octave Pelletier I

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Romain-Octave Pelletier I (sometimes spelled Peltier) (9 September 1843 – 4 March 1927) was a Canadian organist, pianist, composer, writer on music, and music educator. Early life and career Born in Montreal, Pelletier was a member of a prominent musical family. Three of his sons had successful musical careers: Frédéric Pelletier, Romain Pelletier, and Victor Pelletier. His grandson, Romain-Octave Pelletier II, was a well known violinist. His elder brother, Orphir Pelletier, was a composer and organist at St. Patrick’s Basilica, Montreal. Largely self-taught, it is from Orphir that he received his only early music lessons. He later studied for two years in Europe during the early 1870s after having worked for almost 15 years as a church organist. In 1857, at the age of 15, Pelletier succeeded Jean-Chrysostome Brauneis II as organist at Saint-Jacques Cathedral. He remained there for the next ten years, during which time he studied law and obtained certification as a notary. He notably officiated the marriage license of violinist Frantz Jehin-Prume, whom he accompanied numerous times in recital, and mezzo-soprano Rosita del Vecchio in 1866. In 1866–1867 Pelletier spent some months in

Román Alís

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Román Alís (1931 – 2006) was a Spanish composer. He was born in Palma de Mallorca on August 24, 1931, and died in Madrid on 29 October 2006. Education and training Román Alís’ interest in music emerged in Barcelona in 1947, encouraged by the cultural movement in that city, absent in other populations in which his life had developed earlier. While pursuing his musical studies at the Conservatorio Superior Municipal de Música in Barcelona, alongside instructors such as Luis Maria Millet, John Gibert Camins, John Pich Santasusana, Joachim Zamacois and Eduard Toldrá, popular music became very important in his early career. Performer, conductor, arranger, and composer worked for big bands, publishers, record labels, and radio. This certainly would not have been possible without his spontaneous ease of creation, which made him compose a large number of works from the start. Career After moving to Seville in 1960, he obtained the following year the First Place Grand Prize for Composition in the Divonne-Les-Bains International Contest held in Paris. There he was honoured by the organization, the jury, the press and the French Radiotelevisión, and was able to meet personally with musicians

Roman Bunka

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Roman Bunka (2 December 1951 – 12 June 2022) was a German guitarist, oud player and composer, active in world music and jazz fusion bands. He lived most of his life in Munich, Bavaria, where he was involved in various musical crossover projects. Career Bunka was born in Frankfurt on 2 December 1951. In 1979, Embryo traveled overland to India with three buses and their instruments. The tour was documented in the movie Vagabunden Karawane. Besides the guitar, his second instrument was the Arabic oud, which he studied mainly in Egypt. Having spent long periods of time there, he often played in the band of Egyptian singer and movie actor Mohamed Mounir, In 1994, Bunka presented his ethno jazz project Color me Cairo, featuring Malachi Favors of Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Egyptian musicians Fathy Salama, Hosam Shakir and Khaled Goma at the Berlin Jazz Festival, curated by George Gruntz. The same line-up was recorded by Enja Records, with Rolling Stone magazine writing: “Bunka gets fame in a growing musical diaspora as ‘best oud-player north of Mekka’.” Bunka was known for his artistic collaboration with German and international musicians, such as the German world music groups Embryo, D

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, born Roman Haubenstock (; 27 February 1919 – 3 March 1994) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna. Life Haubenstock-Ramati was born in Tonie (a village near Krakow, to which it was incorporated only in 1941) as a son of Samuel (a farmer) and Regina née Gronner. He obtained his secondary school-leaving certificate at the Cracow 2nd State St. Jack Gymnasium in 1937. After that he studied composition, music theory, violin and philosophy there from 1934 to 1938, and in Lemberg from 1939 to 1941. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler. In 1939, his family fled from the Germans to Lviv, which was incorporated into the Soviet Union as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Due to his multilingualism, he was arrested shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 on charges of espionage and deported to Tomsk via Odessa. There he was amnestied to join General Władysław Anders’ Polish Army and arrived in Palestine with the 2nd Polish Corps. He stayed there for several years and in 1943 he took the second part of his surname “Ramati” - from then on he appeared as Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. After his com

Roman Hoffstetter

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Roman Hoffstetter (born 24 April 1742, in Laudenbach, near Bad Mergentheim, Holy Roman Empire; died: 21 May (Baker’s) or June (New Grove 2nd) 1815, in Miltenberg-am-Main, Germany; alternative spelling Romanus Hoffstetter) was a classical composer and Benedictine monk who also admired Joseph Haydn almost to the point of imitation. Hoffstetter wrote “everything that flows from Haydn’s pen seems to me so beautiful and remains so imprinted on my memory that I cannot prevent myself now and again from imitating something as well as I can.” In 1965, the musicologist Alan Tyson (with H.C. Robbins Landon) published the finding that the entire set of six String Quartets long-admired as Haydn’s Op. 3, including the Andante cantabile of No. 5 in F Major known as Haydn’s Serenade, were actually by Roman Hoffstetter. Further discoveries have purported to establish Hoffstetter’s authorship of the first two of the six quartets, but not the other four. Little is known about his early training or life, though it is likely that he came from a musical family. He was a twin; the other was Johann Urban Alois Hoffstetter, who became director of the Franconian province of the Teutonic Order and also a sma

Roman Hurko

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Roman Hurko is a New York based composer who specializes in Byzantine Rite Music. Biography Early life Roman Hurko is an American-Canadian of Ukrainian descent, born in Toronto, Canada (1962). A graduate of The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (Master of Arts and Religion) and The University of Toronto (B.A. Music History and Theory), he has also studied composition privately with composer Father Ivan Moody in Portugal. He has been a member of the Composers’ Union of Ukraine since 2004. Hurko began composing music while still in high school. His first composition “Ave Maria” for SATB choir was premiered by the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir, at the Guelph Spring Festival in 1983, with the composer conducting. In the summers of 1983 and 1985 he attended choral conducting seminars led by Wolodymyr Kolesnyk, former director of the National Opera of Ukraine. In the fall of 1985, he co-founded the St. Evtymyj Youth Choir at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto. Hurko soon began setting sections of the liturgy for the choir, and in 1999 completed and recorded the entire Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in commemoration of the second millennium of Christianity. Career Alo

Roman Maciejewski

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Roman Maciejewski (28 February 1910 in Berlin, Germany – 30 April 1998 in Gothenburg, Sweden) was a Polish composer. His mother, Bronisława Maciejewska, was a talented violinist and music teacher who taught him to play piano. He studied in Stern Conservatory in Berlin, later with Stanisław Wiechowicz and Kazimierz Sikorski in Poznań Conservatory, then continued with Sikorski in Warsaw Conservatory. In his early years he was highly acclaimed by Karol Szymanowski. In 1934 he went to Paris, to study with Nadia Boulanger. He never returned to his native Poland, staying in various countries abroad: France (till 1938), United Kingdom (1938-1939), Sweden (1939-1951), United States (1951-1977) and again Sweden (1977–98). At first he composed inspired by Karol Szymanowski’s late style (mazurkas for piano, Kurpian Songs for choir). The tragedy of World War II, and also his very serious illness during his first stay in Sweden, caused a deep change in composer’s personality, that has greatly affected his music. Starting in 1939 Maciejewski began living in Sweden, working as a composer and pianist, where he married a Swedish dancer and remained for 12 years. During his American years, Maciejews

Roman Palester

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Roman Palester (28 December 1907 – 25 August 1989) was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in 1964. His work was individual in style and not noticeably Polish in character. Palester was born in Śniatyń of Habsburg-controlled Galicia, in 1907. At the age of seven he started piano lessons and by age twelve was studying at the Music Institute in Kraków. In 1925, he began to study art history at Warsaw University. Palester graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory with a degree in music theory and composition in 1931, having studied under Kazimierz Sikorski. His first recognition came in 1932 when his “Psalm V for Baritone, Choir and Orchestra” was awarded first place in the Competition of the Singers’ Societies Association . Palester travelled extensively during his life and lived at different times in Warsaw, Paris, and Munich. In 1940, during the German occupation of Poland, he was briefly imprisoned in Warsaw’s Pawiak prison. Both before and just after the Second World War he composed film scores for a number of major Polish cinematic productions

Roman Simovych

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Roman Apollonovych Simovych (28 February 190130 July 1984) was a Ukrainian composer, educator, and music theorist. Born in Sniatyn, now in Ukraine, Simovych graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1934 - on piano (Vilém Kurz), and again in 1936 undergoing post graduate studies in composition (Vítězslav Novák). From 1936 to 1939 he was a teacher of piano and theoretical subjects at the Lviv National Music Academy in Drohobych and from 1939 to 1942 at the music school in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk). From 1951, he was a lecturer and from 1963, a full professor at the Lviv Conservatory. He received the title Honoured Artist of the USSR (1954). He died in 1984 and was buried in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Works * Ballet “Sopilka Dovbush” (1948, libretto by A. Herynovycha) * 7 symphonies: ** “Hutsul” (1945), ** “Lemko” (1947), ** “Spring” (1951), ** “Heroic” (1954), ** “Mountain” (1955), ** Sixth (1965), ** Seventh (1972); * Symphonic poems “Sergeant Maxim”, “Dovbush”, “In memory of Ivan Franko” * Symphonic overtures, suites; * Concerto for flute and symphony orchestra (1953); * String quartet, two trios; * Works for piano: * 2 Sonatas, Sonatina In suite, * Variation, * Rond

Roman Toi

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Roman Toi (18 June 1916 – 7 May 2018) was an Estonian-Canadian composer, choir conductor, and organist. Influenced by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Toi’s music is melodic, lyrical, and melancholic in style. His compositional output includes nine cantatas (composed 1953–77), three symphonies (1969, 1972, 1974), and more than 80 choral works. Many of his compositions have become part of the standard Estonian choral repertoire. Life and career Born in Kõo Parish, in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (now Estonia), Toi became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1957. He began his professional education at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Montreux, Switzerland and then studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg from 1942 to 1943 where he was a pupil of Clemens Krauss. He spent the next six years conducting and writing music for choirs, theatre, and radio in Europe. and died in May 2018 at the age of 101 in Toronto, Canada. References

Roman Turovsky-Savchuk

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Roman Mykhailovych Turovsky-Savchuk (born May 16, 1961) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, born in Ukraine. His musical works were published under various pseudonyms, including Johann Joachim Sautscheck. Biography Turovsky was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1961, when it was part of the Soviet Union. He studied art from an early age under his father, the painter Mikhail Turovsky and at the Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv. He also began to be interested in music in his teens. The family emigrated to New York City in 1979. They first lived in the Bronx. Turovsky continued his art studies in New York at the Parsons School of Design, studying concurrently Historical Performance (Baroque Lute) and Composition, under Patrick O’Brien, Pier Luigi Cimma, Leonid Hrabovsky and Davide Zannoni. Art Turovsky began composing in the early 1990s, simultaneously embarking on a career as a prolific artist-painter. He participated in many exhibitions. His first one-man show was held in June 2006 in New York, and the second in February 2013. Eight of his paintings are in the permanent collection of the International Marian Institute a

Roman Vlad

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Roman Vlad (29 December 1919 – 21 September 2013) was a Romanian-born Italian composer, pianist, and musicologist. Biography Born in Cernăuți, Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), he studied with Titus Tarnawski and Liviu Russu in Romania earning a piano diploma. He moved to Rome in 1938 to study at the University of Rome and later the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He eventually became an Italian citizen in 1951. Vlad’s early career was as a performer and composer; he won the Enescu Prize in 1942 for his Sinfonietta, and the Silver Ribbon Award for his film music. He was the artistic director of Accademia Filarmonica Romana from 1955 to 1958 and again from 1966 to 1969. As well, he was the president of the Italian Society for Contemporary Music in 1960 and musical consultant for the third RAI national radio and television network. He was later a member of the Directory Council of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and artistic consultant for the Ravenna Festival and the Spoleto Festival. Vlad was an eclectic composer whose works range from symphonies to operas to chamber music to “The Japanese Seasons, 24 Haiku.” He was a noted composer of film music, including

Romano Crivici

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Romano Crivici (1953) is an Australian violinist, pianist and composer. Romano Crivici is one of Australia’s only contemporary composers who is also a recognised contemporary classical performer on both violin and piano. Crivici, a former member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the New England String Quartet, has also worked widely as a repetiteur and conductor. However it has been his work as composer, director and violinist with his group Elektra String Quartet and Elektra Collektiv, that has made a unique contribution. The Elektra String Quartet, is best known for performing works by Crivici himself, as well as other Australian composers such as Nigel Westlake, Robert Davidson, Roger Dean, Mathew Hindson, Paul Stanhope, Martin Armiger, Ross Edwards and other contemporary works. Crivici founded the Elektra String Quartet in 1993 soon after leaving the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and created a disciplined and flexible ensemble that worked within many cross cultural art-forms. The ensemble featured works by Crivici himself as well as commissioning and performing works by some of Australia’s best known composers. His personal connection to the Australian landscape has inspired man

Romano Musumarra

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Romano Musumarra (born 21 July 1956) is an Italian composer, arranger, musician and record producer. Life and career Born in Rome, Musumarra approached music as a child, learning to play pipe organ at his church. He studied piano, composition and conducting at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and in 1975 he formed the melodic pop-rock group La Bottega dell’Arte, with whom he achieved some significant success throughout the 1970s. Besides his work with the band, in 1978 he made an electronic album called Automat together with Claudio Gizzi. In 1983 he left La Bottega dell’Arte and devoted himself to the activity of arranger and composer, arranging among others works by Riccardo Cocciante, Mango, Fred Bongusto and Franco Califano, and composing the music for Severino Gazzelloni’s album Azzurra. Musumarra continued his collaboration with Mas, composing and producing the tracks on her first two albums, including “Johnny, Johnny” and “En rouge et noir”, both number one in the French chart. In addition to launching new names, Musumarra has composed songs for established artists such as Celine Dion, Mireille Mathieu, Sylvie Vartan, Alain Delon, Nikka Costa, Dana Dawson, Hélène Sé

Romeo Cascarino

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Romeo Cascarino (September 28, 1922, Philadelphia – January 8, 2002, Norristown) was an American classical music composer. Biography Cascarino was born in Philadelphia on September 28, 1922 and graduated from South Philadelphia High School in June 1941. He served for many years as professor of music at the now-defunct Combs College of Music in Philadelphia. He received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1948 and 1949. His 1948 piece Prospice was inspired by Robert Browning’s poem of the same name. Pygmalion (1954) was based on the Greek myth and premiered in 1957 by the Royal Philharmonic. It also premiered as a ballet in 1957 at the Philadelphia Civic Ballet. His music is generally tonal, and his magnum opus is the opera William Penn, whose life had fascinated Cascarino since childhood. The opera took him nearly 25 years to compose, from 1950 to 1975, and it premiered in 1982 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia with John Cheek of the Metropolitan Opera in the title role. The work evolved from two earlier choral pieces, Prayer for Philadelphia (1950) and The Treaty (1953) with dramatic revisions into the early 1970s. The Acadian Land (1960) developed from an earlier piece, Divertimento,

Romuald Twardowski

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Romuald Twardowski (; 17 June 1930 – 13 January 2024) was a Polish composer, pianist, organist and academic teacher who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris. In a style described as “developed neoclassicism”, On a scholarship of the Polish Composers’ Union, he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger in 1963 * 2000: Solo, Chamber and Vocal Works, AP0059 * 2001: Gaude Mater Festival – 3 – Polish Mass, AP0098 * 2001: Musica Polonica Nova – Warsaw Composers 1, AP0100 * 2002: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, AP0089 * 2003: Missa Regina caeli, AP0090 * 2004: Complete Piano Works, AP0066 * 2004: Musica Polonica Nova – Warsaw Composers 2, AP0108 * 2004: Concertos, AP0110 * 2005: Works for String Orchestra, AP0120 * 2006: Chamber Music, AP0140 * 2008: Complete Organ Works, AP0175 * 2008: Concertos, AP0179 * 2008: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Roman Puchko (tenor, priest), Petro Hrekov (bass, deacon), Chamber Choir “Kyiv”, conducted by Mykola Hobdych, AP0193 * 2009: Exegi monumentum, AP0231 * 2011: Universitas Cantat 1998–2011, AP0295-99 * 2017: Luctus (Żałość), AP0378 * 2017: Violin Concerto, Kinga Augustyn (violin), Toruń Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mariusz Smolij, Naxos * 2019: S

Romualdo Marenco

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Romualdo Marenco (March 1, 1841 – October 9, 1907) was an Italian composer primarily noted for ballet music. Marenco started his musical career as a violinist in the Doria Theater in Genoa. His first composition was the ballet Garibaldi’s Landing in Marsala. He was appointed the orchestral conductor for La Scala in Milan and also directed the ballet company there for seven years. His best-known ballets were written in collaboration with choreographer Luigi Manzotti during that period. Marenco is best remembered for the ballet Excelsior, composed in 1881. Excelsior is a tribute to the scientific and industrial progress of the 19th century, from the electric light to the telegraph, steam engine, Fréjus Rail Tunnel, and Suez Canal. As such it foreshadows the Futurism movement. In the first nine months, it was staged 100 times in Italy and abroad. It is still performed and was recently (2002) staged in Milan. Works (1870). Opera * Lorenzino de’ Medici (Libretto by G. Perosio, Lodi 1874) * I Moncalda (Libretto by Fulgi, Milan 1880) * Federico Struensée (Novi Ligure 1908) Operetta * Le Diable au corps (Libr. E. Blum and P. Toché, Paris 1884) * Strategia d’amore (Libr. C. A. Blengi, Milan

Ron Collier

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Ron Collier, (July 3, 1930 – October 22, 2003) was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. He performed in and led a number of jazz groups, and created orchestrations for and recorded with Duke Ellington. Early life and education A native of Coleman, Alberta, Collier began his musical training in Vancouver. He was a member of the Kitsilano Boys’ Band. He studied music privately in Toronto with Gordon Delamont. The first jazz musician to receive a Canada Council grant, he studied orchestration in New York in 1961 and 1962. and on CBC’s Tabloid with Portia White, and in 1963 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Duke Ellington performed with the Ron Collier Orchestra on the 1969 album North of the Border in Canada. The album included compositions by several Canadian composers, including Collier. Collier created orchestrations for a number of Ellington’s concerts and recordings. Collier composed the scores to the films Face-Off (1971), A Fan’s Notes (1972), and Paperback Hero (1973). In the 1970s, he began directing a student orchestra at Toronto’s Humber College. His band won the big Band Open Class at the Canadian Stage Band Festival in 1982 . In 2003, he was made an Off

Ron Goodwin

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Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 19258 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Margaret Rutherford’s Murder, She Said films, and Frenzy. Born in Plymouth, Devon, England, Goodwin learned to play the piano by the age of five and returned to London four years later, where he attended Willesden County Grammar School. Whilst there, he learnt to play the trumpet and performed regularly in the school band. It was here that he formed his own band – Ron Goodwin and the Woodchoppers. and began to broadcast and make records with his Ron Goodwin Concert Orchestra. In 1953, Goodwin began arranging and conducting more than 300 recordings for over fifty performers, which resulted in more than 100 chart successes. He simultaneously made his own series of recordings and broadcasts as Ron Goodwin and his Concert Orchestra, and, in addition, began to compose scores for documentary films at Merton Park Studios. In 1958, Goodwin wrote his first feature film score for Whirlpool, with screenplay by Lawrence P. Bachmann. A

Ron Korb

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Ron Korb is a multi Grammy-nominated and Juno Award winning Canadian flutist (flautist) and composer. Musical style Korb is best known for writing culturally diverse music and his mastery of a wide array of world music wind instruments. His work spans a range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Latin, Asian, Celtic music, and Middle Eastern. Many of his songs are program music based on stories themes that form concept albums. The concepts often come from his exploration of his multi-cultural ancestry and extensive travel experience. Education Ron Korb started on the recorder in grade school and later joined an Irish fife and drum band in his teens. While attending the Royal Conservatory of Music, he won several local music competitions. He attended York University for a year to broaden his experience of playing jazz but later earned a scholarship to study classical flute at University of Toronto where he graduated with a degree in Music Performance. His primary teacher was Douglas Stewart but he also participated in master classes with Paula Robison, Robert Aitken in Shawnigan, Raymond Guiot in Domaine Forget and Michel Debost in Assisi, Italy. After graduating with honors from Un

Ron Kuivila

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Ron Kuivila (born December 19, 1955) is an American sound artist from Boston, MA. He is primarily known for his sound installations, performances, and recorded materials that make use of computers, and for his contributions to the SuperCollider audio programming language. Biography Kuivila studied under Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University and graduated with a B.A. in Music and a B.A. in Mathematics in 1977. He went on to receive his MFA from Mills College, studying under Robert Ashley and David Behrman. Kuivila released sound pieces as part of the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine compilations as well as through Sonic Arts and Lovely Music. In the 1990s Kuivila and David P. Anderson were responsible for creating the software language Formula, which has been used by David Behrman. He currently teaches classes in Experimental Music, Computers in Music, and Studio Recording at Wesleyan University, where he served as the chair of the music department. Kuivila received a 2008 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. In May 2011, he was named University Professor of Music. He currently works with the open-source software SuperCollider. His works have been installed at the D

Ron Nelson (composer)

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Ronald Jack Nelson (December 14, 1929 – December 24, 2023) was an American composer of classical music and popular music and a music educator. Biography Nelson was born December 14, 1929, in Joliet, Illinois. He studied composition at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1952, a master’s degree in 1953, and a doctorate in composition in 1957. His teachers at Eastman included Louis Mennini, Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. In 1954–1955 he studied with Tony Aubin in France at the Ecole Normale de Musique and at the Paris Conservatory under a Fulbright Grant. In 1956, Dr. Nelson joined the faculty of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he served as chairman of the music department from 1963 to 1973, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 1993. In 1991, Nelson was awarded the Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts, the first musician to hold the chair. His Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) was the first piece to win all three major wind band composition prizes during one period — the National Band Association Prize, the American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award, and the Sudler International Prize. He was award

Ron Saltmarsh

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Ron Saltmarsh is an American composer, producer, guitarist and performer. He has written many TV and movie scores, and also written many country music songs. Saltmarsh was born in Portland, OR in 1962 and grew up on a ranch in Beavercreek, OR. He moved to Provo, UT in 1980 to attend college at Brigham Young University. Saltmarsh served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Atlanta, Georgia. Saltmarsh has a bachelor’s degree in music from Brigham Young University (BYU) as well as an MBA from the Marriott School of Management. Among those he studied under at BYU was K. Newell Dayley and mentored by Sam Cardon. Saltmarsh was part of the Young Ambassadors and the jazz ensemble Synthesis while at BYU. In 1993 Saltmarsh became a vice president of Flashpoint productions and while there composed music for many SEGA and PC platform games. In 1995 he moved to Nashville, TN where he worked for 615 Music Productions as a freelance composer and producer. He was one of the lead composer for the music of A&E’s Biography Series. He also was the composer for the thriller movie SIGMA. He has also done arranging for the band Diamond Rio as well as many ot

Ron Weidberg

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Ron Weidberg (; born 1953 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer, musicologist, and pianist. His works have been performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, among others. Biography Ron Weidberg studied at the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music with Leon Schidlowsky and Yizhak Sadai. He later received his master’s degree at Northwestern University Bienen School of Music in Evanstone, Illinois, USA. In 2000 he received his doctorate degree in musicology at Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University. The dissertation title was: “The Evolution of Sonic Design in the Jean Sibelius’s Orchestral Music 1892-1914”. Music career In 1988, he collaborated with other Israeli composers initiating a concert series titled “Music Now”. In the first concert, his work “Bithonot” (“Securities”) after David Avidan was premiered with vocalist Adi Etzion-Zak. The series was active for five years and premiered some 70 Israeli new works. His works have been commissioned and performed in the framework of the Israel Jerusalem Festival, including “Introduction, Chromatic Fugue and Polk Circus” for 8 pianos in 32 hands (1984), “Fanfare for Brass Ensemble” (1986), “Pressure Songs” (1990)

Ronald Barnes (carillonist)

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Ronald Montague Barnes (June 11, 1927 – November 3, 1997) was an American carillonist, composer, and musicologist. He first began playing the carillon as a teenager at his hometown’s church. In 1952, at 24 years old, he was appointed to play the carillon at the University of Kansas, where he developed as a musician. He was later the carillonist for the Washington National Cathedral from 1963 to 1975 and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1982 until his retirement in 1995. He was an involved member of The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, having served as its president, vice president, and several other roles. Barnes produced 56 original compositions and hundreds of arrangements. He was a major force in establishing an American approach to writing music. He also influenced how people play the carillon. Much of his music is considered the standard repertoire for carillon students and professionals. He published editions of early carillon manuscripts and sought to develop standards for carillon performance, repertoire, and design and construction. The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America maintains a memorial scholarship fund in his name to advance research of the c

Ronald Binge

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Ronald Binge (15 July 1910 – 6 September 1979) was a British composer and arranger of light music. Biography Binge was born in a working-class neighbourhood in Derby, Derbyshire, in the English Midlands. and later worked in summer orchestras in British seaside resorts (including Blackpool and Great Yarmouth), for which he learned to play the piano accordion. Binge’s skill as a cinema organist was put to good use, and he played the organ in Mantovani’s first band, the Tipica Orchestra. After the war, Mantovani offered Binge the job of arranging and composing for his new orchestra. They had two children. He died in Ringwood, Hampshire, of liver cancer in 1979, aged 69, survived by his wife, son and daughter. it was originally created to capture the essence of the echo properties of a building such as a cathedral, although it later became particularly associated with easy-listening music. Binge’s catalogue includes hundreds of works, most of them light orchestral. His first big compositional success was the orchestral overture Spitfire, composed in Blackpool while he was still on RAF service, which predated William Walton’s orchestral tribute by a year. Best known today is probably El

Ronald Caltabiano

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Ronald Caltabiano (born December 7, 1959) is an American arts administrator and composer of contemporary classical music, with his music showing elements of modernism and romanticism. He holds B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied composition with Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti. He also has studied composition with Peter Maxwell Davies and conducting with Harold Farberman and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. His music has been commissioned by the Emerson Quartet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the San Francisco Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; additional ensembles that have performed his works include the Arditti Quartet, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. A theatrical work, the chamber opera Marrying the Hangman (1999), is on a text by Margaret Atwood and was written for the Psappha New Music Ensemble. Caltabiano has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and the American Society of Composers, Auth

Ronald Center

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Ronald Center (2 April 1913 – 18 April 1973) was a Scottish composer. Biography Center was born in Aberdeen where he studied piano under Julian Rosetti and organ under Willan Swainson. In 1943 he moved to Huntly, Aberdeenshire as music master of Huntly Gordon School for a period of six years, before turning to private teaching and composition. He remained in Huntly for the rest of his life, and was conductor of the Huntly Choral Society. In 1944 his symphonic poem The Coming of Cuchulain was given by the Scottish Orchestra under Warwick Braithwaite. From then onwards his works began to be regularly broadcast by the BBC, particularly in their Modern Scottish Composers series. He performed many of his song settings with his wife Evelyn. Works Center composed a symphony, the symphonic poem The Coming of Cuchulain, works for string orchestra, three string quartets, the cantata Dona Nobis Pacem (along with other choral pieces), and piano works including sets of Preludes, a Sonata and a Suite. His music draws on Scottish folk idioms, particularly the coronach and the reel. He has also been sometimes styled “the Scottish Bartok”. In 2013 Toccata Classics initiated a survey of his instrume

Ronald Senator

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Ronald Senator (17 April 1926 – 29 April 2015) was a British composer who divided his time between New York City and London. Early life Senator, from a Jewish family, studied at Oxford University (1944–1947) with Egon Wellesz, a distinguished pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, and later (1955–58) with Arnold Cooke, a pupil of Paul Hindemith, at London University. Career He became a Senior Lecturer in Music at London University, then in 1981 was appointed Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music. He also held visiting Professorships at universities in Australia, the United States and Canada. Work Senator’s oratorio Holocaust Requiem was premiered at Canterbury Cathedral in 1986, under the aegis of the United Nations, the International Council of Christians and Jews, the Government of Germany, and the B’nai Brith. It has since been performed in many places worldwide, including the U.S. (Tillis Center, 1988; Manhattan, 1990); Moscow, 1993; Czechoslovakia (Terezín 1995); Rome (1991, one month after the 9/11 attacks, Un Concerto per la Pace). For the Manhattan performance of 1990, Lukas Foss conducted the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Ron Silver was Narrator. Concerts devoted enti

Ronald Settle

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Ronald Coulter Settle (21 June 1909 – 11 July 1998) was an English composer, pianist, teacher, writer and examiner. Education Settle was born in Wirral, Cheshire on 21 June 1909. He was educated at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he studied pianoforte as a student of Frank Merrick. Liverpool Playhouse Settle was Musical Director at the Liverpool Playhouse for twenty-six years from 1944 until 1970, when cost saving measures dictated that two pianists were too expensive and that recorded music would be played instead. Joan Ovens joined Settle as a second pianist and they would play duets before a performance, as well as during the shows and intervals. Settle wrote incidental music for numerous plays. For example, during the 1944-45 season, this included Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist. Willard Stoker’s play, ‘I Remember, I Remember’, (with music composed by Settle), was staged at the Playhouse in the week commencing 14 June 1960 and starred Rita Tushingham, who had assumed the position of student Assistant Stage Manager with the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1958, a company which presented stage plays at the Liverpool Playhouse. Settle also arranged

Ronald Stein

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Louis Ronald Stein (April 12, 1930 - August 15, 1988) was an American film composer and conductor. At the height of his career in the 1950s and 1960s, he was best known for scoring B movies produced by American International Pictures and Roger Corman. Early life and education Born and raised in St. Louis, Stein learned how to play piano from his mother Ceclia, a pianist for silent film theaters. From 1938 to 1947, he was privately tutored at Leo C. Miller’s Institute of Music, and then studied at Washington University from 1947 to 1951, and also worked as the assistant conductor for the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre. Stein attended Yale University in 1951, but was drafted into the United States Army Special Services, serving at Fort Dix, New Jersey from 1952 to 1954. When he returned home, Stein became a solo pianist at St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Career In 1955, Stein composed his first film score, Apache Woman. After this, he signed a 5-year contract with American International Pictures, with whom he composed 55 scores. Stein wrote scores for many low-budget horror and exploitation films during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were released by American International Pictu

Ronald Stevenson

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Ronald James Stevenson (6 March 1928 – 28 March 2015) was a Scottish composer, pianist, and music scholar. Biography The son of a Scottish father and Welsh mother, Stevenson was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, in 1928. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (now incorporated in the Royal Northern College of Music), studying composition with Richard Hall and piano with Iso Elinson, graduating with distinction in 1948. He married Marjorie Spedding in 1952. He moved to Scotland in the mid-1950s. As a socialist pacifist conscientious objector, he applied for exemption from National Service, but was refused recognition by the North Western Tribunal. He, in turn, refused to attend a medical examination as an essential preliminary to call-up, which led to prosecution and sentence to 12 months imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs. The sentence qualified him to go to the Appellate Tribunal, which finally allowed exemption from military service conditional upon work on the land. Among his many compositions, the largest (in terms of duration) and most famous is his Passacaglia on DSCH for solo piano, written between 1960 and 1962, based on a 13-note ground bass derived from the musical

Ronaldo Miranda

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Ronaldo Miranda (b. April 26, 1948 Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian composer and music professor. Miranda studied at the Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, under Henrique Morelenbaum for composition and Dulce de Saules for piano. From 1974 to 1981 Miranda was the primary music critic for the Jornal do Brasil. In 1977, Miranda won first prize in the chamber music category at the Concurso Nacional de Composição para a II Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea da Sala Cecília Meireles. After this, he became a freelance composer. The following year, he represented Brazil at the Tribune International de Componistes de UNESCO in Paris, France. In 1981 he was awarded a gold medal by the governor of Rio de Janeiro state. He was in the program at the World Music Days in Aarhus, Denmark in 1983, at the Tenth Musik-Biennale in Berlin, Germany, and at the World Music Days in Budapest, Hungary in 1986. His opera Dom Casmurro premiered at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo in 1992, and was very popular with both audience and critics. In 2001, he won the Troféu Carlos Gomes and the Composer of the Year award by the governor of São Paulo state. Miranda’s works have been p

Ronan Hardiman

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Ronan Hardiman (born 19 May 1961) is an Irish composer, famous for his soundtracks to Michael Flatley’s dance shows Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames and Celtic Tiger Live. Early life Hardiman was born in Dublin on 19 May 1961. His father was an Irish broadcasting executive. Hardiman listened to rock & roll and pop as a child. He has three sisters, including film director Neasa Hardiman and one brother, and they all play traditional musical instruments. He attended St. Kilian’s German School and the Royal Academy of Music. Career In 1978, at the age of 17, Hardiman began working as a clerk at the Bank of Ireland, a position he held for 12 years. He occasionally performed in local bands. In 1990, he quit his job and then began composing material based on Irish traditions for radio and television. He wrote the theme music to the documentary My Riviera. His TV work included commissions for the title music for RTÉ Irish National Television Network News, and the original score for the natural history series Waterways, He also wrote music for commercials for Guinness and the Irish National Lottery. In motion pictures, Hardiman earned acclaim for his score to the 1996 feature My Friend Jo

Roni Benise

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Roni Benise, is an American guitarist who describes his style as “Spanish guitar” or “nouveau flamenco.” After growing up on a small farm near Ravenna, Nebraska, Benise moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue rock stardom. After hearing flamenco music on the radio, he switched from electric guitar to nylon-stringed classical guitar. He began busking on the street and playing neighborhood theaters and flea markets. From these performances, he quickly established a following. Benise came up with an act that married Latin rhythms to a circus atmosphere. He fuses world music (specifically, strongly Latin-flavored styles such as flamenco, salsa, tango, and samba underscored by African tribal rhythms) with rock, to create a sound that appeals to mainstream music fans and aficionados of world music. The mixture caught the attention of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and led to his 2006-2007 Nights of Fire! production that has aired on many PBS-affiliated stations, and won an Emmy Award. The show is a blend of theater and music, drawing from Spanish flamenco, Argentine tango, and Brazilian samba. The self-taught guitarist started playing at age eleven, and got into local bands as

Ronn McFarlane

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Ronn McFarlane (born 1953) is an American lutenist and composer, most notable as an interpreter of Renaissance music. He formerly taught lute at the Peabody Conservatory, and has recorded many albums as a solo performer and in collaboration with others, including the groups Ayreheart and The Baltimore Consort, and as a guest artist for countless other groups. He resides in West Linn, Oregon (a suburb of Portland), and continues to perform and compose to this day. Life and career Ronn McFarlane was born in West Virginia and grew up in Maryland. He began playing guitar as a teenager and went on to play blues and rock music in popular music bands. He studied classical guitar at Shenandoah Conservatory and continued his studies at Peabody Conservatory with Paul O’Dette, Roger Harmon, and Pat O’Brien. In 1978, he began to concentrate on lute, and in 1979 became a founding member of the Baltimore Consort. He began a touring career in the United States, Canada and Europe, both with the Baltimore Consort and as a soloist. From 1984-1995, he was a faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory teaching lute. In 1996, he received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Shenandoah Conservatory for hi

Ronnie Hazlehurst

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Ronald Hazlehurst (13 March 1928 – 1 October 2007) was an English composer and conductor who, having joined the BBC in 1961, became its Light Entertainment Musical Director. Hazlehurst composed the theme tunes for many well-known British sitcoms and game shows of the 1970s and the 1980s, including Yes Minister, Are You Being Served?, I Didn’t Know You Cared and Last of the Summer Wine. Early life Ronald Hazlehurst was born in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1928 to a railway worker father and a piano teacher mother. Having attended Hyde County Grammar School, he left at the age of 14 and became a clerk in a cotton mill for £1 a week. In 1968, he became the Light Entertainment Musical Director and (during his tenure) he composed the theme tunes of many sitcoms, including Are You Being Served?, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Last of the Summer Wine (where he also wrote all the instrumental music for the series), I Didn’t Know You Cared, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, To the Manor Born, Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister, Just Good Friends, and Three Up, Two Down. He also arranged the themes for Butterflies, Sorry! and the first series of Only Fools and Horses. During his BBC career, he com

Roque Ceruti

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Roque Ceruti (Milan c. 1683 or 1686 – Lima, 1760) was an Italian composer in Peru. He was recruited as conductor of the Viceroy of Peru’s private orchestra, and was a dominant italianizing influence during the period, though this was resented by some of the more traditional Spanish musicians. He served as maestro de capilla (chapel or choir master) of Trujillo Cathedral from 1721 to 1728, and then maestro at Lima Cathedral until his death. A fair amount of his works survives at the Archivo Arzobispal (Episcopal Archive) of Lima, at the collection that once belonged to the Cathedral of La Plata (i.e. modern Sucre, Bolivia) which is now housed at the Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia, and at the Seminary of San Antonio Abad in Cusco and at La Paz. Recordings * 1998 Roque Ceruti: Vêpres solennelles de Saint Jean Baptiste Ensemble Elyma K617 089 * 2011 Roque Ceruti: “En la rama frondosa”, transcripción Susana Sarfson, dirección Rodrigo Madrid Gómez, Capella Saetabis CD “Barroco boliviano”, PSCU 540, Valencia (España). References

Rory Boyle

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Rory Boyle is a Scottish composer and currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Early life and education Boyle was born in Ayr, Scotland on 9 March 1951. His father was a Major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and his mother a very talented amateur pianist and accordionist. His parents separated when he was 5 years old, and he and his sister were brought up by their mother, firstly in Edinburgh and then on a farm in Stirlingshire. He was a chorister at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor and then won a music bursary to Eton College. Career Encouraged by his music teacher Boyle studied composition with Frank Spedding at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He also studied piano (with Lawrence Glover), organ (with George McPhee) and harpsichord (with Andrew Davis who, at the time, was associate conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra) during his studies there. He then went on to win a Caird Scholarship to study privately with Lennox Berkeley in London. As the conductor Nicholas Cleobury wrote in the 1998 Proms programme, “Boyle chose his teachers well: Spedding encouraged his individual voic

Rory Viner

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Rory Viner (born May 31, 1983) is a Canadian sound artist, experimental composer and installation artist, based in Tokyo, Japan. Career His works focus on interpreting data, either gathered by the artist or publicly available, into musical arrangements: “Mapping them to music allows data that is usually cold, distant and sterile to become more emotionally felt and immediate. In a way, it is a type of synesthesia, allowing a mixing of senses, or in this case, ways of thinking and experiencing the world.” His first data sonification work to receive international press attention was 2014’s One Year of Suicides in Japan on Piano, which The Japan Times has called a “provocative composition” and Wired magazine has called “a haunting piano score”. Viner’s second work to achieve widespread recognition was the more personal Sex, Sensors & Sound, called “melancholic and beautiful” by Motherboard, Vices online magazine and video channel. Sonification of kinetic data created by “strapping movement sensors across his and his partner’s bodies during intercourse, feeding the signal to software programmed to respond with synthesizer notes, and playing the output back live.” Works * One Year of Sui

Ros Bandt

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Rosalie (Ros) Edith Bandt (born 18 August 1951 in Geelong) Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, researcher and performer. Trained as a school teacher, Bandt went on to study chance music and completed her master’s degree in 1974 at Monash University with a thesis on the work of John Cage and later completed her PhD in 1983 also at Monash. In 1977 Bandt and Martin Harris created a sound installation, Winds and Circuits which fed audio into television signals to create electronic visual patterns. Since that time she pioneered interactive sound installations, sound sculptures, and created sound playgrounds, spatial music systems, and some 40 sound installations worldwide. A pioneer of interactive sound sculpture in Australia, she has exhibited in many Australian city and regional centres, including her work Sound Playground in Brunswick, Melbourne in 1981. Bandt performs on a wide variety of instruments including recorders, psaltry, percussion and the tarhu. She is a founding member of ensembles LIME, Back to Back Zithers, La Romanesca, Carte Blanche and the Free Music Ensemble. Awards Don Banks Music Award The Don Banks Music Award was established in 1984 to

Rosa Giacinta Badalla

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Rosa Giacinta Badalla (ca. 1660 – ca. 1710) was an Italian composer from the Milan area and Benedictine nun. She was at the convent of Saint Radegonda in Milan from 1678. Badalla had only one printed collection, Motetti a voce sola (1684, Venice), a book of solo motets. Kendrick identifies it as “remarkable among Milanese solo motet books…for its patent vocal viruosity, motivic originality and self-assured compositional technique”. There are also two surviving secular cantatas, Vuò cercando (ca. 1680) and O fronde care (ca 1695), to which Badalla also wrote the text. Life Rosa Giacinta Badalla was born ca. 1660. was an Italian composer from the Milan area, possibly Bergamo, Badalla had only one printed collection, Motetti a voce sola (1684, Venice), a book of solo motets. Kendrick identifies it as “remarkable among Milanese solo motet books…for its patent vocal virtuosity, motivic originality and self-assured compositional technique”. There are also two surviving secular cantatas by Badalla, Vuò cercando (ca. 1680) and O fronde care (ca 1695), References Further reading * Free scores by Rosa Giacinta Badalla at the International Music Score Library Project * Free scores by Rosa Gia

Rosa Guraieb

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Rosa Guraieb Kuri (20 May 1931 – 2 March 2014) was a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer of Lebanese ancestry. She was born in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico, and studied in Beirut with Michel Cheskinoff at the National Conservatory. She continued her education in Mexico studying composition with José Pablo Moncayo and piano with Salvador Ordones Ochoa at the Conservatory of Mexico, then at Yale University (1954) and in Bayreuth, Germany. She studied with Carlos Chavez between 1962-1965 . She continued her studies with Mario Lavista and Daniel Catan. In 2003 she was honored for her fifty years of musical activity by the 7th International Meeting of Women in Arts. In 2013 she received recognition for Lifetime Achievement by the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico. Works Selected works include: Chamber Music * Sonata for violin and piano (1978) * String Quartet: Reminiscencias (1978) * String Quartet, Cuarteto Il, Homenaje a Gibran (1982) * Canto a la paz for oboe, bassoon, piano (1982) * Impresiones for guitar (1983) Piano * Espacios (1983) * Pieza ciclica (1977) * Scriabiniana (1981) Vocal * Arias olvidadas, soprano and piano (1983) * Lyrica, soprano and piano (1980)

Rosa Nepgen

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Rosa Sophia Cornelia Nepgen (Barkly East, Cape Colony, 12 December 1909 – Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14 February 2000) was a South African composer. The bulk of her oeuvre consists of settings of Afrikaans poems for voice and piano, including numerous songs with lyrics by her husband, W.E.G. Louw, and his brother the poet N.P. van Wyk Louw. Early life, education, and marriage She was the daughter of Johann Nepgen, a barrister in Barkly East, and Millicent Grace Schlemmer, a talented singer, pianist, and violinist. She received piano lessons from her mother at an early age. The family moved to Pretoria in 1912 and to Standerton in 1913. In the latter place she was taught by organist Dirk Meerkotter, but in the meantime she also took lessons with Ellen Norburn at the Pretoria College of Music. This was supplemented with singing and organ lessons with Stephanie Faure. From 1927 onwards, Nepgen studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in the faculties of Music, English, and Ethics. In 1931, she graduated with a B.Mus. She subsequently became a lecturer at the aforementioned university. In 1944, she married Louw, who, besides being a poet, was also a professor of Afrikaans and Du

Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale

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Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale (, September24, 1875 – January4, 1958) was an American pianist and composer, whose operettas were performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and New York. Cale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a musical family. Her parents were Rosalie T. Balmer (“Sally”) and Thaddeus Smith. Her mother composed several pieces for violin. Her maternal grandfather was Charles Balmer, head of the Balmer & Weber Music Company in St. Louis. Her paternal grandfather, the actor Sol Smith, owned and operated the St. Louis Theatre. She married the violinist Charles Allen Cale in 1897. Cale studied music first with her mother and grandparents, then with Abraham I. Epstein and Ernest R. Kroeger. She taught in St. Louis for over 30 years. Her papers are archived at the Missouri Historical Society. Compositions Cale’s music was published by Balmer & Weber. Her compositions include: Dance * Masque of Pandora (based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Operetta * Four Pecks or A Bushel of Fun (performed in New York as Cupid’s Halloween) * Love, Powder and Patches (text by Alice E. Hellmers) * Summer: A Flirtation (text by William C. Unger) Piano * “Idyl” Vocal * “Master and Pupil” (text by Wi

Rosalie Housman

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Rosalie Housman (June 25, 1888 – October 28, 1949) was an American composer of mostly songs and chamber music, journalist, and lecturer. Many of her compositions were sung by notable musicians. She received praise and some criticism of her work. Personal life Housman was born on June 25, 1888, in San Francisco. She studied at the University of California and in England. She was a pupil of Arthur Foote, Ernest Bloch, Oscar Weil, and Walter Henry Rothwell. Housman later lectured in the Eastern United States. She traveled back to San Francisco to visit until her death. Career Housman wrote more than 100 compositions, which were performed in a variety of concerts and on the radio in the United States and England. Some of her other compositions were sung by Florence Macbeth, Florence Easton, Greta Masson, Sara Teasdale, and Mary Jordan. Housman interviewed composer E. Robert Schmitz for The Music News in 1921. Compositions Housman wrote chamber music for the violin and piano, as well as wrote songs for the piano that also included choral music. She composed music for an entire synagogue service. She wrote compositions for the poem Tora-Binder by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the poem The Look by

Rosalind Ellicott

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Rosalind Frances Ellicott (November 14, 1857 – April 5, 1924) was an English composer, considered one of the leading female composers of her generation. Her father had no interest in music and it was predominantly her mother, an amateur singer who had been involved with the founding both of London’s Handel Society (1882–1939) and of the Gloucester Philharmonic Society, who encouraged young Rosalind’s talent. At age six “she exhibited an extraordinary facility in music, singing, and harmonising correctly by ear”. She took lessons from Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the cathedral organist, from age 12, tried writing songs at 13 and then a sonata at 16. From 1874 to 1876, she studied piano with Frederick Westlake at the Royal Academy of Music. While at the Academy she discovered her voice and took soprano solo parts in oratorios and cantatas and was a frequent soloist at the Three Choirs Festival. She also studied composition for seven years from 1885 under Thomas Wingham of the Brompton Oratory. She was a member of the International Society of Musicians and the National Society of Professional Musicians, as well as an ARAM. But despite her relative success in the last two decades of the ce

Rosanna Scalfi Marcello

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Rosanna Scalfi Marcello () was an Italian singer and composer of the late Baroque and early Classical periods. Life Rosanna Scalfi’s exact birth and death dates are unknown; she was professionally active around 1723–1742 in Venice. She was a gondola singer of the Venetian arie di battello–a tradition of simple strophic songs. A legendary account tells of the composer and nobleman Benedetto Marcello, while above the ciy’s Grand Canal, hearing Scalfi sing. Impressed by her voice, Marcello began instructing her in vocal training around 1723; the two were secretly wed in a religious ceremony on 20 May 1728, when she was twenty-four years old. However, this marriage to a commoner was unlawful and they never completed the civil requirements. After Marcello died of tuberculosis in 1739, the marriage was declared null by the state, and Rosanna was unable to inherit his estate. Left destitute, she filed suit on 1 February 1742 against Benedetto’s brother Alessandro Marcello, seeking financial support, but her claims were rejected. Also in 1742, she appeared as Arbace in Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli’s Artaserse at St. Salvatore during the Ascension season that same year. Some of Marcello’s dra

Rosario Bourdon

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Joseph Charles Rosario Bourdon (March 6, 1885 – April 24, 1961) was a French Canadian cellist, violinist, conductor, arranger and composer. He was a child prodigy skilled with many musical instruments. Bourdon worked much of his life for the Victor Talking Machine Company where he exerted considerable influence. Childhood Bourdon was born in Longueuil, Quebec into a family with musical talents. His father was an amateur singer. Louis-Honoré Bourdon, his half-brother was a renowned impresario. Caroline Derome, his mother, began Bourdon’s musical instruction with the cello when he was seven. She would later marry Jean-Baptiste Dubois, a professional cellist who would further instruct Bourdon in the instrument. Around this same time Bourdon learned to play the piano. In 1897, Bourdon was invited to attend the Ghent Conservatory in Belgium. In 1920, he was promoted to musical co-director at Victor, a position he shared with Josef Pasternack. In 1922, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Bourdon left RCA Victor in 1931. He worked as a musical director at Muzak, Brunswick Records, and the Thesaurus radio transcription service. Bourdon was hired to conduct the newly forme

Rosario Di Bella

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Rosario Di Bella (born 27 July 1963) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music arranger and musician. Background Born in Zafferana Etnea, Catania, the son of a trumpeter, Di Bella spent much of his childhood in Geneva. At just eight years old he started playing guitar, and shortly later he began studying piano. In 1991, he debuted at the Sanremo Music Festival, as a member of a trio consisting of himself, Marco Conidi and Bungaro; their song “E noi qui” was a commercial success. He came back in Sanremo Festival as a soloist two years later, with the song “E io che non volevo”. In 1995, he got his major commercial success with the song “Difficile amarsi”. Since 2001, he has focused on composing, writing among others for Paolo Meneguzzi and Patty Pravo. Discography * 1989 – Pittore di me stesso * 1991 – Figlio perfetto * 1995 – Esperanto * 2000 – I miei amici * 2001 – Rosario Di Bella (collection) * 2004 – Made in Italy (collection) * 2007 – Il negozio della solitudine * 2016 – Spirituality (in couple with Juri Camisasca) References External links * * * *

Rosario Scalero

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Natale Rosario Scalero (24 December 1870 in Moncalieri - 25 December 1954 in Montestrutto) was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer. Life and career By the age of six, Scalero was under the tutelage of Pietro Bertazzi, a violinist, musical instrument maker and instructor at the Conservatorio St. Cecilia in Rome. Among his most successful students at Curtis were composers Samuel Barber, Nino Rota, Gian Carlo Menotti and George Walker. During that time he also taught Marc Blitzstein, Berenice Robinson and Mary Watson Weaver. In 1946 he returned to Montestrutto, near Ivrea, where he died in 1954. Works *A Suite for String Quartet and String Orchestra *La Divina Foresta, symphonic poem for large orchestra *Violin Sonata (Op.12, D minor, published 1910) Pupils References External links * Rosario Scalero, Retrieved 25 August 2010 * Music Is My Faith - An Autobiography. David Mannes, External links *

Roscoe Mitchell

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Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being “a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist”. The Penguin Guide to Jazz described him as “one of the key figures” in avant-garde jazz; All About Jazz stated in 2004 that he had been “at the forefront of modern music” for more than 35 years. Critic Jon Pareles in The New York Times has mentioned that Mitchell “qualifies as an iconoclast”. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Mitchell is known for cofounding the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). History Early life Mitchell, who is African American, was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. While attending Englewood High School in Chicago, he furthered his study of the clarinet. In the 1950s, he joined the United States Army, during which time he was stationed in Heidelberg, Germany and played in military parades with fellow saxophonists Albert Ayler and Rubin Cooper, the latter of whom, Mitchell commented, “took me under his wing and taught me a lot of stuff”. The Art Ensemble of Chicago have been described as becoming “possibly the most h

Rosephanye Powell

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Dr Rosephanye Powell, (born 1962) is an American choral composer, singer, professor, conductor and researcher. Powell has been hailed as one of America’s premier composers of choral music. She has a diverse catalogue of works published by Hal Leonard Corporation, the Fred Bock Music Company/Gentry Publications, Oxford University Press, and Alliance Music Publications. She serves as the Charles W Barkley Endowed Professor at Auburn University, Alabama. Personal life and education Rosephanye Dunn Powell was born in Lanett, Alabama. She studied piano, played the saxophone, and sang in choirs as a child. Powell graduated from West Point High School (West Point, GA) in 1980 as valedictorian. She received a basketball scholarship to Alabama State University, but soon realized that she could not play basketball and pursue a music degree. Powell graduated summa cum laude from Alabama State University with a Bachelor of Music Education degree, vocal emphasis (1984); with distinction from Westminster Choir College with a master’s degree in vocal performance and pedagogy (1987); and from The Florida State University as a University Fellow with a Doctor of Music degree in vocal performance(199

Roslyn Brogue

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Roslyn Brogue (16 February 1919 – 1 August 1981) was an American pianist, violinist, music educator, classics scholar, poet, author and composer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1937, from Radcliffe College in 1943 and from Harvard University in 1947 with a Ph.D. After completing her education, she taught at the Cambridge School, Harvard University and Boston University. She took a position in 1962 teaching at Tufts University Department of Classics, and later taught in the Department of Music. She married composer Ervin Arthur Henning in 1944 in Massachusetts, and the couple divorced about 1969. They were among the first composers to write twelve tone compositions for recorder, Henning in 1951 and Brogue in 1955. Brogue died in Beverly, Massachusetts, and her papers are housed at Tufts University. Among her notable students is composer Earle Brown. Works Selected works include: *Adoramus Te (1938) for SATB chorus *Sonatina (1954) for Flute, B-flat Clarinet, and Harpsichord *Motet (1938) *Allegretto (1948) *Andante and Variations (1954–56) References

Ross Bauer

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Ross Bauer (born December 19, 1951, Ithaca, New York) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. A professor emeritus of the University of California, Davis, he was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. Life and career Born in Ithaca, New York, Bauer graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1975 with a Bachelor of Music degree. At the NEC he was a pupil of John Heiss and Ernst Oster. He studied music composition with Luciano Berio while a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1982. In 1984 he earned a PhD from Brandeis University where he studied with Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, and Seymour Shifrin. In 1986 he was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1988 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1996 he was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. As a music educator, Bauer taught on the music faculties of Brandeis University (1981–1985), Stanford University (1986–1988), and the University of California, Davis (1988–2017). At Brandeis he was the director of the Brandéis Jazz Ensemble, and at Stanford he directed the Alea II New Music Ensemble. He founded the Empyrean Ens

Ross Cullum

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Ross Cullum (born 1957) is an English composer, record producer, and audio engineer, known for working with Enya, Tears for Fears, Moya Brennan, and several other artists. Career Cullum became an assistant at George Martin’s AIR Studios, where he worked on recordings by Roxy Music and others. In the 1980s, after touring the world mixing live shows, he formed a production collaboration with Chris Hughes. Together they worked with Adam and the Ants, Wang Chung, Ric Ocasek and others. Hughes and Cullum used high-tech production techniques on the Paul McCartney song “Motor of Love”, according to Mike Evans, giving it a synth sound, with a “lush backing of electronic effects”. He worked with Enya and Nicky Ryan on the album Watermark. James E. Perone notes that Enya’s vocals are bathed in reverb leading to a “hazy and impressionistic” sound. Cullum is mentioned by his first name in the lyrics of “Orinoco Flow”. The Moya Brennan Grammy-nominated album Two Horizons, which Cullum produced and co-composed, was described by Greg Quill as “an ethereal and juiced-up orchestral concept album” Other artists he has worked with include Tori Amos, Miguel Bosé, Howard Jones, the Human League, the Af

Ross Edwards (composer)

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Ross Edwards (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children’s music, opera and film music. His distinctive sound world reflects his interest in deep ecology and his belief in the need to reconnect music with elemental forces, as well as restore its traditional association with ritual and dance. He also recognises the profound importance of music as an agent of healing. His music, universal in that it is concerned with age-old mysteries surrounding humanity, is at the same time connected to its roots in Australia, whose cultural diversity it celebrates, and from whose natural environment it draws inspiration, especially birdsong and the mysterious patterns and drones of insects. As a composer living and working on the Pacific Rim, he is aware of the exciting potential of this vast region. Early life and education Ross Edwards was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. His parents were Frank Edwards, an engineer, Edwards attended Sydney Grammar School, which did not offer music at the time. At 15 years of age, Edwards was granted permission to enter the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music

Ross Harris (composer)

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Ross Talbot Harris (born 1 August 1945) is a New Zealand composer, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator. Life and career Born in Amberley, Harris was educated at the University of Canterbury before studying with Douglas Lilburn at Victoria University of Wellington. He then succeeded Lilburn as the professor of electro-acoustic music at Victoria, a position he maintained for over thirty years. A composer with wide interests, Harris’s compositions have spanned classical music works including operas, chamber music and seven symphonies, to electro-acoustic music, jazz, and rock music. He is a founding member of the Wellington-based band Free Radicals whose pioneering experiments in electro-acoustic music in the 1980s influenced the development of electronica in the 1990s. Harris was the resident composer of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 2005 and 2006; during which time he composed three symphonies for that orchestra. In 2014 he was awarded the Laureate Award by Arts Foundation of New Zealand. He has won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award from the Australasian Performing Right Association five times. He has also used many electro-acoustic instruments in his work with the Free Ra

Ross Lee Finney

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Ross Lee Finney (December 23, 1906 – February 4, 1997) was an American composer who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. Life and career Born in Wells, Minnesota, Finney received his early training at Carleton College and the University of Minnesota and also studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg (from 1931 to 1932) and Roger Sessions (in 1935). In 1928 he spent a year at Harvard University and then joined the faculty at Smith College, where he founded the Smith College Archives and conducted the Northampton Chamber Orchestra. In 1935, his setting of poems by Archibald MacLeish won the Connecticut Valley Prize, and in 1937, his First String Quartet received a Pulitzer Scholarship Award. A Guggenheim Fellowship funded travel in Europe in 1937. During World War II, Finney served in the Office of Strategic Services, and received a Purple Heart and a Certificate of Merit. 3, 4 ) **“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” (for solo voices, chorus and chamber orchestra) (1965)(Commissioned by the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College) *Chamber music **Eight string quartets (the 7th from 1955) **Three violin sonatas (1934 in C minor number two in C published aroun

Röstäm Yaxin

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Röstäm Möxämmätxaci ulı Yaxin (16 August 1921 – 23 November 1993) was a Tatar composer and pianist, People’s Artist of the USSR (1986). Author of more than 300 songs and romances, including the State Anthem of the Republic of Tatarstan. Röstəm Yaxin was a laureate of the Ğabdulla Tuqay Tatar ASSR State Prize in 1959. Notable works His notable works besides the State Anthem of the Republic of Tatarstan include: Legacy In 2025, a children’s art school opened in the Vysokogorsky railway station settlement was named after him (named the Röstäm Yaxin Children’s Art School). In September 2025, the Röstäm Yaxin Art School was opened in the village of Usad, Vysokogorsky District. Awards *Order of the Red Banner of Labour *Order of the Badge of Honour *Medal “Veteran of Labour” *Medal “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945” *Medal “For the Defence of Moscow” *Jubilee Medal “In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il’ich Lenin” *Jubilee Medal “70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR” *People’s Artist of the USSR *People’s Artist of the RSFSR *Honoured Artist of the RSFSR Notes References

Rostislav Boyko

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Rostislav Grigoryevich Boyko (1 August 193118 November 2002) was a Russian composer and conductor. He was principally active in both occupations within the area of choral music. He produced more than 100 choral works; most of which have been published and recorded. He also composed three symphonies, four operas, many art songs for solo voice, and some works for solo piano. Education and career Boyko was born in Leningrad and educated at the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella (1939–1944) and the Moscow Choral School (1944–1950) before he pursued graduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Aram Khachaturian and . He graduated from the latter institution in 1957 with degrees in choral conducting and music composition. Boyko died in Moscow at the age of 71. Notes References

Rosy Wertheim

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Rosy Wertheim (19 February 1888 – 27 May 1949) was a Dutch pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Rosalie Marie Wertheim was born in Amsterdam to parents John and Adriana Rosa Gustaaf Wertheim Enthoven. Her father was a banker and Rosalie attended a French boarding school in Neuilly, where she took piano lessons. She studied piano with Ulfert Schults and harmony and counterpoint with Bernard Zweers and Sem Dresden. In 1921 she took the state exam in piano and graduated from the Nederlandse Toonkunstenaars Vereniging. From 1921 to 1929, she taught at the Amsterdam Music Lyceum, composed songs and choral works and conducted children’s and women’s choirs. In 1929 Wertheim moved to Paris, where she lived for six years, composing music and writing for the Amsterdam newspaper Het Volk on the Parisian music scene, while studying composition and instrumentation from the composer Louis Aubert. In 1935 she moved to Vienna, where she studied counterpoint with Karl Weigl. In 1936 she traveled to New York City to give lectures and arrange performance of her works. In 1937, just prior to the start of World War II, she returned to Amsterdam. During the German Occupation, Wertheim gave se

Rowan Taylor (composer)

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Rowan S. Taylor (1927–2005) was an American composer and conductor. Taylor composed over 250 symphonies in addition to his concertos, songs, chamber works, operas, choral works, and ballets. His works have been performed all over the world. Taylor received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brigham Young University. He studied at UCLA for three years before teaching at Pierce College where he taught for 39 years. He has been honored for his teaching and his works. In his personal life, Taylor was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He married Priscilla Pulliam in 1957 and had nine children. Biography Taylor was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1927. After attaining his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts at Brigham Young University, he spent three years studying at UCLA before he moved to Whittier, California, to teach at Los Angeles Pierce College. He taught there for 39 years. During the Korean War, Taylor served as a Chaplain’s assistant in the United States Army. The Book of Lights, by Chaim Potok, features a character based on Taylor. Taylor married Priscilla Pulliam, a pianist, in 1957 and had nine children. The Taylors sometimes performed as a musi

Roxanna Panufnik

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Roxanna Anna Macklow Smith (née Panufnik; born 24 April 1968 ) is a British composer of Polish descent. She is the daughter of the Polish composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik and his second wife Camilla, née Jessel. Panufnik was born in London. She attended Bedales School and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Melanie Ruth Daiken. She has written a wide range of pieces including opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film and television, which are regularly performed all over the world. Among her most widely performed works are Westminster Mass, commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume’s 75th birthday in May 1998, The Music Programme, an opera for Polish National Opera’s millennium season which received its UK premiere at the BOC Covent Garden Festival, and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth’s Beastly Tales – the first of which was commissioned by the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia. In 2023, Panufnik was one of twelve composers asked to write a new piece for the coronation of Charles III and Camilla. Her setting of the Sanctus, Coronation Sanctus

Roy Agnew

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Roy Ewing “Robert” Agnew (23 August 1891 – 12 November 1944) was an Australian composer, pianist, teacher, and radio announcer. He was described as “the most outstanding of the early twentieth-century Australian composers” by Morris Hinson. Early life and education Agnew was born in Sydney on August 23, 1891, the son of Samuel Agnew, a cordial manufacturer, and his wife Maria Jane (née Miller). His first music work to be published was Australian Forest Pieces for Piano in 1913. However, Agnew’s music did not receive much public attention until international pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch gave a recital of his works, Deirdre’s Lament and Dance of the Wild Men, at a Sydney Town Hall matinee in August 1920. Partly through funding by friends and supporters, Agnew was able to travel to London in 1923 to study composition and orchestration with Gerard Williams, Agnew also composed a second program, “Music Through the Ages: The Piano and its Composers,” featuring mostly classical composers such as Giles Farnaby, Domenico Scarlatti, Mozart, and Chopin, which Agnew played himself. In 1939, he won first prize for his sonata ballade from the Musical Association of New South Wales, which he later

Roy Bargy

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Roy Fredrick Bargy (July 31, 1894 – January 16, 1974) was an American composer and pianist. Biography Born in Newaygo, Michigan, he grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1919, he began working with Charley Straight at the Imperial Piano Roll Company in Chicago, performing, arranging and composing. He was the leader, pianist and arranger of the Benson Orchestra of Chicago from 1920 to 1922 (when he was replaced by Don Bestor), and later worked with the orchestras of Isham Jones and Paul Whiteman, and recorded piano solos for Victor Records. In 1928, he was the first pianist to record George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F (in an arrangement by Ferde Grofé; with Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra). From 1943 until his retirement, he was music director for Jimmy Durante. He died in Vista, California at the age of 79. Selected Compositions * Ditto (1920) * Omeomy (1920) * Slipova (1920) * A Blue Streak (1921) * Knice and Knifty (with Charley Straight, 1921) * Rufenreddy (with Charley Straight, 1921) * Behave Yourself (1922) * Jim Jams, No. 7 from Piano Syncopations (1922) * Justin-Tyme (1922) * Pianoflage (1922) * Sunshine Capers (1922) * Sweet And Tender (1923) * Feeding The Kitty (1924) *

Roy Douglas

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Richard Roy Douglas (12 December 1907 – 23 March 2015) was an English composer, pianist and arranger. He worked as musical assistant to William Walton and Ralph Vaughan Williams, made well-known orchestrations of works such as Les Sylphides (based on piano pieces by Chopin) and Richard Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto, and wrote a quantity of original music. Life and career Early years Roy Douglas was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 12 December 1907, the youngest of the three children of Edith Ella Douglas, Charlton, and her husband, Richard Moses Douglas, a buyer and manager in a furnishing company. His involvement with music began early: as a five-year-old he would listen to his sister playing in her piano lessons and then seat himself at the piano and play by ear. His mother decided that he too should have piano lessons. An attack of rheumatic fever left him with a damaged heart, and the doctors said he was unlikely to live to adulthood. His fragile health meant that he received little formal education, but when well enough, he spent many hours playing the piano, “reading at sight everything I could find from Beethoven to ragtime” He was harmonium player, deputy pianist, celesta pl

Roy F. Guzmán

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Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodriguez (born June 28, 1987) is a composer of experimental, contemporary and algorithmic instrumental and electronic music, sound artist, improviser and poet born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His music is mainly exploratory and uses algorithmic procedures to create musical structures. The theme of chaos theory, abstracting sound scores to instrumental music, Musica A Lo Pobre, non duality, multipolarity and axiomatic music tends to be the major pivots in his work. He has performed and presented works in The Hague and Amsterdam-The Netherlands, Bratislava-Slovakia, Budapest-Hungary, Vienna-Austria, Rhode Island, Boston, New York, California – USA, Banff-Canada, Chile, Argentina and Mexico. He is currently active in the experimental music scene in Puerto Rico. References * * * *

Roy Harris

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Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American composer. He wrote music on American subjects, and is best known for his Symphony No. 3. Life Harris was born in Chandler, Oklahoma on February 12, 1898. His ancestry was Scottish, Irish and Welsh. In 1903, his father was able to combine the proceeds of the auction of his Oklahoma homestead with his winnings from a lucky gambling streak to purchase some land near Covina in the San Gabriel Valley of southern California and move the family there. Roy Harris grew up as a farmer in this rural, isolated environment. He studied piano with his mother, and later clarinet. Though he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, he was still virtually self-taught when he began writing music of his own. In the early 1920s, he had lessons from Arthur Bliss (then in Santa Barbara) and the senior American composer and researcher of American Indian music, Arthur Farwell. Harris sold his farmland and supported himself as a truck-driver and delivery man for a dairy farm. Gradually, he made contacts in the East with other young composers, and, partly through Aaron Copland’s recommendation, he was able to spend 1926–29 in

Roy Henry

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Roy Henry (“King” Henry) () was an English composer, almost certainly the pseudonym of an English King: probably Henry V, but also possibly Henry IV. His music, two compositions in all, appears in a position of prominence in the Old Hall Manuscript. Identity Musicologists have not been able to agree on which English monarch wrote the two mass movements which appear, at the head of their respective sections, in the Old Hall Manuscript. Henry IV, who reigned from 1399 to 1413, was in his early forties when the music was most likely written, since stylistic evidence places it around 1410. However, by 1410 Henry IV was suffering from a disfiguring disease and struggling to maintain his regal power. Therefore, it is unlikely that he, albeit a talented musician, could be the composer of the two pieces. Whereas Henry V, despite being extremely ‘busy on campaigns’ after his succession, was recorded to never have ceased in his fondness for music. In 1420 the Pell Rolls recorded payments for two new harps to be shipped to the King in France. And the King even went so far as to take his chapel to the Agincourt campaign. This, as well as being substantial evidence for his piety, suggests that

Roy Zu-Arets

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Roy Zu-Arets (; born January 22, 1969) is an American-Israeli composer, pianist, music producer, and arranger. Biography Roy Zu-Arets grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Ladino-speaking family of Sephardic Jewish of Libyan-Jewish, Turkish-Jewish, and Greek-Jewish descent. His younger brother is Guy Zu-Aretz. He was classically trained from the age of 3, and between the ages 5 and 18 he studied at the Israeli Music Conservatory in Tel Aviv. Zu-Arets developed an interest in contemporary classical music, pop, and rock in his teens and released his first album at 12 years old. During the early 1990s, Zu-Arets scored music for various Israeli TV series, theater productions, and movies. He also played with and produced music for many Israeli musicians including Rita, Danny Sanderson, Uzi Hitman, Meir Banai, and HaYehudim. In the late 1990s Zu-Arets moved to New York and studied music composition and theory at Juilliard School and later at Mannes College. In addition to his academic studies, Zu-Arets wrote music for theater and recorded with various artists including Taking Back Sunday and Omar Hakim. In 2007 Zu-Arets played as a keyboardist in the Kaveret U.S. tour. In 2009 Zu-Arets score

Royal Academy of Music (company)

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The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel’s residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of opera seria. It is not connected to the London conservatoire with the same name, which was founded in 1822. It commissioned large numbers of new operas from three of the leading composers in Europe: Handel, Attilio Ariosti and Giovanni Bononcini. The Academy took the legal form of a joint-stock corporation under letters patent issued by George I of Great Britain for a term of 21 years with a governor, a deputy governor and at least fifteen directors. The (first) Royal Academy lasted for only nine seasons instead of twenty-one, but both the New or Second Academy and the Opera of the Nobility seem to have operated under its Royal Charter until the expiry of the original term. Handel was appointed as Master of the orchestra responsible not only for engaging soloists but also for adapting operas from abroad and for providing possible libretti for his own use, generally provided from Italy. Initially the librettist Paolo Antonio Rolli was the “Italian secretary of the Academy”; he was replaced by Nico

Rozalie Hirs

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Rozalie Hirs (born 7 April 1965) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet. The principal concerns of her work are the adventure of listening, reading, and the imagination. Biography Rozalie Hirs studied piano and voice from age twelve and seventeen respectively. For her secondary education, she attended Gymnasium Herkenrath, North Rhine-Westphalia, from 1975 until 1979, and Het Nieuwe Lyceum, Bilthoven, Netherlands, from which she graduated in 1983. She subsequently studied chemical engineering at the University of Twente, Enschede, completing her Master of Science degree in 1990. During her science studies she sang leading roles in several opera productions at Muziekschool Enschede, and co-composed and performed songs with her new wave band Boolean. From 1991 to 1992 she studied classical voice with Eugenie Ditewig at Utrechts Conservatorium, from 1992 to 1994 with Gerda van Zelm at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Music education From 1991 until 1998 Hirs studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague: from 1991 until 1994 with Diderik Wagenaar, from 1994 until 1998 with Louis Andriessen, occasionally taking additional composition lessons wit