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Saad Haddad (composer)

Saad Haddad (born September 1, 1992) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, and a professor of composition at Columbia University in New York City, and is professor of composition

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Saahil Prem

Saahil Prem (born 23 August) is an Indian Bollywood actor, director, writer, DJ and composer. He is known for playing the lead opposite Sunny Leone in the film Ragini MMS 2 (2014) and directing,

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Saburō Kitajima

is a Japanese enka singer, lyricist, actor and composer. Background He was born Minoru Ōno (大野 穣), in Shiriuchi, Hokkaidō, to a fisherman. He was very poor due to the effects of World War II, and was

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Saburō Moroi

was a Japanese composer. Life Moroi was self-taught in composition while studying at the Tokyo Imperial University before moving in 1932 to Germany to study in the Berlin Musikhochschule under Leo

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Sadao Bekku

was a Japanese classical composer. His works include five symphonies, film scores, a flute sonata, a piano concerto, choral work and art songs, and the opera, Prince Arima. His work took strong

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Sadie Koninsky

Sadie G. Koninsky (August 1879 – January 2, 1952) was an American composer, music publisher, and music teacher who lived most of her life in Troy, New York. A prolific composer, she is thought to

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Sadiel Cuentas

Sadiel Cuentas (born 17 September 1973) is a Peruvian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Cuentas is a chamber and orchestral classical music composer. He studied composition in

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Sahakdukht

Sahakdukht (, ; ) was an Armenian hymnographer, poet and pedagogue who lived during the early 8th century. She is the first known woman of Armenian literature and music. Along with her slightly later

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Sahba Aminikia

Sahba Aminikia (born August 27, 1981) is an Iranian-born American contemporary music composer, artistic director, performer, educator and a TED Fellow. Aminikia is the founder and the artistic

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Sai Kham Leik

Sai Kham Leik (, ) is a Burmese songwriter. Said to be a physician by training he is an ethnic Shan songwriter and has written more than 500 songs in Burmese, 200 in Shan and about 35 in English. His

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Saiful Bahri

Saiful Bahri (19 September 1924 – 26 December 1976) was an Indonesian saxophonist, violinist, bandleader, composer, and songwriter, active in Indonesia and Malaysia during the 1950s and 1960s. He was

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Saint Avangeline

Adeline Troutman (born September 28, 2002), known professionally as Saint Avangeline, is an American singer-songwriter and model. She became known for her dark and ethereal alternative pop and dream

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Saint-Preux

Saint-Preux (born August 1948 ) is a French composer of contemporary classical music which also combines elements from popular music and electronic music. His real name is Christian Saint-Preux

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Sakunosuke Koyama

Sakunosuke Koyama (19 January 1864 – 27 June 1927) was a Japanese composer and music teacher. He was the founder and president of the Japanese Music Education Federation. Course of life Koyama left

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Salah El Mahdi

Salah El Mahdi (; born Mohamed Ibn Abderrahmane Ben Salah Mehdi Chérifi on February 9, 1925, in Tunis and died September 12, 2014, in Tunis ) was a Tunisian musicologist, conductor, composer,

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Salamone Rossi

Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi () (Salamon, Schlomo; de' Rossi) (ca. 1570 – 1630) was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance

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Sally Beamish

Sarah Frances Beamish (born 26 August 1956) is a British composer and violist. Her works include chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in theatre, film and television, as

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Sally Greenaway

Sally Greenaway (born 1984) is a composer and pianist based in Canberra, Australia. Career Greenaway trained in jazz at Canberra's Australian National University School of Music and the Royal College

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Sally Johnston Reid

Sally Johnston Reid (January 30, 1948 – December 21, 2019) was an American composer and oboist. A long-time professor of composition and music theory at Abilene Christian University, her works

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Salomon Jadassohn

Salomon Jadassohn (13 August 1831 – 1 February 1902) was a German pianist, composer, and teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory. Life Jadassohn was born to a Jewish family living in Breslau, the capital

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Salvador Contreras

Salvador Contreras Sánchez (10 November 1910 – 7 November 1982) was a Mexican composer and violinist, a member of the Grupo de los cuatro. Life Contreras was born in Cuerámaro, Guanajuato, the son of

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Salvator Léonardi

Salvator Léonardi (2 July 1872, Catania – 23 February 1938, Paris) was a mandolin virtuoso, teacher and composer. He taught in Egypt, Malta, London and Paris for more than 20 years, and also toured

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Salvatore Di Vittorio

Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 22 October 1967 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. He is the music director and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York. Career His program

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Salvatore Fighera

Salvatore Fighera (1771? – 5 May 1837) was an Italian composer of both sacred and secular music. Born in Gravina in Puglia, he completed his musical studies at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a

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Salvatore Frega

Salvatore Frega (born 29 September 1989) is an Italian composer of contemporary classic music, Director of the Accademia Musicale Medicea and of TGmusic.it and Professor at the Conservatory N.

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Salvatore Martirano

Salvatore Giovanni Martirano (January 12, 1927 – November 17, 1995) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Yonkers, New York, he taught for many years at the University of

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Salvatore Sciarrino

Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include

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Salvatore Viganò

Salvatore Viganò (March 25, 1769 – August 10, 1821) was an Italian choreographer, dancer and composer. Viganò was born in Naples. He studied composition with Luigi Boccherini (his uncle) and by the

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Sam de Jong

__TOC__ Sam de Jong (born 20 March 1989) is a Los Angeles–based record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist originally from Auckland, New Zealand. He has written and produced songs with

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Sam Rydberg

Sam Hjalmar Rydberg (27 October 1885 – 25 March 1956) was a Swedish composer. Biography Sam Rydberg was born in Nyköping, Sweden, in 1885. He started as a military musician at age 13 as a drummer at

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Sam Spence

Samuel Lloyd Spence (March 29, 1927 – February 6, 2016) was an American soundtrack composer best known for his work with NFL Films. In Germany, Spence wrote several TV soundtracks with Hani

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Saman Samadi

Saman Samadi (born 1984) is a Persian-American composer, experimental performer, artistic researcher, and philosopher of music with a prolific body of work spanning nearly twenty years. He earned his

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Samson François

Samson Pascal François (18 May 192422 October 1970) was a French pianist and composer. Biography François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose,

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Samuel A. Ward

Samuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1848 – September 28, 1903) was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a shoemaker, He is remembered for the 1882 tune "Materna",

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Samuel Aby

Samuel Aby is an Indian music composer and music director from Kerala, India. He made his debut with the 2019 film Kakshi: Amminippilla starring Asif Ali. His second film was Manoharam starring

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Samuel Adams (composer)

Samuel Adams (born December 30, 1985) is an American composer. He was born in San Francisco, California. He is a recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. Life and career Adams grew up in the San

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Samuel Adler (composer)

Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is a German-American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a

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Samuel Andreyev

Samuel Andreyev (born Samuel Curnoe Andreeff; 15 April 1981) is a Canadian-French composer, singer-songwriter, poet and educator. As of 2021, he had completed about 30 works, nearly all of which have

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Samuel Arnold (composer)

Samuel Arnold (10 August 1740 – 22 October 1802) was an English composer and organist. Arnold was born in London (his mother is said to have been Princess Amelia; his father was Thomas Arnold). He

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Samuel Barber

Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th

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Samuel Brenton Whitney

Samuel Brenton Whitney (June 4, 1842 – August 3, 1914) was a United States organist, conductor and composer. His compositions were primarily church music and chamber works. Biography Samuel Brenton

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Samuel Capricornus

Samuel Friedrich Capricornus (born Samuel Friedrich Bockshorn; 21 December 1628 – 10 November 1665) was a composer of the Baroque period from Bohemia. Life Samuel Friedrich Capricornus was born on 21

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 18751 September 1912) was a British composer and conductor. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American

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Samuel Dolin

Samuel Joseph Dolin (22 August 1917 – 13 January 2002) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and arts administrator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a founding member of the Canadian

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Samuel Francis Smith

Samuel Francis Smith (October 21, 1808 – November 16, 1895) was an American Baptist minister, journalist, and author. He is best known for having written the lyrics to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"

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Samuel Gardner

Samuel Gardner (August 25, 1891, Elizavetgrad – January 23, 1984) was an American composer and violinist of Russian Jewish origin. He won a Pulitzer Prize with a string quartet in 1918. He was a

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Samuel Holloway

Samuel Holloway (born 1981) is an Auckland-based composer of contemporary music and an educator. Early life and education From 2000 Holloway studied music and philosophy at the University of Auckland

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Samuel Jones (composer)

Samuel Jones (born June 2, 1935, Inverness, Mississippi) is an American composer and conductor. Biography Samuel Jones, a native of Mississippi (b. 1935), graduated from the Central High School in

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Samuel L. M. Barlow II

Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow II (June 1, 1892 – September 19, 1982) was an American composer, pianist and art critic. His compositional style was conservative and he once said that he wrote "tunes

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Samuel Lover

Samuel Lover (24 February 1797 – 6 July 1868), also known as "Ben Trovato" ("well invented"), was an Irish songwriter, composer and novelist, and a portrait painter, chiefly in miniatures. He was the

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Samuel Maykapar

Samuel Moiseyevich Maykapar () (18 December 18678 May 1938) was a Russian romantic composer, pianist, professor of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and author of a number of piano practice

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Samuel Pokrass

Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass (; 1893 in Kiev , Russian Empire (now Ukraine) – June 15, 1939, in New York City, US) was a Soviet and American composer of Russian-Jewish origin. Life and education

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Samuel Reay

Samuel Reay (17 March 1822 – 21 July 1905) was an organist and composer based in England. Life He was born on 17 March 1822 (although some sources give 1826 or 1828), the son of George Agnew Reay,

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Samuel Rousseau (composer)

Samuel-Alexandre Rousseau (; Neuve-Maison, 11 June 1853 - Paris, 1 October 1904) was a French composer. Life His father made pump organs and Samuel entered the Paris Conservatoire when he was

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Samuel Rudolph Behr

Samuel Rudolph Behr (laso Bär or Beer) baptized 1 July 1670 in Leipzig – after 1716) was a German ballet master and composer. Life Behr was the son of the Leipzig musician Martin Behr. He enrolled at

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Samuel Rüling

Samuel Rüling (also Rühling, Rhuling, Rülich) (1586 – June 1626) was a German composer and poet in the early 17th century. Before Kreuzkirche Rüling was born around 1586 in Groitzsch, near Leipzig,

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Samuel Scheidt

Samuel Scheidt (baptized 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era. Life and career Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies

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Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Samuel Sebastian Wesley (14 August 1810 – 19 April 1876) was an English organist and composer. Wesley married Mary Anne Merewether and had six children. He is often referred to as S.S. Wesley to

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Samuel Siegel

Samuel Siegel (born 1875, Des Moines, Iowa — died January 14, 1948, Los Angeles, California) was an American mandolin virtuoso and composer who played mandolin on 29 records for Victor Records,

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Samuel Weltsch

Samuel Weltsch (September 12, 1835 – August 5, 1901) was a Bohemian hazzan and composer. Biography Samuel Weltsch was born in Prague into a family of ḥazzanim. He early entered the profession, and

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Samuel Wesley (composer, born 1766)

Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart (1756–1791) and was called by some "the

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Samy Moussa

Samy Moussa (born June 1, 1984) is a Canadian conductor and composer of classical music, living in Berlin. His works have been performed internationally. Early life and education Moussa was born and

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Sandeep Bhagwati

Sandeep Bhagwati (born 4 June 1963) is a German composer of western classical music and an academic teacher. Career Bhagwati was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, to a German mother and an Indian father.

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Sándor Balassa

Sándor Balassa (20 January 1935 – 14 May 2021 ) was a Hungarian composer and music educator. Life Born in Budapest, Balassa attended a musical school and then studied music with Endre Szervánszky. In

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Sándor Erkel

Sándor Erkel (2 January 1846 – 14 October 1900) (Hungarian: Erkel Sándor) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and director of the Hungarian State Opera. Biography Born in Buda, Erkel was the youngest

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Sandor Harmati

Sandor Harmati (9 July 18924 April 1936) was a Hungarian-American violinist, conductor and composer, best known for his song "Bluebird of Happiness" written in 1934 for Jan Peerce. Biography Sandor

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Sándor Jemnitz

Sándor Jemnitz, also known as Alexander Jemnitz (9 August 1890 in Budapest – 8 August 1963 in Balatonföldvár), was a Hungarian composer, conductor, music critic and author. Biography Jemnitz studied

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Sándor Kallós

Sándor Kallós (born 23 October 1935) is a composer, a noted proponent of minimal music, an influential pioneer of the early music revival and electronic music in the USSR, lutenist, and a prolific

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Sándor Veress

Sándor Veress (, – ) was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania,

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Sandra Droucker

Sandra Droucker (Drouker or Droucher) (7 May 18751 April 1944) was a Russian concert pianist, composer and music pedagogue. Life and career Sandra Droucker was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the

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Sandra Esparon

Sandra Esparon (born May 15, 1989) is a Seychellois singer and music performer. She voiced vocals in the 2005 hit single "San ou (La Rivière)" as a member of Seychellois music band Dezil'. Her career

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Sandrin

Sandrin (Pierre Regnault) (c. 1490 – after 1561) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of chansons in the middle of the 16th century, some of which were extremely

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Sandro Gorli

Sandro Gorli (born 19 June 1948) is an Italian composer, conductor and teacher. He is the author of "Requiem" for mixed choir a Cappella, written specially for the well-known choir La Chapelle

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Sandy Nuttgens

Alexander "Sandy" Nuttgens (born 1964) is a British composer and a Professional Member of the Ivors Academy. He is principally known for scoring television programmes mainly in the realm of

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Sangeet-Siddharth

Sangeet-Siddharth is a music composer duo of brothers Siddharth Haldipur and Sangeet Haldipur. The duo rose to prominence with their top-of-the-line composition ‘Aa Zara Kareeb Se’ from the movie

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Sanja Ilić

Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić (; 27 March 1951 – 7 March 2021) was a Serbian and Yugoslav musician and composer. Ilić started composing as a teenager. In 1971 he formed the rock band San, which disbanded

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Santa Ratniece

Santa Ratniece (born 1977) is a Latvian composer. Santa Ratniece was born in Jelgava, and started her musical studies with piano playing classes at Valmiera Music School. In 1992 she took up music

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Santiago de Murcia

Santiago de Murcia (25 July 1673 – 25 April 1739) was a Spanish guitarist and composer. Biography Until new research was published in 2008, few details about the life of Santiago de Murcia were

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Santiago Masarnau Fernández

Santiago Masarnau y Fernández (9 December 1805 – 14 December 1882; also known as Santiago Fernández de Masarnau or Santiago de Masarnau) was a Spanish pianist, composer and religious activist for the

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Santiago Vera-Rivera

Santiago Vera-Rivera (born November 2, 1950) (also known as Santiago Vera Rivera, without hyphen) is a Chilean composer, teacher and musical researcher. Education Vera-Rivera began his studies in

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Sara Opal Search

Sara Opal Piontkowski Heron Search (14 July 1890 – 3 September 1961) was an American composer who wrote chamber music as well as works for orchestra, concert band, and voice under the names Opal

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Sarah Buxton

Sarah Jane Buxton (born July 3, 1980) is an American country music singer formerly signed to the independent Lyric Street Records. Between 2006 and 2008, she issued three singles from an extended

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Sarah Class

Sarah Class is an English composer, singer and songwriter. Biography Sarah Class was born in Watford. Having written music and poetry from an early age and performing as a vocalist and pianist in

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Sarah Davachi

Sarah Davachi (born 1987) is a Canadian composer and performer of electroacoustic and minimalist music. She is a pianist and an organist. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary and holds a

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Sarah Feigin

Sarah Feigin (; ; 1 July 1928 – 24 April 2011) was a Latvian music educator and composer who lived and worked in Israel. Early life Sarah Kugel was born in Latvia, and studied piano and composition

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Sarah Gibson (composer)

Sarah Elizabeth Gibson (May 21, 1986 – July 14, 2024) was an American pianist and composer. She and pianist and composer Thomas Kotcheff formed a piano duo, Hocket. Her compositions have been

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Sarah Hart (musician)

Sarah Hart is an American musician and songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. Life and education Originally from Lancaster, Ohio, Hart graduated with a degree in music theory and contemporary

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Sarah Hennies

Sarah Hennies (born 1979) is an American composer and percussionist. She is known for her work as an acoustic group composer. She also contributes to improvisation, film, and performance art. She is

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Sarah Hutchings

Sarah Hutchings née Reneer (born September 27, 1984) is an American composer of contemporary opera, art song, and choral works. Life and career Hutchings was born Sarah Reneer in Lexington, Kentucky,

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Sarah Kirkland Snider

Sarah Kirkland Snider (born October 8, 1973) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral, song cycle, choral, ballet and

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Sarah Lancaster (composer)

Sarah "Sally" Lancaster (April 28, 1834 – April 13, 1918) was an American composer in the Sacred Harp tradition. Three of her songs were published: "The Last Words of Copernicus", "I'm on My Journey

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Sarah Nemtsov

Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter, born 28 May 1980) is a German composer. Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg and now lives in Berlin. She started her music lessons and composing aged eight. She started playing

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Sarah Peebles

Sarah Peebles is a Toronto-based Canadian - American composer, improviser and installation artist originally from Minnesota (USA). Much of her work explores digitally manipulated found sound,

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Sarah Whatmore

Sarah Louise Whatmore (born 21 September 1981) is an English singer-songwriter, best known for appearing in the first series of the British TV series Pop Idol. Whatmore later went on to launch her

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Sarane Ferret

Étienne "Sarane" Ferret (1912–1970) (surname also later spelled Ferré on occasion) was a French musette and gypsy jazz guitarist and composer, a contemporary and musical associate of Django

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Saro Tribastone

Saro Tribastone (born 27 November 1966 in Ragusa) is an Italian composer, guitarist and performer of Mediterranean instrumental music who expresses his love for his homeland in Sicily through his

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Sasha Argov

Alexander "Sasha" Argov (; born Alexander Abramovich; Moscow, 26 October 1914 – Tel Aviv, 27 September 1995) was a prominent Israeli composer. Life and career Argov was born Alexander Abramovich in

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Sasha Berliner

Sasha Berliner (born June 20, 1998) is an American vibraphonist and composer. Early life Berliner was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area, where she began playing drums at age 8. In her

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Sasha Siem

Sasha Kathrine Siem (born 1984, in London) is a British-Norwegian singer-songwriter and composer. Early life Sasha Siem was born in London, England, to Kristian Siem, a Norwegian businessman, and his

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Satoru Kōsaki

is a Japanese music composer and arranger. He is best known for his work on anime, including Lucky Star, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Monogatari, Beastars and The Apothecary Diaries. He worked

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Satoshi Yagisawa

is a Japanese composer. He graduated from the Musashino Academy of Music. He also finished a master's courses and graduated with the master of music. He then worked for two years in music research.

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Saul Tepper

Saul Tepper (December 20, 1899 – January 1987) was an American illustrator and songwriter. Tepper studied under illustrator Harvey Dunn at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City. Tepper

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Sauvaire Intermet

Sauvaire Intermet (ca. 1573 – 1657 in Avignon) was a 17th-century French musician and composer. Biography Originally from Tarascon, Sauvaire is perhaps the son of Giraud Antermet who was baptized on

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Saverio Mercadante

Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (baptised 17 September 179517 December 1870) was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity

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Savvas Karantzias

Savvas Karantzias (Greek: Σάββας Καραντζιάς; born 19 March 1981) is a Greek composer, conservatory director, and co-founder of the Festival European Polyphony. Biography Karantzias was born in

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