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Saad Haddad (composer)

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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 at New Jersey City University. He serves as composer-in-residence with the California Symphony. The New York Times has described his work as “a remarkable fusion of idioms, using Western instruments to create a convincing equivalent of a Middle Eastern ensemble.” Early life and career Saad Haddad was born in 1992 in Augusta, Georgia, but moved to Los Angeles shortly after. After an early interest in composition, Haddad joined the inaugural Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship Program with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a high school student, under the teaching of composer Steven Stucky. Haddad studied at the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School, where he studied under John Corigliano, Mari Kimura, Brian Shephard, Bruce Broughton, Frank Ticheli, Stephen Hartke, and Donald Crockett. He received his doctorate in 2023 from Columbia University, where he studied with Georg Friedrich Haas, and George E. Lewis, and electronic music with Brad Garton. He has written 2

Saahil Prem

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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, writing and acting in one of India’s first dance films Mad About Dance (2014). Early life and education Born in Chembur, a suburb in central Mumbai, Saahil went to St. Peter’s School, a boarding school in Panchgani. He then attended Sheffield Hallam University in South Yorkshire, England. He became the resident DJ for his university. Career He moved to London where he took up residency at Mangos, one of the best Asian clubs in London. After playing at clubs and events across Europe, Saahil moved to Mumbai and did a three-month acting course at Actor Prepares. He then joined the film director Vipul Shah as his assistant for the romance film Namastey London (2007). He decided to start writing his dance film Mad About Dance, which he also directed and acted in as the male lead opposite Amrit Maghera. He also played the lead opposite Sunny Leone in Ragini MMS 2 (2014) from Balaji Motion Pictures. Saahil released his first single, a progressive track called “The Tour” on iTunes and other digital

Saburō Kitajima

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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 forced to work while he studied. Music career When he was about to graduate from high school, he decided to become a singer. His debut single was called “Bungacha-Bushi,” which was released in 1962. He has many famous songs, including “Namida Bune” (1962), “Kyōdai Jingi” (1965), “Yosaku” (1978) and “Kita no Ryōba” (1986). His 1965 song “Kaerokana” was written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura. He is very popular in Japan partly due to his looks of a physical laborer, and he mostly sings in the spirit of Japan’s working class and rural laborers. Kitajima regularly appeared on Kōhaku Uta Gassen, an annual end-of-year TV program where many major Japanese singers gather to perform, before announcing his retirement from the show in 2013. He participated a record 50 times, was the “anchor” (final solo performer) 13 times and led the grand finale 11 times. His participation included the infamous DJ Ozma performance at the 57th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen. He returned at the 69t

Saburō Moroi

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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 Schrattenholz and Walter Gmeindl. While Moroi had been active in the Tokyo musical scene, forming with other colleagues a society named Surya, he claimed that his creative life truly started from his Berlin days. Returning to Japan in 1934, he built a successful career in subsequent years. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Soon after completing his Symphony No. 3 in 1944 he was called up by the Japanese Army to serve in the Second World War. Following the country’s surrender he focused on teaching and writing books on music theory, composing just eight works in the following three decades, including two more symphonies. In his last works he turned to the twelve-tone system. Pupils of Moroi include Ikuma Dan, Toriro Miki, Toshiharu Ichikawa (市川都志春), Yoshirō Irino, Kunio Toda (戸田邦雄), Minao Shibata, Sōkichi Ozaki (尾崎宗吉), Akio Yashiro, Chūji Kinoshita (木下忠司), and Im Won-sik. His son Makoto Moroi was also a composer. List of works Orchestr

Sadao Bekku

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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 influence from jazz. His best-known works include the film score Matango (1963). Major works Operas * A Story of Three Women (Le dit des trois femmes) (1964) * 有間皇子 (Prince Arima (Arima-no Miko)) (1963–67) * Aoi-no-ue Orchestral works * Deux mouvements pour orchestre (1946) * Suite classique (1947) * Introduction et Allegro (1954) * Deux prières (1956) * Symphonietta for String Orchestra (1959) * Symphony No. 1 (1961) * Concerto pour violon et orchestre (1969) * Concerto pour alto et orchestre (1971) * Symphony No. 2 (1977) * Concerto pour piano et orchestre (1980) * Festival Overture (1981) * Symphony No. 3 “Spring” (1984) * Memories of Pictures: Suite for Wind Band (1987/2005) * March “Be Pure, Be Fresh” for wind orchestra (1988) * Symphony No. 4 “The Summer 1945” (1989) * Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre “Autumn” (1997) * Symphony No. 5 “Man” (1999) Chamber works * Trio d’anches for bassoon, oboe and clarinet (1953) * Sonate pour flûte et piano (1954) * Suite japonaise Nr. 1 for win

Sadie Koninsky

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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 have authored over 300 pieces of music, * “Belles of Andalusia” — Valse Espagnole (M. Witmark & Sons, New York City, 1894, republished in 1899) * “The Minstrel King” — March (Albany Music Publishing Company, Albany, New York, 1895) * “Eli Green’s Cake Walk” (song with lyrics by Dave Reed, Jr.) (Joseph W. Stern and Company, New York City, 1896 or 1898) * “Where Love is King” — Waltzes (Howley, Haviland and Company, New York City, 1898) * “I’ll Be Your Friend Through All” (song) (M. Witmark and Sons, New York City, 1898) * “Eli Green’s Cake Walk” — March and Two Step (Joseph W. Stern and Company, New York City, 1898) * “Boardin’ House Johnson” — Cake Walk (Joseph W. Stern, New York City, 1899) * “Phoebe Thompson’s Cake Walk” (Edward M. Koninsky and Brothers, New York City, 1899) * “When I Return We’ll Be Wed” (with lyrics by Stewart M. Washburn) (Edward M. Koninsky and Brothers, Troy, New York, 1899) * “Sing Me a Song of Other Days” (Edward M. Koninsky and Brothers, Brooklyn, New York, 1900)

Sadiel Cuentas

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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 Peru’s National Conservatory with Enrique Iturriaga and Dante Valdéz. In 2006, his Cadenza, introducción y allegro was awarded an honorary mention in Peru National Conservatory’s 2006 composition contest. Via de la Croce was awarded an honorary mention in the Asociación Peruano China Choral Composition contest in 2007. His chamber opera, Post Mortem, premiered at the Spanish Cultural Center in 2012, and his musical, El Vigilante Enmascarado, was premiered in Larco Theater in October 2013. Cuentas has written four chamber operas and a musical with Peruvian librettist Martiza Núñez. His violin concerto, dedicated to the victims of the Internal conflict in Peru, was premiered in February 2014 by Peru’s National Orchestra with Carlos Johnson Herrera as soloist. In 2015, Peru’s Culture Ministry commissioned Tinkuy, a multilingual song cycle based on traditional Peruvian songs. Some songs from Tinkuy were premiered in Europe in Peru’s National Children Choir tour 2016. His work Tráfico was premier

Sahakdukht

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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 contemporary Khosrovidukht, she is among the earliest woman composers in history. Sahakdukht and her brother , who became a noted composer and music theorist, were educated in Dvin. She then spent her life as an ascetic, living in a cave (a grotto) of the Garni valley where she wrote and taught music. Though she is said to have written much Christian music, particularly for the Virgin Mary, only a single (canonical hymn) survives, the acrostic "" (“Saint Mary”). The work shows considerable stylistic connections to contemporaneous Byzantine theotokions and kanons. Though her piece did not join the general liturgy, Sahakdukht’s oeuvre as a whole is thought to have exerted considerable influence on subsequent s; they introduced certain phrases into popular use and according to ethnomusicologist Şahan Arzruni they “helped to shape the development of the genre during subsequent centuries”. Life Extremely little is known about the life of Sahakdukht, also spelled as Sahakdoukht, or Sahakduxt

Sahba Aminikia

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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 director of Flying Carpet Festival, the first performing arts festival for children living in war zones. His musical compositions have been widely performed around the world by contemporary classical ensembles orchestras, and bands, including the Kronos Quartet, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Mahsa Vahdat, Marjan Vahdat, Shahram Nazeri, International Contemporary Ensemble, Verdigris Ensemble, Carnegie Hall Ensemble Connect, Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Parnassus, Ensemble Elefant, ZOFO Duet, San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble, Mobius Trio, Delphi Trio, Amaranth Quartet, The Living Earth Show, Verdigris Ensemble, Music of Remembrance, One Found Sound, and Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Early years Sahba Aminikia was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran; during the Iran-Iraq War. Raised during a religious theocracy, in a poetic yet chaotic society, he had been exposed to the influences of poets such as Hafiz, Rumi

Sai Kham Leik

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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 father, Kham Ka, was a noted poet and a former chief minister of Hsenwi Palace. He was born on 27 April 1949 in Hsenwi. He has three siblings. He married Dr. Nwe Nwe Tin in 1971 and has four children. He taught anatomy at the University of Medicine, Mandalay in 1990. He is also a persistence promoter of Shan culture. He is vital composer of late Sai Htee Saing, a well-known Shan singer of Myanmar. They met in 1969 and later they founded a successful music band, The Wild Ones. “Panglong Agreement” is his most celebrated song among Shan since 1971. It was sung by Sai Hsai Mao and recorded in Thailand in 1974 with the financial support of a renounced Wa leader. References External links * Photo of Sai Kham Leik * Interview with Win Nyein

Saiful Bahri

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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 also famous for conducting a number of orchestras during the period. Bahri composed and wrote Melaka Maju Jaya, the Malaccan state anthem, and wrote the lyrics to Duli Yang Maha Mulia, the Selangor state anthem. Life and career Bahri was born in Payakumbuh, West Sumatra, in the then-Dutch East Indies. He was educated at INS Kayutanam, a colonial-era school for the Bumiputera, where he sharpened his musical skills. In 1941, Bahri moved to Jakarta, and became a saxophonist and violinist for the Jakarta Studio Orchestra (OSD). From 1950 to 1960, he served as conductor for the Orchestra. In 1963, during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, he emigrated to Malaysia, quickly becoming a pillar for the nascent nation’s cultural and arts scene. He was involved with Malayan Radio Orchestra and the Filem Negara Malaysia. During this period in his life, he used the alias Surya Buana. He also composed music scores for about hundreds of films from 1950s until his death. Bahri was known for his rasp

Saint Avangeline

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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 pop-style music and lyrics inspired by gothic aesthetics and artistic and literary influences. She has released two albums, Inferno (2024) and Gardener of Eden (2022), which contained the viral single “Lilith”. Career Saint Avangeline began her career by making music on her laptop computer and uploading it to YouTube and SoundCloud. She first gained popularity for her covers of Lana Del Rey songs, flipping the gender of the songs’ love interests to female to reflect her lesbian identity. She released her first album, Gardener of Eden, in 2022, which contained the single “Lilith”, which subsequently went viral on TikTok and Instagram, gaining over 56 million streams. This haunting track explored her experience of toxic relationships and sexual assault using the biblical character of Lilith as a symbol for both beauty and danger. Saint shared that she wrote “Lilith” “to try to cope and heal, and since then, my inspiration has mostly come from a desperate place of trying to get everything

Saint-Preux

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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 Langlade. In August 1969, he took part in Poland’s Sopot International Song Festival with his first major composition La valse de l’enfance (The Waltz of Youth). The song was Luxembourg’s entry in the festival and was sung by Henri Seroka with Saint-Preux conducting the symphony orchestra. The song won the Grand Prix de la Presse award at the festival and was released in that same year on Seroka (Festival FX 1583) and as a single on the EMI/Odeon label. While in Poland he composed what was to become his biggest hit, Concerto pour une Voix (Concerto for One Voice). When Saint-Preux returned to France, René Boyer, head of the music publishers Fantasia, took him under his wing and arranged to have Concerto pour une Voix recorded. Although originally written as a purely instrumental work for trumpet and strings, Saint-Preux heard the French singer, Danielle Licari rehearsing in another studio and decided to record it with her voice taking the part of the trumpet using a vocalise technique (simil

Sakunosuke Koyama

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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 for Tokyo in 1880 without permission from his family and began studying English, mathematics and music at the University of Tsukiji. After obtaining his diplomas, he was appointed by the Ministry of Education as a researcher and teacher at a Music Research Center, which later changed to the Tokyo Music School. In the Ministry of Education, he was Izawa Shuji (1851–1917), the leader of the music research department, who within the so-called Dutch studies, Western natural sciences and had studied technology. In addition to his work at this institution, he composed and published a collection of folk songs. In 1897, he was appointed professor. Although he continued to support and guide his students, he left this institution in 1903. He mainly wrote school songs, which helped him to familiarize students with European music. Some songs also made Koyama known outside of Japan, particularly in China, which had begun to incorporate European music into the education system after the defeat in the

Salah El Mahdi

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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, flautist, music critic and judge. Biography Born in Tunis in 1925, he graduated from University of Ez-Zitouna in 1941 and then at the law school and National School of Administration. He obtained a Ph.D. in musicology in 1981 and a doctorate in letters at the University of Poitiers. At the age of 18 he left the capital of Tunis to La Marsa and gave music lessons to students. In 1949, he became director of the institution and ensemble there and was appointed honorary member of the SACEM. He was appointed as a judge on November 11, 1951, while assuming the job of music critic in several newspapers. In theater, he performed several roles with the troupe El Kaoukab of Tunis, and wrote plays for radio. In 1961, he was appointed to the Secretariat of State for Culture and information. He helped establish the National Folk Arts Troupe (1962), the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra (1969), the National Society of Preservation of the Quran and the National School of Chanting the Koran. In 1982, he became gene

Salamone Rossi

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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 period and early Baroque. Life Rossi was likely born on August 19th, 1570 in Mantua. Some scholars like E. Werner claimed that he was the son of the distinguished historian Azariah de’ Rossi, however Azariah had no sons. Rossi spent his entire professional career in Mantua. As a young man, Rossi acquired a reputation as a talented violinist. He was then hired as a court musician in Mantua in 1587, where records of his activities as a violinist survive in the Gonzaga court. Rossi served at the court of Mantua for 41 years, from 1587 to 1628 as concertmaster where he entertained the ducal family and their highly esteemed guests. The composers Rossi, Monteverdi, Gastoldi, Wert and Viadana provided fashionable music for banquets, wedding feasts, theatre productions and chapel services amongst others. Rossi was so well-thought of at this court that he was excused from wearing the yellow badge that was required of other Jews in Mantua. He also probably worked with a Jewish theatrical group, play

Sally Beamish

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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 well as composing for children and for her local community. Early life and education Sarah Frances Beamish was born on 26 August 1956 in London, to William Anthony Alten Beamish and Ursula Mary Beamish (née Snow). She attended Camden School for Girls and played in the National Youth Orchestra. She studied viola at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received composition lessons from Anthony Gilbert and Lennox Berkeley. She later studied in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, with the Italian violist Bruno Giuranna. Career As a violist in the Raphael Ensemble, she recorded four discs of string sextets. However she made her mark as a composer, particularly after moving to Scotland. She has written a large amount of music for orchestra, including two symphonies and several concertos (for violin, viola, cello, oboe, saxophone, saxophone quartet, trumpet, percussion, flute and accordion), chamber and instrumental music, film scores, theatre music, and music for amateurs. I

Sally Greenaway

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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 of Music in London. After winning Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra’s National Big Band Composition Competition in 2008, Greenaway’s composition was recorded and broadcast on ABC Classic FM. She continued recording with several big bands and released her debut album Dig This: Exploring the Big Band in 2013. Her second album, Aubade & Nocturne, was released by ABC Classics in 2014. Gramophone likened it to the work of Peter Sculthorpe, Nigel Westlake, and other Australian composers. The Sydney Morning Herald gave it 4/5 stars and noted that, while it wasn’t thematically cohesive, it was “a rewarding experience”. In 2015 she won the inaugural Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s Commission, and was commissioned to create a new work which was performed by the Syzygy Ensemble at its premiere in 2016. The work The 7 Great Inventions of the Modern Industrial Age (dramatic music) later won the Canberra Critics Circle Awards and the APRA Art Music ACT Award for Instrumental Work of the Year. The Melbou

Sally Johnston Reid

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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 include chamber, piano, vocal, band and electroacoustic music, as well as the chamber opera Healing from 1986. A significant part of her career was dedicated to the advancement of women in music. She was a trailblazer in digital synthesis. a number of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards, Reid served as editor of the International League of Women Composers (ILWC) Journal from 1991–95 She was also the listowner for the International Alliance for Women in Music distribution list. She was a co-editor of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States’ newsletter along with Sylvia Pengilly and Mara Helmuth from 1995-1996. She would later become the president of the International Alliance for Women in Music from 1999-2000. Rome’s Vatican Audience Chamber performed her Jesus, Redeemer, Messiah composition as part of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee 2000 celebration. Works Reid’s work has been performed all over the United States and Europe. Her composi

Salomon Jadassohn

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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 of the Prussian province of Silesia. This was a generation after the emancipation of the Jews in Central European German-speaking lands and during a time of relative tolerance. First educated locally, Jadassohn enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1848, just a few years after it had been founded by Felix Mendelssohn. There he studied composition with Moritz Hauptmann, Ernst Richter and Julius Rietz, as well as piano with Ignaz Moscheles. At the same time, he studied privately with Franz Liszt in Weimar. On 13 April 1851 in Weimar he was the soloist at the first performance, under Liszt’s baton, of Liszt’s arrangement for piano and orchestra of Carl Maria von Weber’s Polonaise (Polacca) brillante “L’hilarité” in E major, Op. 72. As a Jew, Jadassohn could not qualify for the many church jobs as music directors or organists which were usually available to Christian graduates of a conservatory such as Leipzig, as they required deep knowledge of Christian liturgy and practice. Instead he

Salvador Contreras

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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 José Contreras and Nemoria Sánchez. His musical education was at the Mexico City Conservatory, where he studied violin with Silvestre Revueltas, music theory with Candelario Huízar, and composition and conducting with Carlos Chávez. Together with Daniel Ayala Pérez, Blas Galindo, and José Pablo Moncayo, he formed the Grupo de jóvenes compositores in 1935, which later became the Grupo de los cuatro. Musical style Contreras’s early works from the 1930s and early 1940s were predominantly contrapuntal and neoclassical, with folk-like tunes and brash rhythms. His Obertura en tiempo de danza (Overture in Dance Time, 1942), for example, prominently uses measures in 7/8 and 5/8, which alternate with the more common 2/4 and 3/4. In the mid-1960s he began using serial techniques, allying him with Manuel Enríquez and losing him his former broad public appeal. Compositions Among his best-known works are: * Sonata, for violín and cello (1933) * Piece for String Quartet (String Quartet No. 2) (1936)

Salvator Léonardi

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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 as a performer. Léonardi learned mandolin and guitar from an uncle, but went on to become a professional musician, studying the violin at a Naples conservatory. He won awards as a solo mandolinist at international music competitions in Florence and Rome. Léonardi was the author of the Méthode pour Banjoline ou Mandoline-Banjo (Method for Banjolin and Mandolin-Banjo). The book was rare among texts teaching mandolin, because it taught his method in three languages at once, English, French and Spanish. In the third edition of his mandolin-banjo method (1921), he stated in the introduction that the mandolin had been declining in popularity from previous times. In writing his book, he noted the instrument was soaring in popularity in the shape of the banjo. He did not just recycle old material for his book, but also included his own compositions, including Souvenir de Malta, Caminando (a tango), Souvenir de Rome, Un Beso Por Teléfono, Qui-Pro-Quo, Rêverie, and Capriccio (a polka). As a music

Salvatore Di Vittorio

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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 music, focused on symphony, is mostly influenced by Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss. He has written works for various orchestras, such as Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Teatro Massimo , San Diego Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and The Morgan Library & Museum. He has taught at Loyola School (New York City) and Adelphi University. This included the first Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore) , published by Edizioni Panastudio and Casa Ricordi in Italy. He premiered and recorded three of these editions, along with his own Overtura Respighiana and first two program symphonic poems with the Chamber Orchestra of New York for Naxos Records in 2010. Naxos Records released these first recordings in 2011. Between the 2021/2022 and 2024/2025 seasons, Di Vittorio premiered his Viaggi di Enea (Voyages of Aeneas) as one of two commissions for the Teatro Massimo Opera Orchestra in Palermo—the second, his Metamorphosis Symphony at the opera house. Di Vittor

Salvatore Fighera

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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 Capuana in Naples and spent several years in Milan after leaving the conservatory in 1783. On his return to Naples he served as the maestro di cappella of several churches, most notably the Santuario di San Sebastiano Martire, a post he held until his death. Life and works Fighera was born in Gravina in Puglia, a town near Bari in southern Italy, but the year of his birth remains uncertain. No documents have been found in the town’s archives recording his date of birth. After leaving the conservatory in 1783, Fighera spent time in Milan where his opera buffa La sorpresa premiered at the Teatro della Canobbiana in 1800. Parts of the opera had also been performed earlier at La Scala. In Milan he also composed two theatrical cantatas: La finta istoria and Lo sdegno e la pace. On his return to Naples he served as the maestro di cappella of several churches, most notably at the Santuario di San Sebastiano Martire, a post he held until his death. The sacred music he composed during this period i

Salvatore Frega

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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. Paganini - Genova. Officially engaged to psychologist, Dr. Elisa Coppa. Professional collaborations Salvatore Frega has had commissions and exhibitions such as: Venice Biennale, Koper Biennale, Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, Galilei Orchestra of the Fiesole Music School, Musical Afternoon Orchestra of Milan, Orchestra of the San Giacomantonio Conservatory of Cosenza, Fiorentina Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra, The Kazakh Soloists, Eskisehir Philharmonic Orchestra, Art Center of Singapore, Qazaq Concert, Haydn Symphony Orchestra, Torre del Lago Puccini Symphony Orchestra. 8/9 Agosto 2021 - 67° Festival Puccini at Torre del Lago; with a commission for Ensemble and Voice Reciting with the theme of “Kiss at the time of COVID-19”. 1 September 2021 - receives the commission for a world premiere ballet from the Fondazione Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese. 2022/2023 - Composer in residence of the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago. 22 December 2022 - Salva

Salvatore Martirano

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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 Illinois. He also worked in electronic music and invented electronic musical instruments. Professional background Born in Yonkers, New York, Martirano received his undergraduate degree in 1951 from Oberlin College, where he studied composition with Herbert Elwell. SAL-MAR Construction In 1969, Salvatore Martirano, along with a group of engineers and musicians at the University of Illinois, began work on the design and construction of a musical electronic instrument. The instrument, named the SAL-MAR Construction, is a hybrid system in which TTL logical circuits (small and medium scale integration) drive analog modules, such as voltage-controlled oscillators, amplifiers and filters. The performer sits at a horizontal control panel of 291 lightable touch-sensitive switches (no moving parts). The two-state switches are used by a performer to dial sequences of numbers that are characterized by a variety of intervals and lengths. A sequence may bypass, address, or be added to other sequences

Salvatore Sciarrino

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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 Quaderno di strada (2003) and La porta della legge (2006–08). Biography A native of Palermo, the young Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a composer. After his classical studies and a few years of university in his home city, in 1969 he moved to Rome, where he attended Franco Evangelisti’s course in electronic music at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. In 1977, Sciarrino moved from Rome to Milan, where he taught at the conservatory until 1982. By this time his compositional career had expanded to the point where he could withdraw from teaching, and he moved to Città di Castello, in Umbria, where he has lived ever since. He nevertheless has continued to teach occasionally in Florence and Bologna, as well as in Città di Castello. Some of his notable students include Francesco Filidei, Lucia Ronchetti, David Monacchi, and Maurizio

Salvatore Viganò

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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 mid-1780s was composing original music. He produced early dance compositions in Bordeaux and Vienna. In 1788, he appeared as a dancer on the stage in Venice. He performed in the coronation festivities of Charles IV of Spain in 1789. He became a pupil of the French dancer and choreographer Jean Dauberval. In 1791, he and his wife achieved success as a dancing team in Venice, where he choreographed his first ballet, Raoul de Créqui. He was ballet master in Vienna and collaborated with Beethoven on the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. He returned to Italy in 1804 and became the ballet master of La Scala ballet school in Milan. He is considered the father of a new kind of performance called "" where the pantomime served the dance and the ensembles were very significant. He died in Milan. Viganò’s elder sister, Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli was also a dancer and the librettist of Rossini’s first opera Demetrio e Polibio. Major works * La vedova scoperta, 1783 (opera) * The Creatures of Promethe

Sam de Jong

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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 artists including Gracie Abrams, Pink, Rudimental, Muse, James Arthur, Alec Benjamin, Lennon Stella, Noah Kahan, Maisie Peters, Anson Seabra, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Marina, Little Mix, and Gary Clark Jr. Select discography References

Sam Rydberg

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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 the Södermanland Regiment. After that he became a part of the military band of the Svea Engineer Corps 1906-1935 and after 1928 as the head of the band. The instrument he played was soprano cornet. He composed many types of music but is most known for his marches. He is also the composer that has most marches that is official marches of regiments in the Swedish Armed Forces and is sometimes referred as the Swedish march king. List of marches * I flaggskrud (Norrbottens pansarbataljon) 1933 * Till Fronten (Karlsborgs luftvärnsregementes marsch) 1915 * Ikaros Marsch (Arméns fältarbetsskola) * På vakt (Svea ingenjörregemente) 1944? * På post för Sverige (Öresunds marindistrikt) 1944 * På marsch (Norra skånska (infanteri-)regementet / Södra militärområdet) 1944? * Under Fredsfanan (Försvarets internationella centrum) 1939 * Den Svenske Unterofficeren (Arméns kompaniofficersskola / Arméns tekniska centrum) 1916 * Vivu Esperanto! (Minvapnet) 1933 * I Beredskap (Älvsborgs kustartilleriregement

Sam Spence

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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 Chamseddine, e.g., for the Francis Durbridge thriller . After his retirement in 1990, he returned to Munich. He achieved unexpected fame in 1998 with the success of a CD compilation entitled The Power and the Glory: The Original Music & Voices Of NFL Films. Spence died at a Lewisville, Texas nursing center on February 6, 2016, at the age of 88. Later appearances Spence’s music has been performed live several times, with the composer conducting guest residencies with regional orchestras. On June 14, 2008, he guest conducted a medley of his NFL Films hits with the Golden State Pops Orchestra in San Pedro, California, as part of the orchestra’s “Pops for Pops” concert. In November 2010, a concert devoted almost entirely to his football scores was staged in Green Bay, Wisconsin. An audience of nearly 1,000 turned out at the historic Meyer Theater downtown for a program that featured three local ensembles—The Civic Symphony of Green Bay, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Wind Ensemble, and a big ban

Saman Samadi

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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 PhD from the University of Cambridge. Biography Saman Samadi’s compositional repertoire includes orchestral, chamber, solo, and electroacoustic pieces, which have gained international exposure through performances across various regions, including the Middle East, the Far East, Europe, and the United States. His research is centered on contemporary Western art music and Persian classical music, with a particular emphasis on advancing novel compositional approaches and musical experimentalism. He integrates creative practices with scholarly pursuits in cultural studies, (ethno)musicology, theory, and philosophy. Samadi’s compositions, characterized by a melding of complexity and expressivity, incorporate influences from Persian Classical music, poetry, language, visual arts, and postmodern philosophy. His work employs microtonal modes derived from Persian classical music, creating a unique pitch space with heterophonic textures, polyrhythms, and polymeters. Samadi reimagines Persian cal

Samson François

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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, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, for mind. François discovered the piano early – at the age of two – and his first studies were in Italy, with Pietro Mascagni, who encouraged him to give his first concert at the age of six. He studied in the Conservatoire in Nice from 1932 to 1935, where he again won first prize. François then came to the attention of Alfred Cortot, who encouraged him to move to Paris and study with Yvonne Lefébure at the École Normale de Musique. He also studied piano with Cortot (who reportedly found him almost impossible to teach), and harmony with Nadia Boulanger. In 1938, he moved to the Paris Conservatoire to study with Marguerite Long, the doyenne of French teachers of the age. He won the piano section of the inaugural (1943) Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition. He was particularly admired for his performances of Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, and Ravel. In 2012 his Debussy recordings were awarded the “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik”. His enti

Samuel A. Ward

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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”, which he intended as a setting for the hymn “O Mother Dear, Jerusalem”. This was published ten years later, in 1892. In 1903, after Ward had died, the tune was first combined by a publisher with the Katharine Lee Bates poem “America”, itself first published in 1895, to create the patriotic song “America the Beautiful.” The first book with the combination was published in 1910. Ward never met Bates. References External links * * *

Samuel Aby

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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 Vineeth Sreenivasan. His song “Uyyaram Payyaram” from the film Kakshi Amminippilla was written by Manu Manjith, and went viral. Filmography References External links *

Samuel Adams (composer)

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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 Francisco Bay Area, where he performed double bass and studied composition and electroacoustics at Stanford University; he later studied with Martin Bresnick. His music draws on his experiences in a diverse array of disciplines including classical forms, microsound, noise, improvised music, and field recording. Adams has been commissioned by the New World Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, Carnegie Hall, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with performers such as Emanuel Ax, Sarah Cahill, Karen Gomyo, Jennifer Koh, Anthony Marwood, and Joyce Yang, and conductors such as David Robertson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Karina Canellakis, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Adams served as one of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s two composers-in-residence, having been jointly named to the post with Elizabeth Ogonek in 2015, and in 2021 was named composer-in-residence with the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He is the son of composer John Adams and photographer Deborah O’Grady. Notable works Orchestral a

Samuel Adler (composer)

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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 faculty member at both the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler’s musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards, including Germany’s Order of Merit – Officer’s Cross. Biography Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler who was an amateur pianist. At the age of ten, Samuel was separated from his father while Hugo was imprisoned in the Netherlands following the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938. After Hugo’s return to Mannheim, the family was reunited and subsequently fled the Nazi regime in Germany through the Netherlands to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of T

Samuel Andreyev

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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 been recorded commercially. His YouTube channel, his videos, interviews and podcasts have been viewed extensively. He has resided in France since 2003 and currently teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at the Strasbourg Center of the University of Syracuse. Life and career Andreyev was born and raised in Kincardine, Ontario, moving with his family to Toronto in 1988. There he enrolled in The Royal Conservatory of Music, studying cello and oboe, as well as composition. Additionally, he experimented on his own, fascinated by rare instruments and the possibilities offered by recording technology. While living in Toronto, he recorded 8 albums of songs, ran a small publishing house devoted to experimental poetry, performed with a troupe of local musicians, and completed his first acknowledged composition, Le malheur adoucit les pierres for wind trio. He settled in Paris in 2003 to study composition, initially with Allain Gaussin, then with Frédéric Durieux at the Paris Conservat

Samuel Arnold (composer)

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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 began writing music for the theatre in about the year 1764. A few years later, he became the director of music at Marylebone Gardens, for which he wrote much of his popular music. In 1777, he worked for George Colman the Elder at the Little Theatre, Haymarket. In 1783, he became organist at the Chapel Royal and in 1793 he became the organist at Westminster Abbey, where he was eventually buried. He also wrote the earliest version of Humpty Dumpty. He was a close friend and associate of Haydn. Works Arnold’s best-known works include: *The Maid of the Mill (1765) *Abimelech (1768) *The Prodigal Son (1773) *Incidental music for Macbeth (1778) *The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern (1781) *The Castle of Andalusia (1782) *Two to One (1784), libretto George Colman. Includes the song “Pensive I Mourn”. *Turk and No Turk (1785) * Inkle and Yarico (1787) * Juvenile Amusements (1797) He is also known for producing the first collected edition of the works of George Frideric Handel between 1787

Samuel Barber

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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 century. Principally influenced by nine years’ composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute and more than 25 years’ study with his uncle, the composer Sidney Homer, Barber’s music usually eschewed the experimental trends of musical modernism in favor of traditional 19th-century harmonic language and formal structure embracing lyricism and emotional expression. However, he adopted elements of modernism after 1940 in some of his compositions, such as an increased use of dissonance and chromaticism in the Cello Concerto (1945) and Medea’s Dance of Vengeance (1955); and the use of tonal ambiguity and a narrow use of serialism in his Piano Sonata (1949), Prayers of Kierkegaard (1954), and Nocturne (1959). Barber was adept at both instrumental and vocal music. His works became successful on the international stage and many of his compositions enjoyed rapid adoption into the classical performance canon. In particular, his Adagio for Strings (1936) has earned a permanent place in t

Samuel Brenton Whitney

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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 Whitney was born in Woodstock, Vermont on June 4, 1842. He was a pupil of Charles Wels of New York City and then John Knowles Paine of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He secured his first organ appointment in Cambridge. He came to be regarded as the greatest interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach in the United States, and was appointed professor of organ playing and lecturer in music at the Boston University and the New England Conservatory. In 1871 he was appointed organist and choir director of the Church of the Advent, Boston. His compositions included many anthems and other church pieces, songs, pianoforte music, sonatas, transcriptions, and arrangements for the organ. The Arthur P. Schmidt company’s first publication was the Whitney anthem Deus misereatur (God Be Merciful Unto Us). He died at his sister’s home in Woodstock on August 3, 1914. Notes References * External links *

Samuel Capricornus

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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 December 1628 in Žerčice. Capricornus’ father was a Protestant minister, who fled with his family for fear of the Counter-Reformation to Bratislava in the then Kingdom of Hungary. After completing high school in Sopron, he studied languages and theology in Silesia before becoming a musician at the imperial court in Vienna. Here, he became acquainted with the music of Giovanni Valentini and Antonio Bertali. After a short stay in Reutlingen he worked for two years as a private music teacher in Bratislava and then from 1651 to 1657 he was active as a music director in various churches and as a music teacher at a high school there. In May 1657 he became Kapellmeister in Stuttgart and soon became engaged in a bitter dispute with the organist of the collegiate church, Philipp Friedrich Böddecker, who had himself coveted the position, and his brother David, a cornetto player. Already in September 1657, David Böddecker had complained about a “high and difficult piece” which he had been asked t

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 23. Of mixed-race descent, Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white musicians in New York City as the “African Mahler” when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. He married an Englishwoman, Jessie Walmisley, and both their children had musical careers. Their son, Hiawatha, adapted his father’s music for a variety of performances. Their daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, became a composer and conductor. Early life and education Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born at 15 Theobalds Road in Holborn, London, to Alice Hare Martin (1856–1953), an Englishwoman, and Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, a Creole man from Sierra Leone who had studied medicine in London and later became an administrator in West Africa. They were not married, and Daniel had returned to Africa without learning that Alice was pregnant. (Alice’s parents had not been married at her birth,

Samuel Dolin

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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 League of Composers (CLC), he served as the CLC’s vice president from 1967 to 1968, and president from 1969 to 1973. He was also vice-president of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) from 1972 to 1975, and chairman of the ISCM’s Canadian Chapter from 1970 to 1974. From 1945 to 2001, he taught music composition, music theory, and piano at The Royal Conservatory of Music, where he trained dozens of notable Canadian composers. Early career and education Born in Montreal, Dolin received his early musical training in his native city, where he studied piano and music theory with Tania and Vladmir Elgart, Vladimir Emenitov, and Stanley Gardner. In the late 1930s, he entered the University of Toronto, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1942. From 1942 to 1945, he taught music at Trinity College School and was also music supervisor for the public schools in Durham and Northumberland counties in Ontario. In 1945, Dolin began graduate studies in music composition un

Samuel Francis Smith

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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” (sung to the tune of “God Save the King”), which he entitled “America”. Early life and education Smith was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 21, 1808. Smith attended Harvard College from 1825 to 1829, and was a classmate of William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George T. Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Isaac Edward Morse, Benjamin Peirce, George W. Richardson, and Charles Storer Storrow. From 1829 to 1834, he attended Andover Theological Seminary. “America” (“My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”) While a student at Andover Theological Seminary, Smith gave Lowell Mason lyrics he had written and the song was first performed in public on July 4, 1831, at a children’s Independence Day celebration at Park Street Church in Boston. The song, titled “America”, was first published by Lowell Mason in The Choir in 1832. In Newton, Smith became editor of the Christian Review and other publications of the Baptist Missionary Union. He continued his ministry as well, becomin

Samuel Gardner

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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 student of Franz Kneisel and Percy Goetschius, and began his career as a concert violinist; among his compositions is a violin concerto. He wrote a number of other chamber works, and a handful of things for orchestra, including Broadway, which was performed by the Boston Symphony in the 1929–30 season. Biography Samuel Gardner was born August 25, 1891, in Elizavethgrad, Russian Empire, and was brought to the United States at the age of one. His family settled in Providence, Rhode Island, where Gardner attended elementary and high school. From the age of seven, he studied violin with Felix Wendelschaefer. He continued his studies in Boston with Charles Martin Loeffler and Felix Winternitz from 1902 to 1908. At the New York Institute of Musical Art (1908–1913), Gardner studied violin with Franz Kneisel and composition with Percy Goetschius. References Sources * External links *Samuel Gardner Music Collection at the University of South Florida *The Samuel Gardner Collection at the Archives at

Samuel Holloway

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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 where he was taught by Eve de Castro-Robinson. He graduated in 2005 with a Masters degree in Music and Composition. Music career Soon after graduation Holloway’s work Stapes was performed by the NZTrio in the University of Auckland’s Music Theatre and has since been published in printed form by the Wai-te-ata Music Press. It was the first in a series of three works under the title Middle Ear and indicates Holloway’s early interest in the foundations of sound. The other two parts are Malleus and Incus. Stapes itself is named after the ear’s smallest bone that transmits to the inner ear the vibrations that make up sound. Fellow composer and music commentator Hermione Johnson noted that in Stapes Holloway was able to create a ‘microtonal sound from the piano by combining it with quarter tones from the violin and cello’. Music critic William Dart later credited Stapes as marking the beginning of Holloway’s ‘international success.’ Stapes went on to be awarded First Prize in the Asian Compo

Samuel Jones (composer)

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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 Jackson and received his undergraduate degree with highest honors at Millsaps College. He acquired his professional training at the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in composition under Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers, and Wayne Barlow. His mentors in conducting include Richard Lert and William Steinberg. Jones enjoyed his earliest success as a conductor, advancing through the ranks of smaller American orchestras to become music director of the Rochester Philharmonic. He was then asked to help found a significant new music school in Houston, Texas. He served as the first dean of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, building its faculty and facilities over six years as dean. Jones continued to serve as professor of composition and conducting after stepping down as dean, while serving as director of graduate studies. Jones influenced a number of conductors and composers through his work as a teacher at Rice and in workshops of the Conductors Guil

Samuel L. M. Barlow II

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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 that wouldn’t shock Papa Brahms.” But, his music frequently explored new performance techniques and practices; in addition, he used slide projections to accompany his 1936 symphonic concerto Babar. Early life and education Barlow was born in New York City on June 1, 1892. He was the second son of Peter Townsend Barlow, a New York City magistrate, and his wife Virginia Louise (Matthews). Her brother was author Brander Matthews. Barlow was named after his paternal grandfather, a prominent Wall Street attorney. Samuel’s older brother, Edward Mitchell Barlow, was named after their maternal grandfather, a successful merchant. Edward Barlow died in 1901 at the age of thirteen. Samuel Barlow graduated with the Harvard Class of 1914. Career Early in his career, Samuel Barlow taught at Settlement schools, contributed to the literary journal North American Review, and served as the first chairman of the New York City Community Chorus. Beginning in 1917, it presented free concerts on Sunday afterno

Samuel Lover

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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 grandfather of Victor Herbert. Life Lover was born at No. 60 Grafton Street, Dublin and went to school at Samuel Whyte’s at No. 79, which now houses Bewley’s Café. By 1830 he was Secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and living at No. 9 D’Olier Street. In 1835 he moved to London and began composing music for a series of comic stage works. For some, like the operetta Il Paddy Whack in Italia (1841), he contributed libretto and music, for others just a few songs. Before committing himself to a literary career, he enjoyed considerable success as a miniature painter. Lover produced many Irish songs, of which several, such as The Angel’s Whisper, Molly Bawn, and The Four-leaved Shamrock, gained popularity. He also wrote novels, of which Rory O’Moore (in its first form a ballad) and Handy Andy are best known, and short Irish sketches, which with his songs he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights or Irish Evenings, with which he toured North America in 1846–1848. He joi

Samuel Maykapar

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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 pieces. Life Childhood Samuel Maykapar was born on 18 December 1867 in the city of Kherson, to Karaite parents. Maykapar spent his childhood in the city of Taganrog and in 1885 he graduated from the Boys Gymnasium where he studied with Anton Chekhov. He also took private music lessons from Gaetano Molla, director of the Italian Opera in Taganrog. Education In 1885, he enrolled into St. Petersburg Conservatory while also studying law at Saint Petersburg University, graduating in 1891. A pupil of Beniamino Cesi and Nicolai Soloviev, Maykapar received the St. Petersburg Conservatory’s diploma in 1893 and further improved his piano skills under the direction of Theodor Leschetizky until 1898. During this time he gave numerous concerts in Berlin, Leipzig, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Taganrog and other cities. Career Between 1898 and 1901, he gave concerts with Leopold Auer in Saint Petersburg and Ivan Grzhimali in Moscow. In 1901, he founded his own music school in the city of Tver. From 1903-1

Samuel Pokrass

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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 Pokrass was born in Kiev in 1893. At the age of 10, he was accepted the Kiev college of music, and wrote his first composition, While in a club Pokrass was asked to play from Jake Shubert, a visiting American theatrical producer, who was overall not impressed by Pokrass’ original music but soon became more focused on him after hearing Pokrass play “All Alone” by Irving Berlin. This led Shubert to giving Pokrass a contract that lead to the creation of “Cyrano de Bergerac”. ** Stage Play: Ziegfeld Follies (1934) ** The Farmer in the Dell (1936) ** Tovarich (1937) ** A Gypsy Told Me (1938) ** Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) ** The Little Princess (1939) ** The Three Musketeers (1939) One of his many songs, “My Best Wishes”, was used in the opening of the 2000 film The Legend of Bagger Vance. Family and legacy Pokrass had several brothers—Dmitry, Daniil, and Arkady—who were also composers and musicians, and remained in the Soviet Union. As a child, Pokrass’ father, Yakov Pokrass, smashed a viol

Samuel Reay

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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, organist of Hexham Abbey, and Eleanor Spraggon. His father moved to Ryton on Tyne and Samuel became a chorister in the choir at Durham Cathedral. He is noted for having performed the first organ arrangement of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” which he arranged whilst in Tiverton. Whilst in Newark he was conductor of the Newark Philharmonic Society. Appointments *Assistant Organist of St Hilda’s Church, South Shields (1839 – ????) *Organist of Houghton-le-Spring *Organist of St Andrew’s Church, Newcastle upon Tyne (1841–1845) *Organist of St. Thomas the Martyr, Barras Bridge (1845–1847) *Organist of St Peter’s Church, Tiverton (1847–1854) *Organist of St. John’s Church, Hampstead (1854–1856) *Organist of St. Saviour’s Church, Warwick Road (1856 – ????) *Organist of St Stephen’s Church, Westbourne Park, Paddington (???? – 1859) *Organist of St. Peter’s College, Radley (1859–1861) *Organist of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bury (1861–1864) *Organist of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newa

Samuel Rousseau (composer)

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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 fourteen years old. He studied with Cesar Franck, and Francois Bazin He was choirmaster at Sainte-Clotilde, Paris. He composed the comic opera, Leone. He won the Prix de Rome in 1878, for his cantata ‘La Fille de Jephté’, and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1900. Family He was Marcel Samuel-Rousseau’s father. References External links * Samuel Rousseau at musicalics.com

Samuel Rudolph Behr

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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 Leipzig University in the summer of 1691 but did not graduate. He belonged to the nation (university) Meissen. On 4 September 1691 he married Barbara Christina Valentin, the youngest daughter of a painter and head of the painters’ guild. Of the four children born of this marriage, only Gottfried Rudolph, baptised in the Nikolaikirche on 24 March 1702, survived. Between 1701 and 1716 he is listed in the Leipzig address books. In 1703, he published Anleitung zu einer wohl-gegründeten Tanz-Kunst, which was followed by three more books. He maintained close contacts with the Leipzig Oper am Brühl. For example, he wrote the ballet interlude for the opera Otto in 1702. Also for the Opernhaus vorm Salztor in Naumburger, he wrote ballet interludes in 1706. (In literature, he is often confused with the composer Johann Beer, who had already been dead for six years at that time. ) He was associated with Georg Philipp Telemann, Pantaleon Hebenstreit, Nicolaus Adam Strungk and Johann Kuhnau. The dan

Samuel Rüling

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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, as the son of Johann (also Johannes, Hans) Rüling. His father (1550–1615) served as organist in Zeithain from 1572 to 1575, then in Döbeln until 1582, and finally until his death in Groitzsch, where he was also town clerk. Johann Rüling also published the Tabulaturbuch auff Orgeln und Instrument in 1583, and consequently his considerable musical accomplishments make it likely that Samuel received an extensive musical education early on. Samuel Rüling entered the Fürstenschule at Grimma on 20 June 1601, and left it on 4 July 1606. His instructors in Grimma were primarily the rector Martin Hayneccius and cantor Fridericus Birck. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig in the same summer semester, where he studied with Ambrosius Sonewaldt, and later with Mühlmann, Harbart and Corvinus. He must also have been in close proximity with the prominent Thomaskantor Sethus Calvisius. Around 1610, he became cantor at the university church Paulinerkirche, which was famous for its substantial mus

Samuel Scheidt

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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 there, he went to Amsterdam to study with Sweelinck, the distinguished Dutch composer, whose work had a clear influence on Scheidt’s style. On his return to Halle, Scheidt became court organist, and later Kapellmeister, to the Margrave of Brandenburg. Unlike many German musicians, for example Heinrich Schütz, he remained in Germany during the Thirty Years’ War, managing to survive by teaching and by taking a succession of smaller jobs until the restoration of stability allowed him to resume his post as Kapellmeister. When Samuel Scheidt lost his job because of Wallenstein, he was appointed in 1628 as musical director of three churches in Halle, including the Market Church. Scheidt was the first internationally significant German composer for the organ, and represents the flowering of the new north German style, which occurred largely as a result of the Protestant Reformation. In south Germany and some other countries of Europe, the spiritual and artistic influence of Rome remained strong, s

Samuel Sebastian Wesley

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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 avoid confusion with his father Samuel Wesley. Biography Born in London, he was the eldest child in the composer Samuel Wesley’s second family, which he formed with Sarah Suter having separated from his wife Charlotte. Samuel Sebastian was the grandson of Charles Wesley. His middle name derived from his father’s lifelong admiration for the music of Bach. After singing in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy, Samuel Sebastian embarked on a career as a musician, and was appointed organist at Hereford Cathedral in 1832. While there he married the sister of the Dean, John Merewether. S.S. Wesley was, like his father Samuel Wesley, a Freemason. He was initiated in Palladian Lodge No.120 in Hereford on 17 September 1833. He moved to Exeter Cathedral three years later, and joined St George’s Lodge No.129 Exeter on 10 December 1835. He subsequently held appointments at Leeds Parish Church (now Leeds Minster) (from 1842), Winchester Cathedral (from 1849), Winchester College and Gloucester Cathedra

Samuel Siegel

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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, including 9 pieces of his own composition and two that he arranged. Siegel was the first mandolinist to record on Emile Berliner’s phonograph disk-records. Recording partners Siegel recorded with Roy Butin in 1908 on four Victor records, the tunes: Southern Fantasy, Estellita Waltz, American Valor March, and In Fairyland. He recorded Edison Diamond Disk record Ragtime Echoes in 1918 with Marie Caveny, with her on ukulele, and also Dance, Mouse Dance, and Medley. Marie and her husband James Frank Caveny lived with Siegel as lodgers in Chicago during the 1910 United States Census. They were performers or lecturers in the Lyceum movement. James Franklin was a cartoonist and Marie sang soprano in their performance. Gold Molded * Home, sweet home (1902), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * Manzanilo (c. 1902), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * The story teller waltz (1903), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * My Old Kentucky Home (1903), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) * Just One Girl (1904), Samuel Siegel (mandolin) (Music wri

Samuel Weltsch

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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 became cantor of the Maisel Synagogue at Prague while quite a young man. He received his musical education at the Prague Conservatory of Music. In 1865 he received a call from the Ahawath Chesed Congregation in New York, and remained its cantor until 1880, when he resigned the position in order to return to his native city. During his stay in New York he was active in improving the musical service of the American synagogue. Weltsch was one of the collaborators on the first three volumes of the Zimrat Yah, a fourth volume of which was later added by Alois Kaiser of Baltimore, containing music for all the seasons of the year. In addition he published Psalm 93 with German words for solo and chorus, and Todtenfeier, two hymns for the memorial service. He was a prominent member of B’nai B’rith and took great interest in communal affairs in Prague, being the leading spirit in various charitable and educational organizations. Publications * * * * References

Samuel Wesley (composer, born 1766)

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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 English Mozart”, a title however sometimes also attributed to Thomas Linley the younger. Personal life Born on 24 February 1766, in Bristol, he was the son of noted Methodist and hymnodist Charles Wesley, the grandson of Samuel Wesley (a poet of the late Stuart period) and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church. His early musical education mostly took place in the family home in Bristol, where Sarah Wesley, his mother, sang and played the harpsichord. Hymn tunes and the works of Handel were the family’s favourite pieces. Samuel also had lessons from David Williams, the organist of All Saints’ Church, Bristol. In 1771, his father acquired a second house, in Chesterfield Street, Marylebone, London. Samuel left Bristol for the house in London by 1778. Samuel informed his mother of his philosophical conviction that his marriage had been constituted by sexual intercourse, precluding any civil or religious ceremony, but after a scandalous delay he married Charlotte Louise Ma

Samy Moussa

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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 grew up in Montreal. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal with José Evangelista and postgraduate studies at University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Matthias Pintscher and Pascal Dusapin, also participating in conducting master classes with Pierre Boulez, Péter Eötvös, and Royaumont Voix Nouvelles courses with Salvatore Sciarrino. Career In 2010, Moussa became music director of the INDEX Ensemble in Munich, and since that time worked with a number of ensembles and orchestras among which were: MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, CBC Radio Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra among others. He conducted the premiere of his second opera, Vastation, with a libretto by Toby Litt, at the Munich Biennale in 2014. His first symphony, titled Concordia, was premiered by Kent Nagano conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in May 2017. That year the Dallas Symphony Orchestra gave the United S

Sandeep Bhagwati

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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. Living in Germany since the age of five, Bhagwati went to school at the Athenaeum Stade in Stade, Lower Saxony, and studied from 1984 to 1987 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with teachers such as Boguslaw Schaeffer, Kurt Prestel, Walter Hagen-Groll, Kurt Maedel, Josef Maria Horváth and . Bhagwati studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich with Wilhelm Killmayer, and took master classes with Killmayer and Hans-Jürgen von Bose, and with Edison Denisov at the Lucerne Festival of 1991. He studied computer music for one year at IRCAM. He studied further with Brian Ferneyhough and Tristan Murail. From 1989 to 1991 Bhagwati organized a chamber concert series “KammerMusikUtopien” at the Gasteig in Munich. He was a co-founder, with Moritz Eggert, of the festival A*Devantgarde in 1991. From 1990 to 1992, together with Gerd Kühr, he was artistic director of the composers’ workshop “AmateurKomponistenWerkstatt” of the Munich Biennale, which had been established by Ha

Sándor Balassa

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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 1964 he started working at the Hungarian Radio where he created music programs. Since 1981 he also taught at the Academy of Music. He retired from this position in 1996. Balassa was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1983. Orchestra compositions * Dimenziók (Dimensions; Dimensioni) for flute and viola, Op. 8, 1966; * Zenith, op.10, for alto and orchestra, 1971; * Hárfástrio (Harp Trio), Trio for violin, viola and harp, Op. 19, 1971; * Iris, op. 22, for orchestra, 1971; * Glarusi ének, op. 29, for orchestra, (The Song of Glarus), 1978; * Az örök ifjúság szigete, op. 32 for orchestra, (The End of Eternal Youth), 1979; * Hívások és kiáltások, op. 33 for orchestra, 1981; * Egy álmodozó naplója, op. 35 for orchestra, (Diary of a Daydreamer), 1983; * Három fantázia zenekarra, op. 36 for orchestra, (Three fantasies), 1984; * Szőlőcske és halacska, op. 40 for orchestra, 1987; * Tündér Ilona, op. 45 for orchestra (with Elfje Ilona), 1992; * Csaba királyfi, op. 46 for string orchestra, (Prince Csaba)

Sándor Erkel

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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 son of the famous Hungarian composer, Ferenc Erkel. He first studied music with his father; later his teacher was another Hungarian composer, Mihály Mosonyi. He started his career just as an orchestra musician of the National Theatre in Pest playing timpani; he was also the dulcimer soloist at the premiere of his father’s opera, the Bánk bán. Later he became the conductor of the theatre’s orchestra, and at the age of thirty in 1876, he was appointed the music director of the ensemble. In 1884, Erkel became the music director of the newly established Hungarian State Opera (1884–1886), – its founding director was his father, Ferenc – premiering Hungarian and foreign operas. Erkel accepted the chairman-conductor position of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra in 1875, a post he held until 1900. Johannes Brahms premiered his Piano concerto no. 2. with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra on 9 November 1881 in Budapest, with Erkel as conductor. Erkel died unexpectedly in Békéscsaba on 14 Oct

Sandor Harmati

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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 Harmati (Harmati Sándor in Hungarian orthography) was born into a Jewish family in Budapest on 9 July 1892. He studied at the Budapest Music Academy in 1909, becoming a professor at age 17. From 1922 to 1925 he played first violin with the Lenox String Quartet, In 1921 Sandor Harmati was a founding member of the American Music Guild, created by a group of young American composers “to learn each other’s music and to present worthy works by other American composers to the New York public”. The other charter members were Frederick Jacobi, Marion Bauer, Emerson Whithorne, Louis Gruenberg, Charles Haubiel, A. Walter Kramer, Harold Morris, Albert Stoessel and Deems Taylor. On 11 November 1923, at the Klaw Theater in New York, Harold Bauer and the Lenox Quartet gave the first performance of Ernest Bloch’s Piano Quintet No. 1, which was dedicated to the performers (Harold Bauer, piano; Sandor Harmati and Wolfe Wolfinsohn, violins; Nicolas Moldavan, viola; and Emmeran Stoeber, cello). On 19 Septe

Sándor Jemnitz

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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 composition with János Koessler at the Budapest Music Academy from 1906 to 1908, then continued his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied organ with Karl Straube, violin with Hans Sitt, composition with Max Reger, and conducting with Arthur Nikisch. From 1913 to 1915 Jemnitz lived in Berlin and studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg and began writing articles on music, several of which were published in Die Musik in 1914 and 1915. Jemnitz returned to Hungary in 1916 and wrote for various newspapers and periodicals. From 1924 to 1950 he was regular music critic of the Népszava newspaper, in which post he established himself as one of the most respected Hungarian critics of the period. His compositions include works for orchestra and keyboard, as well as vocal, choral and chamber music. Selected works ;Stage * Divertimento, Ballet in 3 scenes (1921, 1947); arrangement of Concerto for Chamber Orchestra ;Orchestral * 7 Miniatures (Hét miniatűr nagyzenekarra) (1919, 1947);

Sándor Kallós

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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 author of incidental music for film, animation, theater, and ballet. Biography Sándor Kallós was born on 23 October 1935 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He matriculated from the Lviv Conservatory in 1961, having studied composition under . His graduate studies were at Moscow Conservatory (class of Yuri Shaporin, 1962–1964). In 1954-1963, he worked as a violinist in various symphony orchestras. From 1971, he appeared as a lutenist (notably as the accompanist to Karina, Ruzanna and Pavel Lisitsian), and from 1975 as a conductor. Kallós is of Hungarian descent. List of works Sacred works * “5 Hymns & Halleluiah from Byzantine Hermologe” (in Classical Greek) for soloists, chorus a capella and tape. * “Credo” for viola d’amore and 6-channell electronics. * “Sacred Chamber Music on Catalan Themes from the 17th century”. * “David’s Psalms” (in Classical Greek) for voice and lute. Secular works Symphonic works * 1st Symphony (1957), * 2nd Symphony (1960), * 3rd Symphony (1961), * 4th

Sándor Veress

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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, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life. Veress studied and later taught at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Among his teachers were Zoltán Kodály, with whom he studied composition, and Béla Bartók, with whom he studied piano; as an assistant to László Lajtha he did field research on Hungarian, Transylvanian, and Moldavian folk music. Among the composers who studied under him are György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Heinz Holliger, Heinz Marti, Jürg Wyttenbach and Roland Moser. He wrote numerous chamber music pieces and symphonic works. He wrote one opera, Hangjegyek lázadása (1931). Veress was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1949 in Hungary (though as an émigré he was unable to collect this award) and the Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 1985; in Switzerland he received the Berne canton prize in 1976. Selected works ;Opera * Hangjegyek lázadása (1931) ;Ballet *

Sandra Droucker

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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 daughter of a Jewish German father and a mother who was a member of the Russian nobility. She studied music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Anton Rubinstein, and made her debut in 1894. She toured Europe and Russia, quickly developing her own style as a pianist. In 1896 Droucker made her debut in Berlin to positive reviews. During the 1880s she lived in Berlin, continuing her career as a concert pianist. Between 1904 and 1906 she taught in Berlin at Petersen’s Academy of Music and at the Stern Conservatory. Notable students included the Norwegian composer and pianist Anne-Marie Ørbeck (1911–1996), Hilde Lange, Leni Dilthey, Marie Silbermann, Delli Georges and Gerda Paucksch. In 1905 Droucker taught music to Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. Droucker married the Austrian pianist Gottfried Galston in 1910 and changed her name to Droucker-Galston. The couple took up residence in Munich, and the marriage lasted until 1918. In 1926 Droucker returned to Berlin; however, after 1933, sh

Sandra Esparon

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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 has seen her release three studio albums and receive multiple awards both locally and internationally. Life and career Esparon was born on May 15, 1989, in Takamaka district of Mahé, Seychelles. She began her professional music career as a member of Dezil’. In 2012, she released her second album titled Sandra Fanm Inik which won her Best Female Artist of the Year at the 2012 Seychelles Airtel Music Awards and in 2014, she released Mon Santiman. In 2014, she won Best Female Artist at the 2014 Seychelles Airtel Music Award and 5th Cable Tunes Awards respectively. Awards and recognitions References

Sandrin

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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 popular and widely distributed. Life He was probably born in St. Marcel, not far from Paris, though details of his early life are incomplete. He was a choirboy at the French royal court in 1506, and in 1517 was a singer for Louise of Savoy. From then until 1539 his name is absent from all records at the court, but other records suggest he may have been working as an actor during this time. By 1539 he was again at the French royal court, this time singing in the royal chapel itself; and within a few years he had established a reputation as one of the most noted composers of chansons in France, along with Claudin de Sermisy. He went to Italy sometime in the early 1550s, and is known to have been maestro di cappella for the Ferrarese Este family at Siena, in 1554. By 1560 he had returned to Paris, though probably only briefly, for he came to settle a family estate, and by the next year he was in Italy again, this time in Rome. He disappears from the records at this point, and probably died in 1

Sandro Gorli

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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 Royale. This composition was included in the Treasury of choral authentic music. From 1990 to 1998, he was the principal conductor of the ELISION Ensemble in Melbourne, Australia. Early life and education Sandro Gorli was born in Como on 19 June 1948. He entered and graduated from a University course in architecture in Milan, but then switched to studying composition with the renowned Italian composer and teacher Franco Donatoni, which, in particular, was a teacher of modern Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. As a result, he received higher education in music – composition class, and piano class. Sandro Gorli also conducts research in the field of phonology and cooperates with Phonology Studio at the Radiotelevision of Italy (RAI) in Milan. In the process of its work on the RAI he meets with musicians from the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and he liked conduct the orchestra. First Sandro Gorli studying this art directly in Milan, then at the invitation of Hans Swarowsky he mo

Sandy Nuttgens

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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 children’s TV and documentaries. He has scored numerous BAFTA and Royal Television Society winners and nominees including My Parents Are Aliens for Granada, Timelines for October Films and Shakespeare Shorts for the BBC. In 2008 he scored his first feature film ‘The Blue Tower’which won Best UK Film at the London Raindance Film Festival. In children’s television he scored the music for Postman Pat SDS, Odo, Floogals, Mixmups, Big & Small, Get Well Soon and Dinopaws. Both Postman Pat and Dinopaws were nominated in the 2014 BAFTA Children’s Awards. Nuttgens was awarded two Silver Telly Awards for his work on Odo. Between 2023 and 2026 Nuttgens scored the music for BooSnoo! for Visionality and Sky Kids. Nuttgens was nominated for a BAFTA TV Craft Award in both 2025 and 2026 for his work on BooSnoo!. In 2007 Nuttgens won an RTS Yorkshire Region Award for Best Music for his score for Terry Jones’ Barbarians for Oxford Films and the BBC. He was nominated for RTS Best Music for The Rise and Fall of Ton

Sangeet-Siddharth

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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 Murder 2, for which they won the Big Star Young Entertainer Award for Best Music Composer in 2012. This marked their entry into the mainstream Bollywood music scene. Early life Siddharth and Sangeet Haldipur are the sons of the famous composer Amar Haldipur, who was India’s number one violinist and is still regarded as Bollywood’s best background music composer. Career Siddharth made his foray into music with A Band of Boys and is also a trained violinist, pianist, and dancer. He left the band around 2006. Sangeet was a member of the Indian pop group Aasma, composed of the winners of the second season of Coke V Popstars. Although there has been no official report about the group’s split, all four members have continued their musical careers as individual artists. The brothers have composed music for prominent Hindi as well as Marathi movies. In their few years of music direction, the duo has composed hit songs for Murder 2, Blood Money, Aatma, Fruit & Nut, Bird Idol and Hum Hai Raahi Car K

Sanja Ilić

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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 in 1975, after the band’s vocalist Predrag Jovičić died in concert from an electric shock. After San split up, Ilić continued his career as a composer, authoring several hit songs for Yugoslav pop and rock artists. He collaborated with composer and keyboardist Sloba Marković on the electronic music album Delta Project and with actor and lyricist Irfan Mensur on the album Plava ptica. In 2000, Ilić formed the ethnic music ensemble Balkanika, with which he recorded five albums and had numerous performances across the world. During his career, Ilić wrote music for theatre, film, television shows and various performers. He died in 2021 in Belgrade. He was the brother of rock musician and composer Dragoljub Ilić and husband of actress Zlata Petković. Life and career Early life and career Ilić was born on 27 March 1951 in Belgrade. Ilić’s father, Miodrag “Beli” Ilić was a well-known composer. Sanja Ilić composed his first song when he was 12. At the age of 16, he composed the song “Baj baj baj

Santa Ratniece

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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 theory classes in Emīls Dārziņš College in Riga. She continued her musical education at J. Vītols Latvia Academy of Music and graduated in Musicology (2000) and Composition (2002). Later on she studied composition with English composer David Rowland at Enschede Conservatory in Netherlands. Afterwards Santa Ratniece went on with her studies at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Estonian composer Helena Tulve and in 2007 she obtained her MA. Santa Ratniece first came in public view in 2004 after winning the 1st prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (in the category of composers under 30) for her piece “sens nacre” for ensemble, performed by Ensemble Nove and conductor Normunds Šnē. Ratniece’s music has been performed by the Latvian Radio Choir, ensemble Altera Veritas, Trio Palladio, Sinfonietta Rīga, Liepaja Amber Sound Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony orchestra, Orchestra RIGA, Estonian National Male choir, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Cappella Amsterdam,

Santiago de Murcia

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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 known. However, it is now known that he was born in Madrid and that his parents were Juan de Murcia and Magdalena Hernandez. He married Josefa Garcia in May 1695. In his printed collection of guitar music, Resumen de acompañar, Murcia describes himself as Master of Guitar to the Spanish Queen Maria Luisa of Savoy. She was the first wife of the first Bourbon king of Spain, Philip (Felipe) V, a grandson of Louis XIV of France who succeeded to the Spanish throne on the death of Carlos II in November 1700. The marriage took place by proxy in Turin on 11 September 1701. On 3 November the marriage was re-celebrated in Figueras, Gerona. In April 1702, Felipe V left on a tour of his Italian possessions appointing Maria Luisa as regent in his absence. There is no reason to suppose that Murcia travelled with him to Naples, Italy, or met the composers Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti. Maria Luisa arrived in Madrid on 30 June and Murcia is not likely to have been appointed as her Master of Gui

Santiago Masarnau Fernández

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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 poor. He established the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, an organization composed of laymen dedicated to serving the poor, in Spain. A cause for his canonization has been opened by that society. Early life Masarnau was born in Madrid in 1805 to Santiago Masarnau y Torres, a native of Copons in Catalonia and Beatriz Fernández y Carredano, from the Omoño sector of the town of Ribamontán al Monte in Cantabria, a family with close connections to the Spanish aristocracy and court. His mother died in 1808. At that same time, after the abdication of King Ferdinand VII of Spain and the subsequent outbreak of the Peninsular War, Masarnau senior was appointed the Secretary of the Royal Association of Nobility of Córdoba, in the service of the Count of Miranda, and the father moved with his three children to Andalucia. The son proved to be a musical prodigy in his childhood, and soon began the study of music under the organist of the Cathedral of Granada, José Rouré y Llamas. When King Ferdinan

Santiago Vera-Rivera

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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 composition at the Arts Faculty of the Universidad de Chile, under composers Carlos Botto, Alfonso Letelier, Juan Amenábar, Juan Lemann and Cirilo Vila. Career He has taught at all educational levels in Chile and gave courses in Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Spain. At the present time he is a permanent teacher and Director of the Departamento de Educación Musical at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE), the Universidad de Chile and the Instituto Interamericano de Educación Musical (Inter-American Music Education Institute), a Chile-based organism of the Organization of American States (OAS). Academic posts Vera-Rivera was a founding member of prestigious authors and academic institutions, some of which he represented in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Sweden, France and England. In 1987, he was elected President of the Asociación Nacional de Compositores de Chile (ANC). On May 25, 1998, he was nominated as full member and for period 2000-06 Executive Secretary

Sara Opal Search

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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 Heron and Sara Opal Search. Search was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Her mother was Countess Dolly von Piontkowski. Little is known about her education. She married Herbert Heron in 1905 or 1906, and they had two children, Billie and Constance. In 1923, she divorced Heron and married cellist and composer Frederick Preston Search, who was an orchestra leader at the Hotel del Monte in Carmel, California, at the time. Search’s first composition, Symphony in c minor, was copyrighted in 1941. In a letter to Howes Norris Jr., who had requested her autograph, she noted that. . . “my Symphony in c minor is my first composition; Mr. Wallenstine probably Alfred Wellenstein is the first conductor to read it and conduct it; and you are the first person to ask me for my autograph!” Search’s works are archived at the University of California, Berkeley’s Hargrove Music Library. Her compositions include: Band *Barcarolle *Quintet (woodwind quintet) *Symphony No. 2 Piano *Go to Sleep *Little Darling Waltz *Noc

Sarah Buxton

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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 play titled Almost My Record, in addition to co-writing her song “Stupid Boy”, which was later recorded by Keith Urban. She released her self-titled debut album in early 2010, led off by the Top 25 single “Outside My Window,” shortly before Lyric Street Records closed. Biography Buxton was born in Lawrence, Kansas. She became actively involved in music as a child by learning piano, playing flute and joining a children’s choir. As she learned more about music, she became interested in songwriters and began writing poetry. After graduation, she met one of her musical idols, Stevie Nicks, who encouraged her to pursue music and move to Nashville, Tennessee. Buxton enrolled at Nashville’s Belmont University 2006–2010: Lyric Street Records “Stupid Boy”, one of Buxton’s songs, was covered by Keith Urban, on his mid-2006 album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, taking his version to No. 3 on the country charts in 2007. Buxton signed to Lyric Street Records that same year and released her debut si

Sarah Class

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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 bands since she was a teenager, Class found her inspiration in the lush woodlands, rolling hills and seascapes of the Isle of Wight. Class graduated with a BA (Hons) in music and art from Chichester University, Sussex, England, and immediately thereafter, began to write extensively in Europe and North America on a number of album, TV and film projects, notably the score for the independent feature The Weekend, starring Gena Rowlands and Brooke Shields. This brought Class’s talent to the attention of the record producer Sir George Martin, who took her under the wing of his publishing company George Martin Music. During this time Class established herself as a prolific contemporary composer, her works being premiered both in the UK and abroad. In 2001, Warner Classics asked Class to provide all the music for their crossover album, Aurora-Cantamus. The album enjoyed a Top 5 status in the UK for several weeks following its release, gaining a Classical BRIT Best Album nomination. Class’s achiev

Sarah Davachi

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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 master’s degree in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California. She has resided in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montreal, Quebec before relocating to Los Angeles, California in 2017 to pursue a PhD in Musicology at UCLA. Davachi’s music has been issued by numerous labels including Late Music, Superior Viaduct, Ba Da Bing, Recital, and Important Records. Career Sarah Davachi is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and considered harmonic structures that emphasize gradual variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and tuning and intonation. Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a wide range of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. She is similarly informed by minimalist and longform tenets, early music concepts of form, affect, and intervallic harmony, as well as experimental produ

Sarah Feigin

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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 at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music originally known as the Riga Conservatory of Music. She graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. A Holocaust survivor, she moved to Israel in 1972 and founded a Conservatory of Music in Holon in 1973, working as its director until 1983. Feigin worked for “Jeunesses Musicales d’Israel” from 1973 to 1990, organizing concerts for youth. Her music has been performed internationally. Musical achievements Feigin taught children as well as at music education institutions when she lived in Israel. Her preferred instruments were the organ and piano when composing music. Her work has been published by the Israel Music Institute and her pieces have been on the Israeli radio on a regular basis. Feigin composed pieces such as chamber music, music for piano, educational pieces, songs for ballets, and vocal music. In 2000, Feigin received an award for her work Thoughts On Playing at the International Composition Competition in Miami, Florida. She has

Sarah Gibson (composer)

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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 performed by major orchestras throughout the United States and in Europe. Early life and education Gibson was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and was raised by her parents in Roswell, Georgia. She became interested in music at a young age and began piano lessons at the age of seven. As a teenager, she played for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra as a pianist and principal keyboardist. It was played also by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow, conducted by Gemma New. At the scheduled August 2024 Prom concert, the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Anja Bihlmaier performed warp & weft instead. Orchestral *warp & weft (2021) for orchestra *Painting the Floor (2021) for large orchestra *to make this mountain taller (2023) for large orchestra *beyond the beyond (2025) for orchestra (completed by Thomas Kotcheff) External links * * *

Sarah Hart (musician)

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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 composition from The Ohio State University. Hart resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and two daughters. She works as a singer-songwriter writing with a focus on Contemporary Christian music and hymns. She has composed music recorded by artists including Amy Grant (“Better Than a Hallelujah”, ) Celtic Woman, Matt Maher (Flesh and Bone) and The Newsboys. Hart and Ben Glover co-wrote the song “All I’ve Ever Needed” by AJ Michalka from the Grace Unplugged soundtrack. Hart’s song “All These Things” (Hart, Scott Dente, Ken Lewis) was featured on Dark Desires. In October 2013, Hart performed for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the World Meeting of Families in Rome. In 2024 Sarah Hart was legally adopted by her stepfather. Discography Source: * Obvious (2001) * Into These Rooms (2004) * Road to Ohio (2008) * Saint Song (2009) * The Give and Keep (2010) * This Winter’s Eve (2011) * Above Earth’s Lamentations (2013) * Til the Song is Sung (2016) * Sacrament (2018) * Choose Christ 2020: T

Sarah Hennies

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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 currently a visiting assistant professor of music at Bard College. Life and career Hennies was born in 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky. She began playing drums when she was nine years old, and as a teenager she started playing drums with local college punk rock bands. She attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she studied under Stuart Saunders Smith, Herbert Brün, and William Moersch. She then received a master’s degree from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied under Steven Schick. After her graduation from UC San Diego, Hennies relocated to Austin, Texas, in 2003, and started collaborating with the guitarist Aaron Russell in the group Weird Weeds. In 2013, she founded her own record label, Weighter Recordings. Some of the musicians and ensembles with whom she has collaborated as a composer include Bearthoven, Bent Duo, Claire Chase, R. Andrew Lee, Talea Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Two-Way Street, Nate Wooley, and Yarn/Wire. She is

Sarah Hutchings

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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, on September 27, 1984, and raised in Durham, North Carolina, where she had her first music lessons at the age of four. Hutchings received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2007 from Western Carolina University, her Master of Music degree from Florida State University in 2010, and her Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2013. She has studied under Ladislav Kubík, Clifton Callendar, Michael Fiday, Joel Hoffman, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Hutchings is married to operatic baritone Mitchell Hutchings and lives in Boca Raton, Florida. Works Hutchings’s compositions include four short operas, art songs, and a choral work. Operas *Remember Me, an operatic scene for soprano and baritone with piano accompaniment, received a Festival Award from Boston Metro Opera’s International Composers’ Competition in 2012 and was performed at the Robert J. Werner Recital Hall, University of Cincinnati in 2013. *Twenty Minutes or Less was commissioned by the Washi

Sarah Kirkland Snider

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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 opera works. Biography Snider was born on October 8, 1973 in Princeton, New Jersey. Despite a non-musical parentage, she had a self-professed musical itch from a young age, going as far as to knock on her neighbors’ doors to play their pianos by ear. Eventually, Snider began formal music study, beginning piano at age 7 and cello at age 10. She also sang in choirs, attending five years of summer camp at the American Boychoir School where she studied under Anton Armstrong. She later attended Princeton High School, singing in a nationally celebrated high school choir under William Trego, and performing in the PHS Orchestra. She cites two female PHS Orchestra conductors as early female role models. Snider received a BA in Psychology-Sociology from Wesleyan University, where she decided not to pursue composition because she felt her music too conservative for its experimentally-oriented program. After graduating in 1995, she moved to New York and worked at a pro-choice law firm. While consideri

Sarah Lancaster (composer)

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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 Home”, and “Sardis”. Biography Lancaster was born in Talbot County, Georgia, April 28, 1834. Her parents were James Lupo Lancaster and Charity Lancaster, formerly of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Through her father she was a descendant of the Italian Jewish musician Peter Lupo, who had emigrated to England and was active at the court of Elizabeth I. She had two sisters, Anna Lucinda Maria Atkinson Lancaster, known as “Ann”, and Priscilla R. Lancaster, known as “Sid”; all three were musical, and both others contributed hymns to editions of the Sacred Harp. All three were students of Benjamin Franklin White and J. P. Reese, the latter of whom assisted them in their compositions. Sarah studied in Hamilton, Georgia, likely at the Hamilton Female Institute, where she expressed an interest in music and took piano lessons. It appears that she boarded with White’s family during this time in her life; she also developed the habit of sending original compositions to friends and family along w

Sarah Nemtsov

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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 the Oboe aged 14. Her compositions are recognizable through their confrontation with literature and other art forms. She became a full-time composer in 2007. Several of her works are published by Peermusic Classical GmbH. She is married to the pianist and musicologist . Her mother was the painter . Since 2022, she has been professor of composition at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria. Since winter semester 2022, Nemstov has been teaching as a professor of composition at the Mozarteum university in Salzburg. She is also a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin (Music Section). Education She studied composition under Nigel Osborne and Johannes Schöllhorn, and oboe under at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. At the Universität der Künste Berlin, she continued her oboe studies under Burkhard Glaetzner, and her composition at post-graduate level with Walter Zimmermann, where she graduated with distinction. fives times between 1995 and 1999, as well as the international Delm

Sarah Peebles

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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, unconventional methods of amplification, and distinct approaches to improvisation on the shō (笙), the Japanese mouth-organ used in gagaku (Japan’s imperial court music). Her installation practice focuses on BioArt which explores the lives of native wild bees, pollination ecology and biodiversity. Collectively titled “Resonating Bodies”, much of this activity is in collaboration with other artists, technicians and bee biologists. Peebles’ approach to the shō draws from gagaku, microtonality and psychoacoustic phenomena of the instrument, and many of her works alter its tuning and microphone placement in creating recordings of performances. She has released several recordings which include the instrument, including the album “Delicate Paths” (Unsounds 42U, 2014), which highlights her distinct approaches to performing, recording and composing for the shō. That album features a foreword and images dedicated to the instrument’s ethnobotanical and ethnozoological connections to ancient Asia, and inc

Sarah Whatmore

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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 own solo career. Early life Whatmore was born in Salford and raised in Walkden. Career Pop Idol Sarah Whatmore rose to fame in the first series of the British television show Pop Idol. Simon Fuller signed her to RCA Records including a worldwide management deal with 19 Entertainment. Music career In 2002 and 2003 she released two singles “When I Lost You” and “Automatic”, respectively, which both reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart. Whatmore was writing for fellow Pop Idol alumni, and spent time working on her debut album, Living Proof. A third single failed to materialise, and the release of Living Proof was cancelled. Several recordings were leaked over the years, including “Close To Me” and “Don’t Let Me Go”. Turning down the opportunity to become a backing singer for Kylie Minogue to concentrate on her own solo career, Whatmore spent the next five years honing her craft. During the years she wrote more than two hundred songs with various collaborators including Greg Fitzgerald

Sarane Ferret

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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 Reinhardt, and the brother of noted Romani guitar players Baro and Matelo Ferret. He recorded with his own quintet in Paris in the 1940s and continued performing there, with occasional recording sessions, until his death in 1970. Biography Sarane Ferret was the middle-born of the three Ferret brothers, Gitan gypsies from Rouen, France who made their way to Paris and there made the acquaintance of Django Reinhardt in 1931. He was known by his Gypsy nickname “Sarane”. From 1931, the Ferret brothers Baro, Matelo and Sarane, and cousin René “Challain” Ferret, were favorite sidemen of Reinhardt. He initially made his name as a banjo player in Bals Musette, including with the Italian accordionist Vétese Guérino. He also accompanied Eastern European Gypsies in the Russian cabarets. He formed his own quintet in the 1940s, incorporating clarinets on occasion as well as the violin of Georges Effrosse into the “classic” gypsy jazz lineup (Effrosse’s tenure with the quintet was short-lived, however, dying i

Saro Tribastone

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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 compositions and performances of acoustic music. Career He is adept at playing a number of different string instruments like Italian Guitar, Flamenco Guitar, the Greek Tzouras, Chitarra Battente, Mandolin and Acoustic Guitar, to create his unique sound. His compositions express sounds of music made of popular Sicilian, Spanish flamenco and Latin rhythms and also echoes ethnic Greek, Arabian and Indian sounds. His style resembles the nuevo flamenco and world music. His passion for music began at age 6, when he was given his first acoustic guitar. Since then, he has been continuously perfecting his technique of Flamenco from various lands. At age 8, he started making his first short instrumental compositions. In his musical career, he has also composed soundtracks for several documentaries and television. Some of his songs have been used as accompanying music for programs broadcast on satellite TV in the USA over the years. Some choice tracks have been placed in satellite TV programs for the

Sasha Argov

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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 Moscow, Russia in 1914. Later he changed his last name to its Hebrew version, Argov, in 1946. His father was a dentist and his mother a concert pianist. He never made a living with his music, working first as a bank clerk and later owning and operating a bookshop. Among them were “Hareut” and songs for the Israel Defense Forces, film, and theater. In 1948 he published Ha’Chizbatron, a collection of his songs written for the entertainment of Israeli troupes. He also composed several film scores and musicals for the stage; of which the most successful was Shlomo hamelech ve’Shalmai hansandlar (‘King Solomon and the Cobbler’), based on a comedy by Sammy Gronemann in Nathan Alterman’s translation, which premiered in 1964. Dramatic works *Rak lo be’Shabat (film score, 1964) In collaboration with singer Roni Ginosar, Gon Halevi produced an album featuring new interpretations of the works of Argov. The album presents a contemporary take on Argov’s music, with Halevi reimagining the original com

Sasha Berliner

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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 earlier years, Berliner was more focused on rock and indie music, and she participated in the San Francisco Rock Project (formerly the San Francisco School of Rock) along with her entire family: her father, John Berliner, is a bassist her mother, Sheri Evans, was the school office manager; and Berliner and her brother, Cole, played in the school’s House Band for a number of years. As a teenager, she continued working in a number of genres as a singer and multi-instrumentalist, and in 2013 arranged a version of Beck’s “Please Leave a Light On When You Go” from Song Reader for the San Francisco Rock Project; she also ran a fashion blog, in part inspired by her mother’s work running a boutique in San Francisco. In 2017, she attended the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, then led by composers Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey; Sorey invited Berliner to join his newest sextet the following year. Berliner says the higher-than-usual number of women musicians at Banff and the

Sasha Siem

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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 South African wife Karen Ann, née Moross. Her brother is violinist Charlie Siem. Career Siem studied music and poetry at Girton College, Cambridge, where she was awarded a BA and MPhil, and Harvard University. By her early twenties, she had written music for the London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Opera House, Rambert Dance Company, Opera North, The Aldeburgh Festival, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, The London Sinfonietta, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2010, she became one of the youngest people to win a British Composer Award. She has also been awarded the Arthur Bliss Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize. Siem has performed at festivals and venues across Europe and the United States, including The Royal Opera House, London; HBC, Berlin; the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival; (Le) Poisson Rouge, NYC; by:Larm, Joe’s Pub, The Forum, London, Latitude Festival by:Larm, Barbican, Southbank Centre and Sadlers Wells. While parallels have been drawn with

Satoru Kōsaki

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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 at Namco, where he primarily composed soundtracks for video games. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with Keiichi Okabe’s music production company Monaca, where he has often collaborated with his colleagues to produce soundtracks for anime and other media. Biography Early life Kōsaki was born on September 16, 1974, in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. He began playing the piano and Electone, at the age of three. His parents also played classical guitar and frequently played songs by classical guitarists within the household. Although he eventually ceased playing the piano, he played the trumpet in his junior high school’s brass band. He listened to fusion artists such as Casiopea and T-Square, as well as pop artists such as Hikaru Genji, and developed an interest in video game music through the Mycom BASIC Magazine, where he started to program music on a PC-9801. As an information engineering student at Kyoto University, he developed an interest in composing music as a member of the amateur circ

Satoshi Yagisawa

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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. His work is varied and includes orchestral music, chamber music, choral music and music for traditional Japanese instruments. His compositions for winds, whose titles are self-descriptive, are kept in a dramatic musical language. Furthermore, he acts as a judge in competitions, as guest conductor with many orchestras and as the author of articles in professional journals (“The Flute”, “The Clarinet”, “The Sax”). He arranged in 2003 the theme of music (Music for planting and sowing by the Emperor and Empress of Japan) for the 54th National Arbor Day in Chiba Prefecture. Works Works for wind * 1995 Celebres Overture * 1996 Dimelentas * 2000 Dimelentas II * 2001 March-Bou-Shu * 2001 The Lyric for Wind Orchestra “Appeals of autumnel winds” * 2002 Prelude * 2002 “Soaring over the Ridges” – the Impression of the North Alps * 2003 Flamboyant – Red Flames on the ground * 2003 A Tone poem for Wind Orchestra “And then the Ocean Glows” * 2003 Lemuria – The Lost Continent *# The Paradise of Greenery

Saul Tepper

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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 began his career with Albert Dorne as a letterer for fashion catalogs but went on to do story illustrations for the most popular magazines of the day. Additionally, his illustrations appeared in advertising for major companies such as General Electric, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Mobil, and Texaco. In the 1950s, Tepper created television commercials while an art director for J. Walter Thompson. Later in life, he became a songwriter whose work was recorded by Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Glenn Miller, and Harry James. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1980. See also *Albert Dorne *National Museum of American Illustration *Grand Central School of Art Notes External links *Saul Tepper artwork can be viewed at American Art Archives web site

Sauvaire Intermet

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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 30 November 1573 in the Sainte-Marthe church of Tarascon. He was appointed a clerk. In 1590, Sauvaire Intermet was appointed music master of the Church of St. Trophime, Arles until 1595, when he seems to have moved to Avignon where he was already benefiting from the chapter of Saint-Agricol. An act of 25 March 1599 qualifies him as mestre de chapelle de la Reyne de France, probably Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont (1553-1601), widow of Henri III and retired at Chenonceaux. He was able at that time to meet masters of the Chapel or the King’s Chamber. On 24 August 1599, he was received canon in the chapter of Saint-Agricol of Avignon and took on the role of Kapellmeister. His career in this church lasted several decades; it was punctuated with the classic incidents of a master’s life, such as a procedure for insults uttered against the master of children in 1612. On 1 May 1619 he became auditor of the accounts of the chapter of Saint-Agricol, which obliged him to be replaced. His career at Sa

Saverio Mercadante

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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 of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as prolifically as any of them, and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique. Biography Early years Mercadante was born out of wedlock in Altamura, near Bari in Apulia; his precise date of birth has not been recorded, but he was baptised on 17 September 1795. Mercadante studied flute, violin and composition at the conservatory in Naples, and organized concerts among his compatriots. The opera composer Gioachino Rossini said to the conservatory Director, Niccolo Zingarelli, “My compliments, Maestro – your young pupil Mercadante begins where we finish”. an ascendancy which did not end until censorship problems with the latter’s Poliuto caused a final break. But Mercadante’s style began to shift with the presentation of I Normanni a Parigi at the Teatro Regio in Tur

Savvas Karantzias

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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 Rhodes, Greece. He received his first influences alongside his mother, Anthoula Misodoulaki, a piano teacher and founder of the A. Corelli Conservatory. He began his studies in classical guitar with teacher Paraskevi Malamati at the A. Corelli Conservatory in 1995; from 1991 to 1996, he attended vocal lessons at the A. Corelli Conservatory in the class of Nikolaos Petrides, participating in various musical events throughout Greece. Karantzias, in his early years as a composer, drew inspiration from and experimented with the works and styles of Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli. He made extensive use of minimalist techniques as well, but never became attached to any particular method. He studied composition with Nikos Harizanos and he started to become known outside Greece in 2018 when he presented the work “Theophanes the Greek” in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople upon the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Later, in 2019, Karantzias co-founded the “E